US08039853B2
A light emitting device is provided which can prevent a change in gate voltage due to leakage or other causes and at the same time can prevent the aperture ratio from lowering. A capacitor storage is formed from a connection wiring line, an insulating film, and a capacitance wiring line. The connection wiring line is formed over a gate electrode and an active layer of a TFT of a pixel, and is connected to the active layer. The insulating film is formed on the connection wiring line. The capacitance wiring line is formed on the insulating film. This structure enables the capacitor storage to overlap the TFT, thereby increasing the capacity of the capacitor storage while keeping the aperture ratio from lowering. Accordingly, a change in gate voltage due to leakage or other causes can be avoided to prevent a change in luminance of an OLED and flickering of screen in analog driving.
US08039850B2
There is provided a white light emitting device that prevents a red phosphor from resorbing wavelength-converted light to improve white luminous efficiency. A white light emitting device according to an aspect of the invention includes a package body; at least two LED chips mounted to the package body and emitting excitation light; and a molding unit including phosphors, absorbing the excitation light and emitting wavelength-converted light, in regions of the molding unit divided according to the LED chips and molding the LED chips. According to the aspect of the invention, since the phosphor for converted red light can be prevented from resorbing light generated from other regions of the molding unit, the white light emitting device that can improve white luminous efficiency or control color rendering and color temperature by adjusting a mixing ratio of converted light for white light emission.
US08039848B2
Semiconductor light emitting device packaging methods include fabricating a substrate configured to mount a semiconductor light emitting device thereon. The substrate may include a cavity configured to mount the semiconductor light emitting device therein. The semiconductor light emitting device is mounted on the substrate and electrically connected to a contact portion of the substrate. The substrate is liquid injection molded to form an optical element bonded to the substrate over the semiconductor light emitting device. Liquid injection molding may be preceded by applying a soft resin on the electrically connected semiconductor light emitting device in the cavity. Semiconductor light emitting device substrate strips are also provided.
US08039840B2
A display device having the high aperture ratio and a storage capacitor with high capacitance is to be obtained. The present invention relates to a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes a thin film transistor which includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, a first semiconductor layer, a channel protective film, a second semiconductor having conductivity which is divided into a source region and a drain region, and a source electrode and a drain electrode; a third insulating layer formed over the second conductive film; a pixel electrode formed over the third insulating layer, which is connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a storage capacitor formed in a region where a capacitor wiring over the first insulating layer and the pixel electrode are overlapped with the third insulating layer over the capacitor wiring interposed therebetween.
US08039839B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. When an organic layer having an emission layer (EML) is formed using a deposition mask, damage to a pixel defining layer due to inconsistencies or unevenness of the deposition mask is prevented or reduced using spherical spacers disposed on the pixel defining layer. A plurality of spherical spacers are applied on the pixel defining layer prior to forming an opening in the pixel defining layer exposing the first electrode. An organic layer having an emission layer (EML) is formed on the first electrode at the opening by using a deposition mask. The spherical spacers prevent or reduce damage to the pixel defining layer caused by inconsistencies or unevenness in the deposition mask by maintaining a spacing between the pixel defining layer and the deposition mask.
US08039830B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a first layer made of at least one of n-type GaN and n-type AlGaN; a second layer made of Mg-containing p-type AlGaN; and a light emitting section provided between the first layer and the second layer. The light emitting section included a plurality of barrier layers made of Si-containing AlxGa1-x-yInyN (0≦x, 0≦y, x+y≦1), and a well layer provided between each pair of the plurality of barrier layers and made of GaInN or AlGaInN. The plurality of barrier layers have a nearest barrier layer and a far barrier layer. The nearest barrier layer is nearest to the second layer among the plurality of barrier layers. The nearest barrier layer includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is made of Si-containing AlxGa1-x-yInyN (0≦x, 0≦y, x+y≦1). The second portion is provided between the first portion and the second layer and is made of AlxGa1-x-yInyN (0≦x, 0≦y, x+y≦1). The Si concentration in the second portion is lower than a Si concentration in the first portion and lower than a Si concentration in the far barrier layer.
US08039817B2
A system and method for imaging biological samples on multiple surfaces of a support structure are disclosed. The support structure may be a flow cell through which a reagent fluid is allowed to flow and interact with the biological samples. Excitation radiation from at least one radiation source may be used to excite the biological samples on multiple surfaces. In this manner, fluorescent emission radiation may be generated from the biological samples and subsequently captured and detected by detection optics and at least one detector. The detected fluorescent emission radiation may then be used to generate image data. This imaging of multiple surfaces may be accomplished either sequentially or simultaneously. In addition, the techniques of the present invention may be used with any type of imaging system. For instance, both epifluorescent and total internal reflection methods may benefit from the techniques of the present invention.
US08039810B2
A scintillation-based detection device and method for continuous monitoring of flowing liquids for the presence of radionuclides. A side-stream pipe directs a portion of the monitored liquid from the main flow transfer pipe through and/or around the detector. Within the side-stream pipe is a scintillation detector assembly, having) either a nested-cylindrical or stacked-element shape. The real-time to near real-time detection capabilities are influenced by the total surface area of the detector assembly. The detectors are operated in anti-coincidence mode to distinguish pure beta-emitters from beta-gamma emitters and from pure gamma events. A gross beta count, gross gamma count, or some combination may also be determined.
US08039809B2
The present invention provides a sensor panel and an image detecting device that can suppress generation of artifacts and an increase in noise. A sensor panel has an image detecting region formed from plural image sensor portions, data lines reading signals out from the image sensor portions, bidirectional diodes disposed at a peripheral edge of the image detecting region and connected to the data lines, and, at an upper layer of the bidirectional diodes, a semiconductor film that generates charges due to irradiation of electromagnetic waves. At the sensor panel, shield electrodes, that are connected to a common line, are disposed between the bidirectional diodes and the semiconductor film.
US08039801B2
A detection apparatus for detecting electromagnetic waves that have passed through an object is provided which includes a transmission line for transmitting electromagnetic waves therethrough and a detector for detecting electromagnetic waves that have passed through an object, the transmission line having a gap for disposing the object therein.
US08039799B2
A system and method for detecting the presence of a moving object within a detection zone is provided. The system includes a first sensor responsive to light in a first range of wavelengths in the detection zone, a second sensor responsive to light in a second range of wavelengths in the detection zone, wherein the second range of wavelengths is different from the first range of wavelengths, and a processing component for generating a variable threshold value for the first sensor based upon at least maximum and minimum output signals from the second sensor within a predetermined period of time, and for comparing the first output signal with the variable threshold value. The processing component generates an activating signal if the first output signal exceeds the threshold value.
US08039795B2
Improved apparatuses and methods are provided for ionizing samples and analyzing the samples with mass spectrometry.
US08039784B2
A readout chip for single photon counting has a plurality of N individually working channels each assigned to a respective detector diode. Each channel has a counter designed as a binary counter having a length of M bits and a number of programmable bits. Further, the readout chip has a serial shift register or parallel data input register for entering values for the counter and the programmable bits, and a number of data output shift registers each having a number of K data outputs. Means are provided for selectively multiplexing each of the K data outputs onto a selectable bit of the data output shift register.
US08039773B2
A method and an apparatus for repairing gas-turbine blisks uses an endoscope 15 provided with processing optics featuring a flexible light guide arrangement 16. A laser source 9 is connected to a flexible optical fiber arrangement 10, with a filler material feeder 7 for supplying welding flux via a flexible line 8, with a water supply 11 connected to a flexible line 12, and with an inert gas supply 13 connected to a flexible line 16 for supplying inert gas, with the flexible lines 8, 12, 14, the flexible light guide arrangement 16 and the flexible optical fiber arrangement 10 being combined to form a flexible long repair implement 17 at least at its distal end areas.
US08039772B2
A microwave resonance plasma generating apparatus, a plasma processing system having the same and a method of generating a microwave resonance plasma are provided. The apparatus includes a microwave generating unit which generates a microwave, and a plasma producing unit which produces electrons and photons of high energy using the microwave generated from the microwave generating unit. The plasma producing unit includes a coaxial waveguide having an inner electrode disposed adjacent to the microwave generating unit, an outer electrode connected to the microwave generating unit and disposed to coaxially surround a portion of the inner electrode, the outer electrode being shorter than the inner electrode, and a dielectric tube disposed between the inner electrode and the outer electrode to insulate between the inner electrode and the outer electrode. The coaxial waveguide utilizes a principle of “cut or truncated electrode of coaxial waveguide” and a resonance phenomenon of Langmiur.
US08039771B2
A vacuum envelope is for a fixed contact mounted on a fixed electrode and a moveable contact mounted on a moveable electrode. The vacuum envelope includes a ceramic tube including a first open end and a second open end. A first end member is secured to the first open end. A second end member includes an inside surface and is secured to the second open end. A self-aligning end shield includes a first end having an opening therein, a second open end, an intermediate portion disposed between the first end and the end shield second open end, and a flange portion disposed from the end shield second open end. The flange portion extends outwardly from the intermediate portion and generally back toward the first end. The flange portion includes an edge engaging the inside surface of the second end member, and is normally offset from the ceramic tube.
US08039768B2
An electrical switch includes a rotary switch actuator device, and an actuator locking device. The actuator locking device inhibits the rotation of the rotary switch actuator device when the contacts of the switch are closed. Only when the operator tries to open the switch with an operating handle and the contacts do actually open, a lock release device will release the actuator locking device, and allow the operator to move the operator handle to the position corresponding to the open condition. When the contacts do not open, e.g., because they are welded, the actuator locking device will remain locked and the handle movement is blocked. This provides a robust and safe switch that never gives a false “OFF” indication.
US08039750B2
A combined cable connector and cable untangler is disclosed. The combined cable connector and untangler comprises a single elongated body with at least one through hole extending along the whole body length. The cable connector is adapted to be used with a portable electronic device. The cable connector enables the cable to be adapted in length and prevents it from being entangled.
US08039748B2
A flexible flat cable includes a plurality of ground lines and a plurality of signal lines. Each of the ground lines is connected to an electromagnetic shield layer by two connection line members. An arrangement of the ground lines and signal lines that are positioned in a region on one side of a center line of the flexible flat cable and an arrangement of the ground lines and signal lines on a region on the other side are symmetric with respect to the center line. In each of two connectors to which end portions of the flexible flat cable are coupled, terminals corresponding to the ground lines are grounded, a terminal corresponding to a signal line interposed between two ground lines is assigned a high-speed signal, and a terminal corresponding to another signal line is assigned a ground potential.
US08039744B2
A protective support structure for enclosing and protecting an element includes a hollow shield and at least one pivotable end. The hollow shield has a section adapted to support a portion of the element. The pivotable end engages the hollow shield. The pivotable end has an axis of rotation around which the end pivots. The pivotable end further includes a bore having a centerline axis. The bore centerline axis is offset from the axis of rotation of the pivotable end.
US08039741B2
A photoelectric conversion element comprising a pair of electrodes containing therebetween a compound represented by Formula (1) or Formula (2):
US08039738B2
The use of rare-earth (RE and O, N, P) based materials to transition between two different semiconductor materials and enable up and/or down conversion of incident radiation is disclosed. Rare earth based oxides, nitrides and phosphides provide a wide range of lattice spacing enabling, compressive, tensile or stress-free lattice matching with Group IV, III-V, and Group II-VI compounds.
US08039736B2
The use of rare-earth (REO, N, P) based materials to covert long wavelength photons to shorter wavelength photons that can be absorbed in a photovoltaic device (up-conversion) and (REO, N, P) materials which can absorb a short wavelength photon and re-emit one (downshifting) or more longer wavelength photons is disclosed. The wide spectral range of sunlight overlaps with a multitude of energy transitions in rare-earth materials, thus offering multiple up-conversion pathways. The refractive index contrast of rare-earth materials with silicon enables a DBR with >90% peak reflectivity and a stop band greater than 150 nm.
US08039730B2
A solar cell having an open loop voltage that approaches a critical voltage range when exposed to light. A circuit, connected to the solar cell, is configured to load the solar cell when the open loop voltage of the solar cell reaches a threshold within a predetermined range of the critical voltage range.
US08039729B2
A thermocouple mounting assembly is provided. A plurality of retainers includes portions that are interengageable, some portions carried by a body and some portions carried by a thermocouple assembly to effect releasable mounting of a thermocouple assembly to a body. The retainers are constructed and shaped to provide for their formation by a molding process such as die-casting or investment casting, eliminating or substantially eliminating the need for machining of the retainer components. Preferably, there is an audible sound, e.g., click, present to signify when the retainers are interengaged.
US08039724B1
A removable electronic drum head for an acoustic drum is disclosed. The electronic drum head includes an elastic strike layer, a rigid plate centered below the elastic strike layer. A first sensor is attached to a bottom surface of the rigid plate. A structural body supports the elastic strike layer, rigid plate and first sensor. The structural body is further adapted to attach to an acoustic drum. Other optional foam layers may be included above and below the rigid plate.
US08039721B2
A kit and method for learning rhythms, composing music, to play a musical instrument, and then read music; in that particular order of events. The kit comprises a set of hands on manipulatives that assemble into a structured system of interactive musical instrument concept training components. The method comprises employing the kit according to instructions in at least one or more training manuals to assemble the hands on manipulatives into a structured system of interactive musical instrument concept training components.
US08039717B1
A novel maize variety designated 10119570 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing maize variety 10119570 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 10119570 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety 10119570, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety 10119570. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety 10119570.
US08039716B1
A novel maize variety designated 10085650 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing maize variety 10085650 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 10085650 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety 10085650, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety 10085650. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety 10085650.
US08039715B1
A novel maize variety designated X7K448 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing maize variety X7K448 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X7K448 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X7K448, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X7K448. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X7K448.
US08039713B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH105778. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH105778, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH105778 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH105778.
US08039712B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH417193. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH417193, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH417193 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH417193.
US08039705B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH904217. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH904217, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH904217 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH904217.
US08039700B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 468300G. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 468300G. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 468300G and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 468300G with itself or another cotton variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08039693B2
A soybean cultivar designated 82224905 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 82224905, to the plants of soybean 82224905, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 82224905 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 82224905 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 82224905, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 82224905 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 82224905 with another soybean cultivar.
US08039690B2
Clusters of plant genes that are regulated in response to one or more stress conditions are provided, as are isolated plant stress-regulated genes, including portions thereof comprising a coding sequence or a regulatory element, and to consensus sequences comprising a plant stress-regulated regulatory element. In addition, a recombinant polynucleotide, which includes a plant stress-regulated gene, or functional portion thereof, operatively linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence, is provided, as are transgenic plants, which contain a plant stress-regulated gene or functional portion thereof that was introduced into a progenitor cell of the plant. Also provided are methods of using a plant stress-regulated gene to confer upon a plant a selective advantage to a stress condition, methods of identifying an agent that modulates the activity of a plant stress-regulated regulatory element, and methods of determining whether a plant has been exposed to a stress.
US08039669B2
The invention provides methods and reagents for the metathesis of secondary amides via a transacylation mechanism employing catalytic quantities of an imide initiator and a Brønsted base. Equilibrium-controlled exchange between various amide reactant pairs is demonstrated for substrates bearing a variety of N-alkyl and N-aryl substituents.
US08039666B2
A method for preparing an amine borane from an alkali metal borohydride and an amine salt. The alkali metal borohydride is allowed to react with 0.95 to 1.05 equivalents of the amine salt in a solvent which contains water and an amine.
US08039657B2
The present invention provides a process for preparing a highly pure form of malathion having a reduced level of toxic impurities. In addition, the malathion prepared by the process of this invention is storage stable. The level of toxic impurities in the malathion, e.g., isomalathion, O,O,S-trimethyl phosphorodithioate (MeOOSPS), O,O,S-trimethyl phosphorothioate (MeOOSPO), O,S,S-trimethyl phosphorodithioate (MeOSSPO), malaoxon, isomalathion, diethyl fumarate, methyl malathion, dimethyl malathion, O,O-methyl,ethyl-S-(1,2-dicarboethoxy)ethyl-phosphorodithioate are lower than that of any other commercial preparation of malathion that may be used for pharmaceutical purposes.
US08039655B2
One step ortho-alkylation of anilines with styrenes to give chiral anilines is obtained using a strong acid catalyst, e.g. CF3SO3H. Condensation of the product to give ligand and metallation gives complex which catalyzes polymerization of propylene to give isotactic propylene or regiorandom propylene of low PDI or blocks thereof, depending on polymerization temperature.
US08039647B2
A drug effective for the treatment and prevention of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, anxiety and related ailments thereof, depression, bipolar disorder and epilepsy. The drug antagonizes the action of group II metabotropic glutamate receptors and shows high activity in oral administrationA 2-amino-bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane-2,6-dicarboxylic ester derivative represented by formula [I] [wherein R1 and R2 are identical or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-10alkyl group or the like; X represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; Y represents —OCHR3R4 or the like (wherein R3 and R4 are identical or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-10alkyl group or the like; and n represents integer 1 or 2)], a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a hydrate thereof.
US08039645B2
The method of the invention for continuously producing 2,5-dihydrofuran includes subjecting cis-2-butene-1,4-diol to liquid-phase dehydration-cyclization reaction in the presence of alumina, characterized in that the sum of the concentration of carbonyl compounds present in the reaction system and the concentration of acetal compounds present in the reaction system is controlled to fall within a range of 0.1 to 2 mol/L, provided that the concentration of the acetal compounds is calculated in terms of acetal groups, the concentrations being determined on the basis of the total amount of the reaction mixture. According to the method, 2,5-dihydrofuran, which is useful as a raw material or intermediate for producing pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, raw materials of polymers, etc., can be continuously produced. The method can prevent inactivation of γ-alumina and is advantageous for long-term production on an industrial scale.
US08039643B2
Disclosed are a composition comprising a mixture of at least one iridium organometallic compound and an electrically conductive polymer, an organic active layer comprising the same, an organic memory device comprising the organic active layer and methods for fabricating the same. The organic memory device may include a first electrode, a second electrode and the organic active layer between the first and second electrodes. The organic memory device possesses the advantages of rapid switching time, decreased operating voltage, decreased fabrication costs, increased reliability and improved non-volatility.
US08039641B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a compound of formula (Ia), (Ib), (Ic) or (Id), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, complex or prodrug thereof, said process comprising the steps of: (A) (i) treating a compound of formula (IVa), where R48 is alkyl or tosyl, with an oxidizing agent to form a compound of formula (Va); and (ii) converting said compound of formula (Va) to a compound of formula (Ia) or (Ic); or (B) (i) treating a compound of formula (IVb), where R48 is alkyl or tosyl, with an oxidizing agent to form a compound of formula (Vb); and (ii) converting said compound of formula (Vb) to a compound of formula (Ib) or (Id).
US08039629B2
The present application relates to a novel tetrahydroquinoline derivative, to a process for its preparation, to its use on its own or in combination for treating and/or preventing diseases and to its use for preparing medicaments, in particular as an inhibitor of the cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) for the treatment and/or prevention of cardiovascular disorders, in particular hypolipoproteinaemias, dyslipidaemias, hypertriglyceridaemias, hyperlipidaemias, hypercholesterolaemias and arteriosclerosis.
US08039624B2
The present invention is concerned with novel indol-3-yl-carbonyl-azaspiropiperidine derivatives as V1a receptor antagonists, their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use for the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders and other diseases. In particular, the present invention is concerned with compounds of the general formula (I) wherein R1 to R6, U, V, W, X, Y and Z are as defined in the specification.
US08039621B2
Type I anhydrous aripiprazole is prepared by dissolving aripiprazole (or an acid salt thereof) in an alcoholic solvent, optionally containing water, at elevated temperature, adding seed crystals of Type 1 anhydrous aripiprazole to the solution, cooling the mixture, and isolating crystals aripiprazole and drying the isolated crystals to obtain low moisture Type 1 anhydrous aripiprazole.
US08039619B2
Voriconazole is prepared by a process comprising condensing 1-(2,4-difluorophenyl)-2-(1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-yl)ethanone with 4-chloro-6-ethyl-5-fluoropyrimidine, in a ketone, ether, aliphatic hydrocarbon, or aromatic hydrocarbon solvent, to give (2R,3S/2S,3R)-3-(4-chloro-5-fluoropyrimidin-6-yl)-2-(2,4-diflurophenyl)-1-(1H -1,2,4-triazole-1-yl)butan-2-ol.
US08039611B2
Provided is a ribonucleoside derivative represented by General Formula (I): (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, R2 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, R3 represents a methyl group or the like, and B represents a nucleic acid base residue optionally having a protecting group or a modifying group). An RNA containing this ribonucleoside derivative shows excellent hybridization ability and resistance to nuclease.
US08039601B1
The novel crystalline and polymorphic forms of 1,6-Bis [3-(3-carboxymethylphenyl)-4-(2-α-D-mannopyranosyloxy)-phenyl] hexane have advantageous properties and can be used in pharmaceutical and dermatological compositions.
US08039600B2
Monoclonal antibodies to rapamycin and to 40-O-alkylated derivatives of rapamycin are provided, together with novel haptens, immunogenic conjugates, and processes for making them and assay kits for using them.
US08039597B2
Antibodies and molecules derived therefrom that bind to 24P4C12 protein and variants thereof, are described wherein 24P4C12 exhibits tissue specific expression in normal adult tissue, and is aberrantly expressed in the cancers listed in Table I. Consequently, 24P4C12 provides a diagnostic, prognostic, prophylactic and/or therapeutic target for cancer. The 24P4C12 gene or fragment thereof, or its encoded protein, or variants thereof, or a fragment thereof, can be used to elicit a humoral or cellular immune response; antibodies or T cells reactive with 24P4C12 can be used in active or passive immunization.
US08039593B2
The invention provides high affinity antibodies suitable for forming immunotoxins that inhibit the growth of cells expressing human glycoprotein NMB, including glioblastoma multiform cells, anaplastic astrocytoma cells, anaplastic oligodendroglioma cells, oligodendroglioma cells, and melanoma cells.
US08039584B2
Peptides have been generated that have binding affinity to carbon nanostructures and particularly carbon nanotubes. Peptides of or the invention are generally about twelve amino acids in length. Methods for generating carbon nanotube binding peptides are also disclosed.
US08039583B2
Peptides have been generated that have binding affinity to carbon nanostructures and particularly carbon nanotubes. Peptides of or the invention are generally about twelve amino acids in length. Methods for generating carbon nanotube binding peptides are also disclosed.
US08039582B2
Methods of modulating interfacial characteristics in a self-assembled, force-transmitting peptide network at a fluid-fluid interface are disclosed. The methods involve exposing a peptide capable of participating in a self-assembled, force-transmitting peptide network, either before or after it interacts with other peptides to form the peptide network to a stimulus that alters the chemical and/or physical properties of the peptide. Use of such methods in applications such as emulsions and foams are also disclosed.
US08039571B2
The invention firstly concerns the use as a compatibilizing agent, in a process to manufacture a chlorinated thermoplastic resin filled with a mineral material, of a comb polymer having at least one anionic monomer with ethylenic unsaturation, to which is grafted at least one polyalkylene oxide group.The invention also concerns the chlorinated thermoplastic materials thus obtained, which have an improved compatibility between the filler and the chlorinated thermoplastic resin, whilst reducing the quantity of compatibilizing agents as used in the chlorinated and filled thermoplastic materials according to the prior art, where the said compatibilizing agents used in the prior art were essentially fatty acids, and more specifically stearic acid or its salts.
US08039570B2
A solvent-free silicone composition for release paper, comprising a mixture prepared by i) subjecting the organopolysiloxane (I) which is composed of R13SiO1/2 units, SiO4/2 units and (HO)SiO3/2 units, and has an OH group content of from 0.02 to 0.1 mol/100 g, to a partial condensation reaction in an organic solvent in the presence of an alkaline catalyst and the organopolysiloxane (II) represented by the following formula (2), and ii) removing the organic solvent, said mixture having an OH group content of less than 0.02 mol/100 g. The composition forms a tight-release layer stable with time.
US08039569B2
Monomodal molding compositions based on polymers of ethylene, wherein the density of the molding compositions is in the range from 0.940 to 0.96 g/cm3, the Mi is in the range from 0.5 to 10.0 g/10 min. the polydispersity Mw/Mn is in the range from 3 to 20, the branches/1000 carbon atoms is in the range from 0.1 to 10 and the weight average molar mass Mw is in the range from 50 000 g/mol to 150 000 g/mol, and also injection-molded shaped bodies as well as screw closures comprising the molding compositions.
US08039563B2
A process for preparing polymer dispersions stabilized by polyvinyl alcohol includes a step of emulsion polymerization. The polymerization occurs such that at least 60% of the total conversion occurs at a temperature from 100° C. to 140° C.
US08039555B2
The invention provides a thermoplastic resin composition including a thermoplastic resin component (I) in an amount of 100 parts by mass, and a filler (II) in an amount of 1 to 900 parts by mass, wherein the thermoplastic resin component (I) contains a block copolymer (A) in an amount of 5 to 90 mass %, the block copolymer (A) being at least one species selected from among a block copolymer and a hydrogenated product thereof, the block copolymer having a polymer block (a1) formed mainly of an aromatic vinyl compound unit(s), and a polymer block (a2) formed mainly of a conjugated diene unit(s); a polyolefin resin (B) in an amount of 5 to 90 mass %; and a block copolymer (C) in an amount of 5 to 90 mass %, the block copolymer (C) having a polymer block formed from a repeating unit having a polar group.
US08039541B2
Disclosed are an industrially useful (meth)acrylic polymer particle for use in a plastisol which is excellent in storage stability, particularly under circumstance at 40° C. or above, so that it can suppress gelation and maintain a sol state during storage and which can give a shaped article excellent in flexibility and chipping resistance; a method for producing the (meth)acrylic polymer particle; and a plastisol composition made from the (meth)acrylic polymer particle. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing a (meth)acrylic polymer particle, which comprises polymerizing a monomer or monomer mixture (B) to form a polymer (b) in the presence of a polymer (a) obtained by polymerization of a monomer or monomer mixture (A), wherein a glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymer (a) as calculated from the FOX equation is 90° C. or above, a solubility parameter of the polymer (a) is 19.90 (J/cm3)1/2 or below, and a solubility parameter of the polymer (b) is 20.22 (J/cm3)1/2 or above.
US08039533B2
Disclosed are a synthetic resin composition for use as building materials such as window frames, as well as a product manufactured using the same. More particularly, the synthetic resin composition comprises a tetrapolymer of acrylic rubber-styrene monomer-butadiene rubber-vinyl cyanide monomer and a styrene-vinyl cyanide copolymer having a high molecular weight and a high degree of dispersion. Unlike products manufactured using prior polyvinyl chloride (PVC), building material such as window frames manufactured using the synthetic resin composition are recyclable, and thus can contribute to a reduction in the generation of hormone-disrupting chemical dioxin, which is released in the burning thereof. Also, the resin composition can be manufactured into products having excellent properties of weather resistance and colorability without using environmental pollutants such as cadmium stearate or lead stearate, which are used as thermal stabilizers.
US08039518B2
The invention relates to particular orthoester based polymers as well as the use of specific orthoester beased polymers as a demulsifier for water/oil emulsions.
US08039514B2
The sulfoneamide compounds having the following Formula (1), which can be used as an effective component of a CaSR antagonizing agent useful for prophylaxis and/or treatment of bone disorders including osteoporosis and etc., are provided. The compounds have an excellent activity of promoting PTH secretion. In addition, the compounds are useful as an effective component of a medicament for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of bone disorders such as osteoporosis, bone fracture, hypoparathyroidism and the like.
US08039509B2
A composition comprising a tetrahydrocannabinol compound, a solvent and an acid, wherein the tetrahydrocannabinol compound may be Δ8 tetrahydrocannabinol, (−)-Δ9-trans-tetrahydrocannabinol or a side chain alkyl derivative of either compound, the solvent may be an oil or C1-C4 alcohol (e.g. sesame oil or ethanol), and the acid may be an organic acid or a mineral acid.
US08039507B2
Disclosed herein is a compound having a structure or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a prodrug thereof; wherein Y, A, X, R and D are as described. Methods, compositions, and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed.
US08039504B2
Methods of using di, tri, and tetracyclic acylhydrazide derivatives and analogs, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infections and diseases associated therewith, particularly those viral infections and associated diseases cased by the orthopoxvirus.
US08039497B2
The invention relates to the use of compounds having pharmacological activity towards the sigma receptor, and more particularly to 1,2,4-triazole derivatives of formula (I) to processes of preparation of such compounds and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them.
US08039494B1
Methods and compositions for treating disorders of the nail and nail bed. Such compositions contain a vehicle in which all components of the composition are dissolved, suspended, dispersed, or emulsified, a non-volatile solvent, a wetting agent, and a pharmaceutically active ingredient that is soluble in the non-volatile solvent and/or a mixture of the vehicle and the non-volatile solvent, which composition has a surface tension of 40 dynes/cm or less and has continuing spreadability, and which composition is effective in treating a disorder of the nail or nail bed.
US08039493B2
The invention is concerned with novel biaryl sulfonamide derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1 to R3 and Y are as defined in the description and in the claims, as well as physiologically acceptable salts and esters thereof. These compounds bind to LXR alpha and LXR beta and can be used as medicaments.
US08039485B2
The present invention is directed to malate salts of (3S,5S)-7-[3-amino-5-methyl-piperidinyl]-1-cyclopropyl-1,4-dihydro-8-methoxy-4-oxo-3-quinolinecarboxylic acid, and its polymorphs. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the described salts and polymorphs.
US08039484B2
Diaryl ethers in which one of the aryl groups is a phenyl fused to a cycloalkyl or heterocyclic ring, to which is attached an acetic acid group, are agonists of G-protein coupled receptor 40 (GPR40) and are useful as therapeutic compounds, particularly in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus, and of conditions that often accompany this disease, including insulin resistance, obesity and lipid disorders.
US08039479B2
The invention provides novel pyrimidine and pyridine derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for using such compounds. For example, the pyrimidine and pyridine derivatives of the invention may be used to treat, ameliorate or prevent a condition which responds to inhibition of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) activity, focal adhesion kinase (FAK), zeta-chain-associated protein kinase 70 (ZAP-70), insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1R), or a combination thereof.
US08039477B2
The invention relates to novel alkyl-substituted pyrazolopyrimidines, process for their preparation, and the use thereof for producing medicaments for improving perception, concentration, learning and/or memory with compounds of formula (I):
US08039470B2
The invention relates to compounds, compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compound compositions. The compounds, compositions, and methods described herein can be used for the therapeutic modulation of kinase-mediated processes, and treatment of disease and disease symptoms, particularly those mediated by certain kinase enzymes.
US08039469B2
Compounds of formula I wherein: R1 is and R2, R4, and R6-9 are defined herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof. These compounds inhibit PI3 kinase and mTOR, and may be used to treat diseases mediated by PI3 kinase and mTOR, such as a variety of cancers. Methods for making and using the compounds of this invention are disclosed. Various compositions containing the compounds of this invention are also disclosed.
US08039458B2
The invention encompasses a series bicyclic pyrimidinone compounds of Formula I which inhibit HIV integrase and prevent viral integration into human DNA. This action makes the compounds useful for treating HIV infection and AIDS. The invention also encompasses pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating those infected with HIV.
US08039455B2
The invention relates to novel macrocyclic compounds of the formula in which all of the variables are as defined in the specification, in free base form or in acid addition salt form, to their preparation, to their use as medicaments and to medicaments comprising them.
