US08080594B2
The time-release dental adhesive is made as a two-part preparation to increase shelf life. The first part contains three monomers (hydroxyethyl methacrylate [HEMA], triethyleneglycol dimethacrylate [TEG-DMA], and bisphenol A di(ethyl-methacrylate) [BPA-DEMA]), glycerol, a polymerization catalyst, a filler, and a stabilizer. The second part contains the same three monomers listed above, an acrylic resin to increase viscosity, an accelerator, a filler, and a sugar or sugar-based sweetener. When desired for use, the two parts are mixed in a 1:1 ratio by weight. The adhesive cures to a strong, hard bonding agent, but gradually weakens in the presence of moisture to provide a time-release adhesive. The amount of elapsed time before release of the adhesive may be controlled by changing the quantity of sugar or sugar-based sweetener in the adhesive.
US08080589B2
A method for producing a bio-based polymeric shoe component includes: preparing a blend from a composition including 5˜50 weight parts of a modified starch, 50˜95 weight parts of an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, 5˜30 weight parts of a filler, 1˜50 weight parts of a polyolefin, 2.0˜8.0 weight parts of a foaming agent, 0.5˜3.0 weight parts of a foaming aid, 0.5˜2.0 weight parts of a lubricant, and 0.4˜1.2 weight parts of a crosslinking agent, the modified starch being obtained by hydrolyzing and esterifying a predetermined amount of a raw starch to form a hydrolyzed and esterified starch, followed by drying the hydrolyzed and esterified starch; processing the blend into a foamable product; and forming the foamable product into the shoe component.
US08080588B2
Surfactants of the general formula R1—X where R1 is an aliphatic C17H35-alkyl radical and X is a hydrophilic group, and the mean degree of branching of the R1 radical is from 2.8 to 3.7. Mixtures which comprise such surfactants and the use of such surfactants and of mixtures thereof for tertiary mineral oil extraction.
US08080586B2
The invention relates to new self-emulsifying preparations containing (a) 7 to 20% by weight stearyl oligoglycoside, (b) 7 to 20% by weight cetyl oligoglycoside, (c) 0.1 to 3% by weight myristyl oligoglycoside, (d) 0.5 to 7% by weight lauryl oligoglycoside, (e) 4 to 12% by weight cetyl alcohol, (f) 10 to 20% by weight stearyl alcohol, (g) 20 to 30% by weight C16/18 partial glycerides containing 58 to 62% by weight monoglyceride and (h) 20 to 30% by weight C16/18 partial glycerides containing 30 to 45% by weight monoglyceride, with the proviso that the quantities shown add up to 100% by weight with water.
US08080583B2
An emulsion cosmetic composition comprising at least one resveratrol derivative, a water phase, and an oil phase containing at least one linear or branched volatile or near volatile silicone and a method for delivering active resveratrol to the skin.
US08080581B2
The present invention provides a cosmetic having equal to or a higher antioxidant activity and moisture retaining property than the above-described conventional vitamin E derivatives. The cosmetic also has an excellent emulsifying ability and solubilizing ability and remarkably reduces a sticky feeling on the skin (in particular, the sticky feeling during drying after the application on the skin). That is, the cosmetic of the present invention containing a vitamin E derivative represented by the following formula (I) or a salt thereof. [In the formula, R1, R2, and R3 represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R4 represents a C1-6 alkanoyl group, a C1-6 alkyl group, a SO3H group, a P(O)(OH)2 group, a CH2COOH group or a COCH2CH(SO3H)COOH group; EO represents an ethylene oxide group; BO represents a butylene oxide group; k and n independently represent any one of numbers 0 to 30; and m represents any one of numbers 1 to 30.]
US08080580B2
Compounds of Formula (I) are described herein and the uses thereof for the treatment of diseases, conditions and/or disorders mediated by sodium-glucose transporter inhibitors (in particular, SGLT2 inhibitors).
US08080578B2
The present invention concerns the use of methods for evaluating bucindolol treatment for a patient, particularly one with heart failure. It concerns methods for determining whether to administer or prescribe bucindolol to a patient based on whether the patient is homozygous for the Arg 389 polymorphism in the β1-adrenergic receptor (AR).
US08080575B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions and methods for promoting bone growth. Compounds useful in the methods of the present invention include compounds of Formula I, wherein each R1 and R2 is H, halogen, C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 alkoxy, C1-6 haloalkyl, C2-6 alkenyl, C2-6 alkynyl, C1-6 haloalkoxy, —OR4, —NR4R5, —SR4, —C(O)R4, —C(O)OR4, —C(O)NR4R5, —N(R4)C(O)R5, —N(R4)C(O)OR5, —N(R4)C(O)NR4R5, —OP(O)(OR4)2, —S(O)2OR4, —S(O)2NR4R5, —CN, cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, aryl or heteroaryl. Each R4 and R5 is H or C1-6 alkyl. X is O, S or NR4. Y is an aryl ring system having 6-10 ring members or a heteroaryl ring system having 5-10 ring members where 1-3 ring members are each N, O or S. Subscript n is 1 or 2. The compounds also include salts, hydrates and isomers of the compounds of the present invention.
US08080572B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds having the formula: wherein: Ar, r, Z, X, R3, and R5-7 are as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds have AT1 receptor antagonist activity and neprilysin inhibition activity. In another aspect, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; methods of using such compounds; and process and intermediates for preparing such compounds.
US08080570B2
Described herein are compounds that can be useful as bioactive agents. More specifically, the compounds described herein can be useful as both α2B and α2C adrenergic agonists. Methods of synthesis and administration of the compounds are also disclosed.
US08080569B2
The present invention relates to derivatives of imidazo[2,1-b]thiazoles of formula I, in which R, R1 to R3 and n have the meanings indicated in the claims, which modulate the transcription of endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthase and are valuable pharmacologically active compounds. Specifically, the compounds of formula I upregulate the expression of the enzyme endothelial NO synthase and can be applied in conditions in which an increased expression of said enzyme or an increased NO level or the normalization of a decreased NO level is desired. The invention further relates to processes for the preparation of compounds of formula I, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to the use of compounds of formula I for the manufacture of a medicament for the stimulation of the expression of endothelial NO synthase or for the treatment of various diseases including cardiovascular disorders such as atherosclerosis, thrombosis, coronary artery disease, hypertension and cardiac insufficiency, for example.
US08080565B2
This invention provides 4-amino-1-benzylpiperidine and related compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which are useful as muscarinic receptor antagonists. This invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds; processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds; and methods for treating disease conditions mediated by muscarinic receptors, such as overactive bladder, irritable bowel syndrome, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, using such compounds.
US08080556B2
The present invention is directed to compounds of formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, their synthesis, and their use as HSP-90 inhibitors.
US08080551B2
HIV replication inhibitors having formula (I) defined herein are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the HIV replication inhibitors; the use of the HIV replication inhibitors in the treatment of HIV; and processes for preparing the HIV replication inhibitors are also disclosed.
US08080547B2
The invention relates to the triazolopyridine carboxamide derivative and trizolopyrimidine carboxamide derivative of general Formula (I): Wherein X, R1 and R2 are as defined herein. The invention further relates to preparation methods and therapeutic use thereof.
US08080542B2
The present invention relates to amides that have activity as SIP receptor modulating agents and the use of such compounds to treat diseases associated with inappropriate S1P receptor activity. The compounds may be used as immunomodulators, e.g., for treating or preventing diseases such as autoimmune and related immune disorders including systemic lupus erythematosus, inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, type I diabetes, uveitis, psoriasis, myasthenia gravis, rheumatoid arthritis, non-glomerular nephrosis, hepatitis, Behçet's disease, glomerulonephritis, chronic thrombocytopenic purpura, hemolytic anemia, hepatitis and Wegner's granuloma; and for treating other conditions.
US08080533B2
We found that FIZZ1/RELMα is inducible by hypoxia in lung. The hypoxia-upregulated expression of FIZZ1/RELMα was located in the pulmonary vasculature, bronchial epithelial cells, and type II pneumocytes. Recombinant FIZZ1/RELMα protein stimulates rat pulmonary microvascular smooth muscle cell (RPSM) proliferation dose-dependently. Therefore, we renamed this gene as hypoxia-induced mitogenic factor (HIMF). HIMF strongly activated Akt phosphorylation. The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor LY294002 inhibits HIMF-activated Akt phosphorylation. It also inhibits HIMF-stimulated RPSM proliferation. Thus, the PI3K/Akt pathway, at least in part, mediates the proliferative effect of HIMF. HIMF also has angiogenic and vasoconstrictive activity. Notably, HIMF increases pulmonary arterial pressure and vascular resistance more potently than either endothelin-1 or angiotensin II.
