US07983112B2
A semiconductor device in the present invention includes a DLL circuit which determines a phase shift amount, an arithmetic circuit which shifts the phase shift amount by a predetermined phase at test mode time, registers which set the phase shift amount, and a transmission circuit which shifts a phase to the set phase to transmit or receive a signal. The transmission circuit has a first phase shifter which shifts a first signal to the set phase, a first bidirectional buffer which loops back the first signal at the test mode time, a second phase shifter which phase-shifts the signal outputted from the first bidirectional buffer, a third phase shifter which phase-shifts a third signal, a second bidirectional buffer which loops back the third signal at the test mode time, a fourth phase shifter which phase-shifts the signal outputted from the second bidirectional buffer, and a FIFO which takes out an output signal of the second phase shifter or the fourth phase shifter.
US07983103B2
A trigger producing circuit provides a trigger signal. A delay circuit receives the trigger signal, and provides a delay signal produced by delaying the trigger signal. A clock counter receives clocks, counts the received clocks for a period from reception of the trigger signal to reception of the delay signal, and provides a result of the counting. A determining circuit stores a relationship between the number of clocks and a latency, and determines the latency corresponding to the result of counting provided from the clock counter. A latency register holds the determined latency. A WAIT control circuit externally provides a WAIT signal based on the latency held in the latency register.
US07983097B2
Wordline driving circuit of semiconductor memory device includes a bias generator configured to generate a threshold bias voltage for accessing data, an over-driver configured to increase the threshold bias voltage at an initial stage of a data accessing operation and a wordline driver configured to activate a wordline in response to the threshold bias voltage and a signal output from the over-driver.
US07983088B2
Methods for programming a memory device, memory devices, and a memory systems are provided. According to at least one such method, a selected memory cell is programmed by a series of programming pulses. The series of programming pulses are configured in sets of programming pulses where each set has the same quantity of pulses and each programming pulse in the set has substantially the same amplitude (i.e., programming voltage). The amplitude of the programming pulses of subsequent sets is increased by a step voltage from the previous amplitude.
US07983075B2
Ferromagnetic layers have magnetizations oriented to such directions as to cancel each other, so that the net magnetization of the ferromagnetic layers is substantially zero. That is, the ferromagnetic layers are exchange-coupled with a nonmagnetic layer interposed therebetween, thereby forming an SAF structure. Since the net magnetization of the ferromagnetic layers forming the SAF structure is substantially zero, the magnetization of a recording layer is determined by the magnetization of a ferromagnetic layer. Therefore, the ferromagnetic layer is made of a CoFeB alloy having high uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, and the ferromagnetic layers are made of a CoFe alloy having a high exchange-coupling force.
US07983074B2
Featured is a magnetic ring structure including at least a vortex magnetic state such as symmetrically and asymmetrically shaped nanorings (FIG. 7C), having small diameters (e.g., on the order of 100 run). In particular embodiments, the width and thickness of the maxima and minima thereof are located on opposite sides of the nanoring. Also featured are methods for fabricating such symmetrically and asymmetrically shaped nanorings (FIG. 1). Also featured are methods for controlling the reversal process so as to thereby create vortex states in such asymmetric nanorings by controlling the field angle (FIG. 9).
US07983065B2
A three-dimensional array especially adapted for memory elements that reversibly change a level of electrical conductance in response to a voltage difference being applied across them. Memory elements are formed across a plurality of planes positioned different distances above a semiconductor substrate. Bit lines to which the memory elements of all planes are connected are oriented vertically from the substrate and through the plurality of planes.
US07983055B2
A printed circuit board having an embedded cavity capacitor is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the printed circuit board having the embedded cavity capacitor, the printed circuit board can include two conductive layers to be used as a power layer and a ground layer, respectively; and a first dielectric layer, placed between the two conductive layers, wherein at least one cavity capacitor is arranged in a noise-transferable path between a noise source and a noise prevented destination which are placed on the printed circuit board, the cavity capacitor being formed to allow a second dielectric layer to have a lower stepped region than the first dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer using the two conductive layers as a first electrode and a second electrode, respectively, and placed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US07983053B2
An electronic plug-in module for accommodation in a module rack with a mounting rail, wherein the plug-in module includes a circuit board, a front plate and a mounting device, the mounting device comprises a bearing part, a tensioning part and a fixation element, the bearing part is fixed on front plate, and the tensioning part is connected frictionally to the fixation element and the bearing part in such a manner that a force, by means of which the plug-in module is held with its front plate in a defined position relative to the module rack, is exerted onto the plug-in module transversely to the insertion direction of the plug-in module.
US07983048B2
A mounting structure, in which semiconductor package 1 and heat sink 8 for dissipating heat generated from semiconductor package 1 are mounted on mounting board 3. The rear surface of semiconductor package 1 is bonded to the front surface of mounting board 3 facing the rear surface. Heat sink 8 is brought into contact with the rear surface of semiconductor package 1 via through-ole 5 formed on mounting board 3. Semiconductor package 1 and heat sink 8 are pressed to each other by the elastic force of clip 6.
US07983039B1
A reversible airflow fan tray assembly is provided for an electronic device. The fan tray assembly includes a face plate to be removably mounted to the electronic device and a fan tray cassette to be removably mounted to the face plate in multiple orientations. The fan tray cassette includes a fan unit to provide airflow through the electronic device, and an interconnection board to provide an electrical connection between the fan unit and the electronic device, where the interconnection board mates with a connector on the electronic device when the fan tray cassette is in any of the multiple orientations. The interconnection board provides an airflow direction indication to the electronic device for a current orientation of the multiple orientations.
US07983029B2
A support device for a display unit is provided, in which supports for supporting the display unit are hidden so as to improve the beauty of a room, and a display unit having the same. The support device includes at least one support connected to the display unit; a base connected to the lower part of the support; and a transparent member installed in front of the support, wherein the transparent member includes at least one refractively transmitting portion for refracting light, incident from the front of the transparent member to the support, toward external regions of the support.
US07983027B2
A notebook computer protection device forming a protective sleeve adapted to securely receive a notebook computer. The protection device is formed of a semi-rigid translucent material having a plurality of access openings permitting both a physical and visual inspection of the notebook computer lateral portions when secured therewithin. The protection device protects the notebook computer when subject to the examination process at airports and other transportation hubs, particularly when subject to the x-ray process at security checkpoints. The notebook computer protection device is light weight, inexpensive, and effectively protects a notebook computer during the inspection process, without requiring the removal of the notebook computer therefrom during the inspection process.
US07983019B2
A device for generating a voltage comprises first and second plates spaced apart from each other, for being charged at respective different potentials. A third plate is placed at a first distance from the first plate so as to form a first capacitor, and a first semiconductor element is connected between the third plate and the second plate. This voltage generating device produces an output voltage having an amplitude that is dependent upon the first distance and taken between the third and second plates.
US07983018B2
An arrangement for securing a wafer during substrate processing is provided. The arrangement includes a power supply and an electrostatic chuck (ESC). The ESC supports the wafer and includes a positive and a negative terminal. A positive high voltage is provided to the positive terminal through an RF filter and a negative high voltage is provided to the negative terminal through the RF filter. The arrangement also includes a first and a second trans-impedance amplifiers (TIAs) that measure a first set of voltages for determining a value of a positive load current applied to the positive terminal and a third and fourth TIAs that measure a second set of voltages for determining a value of a negative load current applied to the negative terminal. The arrangement yet also includes a program to adjust a bias voltage using the values of the positive load current and the negative load current.
US07983016B2
An electrostatically atomizing device comprises an emitter electrode, an opposed electrode, cooling means for condensing water on the emitter electrode, and a high voltage source; and high voltage is applied to the condensed water so that minute water particles are discharged from a discharge end at a tip of the emitter electrode. The device comprises a controller for causing the charged minute water particles to be discharged stably. The controller has an initial control mode and a normal control mode. In the initial mode, the cooling means is controlled so as to cool the emitter electrode at a predetermined cooling rate. Once discharge current reaches into a predetermined target discharge current range, the cooling means is controlled by feedback control, on the basis of the value of the discharge current, in such a manner that the discharge current is kept within the target discharge current range.
US07983011B2
A TMR read head with improved voltage breakdown is formed by laying down the AP1 layer as two or more layers. Each AP1 sub-layer is exposed to a low energy plasma for a short time before the next layer is deposited. This results in a smooth surface, onto which to deposit the tunneling barrier layer, with no disruption of the surface crystal structure of the completed AP1 layer.
US07982992B2
A system according to one embodiment includes an analog input for receiving an analog signal; a variable gain amplifier coupled to the analog input; a first gain control circuit coupled to the variable gain amplifier for controlling the gain of the analog signal; an analog to digital converter for converting the analog signal to a digital signal; a first gain error generation circuit for generating a first gain error signal based on an output of the analog to digital converter, the first gain error signal or derivative thereof being received by the first gain control circuit; and a second gain error generation circuit for generating a second gain error signal based on the digital signal, the second gain error signal or derivative thereof being received by the first gain control circuit, wherein the first gain control circuit uses at least one of the gain error signals to control the gain of the analog signals.
US07982991B2
Embodiments of the present invention help to efficiently determine the appropriate setting of the write current of a magnetic head relative to temperature. According to one embodiment, a test computer determines the set value of a write current as a function of temperature for each head device portion from the relationship between a write current and an error rate. A test execution controller sets a selected head device portion and a write current to an AE, and writes data on a magnetic disk using the components in a HDD. The test execution controller reads the written data, and the error rate of the data from an error correcting section. The test execution controller repeats the same process with the write current varied. Upon completion of the measurement at the preset write currents, the test execution controller transfers the measurement data to the test computer.
US07982989B1
A method for measuring a magnetic interference width for a magnetic recording head is described. The method includes writing a first track at a first frequency on a magnetic disk, writing a second track at the first frequency on the magnetic disk, and writing a third track at a second frequency on the magnetic disk between the first track and the second track. The third track partially overlaps both the first track and the second track and the second frequency is different from the first frequency. The method further includes measuring a readback profile across the first, second and third tracks on the magnetic disk.
US07982988B2
A weighted combining scheme exploits information from two servo channels operating in parallel. A timing-based servo module servo module comprises two servo channels coupled respectively to receive two digital servo signals read from a data tape. Both channels have outputs for an unweighted metric and for a measure of the channel reliability. A weight computation module provides first and second weight signals using the measures of channel reliability from the servo channels. A first multiplying node receives a first unweighted metric and a first weight signal and is operable to output a first weighted metric. A second multiplying node receives a second unweighted metric and a second weight signal and outputs a second weighted metric. A summing node receives the first and second weighted metrics and outputs a combined weighted metric to an LPOS word decoder.
US07982987B2
A method and apparatus for detecting predetermined surface characteristics in head gimbal assemblies to improve hard disk drive reliability. The predetermined surface characteristics include head slider protrusions such as scratches or contamination that can cause damage to the head or disk in hard drives. By detecting these protrusions, those drives with an increased chance of failure can be removed from a test group, thereby increasing the quality and reliability of the remaining disk drives. The invention provides a method of detecting these protrusions that is a more practical option than using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to inspect each head slider.
US07982979B2
A lens module includes a lens and an opaque plate. The lens is received in the main body, and includes an imaging portion and a non-imaging portion surrounding the imaging portion. An annular flange is extended upward from the image-side surface of the non-imaging portion. The flange and the image-side surface defines a receiving groove. The opaque plate includes a circular opening corresponding to the imaging portion and a lightproof solid body surrounding the opening. The opaque plate is disposed on the image-side surface of non-imaging portion of the lens with the lightproof solid body received in the receiving groove.
US07982974B2
An image pickup apparatus having a lens unit configured to include a plurality of lenses and a variable aperture mechanism capable of varying an aperture opening diameter, the image pickup apparatus including: in the lens unit, a variable aperture unit configured by integrating the variable aperture mechanism and the single lenses of the lens unit using a fixing portion.
US07982963B2
The present invention discloses an optical device comprising a container enclosing an insulating liquid (A) and a liquid responsive to an electric field (B), the insulating liquid (A) and the liquid responsive to an electric field (B) being immiscible and being in contact with each other via an interface (14), at least one of the liquids (A; B) being at least partially placed in a light path through the container. The optical device further comprises an electrode arrangement (2; 12) for controlling the shape of the interface (14) by means of a voltage; and means (100) for preventing the interface from an exposure to an external electric field. Consequently, the build-up of electrostatic charge on a surface of the optical device is avoided, which prevents the unwanted distortion of the interface (14) caused by the interaction of the liquid responsive to an electric field (B) and the electrostatic charge.
US07982961B2
The present invention offers a dry-type microscope objective lens which has a high NA in the range from low magnification to middle magnification and is lightweight and by which a high-resolution image can be obtained without taking a user time and trouble in observation.A dry-type microscope objective lens according to the present invention comprises, in order from the object side, a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group, the first lens group comprises a meniscus lens which is arranged on the most object side and which turns its concave surface to the object side and the first lens group has positive refracting power as a whole, the second lens group comprises plural cemented lens units and has positive refracting power as a whole, the third lens group comprises air contact surfaces which are concave surfaces adjoining each other and facing toward each other and the third lens group has negative refracting power as a whole, and the dry-type microscope objective lens satisfies the following conditions: 6≦D/f≦8 5≦f 0.8≦NA<1.0 where D is a distance from an object surface to the last surface of the objective lens, f is a focal length of the objective lens, and NA is an object-side numerical aperture.
US07982950B2
A measuring system is disclosed with enhanced resolution for periodic structures on a substrate for semiconductor manufacture. Aperture structures of varying geometries are provided in the illumination beam path. The aperture structures differ regarding the transmission characteristics of light, and which adjust the intensity distribution of the diffraction orders in the imaging pupil of the optical system.
US07982949B2
An operation microscope includes a microscope body having an illumination optical system which illuminates a subject, a lens barrel, and a main observation optical system which observes the subject, an assistant's microscope unit attached to the microscope body, and a guide rail which is disposed in the lens barrel of the microscope body, and extends in a circumferential direction about a center of an optical axis of an objective lens of the microscope body. The assistant's microscope unit is disposed in the guide rail to be movable between a usage position and a non-usage position in a circumferential direction of the lens barrel.
US07982947B2
A laser amplifier system is presented including a pump regenerative amplifier. The amplifier generally has a cavity defined by a pair of end cavity mirrors between which an amplified pump pulse oscillates. The amplifier also includes an interaction cell with a tunable gain medium amplifies laser pulses (e.g., Raman gain). The interaction cell may be positioned within the pump amplifier cavity and an input pulse may be injected into the cavity of the amplifier to transit through the tunable gain medium of the interaction cell. A pump pulse transfers energy via interaction with the input pulse (e.g., Raman interaction) as the pulses counter-propagate through the gain medium of the interaction cell. Amplification of output laser pulses, however, is generally achieved according to the wavelength of the pump laser pulses thereby providing a wavelength dependent, or “tunable”, means for amplifying laser pulses.
US07982941B2
The color display of the present invention involves a two particle system and is capable of displaying multiple colors with high quality black and white states. The color states are suitable for highlighting function. The color display does not require alignment between the electrodes and the display cells in which a display fluid is filled, which significantly reduces the complexity of the design and also lowers the manufacturing costs.
US07982940B2
The present invention provides particles for display media constituting the display media used for an information display panel, in which the display media are sealed between two substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information, comprising: the particles having a substantially spherical shape, which are made by polymerizing raw materials including monomers, which include (acrylic or methacrylic) resin-hydrocarbon resin copolymer in the particles, in which a part of or all of the monomers are a multifunctional monomer having a plurality of polymerization reactive groups in one molecule, and which have minute irregularities on their surface evenly. By such a construction, the particles for display media can obtain irregularities firmly fixed on their surface. Poor display can be solved by using the same.
US07982934B2
A scanning assembly (400) for use in a scanning display includes a reflective scanning surface, such as a scanning mirror (412). The reflected scanning surface can be mounted on a scan plate (409). The scanning assembly (400) is configured to pivot about a first axis (403) and a second axis (404) to form an image. To correct parallelogram distortion, the first axis (403) and second axis (404) are non-orthogonal relative to each other. Torsion arms (407,408) facilitating rotation of the scanning mirror (412) along one axis (403) can be oriented non-orthogonally relative to other torsion arms (413,414) by an amount sufficient to correct parallelogram distortion.
US07982932B2
A hologram decoding apparatus includes: an imaging device that receives a reproduced image obtained by reading an encoded image from a hologram recording medium in which a Fourier transform image of the encoded image with n pixels representing digital information is recorded, n being an integer of 2 or more, and that outputs the reproduced image with k resolution pixel numbers, k being an integer more than n; a storing unit that stores decoding patterns and digital information corresponding to the decoding patterns, wherein a decoding pattern from among the decoding patterns corresponds to the reproduced image, which is encoded with m pixels of k≧m>n; and a decoding unit that refers to the decoding patterns to specify the decoding pattern; and that carries out a decoding process to set the digital information corresponding to the specified decoding pattern as digital information of the reproduced image.
US07982928B2
A colour quality control device adapted for use in a system for colour correction of an image to be reproduced on at least one reproduction device that is calibrated by a reproduction forward transform. The system also comprises a colour correction device adapted to correct at least one colour in the image. The colour quality control device comprises a false contour detection unit that uses information from the reproduction forward transform to decide if a contour in the image is a false contour introduced by the transform. This facilitates the operator's work during colour correction. A system and a method are also provided.
US07982927B2
The color processing apparatus includes: a first color signal obtaining unit that obtains a first color signal in a first color space; a color conversion unit that converts the first color signal in the first color space into a second color signal in a second color space according to a color conversion characteristic associating a color signal in the first color space with a color signal in the second color space; a calculation unit that calculates a distance of the first color signal to an outer boundary of a color gamut in the first color space; and a color conversion characteristic generation unit that generates the color conversion characteristic to be used by the color conversion unit to make the conversion. The color conversion characteristic generation unit changes a generation condition of the color conversion characteristic according to the distance of the first color signal.
US07982922B2
According to the present invention, an image processing apparatus comprises scanning unit that converts a original image into image data; extraction unit that extracts an area that contains characters of every character size from the image data scanned by the scanning unit; and display unit that displays images of the area that contains characters extracted by the extraction unit at a plurality of resolutions.
US07982912B2
A color signal conversion apparatus for converting a color signal of an input gamut to a color signal of an output gamut is provided. First, a target gamut for gamut mapping carried out on the input gamut is set, after which an evaluation function is determined for evaluating the difference between the target gamut and the results of gamut mapping performed on the input gamut using initialized mapping parameters. Then, the mapping parameters are determined based on the evaluation function so that the difference is minimum. The color signal of the input gamut is then mapped to the output gamut based on the determined mapping parameters and constraining conditions. This makes it possible to achieve favorable gamut mapping based on optimal mapping parameters that have been determined automatically.
US07982911B2
A color conversion coefficient creating device including: a setting unit that sets a ratio between plural color rendering intents; an evaluating unit that evaluates characteristics of an input device and an output device; and a creating unit that creates a color conversion coefficient. The creating unit creates a color conversion coefficient for converting a first image signal in a first color space input from the input device into a second image signal for the output device in a second color space different from the first color space, according to the ratio between the color rendering intents and the evaluation result of the evaluating unit.
US07982910B2
The present invention is provided with a storage section that holds characteristic data, a predicted output value calculating section that calculates predicted PCS values (XP, YP, ZP) in a predetermined designated color space, an error calculating section that calculates an error from the difference between the PCS values (X, Y, Z) and the predicted PCS values, a differential coefficient matrix creating section that creates a differential coefficient matrix, an inverse matrix calculating section, a primary-color intensity correction amount calculating section that calculates a corrected primary-color intensity by performing a primary conversion to the difference between the PCS values and the predicted PCS values with an inverse matrix defined as a conversion matrix, and a primary-color intensity correction section that calculates the output primary-color intensity by adding or subtracting to or from a temporal primary-color intensity (IR, IG, IB) the corrected primary-color intensity calculated at the primary-color intensity corrected amount calculating section.
US07982908B2
Patches of black and a mixture of color coloring materials are formed on a recording medium, and the chromaticities of the patches are detected (S11). Black tonality data serving as reference lightnesses corresponding to respective tonality data are acquired from pieces of lightness information contained in the detected chromaticities corresponding to the respective tonalities of the black patches. Pieces of black lightness information are corrected on the basis of the acquired black tonality data and the detection results of the black patches. Chromaticities corresponding to the black tonality data are defined as target chromaticities, and the mixture rates of the color coloring materials are corrected on the basis of the target chromaticities and the chromaticities obtained by detecting the patches using the color coloring materials.
US07982904B2
A mobile telecommunications device is shown for printing a competition entry form on print media with coded data encoding a print media identifier. The mobile telecommunications device has an inbuilt printer module to print the competition entry form on the print medium such that the print medium displays at least one entry form detail, a media feed path along which the print media moves during printing by the inbuilt printer module, an interface to a remote server, and a sensor module adjacent the media feed path for reading the print media identifier on one of the print media whilst in the feed path and generating an association between the print media identifier and the at least one entry for detail. During use, the sensor module transmits the association and the user interaction to the remote server via the interface such that user interaction with the at least one entry form detail and subsequent submission of the interaction and the print media identifier to the remote server is a competition entry.
US07982903B2
In the printing and finishing of sheet-like objects, printing instructions are outputted to a printer. In accordance therewith, sheet-like objects are printed by the printer and are subsequently delivered by the printer directly to the finishing apparatus and then finished by the finishing apparatus. Output data concerning the printing instructions sent to the printer which are at least indicative of the printer capacity required for the printer to process the printing instructions outputted to the printer are registered. Sheet-like objects displaced by the printer are detected and signaled by the detector. At least periodically, production data in accordance with the signals received from the detector are generated. These data are at least indicative of a production quantity realized by the printer in response to the printing instructions sent to the printer. Depending on the production data, the output of next ones of the printing instructions to the printer is dosed.
US07982901B2
An image processing apparatus (2) capable of providing a box for each user is provided. The image processing apparatus (2) includes a user grouping process portion (205) that determines a total of an amount of a box of a first user that has been used by a second user and an amount of a box of the second user that has been used by the first user, determines whether or not the total is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount, and groups both the users when the total is equal to or greater than the predetermined amount, and a box reset process portion (207) that performs a reset process for providing again the boxes of the grouped first user and the grouped second user in an identical image processing apparatus if the boxes are provided in different image processing apparatuses.
US07982899B2
A document delivery network server having a set of integrated functions including sending, receiving, routing and filing of FAXes and e-mails to other users which achieves numerous advantages over the prior art. The document delivery system is based on a client/server model having both analog and digital Fax line capabilities. The server side provides very highly integrated systems functionality based on industry standard, commercially available hardware and a mix of industry standard and proprietary software components including integrated FAX/modem modules, an embedded OS, embedded plug-and-play driver sets, embedded e-mail gateways, an embedded FAX archive, embedded back-up/restore, proprietary high efficiency line utilization and highly efficient load balancing.
US07982894B2
In a digital multiple apparatus, at least two different jobs are processed by at least two job processing units, and while job processing by one job processing unit, if there is an interruption by job processing by the other job processing unit, an end time of the job processing by the one job processing unit is predicted on the basis of job processing time required for the job processing by the other job processing unit.
US07982883B2
A differential interference contrast (DIC) determination device and method utilizes an illumination source, a layer having a pair of two apertures that receive illumination from the illumination source, and a photodetector to receive Young's interference from the illumination passing through the pair of two apertures. In addition, a surface wave assisted optofluidic microscope and method utilize an illumination source, a fluid channel having a layer with at least one aperture as a surface, and a photodetector that receives a signal based on the illumination passing through the aperture. The layer is corrugated (e.g., via fabrication) and parameters of the corrugation optimize the signal received on the photodetector.
US07982872B2
Target chemicals are monitored at very low concentrations in pipelines or vessels such as storage tanks using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy analysis of a sample. A liquid sample having a target chemical such as biocides, corrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitors, anti-foaming agents, emulsion breakers, and hydrate inhibitors are tested while exposed to a prepared and charged surface of a coupon so as to draw the target material to the prepared and charged surface. The charged surface is fairly precisely charged using two other electrodes to calibrate the charge on the surface of the coupon. With the target substance presumably drawn to the coupon, the molecules on the surface of the coupon are excited by monochromatic light such as from a laser to induce vibrations within the molecules. The vibrations of the molecules reflect and scatter the monochromatic light in distinctive manners such that the collected light from the surface provides an indication of the presence of the target substance in the sample and a quantitative indication of the concentration of the target material in the sample. With the ability at lower power and reasonable cost to sense the presence well down below one percent and into the ppm range provides the opportunity to more precisely and efficiently add such chemicals to operating pipelines and storage tanks.
US07982871B2
A sensor for identifying at least one particle by means of Raman-spectroscopy, comprising an optical trapping system for the at least one particle, including a laser-beam source, acting further as a Raman excitation source for the at least one particle, and a Raman-spectrometer for measuring the spectrally modified light scattered by the at least one particle and for identifying same, wherein the optical trapping system comprises a photonic crystal directly linked with the laser-beam source, which photonic crystal has multiple cavities at predetermined positions, and wherein the laser-beam source in use resonantly excites one or more predetermined electromagnetic modes of the cavities at said positions for trapping and Raman-exciting the at least one particle.
US07982853B2
The invention proposes a Subpixel Scroll method, which optically shifts the position of the mirror elements to the projection axis by one subpixel size each, with an additional 45° mirror between DMD and projection optics. The 45° mirror is shifted by ¼ mirror element width by means of a controllable actuator. The size of this change of position and the time are synchronized in such a way by the position indicator signals of the scan sled that the mirror element seems to stand relative to the substrate surface element. This resetting is however not bound to the DMD-switching speed of 10 kHz. Among other advantages, the invention reduces the blur at the edge transition by the higher resolution and facilitates a higher scan velocity, whereby the scan velocity depends on the dynamics of the actuator, the effective UV-power of the UV-source and the sensitivity of the photosensitive polymer.
US07982848B2
A variable light transmission device and projection display apparatus which does not generate vibrations and noises but is superior in light blocking property to a variable aperture using polymer-dispersed liquid crystal and can reduce a color change of a projected image as compared with a conventional variable aperture using liquid crystal. A variable light transmission device having: a pair of transparent substrates placed in parallel to each other; a multi-layer grating member disposed on one of opposing surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates, and transparent members having a multi-layer structure periodically placed to form a diffraction grating with a convex and concave section shape; liquid crystal interposed between the transparent substrates to bury the multi-layer grating member; and transparent electrodes for applying electric field to the liquid crystal.
US07982840B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, an insulating layer, an upper electrode layer, and a lower electrode layer. The upper electrode layer and the lower electrode layer are formed on the same the substrate via the insulating layer. A plurality of openings are formed in the upper electrode layer and arranged parallel to each other so that an electric field is passed therethrough. Liquid crystal molecules are driven by applying voltage between the upper electrode layer and the lower electrode layer. A minor axis of each of the openings has a width in a range in which a V-T curve, which represents a relationship between voltage and transmittance ratio, does not shift with variation in the width of the minor axis.
US07982823B1
A liquid crystal display includes a backlight that provides light and selectively modifies the transmission of light from the backlight to the front of the display. The backlight includes a plurality of spaced apart light waveguides and a plurality of selection elements associated with the light waveguides that change the characteristics of the material of the light waveguides to selectively direct the transmission of light toward the liquid crystal layer. The combination of the waveguides and the selection elements provide light to the front of the display in a temporal manner during a frame.
US07982814B2
A DC/AC inverter for a backlight can include a support, a printed circuit board (PCB) on the support, a transformer on the PCB, and a blocking member formed on at least a portion of at least one side of the transformer. The blocking member can be formed of a ferrite material.
US07982810B2
A panel-type television whose colors and image qualities of OSD portions are kept intact and the qualities of images other than the OSD portions are adjusted is provided. The panel-type television includes an image quality adjustment circuit 30a that performs a specified image quality adjustment processing on input image signals; a delay circuit 30b that delays input image signals by the time needed for the image quality adjustment circuit 30a to perform image quality adjustment processing; and a switching 30c that switches between the image quality adjustment circuit 30a and the delay circuit 30b so that image signals are input to either of the circuits according to the control of a microcomputer 60, wherein the microcomputer 60 inputs image signals for OSD display areas to the delay circuit 30c and image signals other than those for OSD display areas to the image quality adjustment circuit 30a.
US07982808B2
A digital broadcast receiving system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from a data group within the received mobile service data, wherein the FIC signaling information includes a current/next (C/N) indicator, and wherein the TPC signaling information includes FIC version information, and detecting ensemble configuration information of a current MH frame.
US07982805B2
Gradient analysis may be utilized to determine frame and field repeat patterns in input video data. Those frame and field repeat patterns may then be analyzed to match them with characteristic patterns associated with telecine 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown video data, for example. In addition, a progressive detector may use combing analysis to determine whether or not a particular field is progressive or interlaced data. Then, this information, together with a field flag which indicates whether field or frame analysis is appropriate, may be utilized to distinguish telecine 2:2 or 3:2 pulldowns and interlaced and progressive data in some embodiments.
US07982804B2
Image quality adjustment of an inputted image signal is performed with higher accuracy to display a more preferable image to the user. An attribute information determining unit obtains first attribute information indicating the format of the inputted image signal and second attribute information indicating transmission characteristics of the image signal. An image quality adjustment value calculating unit calculates optimal image quality adjustment values for the image signal from the obtained first and second attribute information. An image processing unit adjusts the image quality of the image signal based on the optimal image quality adjustment values and then outputs the image to an image display. The second attribute information includes the bit rate, resolution, and frame rate of the image signal.
US07982800B2
A method of de-interlacing input video information including averaging odd lines and averaging even lines of the input video information to determine first and second in-field information, determining differences between even and odd lines of the input video information to provide residue information, measuring a motion metric of the residue information, filtering the residue information based on the motion metric to provide filtered residue information, and combining the first and second in-field information with the filtered residue information to provide progressive information. The combining may be an average of the in-field information added to a weighted portion of the filtered residue information as determined by the motion metric. The motion metric may be determined by an infinite impulse response filter. Finite impulse response filters may be used to filter the residue information.
US07982798B2
A technique for deinterlacing an interlaced video stream is disclosed. A method according to the technique can involve calculating a gradient of image intensity and identifying an edge. A bin can be selected that encompasses the edge. An unknown pixel can be calculated by blending known pixel values along the bin boundaries.
US07982789B2
Since pixel signals are not only added in the row direction but also averaged in the column direction, it is possible to sufficiently increase the frame rate even when the number of pixels increases. Additionally, since the spatial centers of gravity of the added or averaged signals are arranged at equal intervals in a Bayer array, it is possible to reduce false color (moiré) generation and suppress the decrease in the spatial resolution.
US07982778B2
An imaging apparatus contains a signal-producing unit that produces an image signal on an image of an imaged subject, a data-superimposing unit that superimposes ancillary data over the image signal produced in the signal-producing unit, and a control unit that controls the signal-producing unit to set the operation of the signal-producing unit. The control unit supplies the data-superimposing unit with the ancillary data including information that indicates setting condition of the signal-producing unit. The data-superimposing unit receives the ancillary data from the control unit and superimposes the ancillary data over the image signal.
