US07847537B2
A modular electricity meter configuration and corresponding methodology permits use of certain common components in combination with either a variety of mechanical displays or electronic displays. In electricity meter arrangements making use of printed circuit board or solid state technology, at least two separate electronics boards may be provided. One may constitute a standard board for basic metrology functions while the other may comprise selected implementation of various higher level functions for creating a custom design electricity meter to meet customer requirements. Different customers may be provided with differently outfitted meters by corresponding customization of the higher level function board. A unitary power supply may be provided for both boards through a fixed connector. A common baseplate includes a circuitry link through a nonremovable plug or clip for alternatively providing a tamper proof embodiment or one with exposed terminals for permitting customer testing. Physical stability and strength is provided by using tapered mounting posts and integrated snap fit arrangements without requiring any screws for assembly. A light pipe provides external output through an innercover to indicate correct meter operation. Meter data and other metered information may be output through different configurations optionally involving hardwired output, RF links, pulse outputs, and telephone connections via modem or wireless.
US07847535B2
The invention relates to a method for supply to a magnetic coupler comprising several pairs of windings, each pair being formed from a first and a second adjacent paired winding, magnetically coupled to each other by means of a core of magnetic material. The method further consists of supplying the first winding of each pair with a supply voltage or current out of phase by an angle a with relation to the supply voltage or current for the second winding of the same pair. The absolute value of the angle a is greater than or equal to 4p/N for at least one pair of windings.
US07847527B2
An apparatus for controlling power flow in a high voltage network. A phase shifting transformer includes a tap changer.
US07847524B2
A circuit includes a voltage regulator (208) for outputting a voltage at a regulated level, a protection circuit (260), and a load circuit (210) coupled to the voltage regulator. The protection circuit includes means for preventing the voltage regulator from outputting a voltage at a level higher than the regulated level during a start-up period of the voltage regulator.
US07847522B2
A battery device includes a battery cell constituted by a secondary cell, a case that houses the battery cell, and a battery-side positive electrode terminal and a battery-side negative electrode terminal electrically provided in the case and connected to the battery cell. The battery device further includes a temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature of the battery cell, a temperature control unit that heats and/or cools the battery cell when an electric current is supplied thereto, and a current control unit that divides, according to the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit, an externally-supplied charging current supplied from the outside via the battery-side positive electrode terminal and the battery-side negative electrode terminal into a first current supplied to the battery cell and a second current supplied to the temperature control unit.
US07847518B2
Generation power determining unit specifies efficiency characteristic based on identification ID of each vehicle. Generation power determining unit determines a power generation mechanism or mechanisms to be operated such that amount of power consumption by the power generation mechanism or mechanisms as a whole is minimized. By dividing power ΣPg* necessary for charging an electric storage unit that is in a low-charge state by the number of mechanisms to be operated (for example, 2 or 3), fuel consumption efficiency corresponding to generation power to be shared by each power generation mechanism in each case is obtained. There is a relation of η(½)>η(⅓) and, therefore, it can be understood that two power generation mechanisms are to be operated to minimize total amount of fuel consumption. Generation power determining unit transmits a power generation instruction to vehicles that correspond to the determined two power generation mechanisms.
US07847515B2
In a second preferred variant of the second exemplary embodiment, the magnetic sensor detects the presence of a magnetic field of the magnetic element as long as no battery is connected to the charger. The battery comprises a shielding device which deflects or shields the magnetic field from the magnetic sensor, so that after connecting the battery to the charger, the magnetic sensor detects that no magnetic field is present and emits an identification signal. This variant is advantageous, in particular in stepped contact devices, whereby one of the two elements is a sensor or magnet at the bottom of the step and the other of the two elements is arranged on the leg at an angle thereto. This makes it possible to achieve a particularly good shielding effect. In this variant, several magnetic elements and magnetic sensors may also be provided.
US07847514B2
A handheld electronic device in conjunction with a holder for the handheld electronic device that together form an electronic device. The handheld electronic device includes a first battery and the holder includes a second battery and a charging apparatus. When the handheld electronic device and the holder are electrically connected together, such as when the handheld electronic device is received in a cavity formed in the holder the charging apparatus charges the first battery on the handheld electronic device from the second battery on the holder when the first battery charge has been depleted to a given level and the second battery charge is above a second given level. Alternatively, if the first battery charge is above a third given level the first battery charges the second battery if the second battery is not fully charged.
US07847501B2
A motor in an electric vehicle can be controlled by receiving a torque command value, calculating a first flux value corresponding to a determinable efficiency of the electric vehicle at the torque command value, calculating a first torque-producing current value as a function of the torque command value and of the first flux value, and using the first flux value and the first torque-producing current value to control the motor to propel the electric vehicle.
US07847496B2
Dynamic calibration of a secondary velocity signal is provided in a tape drive. In one example, a reel motor is operated to drive a reel carrying a tape in a tape drive. The motion of the tape is measured to provide a measured primary velocity signal of the tape, and in addition, the operation of the reel motor is measured to provide an estimated secondary velocity signal of the tape as a function of motor parameters and the motor operation measurements. The estimated secondary velocity signal of the tape may be calibrated as the tape is driven, as a function of the tape motion measurements and the motor operation measurements. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07847493B2
A lamp current of a lamp with at least one high-voltage end is detected using a current detector connected to the high-voltage end of the lamp. A feedback signal according to the lamp current is generated, and a drive voltage to the lamp is adjusted according to the feedback signal.
US07847488B2
A power supply circuit has a charge pump (CHP) step-up circuit including multiple CHP units for stepping up a given power supply voltage to a step-up voltage higher than the power supply voltage, and, based on an output voltage setting signal, converts the step-up voltage to a required output voltage. A comparator compares the detection voltage associated with the output voltage with a reference voltage to generate a comparison signal. In supplying a required output voltage, the number of operable CHP units can be changed to control the step-up voltage based on the comparison signal.
US07847487B2
Two LED arrays are connected in parallel, and the both ends of the parallel connection are connected to an alternating-current power supply AC. In each of the LED arrays, a capacitor and three LED blocks (the total of four components) are connected in series. In each of the LED blocks, two LEDs are connected in opposite directions. Connection points between components included in one of the two LED arrays are individually connected to connection points between components included in the other one of the two LED arrays via varistors. Even in the event that a disconnection failure occurs at any one of the LEDs, a path of a current via one of the varistors is formed for another one of the LEDs which is connected in series to the LED at which the disconnection failure has occurred. This can prevent the other LEDs from being turned off. Even in the event that a short-circuit failure occurs at any one of the varistors, the normal lighting operations of the LEDs can be maintained unless the LEDs have defects.
US07847481B2
Ribs for defining pixel cells are formed in the shape of a lattice, and sustain electrodes and scan electrodes are disposed near the ribs. The electrodes are spaced apart in each pixel cell, and the sustain electrode and the scan electrode are each cut away between pixel cells arranged in the row direction to provide each pixel cell with individually separated electrodes. In addition, between pixel cells adjacent to each other in the row direction, the sustain electrodes and the scan electrodes are connected to each other by means of a sustain-side bus electrode and a scan-side bus electrode, respectively. This makes it possible to provide a high luminous efficiency. Furthermore, each pixel cell is provided with a wide distance between the electrodes and thereby with a large effective opening portion. Thus, this provides only a small amount of reduction in intensity when the electrodes are spaced apart between the pixel cells arranged in the row direction in order to increase the luminous efficiency. The sustain electrodes or the scan electrodes can be connected to each other or shared between pixel cells adjacent to each other in the column direction and thus the effective opening portion can be made larger, thereby making it possible to provide a further increased intensity and luminous efficiency.
US07847480B2
A light emitting diode unit comprises a light emitting element D1, a base 1 having a heat dissipating member 12 that dissipates heat generated by the light emitting element D1, and a first lens 2 comprising a reflecting element 214 that reflects light R2 traveling outside of a predetermined angle among the emitted light R emitted by the light emitting element D1 and a refracting element F that refracts light R1 traveling inside of the predetermined angle among the emitted light R each of which is formed integrally, with the first lens 2 mounted integrally on the base 1, and the emitted light R emitted from the light emitting element D1 is made to travel generally toward the same direction by the reflecting element 214 and the refracting element F.
US07847476B2
A light emission device, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device using the same as a backlight unit. In one embodiment, a light emission device includes first and second substrates facing each other, a first electrode arranged on the first substrate in a first direction, a second electrode in a second direction crossing the first direction with an insulation layer interposed between the first and second electrodes, an electron emission region electrically connected to one of the first and second electrodes, and a phosphor layer formed on the second substrate, and an anode electrode formed on the phosphor layer. At least one of the first and second electrodes is divided into a plurality of sub-electrodes, first ends of which are for electrical interconnecting. A driving error electrode among the sub-electrodes is separated from the first ends of other normal electrodes.
US07847474B2
A vacuum envelope and an electron emission display having the vacuum envelope. The vacuum envelope includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate. A plurality of frames is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate to form an inner vacuum space. An absorbing member is arranged between at least two of the frames.
US07847472B2
A spark plug including: a center electrode; an insulator which holds the center electrode therein in a state where a tip end portion of the center electrode protrudes therefrom; a metal shell which holds the insulator therein; a ground electrode which is fixed to the metal shell, the ground electrode having an inner side face having a width that is smaller as it advances toward a tip end side, in a portion of the inner side face positioned between a pair of tapered faces; and a discharge portion which is bonded to the inner side face of the ground electrode by laser welding so as to attain a diameter of 0.8 mm or less and a height of 0.5 mm or more, and a discharge gap being formed between the discharge portion and the tip end portion of said center electrode.
US07847464B2
The object of the invention is to provide an armature which is in good rotational balance, where the total number of the coils to be disposed in the slots of the rotary electric machine can be freely set when winding coils on the armature core. Coils are wound on an outer periphery of an armature core 3 by use of a winding device 7 which is provided with sixteen nozzles 11b movable in the axial direction to draw out the coils to thirty two slots formed on the outer periphery of the armature core 3, wherein sixteen coils 5 are simultaneously wound through a single winding operation and the winding operation with respect to the slot 3c is performed three times in such a manner that the total number of the coils 5 in the slots 3c becomes 96 (C) so that the number obtained by dividing the total number of the coils 5 C by twice the number of the slots does not become a natural number.
US07847463B2
A projected shape of permanent magnets is contained within a plane of projection formed by adjacent claw-shaped magnetic poles overlapping when the claw-shaped magnetic poles are viewed in a direction of rotation of a rotor, and is generally similar in shape to a shape of the plane of projection.
US07847462B2
A magnetic gap is provided between a permanent magnet of a rotor and an auxiliary magnet pole portion which is arranged adjacent to the permanent magnet in a peripheral direction. A gradual change in a magnetic flux density distribution of a surface of the rotor is obtained and a cogging torque and a torque pulsation are restrained. By obtaining a reluctance torque according to the auxiliary magnetic pole, a permanent magnet electric rotating machine in which the cogging torque and the torque pulsation are restrained can be obtained and further an electromotive vehicle having the permanent magnet electric rotating machine can be provided.
US07847457B2
A BLDC electric motor assembly (24) includes a rotor (42) having a plurality of magnet segments (50) securely retained thereabout by an annular ring (68) which is shrunk in situ in an electromagnetic forming operation. The magnet segments (50) are formed with tongues (62, 64) on their upper and lower ends (56, 58). One tongue (64) seats in a retaining pocket (48) molded on the rotor shaft (40), whereas the other tongue (62) provides a ledge into which the ring (68) seats. After the magnet forming operation, wherein the ring (68) is shrunk, the outer surface of the ring (68) is flush with the outer surfaces (54) of the magnet segments (50).
US07847454B2
Rotor and stator assemblies that utilize magnetic bearings for supporting the rotor shaft during operation can be suitably used in corrosive environments, such as sour gas. The rotor and stator assemblies include NACE compliant magnetic bearing arrangements for sour gas applications. One embodiment includes a stator assembly that comprises a stator sleeve formed of a magnetic material, a sleeve extender coaxial to the stator sleeve formed of a non-magnetic material fixedly attached to each end of the stator sleeve, wherein a point of attachment is heat treated, and a wall formed of the non-magnetic material fixedly attached to the sleeve extender configured to hermetically house a stator and form the encapsulated stator assembly.
US07847438B2
A power transmission device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a waveform monitoring circuit that generates and outputs a waveform-monitoring induced voltage signal based on a coil end signal of a primary coil, and a power transmission control device that controls a power transmission driver that drives the primary coil, the power transmission control device receiving the waveform-monitoring induced voltage signal and detecting a change in waveform of the induced voltage signal to detect a power-reception-side load state. The waveform monitoring circuit includes a first rectifier circuit having a limiter function, the first rectifier circuit including a current-limiting resistor provided between a coil end node where the coil end signal of the primary coil is generated and a monitoring node where the waveform-monitoring induced voltage signal is generated, performing a limiter operation that clamps the induced voltage signal at a high-potential-side power supply voltage, and subjecting the induced voltage signal to half-wave rectification.
US07847422B2
The present invention provides for a system to generate electricity from vehicular traffic and road infrastructure. Specifically, energy of a moving vehicle may be transferred via mechanic or wind energy into electricity. Additionally, shoulders of roads allow for installment of photovoltaic cells that provide for electricity while not interfering with normal traffic patterns in the least.
US07847415B2
A multichip module assembly includes a chipset of at least two chips. The chips have active sides, rear sides and chip contacts on their active sides adjacent each other and are embedded in a polymer matrix in a symmetrical manner relating to the top and the bottom surface of the chipset. Chip contacts are electrically connected by through polymer connectors that each extend from a chip contact to a surface of the polymer matrix. A film wiring line is arranged on a side of the polymer matrix for electrical connection of two through polymer connectors of two chips or a through polymer connector with an interconnect element arranged on a side of the polymer matrix.
US07847412B2
An apparatus has two slabs of substrate material joined to each other, the two slabs including a pair of contacts joined to each other having a shape separating a first area from a second area.
US07847410B2
An interconnect of the group III-V semiconductor device and the fabrication method for making the same are described. The interconnect includes a first adhesion layer, a diffusion barrier layer for preventing the copper from diffusing, a second adhesion layer and a copper wire line. Because a stacked-layer structure of the first adhesion layer/diffusion barrier layer/second adhesion layer is located between the copper wire line and the group III-V semiconductor device, the adhesion between the diffusion barrier layer and other materials is improved. Therefore, the yield of the device is increased.
US07847406B2
An object of the present invention is to provide solder bumps sufficiently satisfying the expected functions and having a small diameter which conventional methods cannot attain, a semiconductor device on which these bumps are mounted, and a bump transferring sheet. The present invention provides a method for forming the bumps, which includes forming a solder alloy material layer and flux material layer one by one on an intermediate metallic layer formed on an external electrode pad in a semiconductor device, and then fusing these layers, wherein each of the solder alloy material layer and flux material layer is formed by a liquid spraying method (e.g., ink jetting method).
US07847405B2
In one aspect of the present invention, a semiconductor device may include an inter-wiring dielectric film in which a wiring trench is formed, a metal wiring layer formed in the wiring trench in the inter-wiring dielectric film, a first barrier layer formed on a side surface of the wiring trench, the first barrier layer being an oxide film made from a metal different from a main constituent metal element in the wiring layer, a second barrier layer formed on a side surface of the wiring layer, the second barrier layer having a Si atom of the metal used in the wiring layer, and a gap formed between the first barrier layer and the second barrier layer.
US07847393B2
A package substrate 310 incorporating a substrate provided with a conductor layer 5, a conductive connecting pin 100 arranged to establish the electrical connection with a mother board and secured to the surface of the substrate, wherein a pad 16 for securing the conductive connecting pin is provided for the package substrate 310. The pad 16 is covered with an organic resin insulating layer 15 having an opening 18 through which the pad 16 is partially exposed to the outside. The conductive connecting pin 100 is secured to the pad exposed to the outside through the opening with a conductive adhesive agent 17 so that solution of the conductive connecting pin 100 from the substrate occurring, for example when mounting is performed is prevented.
US07847392B1
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor package (e.g., a QFP package) including a uniquely configured leadframe sized and configured to maximize the available number of exposed leads in the semiconductor package. More particularly, the semiconductor package of the present invention includes a generally planar die pad or die paddle defining multiple peripheral edge segments. In addition, the semiconductor package includes a plurality of leads. Some of these leads include exposed bottom surface portions which are provided in at least one row or ring which at least partially circumvents the die pad, with other leads including portions which protrude from respective side surfaces of a package body of the semiconductor package. Connected to the top surface of the die pad is at least one semiconductor die which is electrically connected to at least some of the leads. At least portions of the die pad, the leads, and the semiconductor die are encapsulated by the package body, with at least portions of the bottom surfaces of the die paddle and some of the leads being exposed in a common exterior surface of the package body.
US07847383B2
A multi-chip package includes first through Nth semiconductor chips, each of which includes an input/output pad, an input/output driver coupled to the input/output pad, and an internal circuit. Each of the first through Nth semiconductor chips includes an internal pad for coupling the internal input/output driver and the internal circuit. The input/output pad of the first semiconductor chip directly receives an input/output signal via a corresponding pin of the multi-chip package. The second through Nth semiconductor chips indirectly receive the input/output signal via the internal pads coupled to each other. The multi-chip package can improve signal compatibility by maintaining a parasitic load of a pin to at least the level of a single chip, when a signal is transmitted to the pin at high speed.
US07847372B2
A ferroelectric capacitor including: a substrate; a first electrode formed above the substrate; a first ferroelectric layer formed above the first electrode and including a complex oxide shown by Pb(Zr,Ti)O3; a second ferroelectric layer formed above the first ferroelectric layer and including a complex oxide shown by Pb(Zr,Ti)1-xNbxO3; and a second electrode formed above the second ferroelectric layer.
US07847370B2
A fuse element is laminated on a resistor and the resistor is formed in a concave shape below a region in which cutting of the fuse element is carried out with a laser. Accordingly, there can be provided a semiconductor device which occupies a small area, causes no damage on the resistor in the cutting of the fuse element, has a small contact resistance occurred between elements, and has stable characteristics, and a method of manufacturing the same.
US07847351B2
A semiconductor device comprising source and drain regions and insulating region and a plate structure. The source and drain regions are on or in a semiconductor substrate. The insulating region is on or in the semiconductor substrate and located between the source and drain regions. The insulating region has a thin layer and a thick layer. The thick layer includes a plurality of insulating stripes that are separated from each other and that extend across a length between the source and the drain regions. The plate structure is located between the source and the drain regions, wherein the plate structure is located on the thin layer and portions of the thick layer, the plate structure having one or more conductive bands that are directly over individual ones of the plurality of insulating stripes.
US07847345B2
There is provided a structure wherein an emitter layer 3 is provided in the region A on the first major surface side of a semiconductor substrate 1, and emitter layer 3 is not provided in the region b. There is provided a structure wherein a collector P layer 5 is provided in the region A on the second major surface side of a semiconductor substrate 1, and a cathode N layer 4 is provided in the region B. Specifically, there is provided a structure wherein IGBTs are composed in the region A, and diodes are composed in the region B. By the above-described structure, ON characteristics when the gate is turned on can be improved while suppressing the elevation of the forward voltage Vf and the recovery current of the diodes.
US07847339B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate; a dummy pattern extending in one direction on the semiconductor substrate; a junction region electrically connecting the dummy pattern to the semiconductor substrate; and a voltage applying unit that is configured to apply a bias voltage to the dummy pattern.
US07847326B2
A backside illuminated image sensor includes a photodiode, formed below the top surface of a semiconductor substrate, for receiving light illuminated from the backside of the semiconductor substrate to generate photoelectric charges, a reflecting gate, formed on the photodiode over the front upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, for reflecting light illuminated from the backside of the substrate and receiving a bias to control a depletion region of the photodiode, and a transfer gate for transferring photoelectric charges from the photodiode to a sensing node of a pixel.
US07847324B2
A MOS transistor includes plural transistor cell blocks arranged adjacently in parallel to one another, wherein the plural transistor cell blocks are configured to have plural transistor cells, plural boundaries that are parallel to the plural transistor cells, and plural back gates arranged at the plural boundaries, each of the plural transistor cell blocks has two boundaries of the plural boundaries, wherein the plural transistor cells have a substantially striped shape, and each of the plural transistor cell blocks includes: at least one drain; plural sources; and plural extended gates, wherein each of the plural transistor cells is formed from one of the plural extended gates sandwiched by one of at least one drain and one of the plural sources, one of the plural sources is adjacent to one of two boundaries, and another one of the plural sources is adjacent to another one of two boundaries.
US07847314B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor light-emitting device that is excellent in light output efficiency and needs only a low driving voltage (Vf). The inventive gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor light-emitting device includes an n-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer and a p-type semiconductor layer formed of a gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor and stacked in this order on a substrate, and positive and negative electrodes so arranged as to be in contact with the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer, respectively, wherein a region in which a p-type impurity and hydrogen atoms are co-present exists in the p-type semiconductor layer in contact with the positive electrode, and at least a portion, which is in contact with the p-type semiconductor layer, of the positive electrode, is formed of an n-type electro-conductive light transmitting material.
US07847311B2
An Organic Light Emitting Display (OLED) includes: a lower substrate having at least one thin film transistor arranged thereon in a active region and a power supply lower stripe arranged thereon in a non-emissive region; an upper substrate corresponding to the lower substrate and having a power supply upper stripe arranged thereon in the non-emissive region; and a conductive spacer arranged between the upper stripe and the lower stripe in the non-emissive region to electrically connect the upper stripe to the lower stripe.
US07847306B2
A light emitting diode device which, in use, has its light emitting region occupying a plane substantially perpendicular to a plane occupied by the surface on which the device is mounted. The primary light emission directions of the light emitting region are parallel to the surface on which the device is mounted. The device may have both its p-type and n-type semiconductor layers passivated by a layer or layers of light transmissive materials. There is a method for fabricating and mounting such a device. A plurality of the light emitting diode devices can be used in a lighting assembly for providing a plurality of independently controllable lit regions.
US07847305B2
A plurality of transistors are formed on a substrate in a plurality of columns. Each transistor has a first conductivity type region and second conductivity type regions provided on both sides thereof in a column direction, and has an active layer on the side of each second conductivity type region closer to the substrate. Between two columns adjacent to each other, the second conductivity type region on a first side in the column direction of each transistor arranged on a first column, the second conductivity type region on a second side in the column direction of the transistor adjacent to this transistor on the first side in the column direction and the first conductivity type region of each transistor arranged on a second column are electrically connected by a first wire. Between these two columns, the second conductivity type region on the first side in the column direction of each transistor arranged on the second column, the second conductivity type region on the second side in the column direction of the transistor adjacent to this transistor on the first side in the column direction and the first conductivity type region of each transistor arranged on the first column are electrically connected by a second wire.
US07847298B2
A semiconductor composite apparatus includes a substrate and a planarizing layer, and a semiconductor thin film. The planarizing layer is formed on the substrate either directly or indirectly. The planarizing layer includes a first surface that faces the substrate, and a second surface that is on the side of the planarizing layer remote from the substrate. The semiconductor thin film formed on the planarizing layer. The second surface has a roughness of not more than 5 nm.
US07847296B2
On a major surface of an n-type silicon carbide inclined substrate (2) is formed an n-type voltage-blocking layer (3) made of silicon carbide by means of epitaxial growth. On the n-type voltage-blocking layer (3) is formed a p-type silicon carbide region (4) rectangular when viewed from above. On the surface of the p-type silicon carbide region (4) is formed a p-type contact electrode (5). In the p-type silicon carbide region (4), the periphery of the p-type silicon carbide region (4) that is parallel with a (11-20) plane (14a) of the silicon carbide crystal, which is liable to cause avalanche breakdown, is located on the short side. In this manner, the dielectric strength of a silicon carbide semiconductor device can be improved.
US07847293B2
Lateral epitaxial overgrowth (LEO) of non-polar gallium nitride (GaN) films results in significantly reduced defect density.
US07847286B2
A semiconductor device with a substrate, a first electrode on the substrate, at least one of an injection layer or a transporting layer on the first electrode, an adhesion layer on the at least one of an injection layer or a transporting layer, and a second electrode on the adhesion layer.
US07847283B2
The present invention discloses a three-dimensional memory (3D-M) with polarized 3D-ROM (three-dimensional read-only memory) cells. Polarized 3D-ROM can ensure a larger unit array and therefore, a better integratibility.
US07847282B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a vertical tunneling transistor that may include a channel disposed on a substrate. A quantum dot may be disposed so that an axis through the channel and the quantum dot is substantially perpendicular to the substrate. A gate may be disposed so that an axis through the channel, the quantum dot and the gate is substantially perpendicular to the substrate.
US07847267B2
A system and method for multi detector detection of electrons, the method includes the steps of directing a primary electron beam, through a column, to interact with an inspected object, directing, by introducing a substantial electrostatic field, electrons reflected or scattered from the inspected objects towards multiple interior detectors, whereas at least some of the directed electrons are reflected or scattered at small angle in relation to the inspected object; and receiving detection signals from at least one interior detector.
US07847245B2
A shotgun metabolomics approach using MALDI-tandem mass spectrometry was developed for the rapid analysis of cellular metabolites. Through the use of neutral organic solvents to inactivate endogenous enzyme activities (i.e., methanol/chloroform/H2O extraction), multiplexed extraction conditions and combinatorial alterations in matrix stereoelectronic composition and analyte interactions, multiple suites of metabolites were directly ionized and quantitated directly from biologic extracts without the need for prior chromatographic separation. Through combinatorial alterations in 9-aminoacridine charge, aromaticity and stacking, a set of multiplexed conditions was developed that allowed identification of many hundreds of peaks corresponding to metabolites from mouse heart extracts. Identification of metabolite peaks was based on mass accuracy and isomeric species were assigned based on diagnostic fragment ions present during tandem mass spectrometry for many of the identified metabolite peaks.
US07847233B2
There is provided a physical information acquiring method of acquiring physical information for a predetermined purpose on the basis of change information that is acquired under predetermined detection conditions for a physical quantity using an portion for physical quantity distribution detection. The portion for physical quantity distribution detection includes a detector that detects change information corresponding to a change in a physical quantity made incident on the detector and has unit components that output unit signals based on the change information detected by the detector arranged in a predetermined order. In the physical information acquiring method, a carrier signal is converted into a signal related to a frequency on the basis of the change information detected by the detector. The physical information for a predetermined purpose is acquired using the signal related to a frequency.
US07847229B2
An object detecting system, which is installed in a vehicle, uses a camera comprising an optical lens, a distance measuring image chip, and an illumination device to detect information about an object occupying a vehicle seat. The illumination device is sectioned into a plurality of illuminants, such as a first illuminant and a second illuminant, so that the light emitting modes of the illuminants are controlled to be changed individually.
US07847228B2
A solar energy collector includes a parabolic reflector, a solar panel, a photosensor panel, a projecting pointer, a solar location calculator, and a reflector mount. The parabolic reflector includes a parabolic reflecting surface. The solar panel includes a light receiving surface for facing the reflecting surface. The photosensor panel includes a light sensing surface. The projecting pointer is mounted on the photosensor panel. The solar location calculator is connected to the photosensor panel, and is configured for calculating the trajectory of the sun relative to a geographic location of the parabolic reflector according to the motion of a shadow of the projecting pointer on the light sensing surface sensed by the photosensor panel and generating a control signal associated therewith. The reflector mount is configured for supporting and moving the parabolic reflector in following movement of the sun in response to the control signal from the solar location calculator.
US07847221B2
Heating flange (1) for heating a flow of gas as it flows though a cross-section of flow (S), wherein the heating flange (1) is designed such that it can be inserted or interposed in an intake line (A) of an internal combustion engine and has at least one heat conductor (5) that extends through the cross-section of flow (S) from a mounting point (6a) to an immediately following further mounting point (6b) on the heating flange (1), as well as a retaining leg piece (2), which is provided with at least one of the mounting points (6a). In order to create an improved heating flange of a simple and robust construction that is easier to manufacture, mount and maintain, according to the invention, it is provided for the longitudinal axis of the one retaining leg piece (2) to form a triangle, on the one hand, with two heating leg pieces (5a, 5b) of the heat conductor (5) between the one mounting point (6a) and the other mounting point (6b), which is likewise arranged on the one retaining leg piece (2), or, on the other hand, with the longitudinal axis of a further retaining leg piece (3), on which the further mounting point (6b) is provided, as well as with the straight line through the one (6a) and the other mounting point (6b).
US07847202B2
A top-pan scale with a scale pan which is supported on at least one force transducer (7) of a force measurement system (5) and with a corner load sensor which outputs a signal if the weighing goods are positioned eccentrically on the scale pan. The corner load sensor (10) has a flat underside via which it can be placed on, or attached to, the scale pan or a bottom pan of the scale. The corner load sensor also has a flat upper side on which a scale pan (4) can be placed or attached. The corner load sensor (10) is connected to a positionally fixed electronic processor (22) via a force-feedback-free connection (21). Embodiments of the corner load sensor can therefore be used for a wide variety of scale designs and can be retrofitted easily.
US07847197B2
A multilayer circuit board includes a laminate having a plurality of ceramic layers, and a wiring pattern disposed in the laminate, wherein a ceramic layer includes, as the wiring pattern, a fully penetrating via-hole conductor that vertically passes through the ceramic layers, and a serial partially penetrating via-hole conductor that is electrically connected to the fully penetrating via-hole conductor in the ceramic layers and does not pass completely through the ceramic layers.
US07847195B2
A closing device (1, 101, 201, 301) includes a plurality of adhesive closing elements (2) in the form of a hook, mushroom head or clasp, and a flat support (3, 103, 203, 303). The adhesive closing elements (2) protruded from at least one surface (4) of the support (3, 103, 203, 303). At least one switching circuit (5, 503) with at least one electric and/or electronic component (6, 106, 7, 107, 207, 307) is provided.
US07847194B2
An opening and closing device to be used in a variety of electronic apparatuses is disclosed, and the opening and closing device can be manufactured at a low cost and ensures a positive opening/closing action. After the reversing cam moves along an axial line, a movable cam protruding on an inner wall of a ring-like movable unit elastically urges against a reversing cam. While the movable cam is held at a given angle, the movable cam elastically urges against the reversing cam and rotates, so that a stationary unit needs no stationary cam during this given angle being kept. The stationary unit thus needs the stationary cam on its outer wall only in part but not entirely. As a result, the stationary unit can be manufactured with ease by forming process.
