US07929678B2
A method for managing conference resources includes receiving from an endpoint of a user a call to join a multipoint conference between a plurality of participants. Each participant communicates on the multipoint conference through a respective endpoint. The method includes determining that an insufficient amount of resources exist to allow the user to communicate on the multipoint conference and determining participation instructions to enable the user to communicate on the multipoint conference. The method also includes communicating the participation instructions. Location information associated with the user and location information associated with at least one of the plurality of participants may be used to determine the participation instructions to enable the user to communicate on the multipoint conference.
US07929676B2
An embodiment of a method includes determining a customer service plan identifier from information associated with a received call, determining a route plan associated with the identified customer service plan, and routing the call on a trunk group identified in the determined route plan. The method may further include determining a jurisdiction of the call based on a dialed number identified in the call, determining a local routing number (LRN) associated with the call, and using a portion of the LRN to determine the trunk group. An embodiment of a system includes a switch operable to select a route for routing a call received on an ingress trunk associated with a customer that subscribes to a service plan, wherein the switch is further operable to select the route based on the service plan subscribed to by the customer associated with the ingress trunk.
US07929667B1
An x-ray metrology tool having only one x-ray source. The x-ray source includes a liquid metal source for heating and melting at least one metal and producing a liquid metal jet, a liquid metal collector for acquiring the liquid metal jet, a liquid metal circulation system for returning liquid metal from the liquid metal collector to the liquid metal source, and an electron beam source for directing an electron beam at the liquid metal jet anode, thereby producing an incident x-ray beam that is directable towards a sample. A detector receives emissions from the sample in response to the incident x-ray beam, and produces signals indicative of properties of the sample. A controller controls the x-ray source, acquires the signals from the detector, and determines the properties of the sample based at least in part on the signals.
US07929664B2
CT scanning of transportation containers is performed by generating X-rays at various points at the opposite sides of the containers, detecting the X-rays passing through the containers, and analyzing the data received to determine the presence of contraband. The X-rays are generated by modulating a magnetic field through which a high-energy electron beam passes to deflect the beam successively to different targets positioned around the sides of the container, while the electron beam source remains stationary. The X-rays are detected by an array of cells using X-ray responsive storage phosphor material to emit light which is sent to analyzing and comparing equipment. The targets and detectors and the cargo container are moved relative to one another to scan a selected volume of the container.
US07929662B2
Method and apparatus for screening chemicals using micro x-ray fluorescence. A method for screening a mixture of potential pharmaceutical chemicals for binding to at least one target binder involves flow separating a solution of chemicals and target binders into separated components, exposing them to an x-ray excitation beam, detecting x-ray fluorescence signals from the components, and determining from the signals whether or not a binding event between a chemical and target binder has occurred.
US07929658B2
A shift register includes a plurality of shift register stages for providing gate signals. Each shift register stage has a pull-up unit, a carry unit, a carry control unit, an input unit and a pull-down unit. The pull-up unit is employed to pull up a gate signal according to a driving control voltage and a first clock. The carry unit generates a preliminary start pulse signal based on the driving control voltage and the first clock. The carry control unit outputs the preliminary start pulse signal to become a forward or backward start pulse signal according to first and second bias voltages. The input unit is utilized for inputting a start pulse signal generated by a preceding or succeeding shift register stage to become the driving control voltage. The pull-down unit pulls down the gate signal, the preliminary start pulse signal and the driving control voltage according to multiple clocks.
US07929656B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an inspection apparatus for inspecting weld zones in a reactor pressure vessel, the inspection apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic probe 6 for emitting an ultrasonic wave; a probe holding unit 60 for holding the ultrasonic probe 6 such that a ultrasonic wave transmitting surface of the ultrasonic probe 6 is kept in direct contact with or at a constant distance from the outer surface of the reactor pressure vessel 1; a pressing unit 50 for pressing the probe holding unit 60 parallel to a central axis of a control rod drive housing 8 against the reactor pressure vessel; and a rotator 40 for rotating the probe holding unit 60 and the pressing unit 50 about the central axis of the control rod drive housing 8.
US07929655B2
A system for controlling the transfer of a signal sequence in a first clock domain to a plurality of other clock domains. The system comprising: detecting circuitry for detecting receipt of the signals from the clock domains and setting an update signal when all of the signals received from the clock domains have a common state; and gating circuitry for receiving the update signal and operable, when the update signal is set, to allow a next signal in the sequence to be received at the input of the first circuitry.
US07929653B2
A method and apparatus for increasing the capacity of a system that use four transmit antennas and that employs conventional channel coding by performing space-time coding in a particular way. Each of two pairs of symbol sub-streams is space-time coded to form a respective pair of transmit-sequence chains, where at least one of the formed pairs of the transmit-sequence chains is a function of symbols of the respective symbol-sub-stream pair and not a function of the symbols of the other symbol-sub-stream pair. Four transmit sequences—two transmit sequences from each of the two pairs of symbol sub-streams—may be viewed as forming a transmission matrices B or B′ arranged as follows: Antenna 105 - 1 Antenna 105 - 2 Antenna 105 - 3 Antenna 105 - 4 [ b 1 b 1 - b 2 * - b 2 * b 2 b 2 b 1 * b 1 * b 3 - b 3 - b 4 * b 4 * b 4 - b 4 b 3 - b 3 * ] T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 or , Antenna 105 - 1 Antenna 105 - 2 Antenna 105 - 3 Antenna 105 - 4 [ b 1 - b 2 * 0 0 b 2 b 1 * 0 0 0 0 b 3 - b 4 * 0 0 b 4 b 3 * ] T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 , respectively, where b1, b2, b3, and b4 are the symbols derived from a respective one of four symbol sub-streams, and b1*, b2*, b3*, and b4* are, respectively, the complex conjugate of the aforementioned symbols. The rows of the matrix represent the different antennas, while the columns represent different symbol periods.
US07929652B2
Techniques for performing adaptive channel estimation are described. A receiver derives channel estimates for a wireless channel based on received pilot symbols and at least one estimation parameter. The receiver updates the at least one estimation parameter based on the received pilot symbols. The at least one estimation parameter may be for an innovations representation model of the wireless channel and may be updated based on a cost function with costs defined by prediction errors. In one design, the receiver derives predicted pilot symbols based on the received pilot symbols and the at least one estimation parameter, determines prediction errors based on the received pilot symbols and the predicted pilot symbols, and further derives error gradients based on the prediction errors. The receiver then updates the at least one estimation parameter based on the error gradients and the prediction errors, e.g., if a stability test is satisfied.
US07929648B2
An error detection apparatus and method compares a first hardwired value such as a first clock threshold, and a second hardwired value such as a second clock threshold, and generates an indication that there is an error in a clock signal based on a comparison of the first hardwired value and the second hardwired value to the clock signal. If an error is detected, the error detection apparatus will, for example, interrupt clock recovery logic to take proper action for recovery of a clock generation circuit that generated the clock signal. The clock signal may be generated based on, for example, a reference clock signal that may be provided by an external source clock, or any other suitable source.
US07929645B2
An efficient channel estimation system and method provides good performance under high Doppler conditions and is suitable for OFDM systems such as DVB-T. A number of different pilot interpolations techniques enable the estimation of channel for the OFDM systems. For 2k and 4k modes, the channel is estimated using the preceding symbol, the present symbol, and two succeeding symbols. For an 8k mode, only one future symbol is used to estimate the channel.
US07929644B2
Methods and systems for recovering clock and data in data streams communicated over serial communications links. An exemplary serial communications receiver system includes a line receiver configured to receive a data stream from a serial communications link and an instant-acquisition clock and data recovery circuit coupled to the line receiver. The instant-acquisition clock and data recovery circuit includes a time interval detector and a sampling clock selector. The time interval detector is operable to sample the data stream received by the line receiver according to a multi-phase set of sampling clocks. The sampling clock selector is operable to designate one of the sampling clocks of the multi-phase set of sampling clocks as a recovered clock, based on a data transition in the received data stream detected by the time interval detector. The clock selector is configured to designate the sampling clock as the recovered clock independent of data transitions in the data stream that may have occurred prior to the data transition detected by the time interval detector.
US07929625B2
Methods and apparatus for use in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system transmitting a plurality of data substreams to a receiver employing ordered successive interference cancellation detection according to a predetermined sequence for decoding the data substreams. A quality of service (QoS) requirement is determined for each of two or more application-specific data streams, and the application-specific data streams are assigned to the data substreams according to the determined QoS requirements and the predetermined sequence, so that application-specific data streams having more stringent QoS requirements are decoded earlier than application-specific data streams having less stringent QoS requirements. In some embodiments, the determined QoS requirements comprise maximum delay requirements, and application-specific data streams requiring shorter maximum delays are assigned to earlier-decoded data substreams than application-specific data streams having less stringent maximum delay requirements. In other embodiments, the determined QoS requirements comprise an application-specific robustness.
US07929622B2
A method of channel estimation is provided. The method is applied to a communication system having signals transmitted via a plurality of pilot and non-pilot sub-channels. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a first and second channel responses of each pilot sub-channel using pilot symbols received during a first and second time duration respectively, obtaining an estimated channel response of each pilot sub-channel by averaging the first and second channel responses thereof, and obtaining an estimated channel response of each non-pilot sub-channel by interpolation of those of the pilot sub-channels.
US07929618B2
A modulator performs data processing operations such as interpolation and fractional delay adjustment on amplitude and/or phase data by performing shift operations in lieu of multiplication operations. In selected embodiments, the modulator samples input data at a first rate, processes the sampled input data using the first rate, and then interpolates the processed data to produce interpolated data. The modulator then samples the interpolated data at a second rate higher than the first rate and generates output data at the second rate.
US07929614B2
Provided is an apparatus, medium, and method for processing neighbor information in a video decoder that can minimize the number of memory accesses. The apparatus includes a neighbor information providing unit and a storage unit. If at least one spatially neighboring block of a current block exists in memory, the neighbor information providing unit can access information of all neighbor blocks from the memory and provides the accessed information as neighbor information. The storage unit stores the neighbor information provided by the neighbor information providing unit and outputs the stored neighbor information to the plurality of modules.
US07929612B2
An image interpolation apparatus includes a half pel interpolation unit that is configured to perform half pel interpolation on input data to provide half pel interpolation results. A data selection unit is configured to select a portion of the half pel interpolation results to provide a selected portion of the half pel interpolation results. A quarter pel interpolation unit is configured to perform a quarter pel interpolation on the selected portion of the half pel interpolation results, in response to a motion vector. The half pel interpolation unit can operate independent of the motion vector. The quarter pel interpolation unit can generate a data selection signal in response to the motion vector, and the data selection unit can be responsive to the data selection signal. Related methods also are disclosed.
US07929609B2
Estimating and/or compensating motion in a video image is provided wherein an image segment of the video image is selected, a search area is defined around the image segment, the defining being based on a range of possible motion vectors for the image segment, and image data related to said search area is retrieved. The search area is defined to have its center offset from a center of the image segment. The offset may be determined by a global motion parameter.
US07929607B2
A video encoding method includes selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US07929605B2
In order to make it possible to obtain the correct decoded image even in the case of not decoding a particular frame of the encoded data and improve the coding efficiency, the predicted image production unit 103 selects the image data from the image data of a plurality of frames in the reference image memory 107 which are encoded in the past, of the i-th (1≦i≦j) category, for the current frame which is classified as the j-th category by the image classifying unit 102, and produces the predicted image. The difference encoding unit 104 encodes a difference between the image data of the current frame and the predicted image. Also, the current category encoding unit 106 encodes the category number of the current frame, and the reference image specifying data encoding unit 105 encodes the reference image specifying data which specifies the image data selected from the reference image memory 107.
US07929603B2
A method and system for encoding a video frame. The method includes grouping macroblocks of a video frame into a plurality of groups and determining a first encoding rate for at least one of the plurality of groups based on at least one quantization parameter value associated with the group. The method further includes determining a distortion value associated with the first encoding rate and determining a distortion reduction density value based on the distortion value and the first encoding rate. The method further includes accessing a rate budget associated with the frame and adjusting simultaneously a plurality of quantization parameter values associated with one or more of the plurality of groups.
US07929602B2
There are provided an apparatus and method for performing dynamic capacitance compensation (DCC) in a liquid crystal display (LCD). The DCC apparatus includes: a first line buffer reading and temporarily storing pixel values of an image for each line; an encoder transforming and quantizing the pixel values stored for each line for each block and generating bit streams; a memory storing the generated bit streams; a decoder decoding the bit streams stored in the memory for the each block and outputting the decoded bit streams; a second line buffer reading and temporarily storing the decoded pixel values for the each block; and a compensation pixel value detector detecting a compensation pixel value for each pixel, from pixel value differences between pixel values of a current frame stored in the first line buffer and pixel values of a previous frame stored in the second line buffer. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the number of pins of a memory interface by reducing the number of memory device for storing pixel values of image data, required for performing DCC of a LCD, resulting in minimizing a chip size, and to enhance compression efficiency without visual deterioration in images.
US07929600B2
In difference coding, each of a first to M-th channel signals is divided into frames and independent energy of every channel signal and difference energy of difference signals between all channel signals are calculated for each frame. In ascending order of energy, if a signal corresponding to an energy value is independent signal, it is determined that independent coding should be used for the signal. If the signal is a difference signal and the type of coding for one of channel signals has been determined, it is determined that the other should be difference-coded using the former channel signal as a reference signal. If the type of coding for neither of the channel signals has been determined, it is determined that one of them should be independently coded and the other should be difference-coded using the former channel signal as a reference signal.
US07929585B2
Systems and methods for high brightness, improved phase characteristics laser diodes.
US07929583B2
A system and method for optical frequency conversion having asymmetric output include a coherent light apparatus. The coherent light apparatus includes a coherent light source that produces a first coherent light, a frequency converter optically coupled to the coherent light source, and a coupling optic optically coupled between the coherent light source and the frequency converter. The frequency converter converts the first coherent light to a second coherent light at a second frequency and includes an asymmetric frequency converter (AFC) that nonlinearly converts the first coherent light to the second coherent light with the frequency conversion being more efficient in a first direction than in a second direction. A resonant cavity formed about the AFC circulates the first coherent light and transmits the second coherent light propagating in the first direction.
US07929581B2
A testing method of a wavelength-tunable laser having a resonator including wavelength selection portions having wavelength property different from each other includes a first step of controlling the wavelength-tunable laser so as to oscillate at a given wavelength according to an initial setting value, a second step of tuning the wavelength property of the wavelength selection portions and detecting discontinuity point of gain-condition-changing of the wavelength-tunable laser, and a third step of obtaining a stable operating point of the wavelength selection portion according to a limiting point of an oscillation condition at the given wavelength, the limiting point being a point when the discontinuity point is detected.
US07929566B2
A terminal includes a higher level bandwidth manager and a lower level bandwidth manager. The higher level bandwidth manager generates a guaranteed access request message including size information of a bandwidth corresponding to user data, transmits the guaranteed access request message, and transmits a user data transmission message including the user data. The lower level bandwidth manager uses the guaranteed access request message transmitted from the higher level bandwidth manager, generates a bandwidth request message using a guaranteed access, transmits the bandwidth request message to a base station, obtains the user data from the user data transmission message when receiving a bandwidth allocation signal from the base station, and transmits the user data to the base station.
US07929563B2
Embodiments of methods, devices and/or systems for estimating channel state information are described.
US07929559B2
In one embodiment, a network element of the wireless communication system receives a request from a scheduling party. The request is for scheduling message delivery to a destination party. Message delivery parameters are obtained in response to the request. The message delivery parameters may include a date of delivery and contact information for the destination party. The message to be delivered is also obtained. The obtained message is then sent to the destination party as set forth by the obtained message delivery parameters.
US07929556B2
A method is disclosed, by which a local mobility anchor (LMA) In a proxy mobile IP network can perform address assignment for a mobile node in cooperation with network address translation, so that the mobile node can be configured with a private HoA. In one embodiment, the LMA obtains the NAI of a mobile node (MN) that is: (i) operating as an IPv4 host and (ii) seeking entry to the network as its home network. The LMA identifies a DHCP server located in the network and serving at least one NAT, and sends it a request message in which the ClientId is set equal to the NAI of the mobile node. The LMA receives a private HoA from the DHCP server, which it forwards in a PBA message to a mobile access gateway (MAG) connected to the MN.
US07929554B2
In one embodiment, when a frame is directed to one or more customer instance ports (CIPs) of a switch having received the frame, the frame (a “local frame”) may be forwarded on the one or more CIPs based on only a customer space (C-space) lookup operation. Also, if the frame is not directed to any CIPs of the switch, the frame (a “transient frame”) may be forwarded on at least one or more provider backbone ports (PBPs) of the switch based on only a backbone space (B-space) lookup operation. For example, a unicast frame may be forwarded based on whether the frame terminates at the switch having received the frame (to a CIP of the switch), while a multicast frame may be forwarded based on determining whether an instance service identifier (I-SID) of the frame maps to a local VLAN ID (L-VID) at the switch (to any CIPs servicing that L-VID).
US07929553B2
A system and method for adjusting a level of compression for endpoint devices. Endpoint devices in a network can stream audio/video traffic over a network. Such a connection between the endpoint devices can be reserved with guarantees of latency being obtained. Latency guarantees across multiple intermediary switches can be used to define a compression level for the end devices.
US07929547B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of communicating in a network with a plurality of nodes. In the method, information is gathered from the plurality of nodes, where information from each node specifies other nodes from which the node detected messages. Based on the gathered information, a transmit sequence according to which the plurality of nodes are to transmit is determined. Other methods and devices are also disclosed.
US07929545B2
Network interconnection apparatus comprising a platform with interface ports for network interconnection and comprising in turn a first series and a second series of interface port cards and an interconnection unit for commanded interconnection at least between the cards of the first and second series and between cards of the first series. The cards of the first series have their own associated MAC address tables for addressing traffic between ports through the interconnection unit. Each entry of the table has an age field defining in time the age of the entry. The content of the age field is periodically verified and if it reaches a preset maximum figure the entry is updated on the basis of the content of the age field by a corresponding entry in the table of another card of the first series and associated therewith by the information in the entry to be updated. If the content of the age field of the corresponding entry is also a maximum figure, both the entries can be deleted.
US07929542B2
A method of managing resources in a network. For each application executing on a host device, data transfer requirements are determined based on a capability level currently acceptable for the application. Methods of data transfer currently available to the host device for applying toward the data transfer requirements of the applications are determined. The method includes arbitrating allocation of network resources to a gateway and allocation of resources of the gateway to the host device based on probability of application effectiveness and network bandwidth management priorities, and arbitrating allocation of host device resources to the applications based on current acceptable capability level and probability of application effectiveness.
US07929538B2
Provided is an information processing system and the like that can make a communication between plural information processing devices belonging to different LANs. A first tunnel communication device includes a first address correlating information memory unit that stores information for correlating an address in a first LAN with an address in a second LAN, a first address translating unit that translates an address of a packet on the basis of the correlating information, a first P2P communication setup unit that sets up a P2P communication with a device as a destination, and a first tunnel communication unit that makes a tunnel communication through a path of a P2P communication. The packet transmitted from a first information processing device is translated in address, is encapsulated, and is then transmitted through the path of the P2P communication. The packet transmitted from the device as a destination is decapsulated, is translated in address, and is then transmitted to the first information processing device.
US07929529B2
A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method thereof are provided. An apparatus for generating a transport stream includes a packet generator for generating a plurality of packets by compressing video and audio signals; a counter for counting the number of the generated packets and outputting the count result; and an information controller for determining whether the count result of counting reaches a predetermined number of packets, inserting packet start information into the packets according to the count result, and transmitting the packets with the packet start information inserted therein. The packet start information is added to a packet to be transmitted in a transmitter, and the packet start information is extracted from the received packet in a receiver, so that the waste of frequency resources can be reduced.
US07929523B2
A system, method and computer readable medium for mediating communication between a mobile device and a data source over a network is described. The system includes an asynchronous message receiver that is configured to receive an asynchronous request message from the device. The asynchronous request message includes an identifier field for identifying the asynchronous request message and a message field. The system also includes a synchronous message transceiver communicatively coupled to the asynchronous message receiver and configured to synchronously communicate with the data source by sending a synchronous request message to the data source and receiving a synchronous response message from the data source in return. The synchronous request message includes the message field of the asynchronous request message. A rules processor also forms part of the system, and is communicatively coupled to the synchronous message transceiver. The rules processor is configured to apply a set of rules to combine the identifier field and the message field of the asynchronous request message with a message field of the synchronous response message to form an asynchronous response message that is correlated with the asynchronous request message, thereby allowing the device to use application logic resident thereon to resolve the relation between the asynchronous request and response messages by using the identifier field, and to process the asynchronous response message without having to store the message field of the asynchronous request message on the device after the asynchronous request message has been asynchronously pushed from the device.
US07929521B2
An IP telephone device may be configured to obtain identification information of each of a plurality of receiver devices, create text data including the identification information of each of the plurality of receiver devices, receive a call request, send the text data to a sender of the call request, receive at least one identification information selected in the sender of the call request in accordance with the text data, send a first call request notice instruction to a receiver device corresponding to the received identification information, transfer voice data sent from the receiver device which has been a destination of the first call request notice instruction to the sender of the call request, and transfer voice data sent from the sender of the call request to the receiver device which has been the destination of the first call request notice instruction.
US07929520B2
In a method, apparatus and system for transmitting packet loss concealment (PLC) information, a subscriber device divides a voice sample into a plurality of packets, each including a plurality of successive frames having portions of the voice sample. The subscriber device determines if a predetermined look ahead time duration from the final frame of the plurality of successive frames in a current packet of the plurality of packets includes a noise to voice transition. When the predetermined look ahead time duration is determined to include the noise to voice transition, the subscriber device packs packing information regarding the predetermined look ahead time duration into the current packet. Finally, the subscriber device encodes the plurality of successive frames into the current packet for transmission.
US07929516B2
The present invention is an intelligent services network that uses a switch controller. The switch controller controls the operation of one or more programmable switches to accept calls from a public switched telephone network. The intelligent service network comprises intelligent service network components that are used for enhanced service processing, interconnection to external networks, and other call functions. Communication between the components allows for call set-up, connection to a terminating party, transfer to an alternate intelligent service network component, and termination of the call.
US07929501B2
Methods and apparatus related to efficiently communicating information, such as base station identification information and/or timing information, via beacon signals are described. Base station identification information and/or timing information is communicated via beacon signals. A beacon coding scheme is utilized in which different base station sectors in the communications system are associated with different sub-sets of beacon tones, e.g., a sub-set of 4 beacon tones. Different beacon tone sub-sets have at most 1 tone in common. A base station sector transmitter transmits a sequence of beacon signals, in accordance with a predetermined beacon tone hopping pattern, in a recurring timing structure, each beacon signal including one of the tones from its associated beacon tone subset. The structure of the beacon tone subsets and the hopping pattern facilitates efficient communication of information, efficient recovery of information being communicated and/or a simple implementation decoder by a wireless terminal.
US07929499B2
In a method of multipath acquisition for a dedicated traffic channel, path positions of the traffic channel that have desired signal energy for processing in a base station receiver may be determined as a function of information contained in a data part and a control part of the traffic channel.
US07929497B1
A method of operating a communication system is disclosed. A first communication session between a first base station and a mobile station is established. A service session between a first access network and the mobile station is established. When the mobile station moves to the service area of a new base station, a second communication session between a second base station and the mobile station is established. A distance between the first base station and the second base station is determined. If the distance exceeds a criteria, the service session is handed off a second access network. The criteria, which must be greater than zero, corresponds to the number of base station service areas separating the first base station and the second base station.
US07929489B2
A method for discovering a network service provider, a network side transmitting apparatus and a network discovering apparatus for a user side device are disclosed. The method is used in a wireless communication network which includes a network access provider, a user side device and a network service provider. The method includes: issuing, by a network side, information that identifies a network access provider sharing mode; discovering the network service provider by the user side device in a manner corresponding to the information that identifies the network access provider sharing mode, when the user side device accesses the network. The present invention discovers a network service provider by incorporating different network access provider sharing modes into the existing wireless communication networks, and thus can utilize network resources effectively.
US07929485B2
A home agent receives a communication packet sent out from a source terminal to a mobile terminal as a destination to transfer the communication packet to the mobile terminal connected to a foreign network. This home agent requests the mobile terminal, based on a measured result of internal resources, to bypass the home agent to perform a communication with a source terminal.
US07929484B2
A wireless communication network is provided that includes a plurality of communication cells each defined by at least one communication coverage area and a plurality of access points each corresponding to a different one of the plurality of communication cells. Each access point is configured to communicate on a first frequency with at least one of (i) a subscriber in the at least one communication coverage area in a first communication cell and (ii) a subscriber in a second communication cell. Each access point is further configured to communicate on a second frequency with an access point in a third communication cell.
US07929480B2
Techniques for generating quality indicator bits in a wireless communication system (e.g., a cdma2000 that implements IS-2000). In one method, a determination is first made whether a good data frame was received from a first transmission for the current frame interval. This first transmission may be a non-continuous transmission on a forward dedicated control channel (F-DCCH) defined by IS-2000. If a good data frame was received, then a quality indicator bit is generated based on the good data frame. Otherwise, the quality indicator bit is generated based on a second transmission, which may comprise power control bits that are transmitted even when no data frames are sent in the first transmission. The received signal quality for the power control bits can be measured and compared against a threshold, and the quality indicator bit is then set based on the result of the comparison. The threshold may be dynamically updated.
US07929478B2
An optimal resource allocation strategy for OFDMA multi-hop wireless networks is disclosed. The system allocates one or more resources in a multi-hop network by solving one or more higher-layer sub-problem; solving one or more physical layer and media access control (PHY/MAC) layer sub-problems per tone per time slot with one of cooperative relaying of radio signals or spatial reusing of radio spectrum; updating prices; and allocating radio resources based on the PHY/MAC layer sub-problems.
US07929477B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus and a system for data transmission, the method comprises: reusing, when the hop number of a branch in a radio communication network is greater than a predetermined hop number, resources of the predetermined hop number on links with different hop numbers in the radio communication network. The method, apparatus and system provided by the embodiments of the present invention may guarantee the real time traffic transmission of a forwarding network, improve the spectrum efficiency of the forwarding network and assure the dynamic expansion of the forwarding network.
US07929475B2
An Internet protocol (IP) packet switching communication system using real time transport protocol (RTP). Control packets map group identification codes to a multicast address on a network. Control packets are distributed on the network using simple object access protocol (SOAP) messages with extensible markup language (XML) payloads. Mapping may include dynamic or static functions. Multicast address data is distributed among routers. A message from a caller is multicast by the routers, based on the multicast address, to one or more destinations.
US07929472B2
A method and an apparatus for improving power efficiency of a User Equipment (UE) by using channel state information between a Node B and the UE and power headroom information of the UE in a mobile communication system. The method includes acquiring power information in relation to transmission powers of UEs; arranging the UEs in a sequence based on the power information; determining, for each UE according to the arranged sequence, whether a first reception power of a Node B exceeds a second reception power; allocating a resource area including partially consecutive sub-carriers to at least one corresponding UE when the first reception power exceeds the second reception power; allocating a resource area including entirely consecutive sub-carriers to at least one corresponding UE when the first reception power does not exceed the second reception power; and transmitting resource allocation information indicating the allocated resource area to the each UE.
US07929468B2
A method for reducing interference between FDD and a TDD interfering radio networks including identifying respective radio entities for which the interferences should be reduced; defining a time pattern comprising time slots on each of the interfered channels, and receive time intervals for radio entities that may be interfered, and aligning the time patterns so that receive time intervals for the radio entities that are potentially exposed to interferences, overlap each other. The radio entity that might create interference to the radio entity of the pre-defined type of the other network, is prevented from transmitting communications that might create e substantial interference to the radio entity associated with the other radio network, and communications transmitted to some radio entities of the pre-defined types that might experience interference, are scheduled at intervals in which communications are received with substantially reduced interference.
US07929462B1
A method and server are disclosed for providing floor control in a full-duplex communication session. When no participant currently holds the floor, a server grants the floor in response to receipt of a media stream from a participant, by outputting the participant's media more loudly than one or more other participants' media, while concurrently outputting media from multiple participants. Further, the server may grant levels of the floor with varying levels of loudness, perhaps based on an order in which the server receives media streams as implicit floor requests from the various participants.
US07929457B2
The performance of a network can be managed by receiving a set of key quality parameters, wherein a key quality parameter represents a characteristic associated with at least one network component; identifying a service quality mapping module based on one or more network components associated with providing an end customer service, wherein the service quality mapping module corresponds to at least one service instance and defines a correlation between the set of key quality parameters and a set of customer quality parameters; applying the service quality mapping module to the set of key quality parameters to generate the set of customer quality parameters; and outputting a signal representing at least one customer quality parameter included in the set of customer quality parameters. Further, the service quality mapping module can define a linear dependency between a customer quality parameter and at least one key quality parameter.
US07929452B2
Apparatus, system, and method having a first memory to receive a parameter associated with a second operating system protocol stack; and a first operating system protocol stack to be configured with said parameter. The system includes a communication medium and a manageability module. The method includes monitoring content of messages communicated between a host client computer and a server computer over a network, inspecting the content of the messages for protocol parameters, providing the protocol parameters to a manageability module associated with the host client computer, and configuring a second operating system protocol stack associated with the manageability module to match a first operating system protocol stack associated with the host client computer.
US07929449B2
System, method and program product for determining a cause of a failure of a communication from a source device to a destination device. A preferred route from the source device to the destination device comprises a series of routers in a forward order. First program instructions determine one or more initial routers in the series in the forward order from the source device toward the destination device. A last of the initial routers does not designate a next router in the series in the forward order toward the destination device. Second program instructions determine the series of routers in a reverse order from the destination device toward the source device. Third program instructions determine from the series of routers in reverse order as determined by the second program instructions which router the last of the initial routers should designate as its next router in the forward order toward the destination device, and send a notification as to which router the last of the initial routers should designate as its next router in the forward order toward the destination device.
US07929447B2
An isochronous back channel is configured between a transmitting device and a receiving device. The isochronous back channel provides retransmission and flow control information from the receiving device to the transmitting device related to a stream of isochronous data packets transmitted from the transmitting device to the receiving device. An isochronous back channel packet for indicating a retransmission or flow control function to perform is configured and transmitted from the receiving device to the transmitting device over the isochronous back channel. A transmitting plug is configured on the receiving device and a receiving plug is configured on the transmitting device for implementing the isochronous back channel. The isochronous back channel packet includes a control instruction that instructs the transmitting device to either reset, stop or resume transmission of the stream of isochronous data packets being transmitted from the transmitting device to the receiving device.
US07929445B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for determining a data transmission rate in consideration of the queue length of a Relay Station RS in a multi-hop relay system. A Base Station BS apparatus of the multi-hop relay system includes a receiver and a calculator. The receiver receives channel condition information and queue length information for a Mobile Station MS from an RS. The calculator of the BS apparatus determines a data transmission rate between the BS and the RS for data of the MS using the channel condition information and the queue length information.
US07929443B1
A system for providing session based resource allocation in a core or edge networking device are disclosed. Session awareness is provided in networking devices by session control signal interception and interpretation, followed by session based resource commitment, session based data packet treatment, and session management within the networking devices. The session awareness provided to networking devices through the convergence software provides the networking devices with the ability to differentiate between packets belonging to different communication sessions, and to provide the services needed for each committed session.