US08080526B2
The present invention features compositions and related methods for treating IBS and other gastrointestinal disorders and conditions (e.g., gastrointestinal motility disorders, functional gastrointestinal disorders, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, Inflammatory bowel disease, functional heartburn, dyspepsia (including functional dyspepsia or nonulcer dyspepsia), gastroparesis, chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (or colonic pseudo-obstruction), and disorders and conditions associated with constipation, e.g., constipation associated with use of opiate pain killers, post-surgical constipation, and constipation associated with neuropathic disorders as well as other conditions and disorders using peptides and other agents that activate the guanylate cyclase C (GC-C) receptor.
US08080525B2
Novel peptide compositions are described. In particular, peptide compositions are described which include at least two peptides which are selected from among the following peptides: a peptide A having at least the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 1, a peptide B having at least the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 45, a peptide C having at least the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 127, and a peptide D having at least the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 174. The compositions can be used, in particular, in the preparation of active pharmaceutical compositions against the hepatitis C virus.
US08080516B2
Modified insulinotropic peptides are disclosed. The modified insulinotropic peptides are capable of forming a peptidase stabilized insulinotropic peptide. The modified insulinotropic peptides are capable of forming covalent bonds with one or more blood components to form a conjugate. The conjugates may be formed in vivo or ex vivo. The modified peptides are administered to treat humans with diabetes and other related diseases.
US08080490B2
The invention relates to an antimicrobial phosphate glass having the following composition in percent by weight on an oxide basis: P2O5>66-80 percent by weight; SO30-40 percent by weight; B203 0-1 percent by weight; Al2O3>6.2-10 percent by weight; SiO2 0-10 percent by weight; Na2O>9-20 percent by weight; CaO 0-25 percent by weight; MgO 0-15 percent by weight; SrO 0-15 percent by weight; BaO 0-15 percent by weight; ZnO>0-25 percent by weight; Ag2O 0-5 percent by weight; CuO 0-10 percent by weight; GeO2 0-10 percent by weight; TeO2 0-15 percent by weight; Cr2O3 0-10 percent by weight; J 0-10 percent by weight; F 0-3 percent by weight.
US08080488B2
A method of making a wound glass filament web, the method including forming a plurality of continuous glass filaments, winding the filaments on a drum, and contacting the filaments with an aqueous binder composition having a pH of at least 4.0 and including an aqueous carboxy functional polymer and a condensation catalyst.
US08080486B1
Consolidated, layered composites having high penetration resistance to both bullets and fragments are described. The composites comprise, in order, a first non-woven fabric comprising one or a plurality of unidirectionally oriented high tenacity fibrous layers, a felt material comprising high tenacity felt fibers, and a second non-woven fabric comprising one or a plurality of unidirectionally oriented high tenacity fibrous layers. The non-woven fabrics and intermediate felt material are consolidated at facing lateral surfaces.
US08080479B2
A method of processing a workpiece in a plasma reactor chamber includes coupling RF power via an electrode to plasma in the chamber, the RF power being of a variable frequency in a frequency range that includes a fundamental frequency f. The method also includes coupling the electrode to a resonator having a resonant VHF frequency F which is a harmonic of the fundamental frequency f, so as to produce VHF power at the harmonic. The method controls the ratio of power near the fundamental f to power at harmonic F, by controlling the proportion of power from the generator that is up-converted from f to F, so as to control plasma ion density distribution.
US08080473B2
A method of patterning a film stack is described. The method comprises preparing a film stack on a substrate, wherein the film stack comprises a SiCOH-containing layer formed on the substrate, a silicon oxide (SiOx) layer formed on the SiCOH-containing layer, and a mask layer formed on the silicon oxide layer. A pattern is created in the mask layer. Thereafter, the pattern in the mask layer is transferred to the silicon oxide layer using a first etching process, and then the mask layer is removed. The pattern in the silicon oxide layer is transferred to the SiCOH-containing layer using a second etching process formed from a process composition comprising NF3. Thereafter, the silicon oxide layer is removed using a third etching process.
US08080469B2
A method for fabricating a high quality freestanding nonpolar and semipolar nitride substrate with increased surface area, comprising stacking multiple films by growing the films one on top of each other with different and non-orthogonal growth directions.
US08080449B2
Gate electrodes are formed on a substrate. A gate insulation film is formed so as to cover the gate electrodes. A semiconductor layer is formed in regions on the gate insulation film in a region which overlap with at least the gate electrodes. Plasma treatment is applied to the semiconductor layer using a gas which contains a dopant thus increasing impurity concentration of a surface layer of the semiconductor layer. A conductive film is formed on the surface layer of the semiconductor layer to which the plasma treatment is applied. A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed by etching the conductive film.
US08080439B2
A method of making a phase change random access memory (PCM) device comprises forming a PCM stack that includes a heater layer, phase change material layer, and a top electrode layer. A top protection layer is formed overlying the PCM stack. The top protection layer and a first portion of the PCM stack are then patterned, wherein the first portion of the PCM stack excludes the heater layer. A sidewall protection feature is formed along a sidewall of the patterned top protection layer and first portion of the PCM stack. The heater layer is etched using (i) the sidewall protection feature and (ii) the patterned top protection layer and first portion of the PCM stack collectively as a mask to form a self-aligned heater layer bottom electrode of the PCRAM stack, thereby completing a memory bit of the PCRAM device.
US08080428B2
The present invention relates to diagnosis and/or treatment of medical conditions. The present invention relates to new method of diagnosing dry mucosa condition in a subject. The condition may be dry eye. The present invention also provides a method to monitor the efficacy of a treatment of a dry mucosa condition, a method of treating a dry mucosa condition and/or a diagnostic kit for a dry mucosa condition.
US08080427B2
A particle sensor is provided having a first temperature sensing device having a sensing surface exposed to particles contained within a fluid. The sensing surface is at least partially coated with a catalyst for promoting an exothermic reaction with at least a portion of the particles. The particle sensor also has a second temperature sensing device positioned at a location substantially thermally isolated from thermal energy generated by the exothermic reaction.
US08080420B2
Methods are described that bias cells, such as potent and multipotent stem cells, by transfection with a nucleic acid sequence, to differentiate to a desired end-stage cell or a cell having characteristics of a desired end-stage cell. In particular embodiments, human neural stem cells are transfected with vectors comprising genes in the homeobox family of transcription factor developmental control genes, and this results in a greater percentage of resultant transformed cells, or their progeny, differentiating into a desired end-stage cell or a cell having characteristics of a desired end-stage cell.
US08080416B2
The present invention relates to methods for preparing an artificial immune system. The artificial immune system comprises a cell culture comprising T cells, B cells and antigen-primed dendritic cells. The artificial immune system of the present invention can be used for in vitro testing of vaccines, adjuvants, immunotherapy candidates, cosmetics, drugs, biologics and other chemicals.
US08080401B2
The present invention relates to α-amylase variants that are stabilized to solvent-exerted hydrolysis, in particular at elevated temperatures or high pH, by point mutagenesis of asparagine (N) or glutamine (Q) residues located on the surface of the molecule to give other amino acid residues. The invention further relates to methods of increasing the stability of an α-amylase to solvent-exerted hydrolysis, in particular at elevated temperatures or high pH, whereby at least one asparagine (N) or glutamine (Q) residue on the surface of the molecule is replaced with a different amino acid residue. The α-amylase variants obtained thereby exhibit better stability to influences of the solvent, increased processivity, and are suited for numerous industrial areas of use, in particular as active ingredients in detergents and cleansers.
US08080400B2
A number of soluble engineered forms of MGLL that are suitable for high-throughput screening and protein crystallization, as well as a crystallized form of monoacylglycerol lipase protein (MGLL) and descriptions of the X-ray diffraction patterns are disclosed. The engineered constructs of MGLL permit the expression and purification of protein suitable for crystallography or high-throughput screening and identification of ligands, which can function as active agents to MGLL. The X-ray diffraction patterns allow the three dimensional structure of MGLL to be determined at atomic resolution so that ligand binding sites on MGLL can be identified and the interactions of ligands with MGLL amino acid residues can be modeled. Models prepared using such maps permit the design of ligands which can function as active agents which include, but are not limited to, those that function as inhibitors of MGLL.
US08080391B2
The present invention relates generally to the production, purification, and isolation of human growth hormone (hGH). More particularly, the invention relates to the production, purification, and isolation of substantially purified hGH from recombinant host cells or culture medium including, for example, yeast, insect, mammalian and bacterial host cells. The process of the present invention is also useful for purification of hGH linked to polymers or other molecules.
US08080390B2
The present invention relates to polypeptides having antimicrobial activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
US08080389B2
Disclosed herein are a Pichia pastoris-derived auto-inducible NPS promoter; a recombinant expression vector carrying the promoter and a nucleotide sequence, the sequence being operably linked to the promoter and coding for a recombinant protein; a host cell transformed or transfected with the recombinant expression vector; and a method for producing a recombinant protein, comprising culturing the host cell to express the recombinant protein and isolating the protein. The NPS promoter allows a recombinant protein of interest to be produced on a large scale without the need of any inducer.