US08039442B2
Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for treatment of sickle cell disease or a complication associated therewith, or graft versus host disease, in an individual. More specifically, the use of particular glycomimetics for the treatment is described.
US08039434B2
A method is provided for producing hIGF-I with high purity and yield. This is a method for producing human insulin-like growth factor I, having a step of removing modified human insulin-like growth factor I from the human insulin-like growth factor I, the step including: (A) a step of adjusting the pH of a culture liquid of a human insulin-like growth factor I producing bacteria to 8 or more after completion of culture; (B) a step of letting the culture liquid obtained in step (A) stand; and (C) a step of removing the producing bacteria from the culture liquid obtained in step (B).
US08039430B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I), (II), (III) and (IV) as defined herein and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof. The present invention further provides use of the compounds of the present invention in the treatment of bacterial infection and in the treatment of HIV infection. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the present invention.
US08039427B2
A method for manufacturing a shaped article comprising the step of cutting a shaped article from a first article; wherein as the shaped article is cut from the first article the shaped article's cross-section is deformed and wherein the first article's cross-section is shaped such that it compensates for the deformation during the cutting step so as to achieve a shaped article with a desired cross-section. Shaped articles and compositions comprising shaped articles are also described.
US08039422B1
An acid-in-oil emulsion having a corrosion inhibitor as the external phase has been found to prevent downhole corrosion when acidizing carbonate formations to enhance hydrocarbon recovery.
US08039418B2
A high exhaust gas-purifying performance is achieved. An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst includes a substrate, a lower layer covering the substrate and including an oxygen storage material and palladium, and an upper layer covering the lower layer and including rhodium and a carrier supporting it. The lower layer is rhodium-free. The upper layer has an oxygen storage capacity lower than that of the lower layer.
US08039399B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming patterns. A first set of features is photolithographically formed over a substrate, and then a second set of features is photolithographically formed over the substrate. At least some of the features of said second set alternate with features of the first set. Spacer material is formed over and between the features of the first and second sets. The spacer material is anisotropically etched to form spacers along the features of the first and second sets. The features of the first and second sets are then removed to leave a pattern of the spacers over the substrate.
US08039397B2
A method of controlling the polishing of a substrate includes polishing a substrate on a first platen using a first set of parameters, obtaining first and second sequences of measured spectra from first and second regions of the substrate with an in-situ optical monitoring system, generating first and second sequences of values from the first and second sequences of measured spectra, fitting first and second linear functions to the first and second sequences of values, determining a difference between the first linear function and the second linear function, adjusting at least one parameter of a second set of parameters based on the difference, and polishing the substrate on a second platen using the adjusted parameter.
US08039391B1
A method of forming a contact in a semiconductor device provides a titanium contact layer in a contact hole and a MOCVD-TiN barrier metal layer on the titanium contact layer. Impurities are removed from the MOCVD-TiN barrier metal layer by a plasma treatment in a nitrogen-hydrogen plasma. The time period for plasma treating the titanium nitride layer is controlled so that penetration of nitrogen into the underlying titanium contact layer is substantially prevented, preserving the titanium contact layer for subsequently forming a titanium silicide at the bottom of the contact.
US08039387B2
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same includes forming a via pattern having a matrix form in a dielectric layer. The via pattern includes a via slit provided at the center of the via pattern and a plurality of via holes provided at an outer periphery of the via pattern and surrounding the via slit. Metal plugs are formed in the via holes.
US08039380B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a carbon nanotube (CNT) mat on a conductive or semiconductor substrate. According to this process, a catalytic complex comprising at least one metal layer is firstly deposited on said substrate. Said metal layer then undergoes an oxidizing treatment. Finally, carbon nanotubes are grown from the metal layer thus oxidized. The present invention also relates to a process for producing a via using said CNT mat production process.
US08039363B2
A method of expanding the contact pitch for un-diced chips in an array by pre-slicing the array in a first direction, attaching a lead frame to the chips' contacts, and then slicing the array and attached lead frame in the second direction. The lead frame has leads mechanically connected one another such that slicing the frame in the second direction along the mechanical connections separates the leads. Each lead has a first terminal which is conductively attached to a chip contact and a second terminal extending beyond the boundaries of the chip to which the first terminal is attached. In this manner, the contact pitch is effectively expanded to the terminal pitch of the leads.
US08039358B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a trench on a semiconductor substrate to define a first and a second element regions; burying a first oxide film in the trench; forming a second oxide film on surfaces of the first and second element regions; performing a first ion doping using a first mask which is exposing a first region containing the first element region and a part of the first oxide; performing a second ion doping using a second mask which is exposing a second region containing the second element region and a part of the first oxide film; and removing the second oxide film formed in the first element region and the second element region by etching, and the first oxide film is selectively thinned using the first or second mask after performing the first or second ion doping.
US08039351B2
A method of fabricating a hetero-junction bipolar transistor (HBT) is disclosed, where the HBT has a structure incorporating a hetero-junction bipolar structure disposed on a substrate including of silicon crystalline orientation <110>. The hetero-junction bipolar structure may include an emitter, a base and a collector. The substrate may include a shallow-trench-isolation (STI) region and a deep trench region on which the collector is disposed. The substrate may include of a region of silicon crystalline orientation <100> in addition to silicon crystalline orientation <110> to form a composite substrate by using hybrid orientation technology (HOT). The region of crystalline orientation <100> may be disposed on crystalline orientation <110>. Alternatively, the region of silicon crystalline orientation <110> may be disposed on crystalline orientation <100>.
US08039348B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of forming an apparatus comprises forming a plurality of deep trenches and a plurality of shallow trenches in a first region of a substrate. At least one of the shallow trenches is positioned between two deep trenches. The plurality of shallow trenches and the plurality of deep trenches are parallel to each other. The method further comprises depositing a layer of conductive material over the first region and a second region of the substrate. The method further comprises etching the layer of conductive material to define a plurality of lines separated by a plurality of gaps over the first region of the substrate, and a plurality of active device elements over the second region of the substrate. The method further comprises masking the second region of the substrate. The method further comprises removing the plurality of lines from the first region of the substrate, thereby creating a plurality of exposed areas from which the plurality of lines were removed. The method further comprises etching a plurality of elongate trenches in the plurality of exposed areas while the second region of the substrate is masked.
US08039344B2
In a method of forming a capacitor, a seed stopper and a sacrificial layer is formed on an insulating interlayer having a plug therethrough. An opening is formed through the sacrificial layer and the seed stopper to expose the plug. A seed is formed on an innerwall of the opening. A lower electrode is formed covering the seed on the innerwall of the opening. The sacrificial layer and the seed are removed. A dielectric layer and an upper electrode are sequentially formed on the lower electrode.
US08039338B2
By incorporating nitrogen into the P-doped regions and N-doped regions of the gate electrode material prior to patterning the gate electrode structure, yield losses due to reactive wet chemical cleaning processes may be significantly reduced.
US08039324B2
An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a photodiode formed in the semiconductor substrate, a first impurity region formed in the semiconductor substrate spaced from the photodiode, a second impurity region formed in the semiconductor substrate spaced from the first impurity region, a first gate formed over the semiconductor substrate between the photodiode and the first impurity region, a second gate formed over the semiconductor substrate between the first impurity region and the second impurity region, a spacer formed over the fourth impurity region and a first sidewall of the second gate, and an insulating film formed over the photodiode, the first gate, the first impurity region and a second sidewall and a portion of the uppermost surface of the second gate.
US08039315B2
A method of forming a package structure includes providing a plurality of dies; attaching the plurality of dies onto a heat-dissipating plate; and sawing the heat-dissipating plate into a plurality of packages, each including one of the plurality of dies and a piece of the heat-dissipating plate.
US08039311B2
A semiconductor package system includes: providing a semiconductor die with bonding pad on the semiconductor die; attaching the semiconductor die to an intermediate layer; attaching one end of a bonding wire to the bonding pad; forming a bonding ball at the other end of the bonding wire, the bonding ball being fully or partially embedded in the intermediate layer; encapsulating the semiconductor die, the bonding pad, the bonding wire, and a portion of the bonding ball with a mold compound; removing the intermediate layer, resulting in the bonding ball protruding from the exposed mold compound bottom surface; and conditioning the bonding ball.
US08039310B2
A semiconductor method comprises a method for making a device comprising: a base; a semiconductor chip provided on the base which includes a first main surface 20a on which a plurality of electrode pads is provided, a surface protecting film provided on the first main surface, a second main surface which opposes the first main surface, and a plurality of side surfaces between the surface of the surface protecting film and the second main surface; an insulating extension portion formed so as to surround the side surfaces of the semiconductor chip; a plurality of wiring patterns electrically connected to the electrode pads, respectively and extended from the electrode pads to the surface of the extension portion; a sealing portion formed on the wiring patterns such that a part of each of the wiring patterns is exposed; and a plurality of external terminals provided on the wiring patterns in a region including the upper side of the extension portion.
US08039295B2
An organic inverter and a method of manufacturing the same are provided, which regulates threshold voltages depending on positions when an inverter circuit is manufactured on a substrate using an organic semiconductor. To form a depletion load transistor and an enhancement driver transistor at adjacent positions of the same substrate, the surface of the substrate is selectively treated by positions or selectively applied by self-assembly monolayer treatment. Thus, a D-inverter having a combination of a depletion mode and an enhancement mode is more easily realized than a conventional method using a transistor size effect. Also, the D-inverter can be realized even with the same W/L ratio, thereby increasing integration density. That is, the W/L ratio does not need to be increased to manufacture a depletion load transistor, thereby improving integration density.
US08039284B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes: providing a semiconductor substrate; forming an NMOS device at a surface of the semiconductor substrate, which comprises forming a first source/drain electrode on a first source/drain region of the NMOS device, wherein the first source/drain electrode has a first barrier height; forming a PMOS device at the surface of the semiconductor substrate comprising forming a second source/drain electrode on a second source/drain region of the PMOS device, wherein the second source/drain electrode has a second barrier height, and wherein the first barrier height is different from the second barrier height; forming a first stressed film having a first intrinsic stress over the NMOS device; and forming a second stressed film having a second intrinsic stress over the PMOS device, wherein the first intrinsic stress is more tensile than the second intrinsic stress.
US08039276B2
The semiconductor device si formed by forming a first metal film over a first main surface of a semiconductor wafer having a first thinkness, performing back grinding to a second main surface of the semiconductor wafer thereby making a second thickness thinner than the first thickness and forming an insulation film pattern having a first insulation film and containing an annular insulation film pattern along the periphery of a second main surface of the semiconductor wafer over the second main surface along the periphery thereof. The second main surface of the semiconductor wafer is bonded to a pressure sensitive adhesive sheet thereby holding the device semiconductor wafer by way of the pressure sensitive adhesive sheet to a dicing frame in a state where the insulation film pattern is present.
US08039275B1
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: forming a rounded interconnect on a package carrier having an integrated circuit attached thereto; placing a mold chase having a protrusion over the rounded interconnect; forming an encapsulation over the package carrier, the encapsulation having a recess under the protrusion; removing the mold chase to expose the encapsulation; and removing the encapsulation under the recess for exposing the rounded interconnect.
US08039274B2
A semiconductor chip may include at least one power supply pad for receiving an external power voltage, at least one input/output pad, an internal function block that may be configured to operate based on a power voltage to at least one of receive and transmit a signal through the input/output pad, and a mode set circuit that may enable or disable the power voltage by a mode set signal in an individual chip test mode.
US08039273B2
Ligand Drug conjugate compounds comprising a β-glucuronide-based linker and methods of using such compounds are provided.
US08039270B2
Ellipsometry systems for imaging binding events between analytes in a sample and an array of ligands in an evanescent field generated by a beam of light reflected from the plane of the ligands is adapted to a multiwell plate structure in common use. In one example, a film of prism arrays is affixed to the underside of the plate with each prism array located in registry with a well and ligand arrays being immobilized on the (planar) bottom surface of the wells. The prism array may be formed in a film and juxtaposed with the bottom surface of the plate or a prism array can be made integral with the plate bottom of a multiwell plate.
US08039269B2
The invention provides devices and methods for surface patterning the substrate of a microfluidic device, and for detection and analysis of interactions between molecules by mechanically trapping a molecular complex while substantially expelling solvent and unbound solute molecules. Examples of molecular complexes include protein-protein complexes and protein-nucleic acid complexes.
US08039251B2
A biological indicator for monitoring the effectiveness of a sterilization or disinfection treatment or process. The biological indicator comprises a substrate having a surface layer containing functional groups thereon desirably free of silicon linking groups. The functional groups are added to the surface through the use of a functionalized silane coupling agent, wherein two different functional groups are generally utilized and the functionalized silane is applied in a uniform and consistent manner thereby assuring that the microorganism or etiological agent indicators are attached to the substrate in a uniform and consistent manner through non-covalent bonding to the functional groups. After being subjected to sterilization or other similar disinfecting treatments or processes along with various articles such as instruments, the indicator can be cultivated or cultured to determine the effectiveness of the sterilization or disinfection treatment or process.
US08039250B2
Apparatus, system, and methods are provided for utilizing piezoelectric material for controlling a polymer through a nanopore. A reservoir is formed filled with conductive fluid. A membrane is formed that separates the reservoir. A nanopore is formed through the membrane. The membrane comprises electrical conductive layers, piezoelectric layers, and insulating layers. The piezoelectric layers are operative to control a size of the nanopore for clamping/releasing a polymer as well as to control the thickness of part of the membrane when a voltage is applied to the piezoelectric layers. Combinations of clamping/releasing the polymer and changing the thickness of part of the membrane can move a polymer through the nanopore at any electrically controlled speed and also stretch or break a polymer in the nanopore.
US08039246B2
Hybrid synthetic grafts and embodiments of systems and methods for producing hybrid vascular grafts that can yield implantable grafts that combine synthetic grafts with living cells. Embodiments of systems can include a pressure/flow loop subsystem having an external flow loop system coupled to a specimen holder, where the pressure/flow loop subsystem is capable of adjusting at least two dynamic conditions in the specimen holder or a diameter of a specimen in the specimen holder. Embodiments of methods can promote endothelialization of a hybrid hemodialysis access graft or a hybrid femoral artery bypass graft by placing the hybrid hemodialysis access graft or the hybrid femoral artery bypass graft in a system embodiment according to the invention under conditions effective to promote endothelial cells to form a confluent monolayer on the surface of the hybrid graft.
US08039244B2
The present inventors have surprisingly discovered that phytic acid tenaciously precipitates with soluble metals in food or fuel ethanol-processing fluid, producing insoluble organometallic salt deposit or scale on the processing equipment that must be removed in order to facilitate further ethanol processing. The present invention relates to converting phytic acid salts or phytates to inorganic phosphates to improve metal solubility and reduce deposition within processing equipment.
US08039243B2
The present invention provides a bacterium having a genome that is genetically engineered to be smaller than the genome of its native parent strain. A bacterium with a smaller genome can produce a commercial product more efficiently. The present invention also provides methods for deleting genes and other DNA sequences from a bacterial genome. The methods provide precise deletions and seldom introduces mutations to the genomic DNA sequences around the deletion sites. Thus, the methods can be used to generate a series of deletions in a bacterium without increasing the possibility of undesired homologous recombination within the genome. In addition, some of the methods provided by the present invention can also be used for replacing a region of a bacterial genome with a desired DNA sequence.
US08039227B2
Methods for diagnosing a kidney disease, or the risk thereof, in a subject are provided. The methods comprise determining an amount of at least one peptide biomarker disclosed herein in a biological sample from the subject and comparing the amount of the at least one peptide in the sample with a control level, wherein if the amount determined is different than the control level, the subject is diagnosed as having, or at an increased risk of developing, the kidney disease.
US08039226B2
The present invention dedicates to detect nephritis in early stage of either primary or secondary nephritis using an anti NC1 monoclonal antibody. The present invention dedicates to provide useful information for diagnosis of renal function to detect NC1 by immunofluorescent stain method in renal biopsy section obtained at early stage where immunoglobulins do not deposit yet in renal GBM etc, or by antigen-antibody reaction in urine or serum specimens. Furthermore, the present invention comprises to utilize for therapeutic use.
US08039224B2
A novel gene 65B13 expressed specifically and transiently in dopaminergic neuron precursor cells immediately after cell cycle exit was obtained by the present invention. The cellular expression of 65B13 can be used as an index to select cells that are suitable in terms of their safety, survival rate, and network formation ability, for transplant therapy of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease.
US08039222B2
A method for the treatment or prevention of tissue damage in a subject having an inflammatory and/or tissue damaging condition, which comprises administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound capable of inhibiting the binding of C-reactive protein (CRP) to an autologous or extrinsic ligand.
US08039218B2
A method of detecting circulating melanoma or carcinoma cells in a subject. The method comprises obtaining a body fluid from a subject and detecting the expression of a panel of genes in the body fluid, wherein the expression of the panel of genes indicates the presence of circulating melanoma or carcinoma cells in the subject. Genes useful for detecting melanoma cells includes GalNAc-T, MAGE-A3, MART-1, PAX-3, and TRP-2; genes useful for detecting carcinoma cells include C-Met, MAGE-A3, Stanniocalcin-1, Stanniocalcin-2, mammaglobin, HSP27, GalNAc-T, CK20, and β-HCG. Also disclosed are kits containing agents for detecting the expression of these genes.
US08039215B2
The invention is a single-tube multiplex assay, capable of simultaneously amplifying, detecting and quantifying multiple nucleic acid targets, using multiple hybridization probes, labeled with the same fluorescent reporter label, but each having a distinct melting temperature. The assay can be further multiplexed with the use of multiple sets of hybridization probes, each set labeled with a separate fluorescent reporter label.
US08039214B2
The present invention relates generally to methods, compositions and kits for synthesizing sense RNA molecules from one or more RNA molecules of interest in a sample. In exemplary embodiments, the methods use a terminal tagging oligoribonucleotide (rTTO) to join a DNA sequence tag to the 3′-termini of first-strand cDNA molecules. The use of an rTTO comprising ribonucleotides results in decreased oligonucleotide-derived background synthesis of RNA in the absence of sample RNA and, surprisingly and unexpectedly, also results in significantly increased yields of sense RNA molecules that exhibit sequences that are substantially identical to those of the RNA molecules of interest in the sample. The sense RNA molecules also have an RNA sequence tag on their 5′-termini that is useful for fixing the lengths of sense RNA molecules that are synthesized in a second or subsequent round.
US08039208B2
One can identify and quantify one or more glycosylation markers of a physiological condition such as a disease or a stage of disease by utilizing quantitative HPLC analysis of glycans which have been released from unpurified glycoproteins. The unpurified glycoproteins can be total glycoproteins or a selection of the total glycoproteins. The identified glycosylation marker can be a native glycan or a digestion product which has been segregated and amplified by exoglycosidase digestions. This strategy is compatible with a high throughput format and glycan data base searching. One can utilize the identified glycosylation marker, for example, for monitoring the physiological condition in a subject. One can also use the glycosylation marker to identify glycoproteins that carry the glycosylation marker which can also be used to monitor the physiological condition. The biomarker may also be a subset of glycoforms of a glycoprotein that are separated in trains of spots on 2D gel.
US08039202B2
The present invention relates to a positive bottom photoimageable antireflective coating composition which is capable of being developed in an aqueous alkaline developer, wherein the antireflective coating composition comprises a polymer comprising at least one recurring unit with a chromophore group and one recurring unit with a hydroxyl and/or a carboxyl group, a vinyl ether terminated crosslinking agent, and optionally, a photoacid generator and/or an acid and/or a thermal acid generator. The invention further relates to a process for using such a composition.
US08039196B2
A method of patterning a substrate includes processing first regions of the substrate to form a first pattern, the first regions defining a second region between adjacent first regions, arranging a block copolymer on the first and second regions, the block copolymer including a first component and a second component, the first component of the block copolymer being aligned on the first regions, and selectively removing one of the first component and the second component of the block copolymer to form a second pattern having a pitch that is less than a pitch of a first region and an adjacent second region.
US08039180B2
A method of forming a mask having optical proximity correction features, which includes the steps of obtaining a target pattern of features to be imaged, expanding—the width of the features to be imaged, modifying the mask to include assist features which are placed adjacent the edges of the features to be imaged, where the assist features have a length corresponding to the expanded width of the features to be imaged, and returning the features to be imaged from the expanded width to a width corresponding to the target pattern.
US08039171B2
A current-collecting composite plate for a fuel cell configured with unit cells according to the present invention, which comprises: an insulator layer; and a plurality of pairs of conductor layers, the conductor layers being bonded to the insulator layer to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, each pair being used for adjacently disposed anode and cathode electrodes for a different one of the unit cells by sandwiching an electrolyte assembly therebetween. And, each conductor layer includes: a first conductor layer of a corrosion resistant metal treated with an electrically conductive surface treatment; a second conductor layer of a metal with low electrical resistivity; a through-hole penetrating the first conductor layer and the insulator layer; and a connecting portion formed of the second conductor layer for connecting the unit cells.
US08039167B2
The present invention provides a fuel cell in which electricity is generated and a paraffin is converted to an olefin. Between the anode and cathode compartment of the fuel cell is a ceramic membrane of the formula BaCe0.85-eLfY0.05-0.25O(3-δ) wherein L is a lanthanide and f is from 0 to 0.25 and δ is the oxygen deficiency in the ceramic.
US08039166B2
A polymer electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell that can maintain a stable performance for a long time, a method of manufacturing the same, and a fuel cell employing the same. The polymer electrolyte membrane includes at least one kind of a basic polymer and an acidic dopant. A dimensional change in the planar direction of the electrolyte membrane between a wet state and a dry state is 5% or less.
US08039164B2
The polymer electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell includes a hydrophilically surface-treated polymer particle filler, and a proton conductive polymer. The polymer electrolyte membrane has improved properties in conductivity, swelling, tensile strength and modulus.
US08039161B2
A metal halogen electrochemical energy cell system that generates an electrical potential. One embodiment of the system includes at least one cell including at least one positive electrode and at least one negative electrode, at least one electrolyte, a mixing venturi that mixes the electrolyte with a halogen reactant, and a circulation pump that conveys the electrolyte mixed with the halogen reactant through the positive electrode and across the metal electrode. Preferably, the positive electrode comprises porous carbonaceous material, the negative electrode comprises zinc, the metal comprises zinc, the halogen comprises chlorine, the electrolyte comprises an aqueous zinc-chloride electrolyte, and the halogen reactant comprises a chlorine reactant. Also, variations of the system and a method of operation for the systems.
US08039154B2
Problems of acceleration of drying of electrolyte membrane and local reaction, etc. can be properly coped with to attain the stabilization of performance of fuel cell.There are provided a fuel cell 121 which generates electric power from a fuel gas and an oxidizing agent gas, a fuel gas feed pipe 161 and a first switch valve 129 as fuel gas supplying unit which supplies the said fuel gas into the said fuel cell on the anode side thereof, an oxidizing gas supplying pipe 162 and a second cut-off valve 131 as oxidizing agent gas supplying unit which supplies the said oxidizing agent into the said fuel cell on the cathode side thereof, a raw material gas supplying pipe 151 and a third switch valve 143 as raw material gas supplying unit which supplies raw material of the said fuel gas into the fuel cell and a control portion 127 which controls the supply of the said fuel gas, the supply of the said oxidizing agent and the supply of the said raw material and the control portion 127 controls during the starting of electricity generation of the fuel cell 121 such that the said raw material gas supplying unit purges the fuel cell 121 at least on the cathode side thereof with the said raw material gas before the oxidizing agent gas supplying unit and the fuel gas supplying unit supply the fuel gas and the said oxidizing agent gas into the fuel cell 121, respectively.
US08039146B2
An electrochemical device, such as an alkaline battery, that is excellent in leakage-resistance and storage characteristics is provided by controlling at least one of the following two conditions with respect to at least the inner side surface of a battery case comprising a nickel plated steel plate. The two conditions are: (1) the intensity ratio of Fe to Ni (IFe/Ni) as determined by electron probe microanalysis; and (2) the ratio of the area with an intensity ratio of Fe to Ni (IFe/Ni) of greater than 1.0 as determined by electron probe microanalysis to the whole area.
US08039143B2
To provide an electrode unit for a prismatic battery capable of increasing the output of the battery while suppressing the battery internal resistance value and improving the degree of freedom of the size of the electrode plate. An electrode unit for a prismatic battery including an electrode group in which positive electrode plates and negative electrode plates in an almost rectangular shape are alternately stacked with separators interposed therebetween. In each of the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate, core material exposed portions are formed at least on two side edges. The positive electrode plates and the negative electrode plate are stacked such that their core material exposed portions are directed not to overlap each other in the stack direction. The electrode unit for a prismatic battery includes a positive current collector having a shape capable of joining to all of the core material exposed portions of the positive electrode plates constituting the electrode group, and a negative current collector capable of joining to all of the core material exposed portions of the negative electrode plates constituting the electrode group, not in contact with the positive current collector.
US08039139B2
A prismatic-cell battery pack is provided with integral coolant passages including an intake plenum, an exhaust plenum, and a distributed array of coolant channels coupled between the intake plenum and the exhaust plenum. Coolant medium forced into the intake plenum enters the coolant channels in parallel, draws heat away from the battery cells, and then enters the exhaust plenum for expulsion into the atmosphere. The battery pack is configured as a set of stackable interlocking battery cell modules including at least one battery cell in thermal proximity to an array of coolant channels distributed over the profile of the battery cell, and a pair of peripheral chambers joined to opposite ends of the coolant channels to form the intake and exhaust plenums when the modules are arranged and interlocked in a lineal stack.
US08039121B2
An organic electroluminescent device (1) including an anode (2), a cathode (6), and at least a first layer (3), a second layer (4), and a third layer (5) provided between the anode (2) and the cathode (6) in that order from the anode side. At least one of the first to third layers (3), (4), and (5) includes a phosphorescent compound. At least one of the first to third layers (3), (4), and (5) is an emitting layer. At least three compounds respectively forming the first layer (3), the second layer (4), and the third layer (5) other than the phosphorescent compound are compounds of the following formula (1). wherein R1 to R7 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that adjacent substituents may form a ring.
US08039116B2
Nb—Si based alloy articles comprising a Nb—Si based alloy upon which is disposed an environmentally-resistant coating are described. They include a coating comprising at least one phase selected from the group consisting of M(Al,Si)3, M5(Al,Si)3, and M3Si5Al2, wherein M is one or more of Nb, Ti, Hf, Cr. Such coating can improve the environmental (e.g., in oxidation-promoting environments) resistance of a Nb—Si based alloy and alloy articles. Methods for preparing these articles are described as well.
US08039115B2
The invention relates to metallic aircraft components which can preferably be used for aircraft structures in the fuselage region. A damage-tolerant design is usual for aircraft components in the fuselage region. It is the object of the invention to provide metallic components in which metal sheets are connected to one another by weld seams which have an improved damage tolerance behavior and fatigue crack propagation behavior. In an aircraft component in accordance with the invention, at least two metal sheets are welded to one another as butt joints. The centerline of the join line of the weld seam is predetermined by the outer edge contour of the metal sheets connected to one another. In this connection, it is formed deviant from a continuously straight line shape such that the total length of the weld seam is increased by changes in direction periodically occurring at the edge contours engaging into one another in a complementary manner.
US08039109B2
Epoxy resin compositions that generate reduced levels of sulfur dioxide and which unexpectedly have reduced self-extinguishing times. The epoxy resins are composed of from 50 to 70 weight percent of an epoxy resin component. The epoxy resin composition also includes from 15 to 35 weight percent of a thermoplastic blend that is composed of polyetherimide and polyamideimide. The epoxy resin composition further includes from 5 to 25 weight percent of a curative agent.
US08039106B1
A novel class of flowable biomass feedstock particles with unusually large surface areas that can be manufactured in remarkably uniform sizes using low-energy comminution techniques. The feedstock particles are roughly parallelepiped in shape and characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially with the grain direction and defining a substantially uniform distance along the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L. The particles exhibit a disrupted grain structure with prominent end and surface checks that greatly enhances their skeletal surface area as compared to their envelope surface area. The L×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers. The W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces characterized by crosscut fibers and end checking between fibers. The L×W dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel top surfaces characterized by some surface checking between longitudinally arrayed fibers. At least 80% of the particles pass through a ¼ inch screen having a 6.3 mm nominal sieve opening but are retained by a No. 10 screen having a 2 mm nominal sieve opening. The feedstock particles are manufactured from a variety of plant biomass materials including wood, crop residues, plantation grasses, hemp, bagasse, and bamboo.
US08039101B2
The invention relates to a prefabricated radio-opaque dental prosthetic member made of a composite material that comprises fibers embedded in a resin, said resin containing at least one radio-opaque component, characterized in that the radio-opaque component consists of nanoparticles having a size lower than 50 nm in order to transmit a portion or the totality of the wavelengths ranging from 400 to 600 nm of an incident radiation.
US08039091B2
A decorative panel includes a body constructed from a single layer of a polymer based blanket material having a surface zone. Printing is directly applied to an exposed face of that surface zone. The surface zone may be densified relative to the remainder of the body to tune the acoustical and physical properties of the panel for a particular application and/or to allow for high definition printing.
US08039090B2
A porous composite comprising a porous layer containing a calcium phosphate ceramic, and a dense layer formed on part of the porous layer and having a smaller average pore size than that of the porous layer. The porous composite can be produced by (1) introducing a slurry containing a calcium phosphate ceramic/collagen composite and collagen into a molding die having a high thermal conductivity, (2) rapidly freezing and drying the slurry in the molding die, to form a porous body comprising a porous layer and a dense layer formed on the porous layer, (3) cross-linking collagen in the porous body, and (4) removing the dense layer except for a portion thereof on a surface coming into contact with a soft tissue when implanted in a human body, so that the porous layer is exposed.
US08039086B2
There is provided bonding material having a Young's Modulus after hardening of not less than 20% of articles to be bonded, and an average linear coefficient of thermal expansion after hardening of not more than 70% of the articles to be bonded. This bonding material can suppress deformation of a honeycomb segment due to thermal stress to be generated by a bonding material layer and can suitably be used at the time of manufacturing exhaust gas trapping filters capable of reducing the generation of defects such as a crack, and above all, a diesel particulate filter (DPF) for trapping particulate matter (particulates) in exhaust gas from the diesel engine.
US08039082B2
A rubber access mat includes a rubber slab having opposed side edges defining a width and opposed end edges defining a length. A rigidifying grid of reinforcing wire is embedded within the rubber slab. The grid consists of a plurality of parallel spaced wires extending between the opposed side edges for most of the width of the rubber slab and a plurality of parallel spaced wires extending between the opposed end edges for most of the length of the rubber slab. The reinforcing wire is not less than number ten gauge wire.
US08039076B2
The invention provides dyes for optical disc recoding media, having the general formula: wherein m, n is independently selected from integers 0-3; X represents oxygen, sulfur, C—R1, or N—R2R3; Y is oxygen or sulfur; each of R1, R2, and R3 can be the same or different; and Z⊕ is a cation. The dyes have a maximum absorption in wavelength of 300-500 nm and can be used in recording layers of high density optical disc recording media.
US08039074B2
An electromagnetic wave shielding sheet with a protective film that is temporarily laminated on a copper mesh layer for shielding electromagnetic waves is disclosed. The electromagnetic wave shielding sheet includes a transparent substrate, at least a copper mesh layer provided on one surface of the transparent substrate and a protective film temporarily laminated to the copper-mesh-layer-side surface. The protective film includes a support and an adhesive layer containing a polymer having repeating units derived from an acrylic ester and/or a methacrylic ester on the support.