US07929441B1
A method and system of assigning DSP resources in a voice gateway which first seeks to assign the calls to DSPs on a best fit basis using information in a best fit (BF) pool. If a call can not be assigned on a BF basis, the call is assigned to a DSP based on information in a load balancing (LB) pool. The BF pool indicates which DSPs will be completely loaded by calls using various codecs and which DSPs have calls that have a first channel penalty (FCP). The LB pool indicates the number of calls each DSP is handling.
US07929439B1
A network interface controller and network interface control method comprising providing a single integrated circuit as a network interface controller and employing a plurality of network interface cores on the single integrated circuit.
US07929427B2
In a method for enabling facilitation of re-convergence, designation information for a first port of each one of a plurality of bridges in a multi-bridge ring is received and designation information for a second port of each one of a plurality of bridges in a multi-bridge ring is received. The first port of each one of a plurality of bridges is a first direction Ring Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RRSTP) port and the second port of each one of a plurality of bridges is a second direction RRSTP port. The first direction around the ring (e.g., a forward direction) is opposite the second direction around said ring (e.g., a backward direction). A first reserved RRSTP MAC address is associated with the first direction port of each one of the bridges and a second reserved MAC address is associated with the second direction port of each one of the bridges.
US07929422B2
A method is disclosed for providing fault tolerance of an application over a Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) connection. A method for moving a transport connection from a first host to a second host on a network is also described. After establishing a transport connection between the first host and a peer host, first information about the transport connection is transferred to the second host. Upon the first host becoming unavailable, the second host sends to the peer host a request to update the state of the transport connection. The peer host then updates the transport connection. Without resetting the transport connection, the second host then establishes the same transport connection with the peer host.
US07929416B2
A receiver in an OFDM based communication system is adapted to perform channel estimation using a received reference signal transmitted from at least one antenna The reference signal is substantially located into at least two OFDM symbols of a transmission time interval comprising of more than two OFDM symbols. A power level of said reference signal is divided into said non-consecutive OFDM symbols in said transmission time interval and adapted to use the reference signal located in a first OFDM symbol in succeeding transmission time intervals in addition to the reference symbols in a current transmission time interval and a preceding transmission time interval.
US07929413B2
A transmission system capable of obtaining an effect of orthogonality among time block codes and an effect of path diversity on a distorted channel is provided. In the transmission system including: a transmitter device transmitting an information signal S[n] multiplied by a code, the code being a time block code constituted by a plurality of time series symbols, the transmitter device multiplying the information signal by a plurality of the time block codes, respectively, multiplexing multiplication results on a time axis and transmitting multiplexed signals; and a receiver device including a reception filter, if an impulse response matrix of a channel is a matrix H, a characteristic of the reception filter is set to be represented by a complex conjugate transpose matrix HH to the matrix H and each of the time block codes is set by an eigen code E_I[n] represented by an eigen vector of a matrix HHH representing a coupled system in which the channel is coupled to the reception filter.
US07929410B2
A protocol engine (PE) for processing data within a protocol stack in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The protocol stack executes decision and control operations. The data processing and re-formatting which was performed in a conventional protocol stack is removed from the protocol stack and performed by the PE. The protocol stack issues a control word for processing data and the PE processes the data based on the control word. Preferably, the WTRU includes a shared memory and a second memory. The shared memory is used as a data block place holder to transfer the data amongst processing entities. For transmit processing, the PE retrieves source data from the second memory and processes the data while moving the data to the shared memory based on the control word. For receive processing, the PE retrieves received data from the shared memory and processes it while moving the data to the second memory.
US07929407B2
Methods and systems are provided that enable an OFDM transmitter to be used for transmitting conventional OFDM or a form of transformed OFDM. A technique is provided for transforming a coded and modulated sequence of samples prior to an IFFT that enables the transformed sequence of samples to be transmitted using conventional OFDM or transformed OFDM. The selection of a transform function for transforming the coded and modulated sequence of samples may be based on optimizing the transform function for particular operating conditions between the transmitter and receiver. In some embodiments of the invention OFDM and time transformed OFDM are multiplexed in time and/or frequency in a transmission frame. In some embodiments of the invention a pilot pattern is provided in which the pilot are sent using OFDM and data is sent using OFDM and/or transformed OFDM.
US07929404B2
An information recording medium (100) is provided with a plurality of recording layers (L0 layer, L1 layer) to record therein record information, and property information (200) indicating properties of the each recording layer is recorded in each of the plurality of recording layers.
US07929403B2
To record information in an optical storage medium, a pulsed laser beam produced by a laser light source is split into first and second pulsed laser beams by a beam splitter. The first pulsed laser beam to be concentrated in the optical storage medium supported by a medium support part is interrupted and resumed by a shutter. The second pulsed laser beam is received by a photosensor which produces a detection signal. A controller includes a sync-generator configured to receive the detection signal from the photosensor and to generate a synchronizing signal based upon the received detection signal, and a shutter driver configured to drive the shutter in synchronization with timing represented by the synchronizing signal generated by the sync-generator.
US07929401B2
An objective lens used for an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus for an optical disc based on a predetermined standard is made of resin and has a numerical aperture larger than or equal to 0.75. When f (unit: mm) represents a focal length at a wavelength λ (unit: nm), d (unit: mm) represents a thickness, and n represents a refractive index of the objective lens at the wavelength λ, the objective lens satisfies following conditions: 1.00
US07929400B2
The present invention relates to an optical scanner system for scanning of an optical sound track with a beam of light, comprising a light emitter for emission of a light beam, a device for scanning the light beam across an optical sound track, the light beam forming a scanning spot on the optical sound track, an optical detector for detection of the light beam upon interaction of the light beam with the optical sound track and generating an electronic signal representing the sound recorded in the optical sound track.
US07929392B2
According to one embodiment, an optical disk apparatus is provided with a read section which reads data from an optical disk to output read information, a determination section which determines presence/absence of an error of the read information to output an error presence/absence signal, a transfer processing section which receives the error presence/absence signal and receives a hash request signal and transfers the hash request signal when the error presence/absence signal indicates the absence of an error, and does not transfer the hash request signal when the error presence/absence signal indicates the presence of an error, and a processing section which performs hash processing to the read information upon reception of the hash request signal.
US07929391B2
A write-once optical recording medium, a method for allocating a defect management area of the write-once optical recording medium, and a method for allocating a spare area of the write-once optical recording medium are provided. A method of managing defects on a write-once optical recording medium having at least one recording layer includes the steps of allocating at least one temporary defect management area having a fixed size and at least one temporary defect management area having a variable size to said optical recording medium, respectively, recording defect management information on the at least one temporary defect management area having a fixed size and the at least one temporary defect management area having a variable size; and using the at least one temporary defect management area having a fixed size and the at least one temporary defect management area having a variable size is provided herein.
US07929386B2
A focus error signal is generated by a first-order diffracted light diffracted by regions 23b, 24b on a hologram plane 2a, and an offset of a tracking error signal is canceled by first-order diffracted light diffracted by regions 21a, 22a, 23a, 24a on the hologram plane 2a. Consequently, even when there is an error in the substrate thicknesses of optical discs, jitter of a reproduction signal at a focus control point can be reduced by decreasing the distance between the focus control point and the point where the jitter is minimized.
US07929383B2
A optical disc drive is disclosed. The optical disc drive includes a housing and a tray configured to accommodate a disc therein. The optical disc drive also includes an automatic return-type eject switch, a drive controller, and an eject controller. Mounted in the housing, the automatic return-type eject switch is configured to generate an eject signal. In response to the eject signal, the drive controller ejects the tray. In response to the eject signal, the eject controller supplies an electric power to the optical disc drive, and transmits a pseudo eject signal to the drive controller to eject the tray by way of a line through which the eject signal has been transferred after a predetermined time period from the supply of the electric power has lapsed.
US07929374B1
Methods, computer-readable means, and systems for minimizing false alarm rates and operator loading while conducting multistatic active sonar operations are disclosed. A plurality of sensor nodes is established, with each sensor node including an active sonar source, and a receiver. Each sensor node has a local storage center, and each node is connected to a data fusion center. During active sonar operations, a high threshold (HTH) and a low threshold (LTH) setting is established. For each sensor node, all sonar return data above the LTH setting are stored at its respective storage center. The HTH is set so that only specular echo returns exceed the HTH; when the HTH setting is exceeded, the fusion center retrieves LTH data from each storage center corresponding to the same specular echo return, in order to establish a track for the contact.
US07929369B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having at least one memory bank. The memory bank being divided into memory blocks such that the memory blocks have a block position including at least one edge memory block at an edge of the memory bank and at least one non-edge memory block. Each memory block includes a plurality of memory cells. Each memory cell associated with at least one bit line and at least one word line. The semiconductor memory device includes a refresh execution circuit configured to activate a less than or equal number of word lines one at a time during a refresh operation for the memory cells in the edge memory block as activated one at a time during a refresh operation for the memory cells in the non-edge memory block.
US07929368B2
Memory devices and methods are described such as those that monitor and adjust characteristics for various different portions of a given memory device. Examples of different portions include tiles, or arrays, or dies. One memory device and method described includes monitoring and adjusting characteristics of different portions of a 3D stack of memory dies. One characteristic that can be adjusted at multiple selected portions includes refresh rate.
US07929365B2
Memory structure, programming method and reading method therefor, and memory control circuit thereof
A memory structure that improves a sensing accuracy of memory cells by dividing the main array into a number of memory units and sensing memory cells of each memory units with an appropriate set of reference currents. Each of the memory units corresponds to a reference group bit value, which indicates the appropriate set of reference currents. The appropriate set of reference currents is chosen from a number of sets of selective reference currents according to the threshold voltage distribution of each of the memory units. Thus, each of the memory units of the memory structure is sensed correctly with its own appropriate set of reference currents, and the improvement of sensing accuracy is therefore achieved.
US07929364B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor memory apparatus capable of improving precharge performance. The semiconductor memory apparatus includes a plurality of memory banks, data input/output lines commonly connected to the memory banks, and a plurality of precharge circuit units connected to the data input/output lines and aligned in an extension direction of the data input/output lines while being spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance.
US07929363B1
A method of optimizing memory cell write/read is disclosed. The memory cell write/read is optimized by first reading the memory cell data using the normal mode. Next the page latch data that was used to NV (Non-Volatile) write the memory is also read back directly from the page latches. The two data are then compared to verify a successful and optimized memory cell write/read. NV writes and reads are performed with various high voltage parameters and sense amplifier reference settings to arrive at the most optimal one that gives the largest sense window for best write/read reliability. The page latch read mode is also used as a DFT (Design for Test) test mode to check for page latch functionality and page address uniqueness without having to write the memory cell. The page latch is written with logic data and read out directly using the page latch read mode to verify page functionality.
US07929362B2
In an embodiment, an integrated semiconductor memory includes a plurality of data lines via which data read out or to be read out from memory cells can be communicated, wherein the data lines comprise redundant data lines and non-redundant data lines, wherein the semiconductor memory has at least one data distributor line, and wherein a plurality of redundant data lines are connected up to the at least one data distributor line in such a way that in each case a redundant data line or a group of redundant data lines from the plurality of redundant data lines can be selected and can be connected to the at least one data distributor line.
US07929361B2
A transceiver (222) includes a receive circuit (320), a transmit circuit (340), a shared delay locked loop (DLL) (360), and a controller (210). The receive circuit (320) has a first input coupled to an external data terminal, a second input coupled to an external data strobe terminal, and an output coupled to an internal data terminal. The transmit circuit (340) has a first input coupled to the internal data terminal, a second input for receiving an internal clock signal, a first output coupled to the external data terminal, and a second output coupled to the external data strobe terminal. The controller (210) enables the shared DLL (360) for use by the receive circuit (320) during a receive cycle, and enables the shared DLL (360) for use by the transmit circuit (340) during a transmit cycle.
US07929354B2
A flash storage device includes flash storage units that are purged in response to a condition or command wherein, during or subsequent to the purge, the purge is verified. A flash controller interface receives a command for purging the flash storage device and provides a purge command to flash controllers in the flash storage device. Alternatively, the flash storage device detects a condition in response to which the flash controller interface provides a purge command to the flash controllers. Each flash controller independently erases a flash storage unit in response to receiving the purge command such that the flash storage units are erased substantially in parallel with each other. The purge of the flash storage device is subsequently verified.
US07929353B2
A method and apparatus are provided for adaptive memory cell overerase compensation. A semiconductor memory device (100) is provided for performing the adaptively compensating erase verify operation (500, 600). The memory device (100) includes at least one word line (402). One or more memory cells (200) and one or more reference cells (406, 408) are connected to the word lines (402), where the one or more reference cells (406, 408) include an erased reference cell (408) connected to each word line (402). The method (500, 600) for adaptive memory cell overerase compensation includes determining an erase verify gate voltage (506, 608) utilizing the erased reference cell(s) (408) and verifying an erase voltage (514) of the memory cells (200) in response to the erase verify gate voltage (512, 614).
US07929344B2
Semiconductor memory device having stacked gate including charge accumulation layer and control gate
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell, a bit line, a source line, a detection circuit, and a sense amplifier. The memory cell holds or more levels of data. The bit line is electrically connected to a drain of the memory cell. The source line is electrically connected to a source of the memory cell. The detection circuit detects a current flowing through the source line during a read operation and a verify operation on the data. The sense amplifier reads the data by sensing a current flowing through the bit line during the read operation and the verify operation. Whether or not the sense amplifier reads the same data plural times is determined according to a current amount detected by the detection circuit.
US07929337B2
A semiconductor memory device includes at least one write global bit line connected to a plurality of local bit lines and at least one read global bit line connected to the local bit lines. The phase-change memory device having the write global bit line and the read global bit line suppress coupling noise generated during a read-while-write operation.
US07929329B2
A memory array contains a plurality of banks coupled to each other by a plurality of data lines. Each of the data lines is divided into a plurality of segments within the array. Respective bidirectional buffers couple read data from one of the segments to another in a first direction, and to couple write data from one of the segments to another in a second direction that is opposite the first direction. The data lines may be local data read/write lines that couple different banks of memory cells to each other and to respective data terminals, digit lines that couple memory cells in a respective column to respective sense amplifiers, word lines that activate memory cells in a respective row, or some other signal line within the array. The memory array also includes precharge circuits for precharging the segments of respective data lines to a precharge voltage.
US07929324B1
A direct current to pulse amplitude modulated (“PAM”) current converter, denominated a “PAMCC”, is connected to an individual source of direct current. Some embodiments provide a PAMCC for each direct current source in an array, for example multiple solar panels. The PAMCC receives direct current and provides pulse amplitude modulated current at its output. The pulses are produced at a high frequency relative to the signal modulated on a sequence of pulses. The signal modulated onto a sequence of pulses may represent portions of a lower frequency sine wave or other lower frequency waveform, including DC. When a PAMCC's output is connected in parallel with the outputs of similar PAMCCs an array of PAMCCs is formed, wherein the output pulses of the PAMCCs are out of phase with respect to each other. An array of PAMCCs constructed in accordance with the present invention form a distributed multiphase inverter whose combined output is the demodulated sum of the current pulse amplitude modulated by each PAMCC.
US07929319B2
A positioning structure for portable electronic device includes two latching elements and a positioning element. Each latching element includes a blocking portion. The positioning element includes a cover portion and two fixing portions formed at two ends thereof. The cover portion defines a plurality of cavities for receiving electronic components. Each fixing portion defines a hole, and the blocking portion is received in the hole.
US07929312B2
The present invention provides a device mounting structure and a device mounting method in which the short circuit can be prevented between a device lead part and a device ground part when the reflow process is executed. Thus, in the device mounting structure of the present invention, the device is contained in an aperture part provided in a wired board on a heat-radiating plate, a device main part of the device being fixed on the device ground part, a device lead part extending from opposing sides of the device main part is connected to a wiring part on the wired board, and an internal wall of the aperture part positioned just under the device lead part and the device ground part positioned on the heat-radiating plate are separated by a predetermined distance.
US07929310B2
According to at least one embodiment, a cell board interconnection architecture comprises an interconnection structure for interconnecting a plurality of cell boards, the interconnection structure configured to allow air to pass therethrough in a direction in which the cell boards couple therewith.
US07929302B2
A cooling device for dissipating heat for an electronic device includes a shell to absorb heat generating from a heat generating element in the electronic device, and a number of fins. The shell bounds a heat exchanging space and defines an air intake and an air outlet. The number of fins extends into the heat exchanging space. The shell guides air outside the shell to enter into the shell through the air intake and to exit from the shell through the air outlet after exchanging heat in the heat exchanging space.
US07929298B2
A notebook computer include a base unit having a pivot end, a display unit piovtably attached to the pivot end of the base unit, and two support stands attached to the base unit near the pivot end. The base unit includes a top surface defining a recessed portion and two side surfaces. Each of the support stands includes a first supporting element slidable along the recessed portion includes a first and second boards. A first pivot post is formed on the first board to be slidably received in a first sliding slot defined in a first sidewall of the recessed portion, and pivotable when the first pivot post reaches an end of the recessed portion near the corresponding side surface, the first board pivotable to a position that is substantially perpendicular to a plane to seat the second board on a plane thereby tilting the base unit on the plane.
US07929292B2
An electronic device with a heat dissipation mechanism includes a main body, at least one supporting member, at least one driving device, a temperature sensor, and a controller. The main body defines a plurality of heat dissipation holes and at least one through hole. The heat dissipation holes are configured for dissipating heat of the electronic device. The supporting member passes through the through hole, and one end of the supporting member protrudes from the bottom of the main body. The driving device is configured for driving the supporting member to move along its axis, causing the electronic device to be kept in a flat state or in an inclined state. The temperature sensor is for sensing the temperature of the electronic device. The controller is for driving the driving device, causing the supporting member to move a predetermined distance along its axis, according to the sensed temperature.
US07929287B2
An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a driving circuit, and a base chassis. The driving circuit is configured to drive the display unit. The base chassis is made of a transparent material and includes a first region that extends outward from at least one end on a circumference of the display unit, the first region provided with an operation button used for operating the driving circuit.
US07929270B2
Wireless detonator assemblies (51-59) in use, form a cross-communicating network of wireless “detonator assemblies, such that communication of each wireless detonator assembly (57-59) with an associated blasting machine (50) can occur either directly, or via relay of signals (61-69) between other wireless detonator assemblies (51-56) in the network. Wireless detonator assemblies (51-59) can disseminate information (such as status information, identity information, firing codes, delay times and environmental conditions) among all of the wireless detonator assemblies in the network, while compensating for signal transmission relay delays at nodes in the network, thereby enabling the wireless detonator assemblies to detonate the explosive charges in accordance with the delay times. Various wireless detonator assemblies and corresponding blasting apparatus are disclosed and claimed. Methods of blasting using the wireless detonator assemblies and blasting apparatus are also disclosed and claimed.
US07929268B2
An exciting voltage arithmetic portion calculates an exciting voltage of an electromagnet using a signal of a gap sensor. On the other hand, a sensorless exciting voltage arithmetic portion calculates an exciting voltage of the electromagnet using a signal of the current sensor. The exciting voltage adjusting portion adjusts a mixing ratio between an output value of an exciting voltage arithmetic portion and an output value of the sensorless exciting voltage arithmetic portion corresponding to a gap length. The excitation of the electromagnet is controlled according to an output value of the exciting voltage adjusting portion so as to reduce influences of noises on the gap sensors thereby always achieving a stable levitation control.
US07929259B2
A magnetic sensor includes a sensor stack having a first magnetic portion, a second magnetic portion, and a barrier layer between the first magnetic portion and the second magnetic portion. At least one of the first magnetic portion and the second magnetic portion includes a multilayer structure having a first magnetic layer having a positive magnetostriction adjacent to the barrier layer, a second magnetic layer, and an intermediate layer between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. The magnetic sensor has an MR ratio of at least about 80% when the magnetic sensor has a resistance-area (RA) product of about 1.0 Ω·μm2.
US07929242B2
A magnetic disk apparatus includes: a driving section for moving a magnetic head recoding and reproducing information in a magnetic disk; and a controller for controlling the driving section. The controller includes: a position-error feedback control system having an integrator and a phase lead compensator and obtaining a position command based on difference between target position and detection position of the magnetic head to perform feedback control of the driving section; and a two-freedom-degree control system inputting a target move distance of the magnetic head and outputting a current command to the driving section by using a mathematic model of the driving section. The controller providing the driving section with an output of the integrator and therewith updating the mathematical model by using an output of the phase lead compensator, in each of the times of positioning control and seek of the magnetic head.
US07929227B2
An optical assembly supported in an arrangement, especially in an objective or in an illuminating or exposure system, in the interior of a housing comprising at least one optical element, especially a lens, a mirror, or an aperture, wherein the at least one element is influenceable by at least one manipulator is characterized in that the at least one manipulator is arranged either outside of the housing or in a holding means that is separated entirely or to a large extent by the help of a decoupling means, and that there is provided an effective coupling between the manipulator and the element to be influenced by the manipulator in the interior of the arrangement.
US07929217B2
The present disclosure relates to a projection lens. The projection lens includes, in order from the magnified end to the minified end thereof, a first lens of negative refraction power, a second lens of positive refraction power, a third lens of negative refraction power, a fourth lens of positive refraction power, and a fifth lens of positive refraction power. The forth lens and the third lens are bonded to integrally form a compound lens of negative refraction power. The projection lens satisfies the following condition: 0.4
US07929213B2
An exemplary prism sheet includes a transparent main body. The transparent main body includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface and the second surface are on opposite sides of the transparent main body. The first surface defines a plurality of a plurality of elongated arc-shaped grooves. The second surface defines a plurality of parallelogram microstructures. Each parallelogram microstructure defines four adjacent triangular pyramid depressions.
US07929194B2
Glazing comprising, in succession: a first rigid substrate (S1); a second rigid substrate (S2); a third rigid substrate (S3); at least one “active” system (A) that includes at least one layer and is placed between the substrates (S1 and S2), the first substrate (S1) optionally being set back in relation to the other two substrates (S2, S3); and at least one polymer film having the function of retaining glazing fragments should the glazing break, said film being placed between the substrate (S1) and the substrate (S2) and between the substrate (S2) and the substrate (S3).
US07929186B2
An image reading apparatus capable of reading images according to a plurality of reading methods, comprising a manuscript table on which manuscripts are placed, a reading section for reading images from the manuscripts placed on the manuscript table, and a plurality of detecting sections for detecting the manuscripts placed on the manuscript table, wherein an image reading method is determined according to the detection states of the respective detecting sections, and the images of the manuscripts are read using the reading section according to the determined reading method.
US07929180B2
A printing system, printing method, and host apparatus is capable of analyzing the degree of ink blur in consideration of print conditions and the properties of an image typified by a photograph or the like, and prompting a user to change the print conditions depending on the analysis result. The system sets print conditions upon printing an image on a printing medium via a man-machine interactive operation by the user. If the system determines that ink blurs upon printing on the printing medium on the basis of the generated print data in accordance with the set print conditions, it warns the user about the print conditions.
US07929179B2
A monitor having a flat panel display, a printer and a sheet feeder disposed within a housing is disclosed. The flat panel display displays a video signal provided from an external computer through a video input socket of the monitor. The printer is disposed behind the flat panel display as viewed by the user. The printer includes a pagewidth printhead which prints onto print media print data provided from the external computer through a serial data connection of the monitor. The sheet feeder feeds a sheet of print media from a stack of print media past the pagewidth printhead. The stack of print media is located behind the flat panel display such that, immediately prior to commencement of printing, at least an edge of the print media is visible above an upper edge of the flat panel display.
US07929177B2
An image forming device includes an image generating section that generates an image including a plurality of screen types, an image processing section that performs a grayscale screen process on the image and generates grayscale data and screen type data for each pixel, a line head to which the grayscale data for each pixel section is sequentially transmitted, and a light intensity correction circuit that corrects light intensity of each pixel. The image processing section transmits the screen type data for each pixel to the light intensity correction circuit. The light intensity correction circuit transmits a light intensity correction value for each pixel to the line head. The light intensity correction value for each pixel is obtained based on the corresponding screen type data so that pixels of different screen types of the image are corrected in accordance with the corresponding screen types.
US07929174B2
An object of this invention is to provide an apparatus and method capable of printing part of a book file by designating the range. A setting user interface window is displayed from a print setting menu, a desired unit is selected from a print target column, and the range is designated in the selected unit. The designated range is printed including an original page within the designated range and another original page to be printed on the same paper sheet as that of the original page. The range can be designated by an entire book file, chapter, page, or booklet.
US07929169B2
It is necessary to switch print settings and color processing tables to optimum ones in accordance with a type of sheet which is used in a printer. In the case of enabling a new sheet to be used, a setting can be easily added without newly forming a whole printer driver. Print set information regarding the new sheet is set into a media script and fetched into a media block via a compiler. Control is made so as to store the print set information from a media database API into a media database. When the new sheet is selected on a driver display screen, the media database is searched from the media database API and print data is formed on the basis of the print set information.
US07929165B2
A method for controlling a printer in a networked environment utilizes printer usage statistics and document features to determine whether to print a document or portion of a document. The networked environment includes printers, devices permitting the submittal of print job requests, a print server, and a document repository. The method includes receiving a job request to print a document from a device on the network and obtaining the document in digital form from the document repository or placing the document in digital form. Document and page specific information are extracted from the document. It is then determined whether printing of the document or a portion of the document is necessary based on analysis of the document and page specific information.
US07929158B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller that is operable to: access files that is created by an external device and stored in the external storage device, the files containing images that are to be formed on the sheet by the image forming unit; generate auxiliary identification information including character string that is uniquely assigned for each of the files and for each of folders containing the files by using character information stored in a storage; control at least one of the display and the image forming unit to display file specifying information including filenames of each of the files and the auxiliary identification information so as that the auxiliary identification information is displayed preferentially from the filenames; and allow a user to select a target file that contains an image to be formed on the sheet based on the file specifying information.
US07929156B2
In an image output control system of the invention, an image processing device makes image data subjected to a preset series of image processing and supplies the processed image data to an image output device, which then outputs a resulting processed image. The image processing device determines the number of dots to be created in each pixel group, which has a preset number of multiple pixels included in an image, and outputs the determined number of dots as dot number data to the image output device. The image output device stores multiple options for a priority order of individual pixels included in each pixel group for dot formation. In response to reception of the dot number data, the image output device selects one among the multiple options for the priority order, determines the positions of dot-on pixels in the pixel group, and actually creates dots at the determined positions of the dot-on pixels to output a resulting image. In the image output control system of the invention, the image processing device supplies the dot number data to the image output device. Even when an image includes a large number of pixels, this arrangement ensures quick data supply and thereby prompt image output.
US07929155B2
The present invention provides a method and system for on-machine 3-D depth measurement. The same image retrieving apparatus measures the first distance for the width of the similar gray-level region of cutting-surface from the first angle, and measures the second distance for the width of the similar gray-level region of cutting-surface from the first angle superimposing the second angle. The width of the similar gray-level region of cutting-surface comprises the cutting-surface and the shadow of the bottom portion of the cutting-surface. And then the cutting-surface depth is calculated according to the first angle, the second angle, the first distance, and the second distance.
US07929154B2
The present invention provides a laser irradiation apparatus and a laser irradiation method which can conduct irradiation of a laser beam accurately by correcting misalignment of an irradiation position of the laser beam from the predetermined position due to temperature change. A laser irradiation apparatus includes a laser oscillator emitting a laser beam; an XY stage provided with an irradiation object; an optical system which shapes the laser beam into a linear beam on a surface of the irradiation object provided on the XY stage; an illumination device which emits light to the surface of the irradiation object; and a camera for imaging reflected light of the light on the surface of the irradiation object, in which misalignment of an irradiation position of the linear beam detected from the reflected light imaged by the camera is corrected.
US07929149B2
A method and a coordinate measuring machine (1) are provided, wherein the non-linearities of an interferometer (24) can be corrected. A measuring stage (20) traversable in a plane (25a) is provided for measurement. The substrate (2) is placed in a measuring stage (20); wherein the position of the measuring stage (20) along each of the motion axes is determined by at least one interferometer (24) in each case. A computer (16) is provided for compensating the non-linearity inherent in each of the interferometers (24), wherein the position of the measuring stage (20) to be determined by the interferometers (24) is arranged along a trajectory (52, 60, 67) of the measuring stage (20), which is composed at least partially of components of the axes.
US07929143B2
An integrated interferometric gyroscope and accelerometer device. An example device includes a cantilever beam, a package having a post connected to one end of the beam, a piezoresistor driver, a piezoresistor sensor, and a semiconductor interferometric optical gyro. The piezoresistor driver is incorporated within the beam at a first area proximate to the post. The driver electro-thermally resonates the beam. The piezoresistor sensor is incorporated within the beam at the first area. The sensor piezoresitively senses a signal that relates to an acceleration force out-of-plane of the beam. The semiconductor interferometric optical gyro is also incorporated within the beam at a second area of the beam. The gyro senses rotational motion about an axis approximately equivalent to the acceleration force out-of-plane of the beam. The gyro includes a waveguide, a laser source and a light detector. The beam is formed from a semiconductor substrate.
US07929132B2
Systems and methods for performing transmission microscopy on a sample material are disclosed. The sample material is placed on a metal nanoparticle substrate. High intensity light, such as an infrared laser, is focused on the nanoparticle substrate, thereby exciting the silver nanoparticles. The excited nanoparticles emit intensely focused, spectrally broad white light that is able to pass through the sample material without significant scattering even when the sample material is highly diffuse. The emitted light that passes through the sample material is detected and used to generate images and characterize features of the sample material, including the internal structural composition of the sample material.
US07929113B2
A measurement apparatus which illuminates a pattern positioned on an object plane to form an aerial image 40 on an image plane and measures a light intensity distribution of the aerial image 40 via a slit 54 on the image plane, the measurement apparatus including a stage 60 moving the slit, a light receiving element 53 mounted on the stage 60 and including at least two light receiving portions which receive the light transmitted through the slit, a storage unit which stores a relationship between an angle ε and a distance between a center position of the slit 54 and a position where a intensity of light that the light receiving element 53 receives is maximum, a calculation unit which obtains the angle ε, and a stage driving unit 80 which rotates the stage 60 so that the angle ε is equal to zero.
US07929112B2
A lithographic projection apparatus is disclosed in which measures are taken to prevent or reduce the presence of bubbles in liquid through which the projection beam radiates. This may be done, for example, by ensuring that a gap between a substrate and a substrate table is filled with immersion liquid or by causing a localized flow radially outwardly from the optical axis in the vicinity of the edge of the substrate.
US07929094B2
A liquid crystal display device 700 includes a pair of substrates, a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer 490 provided between the pair of substrates, and electrodes 481 and 485 for applying a voltage to the vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer 490. At least one of the pair of substrates has a rugged structure on a surface which is in contact with the vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer. The surface having the rugged structure formed thereon has a region in which the height of the rugged structure varies along a first direction with a first period and varies along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction with a second period different from the first period. The first period is no less than 0.1 μm and no more than 10 μm, and the second period is no less than 0.1 μm and no more than 10 μm. The vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer 490 has a pretilt due to the rugged structure with no voltage applied thereacross.