US07847186B2
According to the present invention, sufficient light trapping effect can be exhibited and series resistance can be kept small, by sequentially forming a silicon based low refractive index layer and a thin silicon based interface layer on a backside of a photoelectric conversion layer observed from a light incident side, and as a result a silicon based thin film solar cell may be provided efficiently and at low cost.
US07847178B2
A digital multi-media device provides features for a user unskilled in musical arts or sound handling techniques that provides automatic musical score composition in accordance with contained composition instructions. Stored sound samples and interfaces for obtaining external signals provide signals for merger with visual and sound presentations to obtain altered presentations either time shifted or in real time. In this fashion the user can create simulated radio stations for playback of prearranged and composed audio material. Further, the automatically composed musical score may be mixed with synthesized, digitized signals from the stored sound samples and external signals obtained through the device interfaces.
US07847177B2
Digital complex tone generators include a first tone generator configured to generate a first digital tone with selectable first characteristics including a first frequency, a first phase, and a first amplitude; a second tone generator configured to generate a second digital tone with selectable second characteristics including a second frequency, a second phase, and a second amplitude; and a generator adder configured for combining the first tone and the second tone to provide a digital complex tone with programmable characteristics. Corresponding methods include initializing a first and second tone generators based on, respective, selected frequencies, phases, and amplitudes; iteratively generating a first digital tone and a second digital tone; and combining these two tones to provide the digital complex tone.
US07847170B1
A string anchor useful for anchoring a guitar string to a guitar bridge. The string anchor body has a body slot extending along the body side to the through hole. The body is adapted to receive the string enlarged end into the through hole at an anchor body top and through the through hole downward to outside of the anchor body bottom such that as the string adjusted such that its enlarged end is alongside the body and is pulled upward through the through hole and the slot, the string enlarged end is pulled against the anchor body and the bridge plate.
US07847167B1
A novel maize variety designated PH128Z and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH128Z with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH128Z through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH128Z or a locus conversion of PH128Z with another maize variety.
US07847162B1
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB29R09. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB29R09, to the plants of soybean XB29R09 to plant parts of soybean variety XB29R09 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB29R09 with another soybean plant, using XB29R09 as either the male or the female parent.
US07847160B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a tissue preferred promoter isolated from the sorghum α-kafirin coding region or from the sorghum β-kafirin coding region. The sequences drive expression preferentially to endosperm tissue. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a nucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell.
US07847154B2
The invention provides compositions and methods useful for producing plant cells or plants with altered tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity.
US07847152B2
Methods and compositions are described using tryptophan analogs, indole analogs, and mixtures thereof as agents for selecting plant cells that have been transformed with an anthranilate synthase (ASA2) gene or a fragment thereof, where the ASA2 gene encodes a feedback-insensitive form of anthranilate synthase (AS).
US07847148B2
A mouse that is deficient in the function of the gene for OASIS, and a method for screening for, or evaluating a pharmacological efficacy of, therapeutic agents for osteoporosis using the mouse.
US07847138B2
The disclosed invention relates to a process for converting ethylbenzene to styrene, comprising: flowing a feed composition comprising ethylbenzene in at least one process microchannel in contact with at least one catalyst to dehydrogenate the ethylbenzene and form a product comprising styrene; exchanging heat between the process microchannel and at least one heat exchange channel in thermal contact with the process microchannel; and removing product from the process microchannel. Also disclosed is an apparatus comprising a process microchannel, a heat exchange channel, and a heat transfer wall positioned between the process microchannel and heat exchange channel wherein the heat transfer wall comprises a thermal resistance layer.
US07847128B2
In a process for producing cyclohexylbenzene, benzene and hydrogen are fed to at least one reaction zone. The benzene and hydrogen are then contacted in the at least one reaction zone under hydroalkylation conditions with a catalyst system comprising a molecular sieve having an X-ray diffraction pattern including d-spacing maxima at 12.4±0.25, 6.9±0.15, 3.57±0.07 and 3.42±0.07 Angstrom, and at least one hydrogenation metal to produce an effluent containing cyclohexylbenzene. The catalyst system has an acid-to-metal molar ratio of from about 75 to about 750.
US07847122B2
The present invention provides methods of selectively inducing terminal differentiation, cell growth arrest and/or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, and/or inhibiting histone deacetylase (HDAC) by administration of pharmaceutical compositions comprising potent HDAC inhibitors. The oral bioavailability of the active compounds in the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention is surprisingly high. Moreover, the pharmaceutical compositions unexpectedly give rise to high, therapeutically effective blood levels of the active compounds over an extended period of time. The present invention further provides a safe, daily dosing regimen of these pharmaceutical compositions, which is easy to follow, and which results in a therapeutically effective amount of the HDAC inhibitors in vivo. The present invention also provides a novel Form I polymorph of SAHA, characterized by a unique X-ray diffraction pattern and Differential Scanning Calorimetry profile, as well a unique crystalline structure.
US07847117B2
Alkyl(methoxymethyl)trimethylsilanylmethylamines are prepared by reacting alkyltrimethylsilanylmethylamines with a substantially equimolar amount of paraformaldehyde and methanol in the presence of a base.
US07847114B2
A method of synthesizing a heteroleptic, multiple metal-containing metallocyclic catalyst, particularly suited for asymmetric catalysis, comprising combining a plurality of plural functional group-containing, monodentate ligands of complementary chirality, said plural functional groups being tethered to each other by tethers in the presence of a scaffold-structural metal Ms or derivative thereof, wherein at least one functional group on each ligand combines to ligate Ms to form a bidentate, Ms centered ligand scaffold containing the remaining functional groups and combining said bidentate ligand scaffold with a catalytic metal Mc or derivative thereof whereby the remaining functional groups combine to ligate Mc, thereby forming said catalyst.
US07847113B2
The present invention provides a method of efficiently and stably producing LCPUFA-PL. Specifically, the invention provides a method for producing phospholipids that contain LCPUFA as a constituent (LCPUFA-PL), wherein lipid producing cells producing lipids that contain long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) are used as a starting material, the method including a PL extracting step of extracting phospholipids (PL) from defatted cells obtained by extracting triglyceride (TG)-containing oil or fat from the lipid producing cells.
US07847109B2
Variously substituted carbonate and carbamate derivatives of triptolide compounds have good aqueous solubility and convert to biologically active compounds in vivo, at a rate which can be modulated by varying the substitution on the prodrug. The prodrugs are useful as immunosuppressive, anti-inflammatory and anticancer agents.
US07847105B2
A method of forming a CBI CC-1065 analog utilizes NH2 as a starting material, where R3 is H or alkyl and R6 is H, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, cyano, or alkoxy. Intermediates (I) are used and are claimed.
US07847104B2
The present invention relates to a process of preparing indazolyl ureas that are useful as antagonists of the vanilloid receptor subtype 1 (VR1).
US07847095B2
The present invention is concerned with a novel process for the preparation of the compound 5-[[2(R)-[1(R)-[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]ethoxy]-3(S)-(4-fluorophenyl)-4-morpholinyl]methyl]-1,2-dihydro-3H-1,2,4 -tria-zol-3-one. This compound is useful as a substance P (neurokinin-1) receptor antagonist. In particular, the compound is useful e.g., in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, inflammatory diseases and emesis.
US07847080B2
Newly identified mammalian taste-cell-specific G protein-coupled receptors, and the genes and cDNA encoding said receptors are described. Specifically, T1R G protein-coupled receptors active in taste signaling, and the genes and cDNA encoding the same, are described, along with methods for isolating such genes and for isolating and expressing such receptors. Methods for representing taste perception of a particular tastant in a mammal are also described, as are methods for generating novel molecules or combinations of molecules that elicit a predetermined taste perception in a mammal, and methods for simulating one or more tastes. Further, methods for stimulating or blocking taste perception in a mammal are also disclosed.
US07847072B2
A method for purifying bone-derived osteogenic proteins including a demineralization process, a protein extraction process, a high molecular weight ultrafiltration process, a low molecular weight ultrafiltration process, and a recovery process. The high and low ultrafiltration processes preferably select proteins having a nominal molecular weight between approximately 8 kilodaltons and approximately 50 kilodaltons. Processes of the present invention may be used to recover osteogenic proteins from bone demineralization waste streams.
US07847049B2
A process for producing a polyrotaxane in a high yield and at a satisfactory cost without using a large excess of a pseudopolyrotaxane and/or without using a large excess of an activated reagent. The process for polyrotaxane production comprises: an inclusion step in which a carboxylated polyethylene glycol which is a polyethylene glycol carboxylated at each end is mixed with cyclodextrin molecules to obtain a pseudopolyrotaxane which comprises cyclodextrin molecules which include the carboxylated polyethylene glycol in their cavities as if the cyclodextrin molecules are spitted with the carboxylated polyethylene glycol; and a capping step in which the pseudopolyrotaxane is reacted with capping groups having —NH2 or —OH to obtain a polyrotaxane terminated at each end by a —CO—NH-(capping group) or —CO—O-(capping group).
US07847047B2
A material which expresses its critical solution temperature even in an aqueous solution containing a buffer or salt, and at the same time, shows small variation width of the critical solution temperature even when concentration of salt or the like contained in water, a buffer liquid or the like is different, interacts with a substance such as a component in the living body and can therefore be used efficiently in the isolation of substances, is provided. A monomer represented by a formula (1) and a thermoresponsive polymer which contains said monomer as a polymerization component.
US07847037B2
A process for the preparation of a catalyst that contains at least one modified zeolite, whereby said zeolite—before being modified—has a maximum pore opening diameter that is less than or equal to 7 Å, and whereby said process comprises at least: a) One stage for introducing at least one metal that is selected from among the metals of groups VIB and VIII of the periodic table on a substrate that is based on at least one protonated zeolite, b) One stage for treating said zeolite in the presence of at least one molecular compound that contains at least one silicon atom, and said compound that has a diameter that is greater than the maximum opening diameter of the pores of said zeolite, c) At least one heat treatment stage, is described.
US07847032B2
A poly(arylene ether) composition includes a hydrogenated block copolymer of an alkenyl aromatic compound and a conjugated diene, a flame retardant, and a poly(arylene ether)-polysiloxane block copolymer reaction product that itself includes a poly(arylene ether)-polysiloxane block copolymer. The composition is useful for forming extruded articles, including insulation for wire and cable. The poly(arylene ether)-polysiloxane block copolymer contributes improved flame retardancy and, in many cases, improved physical properties to the composition.
US07847031B2
A continuous process for the reactive compatibilization of polymers includes I. processing monooxazoline, bisoxazoline or a mixture thereof together with a first polymer, to give a reactive polymer; and II. adding the reactive polymer to one or more second polymers. In addition, a reactive polymer contains I. a first polymer; and II. at least 5% by weight of chemically unbound monooxazoline, bisoxazoline or a mixture thereof.
US07847025B2
The present invention relates to amphiphilic block copolymers comprising at least one block of hydrophilic units and at least one block of hydrophobic units, wherein at least one hydrophobic block contains siloxane units. The present invention may be particularly useful as a tissue adhesive or as a coating for an intraocular lens (IOL). As an IOL coating, copolymers according to the invention may be used, for example, to promote tissue adhesion for the prevention of posterior capsule opacification.
US07847024B2
Compositions including a thermoplastic elastomer or thermoplastic vulcanizate derived from a styrenic block copolymer having a reactive or crosslinkable hard block including aromatic vinyl repeat units and also preferably a crosslinkable soft block, and a non-olefin thermoplastic polymer or copolymer and preferably a compatibilizer such as the reaction product of a non-olefin thermoplastic polymer and a functionalized polymer such as a maleic anhydride functionalized styrenic block copolymer that is compatible with the styrenic block copolymer having a reactive or crosslinkable hard block, and optionally a linking compound. The vulcanizates are prepared by crosslinking the styrenic block copolymer in the presence of the non-olefin thermoplastic polymer and a suitable crosslinking agent, and optionally the compatibilizer, preferably utilizing dynamic vulcanization. In a further embodiment, thermoplastic vulcanizate compositions are provided including the styrenic block copolymer, a polyolefin polymer or copolymer, a non-olefin thermoplastic polymer and the compatibilizer.
US07847023B2
A thermoplastic composition comprises a polysiloxane/polyimide block copolymer and a polyester/polyether block copolymer. The polysiloxane/polyimide block copolymer has 5 to 50 weight percent (wt %) polysiloxane, based on the total weight of the polysiloxane/polyimide block copolymer. The polyester/polyether block copolymer has 5 to 30 wt % polyether based on the total weight of the polyester/polyether block copolymer. In some embodiments the polysiloxane/polyimide block copolymer is present in an amount of 75 to 99 wt % and the polyester/polyether block copolymer is present in an amount of 1 to 25 wt %, with the weight percent of the block copolymers based on the combined weight of the two block copolymers.
US07847022B2
The present invention relates to articles prepared from novel anionic block copolymers of mono alkenyl arenes and conjugated dienes, and to blends of such block copolymers with other polymers. The block copolymers have mono alkenyl arene end blocks and controlled distribution blocks of mono alkenyl arenes and conjugated dienes. The block copolymer may be blended with at least one other polymer selected from the group consisting of olefin polymers, styrene polymers, amorphous resins and engineering thermoplastic resins.
US07847020B2
An isobutene polymer which has an average of at least 1.4 terminal 1,3-propanediol groups is described, as is a crosslinking product thereof. Suitable crosslinkers are difunctional or higher-functionality isocyanates or epoxy compounds having at least two epoxide groups. The crosslinking products exhibit high storage moduli even at elevated temperatures.
US07847019B2
A process for the preparation of functional molecules using the thiol-ene coupling reaction and a process for the preparation of protected functional thiols, specifically thioesters is provided. The methods may be used to make functional polymers and other molecules. The method of making a functionalized polymer using a thiol-ene reaction comprises: providing a functionalized thioester having the following formula: wherein R is a functional group and COR′ is a protecting group; cleaving the functionalized thioester, forming a functional thiol and an acyl group; providing a polymer having a pendant vinyl group; and reacting the polymer with the functional thiol whereby a functionalized polymer is formed, wherein the functional thiol is not isolated prior to reacting with the polymer.
US07847015B2
A coating composition comprising (A) at least one fluorine-containing organosilicon compound represented by the following formula (1) or (2) Rf1-QZ1Aα (1) AαZ1Q-Rf2-(Q-Z2-Q-Rf2)x-QZ1Aα (2) and (B) a fluorine-containing carboxylic acid having a number average molecular weight of from 100 to 10,000 and a fluorine content of at least 25 wt %, wherein an amount of (B) ranges from 0.001 to 10 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the component (A) wherein the amount of (B) ranges from 0.001 to 10 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the component (A), wherein the composition can be cured rapidly even at room temperature to produce water-repellent and antifouling coatings.
US07847010B2
Polypropylene block copolymer, uses thereof, and polypropylene resin composition containing the same
Provided are a molding appearance modifier for resins capable of controlling appearance of large-sized molded parts only by small addition, and a polypropylene resin composition capable of providing good appearance to, for example, automobile exterior parts, and has excellent molding processability. The invention relates to a propylene block copolymer having a crystalline propylene polymer portion and a propylene•ethylene random copolymer portion, wherein the crystalline propylene polymer portion has an intrinsic viscosity [η]homo of 1.2 dl/g or less; the propylene•ethylene random copolymer portion has an ethylene content of 30 to 70 wt. %, has an intrinsic viscosity [η]copoly of 2.5 to 7.0 dl/g, and is added in an amount of 40 to 80 wt. % based on the whole propylene block copolymer; and the propylene block copolymer, in its entirety, has a melt flow rate of 0.1 to 10 g/10 min; and a [η]copoly/[η]homo ratio falls within a range of 2.5 to 10; and a polypropylene resin composition using the propylene block copolymer as a molding appearance modifier.
US07847008B2
A hydrogenated NBR composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of a blend of a hydrogenated NBR having an acrylonitrile content of 25-44% by weight and an iodine number of 32-65, with such an amount of an NBR as to make the iodine number of the blend of 40-160, 2-23 parts by weight of an ester-based plasticizer, and 0.5-10 parts by weight of an organic peroxide, preferably which further contains 0.5-10 parts by weight of a polyfunctional, unsaturated compound, has a distinguished cost performance because of blending an expensive hydrogenated NBR with a cheap NBR, can give cross-linked products having a distinguished oil resistance (resistance to such oil as No. 3 oil and other general-purpose, commercially available engine oil, etc.) and a distinguished fuel oil resistance (resistance to such fuel oil as fuel oil C, and other general-purpose, commercially available gasoline, etc.) and thus can serve as suitable molding materials for intake manifold gaskets of automobile engine or automobile sealing parts, particularly sealing parts around engines and transmission systems.
US07846993B2
The present invention relates to an organic silica master batch elastomer prepared by mixing a conjugated diene based copolymer, a vinyl aromatic copolymer or a mixture thereof prepared by solution polymerization with organically modified silica in which the surface of silica is modified with a particular organosilicon compound and a silane coupling agent in solution. The resultant organic silica master batch elastomer exhibits improved mechanical properties, wear resistance and blending processability, and can provide the effect of extending durability of a tire.
US07846987B2
Expanded and extruded biodegradable polymer foams are obtained using biodegradable polymers and environmentally benign non-VOC methyl formate as a blowing agent. The blowing agent can be a blend further including at least one co-blowing agent, preferably an environmentally friendly species (e.g., non-VOC), which is either a physical co-blowing agent (e.g. an inorganic agent, a hydrocarbon, a halogenated hydrocarbon, a hydrocarbon with polar, functional group(s), water or any combination thereof), or a chemical co-blowing agent, or combinations thereof. The blowing agent blend can include any combination of methyl formate and one or more co-blowing agents. The polymer foam can include a biodegradable polymer or its blends with other biodegradable polymers or conventional (non-biodegradable) polymers. The methyl formate-based blowing agent blends produce stable foams for various applications, including containers, packaging systems, as well as for insulation and protective cushioning. Processes for the preparation of such foams are also provided.
US07846983B2
The present invention concerns a proton-conducting electrolyte membrane obtainable by a method comprising the following steps: A) expanding a polymer film with a liquid that contains a vinyl-containing phosphonic acid, and B) polymerisation of the vinyl-containing phosphonic acid present in the liquid introduced in step A). An inventive membrane, thanks to its exceptional chemical and thermal properties, is very versatile in its use and is particularly suitable as a polymer-electrolyte-membrane (PEM) in so-called PEM fuel cells.
US07846979B2
Process for the production of liquid hydrocarbons from a feedstock that comprises at least one elementary feedstock from the group of biomass, coal, lignite, petroleum residues, methane, and natural gas, comprising: at least one stage a) for gasification of the feedstock by partial oxidation and/or steam reforming to produce a synthesis gas SG; a stage b) for separating CO2 from SG and a portion of the effluent of the subsequent stage c); the mixing of a portion of the CO2 that is separated with a gas of an H2/CO ratio of more than 3; a stage c) for partial conversion with hydrogen, thermal or thermocatalytic, of the CO2 that is present in said first mixture according to the reaction: CO2+H2→CO+H2O in a specific reaction zone that is separated from said gasification zone or zones; a stage d) for Fisher-Tropsch synthesis on a synthesis gas that comprises at least a portion of SG and at least a portion of the CO that is produced by the conversion of CO2 into hydrogen.
US07846968B2
This invention is directed to methods for controlling the duration of the depolarization and repolarization of the cardiac ventricle and therefore the QT interval, in therapeutically useful ways in a subject, comprising administering to the subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of Formula (I) and Formula (II), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof: wherein phenyl is substituted at X with one to five halogen atoms selected from the group consisting of fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine; and, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and C1-C4 alkyl; wherein C1-C4 alkyl is optionally substituted with phenyl, wherein phenyl is optionally substituted with substituents independently selected from the group consisting of halogen, C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 alkoxy, amino, nitro and cyano.
US07846965B2
A compound is described. In particular, a non-steroidal sulphamate compound is described. The compound is suitable for use as an inhibitor of oestrone sulphatase. The compound is of general Formula (A), wherein R1-R6 are independently selected from H, halo, hydroxy, sulphamate, alkyl and substituted variants or salts thereof; but wherein at least one of R1-R6 is a sulphamate group; and wherein X is any one of S, NH, a substituted N, CH2, or a substituted C.
US07846964B2
The invention relates to novel thiophene derivatives, their preparation and their use as pharmaceutically active compounds. Said compounds particularly act as immunosuppressive agents.
US07846961B2
α-crystalline form of the compound of formula (I): characterized by its powder X-ray diffraction diagram. Medicinal products containing the same which are useful as inhibitors of angiotensin I converting enzyme.
US07846957B2
The use of at least one aromatase inhibitor in the production of a medicament for improving the implantation and pregnancy rates for a female undergoing assisted reproduction treatment, which comprises one or more daily doses of an aromatase inhibitor (AI) for administration during assisted reproduction cycles or ovarian stimulation cycles, wherein the doses of AI are selected from amounts effective to reduce serum estradiol levels. Also disclosed are related pharmaceutical preparations and packages.
US07846950B2
The present invention provides novel compounds with histamine-H3 receptor antagonist or inverse agonist activity. In particular, the invention provides a compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, methods of treatment employing these compounds and compositions, and intermediates and methods for making these compounds. The invention provides methods of using compounds and pharmaceutical compositions to treat obesity, cognitive deficiences, narcolepsy, and other histamine H3 receptor-related diseases.
US07846939B2
The invention relates to salts of 1-alkylamino-1-deoxypolyols and 9-oxoacridine-10-acetic acid of the general formula (I): wherein A+ is (II) wherein R is selected from the group consisting of ethyl, propyl, butyl, medicinal preparations comprising as an active ingredient salts of formula (I) and/or a mixture of said salt of formula (I) or 9-oxoacridine-10-acetic acid of the formula: and one or more 1-alkylamino-1-deoxypolyols of the general formula (II): wherein: R is selected from the group consisting of ethyl, propyl, butyl.
US07846938B2
The present invention relates to tartrate salts of quinazoline containing zinc-binding moiety based derivatives of Formula II, below. These compounds are inhibitors of epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase (EGFR-TK) and may further act as HDAC inhibitors. The invention further relates to the use of these tartrate salts in the treatment of EGFR-TK related diseases and disorders such as cancer.
US07846934B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof (I), wherein: R3 is cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl; X is CH or N; and R4 is optionally substituted C1-8 alkyl or optionally substituted C3-8 cycloalkyl. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of formula (I), and the use of such compounds in the treatment of a disease selected from osteoporosis, Paget's disease, Chagas's disease, malaria, gingival diseases, hypercalaemia, metabolic bone disease, diseases involving matrix or cartilage degradation, and bone cancer disorders such as bone metastases and associated pain.
US07846928B2
The invention relates to substituted pyrazolopyridines according to the general formula (I): in which A, B, D, E, Ra, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and q are as defined in the claims, and salts thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said substituted pyrazolopyridine compounds, to methods of preparing said substituted pyrazolopyridines, as well as to uses thereof for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of diseases of dysregulated vascular growth or of diseases which are accompanied with dysregulated vascular growth, wherein the compounds effectively interfere with Tie2 signalling.
US07846925B2
The present invention is related to azolidinedione-vinyl fused-benzene derivatives of formula (I) for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of autoimmune disorders and/or inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, bacterial or viral infections, kidney diseases, platelet aggregation, cancer, graft rejection or lung injuries. Formula (I), wherein A, X, Y, Z, R1, R2 and n are as described in the description.
US07846923B2
The invention provides a novel class of compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with abnormal or deregulated kinase activity, particularly diseases or disorders that involve abnormal activation of the Abl, Bcr-Abl, Bcr-Abl(T315I), ALK, BLK, BMX, BRK, C-kit, c-RAF, CSK, c-SRC, EGFR, Fes, FGFR3, Flt3, Fms, Fyn, IGF-1R, IR, JAK(2), JAK(3), KDR, Lck, NLK, p70S6K, PDGFRα, Ros, SAPK2α, SGK, SIK, Syk, Tie2 and TrkB kinases.
US07846922B2
The present invention relates to novel diazepanyl derivatives of formula (I) having pharmacological activity, processes for their preparation, to compositions containing them and to their use in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
US07846914B2
A composition and method for pain relief and the treatment and prevention of endothelial dysfunction the cause of atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and stroke in mammals comprising a therapeutically effective amount of anti-inflammatory agents comprising; NSAIDs, an amino sugar and a zinc compound combined with dietary supplements that may enhance longevity.
US07846911B2
Oligonucleotides directed against the hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIP-1α) gene are provided for modulating the expression of HIF-1α. The compositions comprise oligonucleotides, particularly antisense oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acids encoding the HIF-1α. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of HIF-1α expression and for the treatment of diseases associated with the hypoxia-inducible factor-1α are provided. Examples of diseases are cancer and pre-eclampsia. The oligonucleotides may be composed of deoxyribonucleosides, a nucleic acid analogue, or Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA) or a combination thereof.
US07846906B2
Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of growth hormone receptor and/or insulin like growth factor-I (IGF-I). The compositions comprise oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acid encoding growth hormone receptor. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of growth hormone receptor expression and for diagnosis and treatment of disease associated with expression of growth hormone receptor and/or insulin-like growth factor-I are provided. Diagnostic methods and kits are also provided.
US07846904B2
The present invention relates to methods for increasing telomerase activity in cells. Such compositions include pharmaceutical, including topical, and nutraceutical formulations. The method and compositions are useful for treating diseases subject to treatment by an increase in telomerase activity in cells or tissue of a patient, such as, for example, HIV infection, various degenerative diseases, and acute or chronic skin aliments. They are also useful for enhancing replicative capacity of cells in culture, as in ex vivo cell therapy and proliferation of stem cells.
US07846901B2
Disclosed herein are a composition for prevention or treatment of gastrointestinal damage comprising Substance-P as an active ingredient, a use of Substance-P for the preparation of a medicament for prevention or treatment of gastrointestinal damage, and a method for prevention or treatment of gastrointestinal damage comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of Substance-P to a mammal.
US07846900B2
The present invention includes a method of utilizing four peptide hormones to inhibit the growth of cancer(s). A dramatic decrease in the number of human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells (i.e., the type of cancer with the highest mortality, with patients only surviving four months) was observed responsive to treatment. The application of the invention would be to utilize one or more of these peptide hormones alone and/or in combination to treat cancer. The ability of these peptide hormones to decrease the number of adenocarcinoma cells has implications for adenocarcinomas at other sites in the body with the majority of cancers of the breast, colon and prostate also being adenocarcinomas. Adenocarcinomas also occur in the lung and other tissues. Treatment of a wide variety of cancers in addition to adenocarcinomas is anticipated by the present invention.
US07846896B2
The present invention provides a conjugate consisting essentially of a NK4 molecule and a polyethylene glycol group having a molecular weight of from about 20 to about 40 kDa. The invention also provides a composition in which the monoPEGylated conjugates comprise at least 90% of the total of pegylated NK4 molecules and unpegylated NK4 molecules in the composition. Also provided is a composition in which the monoPEGylated conjugates comprise conjugates in which the PEG groups are attached to groups randomly selected from the lysine side chains of NK4 molecules and the N-terminal amino groups of NK4 molecules. A method for the treatment of cancer by administering 1 to 30 mg monoPEGylated NK4 per kg per day is further provided.
US07846892B2
The present invention concerns methods and compositions of use for treatment of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). In certain embodiments, the methods concern preparation of phage-display single chain antibody libraries and screening against amyloid-beta (Aβ) protein or peptide. Anti-Aβ antibodies are selected and sequenced. In certain embodiments, synthetic Aβ binding peptides are designed and prepared, using portions of the anti-Aβ antibody sequences. The antibodies and peptides are of use for treatment of AF or for treatment of individuals at risk of developing AD. Compositions comprising anti-Aβ antibodies or Aβ binding peptides are also disclosed.
US07846887B2
Cysteine derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1-R7 are as defined in the description, and their use as malodor counteractant. Furthermore, a process of their production and consumer products comprising them are described.
US07846881B2
A lubricant composition for lubricating an interface between an inner surface of a tire and a safety support ring in a run-flat tire system that includes a lubricating agent selected from glycerol, polyalkylene glycol or combinations thereof and a thixotropic agent. The thixotropic agent is an organoclay comprising a mineral clay mixture treated with an alkyl quaternary ammonium salt, wherein the mineral clay mixture comprises at least one of sepiolite, palygorskite and a smectite and wherein a combined amount of palygorskite and sepiolite in the mineral clay mixture is between about 50 wt. % and about 100 wt. % with a balance of the mineral clay mixture being essentially the smectite. The lubricating agent may also be selected from a copolymer that is a mixture of alkylene oxides, preferably a mixture of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide.
US07846868B2
A honeycomb-shaped substrate for catalyst is made from ceramic, has a straight-flow structure, and includes cellular walls exhibiting pore volumes, which differ partially, and a large number of cellular passages demarcated by the cellular walls. A catalyst for purifying exhaust gases is produced by providing the cellular walls of the honeycomb-shaped substrate with a catalytic coating layer.
US07846864B2
New types of photocatalyst materials are disclosed together with methods for preparing and using these materials, as well as air treatment systems incorporating such materials. The photocatalyst materials of this invention consist essentially of very small particles of a first-metal oxide, the first-metal being a metal that exhibits photo-induced semiconductor properties, having ions of a second-metal dispersed throughout its lattice structure, the second-metal being selected from the group of dopant metals. Such photocatalyst materials are prepared by the steps of mixing first-metal and second-metal precursors, removing nonessential ions from the mixture, drying the resulting product, and calcinating the dried product to produce the completed photocatalyst material.
US07846859B2
A colored glass has a formula of R′20—RO—SiO2, wherein R′ is an alkali metal element and R is an alkaline earth metal element. The colored glass comprises between 0.01 and 1% by weight of molybdenum expressed as MoO3 and between 0.01 and 2.5% by weight of sulfur expressed as SO3. The colored glass further comprises between 7.8 and 14% by weight of potassium expressed as K2O and between 0.68 and 5.42% by weight of sodium expressed as Na2O. The sum of the concentrations of potassium and sodium expressed as K2O and Na2O is between 11 and 17% by weight.
US07846847B2
A lift off process is used to separate a layer of material from a substrate by irradiating an interface between the layer of material and the substrate. According to one exemplary process, the layer is separated into a plurality of sections corresponding to dies on the substrate and a homogeneous beam spot is shaped to cover an integer number of the sections.