US08080373B2
A method for the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and other gastrointestinal disease compares the gene expression patterns from a patient's peripheral blood monocytes-lymphocyte's gene system with either the similar gene expression patterns of a normal person, or with the similar gene expression patterns of a person known to have the condition being screened for. Differences between the patient's gene expression patterns for particular genes and the normal patterns indicates the presence of the condition with the number of differences indicating the probability of the condition. Similarities between the patient's gene expression patterns for those particular genes and the patterns of a person known to have the condition indicates the presence of the condition with the number of similarities indicating the probability of the condition. Particular genes for use in identifying pancreatic cancer are disclosed.
US08080371B2
Correlations between polymorphisms and addiction are provided. Methods of diagnosing, prognosing, and treating addiction are provided. Systems and kits for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of addiction are provided. Methods of identifying addiction modulators are also described.
US08080365B2
To provide a thiopyran derivative, having a structure expressed by the following general formula 1: where X is O or S; R1 is —H, —CH3, C2-4 alkyl group, thioether group, or ketone group; R2 is —H, —CH3, or trifluoromethyl group; and R1 and R2 may be identical to or different from each other.
US08080364B2
After forming a resist film made from a chemically amplified resist material pattern exposure is carried out by selectively irradiating the resist film with exposing light while supplying, onto the resist film, water that includes triphenylsulfonium nonaflate, that is, an acid generator, and is circulated and temporarily stored in a solution storage. After the pattern exposure, the resist film is subjected to post-exposure bake and is then developed with an alkaline developer. Thus, a resist pattern made of an unexposed portion of the resist film can be formed in a good shape.
US08080356B2
A liquid developer is provided. The liquid developer comprises: an insulation liquid constituted of a modified epoxy compound as a main component thereof; toner particles dispersed in the insulation liquid; and a cation type photopolymerization initiator used for polymerizing the modified epoxy compound. The liquid developer has superior fixing characteristics and is capable of forming an image at a high speed. Further, a method of forming an image is also provided.
US08080346B2
A solid oxide fuel cell includes a tube, a spacer element, a catalytic substrate and an anode current collector. The solid oxide fuel cell further includes a spacer element disposed within the tube. The solid oxide fuel cell further includes a catalytic substrate disposed within the anode current collector electrically contacting the anode of the tube and providing an electrical current path inside the tube past the catalytic substrate to the inlet opening.
US08080343B2
A fuel cell having a hydrogen storage tank, the fuel cell including: a hydrogen generator generating hydrogen by a chemical reaction between an alkaline solution with an alkaline catalyst for hydrogen generation, dissolved in water, and a metallic powder for hydrogen generation; hydrogen storage having a hydrogen occlusion metal to which the hydrogen generated from the hydrogen generator is occluded, to store hydrogen; and power generator receiving hydrogen released from the hydrogen occlusion metal by heat provided to the hydrogen occlusion metal and generating electricity. The hydrogen generator, hydrogen storage tank, and power generator are stacked on one another and are integrally assembled by a plurality of clips, each of which has lower and upper ends fastened to a lower groove formed on a lower surface of the hydrogen generator and to an upper groove formed on an upper surface of the power generator, respectively, exerting strength for integral fixing.
US08080342B2
A fuel cell system determines a water blockage or a dry state of the system using voltage sensors that determine anode and cathode voltages of single fuel cells as well as a total voltage for the fuel cell system. The system also compensates for water blockages or dry states by adjusting supplies of fuel and oxidation gases to the system.
US08080330B2
A microporous separator film for electrochemical cells and a method of making such films is disclosed. The microporous separator film includes an intimate mixture of an electrically insulating matrix phase and a self-switching voltage activated conductive phase, wherein the voltage activated conductive phase provides a plurality of conductive paths from a first face of the microporous separator film to a second face of the microporous separator film. The method for making the composite microporous separator film includes the steps of forming an intimate mixture of at least an insulating matrix phase and a self-switching voltage activated phase, forming a film from the mixture, and generating pores within the film.
US08080325B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to an electrochemical cell system including a cover that affects reactant flow into an electrochemical cell array.
US08080323B2
A coated cutting insert for use in a chip-forming material removal operation wherein the coated cutting insert includes a substrate that has a flank surface and a rake surface and the flank surface intersects the rake surface to form a cutting edge at the intersection. There is a wear-resistant coating scheme that adheres to at least a portion of the substrate. The wear-resistant coating scheme includes one or more coating layers of one or more of alumina, hafnia and zirconia. There is a wear indicating coating that adheres to at least a portion of the wear-resistant coating scheme. The wear indicating coating includes M(OxCyNz) wherein M is selected from the group comprising one or more of the following titanium, hafnium, zirconium, chromium, titanium-aluminum alloy, hafnium-aluminum alloy, zirconium-aluminum alloy, chromium-aluminum alloy, and their alloys, and x>0, y≧0, z≧0 and y+z>0. A method of making a cutting insert with wear indicating coating including the steps of: providing a substrate with an outer alumina coating layer; applying an as-deposited non-wear indicating coating layer to the alumina coating layer; and treating the non-wear indicating coating layer to convert it to a wear indicating coating layer.
US08080305B2
A mixture used for production of decalcomania transferable products, the production and application of the transferable products by the utilization of a transfer solvent is provided. The mixture includes 1 to 40 percent by weight of a dispersant and stabilizer for organic materials, soluble in the transfer solvent (z); and at least one of: 3 to 95 percent by weight of a polymer or copolymer printable by a solvent based ink plotter (x), and 1 to 90 percent by weight of an organic raw material which is adhesive if soaked and which is soluble in the transfer solvent (w). The percentages z, x, w selected such that z+x+w≦100 and at least 15% of the components are soluble in the transfer solvent. A product transferable by decalcomania; a manufacturing process for the decalcomania product; and a process for its application are also presented.
US08080299B2
The invention is a composition comprising: a) one or more film forming resins having at least one functional group capable of polymerization; b) one or more reactive diluents capable of reacting with the film forming resin; c) one or more silicon, titanium, zirconium, aluminum or metal containing compounds capable of promoting adhesion of the composition to glass; d) one or more fillers capable of imparting abrasion resistance to the composition when cured; and e) one or more compounds which is reactive with the film forming resin which also contains at least one acidic moiety. The composition of the invention is useful as a frit on the window of a vehicle.
US08080296B2
The present invention relates to lightweight components of hybrid design, also termed hybrid component or hollow-chamber lightweight component, composed of a parent body which is composed of surface-pretreated aluminium and which is reinforced by means of thermoplastics and is suitable for the transmission of high mechanical loads, where particular flow aids are added to the thermoplastic in order to improve its physical properties.
US08080291B2
An ink jet recording medium having a gas-permeable substrate, and an ink receiving layer and a surface layer provided in that order on the gas-permeable substrate, wherein the surface layer is formed through the steps of (1) applying a coating liquid comprising a first inorganic pigment and a binder onto the ink receiving layer, and (2) applying a coagulating liquid comprising a coagulant and a second inorganic pigment having a refractive index higher by 0.30 or more than that of the above first inorganic pigment and an average particle size of 100 nm or less onto the applied coating liquid to subject the coating liquid to a coagulating treatment followed by pressing a coating layer including the coating liquid and the coagulating liquid against a heated casting drum while the coating layer is in a wet condition to subject the coating layer to a cast treatment.
US08080283B2
Method for forming a yttria-stabilized zirconia coating with a molten silicate resistant outer layer
A method for providing a component with protection against sand related distress includes the steps of: providing a substrate; depositing a layer of a yttria-stabilized zirconia material on the substrate; and forming a molten silicate resistant outer layer over the yttria-stabilized zirconia material.
US08080280B1
Methods are described for making nanostructures that are mechanically, chemically and thermally stable at desired elevated temperatures, from nanostructure templates having a stability temperature that is less than the desired elevated temperature. The methods comprise depositing by atomic layer deposition (ALD) structural layers that are stable at the desired elevated temperatures, onto a template employing a graded temperature deposition scheme. At least one structural layer is deposited at an initial temperature that is less than or equal to the stability temperature of the template, and subsequent depositions made at incrementally increased deposition temperatures until the desired elevated temperature stability is achieved. Nanostructure templates include three dimensional (3D) polymeric templates having features on the order of 100 nm fabricated by proximity field nanopatterning (PnP) methods.
US08080269B2
Disclosed are antimicrobial compositions for treating poultry and meat to substantially eliminate bacteria and microorganism harmful to human. The compositions include various combinations of an aliphatic heteroaryl salt, an aliphatic benzylalkyl ammonium salt, a dialiphatic dialkyl ammonium salt, a tetraalkyl ammonium salt and/or trichloromelamine.
US08080266B2
Described herein are compositions comprising a nematicide intermixed with lecithin and a co-surfactant that form stable dispersions in water. Also disclosed are methods of controlling nematodes in soil by application of such compositions.
US08080259B2
The invention is directed to a device for delivering an active agent formulation for a predetermined administration period. An impermeable reservoir is divided into a water-swellable agent chamber and an active agent formulation chamber. Fluid from the environment is imbibed through a semipermeable plug into the water-swellable agent chamber and the active agent formulation is released through a back-diffusion regulating outlet. Delivery periods of up to 2 years are achieved.