US07929093B2
A pixel structure including an active device and a pixel electrode is provided. The pixel electrode is electrically connected with the active device and has a plurality of alignment domains. Each of the alignment domains of the pixel electrode has one group of alignment slits parallel with one another, wherein each group of the alignment slits includes a plurality of first alignment slits with a first length and the first alignment slits are majority of each group of the alignment slits. At least one group of the alignment slits includes at least a second alignment slit with a second length longer than the first length of the first alignment slits.
US07929088B2
A liquid crystal display comprises two parallel spaced substrates and a liquid crystal layer with negative dielectric anisotropy interposed between the substrates. The ratio d/p, the cell gap d between the substrates to the pitch p of the liquid crystal layer, is equal to or less than 0.3, and the retardation value Δn*d may be in the range of 0.25-0.4. In absence of electric field, the liquid crystal molecules are arranged vertically to the substrates, and when the sufficient electric field is applied, the liquid crystal molecules are parallel to the substrates and twisted by 90° from one substrate to the other.To the outer surface of a liquid crystal cell having a liquid crystal material with a negative dielectric anisotropy, a combination of a-plate, c-plate or biaxial compensation films is attached. The direction having the largest refractive index of the a-plate or the biaxial film is parallel or perpendicular to the polarizing direction of adjacent polarizer. The difference between the summation of the retardation (nx−nz)*d of the a-plate, the c-plate and the biaxial films and the polarizers, and the retardation due to birefringence of the liquid crystal cell is equal to or less than 15% of the retardation due to birefringence of the liquid crystal cell. The retardation (nx−ny)*d of the a-plate or the biaxial film is 0-100 nm. nx, ny and nz are the refractive indices of the x, y and z axes respectively when the z axis is perpendicular to the surface of the liquid crystal cell, the x axis is in the surface of the liquid crystal cell and having the largest refractive index of the a-plate or the biaxial film and the y axis is in same plane as the x axis and perpendicular to the x axis, and d is the thickness of the film.
US07929084B2
A transflective liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing each other, a gate line and a data line on the first substrate, the gate and data lines intersecting each other and defining a pixel region having a transmissive region and a reflective region, a thin film transistor at an intersection between the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode in the pixel region connected to the thin film transistor, an organic insulating layer on the second substrate, the organic insulating layer including a through-hole in the transmissive region, a reflective electrode on the organic insulating layer in the reflective region, a black matrix on the second substrate, a color filter layer on the second substrate in the pixel region, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.
US07929081B2
A color filter layer structure usable in a display device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a color filter layer on a substrate, the color filter layer having a polarizing function and made of a liquid crystal material deposited on the substrate, wherein a force is applied to the deposited liquid crystal material in one direction to form the color filter layer.
US07929078B2
A liquid crystal module includes a frame, a light reflecting sheet, a cold cathode tube, an optical sheet, a liquid crystal panel, a bezel and a pair of lamp frames. The frame includes a pair of opposing side plates and a bottom plate. The side plates have a plurality of engagement components. The bottom plate has a plurality of latching holes. Each of the lamp frames has a front plate part with a latching leg piece and a rear plate part with a latching component. The latching leg piece is inserted into one of the latching holes of the bottom plate of the frame to latch to the respective one of the latching hole. The latching component latches upward to respective one of the engagement components of the side plates of the frame.
US07929076B2
An optical module includes: a base plate; a light emitting element mounted on the base plate; an integrated circuit element of the light receiving element built-in type mounted on the base plate by bonded wires and having a light receiving portion for receiving returning light originating from light emitted from the light emitting element; and a circuit board having a window for allowing light to pass therethrough and connected to the integrated circuit element in a state wherein the light receiving portion is exposed through the window.
US07929073B2
An exemplary liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight unit, a bottom frame, and an upper frame. The backlight unit is positioned on the bottom frame. The upper frame is assembled on the bottom frame to fix the backlight unit in position. The upper frame includes four sidewalls, a top flange extending from the four sidewalls towards a center of the upper frame, and a plurality of supporting members defined at the inner surfaces of the sidewalls adjacent to the top flange. At least one of the supporting members is resilient. The liquid crystal display panel is held in place between the top flange and the supporting members. A method for assembling the liquid crystal display module is also provided.
US07929061B2
An apparatus and a method for allowing a digital broadcast receiver smoothly to switch from one broadcast channel to another. In response to a reproduction output request, encoded data that are requested to be reproduced and output are selected and decoded accordingly. At substantially the same time, arrangements may be provided to select and decode other encoded data in accordance with a predetermined rule. Whenever the encoded data selected using the predetermined rule are to be reproduced and output on request, conventionally required demultiplexing and decoding processes are not needed.
US07929060B2
An integrated circuit device having a television signal tuner, video decoder and power control circuit. The television signal tuner selects one of a plurality of television channels, and the video decoder converts a television signal conveyed in the selected television channel into a video display signal. The power control circuit alternately enables and disables the television tuner to enable reception of a first portion of video information conveyed in the television signal and to disable reception of a second portion of the video information.
US07929052B2
A camera module includes a lens module, an image sensor, and a circuit board. The image sensor module is disposed in an image side of the lens module. The circuit board is electronically connected with the image sensor module. The circuit board includes a receiving chamber defined therein. The receiving chamber receives the image sensor module. The lens module is mounted on the circuit board and covers the receiving chamber. The image sensor module is fixed in the receiving chamber that is defined in the circuit board therein. Therefore, a thickness of the camera module along the axis of the camera module is decreased and a volume of the camera module becomes thinner compare with the conventional camera module.
US07929047B2
When a release button is pressed in the image adding mode and flash-on mode, a system control section instructs a timing generation section to continuously supply a timing signal to an imaging section, thereby causing the imaging section to perform high speed continuous shooting. A flash is caused to emit light in sync with taking the last one of images taken by the continuous shooting such that the amount of the emitted light results in underexposure for one image. The continuous images taken by the imaging section are sequentially output via a preprocessing section to a blurring correction section where the taken images are superimposed upon each other to obtain an image of appropriate exposure in which blurring has been corrected.
US07929046B2
An image-pickup system is disclosed which is capable of performing highly accurate back focus adjustment for each combination of an image-pickup apparatus and a lens apparatus. The system includes a first memory provided in the image-pickup apparatus and stores first identification information unique to a combination of the image-pickup apparatus and a certain lens apparatus, a second memory provided in the lens apparatus and stores second identification information unique to a combination of the lens apparatus and a certain image-pickup apparatus. A comparator compares the first identification information with the second identification information. The generator generates, when the comparison results that the first identification information does not match the second identification information, identification information unique to the combination of the image-pickup apparatus and the lens apparatus. The controller causes the first memory and the second memory to store the identification information generated by the generator.
US07929043B2
An image stabilizing apparatus includes a motion vector calculating part that calculates a motion vector between a plurality of images including a displacement caused by a motion of an image-pickup apparatus, a shake-correction parameter calculating part that receives the motion vector as input to calculate a shake correction amount, and an image transforming part that performs geometric transformation of the image in accordance with the shake correction amount. The shake-correction parameter calculating part performs variation amount calculation, variation amount correction and correction amount calculation based on the motion information between the plurality of images. The image stabilizing apparatus preserves a motion in video from an intended camera work and allows image stabilization for an unintended shake.
US07929042B2
An imaging apparatus is disclosed. The imaging apparatus includes: a face detecting part configured to detect a face area from an input image in the imaging apparatus; a measurement frame setting part configured to set a measurement frame corresponding to a face area that includes a face area and a measurement frame corresponding to a body area that includes a body area based on the face area detected in the face detecting part; and a focus control part configured to apply each of the plurality of the measurement frames set by the measurement frame setting part to detect in-focus positions corresponding to the individual measurement frames based on a check of information about the detected in-focus positions corresponding to the individual measurement frames, and to decide a final in-focus position.
US07929041B2
An image pickup device that picks up an image of an object with an image pickup element, consisting of: a lens connecting portion that connects an interchangeable lens that can be attached and detached; a lens distinguishing portion that distinguishes the type of the interchangeable lens that is connected to the lens connecting portion; a plurality of optical filters that are capable of being disposed to the optical rear side of the interchangeable lens in the image pickup optical path when picking up an image of an object on an image pickup element with the interchangeable lens; and a moving portion that moves at least any of the plurality of optical filters to a position that corresponds to the type of the interchangeable lens that the lens distinguishing portion has distinguished.
US07929040B2
A switch for changing the mode of a device main body accompanied with the rotation of an image capture unit and an operation section provided in the device main body and performing inputting or outputting operations of the external information are included, and the external information outputting unit and the operation section change a plurality of modes controlled according to the mode change of the device main body by the switch.
US07929035B2
A column buffer for use with a pixel cell array includes an amplifier coupled to three read-out circuits in parallel providing a signal corresponding to accumulated photon-generated charge in a pixel cell plus noise, a reset level plus noise, and a pedestal level, respectively. These three signals are used to generate an ultra-low noise signal Di=Si−Pi-1−G*(Ri−Ri-1), wherein S is the sampled signal, P is the pedestal level, R is the reset level, and G is a gain associated with a pixel cell, and wherein i is a frame number greater than 0. The three signals can be read-out simultaneously. In another embodiment, the three signals are obtained from a column buffer having only one output. In this case, the signals are read-out sequentially.
US07929032B2
An image processing apparatus and method for detecting and correcting a defective pixel in an image output from an image sensor including a plurality of pixels, comprising detection of an edge direction based on the image data, detection of a defective pixel included in the image sensor based on the detected edge direction, and correction of the selected defective pixel.
US07929026B2
An image sensing apparatus comprising: a CCD, optical system for forming an image on the CCD; A/D converter for converting an image signal outputted by the CCD to a digital signal; color interpolator for performing color interpolation on the digital signal converted by the A/D converter and generating image data on R, G and B color planes; color space converter for converting RGB color space to YUV colorimetric system; and median filter for reducing pseudo color components, generated by the color interpolator, by controlling color difference signals U and V. By cutting high frequency components of the signal, filtered by the median filter, then thinning out YUV signals and performing JPEG compression, pseudo color components generated by color interpolation can be reduced.
US07929023B2
In a camera device having a function for converting an image formed by a lens and captured by an imaging element into image data and correcting distortion of the image data caused by distortion aberration of the lens, the camera device includes a first storage unit for storing first distortion correction parameters for correcting the distortion of the image data in a first state, a second storage unit for storing second distortion correction parameters for correcting the distortion of the image data in a second state, and a distortion-correction-parameter interpolator for generating distortion correction parameters through interpolation when transition of the image data from the first state to the second state is performed. The distortion correction parameters indicate states of the image data during the transition of the image data and correct the distortion of the image data caused by the distortion aberration of the lens.
US07929014B2
With a bronchial tube insertion support system according to the present invention, a route setting unit comprises a route starting-point setting function for setting the insertion starting-point of a bronchial tube, a region-of-interest setting function for setting a region of interest serving as the insertion end-point of the bronchial tube, a route extracting function for extracting an insertion route from an insertion start point to an insertion end point, and a route verifying function for performing verification of the extracted insertion route. According to these functions, of multiple insertion routes, the most appropriate insertion route when performing insertion support is determined.
US07929013B2
A desktop electronic magnifier in a first embodiment includes a monitor and a control panel mounted to the monitor so that access to the control panel cannot be blocked by any position of the monitor. In a second embodiment, a monitor is positioned atop a flat platform that surmounts the camera so that access to the control panel cannot be blocked by any position of the monitor. In a third embodiment, the control panel is mounted to the camera and the monitor is supported by a support surface independent of the magnifier. Access to the control panel is blocked only if the user positions the monitor in blocking relation to the control panel.
US07929009B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive drum with a simple structure for realizing a seamless digital photosensitive drum having an exposure source and a photosensitive member which are integrated with each other. The electrophotographic photosensitive drum includes a self-luminous device portion, a functional separation portion, and a photosensitive portion. The self-luminous device portion includes a first electrode wire layer including multiple first electrode wires provided in a circumferential direction of a cylindrical substrate and arrayed in a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical substrate so as to be separated from each other by an insulating member, and each of the multiple first electrode wires is annularly formed.
US07928992B2
The subject application is directed to a system and method for transparent object rendering. An electronic document, inclusive of a plurality of objects, is first received. The electronic document is then parsed so as to generate a transparency table. The generated table includes entries corresponding to transparency characteristics of each of the objects. Each object of the received electronic document is then processed in accordance with a corresponding transparency table entry. The system further comprises means adapted for generating a scan-line representation of each of the plurality of objects, the scan-line representation including a scan-line corresponding to an associated backdrop and a scan-line corresponding to associated pixel data. The received electronic document is thereby rendered so as to generate a rendered document.
US07928981B2
Instinctive operation of editing parameters of waveform is provided. Tabs 38, 40 and 42 are displayed on a display screen 14 to show existence of parameter edit screen layers of different combinations of characters, waveforms and channels. If one of the tabs are selected the display is switched to show the corresponding parameter edit screen layer. Channel characters or waveforms are displayed on the tabs 38, 40 and 42 and are changed dynamically according to the setting so that a user can easily realize setting outlines of the respective channels at a glance.
US07928980B2
In order to address the challenge associated with the analysis and visualization of large datasets, a method and apparatus provides for visualizing data clouds using color and opacity blending. The information stored within the data cloud is represented using a data container object. The colors and opacities associated with the container object's data point or points is blended to develop two-dimensional computer generated imagery that is unique to the virtual reference point chosen, typically within an OpenGL environment. The result is the ability to understand the sample density of large interactively rendered datasets from different reference points and as the datasets change over time.
US07928978B2
Disclosed is a method for generating a multi-resolution three-dimensional model, and for extracting feature lines using texture images and geometric data from a three-dimensional model. First, contours are detected for texture images using an image processing on the texture-mapped three-dimensional mesh data. With respect to geometric data, a discrete curvature is measured. The geometric data is parametrized into parameters in a two-dimensional domain, and contour images are detected using an image processing. The detected two contour images are generated into one model map, which is then reversely mapped to a reverse three-dimensional model, then next feature lines are extracted. Accordingly, a multi-resolution three-dimensional model can be generated while maintaining the extracted feature lines.
US07928973B2
A power supply circuit is provided with a temperature gradient variable circuit that produces a gradient voltage whose voltage level varies with a temperature gradient commensurate with the ambient temperature and a temperature gradient setting circuit that produces an output voltage (and hence a drive voltage of an LCD panel) by adjusting the temperature gradient and the voltage level of the gradient voltage. With this configuration, it is possible to supply the optimal drive voltage despite variations in the ambient temperature or variations in characteristics of LCD panels.
US07928965B2
The efficient incorporation of RFID circuitry within touch sensor panel circuitry is disclosed. The RFID antenna can be placed in the touch sensor panel, such that the touch sensor panel can now additionally function as an RFID transponder. No separate space-consuming RFID antenna is necessary. Loops (single or multiple) forming the loop antenna of the RFID circuit (for either reader or tag applications) can be formed from metal on the same layer as metal traces formed in the borders of a substrate. Forming loops from metal on the same layer as the metal traces are advantageous in that the loops can be formed during the same processing step as the metal traces, without requiring a separate metal layer.
US07928957B2
According to one embodiment, a light-emission control device controls light emission of light sources of a light emitter including a plurality of light source areas each corresponding to one of the light sources, and includes a light-value calculator, a light-value modifying module, and a light controller. The light-value calculator calculates a light value for each of the light source areas. The light source areas include a target area for which a light value is to be modified and surrounding areas surrounding the target area. The light-value modifying module modifies a light value calculated for the target area using light values for the surrounding areas. The light controller lights a light source in the target area based on the modified light value.
US07928952B2
An image display device has a display pixel area having plural pixels arranged in a matrix fashion, plural signal lines for supplying display signal voltages to the pixels, and plural pixel selection lines for selecting pixels from among the pixels to be supplied with the display signal voltages. The pixel selection lines include Y-direction selection lines for selecting rows of the pixels arranged in the matrix fashion and X-direction selection lines for selecting columns of the pixels, and the image display device includes a circuit configuration in which the display signal voltages are supplied from the signal lines to only ones of the pixels each having selected simultaneously both of a corresponding one of the Y-direction selection lines and a corresponding one of the X-direction selection lines.
US07928950B2
The present invention provides a data latch circuit which can operate stably with a low-amplitude signal, which consumes less electric power, and which is resistant against the variation in TFTs.When an analog switch is turned on, a data signal is inputted to a gate electrode of an n-channel TFT and, at this time, VDD is supplied to an input terminal of an inverter. When the analog switch in turned off, the n-channel TFT is turned on or off depending on a level of the data signal. When the data signal is at an H level, the n-channel TFT is turned on and VSS is supplied to the input terminal of the inverter. When the data signal is at an L level, VDD is supplied to an input terminal of the inverter. Therefore, only VDD and VSS levels are applied to the input terminal of the inverter.
US07928947B2
A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of first and second pixel cells supplied with data of the opposite polarities to display a picture, and a pre-charging unit to electrically connect a first one of the first pixel cells and a first one of the second pixel cells to each other just prior to a period of supplying the data to the first ones first and second pixel cells, and to electrically disconnect the first ones of the first and second pixel cells from each other for a period of supplying the data to the first and second pixel cells.
US07928946B2
The method of fine gradation display by an electro-optical device with little influence by difference in elemental devices, is disclosed, which is an object of the present invention. In case of an active matrix electro-optical device, a visual gradation display can be carried out by digitizing an analog image signal externally supplied by means of binary notation, by temporarily storing the digital signal thus obtained, by outputting the digital signal to a circuit of next step in a proper order, and by controlling the output timing of the signal so as to output the signal to the active matrix electro-optical device, and whereby digitally controlling the time for applying voltage to a picture element.
US07928926B2
The present invention provides a display apparatus which enables high-accuracy, hands-free operation, while adopting a low-cost configuration. The display apparatus according to the present invention includes: an obtainment unit that obtains a display element which is information to be displayed to the user; a determining unit that determines a display position of the obtained display element, at which a portion of the obtained display element can not be seen by the user; a display unit that displays the display element at the determined display position; a detection unit that detects a direction of change when an orientation of the user's head is changed; a selection unit that selects the display element to be displayed in the detected direction of change; and an execution unit that executes a predetermined process related to the selected display element.
US07928921B2
The present invention relates to a tag-use antenna allowing a miniaturization while maintaining a constant minimal change of a communication distance. The tag-use antenna has a feed part of a folded dipole antenna of a size of 53 mm long and 7 mm wide being connected to, and equipped with, an LSI chip of Rc=500 ohms and Cc=1.4 pF and is covered with plastic resin 13 of the dielectric constant ∈r=3 and thickness of t=0.75 mm on both sides of the antenna. The dipole part of 1 mm wire path width of the tag-use antenna is formed in a rectangular spiral by being bent inward from both ends at bending parts at four places. The entire length of the dipole antenna when extending the four bending parts straight is featured so as to be shorter than one half of a resonance wavelength of the antenna. An inductance part is formed in the neighborhood of the center of the dipole antenna, and placed in the middle of the dipole antenna, which is formed in said rectangular spiral, of the dipole antenna.
US07928918B2
The invention concerns a method for adjusting frequency tuning of a resonant circuit with turns having a regular spacing generating stray inter-turn capacity. The adjusting of the frequency tuning of the resonant circuit is performed, at the level of the stray inter-turn capacity, by varying the regular spacing of adjacent turns on at least one zone of the antenna. The invention uses this adjusting method for producing an adjusted antenna for a resonant circuit, the resonant circuit and a non-contact product. The invention concerns a device programmed for antenna production and/or definition.
US07928914B2
To address the above-mentioned need an antenna (100) is provided having a conductive-strip radiating element (102) supported above a substrate (206) via three legs (201-203). The point where the substrate contacts the three legs form two antenna ports and a ground utilized for feeding the RF signal, tuning the antenna, and grounding. More particularly, a first leg (201) of the radiating element is used solely as a tuning port, while a second leg (202) is grounded, and a third leg (203) is utilized solely as a feed port. The tuning port is substantially maximally distal to the feed port on the substrate. Reactive loads are provided at the tuning port to effectively tune the central operating frequency of the antenna.
US07928913B2
A method and apparatus providing a tunable channelized patch antenna by selectively adjoining one or more radiating element extensions successively to a radiating element of the patch antenna, and adjusting fringe capacitance at active outer edges of the patch antenna.
US07928912B2
A multiband antenna includes a long radiating branch, a short radiating branch, a short strip, a feed point, a grounding portion, a connecting portion, a long parasitic strip, and a short parasitic strip. The feed point, the long radiating branch, the short radiating branch, and the short strip are in a first plane. The grounding portion connects to the short strip. The connecting portion connects the long radiating branch, the short radiating branch, and the short strip. The long radiating branch, the short strip, and the connecting portion form a first inverted-L shaped antenna structure. The short radiating branch, the short strip, and the connecting portion form a second inverted-L shaped antenna structure. The long parasitic strip and the short parasitic strip are in a second plane and respectively connected to the grounding portion. The first plane is parallel to the second plane.
US07928911B2
The present invention discloses a DTV antenna apparatus build in a portable device. The portable device includes a system ground. The DTV antenna includes a ground plane with a short circuit point, an extending metal arm with a grounding point and a radiation element. The ground plane is the system ground. The radiation element and the ground plane are arranged in parallel to each other. The extending metal arm connects with the short circuit point. The antenna receives signals with frequencies in the range from 470 MHz to 870 MHz. The radiation element includes a radiation arm and a parasitic arm. The radiation arm has a feeding terminal. The parasitic arm connects with the short circuit point.
US07928904B2
A signal acquiring method of a GPS receiver and a digital camera thereof, suitable for accelerating a signal acquiring speed of the GPS receiver, are described. The signal acquiring method includes the following steps receiving a plurality of satellite signals; performing a discrete cosine transform (DCT) demodulation procedure, so as to parse a receiving time base of the satellite signals; next, transforming the satellite signals into a code information and a navigation frequency according to the receiving time base of the satellite signals; then, performing a correlation correction procedure to acquire a navigation information from the satellite signals according to the code information and the navigation frequency; which thus accelerates the processing speed on the signal acquiring flow through calculation characteristics of the DCT.
US07928901B2
Systems and methods for producing radar images are provided. In illustrated embodiments, a representative system includes: a transmitter operative to transmit a pulsed signal; a receiver operative to sample the pulsed signal after reflection; a Doppler-shifting mechanism operative to create a Doppler shift in the pulsed signal; and a platform upon which the transmitter and the Doppler-shifting mechanism are mounted, the Doppler shift being associated with relative motion between the Doppler-shifting mechanism and the platform.
US07928900B2
An antenna array includes at least one transmit array comprising a plurality of metamaterial elements. The antenna array further includes at least one near-field stimulator for inputting electromagnetic signal to the transmit array so that a sub-wavelength target is illuminated with an electromagnetic wave.
US07928897B2
A radar device includes a transmission antenna and a reception antenna having a plurality of antenna elements. The radar device switches the antenna elements in synchronization with a modulation cycle, thereby obtaining a reception signal. At this time, the radar device obtains the reception signal by switching the antenna elements using a first measurement phase and a second measurement phase having different switching cycles as one set. The radar device calculates an azimuth sine value sin θ1 from the reception signal in the first measurement phase and also calculates an azimuth sinusoidal value sin θ2 from the reception signal in the second measurement phase. Then, the radar device calculates a relative velocity V from the azimuth sine value sin θ1, the azimuth sine value sin θ2, an interval time difference Δt between switching cycles, and an inter-antenna element spacing d.
US07928894B1
A polarimetric radar with V and H polarized array antenna elements which transmit a V component modulated by a V code and the H component modulated by an H code orthogonal thereto. Unwanted polarization errors occur at off-boresight angles, which tend to obscure the polarization characteristics of the target. Radar returns are processed to form four independent channels by convolving the signals received by the V and H antennas with the mutually orthogonal V and H codes. This overcomes the polarization obscuration and allows determination of the polarimetric ratio of the target with high accuracy.
US07928891B2
A GPS system includes a frame having a window, a GPS navigator supported by the frame, wherein a display of the GPS navigator is facing opposite to the window of the frame, a radar detector received in the frame to align with the window thereof, and an attaching element attaching the GPS system to an interior side surface of a vehicle such that the display of the GPS navigator is rearwardly facing towards the driver while the radar detector is forwardly sending out detecting signal through the window of the frame. The GPS system integrates the two important driving assistant equipments together, occupies minimal mounting space, and utilize only one car power outlet.
US07928890B2
A phased array radar antenna includes at least two antennas (11, 12, 13, 14) adapted for simultaneous operation at different non-mutually interfering frequencies. The phased array radar antenna may be fitted to an aircraft having a fuselage supporting first and second radar side antennas (11, 12) on opposite sides thereof, a nose portion supporting a first radar end antenna (13), and a tail portion supporting a second radar end antenna (14). Respective radomes cover the first and second radar end antennas so as to provide a smooth aerodynamic contour, and a radar control unit (15) is disposed within the fuselage and coupled to the first and second radar side antennas and to the first and second radar end antennas for operating the first or second radar side antenna simultaneously with the first or second radar end antenna at respective first and second different frequencies.
US07928885B2
An A/D converter provides one or more operational amplifiers as components. The A/D converter includes a current controlling unit that is activated before an actual operation of the A/D converter to control a current of at least one of the operational amplifiers based on a settling characteristic of the operational amplifier.
US07928879B2
An audio processor is provided which includes a digital signal processor for processing a digital audio data in an inputted digital audio file and a digital analog converter for converting the digital audio data processed by the digital signal processor into an analog audio data in accordance with a sampling frequency of the digital audio data. If a sampling frequency of a digital audio data in a digital audio file which is earlier inputted is different from that of a digital audio data in a digital audio file which is subsequently inputted when a plurality of digital audio files are successively inputted, the digital signal processor adds a silent data of time which is the same or longer as time for completing a setting of the sampling frequency in a beginning of the digital audio data in the subsequently inputted digital audio file.
US07928878B1
An analog to digital converter includes a delta sigma modulator with a modified distributed feed-forward (DFF) topology. The modulator includes low pass filter circuitry that provides a first path to a first integrator and a second, feed-forward path to a second integrator that significantly reduce the out of band signal transfer function (STF) peaking of the modulator.
US07928877B1
A continuous time delta-sigma modulator having a sampling frequency includes a distributed resonator having a length about equal to a reciprocal of an integer times a velocity of a signal in the distributed resonator divided by twice the sampling frequency of the continuous time delta-sigma modulator.
US07928871B2
A successive approximation A/D converter includes a capacitive D/A converter including capacitors, and generates a voltage based on the input voltage and a first digital signal including J bits; a resistive D/A converter that generates a voltage based on a second digital signal; a capacitor that capacity-couples the voltage to an output node; a comparator that generates a result based on the voltage; a control circuit that supplies the first digital signal to the capacitive D/A converter according to the result and outputs a third digital signal indicating a correction and a fourth digital signal including K bits; and a digital calculating circuit that generates the second digital signal including K bits based on the third digital signal and the fourth digital signal, and supplies the second digital signal to the resistive D/A converter, a (J+K) bit digital data is generated based on the input signal.
US07928870B2
A signal reader system having a processor for reconstructing a relatively high-frequency input signal to a low-pass filter from an output of the filter based on a characterization of the filter. The characterization may be adapted to compensate for filter output changes due to temperature. A signal reader may be connected to the output of the processor to determine certain things, such as a pulse count, about the filter input signal.
US07928868B1
An entropy decoding device offers all nodes on a decoding tree, and a most probable symbol for each node, and predicts presumptive information of a next node. The entropy decoding device decodes an encoded bit stream, and output a decoded content that includes real information of the next node. The entropy decoding device further generates a flush instruction to the table look-up module, when the prediction misses, and updates the most probable symbol.
US07928865B2
There are provided a method and apparatus for embedding a second level code into a first level code of an optical disc by data modulation rule variation. The apparatus includes a multi-level, varying rule based modulator (199) for modulating the first level code to obtain a channel bit stream representative of the first level code and having the second level code embedded therein. The multi-level, varying rule based modulator modulates the first level code using modulation rules respectively having different statistical properties of pit-land length distributions that preserve a readability of the first level code and that are distinguishable at readout of the optical disc. The different statistical properties represent binary or multilevel data of the second level code.
US07928861B2
Non-contacting means of measuring the material velocities of harmonic acoustic telemetry waves travelling along the wall of drillpipe, production tubing or coiled tubing are disclosed. Also disclosed are contacting means, enabling measurement of accelerations or material velocities associated with acoustic telemetry waves travelling along the wall of the tubing, utilizing as a detector either a wireless accelerometer system or an optical means, or both; these may also be applied to mud pulse telemetry, wherein the telemetry waves are carried via the drilling fluid, causing strain in the pipe wall that in turn causes wall deformation that can be directly or indirectly assessed by optical means.The present invention enables detection of telemetry wave detection in space-constrained situations. The invention also teaches a substantially contactless method of determining the time-based changes of the propagating telemetry waves. A final benefit of the present invention is that it demonstrates a particularly simple contacting means of directly measuring wall movements in live coiled tubing drilling environments.
US07928854B2
Techniques for smoke detection are provided. In one aspect, an exemplary smoke detection device is provided. The smoke detection device comprises an infrared beam transmitting unit; an infrared beam receiving unit; and a control module associated with the infrared beam transmitting unit and the infrared beam receiving unit. The infrared beam transmitting unit and the infrared beam receiving unit are configured to communicate with each other, via an infrared beam, and with the control module, via a signal produced in response to smoke being present at a level that is greater than a threshold smoke level.
US07928853B2
An alarm unit, for sounding an alarm on detection of a fire emergency condition, which comprises a smoke detector, an alarm indicator and a heat detector wherein the smoke detector is capable of receiving power from a first power source and the heat detector is capable of receiving power from a second power source.
US07928848B2
This disclosure discloses an RFID tag producing apparatus comprising: a first antenna device that transmits and receives information to and from an RFID circuit element; a writing control portion that writes a command signal for commanding operation of at least one operating device so as to produce a command RFID tag; a second antenna device that transmits and receives information to and from the command RFID tag; a reading control portion that acquires the command signal; and a device control portion, based on information obtained by the reading control portion, that controls the at least one operating device.
US07928847B2
A series of parallel spaced conductors through which currents are sequentially switched. A spatial relationship of the sequentially switched currents is chosen such that, at different times, tangential and normal magnetic fields are produced at the same location. The conductors are preferably arranged in a planar fashion and the tangential and normal magnetic fields are produced above the planar surface. A single layer of parallel spaced conductors provides substantially two dimensional operations. Adding a second parallel layer of orthogonally oriented parallel spaced conductors provides substantially three dimensional operations where currents are sequentially switched in both layers.
US07928828B2
An electrical assembly includes a housing and at least two PTC (Positive Temperature Coefficient) resistor elements in the housing. Each of the at least two PTC resistor elements includes a body having a flat construction and electrodes on main surfaces of the body. Each of the at least two PTC resistor elements includes an electrically insulating envelope. The housing is closed.
US07928825B2
A safety plug, comprising: a housing a first metal blade a second metal blade a conducting device a bimetallic strip an isolating-equipment an elastomer a cover and an isolator, wherein all of its apparatus are all well-located even after encountering overloading. Both the bimetallic strip and the conducting device are fixed together in the housing of the safety plug thus makes sure that their restoring back at the same exact location. It increases the safety and the practical utility of the safety plug in this way.