US08039071B2
Provided is a gas barrier layered product including a base material and a layer stacked on at least one surface of the base material, wherein the layer is formed of a composition including: a hydrolyzed and condensed product of at least one compound (L) containing a metal atom to which at least one characteristic group selected from a halogen atom and an alkoxy group has been bonded, wherein the compound (L) contains at least one compound (A) and at least one compound (B), wherein a mole ratio of the compound (A) / the compound (B) is in a range of 0.5/99.5 to 40/60; and a neutralized product of a polymer containing at least one functional group selected from a carboxyl group and a carboxylic anhydride group, wherein at least 55 mol % of a —COO— group contained in the at least one functional group has been neutralized with a metal ion having a valence of two or more. Also provided is a method for producing the gas barrier layered product.
US08039057B2
A polyimide film having a polyimide as the primary constituent and containing at least a polymeric electroconductive material, wherein in a weight-decrease vs. temperature-increase curve when the polyimide film is heated gradually from 30° C., a weight-decrease rate at a first inflection point, where an amount of difference in weight-decrease rates decreases first from 30° C., is in the range of −1.9% or more and −1.4% or less.
US08039056B2
A polymer thin film in which cylindrical phases are distributed in a continuous phase and are oriented in a pass-through-direction of the film includes at least: a first block copolymer including at least a block chain A1, as a component of the continuous phase, composed of polymerized monomers a1, and a block chain B1, as a component of the cylindrical phases, composed of polymerized monomers b1; and a second block copolymer including at least a block chain A2, as a component of the continuous phase, composed of polymerized monomers a2, and a block chain B2, as a component of the cylindrical phases, composed of polymerized monomers b2, with the second copolymer having a degree of polymerization different from that of the first copolymer. A film thickness of the polymer thin film and an average center distance between adjacent cylindrical phases have a relation represented by a predetermined expression.
US08039046B2
The present invention relates to compositions which are suitable for use as friction reducing agents, which can be particularly useful as release agents. The compositions comprise water and a surfactant capable of forming liquid crystals. The invention also relates to methods of production of such compositions, their use and substrates treated with such compositions.
US08039038B2
This invention provides a process for the preparation of protein mediated calcium hydroxyapatite (HAp) coating on metal substrates particularly on stainless steel (316 L) by biomimetic route, capable of rapid and effective osteointegration with the host tissue following controlled interfacial reactions. For the purpose, calcium deficient, carbonated hydroxyapatite (HAp) coating was developed on metal substrates particularly on stainless steel (316L) alloy through biomimetic route after a surface treatment step using aqueous solution (4-10 wt %) of BSA at room temperature. The coating was characterized with respect to phase composition, crystallinity, morphology and thickness. The protein mediated calcium phosphate ceramic coating is porous (pore dia—100-200 μm) having uniform pore distribution and coverage. There is multifold enhancement in thickness and crystallinity (data provided) of the as-prepared coating. The process in the present invention is designed to mimic the structural and characteristic properties of the biological apatite to expedite osteointegration kinetics and to further improve biocompatibility of the metallic implant.
US08039037B2
A multi-textured ready-to-eat cereal flake includes a plurality of rice based pellets embedded in a cooked cereal grain. The plurality of rice pellets are formed from a rice product and have a first moisture content. A cooked cereal grain mixture is then formed and has a second moisture content that is greater than the first moisture content of the rice pellets. The plurality of rice pellets are then embedded within the cooked cereal grain mixture to create a multicomponent mixture. A multicomponent pellet is formed from the multicomponent mixture. The multicomponent pellet is then formed into a flake. The flake is heated to create a multi-textured flake. Based on the moisture differential between the cooked cereal grain and the plurality of rice pellets, the plurality of rice pellets expand to create a blistered appearance on the multi-textured flake.
US08039031B2
The disclosure relates to the use of electromagnetic field energy in methods and apparatus for treatment of plant products. The energy can be in the form of pulsed EMF or continuous EMF waves. The methods and apparatus are applicable, for example, in a variety of plant products including the treating of corn, soybeans, peas, wheat, wheat flour, and durum pasta and in a variety of industrial processes including wet and dry milling and refining operations. The methods and apparatus in particular embodiments relate to the drying of corn with potential for high energy efficiency while achieving advantageous, high quality dried corn, with a low to very low level of cracks.
US08039028B2
The present invention relates to the use, in a cosmetic composition, of an extract of at least one part of an orchid of the species Vanda coerulea, as an agent for maintaining or restoring the hydration state of the skin, said composition also containing a cosmetically acceptable excipient.This skin hydrating effect is obtained in particular by stimulating the expression of aquaporin 3 and of the LEKTI protein.The invention also relates to a cosmetic skincare method for the purpose of improving the hydration state of said skin.
US08039014B2
The invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I) in which W, X, Y, Z, A, B, D, Q1, Q2 and G are as defined above, to a plurality of processes for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or herbicides and/or fungicides and also to selective herbicidal compositions comprising, firstly, the 3′-alkoxyspirocyclopentyl-substituted tetramic and tetronic acids of the formula (I) and, secondly, at least one crop plant compatibility-improving compound, and also to boosting the activity of crop protection compositions comprising active compounds from the class of the 3′-alkoxyspirocyclopentyl-substituted tetramic and tetronic acids of the formula (I) by adding ammonium salts and/or phosphonium salts or by adding ammonium salts and/or phosphonium salts and penetrants, to the corresponding compositions, to processes for their preparation and to their use in crop protection.
US08039000B2
A novel gene (designated 158P3D2) and its encoded protein, and variants thereof, are described wherein 158P3D2 exhibits tissue specific expression in normal adult tissue, and is aberrantly expressed in the cancers listed in Table I. Consequently, 158P3D2 provides a diagnostic, prognostic, prophylactic and/or therapeutic target for cancer. The 158P3D2 gene or fragment thereof, or its encoded protein, or variants thereof, or a fragment thereof, can be used to elicit a humoral or cellular immune response; antibodies or T cells reactive with 158P3D2 can be used in active or passive immunization.
US08038995B2
The invention pertains to a human N-type calcium channel isoform, hα1B+SFVG, which is involved in central nervous system signaling, and nucleic acids relating thereto. The present invention also includes fragments and biologically functional variants of the human hα1B+SFVG channel. Also included are human N-type calcium channel hα1B+SFVG subunit inhibitors which inhibit human N-type calcium channel hα1B+SFVG subunit activity by inhibiting the expression or function of human N-type calcium channel hα1B+SFVG subunit. The invention further relates to methods of using such nucleic acids, polypeptides, and inhibitors in the treatment and/or diagnosis of disease, such as in methods for treating stroke, pain, e.g., neuropathic pain, and traumatic brain injury.
US08038993B2
The invention relates to an anti-idiotypical antibody targeting an antibody inhibiting the human factor VIII, said inhibiting antibody targeting the C2 region of the human factor VIII, the variable region of each of the light chains thereof being encoded by a sequence of nucleic acids of which at least 70% is identical to the murine sequence of nucleic acids SEQ ID NO: 1, and the variable region of each of the heavy chains thereof being encoded by a sequence of nucleic acids of which at least 70% is identical to the murine sequence of nucleic acids SEQ ID NO: 2, the constant regions of the light chains and the heavy chains being constant regions from a non-murine species. The invention also relates to the use of said antibody for activating the FcγRIII receptors of cytotoxic immune cells, and to the production of a medicament especially for the treatment of haemophilia A.
US08038991B1
Embodiments of single component bioscaffolding systems formed of a hydrogel such as hyaluronic acid or salt thereof are described. The hyaluronic acid or salt thereof may be dissolved in a buffer, plasma, or combination thereof to minimize adverse immunogenic responses when applied to a treatment site. Additionally, the hydrogel component includes stem cells to facilitate angiogenesis or facilitate tissue repair and/or regeneration of ischemic tissue, particularly in compromised cardiac tissue. The bioscaffolding may also be formed on a stent or a cardiac medical device.
US08038983B2
Disclosed are novel conjugates that include fluorinated carbohydrate molecules and methods for synthesizing the conjugates. The fluorinated carbohydrate molecule may include a radioisotope. The method of synthesizing the conjugate is useful for labeling selected molecules, and the conjugates may be useful in diagnostic or therapeutic methods. Particularly, the conjugates may be useful in diagnostic or therapeutic kits.
US08038975B2
A process for preparing crystalline hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid by a. reacting hydroxylamine or a hydroxylammonium salt with oleum/sulfuric acid or with chlorosulfonic acid/sulfuric acid at a temperature in the range from 90 to 130° C., b. continuing to stir the reaction mixture at a temperature in the range from 90 to 130° C. for a period of from 2 to 24 hours, c. cooling the reaction mixture to a temperature in the range from 10 to 40° C. within a period of from 1 to 12 hours and d. subsequently removing and washing the hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid which has crystallized out.
US08038970B2
Disclosed are adhesive coating compositions containing a metal peroxide for producing clear colorless adhesive coatings on substrates, particularly micro particulate substrates. In one preferred embodiment the nanoparticle coatings are chemically active and function at a high level of efficiency due to the high total surface area of the micro particulate substrate. Also disclosed are coated substrates and compositions having nanoparticles bound to a substrate by the coating compositions.
US08038967B2
Method for obtaining a fluid from a collection device assembled to isolate a specimen retrieval device from the pathway of a fluid transfer device used to penetrate a cap of the collection device and to draw and remove the fluid from the collection device for analysis.
US08038963B1
A garment bag is sleeved over an ozone generator generating ozone therein. The garment bag includes a hollow bag body and an ozone filter unit. The ozone filter unit is disposed on the bag body. When the ozone in the bag body flows to the ozone filter unit, the ozone can be decomposed by the ozone filter unit.
US08038958B2
The present invention relates to a method for decomposing and recovering an isocyanate compound, which comprises: continuously mixing and dispersing into water at high pressure and high temperature an isocyanate compound having at least one isocyanate group or group derived from an isocyanate group in a molten state or solution state, supplying a liquid mixture containing the isocyanate compound and the water at high pressure and high temperature continuously to a reactor, followed by subjecting the isocyanate compound to a decomposition reaction in the reactor, and recovering a raw material for the isocyanate compound or a derivative thereof; and an apparatus for decomposing and recovering an isocyanate compound, which comprises: a reactor which brings water at high pressure and high temperature into contact with an isocyanate compound having at least one isocyanate group or group derived from an isocyanate group to cause a decomposition reaction, a water supply line which continuously supplies the water at high pressure and high temperature to a reactor, a compound supply line which continuously supplies the isocyanate compound in a molten state or solution state to the water supply line, an on-off valve which communicates the compound supply line with a vicinity of a communication portion of the water supply line to the reactor, a dehydrating device which conducts a dehydration of a decomposition reaction product discharged from the reactor, and a purification device which purifies the decomposition reaction product after the dehydration.
US08038948B1
A gas analyzer system for analyzing samples of compressed or ambient gas such as breathing air within a scuba tank, SCBA or ambient air within an industrial plant and informing the user as to the results of the sample's gas purity without the gas sample having to be physically transported to an accredited laboratory. The system comprises a gas analyzer situated at a user facility for receiving the contents of a gas sample and detecting gas purity characteristics, and a server situated at a remote certified testing site and electrically coupled to the gas analysis module via data transmission, such as a wireless or a computer network connection, wherein the server, maintained by a qualified third party receives and stores the gas purity characteristics in the form of computer-readable data signals. Computer instructions stored within the qualification server compares the computer-readable data signals representing gas purity characteristics with the contents of a database containing threshold gas purity parameters. After determining if the gas sample characteristics for that particular gas sample meet the required threshold limits, the user receives immediate notification, either by e-mail or by receipt of a fax at the user site, informing the user whether the given gas sample has achieved the required gas purity levels by a qualified third party.
US08038945B2
To provide a method for detecting a protein by immobilizing a protein on a protein array substrate at a high density with controlled orientation, irradiating the immobilized protein with ultraviolet light, visible light, or infrared light, and measuring the light not absorbed by the protein and further analyzing an interaction between the protein on the substrate and another protein and/or a compound other than proteins, a system used for the method, and to provide a protein array suitable for the system. A system including a protein array in which a protein is immobilized in aligned position on a light-transmissive substrate at a high density, a light-irradiating means, and a light-detecting means and being for detecting or analyzing a protein on the protein array and/or a compound which is other than proteins and interacts with the immobilized protein, wherein the protein array is irradiated with light by the light-irradiating means, and the light transmitted through the protein array is measured by the light-detecting means for detecting the light absorption of the protein on the protein array and/or the compound which is other than proteins and interacts with the immobilized protein.
US08038943B2
A method of detecting a presence of bio-molecules, or a concentration of the target bio-molecules using a field effect transistor, includes allowing a first sample including a first target bio-molecule to contact a sensing surface of the field effect transistor and measuring a change in an electric signal of the field effect transistor, the field effect transistor including a substrate, a source region and a drain region, the source region and the drain region formed apart from each other on the substrate, the source region and the drain region each doped to having an opposite polarity than a polarity of the substrate, a channel region disposed between the source region and the drain region and an insulating layer including the sensing surface, the insulating layer disposed on the channel region.
US08038939B2
A method which enhances a disinfection process by using a catalyst which increases in effective surface area during the process. Also disclosed are contact lens disinfecting systems which are designed to maintain a high concentration of hydrogen peroxide solution for a longer period of time before increasing the overall surface area of catalyst exposed to the hydrogen peroxide solution. The devices utilize pressure from expanding oxygen generated within the system through use of a small catalyst, or through exposure of only a small portion of a large catalyst, to control deployment of the large catalyst for completing disproportionation of the hydrogen peroxide.
US08038933B2
A gas sensor is for determining at least one physical quantity of a gas, e.g., an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, the gas sensor having a sensor element that is fixed in a housing of the gas sensor by a seal assembly. The seal assembly includes a sealing element, which has a ceramic and/or a metallic material. After the heat treatment, the sealing element has a maximum decrease in volume of 5 percent, or an increase in volume, based on the volume of the sealing element prior to the heat treatment.
US08038932B2
Cooling panels (31) are attached to the shell (11) of a metallurgical vessel to form an internal lining of the shell. Each panel (31) comprises a coolant flow tube (36) bent to form inner and outer panel sections (37, 38) of zig-zag formation. Panel mounting pins (43) connected to the outer panel section (38) by connector straps project laterally outwardly from the panel through openings (45) in the shell and tubular shell protrusions (46) surrounding the openings (45). The ends of pins (43) are connected to the outer ends of protrusions (46) by welding metal discs (47) thus forming connections exteriorly of the shell in a way which seals the openings (45). Coolant inlet and outlet connectors (42) for the panel project outwardly through openings (48) in the shell and surrounding tubular protrusions (49) and connections are made by welding discs (51) between the connectors (42) and protrusions (49).
US08038931B1
A method and apparatus for heating a workpiece. An induction heating system is used to induce magnetic fields in a workpiece to inductively heat the workpiece. The induction heating system may comprise a portable power source, a portable power source controller, a fluid-cooled induction heating cable, and a portable cooling unit. The induction heating system may be used to perform a variety of induction heating operations, including: annealing, surface hardening, heat treating, stress-relieving, curing, shrink-fitting, etc.
US08038930B2
The invention relates to a cooling element to be used in the structure of a pyromettalurgical reactor used in the manufacturing of metals, which cooling element comprises a housing element mainly made of copper, provided with a channel system for the cooling medium circulation, made of pipe that is mainly made of copper; on the outer surface of the pipes forming the channel system, there is arranged a coating that has a lower melting point than the material of the housing element and the pipe. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing the cooling element.
US08038929B2
A method of manufacturing a sintered body is provided. A molding powder, a gel-forming material powder and a solvent are mixed at a temperature not higher than a dissolving point of the gel-forming material. A treatment of pulverizing agglomerates containing the molding powder, gel-forming material powder and solvent absorbed in the gel-forming material powder is carried out. The mixture is then heated to a temperature not lower than the dissolving point thereby forming a sol. The sol is then cooled to a temperature not higher than the gel point, thereby forming a molding material. The molding material is used for producing a sintering body.
US08038926B2
The invention concerns methods for producing carbon nanotubes with embedded nanoparticles comprising providing a template comprising an anodized aluminum oxide membrane with a pore diameter of 20-200 nm; contacting the template with a solution containing nanoparticles; exposing the template and solution containing nanoparticles to sonication; removing the template from the solution; forming a carbon structure via chemical deposition of carbon on said template; and removing the template by exposing the template to a basic solution.
US08038922B2
In the method for the authentication of identification features that are embossed on a packaging foil together with satin-finishing and the embossing of logos, a number of identification features is embossed on-line as a pattern and read by a suitable apparatus and evaluated by means of an image evaluation method.The embossing device (1) suitable therefor includes at least two embossing rollers (2, 3, 15), a reading unit, and an evaluating unit, one of the embossing rollers (2) being driven by the motor drive mechanism (5) and having individual teeth (8) of which a number of teeth for embossing identification features have a different shape, height, or surface structure while the remaining teeth serve for satin-finishing, and one of the mating rollers (3) being provided with circumferential rings (10).Such a method and such a device allow a relatively simpler embossing device with relatively lower requirements with regard to the embossing quality than in methods of the prior art.
US08038915B2
A vibrating flexible smoothing sheet or shroud disposed transversely of a direction of travel of a formed fiber panel including gypsum-cementitious slurry and embedded chopped fibers. The sheet is used to smooth the surface of the panel as it exits a fiber embedment station of a structural cementitious panel production line to remove grooves and other non-uniform surface imperfections to reduce the need for costly finishing after the panels are cured and cut to size. The flexible sheet is designed to float over the surface of the formed panel without tearing or otherwise damaging the surface of the heavily fiber reinforced surface layers of the panel. The vibrating sheet is pivotally mounted on the side dams of the web production line so it can float over the panel surface during use, but be raised off the line when not in use.
US08038912B2
An apparatus for releasing a molded lens from a deformable mold includes a shear ring for temporarily retaining an annular portion of the deformable mold outside a periphery of the lens and a plunger for deforming an annular section of the deformable mold within the periphery of the lens. The apparatus can be employed to release a non-hydrated hydrogel lens from a deformable mold section.
US08038910B2
An electrostatic dissipative paint having a pigment. The pigment includes a composition according to the following formula: (Mg1−x,Znx)Ga2+yO4−δ wherein the value of x is a value from about 0 to 1, y is a value from about 0 to 0.04 and δ is in the range of about 0 to about 0.03. An electrostatic dissipative coating system, a method for making an electrostatic dissipative coating, and a method for protecting a spacecraft is also disclosed.
US08038903B2
The present invention relates to liquid compositions, in particular solutions, of at least one organic semiconductor which emits light from the triplet state, in an organic solvent or solvent mixture, which are characterised in that the content of certain compounds is below a certain limit value, and to the use thereof for the production of layers of the organic semiconductors on substrates, in particular for the electronics industry.
US08038901B2
Provided are several polishing compositions useful for modifying a surface, such as a semiconductor wafer suitable for fabrication of a semiconductor device, especially when used in fixed abrasive planarization techniques. The polishing compositions include a synergistic mixture of water, an oxidizing agent, a complexing agent, and metal ions. Also provided are various methods of surface planarization.
US08038899B2
Provided are refrigerant compositions which are blends of one or more hydrofluorocarbons, siloxanes, hydrocarbons and lubricants, as well as methods for using these compositions in applications such as the recharging of refrigeration systems and for replacing a chlorofluorocarbon or hydrochlorofluorocarbon in a refrigeration system.
US08038896B2
Plasma processing of plural substrates is performed in a plasma processing apparatus, which is provided with a plasma processing chamber having an antenna electrode and a lower electrode for placing and retaining the plural substrates in turn within the plasma processing chamber, a gas feeder for feeding processing gas into the processing chamber, a vacuum pump for discharging gas from the processing chamber via a vacuum valve, and a solenoid coil for forming a magnetic field within the processing chamber. At least one of the plural substrates is placed on the lower electrode, and the processing gas is fed into the processing chamber. RF power is fed to the antenna electrode via a matching network to produce a plasma within the processing chamber in which a magnetic field has been formed by the solenoid coil. This placing of at least one substrate and this feeding of the processing gas are then repeated until the plasma processing of all of the plural substrates is completed. An end of seasoning is determined when a parameter including an internal pressure of the processing chamber has become stable to a steady value with plasma processing time.
US08038892B2
The removal of partial areas of a coating (11, 12) on at least one surface (37, 38) of a glass pane (2) takes place by means of a plasma jet (14, 15) which emerges from a plasma nozzle (5, 6). The plasma nozzle (5, 6) is part of a plasma unit and two such plasma units are provided. Both of the plasma nozzles (5, 6) are oriented towards each other and form a pair of nozzles. A glass pane (2) is machined between both of the nozzles (5, 6). A distance sensor (23, 24) is arranged on both of the nozzles (5, 6), and said nozzles (5, 6) are positioned at the correct distance in relation to the surface (37, 38) of the glass pane (2).
US08038889B2
A screen cleaning apparatus for use, for example, in connection with a discharge conduit of a sewage pumping station, may include a housing, a screen, a rake and a float. The housing may operate to contain a fluid (and/or define a container for the other components) and include a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The screen may be positioned in the housing and define one or more apertures. The rake may also be positioned in the housing and have one or more protrusions, with each protrusion extending into a respective aperture in the screen. The float may apply a force to the rake so that the rake moves relative to the screen and in dependence upon variations of a volume of fluid received in the housing. Accordingly, the rake may rise and fall will the fluid level to remove debris from the screen.
US08038885B2
Disclosed herein are compositions, methods, and devices related to bilayer and monolayer membranes, their encapsulation in a hydrogel, and their formation. Methods of using the disclose compositions and devices are also disclosed.
US08038874B2
A treatment system comprising a holding tank for a source liquid, a pump having a pump inlet for the intake of source liquid and a pump discharge, at least one conduit connected to the pump discharge and a liquid dispenser connected to the one conduit, the dispenser comprising a container for treating liquid, a feed conduit, a dosing chamber for receiving treating liquid via the feed conduit, a vent for breaking an airlock in the dosing chamber, a first valve connected to the dosing chamber for controlling flow of treating liquid through the first valve, a second valve connected to the first valve, the second valve being operative in response to pressure resulting from the pumping of source liquid through the at least one conduit to close the second valve and open the first valve, stopping of the pump resulting in opening of the second valve and introduction of the treating liquid from the dosing chamber and into the source liquid.
US08038873B2
A refrigerator comprising a water conduit that is equipped with a socket for an exchangeable water filter and a monitoring unit for detecting the water throughput through the water conduit, said unit generating an alarm if the water throughput exceeds a threshold value. The monitoring unit can be deactivated if a water filter is mounted in the socket.
US08038872B2
A filtering device for fluids features a filter element located in a filter housing and a heating device located in the flow path of the fluid. The heating device comprises a heating element that is held by a heating support which is located at the inner surface of the cover, with a water outlet connection being designed as one-piece with the heating support, the water outlet connection being directed outwards through a recess in the cover.
US08038870B2
A centrifuge includes a rotational mechanism, a housing, a rotating feed pipe and a basket. The housing includes at least one side and defines an interior volume. The basket is positioned in the interior volume of the housing and is operatively coupled to the rotational mechanism such that rotation of the rotational mechanism is imparted to the basket. The rotating feed pipe extends into the basket through a pipe support positioned over the basket. The rotating feed pipe includes a nozzle operable to direct a flow of liquids, solids or combinations thereof onto a sidewall of the basket. The rotating feed pipe is operable to rotate from a first position towards a second position thereby increasing the distance between the nozzle and the sidewall and varying an angular orientation of the nozzle with respect to a normal to the sidewall.
US08038868B2
An improved combination ion-selective electrode has a thin ion-sensing body extending from an outer reference body. The exposed portion of the ion-sensing body is encompassed by a sleeve which effectively forms an extension of the reference body and also provides mechanical stability to the ion-sensing body. One or more fluid channels are formed interior to the sleeve to provide an electrically conductive path from the reference solution within the reference body to the tip of the electrode.
US08038858B1
An apparatus for deposition of plasma reaction films includes a substrate for the deposition of either thin or thick films. The substrate also allows for a film deposition which adheres to the substrate, and also films which may be removed after deposition. The cathode may be fabricated from individual wires, or it may be fabricated from a single conductor. A macro-particle filter which preferentially traps larger particles may be introduced between a porous cathode and the deposition surface. The macro-particle filter may also carry electrical current as is useful for generating a magnetic field such that a Lorentz force acts preferentially on ionized particles, allowing them to pass through the filter while trapping macroparticles that are not influenced by the magnetic field.
US08038852B2
A fluorine gas generator for generating highly pure fluorine gas in a stable and safe manner by electrolyzing an electrolytic bath 2 comprising hydrogen fluoride in the form of a molten mixed gas is provided which comprises an electrolytic cell 1 divided, by a partition wall 16, into an anode chamber 3 in which an anode is disposed and a cathode chamber 4 in which a cathode is disposed, pressure maintenance means for maintaining the anode chamber 3 and cathode chamber 4 at atmospheric pressure, and liquid level sensing means 5, 6 capable of sensing the levels of the electrolytic bath 2 in the anode chamber 3 and in the cathode chamber 4, respectively, at three or more level stages.
US08038849B2
A process for producing a carbon-particle structure, including the step of irradiating opaque carbon dioxide at and/or near its critical point, as light is scattered, with a UV-wavelength laser beam to produce a carbon-particle structure.
US08038844B2
A device for feeding cellulose-containing pulp from a dewatering unit, the dewatered pulp being discharged via an outlet included in the dewatering unit to a reception means positioned below the outlet, whereupon the pulp is transported to a stand pipe via an inlet included in the stand pipe, in which stand pipe the pulp falls freely under the influence of gravity, the reception means being positioned at a higher level than the inlet of the stand pipe. At least one feeding down surface is arranged which extends from the reception means to the inlet of the stand pipe, and the transport of the pulp between the reception means and the inlet of the stand pipe is effected by feeding the pulp downwards along this feeding down surface under the influence of gravity, the pulp being diluted during the feeding of the pulp downwards.
US08038832B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a curable composition excellent in on-site formability, excellent in heat resistance, chemical resistance and oil resistance, and low in compression set. The invention relates to a curable composition comprising (a) a vinyl-based polymer containing at least one (meth)acryloyl group in a molecule thereof and having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 1,000,000, (b) an ethylenic unsaturated group-containing compound, (c) a thixotropic property-imparting agent, (d) fumed silica surface-treated with a (meth)acryloyl group-containing silane and (e) a photopolymerization initiator.
US08038829B2
Method of coating pipe having a raised weld bead. Curable resin polymer is applied to the pipe and allowed to bond to form a cured or partially cured polymer layer on the pipe. Powder form adhesive composition is applied on the polymer layer while hot, with fusion into a film bonding to the polymer. Powder form polyolefin is applied to the adhesive while hot with fusion into a film bonding to the adhesive to form a powder-based coating. Following forming of the powder-based coating, the pipe is cooled from the inside. An outer polyolefin covering is bonded to the powder-based coating and the pipe cooled to ambient temperature. This procedure can avoid voids, cavities or pinholes forming in the coating adjacent the weld bead.
US08038825B2
The invention relates to improvements in fiber strip application heads for applying fiber strips (4) that are supplied with a support and protection paper (5), the fiber strip (4) to be applied being supplied with the immediate separation of the protection paper (5) at the exit from the feed reel (1), such that the fiber strip (4) circulates by itself through the head, passing through drive modules (10) formed by caterpillar strips, with the passage through a longitudinal cutting module (20) and through a waste separation module (22) in the path towards the application area.
US08038823B2
A peel ply conformable masking device for protectively overlying a pre-cleaned bonding surface of an adhesive attachment adapted for bonded affixation to a selected substrate, such as an adhesive attachment of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,013,391 and 6,773,780 having a bonding surface circumscribing a temporary attachment member for holding the attachment against the substrate for the duration of a bonding agent cure time. The bonding surface of the adhesive attachment is pre-cleaned as by sand blasting and/or etching, and the masking device comprising a peel-off film carrying a thin layer of a peel-off adhesive is placed thereover to prevent contamination thereof. The masking device includes at least one aperture surrounding the temporary attachment member, and further includes at least one outwardly protruding and easily grasped pull tab for facilitated peel-off separation from bonding surface immediately prior to bonded affixation to the selected substrate.
US08038817B2
An opening-sealing apparatus for a honeycomb molded body comprising: a paste filling device equipped with a paste filling unit having an opening-sealing mask in which a number of openings are formed at predetermined positions and a paste supplying unit; an image pickup device for picking up an image of the end face of the honeycomb molded body; and an image analyzing device for analyzing the image obtained by the image pickup device, wherein the image analyzing device analyzes the positions of the cells based upon the image of the end face picked up by the image pickup device; the opening-sealing mask is made in contact with the end face of the honeycomb molded body in such a manner that the positional error between the openings of the opening-sealing mask and the cells of the honeycomb molded body is reduced to a minimal level; and the plug material paste, which has been supplied from the paste supplying unit to the paste filling unit, is injected through the opening-sealing mask and filled in the end portion of the cells.
US08038811B2
A steel pipe is prepared, which contains, by mass, at most 0.009% C, at most 1.0% Mn, at most 1.0% Si, at most 0.04% P, at most 0.005% S, 0.01 to 0.2% Ti, 0.01 to 0.10% V, 0.001 to 0.1% Al, at most 0.1% N, 4.0 to 8.0% Ni, 9.0 to 15.0% Cr, and 1.5 to 7.0% Mo, the balance being Fe and impurities. The prepared steel pipe is bent into a bend pipe. The bend pipe is quenched at a quenching temperature lower than 950° C. The quenched bend pipe is tempered. Accordingly, the bend pipe in accordance with the present invention has excellent SSC resistance.
US08038810B2
A method for manufacturing a oriented substrate for forming an epitaxial thin film thereon, having a more excellent orientation than that of a conventional one and a high strength, and a method for manufacturing the same. The clad textured metal substrate includes a metallic layer and a copper layer bonded to at least one face of the above described metallic layer, wherein the above described copper layer has a {100}<001> cube texture in which a deviating angle Δφ of crystal axes satisfies Δφ≦6 degree. The substrate has an intermediate layer on the surface of the copper layer, to form the epitaxial thin film thereon.
US08038808B2
A flat soft magnetic material to be used for a noise-suppressing magnetic sheet, wherein the 50% particle size D50 (μm), coercive force Hc (A/m) and bulk density BD (Mg/m3) of the flat soft magnetic material satisfy the following formula (1). D50/(HC×BD)≧1.5 (1)
US08038806B2
A method, which makes it possible to economically produce high-quality grain oriented magnetic steel sheet, utilizes a steel alloy with (in wt %) Si: 2.5-4.0%, C: 0.01-0.10 %, Mn: 0.02-0.50%, S and Se in contents, whose total amounts to 0.005-0.04%. The method utilizes an operational sequence whose individual routine steps (secondary metallurgical treatment of the molten metal in a vacuum-or ladle facility, continuous casting of the molten metal into a strand, dividing of the strand, heating in a facility standing inline, continuous hot rolling in a multi-stand hot rolling mill standing inline, cooling, coiling, cold rolling, recrystallization and decarburization annealing, application of an annealing separator, final annealing to form a Goss texture) are harmonized with one another, so that a magnetic steel sheet with optimized electromagnetic properties is obtained using conventional apparatus.