US07982776B2
A system, method and apparatus for eliminating image tearing effects and other visual artifacts perceived when scanning moving subject matter with a scanned beam imaging device. The system, method and apparatus uses a motion detection means in conjunction with an image processor to alter the native image to one without image tearing or other visual artifacts. The image processor monitors the motion detection means and reduces the image resolution or translates portions of the imaged subject matter in response to the detected motion.
US07982771B2
A method for emendation of attention trajectory in video content analysis is disclosed. The method includes steps of extracting attention area for each frame in a video sequence, each attention area of a frame selectively being a reference for the other frames, projecting the attention area of the reference to a current frame, and determining an enhanced attention area of the current frame by collecting and merging all the projected attention areas together with the original attention area of the current frame to emend the attention trajectory of the video sequence so as to make the attention trajectory smooth. Advantageously, short-life attention or noise is omitted, and the attention area is also enriched, therefore, the smooth of the attention trajectory improves subjective viewing experience of human being.
US07982770B1
A method and apparatus for providing improved images utilizing acceleration data is described. In one embodiment, the method utilizes the accelerometer data to time the taking of the image to minimize motion effects.
US07982767B2
Multiple sensors capture images representing scenery outside an aircraft or other type of vehicle for use within a visual display system. A protective housing encloses the sensors. This protective housing includes a transparent aperture through which the sensor captures images. A cleaning mechanism removes obstructions from the transparent aperture in order to provide continuous images representing scenery outside the aircraft through an operator display.
US07982765B2
According to an embodiment, an image capture apparatus comprises a light emitter, a beam scanner aligned to receive emitted light and operable to scan the light in a two-dimensional pattern, imaging optics aligned to receive the scanned two-dimensional pattern and image the pattern onto an object, and to collect light scattered from the object, a detector to receive scattered light from the imaging optics, an electronic controller c operable to receive an electrical signal from the detector corresponding to the received scattered light, and an actuator operable to modify the relative alignment between the beam scanner and the imaging optics to change an imaged location on the object. According to an embodiment, a method for capturing an image comprises scanning a beam of light through imaging optics onto a location on a surface, detecting light scattered by the surface, and steering the beam scanner relative to the imaging optics to change the trajectory of the scanned pattern. According to an embodiment, a system for scanning a field of view comprises a light source, an optical fiber, a MEMs scanner aligned to receive the light from the optical fiber and operable to scan the light through a partially-reflective imaging optic in a pattern, and a photo-detector aligned to receive light scattered from the field of view.
US07982764B2
A monitoring apparatus for sensing conditions associated with a package handling system. The monitoring apparatus includes a test package configured for being handled by the package handling system with non-test packages handled by the package handling system. The test package has a housing defining a test package interior and has at least one sensor positioned within the interior for sensing conditions associated with the package handling system. The sensor produces an output signal corresponding to the conditions that it senses. The test package further includes a support positioned within the test package interior and connecting the sensor to the housing so that the sensor is directed generally toward an outside of the test package for sensing conditions associated with the package handling system.
US07982760B2
An optical scanning apparatus controls an output of a light source for forming an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier. The optical scanning apparatus includes a correction amount control unit configured to variably control a light quantity correction amount of the light source according to a scanning position on the image carrier during one scanning operation with a beam generated from the light source, an output signal level changing unit configured to change a level of an output signal from the correction amount control unit, and a light quantity control unit configured to control a light quantity of the light source according to the scanning position based on a signal from the output signal level changing unit.
US07982753B2
An information display apparatus connected to a display unit for visually presenting information to a user is disclosed. The information display apparatus displays a frame within a display region of the display unit, information to be displayed in the frame, and an operation guide at the outer peripheral edge of the frame, and updates information displayed in the frame.
US07982751B2
The methods described herein for controlling a computer using a video image and for combining the video image with a computer desktop may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. In one exemplary implementation, the methods described herein may be implemented as computer executable instructions embodied in a computer readable medium. Exemplary computer-readable media suitable for use with the implementations described herein include disk storage devices and chip memory devices.
US07982750B2
A method for test-wearing image producing method for a personal product includes the steps of: posting a base image layer which contains an image of a wearer; defining a display area and a masking area on the base image layer in responsive to the personal product being physically worn by the wearer; selecting a product image layer containing an image of the personal product to locate on the base image layer; and creating a test-wearing image, wherein a portion of the image of the personal product within the display area is visibly shown on the image of the wearer while a portion of the image of the personal product within the masking area is invisibly hidden, such that the test-wearing image contains a virtual appearance of the wearer physically wearing the personal product.
US07982749B2
Technologies are described herein for high-performance rasterization of a vector graphic on a server computer. A vector graphic loader receives the vector graphic and generates an intermediate data structure from the vector graphic. A vector graphic renderer receives the intermediate data structure and renders the intermediate data structure to a render surface. An imaging component encodes the contents of the render surface to a raster image in a standard image format. The vector graphic loader and the vector graphic renderer are configured for multi-threaded and multi-processor execution on a server computer, which provides high performance.
US07982748B2
A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus is provided herein which is capable of determining an object type, particularly capable of determining an animal other than a human being among objects. The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus which monitors the surroundings of a vehicle by using an image captured by a camera (2R, 2L) mounted on the vehicle, including an object extraction process unit which extracts an image area of the object from the captured image (steps 1 to 6) and an object type determination process unit which determines the object type according to whether the image area of the object extracted by the object extraction process unit includes a first object area of an inverse triangular shape and a second object area located below the first object area and within a predetermined range from the first object area (steps 31 to 36).
US07982742B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for an information handling system comprising an internal graphics system and an external graphics system, wherein both the internal and external graphics systems may operate simultaneously to support multiple monitors. The internal graphics system may be provided, for example, from a notebook computer. The external graphics system may comprise a pass thru port providing graphics from the internal graphics to a first monitor simultaneously with a graphics card of the external graphics system supporting a second monitor. The external graphics system can support two monitors, as well. HDTV can be supported instead of one of the monitors supported by the external graphics system. The system which contains internal graphics capabilities may include an Express card socket, wherein an external graphics processor unit of the external graphics system is coupled to Express card socket.
US07982741B2
Systems and methods that provide for a common device enumeration point to a class of software objects, which represent hardware and can emit 2D bitmaps, via a presentation interface component. Such presentation interface component can further include a factory component that centralizes enumeration and creation for any components that control or communicate with the frame buffer of the graphics display subsystems. Accordingly, a smooth transition can be supplied between full screen and window models, within desktop composition systems, wherein applications can readily support such transitions.
US07982737B2
Various embodiments of a system and method for independent font substitution of string characters are described. The system and method for independent font substitution may include a font substitution component configured to receive a descriptor item that may include a text string that includes multiple characters, metrics associated with characters of the text string, and/or a preferred font for one or more of the characters. For a particular character, if the preferred font is available, the font substitution component may use a glyph from the preferred font to render a particular character. In other cases, if a font of the set of safe fonts includes a glyph that matches the particular character, the font substitution component may use that glyph to resolve the particular character. The font substitution component may generate a resolved text string includes such glyphs and scale the size of the glyphs according to the aforementioned metrics.
US07982735B2
An apparatus for three-dimensionally visualizing two-dimensional flyover data in a three-dimensional graphics environment includes an overlapped region separation unit, a triangulation unit, a height coordinate addition unit, and a visualization unit. The division lines are selectively applied to a polygon to separate overlapped regions from the polygon, an ear cutting algorithm is applied to triangulate the polygon, and various different visualization processes are performed on different portions of the flyover data.
US07982734B2
Soft shadows may include areas that are less clear (more blurry) than other regions. For instance, an area of shadow that is closer to the shadow caster may be clearer than a region that is farther from the shadow caster. When generating a soft shadow, the total amount of light reaching each point on the shadow receiving surface is calculated according to a spatially-varying convolution kernel of the occluder's transparency information. Ray-tracing, traditionally used to determine a spatially varying convolution, can be very CPU intensive. Instead of using ray-tracing, data structures, such as MIP-maps and summed-area tables, or separable linear filters may be used to compute the spatially-varying convolution. For example, a two-dimensional convolution may be computed as two spatially-varying, separable, linear convolution filters—one computing a horizontal component and the other a vertical component of the final 2D convolution.
US07982732B2
An improved optimization of a design, based on direct manipulations of the object points of a design where the number and modifications of control points is kept as minimal as possible while the targeted movement of object points is realized.
US07982728B2
In a display device that provides a first observation region with a first picture and provides a second observation region with a second picture, a double image made of the first picture and the second picture is suppressed. First columns of pixels that display the first picture and second columns of pixels that display the second picture are disposed alternately with a black matrix interposed between each neighboring pair of them. A light-shielding plate having light-shielding portions and openings is disposed above the panel. When a distance between the first observation region and the second observation region is denoted by V, a distance between the first observation region or the second observation region and the light-shielding plate is denoted by D, a distance between the light-shielding plate and the display panel is denoted by G, an interval of the first columns of pixels or the second columns of pixels is denoted by P, and the width of the black matrix is denoted by Q, an equation K≦Q×D/(D+G) is satisfied. The openings are disposed on lines connecting between a position directly above a center of the display panel and the black matrix.
US07982721B2
A video signal output device is disclosed. The device includes: a video signal generation section that generates an output video signal for screen display; an operation input section that detects a physical touch position and a pressure with respect to an input surface, and in accordance with a detection result, generates information about the touch position and information about the pressure for use each as an operation signal; and a control section that controls, in accordance with the operation signals coming from the operation input section, the video signal generation section to change display contents of the output video signal. In the device, while the output video signal for list display of a plurality of images is being generated, the information about the touch position and the information about the pressure are processed as the operation signal for image selection and the operation signal related to the images, respectively.
US07982720B2
A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor in a displayed graphical environment based at least in part on the position signal, or perform a different function. At least one actuator is also coupled to the touch input device and outputs a force to provide a haptic sensation to the user contacting the touch surface. The touch input device can be a touchpad separate from the computer's display screen, or can be a touch screen. Output haptic sensations on the touch input device can include pulses, vibrations, and spatial textures. The touch input device can include multiple different regions to control different computer functions.
US07982717B2
In a gesture detection method for a touchpad, according to the present invention, various gestures such as tap, drag and double tap are determined by operating an object to touch on the touchpad, leave from the touchpad, and move on the touchpad.
US07982716B2
A key switch to sense and give feedback to a computer of depth, acceleration, velocity, and lateral or vibrato movement. The key switch is suitable for computer keyboards, musical keyboards, foot pedals and the like. Lateral or sideward key movements can be for mouse functions or multi code output from multi directional key movement from one key outputting a single key code or key sequences.
US07982705B2
In a display device of the present invention, during a period until the start of outputting display data from a source driver, a timing control ASIC generates a gate start pulse signal GSP and a first pulse CK1 of a gate clock signal GCK, with reference to the timing of inputting a data enable signal ENAB. The signals having been generated are supplied to the gate driver, so that a dummy line G0 is driven.
US07982696B2
A pixel includes a load, a transistor which controls a current supplied to the load, a storage capacitor, and first to fourth switches. By inputting a potential in accordance with a video signal into the pixel after the threshold voltage of the transistor is held in the storage capacitor, and holding a voltage of the sum of the threshold voltage and the potential, variations of a current value caused by variations of threshold voltage of a transistor can be suppressed. Consequently, a predetermined current can be supplied to the load such as a light-emitting element. Further, by changing the potential of a power supply line, a display device with a high duty ratio can be provided.
US07982691B2
A data driver adapted to display an image with substantially uniform brightness is provided. The data driver includes a holding latch unit including holding latches for storing data, a signal generator including digital-analog converters for receiving the data to generate data signals, a first switching unit provided between the holding latch unit and the signal generator, and a second switching unit coupled to the signal generator to transmit the data signals to data lines. The first switching unit couples the holding latches to the digital-analog converters during a horizontal period in a manner different from the manner in which the holding latches and the digital-analog converters are coupled to each other during a previous horizontal period. Therefore, errors of the digital-analog converters are diffused so that it is possible to display an image with substantially uniform brightness.
US07982690B2
A micromirror device, which makes an image display with digital image data, comprises pixel elements each of which makes pulse width modulation for incident light depending on the deflection state of light and which are arranged in the form of an array. The array of the pixel elements is composed of B subsets each including pixel elements of Ms (COLUMNs)×Ns (ROWs) (Ms, Ns, and B are natural numbers). Each of the pixel elements has a mirror, and at least one memory cell. The memory cell has a transistor of an input gate capacity Ct[F]. Each memory cell is connected by a ROW line having a wiring resistance R[Ω], and a wiring capacity C[F]. When a gray scale display of 10 [bits] or more for each color is made with a color sequential display of C0 colors, Ms, Ns, B, Ct, R, C, and C0 have a relationship of R*(Ct+C)<(1.63*10−5*B)/[Co*Ms*Ns*(Ms+1)].
US07982689B2
To provide an image display device of the type that presents ages in a certain part of the field of vision in which the image display device can be used for prolonged periods of time.An image display device 1 includes a main body having a shape of a glasses frame, a right-eye display device 20R and a left-eye display device 20L. Each of the right-eye display device 20R and the left-eye display device 20L is for displaying a predetermined image and is provided in such a manner that it is not very clearly visible for a user when the user wearing the main body 10 on his or her head looks straight ahead and that it becomes clearly visible for the user only when the user moves his or her forward-looking eyes away. The user can get a forward field of vision and can see the images displayed on the right-eye display device 20R and the left-eye display device 20L when he or she looks at 45 degrees down. The right-eye display device 20R and the left-eye display device 20L may be fixed to the main body 10 at a spacing corresponding to the distance between the eyes of the user.
US07982688B2
The invention relates to a device for representing optical information by means of a virtual image (P), in particular in a motor vehicle. The optical information is in the form of light beams extending from an image generating device (1), over at least one optical element to a surface and the virtual image is visible in front of, behind or in said surface. The light beams produce a beam path. Said invention is characterised in that an optical element (4), which influences beams, is arranged in the beam path between the image generating device (1, 2, 3) and the surface (WS), and that the optical element (4), which influences the beams, is arranged in the position thereof such that it can be modified by means of an adjusting device (5).
US07982683B2
An apparatus includes first and second speakers, and an antenna including a first pair of wires connected to the first speaker, a second pair of wires connected to the second speaker, and a conductive sleeve surrounding portions of the first and second pairs of wires, the sleeve forming a coaxial capacitor with the first and second pairs of wires. The apparatus can further include an inductor connected between the first and second pairs of wires and the sleeve, to form a resonant circuit with the coaxial capacitor.
US07982681B2
The invention discloses a leaky-wave dual-antenna system comprising a transmitting antenna array and a receiving antenna array. The transmitting antenna array comprises plural first microstrips and plural corresponding first differential circuits, and each of the first differential circuit matches the corresponding first microstrip by a L-type matching network; the receiving antenna array comprises plural second microstrips and plural corresponding second differential circuits, and each of the second differential circuit matches the corresponding second microstrip by a L-type matching network. A first end and a second end of each of the first differential circuits are respectively connected to the corresponding first microstrip; a third end and a fourth end of each of the second differential circuits are respectively connected to the corresponding second microstrip.
US07982680B1
Accuracy of derivation of local corrections to GPS signals for use for aircraft landing guidance is subject to effects of reflected multipath signals. Antennas with a near-spherical antenna pattern of right-hand circular polarization, except within a downward cone, provide suppression of reflected multipath GPS signals incident from all azimuth angles and all relevant elevation angles. For such an antenna a cylindrical top assembly may include spaced conductive disks with intermediate exciter members excited at increments of 90 degree phase and surrounded by a dielectric ring. A cylindrical base assembly may include signal absorbent top and side wall portions and a bottom conductive disk and may alternatively include a signal absorbent inner wall portion.
US07982676B2
An antenna structure for a mobile phone to improve its hearing aid compatibility (HAC) character by metal obscuring, the antenna structure mainly is composed of an antenna base board and a copper foil; the antenna base board is provided in a housing of the mobile phone near a sound outputting hole, and a metallic thin layer is made in the housing of the mobile phone in corresponding by position with the antenna base board, the ground surface between the metallic thin layer and a circuit board in the housing of the mobile phone will form an electrically conductive connection. With this structure, distribution of the strength of the electric field of the antenna structure will be improved; thereby the test results for HAC near the sound outputting hole can be evidently improved.
US07982669B2
A method and apparatus for adaptive beam-steering are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing adaptive beam steering using multiple transmit and receive antennas, including iteratively performing a pair of training sequences, wherein the pair of training sequences includes estimating a transmitter antenna-array weight vector and a receiver antenna-array weight vector.
US07982668B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for processing multiple navigation signal components received from multiple global navigation satellite systems (GNSS′). In a particular implementation, a code phase in a first navigation signal component may be detected based, at least in part, on information in a second navigation signal component.
US07982664B1
A radar system with an array antenna includes various signal paths, including beamformers, extending between an exciter, a receiver, and the array antenna. The signal paths are calibrated by a method that includes frequency modulation of the exciter signals that reach the “antenna” and additional amplitude modulation of signals just as they enter the receiver. Leakage paths directly from the exciter to the receiver are unmodulated, those extending from the exciter through the beamformer are amplitude modulated, and only those reaching the “antenna” and returning to the receiver are both amplitude and frequency modulated. The receiver is tuned to receive only the “doubly-modulated” signals, which tends to reject leakage signals.
US07982663B2
The digital signal processor is for correcting a DC output at an output terminal of an internal circuit of an analog circuit device. The digital signal processor includes a digital register for storing a digital value, a D/A converter for converting the digital value stored in the digital register into an analog voltage and applying the converted analog voltage to the output terminal as the DC output, a polarity determining circuit which outputs a first signal when an analog DC voltage at a reference correction point different from the output terminal in the internal circuit is higher than a predetermined threshold value and otherwise outputs a second signal, and an updating function configured to monotonously increase or decrease the digital value stored in the digital register while a predetermined one of the first and second signals is outputted from the polarity determining circuit.
US07982658B2
Dynamic weather model systems and methods are operable to assess weather in proximity to an airborne aircraft. An exemplary embodiment receives a radar return from the weather, determines reflectivity information from the received radar return, retrieves a weather model from a weather model data base, compares the weather with the retrieved weather model and the determined reflectivity information, predicts a characteristic of the weather based upon the comparison of the weather and the weather model, and determines if the predicted characteristic is potentially hazardous to the airborne aircraft. The weather model is defined by at least one weather modeling algorithm, and is defined by at least one of a parameter and a variable parameter range residing in a weather characteristics database.
US07982657B2
Embodiments of the disclosed technology comprise a ground penetrating radio device and methods of use for obtaining greater resolution. This is achieved by measuring the composition/reflection off a homogeneous material (e.g., metal plate), determining coefficients to correct the measured/reflection in order to make the measurements look like an idealized reference signal, and then using these coefficients in a digital filter to correct measurements/a reflection off a heterogeneous material, such as a road surface. In this manner, the composition of the heterogeneous material is determined with greater accuracy.
US07982656B2
A millimeter wave imaging apparatus and method capable of identifying the presence of relatively thin dielectric materials is disclosed. The method involves taking a plurality of millimeter wave images of a scene at different frequencies and analyzing the images at different frequencies to look for frequency dependent effects in the scene. Relatively thin dielectric materials can lead to interference effects which can be detected. In one embodiment the imaging apparatus comprises a millimeter wave imager (2) connected to a processor (16) and at least one variable frequency illumination source (22a . . . d, 24a . . . d). The or each illumination source sweeps the illumination frequency across a reasonably wide bandwidth and the imager captures radiation returned from the scene at a number of different illuminating frequencies.
US07982653B1
According to one embodiment, a radar disruption device includes an electro-magnetic sensitive fluid encased in a shell. The electro-magnetic sensitive fluid is operable to modify the phase or amplitude of electro-magnetic signals. The shell is operable to rupture upon impact with a radar and spread the electro-magnetic sensitive fluid over a portion of the radar.
US07982648B2
A dynamic element matching sigma-delta modulator includes an adder to receive an analog input signal and a feedback signal to generate an error signal; a loop filter to generate a filtered signal according to the error signal; a quantizer to change the filtered signal into a quantized output signal; a digital/analog converter (DAC) having a plurality of digital/analog elements to generate the feedback signal corresponding to the quantized output signal; and a dynamic element matching device to receive the quantized output signal to accordingly set an element of the DAC to be a previous non-participant element and the other elements to be previous participant elements, and reselects participant elements according to the quantized output signal and the previous participant elements for further generating the feedback signal corresponding to the quantized output signal.
US07982647B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a highly accurate delta sigma A/D converter. Disclosed is a delta sigma A/D converter including: a first integration circuit to generate a first signal on the basis of an input signal and a first feedback signal from an output side; a first signal conversion circuit to convert the first signal into a first converted signal; a loop delay compensation circuit to generate a compensation signal and then to output the compensation signal in response to a second feedback signal fed back from the output side at a timing earlier than that of the first feedback signal; an adder circuit to add the first converted signal and the compensation signal; and a comparator to generate a digital signal on the basis of an output signal from the adder circuit. The loop delay compensation circuit includes a compensation signal conversion circuit to generate the compensation signal. The compensation signal conversion circuit and the first signal conversion circuit have the approximately same rate of change in conversion coefficient depending on a temperature.
US07982626B2
A detection and alarm circuit includes a transformer, a rectifier, and an alarm. A first input terminal of the transformer is connected to a ground terminal of an electronic device, and a second terminal of the transformer is grounded. A first output terminal of the transformer is connected to a first input terminal of the rectifier, and a second output terminal of the transformer is connected to a second input terminal of the rectifier. A first output terminal of the rectifier is connected to a first terminal of the alarm. A second output terminal of the rectifier is connected to a second terminal of the alarm.
US07982619B2
Among other things, an entry monitor has circuitry to detect when a person enters a monitored space and an indicator perceptible to other people in the space to indicate a cleanliness state of the hands of the person who has entered the space.
US07982617B2
Antennas 21 generate electromagnetic waves that cause an RFID tag to generate electricity, the RFID tag being provided in a game chip placed on an upper surface of a betting board 4. A plurality of the antennas 21 are provided in association with each bet portion 3 on the betting board 4. Antennas 31 receive a signal from the RFID tag. Each of the antennas 31 is provided in association with the plurality of antennas 21. A set of the plurality of antennas 21 associated with the respective antennas 31 is driven while successively being changed over among the antennas 21, for each set of the antennas 21 associated with each antenna 31. Further, each antenna 31 is driven at least while any of the plurality of antennas 21 associated with this antenna 31 generates electromagnetic waves.
US07982613B2
An interactive clothing system includes a control unit having a processor and an antenna, and an item of clothing having a controller and a antenna. The antenna at the item of clothing communicates signals to the antenna at the control unit, the signals containing information about the item of clothing.
US07982612B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for monitoring a volume of fluid in a flexible fluid bag. A flexible fluid bag according to the invention may include a first and second side wall opposing each other, an outlet through which fluid contained in the fluid bag is evacuated, a signaling tag carried by the first side wall, and an inducer carried by the second side wall. The signaling tag and inducer may be positioned such that when a volume of fluid in the fluid bag is less than a predefined threshold, the signaling tag and inducer come into sufficient proximity due to flexation of at least a portion of the sidewalls of the fluid bag as fluid is evacuated from the fluid bag to trigger a state of a signal emitted by the signaling tag to change.
US07982610B1
As deposit bags containing monetary packages arrive at a cash handling facility contents of the deposit bags are inspected and assigned to a teller for processing. An automatic identification system may detect the presence of the deposit bag, the monetary packages, and/or the personnel handling the cash at various custody points at the cash handling facility. Such information may be used to determine the priority at which the monetary package may be processed. Further, a plurality of tellers may be assigned to process the monetary package in the cash handling facility. Each teller's workflow may be tracked based on the presence of monetary packages that are already being processed at the teller's station. Therefore, the monetary packages may be prioritized and may be assigned to a teller that is capable of handling the processing of the monetary package.
US07982602B2
A low cost, robust, wireless sensor that provides an extended period of operability without maintenance is described. The wireless sensors are configured to communicate with a base unit or repeater. When the sensor unit detects an anomalous ambient condition (e.g., smoke, fire, water, etc.) the sensor communicates with the base unit and provides data regarding the anomalous condition. The sensor unit receives instructions to change operating parameters and/or control external devices.
US07982600B2
A hybrid communication terminal-alarm system is described, for individual use or for use in public facilities. A communication terminal, such as cellular telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), fixed or mobile phone, etc, has one or more built-in alarm sensors. The sensors are capable of identifying various hazards and/or potentially dangerous events and appropriately warning the person(s) that may be affected, by the respective event. The alarm may be acoustic (e.g. a sound or a voice message) or optic (flashing light). The system also transmits automatically a distress message to a third party for help, as/if needed. The distress message may be transmitted over the public wireless or wireline network, or over a private network.
US07982594B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for controllably illuminating automotive brake lights. In one embodiment, an automotive brake lighting system comprises a brake light including first and second light sources, a sensor to sense a level of an operating condition associated with at least one of a brake assembly or a brake pedal of a motor vehicle for illuminating the brake light, and a controller configured to monitor information provided by the sensor. The controller, in response to the level of the operating condition, selectively powers the at least one of the first or second light sources of the brake light based at least in part on the monitored information to generate a variable visual indication relating to braking of the motor vehicle from the brake light over a range of at least two different visual indications that indicate a variable braking rate of the motor vehicle over a corresponding range of at least two different braking rates.
US07982593B2
An alarm device of a vehicle battery for monitoring voltage ranges in charging and discharging processes of the vehicle battery uses a sampling circuit to monitor the charging and discharging voltages real time of a battery, and prompts alert through a light or a buzzer of an alert unit in accordance with the preset voltage stage in a charging and discharging process of the battery. Moreover, a connection port compatible to an external electric device for accessing and examining the defect of a malfunction battery as a reference for maintaining and updating a malfunctioned battery.
US07982588B2
An apparatus for producing an electrosensory sensation to a body member (120). The apparatus comprises one or more conducting electrodes (106), each of which is provided with an insulator (108). When the body member (120) is proximate to the conducting electrode, the insulator prevents flow of direct current from the conducting electrode to the body member. A capacitive coupling over the insulator (108) is formed between the conducting electrode (106) and the body member (120). The conducting electrodes are driven by an electrical input which comprises a low-frequency component (114) in a frequency range between 10 Hz and 500 Hz. The capacitive coupling and electrical input are dimensioned to produce an electrosensory sensation. The apparatus is capable of producing the electrosensory sensation independently of any mechanical vibration of the one or more conducting electrodes (106) or insulators (108).
US07982584B2
Provided are a mobile RFID reader and a control method thereof. The mobile RFID reader includes: a reader controller for beginning a reader operation to communicate with a tag in response to a command of a terminal controller of the wireless communication terminal; an anti-collision state machine for controlling collision among a plurality of tags, and transferring the result of communication with the tag to the reader controller; a reader transmitter for generating a reader command message decided at the anti-collision state machine, and coding and modulating the generated reader command message; a reader receiver for demodulating and decoding a tag signal received through an antenna, and reporting a tag response state to the anti-collision state machine; and a channel controller for selecting a channel to use to communicate with a tag in response to a command of the reader controller.
US07982582B2
A chip resistor includes an insulating substrate 11, top terminal electrodes 12 formed on top surface of the substrate using silver-based cermet, bottom electrodes 13, resistive element 14 that is situated between the top terminal electrodes 12 and overlaps them partially, an optional internal protective coating 15 that covers resistive element 14 completely or partially, an external protective coating 16 that covers completely the internal protection coating 15 and partially covers top terminal electrodes 12, a plated layer of nickel 17 that covers face sides of the substrate, top 12 and bottom 13 electrodes, and overlaps partially external protective coating 16, finishing plated layer 18 that covers nickel layer 17. The overlap of nickel layer 17 and external protective layer 16 possesses a sealing property because of metallization of the edges of external protective layer 16 prior to the nickel plating process.
US07982578B2
The present invention relates to a switch disconnector comprising a housing portion, in which several pairs of blade receiving contacts assigned to each other or the like are arranged, which can be bridged by means of fuses, possibly comprising shock protection covers at least partially covering contact blades, and comprising a lid for receiving said fuses, which is provided in a manner hinged to the housing portion, wherein several receiving means in the form of slots, grooves or the like are formed at the inside of the lid, wherein one bearing cage is provided per fuse, and each bearing cage comprises a cage portion for inserting a fuse, wherein the cage portion is fit to the shape of the fuse to be inserted, and each bearing cage is provided with fasteners, which can be inserted in and snapped into predetermined receiving means for fastening the bearing cage to the lid respectively.
US07982575B2
An ignition coil, which includes a primary coil and a secondary coil, has an electrical insulating member. The electrical insulating member includes an insulating material being a base material. The electrical insulating member further includes a reactive agent being an additive added to the insulating material for causing dehydration-decomposition, so as to enhance durability when being applied with high voltage. Alternatively, a reactive agent is coated on a surface of the electrical insulating body for causing dehydration-decomposition, so as to enhance durability when being applied with high voltage.
US07982571B2
An inductance formed in a stack of insulating layers, the inductance comprising first and second access terminals and first and second half-loops distributed in the stack of insulating layers on a number of distinct levels greater than or equal to four. For each level, each first half-loop is at least partly symmetrical to one of the second half-loops. All the first half-loops are series-connected according to a first succession of first half-loops to form first loops between the first access terminal and a midpoint and all the second half-loops are series-connected according to a second succession of second half-loops to form second loops between the second output terminal and the midpoint.
US07982570B2
An inductor includes an electrical conductor wound in a magnetic flux concentrating pattern, the electrical conductor comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes that are substantially aligned with an axis along a center of the electrical conductor.
US07982559B2
A stripline filter with wide-band filter characteristics having an attenuation pole on a high frequency side of frequency characteristics. The stripline filter includes at least three resonant lines, and two of the resonant lines include parallel line parts and bent parts. The third resonant line has a U shape in which both ends thereof are open and interdigitally coupled to the two resonant lines located on both sides thereof. The parallel line parts extend from base ends connected to a ground electrode via side surface lines that are parallel to respective line parts of the third resonant line. The bent parts extend so as to be bent from ends of the parallel line parts, and face each other at an interval.
US07982550B1
An apparatus and a method for compensating for a mismatch in temperature coefficients of two oscillator frequencies to match a desired frequency ratio between the two oscillator frequencies over a temperature range. In one embodiment of a temperature sensor, first and second oscillators of different temperature characteristics are coupled to a differential frequency discriminator (DFD) circuit. The DFD circuit compensates for the different characteristics in order to match a frequency difference between the first and second frequencies over a temperature range.
US07982548B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that implements a resonant oscillator circuit. This system includes a first inductor with a constant potential terminal coupled to an input voltage, and a time-varying potential terminal coupled to a first phase output. The system also includes a second inductor with a constant potential terminal coupled to the input voltage, and a time-varying potential terminal coupled to a second phase output. The system additionally includes a first n-type transistor with a source terminal coupled to a base voltage, a drain terminal coupled to the first phase output, and a gate terminal coupled to the second phase output. The system also includes a second n-type transistor with a source terminal coupled to the base voltage, a drain terminal coupled to the second phase output, and a gate terminal coupled to the first phase output. Finally, the system includes a startup circuit configured to commence oscillations in the resonant oscillator circuit by energizing the first inductor before energizing the second inductor.