US07928824B2
The invention relates to a high frequency inductor device with high quality factor (Q). The inductor device comprises a substrate and a gradually sized conductive coil with a plurality of windings surrounded and disposed on the substrate. The windings comprises a first conductive segment disposed on a first surface of the substrate, a second conductive segment disposed on a second surface of the substrate, a first conductive via hole connecting the first and second conductive segments, and a second conductive via hole connecting the second conductive segment to a first conductive segment of the following winding. The length of the first conductive segment is different than that of the first conductive segment of the following winding.
US07928821B2
A high-strength ignition coil that can reduce stress produced in a coil case and prevent a casting material from being cracked when the ignition coil is mounted on an engine block. A coil case has a mounting flange on an outer surface thereof. A coil assembly is housed in the coil case. A casting material is filled into a gap between the coil case and the coil assembly and gaps which the coil assembly has. A plurality of first guide ribs are provided on an inner wall surface of the coil case or an outer surface of the coil assembly, for positioning the outer surface of the coil assembly with respect to the inner wall surface of the coil case. A limited area in which there is no first guide rib is provided on the inner wall surface of the coil case which faces the mounting flange, or the outer surface of the coil assembly which faces the mounting flange via the inner wall surface of the coil case.
US07928811B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for using a switched mode TCXO or VC-TCXO in a satellite navigation receiver where the switched mode TCXO or VC-TCXO may operate either in an active compensation mode to compensate for temperature induced frequency error or in a second fixed compensation mode where the TCXO or VC-TCXO is not compensated for temperature. The switched mode TCXO or VC-TCXO is operated in the active compensation mode when satellite acquisition performance may be improved from a reduction in the range of oscillator frequency error. The switched mode TCXO or VC-TCXO may be switched to operate in the fixed compensation mode when satellite tracking performance is sensitive to discontinuities in the phase, frequency, and/or frequency rate of the oscillator clock when temperature compensation is applied.
US07928808B2
A selectable local oscillator provides an output frequency signal having a selectable frequency within a desired output frequency range. The selectable local oscillator comprises first, second and third signal generators configured to provide first, second and third frequency signals having frequencies in first, second and third input frequency ranges. A first mixer provides a first mixed product signal having an upper sideband and a lower sideband. A frequency selector selects one of the upper and lower sidebands of the first mixed product signal. A second mixer provides a second mixed product signal having an upper sideband and a lower sideband. An output stage selects at least one of the upper and lower sidebands of the second mixed product signal as the output frequency signal.
US07928806B2
Provided is a low voltage frequency synthesizer using a boosting method for a power supply voltage of a charge pump. The low voltage frequency synthesizer includes a phase/frequency detector (PFD) that receives and compares a reference frequency and a feedback frequency to output a comparison signal, a charge pump that receives the comparison signal to output a current corresponding to the comparison signal, a low-pass filter (LPF) that generates a voltage corresponding to the output current of the charge pump, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that receives the voltage of the LPF, amplifies the voltage to generate a boosting voltage, and outputs a frequency corresponding to the received voltage, and a DC converter that receives the boosting voltage of the VCO, converts the boosting voltage into a DC voltage, and applies the DC voltage as a power supply voltage of the charge pump. Since the supply voltage of the charge pump is provided from the LC-circuit-based VCO, the frequency synthesizer has superior characteristics such as a wide locking range, low phase noise, and the prevention of performance degradation caused by an external environment or process variations.
US07928803B2
An amplifying circuit includes amplifying unit comprising a first transistor unit having a gate width that is controllable and is controlled based on a first control signal.
US07928797B2
The invention relates to electronic integrated circuits capable of operating either in active mode or in standby mode and of having, in standby mode, a very low current consumption. According to the invention, the leakage current of a power transistor inserted in series between a supply terminal and an active circuit is controlled by a gate reverse overbias in the following manner: a voltage step-up charge pump generates a gate bias voltage from pulses delivered by an oscillator having its frequency controlled by a current. The control current Ic is the leakage current of a transistor having technological characteristics similar to those of the power transistor. The system optimizes the current consumption in standby mode, the frequency of the oscillator being reduced when the gate is biased so as to minimize the leakage current. The invention is applicable to circuits powered by a battery or a cell (mobile telephones, cameras, portable computers, etc.).
US07928792B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for outputting complementary signals using bootstrapping technology. The apparatus for outputting complementary signals includes a precharaged logic block, one or more output nodes, and a bootstrapping circuit block. The precharged differential logic block generates a differential signal depending on an input signal. The one or more output nodes output the complementary signals depending on the differential signal. The bootstrapping circuit block is shared by the one or more output nodes, and amplifies the complementary signals.
US07928791B1
Methods and apparatuses provide a clocked digital device having dynamically adjustable operating characteristics. The digital device comprises a digital clock management (“DCM”) circuit in which the amount of delay between receipt of an active edge of a clock signal at the input of the DCM circuit and appearance of an active edge of another clock signal at the output of the DCM circuit depends on a phase adjustment signal applied to the DCM circuit's phase adjust input. A phase adjustment circuit provides the phase adjustment signal to the DCM circuit's phase adjust input for controlling the amount of the delay between the clock signal at the input of the DCM circuit and the clock signal at the output of the DCM circuit.
US07928787B2
An apparatus for providing programmable hysteresis control using an enable pin of a device is disclosed. An enable pin is configured to receive an input signal to enable and disable an associated device responsive to the input signal. A current sink is attached to the enable pin and is responsive to circuitry that disables the current sink responsive to application of the input signal at a first voltage level and enables the current sink responsive to application of the input signal at a second voltage level.
US07928786B2
A clock buffer circuit of a semiconductor device is disclosed which receives an external clock signal and generates an internal clock signal with no duty distortion. The clock buffer circuit includes a first clock buffer for receiving and buffering a normal-phase clock signal, a second clock buffer for receiving and buffering a reverse-phase clock signal, and an internal clock generator for generating an internal clock signal in response to output signals from the first and second clock buffers.
US07928779B2
In a phase-locked loop, a desired change in frequency is indicated. The phase-locked loop locks to the new frequency and a loop bandwidth of the phase-locked loop is changed. In changing the loop bandwidth, a frequency adjustment signal to a voltage-controlled oscillator may include a voltage spike. The voltage spike is reduced by detecting a lock when the reference clock and a feedback clock reach a same frequency, then waiting for a time delay after the detecting the lock, and adjusting a current level of a charge pump pulse by an incremental amount to achieve a fractional portion of a new loop bandwidth. The charge pump pulse is filtered to generate the frequency adjustment signal and the frequency spike reduction process is repeated until the new loop bandwidth is achieved.
US07928775B2
High-side switch arrangement having a switching transistor, the collector of which is connected to a battery connection of the high-side switch arrangement and the emitter of which is connected to an output connection of the high-side switch arrangement, an actuating transistor, the emitter of which is connected to the battery connection of the high-side switch arrangement and the collector of which is connected to the base of the switching transistor, and a diagnosis transistor, the emitter of which is connected to the battery connection of the high-side switch arrangement and the collector of which is connected to the output connection of the high-side switch arrangement, wherein the diagnosis transistor has a saturation collector for sensing the saturation current of the diagnosis transistor.
US07928774B2
An embodiment of the invention relates to a driver adapted to provide a drive signal with an adjustable waveform for an external bridge to control EMI. The driver includes a detector configured to measure a switching characteristic of a switch in the external bridge to produce the drive signal with an adjustable waveform characteristic. The driver includes an adjustable circuit element to adjust the waveform characteristic in response to the measured switching characteristic. The measured switching characteristic may be a derivative of a voltage of the switch in the bridge such as a derivative of a drain-to-source voltage of a half-bridge circuit. The driver may be formed with an amplifier with an adjustable gain controlled by the signal produced by the detector. The adjustable gain amplifier may be formed with a transistor coupled in series with a leg of a current mirror.
US07928769B1
Some embodiments regard a circuit comprising a current source network configured to generate a first current; a leakage circuit having a leakage current in at least two leakage conditions; the leakage currents affecting the flow of the first current; a current source generator configured to generate a similar first current corresponding to the first current, a similar first leakage current corresponding to a first leakage current in a first leakage condition, a similar second leakage current corresponding to a second leakage current in a second leakage condition; and a current control circuit configured to provide a current control signal controlling the first current based on the similar first current, the similar first leakage current, and the similar second leakage current.
US07928760B2
An input and/or output pad is dedicated to an integrated circuit comprising a core with input and/or output pins. This pad comprises a pad cell comprising a pad block connected to an input buffer and/or an output buffer and arranged to be connected to one of the core input and/or output pins. The pad also comprises a pad logic module comprising a first and/or a second boundary scan cell, connected to the pad block through the input buffer and/or output buffer and arranged to feed input signals to and/or deliver output signals from the pad block, and control means connected to the first and/or second boundary scan cell(s) and adapted to receive control signals for controlling access to the first and/or second boundary scan cell(s) and feeding the first boundary scan cell with the input signals and/or outputting the output signals delivered by the first boundary scan cell.
US07928753B2
A device and a method for evaluating ESD protection capabilities of an integrated circuit, the method includes: connecting multiple test probe to multiple integrated circuit testing points. The method is characterized by repeating the stages of: (i) charging a discharge capacitor to an ESD protection circuit triggering voltage level; (ii) connecting the discharge capacitor to the integrated circuit during a testing period such as to cause the discharge capacitor to interact with the integrated circuit; (iii) measuring at least one signal of the integrated circuit, during at least a portion of the testing period; and (iv) determining at least one ESD protection characteristic of the integrated circuit in response to the at least one signal.
US07928751B2
A Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) interconnection pin is fabricated on a sacrificial layer, which is formed on a conductive layer and a substrate. The MEMS interconnection pin has a pin base attached to a frame that has direct contact to the conductive layer. The sacrificial layer is then removed, at least partially, to detach the MEMS interconnection pin from the substrate. In one embodiment, the MEMS interconnection pin has a pin base, two springs extending out from two different surfaces of the pin base, and a tip portion attached to each spring. The tip portions include one or more contact tips to make contact to conductive subjects.
US07928750B2
An interface device receives test data from a tester. A signal representing the test data is transmitted to a device under test through electromagnetically coupled structures on the interface device and the device under test. The device under test processes the test data and generates response data. A signal representing the response data is transmitted to the interface device through electromagnetically coupled structures on the device under test and the interface device.
US07928749B2
A vertical probe comprises a linear body, a tip portion connected to one side of the linear body, and at least one slot positioned on the linear body. In particular, the vertical probe includes a depressed structure having a plurality of slots positioned on the linear body in parallel and on one side of the linear body. The present application also provides a probe card for integrated circuit devices comprising an upper guiding plate having a plurality of fastening holes, a bottom guiding plate having a plurality of guiding holes and a plurality of vertical probes positioned in the guiding holes. The vertical probe includes a linear body positioned in the guiding holes, a tip portion connected to one side of the linear body and at least one slot positioned on the linear body.
US07928744B2
A measuring apparatus including a self test function, the circuit comprising a capacitor; first to fourth switches; a test signal injector; at least one comparator having a signal input and a reference input the first switch being interposed between a first plate of the capacitor and a first input node, the second switch being interposed between a second plate of the capacitor and a second input node, the third switch being interposed between the first plate of the capacitor and the signal input of the comparator and the fourth switch being interposed between the second plate of the capacitor and a voltage reference, wherein the self test function comprises the steps of i) operating the signal injector to produce a first signal representative of an out of range voltage for an expected voltage difference between the first and second input nodes, and using the signal to cause the at least one comparator to place its output in an error state, and to charge the capacitor to the out of range voltage, ii) isolating the capacitor from the signal injector and voltage reference, and connecting the capacitor between the first and second input nodes such that the voltage stored on the capacitor is overwritten by the voltage difference between the first and second nodes, and iii) and reconnecting the capacitor to the comparator and monitoring the comparator's output.
US07928732B2
A subsurface imaging cable includes a plurality of sensor modules, wherein the plurality of the sensor modules are flexible and each of the plurality of the sensor modules is spaced apart on the subsurface imaging cable at a selected distance; and a flexible medium connecting the plurality of the sensor modules, wherein the subsurface imaging cable is flexible and adapted to be wound on a reel. A method for subsurface images includes acquiring direct-current measurements at a plurality of sites in a survey area; acquiring a first set of electric and magnetic measurements from natural electromagnetic fields at the plurality of sites; acquiring a second set of electric and magnetic measurements using controlled electric and magnetic sources at the plurality of sites; and determining a subsurface conductivity distribution from the direct-current measurements and the first set and the second set of electric and magnetic measurements.
US07928728B2
A method for displaying diffusion data includes defining intra-voxel coherence and inter-voxel coherence of the diffusion data. On the basis of the inter-voxel coherence and the intra-voxel coherence, a multiplicity of tracks can be defined. Only those tracks having a selected characteristic are displayed.
US07928723B2
The invention concerns a method of determining the dissipated power of an electronic switch. According to the invention it is proposed that the instantaneous value of a physical quantity is detected, a value correlated with the instantaneous value is polled from a first memory, the two values are processed together in a predetermined manner and the result of the processing operation is outputted.
US07928720B2
A system measures power conversion efficiency of a voltage regulator. A measurement setting module presets a maximum output current and a total measurement number, and calculates each target output current of the voltage regulator. A load adjustment module adjusts an impedance of the electronic load to equal current passing through the electronic load to the target output current of the voltage regulator. A calculation module calculates each output power and input power, and power conversion efficiencies for each sequence number of measurement.
US07928716B2
Embodiments of methods and apparatus for modulating a power source are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method may comprise predicting, by a current control logic, a potential voltage transient on a power supply bus, and modulating, by the current control logic, a current source, based at least in part on said predicting, to control the predicted voltage transient. Additional variants and embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed.
US07928707B2
A method of switching a low dropout regulator includes determining an actual active time of a power request from an electronic device; enabling the low dropout regulator in response to said power request at a time corresponding to a start of the actual active time of the power request for an active enabled time having a duration at least the same as the actual active time and long enough to sufficiently settle the output voltage of the low dropout regulator; and disabling the low dropout regulator. In embodiments, the active enabled time is prolonged beyond the actual active time of the power request for all or at least some power requests. An electronic device includes circuits for controlling the switching of a low dropout in the described manner.
US07928699B2
A system for optimizing battery pack charging is provided. In this system, during charging the coupling of auxiliary systems (e.g., battery cooling systems) to the external power source are delayed so that the battery pack charge rate may be optimized, limited only by the available power. Once surplus power is available, for example as the requirements of the charging system decrease, the auxiliary system or systems may be coupled to the external power source without degrading the performance of the charging system.
US07928696B2
A battery pack is disclosed. The battery pack includes a battery, an impact sensor, a processor and a memory. The impact sensor is capable of generating an impact signal in response to a detection of an impact on the battery pack. The processor is capable of generating impact information based on the impact signal, and processor continues to count a number of charging times to the battery after the generation of the impact information. The memory is capable of storing the impact information and the number of charging times. The processor can refer to the memory to deliver a control command to a battery charger so that the battery can only be charged up to an allowable charge capacity smaller than a full charge capacity after an occurrence of an impact when the battery pack is attached to the battery charger. The charging to the battery stops when the number of the counted charging times reaches a predetermined number of allowable charging times that is allowed after the generation of the impact information.
US07928695B2
A rechargeable battery protection device has a voltage detector, a logic circuit, an output stage, a first switch, a second switch and inverter circuits. The device turns on a charger to charge a rechargeable battery or turns off the charger not to charge the rechargeable battery depending on the purpose for battery protection.
US07928694B2
An overcharge detecting comparator (121) detects an overcharged state of a battery (101), and an overcurrent detecting comparator (120) detects an overcurrent state of the battery (101). In response to output signals from those comparators, a control circuit (210) performs on/off control of each of a switch (102) and a protection circuit (50). In response to an output signal from the control circuit (210), the protection circuit (50) is turned on, to thereby connect a resistor (125) to a path connecting a VSS terminal and an overcurrent detecting terminal, and is turned off, to thereby disconnect the resistor (125) from the path. As a result, even when the battery is in the overcurrent state, current consumption can be reduced.
US07928687B2
A charging current for a secondary battery is reduced when the secondary battery voltage gets close to a previously set constant voltage. When the charging current has become less than a charging completion current value as a reference for determining whether the charging has been completed, a charging control sequence circuit determines that the charging of the secondary battery has been completed and proceeds to a first flow consumption current mode. The charging control sequence circuit turns off a first switch to cut off an electrical connection to stop the operation of the charging control circuit, whereby a switching element and a switching element for synchronous rectification are turned off to cut-off electrical connections so that the charging current becomes 0 mA.
US07928684B2
An article of furniture includes a drive device for moving a movable furniture part. The drive device includes an electric drive unit and a coupling device for at least temporarily transmitting a force of the electric drive unit to the movable furniture part, and the coupling device has a drive and a drive output. Operating between the drive and the drive output are coupling elements by which, in a first operating position, a clamping connection between the drive and the drive output and thus coupling between the drive and the drive output can be produced, and, in a second operating position, the coupling elements are movable into a position in which the drive and the drive output are not coupled.
US07928679B2
Thermistor monitoring arrangement of an alternating-current electric motor controlled by a power transformer, such as a frequency converter, for at least one thermistor monitoring the temperature of the motor, in which is a power transformer (200), in which is a power stage (203) and a control unit (204), controlling an alternating-current electric motor (201) provided with a thermistor (202), and into which power transformer, such as a frequency converter, an input circuit connected to a thermistor located in the motor is integrated, to which input circuit a safety circuit (a so-called Safe Stop circuit) that prevents unexpected starting or ensures safe stopping of the frequency converter is connected.
US07928677B2
A method of controlling a motor connected to an unbalanced load in accordance with an embodiment of the present application includes operating the motor for a predetermined period of time with a first performance parameter held constant, monitoring a signal related to a second performance parameter, monitoring electrical rotation within the motor and providing an electrical rotation signal indicative of the electrical rotation angle, sampling the signal related to the second performance parameter at a predetermined angle of electrical rotation, arranging samples provided in the sampling step in predetermined order and generating a mechanical rotation signal representing the mechanical rotation angle of a rotor of the motor based on the arrangement of samples. The mechanical rotation signal is used to control at least one of the first and second performance parameters of the motor.
US07928674B2
A motor speed control system includes a pulse outputting device capable of outputting a pulse each time a motor rotates, a pulse interval determining device capable of determining a pulse interval between the pulses outputted, and a comparative value calculating device capable of obtaining a comparative value as the product of a first value and a second value. The first value can correspond to the pulse interval determined, and the second value can correspond to a set rotational speed of the motor. The system can further include a set value calculating device capable of obtaining a set value as the product of the second value and a third value and a controller capable of controlling a supply of power to the motor such that a difference between the set value and the comparative value decreases.
US07928673B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of different motors used in a corresponding plurality of power tool applications requiring different operational characteristics. In one implementation a method involves the use of a single universal control module to store a generic, non-application-specific control algorithm. The generic, non-application-specific control algorithm has at least one programmable constant. The programmable constant is selected to transform the generic, non-application-specific control algorithm into an application-specific control algorithm. The programmable constant represents a function parameter relating to a specific functionality of a specific, selected motor used in a specific, selected motor application to implement a phase control over the specific, selected motor.
US07928672B2
Described herein is a modulator circuit for generating discrete energy pulses in a device. The circuit includes a high voltage power source intermittently coupled to a saturable first inductor, a second inductor and a capacitor coupled in parallel between the high voltage power source and the saturable first inductor and second inductor. When the first inductor is unsaturated, its inductance is high and it isolates the capacitor from the second inductor. When the first inductor saturates, the inductance collapses and the capacitor discharges a high energy pulse into the second coil. By controlling the time to saturation, the timing of the pulses is controlled. The modulator circuit is effective to control pulses applied to a circular induction accelerator, such as a Betatron.
US07928652B2
An organic EL element includes a pair of electrodes and an emitting layer interposed therebetween. The emitting layer is made of a mixture containing a host material and a dopant material. In the emitting layer, a concentration profile of the dopant material along a thickness direction includes at least two relative maximums or at least two relative minimums.
US07928646B2
An organic electroluminescent display device and fabrication method thereof is provided. The device includes a first substrate having at least one thin film transistor; an electroluminescent unit formed on the first substrate and electrically connect to the thin film transistor; a first protective layer formed on the electroluminescent unit; a second protective layer formed on the first protective layer; and a third protective layer formed on the second protective layer and in contact with the first protective layer. The device further comprises a second substrate sealed to the first substrate to form the electroluminescent unit between the first substrate and second substrate. In the device, the first protective layer comprising inorganic material, the second protective layer comprising organic material and the third protective layer comprising inorganic material are formed on the electroluminescent unit to reduce oxidation of electrodes by preventing infiltration of moisture.
US07928640B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate; a plurality of pixels arranged above the substrate, each including a plurality of sub-pixels emitting light of different colors; a circularly polarizing member disposed above the pixels, the transmittance of light of a selected color through the circularly polarizing member being higher than that of light of the other colors therethrough; and a light-absorbing member disposed only above the sub-pixels, emitting light of the non-selected colors. The light-absorbing member absorbs light of the selected color.
US07928627B2
A laminated core (10) and a method for manufacturing the same formed with multiple continuous segment core pieces (13) wound in a spiral form by bending connecting portions (12) mutually connecting the segment core pieces (13), the connecting portions (12) being formed in an outer peripheral area (11), while the connecting portions (12) of vertically adjacent layers being displaced in a circumferential direction with inner edges or outer edges of the segment core pieces (13) fitted, the laminated core comprising: a concave cutout (21) provided in a radial exterior of each connecting portion (12) to dispose a radially expanded portion (20) within an outer circle of the laminated core (10), the radially expanded portion (20) being formed with each connecting portion (12) expanding radially outward at the time of bending each connecting portion (12); an interior cutout (22) provided in a radial interior of each connecting portion (12) to define a bending position of each connecting portion (12); and a receptacle (16) provided in a radial exterior of each segment core piece (13) to receive an expanded part (15) formed in the thickness direction at the time of bending each connecting portion (12).
US07928623B2
An apparatus for producing electrical power from mechanical power, includes a generator with a rotor and a stator for conversion of mechanical power to a polyphase alternating current having more than three phases. The stator has a stator core with a cylindrical stator bore and a plurality of parallel stator slots disposed at a distance from one another, extending axially along a length of the stator core and being open towards the stator bore. A plurality of stator winding bars are disposed in the stator slots so as to form delta-connected windings for producing the polyphase alternating current. A static frequency converter in the form of a matrix converter converts the polyphase alternating current to a desired output alternating current, wherein the stator is a polygonal stator having external winding connections that are bridged, wherein inputs to the matrix converter are connected to end connections of the winding bars. For k stator slots and for a polyphase output with m phases, every k/m-th end connection of the winding bars or evolvent is connected, forming one phase of the polyphase stator output.
US07928608B1
The invention comprises a terminal unit for a flat cable comprising a BNC-PCB connector having a pin for electrically contacting one or more conducting elements of a flat cable, and a current viewing resistor having an opening through which the pin extends and having a resistor face that abuts a connector face of the BNC-PCB connector, wherein the device is a terminal unit for the flat cable.
US07928607B2
An aircraft power system is provided having an aircraft power supply and a bidirectional switch. The aircraft power supply includes an alternator, a battery and a load. The bidirectional switch is coupled between one of the alternator and the battery, and the load. The switch includes a first FET, a second FET and timing circuitry. A source of the first FET is coupled with a source of the second FET. A drain of the first FET is coupled with one of the alternator and the battery. A drain of the second FET is coupled with the load. The timing circuitry is configurable to generate a control signal deliverable to a gate of the first FET and the second FET for setting the first FET in selective on and off positions and the second FET in corresponding selective off and on position.
US07928596B2
The present invention is directed to a power transfer system and method for utilizing the electrical power generated by a powered vehicle, such as a locomotive. The power transfer system comprises an electromotive machine configured to generate electrical energy on the powered vehicle and an electrical system located outboard from the powered vehicle, which is configured to receive electrical energy. Interface equipment is provided, which is electrically coupled to the electromotive machine and the electrical system, to transfer electrical energy from the electromotive machine to the electrical system.
US07928595B1
An electric power generation system that includes a platform positioned above a water surface, an anchoring system to secure the platform to a floor below a body of water, at least one turbine extending below the platform to harvest underwater ocean currents and at least one electrical generator positioned upon the platform for outputting electrical energy. The turbine includes a rotatable shaft and a plurality of rotatable blades connected to the rotatable shaft. A first rotational axis of the rotatable shaft is vertically oriented and wherein a second rotational axis of the plurality of rotatable blades is horizontally aligned with an underwater current stream. The electrical generator is mechanically connected to the shaft of the turbine to convert a rotational torque of the shaft to electrical energy.
US07928594B2
A tandem axial turbine that comprises a front confusor, a funnel-shaped runner having inner blades and capable of accelerating and directing an oncoming flow toward a co-axial rear runner which rotates in an opposite direction. A tangential turbine has a hub, blades capable of rotating in relation to the hub between positions across and along the flow, and propulsion springs for controlling the movement of the blades in relation to the hub and the transfer of the energy. A second tangential turbine comprises a runner having a hub and blades and a shroud capturing the runner from above and around and permitting the blades to dip into water flowing immediately below the hub and an opening of the shroud. A surface vessel comprises a stabilized frame rotatably affixed on a vessel hull about a center of wave induced rocking motions of the vessel and therefore isolated from a rocking motion of the vessel.
US07928592B2
A system and method are provided to isolate outputs of parallel converter threads of a power system converter on a generator side of a wind turbine generator by utilizing isolated power windings on the wind turbine generator. Such isolation eliminates the circulating common mode current between the parallel converters of the wind turbine system and eliminates the need for a common mode inductor. System reliability is enhanced and total system cost is reduced.
US07928589B2
The present invention provides a non-insulated type DC-DC converter having a circuit in which a power MOS•FET for a high side switch and a power MOS•FET for a low side switch are connected in series. In the non-insulated type DC-DC converter, the power transistor for the high side switch, the power transistor for the low side switch, and driver circuits that drive these are respectively constituted by different semiconductor chips. The three semiconductor chips are accommodated in one package, and the semiconductor chip including the power transistor for the high side switch, and the semiconductor chip including the driver circuits are disposed so as to approach each other.
US07928587B2
A power semiconductor module having a surface of the power semiconductor chip and an external circuit pattern connected by an aluminum wire, and sealed with an epoxy resin, wherein wire diameter of the aluminum wire is 0.4±0.05 mmφ, and coefficient of linear expansion of the epoxy resin in a rated temperature range of a module is from 15 to 20 ppm/K.
US07928581B2
A manufacture method for semiconductor device (1, 21) including: a sealing-resin-layer forming step of forming a sealing resin layer (7) on a conductive member (13) formed at lest on one surface of a base substrate (11) formed with a plurality of wiring boards (2) therein, the conductive member spanning a boundary between a respective pair of adjoining wiring boards; and a step of moving the base substrate and a cutting tool (B) relative to each other in a manner to allow the cutting tool to pass through the base substrate from the other surface (2b) opposite from the one surface thereof toward the one surface thereof, thereby cutting the base substrate along the boundary between the respective pair of adjoining wiring boards.
US07928580B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first wiring region and a second wiring region located adjacent to the first wiring region. First lines located in the first wiring region include a first portion, a first lead portion and first inclined portion. Second lines located in the second wiring region include a second portion, a second lead portion and a second inclined portion. The first and second portions are located in parallel with a same pitch, the first and second lead portions are located with a pitch which is larger than the pitch of the first and second portions, the first and second inclined portions extend the same direction at a predetermined angle.
US07928575B2
In an electronic device comprising a first electrodes consisting of a metal oxide and a second electrode consisting of an aluminum alloy film directly contacted and electrically connected to the first electrode, the contact interface between the aluminum alloy film and the first electrode is constructed so that at least a part of alloy components constituting the aluminum alloy film exist as a precipitate or concentrated layer. This construction enables direct contact between the aluminum alloy film and the electrode consisting of a metallic oxide and allows elimination of a barrier metal in such an electronic device, and manufacturing technology therefor.
US07928566B2
Conductive bump (17) formed on a surface of electrode terminal (11) of an electronic component. Conductive bump (17) is composed of at least a plurality of cured resin materials having different conductive filler densities. Thus, a short circuit and a connection failure due to crush of conductive bump (17) at the time of mounting can be prevented.
US07928563B2
Three dimensional integrated circuits with microfluidic interconnects and methods of constructing same are provided. According to some embodiments, and microfluidic integrated circuit system can comprise a plurality of semiconductor die wafers each having a top and bottom exterior surface. The semiconductor die wafers can form a stack of die wafers. The die wafers can comprise one or more channels formed through the die wafers. The channels can extend generally between top and bottom exterior surfaces of the semiconductor die wafers. A plurality of micro-pipes can be disposed between adjacent semiconductor die wafers in the stack. The micro-pipes can enable the channels to be in fluid communication with each other. A barrier layer can be disposed within at least one of the channels and the micro-pipes. The barrier layer can be adapted to prevent a coolant flowing through the at least one of the channels and the micro-pipes from leeching into the channels and micro-pipes. Other embodiments are also claimed and described.
US07928559B2
Semiconductor device, electronic component module, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor element is provided with a heat dissipating path defined by a non-through hole in a first principal surface and that is filled with a conductive material. The semiconductor element is bonded to a heat sink with the conductive material disposed therebetween. Solder can be used as the conductive material, for example. By introducing molten solder into the non-through hole while having solder disposed between the semiconductor element and the heat sink, the heat dissipating path is provided and the heat sink is bonded to the semiconductor element.
US07928543B2
A tape wiring substrate may have dispersion wiring patterns. The dispersion wiring patterns may be provided between input/output wiring pattern groups to compensate for the intervals therebetween. Connecting wiring patterns may be configured to connect the dispersion wiring patterns to a first end of the adjacent input/output wiring pattern.
US07928528B2
The invention provides an LCD panel with main slits corresponding to alignment protrusions. The gate lines are shielded by the electrode portion and do not overlap the main slits. Because the gate line and the major slits do not overlap, the liquid crystal molecule arrangement of the liquid crystal layer is not affected by the operating voltage of the gate line.
US07928527B2
A plurality of image sensor structures and a plurality of methods for fabricating the plurality of image sensor structures provide for inhibited cracking and delamination of a lens capping layer with respect to a planarizing layer within the plurality of image sensor structures. Particular image sensor structures and related methods include at least one dummy lens layer of different dimensions than active lens layer located over a circuitry portion of a substrate within the particular image sensor structures. Additional particular image sensor structures include at least one of an aperture within the planarizing layer and a sloped endwall of the planarizing layer located over a circuitry portion within the particular image sensor structures.
US07928522B2
In one embodiment a micro-electro mechanical system is disclosed. A MEMS structure can include a frame, a movable structure and a set of structural beams to suspend the movable structure from the frame. The system can also include a set of conductor routing beams. The conductor routing beams can provide a conductive path from the frame to the movable structure. The set of structural beams can have a spring rate that is more than ten times the spring rate of the set of conductor routing beams. Accordingly, multiple routing beams can be utilized to support multiple conductors without significantly affecting the mechanical movement or dynamic properties of the movable structure.
US07928517B2
An RF field effect transistor has a gate electrode, and comb shaped drain and source electrodes, fingers of the comb shaped drain being arranged to be interleaved with fingers of the source electrode, the source and drain electrodes having multiple layers (110,120,130,140). An amount of the interleaving is different in each layer, to enable optimization, particularly for low parasitic capacitance without losing all the advantage of low current density provided by the multiple layers. The interleaving is reduced for layers further from the gate electrode by having shorter fingers. The reduction in interleaving can be optimized for minimum capacitance, by a steeper reduction in interleaving, or for minimum lateral current densities in source and drain fingers, by a more gradual reduction in interleaving. This can enable operation at higher temperatures or at higher input bias currents, while still meeting the requirements of electro-migration rules.