US08038804B2
Method for drying a surface of a disc-shaped article includes covering the surface with a rinsing liquid, whereby a closed liquid layer is formed, and removing the rinsing liquid, wherein the rinsing liquid containing at least 50 wt. % water and at least 5 wt. % of a substance, wherein the substance lowers the surface energy of water, wherein the removing of the liquid is initiated by blowing gas onto the closed liquid layer, whereby the closed liquid layer is opened at on discrete area.
US08038798B2
A substrate cleaning apparatus is capable of individually setting a threshold value for use in making a check of a resistivity during a rinsing process on a recipe setting screen in each process step. Thus, by setting each threshold value depending on the type of liquid chemical to be used immediately before the rinsing process, the substrate cleaning apparatus can use an optimum threshold value during the rinsing process in each process step to make a check of the resistivity. This allows the proper completion of the rinsing process in each process step.
US08038795B2
A precursor chiral nanotube with a specified chirality is grown using an epitaxial process and then cloned. A substrate is provided of crystal material having sheet lattice properties complementary to the lattice properties of the selected material for the nanotube. A cylindrical surface(s) having a diameter of 1 to 100 nanometers are formed as a void in the substrate or as crystal material projecting from the substrate with an orientation with respect to the axes of the crystal substrate corresponding to the selected chirality. A monocrystalline film of the selected material is epitaxially grown on the cylindrical surface that takes on the sheet lattice properties and orientation of the crystal substrate to form a precursor chiral nanotube. A catalytic particle is placed on the precursor chiral nanotube and atoms of the selected material are dissolved into the catalytic particle to clone a chiral nanotube from the precursor chiral nanotube.
US08038783B2
An ink set includes a cyan ink composition containing C.I. pigment blue 15:6 as a pigment; a magenta ink composition containing a quinacridone pigment selected from the group consisting of C.I. pigment violet 19, C.I. pigment red 122, C.I. pigment red 202, and C.I. pigment red 209, or a quinacridone solid solution pigment formed of at least two selected from the above group; and a yellow ink composition containing a pigment selected from the group consisting of C.I. pigment yellow 74, C.I. pigment yellow 213, and C.I. pigment yellow 185.
US08038782B2
An ink composition includes a colorant represented by the following formula (I); water; a guanidine-based compound; and a colorless water-soluble planar compound having more than ten delocalized π-electrons within one molecule: wherein the symbols in the formula (I) are defined in the specification.
US08038779B2
A method of assembling a gas removal system for an integrated gasification combined cycle is provided. The method includes coupling a first rich solvent tank in flow communication with the integrated gasification combined cycle to store a first emissions-rich solvent discharged from the integrated gasification combined cycle and coupling a first stripper in flow communication with the first rich solvent tank to facilitate removing gases from the first emissions-rich solvent. The method also includes coupling an absorber in flow communication with the first stripper to receive gases from the first stripper and create a second emissions-rich solvent and coupling a second rich solvent tank in flow communication with the absorber to store the second emissions-rich solvent.
US08038778B2
An apparatus (10) for purifying polluted air consisting of particle phase pollutants and gaseous phase pollutants, the apparatus (10) comprising: a dust level sensor (23) to measure the amount of particle phase pollutants in the polluted air; a dust removal component (14) to remove the particle phase pollutants from the polluted air; a catalyst filtering core (17) to decompose the gaseous phase pollutants by chemical reaction; a valve (22) for selectively controlling a path of air flow within the apparatus (10) and is movable between an open position and closed position, the valve (22) being positioned downstream from the dust removal component (14); wherein if the amount of particle phase pollutants measured by the dust level sensor (23) is above a predetermined value, the valve (22) is moved to the open position to enable the air to bypass the catalyst filtering core (17); and if the amount of particle phase pollutants measured by the dust level sensor (23) is less than a predetermined value, the valve (22) is moved to the closed position to force the air to pass through the catalyst filtering core (17).
US08038773B2
A method of reducing pollutants exhausted into the atmosphere from the combustion of fossil fuels. The disclosed process removes nitrogen from air for combustion, separates the solid combustion products from the gases and vapors and can capture the entire vapor/gas stream for sequestration leaving near-zero emissions. The invention produces up to three captured material streams. The first stream is contaminant-laden water containing SOx, residual NOx particulates and particulate-bound Hg and other trace contaminants. The second stream can be a low-volume flue gas stream containing N2 and O2 if CO2 purification is needed. The final product stream is a mixture comprising predominantly CO2 with smaller amounts of H2O, Ar, N2, O2, SOX, NOX, Hg, and other trace gases.
US08038769B2
A liquid processing apparatus, includes an apparatus main body, a power room having an atmosphere separated from the clean room by a partition member, an air suction path configured to suction an air in the clean room and take the air into the power room, a temperature control part provided in the power room and configured to control at least a temperature of the air taken in via the air suction path, an air supplying path configured to supply the air from the temperature control part to the liquid processing unit, a ventilation part configured to take the air from the air suction path and supply the air via the air supplying path, and a cleaning filer configured to clean the air taken in from the air suction path.
US08038764B2
A method of recovering rhenium from rhenium-containing superalloy scrap is provided. The superalloy is usually a nickel-based superalloy. The method includes the steps of forming an oxidation feedstock of flaky morphology of the superalloy scrap, and oxidizing the oxidation feedstock to convert rhenium into a volatile rhenium oxide. The flaky morphology of the oxidation feedstock is achieved by increasing the surface area of the superalloy scrap.
US08038758B2
A mat material includes an inorganic fiber, a first sheet material and a second sheet material. The first sheet material is provided on a first surface of the mat material. The second sheet material is provided on a second surface of the mat material. The first sheet material and the second sheet material show a different elongation amount in a longitudinal direction of the mat material under a same tensile load.
US08038756B2
An air cleaner assembly and components therefor are described. The components include features of an air cleaner housing; advantageous main filter cartridges; and, advantageous safety filter cartridge features. Features of the main filter cartridge are provided to engage an access cover of the assembly, and a cartridge support within the housing, in a preferred manner. Methods of assembly and use are also described.
US08038752B2
The invention provides a chemical-mechanical polishing composition comprising an abrasive, metal ions (M) having a M-O—Si bond energy equal to or greater than about 3 kcal/mol, and water. The invention further provides a method for polishing a substrate using the aforementioned chemical-mechanical polishing composition.
US08038749B2
A composition for removing a photoresist layer and a method for using it are disclosed. The composition comprises a chemical portion which includes water and chemical constituents dissolving or softening the photoresist layer and a mechanical portion which is abrasive particles. Using the composition and the method according to the present invention can decrease the conventional two steps of removing a photoresist layer process to one step, thereby simplifying the procedure, shortening the removing time and reducing the cost. The chemical constituents in the composition according to the present invention are of low toxicity and flammability and the amount used is small, which makes it more friendly with the environment and decreases the expense of disposing the waste.
US08038741B2
A fuel composition comprising a water-in-oil phase emulsion comprises bio-diesel; water; and at least one type of polymeric surfactant.
US08038740B2
The present invention relates to the use of at least one hydrophobin or of a derivative thereof as a defoamer in additive compositions or fuels, to a process for defoaming fuels, to an additive and fuel composition comprising at least one hydrophobin or derivative thereof and at least one further fuel additive, and to a process for preparing at least one fuel composition.
US08038738B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor manufacturing method includes a process of removing a roughened surface layer (10a′) from a distal portion (13) of a metal member (10) and from part of an intermediate portion (12) adjacent to the distal portion (13), a process of forming a resist (40) on the distal portion (13) and the intermediate portion (12) of the metal member (10), a process of forming a conductive polymer layer (30) of a conductive polymer on a proximal portion (11) of the metal member (10), and a process of removing a resist (40′) and a surface layer portion (13′) of the metal member (10) from the distal portion (13) of the metal member (10).
US08038734B2
Various methods for forming dyed microspheres are provided. One method includes activating a chemical structure coupled to a dye using heat or light to form a reaction intermediate in the presence of a microsphere. The reaction intermediate covalently attaches to a polymer of the microsphere thereby coupling the dye to the polymer and forming the dyed microsphere. Additional methods are provided for forming a dyed microsphere coupled to a molecule. These methods include dyeing the microspheres as described above in addition to synthesizing the molecule on an outer surface of the dyed microspheres. A population of dyed microspheres is also provided. Each of the dyed microspheres of the population includes a dye attached to a polymer of each of the dyed microspheres by a chemical structure. A coefficient of variation in dye characteristics of the population of dyed microspheres attributable to the dye is less than about 10%.
US08038731B2
The invention relates to a method of dyeing and lightening keratin materials in the presence of a reducing agent, comprising applying to keratin materials, a dyeing composition comprising a fluorescent disulfide dye and simultaneously applying to the keratin materials at least one reducing agent.
US08038722B2
Data in a portable electronic device is protected by using external and internal status detection means to determine if the device is misplaced, lost, or stolen. The device then takes, singly or in combination, one of several actions to protect the data on the device, including declaring its location to an owner or service provider, locking the device or specific functions of the device to disable all data retrieval functionality, erasing or overwriting all the stored data in the device or, where the data has been stored in the device in an encrypted format, destroying an internally-stored encryption key, thereby preventing unauthorized access to the encrypted data in the device.
US08038712B2
Methods and devices for rhinoplasty and treating nasal valve stenosis are disclosed herein. The nasal valve acts as a flow-limiter and can contribute to airway obstruction if resistance within the nasal valve is excessive. In one embodiment, a system for treating nasal valve stenosis includes a first elongate implant and a second elongate implant configured to support the nasal valves when implanted. The implants can be coupled together by connecting elements, such as eyelets, tethers, complementary socket joints, and button-rivet supports.
US08038711B2
An accommodating intraocular lens, for use in an eye, is made from flexible, optionally elastic, bio-compatible lens body material surrounding a closed and sealed lens cavity which is filled with bio-compatible optical liquid, optionally a gel. The optical liquid has a refractive index sufficiently high to, in cooperation with the ciliary muscle, focus light, incident on the eye, on the retina, and to provide accommodation. The curvature of the front surface of the lens is deformable, by the pressure expressed by the ciliary body during the accommodative effort, thus to change the radius of curvature of the anterior body member and/or the posterior body member, thus providing smooth focusing, including from far distance in the relaxed state to near distance of less than 50 centimeters in the accommodative state.
US08038710B2
A self-expanding or otherwise expandable artificial valve prostheses for deployment within a body passageway, such as a vessel or duct of a patient. The valve prostheses include a support structure having an outer frame, a supporting member and a valve leaflet. The portion of the valve leaflet is supported by the supporting member and is positioned away from the wall of the body passageway when the device is deployed within the body passageway.
US08038707B2
A stent includes a central portion of helically wound undulations formed of struts, cylindrical end portions, and transition zones between the helical portion and the cylindrical portions. According to a first aspect of the invention, the torsional flexibility of the stent is maximized by having bridges connecting adjacent winding be interrupted by the maximum possible number of undulations. In a preferred design, each winding includes nineteen undulations around the circumference, bridges are provided every five undulations. According to a second aspect of the invention, uniform, opening of the transition zone is achieved by altering the width, and thereby the flexibility, of a series of struts in accordance with their lengths. Specifically, the long transition zone struts are made wider.
US08038703B2
An endovascular heat transfer device which can have a smooth exterior surface, or a surface with ridges and grooves. The device can have a plurality of elongated, articulated segments, with each having such a surface. A flexible joint connects adjacent elongated, articulated segments. The flexible joints can be bellows or flexible tubes. An inner lumen is disposed within the heat transfer segments. The inner lumen is capable of transporting a pressurized working fluid to a distal end of the heat transfer element.
US08038702B2
A device is disclosed for securing a spinal rod to the spine which includes a head portion configured to receive a spinal rod, a locking cap configured to engage the head portion and the spinal rod upon rotation of the locking cap relative to the head portion to secure the position of the head portion relative to the spinal rod, and a fastener portion depending from the head portion and configured to engage the spine. Methods of utilizing such a device are also disclosed.
US08038695B2
A consecutive acupuncture device for consecutively inserting needles into afflicted sites of the body. The device comprises a cartridge charged with and storing one or more needles, a first magnet positioned at a side of the cartridge to pull a needle stored in the cartridge by magnetic force and automatically place the needle at a striking position, striking means positioned on the cartridge to strike the needle placed at the striking position and insert the needle into an afflicted site of the body, and a discharge section positioned underneath the cartridge and defined with a hole through which the needle struck by the striking means is discharged. By storing one or more needles in the cartridge in a disarranged state and pressing a button, the stored needles can be driven one by one into the afflicted sites of the body.
US08038684B2
A rod-shaped device holds the equatorial region of the lens capsule during cataract/intraocular lens implantation surgery of patients with a weak or ruptured Zinn zonule. The device has a handle with a length of 6 mm or more and a thickness ranging from 0.01 mm to 1.0 mm, a tip bent into an acute angle, with the length up to this angled tip being 1.5 mm or more from the trough of the bend, and the bent tip having a linear branched or flat pad, with the width between the branches being 1 mm or more or the flat pad having a surface area of 1 mm2 or more.
US08038674B2
The present disclosure relates to intravascular thrombectomy systems and methods for ablating a partial or complete blockage in a blood vessel. The system includes a catheter sleeve defining a lumen extending therethrough; a pair of electrodes disposed at a distal end portion of the catheter sleeve, wherein the pair of electrodes are disposed on opposed sides of the lumen of the catheter sleeve; and a guidewire slidably disposed within the lumen of the catheter sleeve, the guidewire including a capture element supported proximate a distal end thereof, wherein the guidewire is slidable with respect to the catheter sleeve to expose the capture element from the distal end portion of the catheter sleeve; wherein the capture element includes a first condition retracted onto the guidewire and a second condition at least substantially spans the entire lumen of the vessel.
US08038672B2
Methods and apparatus for treatment of patent foramen ovale (PFO) provide for applying energy to tissues adjacent the PFO with a catheter device to substantially close the PFO acutely. Apparatus generally includes a catheter device having at least one energy transmission member at or near its distal end configured to apply energy to PFO tissues to acutely, substantially close the PFO. Applied energy may be monopolar or bipolar radiofrequency energy or any other suitable energy, such as laser, microwave, ultrasound, resistive heating or the like. Some embodiments of a catheter device further include one or more tissue apposition members near the distal end for helping bring PFO tissues together, such as a PFO covering member, a vacuum applying member and/or the like. PFO closure via energy-based approaches of the invention may help prevent stroke, treat migraine headache, and possibly treat or prevent other medical conditions.
US08038665B2
The present invention is directed to methods of administering a material to a patient for dermal enhancement and/or as soft tissue fillers. The invention also relates to double-gloved methods of molding such a material after administration to a patient to achieve a desired orientation of the material in the patient. The invention also relates to the use of certain materials, including polylactic acid, hyaluronic acid, hydrogel, and/or collagen or other suitable materials for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for dermal enhancement and/or as soft tissue filler. The invention further relates to kits or packages that include a material for dermal enhancement and/or soft tissue filler and instructions as to how dermal enhancement or the filling of soft tissue is achieved.
US08038661B2
Absorbent articles assembled using a low cold flow construction adhesive are described. The absorbent articles have an in bag compression opening force of less than about 0.75N. A method for making the absorbent articles is also described.
US08038657B2
A circuitry for counting drips and monitoring a rate of infusion is incorporated into an IV administration set. The circuitry includes a pair of leads that are positioned in the pathway of fluid droplets, such that each droplet simultaneously contacts both leads. As such, the leads act as a virtual switch that is closed by the presence of a droplet. This event is then displayed on a drip signaling device to aid a user in adjusting the infusion rate of the IV administration set.
US08038653B2
Some embodiments of a medical device anchor system include an anchor device that receives a medical instrument (such as a catheter or the like) and secures the instrument in place relative to a skin penetration point. In some circumstances, the anchor device may allow the anchor device to be used after medical instrument is already in place without the need for a second penetration point for the anchor device.
US08038652B2
Flexible button cannulas for arthroscopic surgery made from silicone, or a similar flexible material. Exemplary embodiments of the button cannula have large inner and outer flanges for improved stability when installed into the body. Exemplary embodiments of the button cannula include two fluid dams. A first dam is located within the cannula elongated portal between the inner and outer flanges and prevents fluid from squirting out of the body when instruments are being inserted through the cannula. A second dam is located at the outer, or top, flange (i.e., the flange that remains outside of the body) to prevent fluid from squirting when the cannula itself is being inserted within the body. Exemplary embodiments of the button cannula also include an outer, or top, flange that is thicker than the inner, or bottom, flange, to prevent the over insertion of the cannula into the body.
US08038651B2
The suggested device comprises a dispensing piston that is actuatable by a pressure medium for dispensing a syringe and a guide portion within which the dispensing piston is displaceably supported. The device is designed for dispensing a double syringe and includes a handling portion for receiving the pressure medium, the dispensing piston, and the guide portion, as well as locking means that are releasable by applying manual pressure to the handling portion and are arranged on the handling portion and operatively connected to locking means provided on the dispensing piston. This allows a very simple repeated use of this arrangement for self-dispensing by patients, and remote wounds, e.g. an arm or foot wound, can also be treated by the patient independently.
US08038647B2
An apparatus to automatically secure an end of a needle after contact with a blood vessel. The apparatus may include a housing and a biasing member, where the housing includes a hollow interior region extending between a proximal end and a distal end thereof. A proximal opening may be integrated into the proximal end, while a distal opening may be integrated into the distal end. The proximal and distal openings may be configured to receive a needle therethrough along a longitudinal axis. The biasing member may be coupled to the housing and configured to apply a force to the needle. The force may be oriented to displace the needle relative to the longitudinal axis upon retracting an end of the needle through the distal opening into the hollow interior region. Embodiments of the present invention may thus secure the end of the needle within the hollow interior region after use to prevent accidental needle sticks and exposure to blood and blood-borne pathogens.
US08038645B2
The invention relates to a device for the time-controlled intravenous administering of the anesthetic propofol by means of a method used for determining an adequate dosage profile and adequately controlling an infusion pump as a metering apparatus.
US08038638B2
An extracorporeal circuit for removing toxins from the blood and plasma volume control in patients suffering from sepsis and renal failure. The extracorporeal circuit disclosed herein comprises a plasma filter, a toxin removal device and optionally a hemofilter that minimizes electrolyte and protein depletion from the treated plasma while effectively removing both free and protein-bound toxins. The toxin removal device comprises adsorbent materials selected from the group consisting of activated carbon, ion exchange resins and non-ionic exchange resins and the adsorbent materials are coated with albumin. Also provided are associated methods for treating patients suffering from sepsis and renal failure using the disclosed extracorporeal circuit and toxin removal device.
US08038637B2
The same orthosis can be used to sequentially move joints of different fingers of a hand. A hand cuff of the orthosis is mounted on the hand. Mechanisms operable to move the joints are connected to the hand cuff at locations aligned with the fingers. The mechanisms are connected with the fingers. The joints of the fingers are moved by operating the mechanisms. The joints and first and second portions of the fingers define on one side of the joints outer sectors which decrease in angle as the joints are extended. Force is applied to the first and second portions of the fingers to move the joints by providing relative rotation between internally and externally threaded members disposed in the outer sectors. Actuator members connected with the internally or externally threaded members are moved along paths that extend through the joints.
US08038632B2
The present invention is a vibratory patient support system. The support system has at least one bladder, at least one vibrational device, and first and second control units that respectively control (a) the inflation and deflation of the at least one bladder and (b) vibrational device. The at least one bladder (i) inflates when receiving a fluid at a faster rate than the fluid exiting the bladder; (ii) deflates when the fluid leaves the bladder at a faster rate than the fluid entering the bladder, and (iii) has a top surface that allows a user to apply pressure thereon and a bottom surface. The vibrational device (a) is positioned (i) under the bottom surface of the bladder, or (ii) within the bladder and below the top surface of the at least one bladder so it does not contact the top surface; and (b) generates a vibrational force. The first control unit can adjust the inflation of the at least one bladder. The second control unit can adjust the vibration forces generated from the vibration device. The first and second control units can operate in conjunction with each other to provide the desired vibrational application to the user.
US08038631B1
A high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation of tissue using minimally invasive medical procedures is provided.
US08038628B2
The invention relates to a torque device for a sensor guide wire having a sensor provided at a distal portion and a male connector provided at the proximal end, which torque device comprises a grip body and a cap adapted to be joined to the grip body, and a number of chuck segments provided on the cap or the grip body, wherein the torque device is a one-way device defining an insertion direction for the sensor guide wire and wherein the chuck segments have free ends which are directed in the insertion direction.
US08038623B2
A method for performing an in-vivo calibration of a blood pressure sensor that is associated with an in-vivo balloon system. The method involves monitoring a patient's blood pressure by observing the system gas pressure while at the same time monitoring the patient's blood pressure through the sensor. The blood pressure measurements obtained by monitoring the system gas pressure are used as reference, or “true,” blood pressure measurements, and an “offset” is determined between the reference blood pressure measurements and the blood pressure measurements obtained through the sensor. The offset can be stored in a memory, which may also store sensor sensitivity data. The offset and/or sensitivity data may be used to adjust future measurements obtained from the sensor, thereby generating calibrated sensor measurements.
US08038619B2
A motor driver for an ultrasound system is provided. The ultrasound system includes a transmitter and receiver, both communicatively coupled to a transducer array of an ultrasound probe. The ultrasound system further includes a digital motor driver for controlling movement of the transducer array.
US08038609B2
An endoscope apparatus used in combination with a near infrared light irradiation unit that irradiates near infrared light on a target irradiation section. White light and the infrared light are irradiated on a target observation area including the target irradiation section. The imaging means spectroscopically images a reflected light image of the target observation area, which is outputted as a spectral image signal. The storage section includes estimated matrix data. The IR image signal generation means generates an IR image signal constituted by an estimated value of reflected light intensity of the near infrared light by performing a matrix operation on the spectral image signal using the estimated matrix data and spectral matrix data of the near infrared light. The color image signal generation means generates a color image signal based on the spectral image signal and the IR image signal.
US08038607B2
A body insertable apparatus includes a capsule casing configured to be disposed within a cavity and a plurality of imaging blocks provided in the capsule casing. Each imaging block includes an illuminating unit configured to illuminate an interior of the cavity and an imaging device configured to pick up images of the interior of the cavity in a substantially backward-looking or substantially forward-looking movement direction of the capsule casing, wherein arrangement directions of the plurality of imaging devices are associated with one another. The capsule casing includes a cylindrical body casing in which the respective imaging blocks are disposed, and transparent end cover casings, provided watertight with the cylindrical body casing, that cover up the respective imaging blocks, and derive illumination lights from the illuminating units. The body-insertable apparatus further includes an elastic member that urges each of the imaging blocks against the respective transparent end cover casing.
US08038605B2
At a distal end side of an insertion portion of an endoscope, an image pickup portion for capturing an image and a bending portion capable of being bent are provided, and a bending instruction operation portion executes a bending instruction operation for the bending portion. According to the bending instruction operation by the bending instruction operation portion, the bending control portion executes the controlling bending of the bending portion. As a bending control mode for executing the operation of the bending control by the bending control portion, a first bending control mode for bending control corresponding to a first image captured by the image pickup portion and a second bending control mode for bending control displaying the distal end side of the insertion portion are provided.
US08038600B2
A medical system includes: a medical device to be inserted into the body cavity; a rotating device for the medical device for rotating the medical device around the insertion axis; an image pickup device provided to the medical device; and an image capturing timing detection device for detecting a signal regarding image capturing timing performed by the image pickup device. Furthermore, the medical system includes: a rotating angle acquisition device for acquiring the rotating angle of the rotating device for the medical device regarding the image capturing timing in response to the output of the image capturing timing detection device; and an image acquisition device for performing rotation processing for the image captured by the image pickup device based upon the information regarding the rotating angle acquired by the rotating angle acquisition device, thereby acquiring the image subjected to a rotation processing.
US08038598B2
A balloon endoscope device having a shaft with a distal end that allows for blunt dissection is provided. The shaft utilizes a plurality of separately inflatable balloons that alone or together with exterior functional channels (e.g., instrument channels, air channels, water channels, suction channels) circumferentially surround the distal end of the shaft to better position and maneuver the distal end as it advances through tissue planes and once it reaches a target working space or operative site.
US08038584B1
A method and a strong, light weight, portable apparatus useful for assisting a person to safely practice Yoga using a real tree. The apparatus comprises a plurality of strong, flexible, inelastic, continuous loop slings, predominately of Mountain Climbing Specification Nylon tube webbing, connected to one another in an interlocking fashion. This Yoga multi-sling is dimensioned for attachment in a secure manner to most any tree or strong branch; and is designed to comfortably support the user's body or limbs in such a manner as to alter the orientation of one's body with respect to gravity. This method and apparatus empower the user to employ gravity as the exercising or stretching force through the positioning of the user's own body or limbs to create first, second, and third class levers in order to multiply and focus these forces on targeted muscles or muscle groups, and enhance the flow of one's Yoga practice. The Yoga multi-sling enables a person to use a real tree as a strong stretching partner to practice unique, supported, Yoga postures, or asanas, in order to increase one's balance, strength, and flexibility in an outdoor, natural setting. An advantage of connecting to a living tree while practicing Yoga is the medicinal and therapeutic enhancement of the five senses to produce an overwhelming sensation of peace to one's mind, body, and soul. The inexpensive multi-sling, which fits in a drawstring backpack tote, is adaptable to various body types, reconfigurable, comfortable, and tree friendly.
US08038576B2
An intra-repetition exercise system which allows comparison of actual performance of intra-repetition exercise characteristics (2) to pre-established target performance of intra-repetition exercise characteristics (3) by an exerciser (1).
US08038574B2
A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission includes a pre-shift device that operates a predetermined synchromesh, based on a prediction by a predicting device. It thereby couples together a transmission input shaft (with a friction transfer mechanism that has not been used to effect a current gear position) and a transmission output shaft, through a predetermined gear train, and brings them into a standby state. The time when it is determined that the friction transfer mechanism that has not been used to effect of the current gear position has been disengaged is taken as the timing with which the synchromesh coupling operation by the standby control is started, regardless of the completion of the achievement of the current gear position.
US08038561B2
A chain is provided with a plurality of links, and connecting members for connecting those links such that the links are relatively bendable to each other. A first pin of the connecting member is clamped between pulleys thereby to transmit the power between itself and said pulleys. The chain includes a central area with respect to chain width directions, and side areas located on the sides of the central area. In the central area, links adjoining in the chain width directions are pushed to contact with each other, and rotate relative to each other while exerting frictional forces on each other as the chain is bent. In each of the side areas, the links adjoining in the chain width directions are arrayed through a predetermined clearance.
US08038560B2
A power transmission chain (1) has links (11), pins (14), and interpieces (15). The links (14) each have a front and a back insertion parts (12, 13) through which the pins are inserted. The pins (14) and the interpieces (15) connect links (11) that are arranged side by side in the lateral direction of the chain such that the front insertion part (12) of one of the links (11) and the rear insertion part (13) of the other link (11) correspond to each other, and the connection is made such that that the links (11) are bendable in the longitudinal direction. The locus of a contact position of a pin (14) and an interpiece (15) is an involute of a circle. Two or more kinds of sets of a pin (14) and an interpiece (15) having different radii of base circles of involutes are formed, and these sets of a pin (14) and an interpiece (15) are randomly arranged.
US08038558B2
Chain return arrangement and sprocket and chain assembly employed therein with the bow flanks of the horizontal chain links (1) of the chain assembly (10) exhibiting a concave trough at least below an equatorial line (7) and the chain link pockets (52) of the sprocket (50) that receive the horizontal chain links at their tooth flanks (53) in the contact areas (55) to the chain links (1) having a convex crown shape to match the troughed bow flank. This significantly reduces the surface pressures between the two parts.
US08038556B2
A tensioning device for a traction mechanism, particularly a belt or a chain, including a tensioning lever over which the traction mechanism is guided and on which a tensioning spring is disposed with one end thereof, the other end thereof being provided on a spring holder by which the tensioning device can be fastened to an external object. A holding pin (11) extends through the tensioning spring (4), with the pin at one end (11) thereof being disposed in a fixed position on the tensioning lever (2) and at the other end thereof having a locking section (22) disposed on a locking element (17) provided on a spring holder (6). The locking element can be adjusted between a locking position of the holding pin end (16), in which the tensioning device (1) is fixed in a position with the pretensioned tensioning spring (4), and a released position of the holding pin end (16), in which the holding pin (10) is axially displaceable in the locking element (17), and limited by a stop.
US08038555B2
A new asymmetrically damped tensioner is provided utilizing a bearing-ramp clutch. During normal operation, the bearing-ramp clutch enables the tensioner arm to pivot in a first direction to take up belt slack with negligible frictional damping applied to the motion of the tensioner arm. When the tensioner arm pivots in a second direction, away from the belt, however, in a condition commonly known as wind-up, the bearing-ramp clutch locks against a fixed internal surface and creates a frictional damping force that is applied to the tensioner arm. This frictional linkage provides asymmetric frictional damping to the tensioner to limit movement in the second direction to mitigate wind-up.
US08038550B2
A basketball backboard assembly and a method of making the backboard assembly are disclosed. The assembly includes a backboard frame structure and an acrylic backboard which are bonded together with a suitable elastomeric adhesive, providing adequate adhesion and flexibility. The elastomeric adhesive has a bond gap in the range from 2 to 2.5 mm. The adhesive is catalyzed to provide control of the set time in the range from about 5 minutes to 1 hour. A plurality of bond gap spacers are located between the frame bonding surface and the backboard bonding surface to provide the bond gap.
US08038548B2
A golf ball having a plurality of dimples formed on its outer surface, the outer surface of the golf ball being divided into plural areas comprising at least first areas containing a plurality of first dimples and second areas containing a plurality of second dimples, the areas together forming a spherical polyhedron shape, the first dimples comprising truncated spherical dimples having a first, truncated chord depth and the second dimples comprising spherical dimples having a second, spherical chord depth, the first dimples are of larger radius than the second dimples and have a truncated chord depth which is less than the spherical chord depth of the first dimples, and the total surface area of all first areas being less than the total surface area of all second areas.
US08038546B2
A hollow wood-type golf club head 1 capable of controlling the spring effect without excessively increasing the weight of a face portion, the club head 1 comprising a face portion 3 having a face 2 for hitting a golf ball, a sole portion 5 constituting the bottom of the club head, and a junction 8 interconnecting the face portion and the sole portion and including at least one thick wall portion 9 having a thickness t2 larger than a thickness t1 at a lower edge of the face portion 3 and having a length L of 20 mm or more wherein the length L is a total of lengths in a toe-heel direction of said at least one thick wall portion 9.
US08038527B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method for outputting a confirmation message at a gaming device is presented. The method comprises determining whether a trigger condition has occurred, outputting a confirmation message at a gaming device, determining a response to the confirmation message, and initiating play at the gaming device.
US08038525B2
A gaming machine having spinning reels and methods for operating the gaming machine use a reel controller that controls motion of the spinning reels according to spin profiles for each reel. Each spin profile may be provided by the game play design and may be realized using curve fitting techniques, such as Bezier curves, splines, or approximations with line segments.
US08038524B2
A gaming machine including a display. The display includes a plurality of display positions for displaying combinations of symbols. A controller controls operation of the machine. The controller includes a processor for processing data and displaying selected data on the display. A selector is operable by the player of the machine for enabling the player to select at least one feature which can be added to a base game played on the machine.