US07982546B1
A method of generating a quadrature local oscillator (LO) frequencies is provided. In this method, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) frequency can be mixed with a divided version of the VCO frequency to generate mixed signals. A lower sideband of the mixed signals can be selected for the quadrature LO frequencies to minimize the occurrence of spurs. Notably, the divided version is 1/N of the VCO frequency and the VCO frequency is a radio frequency (RF) channel frequency times a ratio N/(N−1).
US07982545B2
An optical transmission apparatus according to the present invention connects a terminal apparatus side in which a transmission line is formed by, for example, SONET/SDH, and a WDM side in which a transmission line is formed by, for example, OTU3. The optical transmission apparatus according to the present invention includes a selector that, when an input signal is interrupted or switched, controls a PLL unit so as to switch and obtain a clock signal of a predetermined frequency oscillated by an OSC, corresponding to a frequency of a clock signal of the input signal before being divided to input into the PLL unit, as a clock signal to generate a PLL reference frequency.
US07982536B2
A single-ended class-D amplifier with dual feedback loop scheme has a gain adjusting circuit, a second-order integrator, two comparators, a logic circuit, an output driver and an inverter. The output driver cooperates with the inverter to produce a differential signal. The differential signal is input to the second-order integrator to construct a dual feedback differential loop to eliminate noise of output signals of the class-D amplifier, and offer enhanced signal to noise and distortion ratio (SNDR).
US07982524B2
A level shift circuit and a semiconductor device are configured to prevent failure and malfunction even when an excessive negative voltage or ESD surge are applied to a high-voltage power supply terminal. The level shift circuit includes a level shift resistor, a current-limiting resistor connected in series to the level shift resistor, and an n-channel MOSFET, with its drain connected to the current-limiting resistor. An output of the level-up circuit is obtained from the positioned between the level shift resistor and the current-limiting resistor. By providing the current-limiting resistor, the current that flows due to an excessive negative voltage or ESD surge is suppressed to prevent the level shift circuit from failing or malfunctioning.
US07982501B2
Low-power routing multiplexers that reduce static and dynamic power consumption are provided. A variety of different techniques are used to reduce power consumption of the routing multiplexers without significantly increasing their size. For example, power consumption of the routing multiplexers may be reduced by reducing short-circuit currents, reducing leakage currents, limiting voltage swing, and recycling charge within the multiplexer. Multiple power reduction techniques may be combined into a single routing multiplexer design. Low-power routing multiplexers may also be designed to operate in selectable modes, such as, a high-speed, high-power mode and a low-speed, low-power mode.
US07982495B2
The configurable logic device comprises a plurality of configurable logic cells (2). A configurable logic cell comprises a plurality of multi-bit registers (20a, 20b, 20c, 20d). At least one is accessible both in a parallel and in a serial fashion. A functional unit (30) therein is coupled to two or more of the registers and comprises a chain of functional unit segments (31, 31′) that each comprise an AND gate (33) and a 1-bit full adder (32) receiving an output of the AND-gate. An output selection facility (50) provides an output signal of the configurable logic cell selected from two or more input signals. At least one of the input signals is provided by one of the multi-bit registers, and another by the functional unit.
US07982493B1
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a pre driver unit configured to receive a pre drive signal and a driving force control signal and output a main drive signal; a main driver unit configured to receive the main drive signal and output output data to an output terminal; a terminal connecting unit configured to receive a determination signal and connect to or disconnect from the output terminal in response to the determination signal; a terminal sensing unit configured to sense the output terminal and output a terminal state signal; and a driving force determining unit configured to receive a reset signal and the terminal state signal and output the driving force control signal.
US07982488B2
A semiconductor chip having a subcircuit formed in a substrate; and a phase-change memory cell located on the subcircuit, and configured to directly detect an attack on the subcircuit, or to form a shield to prevent physical access to the subcircuit.
US07982482B2
A probe card for a wafer level test of electrical characteristics of a plurality of semiconductor integrated circuit devices formed on a semiconductor wafer. The card has a thin film with bumps on which a plurality of bumps to be respectively brought into contact with all of inspection electrodes of the semiconductor integrated circuit devices are formed, and which is held on a rigid ceramic ring. An alignment mark constituted by a bump formed simultaneously with the bumps for contact is added to the thin film with bumps. The desired position of the alignment mark relative to the bumps for contact is maintained. Therefore, a change in position accuracy of the bumps for contact can be easily measured by an image processor with reference to the alignment mark. An optimum position for contact between the wafer to be inspected and the inspection electrodes on the wafer can be computed from the measurement result.
US07982480B2
A calibrated passive impedance probe has a wide bandwidth operating range for impedance and performance measurements of RF and microwave components, devices, and circuits in 50Ω and 75Ω environments. The probe is calibrated at the probe tip, thus allowing accurate impedance and performance measurements of in-circuit functions and on-board components. The calibrated probe can be used to eliminate RF connectors and provide input and output connections to a circuit board for prototype design and quick performance verification thus realizing cost savings on RF connectors. The probe includes a semi-rigid coaxial cable assembly filled with dielectric material, a silver plated center conductor, and silver plated ground outer conductor having an SMA male connector on one end and exposed center conductor at the opposite end and having uniform characteristic impedance of 50Ω or 75Ω along the cable length; a hexagonal shaped body made of anodized aluminum having raised texture on the surface for sure handling; a probe tip of gold plated aluminum with two spring loaded ground pins; a four-finger threaded cable catch for locking semi-rigid coaxial cable assembly inside the tip and for ground continuity from cable to spring loaded pins; an interface RF connector-adapter including SMA female-SMA female, BNC-SMA female, or Type N-SMA female; a locking nut to hold and lock cable assembly and connector-adapter inside the probe body; and 50Ω and 75Ω precision loads for probe calibration.
US07982472B2
In a first step, two conductive plates such as two zinc galvanized (electroplated) steel plates with films formed on surfaces thereof, are prepared; a flexible conductive material is held between these two zinc galvanized (electroplated) steel plates. A spacer is also held between the two zinc galvanized (electroplated) steel plates to regulate the space therebetween and a measurement object such as a conductive cloth is held between the flexible conductive material and at least one of the zinc galvanized (electroplated) steel plates. In a second step, the electric resistance between the two zinc galvanized (electroplated) steel plates is measured while the flexible conductive material is held together with the measurement object between the two conductive plates.
US07982469B2
A generator generates radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation to a resonator whose resonance frequency is affected by a characteristic to be measured of an object to be measured. A receiver receives radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation from the resonator and a signal processing unit searches for a resonance frequency of the resonator for measuring the characteristic to be measured. The generator comprises a digital frequency synthesizer for scanning a frequency of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation to be applied to the resonator over a desired frequency band by using discrete measuring frequencies.
US07982458B2
There is obtained a wire-rope flaw detector capable of realizing a high signal-to-noise ratio even in the case where only one detection coil is disposed. In the wire-rope flaw detector, there are provided a magnetizer that forms main magnetic flux in a predetermined section located along an axis direction of a wire rope (1) and a detection coil (8) that detects, in the predetermined section, leakage magnetic flux (13) emitted from a flaw portion (10) of the wire rope (1); a magnetic circuit member (7) made of a ferromagnetic material intervenes in a magnetic circuit for leakage magnetic flux that is interlinked with a detection coil (8); and in a space where at least one of the end portions, of the magnetic circuit member (7), that serve as the inflow port and the outflow port for the leakage magnetic flux is inserted between the detection coil (8) and a wire rope (1), an opening portion extends in such a way as to intervene between the foregoing end portion and the other end portion and is inserted between the detection coil (8) and the wire rope (1).
US07982457B2
The present invention is a method and an eddy current system for non-contact determination of the resistance between the current lead stripe and the coating during continuous fabrication of chemical power sources such as batteries, supercapacitors, photovoltaic modules and the like. Both the method and the non-destructive test system for practicing the method are described. The method includes placing of an integrated measuring transducer containing two strap-type eddy current probes above the surface of the coating applied to the metallic current lead stripe in the region of the shaft guiding the stripe movement, so that all the points of the operating surface of the transducer being at an equal distance from the stripe surface coating so that the two probes would take measurements on the same area of the coating.
US07982448B1
Disclosed are a circuit and a method for adaptively biasing a voltage regulator with minimal output overshoot. The circuit includes an adaptive bias current mirror circuit further including a first transistor and a second transistor, the first transistor and the second transistor having source nodes coupled to a drain node of the first transistor. The circuit includes a common node coupled to the source node of the first transistor and the source node of the second transistor, wherein a source degenerate resistor is coupled to the adaptive bias current mirror circuit and is coupled to the common node and wherein the source degenerate resistor is configured to limit an output peak current of the voltage regulator circuit.
US07982446B2
According to one configuration, a monitor circuit monitors a delivery of power supplied by one or more switch devices to a dynamic load. Based on an amount of power delivered to the load as measured by the monitor circuit, a control circuit produces a voltage control signal. A gate bias voltage generator circuit utilizes the voltage control signal to generate a switch activation voltage or bias voltage. A switch drive circuit uses the switch activation voltage as generated by the bias voltage generator to activate each of the one or more switch devices during a portion of a switching cycle when a respective switch device is in an ON state, and the respective switch device conducts current from a voltage source through the switch device to the load. The control circuit adjusts the voltage control signal to modify a level of the switch activation voltage depending on the dynamic load.
US07982437B2
A battery control module monitors discharge voltages associated with a traction battery of an automotive vehicle. The battery control module cycles the traction battery at a discharge-voltage dependent charge/discharge profile to generate heat within the traction battery.
US07982436B2
An electronic system includes a power delivery support structure having a power delivery surface with first and second conductive regions. An electronic device includes a plurality of contacts arranged so at least one of them engages the first conductive region and at least another of them engages the second conductive region independently of the orientation of the device relative to the power delivery surface.
US07982432B2
An electrical energy storage device is monitored by cyclically applying an electrical load thereto and monitoring voltage and current at transient portions of the cyclically applied electrical load.
US07982418B2
This device is an electric safety brake which is intended for an electric traction vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle comprising: a rotating electromechanical machine (10) having permanent magnets having at least one coil with electric terminals (13, 14, 15), a resistive braking torque production device (22), an electromechanical commutator (20) which is capable of reliably connecting the electric terminals (13, 14, 15) of the machine (10) to the braking torque production device (22).It is characterized in that the braking torque production device (22) comprises, on the one hand, a bipolar assembly (122) of at least one dissipative resistor, the assembly having two single connection terminals and forming a common terminal bipolar electric output load for all the terminals (13, 14, 15) of the mechanism and, on the other hand, means (120) for converting the currents from all the terminals (13, 14, 15) into a single current which is supplied to the two single terminals of the assembly of at least one dissipative resistor, the conversion means (120) having no active power switches.
US07982412B2
A LED circuit comprises: an inductor, a group of LEDs, a capacitor, a power MOS and a switching circuit. The inductor is connected to a voltage supply and a first node; the group of LEDs is connected to the first node and a ground potential; the capacitor is connected to the first node and a ground potential; the power MOS is connected to the first node and a ground potential, wherein the gate of the power MOS receives a switching signal such that the capacitor is charged when the power MOS is turn on to further turn on the LEDs and the capacitor is discharged when the power MOS is turn off to turn off the LEDs. The switching circuit is to generate the switching signal.
US07982410B2
An electrical dimmer circuit comprising the electrical dimmer circuit for dimming the electrical power of a plurality of lighting means having at least one digital input channel, at which digital low-voltage input signals for specifying the light power of the various lighting means can be received, and having at least two output channels, on which output signals for dimming the electrical power of the respectively assigned lighting means can be output by pulse width modulation of a high alternating voltage.
US07982408B2
A circuit to control an AC lamp current provided by an input AC voltage supply to a cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL). The circuit includes a capacitor connected in series between the AC voltage supply and one terminal of the CCFL, the capacitor biasing the CCFL with the AC lamp current; a switch having first, second, and control terminals, the first terminal being connected to the CCFL and the second terminal being connected to the other side of the supply; a diode connected in parallel to the switch; and a resistor connected in parallel to the diode, wherein the AC lamp current is controlled by controlling the switch to add and remove resistance in series with the CCFL.
US07982389B2
A light-emitting device includes an organic insulating layer lying above a face of a substrate, reflective layers arranged on a face of the organic insulating layer, an inorganic insulating layer extending over the reflective layers, pixel electrodes arranged on the inorganic insulating layer, and light-emitting sections arranged on the respective pixel electrodes. The inorganic insulating layer has openings and regions in which no pixel electrodes are arranged when viewed from above. The openings extend through the respective regions to the organic insulating layer. A method for manufacturing such a light-emitting device includes forming openings in regions of the inorganic insulating layer in advance of the formation of the light-emitting sections such that the openings extend through the regions to the organic insulating layer, the regions having no pixel electrodes thereon when viewed from above.
US07982388B2
This light emitting device includes a pair of electrodes at least one of which is transparent or translucent, and a phosphor layer that is sandwiched between the electrodes and has a polycrystalline structure made of a first semiconductor material, and in this structure, a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material is segregated on a grain boundary of the polycrystalline structure. The first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material preferably have semiconductor structures of conduction types that are different from each other. Moreover, the first semiconductor material preferably has an n-type semiconductor structure, and the second semiconductor material preferably has a p-type semiconductor structure. Furthermore, in the case where the first semiconductor material is a zinc-based material containing zinc, at least one of the paired electrodes is preferably made of a material containing zinc.
US07982384B2
An image display device including a light emission section which emits light to an intensity adjusting section and a wavelength conversion section which change the intensity and wavelength of the emitted light. Phosphors and phosphor like materials are employed in wavelength conversion and a liquid crystal is employed for the light adjustment. The light emission device may include plural semiconductor light emitting elements having a different wavelength ranges such as diodes stacked in a compact and predetermined order such that wavelengths of light from each diode are emitted from the light emitting elements.
US07982377B2
A high-pressure gas discharge lamp includes at least a lamp tube and two electrodes. The two electrodes are each attached to the lamp tube by a sealed area and, outside the sealed area, each electrode has a perpendicular minimum distance, with respect to its longitudinal axis, from the lamp tube.
US07982376B2
Water or air is directed through a hood or double cylinder cooling device for providing cooling to one or more light bulbs used in growing plants in greenhouses, aquarium, and hydroponic applications. A water recirculation system with a reservoir and a pump may provide a flow of cooling water through tubing to the hood. The hood provides a housing and a tube which contains one or more light bulbs which can be accessed or replaced through an end of the tube which projects through the housing. The light holder includes an enclosed electric box and a plurality of curved fins which expand against the inside glass tube. Various reflector housing shapes and reflectors direct light to plants. The end cap is bolted to a split ring flange attached to the outer tube.
US07982374B2
Piezoelectric vibrating pieces are disclosed made of a piezoelectric material to be mounted in a package. A representative piece includes a base formed of a piezoelectric material, having first and second ends, extending between the ends in a length direction, and having a designated width. The piece includes at least a pair of vibrating arms extending in the length direction from one end of the base, and a pair of supporting arms extending partially in a width direction from between the first and second ends of the base. The supporting arms further extend in the length direction outboard of the base and vibrating arms, and include an adhesive region at the tips of the supporting arms. The adhesive regions are used for mounting the piece to a package. Whereas the tips of the supporting arms do not extend beyond the tips of the vibrating arms, the axial length of supporting arms is greater than the length of the vibrating arms.
US07982364B2
A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a lid spaced apart from each other oppositely by a specific interval. A comb electrode and a pad electrode are provided to the piezoelectric substrate on a main surface on the lid side, and an external terminal is provided to the lid on a surface on the opposite side to the piezoelectric substrate. Further, the surface acoustic wave device includes a connection electrode that electrically connects the pad electrode and the external terminal, and an insulator interposed between at least one of the main surface of the piezoelectric substrate and the pad electrode and the lid.
US07982359B2
A salient pole machine and method of forming the same comprising a rotating field assembly and at least one inter-pole cap connected to the rotating field assembly and/or at least end coil cap connected to the rotating field assembly. Each inter-pole cap preferably includes a top surface that has a curvature and/or at least one cavity. Each end coil cap may include at least one support. The salient pole machine may also include at least one fan assembly independent of the rotating field assembly. In a preferred embodiment, the salient pole machine includes at least one mounting plate, wherein each fan assembly is mounted on the mounting plate. The inter-pole caps and the end coil caps preferably comprise composites, polymers, alloys, ceramics, or naturally occurring materials.
US07982352B2
An axial magnetic flux electrical machine having a rotor attached to a shaft, the rotor comprising magnets and pole shoes; and a stator, the stator has a separate pole cores having corresponding separate coils, and the number of poles cores is larger than the number of pole shoes.
US07982348B2
A structure and method for holding an electric wire connected to the inside of an electric compressor incorporating a motor. The structure has a holding member for holding an electric wire present between a connection terminal section for connection to the outside and a built-in electric device. The structure and method can reliably eliminate possibility of adverse affection to an input electric wire caused by vibration, etc. while preventing a reduction in efficiency of assembly work and an increase in size of the compressor.
US07982340B1
The present invention is an energy generating system for a telecommunications megasite which uses fuel cells and capacitors to backup a commercially available primary source of power.
US07982337B2
There is provided a DC-DC converter control circuit, wherein a reference feedback signal related to a supply voltage to a load is compared to a reference oscillation signal to generate a result of comparison. The result of comparison is used as a switching control signal to control the supply voltage to the load. The result of comparison is frequency divided to generate a frequency divided signal; and the switching control signal is generated in response to the frequency divided signal.
US07982336B2
Power is automatically allocated among a plurality of network switches, such as a plurality of stackable switches. In one embodiment, one device in the network is designated as a “master” device which controls the power allocation for all of the switches. In another embodiment, a distributed algorithm is used, in which each device uses power allocation decision logic to formulate a mutually agreed-upon power allocation. Power from multiple power-granting devices may be consolidated to provide aggregated power to one or more power-needing devices.
US07982335B2
An adaptive power strip has a power rail. A power entry module and one or more receptacle modules having plug receptacles are mounted on the power rail. The power entry module has a power inlet to which a source of power can be coupled. The power entry module distribute power from the power source to the power rail. The receptacle modules distribute power from the power rail tot the respective plug receptacles. In an aspect, the power entry module has a communications module that discovers receptacle modules on the power rail having data communications capability and if a receptacle module does not have a unique identifier assigned to it, assigns a unique identifier to the receptacle module that the receptacle module stores in a memory. The communications modules also retrieves from each receptacle module having data communications capability, information about the characteristics of the receptacle module that the communications module stores in a memory. The communications module maintains an inventory in memory of the receptacle modules on the power rail that includes information about the characteristics of the receptacle modules. In an aspect, receptacle modules determine their locations on the power rail and send information to the communications module that the communications module uses to determine the location of the receptacle modules on the power rail. In an aspect, the power entry module determines the type of power service provided to it at its power inlet.
US07982334B2
The invention provides a motor-driven steering lock apparatus which can improve a reliability of locking and unlocking operations, with a simple circuit structure. A power supply line from a battery and a driving means are connected by a switching means only at a time when a feed signal from a host first control means to a drive control means (CPU), a power supply-enabling signal from the host first control means and a power supply-enabling signal from a host second control means are input to the switching means.
US07982329B2
A vertical axis wind generator structure includes a tower, a windmill assembly, a bearing assembly, a lubrication assembly, and a generator. The windmill assembly is installed on the bearing assembly. The windmill assembly and the bearing assembly are rotatably sleeved on a shaft lever of the tower. The bearing assembly provides for thermal expansion compensation and axial and radial loading. The lubrication assembly supplies lubricating oil based on the operating conditions of the windmill assembly so as to prolong the lifespan and improve the electricity generation effect of the wind generator.
US07982328B2
An emergency supply unit is provided with a ram-air turbine surrounded substantially concentrically by a casing forming a flow channel and driven by an air stream; an energy converter, driven by means of the ram-air turbine directly coupled via a drive shaft, for at least partly maintaining the functioning of a hydraulic system and/or electrical system on board an aircraft in an emergency situation; means for installing the ram-air turbine in its position within the casing such that the spatial position of the ram-air turbine remains unchanged when the emergency supply unit is selectively brought into a standby mode or into an operating mode; at least one air inlet through which the air stream can be delivered to the ram-air turbine, and which is adapted to be closed by a shut-off member; and an air outlet adapted to be closed by a shut-off member.
US07982317B2
A semiconductor device can include a plurality of semiconductor elements. The characteristics of each of the semiconductor elements can be easily tested during the production of the semiconductor device or when a failure occurs after the semiconductor device is mounted on a substrate, so that the quality can be well managed and a failure can be reliably analyzed. When not mounted on the substrate, the semiconductor device can have a connection structure in which the plurality of semiconductor elements are electrically independent of each other, so that their characteristics can be tested and analyzed by independently energizing the semiconductor elements. In a semiconductor device module having the semiconductor device mounted thereon, the connection structure can include a parallel circuit of the plurality of semiconductor elements. Therefore, all the semiconductor elements can be driven by applying a voltage between a pair of solder-bonding electrode pads disposed on the semiconductor device-mounting substrate.
US07982314B2
Circuit elements and wirings constituting a circuit, and first electrodes electrically connected to such a circuit are provided on one main surface of a semiconductor substrate. An organic insulating film is formed on the circuit except for openings on the surfaces of the first electrodes. First and second external connecting electrodes are provided on the organic insulating film. At least one conductive layer for electrically connecting the first and second external connecting electrodes and the first electrodes is placed on the organic insulating film.
US07982313B2
By dividing a single chip area into individual sub-areas, a thermally induced stress in each of the sub-areas may be reduced during operation of complex integrated circuits, thereby enhancing the overall reliability of complex metallization systems comprising low-k dielectric materials or ULK material. Consequently, a high number of stacked metallization layers in combination with increased lateral dimensions of the semiconductor chip may be used compared to conventional strategies.
US07982305B1
An integrated circuit (IC) package is disclosed comprising a substrate including a plurality of substrate contacts; a semiconductor die including a plurality of die contacts; and a plurality of conductors for providing direct connections between substrate contacts and die contacts, respectively. By having the conductors directly route the connections between the die contacts and substrate contacts, many improvements may be realized including, but not limited to, improved package routing capabilities, reduced die and/or package size, improved package reliability, improved current handling capacity, improved speed, improved thermal performance, and lower costs.
US07982303B2
A semiconductor chip is disposed on a first surface of a mounting board with its active surface upward. An inductor is provided at the active surface side, that is, at the surface side of the semiconductor chip not facing the mounting board in order to perform communication between the semiconductor chip and the outside. A sealing resin layer is formed on the first surface of the mounting board in order to seal the semiconductor chip. In addition, a recess or an opening (in the present embodiment, a recess) is provided in the sealing resin layer. The recess includes the inductor thereinside when seen in a plan view.
US07982301B2
A miniaturized semiconductor device has a package substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on the main surface of the package substrate and having plural LNAs each for amplifying a signal, an RF VCO for converting the frequency of the signal supplied from each LNA, and an IF VCO for converting the frequency of a signal supplied from a baseband. A plurality of ball electrodes are provided on the back surface of the package substrate. The package substrate is provided with a first common GND wire for supplying a GND potential to each of the LNAs, with a second common GND wire for supplying the GND potential to the RF VCO, and with a third common GND wire for supplying the GND potential to the IF VCO. The first, second, and third common GND wires are separated from each other.
US07982299B2
Included are a semiconductor package, a first bus bar, a second bus bar and a soldering control unit. The semiconductor package includes a power semiconductor element, a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate. The first bus bar is a conductive member which is soldered onto the main surface of the first electrode plate through a first solder member. The second bus bar is a conductive member which is soldered onto the main surface of the second electrode plate through a second solder member. The soldering control unit is provided on each of the main surface of the first bus bar to which the first electrode plate is soldered and the main surface of the second bus bar to which the second electrode plate is soldered, and controls the solder joint thickness.
US07982296B2
The invention provides methods and devices for fabricating printable semiconductor elements and assembling printable semiconductor elements onto substrate surfaces. Methods, devices and device components of the present invention are capable of generating a wide range of flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices and arrays of devices on substrates comprising polymeric materials. The present invention also provides stretchable semiconductor structures and stretchable electronic devices capable of good performance in stretched configurations.
US07982292B2
A semiconductor device includes a carrier, a chip coupled to the carrier, a dielectric layer coupled to the carrier and the chip, and conducting elements connected to both the carrier and contacts of the chip. The chip includes a first face with a first contact spaced apart from a second contact. The dielectric layer includes a photoinitiator that configures the dielectric layer to be selectively opened to expose the first and second contacts and the carrier. A first conducting element is connected to the first contact, a second conducting element is connected to the second contact, and a third conducting element is connected to the carrier.
US07982291B2
The invention relates to microelectromechanical components, like microelectromechanical gauges used in measuring e.g. acceleration, angular acceleration, angular velocity, or other physical quantities. The microelectromechanical component, according to the invention, comprises a microelectromechanical chip part, sealed by means of a cover part, and an electronic circuit part, suitably bonded to each other. The aim of the invention is to provide an improved method of manufacturing a microelectromechanical component, and to provide a microelectromechanical component, which is applicable for use particularly in small microelectromechanical sensor solutions.
US07982287B1
A system and method is disclosed for providing a resistor protect layer to protect a thin film resistor in a semiconductor device. A thin film resistor is formed on a dielectric layer and a resistor protect layer is placed over the thin film resistor. An etch procedure is employed to facet the corners of the resistor protect layer. The faceted corners of the resistor protect layer reduce the step height of the resistor protect layer. Then a conductor is deposited over the resistor protect layer and the dielectric layer. When portions of the conductor are subsequently etched away, the resistor protect layer protects the underlying thin film resistor from being exposed to the etch process.
US07982282B2
A semiconductor amplifier is provided comprising, a substrate and one or more unit amplifying cells (UACs) formed on the substrate, wherein each UAC is laterally surrounded by a first lateral dielectric filled trench (DFT) isolation wall extending at least to the substrate and multiple UACs are surrounded by a second lateral DFT isolation wall of similar depth outside the first isolation walls, and further semiconductor regions lying between the first isolation walls when two or more unit cells are present, and/or lying between the first and second isolation walls, are electrically floating with respect to the substrate. This reduces the parasitic capacitance of the amplifying cells and improves the power added efficiency. Excessive leakage between buried layer contacts when using high resistivity substrates is avoided by providing a further semiconductor layer of intermediate doping between the substrate and the buried layer contacts.
US07982274B2
A device comprising a doped semiconductor nano-component and a method of forming the device are disclosed. The nano-component is one of a nanotube, nanowire or a nanocrystal film, which may be doped by exposure to an organic amine-containing dopant. Illustrative examples are given for field effect transistors with channels comprising a lead selenide nanowire or nanocrystal film and methods of forming these devices.
US07982271B2
There is provided a technology which allows improvements in manufacturing yield and product reliability in a semiconductor device having a triple well structure. A shallow p-type well is formed in a region different from respective regions in a p-type substrate where a deep n-type well, a shallow p-type well, and a shallow n-type well are formed. A p-type diffusion tap formed in the shallow p-type well is wired to a p-type diffusion tap formed in a shallow n-type well in the deep n-type well using an interconnection in a second layer. The respective gate electrodes of an nMIS and a pMIS each formed in the deep n-type well are coupled to the respective drain electrodes of an nMIS and a pMIS each formed in the substrate using an interconnection in a second or higher order layer.
US07982270B2
A semiconductor device includes an anti-fuse portion and a memory cell portion each including a MOSFET structure having a gate insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; wherein a depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is different from the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion, and the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is lower than the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion.
US07982268B2
A dual-gate transistor includes a first gate formed on a substrate, a first dielectric layer covering the first gate and the substrate, a semiconductor layer formed on the first dielectric layer, first and second electrodes formed on the semiconductor layer and spaced with an interval in order to separate each other, a second dielectric layer covering the first and second electrodes, and a second gate formed on the second dielectric layer, in which at least one of the first and second gates is non-overlapped with the second electrode.
US07982264B2
The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer laminated on the semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer laminated on the insulating layer, an annular deep trench having a depth reaching the insulating layer from the surface of the semiconductor layer, a source region formed on the surface layer of the semiconductor layer in a transistor forming region enclosed with the deep trench, a drain region formed on the surface layer of the semiconductor layer in the transistor forming region, an isolation region formed between the source region and the drain region for electrically isolating the source region and the drain region from each other, and a current path formed on the transistor forming region for guiding a current from the drain region to a position opposite to the source region in the vertical direction perpendicular to the surface of the semiconductor device.
US07982258B2
A flash memory device and a method for manufacturing the device includes forming a device isolation layer in a semiconductor substrate defining active regions, forming a control gate layer over the entire upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a gate mask over the control gate layer, the gate mask being used to provide gate lines on the device isolation layer with grooves at positions opposite each other, and forming the grooves by etching the control gate layer using the gate mask as an etching mask, and forming the gate lines on the device isolation layer. A common source line can be more easily defined during a SAS process including photography and etching processes, and a reduced source resistance can be accomplished, resulting in an improvement in characteristics of the flash memory device.
US07982257B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention has a bit line and a word line. The device includes a substrate which is provided with first trenches extending in a bit-line direction and has side surfaces forming sidewalls of the first trenches, the substrate being provided with bird's beaks at upper edges of the side surfaces, a first gate insulator formed on the substrate between the first trenches, a floating gate formed on the first gate insulator between the first trenches and located between second trenches extending in a word-line direction, the floating gate not being provided with bird's beaks at lower edges of side surfaces facing the first trenches, a second gate insulator formed on the floating gate between the second trenches, and a control gate formed on the second gate insulator between the second trenches.
US07982250B2
A semiconductor device is demonstrated in which a plurality of field-effect transistors is stacked with an interlayer insulating layer interposed therebetween over a substrate having an insulating surface. Each of the plurality of filed-effect transistors has a semiconductor layer which is prepared by a process including separation of the semiconductor layer from a semiconductor substrate followed by bonding thereof over the substrate. Each of the plurality of field-effect transistors is covered with an insulating film which provides distortion of the semiconductor layer. Furthermore, the crystal axis of the semiconductor layer, which is parallel to the crystal plane thereof, is set to a channel length direction of the semiconductor layer, which enables production of the semiconductor device with high performance and low power consumption having an SOI structure.
US07982245B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit is disclosed which includes a main transistor and at least one of a fuse transistor or an anti-fuse transistor (“fuse/anti-fuse transistor”). Each transistor type includes an active region formed in a semiconductor substrate, a gate stack comprising a gate insulation layer and a gate electrode sequentially formed on the active region, and source/drain regions separated across the gate stack, but the gate insulation layer of the fuse/anti-fuse transistor is selectively damaged during fabrication.
US07982242B2
A semiconductor wafer to be diced into individual SBDs, HEMTs or MESFETs has a substrate with a main semiconductor region and counter semiconductor region formed on its opposite surfaces. The main semiconductor region is configured to provide the desired semiconductor devices. In order to counterbalance the warping effect of the main semiconductor region on the substrate, as well as to enhance the voltage strength of the devices made from the wafer, the counter semiconductor region is made similar in configuration to the main semiconductor region. The main semiconductor region and counter semiconductor region are arranged in bilateral symmetry as viewed in a cross-sectional plane at right angles with the substrate surfaces.