US07928503B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming memory cells. Dopant is implanted into a semiconductor substrate to form a pair of source/drain regions that are spaced from one another by a channel region. The dopant is annealed within the source/drain regions, and then a plurality of charge trapping units are formed over the channel region. Dielectric material is then formed over the charge trapping units, and control gate material is formed over the dielectric material. Some embodiments include memory cells that contain a plurality of nanosized islands of charge trapping material over a channel region, with adjacent islands being spaced from one another by gaps. The memory cells can further include dielectric material over and between the nanosized islands, with the dielectric material forming a container shape having an upwardly opening trough therein. The memory cells can further include control gate material within the trough.
US07928501B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a methods of forming and operating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device may include active pillars extending from a semiconductor substrate and disposed two dimensionally disposed on the semiconductor substrate, upper interconnections connecting the active pillars along one direction, lower interconnections crossing the upper interconnections and disposed between the active pillars, word lines crossing the upper interconnections and disposed between the active pillars, and data storage patterns disposed between the word lines and the active pillars.
US07928486B2
A photoelectric conversion device comprising a semiconductor substrate of a first conduction type, and a photoelectric conversion element having an impurity region of the first conduction type and a plurality of impurity regions of a second conduction type opposite to the first conduction type. The plurality of second-conduction-type impurity regions include at least a first impurity region, a second impurity region provided between the first impurity region and a surface of the substrate, and a third impurity region provided between the second impurity region and the surface of the substrate. A concentration C1 corresponding to a peak of the impurity concentration in the first impurity region, a concentration C2 corresponding to a peak of the impurity concentration in the second impurity region and a concentration C3 corresponding to a peak of the impurity concentration in the third impurity region satisfy the following relationship: C2
US07928481B2
An semiconductor device is disclosed. The device includes a semiconductor body, a layer of insulating material disposed over the semiconductor body, and a region of gate electrode material disposed over the layer of insulating material. Also included are a source region adjacent to gate region and a drain region adjacent to the gate region. A gate connection is disposed over the semiconductor body, wherein the gate connection includes a region of gate electrode material electrically coupling a contact region to the gate electrode. An insulating region is disposed on the semiconductor body beneath the gate connection.
US07928479B2
A ferroelectric capacitor is formed over a semiconductor substrate (10), and thereafter, interlayer insulating films (48, 50, 52) covering the ferroelectric capacitor are formed. Next, a contact hole (54) reaching a top electrode (40) is formed in the interlayer insulating films (48, 50, 52). Next, a wiring (58) electrically connected to the top electrode (40) through the contact hole (54) is formed on the interlayer insulating films (48, 50, 52). At the time of forming the top electrode (40), conductive oxide films (40a, 40b) are formed, and then a cap film (40c) composed of a noble metal exhibiting less catalytic action than Pt and having a thickness of 150 nm or less is formed on the conductive oxide films (40a, 40b).
US07928478B2
An image sensor comprises a substrate of a first conductivity type. First and second pixels are arrayed over the substrate. A potential barrier is formed in a region of the substrate corresponding to the first pixel but not in a region of the substrate corresponding to the second pixel. The second pixel is responsive to a color having a wavelength longer than the color to which the first pixel is responsive. The potential barrier is doped with dopants by a high energy ion implantation dopants or by an ion implantation or diffusion during epitaxial growth of the P-type epitaxial layer.
US07928477B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus, controlling a potential on a semiconductor substrate for an electronic shutter operation, includes: a first semiconductor region of the first conductivity type for forming a photoelectric conversion region; a second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, formed separately from the photoelectric conversion region, for accumulating carriers; a third semiconductor region of a second conductivity type arranged under the second semiconductor region, for operating as a potential barrier; a fourth semiconductor region of the second conductivity type extending between the first semiconductor region and the semiconductor substrate, and between the third semiconductor region and the semiconductor substrate; and a first voltage supply portion for supplying a voltage to the third semiconductor region; wherein the first voltage supply portion includes a fifth semiconductor region of the second conductivity type arranged in the pixel region, and a first electrode connected to the fifth semiconductor region.
US07928463B2
A light emitting device is provided, which includes a light-emitting structure and a magnetic material. The light-emitting structure has an exciting binding energy of a bandgap. The magnetic material is coupled with the light-emitting structure to produce a magnetic field in the light-emitting structure. The exciting binding energy may be higher than about 25.8 meV at room temperature.
US07928462B2
A light emitting device having a vertical structure, a package thereof and a method for manufacturing the same, which are capable of damping impact generated in a substrate separation process, and achieving an improvement in mass productivity, are disclosed. The method includes growing a semiconductor layer having a multilayer structure over a substrate, forming a first electrode on the semiconductor layer, separating the substrate including the grown semiconductor layer into unit devices, bonding each of the separated unit devices on a sub-mount, separating the substrate from the semiconductor layer, and forming a second electrode on a surface of the semiconductor layer exposed in accordance with the separation of the substrate.
US07928455B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a light-impervious substrate, a bonding structure, a semiconductor light-emitting stack, and a fluorescent material structure overlaying the semiconductor light-emitting stack. The semiconductor light-emitting stack is separated from a growth substrate and bonded to the light-impervious substrate via the bonding structure. A method for producing the semiconductor light-emitting device includes separating a semiconductor light-emitting stack from a growth substrate, bonding the semiconductor light-emitting stack to a light-impervious substrate, and forming a fluorescent material structure over the semiconductor light-emitting stack.
US07928450B2
A pixel structure is disclosed. The pixel structure includes a substrate, a first data line having at least one end formed on the substrate, a first insulation layer overlying the first data line and exposing a part of the end of the first data line, a shielding electrode disposed on the first insulation layer and overlapped with the first data line, a second data line formed on the first insulation layer and electrically connected to the exposed end of the first data line, a second insulation layer overlying the shielding electrode and the second data line, and a pixel electrode formed on the second insulation layer and overlapped with the shielding electrode. The invention also provides a method for fabricating the pixel structure.
US07928443B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having at least one gap, extending under a portion of the semiconductor substrate. A gate stack is on the semiconductor substrate. A strain layer is formed in at least a portion of the at least one gap. The strain layer is formed only under at least one of a source region and a drain region of the semiconductor device.
US07928438B2
After an amorphous semiconductor thin film is crystallized by utilizing a catalyst element, the catalyst element is removed by performing a heat treatment in an atmosphere containing a halogen element. A resulting crystalline semiconductor thin film exhibits {110} orientation. Since individual crystal grains have approximately equal orientation, the crystalline semiconductor thin film has substantially no grain boundaries and has such crystallinity as to be considered a single crystal or considered so substantially.
US07928434B2
The invention relates to an organic electronic component, such as e.g. an organic light diode or an organic solar cell with structures made of passivation material, the passivation material comprising at least one dessicant.
US07928429B2
An organic thin film transistor (TFT), a method of making and a display including the organic TFT. In the TFT, the disconnection of a channel region does not occur because a step difference between a substrate and source and drain electrodes is lessened or eliminated by forming the source and drain electrodes in grooves in a buffer film. The method of manufacturing the organic TFT includes forming a buffer film on a substrate, forming concave units separated by a distance from each other in the buffer film by etching the buffer film, forming an electrode layer on the buffer film, forming source and drain electrodes within the concave units by etching the electrode layer using a photolithography process, forming a semiconductor layer on the source and drain electrodes and on the buffer film, forming a gate insulating film on the semiconductor layer and forming a gate electrode on the gate insulating film.
US07928413B2
The present invention relates to components in an ion implanter that may see incidence of the ion beam, such as a beam dump or a beam stop. Such components will be prone to the ions sputtering material from their surfaces, and sputtered material may become entrained in the ion beam. This entrained material is a source of contamination. The present invention provides an ion implanter comprising power supply apparatus and an ion-receiving component. The component has an opening that receives ions from an ion beam such that ions strike an internal surface. The power supply apparatus is arranged to provide an electrical bias to the internal surface to decelerate the ions prior to their striking the surface, thereby mitigating the problem of material being sputtered from the surface.
US07928407B2
In an immersion lithographic apparatus, bubble formation in immersion liquid is reduced or prevented by reducing a gap size or area on a substrate table and/or covering the gap.
US07928389B1
An apparatus and method for a detector are disclosed. The apparatus disclosed contains an extractor layer, an absorber layer disposed adjacent to the extractor layer, a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact. The absorber layer is configured to absorb photons of incident light and generate minority electrical carriers and majority electrical carriers. In the disclosed apparatus, the top surface of the absorber layer is shaped as a pyramid, the extractor layer is electrically connected with the absorber layer and with the first electrical contact for extracting the minority electrical carriers, and the absorber layer is electrically connected with the extractor layer and with the second electrical contact to extract the majority electrical carriers.
US07928381B1
A non-dispersive electrostatic energy analyzer for electrons and other charged particles having a generally coaxial structure of a sequentially arranged sections of an electrostatic lens to focus the beam through an iris and preferably including an ellipsoidally shaped input grid for collimating a wide acceptance beam from a charged-particle source, an electrostatic high-pass filter including a planar exit grid, and an electrostatic low-pass filter. The low-pass filter is configured to reflect low-energy particles back towards a charged particle detector located within the low-pass filter. Each section comprises multiple tubular or conical electrodes arranged about the central axis. The voltages on the lens are scanned to place a selected energy band of the accepted beam at a selected energy at the iris. Voltages on the high-pass and low-pass filters remain substantially fixed during the scan.
US07928367B2
A simple and efficient method of preparing a sample in the measurement according to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) capable of inhibiting any ion suppression by impurities, such as inorganic salts and surfactants, contained in the sample. An analyte and matrix molecules are co-crystallized in the presence of porous microparticles. Preferably, this co-crystallization is carried out by bringing the analyte, matrix molecules and porous microparticles into contact with each other on a target plate and thereafter drying the mixture. The porous microparticles consist of an ion exchanger having an average particle diameter of not more than 50 μm, preferably a strongly basic anion exchanger.
US07928366B2
An injector provides optical access into a process chamber along an axial path from a diagnostic end point outside the process chamber through an optical access window. A hollow housing body receives first and second process gases, and surrounds the axial path. A sleeve in the body is urged against the body to minimize particle generation, and defines a first gas bore injecting the first process gas into the process chamber. A second gas bore of the sleeve surrounds the axial path for injecting the second process gas into the process chamber, allowing an optical signal to have a desired signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the end point. Methods provide a septum in the second bore dividing the second bore into apertures configured to reduce etching of and deposition on the optical access window and to maintain the desired SNR at the diagnostic end point.
US07928352B2
A solid-state image capturing device includes a first detecting unit for detecting a first wavelength component and a second detecting unit for detecting a second wavelength component which has a longer wavelength than at least the first wavelength component and wherein in a depth direction, an active region where a first type dopant of the second detecting unit is located is deeper than an active region where a first electroconductive type dopant of the first detecting unit is located. A signal processor modifies an output signal from at least one detecting unit based on a received signal quantity at another detecting unit and a type of filter above at least one of the detecting units.
US07928347B2
A heating unit includes an AlN substrate having a main surface on which an elongated heat-generating resistor is provided. A protection layer is formed on the main surface of the substrate for the heat-generating resistor. The protection layer includes a first cover layer covering the heat-generating resistor and a second cover layer covering the first cover layer. The first cover layer is made of crystallized or semi-crystallized glass having a higher crystallization temperature by at least 50° C. than the softening point of the glass. The second cover layer is made of non-crystalline glass.
US07928342B2
A metal sheathed heater includes a solid state control device that allows the metal sheathed heater to be more efficiently operated. The control device supplies or terminates power to the heater according to certain conditions. Further, the control device uses predetermined time periods to control power to the heater. Thus, the heater is not kept on unnecessarily.
US07928336B2
A clamp is designed for accepting a mail piece at a loading station, and for releasably holding the mail piece while the mail piece is moved to an unloading station via a sorting system. The clamp is manipulated in the sorting system, instead of manipulating the mail piece held by the clamp. The clamp includes jaws for releasably holding the mail piece, plus a machine readable identifier, plus a mechanism for engaging with the sorting system. The clamp's identifier includes clamp information which uniquely identifies the clamp. The clamp information is for use by the sorting system, in combination with address information on the mail piece, to enable sortation of the mail piece held by the clamp.
US07928332B2
A brake pedal stop lamp switch assembly includes a pedal switch plate fixed to a car body, a switch-fixing bracket mounted to the pedal switch plate and having at least one or more fixing-protrusions, a switch assembly linearly moving in a pressing direction in the switch-fixing bracket, and a hall-effect sensor that generates a signal when a magnet attached to upper portion of pedal stopper plate approaches and an electronic circuit that receives signals of the hall-effect sensor, and a plurality of teeth formed at the switch assembly to fix the switch assembly that has linearly moved relative to the switch-fixing bracket, engaged with the fixing-protrusion of the switch-fixing bracket.
US07928322B2
Disclosed is an active energy ray-curable conductive ink containing a conductive substance and a binder component, which is characterized in that the binder component contains a chlorinated polyester and an active energy ray-polymerizable compound. This active energy ray-curable conductive ink has good fluidity and enables to obtain a conductive circuit with low resistance after curing. Also disclosed are a method for forming a conductive circuit by printing this conductive ink on a substrate, and non-contact media comprising an IC chip mounted in a state electrically connected with the conductive circuit. The conductive substance is preferably a flake powder having a BET specific surface area of 0.1-0.4 m2/g and an aspect ratio of not less than 3.
US07928321B2
An electric superconducting system having at least a superconducting apparatus, at least a current lead electrically connecting the superconducting apparatus and an electric network. An electrical conductor having at least a sheet, the electrical conductor defining a heat conducting path of predetermined length through the sheet, and having at least two surfaces mutually facing each other.
US07928320B2
A helically-wound electric cable having at least two groups wound together so as to form a group helix. Each group has at least two twisted-together conductor wires, wherein the pitch of the group helix varying along the helically-wound electric cable in accordance with a sinusoidal function between two limit values having the same sign, characterized in that said sinusoidal function has a determined modulation period (MP) in order to avoid return loss peak (RLp) in the operating frequency range (Fmin-Fmax) of said helically-wound electric cable.
US07928312B2
An electronic keyboard instrument is provided and methods of playing and assembling the same. The instrument comprises a controller for enabling activation of electronic signals having audible, visible, amplifiable, recordable and/or like characteristics, and a power source for operating the controller. A first keyboard is provided having a first selected length and being oriented in a first direction such that (i) audible notes of music from at least one internal sound module and/or at least one external sound module, (ii) recordable data to be enhanced or modified by an external sequencer or program controlled apparatus, (iii) photoelectric signals, and (iv) processes or mechanisms, triggered or controlled by external signals or data, for controlling machines, video playback or lighting, and/or the like may be generated and/or activated using a first hand of one or more users. A second keyboard with a second selected length is generally coextensive with and oriented generally opposite to the first such that (i) audible notes of music from at least one internal sound module and/or at least one external sound module, (ii) recordable data to be enhanced or modified by an external sequencer or program controlled apparatus, (iii) photoelectric signals, and (iv) processes or mechanisms, triggered or controlled by external signals or data, for controlling machines, video playback or lighting, and/or the like may be generated and/or activated using a second hand of the one or more users. In addition, an interface connects the controller to at least one external device having sound module, and/or sequencing and signal enhancement functions. A plurality of peripheral devices operatively connected thereto permit interactive control and manipulation of the signals. Finally, a wearable support is mounted to the instrument for suspending the first and second keyboards from the user's body during instrument operation. Alternatively, the instrument is suspended by a support structure in a generally horizontal fashion for simultaneous operation by multiple users.
US07928306B2
The present disclosure relates to musical instruments and devices. A system is provided which utilizes tonal visualization components incorporating color and/or shape to allow a person to “see” a note or group of notes sounded by an instrument to determine whether the instrument is in tune and make appropriate adjustments if necessary.
US07928301B1
A novel maize variety designated PH12TB and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH12TB with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH12TB 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 PH12TB or a locus conversion of PH12TB with another maize variety.
US07928296B2
Maize event DP-098140-6 and compositions and methods for the identification and/or detection thereof
Compositions and methods related to transgenic glyphosate/ALS inhibitor-tolerant maize plants are provided. Specifically, the present invention provides maize plants having a DP-098140-6 event which imparts tolerance to glyphosate and at least one ALS-inhibiting herbicide. The maize plant harboring the DP-098140-6 event at the recited chromosomal location comprises genomic/transgene junctions having at least the polynucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:5 and/or 6. The characterization of the genomic insertion site of the DP-098140-6 event provides for an enhanced breeding efficiency and enables the use of molecular markers to track the transgene insert in the breeding populations and progeny thereof. Various methods and compositions for the identification, detection, and use of the maize DP-098140-6 events are provided.
US07928294B2
The present invention relates to a polypeptide having a Δ5 fatty acid desaturation activity and a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide as well as use thereof. For example, the present invention relates to a polypeptide, comprising (a) the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2; or (b) the amino acid sequence in which one or more amino acids are substituted, deleted, inserted or added in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2, and having the Δ5 fatty acid desaturation activity; an antibody capable of binding to this polypeptide; a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide; a vector comprising this polynucleotide; a cell or transformant introduced with the polynucleotide; a method of producing a fatty acid using the cell, and so on.
US07928283B2
An object of the present invention is to develop a new alternative splicing reporter system and to provide a method for detecting alternative splicing patterns in a multicellular organism more precisely, a method for identifying efficiently substances and gene regions that affect alternative splicing in a multicellular organism, and the like by utilizing the alternative splicing reporter system. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method for detecting alternative splicing in a multicellular organism, and a method for identifying substances and gene regions that affect alternative splicing in a multicellular organism, which use a DNA construct in which at least two different reporter genes are inserted into a specific gene that undergoes alternative splicing, or a combination of DNA constructs (a combination of at least two different DNA constructs) in which DNA construct a reporter gene is inserted into a specific gene that undergoes alternative splicing.
US07928282B2
The present invention provides a substrate treated with an linked enzyme. It has been discovered that a substrate treated with a linked enzyme can be effective in improving the ability of the substrate to absorb viscoelastic materials, such as menses, by cleaving a protein structure present in some viscoelastic materials. In addition, the linked enzyme is less likely to migrate from the treated material onto the user, as compare to an enzyme being placed directly on the substrate, thereby reducing the risk of sensitization to the user of the absorbent product. Also provided by the present invention are absorbent articles which contain at least one surface or layer containing the linked enzyme.
US07928277B1
Exemplary compositions, methods, and systems are disclosed that can be useful for reducing a concentration of a contaminant associated with a medium, which can be any substance or material, such as soil, water, air, and/or fluid. In one exemplary method, the medium is treated with Fe-MDGA and an oxidizing agent in amounts effective to oxidize at least a portion of the contaminant. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.
US07928276B2
The invention concerns a process for producing high purity meta-xylene, comprising a step for separation by simulated moving bed adsorption starting from an aromatic C8 feed delivering a fraction which is rich in meta-xylene and a fraction which is depleted in meta-xylene, and a step for crystallization of the meta-xylene rich fraction. The purity of the meta-xylene produced is at least 99.5%.
US07928270B2
A process is proposed for distillatively removing dinitrotoluene from process wastewater from the preparation of dinitrotoluene by nitrating toluene with nitrating acid, which comprises basifying the process wastewater to a pH of >8.5, feeding it to a stripping column in the upper region thereof and stripping it with steam in countercurrent to obtain a vapor stream laden with dinitrotoluene and a bottom stream depleted in dinitrotoluene compared to the process wastewater used.
US07928252B2
Fused cyclopentane—4-substituted 3,5-dioxalane lactone compounds useful as an intermediate in the synthesis of prostaglandin analogs are provided. The compounds have the formula A: wherein R represents an aryl group such as p-methoxyphenyl. This compound can be reacted with a lower alkyl aluminum compound to open the dioxalane ring and reduce the lactone to lactol, without over-reducing to diol. The resulting compound can be functionalized to insert chemical side groups of target prostaglandins, adding the required α-side chain and then the required ω-side chain sequentially and independently of each other. The compounds and process are particularly suitable for preparing lubiprostone.
US07928245B2
This invention relates to oligomeric compounds that are prepared by the reaction of a dianhydride with an amino-alcohol to yield an imide-diol intermediate, which is then esterified with a carboxylic acid to form a reactive oligomer. An exemplary reaction scheme is the following:
US07928233B2
There are provided compounds of the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester or enantiomer thereof wherein W, X, Y, V, R1 and R2 are as described herein. The compounds have utility as antiproliferative agents, especially, as anticancer agents.
US07928232B2
The invention provides an industrial method for producing a spiroaminopyrrolidone derivative, which is an intermediate for producing a quinolone antibacterial agent.The invention provides a method for producing a compound represented by formula (2): (wherein n is an integer of 2 to 5; R1 represents a (substituted) alkyl group or a (substituted) aryl group; and R2 represents a (substituted) alkoxycarbonyl group, a (substituted) aralkyloxycarbonyl group, a (substituted) aliphatic acyl group, or a (substituted) aromatic acyl group), which includes treating a compound represented by formula (1): (wherein n, R1, and R2 are the same as defined above; and R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a (substituted) alkyl group, or a (substituted) aralkyl group) under a hydrogen gas atmosphere in the presence of a metallic catalyst.
US07928225B2
There is provided compounds of formula I, wherein R1, R2, R3, R41 to R46, X, Y and Z have meanings given in the description, which compounds are useful in the prophylaxis and in the treatment of arrhythmias, in particular atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.
US07928209B2
A reporter system reflecting the transport process that transports GPI-anchored proteins to the cell wall was constructed and compounds inhibiting this process were discovered. Further, fungal genes conferring resistance to the above compounds were identified and methods of screening for compounds that inhibit the activity of the proteins encoded by these genes were developed. These genes encode proteins participating in fungal cell wall synthesis. Therefore, through the novel compounds, the present invention showed that antifungal agents having a novel mechanism, i.e. inhibiting the process that transports GPI-anchored proteins to the cell wall, could be achieved.
US07928208B2
A method of forming DNA nanotubes composed entirely or predominantly from DNA that, The methods of the present invention form single layer or multilayer template-synthesized nanotubes where the bulk of the tube is composed of DNA, and the layers are held together by hybridization of complementary DNA strands. The DNA molecules making up these tubes may be varied as desired, and the DNA is capable of being released from the tube.
US07928199B2
The present invention relates to methods of introducing one or more cysteine residues into a polypeptide which permit the stabilization of the polypeptide by formation of at least one bond, preferably a disulfide bond, between different domains of the polypeptide. The invention also relates to polypeptides containing such introduced cysteine residue(s), nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such polypeptides or nucleic acids. The invention also relates to vectors, viral particles and host cells containing such nucleic acids, and methods of using them to produce the polypeptides of the invention. Exemplified polypeptides include plasma proteins, including hepatocyte growth factor activator and plasma hyaluronin binding protein, as well as blood coagulation factors, such as Factor VIII, Factor V, Factor XII and prothrombin.
US07928194B2
The invention relates to a recombinant immunogenic composition from Rickettsia typhi. The invention also relates to a method for the use of the recombinant proteins in detection and diagnostic assays and as a component in formulations for the induction of an anti-R. typhi immune response.
US07928187B2
The present invention describes a polypeptide, comprising the amino acid sequence APAHRSSTFPKWVTKTERGRQPLRS (Seq. ID. No.1) or a fragment thereof, said fragment comprising at least 7 consecutive amino acid residues of Seq. ID. No.1.
US07928183B2
The invention relates to polyesters containing at least one partly acylated polyhydroxylated compound belonging the group consisting of glycerol polycarbonates, specific polyglycerols, [(a-hydroxymethyl) oxyethylene/(a-hydroxymethyl)ethylene carbonate] copolymers, [a -hydroxymethyl) oxyethylene/(a-hydroxymethyl)ethylene carbonate] copolymers, and [a -alkyl) oxyethylene/(a-hydroxyalkyl) oxyethylene] copolymers. The invention also relates to methods for acylating, at least partly, the polyhydroxylated compounds. The polyesters of this invention are applicable to the technical fields relating to engine and industrial lubricants, greases, hydraulic fluids, metal deformation and processing lubricants, stripping and mold dressing products, oil prospecting, mines, tunnel borers, cosmetics, detergency, inks, textile coatings and papers, to the field of food products, to the protection of wood as synthesis intermediates.
US07928179B2
A photoreactive group-containing siloxane compound is obtained by subjecting a system comprising (a) a photoreactive group-containing alkoxysilane and (b) a hydrolyzable group end-capped dimethylsiloxane to hydrolytic condensation in the presence of a basic catalyst and with an amount of water greater than the amount necessary for hydrolytic condensation of all alkoxy groups. It forms on a substrate a coating having mar resistance, crack resistance, anti-staining effect, and marker ink wipe-off ability.
US07928176B2
Copolymers are manufactured to include a zwitterionic monomer (e.g., methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine monomer), a dihydroxyphenyl derivatized monomer, and optionally one or more additional monomers. The dihydroxyphenyl derivatized monomer gives the copolymers excellent adhesion properties. Optional monomers include a cationic amino monomer, a hydrocarbon monomer, and/or a hydrophilic monomer. The copolymers are biocompatible and can be used with medical devices.
US07928174B2
Organosilicon functional boron amine catalyst complexes have an organosilicon functional organoborane portion of the complex that contains at least one silicon atom. The complexes can be used as components in curable compositions containing (i) a free radical polymerizable monomer, oligomer or polymer; (ii) the organosilicon functional boron amine catalyst complex; and (iii) an amine reactive compound having amine reactive groups. The curable compositions may contain a component capable of generating a gas, as well as various other optional ingredients. These curable compositions can be used as rubbers, tapes, adhesives, protective coatings, thin films, thermoplastic monolithic molded parts, thermosetting monolithic molded parts, sealants, foams, gaskets, seals, o-rings, pressure sensitive adhesives, die attachment adhesives, lid sealants, encapsulants, potting compounds, conformal coatings, and electronic components. The compositions can also be used in composite articles of manufacture in which substrates are coated or bonded together with the composition and cured, such as in connectors, diving masks, or other integrally bonded parts.
US07928170B2
The present invention is one liquid type cyanate-epoxy composite resin composition comprised of cyanate ester resin (A), epoxy resin (B), and potential curing agent (C), characterized in that the above potential curing agent is the potential curing agent containing phenol resin (b) as well as modified amine (a) which has one or more amino groups having an active hydrogen within a molecule obtained by reacting polyamine compound (a-1) with epoxy compound (a-2). The one liquid type cyanate-epoxy composite resin composition having storage stability, curing properties and high heat resistance properties at the same time can be realized by this composition.
US07928166B2
There is disclosed a polyvinyl alcohol having a 1,2-glycol bond in a side chain, and a process for preparing the polyvinyl alcolnol wherein there is no generation of dimethyl carbonate hence no need of a process of eliminating dimethyl carbonate in the recovering process of waste liquid after hydrolysis. Also, even when an introduction amount of 1,2-glycol bonds is increased, there is no deterioration of solubility in a hydrolyzing solution (methanol) of a copolymer (paste) before hydrolysis. Further, water-insolubility is not lowered even in experiencing thermal history. Specifically, there is provided a polyvinyl alcohol having a 1,2-glycol bond in a side chain obtained by hydrolyzing a copolymer of a vinyl ester monomer and a compound shown in the formula (1) wherein the hydrolysis degree of the polyvinyl alcohol is at least 60% by mol.
US07928150B2
An ionomeric, modified poly(1,4-butylene terephthalate) copolymer comprising: polyester units comprising non-ionomeric ester units and ionomeric ester units substituted with an inorganic ionic group; and polyester units having at least one residue that is derived from a polyethylene terephthalate component selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate and polyethylene terephthalate copolymers is described.
US07928138B2
The invention is the discovery of an actinomycete genus, given the name Salinospora gen. nov., that displays an obligate requirement of seawater (Na+) for growth and unique 16S rRNA signature nucleotides. The invention is also the use of the genus for the production and discovery of active biomolecules such as pharmaceutical agents, agrichemicals, immunomodifiers, enzymes and enzyme inhibitors.
US07928124B2
Disclosed are N-aroyl cyclic amine derivatives having the formula: where the variables are as define herein, and their use as pharmaceuticals, specifically as orexin receptor antagonists.
US07928123B2
Compounds of formula (I) are disclosed. Compounds according to the invention bind to and are agonists, antagonists or inverse agonists of the CB2 receptor, and are useful for treating inflammation. Those compounds which are agonists are additionally useful for treating pain.
US07928111B2
The present invention provides compounds including substituted thienopyrimidinone derivatives of Formula (IIc) as ligands for modulating chemosensory receptors: These compounds are useful as sweet taste enhancers in comestible or medicinal compositions. The present invention also provides screening methods for identifying modifiers of chemosensory receptors and their ligands, e.g., by determining whether a test entity is suitable to interact with one or more interacting sites within the Venus flytrap domains of the chemosensory receptors as well as modifiers capable of modulating chemosensory receptors and their ligands.
US07928110B2
The present invention relates to a pyrimidine compound of the formula (I): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom or C1-C4 alkyl; R2 represents C3-C7 alkynyloxy; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom or C1-C3 alkyl; X represents C4 polymethylene, in which a CH2—CH2 may be replaced with a CH═CH, optionally substituted with at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms, trifluoromethyl and C1-C4 alkyls. This pyrimidine compound has an excellent activity of controlling pests.
US07928107B2
The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of voltage-gated sodium channels. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of the invention and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of various disorders.
US07928098B2
The present invention provides a therapeutic and/or preventive agent for a sleep disorder comprising, as an active ingredient, a thiazole derivative represented by the general formula (I), [wherein R1 represents a five-membered aromatic heterocyclic group including at least one oxygen atom, or the like, R2 represents halogen or the like, and R3 represents —NR10R11 (wherein R10 and R11 may be the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom or the like), or the like] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US07928088B2
The present invention provides an agent for promoting human Th1 cell differentiation and an agent for suppressing human Th2 cell differentiation, comprising lipoarabinomannans and/or lipomannans derived from BCG cell bodies. The agent of the present invention is useful as a prophylactic/therapeutic agent for cancers and the like, and also as a therapeutic agent for allergic diseases such as pollinosis.
US07928080B2
The present invention provides novel chemical compounds, and methods for their use. In particular, the present invention provides indole derivatives (e.g. as shown in Formula (I)) and related compounds and methods of using indole derivatives and related compounds as therapeutic agents to treat a number of conditions, including those associated with viral infection and cardiovascular diseases.
US07928079B2
The invention relates to compounds capable of releasing nitric oxide wherein the compounds comprise a saccharide and at least one nitric oxide-releasing diazeniumdiolate [N2O2] functional group, which is bonded directly to a carbon atom of the saccharide, and methods for preparing the same. The invention further comprises the treatment of biological disorders treatable by the administration of nitric oxide.