US08038516B2
The invention relates to an air vent (1), especially for a motor vehicle, comprising an air channel for supplying air, and an air guiding device (4). The air channel is divided into at least two essentially cylindrical partial channels (11a, 11b) in the air guiding device (4), said cylindrical partial channels (11a, 11b) being parallel to each other. Especially other partial channels (12a, 12b) provided in the inventive air vent generate a swirling flow.
US08038514B2
A milling tool includes a cylindrical base and a plurality of abrasive grain clusters. The cylindrical base is centrally formed with a through-hole, and has an annular surface extending around the through-hole, a peripheral surface extending perpendicularly to the annular surface, and an inclined or rounded surface connecting the annular and peripheral surfaces. The annular surface is formed with a circular recess groove coaxially with the through-hole for separating the annular surface into first and second planar areas that respectively are closer to and farther from the peripheral surface. The second planar area is higher than the first planar area. Abrasive grains are brazed on the annular surface. The abrasive grain clusters are brazed on the inclined surface at predetermined intervals, each cluster including a predetermined number of abrasive grains having substantially the same diameter, each cluster being positioned substantially on a circumference almost equidistant from one another.
US08038511B2
According to the present invention, in a method for subjecting a roughly ground chamfer portion of a semiconductor wafer to helical grinding by relatively inclining the wafer and a second grinding stone to perform precise grinding, an edge portion of a discoid truer is formed into a vertically asymmetrical groove shape of a first grinding stone by using the first grinding stone having a vertically asymmetrical groove formed on a periphery thereof to grind the edge portion of the truer by the groove of the first grinding stone without being relatively inclined, a groove is formed on a periphery of the second grinding stone by relatively inclining the truer and the second grinding stone to subject the second grinding stone to helical grinding, and the chamfer portion of the wafer is precisely ground based on helical grinding by relatively inclining the semiconductor wafer with respect to a direction of the groove formed on the periphery of the second grinding stone. As a result, there is provided the method for machining a chamfer portion of the semiconductor wafer, which can machine the chamfer portion of the wafer into a vertically symmetrical shape when subjecting the chamfer portion of the semiconductor wafer to helical grinding, e.g. a resin grinding stone and the like.
US08038500B2
A bubble generating assembly has a housing having a motor, an air generator and a bubble producing device associated therewith. The assembly also includes a source of bubble solution, and a pump system provided inside the housing that draws bubble solution from the source to the bubble producing device. The bubble producing device includes a tubular member having an inner surface and an outer surface, and oriented so that air from the air generator will flow along both the inner and outer surfaces, and where bubble solution coats both the inner and outer surfaces.
US08038499B2
In a flat display panel, a surface of at least one of a sustain electrode and an address electrode may be formed to have a curved surface. The surface of the electrode may be formed as a continuous curved surface. The sustain electrode and the address electrode may be elongated in a lengthwise direction thereof. These lengthwise directions may be perpendicular to each other. The electrode may be formed by transferring an electrode material onto the substrate using an electrode frame defined with electrode forming grooves each having a same sectional shape as the electrode. Therefore, the surface of the electrode may be formed as the curved surface.
US08038490B1
A watercraft, typically a catamaran, has at least two spaced hulls; at least one seat mounted on or between the hulls; a vertical axis wind turbine (“VAWT”, e.g. Savonius) having a rotatable shaft operatively mounted to the hulls aft of the seat; and at least one propeller operatively connected to the wind turbine. A pedal driven propeller manual assist operable by someone sitting in a seat is also desirably provided. A mounting structure for the VAWT shaft includes an aluminum sleeve receiving the shaft; and at least two aluminum struts extending from each of at least four mounting points on the hulls to the sleeve, the struts operatively connected to the sleeve, one strut from each point vertically above the other. At least two counter-rotating VAWTs, with counter-rotating propellers, are preferred. Typically there are first and second airfoil configuration rudders, one operatively connected to the stern of each hull and controlled by a tiller and linkages to move substantially in tandem. First and second intermeshing gears are connected to the propeller and wind turbine shafts, respectively; and a sealed gear box filled with lubricant contains the gears and is connected to the bottom of the sleeve. A safety mechanism may be utilized, including a plurality of strips of material operatively connected to peripheral portions of the wind turbine so as to rotate with the wind turbine and extend radially outwardly therefrom. Desirably the strips of materiel are flexible and hang substantially limply when the turbine not rotating.
US08038483B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a first electrode including a spring portion extending in an axial direction and an annular contact portion extending from a first side in the axial direction; a first frame including a through hole, through which the annular contact portion protrudes; and a second frame, which is relatively movable to the first frame along an elongated direction of the annular contact portion at a further extension of the first side in the axial direction, and which includes a second electrode electrically connectable with the annular contact portion. A diameter of the annular contact portion is larger than that of the spring portion. The first frame includes a lock portion that locks the annular contact portion to place a center of the annular contact portion on a second side, which is opposite to the first side, in the axial direction from an end of the through hole.
US08038482B2
A plug including first, second, third, and fourth pairs of contacts connected to first, second, third, and fourth wire pairs, respectively. The first pair of contacts is positioned between first and second contacts of the third pair of contacts, the second pair of contacts is positioned alongside the first contact, and the fourth pair of contacts is positioned alongside the second contact. A first and second capacitive coupling member each including a sleeve and contact member are spaced from the plug contacts. The second wire pair extends through the sleeve of the first coupling member and the contact member of the first coupling member is electrically connected to the wire connected to the second contact. The fourth wire pair extends through the sleeve of the second coupling member and the contact member of the first coupling member is electrically connected to the wire connected to the first contact.
US08038468B2
An adapter equipped with a wire winding and holding apparatus comprises a circuit laying section to hold a conversion circuit, a wire holding section to define a holding space and a wire winder movably held in the holding space. The wire winder includes two conducting wire ends which are extensible and retractable and electrically connected to each other. One of the conducting wire ends is electrically connected to the conversion circuit. Two positioning arms are extended from the same side of the adapter to define the holding space. The wire winder is guided by the two positioning arms and movably pulled out or retracted in the holding space to be anchored. The two positioning arms have respectively an extended laying space communicating with the circuit laying space.
US08038459B2
A connector protective cover is provided which has a pair of cover members (2 and 3) to be joined together and which, using the pair of cover members (2 and 3), protects a latch lever that is operated to retain a pair of connectors (10 and 20) in engagement with each other, wherein the latch lever has an operating portion and an engagement effecting portion, and when the operating portion is operated, the engagement effecting portion is moved between an engaging position where the pair of connectors are retained in engagement with each other and a disengaging position where the pair of connectors are released from the engagement, and wherein the pair of cover members (2 and 3) joined together in an inseparable manner covers the operating portion and is fixed to the operating portion of the latch lever.
US08038458B2
A fluorescent lampholder with a top portion for supporting a fluorescent lamp and a base portion with a wire opening located on the bottom surface of the base that receives wires without exposing the wires to the exterior surface of a fixture. The lampholder is capable of supporting various types and/or sizes of fluorescent lamps such as “tall”, “medium” and “small” T-8 fluorescent lamps as well as other types and/or sizes of fluorescent lamps.
US08038457B2
A separable loadbreak connector system includes mating electrical connectors. At least one of the electrical connectors includes an electrically-resistive housing having a generally conically-shaped interior bore. A semiconductive insert is disposed within a portion of the interior bore and presents an inner radial surface that defines a generally conically-shaped recess. An elongated probe assembly is disposed within the housing and includes a probe and a sheath of insulative material disposed over at least a portion of a length of the probe. A portion of the sheath extends in a radially outward direction from a base of the probe. An electrically-resistive insulative layer extends from the conically-shaped interior bore, along at least a portion of the inner radial surface of the semiconductive insert. The insulative layer extends radially inwardly in overlapping engagement with a portion of the sheath.
US08038456B1
Apparatuses, devices, systems, and methods are provided for prevention of tampering with cables and associated systems. In one aspect, an anti-tamper adapter is provided that can inhibit or prohibit cable tampering for existing cables. In a further aspect, dummy plugs or blocking plugs can employ disclosed anti-tamper adapters to facilitate blocking ports or outlets that are intended to remain undisturbed for a period of time. The provided embodiments can economically and flexibly facilitate cable tamper prevention in a wide array of cable technologies.
US08038455B1
A connector assembly includes a retractable stabilizer moveable between a blade alignment position and a seated position in a shroud of a male connector. The retractable stabilizer is in the blade alignment position when the connector assembly is unmated and in the seated position when the connector assembly is mated. The retractable stabilizer includes a base and at least one position arm, at least one retention feature, and a securing member that extend from the base. When the connector assembly is unmated, the female connector pulls on the securing member which draws the retractable stabilizer to move from the seated position back towards the blade alignment position. When the at least one retention feature engages a blocking feature on the shroud, the at least one position arm flexes into at least one aperture defined in the shroud to secure the retractable stabilizer at the blade assembly position for reuse.
US08038449B2
A method for generating an exam is disclosed. The method includes setting initial conditions for the exam, wherein the initial conditions comprises a number of true propositions p, a number of false propositions q, and a number of random propositions r, and determining numbers of different propositions in the exam according to the initial conditions. The method further includes selecting the p number of true propositions, and numbering each of the p number of true propositions with a running number, selecting q number of false propositions, grouping the q number of false propositions, numbering each of the groups with a group number, selecting the r number of propositions, grouping the r number of propositions, numbering each of the groups with a group number. The method further includes generating an exam according to the p number of true propositions, the q number of false propositions, and the r number of propositions.
US08038448B2
A method and apparatus for influencing a person to develop, accept and/or understand a concept, position or idea using questioning, including a technique sometimes known as the Socratic Method. A universe of question and answer subsets comprising questions and respective multiple choice answers to each question designed in advance, arranged and inter-connected on a stand-alone computer, a computer on a local area network or computer network, or any computer network and displayed in such a way as to allow the participant to follow the individual's own path by selecting answers he accepts, which tend to logically lead the individual toward agreement and or understanding on the subject.
US08038442B2
A dental implant, components, and kit are provided. The implant can include a body, attachment means for attaching the implant to bone, and a recess. The recess can be disposed within the body and open towards a proximal end thereof. The recess can include a proximally-disposed receiving chamber and a distally-disposed threaded chamber. The receiving chamber can include an interlock chamber, which can be disposed at a distal end of the receiving chamber and have a polygonal cross-section. The implant can be multi-functional such that components for various dental prostheses and procedures can be provided having portions that can, for example, engage the interlock chamber of the implant, mate with the receiving chamber of the implant, and/or mate with the proximal end the implant for supporting the prosthesis and/or facilitating the procedure.
US08038441B2
The combination rotating dental cleaning brush and paste device. The device includes a housing having a rotating shaft therethrough. A compressible tube has two opposed ends, a first end which is rotated by the shaft and a second end having an opening therethrough. A brush is integral with, connected to, and rotated by the second end of the tube. Compression of the compressible tube forces dental paste inside of the tube out of an opening in the second end of the tube and onto the brush.
US08038423B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, an electric pump includes: a housing; an outer rotor; an inner rotor; a base member facing one side surface of the outer rotor and one side surface of the inner rotor; a side plate member, having a facing surface facing the other side surface of the outer rotor and the other side surface of the inner rotor and a non-facing surface opposed to the facing surface; a shaft; a suction port; a discharge port; a negative pressure applied region; a positive pressure applied region; and a relief valve, discharging the fluid from the positive pressure applied region to a non-facing surface side of the side plate member when a pressure applied at the positive pressure applied region exceeds a predetermined value.
US08038420B2
A variable displacement vane pump that assuredly suppresses seizing of mutually contacting surfaces of a pressure plate and a rotor where the pressure plate is formed, at one side surface thereof that slidably contacts the rotor, with an annular lubricating groove. The lubricating groove is on a seal surface of the side surface at a position between arcuate back pressure grooves formed on the seal surface and a through opening which is formed in a center part of the pressure plate to receive the drive shaft. A radial width of the lubricating groove is set to a range from 10% to 25% of a radial width of the seal surface, and a distance from a center of the radial width of the lubricating groove to an inner cylindrical surface of the through opening is set to a range from 24% to 70% of the radial width of the seal surface.
US08038411B2
A turbine blade includes an airfoil having a profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 1. The X and Y values are distances, which when smoothly connected by an appropriate continuing curve, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The profile sections at each distance Z arc joined smoothly to one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
US08038409B2
A turbomachine has at least one rotor blade row designed for extremely high work coefficients (high-load), which—in its center section and/or averaged over the blade height—provides for an essentially swirl-free relative outflow. The respective rotor in its trailing edge area is essentially orientated in meridional direction, with the mean or averaged exit metal angle of the rotor blade ranging from −10 to +5 degrees.
US08038405B2
A spring seal system for a turbine dovetail tab. The spring seal system may include a sealing slot positioned about the tab and a spring seal positioned within the sealing slot. The spring seal may include a substantial “U” shape.
US08038396B2
A method of manipulating a boundary layer across a wind turbine rotor blade. The method includes coupling at least one vortex generator to the rotor blade. The vortex generator includes at least one sidewall that extends outwardly a radial distance from an outer surface of the rotor blade. The vortex generator is selectively positionable between a first position and a second position. A control system calculates a condition of the boundary layer. The vortex generator is positioned at one of the first position and the second position based on the calculated condition of the boundary layer for moving the vortex generator between the first position and the second position.
US08038390B2
An article of manufacture having a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in TABLE 1. X and Y are distances in inches which, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z in inches. The profile sections at the Z distances are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
US08038388B2
A gas turbine engine component includes an airfoil having a radial outward end and a radial inward end. A seal member is positioned adjacent to the radial inward end of the airfoil. A tip of the radial inward end of the airfoil is coated with an abradable material. The seal member is coated with an abrasive material.
US08038386B2
The present invention relates to an intermediate casing of a turbojet comprising, between an inner hub and an outer cylindrical shroud, a plurality of radial arms at least one of which is hollow, a radial transmission shaft for driving the auxiliary machines being mounted rotatably in said radial arm, a first end of the transmission shaft passing through the inner hub and the second end passing through the outer cylindrical shroud. The housing is notable in that the inner volume consists of a single compartment housing the transmission shaft and forming a passageway for a lubrication fluid.
US08038381B2
An arrangement is provided for loading vehicle bodies in which assembled vehicle bodies are continuously made available from a production process for loading and are prepared for the loading. Several different stations of the loading arrangement are mutually coordinated and monitored by a control unit. A drive operated fork lift is utilized to handle empty cargo carriers and to stack a pair of vehicle body loaded cargo carriers to form a loading unit which is subsequently transferred to a transport train freight car.
US08038376B2
A connection element (1) has a thread (2) that can be made to engage with a mating thread such as, for instance, a nut. The thread includes locking means (3) that acts upon the mating thread. The locking means (3) are formed by flanks (4, 5; 6, 7, 8, 9) of at least one section (10; 11) of the thread (2) whose arrangement with respect to each other is changed vis-à-vis the arrangement of the flanks (18, 19) of the thread (2) outside of the locking section (10; 11) in such a way that, when the thread (2) engages with the mating thread, a locking force is generated on at least one of the flanks (4, 5; 6, 7, 8, 9) of the locking section (10; 11).
US08038359B2
An image forming apparatus including an image forming apparatus body, a printing engine installed in the image forming apparatus body and used to print an image on a printing medium supplied to the printing engine, a printing medium supply device having a loading plate to load printing media thereon and a frame to support the loading plate, the printing medium supply device being coupled to the image forming apparatus body to supply the printing media to the printing engine, and a pickup device to pick up the printing media loaded in the printing medium supply device one by one and to convey each picked-up printing medium to the printing engine. The printing medium supply device includes a printing medium aligning unit to push a lateral portion of the printing media when the printing media is loaded on the loading plate, so as to align the loaded printing media. With this configuration, the printing media loaded on the loading plate is automatically aligned by the printing medium aligning unit.
US08038345B2
A sensor plug for pressure and temperature measurement of a fluid medium includes a sensor body having a sensor body axis, as well as a pressure sensor disposed substantially concentrically on the sensor body axis. Also provided in the sensor body is a through orifice for connecting the pressure sensor to the fluid medium, and a temperature sensing element orifice having a temperature sensing element received therein. The temperature sensing element orifice has a temperature sensing element orifice axis that is inclined with respect to the sensor body axis in such a way that at its end pointing toward the fluid medium, it is inclined toward the sensor body axis.
US08038337B2
A method for treating extremely small particles of recycled polyethylene terephthalate comprises providing a quantity of RPET particles having an average mean particle size ranging from about 0.0005 inch to about 0.05 inch in diameter, heating the RPET particles to a temperature sufficient to cause at least a portion of the RPET particles to adhere to one another, and forming the adhered RPET particles into pellets, said pellets having substantially the same average surface-to-volume ratio as the bulk, un-adhered RPET particles.
US08038332B2
A viewing and lighting device includes a side-view mirror formed with a ball, a lamp provided on the side-view mirror, a flexible tube, a first clip attached to an end of the flexible tube and used to clip a portion of the side-view mirror, a second clip attached to another end of the flexible tube and used to clip a portion of a vehicle and a controller provided on the vehicle and used to control the lamp.
US08038330B2
A movable multi-directional light stand is revealed. The movable multi-directional light stand includes a retractable top support rod that can be received into and connected with a hollow middle support rod. The top support rod is disposed with a mounting slot on a wall, along an axial direction thereof. A sleeve with external threads is disposed around the top of the top support rod and is arranged with a guiding slot corresponding to the mounting slot of the top support rod. A retractable light rod is pivoted to the wall of the top support rod that is disposed with the mounting slot. The retractable light rod is formed by a hollow outer tube and an inner tube that slides in the outer tube and having a hook. The light stand further includes an adjustment nut with threads engaging corresponding external threads of the sleeve so that the adjustment nut can support the outer tube, locate the retractable light rod in the mounting slot and adjust the height of the light. Thereby the light stand is retractable and rotatable in a horizontal plane so as to illuminate in different directions.
US08038328B2
A light-emitting device pressure ring structure includes a mounting base for mounting, a circuit board accommodated in the mounting base and having electrode pins connectable to an external power source, a holder member insertable in the mounting base, a light-emitting unit fixedly mounted in the holder member with a bottom heat sink thereof suspending outside the holder member and tubular electrodes thereof connectable to the electrode pins of the circuit board for power input, and a pressure ring cap detachably threaded onto the mounting base to hold down the holder member and to keep the heat sink of the light-emitting unit outside the mounting base for quick dissipation of waste heat from the light-emitting devices of the light-emitting unit.
US08038327B1
A luminaire housing designed to be installed to illuminate an illumination area, wherein a light source is oriented within the housing to direct a central axis of emitted light rays away from the illumination area and towards a reflective surface of a stationary reflector. In some embodiments the stationary reflector is oriented and contoured to reflect the light rays towards a light passageway. In some embodiments, an adjustable reflector is also provided that is movable between at least a first and a second position. Optionally, the luminaire housing may be a recessed luminaire housing.
US08038323B2
The present Invention is an apparatus for displaying a medallion in an item of memorabilia, such as a hockey puck or a model of a tire. A medallion is selectably retained by a cavity defined by the item of memorabilia. A light-emitting capacitor is disposed either in front of or behind the medallion, illuminating the surface of the medallion.
US08038312B2
An object is to provide a showcase capable of effectively illuminating commodities displayed on a shelf in a display chamber, especially commodities in shelf foremost parts. In the showcase in which the shelf for displaying the commodities is disposed in the display chamber constituted in a main body and in which a front-surface opening of the display chamber is openably closed by see-through doors and in which an illumination device is vertically attached to the main body on an inner side from the edge of the opening, the illumination device is constituted of LED elements, and light from the LED elements is emitted toward front parts of the shelf.
US08038300B2
An image projector apparatus includes a cooler having a variable capability to cool a light source, a commanding section which gives a command to terminate a lighting operation of the light source, a selecting section responsive to the command given by the projection light processor for selecting a cooling capability of the cooler, and a control section for causing the cooler to cool the light source with the cooling capability selected by the selecting section.
US08038284B2
A liquid application apparatus includes: a roller member which is driven so as to rotate in a rotational direction; an application liquid supply device which supplies an application liquid onto a portion of the roller member while the roller member is rotating; a blade member which is arranged so as to abut against a circumferential surface of the roller member at an abutment position that is on a downstream side of the application liquid supply device in terms of the rotational direction of the roller member, the blade member wiping away an excess of the supplied application liquid on the roller member; a substitute fluid spray device which is arranged on a downstream side of the abutment position of the blade member in terms of the rotational direction of the roller member, the substitute fluid spray device spraying a substitute fluid onto a region of the circumferential surface of the roller member so as to remove the application liquid on the region of the circumferential surface of the roller member after the roller member passing the abutment position of the blade member, the substitute fluid including one of gas and liquid that is different from the application liquid; and a substitute fluid spray control device which controls the substitute fluid spray device to spray the substitute fluid.
US08038275B2
A liquid container includes a case, a translucent portion, an ink supply portion, and a movable member. The case defines a liquid chamber which is configured to store a predetermined amount of liquid. The translucent portion extends away from the liquid chamber in a predetermined direction, and has an inner space formed therein. The ink supply portion has a center line which is parallel to the predetermined direction. The movable member is pivotably positioned within the liquid chamber, and includes a signal blocking portion, a float portion, and an arm portion. At least a portion of the signal blocking portion is configured to be positioned within the inner space. Moreover, when the liquid chamber stores the predetermined amount of liquid, at least a portion of the arm portion is positioned further from the center line than the signal blocking portion is positioned from the center line.
US08038265B2
An ink-jet head includes a piezoelectric layer, pressure chambers, nozzles, first electrodes, and second electrodes. When electric potentials of the first and second electrodes respectively are changed at the same timing such that increase and decrease in the electric potentials are opposite between the first and second electrodes, volume of the pressure chamber is changed to apply jetting-pressure to ink in the pressure chamber, thereby jetting an ink droplet from the nozzle. When only the electric potential of the second electrode is changed, the volume of the pressure chamber is changed to apply a vibrating-pressure lower than the jetting-pressure to the ink in the pressure chamber, thereby vibrating meniscus of the ink, agitating the ink in the nozzle. This makes it possible to suppress increase in viscosity of the ink in the nozzle.
US08038264B2
A plurality of pressure chambers are divided into a first pressure chamber group and a second pressure chamber group, and are arranged such that an interval of the first pressure chamber group and the second pressure chamber group is larger than an interval between nozzles, and sub ink supply passage which supplies the ink to the common liquid chambers through the space is formed. Accordingly, a liquid droplet jetting head which is capable of delivering the ink to all the nozzles without increasing a size is provided.
US08038263B2
A piezoelectric inkjet head includes a plurality of pressure chambers filled with ink that is to be ejected, a manifold to supply ink to the pressure chambers and extending in both sides of each of the pressure chambers parallel to a direction in which the pressure chambers are arranged, a restrictor to connect the manifold to each of the pressure chambers, and to be connected to both ends of each of the pressure chambers in a longitudinal direction, a plurality of piezoelectric actuators respectively corresponding to the pressure chambers, and at least one nozzle respectively connected to each of the pressure chambers, and to be symmetrically arranged with respect to the centerline in a longitudinal direction of each of the pressure chamber. The at least one nozzle includes a first nozzle and at least two second nozzles, the first nozzle is disposed to correspond to the centerline in the longitudinal direction of each of the pressure chambers, and the second nozzles are disposed in both sides of the first nozzle.
US08038251B2
Time for which an ejection port surface of a print head has been exposed to the exterior since the end of the last cleaning operation is predicted and accumulated as an accumulated exposure time. A cleaning timing is set to be a timing when the accumulated exposure time coincides with a set time set according to the ambient temperature and humidity of an area in which a label printer is installed. In principle, a cleaning operation is performed at the cleaning timing. However, when the cleaning timing comes during the current consecutive printing operation, the cleaning operation is not performed during the current consecutive printing operation but at a time before the start of the current consecutive printing operation or a time after the end of the current consecutive printing operation.
US08038248B2
An image recording apparatus according to an aspect of the invention comprises a first roller pair disposed downstream of a recording unit; a second roller pair disposed downstream of the first roller pair; an inversion guide portion that connects a downstream portion of a conveying path positioned downstream of the recording unit to an upstream portion of the conveying path positioned upstream of the recording unit; a path changeover unit configured to send the recording medium conveyed from the recording unit with a first end as a leading end to the inversion guide portion with the second end as a leading end. In a stop operation, rotation of the first roller pair and the second roller pair stops in a state where the first roller pair nips a vicinity of the second end of the recording medium and the second roller pair also nips the recording medium.
US08038244B2
A printing method etc. capable of suppressing degradation in image quality of border sections between regions respectively printed by a plurality of nozzle rows that eject ink droplets is achieved. The printing method includes a step of setting, when at least two print heads that move in a movement direction intersecting a carrying direction and that include a plurality of nozzle rows each including a plurality of nozzles arranged in the carrying direction are moved in the movement direction, one ejecting method, of among a plurality of ejecting methods in which the nozzles for actually ejecting ink droplets are appropriately changed between an upstream-side nozzle and a downstream-side nozzle, for each of a plurality of aligned nozzle sections that are arranged such that the downstream-side nozzle of one print head and the upstream-side nozzle of the other print head, of the nozzle rows provided in different print heads, are aligned in the movement direction; and a step of ejecting ink droplets from the aligned nozzle sections according to the one ejecting method that has been set.
US08038241B2
An inkjet recording device according to an aspect of the invention comprises: an ejection head configured to eject ink on a recording medium; a conveying unit configured to convey the recording medium on a conveying path, the conveying path including a first conveying path positioned where the ejection head forms an image on the recording medium and extending along a first direction; an attaching unit configured to attach a second recording medium having an adherable part adherable to the recording medium such that a part of the second recording medium projects from an end portion of the recording medium with respect to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The ejection head is configured to record an image on the second recording medium in a position outside the recording medium with respect to the second direction.
US08038226B2
The invention relates to an electropneumatic braking system of a rail vehicle, containing a direct-action electropneumatic braking device and an indirect-action compressed-air braking device. The system comprises at least the following components or modules: a) a pressure regulator which produces a pre-control pressure (Cv direct) of the direct brake according to an electric braking pressure request signal of the direct brake, b) a pressure control valve which limits the pre-control pressure (Cv direct) of the direct brake to a pre-determinable maximum pre-control pressure (Cvdirect max) of the direct brake, c) a control valve which generates a pre-control pressure (Cv indirect) of the indirect brake according to a main air guiding pressure (PHL) of the indirect brake, d) a selection device which, from the maximum pre-control pressure of the direct brake (Cv direct max) and the pre-control pressure (Cv indirect) of the indirect brake, transmits a force corresponding to the respectively larger pre-control pressure (Cv direct mas or Cv indirect) to a transmission in which the multiplication can be modified by a regulating device according to the respective load state of the rail vehicle. The transmission actuates a relay valve that controls a braking pressure (C) corresponding to the actuation by the transmission.
US08038218B2
A recliner mechanism for a vehicle seat includes a guide plate and a gear plate. The gear plate has a plurality of internal gear teeth and a frustonical inner diameter. A hub is attached to a shaft that connects two recliners on opposite sides of the seat. The guide plate, the gear plate and a cam are retained on the hub by a retainer clip that has a frustoconical bearing surface. Two locking elements cooperate with the guide plate, and have a plurality of external gear teeth that selectively engage the internal gear teeth. When the cam rotates, the cam engages the cam surfaces with one of the engagement surfaces unlocking the external gear teeth from the internal gear teeth. Springs cooperate with the guide plate and the cam for locking the mechanism. The inner diameter of the gear plate is received on the frustoconical bearing surface of the retainer clip.
US08038217B2
The present invention provides a vehicle seat capable of performing a tilt-down operation in which a seat back is widely tilted forwardly to be folded on a seat cushion while a seat cushion is moved forwardly and a walk-in operation in which the seat back is half tilted forwardly over a desired angle while the seat is slid forwardly via a slide rail. The seat includes a frame member that is capable of longitudinally sliding via the slide rail and that supports the seat back via a reclining device so as to tilt the seat back back and forth, a front link connecting the seat cushion to the frame member so as to allow the seat cushion to move longitudinally, and an interlock mechanism that can be controlled so as to move or to not move the seat cushion forwardly with respect to the frame member when the seat back is tilted forwardly. At the time of the tilt-down operation, the interlock mechanism is controlled so as to move the seat cushion forwardly when the seat back is tilted forwardly. At the time of the walk-in operation, the interlock mechanism is controlled so as to not move the seat cushion forwardly when the seat back is tilted forwardly.
US08038216B1
The portable seat is positioned on the two seat rail tubes of a standard wheelchair with brackets. The seat has a lower frame and an upper frame having four pivoted legs slidably mounted in channels. A horizontal arm connects the two front legs at the lower part thereof and has a pivoting and threaded drive nut. Another horizontal arm connects the two rear legs at the lower part thereof and has a pivoting and threaded drive nut, being oppositely threaded. A drive screw is mounted to both drive nuts and when rotated the legs are pushed together to raise the seat thereon. As an additional feature, a tilt seat section may be attached to the upper frame causing the seat to tilt forward allowing the user too more easily dismount. This feature may be activated when the seat is or is not elevated. Appropriate electronics operates the portable seat.
US08038212B2
A child vehicle seating system, for fitment on a vehicle seat to support and restrain a child, comprises at least one seating component. Each seating component includes a closed frame over which a flexible membrane is stretched to define a support surface.
US08038211B2
A seat cover for use with a chair is disclosed herein. The seat cover comprises a fabric cover, which has a back pocket, a seat form and a skirt portion. The seat cover also comprises a back form which has a front pad, a top pad, a first side pad, a second side pad and a first space defined by the front pad, the top pad, the first side pad and the second side pad. The seat cover further comprises a seat pad and a slip barrier.
US08038201B2
Provided is a vehicle body structure which can prevent a door from entering a vehicle interior by preventing deformation of a beam extending in a vehicle width direction in a seat of a vehicle even when a side collision has occurred in the vehicle. In the vehicle body structure, a seat leg is placed above a cross member and fixed to the cross member. Additionally, a pair of seat legs is arranged on the right and left sides, and the seat legs are interconnected by a rod member. A beam is coupled with an upper end of the seat leg. The side of the beam protrudes to the outer side of the seat leg in the width direction of the vehicle, and a portion protruding outside of the seat leg is a protruding portion. A load transmission member having a length in the vehicle width direction substantially equal to the length of the protruding portion of the beam is arranged on the side of the seat leg.
US08038194B2
The deck side trim includes accommodating recesses in which left and right ends of a cover accommodating body are accommodated and disposed. A clamp portion provided at its side with an engaging pawl is provided in the accommodating recess. The clamp portion is provided with an inner hole having an opening at least on the accommodating recess side. A cap body for closing the opening is disposed in the inner hole. The cap body includes a cap leg and a cap head. When the cap leg of the cap body is fitted into the inner hole, the engaging pawl in the clamp portion is pushed outward, and the engaging pawl is engaged with the body engaging portion provided on the vehicle body.
US08038187B2
A food utensil has an elongate member that has a first end, a second end and a longitudinal surface extending from the first end to the second end. The first end includes a plurality of protrusions disposed circumferentially around the longitudinal surface at the first end. A pair of tongs includes at least one such elongate member, hingedly interconnected to another such elongated member. In one embodiment, the utensil is a chopstick, and preferably is provided as a pair of two such chopsticks. A method of making a food utensil includes forming an elongate member having a first end and a second end, and forming a plurality of protrusions circumferentially around a first end of the elongate member.