US07846837B2
A through substrate via (TSV) process is provided. A substrate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side is provided. A plurality of holes is formed in the substrate at the first side. A first dielectric layer is formed on a sidewall and a bottom of the holes. A second dielectric layer is formed in the holes, wherein a material of the second dielectric layer is different from that of the first dielectric layer. A semiconductor device and an interconnect are formed on the substrate at the first side. At least a portion of the substrate at the second side is removed to expose the second dielectric layer in the holes. The second dielectric layer is removed. A conductive layer is formed in the holes.
US07846822B2
The present invention provides methods for fabricating semiconductor structures and devices, particularly ultra-shallow doped semiconductor structures exhibiting low electrical resistance. Methods of the present invention use modification of the composition of semiconductor surfaces to allow fabrication of a doped semiconductor structure having a selected dopant concentration depth profile, which provides useful junctions and other device components in microelectronic and nanoelectronic devices, such as transistors in high density integrated circuits. Surface modification in the present invention also allows for control of the concentration and depth profile of defects, such as interstitials and vacancies, in undersaturated semiconductor materials.
US07846818B2
A technique for forming a film of material (12) from a donor substrate (10). The technique has a step of introducing energetic particles (22) through a surface of a donor substrate (10) to a selected depth (20) underneath the surface, where the particles have a relatively high concentration to define a donor substrate material (12) above the selected depth. An energy source is directed to a selected region of the donor substrate to initiate a controlled cleaving action of the substrate (10) at the selected depth (20), whereupon the cleaving action provides an expanding cleave front to free the donor material from a remaining portion of the donor substrate.
US07846815B2
A disclosed semiconductor fabrication process includes forming a first bonding structure on a first surface of a cap wafer, forming a second bonding structure on a first surface of a device wafer, and forming a device structure on the device wafer. One or more eutectic flow containment structures are formed on the cap wafer, the device wafer, or both. The flow containment structures may include flow containment micro-cavities (FCMCs) and flow containment micro-levee (FCMLs). The FCMLs may be elongated ridges overlying the first surface of the device wafer and extending substantially parallel to the bonding structure. The FCMLs may include interior FCMLs lying within a perimeter of the bonding structure, exterior FCMLs lying outside of the bonding structure perimeter, or both. When the two wafers are bonded, the FCMLs and FCMCs confine flow of the eutectic material to the region of the bonding structure.
US07846810B2
A method of measuring warpage of a rear surface of a substrate includes a substrate detection step, a best fit plane calculation step, and a warpage calculation step. Further, the method of measuring warpage of a rear surface of a substrate can further includes after the substrate detection step and before the best fit plane calculation step: a noise removal step and an outer peripheral portion removal step; the outer peripheral portion removal step and a smoothing step; or the noise removal step, the outer peripheral portion removal step, and the smoothing step. Thereby, a method of measuring warpage of a rear surface with a high surface roughness of a substrate can be provided.
US07846807B2
Ion Implantation is used to form the memristor material and electrode structure with memristance. First, numerous electron-rich element atoms are implanted into a layer made of transition metal or non-metal. Then, a treating process (such as annealing) is proceeded to expel some electron-rich element atoms away the layer. After that, some electron-rich element vacancy rich regions are formed inside the layer, and then a memristor material is formed. Significantly, the usage of ion implantation can precisely control and flexibly adjust the distribution of the implanted atoms, and then both the amount and distribution of these depleted regions can be effectively adjusted. Hence, the quality of the memristor material is improved.
US07846799B2
A manufacturing method is provided for a power semiconductor device that enables reducing its on-state voltage and power loss. The semiconductor device includes a set of L-shaped trench gates 3 each formed, from the top-side surface of a p base layer 2, perpendicularly with respect to a first main surface of an n− layer 1, to reach into a location of the n− layer 1. At the lower ends of each of the trench gates 3, bottom portions 3d are provided to unilaterally extend a predetermined length in one direction parallel to the first main surface of the n− layer 1. In addition, the extending end of one of the bottom portions 3d opposes that of the other bottom portion, on the extending side of the bottom portions 3d, and the interspace between each pair of adjacent bottom portions 3d is set narrower than any other interspace between the trench-gate parts that are perpendicularly formed with respect to the first main surface of the n− layer 1.
US07846795B2
A bit line of a semiconductor device includes a first interlayer dielectric film disposed on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of bit line stacks disposed on the first interlayer dielectric film, a plurality of bit line spacers disposed on side walls of the bit line stacks, and a buffer film disposed on the bit line spacers, the first interlayer dielectric film and the bit line stacks; and a method for fabricating the same.
US07846793B2
A device, such as a nonvolatile memory device, and methods for forming the device in an integrated process tool are provided. The method includes depositing a tunnel oxide layer on a substrate, exposing the tunnel oxide layer to a plasma so that the plasma alters a morphology of a surface and near surface of the tunnel oxide to form a plasma altered near surface. Nanocrystals are then deposited on the altered surface of the tunnel oxide.
US07846791B2
A design structure of a trench capacitor with an isolation collar in a semiconductor substrate where the substrate adjacent to the isolation collar is free of dopants caused by auto-doping. The design structure resulting from the means for fabricating the trench capacitor includes the methods of forming a trench in the semiconductor substrate; depositing a dielectric layer on a sidewall of the trench; filling the trench with a first layer of undoped polysilicon; etching away the first layer of undoped polysilicon and the dielectric layer from an upper section of the trench whereby the semiconductor substrate is exposed at the sidewall in the upper section of the trench; forming an isolation collar layer on the sidewall in the upper section of the trench; and filling the trench with a second layer of doped polysilicon.
US07846790B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device having multiple gate dielectric layers and a semiconductor device fabricated thereby, in which the method includes forming an isolation layer defining first and second active regions in a semiconductor substrate. A passivation layer is formed on the substrate having the isolation layer. A first patterning process is carried out that etches the passivation layer on the first active region to form a first opening exposing the first active region, and a first dielectric layer is formed in the exposed first active region. A second patterning process is carried out, which etches the passivation layer on the second active region to form a second opening exposing the second active region, and a second dielectric layer is formed in the exposed second active region.
US07846778B2
An integrated heat spreader, heat sink or heat pipe with pre-attached phase change thermal interface material and a method of making an electronic assembly.
US07846771B2
A carrier for a stacked-type semiconductor device includes an accommodating section for accommodating stacked semiconductor devices, guide portions guiding the stacked semiconductor devices, and grooves through which a fluid may flow to the accommodating section and to sides of the stacked semiconductor devices. These grooves facilitate the flow of gas or liquid on the sides of the accommodating sections, and it is thus expected that the flow of hot wind during the reflow process and cleaning liquid during the cleaning process can be facilitated. This improves the production yield and the cleaning effects. Holes for connecting the accommodating section to the outside may be provided at corners of the accommodating section. Gas may be guided from the lower side of the accommodating section, so that heat can be efficiently applied to the semiconductor devices and bonding failures therebetween can be reduced. Further, grooves connecting adjacent holes may be provided for accommodating sections adjacent to each other.
US07846765B2
Disclosed are a method for forming an organic layer pattern which is characterized by forming a thin layer by coating a coating solution including a polyimide-based polymer having a heteroaromatic pendant group including a heteroatom in its polyimide major chain, a photoinitiator and a crosslinking agent on a substrate and drying the substrate, and exposing and developing the thin layer, an organic layer pattern prepared by the method, and an organic memory device comprising the pattern. According to example embodiments, a high-resolution micropattern may be formed without undergoing any expensive process, e.g., photoresist, leading to simplification of the preparation process and cost reduction.
US07846763B2
Use of transition metal complexes of the formula (I) in organic light-emitting diodes where: M1 is a metal atom; carbene is a carbene ligand; L is a monoanionic or dianionic ligand; K is an uncharged monodentate or bidentate ligand selected from the group consisting of phosphines; CO; pyridines; nitrites and conjugated dienes which form a π complex with M1; n is the number of carbene ligands and is at least 1; m is the number of ligands L, where m can be 0 or ≧1; o is the number of ligands K, where o can be 0 or ≧1; where the sum n+m+o is dependent on the oxidation state and coordination number of the metal atom and on the denticity of the ligands carbene, L and K and also on the charge on the ligands carbene and L, with the proviso that n is at least 1, and also an OLED comprising these transition metal complexes, a light-emitting layer comprising these transition metal complexes, OLEDs comprising this light-emitting layer, devices comprising an OLED according to the present invention, and specific transition metal complexes comprising at least two carbene ligands.
US07846756B2
A method of making a device is disclosed including: forming a first hard mask layer over an underlying layer; forming a first imprint resist layer over the underlying layer; forming first features over the first hard mask layer by bringing a first imprint template in contact with the first imprint resist layer; forming a first spacer layer over the first features; etching the first spacer layer to form a first spacer pattern and to expose top of the first features; removing the first features; patterning the first hard mask, using the first spacer pattern as a mask, to form first hard mask features; and etching at least part of the underlying layer using the first hard mask features as a mask.
US07846755B2
The present invention discloses a light emitting diode. The light emitting diode includes a plurality of light emitting cells arranged on a substrate, each light emitting cell including a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer arranged on the first semiconductor layer; a first dielectric layer arranged on each light emitting cell and including a first opening to expose the first semiconductor layer and a second opening to expose the second semiconductor layer; a wire arranged on the first dielectric layer to couple two of the light emitting cells; and a second dielectric layer arranged on the first dielectric layer and the wire. The first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer comprise the same material and the first dielectric layer is thicker than the second dielectric layer.
US07846753B2
A vertical gallium-nitrate-based LED and method of making a vertical gallium-nitrate-based LED using a stop layer is provided. Embodiments of the present invention use mechanical thinning and a plurality of superhard stop points to remove epitaxial layers with a high level of certainty. According one embodiment, the method of making a vertical LED includes forming a plurality of layers on a sapphire substrate, forming a plurality of stop points in the plurality of layers, removing the sapphire substrate and part of a u-GaN layer using mechanical thinning, wherein the mechanical thinning stops at an end of the plurality of stop points, selectively etching the u-GaN layer and exposing at least a part of the highly doped stop layer, and forming an n-electrode on the highly doped stop layer.
US07846732B2
The present invention relates to a method of sequence-specific recombination of DNA in eukaryotic cells, comprising the introduction of a first DNA comprising a nucleotide sequence containing at least one recombination sequence into a cell, introducing a second DNA comprising a nucleotide sequence containing at least one further recombination sequence into a cell, and performing the sequence specific recombination by a bacteriophage lambda integrase Int.
US07846726B2
This invention discloses a substantially pure population of human urinary bladder-derived epithelial cells and methods of isolating and culturing the urinary bladder-derived epithelial cells. In addition, several uses of human urinary bladder-derived epithelial cells and cells differentiating therefrom are disclosed herein.
US07846720B2
One aspect of the current invention is an optimized synthetic mammalian expression plasmid with a mutated origin of replication (e.g. “mut” family of plasmids). This new plasmid comprises a therapeutic element, and a replication element. The therapeutic element of the new plasmid comprises a eukaryotic promoter; a 5′ untranslated region (“UTR”); a codon-optimized-eukaryotic therapeutic gene sequence; and a poly adenylation signal. The therapeutic elements of this plasmid are operatively linked and located in a first operatively-linked arrangement. Additionally, the optimized synthetic mammalian expression plasmid comprises replication elements, wherein the replication elements are operatively linked and located in a second operatively-linked arrangement. The replication elements comprise a selectable marker gene promoter, a ribosomal binding site, a selectable marker gene sequence, and an improved origin of replication. The first-operatively-linked arrangement and the second-operatively-linked arrangement comprise a circular structure of the codon optimized synthetic mammalian expression plasmid.
US07846718B2
Methods and vectors and kits are provided for producing chimeric nucleic acid constructs capable of producing dsRNA for silencing target nucleic acid sequences of interest using recombinational cloning.
US07846714B2
A method for forming a biological chemical tag. At least one double stranded DNA molecule is provided. At least a portion of the at least one double stranded DNA molecule is denatured. At least one chemical moiety that prohibits recrystallization of the at least one denatured portion to which the at least one chemical moiety is attached is attached to at least one nucleotide in the at least one denatured portion of the at least one double stranded DNA molecule.
US07846689B2
Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNA's, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNA's/synthetases are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins using these orthogonal pairs.
US07846687B2
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Intron A fragments for expressing gene products are disclosed. Also described are expression vectors including the fragments, as well as methods of using the same.
US07846685B2
Methods are provided for the sporulation, sterilization and storage of coccidial oocyst which are characterized by an absence of the highly toxic chemical potassium dichromate. Also provided are compositions containing sporulated oocysts which are free of potassium dichromate.
US07846680B2
Methods are disclosed for assaying at the light microscopic level for the presence or absence of nucleolar channel systems (NCSs) in an endometrial tissue sample, as are methods for determining whether or not a postovulatory human endometrium is in a state that is receptive for implantation of a human embryo, where the presence of NCSs indicates that the endometrium is in a state that is receptive for implantation of an embryo and the absence of NCSs indicates that the endometrium is not in a state that is receptive for implantation of the embryo, and methods for determining the effectiveness of a contraceptive in a woman, comprising assaying an endometrial tissue sample for the presence or absence of NCSs.
US07846675B2
A recombinant, refolded non-fusion polypeptide expressed from a truncated r56 gene of the causative agent of scrub typhus, Orientia tsutsugamushi for the Karp, Kato and Gilliam strains has been produced. The invention is useful for detecting prior exposure to scrub typhus, screening for and/or identification of at least one infectious strain-similarity (i.e. a Karp-like, Kato-like or Gilliam-like strain) based on its strength of reaction toward a truncated protein and as a component in vaccine formulation sand production of immune globulins for passive prophylaxis and immunity in subjects.
US07846674B2
The present invention relates to a method aiding in the assessment of rheumatoid arthritis. The method especially is used in assessing the absence or presence of rheumatoid arthritis in vitro. The method is for example practiced by analyzing biochemical markers, comprising measuring in a sample the concentration of anti-CCP and interleukin 6 and correlating the concentrations determined to the absence or presence of rheumatoid arthritis. To further improve the assessment of RA in a method of this invention the level of one or more additional marker may be determined together with anti-CCP and interleukin 6 and be correlated to the absence or presence of RA. The invention also relates to the use of a marker panel comprising anti-CCP and interleukin 6 in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis and it teaches a kit for performing the method of the invention.
US07846668B2
A family of minimally cross-hybridizing nucleotide sequences, methods of use, etc. A specific family of 210 24 mers is described.
US07846662B2
A method of screening a novel BAFF suppressor or inhibitor. More specifically speaking, a method which comprises adding a combination of TPA with ionomycin and/or an anti-CD3 antibody to a cultured human cell to thereby induce the production of BAFF by the cell; a method of screening a substance capable of suppressing the expression or activity of BAFF which comprises adding a test substance to a BAFF-production system prepared by adding a combination of TPA with ionomycin and/or an anti-CD3 antibody to a cultured human cell and measuring the expression amount and/or the activity of BAFF in the BAFF-production system; and a BAFF production inducer for a BAFF-producing cell which contains a combination of TPA with ionomycin and/or an anti-CD3 antibody.
US07846660B1
The present invention is a method for synthesizing microarrays having different oligonucleotides present within one feature area of the array. The method utilizes the techniques common to microarray synthesis, but limits the duration in which selected feature areas on the array are initially dosed with light so as to only deprotect a calculated ratio of the compounds forming the array's binding layer. The compounds initially deprotected are capped with a non-photosensitive protecting group, such as di-methoxy-trityl, to inhibit their involvement in the synthesis of a first group of DNA strands built onto the array. Once the first group of DNA strands have been synthesized, the original deprotected group may then be further processed to build one or more groups of DNA strands in the same feature area as the first group of DNA strands. The present invention also includes microarrays manufactured using the method.
US07846628B2
A photoconductor that includes a substrate; an undercoat layer thereover wherein the undercoat layer comprises a metal oxide, an electron donor electron acceptor charge transfer complex; a photogenerating layer; and at least one charge transport layer.
US07846615B2
A hologram recording material contains a molecule having intrinsic birefringence and a photoresponsive macromolecule represented by the following formula (1). in formula (1), L1 representing a bivalent linking group, X representing a group having a substituent constant σ based on Hammett's rule of a value of more than 0, the maximum absorption wavelength of an azobenzene group bonding to X being approximately 360 nm or less, A representing a group that is a component of a repeating unit with a carbon number of 2 or more that is a component of a macromolecular main chain, nx representing an integer of 1 or 2, and n representing an integer of 1 or more.
US07846610B2
An electrolyte membrane with high durability is provided. The electrolyte membrane includes a porous film containing a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring or a cyano group, and a proton conductive component existing in pores of the porous film, wherein the proton conductive component includes a polymer compound containing at least a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, a cyano group, and an acidic group in one molecule.
US07846609B2
A module-type fuel cell system including a power module includes a generator installed inside and a power housing having a plurality of connection holes formed sideward, wherein the generator generates electricity through an oxidation-reduction reaction of an oxidizing agent with a hydrogen-containing fuel; a fuel supply module including a fuel supply unit installed inside and a power housing having a plurality of connection holes formed sideward, wherein the fuel supply unit supplies a hydrogen-containing fuel to the generator; an oxidizing agent supply module including an oxidizing agent supply unit installed inside and an oxidizing agent supply housing having connection holes formed sideward, wherein the oxidizing agent supply unit supplies an oxidizing agent to the generator; and a recovery module including a storage space formed therein and a recovery housing having a plurality of connection holes formed sideward, wherein the storage space recovers an unreacted fuel generated in the generator, wherein the power module is closely attached and assembled in one side of the recovery module in a surface-to-surface contact manner, and the fuel supply module and the oxidizing agent supply module are closely attached and assembled in the other side of the recovery module in a surface-to-surface contact manner.
US07846605B2
There are provided a pump of a noise suppression and vibration proof structure and a fuel cell system using the same. The fuel cell system includes at least one electricity generator including an electrolyte membrane and an anode and a cathode attached to the both surfaces of the electrolyte membrane to generate electricity energy by the electrochemical reaction between fuel containing hydrogen and oxidant supplied to the anode and the cathode, a fuel supplying unit including a pump for supplying the oxidant to the electricity generator, and a fixed frame that is provided on a lower frame and to which the pump is fixed. The pump is separated from the lower frame and is fixed to and combined with the fixed frame by the belt-shaped fixing member on the side surface of the fixing frame with a buffering member interposed. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the noise and vibration of the pump.
US07846592B2
A fuel cell power generation system which adjusts the amount of fuel, in a fuel cell power generation apparatus, into a predefined range is provided. A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell power generation apparatus, a control means which has the fuel cell power generation apparatus output a preset electric power value, and a power supply unit which charges and supplies an electric power to an external. The control means changes the electric power value outputted from the fuel cell power generation apparatus, based on the status of liquid fuel detected by a fuel state detecting means.
US07846588B2
An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery is provided. The electrolyte improves battery safety, high temperature storage characteristics, and electrochemical properties of lithium batteries. The electrolyte comprises at least one lithium salt and a non-aqueous organic solvent comprising a cyclic carbonate and a lactone-based compound. The lactone based compound comprises substituents selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups, alkenyl groups, alkynyl groups, aryl groups, and combinations thereof. A lithium battery is also provided, which comprises a negative electrode capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium, a positive electrode capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium, and an inventive electrolyte.
US07846584B2
Disclosed are a cathode for a battery and a lithium ion battery. The cathode for a battery comprises a metal hydroxide having a large specific surface area as a cathode additive. The lithium ion battery comprises a cathode, an anode and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the cathode comprises a metal hydroxide having a large specific surface area as a cathode additive. When a metal hydroxide having a large specific surface area is used as a cathode additive, excellent storage properties of a battery at a high temperature can be obtained, even if the metal hydroxide is used in a small amount.
US07846583B2
An electrode mix comprising a mixture of a polyvinyl alcohol with polyvinyl pyrrolidone as a binder and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same are disclosed. The electrode mix and lithium secondary battery according to the present invention enable stable maintenance of adhesion between active materials and/or adhesion between the active material and current collector and reduction of volumetric changes of anode active materials during repeated charge/discharge cycles, through the use of a polymer having an improved elongation percentage while exhibiting very high adhesive strength, as a binder of an electrode mix. Therefore, the present invention enables production of a large-capacity lithium secondary battery particularly using a silicon- or tin-based anode active material.
US07846580B2
A lithium polymer battery including an electrode assembly having a positive electrode plate, a separator and a negative electrode plate, a pouch type casing in which the electrode assembly is sealingly received, and a reinforcement layer formed over a surface of the casing. Positive and negative electrode tabs are connected to the positive and negative electrode plates, respectively.
US07846574B2
An alkaline storage battery including a strip-shaped porous metal substrate and a material mixture filled into the substrate. The substrate has an unfilled portion where the material mixture is not filled along at least one of two longitudinal sides of the substrate. The substrate has a weight per unit area of 150 to 350 g/m2. The material mixture contains an active material and an elastic polymer.
US07846570B2
Water-tight battery powered appliances, for example personal care appliances such as razors and toothbrushes, are provided. The appliances include a housing having a seal that allows gases, e.g., hydrogen, to vent from the appliance without allowing water to enter.
US07846564B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium adapted for high recording density and high data recording rate comprises a non-magnetic substrate having at least one surface with a layer stack formed thereon, the layer stack including a perpendicular recording layer containing a plurality of columnar-shaped magnetic grains extending perpendicularly to the substrate surface for a length, with a first end distal the surface and a second end proximal the surface, wherein each of the magnetic grains has: (1) a gradient of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy field Hk extending along its length between the first end and second ends; and (2) predetermined local exchange coupling strengths along the length.
US07846558B2
A blue light emitting compound and an organic electroluminescent device using the compound are provided. The device exhibits improved color purity of blue emission and excellent life characteristics so as to be used to manufacture a full-color display.
US07846552B2
Compositions suitable for use in extrusion coating are claimed. The compostions comprise a mixture of a homogeneous ethylene polymer and a heterogeneous ethylene polymer together with a high melt strength polyolefin. Film layers made from the compositions have improved neck-in and excellent heat sealing characteristics.
US07846551B2
A composite article includes a first composite material and a second composite material. The first composite material and the second composite material individually comprise hard particles in a binder. A concentration of ruthenium in the binder of the first composite material is different from a concentration of ruthenium in the binder of the second composite material.
US07846550B2
The present invention relates to new curable siloxane compositions, and their use for the manufacture of cured products thereof having modified release properties. The modified release forces are achieved by incorporating a selected pressure sensitive adhesive additive.
US07846549B2
Low emissivity glazing which is an assembly of thin layers including at least one metal layer reflecting infrared rays between one or more dielectric layers located between the metal layer and the glass sheet and on the metal layer, the light transmission of one clear float glass sheet 4 mm thick coated with said layers being not less than 83%, the metal layer being selected such that the emissivity is not higher than 0.042.
US07846542B2
There is provided a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for optical films. The composition can form a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that can prevent light leakage caused by stress associated with dimensional change of a component such as an optical film, which include the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that has reworkability such that it can be easily peeled from a component, and that has satisfactory processability such that it can be processed without pressure-sensitive adhesive stain or dropout, after it is formed on an optical film. A pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film produced using the composition is also provided. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition includes a (meth)acrylic polymer including (a) 34 to 94% by weight of an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer unit, (b) 5 to 35% by weight of an aromatic ring-containing (meth)acrylate monomer unit, and (c) 0.01 to 0.5% by weight of an amino group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer unit and further including (d) 0.05 to 3% by weight of a carboxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer unit and/or (e) 0.05 to 2% by weight of a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer unit and having a weight average molecular weight of 1,600,000 to 3,000,000 as determined by gel permeation chromatography; crosslinking agents including 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of an isocyanate crosslinking agent and 0.01 to 2 parts by weight of a silane coupling agent based on 100 parts by weight of the (meth)acrylic polymer.
US07846536B2
A building composite panel including at least one longitudinal edge is made of a core of hydraulic cement and a multi-ply edge facing material covering and attached to at least one of the longitudinal edges. The facing material includes at least a first ply configured for attachment to the core as it sets and at least a second, water-impermeable ply.
US07846533B2
An injection molded foam article including a structure and a projection projecting from the structure. The thickness of the projection is greater than 25% to 40% of the thickness of the structure, depending on the material of the article, and the front surface of the structure opposite the projection has a Class A surface.
US07846529B2
The present invention relates to self-cleaning surfaces having improved mechanical stability and a process for the production thereof. The present invention is achieved by producing self-cleaning, hydrophobic, structured surfaces having mixtures of particles, which are fixed on their surface and which comprise structure-producing particles selected from semimetal or metal oxides, silicas and metal powders, and wax particles. Structured surfaces that are structured by such mixtures of particles are distinguished by substantially higher mechanical stability of the structure and are therefore especially suitable for the production of self-cleaning surfaces, which are exposed to relatively high mechanical loads, such as, for example, the surfaces of tarpaulins, awnings, greenhouse elements, conservatories or truck tarpaulins.
US07846526B2
The honeycomb structural body comprises pillar-shaped honeycomb structural porous ceramic members formed by arranging a plurality of cells through cell walls, and a sealing material layer interposed between the ceramic members and having a specific surface area of approximately 10 to 100 m2/g, and the honeycomb structural body is constructed by bonding a plurality of porous ceramic members through sealing material layer as an exhaust gas convertion apparatus.
US07846525B2
An information recording medium with high recording sensitivity, superior repeat overwriting capability and favorable signal storage stability during information recording is offered. For this purpose, an information recording medium comprises one or more information layers that include a phase-change recording layer, wherein at least one of the information layers includes, a Cr-containing layer containing Cr and O that contact with one side of a surface of the recording layer, and an In-containing layer containing In and O that contact with the other side of the surface of the recording layer.
US07846523B2
A medical laminated body with a releasing member, has a medical sticking member having a sequentially laminated base material and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. It further has a releasing member laminated on a side of the medical sticking member that is provided with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a repositionable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed as a part of the releasing member at a side of the releasing member distal from the medical sticking member. A ratio represented by A2/A1 is in a range of 8 to 100 where Al is an adhesion of the repositionable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in accordance with JIS-Z-0237 and A2 is an adhesion of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in accordance with JIS-Z-0237. Al is in the range of 10 to 150 g/25 mm, and A2 is in the range of 250 to 1,000 g/25 mm.
US07846517B2
A heat-shrinkable polylactic acid (PLA) film and a method of its manufacture are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the PLA films exhibit heat-induced growth in the cross direction with concomitant shrinkage in the machine direction. The films may comprise any grade of PLA polymer, optionally including additives, such as antiblock, slip, viscosity enhancers and combinations thereof. A method of manufacture is disclosed which includes a post-extrusion temperature conditioning step.
US07846516B2
The invention provides an ink jet recording medium which attains the prevention of the bronzing of cyan ink and the prevention of the migration of magenta ink at the same time and is excellent in image characteristics. The ink jet recording medium comprises a substrate and an ink-receiving layer provided with at least an upper layer as the outermost layer and a lower layer as a layer lying just under the upper layer, both layers having a porous structure formed of an alumina hydrate and a binder, wherein both of the upper and lower layers contain an alkylsulfonic acid and only the lower layer contains a cationic polymer.
US07846513B2
A compound represented by the following formula (1), a liquid crystal composition containing the compound and a liquid crystal display device containing the composition: all the symbols in the formula (1) are defined in the specification.
US07846506B1
The present invention provides a method for applying a tribological coating to a carbon composite substrate. The method includes providing the carbon composite substrate, depositing a layer of carbon on the substrate, applying a layer of aluminum on the layer of carbon, annealing the substrate at a temperature greater than a melting temperature of aluminum, and applying a layer of silver. A layer of mixed aluminum and silver may be substituted for the layer of silver.
US07846499B2
A method of growing a thin film on a substrate by pulsing vapor-phase precursors material into a reaction chamber according to the ALD method. The method comprises vaporizing at least one precursor from a source material container maintained at a vaporising temperature, repeatedly feeding pulses of the vaporized precursor via a feed line into the reaction chamber at a first pressure, and subsequently purging the reaction chamber with pulses of inactive gas fed via the feed line at a second pressure. The second pressure is maintained at the same as or a higher level than the first pressure for separating successive pulses of said vaporized precursor from each other.
US07846496B2
Mixed matrix membranes that are capable of separation and purification of gas mixtures are disclosed. These membranes comprise polymers that include dispersed therein nanomolecular sieve particles. In a preferred embodiment, the nanomolecular sieve particles contain attached functional groups to prevent their agglomeration.
US07846485B2
A packaging article for a substance to be infused, includes two layers (2, 3) of filter material enclosing a reinforcement sheet (4) equipped with a hole (5). This packaging is such that it includes a hollow cylindrical part (6) for transverse stiffening, the outer wall of which is placed on the hole (5) of the reinforcement sheet (4), and delimiting, with the layers (2, 3), a volume for receiving a substance to be infused. Application to pre-dosed packages of a substance to be infused, such as ground coffee or tea leaves.
US07846480B2
Method for manufacturing carrier granules. The method forms a mixture comprising fibers, mineral filler, and binder. The mixture contains 32-48 weight-% wood fibers having a bulk density of less than 20 pounds per cubic foot, at least 35 weight-% of which fibers are retained on a 50-Mesh U.S. Sieve Series screen. The fibers have a moisture content of less than 15 weight-%. The mixture also contains 52-65 weight-% mineral filler having a moisture content of less than 12 weight-%. In addition, the mixture contains 3-7 weight-% binder. The mixture is agglomerated by conditioning and agglomerating it in a pin mixer to form small particles followed by agglomerating it in a disc or pan pelletizer to form substantially spherical granules. The method then dries the granules to a moisture content of less than about 5 weight-%, and screens the granules to select granules that pass through a 10-Mesh U.S. Sieve Series screen but are retained on a 40-Mesh U.S. Sieve Series screen. The carrier granules have a bulk density of less than 40 pounds per cubic foot and a Resistance to Attrition of at least 95%.
US07846476B2
The invention is directed to sustained release formulations containing oxycodone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof which provide a mean C24/Cmax oxycodone ratio of 0.6 to 1.0 or 0.7 to 1 after oral administration at steady state to patients and methods thereof.
US07846475B2
The present invention provides soft capsules comprising a capsule shell having a water activity lower than that of a capsule filling; and a production process of the soft capsules. The present invention makes it possible to prepare soft capsules without lowering the water activity of an active ingredient of a medicament or the like, which activity varies widely, depending on the active ingredient employed, leading to the provision of the soft capsules having original unimpaired properties or stability, and moreover, palatability and texture.