US07982239B2
In an embodiment, a integrated semiconductor device includes a first Vertical Junction Field Effect Transistor (VJFET) having a source, and a gate disposed on each side of the first VJFET source, and a second VJFET transistor having a source, and a gate disposed on each side of the second VJFET source. At least one gate of the first VJFET is separated from at least one gate of the second VJFET by a channel. The integrated semiconductor device also includes a Junction Barrier Schottky (JBS) diode positioned between the first and second VJFETs. The JBS diode comprises a metal contact that forms a rectifying contact to the channel and a non-rectifying contact to at least one gate of the first and second VJFETs, and the metal contact is an anode of the JBS diode. A first electrical connection ties the gates of the first VJFET, the gates of the second VJFET, and the anode of the JBS diode to a common gate electrode and a second electrical connection ties the source of the first VJFET and the source of the second VJFET to a common source electrode.
US07982237B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device package. The light emitting device package includes a semiconductor substrate including a first surface at a first depth from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and a second surface at a second depth from the first surface; and a light emitting part on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US07982233B2
A semiconductor chip comprises: a semiconductor body which comprises a semiconductor layer sequence suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength range from its front side; and a first wavelength-converting layer on at least one first partial region of the front side of the semiconductor body with a first wavelength conversion substance, which converts radiation of the first wavelength range into radiation of a second wavelength range, which is different from the first wavelength range, wherein at least one second partial region of the front side is free of the first wavelength-converting layer. An optoelectronic component comprising such a semiconductor chip and a method for producing the semiconductor chip are furthermore described.
US07982229B2
The invention relates to a light-emitting device comprising a conversion structure and one or several LEDs (40), which emit light into the conversion structure. The light is then converted and emitted with a high radiant flux.
US07982227B2
A base apparatus includes a base and two finger devices. The base has a first surface and two opposite sides. The finger devices are respectively mounted on the sides of the base, are made of conductive material, and each of the finger devices has multiple fingers. The fingers are extended on the first surface of the base, wherein the fingers of a first finger device are arranged respectively corresponding to the fingers of a second finger device whereby each pair of corresponding fingers supports an illuminating device. The base has a height, each of the fingers has a width and the width is smaller than the height. When the LED is mounted onto a substrate, the LED can be mounted on the substrate by its side so that an entire assembly height of the LED is reduced and is equal to the width of the LED.
US07982226B2
Provided is a reflection type optical sensor device including: a semiconductor light source being formed by providing a light emitting region on a predetermined region of a substrate; and a photo-detection element being integrated on the same substrate as the substrate where the semiconductor light source is formed to surround an outer circumferential surface of the semiconductor light source, and including a light receiving region. When the light emitted from the semiconductor light source is reflected by an external object, the photo-detection element may detect the light to sense the object. Through this, it is possible to reduce cost and ensure a small size. Also, the photo-detection element is constructed to surround the outer circumferential surface of the semiconductor light source, and thus more accurately detect the light.
US07982213B2
A novel phenanthroline compound is provided which is represented by the general formula [I]: (wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are the same or different and each is selected from a hydrogen atom, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted aralkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group, an unsubstituted or substituted heterocyclic group, and a halogen atom; and Ar1 and Ar2 are the same or different and each is selected from an unsubstituted or substituted fluorenyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted fluoranthenyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted perylenyl group, and an unsubstituted or substituted carbazolyl group). An organic light emitting device using the phenanthroline compound is also provided that has a light output with a high efficiency and a high luminance and has a high long-term durability.
US07982211B2
A device comprising a first transparent and electrically conductive layer (102), a second electrically conductive layer (104), and a functional layer (103) comprising at least one organic layer, sandwiched between said first and second conductive layers and to form a functional organic stack. At least one via (110) is arranged to electrically interconnect said first layer (102) and at least one segment (112) of said second layer (104), the segment being electrically insulated from the reminder of the second layer. The present invention makes it possible to uniformly supply the first transparent layer with electrical power. The vias and segments are preferably formed by laser applied through the transparent conductive layer.
US07982203B2
Programmable via devices and methods for the fabrication thereof are provided. In one aspect, a programmable via device is provided comprising a substrate; a dielectric layer on the substrate; a heater on at least a portion of a side of the dielectric layer opposite the substrate; a first oxide layer over the side of the dielectric layer opposite the substrate and surrounding at least a portion of the heater; a first capping layer over a side of the first oxide layer opposite the dielectric layer; at least one programmable via extending through the first capping layer and the first oxide layer and in contact with the heater, the programmable via comprising at least one phase change material; a second capping layer over the programmable via; a second oxide layer over a side of the first capping layer opposite the first oxide layer; a pair of first conductive vias, each extending through the first and second oxide layers and the first capping layer, and in contact with the heater; and a second conductive via, located between the pair of first conductive vias, extending through the second oxide layer and in contact with the second capping layer.
US07982202B2
A scanning apparatus for obtaining an image from a phosphor sheet has a cylindrical drum having an inner axis and having an inner surface that is concave with respect to the axis. A light collector is coupled to a transport mechanism that is actuable to translate the light collector along a direction parallel to the axis. The light collector has a beam generator with a light source and a rotatable beam deflector that is actuable to provide a rotating scanning beam. There are first and second cylindrical hoops circumferentially disposed about the axis and spaced apart from each other along the direction of the axis to define a slot aligned with the rotating scanning beam as it scans the phosphor sheet. At least one light detector is disposed to detect light stimulated from the phosphor sheet by the scanning beam.
US07982201B2
A system and method for identifying the levels of one or more liquids in a vessel using an optical imager and one or more appropriately positioned light sources and an optical imager for capturing digital images of the illuminated vessel. A laser line generator is positioned oppositely from the imager and oriented to project a laser line through the vessel so that it may be imaged by the imager. A second light source, such as an LED, may be positioned above or below the vessel and oriented to project light downwardly or upwardly through the vessel and its contents. Captured images of the vessel are then processed by a programmable device, such as a microcontroller, to determine the levels of materials in the vessel based on the optical characteristics revealed in the captured image.
US07982191B2
A radiation detector is formed from a plasma panel that includes a front substrate, and a back substrate that forms a generally parallel gap with the front substrate. X (column) and Y (row) electrodes are coupled by gas discharge events to define one or more pixels. Impedances are coupled to the X and Y electrodes, and a power supply is coupled to one or both types of electrodes. Discharge event detectors are coupled to the impedances.
US07982178B2
A photo transistor has an active region spaced from a source by barrier. A drain is laterally spaced from the active region. Light incident on the active region creates electron-hole pairs. Holes accumulate at the barrier and modulate the effective barrier height to electrons. A gate reset voltage then is applied to gate which lower the barrier allowing the holes to escape.
US07982166B2
A ceramic heater is provided that has a heat generating resistor and a lead member which supplies electric power to the heat generating resistor buried in a ceramic body, and exhibits excellent durability by controlling the cross sectional shape and plan configuration of the heat generating resistor.
US07982159B2
A starting circuit for use with a plasma torch is provided including circuitry for initiating a pilot arc using a unipolar voltage impulse. A transformer is selectively coupled to a DC source so that an impulse is introduced using the same DC source used to maintain an established pilot arc. A method is provided wherein an arc can be initiated while at the same time the DC source is pre-loaded so that surge injection circuitry is not needed to sustain the arc while ramping to the full pilot arc current level.
US07982154B2
sorting device for RFID tags, comprising a dispensing unit for supplying RFID tags which are applied to a transport belt to a dispensing area, in which the RFID tags are detached from the transport belt; a pick-up unit having a plurality of transport units for respectively picking up the RFID tags in a respective pick-up area onto a corresponding transport belt of the transport units and a positioning device for positioning the dispensing area and a selected pick-up area with respect to one another so that the RFID tags detached from the transport belt in the dispensing area are picked up by the pick-up area of the selected transport unit.
US07982151B2
An electrical switch may include a support bearing contacts, at least one elastically deformable release element for establishing an electrical connection between two contacts, an actuation pusher that is configured to be movable relative to the support along an overall horizontal path in the plane of the plate bearing electronic components and a lever that is configured to be mounted in a hinged manner relative to the support about a horizontal axis and which converts the horizontal actuation force exerted on the pusher into a vertical release force applied to the release element. The lever may be elastically deformable to allow a movement of the pusher beyond the actuation position.
US07982145B2
An inserting connector connected to a receiving connector, the receiving connector being configured to electrically connect an electric power source and an electric apparatus receiving an electric power supply from the electric power source, the inserting connector being connected to the electric apparatus, the inserting connector includes two electric power plug terminals made of a conductor, the conductor being configured to receive the electric power supply; and a control plug terminal configured to be extended and retracted in an inserting direction.
US07982144B2
An inserting connector connected to a receiving connector, the receiving connector being configured to electrically connect an electric power source and an electric apparatus receiving an electric power supply from the electric power source, the inserting connector being connected to the electric apparatus, the inserting connector includes two electric power plug terminals made of a conductor, the conductor being configured to receive the electric power supply; and a control plug terminal configured to be extended and retracted in an inserting direction.
US07982141B2
A pen includes a first speaker that outputs a first signal and a second speaker that outputs a second signal. The first and second speakers are located away from a tip of the pen at respectively different locations. The second signal is delayed with respect to the first signal by a time shorter than a cycle of the first signal. An interpolation time is set between the times of generation of the first and second signals. Interpolated positions of the first and second speakers at the interpolation time are estimated, and position of the tip of the pen is calculated from the interpolated positions of the first and second speakers.
US07982132B2
A twisted pair cable and a method of making the twisted pair cable are described. First and second insulated conductors are twisted about each other to form a twisted pair. A first insulating material surrounds a first conductor to form the first insulated conductor. In a first alternative or supplemental embodiment, the first insulating material directly abuts a circumference of the first conductor and has a first area with a first radial thickness and a second area with a thinner radial thickness. In a second alternative or supplemental embodiment, the first insulating material has a first area with a first radial thickness and a second area with a thinner radial thickness and the first area resides along a portion of the first insulated conductor which is abutting the second insulated conductor.
US07982129B2
Photovoltaic cells with interconnects to an external circuit, as well as related components, systems, and methods, are disclosed.
US07982126B2
A photovoltaic module with improved thermal properties, a method of making same and a structural, thermally improved photovoltaic panel are provided. A plurality of perforations are formed substantially entirely through the module which form a ventilation mechanism allowing heat to be transferred from the front side of the module to the rear side of the module. The perforations may be formed at a number of different stages in the manufacture of the module. Tubular reinforcements such as eyelets may be placed within the holes, preferably when the encapsulating material is only partially cured. The photovoltaic module may be attached to a structural and thermally conductive substrate, with sufficient strength for module to be utilized as stand-alone panel or building-integrated façade panel, simultaneously containing a large heat exchange surface area and provision for turbulent air flow.
US07982123B2
A passive pickup that utilizes electromagnetic coils comprising circuits that are connected in series and placed underneath and parallel to the strings of the electrical instrument. Each circuit within the passive pickup can be run through separate amplifiers in stereo or combined with standard guitar pickup signals and run through one or more amplifiers. The passive string isolating pickup is directed at allowing utilization of signal processing (guitar effects) in a string-isolated mono or stereo manner and the adjustment the volume and tone of isolated strings when wired in conjunction with volume and tone potentiometers.
US07982122B2
A device and a method for analyzing an audio datum is described, having a semitone analyzer which is implemented to analyze the audio datum with regard to a volume information distribution over an amount of semitones, and a vector calculator which is implemented to calculate a sum vector over two-dimensional intermediate vectors for each semitone or each element of the definition amount and output an analysis signal based on the sum vector, based on the volume information distribution or a distribution derived from the volume information distribution, which includes a definition amount based on the amount of semitones.
US07982112B2
A ligature is provided for use in a mouthpiece system for attaching a reed to a mouthpiece of a woodwind musical instrument. The ligature is constructed from a single layer of flexible strap, having two ends to which rigid bars are fixedly secured. The ends of the straps and rigid bars are brought together to form a loop that is placed over the mouthpiece and reed. A threaded closure mechanism is used to tighten the ligature around the mouthpiece. The ends of the strap are crimped into slots in the rigid bars to secure the flexible strap to the rigid bars. Slots or slits run along substantially the entire length of the flexible strap. Removable masses are attached to the ligature in contact with the rigid bars.
US07982110B2
The present invention relates to an Echinacea plant, seed, variety and hybrid. More specifically, the invention relates to an Echinacea plant having a compact, well-branched plant, having bright, deep rose-colored flowers. The invention relates to the seeds of Echinacea purpurea G0052Y, to the plants of Echinacea purpurea G0052Y, to plant parts of Echinacea purpurea G0052Y and to methods for producing an Echinacea plant produced by crossing Echinacea purpurea G0052Y with itself or with another Echinacea variety or hybrid. The invention also relates to methods for producing an Echinacea plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic Echinacea plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to Echinacea cultivars or hybrids and plant parts derived from Echinacea purpurea G0052Y, to methods for producing other Echinacea cultivars, lines, hybrids or plant parts derived from Echinacea purpurea G0052Y and to the Echinacea plants, varieties, hybrids and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid Echinacea seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing plants of Echinacea purpurea G0052Y with another Echinacea plant.
US07982103B1
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB18S09. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB18S09, to the plants of soybean XB18S09 to plant parts of soybean variety XB18S09 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB18S09 with another soybean plant, using XB18S09 as either the male or the female parent.
US07982099B2
A canola line designated GB083 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of canola line GB083, to the plants of canola GB083, to plant parts of canola line GB083 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing canola line GB083 with itself or with another canola line. The invention also relates to methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic canola plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to canola lines or breeding lines and plant parts derived from canola line GB083, to methods for producing other canola lines, lines or plant parts derived from canola line GB083 and to the canola plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid canola seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the line GB083 with another canola line.
US07982097B2
The present invention relates to polynucleotide molecules for regulating gene expression in plants. In particular, the invention relates to promoters that are useful for regulating gene expression of heterologous polynucleotide molecules in plants. The invention also relates to expression constructs and transgenic plants containing the heterologous polynucleotide molecules.
US07982096B2
Promoters and genes involved in avenacin production in oats are cloned and characterized. Promoters for oxidosqualene cyclase and a cytochrome P450 are shown to be useful in root-specific expression of genes operatively linked to these promoters when introduced into plants. Sequences operably linked to the promoters are expressed in root epidermal cells.
US07982088B2
A disposable article to be fitted to a wearer comprising a biosensor including at least one bio-recognition element. The biosensor is adapted to detect a target biological analyte in bodily waste or on the wearer's skin.
US07982087B2
A wound dressing includes a substantially transparent upper layer, an absorbent layer comprising a plurality of apertures arranged in a lattice pattern, and a low-adherent wound contact layer provided with a plurality of apertures arranged in a lattice pattern such the apertures of this layer are congruent with the apertures of the absorbent layer.
US07982084B1
A new family of crystalline aluminosilicate zeolites has been synthesized. These zeolites are represented by the empirical formula. Mmn+Rr+Al(1-x)ExSiyOz where M represents a combination of potassium and sodium exchangeable cations, R is a singly charged organoammonium cation such as the propyltrimethylammonium cation and E is a framework element such as gallium. These zeolites are similar to MWW but are characterized by unique x-ray diffraction patterns and compositions and have catalytic properties for carrying out various hydrocarbon conversion processes.
US07982078B2
Production of diesel fuel from biorenewable feedstocks with selective separation of converted oxygen
A process has been developed for producing diesel boiling range fuel from renewable feedstocks such as plant and animal fats and oils, the process providing for sulfur management. The process involves catalytically treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating to provide a hydrocarbon fraction useful as a diesel boiling range fuel. The hydrocarbon fraction is isomerized to improve cold flow properties. A selective separation such as a hot high pressure hydrogen stripper is used to remove at least the carbon oxides from the first zone effluent before entering the isomerization zone, and to provide liquid recycle to the treating zone at pressure and temperature. A vapor stream is separated from the isomerization effluent and at least carbon dioxide is removed using at least one selective or flexible amine solution absorber. The resulting hydrogen-rich stream is recycled to the deoxygenation reaction zone.
US07982076B2
A process has been developed for producing diesel boiling range fuel from renewable feedstocks such as plant oils, animal fats and oils, and greases. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating to provide a diesel boiling range fuel hydrocarbon product. If desired, the hydrocarbon product can be isomerized to improve cold flow properties. A portion of the hydrocarbon product is recycled to the treatment zone to increase the hydrogen solubility of the reaction mixture.
US07982058B2
The compound of formula (I): is provided. It may be produced by subjecting a compound of formula (IV) to a reduction reaction wherein R represents hydrogen, straight or branched C1-C6 alkyl. This compound is a valuable intermediate which may be used in the synthesis of fesoterodine, tolterodine, its active metabolite, and related compounds.
US07982049B2
To provide novel crystals useful as an ingredient for the production of a diabetes remedy. The invention is concerned with α-form crystal and β-form crystal of (R)-2-(2-aminothiazol-4-yl)-4′-[2-[(2-hydroxy-2-phenylethyl)amino]ethyl]acetanilide. The α-form crystal does not exhibit hygroscopicity and has stability such that it can be used as a medicine, and is useful for mass synthesis in the industrial production. The β-form crystal does not relatively exhibit hygroscopicity and is also useful as a production intermediate of the α-form crystal.
US07982047B2
A description follows of 1,3-diones having general formula (I): together with their use as herbicides for the control of weeds in agricultural crops.
US07982046B2
A method for producing functionalized CH-acidic five-ring heterocycles, the resultant five-ring heterocycles and the use thereof for producing pharmaceuticals and crop protection preparations.
US07982040B2
The invention relates to 5-HT receptor agonists and partial agonists. Novel thienopyridinone compounds represented by Formula I, and synthesis and uses thereof for treating diseases mediated directly or indirectly by 5-HT receptors, are disclosed. Such conditions include Alzheimer's disease, cognition disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, nausea, emesis, vomiting, prokinesia, gastroesophageal reflux disease, nonulcer dyspepsia, depression, anxiety, urinary incontinence, migraine, arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, ischemic stroke, gastritis, gastric emptying disorders, feeding disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, constipation, erectile dysfunction, and respiratory depression. Methods of preparation and novel intermediates and pharmaceutical salts thereof are also included.
US07982034B2
The present invention provides hydrophobic prodrugs of bases, nucleosides, and nucleotides as well as methods of using the prodrugs as antiviral and anti-cancer chemotherapeutic agents.
US07982033B2
The invention provides compounds of formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The formula I compounds inhibit tyrosine kinase activity of Trk receptors such as TrkA, TrkB, TrkC or Flt-3 thereby making them useful as anticancer agents.
US07982023B2
The present invention provides a family of BAG-1 related proteins from humans (BAG-1L, BAG-1, BAG-2, BAG-3, BAG-4 and BAG-5), the invertebrate C. elegans (BAG-1, BAG-2) and the fission yeast S. pombe (BAG-1A, BAG-1B) and the nucleic acid molecules that encode them.
US07982022B2
A novel strategy for monitoring the location of a transgene in a mammal is disclosed. A sodium iodide symporter is genetically fused to either the N-terminus or C-terminus of the product of a transgene through a linker peptide which bears the recognition sequence of a host cell protease. Expression of the transgene confers the activity of the sodium iodide symporter (NIS) to a host cell which expresses the transgene. Subsequent administration of labeled iodine results in transport of the labeled iodine into the cell bearing the NIS, which can then be localized and measured using standard imaging techniques. The system is particularly useful for monitoring the location of therapeutic transgenes and tissue-specific distribution of the therapeutic gene product.
US07982016B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods relating to antigen binding proteins which bind to human thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), including antibodies. In particular embodiments, the disclosure provides fully human, humanized and chimeric anti-TSLP antibodies and derivatives of such antibodies. The disclosure further provides nucleic acids encoding such antibodies and antibody fragments and derivatives, and methods of making and using such antibodies including methods of treating and preventing TSLP-related inflammatory and fibrotic disorders.
US07982013B2
Novel anti-cancer agents, including, but not limited to, antibodies, that bind to human frizzled receptors are provided. Novel epitopes within the human frizzled receptors which are suitable as targets for anti-cancer agents are also identified. Methods of using the agents or antibodies, such as methods of using the agents or antibodies to inhibit Wnt signaling and/or inhibit tumor growth are further provided.
US07982009B2
The invention provides isolated cellulose synthase nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering cellulose synthase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acids.
US07982006B2
This invention pertains in part to the development of a vaccine for poultry against necrotic enteritis (NE). The vaccine utilizes a protective antigen that is a mutated, full-length, non-toxic Clostridium perfringens (Cp) α-toxin protein (Mcpa). Utility of this vaccine was demonstrated by reduction of lesion severity in NE challenge trails, for example. Also disclosed herein are novel approaches for producing this vaccine in significant quantities. One exemplified approach involves producing NE vaccine (mutated alpha toxin) in bacterial expression systems, preferably utilizing the Pseudomonas fluorescens system, for commercial use in controlling NE in the poultry industry. The subject vaccines can be administered preferably to chickens in several different ways. A novel, Type VI alpha toxin from chicken isolates of Cp is also disclosed.
US07982005B2
Chimeric, humanized and other IL-5 mAbs, derived from high affinity neutralizing mAbs, pharmaceutical compositions containing same, methods of treatment and diagnostics are provided.
US07982003B2
The invention concerns a nucleic acid encoding a recombinant bifunctional fusion peptidoglycan hydrolase protein formed from a nucleic acid encoding a peptidoglycan hydrolase module and a nucleic acid encoding a second peptidoglycan hydrolase module. The fusion, dual (or multiples thereof) peptidoglycan hydrolase modules can be used to treat disease caused by the bacteria for which the individual modules of the fusion protein are specific.
US07982001B2
The invention concerns TGF-β-enriched milk protein fractions, a method for preparing same and use thereof for preparing a medicine and/or a food composition for preventing and/or treating chronic inflammatory diseases, and in particular psoriasis.
US07981992B2
Copolymers, especially multi-block copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks, are prepared by polymerizing propylene, 4-methyl-1-pentene, or another C4-8 α-olefin in the presence of a composition comprising the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining: (A) a first metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst, (B) a second metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst capable of preparing polymers having increased incidence of regio-irregular branching compared to the polymer prepared by catalyst (A) under equivalent polymerization conditions, and (C) a chain shuttling agent.
US07981991B2
Methods for producing elastomers or elastomeric compositions are provided. One or more C4 to C7 isoolefins and one or more comonomers can be polymerized in the presence of a diluent comprising one or more hydrofluorocarbons to provide a slurry comprising polymer product, unreacted monomer and the diluent. The slurry can be extruded to separate at least a portion of the diluent from the polymer product. The separated diluent can be recycled for polymerizing the one or more C4 to C7 isoolefins.
US07981984B2
This invention relates to a process to polymerize olefins comprising contacting a catalyst or catalyst system with olefin(s) in the presence of a fluorocarbon at a temperature above the onset melting point of the polymer.This invention also relates to a solution process to polymerize olefins comprising contacting a catalyst or catalyst system with olefin(s) in the presence of a fluorocarbon at a temperature above the onset melting point of the polymer.
US07981981B2
Disclosed are polyarylene sulfide compounds and melt-processed shapes therefrom in the form of extruded profiles, tubings, pipes, fibers, monofilaments and films. Embodiments especially adapted from the invention are elongated spooled tubings exhibiting a smooth surface texture, spoolability and chemical resistance. The compounds contain polyarylene sulfide, a highly saturated, hydrogenated (if applicable) nitrile copolymer; and an organofunctional silane. The compounds exhibit spherical microdomains of the nitrile copolymer in diameters ranging from 0.1 μm-100 μm.
US07981971B2
A compounding agent for rubber vulcanization containing an amino alcohol salt of a carboxylic acid group-containing disulfide, obtained by a reaction of a dithiocarboxylic acid and an amino alcohol, having the formula (i):
US07981970B2
A sulfonated block copolymer which is solid and non-dispersible in water having at least two polymer end blocks A and at least one interior block B wherein each A block is a polymer block resistant to sulfonation and each B block is a polymer block susceptible to sulfonation, wherein the A and B blocks do not contain any significant levels of olefinic unsaturation. Each A block having one or more segments selected from (i) acrylic esters, (ii) methacrylic esters, and (viii) mixtures thereof; and each B block comprising segments of one or more polymerized vinyl aromatic monomers selected from (i) unsubstituted styrene monomers, (ii) ortho-substituted styrene monomers, (iii) meta-substituted styrene monomers, (iv) alpha-methylstyrene, (v) 1,1-diphenylethylene, (vi) 1,2-diphenylethylene and (vii) mixtures thereof.
US07981951B2
A process for producing an epoxide such as a cycloaliphatic diepoxide by the reaction of an olefin such as a cycloaliphatic diene with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as an oxidant in the presence of a catalytic system under pH control for example at a pH of less than about 5. The present invention is advantageously used for the epoxidation of olefinic compounds such as olefins and aliphatic or aromatic dienes.
US07981947B2
An aqueous ink composition comprising: a pigment, having a particle diameter as determined by the light scattering method of no less than 20 nm and no more than 200 nm; and a water dispersible polymer, having a styrene-equivalent number average molecular weight of as determined by gel permeation chromatography no less than 5000 and no more than 200000, having a surface tension of no less than 20 mN/m and no more than 40 mN/m, and wherein the abovementioned pigment is a polymer-coated pigment that is coated with the abovementioned water dispersible polymer, is provided. The water-dispersible polymer may be a copolymer of monomers, mainly comprising acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid and an acrylate and/or methacrylate. With this ink composition, the printing quality can be improved.
US07981943B2
A material which comprises a polyrotaxane and a polymer and is crosslinked by irradiation with light. In the material, which comprises a first polyrotaxane and a polymer, the first polyrotaxane comprises a first cyclic molecules, a first linear molecule with which the first cyclic molecules are clathrated in a splitted state, and first blocking groups disposed respectively at both ends of the first linear molecule so as to prevent the first cyclic molecules from being released from the first linear molecule. The first polyrotaxane combines with at least part of the polymer through the first cyclic molecules by photocrosslinking reaction.
US07981935B2
The present invention relates to screens for compounds that can induce stem cell differentiation. In addition, isoxazoles and sulfonyl hydrazones are identified as general classes of compounds that can induce differentiation of stem cells into cells of neuronal and cardiac fate, respectively.
US07981931B2
The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a phenylacetic acid ester compound useful for inducing or maintaining general anesthesia or sedation in mammals, methods for preparing such compositions, and methods for inducing or maintaining anesthesia or sedation using such compositions.
US07981928B2
A method of treating cancer in a human uses x-rays to disrupt a linkage in a complex of a chemotherapeutic agent and a carrier compound comprising a pre-selected element. The complex is administered to the human and then a localized region of cells which contains the cancerous cells is irradiated with line emission x-rays of an energy selected to cause emission of Auger electrons from the pre-selected element of the carrier compound to disrupt the linkage and release the chemotherapeutic agent near the cancer cells. A kit useful for the treatment comprises an x-ray tube capable of emitting monochromatic line emission x-rays and the complex compound. A transfer compound useful in the method comprises a chemotherapeutic agent linked to a carrier compound.
US07981923B2
Compounds of the formula I, II or III: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein m, n, q, Ar, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein. Also provided are methods for preparing, compositions comprising, and methods for using compounds of formulas I-III.
US07981920B2
Compounds of formula (I): (A)m·(B)n (I) wherein A represents an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor compound containing at least one salt-forming basic function, B represents a compound containing at least one salt-forming acid function and at least one NO donor group, m represents the number of acid functions of B that have been converted to a salt and n represents the number of basic functions of A that have been converted to a salt, the bond or bonds between A and B being of the ionic type. Medicinal products containing the same which are useful in treating cardiovascular pathologies.
US07981917B2
The present invention provides a method for inducing apoptosis in selected cells by aggravating ER-stress. The aggravation of ER-stress is achieved in a specific manner by inhibiting SERCA (sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase), leading to elevated level of cytoplasmic calcium concentration, yet without inhibiting the activity of COX-2 (cyclooxygenase-2) or triggering the release of histamine. Induction of apoptosis may be enhanced by first inducing or further aggravating ER-stress through inhibition of proteasome or proteases. Also provided are compounds and compositions useful as ER-stress aggravating agents, methods for screening, selecting, identifying and designing the same and methods for treating diseased conditions by inducing apoptosis through specific and selective aggravation of ER-stress.
US07981913B2
There is provided a series of substituted isophthalates of formula (I) or a stereoisomer thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein W, R3, R5 and R6 as defined herein, their pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use. These novel compounds inhibit the processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by β-secretase and, more specifically, inhibit the production of Aβ-peptide. The present disclosure is directed to compounds useful in the treatment of neurological disorders related to β-amyloid production, such as Alzheimer's disease and other conditions affected by anti-amyloid activity.
US07981911B2
Improved pharmaceutical compositions are provided comprising one or more solubilized HIV protease inhibiting compounds having improved solubility properties in a medium and/or long chain fatty acid, or mixtures thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable alcohol, and water.
US07981897B2
The present invention relates to a hitherto unknown crystal form B of (3-cyano-1H-indol-7-yl)-[4-(4-fluorophenethyl)-piperazin-1-yl]methanone, hydrochloride, to a process for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof for the preparation of a medicament.
US07981888B2
Compounds of Formula I wherein A1, B1, C1, D1, E1, F1 and L1 are as defined herein, which inhibit the activity of anti-apoptotic Mcl-1 protein, compositions containing the compounds, and methods of treating diseases involving overexpressed or unregulated Mcl-1 protein, such as leukemia and lymphoma, are disclosed.
US07981887B2
Compounds comprising Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, are disclosed, wherein J1, J2, U1, B, Y, and A are as described. Methods, compositions, and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed, for treating glaucoma, inflammatory bowel disease and baldness.
US07981882B2
The present invention provides 6-substituted 2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-benzo[d]azepines of Formula I as selective 5-HT2C receptor agonists for the treatment of 5-HT2C associated disorders including obesity, obsessive/compulsive disorder, depression, and anxiety: Formula (I) where: R6 is selected from the group consisting of (a, b, c, d, e) and other substituents are as defined in the specification.
US07981881B2
Fused heterocylic compounds of the following Formula wherein R1, R2, R5, Z, J1 and J2 are described herein, and analogs thereof are provided which are useful in treating leukocyte activation-associated disorders.
US07981877B2
Stabilized, 17-substituted hydrocortisone containing compositions and methods of manufacture are disclosed. Isomerization of the hydrocortisone component of topical steroid compositions is markedly reduced by including an omega-6 acid component in the form of a free acid or as a compound such as an ester. Specifically disclosed are methods for preventing the isomerization of hydrocortisone 17-butyrate into hydrocortisone 21-butyrate through the use of safflower oil.
US07981868B2
Compositions and methods for the treatment and diagnosis of diseases or conditions amenable to treatment through modulation of expression of a gene encoding a p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38 MAPK) are provided. Methods for decreasing airway hyperresponsiveness or airway inflammation in an animal are also provided.
US07981858B1
The present invention provides zinc complexes for use in methods of providing zinc to subjects in need of treatment. The invention further provides improved dietary supplement formulations for improving and maintaining ocular nutrition. In particular, the improved dietary supplement formulations comprise the zinc complexes described herein, antioxidant vitamins, minerals and excipients.