US08038179B2
A threaded joint for steel pipes comprising a pin 1 having a tapered male thread 11, a tapered sealing surface 13, and an end shoulder surface 14 and a box 2 having correspondingly a tapered female thread 21, a tapered sealing surface 23, and a shoulder surface 24 which is capable of easy tightening and has improved air tightness by the sealing surfaces is arranged such that the pin and the box each have a noncontacting region B where the peripheral surfaces of the pin and the box do not contact each other between the sealing surfaces 13, 23 and the shoulder surfaces 14 and 24. At least a portion of the noncontacting region of the pin adjoining the to end of the pin is a tapered surface portion 18 having substantially the same angle of slope as the tapered sealing surface 13, and the noncontacting region of the box is a substantially cylindrical surface.
US08038176B2
A seal for pipe couplings and a method of connecting pipe elements. The seal has an elastic ring surrounding a rigid ring. The elastic ring has side portions connected by a recessed center portion. The recessed center portion has a diameter no greater than the final diameter of the elastic ring in its deformed shape which effects a fluid tight joint. The seal is positioned between segments of a pipe coupling. Pipe elements are inserted into the elastic ring against the rigid ring from opposite sides of the coupling. The segments are drawn toward one another by fasteners, compressing the side portions and effecting the fluid tight joint.
US08038175B2
A support assembly for supporting a flexible duct includes a radius strap for maintaining the desired angle of bend for the flexible duct. The radius strap retains its shape through ribs along the back side of the strap. The assembly is secured at both ends to the flexible duct via arms branching off of cross pieces which branch off from the radius strap. The arms contain slots which allow varying connection devices to pass through and across indentations at the ends of the ribs to secure the flexible duct to the assembly itself and to varying pieces of HVAC equipment.
US08038162B2
A joint unit such as for mounting the vehicle control arm of a motor vehicle, is provided with a control arm-side housing (1), in which a pivot pin (2) is mounted pivotably by means of a spheroidal bearing surface (3), wherein the joint unit has a securing unit against the separation of the housing (1) from the pivot pin (2). The securing unit includes a securing bolt (9), arranged within the pivot pin (2) essentially in parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the pivot pin (2) and with a blocking element (12) at a free end. A securing mount (13) is located within the housing (1) or the pivot pin (2) and in this the blocking element (12) is mounted in a contactless manner in the mounted state of the joint unit. The securing mount (13) is part of the securing unit, and the securing bolt (9) is fixed to the component of the joint unit (housing (1) or pivot pin (2)) that is not provided with the securing mount (13). Redundant securing of a joint unit against separation of the housing (1) from the pivot pin (2), which is not visible from the outside and is thus advantageous from both a safety engineering viewpoint and a visual viewpoint is achieved.
US08038160B2
A children's ride-on toy includes at least two casters. The ride-on toy has a first caster mount connected to the body, wherein the first caster mount comprises a first caster receptacle, and a second caster mount connected to the body, wherein the second caster mount comprises a second caster receptacle. In at least one embodiment, the first caster has an engagement shaft that is uniquely adapted to engage the first caster receptacle, and the second caster has an engagement shaft that is uniquely adapted to engage the second caster receptacle. In at least another embodiment, a first bushing rotatably engages the first caster and is uniquely adapted to engage the first caster receptacle, and a second bushing rotatably engages the second caster and is uniquely adapted to engage the second caster receptacle.
US08038158B1
An infant crawler includes a cover which can take many shapes, such as an animal shape or vehicle shape, secured to a wheeled crawler frame. The crawler frame can be moved around by an infant positioned in the crawler frame and the cover at least partially covers the infant positioned in the frame. The cover can include various pieces secured to various parts of the frame or can be or include a single piece removably secured to the frame. The crawler frame can be collapsible for easy transport and storage and can have a body supporting surface adjustable in height above the floor so can be adjusted for the particular user and for a particular user as the user grows to support the user at a proper height above the floor for the desired crawling action. In addition, the crawler frame can be length adjustable for adjustment as the user grows.
US08038152B2
A sheet conveyance relay unit, including: a convergence unit, including: a convergence section to converge sheet conveyance paths of plural sheet receiving sections; and a first common sheet-conveyance section, which conveys the recording sheets from the convergence section to a sheet feeding outlet; a divergence unit, including: a second common sheet-conveyance section, which conveys the recording sheets conveyed from the convergence unit; plural sheet feed-out sections, which are combined to plural post-finishing apparatuses; and a divergence section, which sorts the recording sheets conveyed by the second common sheet-conveyance section, onto the plural sheet feed-out sections; and a control section which receives job information having been set, and selects an image forming apparatus to be used for a job among the image forming apparatuses and a post-finishing apparatus to be used for the job among the plural post-finishing apparatuses, whereby the control section conducts the job having been set.
US08038146B2
A post-processing device includes an introductory feed path, a processing tray, a post-processing section, a catch tray, a sheet delivery section, and a control section. The post-processing section is configured to perform post-processing on the sheet placed on the processing tray. The catch tray is disposed below the processing tray. The sheet delivery section has an upper rotary member and a lower rotary member which are disposed at an end of the processing tray lying on a catch tray side so as to be movable toward and away from each other. The control section causes the upper rotary member and the lower rotary member to press against each other at latest by the time a leading edge of a first sheet of a group of sheets to be post-processed at a time is brought into contact with the catch tray.
US08038143B2
A sheet delivery device is disclosed that includes an openable and closable manual paper feeder, an openable and closable paper catch tray, a first open/close detection unit to detect an opened/closed state of the manual paper feeder, a second open/close detection unit to detect an opened/closed state of the paper catch tray, and a control unit. The control unit issues an alert in response to simultaneous occurrences of both a closed state of the paper catch tray detected by the second open/close detection unit and an open state of the manual paper feeder detected by the first open/close detection unit.
US08038131B1
A shock-absorbing device includes a shock-absorbing cylinder, an air cell mounted on the shock-absorbing cylinder, an upper seal cover mounted on an upper end of the air cell and having a side provided with a mounting portion mounted on the shock-absorbing cylinder, and a lower seal cover mounted on a lower end of the air cell and having a side provided with a mounting section mounted on the shock-absorbing cylinder. Thus, the mounting portion of the upper seal cover and the mounting section of the lower seal cover are directly mounted on the shock-absorbing cylinder, so that the upper seal cover and the lower seal cover are directly mounted on the shock-absorbing cylinder easily and quickly to assemble the shock-absorbing device without needing aid of any screw or other hand tool.
US08038128B2
A humidifier pad made of a plurality of laminated sheets connected together in a stack. Each of the sheets is made of a two layer laminate material made of a first layer of a rigidifying material, such as aluminum, and a second layer made of an absorbent layer, such as paper. The layers of each of the sheets are first laminated together, and then each sheet is slit and expanded in a conventional manner. Subsequently, each sheet is bonded to a next adjacent sheet to form a pad.
US08038127B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing hydrogen-added water containing a large amount of microscopic bubbles and manufacturing equipment for the same so as to expand the industrial applicability of hydrogen-added water by injecting a large amount of microscopic bubbles. More specifically, a plurality of tubular structures, in which the diffusion chamber (5), having double tubes, is provided, and a porous element (6) having predetermined pore diameters, in the diffusion chamber (5) is provided and are substantially linearly arranged in a longitudinal direction. The raw water and hydrogen are supplied with one of the tubular structures, so as to form the mixture of raw water and hydrogen by mixing supplied raw water and hydrogen in the diffusion chamber (5). The mixture is passed through the porous element (6) and diffused therein. The mixture fluid of raw water and hydrogen is then supplied to an adjacent tubular structure under high pressure.
US08038111B2
A temporary fixing structure includes one hooking part 14a provided on a ceiling of a compartment or a room; the other hooking part 7a that is provided on an information device 1, and is rotatably hooked on the one hooking part 14a; and a stopper holding back rotation of the information device due to self-weight moment exerted on the information device 1 in hooked condition of these hooking parts 14a and 7a in a temporally fixed posture of the information device.
US08038106B2
A beam clamp includes a clamp base and a rotational portion. The base includes an interior cavity and an external surface. The base and the rotational portion are pivotably connected by a mateable device. The rotational portion extends into the interior cavity of the base and the rotational portion includes a torsion spring.
US08038104B1
A cable constraining device features a flexible cable contact sheet that is inward attached to a cable constraining contour of a holding structure. The holding structure is configured for substantially encompassing a cable circumference while in constraining configuration. In a cavity between the holding structure and the cable contact sheet is a gel filled that provides a vibration dampening soft contact of the cable contact sheet with the cable insulation. The cushioning gel absorbs micro movement of the cable transferred onto the cable contact sheet such that wearing effects due to frictional sliding and vibration of the cable at its constraining location is substantially reduced. The holding structure may be of rubber like material that is formed on its outside like a well known grommet. An outer rigid clamping structure may be additionally employed. The device may be also configured as a profile in various lengths and bent shapes.
US08038096B2
An aircraft landing gear assembly comprises a four bar linkage arranged to be pivotably attached to an aircraft fuselage and movable between a deployed position and a retracted position, wherein when in the retracted position at least a first portion of the landing gear assembly is housed within a wing at the aircraft.
US08038095B2
A motorized airplane includes a landing gear with at least two legs capable of retracting into the fuselage via hatches. A pair of hydrofoils is fitted to the base of the fuselage in conformance with the ailerons used for lift and hydrodynamic stability, directed towards the base like a reverse V shape. The legs of the landing gear are each articulated around the pivot axes, fitted onto the hydrofoils. The landing gear is dual-function, using wheels or skis suspended on legs. Applications: airplane for landing on water, ground and snow.
US08038083B2
The invention relates to a fuel injector for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber, having a solenoid valve for controlling a mini-servo valve. A movable armature can be placed in a sealing fashion on a valve seat in a lower armature chamber, wherein in addition, the mini-servo valve is held in an injector body and seals a control line against a flat seat. By means of the flat seat, during an actuation of the solenoid valve, the control line can be relieved of pressure from a high fuel pressure to a return pressure into at least one return line. A mechanism for reducing pressure oscillations are provided in the at least one return line, which includes at least one diaphragm cell which is held in a recess and which is placed in fluidic connection with the at least one return bore. A fuel injector with the mechanism for reducing pressure oscillations is therefore created in the at least one return line which operates without a leakage flow and has a simple and effective function.
US08038081B2
A mobile power washer includes a heater module that is displaceable from an operative position, beneath a vented panel, to an access position enabling easy servicing or replacement of the module. The module includes a heater and a heat exchanger for heating water drawn from tanks for delivery at high pressure through a spray gun attached to a hose. A buffer tank is provided for retaining water heated by the heater for mixing with cold water from the tanks prior to further heating in the heat exchanger and delivery from the spray gun.
US08038079B2
An injection system for injecting fuel has: a housing for containing the fuel, with a first and second aperture, a piezo actuator having a first and second face plate aperture, a controllable piezo stack arranged between the face and base plate, a sealed casing laterally surrounding at least the piezo stack and arranged between the face and base plate and a transmission means arranged in an actuator interior space having a fluid, a first contact device guided through the first aperture and face plate aperture, a second contact device guided through the second aperture and face plate aperture, a first sealing device surrounding the contact device near the apertures and providing a seal between the housing interior and exterior space and a second sealing device surrounding the contact devices near the face plate apertures and providing a seal between the housing interior space and the actuator interior space.
US08038073B2
Disclosed are arrangements encode protection marks (302) into an unprotected document, where the protection marks are modulated according to a attributes of corresponding areas (902) of the unprotected document associated with the protection marks (302). Unauthorized amendment of the protected document can be detected by demodulating (1107) the modulated protection marks in the protected document, to derive the attribute of the unprotected document. This is compared to the corresponding attribute of the protected document, and this comparison indicates if unauthorized amendment has taken place.
US08038060B2
Techniques for providing an ID image on a print medium are disclosed. Commodity information on a commodity settled in a store is received from a store terminal installed at the store. ID images, defining ID information in a frequency domain and accompanied by attribute information that is used by the store terminal to decide whether or not each of the stored ID images is to be printed, are stored. A correspondence between the commodity information and the stored ID images is also stored. ID images corresponding to the received commodity information from the stored ID images using the stored correspondence are then retrieved. An attribute list, which registers the attribute information of the stored ID images that is used by the store terminal to decide whether or not each of the stored ID images is to be printed, is stored. Thereafter, only the retrieved ID images which have been decided to be printed based on the stored attribute list are transmitted. The transmitted ID images are then printed on a print medium.
US08038059B2
Apparatuses and methods for dispensing magnetic stripe cards, smart cards, other cards, and/or other items from kiosks and other structures are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a card dispensing apparatus includes at least a first card hopper and a card transport assembly. The first card hopper is configured to hold a stack of cards that includes at least a first card stacked on a second card. The card transport assembly includes a card carrier moveable between a first position proximate to the first card hopper and a second position spaced apart from the first card hopper. The card carrier is configured to lift the first card off the second card when the card carrier is in the first position. The card carrier is further configured to release the first card toward an outlet when the card carrier is in the second position. In one embodiment, the card carrier can move the first card past a card reader/writer for reading information from, and/or writing information to, the card as it carries the card from the first position to the second position.
US08038058B2
This invention provides a system and method for authorizing automated value transfers from an account available to users who do not have a pre-existing trust, business or financial relationship. In an embodiment of the present invention, a Sender at a first location purchases a PIN Card at a point of sale, such as a retail location or a bank teller. The Sender contacts an intended Recipient at a remote location and discloses a Transfer PIN associated with the PIN Card, as well as the amount being transferred, to that intended Recipient. The Recipient needs only the Transfer PIN and a Cash Card to receive the money transfer at a participating remote location. To receive the value associated with the PIN Card, the Recipient inserts or swipes the Cash Card at an ATM and enters the Transfer PIN. An authorization system then authorizes the dispensing unit to dispense that value amount.
US08038054B2
A method of completing a transaction including the steps of: a customer remotely ordering a product from a provider; the provider sending an indicia to the customer, the indicia being representative of the product ordered; the provider sending authentication data to the customer for utilization as an authentication process at a point of transaction (POT); the customer displaying a new indicia at the POT; and the provider reading the new indicia at the POT.
US08038033B2
A beverage whipper, including a whipper disk configured for spinning within the whipper and having a radius is disclosed. The whipper disk further includes a front surface and a plurality of forward-facing concave surfaces that divide the front surface into a plurality of front surface sections. The concave surfaces extend generally radially over more than half the radius and have a circumferential width and a depth, wherein the width is larger than the depth. The front surface sections have a total area that is at least 4-times the total area of the concave surfaces. Also, a beverage dispenser that includes the whipper for forming beverages having crema such as espresso or cappuccino.
US08038031B2
A portable manway hinge device has a pair of hinge plates where each hinge plate has a support member with a hinge aperture positioned for alignment with a bolt opening of a manway cover and a manway flange, a linkage member adjacent a first end of each hinge plate and extending out of the plane of the hinge plate, and a pivotal connection coupling overlapping pairs of the linkage member of the pair of hinge plates.
US08038029B2
A pressure vessel for storage of a pressurized fluid is provided. The pressure vessel includes a composite layer having an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface defines an internal cavity. The pressure vessel further includes at least one pressure relief device in fluid communication with the internal cavity. At least one thermally conductive element is continuously wound on the outer surface of the composite layer and adapted to carry load and transport heat from a heat source adjacent the composite layer to the at least one pressure relief device. A method for producing the pressure vessel is also provided.
US08038027B2
The fuel cap includes an outer cap as an outer envelope, an inner cap removably fitted in the outer cap through an opening therein, a canister located in a space between the outer cap and the inner cap for adsorbing a vaporized fuel. The fuel cap closes a fuel filler port for feeding a fuel to a fuel tank. The canister adsorbs a vaporized fuel vaporized from the fuel in the fuel tank. At least one of the outer cap and the inner cap defines a communication hole communicating with the space and an exterior. The canister includes a housing; and an adsorbent accommodated therein. The housing defines, on an end surface directed to the inner cap, an inlet for vaporized fuel and on another end surface directed to the outer cap, an outlet for gas.
US08038020B2
A support for a series of tools, each tool including at least one head and one handle, includes a base; a plurality of housings, each housing being intended to receive and retain the handle; a plurality of means for receiving and retaining a head, each receiving and retaining means being intended to receive and retain the head; the housings and the receiving and retaining means being secured to the base, each housing comprising two partitions, at least one of the partitions including a means for positioning the handle. At least one partition, which is formed integrally with the base, is designed to flex elastically and transversely to allow the handle to overcome the means for positioning the handle.
US08038017B2
A spring alignment mechanism utilizes a guide inserted into a display carton below merchandise items. A spring-driven rear pull member travels on the guide so that as items are removed from the carton, remaining items are pulled forward. In one example, the guide is inserted between the bottom of merchandise items and the carton bottom. In another example, merchandise items are supported on cardboard support rails built into the bottom of the carton, or provided on a carton insert; and the guide is inserted between the cardboard support rails.
US08038011B2
A waterproof cover has a first cover portion made of a waterproof material for removable connection to and covering a part of a device that has a recording portion for performing recording on a recording medium that is dischargeable from the device. A second cover portion is made of a flexible waterproof material for covering the device and for removable connection to the first cover portion to form an opening portion through which the recording medium passes when discharged from the device. Connecting members removably connect the second cover portion to the first cover portion. Positioning members position the second cover portion relative to the first cover portion prior to connection of the second cover portion to the first cover portion by the connecting member.
US08038009B1
A suspension pad for suspending a workpiece with respect to a corrugated enclosure having a closure flap that is moveable between an open position, wherein an opening is defined in the corrugated enclosure, and a closed position, wherein the opening is obstructed by the closure flap. The suspension pad has a mid-section that is engageable with the workpiece and at least one end portion moveable between a raised position, wherein the end portion is disposed within the corrugated enclosure, and a lowered position, wherein the end portion extends through the opening to hold the closure flap in the open position.
US08038001B2
The curved pack end flap (20) of the present invention can generally be used in any pack that has a surface that is curved inwards. The curved pack end flap (20) incorporates multiple panels (27) interconnected at points (30) other than the folding edge (51) to provide for the deformation of the end flap when the surface, from which the curved pack end flap (20) is attached, is curved inwards during the formation of the pack. The folded curved pack end flap is subsequently affixed to a second surface in the formation of the pack. The curved pack end flap (20) with the interconnected panels (27) functions to maintain positional accuracy, decrease tearing of the end flap panels (27) during the folding process, and allow for glue application to be more precise during assembly as compared to the end flap of the prior art.
US08037997B2
A bulk material handling system includes a bulk material handling apparatus to convey bulk material and a bulk material handling accessory to aid the bulk material handling apparatus in conveying the bulk material. The bulk material handling accessory includes a controller having one or more sensors. The controller generates a control signal to adjust operation of the bulk material handling accessory based upon at least one status signal of the one or more sensors. The controller also generates the control signal in accordance with a status signal to control signal response pattern defined by system parameter values. The system parameters include a minimum value to define a minimum level of the control signal associated with fail-safe operation and a maximum value to define a maximum level of the control signal associated with stable operation the bulk material handling accessory.
US08037991B2
A method is provided to regulate a conveying stream composed of articles of the tobacco-processing industry between at least one tray discharger and connected to at least one feed device by a conveying element that conveys a mass flow of the articles. The feed device has at least one chamber designed to receive the articles, and each chamber has at least two feed units running independently of each other to feed the articles to subsequent apparatuses. Each feed unit has an individual feed rate (P1, P2, . . . Pn). The method includes monitoring a level within the feed device using monitoring elements; sending a signal to each of the at least one tray dischargers for regulating the speed of transport of the conveying element and the feed rate (in articles/min) as a function of a current level within the feed device, and adapting the speed of transport to a desired level. The speed of transport of each conveying element is additionally regulated as a function of the feed rate (Ptotal) formed from the sum of the individual feed rates (P1, P2, . . . Pn) of all feed units assigned to a respective chamber.
US08037982B2
A shock absorber has a spring positioned within a chamber. The spring provides a spring force on a piston that offsets a hydraulic force such that the forces on the piston are generally balanced when a vehicle is at rest.
US08037974B2
A self-energizing disc brake includes a brake caliper or frame, the application device for applying at least one brake at least one brake pad unit, and at least one electromotive drive as an actuator for actuating the application device. The application device also has two or more brake plungers, wherein the two brake plungers are connected to one another by a connecting plate. At least one or more ramp arrangements is/are formed in the region adjacent to the brake plungers between the brake pad unit and the connecting plate.
US08037972B2
In a vehicle parking system, when a selected shift position is changed between Park and a shift position other than Park, if both an electric motor of an electric parking lock mechanism and an electric motor of an electric parking brake mechanism are operated, these electric motors are started in such a manner that the times at which striking currents supplied to these electric motors reach their peaks are staggered.
US08037970B2
A counter base for checkout includes a basket placing table on one side thereof to be freely raised and lowered. A driving unit can drive to raise and lower the basket placing table. A first detecting unit detects that a shopping cart enters an access area closer to the basket placing table than a predetermined range. A second detecting unit detects presence or absence of the shopping cart stopped along one side of the counter base. A control unit controls to drive, when the first detecting unit detects entrance of the shopping cart into the access area, the driving unit to move the basket placing table to a lowered position and, thereafter, controls to drive, when the second detecting unit does not detect the shopping cart stopped along the counter base, the driving unit to return the basket placing table to a raised position.
US08037969B2
A system for improving the efficiency of drive-through delivery systems is provided. The system can provide complete error tracking and feedback; however, partial or no error tracking and/or feedback can be provided if desired. Errors in order fulfillment can be reduced. Detailed information on product weight and delivery timing can be provided. By analyzing the weight distributions of each food item or any other suitable measurements, production quality and consistency may be monitored. By analyzing the delivery times for each food item type or any other suitable measurements, production efficiency and restaurant work flow may be measured.
US08037963B2
An engine room is divided into a left room and a right room by a cooling unit. An intake chamber is disposed at a left side and an engine and the like are disposed at a right side. A cooling heat sink is provided on a side of the intake chamber, and a storage and a controller for controlling hybrid electronic devices are formed in this order in a cooling heat sink. Further, a cooling pump for supplying cooling liquid to the cooling heat sink is provided in the intake chamber. A radiator for cooling the cooling liquid is provided in front of the cooling unit.
US08037956B2
A vehicle is described that can efficiently cool or heat a group of components, in view of appropriate operating temperature ranges of respective components configuring a fuel cell power supply system, while realizing saving of a mounting space in the vehicle and cost of the vehicle. The vehicle mounted with a fuel cell power supply system includes at least a fuel cell, and an accumulating unit includes a capacitor and a secondary battery connected to the fuel cell. A motor serves as a power source for the vehicle to which output sections of the fuel cell and the accumulating unit are connected. A PDU provided between the output sections and the motor. A component group of the power supply system, including the fuel cell, the accumulating unit, and the PDU, is cooled by a cooling medium which flows inside the vehicle, in order from one having a lowest heating generation amount.
US08037953B2
A wheelchair includes a frame, a chair, a pair of drive wheels, a pair of rear wheels, and a pair of from wheels. Each front wheel is part of a front arm assembly that is rigidly coupled to a drive via a mounting plate. The mounting plate is connected to the wheelchair frame by a pivot. The drives are transversely mounted. The batteries are disposed rearward of the drives. The wheelchair seat can be moved forward to provide access to the batteries without fully removing the wheelchair from the frame. Or the wheelchair may provide side access to the batteries and the wheelchair may be fixed.
US08037944B2
Fastening device for coupling ploughing elements in agricultural cultivation machines, the ploughing elements including ploughshares, points, blades or any similar type of tool, the fastening device including an intermediate fastening element, formed by a solid body, which joins the ploughing element to the support arm; the intermediate fastening element being equipped with a fastening arrangement for linking thereof to the support arm; a guiding arrangement for insertion of the former inside the ploughing element; and an aperture, passable transversely with respect to the direction of the guiding arrangement and intended for insertion of a retractable pin which, in an insertion position for the pin, acts as a retaining element for the ploughing element with respect to the intermediate fastening element such that the fastening device enables the user/operator to manually replace or reposition the ploughing element, avoiding any need for accessory tools for this purpose.
US08037941B2
A dual packer for at least partially defining a production zone in a wellbore, the dual packer including a packer body having an up-hole side and a down-hole side. A first through bore and a second through bore each extend through the packer body from the up-hole side to the down-hole side. A first piping extends from the down-hole side of the first through bore and includes a perforated sub adjacent the down-hole side of the packer body. A second piping extends from the down-hole side of the second through bore and is communicably connected to the first piping down-hole of the first perforated sub.
US08037938B2
A completion system including a packer disposed in a wellbore and a tubular string having a bore therethrough configured to land into the packer. The tubular string includes an alignment sub, a seal assembly disposed below the alignment sub and having at least two longitudinal bores disposed through the seal assembly and offset from the bore of the tubular string. The tubular string also includes a sleeve sub disposed below the seal assembly, wherein the sleeve sub allows fluid communication between a bore of the tubular string and an annulus formed between the tubular string and the wellbore. The tubular string also includes at least two control lines operatively connected to the sleeve sub, wherein the at least two control lines are run through he at least two longitudinal bores of the seal assembly.
US08037934B2
An apparatus for use in deployment of downhole tools is disclosed. Preferably, the apparatus includes at least an in-ground well casing, a housing providing a hermetically sealed electronics compartment, a tool attachment portion, and a first flow through core. The housing is preferably configured for sliding communication with the well casing. The hermetically sealed electronics compartment secures a processor and a location sensing system, which communicates with the processor while interacting exclusively with features of the well casing to determine the location of the housing within the well casing. A preferred embodiment further includes a well plug affixed to the tool attachment portion, the well plug includes a second flow through core capped with a core plug with a core plug release mechanism, which upon activation provides separation between the second flow through core and the core plug, allowing material to flow through said first and second flow through cores.
US08037932B2
A pipe handling assembly includes a pipe engaging apparatus having a pipe gripping mechanism connectable to a top drive such that the top drive transmits rotational movement and axial movement to the pipe gripping mechanism. A pipe handling device is mounted onto the pipe engaging apparatus, the pipe handling device including a link hanger mounted on the pipe engaging apparatus. A link arm has a first end pivotally connectable to the link hanger and an outboard end selected to carry a pipe into a position to be gripped by the pipe engaging apparatus. A bearing isolates rotational movement to the pipe gripping mechanism from the link hanger. A connection rigidly connects the link hanger to the pipe engaging apparatus during operation of the pipe handling assembly. The connection is selected to substantially prevent the link hanger from rotating with the pipe gripping mechanism should the bearing seize.
US08037929B2
An evaporator includes plural refrigerant flow members and corrugate fins disposed in corresponding air-passing clearances between the adjacent refrigerant flow members. Each refrigerant flow member includes plural flat tubes arranged in the front-rear direction. Each corrugate fin extends across all the flat tubes. A vertically extending drain portion is formed between the flat tubes adjacent each other in the front-rear direction. At each connection portion of the corrugate fin, a louver group including plural louvers inclining downward toward the front is provided to correspond to a front portion of each flat tube. At least the front-end louver of the louver group provided to correspond to the front portion of each flat tube except for the flat tube at the front end is located in the drain portion.
US08037920B2
A retractable rigid window awning includes a number of U-shaped panels pivotally attached to a building on the sides of a window. In the retracted position, the panels are disposed above the window, in tiers. Each panel has a pair of actuators that enable its extension and retraction. Each actuator is attached to the panel at one end and to a movable nut at the other end via articulated joints. The nuts are installed on a driving screw attached to the building. The awning is extended by rotating the screw, which causes the nuts to travel along the screw. The actuators push their respective panels out and tilt them down. Depending on the length of actuators, panels travel different distances from the building creating a continuous shade over the window. The awning is retracted by rotating the screw in the opposite direction.
US08037919B2
A double-sided adhesive tape dispenser available for diverse width includes a main body and a winding mechanism installed inside the main body. The winding mechanism has a driving gear and a recycling gear fitted with a recycling wheel. The driving gear and the recycling gear are respectively mounted with a first adjusting member and a second adjusting member that have a certain height. A tape disk is fitted on the first adjusting member. With or without the first adjusting member and the second adjusting member, adhesive tapes with diverse widths can be applied by the adhesive tape dispenser of the invention without using an additional conventional adhesive tape dispenser.
US08037916B2
A tire labeling system (10) for printing a label (L) and applying the label (L) on a surface of a tire (T). A printer (12) is provided to print the label and an applicator (20) is provided to transfer the label (L) from the printer (12) to the tire (T) and apply the label (L) to the tire (T).
US08037909B2
Pneumatic radial tires are described having belt layers deposited under a tread and a ring-shaped water-splash control rib (100) formed on the sidewall (20), wherein the upper profile Lb of the rib is positioned above a continuation line (Ca) which extends along an average profile of an outmost belt layer and which is divided in to upper and lower profile of the outmost belt layer, the rib comprising drainage grooves or drainage protuberances in the upper profile of the rib, the height h of the rib is 0.085-0.115 times the width TW of the tread (0.085TW≦h≦0.115TW).
US08037897B2
A valve apparatus that has a longitudinal axis therethrough comprises a valve seat member, a valve closure member, a fluid flow path, and a resilient valve insert member. The valve seat member comprises a hollow bore and a first frustoconical contact surface that has an inner perimeter and an outer perimeter. The valve closure member comprises a valve body and a second frustoconical contact surface that is adapted to seal against the first frustoconical contact surface in a strike face area. The valve closure member is movable along the longitudinal axis of the valve apparatus. The fluid flow path extends through the bore of the valve seat member and between the valve seat member and the valve closure member. This fluid flow path is closed when the second frustoconical contact surface is sealed against the first frustoconical contact surface.
US08037895B2
The present disclosure provides a fluid clip for use with a coolant system for electrosurgical procedures. The fluid clip includes a clip housing having proximal and distal ends and a channel defined therethrough. The channel is dimensioned to receive tubing for carrying a cooling fluid from a cooling source. The fluid clip includes a luer that includes a passageway defined therethrough. The passageway is dimensioned to securely receive the tubing such that the tubing extends through the luer for reception within the channel defined in the clip housing. The luer includes one or more interface on a surface thereof that matingly engages a corresponding interface on the clip housing. The interface on the luer cooperates with the interface on the clip housing to limit rotation of the tubing.
US08037890B2
A substrate cleaning device and a substrate cleaning method reduces liquid drops remaining on a substrate to prevent the irregular heating of the substrate by a heating process due to liquid drops or water marks remaining on the substrate. A cleaning liquid is poured through a cleaning liquid pouring nozzle onto the surface of a substrate such that a region onto which the cleaning liquid is poured moves from a central part toward the circumference of the substrate. A gas is jetted radially outward at a region on the surface of the substrate behind a region onto which the cleaning liquid is poured with respect to the rotating direction of the substrate. The gas forces a liquid film of the cleaning liquid flowing on the surface of the substrate to flow in a circumferential direction and a radially outward direction.
US08037888B2
Disclosed herein is a reconfigurable smoking pipe and a method of using the same for single handed operation. The reconfigurable smoking pipe comprises a base unit, a lighter holder, a bowl, a smoke chamber, a carburetor, a mouthpiece, and a plug. The base unit comprises multiple ports. The lighter holder is attached to the base unit. Each of the bowl, the smoke chamber, the carburetor, and the plug are detachably attached to any one of the ports of the base unit. A mouthpiece is detachably attached to anterior end of the smoke chamber. A user assembles the reconfigurable smoking pipe and inserts a lighter into the lighter holder. The user holds the reconfigurable smoking pipe in a smoking position using a single hand by gripping the inserted lighter and lights a smoking substance held in the bowl by operating the gripped lighter using the single hand.