US08080254B2
The present invention relates to Fc-OB fusion protein compositions, methods of preparation of such compositions and uses thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to a genetic or chemical fusion protein comprising the Fc immunoglobulin region, derivative or analog fused to the N-terminal portion of the OB protein, derivative or analog.
US08080248B2
The present invention provides methods of preventing or treating rheumatoid arthritis using a fully human antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that specifically binds human interleukin-6 receptor (hIL-6R). The methods of the present invention may include administration of a second therapeutic agent, such as one or more of a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), a glucocorticoid, a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD), or a TNF-alpha antagonist, T-cell blocker, anti-CD20 antibody, an IL-1, JAK or IL-17 antagonist, or any combination thereof.
US08080246B2
The present invention relates to specific CSF1R ECD fusion molecules that exhibit improved therapeutic properties. The invention also relates to polypeptide and polynucleotide sequences, vectors, host cells, and compositions comprising or encoding such molecules. The invention also relates to methods of making and using the CSF1R ECD fusion molecules. The invention further relates to methods of treatment using the CSF1R ECD fusion molecules. For example, certain CSF1R ECDs of the invention may be used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or multiple sclerosis (MS).
US08080243B2
The present invention provides antagonizing antibodies, antigen-binding portions thereof, and aptamers that bind to proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin type 9 (PCSK9). Also provided are antibodies directed to peptides, in which the antibodies bind to PCSK9. The invention further provides a method of obtaining such antibodies and antibody-encoding nucleic acid. The invention further relates to therapeutic methods for use of these antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof to reduce LDL-cholesterol levels and/or for the treatment and/or prevention of cardiovascular disease, including treatment of hypercholesterolemia.
US08080242B2
The present invention relates to a monoclonal antibody selectively recognizing a human platelet alloantigen, a method for detecting the presence or absence of at least one human platelet alloantigen using said antibody, a method for the production of said antibody, a pharmaceutical composition comprising said antibody, and a kit containing said antibody.
US08080238B2
An oil-based cosmetic composition having high temperature stability, giving a coating film after evaporation of a solvent having a high gloss, and excellent in forming of a coloring material when the coloring matter, particularly a hair cosmetic composition such as mascara, etc., containing (a) a dextrin fatty acid ester, (b) a sucrose fatty acid ester having an average substitution degree of the ester of 3 to 8, and (c) an optional oil component which is solid at 30° C. in an amount of 5 mass % or less and, if desired, (d) a fluid oil which is liquid at 30° C. (i.e., not evaporating at an ordinary temperature) in an amount of 1 to 50 mass %, (e) a coloring material in an amount of 0.01 to 30 mass %, (f) a coating agent in an amount of 1 to 40 mass %, and (g) a volatile oil in an amount of 30 to 80 mass %.
US08080230B2
The invention relates to fine-particulate zirconium titanates or lead zirconium titanates and a method for production thereof by reaction of titanium dioxide particles with a zirconium compound or a lead and zirconium compound. The titanium dioxide particles have a BET surface of more than 50 m2/g. The lead zirconium titanates can be used for the production of microelectronic components.
US08080223B2
A method of making a composite from a composition including a metal oxide precursor and polymer precursor by exposing the metal oxide precursor to a gas having a humidity level of about 40% to about 70% for at least about one hour.
US08080220B2
A peristaltic microfluidic pump. The pump comprises a pumping chamber positioned between an inlet and an outlet; a plurality of moveable fingers positioned in a wall of the pumping chamber, the fingers being arranged in a row along the wall; and a plurality of thermal bend actuators. Each actuator is associated with a respective finger such that actuation of the thermal bend actuator causes movement of the respective finger into the pumping chamber. The pump is configured to provide a peristaltic pumping action in the pumping chamber via movement of the fingers.
US08080218B2
A device and method of metering and mixing a dose of a sample liquid with a diluent liquid includes introducing a sample liquid into a channel defined in a housing. The housing defines a pocket open to the channel and sized to both collect a metered dose of the sample liquid, and to retain the collected dose by capillary force when the channel is emptied. The sample liquid is then removed from the channel under conditions that enable retention of the collected, metered dose of the sample liquid in the pocket. Following a cleaning step, a volume of diluent liquid is introduced into the channel to induce diffusion and mixing of the diluent liquid with the dose of sample liquid to form a mixture.
US08080217B2
A storage container (10) for storage of a biological sample (20) for analysis, wherein said container comprises a body (11) defining a compartment for storage of said sample; a platform (12) for retaining the sample (20), which platform is slidably received within the compartment; a closure (13) for an opening in the body (11) through which the platform (12) may be withdrawn from the compartment; and a locking mechanism (18) for the container whereby manual access to the sample is prevented after locking. Suitably a sample identifier (15) is provided for securing in the container (10) with the sample (20), and a portion (19) of the container is transparent to permit reading the sample identifier. The storage container (10) is desirably adapted for processing, such as sampling, by an automated test apparatus (21) when said container is interlocked in a docking station of the test apparatus.
US08080199B2
The present invention is directed toward methods of crosslinking carbon nanotubes to each other using microwave radiation, articles of manufacture produced by such methods, compositions produced by such methods, and applications for such compositions and articles of manufacture. The present invention is also directed toward methods of radiatively modifying composites and/or blends comprising carbon nanotubes with microwaves, and to the compositions produced by such methods. In some embodiments, the modification comprises a crosslinking process, wherein the carbon nanotubes serve as a conduit for thermally and photolytically crosslinking the host matrix with microwave radiation.
US08080195B2
A method of producing a fluoropolymer by which a melt-processable fluoropolymer (A) having a specific unstable terminal group or groups (P) is subjected to melt-kneading in a kneader having a stabilization treatment zone to thereby produce a fluoro-polymer (B) resulting from conversion of the specific unstable terminal group or groups (P) to —CF2H. The specific unstable terminal group or groups (P) include alkoxycarbonyl groups, fluoroalkoxycarbonyl groups and/or carboxyl group quaternary nitrogen compound salts, the melt-kneading is carried out in the absence or presence of an alkali metal element or alkaline earth metal element, the content of the alkali metal element or alkaline earth metal element is not greater than 2 ppm of the composition under melt-kneading, and the melt-kneading in the stabilization treatment zone is carried out in the presence of water. A fluoro-polymerised material is also disclosed.
US08080187B2
This invention discloses methods and apparatus for providing a biomedical device, such as an ophthalmic lens with an energy receptor capable of powering a processing device.
US08080186B1
The fire mitigation and moderating agent includes by weight one percent (1%) to five percent (5%) potassium hydroxide, two percent (2%) to seven percent (7%) citric acid, four percent (4%) to thirty six percent (36%) diammonium phosphate, four percent (4%) to twenty percent (20%) carbamide, and point five percent (0.5%) to four percent (4%) surface tension reducing component which comprises by weight twenty percent (20%) to fifty five percent (55%) octyldimethylamine oxide, fifteen percent (15%) to thirty five percent (35%) modified polyether organosiloxane, five percent (5%) to twenty percent (20%) sugar based surfactant, three percent (3%) to twelve percent (12%) 1,4-Bis(ethylhexyl)sodium sulfosuccinate, point zero one percent (0.01%) to point one percent (0.1%) anionic phosphate fluorosurfactant, and point one percent (0.1%) to two point five percent (2.5%) polymer adhesive mixture. The polymer adhesive mixture comprises seventy percent (70%) water and thirty percent (30%) polymer adhesive.
US08080168B2
A confinement assembly for a semiconductor processing chamber is provided. The confinement assembly includes a plurality of confinement rings disposed over each other. Each of the plurality of confinement rings are separated by a space and each of the plurality of confinement rings have a plurality of holes defined therein. A plunger extending through aligned holes of corresponding confinement rings is provided. The plunger is moveable in a plane substantially orthogonal to the confinement rings. A proportional adjustment support is affixed to the plunger. The proportional adjustment support is configured to support the confinement rings, such that as the plunger moves in the plane, the space separating each of the plurality of confinement rings is proportionally adjusted. In one embodiment the proportional adjustment support is a bellows sleeve. A semiconductor processing chamber and a method for confining a plasma in an etch chamber having a plurality of confinement rings are provided.
US08080163B2
Exemplary systems and methods for treating contaminated water are described. In one instance a method supplies metal salt reagents to a moving media filter in the presence of contaminated water. The method also introduces a waste stream resulting from the moving media filter upstream of the moving media filter effective to lower an average contaminant concentration of effluent water from the moving media filter.
US08080159B2
A filter apparatus for filtering fluid in an internal combustion engine, the filter apparatus including annular full flow filter media extending axially between a first end and a second end. The full flow filter media surrounds a reinforcing member which extends axially between the first end and the second end and includes a plurality of axially spaced apart circumferential connecting segments. The circumferential connecting segments extend between a plurality of substantially axially extending ribs which connect the reinforcing member to a radially inwardly spaced bypass tube. The reinforcing member also includes a plurality of flow apertures defined by the connecting segments and the ribs.