US07846474B2
This procedure consists in the first stage, of the administration of enough quantity of bisphosphonate preparation during the necessary period of time to acquire a degree of volumetric mineral density of the cortical tissue of application, within the normal range (average.+−.1 DS). Then the administration of the bisphosphonate preparation is interrupted in order to enable the development of the sectional momentum of inertia. The length of the second stage can be determined by means of a tomography. That is to say, that the periods of administration or non-administration of the mineralizing agent are defined or controlled by precise osteologic variables and therefore are not fixed. If during the second stage the cortical mineral density drops by 6-10% of the maximum value previously obtained, administration of bisphosphonate preparation should be resumed until the corresponding maximum adjusted value is reached again. The proposed procedure of a period with bisphosphonate followed by another period without the bisphosphonate agent improves fracture resistance, provided that the length of both periods is controlled by defined osteologic variables.
US07846468B2
Methods for reducing or preventing transplant rejection in the eye of an individual are described, comprising: a) performing an ocular transplant procedure; and b) implanting in the eye a bioerodible drug delivery system comprising an immunosuppressive agent and a bioerodible polymer.
US07846466B2
The invention is directed to scaffolds containing porous polymer material prepared by a process of gas foaming/particulate leaching and a wet granulation step prior to gas foaming and particulate leaching, particularly having a characteristic interconnected pore structure, as well as sustained release of protein, DNA or cells, and to methods for using such porous polymer material for preparation of scaffolds, particularly for tissue engineering.
US07846465B1
The invention provides a method or promoting healing of a wound, e.g., an epithelial wound, in an animal. The method involves administering cultured autologous fibroblasts to the wound.
US07846464B2
The present application provides insect repellent compositions that include lemongrass oil and p-menthane-3,8-diol. Vanillin or a vanillin-type component may also be included in the insect repellent composition.
US07846463B2
Disclosed is a pest control composition that includes a pest control agent, such as citronella oil, and a carrier, the carrier comprising a cellulosic fibrous material and a mineral sorbent material. In preferred embodiments to the invention, the composition is in the form of discrete plural compacted particles. Surprisingly, a pest control composition prepared in accordance with the preferred embodiments of the invention is substantially dry to the touch and permits sustained release of the pest control agent. Methods for preparing a pest control agents and method for pest control also are disclosed.
US07846459B2
This invention relates to an improved method of preparing an implantable gel or paste for placement between injured bones or placement in bony voids to induce regeneration, and the compositions produced thereby. Specifically, mineral, ceramic, or processed bone particles are coated with a high molecular weight polymer capable of forming a viscous gel when reconstituted with water, saline, autologous blood, sera, or other medically acceptable solution. This high molecular weight polymer coating material may be a natural or synthetic polymeric material, producing a wettable gel upon exposure to water, saline, or another solution. In storage, the composition will be granular and dry but easily wetted. In use, the material is reconstituted to a viscous malleable paste by the simple addition of water or other medically acceptable solution without the need for aggressive mixing. The paste may be delivered by syringe or manually deposited yet will be resistant to lavage or to displacement by gravity induced flow.
US07846456B2
A method for treating a mammary gland disorder, including hyperplastic, hypertonic, cystic and/or neoplastic mammary gland tissue by local administration of a botulinum toxin to or to the vicinity of the afflicted breast tissue.
US07846455B2
Chimeric respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and vaccine compositions thereof are produced by introducing one or more heterologous gene(s) or gene segment(s) from one RSV subgroup or strain into a recipient RSV backround of a different subgroup or strain. The resulting chimeric RSV virus or subviral particle is infectious and attenuated, preferably by introduction of selected mutations specifying attenuated phenotypes into a chimeric genome or antigenome to yield, for example, temperature sensitive (ts) and/or cold adapted (ca) vaccine strains. Alternatively, chimeric RSV and vaccine compositions thereof incorporate other mutations specifying desired structural and/or phenotypic characteristics in an infectious chimeric RSV. Such chimeric RSV incorporate desired mutations specified by insertion, deletion, substitution or rearrangement of one or more selected nucleotide sequence(s), gene(s), or gene segment(s) in a chimeric RSV clone. This provides a method for development of novel vaccines against diverse RSV strains by using a common attenuated backbone as a vector to express protective antigens of heterologous strains. The immune system of an individual is stimulated to induce protection against natural RSV infection, preferably in a multivalent manner to achieve protection against multiple RSV strains and/or subgroups.
US07846454B2
The present invention discloses nucleic acid sequences which encode infectious hepatitis C viruses and the use of these sequences, and polypeptides encoded by all or part of these sequences, in the development of vaccines and diagnostics for HCV and in the development of screening assays for the identification of antiviral agents for HCV.
US07846438B2
The invention provides methods of treating diseases, disorders, injuries, or conditions involving modulating neurite outgrowth and/or survival, including CNS disorders, stroke, or spinal injury, by administration of a TAJ antagonist.
US07846436B2
The present invention relates generally to oligonucleotides and more specifically to oligonucleotides which have a sequence including at least two CpG dinucleotides and a prodrug of an antimetabolite. The prodrug can be part of a CpG dinucleotide or may be attached elsewhere on the oligonucleotide.
US07846433B2
Disclosed herein are methods for diagnosing pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. Also disclosed herein are methods for treating pre-eclampsia and eclampsia using compounds that increase VEGF or PlGF levels or compounds that decrease sFlt-1 levels. Compounds that inhibit the binding of VEGF or PlGF to sFlt1—are also disclosed herein for the treatment of pre-eclampsia or eclampsia.
US07846425B2
Disclosed herein is an improved process for preparation of Sevelamer hydrochloride having phosphate binding capacity of 4.7 to 6.4 mmol/g. Further, the invention discloses Sevelamer hydrochloride compositions and a novel process for preparation of said compositions comprising high shear non-aqueous granulation.
US07846423B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition comprising at least one diblock copolymer, as well as to the use of the said diblock copolymer as a modifier of properties of cosmetic compositions, more preferably of compositions for the skin and/or the hair. The diblock copolymer comprises two blocks, block A and block B, wherein block A is a polycationic block and block B is a neutral block.
US07846422B2
The present invention relates to a method for prevention or treatment of periodontal diseases, containing administering lignans represented by the following formula (1) (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyl group; R2, R3, R4 and R5 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a C1-10 alkyl group, a hydroxy C1-10 alkyl group or a C1-10 alkoxy group) or plant extracts containing the lignans.
US07846420B2
The invention relates to vaccine compositions composed of at least one Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) antigen, or attenuated or killed MAP for use in methods of immunizing a human against a MAP infection, preventing or treating a MAP infection, and preventing a human disease associated with a MAP infection.
US07846414B2
The present invention provides a process for the manufacture of carbon nanostructures, the carbon nanostructures being selected from carbon nanotubes and carbon nano-onions. The method comprises the steps of injecting a carbon-containing gas into a plasma flame generated from a plasma forming gas to provide atomic carbon, which in the presence of in situ generated nanometer sized metal catalyst particles that act as nucleation points for growth of carbon nanostructures, produce the carbon nanostructures, and collecting the carbon nanostructures.
US07846411B2
Calcium peroxyphosphate compounds and dental compositions comprising these compounds that combine both whitening/stain removal of teeth with remineralization are disclosed. The calcium peroxyphosphate compounds are capable of releasing, in an aqueous environment, whitening and remineralization effective amounts of calcium ion, phosphate ion, and active oxygen. Preferred compounds are calcium peroxymonophosphate or calcium diperoxymonophosphate compounds. These compounds may be used in humans and other animals, including other mammals.
US07846410B2
Method of producing ammonia borane, comprising providing polyborazylene; digesting the polyborazylene with a dithiol-containing agent to produce a boro-sulfide compound and a byproduct; converting the byproduct to the boro-sulfide product of step (b) by reaction with a first alkyl-tin hydride; and, converting the boro-sulfide compound produced in steps (b) and (c) to ammonia borane by reaction with a second alkyl-tin hydride.
US07846406B2
A scrubber for scrubbing at least one pollutant from flue gas includes a first stage configured to provide a chemical oxidant to a stream of flue gas, and a second stage configured to provide a chemical or chemicals to the stream of flue gas, a scrubbing medium recirculation feature configured to continuously recirculate a slurry used in the second stage, and a by-product processing portion configured to remove a by-product from a stream of slurry withdrawn from the scrubber. The by-product includes reaction products of at least one pollutant.
US07846405B2
A method for monitoring and/or controlling performance of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emission control system includes injecting a quantity of a pollution neutralizing gas into a combustion gas stream containing a pollutant gas. The method also includes passing the stream over a catalyst bed to facilitate a reaction of the pollution neutralizing gas with the pollutant gas to produce an effluent and measuring a ratio of the pollution neutralizing gas to the pollutant gas in the effluent.
US07846402B2
A screenless reactor design is presented. The reactor includes a series of overlapping vanes where solid catalyst can cascade down the vanes. Gas flows across the catalyst by flowing through the vanes contacting the catalyst and then disengaging from contact with the solid catalyst particles.
US07846401B2
The overall efficiency of a regenerative bed reverse flow reactor system is increased where the location of the exothermic reaction used for regeneration is suitably controlled. The present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling the combustion to improve the thermal efficiency of bed regeneration in a cyclic reaction/regeneration processes. The process for thermal regeneration of a regenerative reactor bed entails (a) supplying the first reactant through a first channel means in a first regenerative bed and supplying at least a second reactant through a second channel means in the first regenerative bed, (b) combining said first and second reactants by a gas mixing means situated at an exit of the first regenerative bed and reacting the combined gas to produce a heated reaction product, (c) passing the heated reaction product through a second regenerative bed thereby transferring heat from the reaction product to the second regenerative bed.
US07846386B2
Analyte meter protectors, meters that include the same, and methods.
US07846382B2
Fluid-handling methods and devices for ultrasonic manipulation of fluid-borne particles comprise a fluid-handling manifold and an ultrasonic particle manipulator defining an ultrasonic cavity within the manifold. Fluid-borne particles introduced into the manifold are manipulated by controlling ultrasonic standing waves at the ultrasonic cavity. Cavities having non-uniform configurations, asymmetric standing waves and/or multiple ultrasonic cavities within the manifold are operative to control the movement of the fluid-borne particles, optionally including collecting and holding such particles, transferring particles through an intersection from one channel to another, etc. Solid phase extraction (SPE) particles, biological particles and other fluid-borne particles can be manipulated within the fluid-handling manifold.
US07846379B2
The invention relates to an industrial furnace for melting and gas-treating nonferrous metals.
US07846377B2
The technical problem of this invention is to establish a method of processing a synthetic resin tube, in which the shape of a part of the tube wall is changed to form easily an attractively hollowed and/or raised portion in a fairly wide area of the tube wall. The object of this invention is to provide a tubular container having excellent decorativeness, appearance, or functionality that has never been found before. A method of processing a synthetic resin tube comprises utilizing a mandrel having a mold portion, which has at least a shape selected from a hollowed shape, a raised shape, and a hollowed and raised shape formed in a part of outer surface of the mandrel, and which is also provided with small through-holes in this mold portion; inserting a bottomed cylindrical mandrel into a synthetic resin tube, while bringing the inner wall of the tube in contact with the mandrel; heating and softening the tube in the portion facing the mold portion; deaerating the tube via a central opening and the through-holes to mold the softened portion of the tube in a manner similar to vacuum molding; and forming in the tube wall at least one of the portions selected from a hollowed portion, a raised portion, and a hollowed and raised portion.
US07846369B2
A displacement-injection molding system utilizes a plasticizing vessel with cylindrical heat transfer cores extending into the cavity of the plasticizing vessel to efficiently heat polymer granules to their injection temperature and a variable volume mold utilizing back pressure to maintain the injected polymer under pressure. A plunger for ejecting polymer from the plasticizing vessel incorporates openings for receiving the cylindrical cores. The plasticizing vessel is preferably sized to receive at least two shot sizes of polymer material to permit continuous heating of the granules of plastic material between shots as additional granules are added to replace the ejected material.
US07846367B2
A sheet or film-forming roll has an inner cylindrical member and an elastic outer cylindrical member. The inner cylindrical member has a pressure chamber therein. As the inner cylindrical member becomes deformed (crowing change) depending on a pressure value of incompressible fluid led to the pressure chamber, the elastic outer cylindrical member becomes deformed (crowing change) too.
US07846363B2
A process for preparing ultra-high molecular weight poly(alpha-olefin) (UHMWPO) multi-filament yarns having improved tensile properties at higher productivity. The process includes drawing a solution yarn, then drawing a gel yarn and then drawing a dry yarn continuously in sequence to form a partially oriented yarn, winding up the partially oriented yarn, unrolling the yarn, drawing the partially oriented yarn to form a highly oriented yarn, cooling the highly oriented yarn under tension and winding up the highly oriented yarn.
US07846360B2
Process for the production of granules of expandable thermoplastic polymers by means of extrusion, which comprises: i) melting the polymer in a single- or multi-screw extruder (2); ii) incorporating an expanding agent in the polymer in the molten state; iii) granulating the polymer thus obtained in a device comprising a die (111), containing a series of ducts (115) made of a material having a high thermal conductivity (114), a cutting chamber (118) containing a set of hydraulic nozzles and a cutting system equipped with a set of knives (215) with a cutting edge which is radial with respect to the surface of the die; iv) annealing the granules thus obtained; v) cooling the annealed granules to room temperature.
US07846355B2
Disclosed is a method for removing residue from a surface comprising: contacting the surface with a composition comprising at least one unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of compounds having the formula E- or Z—R1CH═CHR2, wherein R1 and R2 are, independently, C1 to C6 perfluoroalkyl groups, or C1 to C6 hydrofluoroalkyl groups, and recovering the surface from the composition.
US07846354B2
There is described a method of producing a red-emitting manganese and cerium co-activated gadolinium magnesium zinc pentaborate phosphor that comprises combining a hydrated hexaborate of zinc, magnesium, and manganese with oxides of Gd and Ce to form a mixture, and firing the mixture in a slightly reducing atmosphere to form the phosphor. Preferably, the hydrated hexaborate has an approximate composition represented by (Zn,Mg,Mn)B6O10.XH2O, where X is 5.3 to 6.2.
US07846343B2
The invention relates to a cyclone separator for separating a mixture containing solid particles, liquid and/or gas into a heavy fraction and a light fraction, the separator comprising:—a casing (2) defining a flow space through which the mixture is to flow;—an elongated flow body (5) arranged in the flow space along which the mixture to be separated can be carried;—at least one swirl inducing element (10) arranged between the flow body and the inner casing, the swirl inducing element being curved so as to set the incoming mixture into a rotating movement for the purpose of separating the mixture into the heavy fraction and the light fraction;—discharge means for discharging the separated heavy and light fraction, wherein the discharge means comprise at least one flow passage defined inside said at least one swirl element.
US07846338B2
A method is described that relates to reducing amounts of regenerant waste or increasing the concentration of regenerant waste from ion exchange processes. A method is described that may allow a batch ion exchange process to compete on these factors with continuous or simulated continuous ion exchange processes, and/or to improve the efficiency in operation continuous or simulated continuous ion exchange processes. A specific application addressed is the treatment of water in the Coal Bed Methane Process.
US07846337B2
Disclosed are porous-shell particles, methods of making the particles, and uses thereof. In one aspect, the porous-shell particles are superficially porous particles.
US07846330B2
The invention is a handheld device for puncturing oil filters and thus allowing more retained oil to drain from used filters. An oil filter has several internal chambers filled with oil which do not drain by gravity from the filter unless the sidewall of the filter is punches. The device of the invention punches the sidewall of the filters, and provides a rack for draining the oil filters.
US07846326B2
Improved crude oil processing is achieved by viscoelastic shearing of crude oil at an elevated temperature. The shearing provides for an enriched light fraction and an enriched heavy fraction that can be more efficiently separated by distillation. Shearing is achieved using a mobile surface and immobile surface, or other flow geometry, under conditions providing for a transient phase separation.
US07846323B2
The present invention generally relates to a method for producing an isoparaffinic product useful as jet fuel from a renewable feedstock. The method may also include co-producing a jet fuel and a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fraction from a renewable feedstock. The method includes hydrotreating the renewable feedstock to produce a hydrotreating unit heavy fraction that includes n-paraffins and hydroisomerizing the hydrotreating unit heavy fraction to produce a hydroizomerizing unit heavy fraction that includes isoparaffins. The method also includes recycling the hydroisomerizing unit heavy fraction through the hydroisomerization unit to produce an isoparaffinic product that may be fractionated into a jet fuel and an LPG fraction. The present invention also relates to a jet fuel produced from a renewable feedstock having improved cold flow properties.
US07846312B2
The present invention relates to electrochemical cells including a connector which mates with a connection device to provide electrical connection to meter circuitry.
US07846300B2
This invention relates to a rail for the compliant supporting of a mesh in the region of a double mesh zone of a double mesh section of a machine for producing a fibrous web, including a movable head rail, a movable bearer rail, a fixed guide rail, a compliant pressing apparatus, and a compliant return apparatus for moving the movable bearer rail together with the movable head rail from the operating position to the resting position and for holding the two rails in the resting position. The compliant return apparatus has, spread over the length of the movable bearer rail, several movable return hoops which at the one end can be made to engage at least temporarily with the movable bearer rail and at the other end can be loaded at least temporarily by at least one return element respectively arranged between the fixed guide rail and the movable return hoop.
US07846291B2
A processing apparatus of the present invention has a mounted chamber holding a semiconductor wafer and having members for work-processing the substrate under any of heating, plasma and process gas or a combination of them, in which a film of Al2O3 and Y2O3 is formed on an inner wall surface of the chamber and on those exposed surface of the members within the chamber and has a high-corrosion resistance and insulating property and, when the process gas is introduced onto a processing surface of a semiconductor wafer and diffused into it, any product is less liable to be deposited on a plasma generation area and on those members held within the chamber.
US07846286B2
The device comprises a system for unwinding a portion of the web material from the log R, and a system for rewinding the tail end on the log after application of an adhesive. Moreover, a folding member 21 is provided, to fold the tail end and form a fold of web material defining a portion for gripping and detaching the folded loose end from the roll.
US07846272B2
A treated austenitic steel and method for treating same includes an austenitic steel and a non-metal chemical element incorporated into a surface of the steel. The surface has a bi-layered structure of a compound layer at a top and an underlying diffusion layer, which protects said surface against hydrogen embrittlement.
US07846268B2
The present invention relates to cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising a dye conjugate, and processes of making and using such compositions. Such compositions can provide benefits such as an increase in the whiteness or blackness perception of a situs that is cleaned or treated with such compositions.
US07846264B2
Disclosed herein is a gas distribution plate for use in a gas distribution assembly for a processing chamber, where the gas distribution plate is fabricated from a solid yttrium oxide-comprising substrate, which may also include aluminum oxide. The gas distribution plate includes a plurality of through-holes, which are typically crescent-shaped. Through-holes which have been formed in the solid yttrium oxide-comprising substrate by ultrasonic drilling perform particularly well. The solid yttrium oxide-comprising substrate typically comprises at least 99.9% yttrium oxide, and has a density of at least 4.92 g/cm3, a water absorbency of about 0.02% or less, and an average grain size within the range of about 10 μm to about 25 μm. Also disclosed herein are methods for fabricating and cleaning the yttrium oxide-comprising gas distribution plate.
US07846256B2
A high conductance, multi-tray film precursor evaporation system coupled with a high conductance vapor delivery system is described for increasing deposition rate by increasing exposed surface area of film precursor. The multi-tray film precursor evaporation system includes one or more trays. Each tray is configured to support and retain a solid precursor, and permit the flow of a carrier gas. Furthermore, each tray comprises precursor stabilization elements designed to maintain a substantially level solid precursor powder during transport of the multi-tray precursor evaporation system.
US07846255B2
Processing equipment for an object to be processed is provided with a process container, the internal of which can be evacuated, a gas introducing means for introducing a prescribed gas into the process container, a supporting table provided in the process container, a ring-shaped supporting part provided on the supporting table for supporting the object to be processed, a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements provided on an upper plane of the supporting table on an inner side of the supporting part, an element storing space evacuating means for evacuating inside the element storing space formed by a lower plane of the object to be treated, which is supported by the supporting part, an upper plane of the supporting table and the supporting part.
US07846252B2
A silicon wafer for an IGBT is produced by forming an ingot having an interstitial oxygen concentration [Oi] of not more than 7.0×1017 atoms/cm3 by the Czochralski method; doping phosphorus in the ingot by neutron beam irradiation to the ingot; slicing a wafer from the ingot; performing annealing of the wafer in an oxidizing atmosphere containing at least oxygen at a temperature satisfying a predetermined formula; and forming a polysilicon layer or a strained layer on one side of the wafer.
US07846248B2
The present invention relates to a paint particularly for plastic materials, comprising one or more acrylic-based resins that can undergo cross linking by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, one or more photo-initiators to induce cross-linking of said acrylic resin (or more resins) in the presence of UV radiation, and one or more fillers. The invention further relates to a method for painting a substrate, such as the housings of cellphones, in which said paint is applied on the material and is made to undergo cross-linking by means of exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
US07846245B2
Ink, ink sets, and methods of printing are provided. The inks can include a plurality of dyes such that upon printing on a print medium, the printed ink or inks can maintain a neutral color, defined by an a* value from about −1 to about 3 and having a b* value from about 3 to about −15. This neutral color can be maintained such that the printed ink or image has these a*b* values for substantially all L* values ranging from about 25 to about 75, or even from 0 to 95.
US07846235B2
A method for producing metallic iron in which a mixture including a carbonaceous reducing agent and iron oxide is fed onto a hearth of a moving hearth reducing-melting furnace and is then heated so that the iron oxide is reduced and melted. Metallic iron to be obtained is cooled and is then discharged outside the furnace for recovery. Prior to the feed of raw agglomerates, a granular hearth material is bedded on the moving hearth for forming a layered renewable hearth which can be renewed. Part or the entirety of the renewable hearth which was degraded during operation is renewed, and the hearth material for forming a new renewable hearth is fed. The surface of the newly formed hearth is then leveled and mixture is subsequently fed.
US07846234B2
The proposed invention relates to methods of precious metal recovery and may be applied to the recovery of precious metals from various types of mineral raw source materials containing chlorides of alkali and earth metals, e.g. collective concentrate produced from clay-salt residue of potassium production, or marker clays, etc. This method includes chlorinating roasting of the collective concentrate produced during enrichment of the material with residual chlorides content of 7-13%, or natural concentrate with up to 15% chlorides content. Thereafter, the cinder is leached by an aqua-regia solution, the precious metals are recovered from the pulp via of sorption, chlorinating roasting is held at 600-700° C., the precious metals are leached from the cinder using diluted solution of aqua-regia, and then via sorption. The process is cost-efficient due to the use of chlorinating agent, reduction of the process steps number, decreasing of the roasting temperature, and the leaching by diluted acid.
US07846226B2
A method of assembling a spray quench apparatus is provided. The method includes coupling a first end of an exit tube to a quench chamber such that the exit tube end is in flow communication with the quench chamber, coupling at least one spray nozzle to an opposite second end of the exit tube such that water emitted from the spray nozzle fills the exit tube and forms a film of water across an inner surface of the exit tube, coupling a water source to the quench chamber for providing a substantially continuous water film along an inner surface of the quench chamber, and coupling at least one discharge apparatus to the quench chamber for providing water spray into the quench chamber, wherein the water of the water film and water sprays drains into a water sump.
US07846225B2
The present invention provides a process which utilizes biodiesel and other high boiling esters containing short alkyl groups to produce liquid fuels from fluff. The fluff is added to a solvent having a predetermined cycle starting solvent volume. An energy source is introduced into the solvent for a predetermined time at a predetermined temperature and pressure to form a product. The energy source is removed and the product is cooled to a predetermined temperature to produce the fuel. The invention also encompasses the fuel formed by the process described.
US07846219B2
An electrode laminate unit of an electric storage device is composed of positive electrodes and negative electrodes, which are alternately laminated, and a lithium electrode arranged at the outermost part of the electrode laminate unit so as to oppose the negative electrode. A charging/discharging unit having first and second energization control units connected to a positive-electrode terminal, negative-electrode terminal, and a lithium-electrode terminal. Electrons are moved from the lithium electrode to the positive electrode through the first energization control unit, and lithium ions are doped into the positive electrode from the lithium electrode. Electrons are moved from the lithium electrode to the negative electrode through the second energization control unit, and lithium ions are doped into the negative electrode from the lithium electrode. The lithium ions are doped into both of the positive and negative electrodes, whereby the doping time can be dramatically shortened.
US07846215B2
The invention relates to a process for dyeing polyester fibre material according to the exhaust method, which process comprises the following steps: (a) pre-treatment of the fibre material with one or more surfactants, (b) dyeing with one or more disperse dyes, and (c) reductive after-treatment with a hydroxyalkylsulfinic acid or a hydroxyalkylsulfinic acid salt, wherein steps (a), (b) and (c) are carried out in succession in a single liquor.
US07846214B1
A method of manufacturing carpet provides for an old art dyeing effect. Specifically, acid and cationic dyes are provided in a solution to a carpet tufted with cationic and acid dye fibers. The carpet is preferably tufted in such a way that there is a relative scarcity of one of the cationic and acid dye fibers at a first width. An abundance of the other dye accumulates in higher concentration than in surrounding areas at the first width. This higher concentration tends to diffuse and/or be moved by other mechanisms to the surrounding areas or widths where the dye attaches to appropriate contacts. This creates at least one of the dark band, a fade and/or a old art dye effect at that location. By precisely controlling the carpet fiber location at the upper surface, the dye solution and the dyeing process, fades and other process can be precisely controlled for repeatable performance as has not been experienced in the prior art.
US07846212B2
A trial implant kit includes a plurality of intermediate components and a plurality of inner components. Each of the plurality of intermediate components has a uniform inner surface, although at least two of the plurality of intermediate components having distinct outer surfaces. Each of the distinct outer surfaces is configured to engage one of a plurality of acetabular shell component geometries. Each of the plurality of inner components has a uniform outer surface portion and a bearing surface, the uniform outer surface portion configured to be received by the uniform inner surface of any of plurality of intermediate components. The bearing surface is configured to engage a femoral head. At least two of plurality of inner components having distinct bearing surface configurations.
US07846208B2
A spinal disc annulus repair stent for repair and reconstruction of the spinal disc wall (annulus) after surgical invasion or pathologic rupture, which may incorporate suture closure or other means of stent insertion and fixation, designed to reduce the failure rate of conventional surgical procedures on the spinal discs. In an illustrative embodiment, the design of the spinal disc annulus stent advantageously allows ingrowth of normal cells of healing in an enhanced fashion strengthening the normal reparative process.
US07846204B2
A prosthetic valve assembly for implantation within a native aortic valve using a catheterization technique. The prosthetic valve assembly includes a collapsible and expandable metallic frame. The frame is constructed to resist the recoil forces of the native aortic valve. The frame may be formed with a concave profile. A valvular structure made with pericardial tissue is sewn to the frame for permitting blood flow in one direction. An internal cover is provided along an internal surface of the frame and provides a sleeve which prevents blood from passing through gaps in the frame.
US07846196B2
The present invention provides a drug-coated stent comprising a tubular flexible body having a wall with a web structure that is expandable from a contracted delivery configuration to deployed configuration. The web structure comprises a plurality of neighboring web patterns, where each web patterns is composed of adjoining webs, and the web patterns are interconnected by transition sections. Each adjoining web comprises a central section interposed between two lateral sections to form concave or convex configurations.
US07846192B2
A warming device includes a clinical garment having an inside surface supporting a convective apparatus with multiple separately inflatable sections, each adapted to enable a particular mode of warming.
US07846182B2
The pedicle screw (1) for intervertebral support elements (3) consists of a shaft (10) and a head (2) comprising at least two parts (20, 22). The head is formed as a securing means for at least one support element (3). Each support element consists of a piece of a cable-like band (31) and a cylindrical support body (30) with an axial lumen (31″containing the band. The band is securable outside end surfaces (32) of the support body in the head. The head is formed with a contact surface (23) via which a pressure stress can be exerted on the support body in the band direction, and indeed using the band and in cooperation with a further pedicle screw. A part (20) of the head (2), which is firmly connected to the shaft (10) at the one end of the latter, contains a base groove (21) which is oriented transversally to the shaft and into which the part of the band (31) to be secured or a connecting piece (292) which contains the band can be introduced during the securing of the support element (3) by means of a translatory movement in the direction of the shaft and fixed there.
US07846175B2
A guidewire with collapsible filter system where a deployable, collapsible and retrievable filter attached to a guidewire tube is utilized for filtering thrombotic particulate from blood flow in the vascular system during thrombectomy or other interventional vascular procedures.
US07846169B2
A surgical suturing apparatus includes a suture housing, a needle mounted within the suture housing for movement about an arcuate path, a drive assembly operably associated with the needle for controlling movement of the needle with a suture secured thereto about the arcuate path in a manner facilitating application of the suture to tissue, and a vacuum chamber surrounding the suture housing. The vacuum chamber is coupled to a vacuum line of the endoscope and includes a mechanism for adjusting the maximum amount of tissue that can be drawn into the vacuum chamber.
US07846165B2
A guide system for resecting a bone through incisions of the type utilized for arthroscopic procedures is provided. The guide system comprises a first alignment pin, a second alignment pin and a wire saw. The first alignment pin is configured to be inserted through a first incision into a bone in a first orientation. The second alignment pin is configured to inserted through a second incision into the bone in a second orientation. The first alignment pin and the second alignment pin are configured and oriented to define a resection plane of reference through which the bone is to be resected and the wire saw is configured to be inserted through the first and second incisions to be guided by the first and second alignment pins while being moved to resect the bone.
US07846152B2
The present invention provides improved methods and systems for laser beam positioning, shape profile, size profile, drift, and/or deflection calibration using an image capture device, such as a microscope camera, for enhanced calibration accuracy and precision. The methods and systems are particularly suited for iris calibration and hysteresis measurement of a variable diameter aperture. One method for calibrating laser pulses from a laser eye surgery system using an image capture device comprises imaging a known object with an image capture device. A pulsed laser beam is directed onto a calibration surface so as to leave a mark on the calibration surface. The mark on the calibration surface is then imaged with the image capture device. The laser eye surgery system is calibrated by comparing the image of the mark on the calibration surface to the image of the known object.