US07981855B1
The invention relates to surfactant structured liquids structured with fibrous polymer and which additionally contain citrus fibers to eliminate flow instability.
US07981850B2
Provided is a detergent composition that contains the following components (A), (B), and (C). Component (A) is at least one selected from the group consisting of cationic polymers and amphoteric polymers. Component (B) is a compound represented by the following formula (1): R1O-(AO)n-R2 wherein R1 represents a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl group having from 8 to 10 carbon atoms, AO represents an alkyleneoxy group having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms, n means an average number of moles and stands for from 0.5 to 4, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. Component (C) is at least one selected from the group consisting of amphoteric surfactants and cationic surfactants. The detergent composition has a content of Component (A) from 5 to 40 wt. % and has Component (B) and Component (C) at a weight ratio (B)/(C) of from 0.5 to 2.5.
US07981842B2
A method is provided for identifying complexes between a transcription factor and another protein, such as another different transcription factor. The method includes the steps of isolating from a biological sample transcription factor complexes based on whether the transcription factor complexes include a particular type of transcription factor; and identifying which of the multiple different proteins are present in the isolated transcription factor complexes.
US07981834B2
An object of the present invention is to improve hydrocarbon adsorbing property when zeolite is used as an adsorbent for hydrocarbons. The present invention provides an adsorbent for hydrocarbons characterized by comprising A Type of β-zeolite having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio (molar ratio) in a range of 10 or more and less than 200 and B Type of β-zeolite having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio (molar ratio) in a range from 200 to 1,000, and a catalyst for exhaust gas purification containing said adsorbent for hydrocarbons.
US07981832B2
New methods for activating chromium catalysts for polymerization processes decrease the amount of time required for activation and increase catalyst activity. Rapid heating to a first temperature is followed by a first hold period before heating to a higher second temperature and maintaining the second temperature for a second hold period. In one aspect, the overall activation process takes less than 10 hours.
US07981829B2
An exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes: a composite oxide represented by: (Aa-w-xMwM′x) (Si6-yNy)O27-z. A is a cation of at least one of La and Pr; M is a cation of at least one of Ba, Ca, and Sr; M′ is a cation of at least one of Nd, Y, Al, Pr, Ce, Sr, Li, and Ca; N is a cation of at least one of Fe, Cu, and Al. The following are satisfied: 6≦a≦10, 0
US07981827B2
The present invention relates to biarylbisphosphines and intermediates thereof. Furthermore, the scope of the invention encompasses catalysts which can be prepared from the bisarylphosphines and their use in asymmetric syntheses.
US07981824B2
The present invention relates to a quartz glass blank for an optical component for transmitting radiation of a wavelength of 15 nm and shorter, the blank consisting of highly pure quartz glass, doped with titanium and/or fluorine, which is distinguished by an extremely high homogeneity. The homogeneity relates to the following features: a) micro-inhomogeneities caused by a local variance of the TiO2 distribution (<0.05% TiO2, averaged over a volume element of (5 μm)3 in relation to the mean value of the TiO2 content), b) an absolute maximum inhomogeneity in the thermal expansion coefficient Δα in the main functional direction (<5 ppb/K), c) a radial variance of the thermal expansion coefficient over the usable surface of the quartz glass blank of not more than 0.4 ppb/(K.cm); d) a maximum stress birefringence (SDB) at 633 nm in the main functional direction of 2 nm/cm with a specific progression; and e) a specific progression of the Δα, averaged according to (b) on the optical surface. Said quartz glass blank can only be obtained in that a doped quartz glass obtained by flame hydrolysis of a compound containing silicon, titanium and/or fluorine is formed as a large volume rod-shaped starting body into a homogeneous quartz glass blank using several forming steps and is homogenized.
US07981820B2
A press fabric for a machine for the production of web material, especially paper or cardboard, includes a carrying structure and at least one layer of fibrous material on one web material contact side of the carrying structure, whereby at least some of the fibers of the at least one layer of fibrous material are coated at least partially with a film of a first polymeric material and whereby a permeable composite structure is formed by a second polymeric material in the at least one fibrous layer, in that the hollow spaces which are formed between fibers of the at least one fibrous layer are filled partially with the second polymeric material.
US07981811B2
A base layer is formed on an insulating substrate, and a semiconductor layer is formed in localized fashion thereon. A gate insulating film is then formed so as to cover the semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode is formed on a portion of the gate insulating film. An impurity is then implanted into the semiconductor layer via the gate insulating film, and a source region, a drain region, and an LDD region are formed. The gate insulating film is etched with dilute hydrofluoric acid. An electrode-protecting insulating film is then formed so as to cover the gate electrode, and the entire surface of the surface layer portion of the electrode-protecting insulating film is etched away using dilute hydrofluoric acid. Carrier traps introduced into the electrode-protecting insulating film and the gate insulating film are thereby removed.
US07981806B2
A method for forming a trench includes providing a substrate, and forming the trench in the substrate using a gas containing chlorine (Cl2) gas as a main etch gas and SiFX gas as an additive gas, wherein a sidewall of the trench has a substantially vertical profile by virtue of reaction of the Cl2 gas and the SiFX gas.
US07981802B2
An electrical device, such as a semiconductor device, and methods of manufacturing the same. A semiconductor device having a shallow trench isolation (STI) layer may include a pad oxide layer formed over a semiconductor substrate, a trench formed over the substrate, a liner insulating layer formed over the trench, a gap-fill insulating layer formed over the liner insulating layer and a gate layer formed over the substrate. The gap-fill insulating layer may have a relatively and/or substantially planar polished surface. Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device having a shallow trench isolation (STI) layer may include performing a first chemical mechanical polishing over a gap-fill insulating layer to expose and/or target a portion of a liner insulating layer and performing a second chemical mechanical polishing over a gap-fill insulating layer to remove a portion of a liner insulating layer.
US07981799B2
The present invention relates to a room temperature-operating single-electron device and a fabrication method thereof, and more particularly, to a room temperature-operating single-electron device in which a plurality of metal silicide dots formed serially is used as multiple quantum dots, and a fabrication method thereof.
US07981785B2
A polysilicon electrode layer (103) (a first electrode layer) is formed by forming a polysilicon film on a gate oxide film (102) on a silicon wafer (101). A tungsten layer (105) (a second electrode layer) is formed on this polysilicon electrode layer (103). In addition, a barrier layer (104) is formed on the polysilicon electrode layer (103) before the formation of the tungsten layer (105). Etching is then conducted using a silicon nitride layer (106) as the etching mask. Next, an oxide insulating film (107) is formed on an exposed surface of the polysilicon layer (103) by plasma oxidation wherein a process gas containing oxygen gas and hydrogen gas is used at a process temperature not less than 300° C. With this method, a selective oxidation of the polysilicon electrode layer (103) can be carried out without oxidizing the tungsten layer (105).
US07981767B2
The present invention provides methods for forming at least partially relaxed strained material layers on a target substrate. The methods include forming islands of the strained material layer on an intermediate substrate, at least partially relaxing the strained material islands by a first heat treatment, and transferring the at least partially relaxed strained material islands to the target substrate. The at least partial relaxation is facilitated by the presence of low-viscosity or compliant layers adjacent to the strained material layer. The invention also provides semiconductor structures having an at least partially relaxed strained material layer, and semiconductor devices fabricated using an at least partially relaxed strained material layer.
US07981762B2
A method of forming a pre-metal dielectric (PMD) layer of a semiconductor device using a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process which can be suitable for easily recognizing an alignment key. Such a method can reduce or otherwise eliminate alignment key erosion due to CMP by previously forming an alignment key pattern of polysilicon in an active region of a semiconductor scribe lane.
US07981761B2
In this invention, the film thicknesses of an upper barrier film of a lower electrode of a capacitive element and an upper barrier film of a metallic interconnect layer formed in the same layer as this is made thicker than the film thicknesses of upper barrier films of other metallic interconnect layers. Moreover, in this invention, the film thickness of the upper barrier film of the lower electrode of the capacitive element is controlled to be 110 nm or more, more preferably, 160 nm or more. A decrease in the dielectric voltage of the capacitive dielectric film due to cracks in the upper barrier film does not occur and the deposition temperature of the capacitive dielectric film can be made higher, so that a semiconductor device having a MIM capacitor with high performance and high capacitance can be achieved, where the dielectric voltage of the capacitive dielectric film is improved.
US07981747B2
A technology is provided to reduce ON-resistance, and the prevention of punch through is achieved with respect to a trench gate type power MISFET. Input capacitance and a feedback capacitance are reduced by forming a groove in which a gate electrode is formed so as to have a depth as shallow as about 1 μm or less, a p−type semiconductor region is formed to a depth so as not to cover the bottom of the groove, and a p-type semiconductor region higher in impurity concentration than the p−type semiconductor region is formed under a n+type semiconductor region serving as a source region of the trench gate type power MISFET, causing the p-type semiconductor region to serve as a punch-through stopper layer of the trench gate type power MISFET.
US07981741B2
Deposited thin-film dielectrics having columnar grains and high dielectric constants are formed on heat treated and polished metal foil. The sputtered dielectrics are annealed at low oxygen partial pressures.
US07981735B2
Provided are a Schottky barrier tunnel transistor and a method of manufacturing the same that are capable of minimizing leakage current caused by damage to a gate sidewall of the Schottky barrier tunnel transistor using a Schottky tunnel barrier naturally formed at a semiconductor-metal junction as a tunnel barrier. The method includes the steps of: forming a semiconductor channel layer on an insulating substrate; forming a dummy gate on the semiconductor channel layer; forming a source and a drain at both sides of the dummy gate on the insulating substrate; removing the dummy gate; forming an insulating layer on a sidewall from which the dummy gate is removed; and forming an actual gate in a space from which the dummy gate is removed. In manufacturing the Schottky barrier tunnel transistor using the dummy gate, it is possible to form a high-k dielectric gate insulating layer and a metal gate, and stable characteristics in silicidation of the metal layer having very strong reactivity can be obtained.
US07981731B2
A programmable element that has a first diode having an electrode and a first insulator disposed between the substrate and said electrode of said first device, said first insulator having a first value of a given characteristic, and an FET having an electrode and a second insulator disposed between the substrate and said electrode of said second device, said second insulator having a second value of said given characteristic that is different from said first value. The electrodes of the diode and the FET are coupled to one another, and a source of programming energy is coupled to the diode to cause it to permanently decrease in resistivity when programmed. The programmed state of the diode is indicated by a current in the FET, which is read by a sense latch. Thus a small resistance change in the diode translates to a large signal gain/change in the latch. This allows the diode to be programmed at lower voltages.
US07981730B2
An integrated conformal electromagnetic interference (EMI) and/or electromagnetic radiation shield is formed on a plurality of encapsulated modules by attaching a plurality of modules (30-33) to a process carrier (1) using a double side adhesive tape (2), and then sequentially depositing an insulating layer (15) and a conductive shielding layer (16) before encapsulating the modules with a molding compound (17). After removing the adhesive tape (2) to expose a surface of the encapsulated modules, a multi-layer circuit substrate (100) is formed over the exposed surface, where the circuit substrate includes shielding via structures (101-112) that are aligned with and electrically connected to the conductive shielding layer (16), thereby encircling and shielding the circuit module(s).
US07981726B2
An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to construct a multi-die package. A stack of dice is formed from a base substrate in a package. The dice are positioned one on top of another and have copper plated segments for die interconnection. The dice are interconnected using copper plating to connect the copper plated segments.
US07981725B2
A fabricating process of a chip package structure is provided. First, a first substrate having a plurality of first bonding pads and a second substrate having a plurality of second bonding pads are provided, wherein bumps are formed on the first bonding pads of the first substrate. A first two-stage adhesive layer is formed on the first substrate and is B-stagized to form a first B-staged adhesive layer. A second two-stage adhesive layer is formed on the second substrate and is B-stagized to form a second B-staged adhesive layer. Then, the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded via the first and second B-staged adhesive layer such that the bumps pierce through the second B-staged adhesive layer and are electrically connected to the second bonding pads, wherein each of the first bonding pads is respectively electrically connected to one of the second bonding pads via one of the bumps.
US07981724B2
A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device embedded substrate, includes: a first step of preparing a semiconductor device having a first insulating layer; a second step of arranging the semiconductor device on one surface of a support body; a third step of forming a second insulating layer on the one surface of the support body; a fourth step of removing the support body; a fifth step of forming a third insulating layer on a surface of each of the semiconductor device and the second insulating layer; a sixth step of mounting a wiring substrate on a surface of each of the semiconductor device and the second insulating layer; a seventh step of forming a via-hole in the second insulating layer and the third insulating layer; and an eighth step of forming a second wiring pattern on a surface of each of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer.
US07981723B2
A capped wafer includes a device wafer and an opposing cap wafer with an annular glass frit disposed between the device wafer and the cap wafer. The glass frit and the opposing wafers define a sealed volume that encloses the capped devices, and the glass frit may support the wafer cap during removal of excess wafer cap material from the capped wafer. A method of fabricating a capped wafer includes fabricating an annular intermediate layer between a device wafer and a cap wafer. In an alternate embodiment, a plurality of unsingulated dice each contains bond pads along a single edge and are arranged on a device wafer in an alternating order so that the bond pads of a first die are adjacent to the bond pads of a second die. Removing excess cap wafer material involves making a first cut in the cap wafer near a first row of bond pads and a second cut near the adjacent row of bond pads, such that a strip of wafer cap material is suspended from portions of an underlying supporting member near the edge of the capped wafer, and then removing the wafer cap material suspended from the portions of the supporting glass frit using an adhesive tape.
US07981719B2
A thin film transistor comprises a layer of organic semiconductor material comprising a tetracarboxylic diimide naphthalene-based compound having, attached to each of the imide nitrogen atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted arylalkyl moiety. Such transistors can further comprise spaced apart first and second contact means or electrodes in contact with said material. Further disclosed is a process for fabricating an organic thin-film transistor device, preferably by sublimation deposition onto a substrate, wherein the substrate temperature is no more than 100° C.
US07981712B2
A method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip based on a nitride semiconductor system is specified. The method comprises the steps of: forming a semiconductor section with at least one p-doped region; and forming a covering layer disposed downstream of the semiconductor section in a growth direction of the semiconductor chip, said covering layer having at least one n-doped semiconductor layer. An activation step suitable for electrically activating the p-doped region is effected before or during the formation of the covering layer. An optoelectronic semiconductor chip which can be produced by the method is additionally specified.
US07981694B2
The invention is a method for the isolation of molecules of interest using tubes in which at least a portion of the inner walls of the tube are coated with microbeads that are coated with a capture reagent to bind the molecule of interest. The microbeads may be glass or polymer beads. The invention is a method and apparatus for preparation of the tubes for use in the method of the invention. The invention is a method for determining ratios of guanine nucleotides bound to guanine-nucleotide binding proteins.
US07981693B2
The present invention relates to a method aiding in the assessment of rheumatoid arthritis. The method especially is used in assessing the absence or presence of rheumatoid arthritis in vitro. It can be best practiced by analyzing biochemical markers, comprising measuring in a sample the concentration of anti-CCP and serum amyloid A and correlating the concentrations determined to the absence or presence of rheumatoid arthritis. To further improve the assessment of RA in a method of this invention the level of one or more additional marker may be determined together with anti-CCP and serum amyloid A and be correlated to the absence or presence of RA. The invention also relates to the use of a marker panel comprising anti-CCP and serum amyloid A in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis and it teaches a kit for performing the method of the invention.
US07981684B2
A method of diagnosing or monitoring a psychotic disorder, or predisposition thereto, comprises measuring, in a sample taken from a subject, the level of a biomarker selected from clusterin precursor, inter α-trypsin inhibitor, IgM, apolipoprotein A2 and α2 H5 glycoprotein.
US07981679B2
An apparatus and method for monitoring and controlling microbiological activity in a process stream by measuring dissolved oxygen is disclosed.
US07981678B2
A device includes a sensor array and a processor is automatically calibrated. The sensor array collects data from a pattern using at least one of a capacitive measurement and a radio frequency measurement. The pattern is included on a calibration storage device. The processor receives the data from the sensor array and calibrates the device in accordance with the data.
US07981673B2
The invention proves a method of producing mature dendritic cells in vitro, which comprises the step of culturing the immature dendritic cells in the presence of a specifically configured high molecular weight double stranded RNA (dsRNA) polymer. The specifically configured high molecular weight dsRNA polymer is typically selected from the group comprising poly[I]:poly [CxU]; poly [I]:poly [GxU]; poly [A]: poly [UxC]; poly [A]:poly [UxG]; poly [U]:poly [AxC]; poly [U]:poly [IxU]; poly [C]:poly [GxA]; poly [C]:poly [GxU]; poly [G]:poly [CxA]; poly [G]:poly [CxU] and AMPLIGEN® (poly[I]:poly[C12U]), where x is on average a number from 3 to 40. The immature dendritic cells may be exposed to an antigen before they are matured, and a vaccine including the antigen-presenting mature dendritic cells can then be prepared. A method of treating cancer, a virus, parasite and microorganism is also disclosed.
US07981660B2
Cell lines having genetically modified glycosylation pathways that allow them to carry out a sequence of enzymatic reactions, which mimic the processing of glycoproteins in humans, have been developed. Recombinant proteins expressed in these engineered hosts yield glycoproteins more similar, if not substantially identical, to their human counterparts. The lower eukaryotes, which ordinarily produce high-mannose containing N-glycans, including unicellular and multicellular fungi are modified to produce N-glycans such as Man5GlcNAc2 or other structures along human glycosylation pathways. This is achieved using a combination of engineering and/or selection of strains which: do not express certain enzymes which create the undesirable complex structures characteristic of the fungal glycoproteins, which express exogenous enzymes selected either to have optimal activity under the conditions present in the fungi where activity is desired, or which are targeted to an organelle where optimal activity is achieved, and combinations thereof wherein the genetically engineered eukaryote expresses multiple exogenous enzymes required to produce “human-like” glycoproteins.
US07981651B2
Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides, fragments and variants thereof are provided in the current invention. In addition, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides, and antibodies are encompassed. The invention also provides recombinant expression vectors containing a nucleic acid molecule of the invention and cells comprising the expression vectors. Methods for producing the polypeptides of the invention and methods for their use are further provided.
US07981648B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel microalga that produces hydrocarbons available as an alternative fuel to a diesel fuel (light oil).The present invention relates to a novel microalga Pseudochoricystis ellipsoidea having the ability to produce hydrocarbons, and to a process for producing hydrocarbons, characterized by culturing a microalga belonging to the genus Pseudochoricystis or the genus Choricystis having the ability to produce hydrocarbons, and collecting the hydrocarbon from the resulting cultured product.
US07981645B2
A process for the stereoselective decarboxylation of malonic acid derivatives with mutated decarboxylases is disclosed.
US07981644B2
An acetyl xylan esterase variant having perhydrolytic activity is provided for producing peroxycarboxylic acids from carboxylic acid esters and a source of peroxygen. More specifically, a Thermotoga maritima acetyl xylan esterase gene was modified using error-prone PCR and site-directed mutagenesis to create an enzyme catalyst characterized by an increase in the ratio of peracetic acid formation to peracetic acid hydrolysis specific activities (PAAF/PAAH ratio). The variant acetyl xylan esterase may be used to produce peroxycarboxylic acids suitable for use in a variety of applications such as cleaning, disinfecting, sanitizing, bleaching, wood pulp processing, and paper pulp processing applications.
US07981640B2
L-lysine-producing strains of corynebacteria with enhanced lysE gene (lysine export carrier gene), in which strains additional genes chosen from the group comprising the dapA gene (dihydrodipicolinate synthase gene), the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), the dapB gene (dihydrodipicolinate reductase gene) and the pyc gene, but especially the dapA gene and the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), are enhanced and, in particular, over-expressed, and a process for the preparation of L-lysine.
US07981636B2
The present invention relates to novel polypeptides according to caroase 01-05 or any functional equivalents of any of them, suitable for use in a method for preparing a food products having increased whiteness, the use of the enzyme to increase whiteness of at least part of a food product, a process for preparing a food product wherein the enzyme is used and the food product obtained.
US07981630B2
Polynucleotides associated with differentiation states of stem cells are provided. Also provided are methods and kits for detecting, identifying and/or discriminating differentiated stem cells from undifferentiated ones by measuring an expression level of one or more genes, such as CBARA1 and LHX 6, in the stem cells.
US07981628B2
Isolated monoclonal antibodies are disclosed herein that specifically bind a cell surface antigen expressed on the human pancreatic endocrine cells or a subset thereof, and/or a precursor thereof. Isolated monoclonal antibodies are also disclosed herein that specifically bind a cell surface antigen expressed on human pancreatic exocrine cells or human ductal cells. Humanized forms of these antibodies, and functional fragments of these antibodies, are also disclosed. The antibodies can be conjugated to an effector molecule, such as a detectable marker, a therapeutic agent, or a toxin. These antibodies are of use to detect and isolate pancreatic cells or a subset thereof. The antibodies can be used for in vitro or in vivo detection and/or isolation of pancreatic endocrine cells. Methods of treating a pancreatic tumor are also disclosed. In several examples, the isolated monoclonal antibodies bind pancreatic endocrine cells and can be used to detect diabetes or a pancreatic endocrine cell tumor.
US07981626B2
A method for diagnosing endometriosis in a human subject comprising the steps of detecting a test amount of an antibody that specifically binds to SEQ ID NO:9 polypeptide or a truncated peptide comprising an epitope of SEQ ID NO: 9, in a sample from the subject; and comparing the test amount with a normal range of the antibody in a control sample from a subject who does not suffer from endometriosis, whereby a test amount above the normal range provides a positive indication in the diagnosis of endometriosis.
US07981617B2
Methods to construct a transcription template for cell-free protein synthesis that has a high translation template activity, using a 3′-side primer and a 5′-side primer for PCR are provided. The 5′-side primer for PCR has a sequence complementary to a base sequence containing at least a part of a promoter functional site from the 5′-end of a promoter and has a base sequence that does not contain a base sequence complementary to at least a part of a RNA polymerase-recognizing site of the 3′-end of the promoter. The other primer has a base sequence complementary to at least a part of the RNA polymerase-recognizing site of the 3′-end of the promoter and has a sequence that does not contain a base sequence complementary to at least a part of a promoter functional site from the 5′-end of the promoter.
US07981613B2
The present invention relates to a kit and a method for diagnosing cancer using polymorphic minisatellites (MS), more specifically, relates to a primer set for detecting polymorphic minisatellites MUC2-MS6 or MUC2-MS7 in the MUC2 gene, a DNA typing kit comprising said primer set, and a kit and a method for diagnosing cancer using a primer set for detecting polymorphic minisatellites MUC2-MS6, MUC2-MS7 or hTERT-VNTR 2-2. According to the present invention, DNA typing of MUC2-MS6 and MUC2-MS7 can effectively achieve the parentage identification, kinship identification or medicolegal examination, because the polymorphic minisatellites MUC2-MS6 and MUC2-MS7 are inherited through meiosis according to Mendelian genetics. In addition, the polymorphic minisatellites MUC2-MS6, MUC2-MS7 and hTERT-VNTR 2-2 can be used to predict and diagnose various cancers; such as gastric cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer and prostate cancer etc.
US07981610B2
It has been surprisingly found that ZAP-70 expression, both at the protein and mRNA levels, is indicative of clinical subgroups of CLL/SLL patients. In particular, high ZAP-70 expression is indicative of Ig-unmutated CLL/SLL. Methods are provided for discriminating between clinical subgroups of CLL/SLL, by determining whether subjects overexpress ZAP-70 mRNA or protein.
US07981606B2
The present invention is related to a method for detecting a target biomolecule in test sample by adding an internal control biomolecule to the test sample; to a negative control sample, to a positive control sample and to a reagent control sample or adding an internal control biomolecule to the test sample, to a negative control sample, to a positive control sample comprising the target biomolecule and providing a reagent control sample comprising the target biomolecule, determining in each sample a signal, and verifying the signal thereby detecting the target biomolecule. The invention is also related to a method for verifying the determination of a signal indicating the presence of a target biomolecule. The invention is further related to a method for detecting the presence or the absence of a member of a group of target nucleic acids in a sample and a method for verifying the determination of a signal indicating the presence of a member of a group of target nucleic acids.
US07981602B2
The present invention relates to photoproteins with enhanced bioluminescence obtained by mutagenesis of clytin, to their use as intracellular calcium indicators and in cell-based assays.
US07981593B2
A toner including toner particles including a resin, a colorant, a wax, and a charge controlling agent, and an external additive, wherein the toner satisfies the relationships (1) 0.15×Q−2≦T≦0.15×Q−0.15, and (2) 1.0≦T≦2.5, wherein Q represents the charge of the toner in units of μC/g, and T represents the torque of the toner in units of mN·m determined by a method using a cone-shaped rotor while controlling a space ratio of the toner at 58%. A developer including the toner and a carrier. An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a transfer device, a fixing device and a double side image forming unit, and using the toner, wherein the receiving material includes moisture in an amount of not greater than 5% by weight after the toner image on the first side is fixed.
US07981592B2
A method of making a device includes forming a first photoresist layer over an underlying layer, patterning the first photoresist layer to form a first photoresist pattern comprising a first grid, rendering the first photoresist pattern insoluble to a solvent, forming a second photoresist layer over the first photoresist pattern, patterning the second photoresist layer to form a second photoresist pattern over the underlying layer, where the second photoresist pattern is a second grid which overlaps the first grid to form a photoresist web, and etching the underlying layer using the photoresist web as a mask.
US07981580B2
A photoconductor that includes, for example, a supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and a charge transport layer that includes a charge transport component, and a mixture of a bis(enylaryl)arylamine and a tris(enylaryl)amine.
US07981575B2
A method for optical proximity correction (OPC) of a desired pattern for a substrate is disclosed in which a plurality of variable shaped beam (VSB) shots are determined which can form on a surface an OPC-corrected version of the desired substrate pattern. Shots within the plurality of VSB shots are allowed to overlap each other. Dosages of the shots may also be allowed to vary with respect to each other. The union of the plurality of shots may deviate from the OPC-corrected version of the desired pattern for the substrate. In some embodiments, optimization may be used to minimize shot count. In other embodiments, the plurality of shots may be optionally selected from one or more pre-computed VSB shots or groups of VSB shots, that is, glyphs. A method for creating glyphs is also disclosed, in which patterns that would result on a surface from one or a group of VSB shots are pre-calculated.
US07981570B2
The present invention provides a fuel cell having a layered structure, including: a membrane electrode assembly having a fuel electrode, an oxidation electrode, and an electrolyte membrane held between the fuel electrode and the oxidation electrode; and stainless steel separators holding the membrane electrode assembly therebetween. The stainless steel separator contains Cr and Fe; the Cr concentration by mass % by mass ratio of Cr to Fe at the separator surface facing the fuel electrode is from 0.7 to 1.3; and the Cr concentration by mass % by mass ratio of Cr to Fe at the separator surface facing the oxidation electrode is less than 0.7.
US07981568B2
An ion-conductive composite membrane and a method of manufacturing the same, the membrane including phosphate platelets, a silicon compound, and a Keggin-type oxometalate and/or Keggin-type heteropoly acid, wherein the phosphate platelets are three-dimensionally connected to each other via the silicon compound. An electrolyte membrane having an ion-conductive inorganic membrane or an ion-conductive organic/inorganic composite membrane effectively prevents crossover of liquid fuel without the reduction of ion conductivity in a liquid fuel cell, thereby allowing for the production of fuel cells having excellent performance.
US07981565B2
The invention provides a fuel cell including an elongate substrate the length of which is the greatest dimension such that the elongate substrate exhibits thermal expansion along a dominant axis that is coextensive with the length. A reaction zone is provided along a first portion of the length for heating to an operating reaction temperature, and at least one cold zone is provided along a second portion of the length that remains at a low temperature below the operating reaction temperature when the reaction zone is heated. An electrolyte is disposed between an anode and a cathode in the reaction zone and the electrolyte is monolithic with an interior ceramic support structure of the elongate substrate. The anode and cathode each have an electrical pathway extending to an exterior surface of the at least one cold zone for electrical connection at low temperature.
US07981562B2
A fuel cell stack includes an electricity generating element, which generates electrical energy through a reaction of a fuel and oxygen. The electricity generating element includes a membrane-electrode assembly (MEA), a first separator positioned at a first side of the MEA and having a heat sink element positioned therein for dissipating heat generated through the reaction of the fuel and oxygen, and a second separator positioned at a second, opposite side of the MEA.
US07981560B2
A MEMS-based fuel cell has a substrate, an electrolyte in contact with the substrate, a cathode in contact with the electrolyte, an anode spaced apart from the cathode and in contact with the electrolyte, and an integral manifold for supplying either a fuel or an oxidant or both together, the integral manifold extending over at least a portion of the electrolyte and over at least one of the anode and cathode. Methods for making and using arrays of the fuel cells are disclosed.
US07981543B2
Disclosed is an electrode slurry comprising: (a) an electrode active material capable of lithium intercalation/deintercalation; and (b) monomers capable of forming a polymer via polymerization. An electrode having a binder polymer formed by applying the electrode slurry onto a current collector and carrying out in situ polymerization of the monomers, and an electrochemical device comprising the electrode are also disclosed. The electrode uses monomers capable of forming a binder polymer via polymerization under heat or light upon drying of the electrode, instead of the conventional PVdF or SBR-based binders. Therefore, it is possible to simplify a process for manufacturing an electrode, to provide an eco-friendly electrode by virtue of the use of an aqueous solvent as a dispersion medium, to improve the ion conductivity of a binder by virtue of the use of a solvent for a battery electrolyte as a dispersion medium, and thus to improve the quality of an electrochemical device.
US07981542B2
A rechargeable battery including: an electrode assembly; a can to house the electrode assembly; and a cap assembly to seal an opening of the can. The cap assembly includes: a cap plate; an insulation plate disposed upon a lower surface of the cap plate; a terminal plate disposed upon a lower surface of the insulation plate; and an electrode terminal extending through the cap plate, the insulation plate and the terminal plate, and which is electrically coupled to the electrode assembly. The cap plate includes a seat part defined therein, which has a thickness that is less than an overall thickness of the cap plate. The insulation plate is seated in the seat part, which has a width is the same as an overall width of the cap plate.
US07981539B2
A battery connector includes a housing having a bottom wall, two sides of the bottom wall extend upward to form two sidewalls, and the back end of the bottom wall extends upward to form a back wall. At least one partition wall is set between the two sidewalls and connects with the bottom wall and the back wall. A plurality of terminal recesses are defined in the housing and separated by the partition wall for receiving a plurality of electric terminals. Each electric terminal has a soldering portion extending forward to connect with a printed circuit board and a contacting portion protruding upward out of the housing for contacting a battery. Between the housing and the printed circuit board a stopping element is set. The stopping element can stop the contacting portion moving forward to contact the printed circuit board or lose resilience if improper installation of the battery occurs.
US07981536B2
Disclosed herein is multi-layer, microporous polyolefin membrane comprising a first porous layer comprising primarily a polyethylene, and a second porous layer comprising a polyethylene resin and polypropylene, the polypropylene having a weight-average molecular weight of 6×105 or more and a heat of fusion (measured by a differential scanning calorimeter) of 90 J/g or more, a fraction of the polypropylene having a molecular weight of 5×104 or less being 5% or less by mass.