US07928077B2
The present disclosure relates to synthetic alpha-galactosyl ceramide (α-GalCer) analogs, and their use as immunotherapies. In one aspect. a method of activating a cytokine response in a subject includes administering an effective amount of a compound to a subject, wherein the subject has an adaptive immune system that includes a population of cells, the population including at least one lymphocyte and at least one antigen-presenting cell, and wherein the compound is represented by the structure of formula 1: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; forming a complex between the compound and the antigen-presenting cell, wherein the formation of the complex results in the activation of a receptor on the lymphocyte; and activating the lymphocyte to produce the cytokine response.
US07928073B2
This invention relates to a purified polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence chosen from the sequence SEQ ID NO:4 or biologically active amino acid sequences derived from SEQ ID NO:4.
US07928065B2
Methods for increasing urine flow are disclosed, comprising administration of an effective amount of GLP-1, an exendin, or an exendin or GLP-1 agonist. Methods for increasing urinary sodium excretion and decreasing urinary potassium concentration are also disclosed. The methods are useful for treating conditions or disorders associated with toxic hypervolemia, such as renal failure, congestive heart failure, nephrotic syndrome, cirrhosis, pulmonary edema, and hypertension. The present invention also relates to methods for inducing an inotropic response comprising administration of an effective amount of GLP-1, an exendin, or an exendin or GLP-1 agonist. These methods are useful for treating conditions or disorders that can be alleviated by an increase in cardiac contractility such as congestive heart failure. Pharmaceutical compositions for use in the methods of the invention are also disclosed.
US07928048B2
A softening detergent composition containing (a) 1 to 30% by mass of a clay mineral; (b) 0.5 to 20% by mass of a compound capable of releasing hydrogen peroxide in water; (c) 0.1 to 20% by mass of a compound represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): wherein R1 is an alkyl alkyl group having 4 to 13 carbon atoms; R2 is an alkyl group having 5 to 13 carbon atoms; M is hydrogen atom, or alkali metal atom, alkaline earth metal atom, ammonium or alkanolamine, or a combination of both; and 10 to 60% by mass of a component corresponding to a surfactant as prescribed in JIS K 3362:1998, wherein a mass ratio of the component (b) to the component (c) [component (b)/component (c)] is from 3/4 to 20/1. The softening detergent composition is suitably used as a softening detergent for fibrous manufactured articles such as clothes.
US07928046B2
Aqueous, silicate free, cleaning compositions of about pH 9 or below and method of using the cleaning compositions for cleaning microelectronic substrates, which compositions are able to essentially completely clean such substrates and produce essentially no metal corrosion of the metal elements of such substrates. The aqueous cleaning compositions of this invention have (a) water, (b) at least one of ammonium and quaternary ammonium ions and (c) at least one of hypophosphite (H2PO2−) and/or phosphite (HPO32−) ions. The cleaning compositions also may contain fluoride ions. Optionally, the composition may contain other components such as organic solvents, oxidizing agent, surfactants, corrosion inhibitors and metal complexing agents.
US07928043B2
A method of lubricating a marine diesel 2-stroke engine comprising: (1) monitoring performance characteristics of said engine; (2) selecting a lubricating composition to modify the performance characteristics of the engine, wherein the lubricating composition is prepared by in-situ controlled blending of at least two different fluids, said fluids comprising: (i) a first fluid comprising an additive package with one or more overbased detergents, and optionally other performance additives; (ii) a second fluid comprising an additive package with one or more neutral detergents or overbased detergents, and optionally other performance additives, with the proviso that the first fluid has a ratio of Σ(wt % of overbased detergents)/Σ(wt % of all additives in the fluid) greater than the second fluid; and (iii) a third fluid comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity; and (3) supplying the lubricating composition of step (2) to the engine, with the proviso that the lubricating composition comprises at least one of the first fluid or the second fluid.
US07928039B2
The invention concerns modified hydrophobic polyelectrolytes by amide formation of a hydrophilic skeleton by n-alkylamines whereof the alkyl chain comprises 6 to 22 carbon atoms. Preferably, the amide formation is obtained by di-n-dodecylamine. The hydrophilic skeleton is preferably a sodium polyacrylate or polyacrylic acid corresponding to a statistical acrylate-AMPS copolymer. Said polymers can be used for stabilizing direct or invert emulsions likely to be destabilized or inverted by a modification in the degree of salinity of the aqueous phase or a pH modification. The invention is particularly useful for stabilizing oil drilling fluids or the like in particular drilling, fracturation, acidification or completion fluids.
US07928035B2
A modified catalyst support exhibiting attrition resistance and/or deaggregation resistance is provided. A catalyst composition including the modified catalyst support is also provided. A process to produce a modified catalyst support including treatment of a support slurry with a solution of monosilicic acid is provided. A process to use a catalyst including the modified catalyst support in a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is provided.
US07928034B2
There is disclosed a process for producing an olefin oxide characterized by contacting an olefin and oxygen, in the presence of water and a halogen compound, with a silver catalyst, wherein the silver catalyst is a silver catalyst that is obtainable by contacting metal silver, a silver compound or a mixture of both with an alkaline earth metal carbonate and that has an alkali metal content of 1,500 ppm or less based on the total weight of the silver catalyst.
US07928028B2
A ZrO2—Al2O3 composite ceramic material having excellent wear resistance, hardness, strength and toughness is provided. This ceramic material comprises a ZrO2 phase composed of 90 vol % or more of tetragonal ZrO2, and containing 10 to 12 mol % of CeO2 as a stabilizer, and an Al2O3 phase. An amount of the Al2O3 phase in the ceramic material is in a range of 20 to 70 vol %, and preferably 40 to 70 vol %. In the composite ceramic material, Al2O3 grains each having a fine ZrO2 grain therein are dispersed. Some of the Al2O3 grains each having the fine ZrO2 grain therein are trapped within ZrO2 grains to form composite grains. A ratio of the number of the Al2O3 grains each having the fine ZrO2 grain therein relative to the number of the entire Al2O3 grains dispersed in the composite ceramic material is 10% or more, and preferably 50% or more.
US07928022B2
Heavy weight stretch fabrics comprising ethylene/α-olefin interpolymer are described. The fabric often has a weight of at least 10 ounces per square yard measured according to ASTM 3776 and has a stretch of at least 10 percent measured according to ASTM D3107. These fabrics exhibit excellent chemical, resistance (for example chlorine or caustic resistance) and durability, that is they retain their shape and feel over repeated exposure to processing conditions, such as stone-washing, dye-stripping, PET-dyeing and the like, and industrial laundry conditions.
US07928014B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: mounting a wafer having an exposed silicon nitride film, on an electrode received in a plasma chamber; dry-cleaning the chamber to remove reaction products accumulated on the wall and ceiling of the chamber, anisotropic-etching the silicon nitride film and an underlying silicon film for patterning; and removing the wafer from the chamber. The method repeats the treatment for a number of semiconductor wafers.
US07928012B2
A stylus, an integrated circuit (IC) and method of forming the IC. The stylus extends upward from its apex and has a substantially circular cross section that decreases in diameter upward from the apex. The stylus is formed in a mold that may be formed in an orifice in a dielectric layer between wiring layers. The mold may include multiple concentric layers. For a more pronounced, non-linear stylus taper, each layer may be thinner than its next adjacent outer concentric layer.
US07928009B2
A method for making semiconductor electrodes includes provided a wafer. The wafer includes at least one conductive unit, a plurality of first connective units connected to the conductive unit, a plurality of first metal layers connected to the first connective units and a plurality of second connective units connected to the first metal layers. Photo-resist is provided on the first and second connective units. A second metal layer is provided on each of the first metal layers via using an electroplating device. The wafer is cut through the photo-resist, thus forming semiconductor electrodes.
US07928008B2
A fabricating method of a polysilicon layer is disclosed which can be applied for fabricating a semiconductor device such as a SRAM and so on. The method for fabricating the semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a transistor included in the semiconductor device on a semi conductor substrate forming an insulating layer on the transistor; forming contact holes, through which a region of the transistor is exposed, by selectively removing the insulating layer forming a silicon layer in the contact holes forming a metal layer on the insulating layer and the silicon layer; forming a metal suicide layer through heat treatment of the silicon layer and the metal layer; removing the metal layer; forming an amorphous silicon layer on the insulating layer and the metal suicide layer; and forming a polysilicon layer through heat treatment of the amorphous silicon layer.
US07928004B2
By forming metallization structures on the basis of an imprint technique, in which via openings and trenches may be commonly formed, a significant reduction of process complexity may be achieved due to the omission of at least one further alignment process as required in conventional process techniques. Furthermore, the flexibility and efficiency of imprint lithography may be increased by providing appropriately designed imprint molds in order to provide via openings and trenches exhibiting an increased fill capability, thereby also improving the performance of the finally obtained metallization structures with respect to reliability, resistance against electromigration and the like.
US07928001B2
The electronic device includes a first interconnect layer and a second interconnect layer. The second interconnect layer is provided on the lower surface of the first interconnect layer. The first interconnect layer includes a via plug (first conductive plug). An end face of the via plug on the side of the second interconnect layer is smaller in area than the opposite end face. The via plug is exposed on the surface of the first interconnect layer facing the second interconnect layer. An insulating resin forming the first interconnect layer is higher in thermal decomposition temperature than an insulating resin forming the second interconnect layer.
US07927998B2
The plating method comprises the step of forming a resin layer 10 over a substrate 16; the step of cutting the surface part of the resin layer 10 with a cutting tool 12; the step of forming a seed layer 36 on the resin layer 10 by electroless plating; and the step of forming a plating film 44 on the seed layer 36 by electroplating. Suitable roughness can be give to the surface of the resin layer 10, whereby the adhesion between the seed layer 36 and the resin layer 10 can be sufficiently ensured. Excessively deep pores are not formed in the surface of the resin layer 10, as are by desmearing treatment, whereby a micronized pattern of a photoresist film 40 can be formed on the resin layer 10. Thus, interconnections 44, etc. can be formed over the resin layer 10 at a narrow pitch with high reliability ensured.
US07927995B2
An anti-fuse structure that included a buried electrically conductive, e.g., metallic layer as an anti-fuse material as well as a method of forming such an anti-fuse structure are provided. According to the present invention, the inventive anti-fuse structure comprises regions of leaky dielectric between interconnects. The resistance between these original interconnects starts decreasing when two adjacent interconnects are biased and causes a time-dependent dielectric breakdown, TDDB, phenomenon to occur. Decreasing of the resistance between adjacent interconnects can also be expedited via increasing the local temperature.
US07927992B2
Under one aspect, a method of cooling a circuit element includes providing a thermal reservoir having a temperature lower than an operating temperature of the circuit element; and providing a nanotube article in thermal contact with the circuit element and with the reservoir, the nanotube article including a non-woven fabric of nanotubes in contact with other nanotubes to define a plurality of thermal pathways along the article, the nanotube article having a nanotube density and a shape selected such that the nanotube article is capable of transferring heat from the circuit element to the thermal reservoir.
US07927982B2
A silicon-based thin film mass-producing apparatus, including transparent electrodes placed to face in parallel to corresponding counter electrodes with a space therebetween, and silicon-based thin films are deposited on the transparent electrodes by feeding a raw material gas for depositing the silicon-based thin films into the chamber and by applying a DC pulse voltage to the counter electrodes to generate plasma. Unlike methods in which a radio frequency voltage is intermittently applied to perform discharge, a high plasma density distribution does not occur, and in-plane film thickness distribution does not occur. Furthermore, since the DC pulse voltage rises sharply, the ON period can be shortened. As a result, generation of a sheath ceases in the transient state before reaching the steady state, and the thickness of the sheath is small, which allows the space between the counter and transparent electrodes to decrease.
US07927971B2
A release layer formed over a substrate; at least one of thin film integrated circuits is formed over the release layer; a film is formed over each of the at least one of thin film integrated circuits; and the release layer is removed by using an etchant; thus, the at least one of thin film integrated circuits is peeled from the substrate. A semiconductor device is formed by sealing the peeled thin film integrated circuit by lamination or the like.
US07927966B2
The invention relates to a method of manufacturing openings in a substrate (5), the method comprising steps of: providing the substrate (5) with a masking layer (40) on a surface thereof; forming a first opening (10), a second opening (30), and a channel (20) in between the first opening (10) and the second opening (30) in the masking layer (40), the channel (20) connecting the first opening (10) with the second opening (30), the second opening (30) having an area (A2) that is larger than the area (A1) of the first opening (10); forming trenches (11, 21, 31) in the substrate (5) located at the first opening (10), the second opening (30), and at the channel (20) under masking of the masking layer (40) by means of anisotropic dry etching, and sealing off the trench (21) located at the channel (20) for forming the openings in the substrate (5). The method of the invention enables formation of a deeper first opening (10) than what is possible with the known methods. The invention further relates to a method of manufacturing a via in a substrate (5), which may be advantageously used in 3-dimensional integrated circuits.
US07927964B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming low k dielectric regions between electrically conductive lines. A construction may be formed to have a plurality of spaced apart electrically conductive lines, and to have sacrificial material between the electrically conductive lines. The sacrificial material may be removed. Subsequently, electrically insulative material may be deposited over and between the lines. The deposition of the insulative material may occur under conditions in which bread-loafing of the insulative material creates bridges of the insulative material across gas-filled gaps between the lines. The gas-filled gaps may be considered to correspond to low k dielectric regions between the electrically conductive lines. In some embodiments the sacrificial material may be carbon. In some embodiments, the deposited insulative material may be a low k dielectric material, and in other embodiments the deposited insulative material may not be a low k dielectric material.
US07927961B2
A disclosed selective etching method comprises mixing a polymer with carbon nanotubes, applying the mixture to an etching target layer to form a carbon nanotube-polymer composite layer, forming a hard mask by patterning the carbon nanotube-polymer composite layer, such that a part of the etching target layer is selectively exposed, and selectively etching the etching target layer exposed through the hard mask. The polymer preferably includes a photoresist. Also disclosed is a method for forming an isolation structure of a memory device using the selective etching method.
US07927948B2
An aspect relates to a method of growing nanoscale structures on a semiconductor substrate. According to various embodiments, nucleation sites are created on a surface of the substrate. The creation of the nucleation sites includes implanting ions with an energy and a dose selected to provide a controllable distribution of the nucleation sites across the surface of the substrate. Nanoscale structures are grown using the controllable distribution of nucleation sites to seed the growth of the nanoscale structures. According to various embodiments, the nanoscale structures include at least one of nanocrystals, nanowires and nanotubes. According to various nanocrystal embodiments, the nanocrystals are positioned within a gate stack and function as a floating gate for a nonvolatile device. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US07927947B2
Methods for depositing high-K dielectrics are described, including depositing a first electrode on a substrate, wherein the first electrode is chosen from the group consisting of platinum and ruthenium, applying an oxygen plasma treatment to the exposed metal to reduce the contact angle of a surface of the metal, and depositing a titanium oxide layer on the exposed metal using at least one of a chemical vapor deposition process and an atomic layer deposition process, wherein the titanium oxide layer comprises at least a portion rutile titanium oxide.
US07927946B2
An interlayer insulating film (14) covering a ferroelectric capacitor is formed and a contact hole (19) reaching a top electrode (11a) is formed in the interlayer insulating film (14). An Al wiring (17) connected to the top electrode (11a) via the contact hole (19) is formed on the interlayer insulating film (14). A planar shape of the contact hole (19) is an ellipse.
US07927943B2
The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor device that includes providing a semiconductor substrate, forming first and second transistors in the substrate, the first transistor having a first gate structure that includes a first dummy gate, the second transistor having a second gate structure that includes a second dummy gate, removing the first and second dummy gates thereby forming a first trench and a second trench, respectively, forming a first metal layer to partially fill in the first and second trenches, removing the first metal layer within the first trench, forming a second metal layer to partially fill in the first and second trenches, forming a third metal layer to partially fill in the first and second trenches, reflowing the second metal layer and the third metal layer, and forming a fourth metal layer to fill in the remainder of the first and second trenches.
US07927939B2
A method of manufacturing a laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) device, and an integrated circuit associated therewith. The method includes forming a lightly-doped source/drain region with a first dopant, the lightly-doped source/drain region located between first and second isolation structures. The method further includes creating a gate over the lightly-doped source/drain region. In one advantageous embodiment of the present invention, the method further includes diffusing a second dopant at least partially across the lightly-doped source/drain region and under the gate to form a first portion of a channel.
US07927924B2
The present invention relates to a semi-finished package and a method for making a package. The semi-finished package includes a carrier and at least one molding compound. The molding compound is disposed on a surface of the carrier, and has a body and a plurality of outer protrusions. The outer protrusions are disposed at the periphery of the body, and the height of the outer protrusions is greater than that of the body. Thus, by utilizing the outer protrusions, the rigidity of the semi-finished package is increased, so as to overcome the warpage of the semi-finished package caused by different coefficients of thermal expansion of the molding compound and the carrier. Therefore, the yield rate of the package unit is increased.
US07927920B2
In a method of manufacturing an electronic component package, first, there is fabricated a wafer incorporating a plurality of sets of external connecting terminals corresponding to a plurality of electronic component packages, and a retainer for retaining the plurality of sets of external connecting terminals, the wafer including a plurality of pre-base portions that will be separated from one another later to be bases of the electronic component packages. Next, at least one electronic component chip is bonded to each of the pre-base portions of the wafer. Next, electrodes of the electronic component chips are connected to the external connecting terminals. Next, the electronic component chips are sealed. Next, the wafer is cut so that the pre-base portions are separated from one another and the plurality of bases are thereby formed.
US07927899B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes: a thin film transistor array substrate having a gate line and a data line provided on the substrate; a gate insulating film between the gate line and the data line; a thin film transistor having a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode; a pixel electrode; a protective film for protecting the thin film transistor; a plurality of pads; a transparent electrode pattern formed on the data line, source electrode and drain electrode; and a color filter array substrate joined to the thin film transistor array substrate so that the color filter substrate does not overlap the pad area of the thin film transistor array substrate, wherein at least one of the gate insulating film and protective film in the pad area is etched using the color filter array substrate as a mask to expose at least one of the plurality of pads.
US07927894B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for aligning an optical device with an object. The apparatus comprises, a frame (12), a support unit (16) for supporting said optical device or said object and a transportation device (14) arranged to at least tilt the support unit in relation to the frame, wherein a segment of a sphere (18, 22) is provided, which segment defines a spherical surface (20), and the tilting movement of the support unit is controlled by said spherical surface. The apparatus according to the invention allows for a tilting movement between said optical device and said object, while such movement does not lead to a shift in focus. Furthermore the invention relates to an optical instrument and a semiconductor process system comprising said apparatus.
US07927893B2
A method for analyzing a sample for the manufacture of integrated circuits, e.g. MOS transistors, application specific integrated circuits, memory devices, microprocessors, system on a chip. The method includes providing an integrated circuit chip, which has a surface area with at least one region of interest, e.g., bond pad. The method includes covering a first portion of the surface area including the region of interest using a blocking material. The method also forms a metal layer on a second portion of the surface area, while the blocking material protects the first portion. The method removes the blocking material to expose the first portion of the surface area including the region of interest. The method also subjects the metal layer to a voltage differential to draw away one or more charged particles from the first portion of the surface area. The method also subjects the surface area including the region of interest to spectrometer analysis.
US07927887B2
The present invention relates to a Field-Effect Transistor (FET) and, more particularly, to a Dielectric-Modulated Field-Effect Transistor (DMFET) and a method of fabricating the same. A DMFET according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a substrate in which a source and a drain are formed, wherein the source and the drain are spaced apart from each other, a gate formed on a region between the source and the drain, of the substrate, wherein at least part of the gate is spaced apart from the substrate, biomolecules formed below a region spaced apart from the substrate, of the gate, and a linker for combining the gate and the biomolecules.
US07927880B2
The invention provides methods for early diagnosis or detection of acute coronary syndrome and prediction of adverse cardiac events on the basis of elevations of catalytic iron in biological fluid of a human subject. An embodiment of the invention provides a method for early detection of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in a human subject at the time of presentation of the chest pain. The method includes analyzing a test sample of the biological fluid for amount of catalytic iron and detecting acute coronary syndrome in the human subject.
US07927871B2
This invention provides a non-radioactive assay to monitor and quantify the target-cell killing activities mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs). This assay is predicated on the discovery that apoptosis pathway activation and, in particular, granzyme B activity, provides a measure of cytotoxic effector cell activity. In one embodiment, measurement of CTL-induced granzyme B activation in target cells is achieved through detection of the specific cleavage of fluorogenic granzyme B substrates. This assay reliably detects antigen-specific CTL killing of target cells, and provides a more sensitive, more informative and safer alternative to the standard 51Cr-release assay most often used to quantify CTL responses. The assay can be used to study CTL-mediated killing of primary host target cells of different cell lineages, and enables the study of antigen-specific cellular immune responses in real time at the single-cell level. As such, the assay can provide a valuable tool for studies of infectious disease pathogenesis and development of new vaccines and immunotherapies.
US07927862B2
The invention provides a biological method of producing isoprenoids.
US07927861B2
The invention provides a biological method of producing isoprenoids.
US07927855B2
Disclosed are esters and a process for the preparation of the esters represented by formula 1: The process includes reacting an alcohol with a long-chain acid R2COOH or long-chain ester R2COOR4 in the presence of an organic solvent and an enzyme with or without the removal of water.
US07927851B2
The present invention relates to nucleotide sequences encoding ent-kaurenoic acid 13-hydroxylase polypeptides and polypeptides having ent-kaurenoic acid 13-hydroxylase activity. The invention also relates to methods of producing steviol and steviol glycosides.
US07927844B2
A coryneform bacterium that is modified by using a yggB gene so that L-glutamic acid-producing ability is enhanced as compared to a non-modified strains is cultured in a medium to cause accumulation of L-glutamic acid in the medium or bacterial cells, and L-glutamic acid is collected from the medium or cells.
US07927841B2
A family of PCR assays is disclosed for determining, both qualitatively and quantitatively, presence of material from a predetermined species source and for quantifying the amount of such material. The assays are based respectively on SINEs uniquely characteristic of pig species, cow species, chicken species, and ruminant sub-order, and having a high copy number. The assays disclosed permit rapid, inexpensive evaluation of meat samples to facilitate elimination from their diet of pork or beef by persons desiring to avoid such food sources; as well as the assay of cattle feed to determine presence therein of ruminant-source proteins, which are a potential source of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly referred to as “mad cow disease.” The assays amplify the predetermined unique SINEs and the resulting amplified mixture is then evaluated qualitatively by electrophoresis on gel containing ethidium bromide or quantitatively by SYBR Green-based detection or TaqMan chemistry. The invention also extends to kits, primers, and other products used in connection with the assays. The amplicons are selected to be from about 100 to 170 bp long.
US07927837B2
Disclosed are: (A) a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, or (B) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 including deletion, substitution or addition of one or several amino acid residues and having chondroitin synthase activity; a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide; a method for producing the polypeptide, comprising at least the steps of: (1) expressing the nucleic acid to produce the polypeptide; and (2) collecting the polypeptide produced in the step (1); and a crystal of the polypeptide. The crystal may be a monoclinic or tetragonal crystal.
US07927831B2
The invention relates to an anti HIV-1 active recombinant Epap-1 expressed in bacterial and baculovirus which significantly binds to gp120 of HIV-1 virus isolates.
US07927828B2
Methods and immunoassays for diagnosing a bite or sting of a venomous organism in a patient having symptoms consistent with such a bite or sting are provided. A sample of venom is collected from the area of the suspected bite or sting using a swab and then contacted with an antibody that specifically binds to an antigenic site on venom present in the sample. Binding is then detected. The invention is illustrated by examples showing diagnosis of brown recluse spider bite, distinguishing it from other diagnoses with which it is often confused. This extremely sensitive test can detect venom antigens down to about 20 picograms even after the sample has been shipped and stored for periods of up to three weeks during the summer.
US07927824B2
A chaperone protein Q2 and β-amyloid can form a complex. This complex can be detected in a biological sample, such as, for example, tissues or fluids from a mammal. Q2 levels can also be detected in a biological sample. A method for determining the Q2 level in a biological sample and comparing that level to a normal Q2 level can be used to detect, screen, diagnose, or otherwise determine a person's susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease such as, for example, the presence or absence of Alzheimer's disease, of symptoms of this disease, of factors leading to or associated with this disease, of likelihood of developing this disease, and the like. In one embodiment, a decline in Q2 level correlates to an increased likelihood of developing Alzheimer's disease. In another embodiment, a decline in Q2 level correlates to an increase in β-amyloid aggregation. The method may further include screening for an apolipoprotein E genotype, which is associated with Alzheimer's disease.
US07927815B2
A method for removing contaminant DNA in a sample containing a physiologically active protein, which comprises the following steps: 1) converting the sample containing a physiologically active protein into a neutral aqueous solution of low conductivity; and 2) removing the resulting particles.
US07927807B1
An autonomous genosensor apparatus and methods for use are provided for the field detection and analysis of ambient chemical, biochemical, biologic, biogenetic, and radiologic materials under field conditions in fluid or gaseous environments, such as marine or aquatic environments or industrial processes. Autonomous genosensors provide integral, self contained units which automatically extract environmental samples, prepare those samples for analytical studies, analyze those samples using studies such as DNA or biomarker analysis, and store or transmit the data produced to a remote computer or computer network. Autonomous genosensors may be used as freestanding units, or may be networked and controlled through a remote computer network.
US07927805B2
Disclosed in this specification is a method for predicting the prognosis of squamous cell lung cancer by observing regulatory changes in select miRNA sequences. These sequences may include hsa-mir-146b, hsa-mir-191, hsa-mir-206, hsa-mir-299-3p, hsa-mir-155, hsa-mir-15a, hsa-mir-122a, hsa-mir-513, hsa-mir-184, hsa-mir-511, hsa-mir-100, hsa-mir-10a, hsa-mir-453, hsa-mir-379, hsa-mir-202, hsa-mir-21, hsa-mir-126, hsa-mir-494, hsa-mir-432, hsa-mir-370, and combinations of these sequences.
US07927803B2
A human mutY polypeptide and DNA (RNA) encoding such polypeptide and a procedure for producing such polypeptide by recombinant techniques is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing such polypeptide for preventing and/or treating diseases associated with a mutation in this gene. Diagnostic assays for identifying mutations in nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide of the present invention and for detecting altered levels of the polypeptide of the present invention for detecting diseases, for example, cancer, are also disclosed.
US07927799B2
Prostaglandin-endoperoxide H synthase (PGHS-2) converts arachidonic acid to prostaglandin H2. PGHS-2 is an inducible gene product undetectable in most normal human tissues, but abundant in cancer cells. The present invention exploits a previously undisclosed transcriptional function of PGHS-2 distinct from its well-established enzymatic role to identify potential therapeutic agents useful in treating cancer. The method comprises a DNA binding assay in which PGHS-2 protein binding to the C/EBP, CRE and NF-κB regions of the PGHS-2 promoter in the presence and absence of test compounds is evaluated to identify inhibitors of PGHS-2 transactivation activity.
US07927796B2
Disclosed is number coding of pairs (“doublets”) or small sets (“multiplets”) of solid phase carriers which provides distinguishable subtypes of a given type of such carriers, where each carrier type is distinguishable on the basis of a different code. Such number coding is useful for augmenting a coding system, such as a color code, and thereby effectively multiplying the number of “colors” (distinguishable sub-types). It can be applied, for example, to determine whether a sample is homozygous or heterozygous at a number of different sites for one of two different alleles, where the same color code is applied for each of the two alleles, and the alleles with the same color code are distinguished by knowing how many carriers are associated with molecules which detect each different allele.
US07927791B2
The present invention relates to a method for screening and identifying compounds that modulate premature translation termination and/or nonsense-mediated messenger ribonucleic acid (“mRNA”) by interacting with a preselected target ribonucleic acid (“RNA”). In particular, the present invention relates to identifying compounds that bind to regions of the 28S ribosomal RNA (“rRNA”) and analogs thereof. Direct, noncompetitive binding assays are advantageously used to screen libraries of compounds for those that selectively bind to a preselected target RNA. Binding of target RNA molecules to a particular compound is detected using any physical method that measures the altered physical property of the target RNA bound to a compound. The structure of the compound attached to the labeled RNA is also determined. The methods used will depend, in part, on the nature of the library screened. The methods of the present invention provide a simple, sensitive assay for high-throughput screening of libraries of compounds to identify pharmaceutical leads.
US07927789B1
The invention relates to compositions and methods for detecting biomolecular interactions. The detection can occur without the use of labels and can be done in a high-throughput manner. The invention further relates to self-referencing colorimetric resonant optical biosensors and optical devices.
US07927788B2
The present invention is directed toward biomarkers that identify characteristics of algae. The invention is further directed toward biomarkers that serve to identify algae species and strains of algae species as well as detect the presence of algal toxins. Additional embodiments feature methods utilizing algal biomarkers and polypeptides that can serve as biomarkers.
US07927776B2
A toner for electrophotography is provided that includes a binder resin, a colorant, a charge control agent, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner has a complex viscosity (η) of about 4.0×101 Pa·s to about 1.6×103 Pa·s at a temperature ranging from about 40° C. lower than a toner fixing temperature to about 10° C. higher than the toner fixing temperature and has a specified activation energy of 15 to 85 KJ/mol. By defining viscosity dependency in a linear modulus region of a toner and comprehensively defining thermal and rheological properties with respect to fixing conditions, a fixing phenomenon can be generalized and the quality of a toner can be evaluated.
US07927774B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member having high durability and hardly causing sensitivity decrease even if short wavelength light, particularly light having a wavelength of 380 to 450 nm is used as exposure light, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The present invention includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising a support and a photosensitive layer which is provided on the support and contains a charge generation material and a charge transport material, characterized in that the surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid polyester resin with a weight average molecular weight of 80,000 or more having a specific repeating structural unit, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the electrophotographic photosensitive member.
US07927771B2
A color filter and a fabrication method thereof are provided. In the method, color filter ink that includes wax beads is ejected by an inkjet printing process. A black matrix defining R/G/B pixels is formed on a first surface of a substrate and transparent electrodes are formed on a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface at positions corresponding to the R/G/B pixels. The fabricated color filter ink is injected into an inkjet head, and the color filter ink is ejected from the inkjet head into each of the R/G/B pixels. A predetermined voltage is applied between the inkjet head and the transparent electrode such that the ejected color filter ink is precisely injected into each of the R/G/B pixels.
US07927770B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for correcting a defect in an EUV mask, the method including: preparing an EUV mask including an absorption layer and an anti-reflection layer forming a pattern; recognizing a defect region in the pattern; defining a first region and a second region on the defect region, the second region extending from a desired pattern edge by a given distance, the first region being defined on the rest; removing the first region of the anti-reflection layer and the absorption layer by irradiating a beam in a first atmosphere; removing the second region of the anti-reflection layer and the absorption layer by irradiating the beam in a second atmosphere; and oxidizing an exposed side surface of the desired pattern edge of the absorption layer.
US07927760B2
A direct methanol fuel cell unit is provided with a fuel cell including an anode, a cathode with a hydrophobic microporous layer, an electrolyte membrane put in-between, and a fuel supply path supplying fuel to the anode. The fuel supply path is provided with an upwind water barrier preventing back-diffusion of water and a gas flow path channeling gas generated at the anode and disposed between the barrier and the anode. A water-rich zone is formed between the water barrier and the cathode microporous layer. Water loss from either side of this zone is eliminated or minimized, thereby permitting direct use of highly concentrated methanol in the fuel flow path with good fuel efficiency and power performance. The cell unit can be applied equally well to both an active circulating air cathode and an air-breathing cathode.