US07846146B2
Many of those having diabetes take a combination of slow and fast acting types of insulin. It is important that the different forms of medicament do not become confused. To this end, a medicament cartridge is provided comprising a sleeve having a bottleneck providing a flange at a first end, a fluid impermeable membrane secured across the first end by a metal cap beaded beneath the flange, and a displaceable piston located internally of the sleeve towards a second end of the sleeve, a collar located against an external periphery of the cartridge housing beneath the flange and an adaptor top press fit over the cap and the collar, the adaptor top being provided with means to act upon the collar thereby to retain the adaptor top on the sleeve.
US07846143B1
A portable urinal that includes a container defining a liquid reservoir and a spout extending therefrom. The spout has an inlet for receiving a liquid. A valve assembly is disposed within the spout. The valve assembly has an interior region and an exterior region. The valve assembly includes a sidewall and one or more sealable openings for permitting flow of a liquid into the reservoir, while resisting undesired flow of the liquid out of the reservoir. The openings defining the line between the interior region and the exterior region. The valve assembly sidewall has a shaped contour structured to direct liquid flow into the openings.
US07846127B2
A multi lumen catheter including an inner tube having a front tip, an outer tube, a tube or lumen for inserting a guide wire, a blood extraction lumen and a blood return lumen which are formed in the outer tube and inner tube, respectively, or both in the outer tube, wherein the inner tube is inserted in the outer tube, and allowed to slide relative thereto, and the front tip is jointed to the front end of the outer tube to shut off communication of the lumens with the exterior. A multi-lumen catheter with balloon includes a balloon provided on a tabular body at a front end thereof, a blood return port and a blood extraction port provided in the tubular body on opposite sides of the balloon, and an outer cylinder slidable on the tubular body to close the blood extraction and blood return ports and the balloon.
US07846113B2
A massage apparatus is disclosed with a housing and a motor oriented in the housing. An eccentric drive is driven by the motor for oscillating an elongate massage member. In one embodiment a pair of elongate massage members are provided. In another embodiment, a massage formation is limited to a range of linear translation in a first direction and limited to a range of rotational translation relative to the housing.
US07846111B2
Therapy patches provide portable massaging devices that can also deliver topical treatment chemicals. These patches can be adhered to the skin via an adhesive layer that is also impregnated with the treatment chemical. Kits are also provided to create a string of linked patches that can be used together or separately, and a microcontroller controls the vibration of the device for optimized massaging effects.
US07846110B2
A self contained disposable test unit for testing body fluid comprises a body member and a support member. The support member is moveable with respect to the body member between a first position and a second position. The support member includes a body part receiving surface for receiving a patient's body part. A lancet is carried by the body member and includes a lancet tip capable of piercing the skin of a patient to produce fluid flow. A test member is capable of interacting with body fluid to aid in the determination of information about body fluid components. A capillary member is capable of directing fluid flow to the test member. A pressure cup is capable of exerting pressure on a body part to foster fluid flow out of a lanced site and into the capillary, and a calibration member is provided for containing information for facilitating calibration of the test unit.
US07846108B2
This invention is an improved tissue-localizing device with an electrically energized locator element for fixedly yet removal marking a volume of tissue containing a suspect region for excision. The electrical energizing of the locator element facilitates the penetration of the locator element in to subject's tissue and minimizes resistance due to dense or calcified tissues. At least one locator element is deployed into tissue and assumes a predetermined curvilinear shape to define a tissue border containing a suspect tissue region along a path. Multiple locator elements may be deployed to further define the tissue volume along additional paths defining the tissue volume border that do not penetrate the volume. Delivery of electric cut-rent may be achieved through monopolar or bipolar electronic configuration depending on design needs. Various energy sources, e.g, radio frequency, microwave or ultrasound, may be implemented in this energized tissue-localizing device.
US07846107B2
An imaging endoscope comprising a shaft having a proximal end adapted to be secured to a handle, and a distal end having a biopsy forceps disposed therein. The biopsy forceps includes one or more end-effector elements that are actuated with a control cable that may be connected to the handle. The endoscope shaft includes a biopsy sample lumen that is configured to receive a biopsy sample obtained from the forceps assembly. A sample collection apparatus is attached to the handle to capture multiple biopsy samples. In some embodiments, the endoscope is a single-use endoscope.
US07846105B2
The present invention discloses a non-invasive blood pressure measurement apparatus and a safety protection method. In addition to a main pressure measurement circuit and a main microprocessor circuit, the measurement apparatus also includes an independently disposed assist pressure measurement circuit and an independently disposed assist microprocessor circuit. In normal measurement, the assist microprocessor circuit periodically samples a cuff pressure via the assist pressure measurement circuit, and compares the measured cuff pressure with a specified overpressure protection value, and if the cuff pressure exceeds the specified overpressure protection value, the assist microprocessor circuit outputs a control signal to open a deflation valve until the pressure falls to below the safety pressure. Compared with the prior art, the method for overpressure protection of the present invention is more direct and has higher accuracy of decision, leading to higher reliability of the overpressure protection and higher safety of the measurement apparatus.
US07846104B2
A method for monitoring an individual's physiological condition and detecting abnormalities therein, comprising concurrently receiving an electrocardiograph signal and a ballistocardiograph signal. The electrocardiograph and ballistocardiograph signals are conditioned to minimize background extraneous noise after which, each signal is concurrently processed and analyzed to detect repeating cyclical patterns and further characterized to identify individual components of the repeating cycles. At least one individual component in one signal is selected as a reference marker for a selected component in the other signal. The two signals are then synchronized, outputs produced therefrom and stored in a database.
US07846093B2
A device, system and method for orthopedic spine surgery using a novel screw-based retractor, disclosed herein, that allows for access to the spine through a minimally or less invasive approach. The retractor device is designed to be coupled to a pedicle screw and then to have opposed arms of the retractor spread apart to open the wound proximally. The retractor is removed by pulling it out of the wound whereby the retractor is deformed to pass over the pedicle screw head. The retractor is intended to be made of a stiff plastic material, sterile packaged and disposable after one use. A system and method for using the retractor and performing a minimally invasive spine surgical procedure are also disclosed.
US07846091B2
A system and method for imaging tissue autofluorescence through a video endoscope is described, comprising a light source capable of providing both ultraviolet light capable of inducing tissue autofluorescence and visible light which induces little or no autofluorescence, an optical system to deliver both wavelength bands to the tissue with the same apparent spatial and angular intensity distribution, a means for digitally acquiring the resulting, visible fluorescence and visible reflectance images using a single imaging detector at the distal tip of the endoscope and a means for digitally processing said images to generate a final, false-color image for display which indicates regions of tissue dysplasia. This system can either be added on to an existing video endoscope or integrated into its structure. The combined system can be electronically switched between normal white light imaging and fluorescence imaging.
US07846088B2
An anatomic space of the body, particularly the pericardial space, is accessed in a minimally invasive manner from a skin incision by an access instrument to facilitate visualization and introduction of devices or drugs or other materials, performance of medical and surgical procedures, and introducing and fixating a cardiac lead electrode to the heart. An elongated access instrument body preferentially bends in one direction and resists bending in a transverse direction, whereby the access instrument body distal end can be directed through a path around body structures to the anatomic site by manipulation of the access instrument body proximal end portion. A distal header formed at the access instrument body distal end extends outward of the access instrument body in the transverse direction and supports an inflatable balloon surrounding a working lumen exit port that is directed toward an anatomic surface when the balloon is inflated by inflation media introduced through an inflation lumen.
US07846086B2
A holding apparatus is provided for holding a device to be used under sterile conditions. The apparatus includes a holder unit (1) to which the device (3) is to be fixed. The holder unit (1) has a holder portion for fixing a drape (9) so that a held device (3) and the holder portion are substantially air-tightly enclosed. A cavity (2) in the holder unit (1) has a cavity portion (10) for communicating with an intermediate space between a fixed drape (9) and the device (3). A pumping-out device (15) is in the cavity (2) for pumping air out of the cavity portion and the intermediate space. The cavity portion (10) is sealed in the pumping-out operation to prevent the make-up flow of air out of other regions than the intermediate space between a fixed drape (9) and the device (3) or the holder portion.
US07846076B2
The invention relates to a training apparatus, in particular for the muscle system of the hand, arm and upper body, wherein the apparatus has an elongate casing with at least an essentially circular internal cross section, in the interior of which at least one ball (5) is situated in a freely movable manner between shock absorbers (6). There are various forms of such training apparatuses. Their disadvantages include relatively monotonous training and the difficulty or impossibility of using them to train during another activity, for example during running. In order to avoid this, the invention is characterized in that the casing is of flexible design over at least part of its longitudinal extent, in that the ends of the casing are fastened to a handle part, and in that handle part and casing lie at least essentially on one plane.
US07846073B2
The present invention provides for a leg exerciser device offering a pair of footplates arranged for inward and outward reciprocal movement along a respective pair of rails and whereby each of the footplates is operatively connected by way of support arms to a variable number of weights so as to increase the resistance offered by apparatus during an exercise routine. The path of travel of each footplate and the configuration of each arm is such that the vertical distance moved by the weights is greater than the vertical distance moved by each footplate during its reciprocal motion along the rails so as to enhance the degree of work undertaking during an exercise routine.
US07846072B1
Individual swimmers may routinely and easily perform exercise regiments to maintain or enhance their general health and fitness utilizing the present invention. Multiple part poles may be readily shipped, or otherwise transported, in a disassembled state and assembled easily and quickly to full length for use with the overall swimming exercise device. Various configurations of sections and connections are disclosed. Ideally a taper will exist where the deployed multiple part pole will flex more toward an outer end of the multiple part pole.
US07846071B2
A stationary exercise device having variable footpaths is disclosed. The exercise device includes a frame, a pair of supporting members that have a first end to rotate about an axis and a second end to move along a reciprocating path, a pair of pedals joined to the supporting members, and a guider assembly for adjusting an incline angle of the reciprocating path.
US07846067B2
Consistency of motion is monitored over a period of time while a person is exercising on an exercise machine that impacts one or more muscles and/or muscle groups of the musculoskeletal system of the person. A measure of fatigue of the one or more muscles and/or muscle groups for the period of time is calculated. An evaluation of the exercise session is provided, based at least in part on the measure of fatigue and the monitored consistency.
US07846065B2
A powertrain for a vehicle includes an engine having an output and a transmission selectively driven by the output of the engine. A torque converter is disposed between the engine and the transmission for selectively coupling the output of the engine to the transmission. A controller is in communication with the engine and the torque converter and controls a pressure: within the torque converter based on an input parameter supplied to the engine.
US07846063B2
A method for real time determination of a base torque value, representative of maximum available torque of an engine at a specified engine rpm, as a function of engine torque during predetermined engine conditions. The base torque value is used to determine shift points for an automatic transmission of an self propelled work machine.
US07846061B2
A method for operating a drivetrain of a motor vehicle having in the force flow direction and in the following order an internal combustion engine, a clutch, an electric motor, a transmission and an axle gearset, or an internal combustion engine, a clutch, an electric motor, a transmission input shaft, a transmission and an axle gearset. The electric motor is used for pre-lubricating and warming the transmission such that, with the vehicle clutch disengaged, the lubricant pump of the transmission is driven by the electric motor so bearings are supplied with lubricant before the engine is started, and the heat, produced by splashing the lubricant, additionally warms the transmission.
US07846055B2
A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, a split dual clutch assembly, two countershaft gearing arrangements, one planetary gear set, a plurality of interconnecting members, and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the countershaft gearing arrangements includes a plurality of co-planar gear sets. The torque transmitting devices include a combination of clutches, brakes, and synchronizers.
US07846050B2
Two kinds of pins having rolling contact surfaces of different shapes are used as first pins. A recess is formed at that portion of the first pin disposed between a chain outer periphery-side edge portion thereof and the rolling contact surface thereof. A straight portion is formed at that portion of the second pin disposed between a chain outer periphery-side edge portion thereof and the rolling contact surface thereof. With this construction, the two kinds of pins can be easily discriminated from each other from their appearance.
US07846045B1
A pneumatic practice tee and method of practicing the striking of a sports ball with a striking instrument using the tee. The tee includes a base, a housing, a fan and an inflatable sleeve. The base supports the practice tee upon a horizontal surface. The housing is supported by the base and has an air inlet and an air outlet. The fan is retained within the housing and for producing an air current, directed by the housing through the outlet. The inflatable sleeve is in fluid communication with the air outlet with the proximal longitudinal end attached to the housing and a nozzle provided in the longitudinal distal end.
US07846040B2
A golf club head of this invention includes a face, a plurality of score line grooves formed on the face, and a plurality of striations formed on the face. The angle formed by an arrangement direction of the plurality of striations and the score line grooves is between 40 degrees and 70 degrees, inclusive, as viewed clockwise from a toe side end of the score line grooves.
US07846034B1
A golf stroke aim assisting assembly includes a golf tee that has a top end, a bottom end and a peripheral surface extending between the top and bottom ends. The bottom end is pointed and the top end is concave to support a golf ball. A plate has a top side, a bottom side and a perimeter edge. The plate has an aperture therein extending into the top side and outwardly of the bottom side. The peripheral edge includes a pair of lateral edges tapering toward each other and coming to a point. The bottom end of the tee is extended through the aperture and is extendable into a ground surface. The point is directable toward an area in which a golf ball is to be struck to assist a person in aiming while striking a golf ball off of the top end.
US07846026B2
A gaming machine includes a cabinet defining an internal space and a front side. The cabinet has an opening in the front side for providing access to the internal space. A door is movably mounted to the cabinet for movement between an open position providing access to the internal space, and a closed position wherein the door substantially closes off the opening in the cabinet. The door has an enlarged opening defining generally vertical spaced apart side edges. At least one screen is mounted to the door, and extends across at least a substantial portion of the opening in the door, the screen having an outside surface. A generally horizontal cross member extends across the enlarged opening, and has opposite ends positioned adjacent the vertical side edges. The cross member is adjustably secured to the door such that the vertical position of the cross member can be adjusted to vary the size of an upper portion of the enlarged opening above the cross member, and a lower portion of the enlarged opening below the cross member.
US07846023B2
Various application-centric user interface techniques are described. A user can easily launch, add, or update applications. An application-centric activity center can be presented as part of a user interface for an operating system shell. A file defining metadata for an application can be defined. The techniques can be applied to game-related software.
US07846012B2
An apparatus for stunning poultry is provided, comprising a power source, a first electrode connected to a first pole of the power source for engaging the head of the poultry and a second electrode connected to the opposite pole of the power source for externally engaging a groin area, except any part of a vent, of the poultry.
US07846005B2
Methods of molding a non-woven fabric are provided. The methods include selecting a non-woven fabric having a web of randomly disbursed fibers, compressing the non-woven fabric between a top mold and a bottom mold, and maintaining the non-woven fabric between the top and bottom molds for a predetermined dwell time to define a molded depth and a molded diameter in the non-woven fabric. In some embodiments, the method includes exposing the non-woven fabric to mechanical agitation. In other embodiments, the method includes selecting the top and bottom molds to have a depth that is larger than the molded depth by about 30 to about 50 percent and a diameter that us larger than the molded diameter by less than about 10 percent.
US07845999B2
An aquatic gliding board such as a surfboard is constructed using a honeycomb material for the core. The composite outer skin of the surfboard is constructed of materials having similar flexibility properties as found in a traditional foam/fiberglass surfboard. In a particularly preferred embodiment an aluminum honeycomb core is employed along with a fiberglass skin in order to achieve a surfboard with decreased weight and increased strength to resist failure in bending relative to a traditional foam/fiberglass surfboard, but having similar flexibility characteristics to such a traditional surfboard, or having increased flexibility relative to such a traditional surfboard.
US07845997B2
In a boat-propelling machine for attachment to a boat hull (200), an outer wall unit (4) is fixedly provided on a body of the machine for covering part of a cylindrical structural body (60) that is formed of metal alloy and positioned so as to be at least above a draft line during planning of the boat, and a lift force generation device (20) is provided on the outer vertical wall unit.
US07845995B2
A pod propulsion system comprises a housing defining a fluid duct and an annular drum rotatably mounted to the housing within the fluid duct. The annular drum has a drum interior and a cylindrical outer surface. The system further comprises a rotor mounted to the drum for rotation therewith, the rotor and the drum having a common axis of rotation. A bearing assembly mounted to the housing comprises a first bearing comprising a first plurality of bearing pads disposed circumferentially around the drum. Each pad has a pad bearing surface adapted to contact a first drum portion in a predetermined manner and is pivotably mounted to the housing so as to maintain contact of the pad bearing surface with the first drum portion in the predetermined manner when an orientation of the drum portion relative to the housing changes.
US07845991B2
An apparatus for the electrical connection of cell arresters is provided. The apparatus having a first contact element having a first guide device and a second guide device, the first guide device being designed to rest against a first cell arrester and the second guide device being designed to rest against a second cell arrester. The apparatus also comprises a second contact element having at least one first holding device and at least one second holding device, the at least one first holding device being designed to surround the first guide device and the first cell arrester and the at least one second holding device being designed to surround the second guide device and the second cell arrester.
US07845990B2
An enclosed connection system for connecting first and second elongate electrical conductors includes a transverse wedge connector and an enclosure. The transverse wedge connector includes an electrically conductive first connector member, an electrically conductive second connector member, and a clamping mechanism. The first connector member includes: a first body having inner and outer opposed ends; a first hook portion on the outer end of the first body, the first hook portion defining a first channel to receive the first conductor; and a first abutment portion on the inner end of the first body. The second connector member includes: a second body having inner and outer opposed ends; a second hook portion on the outer end of the second body, the second hook portion defining a second channel to receive the second conductor; and a second abutment portion on the inner end of the second body. The clamping mechanism is selectively operable to displace the first and second connector members relative to one another from an open position to a clamping position to clamp the first conductor in the first channel and between the first hook portion and the second abutment portion and to clamp the second conductor in the second channel and between the second hook portion and the first abutment portion to thereby form a connection. The enclosure is configured to receive and cover the connection and to protect the transverse wedge connector.
US07845987B2
The plug connector includes contacts and a block. The contacts are arranged on both sides of the block, and the block is formed at longitudinal ends with projection walls. The receptacle connector includes contacts and a housing. The contacts are arranged on both sides of the block to be opposite to each other in the width direction, and the housing is provided with engaging protrusions engaging the anchoring recess. The housing is further provided between the contacts longitudinally arranged with side walls A higher than upper surfaces of elastic portions of the contacts and with side walls B continuous with the side walls A and higher than upper surfaces of contact portions of the contacts. The plug contacts and the receptacle contacts are brought into contact with each other only after the plug connector and the receptacle connector have been completely fitted with each other.
US07845976B2
A connector having a conductive member is provided, wherein the connector comprises a connector body capable of sealing and securing a coaxial cable, and further wherein the conductive member, such as an O-ring, physically seals the connector, electrically couples the connector and the coaxial cable, facilitates grounding through the connector, and renders an electromagnetic shield preventing ingress of unwanted environmental noise.
US07845974B2
A power strip is provided. The power strip includes a first power cord to receive an input of electricity. The power strip also includes a housing including a plurality of socket modules for receiving electrical plugs. At least one socket module is removably attached to the housing and includes a second power cord connect to the first power cord.
US07845917B2
An electric blower includes a motor having a stator on which field windings are wound, a rotor facing the stator, and a bracket covering the stator and the rotor. The electric blower further includes a fan mounted to a shaft coupled to the rotor, and an air guide having a diffuser provided to the outer circumference of the fan and formed of a plurality of stationary blades adjacent to each other. The electric blower still includes a fan case having openings at its outer circumference for discharging a part of the air having passed the diffuser to the outside, and protrusions having a brim for covering a part of the openings. The foregoing structure allows the air blower to cool the motor with airflow generated by the fan.
US07845915B2
A rotary pump for producing a pressure medium flow for a consumer, includes a pump housing in which a curved ring is inserted. A rotor is rotatably borne on a drive shaft in the curved ring. The rotor carries displacement elements at a tangential distance to one another which form a pump chamber between the rotor and the curved ring with a suction opening. A pressure medium-activated adjusting device is operable for changing the eccentricity of the curved ring relative to the rotor, and includes a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber fluidically and tangentially distanced from the first pressure chamber The pressure in the first and second pressure chambers is controlled by a flow control valve, the low pressure chamber of which communicates with a first control line on a downstream side of a metering orifice. The first control line, as seen from the rotational direction of the rotor, opens at the beginning of the pressure opening such that a tangential pulse of the pressure medium is led to the metering orifice and a second control line opens at a secondary connector into the pressure opening such that a tangential and radial pulse of the pressure medium is led to a high pressure chamber of the flow control valve.
US07845911B2
Rotor blades are pre-bent in at least one of a flap direction and a lag direction, wherein the pre-bent portion comprises at least 20-60% of the length of the blade. Preferred methods include analyzing the rotor dynamic behavior using computational methods, deciding on the operational case (rotor lift load, forward speed, etc.) in which the loads and vibration reductions are desired, and using the computed results to decide on an amount of pre-bending of the unloaded blade so that it comes closer to the feather axis under load. Another class of preferred methods models the bending of a first blade in flight loading conditions, and then designs a second blade having a pre-bend in approximately an equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the bending. It is contemplated that such “pre-bent” blades can significantly reduce rotor loads and vibration levels of rotorcraft equipped with semi-rigid or rigid rotors.
US07845909B2
An assembly for providing flexure to a blade of a rotary blade system includes an upper support plate having an upper curved surface, a lower support plate having a lower curved surface, and a yoke positioned therebetween. At least one of the upper and lower yoke surfaces has a layer of cushioning material positioned thereon and secured thereto. An alternate embodiment includes an assembly for providing flexure to a blade of a rotary blade system, including, an upper support plate having an upper curved surface, a lower support plate having a lower curved surface, and a yoke positioned therebetween and directly contacting the support plates wherein one of the curved surfaces is a non-circular arc that does not form part of the circumference of a circle. Another alternate embodiment includes a similar assembly having a twist-shank type of yoke for providing rotation of attached blades about their respective pitch axes.
US07845908B1
An air cooled turbine blade for a gas turbine engine, the blade including a blade tip with a serpentine flow cooling passage formed around the tip peripheral edge and extending from the trailing edge around the suction side of the blade tip, around the leading edge and around the pressure side of the blade tip. Pressurized cooling air is supplied from a trailing edge region cooling supply channel and into the suction side serpentine passage to flow toward the leading edge of the blade. Cooling air flows around the leading edge serpentine flow tip passage and then along the pressure side serpentine flow passage. Cooling air flows out through trailing edge exit holes to cool the trailing edge region. In a second embodiment, a flow blocking wall is formed in the serpentine flow passage to separate the suction side serpentine passage from the pressure side serpentine passage.
US07845907B2
A blade for a turbine engine includes structure providing spaced apart suction and pressure sides. A cooling passage includes a first passageway near the pressure side and a second passageway in fluid communication with the first passageway. The second passageway is arranged between the first passageway and the suction side. The cooling passage provides a serpentine cooling path that is arranged in a direction transverse from a chord extending between trailing and leading edges of the blade. During use, cooling fluid is supplied to the pressure side through first cooling apertures fluidly connected to the first passageway to the suction side through second cooling apertures fluidly connected to the other passage way. The first passageway is at a higher pressure that then second passageway so that cooling fluid is provided by the cooling passage to the pressure and suction sides in a balanced fashion.
US07845905B2
A hollow turbine blade is provided including an airfoil profile which is formed by a suction-side profile wall and a pressure-side profile wall and around which a hot gas can flow and which has a profile height, directed along a blade axis, from a platform up to a profile tip, having at least one supporting rib which is provided in the interior of the turbine blade and connects the pressure-side profile wall to the suction-side profile wall in a respective connecting region, and having at least one slot provided in the profile wall on the hot-gas side and extending along the blade axis. The slot of the turbine blade, on the hot-gas side in the profile wall, is opposite the connecting region formed by the supporting rib and the profile wall.
US07845901B2
Devices for intaking gases from the boundary layer through ducts hollowed out in blades. These devices are suitable for variable setting blades, installed on the stator using pivots. The seal is maintained despite the variation in the relative position between the moving pivots through which ducts pass, and the fixed intake header pipe.
US07845899B2
A wind turbine engine comprising rotor blades disposed within an outer casing and a half-spherical head located in front of the rotor blades and blocking the inner 50% of the radius of the rotor blades, the casing and head creating an acceleration chamber wherein incoming wind is speeded up and redirected around the head, and the accelerated wind then rotates the wind turbine rotor blades to generate power.
US07845892B2
A substrate-treating apparatus including: a plurality of modules disposed along a first direction, each of the plurality of modules having an inner space for containing a substrate; and a transfer unit transferring the substrate among the plurality of modules, the transfer unit including at least one track disposed along the first direction and at least one movable transfer chamber moving along the at least one track, wherein the at least one movable transfer chamber is atmospherically isolated from an exterior while moving.
US07845887B2
A vehicle rail clamp mount can include a first mount portion that can be engaged with a vehicle rail at any position along the rail. The first mount portion can be positioned to overlie a vehicle rail in transverse to an axis of the rail, then rotated to a position parallel to the rail such that the first mount portion engages the rail. An interlock portion such as a tab on the first mount portion, or a second mount portion can also engage the rail or the first mount portion to prevent the first mount portion from rotating with respect to the rail. The clamp mount device can have a pin or another positioning member to maintain the position of the clamp along the rail. Various accessory mounts can be positioned on the clamp mount.
US07845886B2
The tiedown system has a single tensile member with cargo attachments on each end thereof. The tensile member passes through a series of guides affixed about the perimeter of the carrier (flatbed truck or trailer, etc.). The ends of the tensile member are secured removably to the rear of the cargo, e.g., the cargo rack of an all terrain vehicle (ATV). The medial portion of the tensile member is connected to a winch on the front of the ATV or other cargo, or alternatively the medial portion of the tensile member is passed through an opening on the front of the cargo, e.g., the forward cargo rack of the ATV, and connected to a winch anchored to the cargo bed of the carrier. The winch is actuated to draw up the tensile member, simultaneously pulling the rear and front of the cargo securely against the cargo bed of the carrier.
US07845885B2
A building element adapted to be assembled with a similar element to form a retaining wall, including a front panel section disposed at an angle relative to a first plane, having a rear planar surface lying in a second plane disposed at an angle relative to the first plane and inclined forwardly; a rear beam section spaced from the first panel section, having a height less than the height of the front panel section, a front planar surface lying in a third plane disposed at an angle relative to the first plane and inclined rearwardly and a rear planar surface lying in a plane disposed at an angle to the first plane and inclined forwardly; and at least one panel section interconnecting the front and rear panel sections.
US07845883B1
A method and system for remediation of a contaminated subsurface area. The method comprises an infiltration operation in which a surfactant containing a fluorescent dye is injected to various depths in the contaminated area. The surfactant dye may be injected using a gravity feed process or pressure injection. Soil samples are taken at various distances from the injection point. The soil samples are analyzed to determine the radius of influence of the surfactant. Flow rates, flow volumes, and flow paths of the surfactant are determined from the soil samples. A remediation surfactant is injected to encapsulate liquid hydrocarbons in the contaminated area. The contaminant is then extracted from the area using a vacuum extraction system. The extraction system comprises flexible tubing inserted through a port in a well-head cap. The tubing is inserted to an appropriate depth to maintain a predetermined vacuum pressure.
US07845880B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for harnessing wave energy. In one embodiment, a wave energy conversion device comprises a buoyant component connected to a generator such that wave energy is transferable from the buoyant component to the generator. A restricting mechanism connected with the buoyant component, is configured to selectively restrict the buoyant component from rising strictly along with passing waves. The restricting mechanism may be selectively released at an optimal time during a passing wave. In some embodiments, a system may include an array of wave energy conversion devices and a communications network. The communications network may allow for each of the buoyant components in the array to be released at an optimal time in sequential fashion.
US07845879B2
A composition comprises a solution of soluble sodium silicate applied at the disclosed application rate to improve the load bearing capacity for a roadway. The method of the invention addresses the application of the disclosed composition to maximize stabilization of road beds.
US07845868B1
A semiconductor manufacturing process is provided. First, a wafer with a material layer and an exposed photoresist layer formed thereon is provided, wherein the wafer has a center area and an edge area. Thereafter, the property of the exposed photoresist layer is varied, so as to make a critical dimension of the exposed photoresist layer in the center area different from that of the same in the edge area. After the edge property of the exposed photoresist layer is varied, an etching process is performed to the wafer by using the exposed photoresist layer as a mask, so as to make a patterned material layer having a uniform critical dimension formed on the wafer.
US07845867B2
A camera module includes a lens unit (30) and a stator (20). The lens unit includes a lens barrel (310), a lens (312) received in the lens barrel and a permanent magnet (32) fixedly mounted around the lens barrel. The stator is for receiving the lens unit therein. The stator includes a coil seat (21b) and a coil (22b) wound therearound. The coil seat includes a base (211b) and at least a connector (24) fixed on one side of the base. The at least a connector is electrically connected with the coil and includes a connecting pin (246) extending towards a bottom surface of the base. The connecting pin is made of an electrically conductive material and adapted for electrically connecting to a printed circuit board arranged under the base.
US07845860B2
A method for connecting a photonic crystal fiber having a plurality of cores connected to an optical device. An end of the photonic crystal fiber may be placed on a surface of an optical device having a plurality of coupling pads. A first core of the end of the photonic crystal fiber may be positioned over a first coupling pad on the optical device to enable a threshold amount of a coherent beam of light to propagate through the first core and first coupling pad. A second core of the end of the photonic crystal fiber is aligned to a second coupling pad on the optical device to enable a threshold amount of another coherent beam of light to propagate through the second core and second coupling pad. The end of the photonic crystal fiber may be adhered to the surface of the optical device while the position of the first and the second cores relative to the first and the second coupling pads, respectively, is maintained.
US07845859B2
A ferrule assembly for terminating at least one fiber of a ribbon cable in a ferrule, where the ferrule assembly is disposable in a housing of an optical connector, is provided. The ferrule assembly includes the ferrule having a mating face, at least one groove for receiving the fiber and at least one through-hole. The ferrule assembly also includes an alignment member holder having at least one alignment member and providing a first channel for the ribbon cable, the alignment member being insertable in the through-hole of the ferrule and having a first length such that an end of the alignment member extends beyond the mating face of the ferrule when the ferrule assembly is assembled. The ferrule assembly further includes a carrier body attachable to the alignment member holder, the carrier body having at least two biasing member capture portions, each of the biasing member capture portions providing an opening for capturing a biasing member therein when the alignment member holder and the carrier body are attached. The carrier body further provides a second channel for the ribbon cable, the second channel being disposed between the biasing member capture portions of the carrier body and being contiguous with the first channel when the alignment member holder and the carrier body are attached.