US07981534B2
A rechargeable battery includes a housing, a plurality of cells within the housing, and a cover which closes the housing. The battery also includes a plurality of filling openings arranged in the cover separated from one another by a distance and a plurality of plugs. Each of the plurality of plugs is configured to close one of the plurality of filling openings. A flexible connecting element connects at least two of the plugs. The flexible connecting element is configured such that the distance between the plugs which are connected to one another can be variably matched to the distance between their associated filling openings by rotating at least one of the plugs connected by the flexible connecting element.
US07981499B2
Microlens sheetings with composite images are disclosed, in which the composite image floats above or below the sheeting, or both. The composite image may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Methods for providing such an imaged sheeting are also disclosed.
US07981498B2
A honeycomb body, especially a particulate filter, particularly for motor vehicle exhaust purification, includes inner walls defining passages with an entry and exit. Cavities free of walls in at least one subregion contain at least one spherical free space having a largest cross-sectional area at least 10 times a cross-sectional area of the passages in the subregion. The honeycomb body is wound, twisted or layered from at least one metal sheet having layers with a structuring forming the passages, at least in the subregion. The sheet-metal layers have holes with an area greater than 10 times the cross-sectional area of the passages in the subregion. The holes form cavities in at least 5 successive layers overlapping with an area at least 10 times the cross-sectional area of the passages in the subregion. The holes are double or more than triple the hydraulic diameter of the passages opening into the cavity.
US07981497B2
The present invention provides a honeycomb structure in which a coating layer is firmly secured to an outer wall forming a cell structure so that separation of the coating layer is effectively prevented. A honeycomb structure according to the present invention includes a cell structure having a porous partition wall partitioning a plurality of cells serving as fluid channels and an outer wall integrally formed with the partition wall, and a coating layer disposed on the surface of the outer wall forming the cell structure, a depression/protrusion portion and/or a cut portion formed by partially removing the surface of the outer wall being formed on the surface of the outer wall, and the coating layer being disposed to cover the surface of the outer wall.
US07981494B2
In a write-once optical information recording medium including a substrate, a groove-shaped track such as a guiding groove, and an optical recording layer containing an organic dye material and disposed on the guiding groove, wherein information is recorded by irradiating a short-wavelength laser beam from a surface of the optical recording layer opposite the substrate, and the information can be reproduced by reading a change in the reflected light of a short-wavelength laser beam after the information recording, an unrecorded portion of the optical recording layer has a lower reflectance than a pit portion formed after recording to a portion of the optical recording layer, the optical recording layer has a refractive index n in the range of about 1.2 to about 2.1 before recording and an extinction coefficient k in the range of about 0.01 to about 0.7 before recording, and n+k is in the range of about 1.4 to about 2.1.
US07981491B2
The invention provides an ink jet recording medium package comprising a main body, a flap, and a self-adhesive layer, wherein the main body accommodates an ink jet recording medium and has an opening through which the ink jet recording medium is taken out, the flap closes the opening, the self-adhesive layer allows repeated adhesion of the main body to the flap, and the self-adhesive layer is composed of an olefin-based elastomer.
US07981488B2
A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell and two polarizing plates disposed on the both sides thereof, wherein a protective film satisfying the specific conditions of retardation is sandwitched each between the liquid crystal cell and the polarizing plates. The liquid crystal display device can be easily produced at low costs and has a low viewing angle dependency of color.
US07981483B2
Embodiments of methods for improving electrical leakage performance and minimizing electromigration in semiconductor devices are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US07981482B1
Methods for forming doped silane and/or semiconductor thin films, doped liquid phase silane compositions useful in such methods, and doped semiconductor thin films and structures. The composition is generally liquid at ambient temperatures and includes a Group IVA atom source and a dopant source. By irradiating a doped liquid silane during at least part of its deposition, a thin, substantially uniform doped oligomerized/polymerized silane film may be formed on a substrate. Such irradiation is believed to convert the doped silane film into a relatively high-molecular weight species with relatively high viscosity and relatively low volatility, typically by cross-linking, isomerization, oligomerization and/or polymerization. A film formed by the irradiation of doped liquid silanes can later be converted (generally by heating and annealing/recrystallization) into a doped, hydrogenated, amorphous silicon film or a doped, at least partially polycrystalline silicon film suitable for electronic devices. Thus, the present invention enables use of high throughput, low cost equipment and techniques for making doped semiconductor films of commercial quality and quantity from doped “liquid silicon.”
US07981479B2
A system and method for use in applying a coating of a desired material onto one or more medical implant components. The system may include one or more thermal sprayers and a rotatable holding fixture having a plurality of mounting stations each operable to hold at least one medical implant component. The fixture may be operable to rotate about a central axis and each mounting station may be operable to rotate about a respective mounting station axis. The fixture may be arranged adjacent to one or more thermal sprayers so that during operation one or more desired materials may be sprayed by the one or more thermal sprayers upon an outer surface of each of the medical implant components while the fixture rotates about the central axis and while simultaneously therewith each of mounting stations having a respective medical implant component rotates about the respective mounting station axis.
US07981476B2
An apparatus for coating the outer peripheral surface 1a of a pillar structure 1 comprising a smoothing means 10 having a smoothing plate 10a and an elastic body 10b; the elastic body 10 being disposed to be contacted with the outer peripheral surface 1a of the pillar structure 1 to be coated. The coating surface of a coating material supplied to the outer peripheral surface 1a is smoothed between the outer peripheral surface 1a and the elastic body 10b. A method for coating the outer peripheral surface of a pillar structure is also provided. According to the method by using the apparatus, the occurrence of partial uncoating or peeling of the coating and occurrence of cracks in the coating portion during drying after coating can be inhibited since the coating material can be applied thinly and uniformly on the outer peripheral surface, thereby the coating surface is smoothed.
US07981474B2
The multilayer film serves as a laminate. The film is a multilayered structure that, in its base form, encompasses an intermediate layer with first and second outer layer affixed to opposing sides of the intermediate layer. The first outer layer is a semi-crystalline fluoropolymer. The intermediate layer includes a polyester and the second outer layer is an olefinic polymer. The layers are bonded together in the noted order to provide the multilayer film.
US07981471B2
A process for producing a thin film and an optical member which are free from discoloration of a lens and exhibit a good antistatic property and a good water repellency. The thin film is formed by a vacuum deposition of a water repellent solution which contains (a) a water repellent having a perfluoroalkyl group, (b) a mixture of a silane coupling agent, a modified silicone oil introduced with an organic group into its side chain and/or both terminal ends, and a perfluoroether compound, and (c) at least one conductive substance selected from the group consisting of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphite compounds.
US07981467B2
A process for preparing an ion-permeable web-reinforced separator membrane includes the steps of: providing a web (2A) and a suitable paste (5), guiding the web (2A) in a vertical position, equally coating both sides of the web with the paste to produce a paste coated web (2B), and applying a symmetrical surface pore formation step and a symmetrical coagulation step to the paste coated web to produce a web-reinforced separator membrane.
US07981463B2
An exemplary embodiment of manufacturing a hot-dip Sn—Zn coated steel sheet is provided which can include pre-coating a Fe—Ni alloy containing between about 10 to 80 mass % of Ni, and a remainder being Fe on a steel sheet, immersing the steel sheet into a Sn—Zn hot-dip coating bath so as to form a hot-dip coating layer on the steel sheet, cooling the hot-dip coating layer at a cooling rate of about 10° C./sec to about 30° C./sec so as to obtain a hot-dip Sn—Zn coated steel sheet, measuring a differential scanning calorimetric curve of the hot-dip Sn—Zn coated steel sheet by a differential scanning calorimetry, and distinguishing whether the hot-dip Sn—Zn coated steel sheet has an objective microstructure by the measured differential scanning calorimetric curve.
US07981456B2
A solid, edible ethanol containing product which may be either a rubbery solid or a hard solid that is frozen about 24.8° F. (−4° C.). The product contains gelatin and the ethanol may be provided in the form of selected alcoholic beverages.
US07981450B2
A novel canola protein isolate consisting predominantly of 2S canola protein and having equal to better solubility properties and improved clarity properties, has an increased proportion of 2S canola protein and a decreased proportion of 7S canola protein. The novel canola protein isolate is formed by heat treatment or isoelectric precipitation of aqueous supernatant from canola protein micelle formation and precipitation, to effect precipitation of 7S protein which is sedimented and removed. Alternatively, the novel canola protein isolate may be derived from a selective membrane procedure in which an aqueous canola protein solution containing 12S, 7S and 2S canola proteins is subjected to a first selective membrane technique to retain 12S and 7S canola proteins in a retentate, which is dried to provide a canola protein isolate consisting predominantly of 7S canola protein, and to permit 2S canola protein to pass through the membrane. The permeate is subjected to a second selective membrane technique to retain 2S canola protein and to permit low molecular weight contaminants to pass through the membrane, and the retentate from the latter membrane technique is dried.
US07981449B2
Provided is a process for producing a purified green tea extract of high quality by readily and efficiently purifying a green tea extract in a simple manner. A process for producing a purified product of green tea extract, which includes subjecting an aqueous solution of green tea extract to solid-liquid separation by filtration and/or centrifugal separation to obtain another aqueous solution of green tea extract, said another aqueous solution having a turbidity of from 0.2 to 2.0 as measured with a concentration of non-polymer catechins in it adjusted to 1 wt %, and then allowing the another aqueous solution of green tea extract to pass through a polymer membrane having a membrane pore size of from 0.05 to 0.8 μm such that the turbidity of the another aqueous solution of green tea extract is reduced to lower than 0.2 as measured with a concentration of non-polymer catechins in it adjusted to 1 wt %.
US07981447B2
Particulate β-glucan is solubilized at elevated pressure and temperature to form particulate-soluble β-glucan. The particulate-soluble β-glucan is capable of being dried to a powder form and subsequently re-solubilized.
US07981443B2
A method for treating snoring, sleep apnoea and other forms of sleep disordered breathing involves administration to a patient of a therapeutically effective amount of topiramate over an appropriate period of time, such as a period substantially coinciding with the sleep period of a patient. A useful route of administration is per os. Also disclosed is the use of topiramate for the diagnosis of snoring, sleep apnoea and other forms of sleep disordered breathing.
US07981441B2
Sustained-release drug-delivery devices employing a mesoporous oxide coating that functions as a drug reservoir, and the use of mesoporous oxide coatings for improved adhesion of organic polymers to inorganic substrates.
US07981435B2
The invention relates to novel spill resistant formulations comprising either a weak base or a weak acid as the pharmaceutical ingredient, a liquid base, a clay and a water soluble cellulose ether. The clay and cellulose ether allow for a broader pH range into which the pharmaceutically active agent may be dispersed or dissolved, and therefore allows for easier preparation and formulation of the pharmaceutical composition.
US07981429B2
Polypeptides, polynucleotides, methods, compositions, and vaccines comprising (avian pandemic) influenza hemagglutinin and neuraminidase variants are provided.
US07981426B2
The present invention relates to a method for stimulating wound healing, and more particularly to a method for stimulating wound healing in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to a wound of the subject an effective amount for stimulating wound healing of a composition, wherein the composition comprises p43 having an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or functional equivalents thereof. The composition used in the method of the present invention can be efficiently utilized for the wound healing, since p43, an effective ingredient of the composition, has an excellent effect on the wound healing by its action including the induction of macrophage/monocyte and endothelial cell re-epithelization, proliferation of fibroblasts or angiogenesis.
US07981416B2
The present invention provides to a humanized monoclonal antibody having immunostimulatory effects. This antibody binds specifically to B lymphoblastoid cells, induces proliferation and activation of peripheral blood lymphocytes, particularly T cells, and is capable of eliciting an anti-tumor effect upon administration to subjects suffering from an immune deficiency.
US07981415B2
The present application relates to compositions of humanized anti-PAI-1 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof which convert PAI-1 to its latent form. One aspect relates to antibodies having one or more modifications in at least one amino acid residue of at least one of the framework regions of the variable heavy chain, the variable light chain or both. Another aspect relates to antibodies which bind and neutralize PAI-1 by converting PAI-1 to its latent form or increasing proteolytic cleavage. Another aspect relates to the use of humanized antibodies which inhibit or neutralize PAI-1 for the detection, diagnosis or treatment of a disease or condition associated with PAI-1 or a combination thereof.
US07981414B2
The present invention provides a recombinant domain antibody (dAb) which binds to human TNF-α, the dAb comprising an immunoglobulin heavy or light chain variable domain, wherein the variable domain comprises at least one complementarity determining region (CDR) having a sequence derived from a New World primate.
US07981405B2
A leave-on hair cosmetic composition contains (a) malic acid or its salt, (b) lactic acid or its, and (c) an organic solvent selected from the group consisting of aromatic alcohols, N-alkylpyrrolidones, alkylene carbonates, polypropylene glycol, lactones and cyclic ketones.This hair cosmetic composition is excellent in the effect of substantially modifying the hair property to improve its sleekness, styling ease and touch feel.
US07981403B2
The invention relates to methods for removing artificial color from hair comprising combining a first composition comprising a sulfur reducing agent with a second composition comprising an oxidizing agent to form a color removing composition, and using the color removing composition to remove artificial color from the hair, as well as to compositions and kits containing such compositions which are useful in such methods.
US07981402B2
Polymers containing one or more novel photoactive moieties, sunscreen compositions including a mixture of a photoactive compound and a polymer containing one or more photoactive moieties are described herein.Polymer of formula (I): wherein the variables are as claimed. Also disclosed are methods for stabilizing a sunscreen composition, methods of filtering out ultra-violet light from a substrate by the addition of one or more of the foregoing polymers, methods accepting the triplet excited state energy with one or more of the foregoing polymer, and methods of increasing the UV-A Protective Value are described herein.
US07981397B2
A process of catalytic partial oxidation of hydrocarbons, particularly methane and/or natural gas to form a product containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide where the first catalyst at the inlet has a higher thermal conductivity than that of a second catalyst closer to the outlet. The second catalyst closer to the outlet has a higher surface area than that of the first catalyst at the inlet.
US07981394B2
A method for the treatment of tungsten carbide is provided. The starting material contains tungsten carbide particles of a W—C system represented on a phase diagram showing a monophasic domain of a γ phase having a face-centered cubic structure, upwardly delimited by a liquidus line. The particles are subjected to a homogenization treatment in the monophasic domain, and may be subsequently melted to be spheroidized. They are then quenched to freeze at ambient temperature the monophased structure. Optionally, at least one alloying element may be added to the starting material to enlarge the monophasic domain, thereby increasing the hardenability of the monophased particles.
US07981393B2
A method of preparing salt of dinitramidic acid, comprising nitration of an initial compound with a nitrating acid mixture to form dinitramidic acid in a reaction mixture. A positive ion is added to the reaction mixture and forms with the dinitramide ion an ion pair complex which precipitates in the acidic reaction mixture, and the precipitate is separated from the mixture. The remaining spent acid can be reprocessed for recovery of acid for preparation of a new nitrating acid mixture. The preferred positive ion is the guanylurea ion which gives a precipitate of guanylurea dinitramide. The precipitate can be used as starting material for preparation of other dinitramide salts, such as KDN and ADN. The guanylurea ion can be formed in situ in the process by cyanoguanidine being reacted with the reaction mixture.
US07981381B2
A medical device, such as a vascular access device, is disclosed for providing access to a medical fluid flow path for the introduction or withdrawal of medical fluids to and from the flow path. The access device includes an indicator for providing a visual indication when the access device has been exposed to an antiseptic agent.
US07981372B2
An oxidative autothermal reformer including a reforming layer at least partially filled with a reforming catalyst for producing a reformed gas composed mainly of hydrogen through a reforming reaction by contacting a mixture of a hydrocarbon or an aliphatic alcohol and steam with the reforming catalyst; and an oxidative exothermic layer at least partially filled with an oxidation catalyst for generating heat by oxidizing a part of the reformed gas, in which the reforming layer is disposed at an upstream side of the oxidative exothermic layer; the reforming layer and the oxidative exothermic layer are in the form of a cylinder and have a triple circular tube structure formed by disposing an inner reforming layer, an oxidative exothermic layer and an outer reforming layer from the inside in a radial direction in this order; and at least a part of the reforming catalyst filled in the inner reforming layer and the outer reforming layer contains Ru metal.
US07981365B2
A device having an air sampler, an electrospray apparatus, and a fluorescence excitation and detection system. The air sampler is capable of moving air suspected of containing a biological or chemical aerosol particle into a chamber. The electrospray apparatus is capable of spraying a charged solution into the chamber to coat the aerosol particles with a coating. The solution has a fluorescent-labeled biological or chemical marker capable of specific binding to the aerosol particle. The fluorescence system is capable of detecting fluorescence of the fluorescent label in the coating. A method of detecting the aerosol particle by: moving air suspected of containing the aerosol particle into a chamber; spraying the charged solution into the chamber with an electrospray apparatus, such that a coating of the solution is formed around the particle; exciting the fluorescent label; and detecting fluorescence of the fluorescent label.
US07981355B2
A mat-forming wheel for forming air-laid absorbent cores for sanitary absorbent articles, such as diapers, sanitary napkins, incontinence protectors and the like, said wheel having a series of moulds along its peripheral surface, each mould having up-standing walls and a bottom. The up-standing walls of the mould are formed in an element of a flexible material, which element is releasably attached to a foraminous substrate of rigid material, which runs along the whole circumference of the mat-forming wheel.
US07981352B2
A method for quality surveillance in manufacturing tablets in a rotary tablet press which, in a compression chamber, has a rotor with upper and lower rams, a die-plate, a cam system for the rams, at least one compressing station, and a charging system for the powdered material requiring compression wherein the tablets are checked for chemical and/or mechanical properties, wherein at least some chemical and/or mechanical data of the tablets is obtained by means of a NIR or LIF sensor in the compression chamber after the upper rams have left the dies, after a measuring procedure has been initiated by a machine computer in response to the die positions determined by a position generator relative to the NIR or LIF sensor.
US07981349B2
UHMWPE panels of large width may be ram extruded from a slit die in a stable process, by restraining a panel which exits the die below the crystalline melt temperature against movement away from the die by a back pressure device, so as to exert a back pressure between the back pressure device and the die, the back pressure device preferably constructed of a plurality of differentially adjustable elements so as to be able to compensate for changes in processing characteristics over time. Vertically restraining UHMWPE panels as they further cool also greatly improves product characteristics.
US07981348B2
A method of making a compressible elastomeric pad from a preselected polymer material includes the steps of providing a preform including a substantially solid body having a predetermined cross-section disposed normal to a central axis of the preform and a pair of axial ends, each having a substantially flat surface disposed normal to the central axis and a central socket formed within at least one substantially flat surface. Next, providing a pair of forming plates, at least one of the pair of forming plates having a raised annular ring and an axially aligned cavity provided on one surface thereof. Then, positioning the preform between the pair of forming plates and axially aligning the exterior peripheral edge of the annular ring with a peripheral edge of a respective central socket. Finally, forming the pad and removing the pad from engagement with the pair of forming plates.
US07981343B2
A method and apparatus for welding two or more subcomponents together is described. The subcomponents may be welded to one another along seams, whereby sections of the seam that comprise similar materials are heated to a degree suitable for joining together those particular portions of the seam. Other sections of the seam may be heated to a different degree depending upon the material characteristics employed in that section of the seam. Embodiments of the apparatus include features for holding the subcomponents, simultaneously heating seams of each component, positioning the mating subcomponents together, and applying pressure between mating subcomponents to join them together.
US07981325B2
One or more embodiments provide for a device that utilizes voltage switchable dielectric material having semi-conductive or conductive materials that have a relatively high aspect ratio for purpose of enhancing mechanical and electrical characteristics of the VSD material on the device.
US07981308B2
A method of etching a device in one embodiment includes providing a silicon carbide substrate, forming a silicon nitride layer on a surface of the silicon carbide substrate, forming a silicon carbide layer on a surface of the silicon nitride layer, forming a silicon dioxide layer on a surface of the silicon carbide layer, forming a photoresist mask on a surface of the silicon dioxide layer, and etching the silicon dioxide layer through the photoresist mask.
US07981307B2
A method for etching a bevel edge of a substrate in a processing chamber is provided. The method includes flowing an inert gas into a center region of the processing chamber defined above a center region of the substrate and flowing a mixture of an inert gas and a processing gas over an edge region of the substrate. The method further includes striking a plasma in the edge region, wherein the flow of the inert gas and the flow of the mixture maintain a mass fraction of the processing gas substantially constant. A processing chamber configured to clean a bevel edge of a substrate is also provided.
US07981306B2
Generating drive signals of at least two RF power generators which supply RF power to a plasma process, in which at least two drive signals, each driving one RF power generator, are generated in an RF generator driver. Each drive signal is generated by a respective function generator, such as a digital sine generator, of the generator driver.
US07981305B2
A method for forming high density emission elements and field emission displays formed according to the method. Oxygen and a silicon etchant are introduced into a plasma etching chamber containing a silicon substrate. The oxygen reacts with the silicon surface to form regions of silicon dioxide, while the silicon etchant etches the silicon to form the emission elements. The silicon dioxide regions mask the underlying silicon during the silicon etch process. High density and high aspect ratio emission elements are formed without using photolithographic processes. The emission elements formed according to the present invention provide a more uniform emission of electrons. Further, a display incorporating emission elements formed according to the present invention provides increased brightness. The reliability of the display is increased due to the use of a plurality of emission elements to supply electrons for stimulating the phosphor substrate material to produce the image.
US07981304B2
A mold capable of a highly accurate alignment with a member to be processed in such a state that a photocurable resin material is disposed between the mold and the member to be processed, and is constituted by a substrate 2010 formed of a first material and an alignment mark 2102 formed of a second material different from the first material. The first material and the second material have transmissivities to light in a part of an ultraviolet wavelength range. The second material has a refractive index of not less than 1.7.
US07981298B2
A method and system for removing from an aqueous system which is contaminated therewith: (1) mercury present as colloids, ions and/or organically bound compounds, and (2) hydrocarbons solubilized, dispersed, and/or emulsified in the said system. Pursuant to the invention the aqueous system to be treated (such as “produced water”) is passed successively through three filtration stages. The first filtration stage is provided with absorption media which effects reduction/removal of dispersed organically bound mercury species and of the dispersed and partially dissolved hydrocarbon phases, as well as of some colloidal mercury and other dissolved metallic species. The second filtration stage utilizes a salt modified reticulated granular filtration media for reduction/removal of slightly dissolved hydrocarbon phases, mercury in colloidal and ionic form and other dissolved metals. The third filtration stage is a polishing stage, which serves to further reduce by electroless or voltaic reduction residual elemental mercury and/or residual colloidal and ionic mercury. At this third stage metallic mercury is incorporated into a metallic matrix from which the mercury may preferably be recovered.
US07981297B2
A method for removing helminth egg and other suspended solids from a wastewater stream includes directing the wastewater to a ballasted flocculation system and adding a coagulation agent, flocculation agent and a ballast into the wastewater. Sludge is settled from the wastewater in a settling tank at a rate of at least 10 meters per hour. The method further includes removing helminth egg by filtering the effluent through a fine screen having a mesh diameter of approximately 5 micrometers to approximately 25 micrometers. After passing through the fine screen, the filtered effluent has less than one helminth egg per liter.
US07981288B2
A fluid treatment device including a source of electrical voltage having a first and second terminal, a pulse generator connected to the first terminal and the second terminal and outputting a pulsed voltage wave signal between a third terminal and a fourth terminal, at least one coil positioned adjacent at least one fluid conduit, being electrically connected to the third and fourth terminals and at least one capacitor also being electrically connected to the third and fourth terminals to form a first circuit with an inductance L, a capacitance C and a resonant frequency. The pulse generator is arranged to generate a pulsed voltage wave with a frequency approximately equal to the resonant frequency. A further circuit element is arranged to cause the voltage pulse reaching the coil to repeatedly, alternate between a period of pulsed voltage at the frequency and a period of zero voltage, with each period extending for a time in a range of approximately 2 to 33 milliseconds.
US07981287B2
A dissolved air flotation system and method for purifying fresh water. The system is self-contained within a standard shipping container, with all components disposed in-line within the shipping container. Float is removed from the flotation tank with a skimmer that drives float downstream onto a conveyor belt, and the conveyor belt conveys float away from the flotation tank, in the downstream direction, and deposits the float in a collection tank. Clean water may be drawn from the flotation tank continuously, while float may be removed periodically.
US07981278B2
This present invention provides a gasoline-ethanol separation apparatus which is used for an internal combustion engine, and can separate a mixture fuel formed of mixed gasoline and ethanol into gasoline and ethanol. The gasoline-ethanol separation apparatus 1 includes a fuel tank 2 for accommodating a mixture fuel, a separation tank 4 for separating the mixture fuel supplied from the fuel tank 2 into the gasoline (A) and an ethanol-water mixture liquid (B), by mixing water supplied by water-supply means 3 with the mixture fuel, and storing the separated mixture liquid (B); pressurizing means 5 for pressurizing the mixture liquid (B) to be supplied into the separation tank 4; gasoline-taking-out means 6 for taking the gasoline (A) out of the tank from an upper part of the interface between the gasoline (A) and the ethanol-water mixture liquid (B) first valve 62; and ethanol-taking-out means 7 for taking the ethanol-water mixture liquid (B) out of the separation tank 4 through a second valve 72.
US07981276B2
The present invention relates to a process for removing sulfur from sulfur-containing hydrocarbon streams utilizing a multi-ring aromatic hydrocarbon complex containing an alkali metal ion. Preferably, the sulfur-containing hydrocarbon stream is comprised of high molecular weight hydrocarbons, such as a low API gravity, high viscosity crude, tar sands bitumen, an oil derived from shale, or heavy refinery intermediate stocks such as atmospheric resids or vacuum resids which are typically difficult to desulfurize and contain relatively high amounts of sulfur. However, intermediate refinery streams and refinery product streams may also be treated by the process of the current invention to achieve very low sulfur concentrations to meet environmental specification for fuels sulfur content.
US07981267B2
An object of the present invention is to prevent a variation in heat dissipating effect of a capillary between a holder part and an oven, to improve reproducibility of migration time, and to reduce a variation of migration time among capillaries in a single electrophoresis run. A cylindrical wall is formed in an upper part of a septa that covers a container holding a solution, and the cylindrical wall surrounds a capillary hole through which a capillary penetrates. Accordingly, the capillary is prevented from being directly affected by wind generated between the septa and the oven.
US07981265B2
A gas concentration measuring apparatus for use in air-fuel ratio control of automotive engines is designed to determine the concentration of oxygen within a wide and a narrow range using a sensor current flowing through a sensor element. The apparatus includes an amplifier circuit equipped with an operational amplifier and a plurality of amplifying resistors and a switch. The switch is responsive to a request signal to switch a relation in electrical connection between an operational amplifier and the amplifying resistors to distribute the amplifying resistors into an input resistor and a feedback resistor for the operational amplifier to change an amplification factor of the amplifier circuit. This results in a change in resolution of measurement of the concentration of oxygen, thereby ensuring enhanced accuracy in determining the concentration of oxygen in a selected one of the narrow and wide ranges.
US07981259B2
A method and apparatus for adjusting an electric field of an electrochemical processing cell are provided. In one embodiment, a capacitive element is disposed in the processing solution. The strength, shape, or direction of the electric field in the processing solution may be modulated by charging and discharging the capacitive element in a controlled manner. Because the electric field is modulated with out passing a current from the capacitive element to the processing solution, electrochemical reactions do not occur on the interface of the capacitive element and the processing solution, thus, reduces complications caused by unwanted electrochemical reactions.
US07981257B2
An apparatus and technique are provided for generating a plasma using a power supply circuit and arc detection arrangement. The power supply circuit has a cathode enclosed in a chamber, and is adapted to generate a power-related parameter. The arc detection arrangement is communicatively coupled to the power supply circuit and adapted to assess the severity of arcing in the chamber by comparing the power-related parameter to at least one threshold. According to various implementations, arc occurrences, arcing duration, intensity and/or energy are measured responsive to comparing the power-related parameter to the at least one threshold. According to further implementations, the above-mentioned measured quantities are accumulated and/or further processed. An apparatus and method are also provided for detecting arc events when the current spikes above a threshold level. The method and apparatus is also for classifying the arc events based on the voltage and current signals and the duration each is beyond a threshold value.
US07981256B2
A splitter system is disclosed that produces a product stream from a mixed stream of two materials with similar boiling points. A multi-stage heat pump compressor is used in combination with a bottoms reboiler and an intermediate reboiler resulting in reduced utility consumption. The appropriately placed intermediate reboiler enables use of a lower temperature heat source relative to the bottoms reboiler heat source. As a result, a lower pressure overhead vapor stream can be used to deliver heat to both the intermediate and bottoms reboilers, thereby conserving energy. The first stage of the multi-stage heat pump compressor delivers pressurized overhead vapor to the intermediate reboiler and the second stage provides pressurized overhead vapor to the bottoms reboiler. The disclosed design and method lessens the heat pump compressor power consumption and trim condenser duty for a propylene/propane splitter system by over 20%. A third stage of compression upstream of the overhead trim condenser may be used for purposes of making the column pressure and temperatures independent of the trim condenser temperature.
US07981248B2
A method of treating pulp on a porous surface of a rotating drum cylinder having a lower drum portion in a vat of pulp slurry and a radial array of filtrate conduits including: as the porous surface of the drum rotates through the vat, drawing filtrate from the slurry through the porous surface by the application of a suction to the filtrate conduits vacuum; draining the filtrate from the filtrate conduits into the filtrate chamber and to a filtrate suction conduit extending to an elevation below the vat; forming a pulp mat on the porous surface which passes filtrate and substantially blocks fibers in the pulp slurry; removing the pulp mat on the porous surface from the vat as the drum rotates; draining filtrate from the filtrate suction conduit, and before excessive gases passing through the porous surface enter the filtrate conduits, switching a fluid flow downstream of the filtrate conduits to a gas vent passage offset and below from a drum rotational axis.
US07981246B2
The invention relates to a film (2) which comprises a component (1) to be detached therefrom. Said film is placed in the area of the component on a detaching tool (5) that is provided with at least one supporting element (6) for the film, which extends in a plane of support (11). The film is sucked against the support element (6) and partially under the plane of support by exerting negative pressure. The area of the supporting element is provided with at least one surface section (8) which extends in the plane of support when the detaching process begins, and which can be displaced, once the component (1) is grasped by a suction tool (4), plane-parallel to the plane of support while the negative pressure is maintained. The invention allows to control the detaching process of the film in a controlled movement without damaging or displacing the component.
US07981244B2
A balloon catheter and a method of making a balloon catheter, having a balloon with a first layer and a second layer, the first layer having at least one impregnated section impregnated with a polymeric material compatible with a polymeric material forming the catheter shaft. At least a portion of the impregnated section is fusion bonded to the shaft. In a presently preferred embodiment, the impregnated section is adjacent to a section of the first layer which is not impregnated with the compatible polymeric material. The impregnated section provides improved bonding of the balloon to the catheter shaft while minimizing the effect of the bond on catheter performance characteristics such as profile and flexibility.