US08037887B2
A cigarette-making machine of the tobacco-injecting type is provided that includes a tamper-holding mechanism. In one aspect, the tamper-holding mechanism provides for positively holding the tamper in its fully-retracted position. The tamper-holding mechanism includes a tamper-engaging member with a tamper-engaging portion and a bias. The side of the tamper includes a shoulder or projection that releasably interference couples with the tamper-engaging portion. In a first embodiment, the tamper-holding mechanism includes a tamper-engaging portion with a generally triangular-shaped body having a vertex that is urged against the side to releasably interference couple with the shoulder or projection on the side of the tamper. In another embodiment, the tamper-holding mechanism includes a tamper-engaging portion with a generally pentagonal-shaped body which is retained by a generally square U-shaped or C-shaped retaining portion that biases a vertex of the tamper-engaging portion to contact the side of the tamper.
US08037886B2
The present invention provides a system for treating a mammalian patient having obstructive sleep disordered breathing, e.g., sleep apnea. The system has a set of appliances including a first appliance being adapted to displace a mandible of the patient by a first predetermined geometry relative to a maxilla of the patient. The set also includes at least a second appliance adapted to displace the mandible of the patient by a second predetermined geometry relative to the maxilla of the patient. In a specific embodiment, the first predetermined geometry is substantially different from the second predetermined geometry. Preferably, either one of the first appliance or at least the second appliance is worn by the patient based upon a predetermined treatment plan that includes one or more provisions for wearing at least the first and the second appliances.
US08037869B2
The injector comprises a balanced metering servovalve for controlling a rod for opening/closing a nebulizer. The servovalve has a valve body having a control chamber provided with an outlet passage that is opened/closed by an axially mobile open/close element. The open/close element is made of a single piece with a bushing separate from an armature plate of an electromagnet. The bushing is coupled to a stem in an axially slidable way for closing an exhaust duct in communication with the outlet passage The open/close element is kept in a closed position by a spring that acts upon the bushing through an intermediate body connected thereto. The armature plate can be displaced with respect to the bushing between a flange of the intermediate body and a shoulder of the bushing, for eliminating the rebounds of the open/close element upon closing of the servovalve.
US08037868B2
A fuel injection system includes a fuel supply rail having a supply opening. A fuel injector is coupled to the fuel supply rail and configured to control the delivery of fuel from the fuel supply rail through the supply opening. A noise filtering device engages an upstream end of the fuel injector. The noise filtering device has a projecting portion extending at least partially into the supply opening along an axis, and the noise filtering device defines a restriction passage for directing fuel from the supply rail into the fuel injector. A face seal is established at a transverse face adjacent the supply opening.
US08037858B2
A method for controlling the start-up phase of a motor vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine (12) wherein the internal combustion engines (12) is started by an electrical machine (16) that can be operated as a motor, a preferably automatically atuatable clutch (50) being located in the drive train (11) between the internal combustion engine (12) and the electrical machine (16). A faster start-up response can be achieved if the internal combustion engine (12) is driven by the electrical machine (16) when the clutch (50) is engaged during start-up, and if the clutch capacitance (MK) is reduced according to a defined parameter, preferably the engine speed, the time or the torque (ME) of the electrical machine (16) or similar.
US08037857B2
A hydraulic support element for a switchable cam follower of a valve drive of an internal combustion engine, which has a pot-like housing with a bore, a pressure piston formed in one piece with an external casing and head projecting over an edge of the housing and a high pressure space for a hydraulic medium. The high pressure space is supplied, via a non-return valve from a first reservoir space, which is fed via first passages in the housing and pressure piston. A second reservoir space is formed in the pressure piston axially above the first reservoir space and is filled by second passages in the housing and pressure piston. From the second reservoir space a hydraulic medium is conducted to the cam follower via an opening in the head. The reservoir spaces are separated by a ball around which the internal wall of the pressure piston is wrapped.
US08037852B2
Methods of operating an internal combustion engine are disclosed that may include a first piston slidably disposed in a first cylinder having a first and a second closed end, and a first converter operable with the first cylinder. The first converter may be configured to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy, and vice versa. As a non-limiting example, such disclosed embodiments may be used to convert mechanical energy of the first piston to electrical energy during a power stroke, and to drive the first piston during one or more of an exhaust stroke, an intake stroke, or a compression stroke.
US08037851B2
A heat accumulator (1) is formed by connecting a first container (4) and a second container (5) using a spring (6). The first container (4) has a wall-shaped inner side wall that corresponds to the shape of a cylinder bore wall (7). Provided on this inner side wall is a flexible structural part (8). The flexible structural part (8) is formed of highly elastic resin. The second container (5) has a similar structure. A heat storage medium within the first container (4) and the second container (5) absorbs heat, which generates a change of phase from a solid to a liquid. When this happens, the volume of the heat storage medium increases. The increase in the heat storage medium projects the flexible structural part (8), and separates the first container (4) and the second container (5) from the cylinder bore wall (7).
US08037846B2
Embodiments of a method and system are described for tracking and managing animals and/or food products. Identification data and location data for animals is entered into a computer system. A data service provider may collect this data and transmitted it to a data trustee. The data trustee may filter the data into official and non-official data, and send official data to an official database. When a public health issue arises, the government may use an identifier for a diseased animal or a location identifier to request a trace report from the data trustee. The data trustee may then use the official data to provide a report showing, for example, which animals have commingled with the diseased animal. Based on this report, other animals can be treated, quarantined, or slaughtered. The disclosed embodiments also may be used to facilitate commercial transactions by providing data that validates an animal's health and food quality.
US08037844B2
Control method and apparatus for a manual spray gun includes display that is disposed on the spray gun and that provides information to an operator about one or more coating operation parameters. An auxiliary trigger may be used that enables an operator to make selections or changes of one or more coating operation parameters. The display and auxiliary trigger together permit an operator to make selections or changes without having to divert attention or field of view away from the spray gun or the coating area, especially during a coating operation. The display may include numeric information, for example, data relating to a coating function being displayed.
US08037842B2
An ink mixed with spacer members is ejected onto one or both of a TFT substrate and a CF substrate while an ink jet head having a plurality of ink jet nozzles is moved. The excursions of a predetermined number of ink jet nozzles from an end of the ink jet head overlap those of a next excursion of the ink jet head without causing overlapping of ejected ink within the overlapping area. An abrupt stepwise change in the amount of ejected ink is suppressed whereby an uneven gap is suppressed.
US08037832B2
A meeting table (1), below its horizontal top (7) which forms a working area, has a container (10) housing a system (2) for remote conferences, in particular for telepresence or videoconference meetings; inside the perimeter of the top (7), at least one video screen (12) of the system (2) for remote conferences can move between a first, raised position, in which it rises up from the working area, and a second, lowered position, in which it is housed in a retracted fashion below the working area, in particular inside the container (10).
US08037827B2
A fuze for a projectile has a firing assembly for firing a main charge of the projectile and a delay detonator for firing the firing assembly after a delay time which is defined by a burning distance of a delay charge. The delay detonator has a housing with a fuze half in which it is fired and a detonator half which contains a detonator charge for firing the firing assembly. In order to prevent the projectile from misfiring as a result of premature detonation of the delay detonator, the housing has a relief opening in the fuze half, with an opening cross section that can be passed through freely in the firing state of the delay detonator.
US08037826B2
An escapement fuze self-destruct mechanism for a projectile includes a drive weight that maintains a biasing member in a compressed state by centrifugal force when a projectile's RPM speed is above a preselected threshold. When the RPM speed falls below the preselected threshold, the biasing member exerts sufficient counter-rotational force to overcome the centrifugal force exerted by the drive weight. The biasing member expands to an uncompressed state and displaces the drive weight into position for mechanically implementing self-destruction of the projectile if a rotor is fully armed or for rendering the projectile “safe” if the rotor is in any position other then fully armed.
US08037825B2
The invention relates to a primer element, in particular for ammunition or similar, comprising at least one primer composition that has at least one sleeve acting as the housing for the primer element, at least one contact pin and a mass contact. Multiple wires, (at least two) are used, one end of said wires being connected to the contact pin and the other end of said wires to the mass contact. The multiple wires are embedded in the primer composition(s).
US08037823B2
A pyrotechnically powered actuator having a bellows that provides a force and stroke upon initiation is disclosed. The actuator includes a housing body with a first end and a second end. The bellows is coupled to the first end of the housing body. A cover is coupled to the second end of the housing body. An initiator is located within the housing body and includes a pyrotechnic material and a bridge element. The housing body, the bellows, and the cover define a hermetically sealed chamber. The bellows is compact, lightweight, and can withstand internal and external pressure at least as high as 3,000 psi. An exemplary embodiment includes a housing body that provides a compartment for adding supplemental pyrotechnic material. Further exemplary embodiments of the actuator include a chip initiator that requires less than 1 amp to function in less than 10 milliseconds.
US08037820B2
A decorative, wood fire-rated door with a graphic or image imprinted or applied to a front or rear face on the door that does not change or impact the door's overall fire-rating. With the use of flatbed or ultraviolet ink printing press machinery, a fine art quality image that utilizes six various colored ultraviolet inks can be applied directly onto the door face used on a fire-rated door. Alternatively, the photographic files can also be produced onto an adhesive backed graphic panel with a protective laminated layer that can be applied directly onto the door surface.
US08037816B2
A measurement field allows determining the smearing limit during printing, in particular during lithographic wet offset printing. The measurement field is arranged on a printing form, in particular a printing plate, which has printing, ink-carrying regions and nonprinting, dampening solution-carrying regions on its surface. A dampening solution-carrying property in the region of the measurement field is reduced by a nanoscopic coating (e.g., with amphiphilic molecules) or an unscreened, microscopic coating (e.g., a polymer coating) in comparison with the dampening solution-carrying property in the nonprinting regions of the surface of the printing form. The nanoscopic coating or the microscopic coating advantageously leads to a shifting of the smearing limit, that is to say to a displacement of the starting point of scumming, by the dampening solution requirement which is increased for scum-free printing within the region of the measurement field. Such a measurement field is thus advantageously used for the closed-loop control of a dampening solution supply.
US08037815B2
The invention concerns a marking device comprising a support frame, marking means including a marking member and means for moving the marking member parallel to two mutually perpendicular movement planes and to the surface to be marked to produce, on the surface to be marked, two-dimensional symbols inscribed in a marking window. The invention is characterized in that it comprises means for compensating, at least partly, the influence of the rotation over the distance between the marking member and the marking point of the surface to be marked.
US08037806B2
A rifle with an upper receiver and a barrel attached to the upper receiver and including a bolt carrier, and operating, buffer, and cooling systems. The operating system includes a cylinder and a piston coupled to receive propelling gases from the barrel. As the piston moves between retracted and extended positions the bolt carrier is moved between closed and open positions. The bolt carrier includes a weight movable within a guide frame between rearward and forward limits. The buffer system includes a compression spring in a tube attached to the upper receiver in abutting engagement with the bolt carrier. A partially fluid filled cylinder is attached to a coil of the spring and includes a piston and shaft. The piston is formed so that fluid in the cylinder restricts movement in one direction and allows free movement in a second direction.
US08037803B2
This invention is a novel system for blast protection. It consists of lightweight, sectional or continuous barriers made of a novel blast resistant fiber reinforced polymer resin matrix composite, which may be fabricated on site. The barriers are lightweight and thin enough that they may be used in many spaces where barriers made from conventional construction materials are impossible, impractical, or undesirable. The novel barriers of this invention have the additional advantage of allowing for aesthetically appealing and architecturally harmonious designs. In order to minimize weight, the barriers may be designed such that the cross section varies with height, providing adequate resistance in areas of high blast loading, but allowing for thinner cross sections in regions of lowering load.
US08037801B2
A link separation device for an ammunition belt, said belt exiting a weapon after firing via an opening and in which an assembly of links (M1, M2) are mounted able to pivot angularly with respect to one another, each of said links incorporating two lateral stirrups and one median stirrup, said median stirrup of a first link (M1) of said links being able to pivot in grooves in said lateral stirrups of a second link (M2) of said links, a relative pivoting position of said first link (M1) with respect to said second link (M2) following said first link (M1) enabling said first link (M1) to be unhooked, said links additionally being positioned with respect to said device in a position such that the pivoting ensuring the unlocking and the unhooking of said first link (M1) can be made naturally by the action of gravity exerted on said first link (M1), wherein said device incorporates means to ensure said first link (M1) rocks over as well as means to guide and means to support said second link (M2) following as said first link (M1) is rocking over.
US08037793B2
A stripper plate mounting apparatus is for mounting a stripper plate (21) in a detachable and replaceable manner on a front end portion of a punch guide (5) into which a punch (17) is fitted movably upward and downward. The apparatus includes: an adaptor (35), for holding the stripper plate (21), detachably provided in a front end portion of the punch guide (5); and lock mechanisms (43), capable of fixing the adaptor (35) to the punch guide (5), provided in multiple locations on the outer periphery of the front end portion thereof. The lock mechanisms (43) each include: a lock piece (53) which is always biased outward in a radial direction by biasing means, and which is engageable with, and detachable from, the lock part (41); and a lock-holding piece (63) for locking and holding the lock piece (53) to an inward position when the lock piece (53) is pressed and moved inward in the radial direction.
US08037792B2
A device for mounting a cover of a cutting blade to a riving knife may have an engaging member for releasably engaging at least a part of the riving knife from both sides, in a direction of thickness of the riving knife. The engaging member is manually operable without any additional tools. A device for mounting a riving knife to a table saw may include a manually operable lock member and a biasing member. The biasing member is arranged and constructed to normally bias the lock member towards a lock position. The riving knife may be divided into a first knife portion and a second knife portion. A positioning device may position the first knife portion and the second knife portion substantially within a single plate.
US08037791B2
A tool clamping device having a tool holder (2) holding a tool (7, 8) for insertion into a socket of a tool support (1), such as a turret disc is designed such that a receiving body (16) of the tool holder and the tool support (1) have bearing surfaces (16, 3) to be arranged to one another and devices (14, 15) for fastening the tool holder on the tool support. The receiving body or the tool support has at least one stopping means (28), which projects axially over its bearing surface and is disposed on one side of the receiving body or tool support. The tool support or the receiving body has at least one contact surface for the stopping means. There is provided elastic means (36, 44) by means of which the stopping means can be laterally held in place on the contact surface under prestress.
US08037790B2
A torque wrench is provided that includes a handle in which is disposed a torque limiting mechanism and a torque indicator engaged with the torque limiting mechanism. The torque limiting mechanism functions to limit the maximum torque that can be transmitted by an individual through the tool, while the indicator provides a visible indication to the individual when a specified amount of torque is being provided through the tool that is less than the amount which causes the torque limiting mechanism to operate.
US08037789B2
A drywall anchor installation device comprising, inter alia, a main driver member configured to engage a Philips head screw top, a plunger member configured to engage a Philips head screw top, and a plunger member guiding mechanism including a compression spring and a guide pin. In operation, the main driver member engages a drywall anchor at the Philips head indentation and the plunger member extends inside the axial bore of the anchor until contacting the interior surface of the axial bore or the closed end of the anchor. Once contact is made with the closed end of the anchor, the compression spring of the plunger guiding mechanism is engaged, stabilizing the anchor as the anchor is driven into the wall. Once the anchor is driven into the wall, the plunger member is used to drive the anchor screw without having to adjust the driving device.
US08037779B2
A speed change control device for a transmission of an internal combustion engine includes a driving means having an electric motor for rotatably driving a shift drum. The electric motor has a rotation axis orthogonal to an axis of a shift drum. A barrel cam having a cam groove rotates about an axis parallel to that of the electric motor. A transmission rotation member is interlocked and is coupled to the shift drum so as to be rotatable about the axis orthogonal to the rotation axis of the barrel cam. The transmission rotation member is provided with a plurality of engagement pins that selectively engages the cam groove. The resulting configuration allows the electric motor to be disposed inwardly with respect to an outermost side of the body of the internal combustion engine in the direction of the axis of a shift drum and improves the shift accuracy.
US08037777B2
A microbearing device includes at least one inner bearing structure, at least one outer bearing structure, and one or more fasteners. Each of the one or more fasteners is connected between the inner bearing structure and the outer bearing structure and the inner bearing structure is substantially elastic.
US08037776B2
The invention relates to a gear brake device for a multi-speed manual transmission (2), comprising a gear brake (16) that is arranged outside the transmission housing, that is led out of the transmission housing, and which has a power take-off shaft that is drive-connected or can be drive-connected with an input side gear shaft arrangement, said gear brake performing a synchronization function during up-shifting of the transmission in the known manner. According to the present invention, at least one PTO connection (20) with a drive connection to the power take-off shaft (12) is arranged downstream of the gear brake (16), so that the power take-off shaft (12) is also available for a PTO function.
US08037770B2
A pressure-sensing module includes a housing having a process-fluid port configured to be coupled to a process-fluid-flow circuit. The housing defines a first chamber into which the process fluid can flow through the process-fluid port. An isolator assembly is disposed within the housing and includes a fill port. The isolator assembly is configured to define a second chamber into which pressure-coupling fluid may be injected through the fill port. An electronic circuit is disposed within the second chamber and is configured to be pressure coupled by the coupling fluid and isolator assembly to the flow circuit. A plug having first and second ends occupies the fill port thereby sealing the second chamber. The first end is exposed to the process fluid in the first chamber, and the second end is exposed to the coupling fluid in the second chamber.
US08037763B2
A rail section weld inspection device [1000] is described for inspecting a rail [10] for internal defects [19,21]. A central ultrasonic (US) probe [1330] transmits at least one US beam [B] through the rail [10] and receiving a reflected signal. At least one angled US probe [1310] transmits at least one US beam [A1-A5] through the rail [10] at an oblique angle at least partially covering the same region as the central probe [1330]. An encoder identifies the location of the US probes [1330] and [1310] along the rail [10] and pairs the locations of the probes with the signals received. The Calculation device [1500] receives the signals from the US probes and uses their different views to create an image of the flaws within the rail [10].
US08037760B2
An inertial sensor includes an oscillator that is supported by an elastic supporting member such that the oscillator is floating relative to a base and the oscillator is displaceable along a single axis, and a displacement detection unit detecting a displacement of the oscillator. The oscillation of the oscillator is a simple harmonic motion along a Z axis. An X axis, a Y axis, and the Z axis, serving as reference axes of an oscillation coordinate system for the oscillator, are shifted to provide x, y, and z axes, serving as new reference axes. Position coordinates of the oscillator of the x, y, and z axes are determined in at least two points during one period of the oscillator. A difference vector (Δx, Δy, Δz) is calculated on the basis of the determined position coordinates. An angular velocity or an acceleration is obtained using the difference vector.
US08037757B2
Parametric amplification of the output of a MEMS gyroscope is achieved by modulating the sense capacitance, or an auxiliary capacitance having an applied DC voltage. The capacitance modulation is produced by the driven motion of the gyroscope mechanism, so the pump signal of the parametric amplifier is not subject to phase errors in the electronics. The capacitance modulation affects the mechanical gain of the sensor (transfer function from input force to sensor mechanism displacement), as well as the electrical gain of the sensor (transfer function from sensor mechanism displacement to output electrical signal). The mechanical and electrical gains of the sensor become phase-dependent, so the Coriolis rate signal can be amplified while the unwanted quadrature-phase signal is attenuated.
US08037753B2
A system for providing different versions of a modularly structured apparatus for determining a physical process quantity, wherein at least two devices to be generated from the system are based on different measuring principles, including a number sensor units (41-48), each sensor unit being designed for detecting a determined physical measuring quantity and for converting said measuring quantity into an electrical measuring signal, wherein at least two of the sensor units are distinguished from each other by their underlying measuring principles; at least one evaluation unit (10), adapted to connect to the sensor units, for evaluating and generating a process quantity signal representing the physical process quantity from the measuring signal of a sensor unit; at least one output unit (13) for outputting the process quantity signal; at least one voltage supply unit (16); and at least one housing unit (22-24) configured to accommodate at least the evaluation unit.
US08037750B2
In an icing condition detection system, a circuit provides an output representing impending icing conditions as a function of power consumption of a single element detector. A thermal isolation pedestal includes a detector support end that supports the single element detector and an opposite strut mounting end. A thermal isolation controller controls a thermal isolation pedestal temperature to thermally isolate the single element detector from a strut mounting end.
US08037742B2
An engine system includes a status determination module and an open-loop fuel control module. The status determination module determines whether a first ignition fuse is in a failure state. The open-loop fuel control module disables a first plurality of fuel injectors and actuates a second plurality of fuel injectors based on a first air/fuel (A/F) ratio when the first ignition fuse is in the failure state, wherein the first ignition fuse and the first plurality of fuel injectors correspond to a first cylinder bank, and wherein a second ignition fuse and the second plurality of fuel injectors correspond to a second cylinder bank.
US08037738B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate methods and devices for measuring flow rate of particulate matter within an exhaust gas stream. In one particular exemplary embodiment, a sensor for detecting and monitoring particulate matter within an exhaust flow path of an engine is provided. The sensor includes a housing having an attachment for mounting the sensor. The sensor also includes a sensing rod supported by an insulating base. The sensing rod is attached to the housing and includes a probe adapted to be placed within the exhaust flow path. The probe includes a section having an increased surface area per unit length as compared to at least one other section of the probe. The sensing rod is configured to detect particulate matter flowing through the exhaust component and generates a signal based thereupon. The sensor further includes an electrical connector in communication with the sensing rod. The electrical connector is configured to transmit the signal generated by the sensing rod to a controller.
US08037729B2
A finishing monoblock for a billet lamination plant of the type comprises a plurality of lamination cages (G1Gn) arranged in sequence suitable for forming a lamination line and actuated by a pair of mechanical transmissions (22, 22′) actuated through at least one command reducer (23) for the lamination of the billet. According to the invention, said monoblock comprises at least one first module (M1) and a second module (M2′, M2″), of which at least one is disengageable from the lamination line through a pair of detachable joints (40).
US08037728B2
This apparatus for producing a bottle can includes a die-ring 22 for holding bottom of a closed-end cylindrical body W, and a tool holding part disposed opposite an opening part of the closed-end cylindrical body W, having plural processing tools 32 for shaping the closed-end cylindrical body W into various forms, the die-ring 22 and the tool holding part being held so that each of them can rotate relatively and move in the direction of a center line of the closed-end cylindrical body W relatively to each other, each of the processing tools shaping the closed-end cylindrical body into various forms to produce a bottle can, further including: a regulating means 110 for regulating forward movement of each of the processing tools 32 or the die-ring 22 to prevent the space between each of the processing tools 32 and the die-ring 22 at the forward end of the tool holding part or the die-ring, from lessening to be not more than a predetermined value.
US08037718B2
Method for manufacturing an optical fiber perform, which forms a glass fine particle deposition portion composed of glass fine particles on a glass rod, and suspends the glass fine particle deposition vertically into a heating furnace to heat, and transparentize, the glass fine particle deposition. The method comprises the following steps: forming a hazy portion before heating, by causing a surface portion of the glass rod to sublime and adhere to at least a portion of a region closer to one end of the glass rod than a region of the glass rod where the deposition portion is formed; forming the deposition portion by depositing the glass fine particles on the glass rod; and transparentizing the deposition portion by heating the glass fine particle deposition in a state where the proximal end of the glass rod where the hazy portion is formed is suspended vertically into the heating furnace.
US08037716B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling the stress in, and the shape of, the glass ribbon (15) formed in a downdraw glass manufacturing process (e.g., the fusion downdraw process) are provided. In certain embodiments, the control is achieved by cooling the bead portions (21a, 21b) of the ribbon (15) at a rate which provides a heat flux Q″b at the thickest part of the bead (23a, 23b) which is given by Q″b=Q″q+ΔQ″, where (i) Q″q is the heat flux at a transverse position adjacent to the bead portion (21a, 21b) at which the ribbon's thickness equals 1.05*tcenter, where tcenter is the final thickness at the ribbon's center line (17), and (ii) ΔQ″≧(tb/tq−1)Q″q+10 kilowatts/meter2, where tb is the thickness of the thickest part of the bead portion. The cooling can take place along the entire length of the ribbon (15) or at selected locations, e.g., in the portion (50) of the draw which includes the glass transition temperature region (31) or the portion (60) of the draw where individual glass sheets (13) are cut from the ribbon (15).
US08037707B2
An air conditioner is provided. The air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a base pan constituting a lower appearance: and a condensed water detector detecting the amount of condensed water collected on the base pan. The air conditioner according to another embodiment of the present invention includes: a base pan constituting a lower appearance; a blower unit provided at one side of the base pan to guide a flow of air; and a motor providing a fan with a rotational power, wherein a motor support supporting the motor is further installed on the base pan.
US08037706B2
A refrigeration device, in particular a no-frost device, refrigerator and/or freezer, comprising a thermally insulating housing containing at least one product storage compartment that can be supplied with cold air by a fan and an evaporator chamber that holds an evaporator. According to the invention, the evaporator chamber is thermally separated from the storage compartment by a partition. The device also comprises an electronic control system for controlling the refrigeration device and at least one light source for illuminating the storage compartment. The evaporator, the partition and the electronic control system and/or the evaporator, the partition and the light source are provided in the form of modules. The refrigeration device is characterized in that it is particularly reliable, works efficiently, can be cost-effectively produced and is easy to service.
US08037705B2
A termination for a superconductive cable (1) is provided, consisting of a pressure-tight metal inner container (2) in which there is a liquid refrigerant and into which the cable protrudes, and a metal outer container (3) which is separated from the inner container by an intermediate space (4) in which vacuum insulation is applied. A first rupture diaphragm (6) is applied in the wall of the inner container (2) and a second rupture diaphragm (7) is applied in the wall of the outer container (3) level with the first rupture diaphragm (6). An evacuated relief space (8), which contains superinsulation and is sealed from the intermediate space (4) with the vacuum insulation by a pressure-tight wall (9), is provided between the two rupture diaphragms (6, 7).
US08037702B2
To provide a multistage compressor including an injection circuit, which can continue high-efficiency and high-capacity operations even if the injection circuit is turned on/off in accordance with operating conditions. A multistage compressor includes a high stage side compressing mechanism suctioning the intermediate pressure refrigerant gas compressed with a low stage side compressing mechanism to perform two-stage compression, and an injection circuit for injecting an intermediate pressure refrigerant into the intermediate pressure refrigerant gas suctioned to the high stage side compressing mechanism, the high stage side compressing mechanism including a capacity control mechanism for bypassing a refrigerant gas that is being compressed to a suction side, the injection circuit including an on/off mechanism for performing on/off control of refrigerant injection, and the capacity control mechanism and the on/off mechanism being operated in conjunction with each other.
US08037701B2
A refrigerator includes a fresh food compartment, a freezer compartment and a refrigeration system. A duct, exposed to the freezer compartment, leads into the fresh food compartment. A damper is arranged within the duct to selectively allow the passage of cooling air into the fresh food compartment. The refrigerator also includes an air mixing fan arranged in the fresh food compartment, a freezer mounted ice maker, a user interface having a plurality of control elements and a controller operatively associated with the user interface. The controller includes a memory having stored therein a plurality of operating parameters for controlling various aspects or features of the refrigerator, including a temperature control mode, a super cool mode, a food saver mode and a quick ice mode, which can be synergistically combined to efficiently operate the refrigerator.
US08037700B2
An air conditioning system that comprises a controller that is in electrical communication with a compressor, a condenser fan, a temperature sensor that measures the temperature of the ambient air, a temperature sensor that measures the temperature of a condenser coil of the air conditioning system, and a low pressure switch (LPS) that measure the pressure of a refrigerant disposed within the air conditioning system. An algorithm resident on the controller controls the controller to enter a low ambient cooling mode when the temperature of the ambient air is less than a set temperature. The algorithm further controls the controller so that a minimum and/or maximum cycling frequency is imposed on the condenser fan. The algorithm further controls the controller so that the controller does not respond to an LPS trip during the early part of a cooling cycle under low outdoor temperature conditions, which might not accurately indicate a system fault, but still shuts down the compressor in response to an LPS trip under conditions that truly indicate a system fault.
US08037695B2
A fault current limiter comprising: an input node; an output node; a variable impedance element coupled between the input node and the output node; a closed loop cryocooler circuit, comprising a first cryocooler for cooling the variable impedance element and a second cryocooler, thermally coupled to the first cryocooler, for cooling the first coolant, wherein the variable impedance element comprises Magnesium Diboride.
US08037688B2
A method for controlling a temperature distribution within a combustor having a plurality of chamber sections comprising controlling a fuel-to-air ratio in the chamber sections. At least two chamber sections have different fuel-to-air ratios to create a non-uniform temperature distribution within the combustor to reduce thermoacoustic instabilities.
US08037682B2
The present invention discloses a method and device for suppressing vibration of boom of concrete pump truck, in which the boom cylinder is connected with the vibration suppression cylinder; the information about hydraulic pressure in the boom cylinder and/or about changing of concrete pumping direction is monitored by a pressure sensing unit in real time; the monitored information about hydraulic pressure and/or about changing of concrete pumping direction is transmitted to the control unit for vibration suppression cylinder; the control unit for vibration suppression cylinder analyzes and processes the monitored information and adjusts the volumes of the rod side chamber and the non-rod side chamber in the vibration suppression cylinder such that the vibration suppression cylinder may generate a pulsed vibration and the pulsed vibration at the end of the boom is less than or equal to the vibration amplitude caused by the intermittent concrete supply at the end of the boom in amplitude, with a phase difference of 180° between the two vibrations. The vibration suppression method and device for boom of concrete pump truck according to the present invention may be simply configured, easily implemented and operated to effectively suppress the boom vibration.
US08037680B2
A hydraulic control system for a swiveling construction machine includes at least one hydraulic travel motor, a first hydraulic actuation device, a second hydraulic actuation device and a hydraulic diverter valve assembly. The at least one hydraulic travel motor is configured to move the swiveling construction machine in a first travel speed and a second travel speed based on a variable pilot pressure signal. The first hydraulic actuation device is configured to actuate a first function of an implement. The second hydraulic actuation device is configured to actuate a second function of an implement. The hydraulic diverter valve assembly is configured to divert hydraulic power between the first hydraulic actuation device and the second hydraulic actuation device while maintaining operation of the at least one hydraulic travel motor in one of the first and the second speeds.
US08037679B2
A compressed-air energy storage system according to embodiments of the present invention comprises a reversible mechanism to compress and expand air, one or more compressed air storage tanks, a control system, one or more heat exchangers, and, in certain embodiments of the invention, a motor-generator. The reversible air compressor-expander uses mechanical power to compress air (when it is acting as a compressor) and converts the energy stored in compressed air to mechanical power (when it is acting as an expander). In certain embodiments, the compressor-expander comprises one or more stages, each stage consisting of pressure vessel (the “pressure cell”) partially filled with water or other liquid. In some embodiments, the pressure vessel communicates with one or more cylinder devices to exchange air and liquid with the cylinder chamber(s) thereof. Suitable valving allows air to enter and leave the pressure cell and cylinder device, if present, under electronic control.
US08037678B2
In various embodiments, pneumatic cylinder assemblies are coupled in series pneumatically, thereby reducing a range of force produced by or acting on the pneumatic cylinder assemblies during expansion or compression of a gas.