US07845856B2
A gas vent plug is mounted in an aperture communicating with a bearing cavity, and includes a metal annular body, and an elastic tubular body constituted of an elastic member in tube form, integral with the metal annular body, and having a vent at one end face of the tube, protruding outwards in the axial direction of the tube. A circular groove is provided at one end face of the elastic tubular body so as to encircle the vent. Accordingly, variation in the working pressure is eliminated even in the case where the interference is increased when the gas vent plug is mounted in the aperture.
US07845840B2
A light guide plate has a light-receiving surface, a light-emitting surface, and a light-reflecting surface. Multiple first arc-shaped longitudinal structures are arranged on the light-receiving surface with their longitudinal directions being substantially parallel with each other. Multiple second arc-shaped longitudinal structures are arranged on the light-emitting surface with their longitudinal directions being substantially parallel with each other. The light-reflecting surface is shaped to form a plurality of prismatic structures, and a luminance-adjusting structure is formed on part of the light-reflecting surface near the point light source and interlaced with the prismatic structures.
US07845833B2
A light dimming apparatus for dimming light output generated by a light source. A rectangular frame supports sets of blade members at a central aperture defined by the frame. The blade members of a set are positioned side-by-side, and adjacent ones of the blade members are hingedly connected together. Accordion-like movement of the blade members is provided responsive to application of forces applied to the blade members. A component of the applied forces causes linear translation of the blade members in to or out of the central aperture.
US07845830B2
An adjustable lighting device includes a light source, a reflector for reflecting light from the light source, a coil of nonlinear thread coiling around the reflector, and a driving member engaging with the coil of nonlinear thread. The driving member is adapted to drive the coil of nonlinear thread to rotate thereby adjusting the position of the reflector.
US07845828B2
An LED assembly includes a substrate and a plurality of LEDs mounted on the substrate. Each LED includes a base and a first and a second electrode leads inserted in the base. The first lead forms a groove in an end thereof, and the second lead forms a tab from an end thereof. The tab of each LED is received in the groove of an adjacent LED to thereby cooperatively define an accommodating space in the groove and above the tab. The accommodating space is used for receiving excess solder when soldering the first and the second leads together.
US07845804B2
A projection type image display apparatus of the invention has a lamp mounting mechanism, which has an aluminum lamp holder (166) intervening between the lamp (16) and the resin lamp holder (167) and has a section exposed out of the resin lamp holder (167). The lamp (16) is securely fixed in position on the aluminum lamp holder (166) by mounting the lamp (16) on the aluminum lamp holder (166) from above and then folding the top section (166d) towards the top end of the lamp (16). This lamp mounting mechanism can suppress the temperature of the resin lamp holder without providing a cooling fan with a large amount of power and suppress fan noise, thereby simultaneously enabling uprating of the power of the lamp and downsizing of the image display apparatus.
US07845789B2
The invention relates to a print engine for a compact recess-mountable pagewidth printer. The printer includes a paper tray inside a housing. The print engine includes a chassis mountable within the housing next to the paper tray to define a media path co-planar with sheets of media within said paper tray. The print engine also includes a transfer roller protruding from the chassis and configured to contact the sheets of media as they are moved along the media path. A media moving mechanism moves a sheet of media through the media path. A printhead assembly having a micro-electromechanical inkjet printhead is mounted within the chassis and is configured to transfer print onto the transfer roller. The printhead assembly has a wiper and sponge arrangement for cleaning print from the transfer roller during rotation thereof.
US07845788B2
The image forming apparatus includes: a head which ejects ink droplets; an intermediate transfer body having a transfer surface on which a transfer image is formed by means of the ink droplets ejected from the head; a transfer device which performs transfer of the transfer image formed on the transfer surface of the intermediate transfer body to a prescribed transfer-receiving medium; a transfer surface reading device which obtains read image data by reading in the transfer surface of the intermediate transfer body after the transfer; a judgment device which performs judgment of a transfer state of the transfer surface of the intermediate transfer body in accordance with the read image data obtained by the transfer surface reading device; and a transfer condition changing device which changes a transfer condition of the transfer device in accordance with the judgment of the judgment device.
US07845756B2
Wiping is performed every time when a predetermined period elapses. With the wiping performed step by step, a density of ink in liquid remaining on a discharge port surface is diluted, and becomes a predetermined density or lower. Accordingly, a condition can be maintained, in which the ink can be reliably discharged from a recording head when a recording operation is newly started, although the wiping is not additionally performed after the above wiping. In this case, even when the recording operation is started again or the recording operation is newly started after the several wiping operations, an amount of cleaning liquid used in the several times of wiping is proper to an intermission period. Thus, the cleaning liquid can be prevented from being wastefully consumed.
US07845739B2
A brake regulation system for motor vehicles is provided with an electronic control unit, by which an automatic parking brake function can be activated in the stationary phase of the motor vehicle and can be deactivated upon reaching a predetermined triggering condition. The control unit can determine in a wheel selective manner the coefficient of friction, or rather the adhesion between the tires and the roadway at the location of the motor vehicle, which is held so as to be stationary by use of the parking brake function. In the presence of different coefficients of friction or adhesion coefficients at the right and left wheel of at least one driven axle, the triggering condition is adapted in the direction of a longer hold of the brake pressure.
US07845732B2
A vehicle armrest positioning assembly (12) for adjustably positioning a vehicle armrest (10) on a vehicle seat frame (14) includes an elongated adjuster (20) that provides armrest positioning and is released by a release actuator (44) a release mechanism (42) to permit angular adjustment of the armrest positioning. The adjuster (20) includes a housing (22) that positions an adjusting rod (24) by a helical lock spring (32) to control the armrest positioning and adjustment.
US07845728B2
A driving device is adapted for an infant rocking chair. The rocking chair includes a seat body and a bottom seat. The driving device includes a base, a supporting element, first and second motion mechanisms, and a power mechanism. The first motion mechanism includes a horizontal first guide path unit disposed at the bottom seat, and a first movable member disposed on the base and movable along the first guide path unit. The second motion mechanism includes a vertically varying second guide path unit disposed at the bottom seat, and a second movable member movable along the second guide path unit and vertically relative to the base. The supporting element interconnects fixedly the seat body and the second movable member. The power mechanism drives reciprocal movement of the first and second movable members.
US07845727B2
A furniture item includes a support member and a rotatably pinned mechanism operable in rocking and reclining motions. The mechanism includes first and second side plates; a first pair of forward link members each rotatably connected to one of the side plates; a pantograph linkage set connected to the first pair of forward link members to extend and retract a footrest assembly in the reclining motion; and a drive rod rotatable between the side plates. Rotating the drive rod extends or retracts the pantograph linkage set. An escutcheon connected to the drive rod has a snap-engaged handle to manually rotate the drive rod. At least one U-shaped spring connected between the support member and the mechanism allows rocking motion. A seat pan has flat body springs extending over a seat pan aperture to support an occupant. A detent at one end of each flat spring engages the seat pan.
US07845713B2
The pillar structure includes a pillar (11), a front outer garnish (21), a triangular window (30), and a shielding portion (22). The pillar includes an outer panel (13) and an inner panel (14). A flange portion (136) of the outer panel and a flange portion (146) of the inner panel are joined to each other so as to form a joint portion (17). The front outer garnish is attached to the pillar so as to cover the outer panel. The triangular window is supported by the pillar. The shielding portion shields the joint portion, thereby making invisible the joint portion from the outside of the vehicle through the triangular window. The outer garnish and the triangular window are integrally molded, and the shielding portion is integrated with the front outer garnish. The joint portion is bent toward the inner panel or the outer panel.
US07845706B2
A case is mounted to one of a motor vehicle and a pivotal door and has therein a gear receiving space. An electric motor is mounted to the case. A speed reduction mechanism is installed in the gear receiving space of the case and driven by the electric motor. An output gear is rotatably received in the gear receiving space of the case and driven by the speed reduction mechanism. An output arm is placed above the case and connected to the output gear through an output shaft that passes through an upper wall portion of the case. A connecting rod has one end pivotally connected to the output arm and the other end pivotally connected to the other of the motor vehicle and the pivotal door. The connecting rod is arranged beside the case in a manner to avoid overlapping thereof with the case in a direction that is perpendicular to a direction in which the connecting rod is moved by the output arm.
US07845697B2
A vacuum suction device includes an inner cylindrical body, an outer enclosure, a vacuum pump, an ion generator, and a vacuum picking member. The inner cylindrical body has a through hole defined therein. The inner cylindrical body is received in a through hole of the outer enclosure and is rotatable relative to the outer enclosure such that the through hole alternatively couples the vacuum picking member to one of the vacuum pump and the ion generator. The vacuum pump is coupled to the third through opening of the outer enclosure. The ion generator is coupled to the second through opening of the outer enclosure. The vacuum picking member is configured for picking a workpiece, the vacuum picking member being coupled to the first through opening of the outer enclosure.
US07845696B2
A manually operable weed remover consists of a cluster of pivotable and rotatable spikes attached to a handle. When positioned over the center of a weed and downward pressure is applied, either by pushing on a bar handle or stepping on a foot rest, a bottom flange is forced up by the ground surface as the spikes are forced into the ground around the weed. The spikes are directed through apertures in the moveable flange and movement of the flange causes the spikes to close around the root of the weed. The insertion motion of the spikes further causes the spike mounting device to rotate relative to the handle and the weed. Thus, as the spikes are being inserted into the ground, the spikes rotate thereby separating the weed root from the adjacent ground. The weed may then be pulled from the ground by upward pressure on the tool.
US07845692B2
Taught is motor vehicle door latch with at least one locking mechanism (1, 2) comprising a catch (1); a pawl (2); a friction brake device (10); an end stop (13); and at least one cam (14). The friction brake device (10) cooperates with the cam (14) during the closing movement of the locking mechanisms (1, 2) and shortly before said friction brake device (10) reaches the end stop (13). The cam (14) and the catch (1) each comprise means for reducing noise associated with the closing movement of the locking mechanisms (1, 2).
US07845690B2
A folding electronic device includes a cover and a main body. The cover includes a groove. The main body includes an engaging structure. The engaging structure includes a pushing element, an elastic element connected to the pushing element, an engaging element and a base. The engaging element includes a first connector and an engaging portion. The first connector is disposed on two sides of the engaging portions. The engaging portion is connected to or is detached from the groove. The base comprises an accommodating portion and a second connector. The pushing element and the elastic element are disposed in the accommodating portion. The second connector is disposed on two sides of the base. The engaging element is installed across the base. The first connector pivots on the second connector.
US07845683B2
An air bag system includes an air bag folded so that an occupant-restraining face of the air bag which restrains an occupant upon a deployment is hidden inside a central portion of the folded air bag, and a retaining member for covering said folded air bag. The air bag is deployed by breaking a breaking portion provided on the retaining member, whereupon the retaining member is opened so that it is divided into a plurality of deployment-inhibiting portions, and the plurality of deployment-inhibiting portions are brought into engagement with an upper block and a lower block of an outer peripheral portion of the air bag deployed from the folded state, respectively, thereby delaying the deployment of the outer peripheral portion. Therefore, the occupant-restraining face of the folded air bag can be deployed at the very first to effectively restrain the occupant.
US07845680B2
An airbag capable of starting a tearing operation of a line-shaped connecting portion on an outer periphery side after entire line-shaped connecting portion on an inner periphery side is torn, and an airbag apparatus provided with the airbag. Each of halfway portions disposed halfway between respective center portion and peripheral edge portion in a front panel 12 and a rear panel 14 is disconnectably connected by means of line-shaped connecting portions 22, 24, and 26. At a halfway portion in an extending direction of each of the line-shaped connecting portions 22, 24, and 26, communicating portions 23, 25, and 27 serving as starting points of the tearing operations therefor are formed. Each of the communicating portions 23 and 25 of the respective line-shaped connecting portions 22 and 24 provided next to each other in a radial direction, and each of the communicating portions 25 and 27 of the respective line-shaped connecting portions 24 and 26 are positioned on opposite sides while sandwiching a center of an airbag 10, respectively.
US07845679B2
The present invention relates to a gas generator for a motor vehicle safety device, the generator comprising:. a first chamber (C) for combustion containing a pyrotechnic initiator (2) and a pyrotechnic charge (3) whose combustion is triggered by said initiator; and. a second chamber (D) for diffusion into which the gas that results from combustion of said charge (3) is transferred prior to being exhausted to the outside; these two chambers (C, D) being separated from each other by a “nozzle” partition (12) presenting at least one communication orifice (13). According to the invention, said diffusion chamber (D) is provided with a piston (5) suitable for closing or not closing said orifice (13) as a function of the gas pressure in the combustion chamber (C), said piston (5) being urged to its position for closing the orifice (13) by a mass (6) of elastically deformable material, said mass (6) presenting stiffness that varies as a function of temperature, said stiffness decreasing with increasing temperature.
US07845661B2
A reinforcement device for a vehicle is formed in a slender shape and comprises a medial region with a hydraulic damper. The damper generates a damping force against deformation in the longitudinal direction. The longitudinal direction is defined as a lateral direction of the associated vehicle body. The reinforcement device is removably mounted at both ends to a frame of the vehicle.
US07845660B2
The invention relates to an anti-roll/pitch system for use in a vehicle, in which a first mass, for instance a cabin, is suspended to a second mass, for instance a chassis, by means of a bearing arm, which is pivotally connected to the second mass around a pivot axis, via spring means. The anti-roll/pitch system comprises means to adjust a point of application of a spring force acting on the bearing arm, so as to adjust a moment exerted by said spring force on said bearing arm to counteract a load exerted on the bearing arm by the first mass. The spring force is exerted on the bearing arm through a flexible, elongated member, such as a string or cable, which takes up little space when adjusting the point of application. The invention furthermore relates to a built-in unit and a vehicle, equipped with an anti-roll/pitch system according to the invention.
US07845656B2
A drywall bucket and tool carrying cart has a main body with an interior space and open top to receive and retain a drywall compound bucket and five legs extending downwardly and outwardly from the perimeter of the body of the cart. Lockable rollers extend from the bottoms of the legs. A shelf attaches to the legs below the body of the cart. A slotted rim for tools with at least one handle surrounds the upper perimeter of the cart.
US07845649B2
A method and apparatus facilitates coupling a pressure vessel first mating surface to a second mating surface. The method comprises inserting a seal assembly into a groove defined in the first mating surfaces such that a portion of the seal assembly extends outwardly from the first mating surface, positioning the second mating surface in close proximity to the first mating surface such that the portion of the seal assembly extending outwardly from the first mating surface is received within a groove defined in the second mating surface, and such that the seal assembly facilitates reducing fluid leakage between the first and second mating surfaces.
US07845648B2
Active seal assemblies employing active materials that can be controlled and remotely changed to alter the seal effectiveness, wherein the active seal assemblies actively change modulus properties such as stiffness, shape orientation, and the like. In this manner, in seal applications such as a vehicle door application, door opening and closing efforts can be minimized yet seal effectiveness can be maximized.
US07845645B1
A weight-controlled coin-bearing board device used in a game machine includes a bearing board pivotally supported on a mounting plate inside the game machine for collecting coins/tokens, a counterweight for keeping the bearing board in balance, screw bolts fastened to the rear side of the bearing board to secure the counterweight, and nuts selectively mountable on the screw bolts to adjust the weight of the counterweight. When the total torque caused by the weight of collected coins/tokens surpasses a preset value, the bearing board is forced to tilt, causing collected coins/tokens to fall from the bearing board.
US07845642B2
A multi-stage card game includes stages at which each player selects which unrevealed cards are to be played. In one implementation, bets are received for at least some stages of a multi-stage poker-like game. Cards are dealt into an unrevealed dealer hand and an unrevealed player hand for each player. For at least one of the stages, each player selects one of the cards from the player's unrevealed hand to reveal in order to access a progression of payout schedules. Each player's hand accumulates player-selected cards across the stages of the game and across associated payout schedules, until all cards are revealed. A player's poker hand is then compared to the dealer's poker hand for potential payout. Opportunities for bonus bets are also interjected into implementations of the game.
US07845621B1
A tightener for a binding strap is disclosed. A base is penetrated with a rotating axle with a ratchet installed on its one end. A tooth limits the ratchet to move in a single direction. A driving element is mounted on the rotating axle. A ratchet tooth engages with the ratchet for the driving element to drive the ratchet. The driving element has a cam part and a blocking part.
US07845620B1
An outfeed gate includes a fixed plate and a sliding plate, wherein bearing strips protect the fixed and sliding plates from excessive wear as they slide over each other. The outfeed gate safely accepts material from a high temperature and pressure environment to an ambient environment, and deposits the material in a material exit apparatus.
US07845618B2
Embodiments of an apparatus for sealing a substrate transfer passage in a chamber are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus for sealing a substrate transfer passage in a chamber includes an elongated door member coupled to an actuator by a ball joint. The ball joint is configured to allow movement of the door member relative to the lever arm around a center of the ball joint. In one embodiment, a sealing face of the elongated door is curved. In another embodiment, the chamber is one of a chemical vapor deposition chamber, a load lock chamber, a metrology chamber, a thermal processing chamber, or a physical vapor disposition chamber, a load lock chamber, a substrate transfer chamber or a vacuum chamber.
US07845617B2
An electromagnetic valve for the dosage of fuel in an internal combustion engine; the electromagnetic valve is provided with: a cylindrical tubular valve body; an obturator, which is arranged within the tubular valve body and is mobile between an open position and a closed position; and an electromagnetic actuator to shift the obturator and comprising a coil arranged outside the tubular valve body, a fixed magnetic pole is arranged within the tubular valve body, a mobile keeper arranged within the tubular valve body, mechanically connected to the obturator and is adapted to be magnetically attracted by the magnetic pole when the coil is excited, a tubular magnetic armature arranged outside the tubular valve body around the coil, and a magnetic washer having an annular shape arranged above the coil between the tubular valve body and the tubular magnetic armature to guide the closing of the magnetic flow around the coil.
US07845616B2
A motor-driven airflow control device is provided wherein an inductance-based non-contact rotation angle sensor is compactly formed at an end of a throttle shaft. An exciting conductor is attached at an end of a rotating shaft to which a throttle valve is attached, a window hole is provided on a gear cover, a stationary substrate with energizing and signal-generating conductors formed thereon is attached to the gear cover so as to face the exciting conductor on the rotating shaft side through the window hole, and the window hole of the gear cover is covered by a thin shield member. The energizing and signal-generating conductors can be shielded from a space where the exciting conductor of the rotary member is arranged, making it possible to obtain a highly reliable motor-driven airflow control device including an inductance-based non-contact rotation angle sensor which is not affected by environments on the rotary member side.
US07845608B1
A mounting apparatus includes a support member, a sliding member, a spring member, and a cover. The support member is configured for maintaining an electronic device thereon. The sliding member is configured for being secured on a display. A retaining portion is located on the sliding member and defines a through hole. A spring member is secured on the support member and engages the through hole of the sliding member. A cover is secured on the support member to position the sliding member between the support member and the cover. The sliding member is slidable relative to the support member and the spring member, and the retaining portion resiliently deforms the spring member.
US07845606B2
A mounting method and system are disclosed for a mounting device for a piece of equipment having an accessory receptacle. The mounting device may include at least two arms connected together providing at least two rotation axes, a mounting stud for mating with the accessory receptacle and connected to one of the two arms providing at least one rotation axis, and a mount for mating with an accessory of the equipment and connected to the other one of the two arms providing at least two rotation axes.
US07845605B2
An apparatus and method for mounting various audio devices to a flat panel display employing mounting holes disposed on a rearward face of the panel of the flat panel display that are otherwise normally employed to couple a support of the flat panel display to the panel of the flat panel display, wherein a hub supporting rods that in turn support the audio devices is coupled to the rearward face of the panel with the aid of those holes, and wherein the hub and rods together convey electrical signals between at least one of the audio devices and at least one cable.
US07845601B1
A medical equipment transport system for supporting medical equipment while a patient is transported. The system comprises an equipment rack, such as an IV stand. While in the hospital room, the rack is mounted on a bracket supported on a mobile tower. When the patient is moved, the rack is transferred to a similar bracket on the bed. Transfer of the rack between bed and tower brackets is accomplished using a lift mechanism in the tower. The lift mechanism includes a bogie stabilized by radially-arranged bearings, enabling the tower to accept omni directional loading and moment forces. The rack is supported on each of the brackets by two vertically-aligned conical pins nested in tapered bushings, providing additional stability. A self-locking, self-releasing latch assembly prevents inadvertent dislocation of the rack. A customized adapter enables attachment of the bracket to any model bed without structurally altering it, simplifying installation and preserving warranties.
US07845599B2
A mounting coupling for a fire sprinkler support system includes an adjustable opening for receiving a sprinkler reducer coupling that allows insertion of the sprinkler coupling into the mounting coupling with a sprinkler head assembled thereto. The mounting coupling can be securely engaged to the reducer coupling and fixed to a support bar of the sprinkler support system using a single fastener thereby providing improved installation and functionality.
US07845593B2
A powered dispenser for dispensing individual sheet segments from a continuous roll of sheet material provided with spaced tear lines comprises a powered feed mechanism, a releasable, powered drive mechanism, a powered transfer mechanism, a pair of web sensing sensors, a capacitive sensing system providing automatic sensitivity adjustment, and control circuitry. A dual power supply system provides a mechanical lock-out functionality, and the control system is protected from electrostatic build-up on the surface of the feed roller. The web sensor, and an antenna plate of the capacitive sensing system, are provided on respective printed circuit boards mounted in overlying relation. Utilizing signals received from the pair of web sensors and the capacitive sensing system, the control circuitry senses the presence of a user to activate the powered drive mechanism, and prevents further dispensing of the sheet material until a previously dispensed segment is separated from the roll. The web sensors detection of a leading edge of the sheet material initiates a predetermined interval of sheet material advancement providing a proper placement of successive tear lines. Various approaches may be utilized to accommodate inadvertent sheet “tabbing” scenarios. The web sensors, together with the control circuitry, are also used to detect the depletion, or absence, of a working roll of sheet material, whereupon the control circuitry controls the powered transfer mechanism to automatically transfer the web feed supply from a depleted working roll to a reserve roll. The powered transfer mechanism may include a motor driven transfer bar, or provide motor driven release of a spring biased transfer bar. Another arrangement allows for ready release of a roll core, and drop of the same into an open dispenser cover for removal.
US07845591B2
A wrap adaptor is provided which includes a Shaft, an L shaped retainer bar inserted into and welded to the Shaft, a Selector Pin, Foot Plate, and mean for winding and removing knee wrap from wrap adaptor shaft. The Shaft is inserted into a drill, and a knee wrap is inserted under the L shaped retainer bar, the drill is powered causing the knee wrap to become wound with tension; The Foot Plate is used to insert the Shaft with tightly wound knee wrap into foot plate with the Selector Pin inserted into Shaft forming a T handle to allow for removal of the wound knee wrap by pulling up on wrap adaptor shaft, for purpose of removing knee wrap from wrap adaptor shaft.
US07845590B2
A lever sound generating device is constructed to generate a sound in response to rotation of a drag adjusting lever mounted to an outer peripheral surface of a boss formed on a reel unit of a dual-bearing reel. The sound generating device comprises a sound generating member and a striker mechanism. The sound generating member includes a truncated cone-shaped member with an undulated surface. The sound generating member is mounted to the boss and restricted from rotating and moving in an axially inward direction. The striker mechanism is mounted to the drag adjusting lever and arranged to repeatedly contact the undulated surface when the drag adjusting lever is rotated about the spool shaft.
US07845581B2
An air freshener of the invention includes a slideable box molded from thermoplastics, a holding jacket, a fixing device, and an essence box made of plastics and filled with liquid essence. The air freshener of the invention can be used inside a car or a room, and is capable of adjusting the release rate of the diffused essence gas.
US07845576B2
The disclosure pertains to thermostats having an improved interface. In some cases, the present disclosure relates to thermostats that can display not only menu items, temperature set points and the like, but also has an ability to display variable textual information that is not predefined at the time of manufacture of the display. The thermostat may include an LCD display that is viewable from outside of the thermostat housing and that includes a first region and a second region. The first display region may include an array of fixed segment pixels that are arranged into a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns for displaying text in a dot matrix format. In some cases, the first region may be adapted to display messages, including scrolling messages. The second region may include a plurality of fixed segment graphical icons, which may be more precisely and more clearly displayed than if displayed using the array of fixed segment pixels of the first region.
US07845571B2
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method of data compression is disclosed.
US07845568B2
In some implementations, a mobile device includes a first interface configured to communicably couple to a removable integrated circuit card; a second interface configured to wirelessly communicate with a contactless reader that is external to the mobile device; a communication interface that couples the first interface and the second interface and that is configured to obtain information from an integrated circuit card that is coupled to the first interface in response to receipt by the second interface of an information request from the contactless reader; and a programmable timer that is configured to be started in response to the second interface receiving an information request from the contactless reader, and that is further configured to, upon reaching a programmed value, cause the second interface to transmit the obtained information to the contactless reader.
US07845566B2
A self-adhesive security label for a data carrier, such as a security document or document of value, with a substrate (40), to the front of which security features (12-18, 42) are applied and the back of which is provided with a cold adhesive foil (34). The security label contains an integrated circuit (30) disposed in a recess (36) of the adhesive foil (34) for storing security data and an antenna (32) disposed intermediate between substrate (40) and adhesive foil (34) and connected with the integrated circuit (30) for a contactless communication with the integrated circuit (30).
US07845561B2
A digital image capture and processing system including a housing having an imaging window; and an image formation and detection subsystem supporting a periodic snap shot mode of the operation. The system includes image formation optics for projecting a field of view (FOV) through said imaging window and upon an object within the FOV, and forming an image of the object on an area-type image detection array having a plurality of rows of image detection elements, and detecting 2D digital images of the object while object illumination and imaging operations. The system also includes an LED-based illumination subsystem, with a LED illumination array, for producing a field of narrow-band illumination within the FOV, and illuminating the object detected in the FOV, so that the illumination reflects off the object and is transmitted back through the light transmission aperture and onto the image detection array to form the 2D digital image of the object. During the periodic snap shot mode of the operation, the image detection array supports periodic image acquisition cycles, and during each image acquisition cycle, substantially all image detection elements in the image detection array are exposed simultaneously to the illumination. In the illustrative embodiment, each image acquisition cycle has a predetermined time duration followed by a decode-processing cycle having a time duration approximately equal to the duration of the image acquisition cycle so that at least ten (10) image frames can be acquired per second.
US07845557B2
The invention relates to an identification device, in particular for the linear detection of a code arranged in an object plane. In this respect, an optical receiving system is present in the identification device with which the object plane is imaged on a spatially resolving light receiver. The optical receiving system is movably journaled with a link journaled in a swivel joint along a path of an arc of a circle for the focusing of differently far away object planes on the light receiver. To change the spacing between the optical receiving system and the light receiver, i.e. to change the focus, the position of the link and thus the optical receiving system is changed by a positioning element. In this respect, the pivot is oriented in parallel for the linear detection of the code so that a displacement of the detection region caused by the circular movement of the optical receiving system on the object plane only takes place in the direction of the linear detection of the code.
US07845555B2
According to one embodiment, a game presentation such as a virtual slot machine is displayed by a display device associated with a point of sale (POS) terminal. The game presentation includes images of products for which product identifying codes are entered at the POS terminal. The game presentation indicates to a customer an outcome of a random process pursuant to which the customer may be awarded a benefit such as a free product, a discount on a product selected for purchase, a coupon or an upsell offer.
US07845551B2
A system and method for comparing vast amounts of drug product information at granular levels is provided. This comparison is facilitated by the creation of a unique key that maintains the integrity of the comparison system. The unique key may contain a therapeutic class identifier, a clinical formulation identifier, an additional detail identifier, a package equivalent size identifier, a unit dose identifier, and a package quantity identifier.
US07845549B2
A method of making a braze preform includes: providing a mixture of a brazing alloy in metallic powder form and a binder; melting the binder and forming the mixture into a preform having a preselected shape; removing a majority of the binder from the preform; and heating the preform to remove the remainder of the binder and to sinter the metallic powder together. The preform may include a wear-resistant material therein. Such preforms may be used to form a braze joint between two metallic components, or to produce a metallic component with a wearcoated surface.
US07845548B2
The present invention is directed to a lamination method. The lamination method includes making the interior of a process chamber a vacuum, the process chamber including a first and a second metal sheet, supplying the first and the second metal sheets, injecting a bonding material between the first and the second metal sheets supplied, bonding the first and the second metal sheets with each other, and heating the bonded metal sheets. The first metal sheet is a superconductive tape, and the second metal sheet is stabilization metal tape.
US07845546B2
Method for producing a vacuum measuring cell having a pressure transducer diaphragm with housing plates sealed on opposite sides to form reference and measuring vacuum chambers. An opening in one plate communicates with the measuring vacuum chamber and has a sealed connection for joining to medium to be measured. The diaphragm and plates are aluminum oxide ceramic and at least one of the seals is aluminum with a thickness of 0.5 μm to 30 μm. The ceramic parts are pressed together at increased temperature of 600° C. to 680° C. in a process gas atmosphere including a reducing gas, during a time of 30 to 90 minutes, and subsequently a tempering step is carried out in a second process gas atmosphere including oxygen, tempering taking place at a temperature of 450° C. to 575° C. such that the metallic aluminum is oxidized into aluminum oxide.
US07845541B1
A soldering apparatus has a fixture receiving an electronic component and a conducting wire, with a free end of the conducting wire superimposed on the soldering area of the electronic component, a convey mechanism capable of transmitting the fixture downstream, a daubing device, and a soldering device. The daubing device has a level movable element capable of moving along a convey direction of the convey mechanism, and a vertical movable element mounted on the level movable element and capable of moving along an upward and downward direction. A carrier mounted to the vertical movable element has a solder paste can for loading the solder paste, and an output portion for dispensing the solder paste to the soldering area. The soldering device has a soldering head heating the solder paste for shrinking the insulator, with the core wire exposing and connected to the soldering area by the cool solder paste.