US08080146B2
A separator for use in a fuel cell has an iron-based hydrous oxide film formed on a passive film of a peripheral surface except a gas channel of a separator substrates of SUS by cathodic electrolysis treatment in an alkaline solution and further a resin layer of an electrodeposited water-soluble resin formed on the iron-based hydrous oxide film.
US08080145B2
Devices are provided for determining the isoelectric point of a charged analyte, comprising a titration chamber and an electrode chamber. The electrode chamber comprises at least two electrodes, for example, an electrode array. Either or both of the titration chamber and the electrode chamber may have a shaped geometry. The electrodes are operative, in conjunction with the shaped geometry of the chamber(s) where appropriate, to generate an electric field gradient in the titration chamber. Permeable material separates the titration chamber and the electrode chamber. A pH Sensor is located in the titration chamber for obtaining the pH of the first fluid. Certain preferred embodiments further include an analyte band detector for detecting the presence and optionally the location of a focused band of charged solute. Methods are provided for determining the isoelectric point of a charged analyte comprising introducing a carrier fluid comprising a Charge analyte into the titration chamber of a device as just described and applying an electric field gradient to focus the charged analyte into a focused band. The pH of the carrier fluid is incremented or adjusted to shift the location of the focused band of charged analyte, and the pH and location of the focused band of charged analyte are obtained for a plurality of locations and pH's and the isoelectric point is determined from such data.
US08080135B2
A method and apparatus for producing sheets from the pseudostems of banana plants in the family Musaceae, each pseudostem having a longitudinal axis. The method includes the steps of feeding a pseudostem (14) into a workstation, supporting (62, 34) the pseudostem for rotation thereof about its longitudinal axis within the workstation, and contacting the rotating pseudostem along substantially its entire length with a fibre-separating device (38), whereby a continuous sheet of fibre (60) is removed from the pseudostem by the fibre-separating device during rotation. Raw paper may also be made by laminating two or more of these sheets together such that the direction of the generally parallel fibres in at least two adjacent sheets is not aligned and then curing the sheets to form raw paper.
US08080125B2
A gas-permeable plasma electrode has an electrically conductive container with a base which has a hole, and a gas-permeable porous electrically conductive film, with the gas-permeable porous electrically conductive film being arranged opposite the base in the electrically conductive container and being connected to the electrically conductive container, and with the gas-permeable porous electrically conductive film having at least one layer of electrically conductive grains, at least some of which are arranged so as to form a gas-permeable film.
US08080121B2
An adhesive agent layer for bonding a support plate (1) and a wafer (5) is in a three-layer configuration in which a hard layer (31) is sandwiched between soft layers (32) and (33) from above and below. Both the top and bottom surfaces of the adhesive agent layer are soft adhesive agent layers, which results in an excellent bonding affinity with the wafer 5 and the support plate (1). Accordingly, the peripheral portion of the wafer (5) can be prevented from being lifted before a dicing process. Further, because the sandwiched adhesive agent layer is the hard adhesive agent layer (31), even when the non-adhesive surface of the support plate (1) is vacuum suctioned, or when a pressure is applied from a grinder, the hard adhesive agent layer (31) is not deformed according to the soft adhesive agent layer (33) being drawn or pushed into through holes (2).
US08080120B2
A method of manufacturing an annular concentric stranded bead cord, wherein, while rotating an annular core at a fixed position in a peripheral direction, a reel, upon which a lateral wire is wound, repeatedly performs a pendulum swinging movement and a perpendicular movement with respect to the annular core, thereby spirally winding the lateral wire upon the annular core to form a sheath layer. When forming the sheath layer, a fulcrum of the pendulum swinging movement of the reel is determined so that, with reference to a tangential line of a circle of the annular core passing through a winding point where the lateral wire is wound upon the annular core, the lateral wire is wound upon the winding point of the annular core within 15 degrees at a position above the tangential line and within a range of 55 degrees at a position below the tangential line.
US08080112B2
The invention concerns a method of washing pipework comprising a high point and at least one low point and filled with a liquid product, the washing method comprising: a step of draining the pipework of the liquid product; a step of filling the pipework with a washing product up to a filling level below the level of the high point; a step of introducing into the pipework a total volume of air through the or each low point the total volume of air introduced being substantially equal to the volume existing between the level of the high point and the filling level; and a step of draining the pipework of the washing product; the method being characterised in that the introduction step comprises at least two cycles, each cycle comprising in series an introduction of a volume of air of a first type at a first rate and an introduction of a volume of air of a second type at a second rate lower than the first rate.
US08080107B2
A showerhead electrode assembly of a plasma processing apparatus includes a thermal control plate attached to a showerhead electrode, and a top plate attached to the thermal control plate. At least one thermal bridge is provided between opposed surfaces of the thermal control plate and the top plate to allow electrical and thermal conduction between the thermal control plate and top plate. A lubricating material between the thermal bridge and the top plate minimizes galling of opposed metal surfaces due to differential thermal expansion between the top plate and thermal control plate. A heater supported by the thermal control plate cooperates with the temperature controlled top plate to maintain the showerhead electrode at a desired temperature.
US08080106B2
Provided are an epitaxial silicon wafer in which the warping is reduced by rendering a cross-sectional form of a silicon wafer for epitaxial growth into an adequate form as compared with the conventional one, and a production method thereof.An epitaxial silicon wafer comprising a silicon wafer for epitaxial growth and an epitaxial layer is characterized in that the epitaxial layer is formed on a silicon wafer for epitaxial growth having a cross-sectional form satisfying a relation of a given expression.
US08080098B2
In a water-based ink composition of the present invention, 2.5 to 50 wt % of white-colored resin particles and 2.5 to 50 wt % of film-forming resin emulsions in a solid content are contained with respect to the total amount of the ink, the ratio of said white-colored resin particles to film-forming resin emulsions is 1:0.2 to 1:3, and not less than 20 wt % of said white-colored resin particles and film-forming resin emulsions in a solid content are contained in total.
US08080093B2
Provided is a liquid supply apparatus including: a liquid supply path which supplies a liquid from an upstream side, which is a liquid supply source, to a downstream side in which the liquid is consumed; a defoaming chamber which is provided in the liquid supply path and defoams air bubbles included in the liquid; and a depressurization chamber which is provided at a position adjacent to the defoaming chamber with a partition interposed therebetween and is depressurized such that the pressure thereof becomes lower than the pressure of the defoaming chamber, wherein the partition allows permeation of gas by the depressurization of the depressurization chamber and restricts permeation of the liquid, and wherein the partition is configured by a partition wall having rigidity.
US08080087B2
A method of drying liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons by contacting a feed stream of the hydrocarbon with an aqueous solution of a salt drying agent prior to passing the stream through a salt dryer to remove part of the water in the stream. The aqueous solution of the salt drying agent is generated in the salt dryer when the partly dried stream comes into contact with the drying salt and forms the solution. The solution is circulated in a loop from the salt dryer to the incoming feed and then through a liquid/liquid coalescer which removes a portion of the water together with dissolved salt from the mixture before the mixture is passed on to the salt dryer where further removal of water occurs. The salt dryer is off-loaded by a substantial factor by the initial partial dehydration and does not require to remove such a large amount of water; the salt consumption is therefore reduced in proportion to the amount of water removed in the treatment steps which precede the dryer.
US08080085B2
Methods and apparatus for an ionizer according to various aspects of the present invention include an amplifier disposed within an open ended housing. The air amplifier is used to supply an amplified airflow that may then be passed through an air neutralization system thereby neutralizing the amplified airflow before exiting the housing. A pressurized gas may be injected into an internal portion of the air amplifier where it is mixed with an ambient airflow before exiting the air amplifier as an amplified airflow.
US08080084B2
A method for recycling steelmaking dusts has a granulating step of mixing steelmaking dusts, containing as a principal component iron and oxides thereof produced during the steelmaking in a melting furnace, with a powder containing carbon as a principal component and granulating the resultant mixture to provide mixed granules, a water impregnating step of immersing the mixed granules in a water to allow them to be impregnated with the water, a solidifying step of molding the water impregnated, mixed granules under pressure within a mold assembly to provide a solid body of the steelmaking dusts, a step of transporting the solid body of the steelmaking dusts as a raw material to be charged into the melting furnace, an enhancing step of increasing the concentration of zinc in the dusts, and a dezincing step of dezincing the dusts during a period from acquisition of the steelmaking dusts out of the melting furnace to the solidifying step.
US08080078B2
An anti-snow module designed for installation into an air filter housing includes a support plate configured for support in the housing. A partition is provided for mounting into the interior of the housing of the air filter. A valve plate is configured to seals the housing of the air filter below a predetermined differential pressure existing between the interior of the housing of the air filter behind the valve plate and the exterior of the housing of the air filter and open when the differential pressure exceeds a predetermined differential pressure value. At least one guide rail is provided on which the valve plate is slideably supported by at least one guide sleeve provided on the valve plate.