US08037670B2
A bi-directional converter between pressure and rotational force includes engaging rotation members that continue to rotate while being adjacent to each other without collision; the rotation members and an outer wall form an enclosed space; rotation shafts of the rotation members are mutually engaged by gear wheels; the rotation members are synchronized and rotate in opposite directions; the rotation members are rotated by a volume change of the enclosed space by application of pressure from outside; and the volume of the enclosed space is changed by rotational force to generate a pressure difference. The bi-directional converter includes an open-close mechanism opening and closing supply exhaust paths inside the rotation member and disposed to the rotation shaft or the outer wall according to a rotation angle.
US08037662B1
Method for providing shock absorbing packaging wherein fragile, dangerous, or otherwise valuable cargo can be shipped through normal or abnormal shipping routes while absorbing acceleration and deceleration shock forces which would otherwise damage such cargo.
US08037657B2
A joint for panels, the panels comprising a core, a decorative upper surface and edges provided with joining means for positioning the panels towards one another. Predetermined portions of the edges are provided with a layer of polymer. The panels are joined to one another by use of the joining means where the polymer forms a seal in the joint preventing penetration of water into the joint wherein a highly water resistant unit of a plurality of panels is formed.
US08037656B2
A hardwood floor system with press down locking mechanism. Each floor board is equipped with both male and female locking mechanisms. The male locking mechanism of a floor board can be locked into the female locking mechanism of an adjacent floor board by simply exerting downward force on the floor board. The female locking mechanism is equipped with a spring slot that enables easy engagement of male and female locking mechanisms. The invention may be applied not only floor boards, but also to wall tiles and roof tiles.
US08037649B2
A step assembly that is specifically adapted to assist pets in reaching and/or descending from elevated surfaces is provided. The step assembly has two sidewalls having a plurality of openings in which pegs formed on the sides of individual treads and risers are engaged. The pegs are removably insertable into the openings and include protrusions which create an interference fit upon insertion. Because the treads, risers and side walls are joined by interlocking pegs and openings, the step assembly can be flat packed for shipping, and is easily assembled and disassembled for transportation and/or cleaning.
US08037648B2
A polymeric interlocking tile for an adhesive-free assemblage with adjacent tiles having substantially similar, but inverted, edge interlocks thereon. The interlocks on each edge of a tile include a row of first and second sets of male-female types of alternating interlocks. The first interlock set includes a male lug projection having sidewalls forming one sidewall of a channel of U-shaped cross-section. The channel forms a female interlock cavity for the first set. The second interlock set is contiguous to the first set and includes a male projecting rib having two parallel sidewalls, one sidewall faces the edge and forms an opposite sidewall of the channel and an opposite, inwardly facing sidewall forms an enclosure for a second female cavity of the next set. At the opposite ends of each interlock row, the U-shaped channel sidewalls are wider to facilitate an initial interlock meshing between contiguous tiles of the assemblage.
US08037645B2
A trellis system is disclosed wherein the trellis comprises a front tube, a back tube, and two end tubes joined together, a plurality of roof panels, each panel having a perimeter, wherein the perimeter of the panel is coupled to at least a back tube surface and a front tube surface; a plurality of cross member assemblies wherein the cross member assemblies assist in creating tension between the front tube and the back tube, and a plurality of fasteners coupling the front tube to the end tubes, the back tube to the end tubes, and the roof panels to at least the front tube and the back tube, wherein the fasteners are not visible when the trellis system is installed. The trellis system also includes accent bands. A plurality of turnbuckles allows for easy leveling of the trellis.
US08037644B2
An arrangement for the cooling of computer data centers. More particularly, the arrangement eliminates the problems present in the uneven or inadequate cooling of computer racks due to unwanted airflows, which are encountered between so-called hot aisles and cold aisles present in a computer data center. Specifically, this problem is solved through the provision of partitions which, under normal circumstances, prevent the unwanted airflows by standing in a vertical orientation, yet which, in the event of a fire, collapse from the vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation, thereby avoiding interference with water sprays from sprinkler heads, and thus complying with fire codes and ordinances. Moreover, also employed is a method of preventing the unwanted air flows by utilization of the novel arrangement comprising the fire-code-compatible, collapsible partitions.
US08037639B2
In a door opening/closing device having a motor base and a sensor case, a rotation sensor is provided. The rotation sensor includes a magnetic member provided adjacent an end of a rotation shaft and a detecting element that is arranged so as to detect a magnetic flux that is generated from the magnetic member in a direction crossing a magnetic flux that is generated from an electromagnetic clutch arranged around the rotation shaft. The motor base is attached to the sensor case such that the end of the rotation shaft extends outside of the motor base and the rotation sensor is arranged adjacent the end of the rotation shaft.
US08037633B1
A handguard used on a firearm with a barrel nut having tines spaced about the outer periphery. The handguard includes a tubular body in which the inner surface adjacent the proximal end has a diameter larger than an outer diameter of the barrel nut and smaller than a diameter defined by the outer tips of the tines. Grooves are defined in the inner surface and extend longitudinally from the proximal end toward the distal end. The grooves are spaced apart around the periphery so as to correspond with the tines on the barrel nut. The body further has a circumferentially extending channel in the inner surface, spaced from the proximal end so as to receive the tines therein with the barrel nut in the tightened position to allow limited rotation of the body around the barrel relative to the barrel nut until the tines are aligned behind lands between the grooves.
US08037627B2
An iron comprising a water tank, a blast unit, a steam generating unit and a steam spraying unit. The blast unit has a first inlet and a first outlet, the first inlet is connected to the inlet-pipe of the inlet of the water tank, wherein the blast unit generates steam rapidly in a limited space. The steam generating unit has a second inlet and a second outlet, the second inlet being connected to the inlet-pipe of the inlet of the water tank, wherein the steam generating unit heats the water to generate steam. The steam spraying unit connects the first and second outlet, has plural steam apertures, and sprays steam. Because a blast unit is arranged for the rapid steam generation in a limited space, the iron of the present invention obviates the disadvantages in the existing irons and improves steam blast strength, intensity at a low cost.
US08037621B2
An article of footwear including a woven strap system is disclosed. The woven strap system preferably wraps along the entirety of the outsole, including a bottom side and an outer periphery. The article of footwear also includes a midsole that rests inside the woven strap system, just above the outsole.
US08037615B2
A process and a corresponding device for determining the alignment of two rotatable machine parts, the alignment of two hollow cylindrical machine parts or for testing a component for straightness along one lengthwise side, with a first measurement unit with a light source for emitting a light beam which has been expanded in one plane, and a second measurement unit with an optical detector unit which has two linear sensors which are arranged parallel to one another, and with an evaluation unit to evaluate a light pattern which has been produced by the two-dimensionally expanded light beam for determining the misalignment of the axes of the machine parts relative to one another, or optionally, the straightness of the component, by the determination the points of incidence of the two-dimensionally expanded light beam on the sensors.
US08037611B2
A powered rotary knife includes a handle, a blade housing, an annular blade, and a blade bushing for rotatably mounting the blade within the housing. The blade housing includes an inner groove that is operable to receive the blade bushing therein. The blade housing and blade bushing are split in order to expand and receive the blade. The blade includes an outer groove that is also operable to receive the blade bushing. Thus, the blade bushing is spaced between the blade housing and blade and rotatably secures the blade within the blade housing.
US08037610B2
A powered vinyl groover includes a motor attached to a circular blade and a blade housing for covering the circular blade. The blade housing includes a duct to carry cuttings into a collection bag. Near an inlet hole of the duct is a fin, which may be a raised surface on any interior wall of the blade housing extending into the blade housing as close as possible to the blade. The fin causes airflow from the blade to be redirected towards the inlet hole of the duct so that more cuttings enter the duct and are carried by the duct through to an outlet hole to a collection bag mountable over the outlet hole of the duct. The fin may be integral with the blade housing or attached to it, and a fin may also be added to existing groovers.
US08037604B2
A method is provided for manufacturing an ink jet recording head including a reservoir to which ink is supplied from outside, a pressure generating chamber leading to the reservoir, and a nozzle orifice leading to the pressure generating chamber. According to the method, the ink jet recoding head is fabricated by conducting semiconductor processes such as a film forming step, a photolithography step, an etching step and the like, on a single substrate. Thus, there is no need for multiple substrates or adhesives.
US08037592B2
A cassette changing device for a microtome has a housing having a loading opening, a transfer opening and an unloading opening. The openings are arranged with respect to each other linearly in the housing. A slide is disposed in the housing linearly movably between a first position and a second position and has a first receiving compartment and a second receiving compartment. The first and second compartments are aligned with respect to each other so that, in the first position of the slide, the first compartment and the second compartment are respectively aligned with a first two of the openings and, in the second position of the slide, the first compartment and the second compartment are respectively aligned with a second two of the openings.
US08037591B2
Surgical scissors devices are disclosed. The surgical scissors devices may comprise an end effector with first and second blade members. The first and second blade members may respectively comprise proximally positioned cams and distally positioned blade ends. Also, the first and second blade members may be coupled at a pivot point by a fastener held in tension along its longitudinal axis by the blade members. A reciprocating shuttle may comprise at least one pin positioned within slots defined by the respective cams of the blade members. Distally-directed motion of the shuttle may cause the first and second blade members to open and proximally-directed motion of the shuttle may cause the first and second blade members to close. Methods and apparatuses for forming the surgical scissors device are also disclosed.
US08037588B2
A back-up table for a chip mounter. The back-up table for a chip mounter includes a base plate, a back-up plate spaced a predetermined distance from the base plate to support a back-up pin that supports a printed circuit board, and at least one set of link units installed between the base plate and the back-up plate and facing opposite to each other. The back-up table further comprises a first driving part installed between the opposite facing link units and operating the link units to raise and lower the back-up plate, and a second driving part serially connected to the first driving part.
US08037587B1
A watercraft anode removal tool and method includes providing a zinc pencil that defines an anode inserted into a watercraft engine. A tool is provided for engaging the zinc pencil. The tool includes a cylinder having a first end, a second end and peripheral wall extending between the first and second ends. The first end has a well therein for receiving an end of the zinc pencil. The well is threaded and is threadably couplable to the zinc pencil. The cylinder is threadably coupled to the zinc pencil and the zinc pencil is pulled from the engine.
US08037584B2
A printed circuit board, a method of manufacturing the printed circuit board, and an apparatus for perforating via holes are disclosed. By use of a method of manufacturing a printed circuit board that includes forming a first circuit pattern, which includes a reference mark and a via land, on one surface of an insulation substrate; stacking a metal layer on the insulation layer; opening a first window in the metal layer in correspondence with the reference mark; and forming a via which electrically connects the via land with the metal layer, by irradiating light towards the other surface of the insulation substrate and identifying the reference mark through the first window, the occurrence of short-circuiting is prevented in forming vias for electrical interconnection between circuit patterns in a printed circuit board, and as the defect rate caused by eccentricity between insulation layers may be reduced, aspects of the invention may contribute to reducing costs.
US08037579B2
A sleeve adapted to be placed over a cable tie, in which the cable tie has an elongated flexible strap, a locking head coupled to the strap, and structure carried by the strap that is adapted to be engaged with the head to lock the strap and head together. The sleeve has an elongated body that defines an open-ended longitudinal cavity that is sized and shaped to accept the strap, so that the sleeve can be removably engaged along the length of the strap, and a pair of spaced protrusions extending from the body so as to define a receiving recess located between the protrusions and the sleeve body.
US08037578B2
In one embodiment, a pivot assembly includes a component including a top surface and a post that extends upward from the top surface, a pivot member that can be pivoted about a pivot axis defined by the post, the pivot member having a top surface, and a retaining collar that secures the pivot member to the component, the retaining collar being positioned between the post and the pivot member.
US08037576B2
Overhead door assemblies having both interlocking and releasable guide assemblies, and multi-piece guide track assemblies for use with same are disclosed herein. An overhead door track configured in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes a first side portion formed from a first piece of material and a second side portion formed from a second piece of material. The first side portion has a first guide surface and a first retention surface. The second side portion has a second guide surface and a second retention surface. In one aspect of this embodiment, the first side portion is joined to the second side portion to define an open channel or gap region therebetween. The first and second guide surfaces extend from the gap region toward a first direction, and the first and second retention surfaces diverge from the gap region toward a second direction, opposite to the first direction. The first and second retention surfaces can be configured to movably retain a door guide member.
US08037575B2
An integrated circuit (IC) design method includes providing an IC layout contour based on an IC design layout of an IC device and IC manufacturing data; generating an effective rectangle layout to represent the IC layout contour; and simulating the IC device using the effective rectangular layout.
US08037570B2
A vacuum can include a housing having an inlet adapted to receive debris being vacuumed. A mounting bar can be fixedly coupled to the housing. A floor collector assembly can be rotatably disposed about a first axis defined by the mounting bar. The floor collector assembly can include a first debris-passing member coupled to the mounting bar, a second debris-passing member rotatably coupled to the first debris-passing member and a third debris-passing member removably coupled to the second debris-passing member. The first debris-passing member can define an opening. The floor collector assembly can be operable in a plurality of modes. In a first mode, the opening can be substantially perpendicular relative to a vacuumed surface. In a second mode, the second debris-passing member can be rotated relative to the first debris-passing member about a second axis such that the opening is at an acute angle relative to the vacuumed surface.
US08037563B2
A patient support apparatus, such as a mattress, has multiple air sources to inflate air bladders of the apparatus. In one embodiment, a first air source provides air to one or more main support bladders and a second air source provides air to one or more microclimate bladders when a control system of the patient support apparatus operates according to a first mode of operation. The first and second air sources provide air to a turn bladder when the control system operates according to a second mode of operation. In another embodiment, a first air source provides air to at least one main support bladder and to at least one microclimate bladders. A second air source is dedicated for inflating at least one turn bladder.
US08037559B2
A variable posture bed includes a base rest located on a floor surface; a bed board arranged in a horizontal state above and opposite the base rest; a connection support portion disposed at the center of the base rest between the base rest and the bed board and that supports the bed board to be vertically movable in all directions around the center thereof; connection support portions disposed at four corners of the base rest and the bed board and that support the bed board to be vertically movable; and a drive control device that continuously moves the bed board in the vertical direction with a predetermined operation pattern and that limits the vertical movement of the head side of the bed board between the horizontal position and a predetermined upper position.
US08037552B2
A flush toilet is provided having a bowl portion with a bowl-shaped waste-receiving surface and a rim portion the inside wall surface on the top edge of which protrudes inward. A trap pipe is connected to the bottom portion of the bowl portion. A first shelf portion is formed to follow the rim and a second shelf portion is formed on the waste receiving surface below the first shelf portion projecting above the initial accumulated water level. An orifice for issuing water into the first shelf portion and forming a swirl flow in the waste receiving surface is provided along with a second orifice for issuing water into the second shelf portion for forming a flow to swirl water within the bowl portion is further provided with first and second flow paths for respectively supplying water to the first and second orifices.
US08037549B2
A reinforcing element for an article of clothing includes at least one elongate element and a plurality of raised bodies aligned substantially longitudinally and integrally formed with the elongate element. The bodies define slits therebetween to allow bending of the reinforcing element in a first direction and prevent bending of the reinforcing element in a second direction by a blocking contact of the bodies.
US08037546B2
An athletic pant that includes an area of compressive fabric disposed in a position on either pant leg that will surround the athlete's knee when the pants are worn. The area of compressive fabric in each pant leg also includes a pair of pockets positioned to lie on either side of the athlete's knee. The pockets completely enclose a support that aids in restricting lateral movement of the athlete's knee. The athletic pants may extend to the athlete's mid-calf region or to the ankle. The pants further include at least one cinch strap that is operable to reduce the diameter of the pant legs in the vicinity of the athlete's knee, thereby improving the fit of the pant for the athlete.
US08042190B2
Machine readable media, methods, and computing devices are disclosed which establish a protected memory channel between an operating system loader of a user partition and services of a management partition. One computing device includes protected storage, read only memory, firmware, a storage device and a processor. The storage device is to store the virtual machine monitor and an operating system having an operating system loader. The virtual machine monitor is to establish a protected memory channel between the one or more integrity services of a management partition and the operating system loader of a user partition in response to measuring and verifying the operating system loader based upon the manifest. The processor is to execute the code of the read only memory, the firmware, the virtual machine monitor, the operating system, the operating system loader, the management partition, and the user partition.
US08042184B1
A system, method and computer program product for anti-malware processing of data stream that includes a plurality of logical data streams formed from a primary data stream; and a plurality of stream buffers, each buffering data of a corresponding logical data stream. A plurality of processing handlers each associated with one of the data streams, where the handlers are processing the data of the logical data stream buffered by its stream buffer. Each processing handler is associated with a particular functionality and at least one processing handler scans its logical data stream for malware presence. Each stream buffer has a configurable buffering policy. At least one of the processing handlers decompresses the data into one or more secondary streams. At least one of the processing handlers parses its logical data stream, creating one or more instances of secondary data streams. The scanning can be based on a signature search. At least one of the processing handlers parses its logical data stream to identify headers, wherein new secondary data streams are instantiated based on regions of interest in a future stream data at positions identified by the headers. The set of conditions is stored e.g., in a table, a list, and/or a registry.
US08042182B2
A system for providing intrusion detection in a network wherein data flows are exchanged using associated network ports and application layer protocols. The system includes a monitoring module configured for monitoring data flows in the network, a protocol identification engine configured for detecting information on the application layer protocols involved in the monitored data flows, and an intrusion detection module configured for operating based on the information on application layer protocols detected. Intrusion detection is thus provided independently of any predefined association between the network ports and the application layer protocols.
US08042179B2
A method for preventing a return address from being falsified due to a buffer overflow during the program execution, and for detecting the buffer-overflow beforehand.When the return address is re-written during program execution, the debug function of the central processing unit is used to output an error. The falsification of the return address is detected through the error output. Then the falsified return address is re-written to a value stored in advance to enable the program to return to normal operation. When the falsification of the return address is detected, the executing program is terminated.
US08042173B2
A semiconductor device includes JTAG ports receiving integrally command information representing a command and password information representing a password, a processor for performing a process in response to the command, an output port outputting consequence information representing a consequence of the process, a transfer section for transferring the command to the processor and for transferring the consequence information to the output port, and a cut off section. The cutoff section cuts off at least one of transferring the command information to the processor and transferring the consequence information to the output port when the password does not match a predetermined proper password. Thus, the semiconductor device can advantageously heighten its security effect.
US08042170B2
In a communication session in which data flows with encrypted data packets pass through a monitoring intermediary for data traffic control. The encrypted data packets include SPIs (Secured Parameter Indexes) which are used to identify SAs (Security Associations) for data decryption. During the initial signaling process for the communication session, the nodes seeking the communication session include the SPIs in the signaling messages and send the signaling messages through the monitoring intermediary which in turn matches the SPIs of the signaling messages with the corresponding SPIs extracted from the data packets. In enforcing data traffic control, the monitoring intermediary allows data flows to pass through if comparison matches in the SPIs are found. Otherwise, the data flows are rejected.
US08042165B2
A server transmits to a server in a server farm a request for membership in the server farm and a first nonce. The server derives a Kerberos service ticket and a Kerberos authenticator, responsive to generating a hash of the server farm name, a passphrase, the name of the server, the name of the server in the server farm, the first nonce, and a second nonce. The server transmits the Kerberos service ticket and the Kerberos authenticator to the server in the server farm. The server in the server farm authenticates the requesting server responsive to the received Kerberos service ticket and the Kerberos authenticator and a generated hash. The server in the server farm transmits, responsive to the authentication, a secret to the requesting server.
US08042155B1
A system and method which generates a single use password based on a challenge/response protocol. A box manager module executing within a security appliance identifies a public key (P) and salt value (S) associated with an administrator's smart card and generates a random nonce (N). The box manager transmits a challenge comprising the following elements:
US08042151B2
A context based access control system that includes a set of one or more authorization contexts that are activated in response to selection of different functions or tasks or other functional boundary object of an application program. The authorization contexts are associated with one or more access policies that are invoked in response to activation of the one or more authorization contexts.
US08042150B2
A method (400) of automatically generating policies and/or roles for role based access (RBAC). The method can include presenting a policy or policy generation table (300) identifying scripts (304) and roles (302) to which the scripts correspond to an operator, and receiving at least one operator input selecting a plurality of desired scripts to be associated with a desired policy or role. The method also can include parsing the scripts to identify corresponding verb-switches (204), and comparing the parsed verb-switches to existing policies or roles (114). When there is at least one of the parsed verb-switches that does not correspond to at least one existing policy, the parsed verb-switch that does not correspond to at least one existing policy can be identified and a policy (106) that includes the identified verb-switch can be generated.
US08042149B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting unsolicited and threatening communications and communicating threat information related thereto. Threat information is received from one or more sources; such sources can include external security databases and threat information data from one or more application and/or network layer security systems. The received threat information is reduced into a canonical form. Features are extracted from the reduced threat information; these features in conjunction with configuration data such as goals are used to produce rules. In some embodiments, these rules are tested against one or more sets of test data and compared against the same or different goals; if one or more tests fail, the rules are refined until the tests succeed within an acceptable margin of error. The rules are then propagated to one or more application layer security systems.
US08042143B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to receive a digital signal representative of media content where the digital signal includes a main profile version of the media content and one or more lower profile versions of the media content and where the one or more lower profile versions have higher error correction than the main profile version, monitor the main profile version for an undesired condition that jeopardizes video continuity for a viewer of the media content, and transmit one of the one or more lower profile versions over an internet protocol television system to the viewer when the undesired condition is detected, where the transmission of the lower profile version to the viewer maintains video continuity for the viewer. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08042140B2
A handheld device receives a wireless RF transmission that includes multiple video streams and buffers all video streams or selected video streams based on an identification of video streams to buffer. The device might also buffer all or selected audio streams or other real-time data content that is received in the wireless RF transmission. The wireless RF transmission may include a set of video streams (and/or audio streams, and/or other real-timed data) for the handheld device to buffer. A head end that sends the RF transmission may determine which streams to buffer based on operator input, user preferences, and other factors. Alternatively, the handheld device may automatically determine which streams to buffer based on information such as user preferences and information in the RF transmission. Alternatively, a user may select which streams to buffer.
US08042138B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing and obtaining product information through a broadcast signal. In this present invention, information identifying a product item, which is in a scene to be presented from a broadcast signal, is provided together with a broadcast signal, then a signal receiving terminal stores the product information for a new product item and displays the stored information to a viewer to select one product item while or after watching an interesting broadcast program, and transmits data identifying a selected product item to a predetermined web site and receives web site address for the selected item from that site. As a result, detailed information for the selected item is acquired from a server addressed by the received web site address.
US08042136B2
Information about each of broadcast programs is subdivided into multiple items including program attributes and the other program association schemes for management. To each item, a relevance ratio with respect to a program is assigned. For example, the next broadcast schedule has the highest relevance ratio with respect to the program, the relevance ratio with respect to the program is high in order of cast, titles, and genre, and so on. Then, a database search is done for programs related to the base program for each item, the search results are arranged in order of decreasing relevance ratio with respect to the base program, and a base program related information page is created. Without deadening a user's interest inspired by watching a program, information related to the program being watched is given, and a user can be guided smoothly to the next preselected recording operation.
US08042123B2
A media library appliance comprises optical disc handling robotics developed for dual standard slim drives in a vertical orientation. The disc handling robotics comprise a disc transfer assembly for transferring discs to and from a rotatable circular carousel surrounding the optical drives. Each slim drive resides in a separate field-replaceable unit (“FRU”) that can be replaced by a customer in the field without powering down the appliance. The FRU includes various features that allow accurate 3-axis alignment and registration of the optical drive within the appliance.
US08042118B2
Mechanisms for developing Diameter applications are provided. The mechanisms extend the application server servlet model to support Diameter applications. A “base protocol” servlet is provided that handles the basic Diameter protocol functionality. Base application servlets are provided for each Diameter interface (for example, an “Sh” base servlet for the IMS “Sh” interface). These servlets are base classes for application code. The base application servlets implement additional semantics on top of the base protocol servlet to support additional attribute-value pair semantics. With the system and method, Diameter servlets share the same ServletContext as HTTP and SIP servlets. This mechanism facilitates communication between the various application entities and facilitates generation of converged applications.
US08042117B2
In a computer system according to the present invention, a switch-source OS controller unit includes: a OS switch request receiver unit configured to receive an OS switch request for requesting that the switch-destination OS in a suspend status becomes the OS in the active status; a switch event notifying unit configured to notify event information to the switch-destination OS or an application on the switch-destination OS, the event information being included in the received OS switch request, and requesting the switch-destination OS or the application on the switch-destination OS to perform a process; and a switch controller unit configured to call the OS switching function, by using the event information as an argument, so that the switch-destination OS becomes the OS in the active status.
US08042115B2
A system for balancing component load. In response to receiving a request, data is updated to reflect a current number of pending requests. In response to analyzing the updated data, it is determined whether throttling is necessary. In response to determining that throttling is not necessary, a corresponding request to the received request is created and a flag is set in the corresponding request. Then, the corresponding request is sent to one of a plurality of lower level components of an input/output stack of an operating system for processing based on the analyzed data to balance component load in the input/output stack of the operating system.
US08042112B1
A search engine crawler includes a distributed set of schedulers that are associated with one or more segments of document identifiers (e.g., URLs) corresponding to documents on a network (e.g., WWW). Each scheduler handles the scheduling of document identifiers (for crawling) for a subset of the known document identifiers. Using a starting set of document identifiers, such as the document identifiers crawled (or scheduled for crawling) during the most recent completed crawl, the scheduler removes from the starting set those document identifiers that have been unreachable in each of the last X crawls. Other filtering mechanisms may also be used to filter out some of the document identifiers in the starting set. The resulting list of document identifiers is written to a scheduled output file for use in a next crawl cycle.
US08042105B1
A system, method and computer program product are provided for customizing a core program. In use, a core program is provided. In addition, a plurality of configurable customization layers are provided, each for customizing at least one aspect of the core program or one of the configurable customization layers.
US08042098B2
A method is provided for determining a sequence of implementation of elements of a software design. The sequence of implementation may be determined by examining coupling between the elements. Further, a method for determining a sequence of testing of elements of the software design is provided which may also be determined by examining coupling between the elements. Further, a method is provided for reverse engineering a design of previously-implemented software, and to identify coupling in the software. Because a developer can determine the degree of coupling of the software, the software may be more easily modified, maintained, evaluated, and combined into larger software systems. Also, because coupling may be identified, elements of the design may be more easily grouped into object-oriented classes. Further, existing object-oriented designs may be evaluated based on the degree of coupling.
US08042096B2
Method for automatically selecting a software application being a program for execution on a virtual machine, including the steps of receiving an exit status value from a terminating software application; translating the exit status value to an identifier for the next software application to be executed, wherein a mapping table is used; executing on the virtual machine the next software application (J4) program that is represented by the identifier.
US08042092B2
A method for generating an executable workflow code from an unstructured cyclic process model. The method comprises the following steps. First a continuation equation system is generated from the unstructured cyclic process model. Then, the executable workflow code is generated from the continuation equation system, wherein therefore, the continuation equation system is solved by means of transformation rules.
US08042081B2
A software product including codes for the method of determining parasitic resistance and capacitance from a layout of an LSI is executed by a computer. The method is achieved by providing a plurality of patterns of a wiring structure which contains a target interconnection; and by producing a library configured to store parameters indicating the parasitic resistance and the parasitic capacitance in relation to the target interconnection to each of the plurality of patterns. The producing is achieved by calculating the parameters to a plurality of conditions corresponding to deviation in manufacture of the wiring structure for each of the plurality of patterns.
US08042080B2
An electro-migration verifying method is comprised of: a data inputting process step; a netlist updating process step (first process operation) for updating a netlist which is constructed by a wiring line parasitic element and a device element based upon a current density limit value database, a characteristic variation database, and wiring line current information; a current density calculating process step (second process operation) for calculating current density of the wiring line parasitic element from a device current and the updated netlist; a wiring line current information updating process step (third process operation) for updating the wiring line current information based upon the current density; a current density limit value comparing/judging process step (fourth process operation) for judging whether or not a current density value is located within the current density limit value based upon the updated wiring line current information and the current density limit value database; an electro-migration verifying process step constituted by the first process operation up to a fifth process operation of a step judging process step (fifth process operation) for judging a repetition process operation from step information; and a result outputting process step.
US08042079B1
Design synchronization for a High-Level Modeling System (“HLMS”) of an integrated circuit device (“IC”) is described. In a method for generating a netlist, a description of a first circuit block of a user design is input to a programmed computer system programmed with a computer-aided modeling system. The description includes output port information of the first circuit block and synchronization signal information. The computer-aided modeling system selects a circuit core for the first circuit block responsive to output port information and the synchronization signal information, the circuit core including port metadata. The computer-aided modeling system selects at least one macro responsive to the port metadata for generation of the netlist. The macro is for rate synchronized coupling of the first circuit block to a second circuit block of the user design. The computer-aided modeling system outputs the netlist including the macro.
US08042073B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide for sorted data signature analysis for identifying outliers in datasets. Some embodiments disclose a nearest pattern smallest delta procedure to identify outliers in a dataset of vector patterns. Other embodiments disclose a nearest neighbor smallest delta procedure to identify outliers among values from dies in a wafer. Still other embodiments may be disclosed and claimed.
US08042072B2
The design of integrated circuits, i.e., semiconductor products, is made easier with a semiconductor platform having versatile power mesh that is capable of supporting simultaneous operations having different frequencies on the semiconductor product; e.g., higher frequency operations may be embedded as diffused blocks within the lower layers or may be programmed from a configurable transistor fabric above the diffused layers. Preferably the power mesh is located above the layers having the operations requiring the different frequencies, and may be fixed in an application set given to a chip designer or may be configurable by the designer her/himself. For example, to support high speed communications adjacent an embedded high speed data transceiver, the transistor fabric may be programmed as a data link layer having higher performance requirements than the rest of the integrated circuit. The data link layer may be connected to one of the localized grids of the versatile power mesh which may have an increased density and/or wider strap width of a power/ground grid. Additional decoupling capacitance can be embedded in the lower layers of the semiconductor product and/or can be programmed from the configurable transistors fabric.
US08042069B2
A method to selectively amend a layout pattern is disclosed. First, a layout pattern including at least a first group and a second group is provided, wherein each one of the first group and the second group respectively includes multiple members. Second, a simulation procedure and an amendment procedure are respectively performed on all the members of the first group and the second group to obtain an amended first group and an amended second group. Then, the amended first group and the amended second group are verified as being on target or not. Afterwards, the layout pattern including the on target amended first group and the on target amended second group is output.
US08042068B2
A method for processing optical proximity correction includes preparing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) map; extracting calibration data depending on a focus degree with the CMP map; and correcting optical proximity with the calibration data.
US08042061B1
Methods and systems for interface presentation are described. A user interface for the user may be selected among a plurality of available user interfaces in accordance with the personal characteristic information. A user access profile level for the user may be selected among a plurality of available user access profile levels in accordance with the personal characteristic information. Product information may be selected in accordance with the age data.
US08042059B2
Disclosed is a system for providing multiple window environments in a mobile computing system and a method thereof, which enables a user to conveniently and selectively use a window system suitable for the use environment. A plurality of sub-window systems having different user interfaces and application programs are installed in separate user partitions provided in a non-volatile memory. If a predetermined event occurs, a currently executing sub-window system, from among the plurality of sub-window systems, is terminated, and a user partition corresponding to the terminated sub-window system is dismounted. Then, a user partition from among the separate user partitions, designated corresponding to the predetermined event is mounted so that the sub-window system of the mounted user partition is executed.