US07845532B2
A fastener driving device includes various interconnected systems within a device housing for efficiently regulating and transferring compressed gas provided by user-replaceable cartridges to drive a fastener securely into a workpiece. An improved cartridge containment system is provided for loading and securing compressed gas cartridges. An improved gas management system is provided, including an improved multi-function regulator, for managing gas flow. An improved valve system is provided for controlling gas flow, including an improved valve module. An improved drive system is provided for efficiently using compressed gas to drive fasteners.
US07845530B2
A contact trip assembly for a power nailer, wherein a contact member includes a curved portion that loops rearwardly towards a handle of the nailer. Also provided is an adjustment assembly including an adjustment plate and a pinion gear, a trigger that is slidably engageable within a housing of the tool, a trigger lock including a ring element, an anti-discharge mechanism including a stop member, and a contact trip lock.
US07845519B2
Tamper-resistance of spice container closures and containers is provided through use of tamper-evident and tamper-resistant elements. A spice container package includes a container, a closure and a tear strip, with the tear strip being joined to the closure by a first hinge, and joined to the container by a second hinge. The container includes a side wall. The closure includes a base and a cover, with the base including at least one dispensing port and the cover including at least one flap removably covering the at least one dispensing port. The first hinge connects the tear strip to the cover of the closure. The closure and the container may be integrally molded together as a single plastic component piece.
US07845517B2
A device for storing and dispensing a substance includes a container having a body defining therein a storage chamber for receiving and storing the substance. The container includes a head located at one end of the body and a first passageway that is in fluid communication with the storage chamber of the body and defines a flow path therebetween. The container also includes a pierceable wall located on an opposite side of the passageway relative to the storage chamber, and a first connecting portion for connecting another component thereto. The device also includes a one-way valve assembly that includes a valve body including a body base defining a second passageway and at least one piercing portion engageable with the pierceable wall of the container. The valve assembly includes a second connecting portion that is connectable to the first connecting portion of the container for fixedly securing the valve assembly to the container when the valve assembly and container are located in the second position. The valve assembly includes a valve seat and at least one flow aperture extending through the valve body adjacent to the valve seat and in fluid communication with the second passageway for receiving the substance from the storage chamber therethrough.
US07845513B2
A beverage straw-containing device includes: (a) a generally circular-shaped beverage container lid; (b) a generally circular-shaped beverage container; and (c) a bendable or flexible straw, the straw being ring-shaped, coiled, or angled in its storage position and removably encased within, or detachably attached directly or indirectly to, the beverage container lid and/or the beverage container.
US07845509B2
A lid for a beverage container for holding a decoction beverage, preferably a disposable tea container with a base plate and a covering arranged at a distance from the base plate in which case between the base plate and the covering a holding space bounded on the sides by a surrounding side wall is formed, a first opening being provided in the base plate through which a decoction unit holding decoction materials can be guided and a second opening smaller than the first opening being formed in the covering or in the region of the covering through which a section of the decoction unit can be guided, the holding space being of dimensions such as to hold at least part of the decoction unit. This lid is especially suitable for covering beverage containers in which decoction beverages, especially for “sale on the street” are to be prepared. The decoction unit may be used without having to remove the lid from the beverage container.
US07845505B2
A container cap locking a plug member to a mouth by a locking member and capable of being removed from the mouth together with the plug member by repositioning a holder member. The locking member is covered on the container mouth so as to hold the plug and the holder member is fitted to the outer peripheral sides of a plurality of locking pieces of the locking member. In each locking piece, an upper side part is connected to a lower side part through a thin-walled bending part. The upper side part is locked to the rubber plug from the lower side with the holder member on the outer peripheral side thereof. The lower side part is locked to the container mouth from the lower side by the holder member. Locking projected parts prevent the lower end of the holder member from coming out of the upper side part.
US07845504B2
An apparatus and method for indicating whether a coupler of a locomotive is in a coupled or uncoupled state is provided. The apparatus comprising: a sensor positioned on a portion of the coupler, wherein the sensor provides a real-time signal indicative of either a coupled or an uncoupled state of a coupler, wherein the signal is transmitted wirelessly by a transmitter in operable communication with the sensor. The method comprising: providing a signal indicative of the presence or proximity of a second coupler to the first coupler, the signal being provided by a sensor configured to provide the signal as the state of the coupler has changed; transmitting the signal wirelessly to a controller; processing the signal with a control algorithm resident upon the controller; and providing visually perceivable indication of the position of the coupler.
US07845497B1
A shower box for accommodating a shower handle with a shower head and also a hose connectable therewith, the shower box comprising three trays each in an unfolded condition follow one another in a longitudinal direction of one piece with one another and include a central tray having a substantially uninterrupted bottom and side walls extending in a longitudinal direction, a first end tray having a bottom provided with a longitudinal slot for at least partially centering the shower handle and a shower head and having side walls and means for fixing said hose provided with a viewing window, and a second end tray having a cutout for exposing said shower handle with said shower head and also a part of said hose, said trays being foldable over one another so that said central tray forms a bottom tray, said first end tray forms an intermediate tray, and said second end tray forms a top tray in a folded condition, in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; and a transparent cover located between said central tray and said second end tray in the folded condition so as to cover the shower handle with the shower head and also the hose.
US07845486B2
A conveyor apparatus for diverting product from a single lane to one of a plurality of lanes includes a wall having an upstream portion positioned proximate the single lane and a downstream portion positioned proximate the plurality of lanes. The upstream portion is stationary relative to the single lane and the downstream portion is configured to be movable relative to the plurality of lanes. A length of the wall is configured to vary in response to movement of the downstream portion.
US07845477B2
The invention relates to an automotive drive, comprising a cooling circuit with a coolant, a retarder having a rotor and a stator that together form a toroidal working chamber, with the coolant being the working medium of the retarder. The retarder has an inlet for feeding the working medium from the cooling circuit and an outlet for discharging the working medium into the cooling circuit. The present automotive drive is characterized by the following features: the retarder has an additional evacuation outlet, which communicates with the cooling circuit so as to carry the working medium; a leakage pump is interposed in the connection between the evacuation outlet and the cooling circuit.
US07845473B2
A brake caliper structure of a straddle seat off-load vehicle includes a brake caliper having a caliper bracket, a caliper assembly connected to the caliper bracket by two connecting portions so that the caliper assembly can move relative to the caliper bracket to clamp a brake disc. One connecting portion includes a slide pin connected to the caliper assembly and slidably received in a guide hole in the caliper bracket for effectively guiding movement of the caliper assembly relative to the caliper bracket, and the other connecting portion includes a connecting screw as a fixed pin secured to the caliper bracket, and a rubber bushing as an elastic member disposed between the caliper assembly and the fixed pin for taking up the tilting of the brake disc.
US07845470B2
A lubricating device for gear trains (10), especially for wind power stations, includes at least two gear stages (16,18) that are disposed next to each other and are effectively interconnected, and a lubricant circuit (20) into which at least one filter unit (26) is mounted. To prevent stagnant resting zones for the lubricant from being created within the gear train housing including the gear stages, while ensuring that the entire lubricant that circulates in the gear stages is fed to the filter unit to be drawn off and filtered within predefined periods of time, the lubricant circulating inside the lubricant circuit (20) is discharged at one gear stage (18), is drawn off through the filter unit, and can then be fed to the other gear stage (16).
US07845469B1
A versatile, easy to use, adjustable tool, paint, accessory and supply caddy for use on an extension ladder. The caddy can be used on ladders having rungs that are either round in cross section or have steps that are flat and more rectangular in shape. Upper and lower mounting cradles attach to any consecutive rungs of the extension ladder at two separate attachments points. A quick release, spring loaded clamping mechanism allows the ladder caddy to be quickly and securely attached and then removed from the ladder, with the upper and lower mounting cradles adjustable to accommodate different ladder rung/step shapes as well as diameters and distances between rungs. Paddle shaped trays can be locked in place on the caddy in a variety of positions, and the trays can swing over or under each other or be swung in opposing directions away from the ladder user thereby creating a useable work space adaptable to almost any ladder position.
US07845463B2
A conventional machine package faces problems concerned with costs, weight, etc. and also a problem of antinomy that an attempt to enhance the noise reducing performance increases the airflow resistance and then deteriorates the cooling performance. Providing a sound absorbing structure with the heat radiation performance ensured within a practical range and then with considerably improved noise reducing effect achieves a low-noise machine package with a downsized casing and a reduced cooling fan power. There is provided a sound absorbing structure having a plurality of polyester fiber sound absorbing cylinders each formed into a circular-cylindrical shape, formed of a base material of polyester fiber whose surface is combined and covered with polymer nonwoven fabric of polyester fiber or the like, and arranged at a support member in at least either of a suction port and an exhaust port in such a manner that long axes of the sound absorbing cylinders intersect substantially perpendicularly with a flow direction of air flowing through the suction port or the exhaust port. This makes it possible to reduce noise while controlling the airflow resistance minimum, thus achieving downsizing of a cooling fan and reduction of a cooling fan power.
US07845460B2
A superimposed steering system of a vehicle steering system, has an input shaft and an output shaft that are at least partially rotationally mounted on a support system fixed to the vehicle body, a servodrive comprising a rotor arranged in a coaxial manner in relation to one of the shafts and is connected in a rigid manner to a first transmission element and a locking device for selectively coupling the shafts. The first transmission element transmits the rotational speed of the rotor to the rotational speed of the input shaft, and the rotor is rotationally connected to a ferromagnetic or permanently magnetic first contact element. The coupling which is rotationally connected to the shafts can be obtained by a friction connection of a first contact element to a second contact element which is rotationally connected to the support system. The pressure force can be magnetically produced and at least one of both contact elements is arranged in a displaceable manner in the axial direction.
US07845452B2
An all-terrain vehicle including a frame having longitudinally-spaced ends defining a first longitudinal axis, and an engine supported by the frame. The engine includes a crankshaft defining a second longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the first longitudinal axis.
US07845451B2
A motorcycle frame structure includes pivot plates at rear portions of left and right main frames extending rearwardly and downwardly from a head pipe. A seat rail is fastened to an upper portion of the pivot plate at two positions which are vertically spaced apart from each other, and also at the front end of the seat rail. A first attachment portion and a second attachment portion are attached to a front end of the seat rail. The first attachment portion is fastened to the pivot plate from the horizontally external side of the seat rail with a first bolt, and laterally overlaps a rear upper lateral surface of the pivot plate. The second attachment portion is fastened to the pivot plate from the rear side of the pivot plate with a second bolt, and overlaps a rear portion of the pivot plate.
US07845448B2
A tracked vehicle, especially a snow scooter, that has two laterally spaced-apart front drive-track assemblies (10), each of which is turnable around a substantially vertical axis and which are coupled for common turning. Each drive-track assembly is carried by a vehicle chassis (11) via a vertically movable link device, which in respect of vertical turning rests against the chassis via a spring-damper assembly (7), and the drive-track assemblies are mechanically coupled by a parallel steering mechanism (23-26), which is maneuverable by a driver of the vehicle.
US07845443B2
A low surface impact, skid steered, all terrain vehicle is disclosed which has a rectangular frame from which sets of tandem mounted, independently movable control arms are suspended. A hydraulic motor driven wheel axle is mounted on a lower end of each control arm with at least one pneumatic wheel mounted upon each wheel axle. Separate hydraulic control circuits having separate drive pumps drive the hydraulic motors on each side of the vehicle. Each of these hydraulic control circuits is operable in either a series connected mode or a parallel connected mode.
US07845433B2
A device and the relative are described, for the insertion of a new drilling string-element into a drilling-string essentially including a short pipe-shaped body (C) having, at opposite ends thereof, a device suitable for screwing the body onto drill pipes, in which two valves are housed, of which one valve (A) is radial to said short body, interceptable from the outside by means an adaptor and equipped with a suitable safety plug, the other valve (B) being axial with respect to the body.
US07845432B2
A microtunnelling apparatus and system that includes an external drive system having rotational and linear thrust drive means, a drill head section having drill rotor and drill rod and connecting to intermediate drill rods allowing extension of the boring hole created by the drill head section driven by the drive system. The drill head includes a modular construction having a plurality of circular disc like elements, a bearing module, a steering module, a spacer module, and a mounting module, for axial alignment and abutment and mounting within a cylindrical steering shell. Directional steering of the drill head includes a plurality of substantially radially extending channels in steering module, each with an hydraulically movable protuberance movable by control means to redirect the outer steering casing and thereby redirect the drill head section mounted on the distal end of the drill rods.
US07845426B2
When the mode change knob of a multi-mode hammer drill is moved to the hammer only position, an electronic sensor sends a signal to a control logic circuit. When the user then depresses the trigger mechanically closing the ON/OFF switch, the control logic circuit applies a voltage either to a holding relay or to the gate of a triac which enables the relay or triac to conduct, thus providing a parallel circuit by-passing the ON/OFF switch. Consequently, when the user releases the trigger and opens the ON/OFF switch, the parallel relay or triac maintains current flow to the motor. It can be seen that in hammer only mode the user can activate the hammer drill by simply tapping the trigger to depress it and does not need to hold down trigger during use of the hammer in operation.
US07845423B2
An apparatus, system and method for suppression of fires are provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a housing is provided with a first opening (or set of openings), a second opening (or set of openings) and a Row path defined between the first and second openings. A fire-suppressing gas is produced, such as from a solid propellant composition, and is introduced into the flow path in such a way that a volume of ambient air is drawn from a location external to the housing, through the first opening and into the flow path. The volume of ambient air may be subjected to an oxygen-reducing process and mixed with the fire-suppressing gas to form a gas mixture. The gas mixture is discharged from the flow path through the second opening and into an associated environment for suppression of a fire located therein.
US07845418B2
A method and apparatus for providing additional torque in a top drive system for rotating a tubular during tubular drilling, running, and/or handling operations. In one embodiment, a gear arrangement is operatively connected to a top drive of the top drive system to increase the amount of available torque for rotating a tubular. In another embodiment, a gear box is operatively connected to the top drive to boost the amount of torque available for rotating the tubular.
US07845411B2
Systems and methods for an in situ heat treatment process that utilizes a circulation system to heat one or more treatment areas are described herein. The circulation system may use a heated liquid heat transfer fluid that passes through piping in the formation to transfer heat to the formation. In some embodiments, the piping may be positioned in at least two of the wellbores.
US07845403B2
A process for introducing microorganisms to carbonaceous material in an anaerobic environment is described. The process includes the step of extracting formation water from a geologic formation, and removing at least a portion of an extractable material from the formation water to make amended formation water. The process may further include introducing the amended formation water to the carbonaceous material. Also, a process for increasing biogenic hydrocarbon production in a geologic formation containing a carbonaceous material is described. The process includes extracting formation water from the formation, removing at least a portion of one or more hydrocarbons from the formation water to make amended formation water, and reintroducing the amended formation water to the geologic formation.
US07845390B2
Compositions suitable for use as cores and shell molds for casting of reactive metal alloys, and casting processes for producing components from such alloys. The composition contains a sintered particulate material of hafnia and at least one additional metal oxide in amounts to yield a ceramic composition containing up to 70 molar percent of hafnia, wherein the additional metal oxide is a rare-earth oxide, the sintered particulate material contains first and second phases, the first phase is the rare-earth oxide and hafnia in solid solution, the second phase is a compound of the rare-earth oxide and hafnia, and the second phase is less reactive with the reactive metal alloy than the first phase.
US07845379B2
Labeling machine and method for labeling containers, such as bottles or cans, especially sardine cans. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.
US07845376B2
The present invention relates to a machine and method for selecting and organizing staves for making barrels. The machine includes an input unit, including a stave-measuring station, a storage assembly for storing the staves awaiting allocation and receiving the staves from the input and measuring unit, a calculation unit able to select staves from those measured in such a way as to form a collection of staves ready to assemble into a barrel, and an output unit, in relation with the storage assembly, equipped with a stave-reorientation system. Staves used by the machine and in the method may be asymmetric about a horizontal axis. The staves selected by the calculation unit are advantageously delivered to the output unit in an order and a configuration that make for easy assembly of the barrel.
US07845375B2
Beverage dispensing systems are provided. Beverages dispensing systems may detect the presence of a person or container then search for a wireless transponder, which in some embodiments is an RFID tag on the detected person or container. Depending on the detection or absence of detection of a transponder, beverage dispensing systems may display information or allow a beverage to be dispensed.
US07845374B2
A gas filling apparatus used to fill a photomask box with gas such as nitrogen or other inert gas. The gas filling apparatus of the present invention has a gas filling chamber provided with a plurality of first pillared elements, a plurality of second pillared elements, at least one gas inlet, at least one gas outlet, and a plurality of clamping elements; wherein the first pillared elements are used to couple with the recesses on a cover member of the photomask box, the second pillared elements are used to prop against the peripheral of a cover member of the photomask box, and the clamping elements respectively prop against two opposite sides of the cover member of photomask box, whereby the gas inlets and the gas outlets are respectively coupled with the through holes formed on the lower cover member of the photomask box and the gas can be filled into and exhausted from the photomask box.
US07845371B2
The invention relates to a gas connector socket with at least one inlet port for connecting a locally fixated gas supply line, with at least one outlet port for connecting a gas connector plug, with a housing receiving the at least one outlet port, and with at least one cover located on the housing, wherein the cover has a front side visible from the outside, in which the technical object of preventing the penetration of foreign objects into the outlet port, and the access to the gas path without particular know-how, and providing a simple and very compact embodiment, is achieved by the cover having on its backside at least one locking element for interlocking the cover with an element connected to the housing and the locking element having an operating surface accessible from the outside for unlocking the cover.
US07845362B2
A washer fluid system provides washer fluid by blending concentrated washer fluid with waste water produced in the operation of a fuel cell. The concentrated washer fluid is stored in a replenishable container. A mixing pump automatically meters the appropriate ratio of concentrated washer fluid to water (i.e., 1:10), preferably by a dual chamber arrangement, wherein the waste water from the fuel cell and the concentrated washer fluid are drawn from their respective sources and mixed, creating a mixed washer fluid having the proper ratio of water to washer fluid concentrate. In a first embodiment, the system creates the mixed washer fluid in real-time on demand of the wiper system; in a second embodiment a storage reservoir holds mixed washer fluid for stand-by use of the wiper system.
US07845356B2
At least one elongated body is sized and configured for implantation in a desired orientation in an epiglottis and/or in a muscle along an upper respiratory tract. An array of projections extends from the elongated body, which is sized and configured to engage tissue and resist a reorientation of the elongated body within the tissue region out of the desired orientation.
US07845355B2
The present invention provides improved rim designs for diaphragms or any similar intravaginal device and methods for producing same. The rim designs of the present invention improve, among other characteristics of the rim, structural durability, manufacturability, ease of insertion, comfort in use, and ease of removal of intravaginal devices. These designs incorporate one or more recesses in the inner portion of a rim piece that provide an attachment site for a separate dome piece. Attachment within a recess shields the exposed outer edge of the dome material from contact with epithelial surfaces and improves comfort and safety. In certain embodiments of the invention, a thinned inner portion of the rim serves as a handle that can be easily grasped by a finger to remove the device from the vagina. These devices are useful in providing a protective cervical barrier for contraception and disease prevention, to deliver beneficial agents, and as a means to collect and remove substances from the vagina.
US07845351B2
A face mask for reducing the amount of microbes to which a wearer is exposed is provided. The face mask includes a body portion that has an outer layer that has been treated with a germicidal agent in an effective amount. The layer may be a nonwoven fabric like a spunbond, meltblown or coform layer and may be a laminate of such layers. The face mask having such a germicidal treatment can result in a reduction in microbial activity as compared to another face mask, identical but for the germicidal agent.
US07845347B2
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.
US07845341B2
An intake manifold is disclosed. The intake manifold includes a first chamber in fluid communication with a PCV line and disposed generally upstream of a second chamber. The chambers are designed to provide a long flow path for the moisture laden PCV gas and to help reduce the introduction of moisture or fluids into the second chamber. This helps to prevent the ingestion of moisture or fluids by the combustion chambers of engine. An optional fluid blocker can also be used to trap fluids and help prevent those fluids from entering a cylinder port.
US07845340B2
One embodiment is an apparatus including an air-exhaust mixing passageway, a first lip extending into the passageway, a second lip extending into the passageway, a valley intermediate the first lip and the second lip, and an exhaust inlet aperture in flow communication with the flow channel.
US07845332B2
A rotary engine includes an outer shell having a plurality of working spaces each receiving a power-generating unit. A rotor is rotatable within the outer shell, and includes a rotor body and a plurality of vanes. When the rotor rotates one revolution in the outer shell, each of the vanes drives each of the power-generating units to complete a working cycle including four strokes of intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust. In each combustion stroke, compressed gas is injected on the corresponding vane to rotate the rotor about the central axis of an output shaft.
US07845331B2
A seal structure is provided for an internal combustion engine. The seal structure can include a main seal link, at least one fastener seal connected to the main seal link and adapted to surround at least a portion of a crankcase fastener hole, and an enlarged bearing seal operatively connected to the fastener seal and adapted to be in sealing abutment with at least a portion of an outer race of a bearing. The engine can include a crankcase formed of a first section and a second section retained together with the seal structure located therebetween for providing a seal for the crankcase.
US07845324B2
A locking mechanism for a plural rocker arm valve train assembly is provided. The locking mechanism is adapted for use with a camshaft having a plurality of different cam lobes having a plurality of different profiles, which result in variable valve displacement and duration. A plurality of rocker arms are located on a pivot shaft which runs parallel to the camshaft, each rocker arm having structures configured to be acted upon by respective lobes of the camshaft. An active rocker arm has structure configured to act upon an engine valve or valves. A movable locking element is fully enclosed by the rocker arms and is capable of selectively moving along the pivot shaft to allow the active rocker arm to selectively engage one or more of the other rocker arms for common pivoting, resulting in varied displacement of the engine valve or valves.
US07845319B2
A valve control system for an internal combustion engine includes a valve actuation system. The valve actuation system includes at least one of first and second configurations. The first configuration includes a shared lift control valve that actuates an intake valve and an exhaust valve between N open lift modes, where N is an integer greater than one. A second configuration includes a first lift control valve that actuates the intake valve and not the exhaust valve and a second lift control valve that actuates the exhaust valve and not the intake valve between the N open lift modes. A control module that enables transitioning of at least one of the intake and exhaust valves between the N open lift modes for the first and second configurations.
US07845317B2
Method and arrangement for providing an energy converter that includes a combustion system (1) including at least one piston (2, 3), at least one combustion chamber (6, 7) having at least one inlet (11, 13) and at least one outlet (10, 12) with inlet and outlet valves (14, 15, 16, 17). At least one controllable inlet valve and at least one outlet valve is also provided. A fuel supply is provided (18, 19) for supplying fuel and a medium containing oxygen is provided for induction into the combustion chamber (6, 7). An electric machine (9) is arranged to interact directly or indirectly with the piston (2, 3) in an electromagnetic manner such that it produces electrical energy from the piston movements, as well as uses electrical energy to affect the piston movement. A control unit (30) controls the combustion system (1) and the electric machine (9).The energy converter is arranged to adapt its power output depending on the required load of the energy converter. The invention also relates to a method for starting an energy converter.
US07845309B2
An apparatus for processing a substrate with a plasma. The apparatus includes first and second electrodes positioned with a spaced apart relationship. A separating ring has a vacuum-tight engagement with confronting surfaces of the first electrode and the second electrode to define an evacuatable processing region therebetween. Communicating with the processing region is a process gas port for introducing a process gas to the processing region. The processing region may be evacuated through a vacuum port defined in one of the first and second electrodes to a pressure suitable for exciting a plasma from the process gas in the processing region when the first and second electrodes are powered.
US07845306B2
In a method of manufacturing an LCD device, an atomic beam is irradiated onto a thin film including a carbon-carbon double bond to form a polarized functional group by transforming the carbon-carbon double bond into a carbon-carbon single bond and a radical state. Then, a polarity preserving material is combined with the polarized functional group so as to preserve a polarity of the polarized functional group. According to the present invention, the alignment film is formed on the thin film transistor unit cell and on the color filter unit cell by a non-contact method. Therefore, time of forming the alignment film is reduced and alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is improved.
US07845303B2
A remotely operated underwater vehicle includes a case to which is attached a camera for transmitting video to a remotely located base station. A tether having four pairs of twisted wire operably connects the underwater vehicle, and the camera to the base station. Video is transmitted from the camera to the base station on a pair of twisted wire.
US07845298B2
An object ejection system uses an energy storage flywheel to drive the fluid pump that is used to pressurize the ejection tubes. The energy storage flywheel is periodically spun-up using an electric motor. The energy stored in the energy storage flywheel is used, when needed, to drive the fluid pump and supply pressurized fluid to an impulse tank. The pressurized fluid in the impulse tank is used to eject an object, such as a weapon, from one or more ejection tubes.
US07845296B1
A catamaran lifting apparatus is disclosed for lifting objects in a marine environment. The apparatus includes first and second vessels that are spaced apart during use. A first frame spans between the vessels. A second frame spans between the vessels. The frames are spaced apart and connected to the vessels in a configuration that spaces the vessels apart. The first frame connects to the first vessel with a universal joint and to the second vessel with a hinged connection. The second frame connects to the second vessel with a universal joint and to the first vessel with a hinged or pinned connection. The catamaran hull arrangement provides longitudinal flexibility in a quartering sea state due to the unique universal joint and hinge placement between the frames or trusses and the hulls or barges. Each of the frames extends upwardly in an inverted u-shape, providing a space under the frame and in between the barges that enables a marine vessel to be positioned in between the barges and under the frames. In this fashion, an object that has been salvaged from the seabed can be placed upon the marine vessel that is positioned in between the barges and under the frames. Alternatively, a package that is to be lifted from the deck of a marine vessel, workboat, supply boat or the like can be lifted from the deck of the workboat, vessel, barge, etc. if it is to be then placed in the marine environment such as upon an existing jacket or other under support.
US07845295B2
Disclosed is a sewing arm mechanism of an embroidery machine. Within the sewing arm mechanism, there are provided a needle bar vertical drive unit and cloth pressing member vertical drive unit for vertically moving a needle bar and a cloth pressing member, respectively, by using the rotational driving force of an upper shaft. The sewing arm mechanism is configured in such a manner that the needle bar drive reaction force exerted on the upper shaft by the driving the needle bar vertical drive unit, and the cloth pressing member drive reaction force exerted on the upper shaft by the driving of the cloth pressing member vertical drive unit act in opposite directions of each other, whereby the magnitudes of the reaction forces exerted on the upper shaft can be cancelled with each other.
US07845285B2
Rail for self-propelled electric trucks, with the rail (2) having a base part (6) and C-shaped side flanks (8, 10) which engage over side wheels (12) of the truck (4). In order to improve the rail, each C-shaped side flank (8, 10) has a central running area (14), which is offset outwards, for side guide rollers (16) of the truck (4) and upper and lower supporting services (18, 20) which run at an angle to the wheel (12) for the side wheels (12), with the running area (14) and the supporting areas (18, 20) being used alternately.
US07845277B2
A header assembly for an initiator may include a first conductive pin, a second conductive pin, and a connector extending between and electrically connected to the first conductive pin and the second conductive pin. A housing may support the first conductive pin, the second conductive pin, and the connector and may include at least one flange extending away from the housing and above the pins. The at least one flange may include at least one opening to facilitate attachment of the connector to the first conductive pin and the second conductive pin.
US07845275B2
A printing unit for printing a web of paper is provided. The printing unit includes a frame and at least a first and a second printing group, each printing group including a blanket cylinder and a plate cylinder. The printing unit also includes a cylinder support and movement mechanism, at least one throw-on configuration in which the blanket cylinders are pressed against each other and against the plate cylinders, and at least one throw-off configuration in which the blanket cylinders are spaced apart from each other. The support and movement mechanism includes at least one connection which connects the plate cylinder and the blanket cylinder of at least one printing group. The connection includes a region of lesser strength which is intended to break under a predetermined force.
US07845265B1
A hard armor composite includes a rigid non-ceramic facing and a ballistic fabric backing. The fabric backing is carried by the facing, and includes an array of bundled high-performance fibers. The fibers have a tensile strength greater than 7 grams per denier and a denier per filament ratio of less than 5.4.
US07845262B2
A process for enabling a yarn formed by filling the interior of a tubular member configured by knitting or braiding a fibrous material with expanded graphite as a base material, to be produced in a state of a high productivity in order to enable the yarn to be actually used in an economical manner is provided. The process has: a fine cutting step of successively cutting an expanded graphite sheet which is continuously supplied in a state where the sheet has a predetermined width, to a small width along the width direction of the sheet; and a supplying and filling step of guiding and supplying a strip-like expanded graphite material which is produced by the fine cutting step, into the tubular member to be filled into the tubular member.
US07845261B2
A blade seat structure for a paper cutter includes a base, a sliding seat, an engaging block and a cover. The base includes an arcuate slot and a longitudinal hole. The sliding seat is located in a trough of the base. The sliding seat is provided with a plurality of blades and a first post sliding along the slot to facilitate exchange of the blades. A second post is provided on the engaging block. The second post moves within the longitudinal hole and engages with a recess section of the sliding seat. The cover is provided with a block to press the engaging block to secure the sliding seat firmly for cutting paper.
US07845260B2
A miter saw has a base, a turntable, a cutting unit, and a support unit. The base supports a workpiece thereon. The base has an rotation center. The turntable is supported by the base and rotatable about the rotation center. The cutting unit rotatably supports a saw blade. The support unit is provided to the turntable for pivotally movably supporting the cutting unit over the turntable. The turntable has: a main body and an extension member. The main body is provided with an outer periphery and an upper surface having an imaginary line onto which the saw blade is pivoted down. The extension member extends outwardly from the outer periphery in a first direction of the imaginary line for rotating the main body. The extension member is movable with respect to the main body.
US07845259B2
An electronic paper cutting machine includes a housing to which a drive roller is coupled for moving a sheet to be cut in a first direction and a cutter assembly coupled to the housing and moveable in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. A user interface is incorporated into the housing for allowing a user to select via the user interface at least one shape to be cut by the cutter assembly wherein controlled movement of the drive roller and the cutter assembly causes a shape to be cut in the sheet.