US07981243B2
The present invention provides an improved method of manufacturing constrained layer dampers with a vulcanized rubber viscoelastic core. The method includes the steps of: applying a first layer of adhesive to a first constraining layer; applying a layer of unvulcanized rubber solved in a solvent to the first layer of adhesive to form a first laminate structure; applying a second layer of adhesive to a second constraining layer to form a second laminate structure; laminating the first laminate structure with the second laminate structure; coiling the laminated first and second laminate structures; and increasing the temperature of the coiled first and second laminate structures to thereby vulcanize the layer of rubber.
US07981241B2
A method of forming a piece from a composite material is disclosed in which a mandrel is used that reduces relative movement between the mandrel and the piece during the curing process.
US07981239B2
A process for manufacturing an electronic display device comprising a substrate coated with a display having an active zone and a connection zone, the display being attached by an adhesive crosslinkable by radiation to a protective plate. This process comprises: a) application of the adhesive to the display and/or this plate; b) attachment, by bonding, of the plate to the display; c) radiation through the plate in order to crosslink the adhesive; then d) removal of one portion of the plate covering the connection zone, with a view to rendering the latter electrically accessible. Prior to step a) a masking layer that is opaque to the radiation is deposited so that it opposes the crosslinking of the adhesive applied opposite the sole connection zone, and after step d), removed from the connection zone is the uncrosslinked adhesive, which has not been removed with the portion of the protective plate.
US07981238B2
A method relaxing a strained thin film, secured via a first main face of an initial support, the second main face of the thin film being a contact face. The method supplies an intermediate support including a polymer layer having a main free contact face, the polymer's thermal expansion coefficient being greater than that of the thin film, adhesively brings into contact the contact face of the strained thin film with the contact face of the polymer layer, eliminates the initial support, realizing relaxation of the thin film through formation of wrinkles and revealing the first main face of the thin film, increases the polymer layer temperature to stretch the relaxed thin film and eliminate the wrinkles, secures the first main face of the thin film with one face of a receiving substrate, and eliminates the intermediate support to obtain a relaxed thin film integral with the receiving substrate.
US07981231B2
An apparatus for producing an elastomeric nonwoven laminate including a plurality of elastomeric strands joined to a nonwoven web in a controlled distribution is provided. The apparatus includes an extruder for extruding a plurality of elastomeric strands onto a cooled surface of a rotating drum, which transports the strands in parallel alignment to a nip formed between two rollers rotating about parallel axis. The drum transfers the plurality of strands to the nip in a controlled distribution where it is bonded with the nonwoven. The apparatus also includes elements which automate the apparatus for creating the elastomeric nonwoven laminate.
US07981224B2
The present invention provides a steel sheet excellent in both a balance between strength and elongation and a balance between strength and hole expandability, in other words, a multi-phase steel sheet having an excellent balance between strength and hole expandability.The present invention is a multi-phase steel sheet excellent in hole expandability characterized in that: the steel sheet contains, as chemical components in mass, C: 0.03 to 0.15%, P: not more than 0.010%, S: not more than 0.003%, and either one or both of Si and Al in a total amount of 0.5 to 4%, and one or more of Mn, Ni, Cr, Mo and Cu in a total amount of 0.5 to 4%, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities; the microstructure at a section of the steel sheet is composed of either one or both of retained austenite and martensite which account(s) for 3 to 30% in total in area percentage and the balance consisting of either one or both of ferrite and bainite; the maximum length of the crystal grains in the microstructure is not more than 10 microns; and the number of inclusions 20 microns or larger in size at a section of the steel sheet is not more than 0.3 piece per square millimeter.
US07981223B2
The present invention is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet characterized in that Bi is present at 0.01 to less than 1,000 ppm in terms of mass at the interface of the substrate steel and the primary film of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is produced by any of the processes of: before decarburization annealing, applying preliminary annealing for 1 to 20 sec. at 700° C. or higher and controlling an atmosphere in the temperature range; controlling the maximum attaining temperature B (° C.) before final cold rolling so that the maximum attaining temperature B may satisfy the expression, −10×ln(A)+1,100≦B≦10×ln(A)+1,220, in accordance with a Bi content A (ppm) and at the same time heating the steel sheet cold rolled to the final thickness to 700° C. or higher within 10 sec. or at a heating rate of 100° C./sec. or more before decarburization annealing, or immediately thereafter applying preliminary annealing for 1 to 20 sec. at 700° C. or higher; or controlling a TiO2 amount B added in relation to MgO of 100 as parts by weight and an MgO coating amount C (g/m2) so that the expression, A0.8≦B×C≦400, may be satisfied in accordance with the Bi content A (ppm).
US07981213B2
A crystal growth method of a group III nitride includes the steps of forming a melt mixture of an alkali metal and a group III element in a reaction vessel, and growing a crystal of a group III nitride formed of the group III element and nitrogen from the melt mixture in the reaction vessel, wherein the step of growing the crystal of the group III nitride is conducted while controlling an increase rate of degree of supersaturation of a group III nitride component in the melt mixture in a surface region of the melt mixture.
US07981211B2
Surface-modified, fumed silica having the data: BET surface area, m2/g: 25-400; Average primary particle size, nm: 5-50; pH: 3-10; Carbon content, % by weight: 0.1-10; Potassium content (calculated as potassium oxide), % by weight: 0.000001-40; is prepared by subjecting a fumed silica to surface modification in the presence of potassium compounds. It can be used in LSR silicone rubber compositions as a filler.
US07981210B2
The disclosure is generally related to writing instruments capable of making markings containing large diameter glitter pigment particles, and glitter ink compositions for the same. In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a capillary-action marker comprising a glitter ink composition, a low density ink reservoir for storing the glitter ink composition, and a porous nib in fluid communication with the low density ink reservoir, wherein the glitter ink composition comprises glitter pigment particles having a particle size greater than about 12.1 microns in at least one dimension.
US07981206B2
An inkjet ink contains at least one coloring material selected from the group of C. I. Acid Yellow 23, C. I. Direct Yellow 86, C. I. Direct Yellow 132, and C. I. Direct Yellow 173, and a coloring material including a compound expressed by general formula (I): wherein in the formula (I), each M independently represents hydrogen, an alkali metal, ammonium, or an organic ammonium.
US07981204B2
The present invention relates to a porphyrazine coloring matter represented by the following formula (1) or a salt thereof: wherein, the rings A, B, C and D shown by broken lines each independently represent a 6-membered ring having aromaticity, at least 1.0 of said rings A to D is a benzene ring and at least 0.5 of them is a nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic ring, when shown as an average value; E represents an alkylene group; X and Y are each independently an anilino group having 1 to 3 carboxy groups; and b is 0 to 3.4, c is 0.1 to 3.5, and the sum of b and c is 1.0 to 3.5, when shown as an average value. The present invention can provide a porphyrazine coloring matter suitable for inkjet recording, which has characteristics of having a good hue as cyan ink, excellent fastnesses, in particular, extremely excellent water fastness when printed on plain paper, and high solubility in water or a water-soluble organic solvent.
US07981196B2
An apparatus and method for absorbing and recovering carbon dioxide from flue gas using ammonia water as an absorbent, including an absorption column and a circulation cooler connected to the absorption column so that a high-temperature absorbent is recovered from the absorption column, cooled to a preset temperature, and then supplied again into the absorption column, in order to dissipate absorptive heat generated when carbon dioxide is absorbed from the flue gas.
US07981192B2
The invention relates to a process for producing binderless briquettes from metal chips and metal dusts in which the metal chips are pressed into a cup-shaped form and the upwardly open cavity produced as a result is filled with metal dust, after which the opening is closed with a cover consisting of pressed metal chips.
US07981190B2
The Ultrafine alloy particles of an alloy includes a primary metal and one or more subsidiary metals solid-soluble in said primary metal, a content of the one or more subsidiary metals is in a range of 1 wt % to 25 wt % and the one or more subsidiary metals solid-solved in the primary metal inhibit coalescence or oxidation of the ultrafine alloy particles including the primary metal, or both. The process introduces powder materials including the primary metal and the one or more subsidiary metals for producing the ultrafine alloy particles into a thermal plasma flame under reduced pressure to form a vapor-phase mixture and introduces a cooling gas toward an end portion of the thermal plasma flame in a supply amount sufficient for quenching the vapor-phase mixture so as to generate the ultrafine alloy particles.
US07981188B2
A porous ceramic honeycomb filter manufactured from an oxide-based ceramic material having a pore size distribution with d1≧7.0 microns. Preferably, the oxide-based material is cordierite or aluminum titanate. Alternatively, the filter contains a cordierite-containing ceramic body with a narrow pore size distribution with db≦1.00, wherein db=(d90−d10)/d50. Also disclosed is a batch mixture, method and honeycomb green body made from mixture of inorganic source materials selected from the group of magnesia sources, alumina sources, and silica sources, and a pore former having a narrow particle size distribution with dps≦0.90, wherein dps={(dp90−dp10)/dp50}. The pore former is preferably selected from a group consisting of canna starch, sago palm starch, green mung bean starch, and single-mode potato starch.
US07981186B2
According to the present disclosure an air cleaner and air filter cartridge arrangement is provided. The air filter cartridge is a removable and replaceable cartridge for use in the air cleaner. The cartridge includes, among other things, an end cap having a preferred outwardly directed radial seal and a groove. The air cleaner includes a housing with a stabilizing ring projecting into an interior, positioned to project at least partially into the groove of the filter cartridge, when the filter cartridge is mounted for use. Methods of assembly and installation are described.
US07981185B2
Device for extracting droplets of a liquid agent suspended in a gaseous fluid displaced in a machine for displacement of such a gaseous fluid, the extraction device comprising a first part and a second part. The first part comprising a first element, which is of elongated shape, with a longitudinal axis termed the first axis, and is intended to ensure a filtration function inside the apparatus; and a second element, which is intended to enable at least one of the following functions, which are a function of grasping at least by hand the first part and a function of fixing this first part to the second part. The second part comprising a wall that defines a chamber which is intended to be traversed by the gaseous fluid to be filtered and receives said first element in a position termed the operational position; and comprises an opening that delimits a passageway sufficient for the insertion of the first element into the chamber.
US07981184B2
A diamond patterned tubular pleated filter element is disclosed. Also disclosed is a filter cartridge that comprises a core element having an inner diameter, two ends and apertures formed therein, a diamond patterned tubular pleated filter element having an inner and an outer diameter positioned about the core element wherein the ratio of the outer diameter to the inner diameter of the diamond patterned tubular pleated filter element is about 1.5 to about 2.5, an open end cap, for transferring fluid into or out of the core element, positioned at one end of the core, and a closed end cap, for preventing fluid from exiting therefrom, positioned at the other end of the core, the closed end cap including structure for positioning the open end cap in filtration housing. Systems and methods for manufacturing the filter cartridge and the diamond patterned tubular pleated filter media itself are also disclosed.
US07981173B2
A process of making a laminate and laminate formed thereby and a process of making an abrasive laminate and laminate formed thereby include providing a first moving sheet having a first side and a second side, applying active foaming material in a pre-mixed form to the first side, providing a second moving sheet having a first side and second side, the second sheet provided in a manner such that the first side of the second sheet contacts the foaming material to form an uncured laminate and maintaining the first sheet and the second sheet at a predetermined distance relative to one another during a curing period of the foaming material such that the foaming material bonds to the first sheet and the second sheet and upon curing forms a laminate.
US07981169B2
This invention disclosure describes a conditioned single phase hydrocarbon-based fuel, a method for producing such fuel and components useful in such method. The described conditioned hydrocarbon-based fuel is a single phase hydrous fuel with improved performance, handling and storage characteristics. A method is also is also provided for producing the conditioned hydrocarbon-based fuel using a semi-solid activator. The resulting conditioned hydrocarbon-based fuel has a volume greater than the unmodified hydrocarbon-based fuel, a BTU content greater than the BTU content of the unmodified hydrocarbon-based fuel, less particulate emissions and less non-particulate emissions than the unmodified hydrocarbon-based fuel, and a water content less than the water content of the unmodified hydrocarbon-based fuel.
US07981159B2
A knee replacement system includes a femoral component including a lateral condylar articulating portion and a medial condylar articulating portion, a tibial tray including an upper articulating surface, and a tibial insert including (i) a first articulating portion for articulating with the lateral condylar articulating portion with a first condylar dwell point, (ii) a second articulating portion for articulating with the medial condylar articulating portion with a second condylar dwell point, (iii) a lower articulating surface for articulating with the upper articulating surface, and (iv) a coupling member for coupling with the tibial tray and defining an axis of rotation about which the tibial insert rotates with respect to the tibial tray, the axis of rotation intersecting the upper articulating surface at a location posterior to a dwell axis including the condylar dwell points when the dwell axis is projected onto the upper articulating surface.
US07981124B2
A surgical instrument for applying purse string sutures to tissue is provided that includes two circular discs that each have notches within a perimeter of the disc for receiving tissue and through which a suture wire may pass. The device also includes push plates for advancing the suture wires through the notches of the two circular discs and into portions of the tissue. Suture is placed within each push plate and is connected to ends of the suture wires. Suction is applied to the circular discs through a shaft to draw the tissue into the respective notches of the circular discs so that the suture wires may be advanced through the tissue and the sutures can then be pulled through the tissue to create two purse-string sutures.
US07981116B2
A surgical tool for inserting a surgical implant in a body and a method of performing a surgical procedure, wherein the tool is composed of materials consisting essentially of radiolucent materials. In one embodiment the radiolucent materials comprise plastic. In another embodiment the radiolucent materials comprise carbon fibers. In still another embodiment the radiolucent materials comprise thin aluminum. The tool has a torque capacity of at least 6 Nm.
US07981114B2
A device for installation of a guide wire for a drilling tool in a correct positional arrangement in a bone. The device includes a tissue protection sleeve, which has at one end a laterally projecting grip or handle. A trocar is provided, which trocar can be introduced into the tissue protection sleeve from the handle end and whose other end is closed. The trocar is rotatable in the tissue protection sleeve and has a central bore hole and a plurality of eccentric axially parallel bore holes, through which a guide wire can be passed. A second handle is provided which extends approximately in the same direction of the first handle and whose one end engages the end of the trocar situated the outside of the tissue protection sleeve, so that the normally freely rotatable trocar is fixed in the direction of rotation relative to the tissue protection sleeve, when both handles are manually clamped against each other.
US07981091B2
A catheter to be passed over a guidewire, including a screw portion with a cylindrical hollow shaft and a helical thread portion extending outwardly from the hollow shaft. The screw portion is secured coaxially to a tubular portion formed from a substantially rigid material. The tubular portion has, along a portion of its length, at least two slits having a pattern geometry that limits torsional displacement. The catheter also includes a hub having a lumen joined substantially coaxially to the tubular portion.
US07981085B2
A device comprises a housing having a mounting surface adapted for application to the skin of a subject, a needle with a pointed end portion adapted to penetrate the skin the subject, the needle having a first position in which the distal end portion is retracted within the housing, and a second position in which the distal end portion projects relative to the mounting surface. The device further comprises actuatable driving means actuatable to cause activation as well as release of the driving means, thereby moving the needle from the first position to the second position. By this arrangement the needle device can be supplied to the user in a non-energized state, the energizing taking place when the device is actuated by the user which means that energy will be stored only for a period from a few seconds to a few hours or days.
US07981084B2
Some embodiments of a medical infusion pump system include a pump device and a removable controller device. When the pump device and the removable controller device are removably attached to one another, the components may provide a portable infusion pump unit to dispense medicine to a user. In particular embodiments, the removable controller device includes a user interface to readily provide information, for example, about the operation of the pump.
US07981083B2
This pump with a battery-powered drive device comprises a circular elastic diaphragm (1a) and two valves (2b, 10), which has a diameter of 3 to 25 mm and is subjected to a compressive prestress of between 1'104 and 4'104 Pa capable of enabling it to return to its rest position at a maximum working frequency of between 8 and 12 Hz with a travel of between 0.2 and 2 mm, corresponding to a maximum flow rate of 1.5 to 2.5 l/h. The drive device comprises an electromagnet (5) in direct contact with the diaphragm (1a), a standard power supply battery, the available energy of which is from 7000 to 10'000 J, means for analyzing the supply current for the electromagnet and for detecting, at each pumping drive cycle, a minimum defined intensity of the supply current corresponding to the closure of the gap of the electromagnet (5) and means for interrupting the supply current once this minimum intensity has been reached.
US07981081B2
A method and apparatus for injecting fluid into areas having high density tissue that creates a high backpressure resistance on the injection device is disclosed. The high backpressure resistance is overcome through a mechanical advantage achieved by using a secondary reservoir having a cross-sectional area smaller than the cross-sectional area of a primary reservoir. Exemplary injection device reservoir housings may comprise a primary reservoir, a secondary reservoir, a check valve, a septum penetrating cannula, travel limits, a pen needle connecting portion, sliding seal guide ribs, a sliding seal, a pen needle assembly, a needle stop, and a patient needle.
US07981080B2
Skin cooling apparatus is provided for use with a medical treatment device such as a hypodermic syringe or a skin ablation laser or other electromagnetic source. The skin cooling apparatus provides selective, localized cooling of the target area that is acted upon by the medical treatment device. Included is a support body engaging at least a portion of the medical treatment device, for supporting and orienting the medical treatment device to the target area. A solid state cooling device such as a thermoelectric or Peltier device is carried by the support body and includes a cooling surface facing the target area of a patient's skin surface. The support body may be flexible so as to allow the medical treatment device to be inclined relative to the skin surface. The support body may also include aiming structure for directing the medical treatment device to a particular point within the target area.
US07981074B2
A surgical system with irrigation and aspiration lines having different compliance or stiffness, with the irrigation line having a higher compliance than the aspiration line.
US07981058B2
An intelligent wearable monitoring system includes a wireless personal area network for extended monitoring of a patient's motor functions. The wireless personal area network includes an intelligent accelerometer unit, a personal server and a remote access unit. The intelligent accelerometer unit measures acceleration data of the patient, in real-time. The personal server processes the acceleration data, applying linear and non-linear analysis, such as fractal analysis, to generate motor function information from the acceleration data. Motor function information is transmitted to a remote access unit for statistical analysis and formatting into visual representations. A data management unit receives the formatted motor function information and displays the information, for example, for viewing by the patient's physician.
US07981044B2
A device for and a method of measuring a blood flow of a living body having blood vessels that emit bio-photons and through which blood flows, the device including a detector positioned adjacent to a predetermined portion of the living body for measuring a bio-photon emission from the living body and a processor for analyzing and displaying the blood flow of the living body based on a value of the bio-photon emission.
US07981042B2
Methods and systems provide an integrated approach to respiratory and cardiac monitoring, diagnosis and/or therapy. A medical system includes one or more cardiac electrodes coupled to an external respiratory therapy device. The cardiac electrodes sense cardiac electrical activity that is used to generate an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. Cardiac events, such as arrhythmia, myocardial infarction and/or ischemia, may be detected based on the sensed cardiac electrical activity.
US07981026B2
A medical procedure drape, for use during a diagnostic and therapeutic procedures performed on a patient supported by a patient cart, including a cover and a holder for the endoscope. The cover superimposes a portion of the patient and a portion of the patient cart. The endoscope holder is fixed to a boundary of the cover and extends above the level of the patient support surface on the patient cart. The endoscope holder retains and supports the endoscope during insertion and at other such times that the endoscopist may wish to set the endoscope aside to perform other tasks.
US07981024B2
An implant for a pelvis is provided, wherein suturing is not necessary for anchoring the implant in place. The implant includes a flexible sheet and a solid frame, wherein the frame can be compressed or expanded. Upon insertion through the narrow openings of the pelvis, the frame is compressed, and upon delivery at the site, the frame is expanded, and is designed to anchor to the surrounding anatomical structures.
US07981020B2
A method and implantation tools for placing a transventricular splint including a tension member. The method includes gaining access to the patient's hearts and identifying entry or exit points for the tension member, marking those locations and delivering the tension member. Anchors for the tension member are also delivered. The length of the tensions member is measured and the walls of the heart drawn together. The pads are secured to the tension member and the tension member is trimmed to length. The pads are secured to the heart surface.
US07981016B1
The core strengthening device includes a base having a first base section and a second base section. Each of the first and second base sections includes a connection mechanism with which to connect together to form a unitary device. The connection mechanism is detachable to separate the first and second base sections to form a two-part device. The device further includes a handle connected to a top surface of each of the first and second base sections. The device further includes two or more load-bearing rolling devices such as ball transfers or casters connected to a bottom surface of each of the first and second base sections to enable smooth movement over a surface by a user via the handles of the first and second base sections, either as the unitary device or independently as the two-part device.
US07981015B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for increasing flexibility and/or stretching the muscles of a user generally comprise a user support set atop an enclosure. The enclosure houses mechanisms to actuate a cable system, wherein the mechanisms at least one of feed and retract a cable of the cable system. The apparatuses, methods, and systems also comprise footholds proximate to the user support to support at least the feet from a user, wherein the cable system actuates between the footholds, and wherein the footholds actuate in at least a lateral motion to further accentuate increasing flexibility and/or stretching the muscles. The apparatuses, methods, and systems also comprise a control handle coupled to the cable system for the user to grasp, wherein the cable system actuates to either one of increase and release a tension to the grasped control handle, and wherein the control handle comprises at least one control to regulate the either one of increase and release the tension.
US07981011B1
A combination exercise machine comprises a movable platform assembly to perform leg presses and extended leg calf raises, a movable user support assembly which includes an adjustable brace pad assembly to perform seated isolated calf raises, a multi-function handle bar assembly, and a wrist rolling assembly to exercise the forearms.
US07980998B2
A personal device is provided for measuring a training activity of a trainee having a body part which moves during this training activity, this movement at least partially defining said training activity. The device comprises a sensing unit adapted to repeatedly measure, during the training activity, parameters associated with the movement of the body part, and wherein the sensing unit comprising at least accelerometer means, a compass and, optimally, gyroscope means. The device further comprises means for attaching the sensing unit to the body part and a processor adapted to receive from the sensing unit the parameters and to calculate based thereon, data indicative of the training activity. In addition, there are provided a system for use by an instructor in instructing of a plurality of participants engaged in an activity, a communication system for communicating with one or more swimmers, the system comprising a transmitting module adapted to communicate in accordance with a wireless communication protocol with at least one receiving module associated with at least one swimmer, and a method for automated training one or more swimmers accordingly.
US07980996B2
An exercise system includes a local system having an exercise apparatus and an associated local computer, where the local computer controls and monitors the operation and use, respectively, of the exercise apparatus. The system further includes a remote system having a remote computer, and a transmission medium including a telephone line that couples the local system to the remote system for data communication between the local system and the remote system. The remote system may receive local system data from the local system concerning the use of the exercise apparatus, and the local system may receive remote system data from the remote system concerning the operation of the exercise apparatus. The local computer preferably controls the operation of the exercise apparatus based upon a modifiable script stored in a read/write memory of the local computer, which can be updated by the remote system. A method for controlling an exercise apparatus includes running a modifiable script on a local computer to control the use and to monitor the operation of an exercise apparatus, and communicating with a remote system to provide the remote system with data concerning the use of the exercise apparatus. The script is stored in read/write memory of the local computer and remote system data received from the remote system may include at least a portion of a new script to be stored in the read/write memory of the local computer.
US07980993B2
When a release of an accelerator is detected during a shift of an automatic transmission, instead of discharging the hydraulic pressure for engagement of an engaging device of the automatic transmission immediately after the release of the accelerator is detected during a shift, the hydraulic pressure for engagement of the engaging device of the automatic transmission is gently reduced with a remaining engine torque taken into consideration, the remaining engine torque being caused by the retardation of the decrease in the throttle opening degree. In this way, the torque capacity sufficient for the remaining torque caused by the throttle opening degree control performed when the release of the accelerator is detected during the shift is kept so that a slip in the engaging device of the automatic transmission is reduced.
US07980992B2
A torque converter including a damper assembly connected to a hub for the torque converter; a turbine clutch connected to a turbine and the damper assembly; and a torque converter clutch connected to a cover for the torque converter and the damper assembly. In an idle mode, the turbine clutch and the torque converter clutch are disengaged and the torque converter cover is rotationally disconnected from the hub. In a torque converter mode, the turbine clutch is engaged, the torque converter clutch is disengaged, and the turbine clutch rotationally locks the turbine and the damper assembly. In a lock-up mode, the torque converter clutch is engaged and the torque converter clutch rotationally connects the torque converter cover and the damper assembly.
US07980988B2
A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, four planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes first, second and third members. The torque transmitting devices include clutches and brakes.
US07980985B2
A gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include four planetary gear sets with three clutches and two brakes and realizes eight forward speeds, and the gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may minimize the number of friction elements, simplify the scheme of an transmission, and enhance transmitting power efficiency and fuel efficiency. The four planetary gear sets may include a first planetary gear set including a first sun gear, a first planet carrier, and a first ring gear, a second planetary gear set including a second sun gear, a second planet carrier, and a second ring gear, a third planetary gear set including a third sun gear, a third planet carrier, and a third ring gear, and a fourth planetary gear set including a fourth sun gear, a fourth planet carrier, and a fourth ring gear.
US07980972B1
A continuously variable transmission (CVT) with a roller variator as an actuator for adjusting the speed ratio of the CVT. The CVT is of the variable-diameter pulley type and has first and second variable-diameter pulleys mechanically linked by a drive belt or other flexible drive member, the pulleys each having first and second relatively axially movable pulley portions. A roller variator is operatively connected to the first pulley, preferably the drive pulley, for control of its effective diameter. The roller variator has first and second disks mounted on the axis of the first pulley, a roller interconnecting the disks, and a roller support adapted to tilt the spin axis of the roller so as to change its points of contact with the disks and thereby change the speed ratio of the variator. The first disk is rotatably fixed with respect to the first pulley portion of the first pulley, for example, the pulley portion fixed to an engine shaft. In certain embodiments, the second disk directly drives the second pulley portion relative to the first, and, in other embodiments, the second disk drives the second pulley portion through a threaded connection, for example, one having directly engaging male and female threaded parts, or a ball screw.
US07980964B2
A hollow golf club head with a concave portion is disclosed and claimed. The club head includes a metallic portion and a light weight portion, which may be formed of plastic, composite, or the like. The concave portion allows the club designer to make a club head having very thin portions while still maintaining the requisite structural integrity. Convex bulges may optionally be provided to house weight inserts to enhance the playing characteristics of the golf club.
US07980954B2
A gaming system for playing a wagering game and a community event includes a first gaming machine and a second gaming machine. The first gaming machine determines a randomly selected community-event outcome for the community event, and sends information related to the outcome to at least one other gaming machine of the plurality of gaming machines. The second gaming machine receives the information from the first gaming machine and plays the community event.
US07980952B2
Acceleration data is repeatedly acquired, and an acceleration vector having a magnitude and a direction of an acceleration represented by the acceleration data is sequentially accumulated so as to calculate an accumulation vector. A following vector which follows, at a predetermined rate, the accumulation vector calculated by the accumulation vector calculation means is calculated by using the acquired acceleration data, and a difference between the accumulation vector and the following vector is calculated as a differential vector. A position in a virtual world displayed by a display device is designated using a value determined in accordance with the differential vector so as to perform a predetermined processing by using the position.
US07980941B2
A gaming apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a roulette wheel including a plurality of pockets associated with respective numbers in advance; a memory for storing a plurality of control data for controlling the gaming apparatus so as to provide a relatively high weight on a probability that a ball is housed in any of the pockets constituting a single group, the single group belonging to a plurality of groups each of which consists of a first predetermined-number of the plurality of pockets, and the plurality of control data associated with each of the groups; a plurality of stations for players to play games; and a controller, the controller programmed to execute the following processings of: (a) controlling rotation of the roulette wheel and launching of the ball by referring to a single control data out of the plurality of control data, and (b) selecting another control data different from the single control data, out of the plurality of control data, to set the selected control data as a reference target, when a bet is placed on any of the pockets belonging to a group having the relatively high ball-housing probability at a second predetermined number or more of the stations among the plurality of stations.
US07980938B2
System and method are disclosed for operating a gaming terminal. The system and method of the invention involves using a real-life video of a lottery drawing to conduct a wagering game on the gaming terminal. The wagering game may be a basic game or it may be a bonus game that is initiated on the occurrence of a certain outcome in the basic game. The real-life video of the lottery drawing may be stored locally on the gaming terminal, or it may be stored remotely on a network and subsequently streamed to the gaming terminal. The use of such a real-life video increases the entertainment value of the gaming terminal.
US07980934B2
A gaming method operates to provide expert card-counting information to some or all participants, in exchange for a premium. The premium may be a cash payment, a reduction in the prize amounts or betting odds, some combination of the foregoing, or any other useful remuneration. The house retains its edge via the premium. The method may be implemented for play at a physical or virtual card table.
US07980933B2
The invention provides an electronic video game apparatus which includes a display for displaying a video depiction of a first card game on the display. Each card in the first card game has a card suit, a card value and a card color. At least one of these cards has an additional symbol which depicts at least one outcome of an independent game of chance (e.g. roulette, craps, slot machine, etc.), and a wagering mechanism enabling a wager to be placed on an outcome which is dependent on at least the additional symbol.
US07980928B2
The present application describes an arrangement and a method for utilizing the heat of waste air for heating the bilge area of aircraft, wherein the bilge area is connected to a heat transfer unit via a first air supply pipe, through which a bilge air flow drawn in from the bilge area flows into the heat transfer unit, wherein the heat transfer unit comprises a second air supply pipe, through which a waste air heat flow to be cooled that is created at another location in the aircraft flows into the heat transfer unit in order to heat the drawn-in bilge air flow, wherein the heat transfer unit comprises a first air discharge pipe, through which the cooled waste air heat flow is discharged, and a second air discharge pipe with a bilge inlet section, and wherein at least a portion of the heated bilge flow is returned to the bilge area via the air discharge pipe and the bilge inlet section.
US07980925B2
A device for processing fish, the device comprising: an open channel through which a fish can pass; a fish processing means associated with the channel; a vertical guide plate pivotally mounted on each side of the channel, having a firing position and a retracted position; a mechanism for moving the fish processing means from a (“firing position”) to a position which allows passage of the fish through the channel after processing (“retracted position”); a mechanism for pivoting each guide plate between the firing and retracted positions (“guide plate pivot mechanism”); a trigger that when contacted by the head of the fish activates the fish processing means; and a mechanism for resetting the device after the processing of a fish, wherein the resetting mechanism is in communication with the trigger and wherein actuation of the mechanism by the trigger facilitates: activation of the fish processing means; movement of the fish processing means and guide plates from their respective firing positions to their respective retracted positions; return of the fish processing means and the vertical guide plates to their respective firing positions after they have attained their retracted positions; and priming of the at least one fish processing means.
US07980908B2
The invention describes a spark plug having an outer electrode (12), a central electrode (10), an inner conductor (2) connected to the central electrode (10) and an insulator (3) enclosing the inner conductor (2). It is provided according to the invention that the insulator (3) is produced by extrusion. The invention further relates to a method for production of a spark plug of that kind.