US07927754B2
A pressure relief feature for a fuel cell stack is disclosed, wherein the pressure relief feature relieves excess pressure from the fuel cell stack and facilitates control of a maximum pressure reached within the fuel cell stack.
US07927747B2
Disclosed is an electrolyte for batteries, comprising: (a) an electrolyte salt; (b) an organic solvent; (c) a first compound having an oxidation initiation voltage (vs. Li/Li+) higher than the operating voltage of a cathode; and (d) a second reversible compound having an oxidation initiation voltage higher than the operating voltage of the cathode, but lower than the oxidation initiation voltage of the first compound. Also disclosed is a lithium secondary battery comprising said electrolyte. In the lithium secondary battery, two compounds having different safety improvement actions at a voltage higher than the operating voltage of the cathode are used in combination as electrolyte components. Thus, the safety of the secondary battery in an overcharged state can be ensured, and at the same time, the deterioration of the battery can be prevented from occurring when it is repeatedly cycled, continuously charged and stored at high temperature for a long time.
US07927741B2
In a lithium transition metal oxide having a layered structure, one is provided, which is particularly excellent as a positive electrode active material of a battery on board of an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle in particular. A lithium transition metal oxide having a layered structure is proposed, wherein the ratio of the crystallite diameter determined by Measurement Method 1 according to the Rietveld method with respect to the mean powder particle diameter (D50) determined by the laser diffraction/scattering-type particle size distribution measurement method is 0.05 to 0.20.
US07927735B2
A secondary battery having a porous filling member that occupies a portion of a molding space between a bare cell and a protective circuit board. The presence of the filling member makes it possible to uniformly apply a molding resin into the molding space and to reduce defects due to thickness irregularity of a mold or a surface defect thereof. The secondary battery includes a bare cell, a protective circuit module including a protective circuit arranged on a protective circuit board and a plurality of electrical connection members electrically connecting the protective circuit board to the bare cell, a filling member arranged between the bare cell and the protective circuit board and a mold covering the electrical connection members and the filling member.
US07927721B2
The present invention relates, in an automotive window glass having a ceramic color layer formed thereon, to the automotive window glass being characterized in that a ceramic color layer is formed on an entire surface or part of the automotive window glass by using a ceramic color paste containing a green-color pigment in an amount of 30-80 wt % relative to 100 wt % of a total of a black-color pigment and the green-color pigment, and that, in an L*a*b* color system, a transmitted color of the glass has a value of a* of −10.0 to 0.0, and a reflected color of the ceramic color layer, which is observed from a vehicle exterior side through the glass has L*≦30.0, −10.0≦a*≦0, and −2≦b*≦8.
US07927720B2
An object is to provide a novel quinoxaline derivative. Another object is to provide a light-emitting element with low driving voltage. Another object is to provide a light-emitting element with low power consumption. Another object is to provide a light-emitting device and an electronic device with low power consumption by using such a light-emitting element. A quinoxaline derivative which has a structure in which at least one of carbon at a 2-position and carbon at a 3-position of quinoxaline, and carbon of 1,3,4-oxadiazole ring are bound via an arylene group is provided.
US07927715B2
A clad textured metal substrate for forming the epitaxial thin film thereon, which includes a metallic layer and a copper layer bonded to at least one face of the metallic layer, wherein the copper layer has a {100}<001> cube texture in which a deviating angle Δφ of crystal axes satisfies Δφ≦6 degree. The clad textured metal substrate has an intermediate layer on the surface of the copper layer to form the epitaxial thin film thereon. The intermediate layer preferably includes at least one layer of a material selected from the group consisting of nickel, nickel oxide, zirconium oxide, rare-earth oxide, magnesium oxide, strontium titanate (STO), strontium barium titanate (SBTO), titanium nitride, silver, palladium, gold, iridium, ruthenium, rhodium and platinum.
US07927709B2
A wear-resistant coating, in particular an erosion-resistant coating for a component that is exposed to fluidic loads, is disclosed. The wear-resistant coating has one or more multilayer systems applied repeatedly to the surface to be coated, where each of the applied multilayer systems has at least four different layers. A first layer of each multilayer system facing the surface to be coated is made of a metallic material adapted to the composition of the component surface to be coated. A second layer applied to the first layer of each multilayer system is made of a metal alloy material adapted to the composition of the component surface to be coated. A third layer applied to the second layer of each multilayer system is made of a gradated metal-ceramic material and a fourth layer applied to the third layer of each multilayer system is made of a nanostructured ceramic material.
US07927706B2
The present invention is in the field of polymer sheets and multiple layer glass panels having adjustable tint, and, more specifically, the present invention is in the field of polymer sheets and multiple layer glass panels comprising agents that cause a change in light transmission properties when subjected to an electric field.
US07927699B2
The present invention provides a porous zirconium powder having improved heat resistance of total pore volume, and a simple production method thereof. More specifically, the present invention provides: (1) a porous zirconium powder in which total pore volume following heat treatment for three hours at 1000° C. is at least 0.75 ml/g, and total volume of pores having a diameter of 10 to 100 nm following heat treatment for three hours at 1000° C. is at least 30% of the total pore volume, and (2) a production method of a porous zirconia powder comprising: forming a basic zirconium sulfate by adding a sulfating agent to a zirconium salt solution; forming zirconium hydroxide by neutralizing the basic zirconium sulfate; and heat-treating the zirconium hydroxide, wherein, when adding the sulfating agent to the zirconium salt solution, the sulfating agent is added to the zirconium salt solution having a temperature of 100° C. or higher in an autoclave.
US07927689B2
Information carrier precursor comprising a rigid sheet or support; a receiving layer configuration comprising at least one layer; and at least one substance, optionally provided pattern-wise, capable of and available for interacting in situ with at least one species diffusing through the receiving layer configuration to produce a functional species, wherein at least one layer of the receiving layer configuration is opaque, porous, has the capability of being rendered substantially transparent by penetration by a lacquer provided at the outermost surface of the receiving layer configuration and comprises at least one pigment and at least one binder; a method for producing the above-mentioned information carrier precursor; a method for producing an information carrier; and information carriers produced therewith.
US07927685B2
The invention provides a composition having laser engraving properties, comprising a host material and an effective amount of a laser enhancing additive. The laser enhancing additive comprises a first quantity of least one of copper potassium iodide (CuKI3) or Copper Iodide (CuI), and a second quantity at least one substance selected from the group consisting of zinc sulfide (ZnS), barium sulfide (BaS), alkyl sulfonate, and thioester. The composition can be engraved with grayscale images by an Nd:Yag laser and can be added to laminates or coatings. The composition can be used during the manufacture of many articles of manufacture, including identification documents.
US07927672B2
A cellulose acylate film is provided and is excellent in increasability of an in-plane retardation and a retardation in a thickness direction, from which an additive does not bleed out, and which is excellent in surface properties. The cellulose acylate film has a thickness of 40 μm to 180 μm and contains no retardation increasing agent. Retardation values Re and Rth of the cellulose acylate film meet the following formulae (III) to (V): 46≦Re≦100 (III) Rth=a−5.9Re (IV) 520≦a≦670 (V) A polarizing plate and a VA mode liquid crystal display having wide viewing angle characteristics and small changes in color, which are using the cellulose acylate film, are provided.
US07927668B2
A coater for coating an electric insulating sheet with coating liquid while sustaining an identical charging polarity of the insulating sheet and the coating liquid in a process for coating one surface of a traveling electric insulating sheet with coating liquid, and a method for producing a coated electric insulating sheet. In order to sustain an identical charging polarity of the insulating sheet and the coating liquid, the coater comprises any one or both of a sheet charger for imparting electrostatic charges to one surface of the electric insulating sheet and a coating liquid charger for imparting electrostatic charges to the coating liquid.
US07927660B2
A method of manufacturing a nano-crystalline silicon dot layer is provided. A silicon layer is formed over a substrate. The silicon layer includes crystalline silicon region and amorphous silicon region. An oxidation process is performed to oxidize the amorphous silicon region and the surfaces of the crystalline silicon region to form a silicon oxide layer containing nano-crystalline silicon dots.
US07927657B2
In a liquid processing apparatus for forming a coating film on a polygonal substrate by spin coating in an ambient with a descending clean air flow, a spin chuck includes a support plate for substantially horizontally supporting the substrate thereon. Air flow control members are provided on the spin chuck such that the air flow control member being disposed adjacent to a periphery of the polygonal substrate supported on the spin chuck, wherein the air flow control member is not provided near corner portions of the substrate supported on the spin chuck. The liquid processing apparatus may includes an air flow regulation ring which is provided with an air inlet having an opening surrounding an outer periphery of the air flow control member, wherein the air inlet communicates with the exhaust unit.
US07927656B2
A method and apparatus for controlling the thickness of a coating deposited on internal passages of a component. The coating is a diffusion coating, preferably a diffusion aluminide coating, deposited by a vapor phase process that entails placing a component within a coating chamber so that first and second conduits fluidically communicate with first and second openings in the component. The component is heated within the coating chamber, at least one reactive vapor is generated within the coating chamber, and a carrier gas is delivered through the first conduit to force the reactive vapor to enter the internal passages through the first opening in the component and exit through the second opening. Flow of the carrier gas is then reversed so that the carrier gas is then delivered through the second conduit to force the reactive vapor to enter the internal passages through the second opening and exit through the first opening.
US07927652B2
A method for manufacturing a field emission electron source, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a substrate, a carbon nanotubes slurry, and a conductive slurry; applying a conductive slurry layer onto the substrate; applying a layer of carbon nanotubes slurry onto the conductive slurry layer; and solidifying the substrate under a temperature of 300 to 600 degrees centigrade so as to form the field emission electron source.
US07927648B2
A blend is provided for enhancing or replacing eggs in foods. The blend, when mixed with natural liquid eggs, liquid egg substitute or whole egg powder and water, provides an edible egg product having a higher level of protein and lower levels of cholesterol and fats per serving than the levels normally found in natural eggs. The blend includes major amounts of a soy protein concentrate and minor amounts of lecithin. The lecithin is preferably a de-oiled lecithin obtained from soy beans. In an alternative embodiment, the blend includes a soluble dietary fiber, such as a digestion resistant maltodextrin soluble dietary fiber, in addition to the soy protein and lecithin. The dietary fiber is present in an amount less than the amount of the soy protein but greater than the amount of lecithin.
US07927640B2
Calcium additives useful for fortifying baked goods, such as bread products, with calcium are disclosed. The calcium additives are particularly useful for fortifying leavened baked goods with calcium. Methods for preparing the calcium additives and using the calcium additives to fortify baked goods are also disclosed. Generally, the calcium additives comprise intimate admixtures calcium carbonate and an acid such as citric acid.
US07927610B2
Compounds and methods for diagnosing tuberculosis or for inducing protective immunity against tuberculosis are disclosed. The compounds provided include polypeptides that contain at least one immunogenic portion of one or more Mycobacterium proteins and DNA molecules encoding such polypeptides. Diagnostic kits containing such polypeptides or DNA sequences and a suitable detection reagent may be used for the detection of Mycobacterium infection in patients and biological samples. Antibodies directed against such polypeptides are also provided. In addition, such compounds may be formulated into vaccines and/or pharmaceutical compositions for immunization against Mycobacterium infection.
US07927595B1
Methods for modulating HIV-1 fusion cofactor expression by manipulating an accessory molecule on the surface of T cells, such as CD28, are described. The invention encompasses methods for modulating HIV-1 fusion cofactor expression by stimulating or inhibiting one or more intracellular signals which result from ligation of a surface receptor on a T cell which binds a costimulatory molecule. In one embodiment, expression of an HIV-1 fusion cofactor, such as CCR5, is downregulated by stimulating a CD28-associated signal in the T cell.
US07927590B2
The present invention is in the fields of cell biology, immunology and oncology. The invention relates to the discovery that there is a relationship between the expression levels of the tumor suppressor gene smad4 (also known as dpc4) and integrin αvβ6, and the responsiveness of patient populations to αvβ6-active compounds and compositions (e.g., antibodies and other ligands that bind αvβ6), particularly in cancer cells from such patient populations, more particularly on carcinomas such as pancreatic carcinomas. The invention thus provides methods for determining the responsiveness of tumor cells (particularly those from pancreatic tumors) to such αvβ6-active compounds and compositions by examining the expression of αvβ6 and smad4 by the tumor cells, as well as methods of diagnosis and treatment/prevention of tumor progression using ligands, including antibodies and small molecule drugs, that bind to integrin αvβ6 on the surfaces of tumor cells and/or that block one or more components of the TGF-β pathway, particularly in smad4-deficient tumor cells.
US07927589B2
A naturally occurring or recombinant urate oxidase (uricase) covalently coupled to poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) (both referred to as PEG), wherein an average of 2 to 10 strands of PEG are conjugated to each uricase subunit and the PEG has an average molecular weight between about 5 kDa and 100 kDa. The resulting PEG-uricase conjugates are substantially non-immunogenic and retain at least 75% of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified enzyme.
US07927587B2
The present invention relates to methods for providing lysosomal enzymes to a subject by administering stem cells, preferably Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells (MAPCs). The invention further relates to methods for treating lysosomal storage disorders by administering stem cells.
US07927580B2
A method for identifying new immunomodulatory chemical entities (NICE) comprising reacting a candidate NICE with a Tat SH3 binding domain, identifying the bound candidate NICE and determining whether the candidate NICE induces monocytes to differentiate into dendritic cells (DC) or regulatory macrophages (AReg). In particular, the present invention relates to identifying NICE that are either immunostimulatory or immunosuppressive.
US07927577B2
Systems and methods for the collection of liquid sulfur with integrated degassing are described, wherein the system and methods include the use of one or more liquid jet pumps or eductors employing a pumped liquid sulfur recycle stream as motive fluid to boost sulfur rundown pressure. The new invention eliminates piping constraints inherent with conventional gravity flow, thus permitting location of the sulfur collection vessel above ground and remote from the sulfur recovery unit. In addition, the described methods provide entrainment and enough agitation in the liquid sulfur such that simultaneously degassing occurs within the sulfur collection piping and associated systems described herein. The instant systems and methods are integrated with the degassing system, meaning that the sulfur will be initially degassed during the collection process, and then further degassing occurs by the methods described herein.
US07927569B2
Metallic clusters can be produced by contacting a metal salt such as a metal nitrate with an organic reducing agent. Metals can be selected from a group consisting of metals exhibiting octahedral coordination, and nitrates of the selected metal or metals are contacted with, for example nitrosobenzene. Binary, tertiary, or other clusters can be produced.
US07927560B2
A specimen cup system for sample testing includes a cup defining sealable first and second regions. A receptacle is formed at a bottom of the first region and extends vertically therein. The receptacle has a first opening defined at the bottom of the first region, a second opening in a radial wall of the receptacle for fluid communication with the first region, and a third opening in the radial wall of the receptacle for fluid communication with the second region. A base having a hollow post is inserted in the first opening of the receptacle. The hollow post has a radial opening formed therein that, when aligned with the second opening, defines a pre-test condition. The hollow post forms a fluid tight seal with the receptacle about the radial opening. The base is coupled to the bottom of the cup in a rotatable fashion such that the hollow post can be rotated to align the radial opening thereof with the third opening in the receptacle to define a test condition. At this point, the base is locked to the cup to prevent further relative rotation therebetween.
US07927558B2
A method, system, and apparatus are provided for use with exposure protection systems or equipment such as respiratory protection devices. One system is provided for detecting a breach of an exposure protection device by an amount of a target substance. The system includes an exposure protection device that isolates a protected environment from an external environment potentially including a target substance. The device includes a protective covering that includes a substantially transparent window. The system also includes a detector or detector element for indicating the presence of the target substance. Such a detector is capable of producing a visually observable indication upon detection of the level of target substance.
US07927555B2
The present invention relates to a process for charging a reactor with a catalyst, to the resulting charged reactors, and to the use thereof for carrying out catalytic gas phase reactions.
US07927553B2
A photocatalytic reactor is disclosed herein, which includes a rotatable light guide plate and a light source. The light guide plate is coated with a photocatalyst film on a surface thereof. A light beam emitted from the light source can be coupled into and propagate inside the light guide plate to activate the photocatalysis of the photocatalyst film. Additionally, the rotation of the light guide plate further expedites the photocatalysis so as to enhance the reaction efficiency of the photocatalytic reactor.
US07927549B2
A method for accessing the contents of a closed collection device having a cap and a fluid-holding vessel in fixed association. The method includes penetrating one or more materials of the cap with an air displacement pipette, thereby forming one or more passageways for venting air displaced from within the collection device, where the pipette includes structure for forming the one or more passageways. A fluid present in the vessel is drawn into the pipette before the pipette is removed from the collection device.
US07927546B2
The present invention relates to devices for the analysis of liquid samples, comprising a rotational-symmetric rotor (1) which is insertable into a sample container (11), wherein an annular gap (32) is provided between the sample container (11) and the rotor (1), and the rotor (1) has at least one flow channel (7) for transporting liquids and/or gases into and/or from the interior of the sample container (11), wherein on the rotor (1) and, optionally, on the sample container (11), means for centred mounting of the rotor (1) are provided.
US07927538B2
Slip based on a polyreactive binder, polymerization initiator and filler, which contains (A) 5-65 wt.-% polymerizable binder, (B) 0.001-1.0 wt.-% photoinitiator and (C) 35-90 wt.-% surface-modified ceramic and/or glass ceramic particles relative to the overall mass of the slip, and process for the preparation of ceramic mouldings by rapid prototyping processes using the slip.
US07927533B2
A thin image display device having a resin interposed between an image display unit and a protection member having a light-shielding member is manufactured. In the manufactured image display device, display defects caused by the deformation of the image display unit do not occur, and high-brightness and high-contrast display can be achieved. In addition, the resin in the area where the light-shielding member is formed can be sufficiently cured. The method for manufacturing an image display device includes the step of forming a cured resin layer by interposing a photo-curable resin composition between a base including the image display unit and a light-transmitting protection member including a light-shielding member and then photo-curing the photo-curable resin composition. In this method, a resin composition having a curing shrinkage ratio of 5% or less, yielding a cured product having a storage elastic modulus at 25° C. of 1.0×107 Pa or less, and forming the cured resin layer having a light transmittance of 90% or more in a visible range is used as the photo-curable resin composition. The photo-curable resin composition is photo-cured by irradiating it with rays of light at least from an outer side surface with respect to a forming surface of the light-shielding member.
US07927529B2
A bioabsorbable drug delivery device and various methods of making the same. The devices are preferably formed from bioabsorbable materials using low temperature fabrication processes, hereby drugs or other bio-active agents are incorporated into or onto the device and degradation of the drugs or other agents during processing is minimized. Radiopaque markers may also be incorporated into, or onto, the devices. The devices may be generally tubular helical stents comprised of a solid ladder or an open lattice configuration, or a hybrid combination thereof. The tubular helical stents are generally formed from precursor fibers, films or tubes. The solid ladder configuration provides increased radiopacity and increased radial strength, whereas the open lattice configuration provides better endothelialization and fluid flow through the stent. The drug or other agent delivery capacity of the devices may provide local or regionalized drug or other agent delivery, or a combination thereof, with more consistent concentrations of drugs or other agents delivered from the device to the treatment site along the entire length of the device.
US07927525B2
A process of manufacturing micro or nanostructure surfaces or parts formed of PTFE by applying a vacuum to powered or granulated PTFE in a heated compression mold. The process further includes applying a compression anvil within the metallic mold, removing the mold from a heat source and quenching the mold while maintaining the pressure in the mold during quenching. A mold or mold insert may be manufactured from sintered metal, sintered ceramic or sintered stainless steel to allow the vacuum to be applied across a surface holding the micro or nanostructures.
US07927520B2
The lighting apparatus includes a light source, a housing that contains the light source inside and has an exit port for outputting light from the light source, and an optical sheet that is placed in the exit port. The optical sheet includes a lens structure that is placed at a light exit side and aligns an output direction of incident light from the light source, a reflector that is placed at a light incident side and reflects light emitted by the light source, and a light transmitting opening that exists in the reflector and transmits incident light from the light source. The light transmitting opening is placed in a position deviated from an optical axis of the lens structure. The display apparatus includes the lighting apparatus.
US07927514B2
Provided is a microcapsule-based hardener for an epoxy resin, which have a core (C) formed using a hardener (H) for the epoxy resin as a starting material and a shell (S) for covering the core (C) therewith. Since it is characterized in that the hardener (H) for the epoxy resin has an average particle size exceeding 0.3 μm and not greater than 12 μm; a content of a small-particle-size hardener for epoxy resin defined to have a particle size 0.5 time or less of the average particle size of the hardener (H) for the epoxy resin is from 0.1 to 15%; and the shell (S) has, on the surface thereof, a binding group (x) capable of absorbing infrared rays having a wave number of from 1630 to 1680 cm−1, a binding group (y) capable of absorbing infrared rays having a wave number of from 1680 to 1725 cm−1, and a binding group (z) capable of absorbing infrared rays having a wave number of from 1730 to 1755 cm−1, it is excellent in storage stability and at the same time, in reaction rapidity.
US07927505B2
The present invention relates to antifreeze/anticorrosion concentrates comprising from 10 to 50% by weight, based on the total amount of the concentrate, of glycerol, to processes for preparing such concentrates from superconcentrates, to aqueous coolant compositions from these concentrates, and to their use, for example in internal combustion engines.
US07927497B2
The present invention relates to integrated thin film solar cells, and more particularly, to integrated thin film solar cells, which minimize the loss of integrated solar cells caused at the time of a manufacturing process and become available at a low cost process, and a method of manufacturing thereof, a processing method of a transparent electrode for integrated thin film solar cells, which widens an effective area and reduces manufacturing costs by minimizing a (insulating) gap between unit cells of the integrated thin film solar cells, and a structure thereof, and a transparent substrate having the transparent electrode. The method of manufacturing integrated thin film solar cells, comprising the steps of: (a) forming a transparent electrode pattern separately over a transparent substrate; (b) forming a solar cell (semiconductor) layer over the substrate of the step (a); (c) forming a first back electrode by obliquely depositing a conductive material over the solar cell (semiconductor) layer; (d) etching the solar cell (semiconductor) layer by using the first back electrode as a mask; and (e) forming a second back electrode so that the transparent electrode and the first back electrode are electrically connected by obliquely depositing a metal over the substrate of the step (d).
US07927488B1
Water purification systems utilizing oxidation. By passing water through a chamber of air, the impurities within the water, such as iron, manganese, and/or hydrogen sulfide gas, may be oxidized. The oxidized constituents in the water may then precipitate out and be removed by filter media. Thus, by utilizing oxidation, the impurities most commonly found in a consumer's water are readily removed. Additionally, the water purification systems of the present invention may also elevate the pH, i.e., reduce the hydronium ion concentration, of the water when the water is acidic. By raising the pH of the water, the oxidation of impurities, such as iron and manganese, is more complete and also occurs at a faster rate. Additionally, the corrosivity of the water is also reduced when the pH is elevated.
US07927487B2
Chromatographic column system, in particular a chromatographic column system of the expanded bed adsorption column type comprises a column connected to a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and dimensioned to comprise an expandable filter bed between said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet. A top collector is adapted for collecting substance filtered by said filter bed and top collector actuator is provided for actuation of the top collector. A top stratum position detector is constructed and adapted to detect a top stratum of the filter bed when in expanded state; and a controller is provided communicatively coupled to said top stratum position detector and said top collector actuator, for moving the top collector as a function of a detected top stratum position. A clean and automated way is provided to optimize the collection of filtered substance.
US07927481B2
System for the recovery of washing liquids used in showers, wash basins, and/or baths, including a first decantation tank provided with at least one inlet connected to a downflow point of washing water, a second collection tank, an overflow partition wall adapted to separate the two tanks, a sewer drainage at the bottom of the decantation tank, adapted to be closed by a plug that can be raised by a float in the collection tank according to the liquid level therein, a drawing pump in the collection tank, controllable by a relay, or electrical float, indicating the liquid requirements of a fixture, a pipe connecting the pump of the collection tank with the fixture, the relay, or electric float, electrically connected with the pump and a valve of the fixture and controlled by a float in the collection tank for closing the electrical power supply to the pump and opening the electrical power supply of a valve for liquid flow to the fitting.
US07927477B2
A precision flow controller is capable of providing a flow rate less than 100 microliters/minute and varying the flow rate in a prescribed manner that is both predictable and reproducible where the accuracy and precision of the flowrate is less than 5% of the flow rate. A plurality of variable pressure fluid supplies pump fluid through a single outlet. Flowmeters measure the flow rates and a controller compares the flow rates to desired flowrates and, if necessary, adjusts the plurality of variable pressure fluid supplies so that the variable pressure fluid supplies pump fluid at the desired flow rate. The variable pressure fluid supplies can be pneumatically driven.
US07927475B2
A gas sensor comprising: the gas sensor element defined; the cylindrical metal shell defined herein; and the protector defined herein, wherein the protector defined herein has a double structure including the cylindrical inner cover portion and the outer cover portion both defined herein, and a leading end portion positioned on a leading end side of the support face of the metal shell, the outer cylindrical portion and the inner cylindrical portion are arranged to construct an inner gas introducing passage for guiding the object gas introduced from the outer gas introducing apertures, between the outer cylindrical portion and the inner cylindrical portion, across a trailing end of the inner cylindrical portion closer to a leading end side, as viewed in an axial direction, than an inner circumferential side end edge of a joining face joining an inner circumference and an outer circumference of a leading end portion of said metal shell, into a clearance between the inner cover portion and the leading end portion of the gas sensor element.
US07927466B2
The present invention relates to the deposition in a magnetron reactor (1) equipped with a magnetron cathode (MC) of at least one material on a substrate (11a), according to which process said material is vaporized by magnetron sputtering, using a gas that is ionized in pulsed mode. To this effect and in order to favour the formation of high current pulses of short duration while avoiding the formation of electric arcs and while enabling an effective ionisation of the sputtered vapour, a preionization of the said gas prior to the application of the main voltage pulse on the magnetron cathode (MC) is carried out in order to generate current pulses (CP) whose decay time (Td), after cut-off of the main voltage pulse (VP) is shorter than 5 μs.
US07927464B2
A vapor compression distillation system (10) is provided and includes a fluid inlet (12) for receiving a fluid, a fluid outlet (14) for a distillate that has been distilled from the fluid, a heat exchanger (16) connected to the fluid inlet (12) and the fluid outlet (14) to transfer heat from the distillate to the fluid; and an integrated motor/compressor unit (18) connected to the heat exchanger (16) to receive vaporized distillate therefrom and to supply pressurized distillate thereto. The system 10 may further include a coolant system (20) connected to the integrated motor/compressor (18) to supply a coolant flow thereto. The system (10) may also include an air oil mist system (22) that is connected to the integrated motor/compressor unit (18) to supply an air oil mist thereto for bearing lubrication and cooling.
US07927445B2
A method of manufacturing a composite tower, includes at least partially filling a form with a curable resin; at least partially curing the resin in the form; raising the form partly over the at least partially cured resin; and at least partially filling the raised form with more curable resin applied against the cured resin.
US07927439B1
The invention is a method and a composition where, on command, a distributed number of micron size voids are created in an energetic material. The voids are hot spots, which change the shock compression sensitivity of the explosive composition by a factor of 2 to 10. The composition contains SMART materials, which are magnetostrictive materials having a large magnetostrictive coefficient, and in a matter of microseconds following the application of an external electromagnetic field, each of the magnetostrictive nano-structures expands and contracts forming a void, where the sum of the voids increases the shock compression sensitivity of the composition.
US07927438B1
An electrostatic charge dissipation composition having at least one energetic particle component and at least one oxidized electrically active polymer deposited on the energetic component. In another embodiment, the electrostatic charge dissipation composition includes at least one energetic particle component, at least one non-conducting polymer binder, and at least one oxidized electrically active polymer deposited on the energetic/binder composition.
US07927432B2
When, according to the invention, a cleaning head is provided with a hysteresis coupling (9, 11) between the turbine (3) and the gear in the gear housing (13), the gear will remain separated from the turbine and not be subjected to liquid impact. The hysteresis coupling (9, 11) may be adjusted using electromagnets (9) as an inductor, which allows control/regulation of the rotating movements of the cleaning head to achieve the best possible cleaning pattern.
US07927421B2
A light irradiation apparatus irradiates a target plane with light having a predetermined light intensity distribution. The apparatus includes a light modulation element having a light modulation pattern of a periodic structure represented by a primitive translation vector (a1, a2), an illumination system for illuminating the modulation element with the light, and an image forming optical system for forming the predetermined light intensity distribution obtained by the modulation pattern on the target plane. A shape of an exit pupil of the illumination system is similar to the Wigner-Seitz cell of a primitive reciprocal lattice vector (b1, b2) obtained from the primitive translation vector (a1, a2) by the following equations: b1=2π(a2×a3)/(a1·(a2×a3)) and b2=2π(a3×a1)/(a1·(a2×a3)) in which a3 is a vector having an arbitrary size in a normal direction of a flat surface of the modulation pattern of the modulation element, “·” is an inner product of the vector, and “×” is an outer product of the vector.
US07927420B2
The present invention describes a fire resistant building material composition, useful for example as a fire door core and to a method of making this composition where the building material of the present invention is prepared from an aqueous slurry of calcined gypsum, paper fibers, a water insoluble organic binder, fiber reinforcement and a set retarder.
US07927419B2
A variety of methods and compositions are disclosed herein, including, in one embodiment, a method comprising: introducing a settable composition into a subterranean formation, wherein the settable composition comprises: a cementitious component comprising a hydraulic cement and cement kiln dust; a swellable particle; and water; and allowing the settable composition to set in the subterranean formation. Another embodiment comprises a settable composition comprising: a cementitious component comprising a hydraulic cement and cement kiln dust, a swellable particle, and water.
US07927418B2
Methods and compositions involving the use of nitrogen-containing coordinated metal compounds for stabilizing chromium VI reducing metal cations. Exemplary uses include processes for making cement, and exemplary compositions include cement additives, concrete admixtures, as well as hydratable cement and cementitous compositions.
US07927416B2
A method of producing a modified pigment by sulfonating a pigment and subsequently oxidizing the pigment. The modified pigment may have sulfonic acid and carboxyl surface modifying groups attached to the surface of the pigment. Charge balancing counterions such as alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and NR1R2R3H+, where R1, R2 and R3 are independently H or C1-C5 alkyl groups, may be associated with the surface modifying groups. The modified pigment is combined with water to produce a dispersion that can be used in such applications as coatings, paints, papers, adhesives, latexes, toners, textiles, fibers, plastics and inks.
US07927410B2
A near infrared dye composition includes a microcapsule that includes an inner core region and an outer shell. The inner core region includes a cross-linked polymer-near infrared dye aggregate. The outer shell includes nanoparticles.
US07927404B2
A downcomer for a reactor for downwardly conducting a multi-phase mixture, the downcomer includes a transport section having an interior comprised of inner and outer regions separated horizontally by a vertical barrier, and a baffle structure disposed on an inner surface of the barrier. The baffle structure is arranged to induce the mixture to flow in a downward generally helical path such that denser components of the mixture are centrifugally urged outwardly away from a center of the downcomer and less dense components migrate toward the center. The barrier includes openings enabling the denser components to travel from the inner region to the outer region to be collected herein.