US07845257B2
A five axis motion controlled ultra-precision machine tool is provided in which major portions are composed as a structure completely symmetric about the machining point and errors due to thermal displacement can be minimized. A pair of Y axis guide members (41,41) are secured to the top face of a base (i) at both sides of an X axis slider (3) interposed therebetween for X direction so as to movably guide Y axis sliders (4,4) in horizontal Y direction perpendicular to X axis. Y axis linear motors (42,42) and the Y axis guide members (41,41) are disposed substantially at the center of mass of the Y axis sliders (4,4) respectively, so that the Y axis sliders (4,4) can be driven in Y direction with vibration and errors in alignment minimized.
US07845255B2
The invention relates to pliers, especially cutting pliers or crimping pliers, comprising limbs which cross in a single joint in the longitudinal direction thereof, form co-operating working regions on one side of the joint, and embody grips on the other side of the joint. The limbs are interconnected in such a way that they can only rotate in relation to each other, and co-operating recesses are provided on both limbs in order to guide the rotation. A rotational axis of the limbs is located outside the recesses, on the side of the working regions, and a first limb in the joint region is respectively covered, i.e. on both sides, by a lapping part which is connected to the other limb in a fixed manner. The aim of the invention is to provide the inventive pliers with an advantageous structure for the transfer of high gripping forces, also in terms of the forces acting in the joint. To this end, the lapping part is connected to the other limb in such a way that it covers the recesses of the first limb.
US07845251B2
A roller screw having plural circulating devices cooperating with plural helical grooves comprises a screw, a nut, plural rollers and circulating devices. The screw is provided in a surface with at least two helical grooves. The nut is provided with helical grooves opposite to the screw and receiving holes in a peripheral wall thereof, and each receiving hole is provided with a fixing groove at each of two ends thereof. The rollers are arranged in the helical grooves of the screw and the nut. The circulating devices have the same number of the helical grooves of the screw, and each circulating device includes an opening at each of two ends thereof and a passage between the two openings.
US07845247B2
A shift fork actuation system includes an actuator housing defining a piston cavity and a piston assembly having three pistons with three different surface areas responsive to fluid pressure to establish positions of the piston assembly within the piston cavity. A stopping mechanism, such as a shoulder formed by the actuator housing at the interface of different bores in the piston cavity, interferes with one of the surface areas to prevent movement of one of the pistons past the stopping mechanism. A neutral position of a shift fork is established by interference of the piston assembly with the stopping mechanism. A slot in the piston assembly captures a finger extension from the shift rail to act as an anti-rotation feature, ensuring that a magnet embedded in the piston assembly as part of a sensor assembly is properly positioned.
US07845238B2
A measuring device, embodied, for example, as an in-line measuring device and/or flow measuring device, serves for registering at least one measured variable of a medium, for example a medium flowing in a pipeline, and is made, at least in part, of a solid, biologically degradable, synthetic material (BDM).
US07845233B2
Two or more sound sensors are placed in a space of interest. Each sensor has a light-emitting output. Each sensor can be positioned at a specific location, such as at an ear location for a seated listener. An excitation source can provide a specified acoustical energy stimulus to the space. A user can obtain a visual impression of acoustical response of the space corresponding to the sound sensors' positions. An image acquisition system can acquire an image of the sound sensors responding to a stimulus. Acquired images can be analyzed to determine response characteristics. A presentation system can provide a display of response characteristics.
US07845232B2
The present invention is an apparatus and method for determining the remaining service life of electrochemical energy generation and storage device including batteries, supercapacitors, DSSC solar cells and fuel cell. Measurements are performed by passing ultrasonic oscillations through the test object. The apparatus of the present invention comprises two arrays of transmitting and receiving ultrasonic probes between which the object being tested is affixed. Polyurethane tips are used for matching the acoustic resistance of the probes with the test object body. The apparatus positions the transmitting and the receiving probe arrays relative to each other. The calibration characteristic for determining the remaining service life of a the test object are established from the signal values from the ultrasonic probes related to the number of charge-discharge cycles obtained at various charge values. A three-dimensional approximating dependence surface is constructed using the normalized signals from the receiving probes. The average value of this surface is determined. The remaining service life of the test object is determined using a calibration curve based on the average level of the surface.
US07845215B2
A scanning probe microscope and methodology called resonant difference-frequency atomic force ultrasonic microscopy (RDF-AFUM), employs an ultrasonic wave launched from the bottom of a sample while the cantilever of an atomic force microscope, driven at a frequency differing from the ultrasonic frequency by one of the contact resonance frequencies of the cantilever, engages the sample top surface. The nonlinear mixing of the oscillating cantilever and the ultrasonic wave in the region defined by the cantilever tip-sample surface interaction force generates difference-frequency oscillations at the cantilever contact resonance. The resonance-enhanced difference-frequency signals are used to create images of nanoscale near-surface and subsurface features.
US07845210B2
A flow control device for a gas chromatograph is provided. The flow control device includes first and second valves each having alpha and beta operating states and a plurality of ports. In each of the first and second valves, the ports are associated to have alpha pairs of the ports and beta pairs of the ports. In the alpha operating state of each of the first and second valves, the ports in each of the alpha pairs are connected and the ports in each of the beta pairs are disconnected. In the beta operating state of each of the first and second valves, the ports in each of the beta pairs are connected and the ports in each of the alpha pairs are disconnected. The first and second valves are formed by a cylindrical manifold plate disposed between cylindrical first and second port plates. A first diaphragm is disposed between the first port plate and the manifold plate and a second diaphragm is disposed between the second port plate and the manifold plate.
US07845207B2
With regard to components it is necessary to test specimens of materials in order to determine acceptability for objective component performance. Previously such testing generally involved fixing and clamping of the test specimen which produced artificial stressing conditions. By providing a specimen component typically in the form of an elongate member which is suspended between mounting ends a combination is provided which has inertia. In such circumstances when a projectile impacts upon the elongate member that elongate member flexes and deforms and this deformation can be monitored for testing purposes. The projectile is arranged to have a relatively facile compliant nature upon impact with the component such that there is no local stressing of the component whilst suspending the mounting ends substantially avoids clamp resilience distorting objective or realistic stressing conditions.
US07845199B2
A washer is provided. The washer includes a housing, a tub in the housing, a laundry drum rotatably mounted in the tub, a heating element in the tub, and a heating element retainer, on an inner surface of the tub, for retaining the heating element. The heating element retainer includes a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end. The heating element further includes an engaging portion that is formed closer to the second longitudinal end than to the first longitudinal end, and that retains a first end of the heating element.
US07845198B2
An acceleration sensor for a household device which serves for leveling the appliance and also for weighing the material introduced into the appliance, for example on a laundry unit or crockery and furthermore, in particular for a linen treatment device, for monitoring imbalances. The sensor is based on the principle that a temperature profile, generated by a thermal source, for example, an immersion heater in a sealed chamber which contains a gas, undergoes a displacement as a result of the acceleration, which is measured by temperature sensors arranged on a flat plate.
US07845197B2
A high efficiency triple pass tunnel finisher includes an articulated spraying function for allowing steam to effectively penetrate a garment. The tunnel finisher can be used for the laundering of shirts, pants, and jackets. The tunnel finisher includes hot air chambers and a steam chamber that can include two rows of steam injectors located at a 45° angle in relation to the walls of the module. The steam chamber has a lower pressure than the hot air chambers, creating an air pressure differential. The hot air chambers are positively pressurized, preventing the relatively cooler air of the steam chamber from entering the chamber. The pressurization prevents heat loss, allowing the finisher to be more efficient, while increasing the temperature at which the garments exit the steam chamber. This leads to faster drying times, less garment wrinkling, and reduced dwell time for a garment with a high quality appearance.
US07845194B2
In splicing two optical fibers to each other using an electric arc formed between electrodes images of the regions being heated and thereby fusioned to each other are taken. The images cover a rectangular field (43) having the fibers located centrally, along a center line of the field and parallel to the long sides of the field. The images are evaluated to determine a value of the position of the center of the electric arc in relation to the position of the end surfaces of the fibers. This value can then be used for placing the end surfaces just at the arc center. In the image the image of the optical fibers can be excluded so that only light intensity from the air discharge of the electric arc is recorded in the captured images. The field (41) excluded can be a narrow strip of uniform width located symmetrically around the image of the fibers. Using such a repositioning of the end surfaces of the fibers results in splices which are substantially equal to each other and thus a well repeatable splicing process is obtained.
US07845193B2
Apparatus for opening and closing mold arms in a glassware forming machine includes a gearbox for mounting on a glassware machine frame, a cylinder housing suspended beneath the gearbox, and a cylinder disposed within the cylinder housing. The cylinder has a piston with an extending piston rod and a gear rack machined or otherwise formed in the piston rod. A first drive gear in the cylinder housing is coupled to the gear rack and a drive shaft extends from the first drive gear and the cylinder housing into the gearbox. A second drive gear is disposed in the gearbox and coupled to the drive shaft. Laterally spaced operating shafts extend upwardly from within the gearbox. Means including an idler gear couple the second drive gear to the operating shafts such that the operating shafts are rotated simultaneously in opposite directions by the cylinder, the gear rack, the first and second drive gears and the idler gear. In exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, the means include driven gears or connecting links coupling the second drive gear and the idler gear to the operating shafts. Linkages couple the operating shafts to the mold arms of the glassware forming machine.
US07845191B2
A size adjustable item of jewelry has a plurality of movable inserts placed within a channel or a groove formed into the inner circumferential surface of body frame of generally a ring shape. The movable inserts are biased towards the radial center of the body frame by an elastic member, and thus can move in a radial direction with respect to the body frame such that inner surfaces facing the radial center of the movable inserts together define another generally ring shape of varying radius, and thereby allows the size of the ring shaped jewelry to be adjusted within a range of sizes.
US07845186B2
A refrigeration unit includes an external housing located primarily outside of a vehicle compartment of a vehicle, and an internal housing located primarily inside of the vehicle compartment. A vehicle roof of the compartment has an external layer and an internal layer spaced apart from the external layer with insulation located there between. The vehicle roof includes an opening that receives the refrigeration unit. A gasket provides a seal between the refrigeration unit and the vehicle roof. The gasket covers the exterior layer and the interior layer. The gasket is formed of multiple layers of material which are secured to one another.
US07845185B2
An HVAC system including a compressor, a condenser and an evaporator arrangement connected in a closed refrigerant loop. The evaporator arrangement includes a plurality of refrigerant circuits. The evaporator arrangement also includes at least one distributor configured to distribute and deliver refrigerant to each circuit of the plurality of circuits. The plurality of circuits are arranged into a first and second set of circuits. The evaporator arrangement also includes a valve configured and disposed to isolate the first set of circuits from refrigerant flow from the condenser and provide flow of refrigerant from the compressor in a dehumidification operation of the HVAC system.
US07845181B2
An active moisture control barrier is provided which comprises a layer of shape memory polymer and a heating arrangement associated with the layer of shape memory polymer. The barrier may be used to provide an active humidity controlled space having an enclosure with walls to separate an interior of the enclosure from an environment surrounding the enclosure. An opening in one of the walls allows communication between the interior of the enclosure with the environment. A layer of shape memory polymer is provided at the opening to isolate the interior of the enclosure from the environment. A control may be provided for the heating arrangement to allow for a heating of the layer to a level as controlled or set by a user. An air passage conduit may extend from the interior of the enclosure through a zone of relatively higher water vapor pressure. The air passage conduit may be formed, at least in part, of shape memory polymer to allow water vapor to migrate from the zone of relatively higher water vapor pressure into the interior of the enclosure thereby adding moisture into the enclosure.
US07845180B2
An automatic icemaker of the present invention includes a control box, an ice-making tray supporting frame rotatably supported and rotated by the control box, at least one ice-making tray rotatably supported by the ice-making tray supporting frame, a rotation limiter fixed to the ice-making tray supporting frame and limiting the rotation of the ice-making tray, a stopper fixed to the control box, and a projection provided to the ice-making tray. Irregularities are provided to at least one of the contact surfaces of the stopper and projection.
US07845177B2
A fuel system includes first and second drive assemblies that are independently drivable relative to one another. The second drive assembly has a speed that is selectively controlled based upon a desired fuel flow. A non-positive displacement pump is driven by the first drive assembly. The non-positive displacement pump provides a desired fuel pressure for the fuel system. A positive displacement pump is driven by the second drive assembly. The positive displacement pump meters a desired volume in response to the speed of the second drive assembly in a first rotational direction. The fuel flows from the pumps and passes through a bypass valve that acts as a minimum pressure shut-off valve. During shut-down of the first drive assembly, the bypass valve is opened by a solenoid and the rotational direction of the second drive assembly is reversed to a second rotational direction to evacuate fuel from the system with the positive displacement pump and return the fuel to the fuel tank.
US07845175B2
A heat shield for mounting on a heat-radiating object, particularly on a rocket engine comprises a first planar element having a front side and a back side. In its mounted state, the first planar element extending from the heat-radiating object toward the outside, with its front side being exposed to the heat radiation at least of a section of the heat-radiating object. A second insulating element having a front side and a back side is arranged on the back side of the first planar element in such a manner that a gap is formed between the back side of the first planar element and the front side of the second element. In the mounted state of the heat shield, the gap widens in the direction from the heat-radiating object toward the outside.
US07845174B2
A combustor liner including a dome section having a positioning hole defined at a first radial distance and sized to receive a first heat shield fastener to at least substantially prevent radial and circumferential motion of the first fastener, a circumferential slot sized to receive a second heat shield fastener to at least substantially prevent radial motion of the second fastener while allowing limited circumferential motion of the second fastener, and a clearance hole defined at a second radial distance and sized to receive a third heat shield fastener to allow limited radial and circumferential motion of the third fastener.
US07845171B2
A supercharged internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle has a cooling circuit, in which a working medium is recycled, which is conveyed at least partially in a vaporous or gaseous physical state. At least one expander unit is provided which is operatively connected with an output shaft of the internal combustion engine via a power train. Via a conversion of energy contained in the at least partially vaporous or gaseous working medium in the expander unit, an output shaft of the expander unit is moveable. The expander unit is embodied as a two-cycle reciprocating engine, which is operatively connected directly or indirectly via the power train with the output shaft of the internal combustion engine.
US07845158B2
An engine mounting arrangement is provided in which a mounting structure is created through fins (21, 42) extended between a core (22, 46) and a mounting ring (23, 48). The fins (21, 42) have a tangential lean and substantive planar aspect in order to create an appropriate load transfer path for torque and thrust loads in an engine when secured upon a hanger mounting (20) and through utilizing further struts (25, 26) extending from spaced locations upon the mounting structure to rearward anchor positions on a pylon (27) which also has the hanger mounting (20) attached.
US07845136B1
A chair has a receiving area and a plurality of legs extending downwardly from the receiving area. Each of the plurality of legs has a first portion extending at an angle outwardly from the receiving area and a second portion extending vertically from an end of the first position opposite the receiving area. The second portion extends vertically downwardly. A plurality of pin members are respectively formed at a bottom of the plurality legs. Each of the plurality of pin members extends downwardly from a bottom of second portion opposite the first portion so as to have a pointed end opposite the bottom of the second portion. The first portion has a length substantially longer than a length of the second portion.
US07845130B2
This invention relates to a structural cementitious panel (SCP) panel able to resist lateral forces imposed by high wind and earthquake loads in regions where they are required by building codes. These panels may be used for shear walls, flooring or roofing or other locations where shear panels are used in residential or commercial construction. The panels employ one or more layers of a continuous phase resulting from the curing of an aqueous mixture of inorganic binder reinforced with glass fibers and containing lightweight filler particles. One or more reinforcement members, such as mesh or plate sheets, are bonded to at least one surface of the panel to provide a completed panel that can breathe and has weather resistant characteristics to be capable of sustaining exposure to the elements during construction, without damage.
US07845122B2
Disclosed is an embedment tile for producing a tactilely detectable surface in a moldable material and method for using same. The tile comprises a tile member substantially planar in form, having a pattern of upwardly extending projections on its upper surface forming a tactilely detectable pattern and two or more cross beams on the lower surface of the tile member, the cross beams having hollow chambers defined by a sidewall, end openings and optional apertures to allow for the release of air and moldable material from the exterior into the hollow chambers of the cross beams as the tile is embedded in the material, thus easing and speeding installation of the tile in the moldable material. The embedment tile may further consist of support members that function to support and further interlock the embedment tile to the moldable material once set.
US07845119B2
A constructional unit comprising: a support frame which is O-shaped in plan bounding an open central region, the support frame including first and second members which are each U-shaped in plan, each member being in the form of a base frame from which extend two side arms; the first and second members having their side arms telescopically engaged to define sides to the open central region of the O-shaped support frame; the telescopic engagement providing for—the spacing of the first base frame from the second base frame to be adjustable over a range of distance; and the temporary securing of the first member to the second member at a predetermined spacing; the base frame of the first member being adapted for location at a first level at a first working location; the second member being adapted, at a position remote from the first member, for location at a second level at a second working location by way of at least one leg pivotably attached at or near one end of the, or each, leg to the base frame of the second member or to a side arm thereof; the opposite end to the one end of the, or each, leg being adapted for location on the second working location; the second level being offset from and below the first level.
US07845117B2
This invention concerns an arch structure. In particular, the invention relates to an arch structure comprised of at least two segments which are rotatably linked to each other via hinges or equivalent means to form a continuous bendable chain of attached segments. The segments have magnets above the rotatable or hinged link on opposed end faces, positioned to oppose magnets on confronting end faces of adjacent arch segments, with like poles facing one another, thereby creating a repulsion force. The repulsion force inhibits the arch segments from being brought together and into contact. Due to this effect, the aggregate of the arch segments define an arcuate path (convex upward), maintained by the repulsion forces of the magnets.
US07845115B2
An access control apparatus has a blocking device (1) that is actuated by an actuator, and an authentication reader (7), upon reading a valid access authorization the blocking device (1) moving into the release position. For detecting a wheel chair (15) and/or pram in the area of the blocking device (1) a sensor (13) is provided, which does not activate the actuator for moving the blocking device (1) from the release position into the blocking position until the wheel chair (15) or pram has left its detection area.
US07845113B2
A liftable support structure for a turf system, the support structure comprising a skeletal framework having an open based structure with upstanding sides and at least two parallel spaced cross beams, the framework defining open subsections, each subsection having a base defining a ledge structure, each subsection supporting a latticework panel that sits on the ledge structure, the framework having a plurality of spaced lifting points and the cross beams defining access to forklift tines.A pallet for natural or artificial turf comprising a structure moulded in foamed plastics to have a closed planar top surface supported by a lattice work of mutually perpendicular walls defining a flexible open base, the structure defining a pair of elongate spaced parallel channels extending across each side to facilitate forklift tine entry.
US07845104B1
A device for displaying advertising from a turnstile arm includes opposing collars securing a sleeve displaying the advertising. One collar is frictionally secured to the arm using an O-ring carried in a groove within an inside wall surface of an opening through which the arm passes. A flange extending fully around the outside surface of the collar provides a snap-fit into a groove within one end of the sleeve. The outside surfaces of the collars make a smooth transition to the connected sleeve. A second collar includes a clamp is carried within its opening securing the second collar to the turnstile arm. Two recessed portions have a bore extending through the second collar through which fasteners extend for adjusting the clamping. A notch extending around the second collar receives the sleeve.
US07845101B2
A self-returning horizontal sign system mounts to an associated structure. The system sign includes an upper rail having front and rear, parallel, spaced apart tracks and a lower rail having front and rear, parallel, spaced apart tracks. A pair of panels extend between and span the upper and lower rails. Each panel has a carrier assembly mounted to an upper region thereof for cooperation with a respective front or rear track of the upper rail. The carrier assemblies have at least two rollers that are carried in the upper rail. The panels each move between an open position and a closed position. A closure formed as a pull box is associated each panel and includes a spool having a cable wrapped around it. The spool is rotatable to retract and extract the cable from about the spool. The closure includes a tension bias element operably connected to the spool to bias the spool to retract the cable. The cable is operably connected to the panel such that moving the panel from the closed position to the open position extracts the cable. The closure includes a rotating dampening element operably connected to the spool to dampen rotation of the spool when retracting the cable as the panel moves from the open position to the closed position.
US07845098B1
A railroad ballast removal system capable of removing ballast material from below a rail line. The railroad ballast removal system includes at least one rotary cutting wheel having a plurality of individually replaceable cutting attachments positioned about a perimeter of the rotary cutting wheel. Each rotary cutting wheel is attached to an articulated arm capable of adjusting the position of the rotary cutting wheel along varying axis. The articulated arm is mounted to a support structure capable of transporting the rotary cutting wheel to a portion of railway requiring maintenance of the ballast material. The railroad ballast removal system is able to operate at a spot location or in a continuous manner down a length of railroad track. The ability to manipulate the rotary cutting wheel along the various axis allows the rotary cutting wheel to be used for ballast removal in locations wherein adjacent railways limit cutting access.
US07845097B2
An out-sole assembly for a golf shoe. The outsole assembly includes an internal base member composed of EVA, an inner frame member composed thermoplastic polyurethane subjected to an isocyanate solution, an external base member composed of a thermoplastic polyurethane, a dual looping frame composed of a thermoplastic polyurethane, and a plurality of spike members.
US07845084B2
A method and apparatus for a pipe alignment tool have been described. A laser is inserted into the end of a pipe and projects a laser beam indicative of the longitudinal axis of the pipe.
US07845083B1
The present invention relates to a device for easily and accurately marking, scoring and cutting drywall sheet material, the device having a general appearance of a T-square and comprising gripping pins for securely holding the T-square on the sheet material to be marked, scored or cut.
US07845075B2
A camshaft has at least two completely machined individual cams fixedly mounted on a shaft in predetermined angular positions. The shaft includes an outside shaft and an inside shaft arranged concentrically in the former, and is to be manufactured in such a way that remachining of the joined camshaft is not necessary. This is by combining the individual cams even before they are mounted on a shaft and joining them to this shaft to form a machining module, such that the individual cams are combined in their mutual arrangement in relation to one another in which the cams are to be mounted on the finished camshaft. The final machining of the cams is performed within this machining nodule. When the cams are completely machined in this way, the cams are joined to the shaft of the camshaft within the machining module. This ensures that the desired mutual arrangement is maintained, i.e., that remachining is not necessary.
US07845071B2
The present invention provides a substrate holding method capable of contributing to improvement in performance of an electronic part. A plastic film is adhered to a holding frame by using an adhesive tape having a proper gas releasing characteristic such that total quantity of gas detected when analysis using gas chromatograph mass spectrometry (dynamic HS-GC-MS) is conducted under test conditions of 180° C. and 10 minutes is 100.5 μg/g or less in n-tetradecane. In the case where the plastic film held by the holding frame is subjected to a process of manufacturing an electronic part (for example, a solar battery), even when a process accompanying generation of heat during the manufacturing process (for example, a film forming process such as plasma CVD) is performed on the plastic film, a release amount of unnecessary gas released from the adhesive tape due to the influence of the heat is suppressed, so that deterioration in the performance of the electronic part caused by the unnecessary gas is suppressed.
US07845067B2
A method for assembling an actuator assembly includes providing a first housing portion and a second housing portion; providing a coil, a pole piece, a magnet, and a completed beam; positioning the coil, pole piece, magnet, and completed beam between the housing portions; and coupling the housing portions together.
US07845066B2
A method of installation of a notebook computer antenna, the method is mainly to design to use a mode of manufacturing tags to make groups of or integrate antenna sections required by the notebook computer to make a tag antenna; then the tag antenna is stuck and fixed on an inner layer of the housing of the notebook computer. This method can reduce cost of manufacturing and thickness and weight of notebook computers.
US07845053B2
A hinge assembly for use with a pivotally movable closure panel is operable to provide a counterbalancing force to lock or hold the closure panel in an open configuration against a predetermined threshold closure force without the need of separate support components such as gas-charged struts or prop rod. The hinge assembly is provided with upper and lower hinge arms which are pivotally connected towards their rearward ends for movement relative to each other for pivotal movement about a hinge pivot axis. A generally elongated or guide slot is formed in the lower hinge arm. A prop arm is pivotally secured at a first end to a forward portion of the upper hinge arm forwardly from the hinge pivot axis. A sliding member is secured toward the second other end of the prop arm and engages the guide slot so as to be reciprocally movable therealong as the hinge arms are moved between a fully closed and fully open positions. The guide slot includes an operational section and an engaged section. A resilient biasing member is used to engage and bias the sliding member forwardly relative to the guide slot as it moves through the engaged section while disengaging from or passively engaging the sliding member as it moves along the operational section of the guide slot.
US07845052B2
A sheath type rotating axle structure is disclosed, comprising an axle receiver disposed with a slanted corner which is further formed to have a notch therein; a sheath part disposed with a sheath end and an extending end, wherein a flute is formed at the sheath end and a rim and an annular groove are disposed between the sheath end and the extending end; and a pivotal axle pivotally connected the sheath end, disposed at its front end with a protruding ring, and embeddingly engaged with an axle hole of a fixed base at its rear end, wherein the extending end of the sheath part may be securingly mounted onto the notch of the axle receiver and the protruding ring of the pivotal axle may be abutted against the rim and the annular groove of the sheath part such that the sheath part may generate frictional torque against the pivotal axle when the axle receiver is rotated with respect to the fixed base. With the implementation of the present invention, the pivotal axle, the sheath part, and the axle receiver can be prevented from disconnecting.
US07845051B2
Provided is a hinge device which allows the display device to be watched at an arbitrary angle, thus enabling all the passengers to watch the display at an optimum angle, which helps to achieve an improvement in terms of quality and reliable dropping/opening by causing the dropping/opening movement of the display device due to its own weight to be reliable and gentle in the range from the start to an angle of approximately 30° , and which helps to achieve an improvement in terms of operational feel in the free stop range, thus allowing light operation.
US07845050B2
A device for buffering the closing impact of furniture doors is disclosed. A valve (40) is mounted around a piston rob (23) of a piston (20) in such a fashion that an oil gap (41) is defined between the outer peripheral surface of the valve (40) and the inner peripheral surface of a cylinder (10), the valve having a recessed oil passageway (47) formed on an axial end surface. A protrusion element (50) has a plurality of oil grooves (51) A check valve (60) slides reciprocally along the compression direction of oil. When an external load is exerted to the piston (20), a check valve (60) moves along with the protrusion element (50) and simultaneously oil contained in the oil chamber (11) flows through the recessed oil passageway (47) via the oil grooves (51) defined between the protrusion element (50) to absorb an impact generated during the closing of the furniture door.
US07845045B2
An upright deep cleaner including a base housing pivotally connected to an upright handle, the upright handle carrying a liquid supply tank and the base housing including a recovery tank. The liquid supply tank includes an internal siphon tube for ensuring liquid flow to a feed valve when the upright handle is in the inclined position. The base housing includes a suction nozzle adjacent a spray bar, and removable floating brush for contacting a surface being cleaned, the brush being interchangeable with a bare floor tool including a sponge, brush, and squeegee. The recovery tank includes an internal baffle for preventing foaming of solution and a tank vent housing including a sponge-type filter to prevent spray from exiting the recovery tank. A vacuum motor cooling outlet is positioned on underside of the base housing to distribute air heated by the motor onto the surface to be cleaned.
US07845044B2
A vehicular wiper frame and a rubber blade that mounts to the frame are provided. The frame allows the rubber blade to exert vertical pressure against a windshield for a secure contact between the two surfaces. The frame includes a slot in which a mounting portion of the rubber blade is mounted, creates a predetermined offset between the centers of the mounting portion and a wiping portion of the rubber blade therebelow, and is formed in a position so that the pressure of the wiper arm can fall at the center of the wiping portion. The mounting portion is slanted and installed at a predetermined angle to the frame, and the wiping portion extends from the mounting portion and includes a contact surface contacting the windshield surface. The pressing force of the wiper arm 80 passes through the central point of the wiping portion.
US07845041B2
A toothbrush includes a storage unit having an input, a memory for storing audio signals received via the input. The unit can have an output for transmitting or playing the stored audio signals. A variety of different constructions of storage unit and toothbrush configurations are described, each creating an environment that makes tooth brushing enjoyable.
US07845036B2
An edge support for reinforcing an edge of a spring core is provided. The edge support includes a plurality of engaging members that are movable between flat and folded positions. In the flat position, an engaging member is generally aligned with the rest of the edge support. In the folded position, the engaging member extends laterally from the rest of the edge support. With the engaging members in the flat position, the edge support has a relatively thin thickness allowing the edge support to be rolled which may be beneficial for the shipping and handling of the edge support. During the assembling of the mattress, the engaging members may be moved to the folded position such that engaging members extend inwardly into the spring core between the spring coils of the spring core.
US07845035B2
A pressure dispersion system includes a pressure dispersion pad and a pressure dispersing mattress system for body support and sleep. The pressure dispersion pad and pressure dispersing mattress systems reduce pressure points from a supported body to less than approximately 32 mm Hg to reduce or eliminate capillary closing and a resultant reduction in pressure concentration and resultant discomfort and repositioning during sleep. Empirical design from human body pressure mapping is used to identify support zones for which components are selected and assembled in the pressure dispersion support systems for pressure dispersion and relief. In a pressure dispersion support system in the form of a mattress, multiple zones are defined by arrangement of different kinds of support materials, including foam tops such as memory foam or moderate to low density polyurethane, and secondary foam layers or foam base of relatively higher density polyurethane and latex. Different types of foam and foam constructs are provided in different zones of the pressure dispersion pad. Incorporation of the pressure dispersion pad in a mattress system, and in combination with foam dampening inserts in an innerspring of the mattress system, translate the pressure relieving properties of the zoned pressure dispersion pad into a mattress system.
US07845033B2
A medical examination table is provided. The medical examination table comprises a base providing a storage area, a patient support movable independent of the base between a lowered position and a raised position, and a lift mechanism coupled to the patient support for moving the patient support between the lowered position and the raised position. The patient support comprises a backrest and a seat. Movement of the patient support independent or separately from the base and without interfering with the storage areas within the base may allow for the efficient use of the examination table as a storage area.
US07845027B2
The subject of the invention is a slow closure mechanism (A) for toilet covers wherein it comprises two-hinge bodies (1), two pins (2), two dampers (3) and a body cover (4). Slow closing and easy opening process of toilet covers are achieved by tightly recessing the pins (2) and dampers (3) in the hinge body (1), connecting toilet covers and body cover (4) to pin shaft (23) and damper shaft (31) in slow closure mechanism (A).
US07845018B1
A directional safety vest has a vest body adapted to cover a human torso. A front panel of the vest has a first fluorescent color. A back panel of the vest body has a second fluorescent color which is different from the first fluorescent color.