US07980907B1
An amphibious self-engaging paddle track propulsion system mountable on any floater, vessel or vehicle for enabling the ability to selectively travel over land or water, the system having an elongated endless paddle track, plurality of spring-loaded paddles, plurality of paddle supporting terrain treads, plurality of terrain treads, drive sprocket, chain sprocket, rear sprocket, frame, drive sprocket axle and rear sprocket axle wherein the terrain treads are secured to the paddle track and the paddles are secured to certain terrain treads wherein the halter and paddle are hinged together for allowing the retraction and extension of the paddle for land and water locomotion, respectively.
US07980905B2
A system and a method for providing power to a marine vessel and, more particularly to a tugboat is disclosed. The system includes diesel engines and generators and batteries which can be charged using power supplied by the generators, shore power or regenerated power. The tugboat is operated utilizing battery power only and the generators are used to provide additional power if needed or to recharge the batteries.
US07980901B2
A communication jack is provided with plug interface contacts that have a short conductive signal pathway between a plug-jack interface and crosstalk compensation provided on a printed circuit board within the jack. Contacts of the jack are specially designed not to take a permanent set if a six-position plug or an eight-position plug is inserted into an eight-position jack. A printed circuit board in the jack is placed at an angle, shortening the conductive pathway between plug contacts and the printed circuit board.
US07980897B2
Provided is a material capable of forming a molded product which has good mechanical properties with low warpage while being excellent in any of the performance including heat resistance and flowability, even if the molded product is an asymmetric electronic parts. Specifically, the asymmetric electronic parts is prepared by molding a liquid crystalline polymer composition comprising (A) a fibrous filler having an average fiber diameter within the range of 5 to 30 μm, having a weight average fiber length within the range of 250 to 350 μm, excluding 10 μm or shorter fiber length, and having a content of a fibrous filler being 700 μm or longer within the range of 5% by weight or less; and (B) a plate-like filler having an average particle size within the range of 0.5 to 200 μm, the total filling amount of (A) and (B) components in the composition being within the range of 40 to 60% by weight, the weight ratio of (A) component being within the range of 10 to 20% by weight, the weight ratio of (B) component being within the range of 30 to 40% by weight, the molded product having no symmetry in any of the axial plane XY, the axial plane YZ, and the axial plane XZ of the molded product.
US07980896B1
An electrical connector assembly includes a circuit board having signal vias extending at least partially through the circuit board, with the signal vias being arranged in pairs. The signal vias within the pair are open to each other through the circuit board and the circuit board has mounting pads exposed within the signal vias. An electrical connector is mounted on the circuit board. The electrical connector includes signal terminals extending into respective signal vias of the circuit board that are terminated to corresponding mounting pads. The signal terminals are arranged in pairs carrying differential pair signals. The signal terminals within the pair are arranged along a paddle supporting the signal terminals. The paddle is received in both signal vias of the corresponding pair of signal vias.
US07980893B2
A coaxial connector where a plug having a coaxial structure is connected in a direction substantially parallel with a board, the board being where the coaxial connector is mounted, the coaxial connector includes a signal contact having one end connected to a plug pin and another end bent or curved toward the board; and a ground contact having a substantially cylindrical shaped main body part, the main body part surrounding a part of the signal contact, the ground contact being connected to a plug side ground member by a first connecting part formed at one end of the main body part, the ground contact being connected to the board by a second connecting part formed at another end of the main body part, wherein the second connecting part includes a center member and an arm part.
US07980887B2
A connector includes a first housing, a second housing and a detection member. A lock band portion is elastically deformable and is provided on the first housing. A lock portion is provided on the second housing, and bends the lock band portion to allow the lock band portion to slide over the lock portion when the first and second housings are moved from a first condition to a second condition, the first condition where the first housing is not fitted to the second housing, and the second condition where the first housing is fitted to the second housing, and engages the lock band portion when the first and second housings has been moved to the second position. The detection member is disposed on an upper side of the lock band portion, and is displaced together with the lock band portion in accordance with a deforming movement of the lock band portion. A movement limitation portion is provided on the detection member, and abuts against an abutment limitation portion provided on the first housing while the first and second housings are moved from the first condition to the second condition, so that the detection member is prevented from movement in the attaching direction. When the lock portion engages the lock band portion in the second condition, an abutment of the movement limitation portion against the abutment limitation portion is canceled, so that the detection member is allowed to be moved in the attaching direction.
US07980882B2
The invention relates to an electrical plug-in connector (1) for telecommunications and data systems technology, comprising electrically interconnected elastic high-frequency contacts (4) and core connection contacts (10). At least the high-frequency contacts (4) are arranged in a housing (2) comprising a receiving opening (3) for a counter plug-in connector, and the core connection contacts (10) are arranged in two parallel rows (8, 9). The distance between adjacent core connection contacts of a row is smaller than that between core connection contacts of different rows. The housing (2) has an upper edge (5), a lower edge (6) and two lateral edges (7), the two rows (8, 9) of core connection contacts (10) being parallel to the upper edge (5) of the housing (2).
US07980873B2
A connector for electrically and mechanically connecting insulated conductor wires encapsulated in protective tubing. Embodiments of the connector provide a protective outer sheathing that circumscribes the conductive and insulating structures within the connector. The connector is formed with a plurality of tubular fitting assemblies for securely attaching the connector to down hole electrical power cables. The connector is also formed with an internal insulating boot having an internal passage adapted to surround the conductive elements of the connector to provide a reliable down hole electrical connector.
US07980872B1
An electrical splice assembly includes a conductive bus plate having a plurality of male blades, an insulative housing having a forward portion retaining the bus plate and a rearward portion defining a terminal receiving tray, a plurality of female terminals disposed in the terminal receiving tray and attached to the male blades, and a cover integrally hingedly attached to the housing. The cover includes a lock bar that projects into the terminal receiving tray to retain the terminals in connection with the bus plate when the cover is in a closed position overlying the tray. The housing further includes an intermediate portion defining a plurality of spaced longitudinally extending cavities in communication with a space defined by the tray. At least a portion of each blade and a portion of each terminal extend into respective cavities.
US07980861B2
A second electrically-conductive terminal, having flexibility, contact with a first electrically-conductive terminal. A second substrate has first and second surfaces. The second surface supports the second electrically-conductive terminal. A third electrically-conductive terminal, having flexibility, is located on the first surface of the second substrate. The third electrically-conductive terminal is connected to the second electrically-conductive terminal. A fourth electrically-conductive terminal contacts with the third electrically-conductive terminal. A third substrate has a surface supporting the fourth electrically-conductive terminal. A frame is interposed between the first substrate and the third substrate. The frame supports the outer periphery of the second substrate. The frame allows relative movement of the second substrate in the direction perpendicular to the first surface of the second substrate.
US07980858B2
A learning environment having a plurality of tables and a plurality of technology display devices distributed about the environment for use by occupants of the learning environment, the environment including a central area, the learning environment comprising at least first, second and third technology display devices that include first, second and third substantially flat display surfaces, respectively, for displaying information to occupants in the environment, the first, second and third displays supported in spaced radial relationship about the environment with the flat display surfaces substantially facing the central area, and at least first, second and third elongated tables that have first, second and third elongation axis, respectively, the tables arranged in spaced radial orientations around the environment with the elongation axis substantially extending toward the central area and so that open spaces are formed between adjacent tables for standing occupants, wherein the second and third elongation axis form angles with the second and third display surfaces in the range between seventy-five and ninety degrees.
US07980851B2
With regard to a heat treatment furnace (a solution furnace 1 and an ageing furnace 3), a furnace chamber 15 comprises a furnace body 12 opening downward and a floor body 14 closing the lower opening of the furnace body 12 and rotatably driven, and one or plural stages of mounting shelves 16 on which work pieces 8 are mounted are provided in the furnace chamber 15. Hot-air circulation equipments 20A and 20B circulating hot air in the furnace chamber 15 along the peripheral direction when viewed in plan are provided in the furnace body 12. The mounting shelves 16 are fixed to a prop 17 standingly provided on the floor body 14 and are rotated integrally with the floor body 14.
US07980849B2
An apparatus and methods for flame-perforating films. A preferred embodiment of the apparatus includes a frame, support surface attached to the frame, where the support surface includes a plurality of lowered portions, a burner attached to the frame opposite the support surface, where the burner supports a flame, and where the flame includes a flame tip opposite the burner and a film contacting the support surface, where the flame of the burner is in contact with the film, where the burner is positioned such that the distance between an unimpinged flame tip of the flame and the burner is at least one-third greater than the distance between the film and the burner.
US07980846B2
This specification discloses fiber additives for reinforcing matrix materials and an apparatus for forming the same, said fibers having flattened shanks terminated with egg-shaped nodules. The apparatus comprises a roller-former-cutter assembly that forms the fibers in a single operation from continuous filaments using compressive force and a unique cut-out and blade assembly. The fibers described are designed to have an increased pull-out resistance compared to other fiber morphologies.
US07980843B2
A concrete dispensing apparatus is used in a manufacturing process for producing pre-cast concrete structures, which are conventionally used to form a foundation for a residential or commercial building. The dispensing apparatus includes a hopper that funnels to a discharge opening extending along the entire transverse length of the dispensing apparatus. A plurality of individually controlled gates cover the entire discharge opening for selectively controlling the length and location of the discharge opening through which concrete is dispensed. The dispensing apparatus also includes a finishing mechanism including a vibratory screed and a rotational finishing roller. The form can be moved relative to the dispensing apparatus or vice versa. A form vibrator induces a vibratory motion into the form to remove air from the dispensed concrete mixture. Operative control is accomplished through an operator control panel operable to control a hydraulic system powering the operative functions of the dispensing apparatus.
US07980841B2
A pipe extrusion die may be provided having an inner flow passageway having a first cross-sectional area, and an outer flow passageway having a second cross-sectional area, both being in communication with an inlet flow passageway. A ratio adjusting tube may be movably disposed in blocking engagement between the inlet flow passageway and the inner flow passageway. The ratio adjusting tube and the outer flow passageway both may be substantially concentric with the inner flow passageway. Material may be distributed from the inlet flow passageway to the inner and outer flow passageways. The method and apparatus may allow for the manual and automatic control of the proportion of material distributed between the inner and outer flow passageways by adjusting the position of the ratio adjusting tube in relation to a passageway between the inlet flow passageway and the inner flow passageway, based on various operating parameters.
US07980837B2
A rotary piston machine has a cylinder provided with two ends to form a stator with inlet and outlet apertures, and a piston having a rotor eccentrically mounted within the stator. A vane is connected to the rotor by a hinge and forms an expanding and contracting chamber as the piston rotates. The piston is provided with a sealing means sufficient to restrict movement of gaseous/fluid matter between chambers during operation. The sealing means includes a flexible seal member with a mating lip positioned adjacent to the vane hinge. Each revolution of the eccentrically mounted piston causes the seal member to contact an inner cylinder wall to prevent the escape of displaced gaseous/fluid matter past the vane hinge. The flexible seal member contacts the cylinder wall and bends to form a lip seal resistive to the direction of pressurization.
US07980836B2
A multi-rotor compressor and method of manufacturing is provided. The compressor includes a housing with a plurality of identical planet rotors. The planet rotors are equally spaced apart at a fixed distance from a centerline. A single sun rotor is provided that is disposed to cooperate with the plurality of identical planet rotors in the compression of gas. The number and radial spacing of the plurality of identical planet rotors about said single sun rotor may be arranged in different configurations to change an output capacity parameter for said compressor.
US07980832B2
A stationary structure is mounted on the floor of an ocean or other body of water subject to wave motion. The structure provides a floatation body that moves with the waves and is able to drive a sealing plate in a compression chamber. When the water level changes, or wave action magnitude changes, a second sealing plate is able to move automatically to maintain a constant size of the compression chamber. Air compressed in the chamber is let into a tank to maintain a constant elevated pressure in the tank and the air pressure is used to power a turbine to generate electricity. In an alternate embodiment, a mechanical linkage drives the turbine directly.
US07980828B1
A microelectromechanical (MEM) pump is disclosed which includes a porous silicon region sandwiched between an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber. The porous silicon region is formed in a silicon substrate and contains a number of pores extending between the inlet and outlet chambers, with each pore having a cross-section dimension about equal to or smaller than a mean free path of a gas being pumped. A thermal gradient is provided along the length of each pore by a heat source which can be an electrical resistance heater or an integrated circuit (IC). A channel can be formed through the silicon substrate so that inlet and outlet ports can be formed on the same side of the substrate, or so that multiple MEM pumps can be connected in series to form a multi-stage MEM pump. The MEM pump has applications for use in gas-phase MEM chemical analysis systems, and can also be used for passive cooling of ICs.
US07980824B2
The invention relates to a rotor of a flotation machine, particularly to a rotor, that is used for dispersing air to a slurry, and which rotor comprises alternating air ducts and slurry grooves and a collar fitted to the rotor for guiding the slurry flow into the interior of the rotor for avoiding undesired cross flow effect of the slurry flow. The rotor of the present invention efficiently prevents sanding effect and provides excellent dispersion of air into the slurry.
US07980812B2
A low pressure turbine rotor disk for a small twin spool gas turbine engine in which the rotor disk includes a forward side cavity large enough to allow for the bearing assembly that rotatably supports the rotor disk to fit within the cavity in order to shorten the axial distance between the bearings that support the inner rotor shaft on which the turbine rotor disk is secured. Minimizing the bearings spacing allows for a high critical speed for the inner rotor shaft and therefore allows for the small twin spool gas turbine engine to operate at this small scale. The turbine rotor disk also includes a plurality of axial aligned cooling air holes to allow for cooling air from the bearings to flow out from the aft end of the rotor disk. The inner surface of the cavity is an annular surface that forms a seal with knife edges extending outward from the bearing support plate also located within the cavity. The rotor disk includes an annular groove facing outward and on the rear side of the disk to allow for a tool to be inserted for removing the rotor disk from the shaft. An axial central opening in the rotor disk allows for insertion of the shaft and is formed with a bearing race abutment surface on the forward side and a nut abutment surface of the aft side used to compress the rotor disk assembly on the inner rotor shaft.
US07980804B2
A wheel lift system for efficiently lifting and positioning a wheel and tire onto a wheel hub. The wheel lift system includes a first arm and a second arm pivotally attached to one another, a plurality of caster wheels attached to the lower portion of the arms, and a first support and a second support extending from the arms respectively for supporting a wheel and tire. A bias member is preferably attached to the arms for providing a bias force that assists in elevating the wheel and tire. Alternatively, a bias unit may be attached to the arms for providing a bias force that assists in maintaining elevation of a wheel and tire.
US07980803B2
A system for the delivery of bulk material, in particular a free-flowing bulk material such as, e.g., plastic granules, comprises a discharge base (7) having recesses (8), with a discharge opening (9) being formed in each of the recesses (8), and a cover plate (11) which is arranged on the outflow side of the discharge base (7) at a distance (h) from the same, with the cover plate (11) having openings (12) which are arranged essentially in the same pattern as the discharge openings (9) of the discharge base (7). The cover plate (11) and the discharge base (7) are movable relative to each other between an opened condition in which the discharge openings (9) of the discharge base (7) and the openings (12) of the cover plate (11) overlap each other at least partially, preferably being congruent, and a closed condition in which the discharge openings (9) of the discharge base (7) exhibit such an axial offset (s) from the openings (12) of the cover plate (11) that no overlap is produced.
US07980800B2
A blind fastener for insertion through an aperture in a workpiece, the fastener including a pin, a sleeve and an abutment member; wherein the abutment member can be removed from the sleeve so that the pin and sleeve can be forced out of the aperture, to remove the fastener therefrom, wherein the sleeve has a radially expanding head, which is received in a recess of the abutment member and wherein, prior to insertion of the fastener into the workpiece aperture, the abutment member is secured to the sleeve by deformation of part of the abutment member adjacent the recess over and into contact with the sleeve head.
US07980790B2
Compressible mechanically stabilized earth retaining wall system and method for installation thereof
A compressible mechanically stabilized earth retaining wall system and installation thereof is described.
US07980788B2
The invention relates to a construction machine comprising a transmission, at least one hydraulic drive and a hydraulic circuit for supplying the hydraulic drive with hydraulic fluid, wherein at least one lubrication line is branched off from the hydraulic circuit, by means of which the transmission can be supplied with hydraulic fluid as a lubricant. The invention is characterized in that a dosing device is provided on the lubrication line, with which the supply of lubricant can be changed depending on an operating condition of the transmission.
US07980786B1
A tensioner system is described for oil and natural gas floating platforms and floating vessels having a plurality of self contained dual pressure cylinders for adjusting simultaneously low and high pressures in low pressure and high pressure channels, wherein the tensioner system is disposed on a floating structure to dampen the effects of sea waves and wind load between casing from a well and the floating structure due to movement of the sea and movement based on wind.
US07980778B2
A liquid applicator includes a liquid pressing mechanism 6 for pressurizing an application liquid 4 inside a main body 2 so as to supply the application liquid to an applying member 10 at the front end by the pressing of liquid pressing mechanism 6, wherein the applying member 10 is made of an elastic material, has a valve structure 8 which is formed with a communication path 24 for communication between the inside and outside of main body 2 and can close the communication path 24 by elasticity in the normal condition and open the communication path 24 by elastic deformation of the communication path when the application liquid is pressurized by liquid pressing mechanism 6, and, an ejection opening 24a of communication path 24 of valve structure 8 is arranged to front onto the applying portion 10a of the applying member 10.
US07980765B2
The present invention, as variously practiced, implements electrorheological fluid (ERF) as a bearing lubricant. Various modes of an inventive rolling element bearing apparatus provide for electrification of inventive electrode components, viz: (first mode) two annular disk electrodes, opposite each other and perpendicular to the two raceway surfaces; or, (second mode) electrically conductive inner and outer races, having an electrically conductive spacer therebetween; or, (third mode) plural electrodes, radially embedded in a race. An ERF lubricative coating remains on one or both raceway surfaces in accordance with Winslow effect principle (first and second modes) or edge effect principle (third mode). An inventive journal bearing apparatus provides for electrification of electrodes that are axially-longitudinally embedded in a journal bearing member, resulting in establishment of edge effect electric flux lines between adjacent electrode pairs, an ERF lubricative coating thereby remaining on the journal bearing member's inward facing surface, contiguous to the shaft.
US07980761B2
The present invention relates to a transport sleeve (1) or sack which is formed of a single fiber web or by sewing up or otherwise fastening two or more webs or sheets of fabric or fiber to form a protective cover (2,3,4) which can be wrapped around sheet material (13). The fabric or fiber cover can then be fastened in the form of a bag or sleeve to protect the sheet material. One variant of the present invention therefore relates to a sleeve in the shape of a bag which is either preformed by sewing up or otherwise fastening two or more fabric webs or sheets of synthetic material (2,3,4) together and folding them around a sheet of material (13) to be transported, or is obtained by folding over a single web of material around the sheet material.
US07980755B2
A mixing apparatus having a mixing impeller affixed to the end of a mixer shaft which is reciprocably and rotatably or non-rotatably mounted thru mixer seal structure which has surface portions adapted to be brought into sealing engagement with the open filler end of a retail off-the-shelf tube of viscous caulking or sealant compound or the like, wherein the shaft and impeller are adapted to be reciprocated thru the compound and an additive contained in the tube substantially the entire length of the tube to rapidly and intimately mix the compound with colorant or other additive added directly into the retail tube thru its filler (back) end.
US07980754B2
The present invention relates to a method for bringing a powder and a liquid component, preferably polymer and monomer, in contact with each other for mixing thereof, preferably to form bone cement, wherein the powder component (P) is placed in a mixing container (1) in which the mixing shall occur and the liquid component (M) in a liquid container (18) from which said the liquid component (M) is transferred to the powder component (P) in the mixing container (1). In this method, a vacuum is generated in the mixing container (1) and the liquid container (18) is opened by means of at least one cannula (14) or similar member through which the liquid component (M) can be brought to flow from the liquid container (18) to the mixing container (1). The vacuum is brought to suck the liquid component (M) from the liquid container (18), through the cannula (14) and into the mixing container (1) to the powder component (P) therein, and/or is the liquid component (M) pressed into the mixing container (1) through the cannula (14) while the liquid container (18) is compressed because of the pressure difference between the vacuum in the interior of the liquid container (18) and the air pressure outside the liquid container. The invention also relates to a device for carrying through the method.
US07980751B2
Light shades and lighting systems that create a spectral effect when a lighting element is illuminated within the shade, and features that reflect light originating within the shade. Embodiments of the invention incorporate hollow body having a diffraction grating thereon and an internal cavity to retain one or more lighting elements, and in some instances, to also retain one or more lengths of conductor.
US07980750B2
A backlight assembly includes a lamp assembly, a receiving container and a panel guiding frame. The lamp assembly includes a light source to generate light and a lamp cover to reflect the light. The receiving container includes a bottom and a sidewall. The sidewall includes a first sidewall portion facing the lamp cover and separated from the lamp cover by a first interval and a second sidewall portion separated from the lamp cover by a second interval narrower than the first interval. The panel guiding frame includes a first frame portion facing an end of the bottom and a second frame portion extended from the first frame portion along a side face of the second sidewall and having an opening corresponding to the first sidewall portion. Thus, the backlight assembly may have a reduced non-effective display area.
US07980747B2
The present invention relates to a light emitting diode (LED) lighting device (10). The device comprises a light guide plate (12), a plurality of LEDs (14) for emitting light into the light guide plate, a plurality of out-coupling structures (20) adapted to extract light from the light guide plate, and first and second electrodes (22, 24) connected to the LEDs. The first electrode is arranged at one side (28) of the light guide plate and the second electrode is arranged at the other side (30) of the light guide plate. Such a lighting device may have a reduced thickness.
US07980737B2
An electronic device support includes a V-shaped base, a supporting leg, a cable and a number of lights. The V-shaped base includes a pair of legs extending from an apex of the V-shaped base. The supporting leg is pivotably connected to the V-shaped base adjacent to the apex. The cable is embedded in at least one of the legs and the supporting leg and includes a connector plug electrically connected to the other end. The lights are rotatably mounted on one of the distal end of the legs of the base away from the apex of the V-shaped base.
US07980735B1
A reflector assembly includes a frame that maintains the integrity and shape of a multi-member reflector for a recessed luminaire. The members of the reflector are arranged in a geometric form, such as a rectangle. The frame is disposed around the reflector. The frame includes at least one integral member manipulated around a joint formed between adjacent members of the reflector. For example, the integral member can include a clamp or tab. The frame and the integral member secure the positions of the members of the reflector relative to one another and prevent light from leaking through joints between the members. One or more connectors are coupled to the frame for connecting the reflector assembly to a lighting fixture. For example, each connector can include a torsion spring coupled to a lever configured to engage a corresponding catch of a collar on the lighting fixture.
US07980729B2
Disclosed is an illumination device for projecting a substantially uniform light at a remote distance. The illumination device comprises a mounting assembly divided into a plurality of sections, each section comprising a plurality of light emitting sources arranged substantially equi-distant along a circumference of said assembly at an angle to project a light image at the remote distance, an contact plate connected via a central axis with, and fixed to, the mounting assembly, the contact plate providing an electrical contact to each of the light emitting devices, a plurality of lensing assemblies equal in number to plurality of sections axially aligned with the mounting assembly, the lensing assembly aligned with a select one of the light emitting sources in a corresponding section, the light emitting source being positioned in front of a focal point of the lensing assembly, each lensing assembly comprising at least one optically transparent lens determining said lensing assembly focal point, and means for shifting said contact plate and mounting assembly to align a select one of said light emitting devices with a corresponding lensing assembly. In another aspect of the invention, the lens assemblies may be positioned linearly and light emitting sources are positioned along an edge of the mounting assemblies, wherein the LEDs are positioned in front of the lensing assemblies by shifting each of the mounting assemblies.
US07980724B2
A lamp guide frame includes a frame body, a plurality of openings and a plurality of lamp socket receiving portions. The frame body guides end portions of a plurality of lamps. The openings extend in a width direction of the frame body. The openings are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the frame body. Each of the lamp socket receiving portions protrudes from a lower face of the frame body partially around an associated opening to form a receiving space receiving a lamp socket inserted into the opening. The lamp socket receiving portions are open in the width direction of the frame body. The frame body and the plurality of lamps socket receiving portions collectively define a single and continuous member. The associated opening and the receiving space of the lamp socket collectively define a continuous opening.
US07980722B2
A light assembly for an inspection tool having a mirror, the assembly having a mounting bracket attached to the mirror; a light member attached to the mounting bracket; and a power source for the light member.
US07980713B2
An elongated lighting strip is provided. The lighting strip is positioned inside of a shower or bathtub enclosure in order to both illuminate the enclosure as well as spray or diffuse and aqueous solution onto the enclosure.
US07980709B2
An optical projector includes a casing, a partition element, an optical projection module and a main board. The casing includes a main body, a first cover and a second cover. The partition element is disposed at the main body, and the first cover is detachably disposed on the main body. The first cover, the partition element and the main body together define a first accommodating space. The second cover is detachably disposed on the main body. The second cover, the partition element and the main body together define a second accommodating space. The optical projection module is disposed in the first accommodating space and the main board is disposed in the second accommodating space.
US07980702B2
An image display device of the present invention comprises projectors, a reflecting mirror, a screen, an image signal processor which performs a distortion correction, and a base for supporting the projectors, the reflecting mirror, and the screen. The projectors, reflecting mirror, and screen are assembled in one to constitute a single moving unit, and the image display device further comprises a lifting device capable of moving the moving unit in a vertical direction with respect to the base.
US07980697B2
A fundus oculi observation device comprises: a first image forming part configured to form a 2-dimensional image of a surface of a fundus oculi of an eye; a second image forming part configured to form a tomographic image having a cross-sectional position in a measurement region of the fundus oculi corresponding to a partial region of the 2-dimensional image; a display; a storage configured to store imaging condition information including characteristic information showing a characteristic of the eye; and a controller configured to match display sizes of the formed 2-dimensional image and a measurement range image showing a range of the measurement region with each other, based on the stored imaging condition information, and cause the display to display the 2-dimensional image and the measurement range image whose display sizes are matched.
US07980696B1
An ophthalmic photographing apparatus includes: an interference optical system including a splitter that splits light, emitted from a measurement light source, into measurement light and reference light, and synthesizing the measurement light reflected on an eye with the reference light to guide the synthesized light to a detector; a driving part that moves an optical member arranged in the optical path to adjust an optical-path difference between the measurement light and the reference light; an image obtaining part that obtains a tomographic image of a fundus or an anterior segment based on a light receiving signal output from the detector; and a driving control unit that controls driving of the driving part to locate the optical member in a predetermined position corresponding to either a photographing mode for photographing the tomographic image of the fundus or a photographing mode for photographing the tomographic image of the anterior segment.
US07980695B2
There is provided a technique for efficiently acquiring a tomogram of an eye portion. A diagnosis support apparatus includes a wide-area image acquisition means for acquiring a wide-area image of an eye portion, a detection means for detecting a lesion candidate on the eye portion by analyzing the wide-area image acquired by the wide-area image acquisition means, a determination means for determining a parameter associated with acquisition of a tomogram of the eye portion, based on a lesion candidate detection result obtained by the detection means, and a tomogram acquisition means for acquiring a tomogram of the eye portion based on the parameter determined by the determination means.
US07980694B2
An apparatus and a method for obtaining, in vivo, a measurement of retinal response to an optical stimuli. Light sources provide optical stimuli to the retina in accordance with predetermined stimulation sequences, and images of the retina are obtained and correlated with the predetermined stimulation sequences so as to determine responses of the retina to the optical stimuli. In one particular embodiment, optical stimuli are provided according to m-sequences and correlated with corresponding optical coherence tomography images to determine a functional response of the retina.
US07980692B2
The present invention involves the prescribing and/or dispensing ophthalmic lenses, such as progressive addition lenses, for a wearer. In one form of the invention lens usage information is obtained from a wearer and entered into a programmed computer. The programmed computer processes the lens usage information to provide a separate weighted lifestyle score for each of one or more respective lifestyle score categories, such that each weighted lifestyle score is a function of a predetermined relationship between the respective lifestyle score category and at least ophthalmic lens design feature. The programmed computer then selects or designs an ophthalmic lens design using one or more of the weighted lifestyle scores such that the selected or designed ophthalmic lens has at least one lens design feature which has been customised using one or more of the weighted lifestyle scores.
US07980683B2
In an inkjet printer where an ink recycling path for recycling ink is formed by connecting among an ink head, an upstream tank, and a downstream tank, the inkjet printer includes a temperature detecting unit that detects a temperature of recycling ink, a temperature changing unit that is installed in the ink recycled path and changes the temperature of the recycling ink so that the temperature of the recycling ink reaches a predetermined temperature, and an ink recycling amount changing unit that is installed at the upstream tank and changes an ink recycling amount according to the change in temperature of the recycling ink. Time required to make the temperature of the recycling ink reach the predetermined temperature can be shortened.
US07980680B2
A method for manufacturing piezoelectric actuator which includes a piezoelectric layer formed of a piezoelectric ceramics material and having a drive area, a first electrode and a second electrode arranged on both surfaces of the piezoelectric material layer respectively each at portion corresponding to the drive area, and a ceramics layer formed of a ceramics material and stacked to face the surface of the piezoelectric material layer on which the first electrode is arranged, the method including: forming a stacked body which includes the piezoelectric material layer, the ceramics layer, and the first electrode, and sintering the stacked body; forming the second electrode on the other surface, of the piezoelectric material layer after the sintering, not facing the ceramics layer; and forming elastic layers having a lower coefficient of elasticity than that of the piezoelectric material layer on both surfaces respectively of the stacked body after the sintering.
US07980679B2
A piezoelectric element includes: a lower electrode which is formed on a surface of a vibrating plate, and is one polarity of a piezoelectric element which displaces the vibrating plate; a flexurally-deformable piezoelectric body formed on a surface of the lower electrode; and an upper electrode which is formed on a surface of the piezoelectric body, and is another polarity of the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric body is formed by a vacuum deposition method. Polarization of the piezoelectric body is oriented in a direction from the lower electrode toward the upper electrode.
US07980673B2
An inkjet nozzle assembly comprises: a nozzle chamber for containing ink, the nozzle chamber having a nozzle opening defined in a roof thereof; and a bubble-forming heater element positioned in the nozzle chamber. The heater element is suspended in the nozzle chamber and parallel with a plane of the roof. The heater element is comprised of solid material having a total mass of less than 10 nanograms.
US07980670B2
An inkjet printhead includes a substrate having an array of nozzles grouped in nozzle pairs. Each nozzle pair has a common nozzle chamber and a single actuator configured to selectively eject ink from one or other of the nozzles in the nozzle pair.
US07980664B2
A pagewidth printhead includes a printhead controller; a wafer substrate defining a plurality of inlets; and a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements on the wafer substrate and under control of the controller. Each nozzle arrangement includes side walls disposed on the wafer substrate with a roof portion attached to said side walls to define a printing fluid chamber in fluid communication with one inlet, the roof portion defining an ejection port; and at least two heater elements suspended between the side walls in the fluid chamber for forming a vapour bubble in response to electrical actuation energy being applied thereto, whereby a pressure increase in the chamber is effected and fluid in the fluid chamber ejected therefrom via the ejection port. The controller is configured to actuate the at least two heater elements individually to facilitate ejection of weighted ink drop volumes from the nozzle arrangement. A size of a first of the at least two heater elements is different to a size of a second of the at least two heater elements.