US07927403B2
The invention relates to a method for the absorption of acid gases, such as CO2 and H2S, from gas mixtures. According to the invention, acid gases are absorbed from a gas mixture by contacting this gas mixture with a liquid in which is dissolved so high a concentration of an amino acid or a salt thereof that a precipitate is formed. The contact takes place in a column of the packing-free type or a column suitable for processing slurries.
US07927392B2
A baghouse and filter assembly are provided for at least partially removing particulate matter from a gas stream. The filter assembly includes first and second filter portions to be coupled together by a coupler for establishing fluid communication between the first and second filter portions when connected. The coupler includes a first coupling portion including a side wall defining an interior passage through which the gas stream can pass in an axial direction between the first and second filter portions, and one or more flanges projecting from said side wall, the one or more flanges supporting a plurality of male studs. The coupler further includes a second coupling portion including a plurality of female keyhole-shaped receivers spaced apart for receiving at least a portion of the male studs and coupling the first coupling portion to the second coupling portion.
US07927385B2
A method for using substantial quantities of silicon powders as charge and processing it to produce a high quality silicon ingots suitable for photovoltaic use is disclosed. In a fused silica crucible, silicon feedstock containing more than about 5% by weight silicon powder is charged. The crucible with the charged silicon feedstock is placed into a furnace chamber and a vacuum is drawn to remove air. The vacuum is applied slowly. Then, the furnace chamber is backfilled with argon gas and heated to form molten silicon. Afterward, the molten silicon is solidified and annealed to form a multicrystalline silicon ingot.
US07927383B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition for dyeing or lightening human keratin fibers, comprising: a cosmetically acceptable medium; at least 25% by weight of at least one fatty substance different from fatty acids; from 1% to 10% by weight of at least one nonionic surfactant comprising ethylene oxide in an amount ranging from 10 mol to 80 mol; at least one dye chosen from oxidation dyes and direct dyes; at least one basifying agent; and at least one oxidizing agent. The disclosure also relates to a dyeing or lightening process using it. Another subject of the disclosure is multi-compartment devices or kits for obtaining, after mixing together the compositions of the compartments, just before its application, a composition according to the disclosure.
US07927376B2
An extraction device for removing a liner from an acetabular cup is provided. The extraction device includes a body and an actuator. The actuator is operably connected to the body. The extraction device also includes a jaw for cooperation with the liner. The jaw includes a portion of the jaw for penetrating into the liner. The jaw is operably connected to the actuator. The actuator is adapted to cooperate with the jaw to provide a first position for the jaw spaced from the liner and a second position for the jaw in contact with the liner.
US07927369B2
An intraparietal reinforcing device is designed to be integrated into a biological valvular prosthesis consisting of a biological cardiac valve having a valve plane formed by leaflets attached laterally to an external wall along commissurae. The device can be placed in the organic tissue of the valve, and includes a base and a stabilizing part mounted thereon. The device can be inserted inside the external wall of the valve to reinforce the valve's structure and to maintain the valve's shape after implantation. The stabilizing part includes at least two intraparietal shafts, designed to be inserted into the valve tissue and positioned on the base so that, once the device is put in place on the valve, they are displaced laterally to the intersection point of the intersection line of the external wall with the commissurae and of the valve plane. A biological prosthesis may be provided with such a device.
US07927360B2
There are provided systems and methods for positioning a connecting member adjacent the spinal column that include one or more anchor assemblies having an anchor engageable to bony structure and an extended receiver having a guide portion and an implantation portion. A connecting member is movable along the guide portion from a location outside the patient to the implantation portion in the patient, where the connecting member is secured to the anchor assembly with an engaging member. The guide portion is formed as a single unit with but separable from the implantation portion to provide a modified low-profile anchor assembly after implantation of the connecting member.
US07927359B2
A bone-anchoring device is provided. The bone-anchoring device may comprise a screw including a threaded shaft portion configured to engage bone tissue, and a head portion having a cup-shaped cavity. The device may further include a rod connector and a linking member, wherein the linking member includes a spherical head portion configured to engage the cup-shaped cavity of the head of the screw, a widened flange s configured to engage the linking member, and an elongate body extending from the widened flange portion and configured to extend through an opening in the rod connector.
US07927356B2
Devices and methods for spinal stabilization include first and second anchors engageable to respective ones of first and second vertebrae and a connector assembly engageable with the anchors to provide a desired stabilization effect. The connector assembly can include a connecting element and a bumper element engageable to the first and second anchors.
US07927350B2
A device and method for liberating plaque from a lumen after a medical procedure has been formed. The device includes a catheter having a first expandable member and a second expandable member.
US07927348B2
A coil device is provided with a stretch resistant feature. The device includes a wound coil defining a lumen and a stretch resistant member at least partially received within the lumen. A restrictor member is also at least partially received within the lumen and defines an aperture adapted to movably receive a portion of the stretch resistant member to allow the wound coil to stretch and elongate. The stretch resistant member includes an enlarged portion that is larger than the aperture and adapted to engage the restrictor member to prevent or resist stretching of the wound coil. The restrictor member may be provided as a separate element fixedly secured to the coil wire, or the coil wire may include one or more minor turns adapted to perform the function of the restrictor member.
US07927341B2
A humeral fracture fixation system is provided and includes a nail-plate fixation device having a plate-like head portion, an intramedullary nail portion, and a bent neck portion therebetween which creates an angle between the plate and nail portions. The upper surface of the nail portion is substantially straight for contact with the endosteum and the nail portion includes threaded holes for machine screws. The head portion includes locking holes for receiving fixed-angle bone support elements, and K-wire alignment holes. The front of the head portion includes suture holes while presenting a smooth profile. A specific implantation jigs and a screw guide cannula are also provided.
US07927340B2
The invention relates to a drill guide and method for providing a drill guide, where the drill guide is for placing a fixation device hole proximate to a bone tunnel in a bone. The drill guide includes a foot for placement in the bone tunnel in the bone and a leg extending from the foot and having a recess. A locator is placed within the recess and, in a retracted position, the locator is inside the leg. The locator is also hingedly connected to the leg such that, in an unretracted position, the locator rotates and extends outwardly from the recess for locating a fixation device hole.
US07927331B2
A surgical instrument for creation of tissue dissection and creation of space is disclosed. The instrument may be used any place in the body where a physician could or would use finger or instrument dissection to create a tissue pocket or space. The pocket dissector can be used under direct vision, laparoscopically, endoscopically, under fluoroscopic guidance or blindly.
US07927330B2
An electrosurgical apparatus for coagulating tissue used in combination with an endoscope which includes an elongated flexible tube having a plurality of side-ports located therethrough. The tube extends through a working channel of the endoscope and an ionizable gas is supplied to the tube at or near the proximal end of the tube. A diffusing member directs the ionizable gas from the proximal end of the tube through each of the side-ports towards the tissue. An electrode is used for ionizing the gas prior to the gas exiting the side-ports.
US07927329B2
An electrosurgical return electrode is disclosed. The return electrode includes a conductive pad having one or more temperature monitoring zones and a patient-contacting surface configured to conduct electrosurgical energy and a temperature sensing circuit coupled to the conductive pad. The temperature sensing circuit includes at least one diode disposed within the at least one temperature monitoring zone, the at least one diode having a predetermined forward voltage drop that is indicative of temperature of at least one temperature monitoring zone.
US07927326B2
An implantable drug delivery device includes a pump motor that is driven by electrical energy from a storage capacitor. At the end of each pump delivery cycle, electrical energy stored in the pump motor is recovered and returned to the storage capacitor, so that it can be used in subsequent delivery cycles.
US07927317B2
An injection device comprises: a needle support; an injection needle which is fixedly joined to the needle support and which has a free end which is arranged with spacing from the needle support; and a mechanism for extracting the injection needle, comprising a base and a pushing member which can be moved relative to the base between a position in which the needle is used and a position in which the needle is extracted. The base is permanently connected to the needle support and can be moved relative to the needle support between an inactive position of the extraction mechanism and an active position of the extraction mechanism.
US07927315B2
A sealing stopper or piston for a syringe which includes a skirt part that is capable of serving as a backstop device, and a prefilled syringe using the same. The skirt part provides a backstop function, i.e. it prevents reverse movement of the piston, without increasing production costs.
US07927307B2
The invention relates to a hypodermic injection system having a direct-drive motor for moving a ram towards an injectate chamber for discharging injectate therein through a discharge orifice. The system can have an injection head attached to a housing having an injectate chamber for holding injectate to be injected, a remote discharge device with a control apparatus or the structure for holding a cartridge containing injectate. The injectate supply could be a bottle, a remote reservoir or a cartridge. An injection head can have a nose actuator for enabling an injection only if the nose actuator has engaged the body to be injected. A clamping device clamps the body to be injected. Control is effected through a microprocessor to which the electrically-operated parts of the invention are attached. Control and output signals are readable through an electronic display.
US07927297B2
An improved treatment apparatus and method of using in which the device has plural protruding contact elements, each preferably having an undulating contact surface with one or more peaks. In one preferred embodiment, a plurality of contact elements are positioned spaced apart from one another in columns. In another device an elongated single column is provided. Mounting brackets are provided that enable a user to position the device easily and to adjust mounting straps and/or belts to a particular body shape. In one example, the device may include bracket apertures into which mounting brackets can be positioned. In another aspect of the invention, adjustable buckles and/or binders are provided can be used to adjust the length of the straps and secure the device to the wearer in use.
US07927292B2
An apparatus, system, and method for monitoring vibration using a self-powered vibration sensor, a programmable interactive device, and a remote server. The self-powered sensor is capable of transforming vibrations into equivalent RF pulses, which are recorded and manipulated by the programmable interactive device. The programmable interactive device communicates the RF pulses to the remote server for further analysis, processing, and feedback. These interactions result in an objective monitoring of the vibration, which provides corrective feedback for beneficial transformation of behavior. The corrective feedback may be provided on a programmable interactive device such as a mobile phone, PDA, etc.
US07927269B2
A patient carestation for providing care to a patient including at least one environmental sensor sensing information concerning the environment surrounding the patient and providing electronic signals indicative of that environment. There are also physiological sensors sensing information relating to physiological conditions of the patient other than skin temperature and providing electronic signals indicative of physiological conditions of the patient. There may also be therapeutic sensors providing data based on therapy administered by peripheral apparatus and an input receiving patient information. A signal processor receives the signals from the physiological sensors, the environmental sensor, the therapeutic sensor and the patient information input and combines those signals into an integrated combination of signals for use by the caregiver. The integrated combination of signals can be used in a smart alarm or to generally appraise the caregiver at a central location as to the status of the patient.
US07927267B2
An exercise device is disclosed having at least a base, first and second knee supports which are bilaterally coupled to first and second pivots located off from the center of the base. Independently rotatable knee pads are coupled to the perimeter-side end of the first and second knee supports arranged around a perimeter of the base. An upper extremity support is coupled to the base, and a first base supporting member is positioned at a rear of the base and a second base supporting member is positioned at a front of the base, wherein at least one of an inclination and elevation of the base is determined by adjustment of the base supporting members, wherein the first and second knee supports move around different arcs to generate an elliptical motion for an individual.
US07927261B2
A boxer-fly exercise apparatus, hereinafter Boxer-fly, is provided. The Boxer-fly provides an additional exercise for performing strength training of a user's pectoral muscles. Specifically, the Boxer-fly presents a novel angle for conditioning a user's pectoral muscles derived from the motion performed by a boxer dropping his elbows to block his ribs. Furthermore, the apparatus can be used by any user looking to fully develop their chest muscles.
US07927254B2
A recreational structure, such as a trampoline frame, can be quickly and reliably assembled using a sleeve-joint coupling having a “T” configuration. A first arm member and an aperture that is formed in the sleeve-joint coupling are disposed in an opposite relationship. A second arm member and a third arm member are disposed in an opposite relationship with each other. The first arm member receives one end of a vertical frame member of the recreational structure, while the aperture receives one end of a vertical pole member of, for example, a safety enclosure. The second and third arm members each receive one end of a horizontal frame member of the recreational structure. The vertical pole member extends through the sleeve-joint coupling into an inner portion of the vertical frame member received by the first arm of the sleeve-joint coupling.
US07927253B2
A sports electronic training system with electronic gaming features, and applications thereof, are disclosed. In an embodiment, the system comprises at least one monitor and a portable electronic processing device for receiving data from the at least one monitor and providing feedback to an individual based on the received data. The monitor can be a motion monitor that measures an individual's performance such as, for example, speed, pace and distance for a runner. Other monitors might include a heart rate monitor, a temperature monitor, an altimeter, et cetera. In an embodiment, an input is provided to an electronic game based on data obtained from the at least one monitor that effects, for example, an avatar, a digitally created character, an action within the game, or a game score of the electronic game.
US07927252B1
In one embodiment, a conditioning apparatus for conditioning the hips and core structure of a user includes a target having printed thereon a movement pattern, and an illumination source spaced apart from the target. The illumination source is configured to be positioned about the user and to project a light upon the movement pattern for use as a visual reference point in response to movement of the user.
US07927237B2
The present disclosure relates to a basketball return machine which may be utilized with either a goal unit or a stand-alone basketball goal. Either or both of the basketball return machine and goal unit may be fixed in location or transportable. The machine collects basketballs that are shot in the direction of a basketball goal and returns them to the user at one or more locations around the return machine's perimeter. The present disclosure eliminates the need for persons or other means being deployed to capture and return balls to persons practicing or playing a game of basketball. The present disclosure also contemplates features that permit its use in low level light or even unlighted environments. Lastly, the present disclosure contemplates a fully functional basketball system that is adaptable to varying user skill levels.
US07927232B2
A hollow golf club head includes a sole, a crown, a skirt, and a striking face. The golf club includes a junction interconnecting the sole, crown, and skirt to the striking face, the junction including at least one stiffening member.
US07927231B2
A golf club head according to this invention includes a hollow head body, cylindrical body, weight member, and fixing member. The hollow head body has a projection formed along the periphery of the sole, a recess formed inside the projection, and an opening formed in the projection so as to extend from the toe side to the back side. The cylindrical body is provided in the recess of the head body, and includes its one end which engages with the inner wall of the projection on the heel side, and its other end which extends to the vicinity of the opening and can move along the opening. The weight member is retractably, detachably inserted in the cylindrical body. The fixing member is a detachable member which fixes the other end of the cylindrical body onto the projection.
US07927229B2
In one embodiment, a golf club head comprises a body comprising a first material, a front end, a rear end, a bottom wall portion, a top wall portion, and a first aperture into the first material and located in a wall surface of the bottom wall portion. The golf club head also comprises a first insert comprising a second material different than the first material and located in the first aperture. The golf club head comprises a club head mass; the first insert comprises an insert mass, the club head mass comprises the insert mass; the insert mass comprises more than half of the club head mass; the first insert comprises less than half of a volume of materials of the golf club head; and the materials of the golf club head comprise the first material and the second material. Other examples and related methods are described herein.
US07927228B2
A golf swing training aid to allow a golfer to learn the correct swing path utilizes a mat having three visual guidelines displayed thereon or therethrough. One guideline is aimed at the target. A second guideline would guide the club head on the back swing and a third guideline would show a greater inside angle to the target line that the club should make on its approach to the ball. A pair of bars are attached to the golf mat which would aid in correctly aligning the golfer's body to provide the proper stance when addressing a golf ball.
US07927227B2
Golfers need and desire to practice and perfect their golf swings, and proper alignment of the golfer's body and the arc that the head of club travels are critical in this regard. The golf swing alignment training device provided allows golfers of different height and body proportions, and using a variety of different golf clubs to practice and perfect their swing. The device comprises a stance rule changeably marked to indicate proper location of the golfer's feet as required using different clubs, a connecting shaft perpendicular to the stance rule that can be moved as needed for clubs of different length, a swing guide governing the direction of the golfer's swing and the shape of its arc, a club face orientation indicator that can be adjusted to indicate proper club face orientation for different shots, and a ball position indicator which properly locates the ball in relation to the device and the golfer's body. The device is of simple, rugged construction, easily adjustable as needed by golfers of different size and body proportion, and a single device can be used by right or left handed golfers, and even by children.
US07927221B2
The tool for the chipless production of a thread, in particular for producing an internal thread, is in its forming height, pitch of the pressing lands and/or pressing surfaces adapted to the material of the workpiece in a special manner.
US07927213B2
A program for rewarding players for gaming at a casino establishment provides a player with real-time incentives while the player is playing at a gaming machine in the casino. Information about the player and/or the player's gaming activity is collected while the player is at a gaming machine in a casino. This information is used by a marketing system to select an incentive to provide to the player. The incentive is then delivered to the player, for example manually by a casino employee or automatically using a printer or other mechanism at the gaming machine. Various types of incentives can be provided to a player, including incentives designed to provide the player with an experience that is favorable to the casino and incentives designed to keep the player gaming in a casino for a longer amount of time.
US07927201B2
An improved agricultural vehicle is provided utilizing an upper storage container, movable laterally relative to a lower storage container. The dual storage containers allows for ease of loading and unloading a combine with multiple types of agricultural materials, such as stover and corn kernels. The invention also allows grain wagons to carry two separate types of agricultural material, such as stover and corn kernels.
US07927193B2
A back-up assembly for a sanding device, where the back-up assembly includes a driving disk rotating around a rotational axis, rigid segment plates, a flexible pad layer positioned between the rigid segment plates and the driving disk, and semi-flexible wedges located at the bottom of each rigid segment plate. Rigid segment plates are arranged circumferentially and spacedly around the rotational axis of the driving disk and are secured to the bottom surface of the driving disk by the flexible pad layer. Further, adjacent rigid segment plates are allowed to move with respect to each other in a direction parallel to the rotational axis of the driving disk.
US07927190B2
A retaining ring can be shaped by machining or lapping the bottom surface of the ring to form a shaped profile in the bottom surface. The bottom surface of the retaining ring can include flat, sloped and curved portions. The lapping can be performed using a machine that dedicated for use in lapping the bottom surface of retaining rings. During the lapping the ring can be permitted to rotate freely about an axis of the ring. The bottom surface of the retaining ring can have curved or flat portions.
US07927185B2
A method of processing a semiconductor wafer using a double side grinder of the type that holds the wafer in a plane with a pair of grinding wheels and a pair of hydrostatic pads. The method includes measuring a distance between the wafer and at least one sensor and determining wafer nanotopology using the measured distance. The determining includes using a processor to perform a finite element structural analysis of the wafer based on the measured distance.
US07927183B2
A polishing pad provides excellent optical detection accuracy properties over a broad wavelength range (particularly at the short-wavelength side). A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a process of polishing the surface of a semiconductor wafer with this polishing pad. The polishing pad has a polishing layer containing a polishing region and a light-transmitting region, wherein the light-transmitting region includes a polyurethane resin having an aromatic ring density of 2 wt % or less, and the light transmittance of the light-transmitting region is 30% or more in the overall range of wavelengths of 300 to 400 nm.
US07927181B2
Machines and systems for removing materials from microfeature workpieces using fixed-abrasive mediums. One embodiment of a method for removing material from a microfeature workpiece comprises rubbing the workpiece against a surface of a fixed-abrasive medium having a matrix and abrasive particles attached to the matrix, and sensing a parameter indicative of frictional force at an interface between the workpiece and the surface of the fixed-abrasive medium. This method continues by moving at least one of the workpiece and the fixed-abrasive medium relative to each other in a direction transverse to the interface based on the parameter. For example, the workpiece and/or the fixed-abrasive medium can be vibrated or oscillated to reduce the frictional force and/or maintain a desired relative velocity between the workpiece and the fixed-abrasive medium.
US07927168B2
A low-pressure discharge lamp having a tubular glass lamp vessel 10, on an outer surface of which conductor layers are formed as electrodes 21 and 26. The ultrasonic solder dipping layers 31 and 36 are formed at both ends of the vessel 10 as conductor layers. The end surfaces of the glass lamp vessel are blasted and ultrasonic solder dipping layers are formed on the blasted surfaces 41 and 46 by ultrasonic solder dipping. Conductor layers form external electrodes 21 and 26, which are in contact with the glass surface more strongly. A low-pressure discharge lamp having the conductor layers of a uniform thickness can be mass-produced at low cost.
US07927161B2
A fuel tank apparatus is particularly suited for use on vehicles and marine vessels. A fuel tank can be used to supply fuel to an engine, compressor or the like such as when the tank is used to operate an engine or air compressor. The apparatus includes a tank body having a plurality of tank outer walls surrounding an interior that enables fuel to be contained. The tank body has upper and lower end portions. Flow lines are provided for adding fuel to the tank interior and for discharging fuel that is to be consumed by an engine, compressor or other device. The lower end portion of the tank body provides a sump that is specially configured to trap the undesirable contents of fuel such as trash, water, debris, settleable solids and the like. The interior includes a baffle structure that is space inwardly of the tank body providing a vent flow passage that extends from a position just above the sump to a position next to the upper end portion of the body. In this fashion, the sump traps settleable material while the vent flow passage allows air to bubble upwardly and not discharge through the fuel discharge flow line.
US07927159B2
A contact sheet (100) comprises a first contact strip (1), a second contact strip (4) coplanar with the first contact strip (1) and a plurality of first contacts (2) and second contacts (3) located between the first contact strip (1) and the second contact strip (4) alternatively, the first contact (2) comprises a first body portion (21) having a first notch (211) and a first protruding portion (212), the second contact (3) comprises a second body portion (31) having a second notch (311) and a second protruding portion (312), the first protruding portion (212) fits with the second notch (311), the second protruding portion (312) fits with the first notch (211).
US07927158B2
A contact terminal of an electronic device includes: a fixing member; a contact member extending from the fixing member and a limiting member and extending from the fixing member where one end portion of the limiting member restrains one end portion of the contact member, wherein the contact terminal provides an elastic force upon the contact member in a direction away from the fixing member, and a range where the contact member moves away from the fixing member is limited since the end portion of the limiting member restrains the end portion of the contact member. The disclosed contact terminal can be directly mounted on a circuit board by using a surface mounting device (SMD) process, thereby reducing production costs and interconnection loss.
US07927156B2
An electrical connector element for connection of a conductor to a circuit board, having a housing, at least one clamp connector for the conductor and at least two connector pins for preferably soldered connection to the circuit board, is disclosed. The housing has at least one separating element made from insulating material, projecting from the lower side, facing away from the circuit board in the assembled position, at least partly arranged between the connector pins and extending through the circuit board in the assembled position, in order to permit the connector pins of the electrical connector element to be arranged closer together.
US07927154B2
A bi-pin connector for a luminaire includes a base and pins that can rotate relative to the base. The pins can also translate relative to a light fixture housing in a direction transverse to the axis about which the pins rotate. A luminaire including the bi-pin connector is also disclosed.
US07927151B2
Plugs with core structural members and methods for manufacturing plugs with core structural members are provided. A plug can include a core structural member that may increase the structural integrity of the plug. The plug can further include contact pads and traces, and each trace can electrically couple with one of the contact pads and extend along a plug axis towards the proximal end (e.g., base section) of the plug. In orientation-specific embodiments, the traces may be disposed on the surface of the plug. However, in other embodiments, the traces may be disposed below but near the surface of the plug. The plug may also include one or more insulating layers to prevent contact pads and traces from shorting.
US07927148B2
An electrical connector includes a housing, a seat body, a terminal group, a printed circuit board, and a cover. The housing has a hollow body. The seat body is disposed in the housing. The terminal group is disposed on the seat body. An end of the terminal group electrically connects with the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board electrically connects with a microprocessor. The cover covers a bottom portion of the seat body. Pins of the printed circuit board passes through the cover and electrically connects with a main board of an electronic device, making the microprocessor able to calculate or control the electronic device to execute different functions and operations.
US07927143B2
High-speed backplane connectors systems for mounting a substrate that are capable of operating at speeds of up to at least 25 Gbps, while in some implementations also providing pin densities of at least 50 pairs of electrical connectors per inch are disclosed. Implementations of the high-speed connector systems may provide ground shields and/or other ground structures that substantially encapsulate electrical connector pairs, which may be differential electrical connector pairs, in a three-dimensional manner throughout a backplane footprint, a backplane connector, and a daughtercard footprint. These encapsulating ground shields and/or ground structures prevent undesirable propagation of non-traverse, longitudinal, and higher-order modes when the high-speed backplane connector systems operates at frequencies up to at least 30 GHz.
US07927141B2
An electrical shielding arrangement of a high-voltage line has at least two coupling elements. The coupling elements each have a tubular control electrode about a line leadthrough and are surrounded by a barrier. Owing to the fact that the reduction in the diameters of the control electrode and the barrier is matched in relation to one another, a barrier decoupled in this way can be used for mechanically tensioning the coupling systems which have been pushed one inside the other.
US07927136B2
A connector to be connected to a cable having a core wire and a shielding wire includes a contact having a terminal portion to be connected to the core wire, an outer conductor having a shield connecting portion to be connected to the shielding wire, and a housing holding the contact and the outer conductor. The shield connecting portion is separated from the housing in an axial direction. The outer conductor has an opening portion formed between the shield connecting portion and the housing and opening in a radial direction perpendicular to the axial direction. The terminal portion is exposed inside the outer conductor and faced to the opening portion in the radial direction.
US07927134B2
A coaxial connector with a connector body is provided with a connector body bore. A grip ring is retained within the connector body bore, and an outer diameter of the grip ring abuts an annular wedge surface provided with a taper between a maximum diameter proximate the connector end and a minimum diameter proximate the cable end. The wedge surface may be provided directly on the connector body bore sidewall or alternatively on an inner diameter of a clamp ring coupled to the cable end of the connector body. An inner diameter of the grip ring is provided with a grip surface. A spring contact is retained within the connector body bore. The grip surface and an inner diameter of the spring contact are dimensioned to receive the outer conductor from the cable end there through and to then couple with an outer diameter of the outer conductor.
US07927131B2
A battery connector adapted to hold a battery, comprises an insulative housing, a first conductive contact and a second conductive contact. The insulative housing defines a receiving chamber which having a horizontal bottom. The first conductive contact comprises a retention portion retained in the periphery of the receiving chamber, a resilient portion extending in a horizontal direction from the retention portion and pivotal about an axis of the retention portion along a vertical direction, a hook portion extending from a distal end of the resilient portion, and a spring arm extending from a location adjacent the distal end of the resilient portion. The second conductive contact is disposed in the bottom and having a resilient contacting portion for electrically engaging with the battery.
US07927117B2
An electrical card connector defines a receiving space for receiving an electrical card, and includes an insulative housing and an ejecting mechanism retained in the insulative housing. The ejecting mechanism includes a slider, a coil spring for driving the slider moving along an insertion direction of the electrical card, and a latch spring secured on the slider and extending into the receiving space for pressing on the electrical card. The electrical card connector further includes a limiting portion abutting against the latch spring to increase a lock force on the electrical card, thus the electrical card would be prevented from flying out of the electrical card connector.
US07927113B2
Electric fuel pumps are already known with a pump housing and a ground terminal, which is provided on a terminal cover, for making contact with an electrical ground, in which the pump housing and the ground terminal are connected to one another via a ground connection, which has a first contact section for making contact with the pump housing and a second contact section for making contact with the ground terminal. The first contact section is provided on the outer circumference of a terminal cover and, after installation, is pressed with a contact pressure against the inner face of the pump housing. Since the inner face of the pump housing has increasingly been provided with an electrically insulating anticorrosion coating, however, when the terminal cover is pressed into the pump housing, touching contact with the pump housing does take place which is usually also electrically conductive, but as a result of the electrically insulating coating has a high electrical resistance. In the case of the conveying assembly according to the invention, the impedance of the contact-making is reduced. The invention provides that the first contact section is designed to have sharp edges in such a way that, when it is pushed into the pump housing, it passes locally through an electrically insulating layer formed on the pump housing.
US07927106B1
A method and apparatus for transmitting signals. An apparatus comprises a first cylinder, a second cylinder, a third cylinder, and a fourth cylinder. A first cylinder has a first number of conductive segments. The second cylinder has a second number of conductive segments. The first cylinder is located inside the second cylinder such that the first conductive segments remain in communication with corresponding ones of the second conductive segments during rotation of the first and second cylinders relative to each other. The third cylinder has a third number of conductive segments. The second cylinder is located inside of the third cylinder. The fourth cylinder has a fourth number of conductive segments. The third cylinder is located inside the fourth cylinder such that the third conductive segments remain in communication with corresponding ones of the fourth conductive segments during rotation of the third and fourth cylinders.
US07927094B2
The present invention provides a composite nozzle cap having a first part made of metal and an outer tip of a polymeric material. The first part mechanically secures the nozzle into the nozzle housing by engaging the nozzle housing and pressing against a base flange on the nozzle to clamp the flange between the first part of the nozzle housing. The second part extends away from the nozzle housing and is mechanically secured to the first part. An inner face of the second part contacts the nozzle tip to prevent melt flow between the second part of the nozzle tip. An outer face of the second part contacts the gate insert to avoid melt flow between the second part and the gate insert. As the second part is of a polymeric material, it avoids the heat transfer concerns associated with a metallic interface between the nozzle tip and the gate insert.
US07927092B2
Methods and apparatus for forming a semi-spherical polishing pad for polishing semiconductor surfaces, provide for: placing a polishing pad pre-form on a dome-shaped forming surface, the polishing pad pre-form including a circular body having a center and an outer peripheral edge, and a plurality of slots extending from the outer peripheral edge towards the center; disposing a bladder opposite to the dome-shaped forming surface and the polishing pad pre-form; inflating the bladder with a fluid such that the dome-shaped forming surface of the bonnet form presses against the polishing pad pre-form from one side and the bladder presses against the polishing pad pre-form from an opposite side; and maintaining the pressing step for a predetermined period of time to achieve the semi-spherical polishing pad.
US07927091B2
A device for filling at least one mold with at least one powder. The device includes a mechanism to add at least one powder, at least one mechanism to eject the powder added into the device, in the form of a layer, and at least one deflector capable of locally intercepting at least part of the powder ejected in the form of a layer and redirecting the locally intercepted powder towards a determined location in the mold.
US07927088B2
In a die assembly, plural pairs of extrusion ports are set up on concentric circles different in diameter. The die assembly is also provided with a core material feeding layer which spreads in such a planar state as to be connected to all core material extruding passageways and a sheath material feeding layer which spreads in such a planar state as to be connected to all sheath material extruding passageways and the core material and the sheath material are fed through the passageways. This constitution makes it possible to set up extrusion ports in arbitrary positions corresponding to the core material feeding layer and the sheath material feeding layer which each spread in a planar state, which enables simultaneous production of more multilayer extrusions while inhibiting the enlargement of the assembly.
US07927087B2
An apparatus and process are provided for molding electronic devices in a mold, which apparatus comprises at least one runner in the mold connected to a mold supply pot for channeling a molding compound from the mold supply pot to the electronic devices. A plunger assembly is also provided that comprises a main body, and a supplementary body configured to be movable relative to the main body. The plunger assembly is locatable in the mold supply pot and is drivable in a direction towards the runner for forcing the molding compound into the runner. In order to avoid or reduce cull formation, a width of the runner at an opening connecting the runner to the mold supply pot is smaller than a width of the main body of the plunger assembly.
US07927083B2
An apparatus and method for pumping from a well. A pump includes a piston assembly reciprocably engaged in a cylinder assembly. Pressure applied to a column of fluid above the pump causes a pump chamber to fill with fluid. A spring mechanism coupled to an anchor point above the piston assembly provides upward force on the piston assembly. Alternate cycles of the application and release of pressure result in the pumping of a fluid.