US08080077B1
A vacuum assembly has a vacuum housing. The vacuum housing has lower and upper ends. The vacuum housing has a cylindrical wall adapted to secure the system onto a work surface. An enclosure assembly has an enclosure housing. The enclosure housing has lower and upper ends. The enclosure housing has a cylindrical wall. The upper end has two semi-circular closure panels. The panels have hinges. The panels are adapted to cover the upper end. The panels having mating semi-circular recesses. In this manner a passageway is formed. A horizontal membrane couples the vacuum and enclosure housings.
US08080071B1
Embodiments of the invention relate to polycrystalline diamond compacts (“PDCs”) comprising a polycrystalline diamond (“PCD”) table including a catalyst material therein that has been implanted with ions (e.g., carbon ions) and/or infiltrated from a host material implanted with carbon ions. In an embodiment, a PDC comprises a substrate and a PCD table bonded to the substrate. The PCD table includes a plurality of bonded diamond grains defining a plurality of interstitial regions. The PCD table includes an upper surface from which a region inwardly extends. At least a portion of the interstitial regions of the region includes a catalyst material disposed therein. At least a portion of the catalyst material may be at least saturated with carbon.
US08080068B2
The invention provides a gas oil composition having a C10-24 paraffin composition that satisfies the condition represented by inequality (1-1) below, a slow-cooling cloud point of no higher than −6.0° C. and a pour point of no higher than −7.5° C. The invention further provides a gas oil composition having a C10-24 paraffin composition that satisfies the condition represented by inequality (1-2) below, a distillate volume at a distillation temperature of 250° C. (E250) of 5-45% and a slow-cooling cloud point of higher than −6.0° C. In inequalities (1-1) and (1-2), n is the carbon number of the paraffin and f(n) is the paraffin composition parameter for the carbon number of n represented by formula (2) below. In formula (2), n represents an integer of 10-24, and a, b and c respectively represent the proportion (in terms of molar value) of normal paraffins with carbon number of n, of isoparaffins with carbon number of n and one branch and of isoparaffins with carbon number of n and two or more branches, with respect to the total amount of paraffins with carbon number of n. [ Mathematical Formula 1 ] 340.0 ≤ ∑ n = 10 24 f ( n ) ≤ 400.0 ( 1 - 1 ) [ Mathematical Formula 2 ] f ( n ) = 27.45 - 3.55 ( b / a ) - 0.65 ( c / a ) ( 2 ) [ Mathematical Formula 3 ] 370.0 ≤ ∑ n = 10 24 f ( n ) ≤ 430.0 ( 1 - 2 )
US08080058B2
A method for fixing a bone block in a bone tunnel comprising the steps of placing the bone block in the bone tunnel, advancing spaced-apart first and second metal wires through the bone, transversely of the bone tunnel, so as to intersect the bone block and extend through the bone block, removing one of the wires and replacing the one removed wire with a first absorbable rod, and removing the other of the wires and replacing the other removed wire with a second absorbable rod, whereby to retain the bone block in the bone tunnel with the absorbable rods.
US08080057B2
Methods for optimal breast reconstruction are disclosed. The methods include steps for performing a mastectomy that preserves a breast skin envelope. A prosthesis may be inserted into the breast and may be inflated to preserve the shape of the breast skin envelope. The prosthesis may include, a base, a balloon coupled to the base, where the balloon may be inflated to preserve the shape of the breast skin envelope. The prosthesis may also include tube coupled to port for filling the balloon to a predetermined volume. A needle-lock system, coupled to the port may be used to inject, for example, fluids into the balloon. If a patient requires post-mastectomy radiation, breast reconstruction may be delayed and the prosthesis may remain in the breast cavity during the treatment. The treatment may be external beam radiation. Alternatively, the treatment may include brachytherapy technique for treating the internal breast cavity.
US08080054B2
A valve prosthesis device is disclosed suitable for implantation in body ducts. The device comprises a support stent adapted to be initially crimped in a narrow configuration for catheterization through the body duct to a target location and adapted to be deployed to a deployed state in the target location, and a valve assembly comprising a flexible conduit having an inlet end and an outlet, made of pliant material providing collapsible slack portions of the conduit at the outlet. When flow is allowed to pass through the valve prosthesis device from the inlet to the outlet the valve assembly is kept in an open position, whereas a reverse flow is prevented. The device is configured so that retrograde flow will be altered from laminar flow and directed towards the leaflets to effect closing. The device can be deployed in a native heart valve position using a deployment catheter.
US08080048B2
Apparatus and methods for delivering stents to bifurcated vessels involve delivering a first stent in a main branch of a vessel using a stent delivery catheter and delivering a second stent in a side branch of the vessel, without removing the stent delivery catheter from the patient. In various embodiments, multiple stents may be placed in either or both of the main and side branches. In some embodiments, stents in main and side branches are separate and do not touch, while in other embodiments a side branch stent may extend through a sidewall opening in a main branch stent. Stent length may optionally be adjusted in situ, and some embodiments provide for predilatation of one or more lesions.
US08080047B2
A light therapy device for rhinitis treatment. The light therapy device includes a hollow tube body with a longitudinal axis, being dimensioned and configured to permit insertion into a nostril of a treatment subject. A light emitting diode package disposed within the hollow tube body includes a first LED chip as a red light source and a second LED chip as an infrared light source. The first LED chip and the second LED chip are at different plane substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis.
US08080040B2
A device to attach an elongated member to a bone in a patient with the device including a receiver with arms that are spaced apart that form a channel sized to receive the elongated member, and a groove on an inner surface of at least one of the arms. A shaft may be operatively connected to the receiver and configured to attach to the bone. A securing mechanism is attached to the receiver that includes an outer member and an inner member. The outer member may include a bore and a non-threaded exterior that may be configured to engage with the groove to attach the securing mechanism to the receiver. The second member may be sized to fit in the bore and move axially along the bore in a non-rotational manner. The second member may also include a compressible extension sized to fit in the bore when the extension is moved in the bore and to expand to a width greater than the bore when the second member extends outward beyond the bore.
US08080035B2
A suture attachment device for fastening multiple suture filaments at a wound or surgical site is provided. In one embodiment, the suture attachment device comprises a lock body having a proximal surface and a distal surface and extending along a longitudinal axis. The lock body includes at least two passageways defined between the proximal surface and the distal surface. Each of the passageways are sized and shaped for receiving a suture filament.
US08080034B2
A hemostasis device for percutaneously sealing a puncture in the wall of a blood vessel includes a rigid post, and a foot, a seal and a retaining member mounted on the rigid post. The hemostasis device may be deployed in the puncture so that the foot is positioned within the blood vessel. Tension is applied to the rigid post to hold the foot against the inside surface of the blood vessel. The retaining member is then pushed along the length of the rigid post, advancing the seal to a deployed state against the outside surface of the blood vessel. The puncture in the blood vessel is sandwiched between the foot and the seal in the deployed state. The rigid post, foot, seal and retaining member may all be formed from a resorbable polymeric material.
US08080033B2
A catheter for stage-delivering a vena cava filter within a body lumen is disclosed. The catheter may comprise an elongated tubular member having a proximal section, a distal section, and an inner lumen configured to receive an intravascular filter. One or more notches or slits radially disposed about the distal end of the catheter may be utilized to stage-deploy the filter within the body. Several grooves or indentations disposed along an inner surface of the catheter may also be employed.
US08080028B2
A surgical knife blade or other surgical device containing an anti-microbial coating. The coating may be adhered to the device by a water-soluble adhesive that allows the anti-microbial coating to be released into the wound track. The coating may be of a consistency that allows a certain amount of the coating to slough off and pool or puddle around the surgical site as the surgical device is moved into and out of the surgical site.
US08080024B2
An anastomosis surgical device comprising an elongate body having a drainage aperture at a distal end for communication with a proximal end of the elongate body, tissue approximating structure extendable from the elongate body and spaced proximally from the drainage aperture along the length of the elongate body. The device further includes an actuating mechanism extending from the proximal end of the elongate body and comprising at least one tissue approximating structure control mechanism, and a protective enclosure surrounding at least a portion of the actuating mechanism.
US08080013B2
A method and apparatus for fixing a ligament in a bone tunnel by cross-pinning the ligament in the bone tunnel.
US08080009B2
The inventive ablation element comprises an elongated cannula having a proximal end and a distal end. The cannula defines an internal lumen within the cannula and a cannula axis. A plurality of conductors contained within the lumen, each of the conductors has a proximal end proximate the proximal end of the cannula, and a distal end proximate the distal end of the cannula. A plurality of ablation stylets each has a proximal end and a distal end, and each coupled at the respective proximal end of the stylet to the distal end of a respective conductor, the stylets comprise a deflectable material, the conductors together with their respective stylets being mounted for axial movement. A trocar point defined proximate the distal end of the cannula. A deflection surface positioned between the trocar point and the proximal end of the cannula, the deflection surface being configured and positioned to deflect, in response to axial movement of the stylets in a direction from the proximate end of the cannula to the distal end of the cannula, at least some of the stylets laterally with respect to the cannula axis in different directions along substantially straight paths, the paths defining an ablation volume.
US08080006B2
A method for performing cryotherapy on a target tissue region in a body includes positioning a first cooling element in a first location in a body adjacent a target tissue region, positioning a second cooling element in a second location in the body adjacent the target tissue region, and cooling the respective first and second cooling elements so as to cool the target tissue region.
US08079995B2
A method of manufacturing a composite fastener material, the composite fastener material, and products derived from the composite fastener material. The method includes providing two longitudinally continuous sheets of material, positioning the two sheets to form a longitudinal, continuous interface between the two sheets, joining the two sheets by introducing one or more molten plastic resins in at least one lane, one lane of the resin extending across the interface under conditions that cause the resin to bond to the two sheets, molding an array of stems from at least one lane of the resin, the stems extending from an exposed surface of the composite material, and forming engageable heads on the stems to form fastener elements, wherein the two sheets differ from one another by one of material composition, thickness, texture, stretchability, breathability, and compressability.
US08079992B2
A multi-layer absorbent article including a first layer and a second layer, the article being constructed such that it is elastic in a longitudinal direction of the article so that a loading force of 400 g extends a sample of the article taken along the longitudinal centerline of the article between about 5% and 20% of the sample's original length, and the recovery of the sample after the loading force is removed at least 90%.
US08079990B2
A single or multi-port vascular access device including one or more reservoirs each covered by a needle-penetrable, self-sealing septum. The one or more reservoirs each open to an outlet in a stem to which the catheter is attached. The reservoir may be generally circular or ellipsoid in shape and large enough so that fluid movement into and out of the needle is unimpeded. In order to maximize flow between the reservoir and catheter and to minimize any regions of impeded or low fluid flow where coagulation or cell shearing may occur, the fluid passage leading from the reservoir through the outlet into the catheter is defined by unique tapered and tangential geometries. For example, the outlet surface may be globally tangent along the entire reservoir surface, or may be globally tangent along only one side of the reservoir surface.
US08079989B2
A surgical fastening system for implantable devices such as injection port systems. The implantable device may contain a plurality of fasteners in pre-deployment position, may have a housing fitted over or around it which contains a plurality of fasteners in pre-deployment position, or may be a part of a two-part system into which it fits. Accordingly, the present invention also encompasses a deployment system or tool that optionally positions the implantable device, and which causes the fasteners to move into post-deployment position. The fasteners may be staples, metal loops, coils, springs or hooks formed of biocompatible materials, including shape memory alloys such as NiTi.
US08079988B2
An enema device for use with a source of enema fluid having an elongated nozzle includes a hollow elongated rigid body having an interior extending between first and second ends and a feed portion formed at the first end defining a feed portion opening. A hollow nozzle receiving portion extends from the feed portion opening and is in fluid communication with the feed portion opening and the interior of the hollow elongated body. The hollow nozzle receiving portion is sized and configured to slidably receive the elongated nozzle, wherein when the elongated nozzle is slidably received within the hollow nozzle receiving portion, the elongated nozzle is in fluid communication with the interior of the hollow elongated body. The enema device further includes a discharge portion disposed at the second end of the elongated body. The discharge portion defines a discharge opening in communication with the interior of the hollow elongated body.
US08079976B2
Systems for injecting fluids and/or other materials into a targeted anatomical location, in particular, an intra-articular space, include a handpiece assembly having a proximal end and a distal end, a needle extending from the distal end of the handpiece assembly, a fluid delivery module comprising a cassette and a fluid transfer device. A conduit is generally configured to place the fluid delivery module in fluid communication with the handpiece assembly. Medications, formulations and/or other fluids or materials contained within vials that are secured to the fluid delivery module can be selectively delivered into an anatomy through a needle located at the distal end of the handpiece assembly. In some embodiments, ultrasound or other imaging technologies can be used to locate a joint or other targeted anatomical location.
US08079970B2
A compression sleeve is described as having a first sheet and a second sheet attached to the first sheet. The first and second sheets define at least one inflatable section. At least one conduit including a textured inner surface on each of the first and second sheets is disposed within the inflatable section.
US08079965B2
A system for displaying an esophageal operation includes a display device, an interface capable of receiving esophageal impedance and pressure measurements, and a processing system in communication with the display device, the interface, and an esophageal operation model. The processing system is configured to receive a plurality of impedance values from a first plurality of spaced-apart esophageal locations, receive a plurality of pressure values from a second plurality of spaced-apart esophageal locations, process the plurality of impedance values and the plurality of pressure values with the esophageal operation model, display the plurality of impedance values on the display device as a bolus transit, and display the plurality of pressure values on the display device as operational esophagus movement.
US08079961B2
The invention is directed to an integrated device for sampling and testing an analyte. The device generally comprises a housing, a lancing device for sampling an analyte, a test strip for substantially capturing at least a portion of the analyte, and a display unit for displaying a result corresponding to the captured portion of the analyte. The invention is further directed to methods for sampling and testing. For example, one method comprises performing a single operation to sample an analyte, to capture the sampled analyte, to perform testing on the sampled analyte, and to display a result corresponding to the performed test. A method such as this can be carried out using an integrated sampling and testing device of the invention, for example, by placing the device the device on a test site of a subject, such as a patient, and performing the single operation to obtain a test result. The invention has particular application in the sampling and testing of analytes in blood, such as the blood of a diabetic patient.
US08079960B2
A lancet driver is provided wherein the driver exerts a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and is used on a tissue site. The driver of includes a drive force generator for advancing the lancet along a path into the tissue site, and a sensor configured to detect lancet position along said path during the lancing cycle.
US08079952B2
An endoscope cleaning sheath includes a tube body and a distal end configuration portion. The tube body includes an endoscope disposition hole in which an insertion portion of an endoscope provided with at least an observation window is inserted and disposed, at least one liquid supply hole configuring a liquid supply channel, and at least one gas supply hole configuring a gas supply channel. The distal end configuration portion is fixed to a distal end portion of the tube body. On an inner surface of a distal end surface portion of the distal end configuration portion is provided a fluid mixing portion and a concave portion configuring an ejection opening that ejects a fluid mixture at an observation window of the endoscope. The fluid mixing portion causes liquid supplied through the liquid supply hole and gas supplied through the gas supply hole to merge to mix the liquid and gas.
US08079948B2
An impeller for use in conjunction with a percutaneously-insertable blood pump or other rotatable equipment includes a blade that is segmented into a plurality of overlapping or abutting bladelets. In some embodiments, the bladelets are foldable and one side of each bladelet is concave.
US08079945B2
A blown-film process for making a fiber-reinforced film comprises providing and melting at least one thermoplastic resin. The at least one thermoplastic resin is extruded through an extension die to form a film bubble. A plurality of fibers is introduced inside of the film bubble. The fibers are distributed inside of the film bubble. The film bubble is collapsed after introducing the plurality of fibers so as to form a fiber-reinforced film. The fiber-reinforced film has a first thermoplastic layer, a second thermoplastic layer, and a plurality of fibers dispersed therebetween. The film may be formed in a bag.
US08079942B2
The archery training device allows an archer to properly train his or her muscles, as well as train for proper archery technique. The archery training device includes a support having a plurality of pairs of apertures formed therethrough. A plurality of elastic members each has opposed first and second ends, which are respectively received within one of the plurality of pairs of apertures and attached to the support. Optionally, the upper end of an elastic band may be releasably attached to the support. A lower end of the optional elastic band is adapted for being held against a support surface by the foot of the archer. In use, the archer grasps the support with the bow hand and grasps a selected number of the plurality of elastic members with the string hand to simulate a string pull of an archery bow.
US08079941B2
The present invention relates to an exercising apparatus including a rotatable ball, a handlebar, first and second clutches and a tension adjustor. The rotatable ball has an external surface. The handlebar passes through the ball and has two ends extending outwardly from the surface of the ball to provide handle grips. The first and second clutches support the ball. The tension adjustor is connected to the clutches.
US08079939B1
An electric treadmill with a folding mechanism by use of a swivel piece includes a handrail frame mounted at both sides of the front end of the base frame. Moreover, an axle is positioned near the middle portion of the bottom of the base frame for pivotally connecting with a swivel piece at both sides thereof, respectively. A pull rod is pivotally interposed between the swivel piece and the handrail frame. Moreover, a rear support frame having ground-touching rollers is pivotally connected to the axle such that the rear support frame is constantly supported by a telescopic support element. When the base frame is folded upward, the rear support frame is pushed forward by an action portion of the telescopic support element. Meanwhile, the ground-touching rollers are always in contact with the ground in a supporting position. In this way, the base frame can be brought in a stable folded-up position.
US08079932B2
A transmission of the present invention has an input member, an output member, four planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes first, second and third members. The torque transmitting devices may include clutches and brakes. The torque transmitting devices are selectively engageable in combinations of at least two to establish at least nine forward speed ratios and at least one reverse speed ratio.
US08079931B2
An eight speed automatic transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, four planetary gear sets and five torque transmitting devices. Three of the planetary gear sets are simple and one planetary gear set is compound. Each of the plurality of planetary gear sets has first, second and third members: a sun gear, a ring gear and a planet carrier having a plurality of planet gears rotatably disposed thereon. Three of the torque transmitting devices are clutches and two of the devices are brakes. Eight embodiments of the transmission having different arrangements of the planetary gear sets, clutches and brakes are disclosed.
US08079922B1
A free-standing rebound system for use with a table tennis table wherein the system comprises: paired multi-legged telescoping support stands with an uppermost shaft having an uppermost portion with a hole therein; a mounting assembly including a shaft collar, screw spacer dowel pin and a thumbscrew; and a rectangular, framed rebound board having two rebounding surfaces which may be coated in natural and/or synthetic rubber blends and paired wood insert nuts oppositely arranged at the midpoint on two shorter sides. The apparatus is adjustable to orient the rebound board above the table tennis table at any distance from the net, at any latitudinal angle, or behind the back edge of the table opposite the player at any distance, height or angle as required by the abilities and training goals of the player.
US08079912B2
A power transmission shaft mitigates the concentration of both tensile stress and shear stress to achieve an improvement in terms of fatigue strength. A male spline section is formed on an outer periphery of the power transmission shaft. On a valley section of the male spline section, at an axially opposite end side portion thereof, there is provided a diameter-expanded section whose outer diameter dimension is gradually increased toward an axially opposite end. Rounded sections having a circular arc cross-section are provided on both circumferential sides of the diameter-expanded section. A radius of curvature of the rounded sections is gradually increased toward the axially opposite end.
US08079909B2
A gaming machine is arranged with a gaming machine controller and a secondary “queuing” device, preferably a player tracking controller having a memory. A communication link is provided between the player tracking controller and gaming machine controller, and the player tracking controller and a player tracking network including a player tracking host or server. A game code server is connected to the player tracking network. In accordance with a method, gaming machine code or data, such as game or other control code, is transmitted from the game code server over the player tracking network to the player tracking controller. The code may be processed by the player tracking controller, including by storing it in the player tracking controller memory. The code may then be transmitted to the gaming machine controller for storage and execution.
US08079901B2
A simulated musical instrument may be used to alter the audio of a video game, the video aspects of video game, or both. Use of a controller simulating a musical instrument allows a rhythm-action game can be enjoyed in a manner closer to a realistic state of playing an instrument.
US08079894B2
A chemical-mechanical polishing apparatus including a table top, a transfer station mounted on the table top, a plurality of polishing stations mounted on the table top, a plurality of washing stations, and a plurality of carrier heads supported by a support member rotatable about an axis. Each washing station is located between a first polishing station and either a second polishing station or the transfer station, and the transfer station and the plurality of polishing stations are arranged at approximately equal angular intervals about the axis.
US08079886B2
A cooling system includes a coolant distributing device arranged to distribute coolant discharged from a water pump to both an engine and a transmission device. The coolant distributing device includes a coolant relay section, an inlet conduit member, an outlet conduit member, and a transmission cooling conduit member, and supplies a portion of the coolant discharged from the water pump to a highest portion of a water jacket of the transmission device, and discharges the water from a lowest portion of the water jacket. The cooling system effectively cools the transmission device with a simple construction facilitating assembly and maintenance.
US08079884B2
What is specified is a clamping screw (2) for fastening an electrical conductor in a metallic terminal which is designed as a tubular piece and which in its wall has at least one through hole provided with a thread and intended for receiving the clamping screw. A rotating element (10) which can rotate about at least one axis is mounted on that end of the clamping screw (2) which serves for bearing against the electrical conductor.
US08079881B2
A connector shell includes a frame, a dividing wall and a plurality of connector inserts. The frame surrounds a periphery of the shell. The dividing wall is homogeneously formed with the frame and separates a plurality of recesses. The connector inserts are homogeneously formed with the frame and the dividing wall. The inserts are disposed with one or more of the recesses. Each insert includes a body and a plurality of cavities. Each body is configured to hold a plurality of contacts that protrude from each of a mating and a loading side. The contacts are configured to be mounted to a circuit board in a location proximate to the loading side and to mate with a plurality of other electrical connectors in a location proximate to the mating side.
US08079875B2
A battery connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive terminals, an insulating cover and a shell. A bottom surface of the insulating housing defines a plurality of terminal recesses for receiving the conductive terminals. The conductive terminals are placed in the insulating housing from the bottom surface thereof. The insulating cover is then positioned on the bottom surface to secure the conductive terminals in the corresponding terminal recesses. The shell surrounds the front portion of the insulating housing to hold the insulating cover between the bottom surface of the insulating housing and the shell to prevent the conductive terminals from electrically contacting the shell.
US08079869B2
An array of coaxial cables comprising: (a) a conductive substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a plurality of boreholes therebetween; (b) a plurality of coaxial cables, each cable comprising a central conductor, a dielectric insulating layer surrounding said central conductor, and a metallic shielding layer surrounding said dielectric insulating layer; (c) a plurality of receptacles, each receptacle being disposed proximate one of said plurality of boreholes, each receptacle having a first conductive member electrically coupled to said conductive substrate and a first engagement member; (d) a plurality of plugs, each plug being disposed on one of said plurality of coaxial cables, each plug having a second conductive member electrically coupled to said metallic shielding layer and a second engagement member, said first and second engagement members of a respective plug and receptacle interengaging to connect and electrically couple said plug and receptacle; and (e) a contact electrically coupled to said central conductor and presented at said bottom surface.
US08079866B2
The invention relates to a receiving device (1) for receiving and locking two connectors that consist of sockets (52, 52′) and plugs (51, 51′), and a fuse (60) arranged between the sockets (52, 52′) as a current-carrying element for protecting the connection established by the receiving device (1) and the connectors. The receiving device comprises a top part (64) for receiving the plugs (51, 51′), a base (62), which can be connected to the top part (64) to contact the connectors, for receiving the sockets (52, 52′) and the fuse (60), said fuse (60) being arranged in the receiving device in such a manner that the fuse (60) is immobilized in the receiving device (1) in the position of contact of the connectors.
US08079862B2
A connector for use underwater or in a wet or severe environment comprises first and second connector parts adapted to be interengaged to establish an electrical connection. The first connector part has at least one pin, and the second connector part has at least one electrical contact for engagement by the pin when the connector parts are interengaged. The pin comprises an axially extending electrically conductive portion and an axially extending electrically insulating sleeve around said conductive portion, and the pin is supported by and projects axially forwardly from a support whereby its insulating sleeve is exposed along a longitudinally extending portion thereof to ambient conditions when the connector parts are disengaged. The connector part has a protective rigid metal sleeve member arranged to extend at least partly along the first portion of the insulating sleeve and at least partly along the second portion thereof.
US08079860B1
A connector for a coaxial cable includes a connector body and a post having a flanged end as well as a coupling nut rotatably attached to the flanged end of the post. The flanged end of the post is defined by an open-ended port retaining portion having an exterior threaded surface that is engaged by respective internal threads of the coupling nut. The port retaining portion defines a locking collet that enables exterior ports of varying diameters to be engaged with and secured to the connector.
US08079840B2
A method for forming a composite structure. The method comprises providing a first injection port on a first metal plate, spacing the first metal plate from a second metal plate such that the first metal plate and the second metal plate define a core cavity therebetween, casting a core of cementitious material into the core cavity, and injecting a bonding agent through the first injection port into an interfacial space between the core and the first metal plate.
US08079839B2
The bladder for vulcanizing tires having a plurality of first air-release grooves provided on the outer surface of a bladder body and each formed so as to extend from one to the other of the tire circumferential direction and extend toward one side of the tire-width direction, and a plurality of second air-release grooves provided on the outer surface of a bladder body and each formed so as to extend from one to the other of the tire circumferential direction and extend toward the other side of the tire-width direction. By this, the outer surface of the bladder body is divided into a plurality of areas by each of the air-release grooves. Also, the vertexes of each of the areas are angular toward the tire-circumferential direction. Therefore, the pressure contact between each of the areas and the inner surface of the tire is easily released starting at the said vertexes of each of the areas as release starting points.
US08079819B2
The use of premium material in the construction of wind turbine blades may provide increases in blade efficiency and enable the use of thinner blades. By providing a spar cap having a section of premium material having a constant thickness, the use of the premium material may be optimized to provide a more effective use of premium material. Additional material, which may be less expensive as well as heavier, may be added near the blade root to provide additional strength and stiffness to the blade.
US08079815B2
In a turbine blade in which a tabular rib partitioning the blade into a pressure side and a suction side is provided in substantially the midsection of the blade along a center line connecting a leading edge and a trailing edge, and at least two cavities of which a cavity at the suction side and a cavity at the pressure side do not communicate with each other are provided, a pressure adjustment member for cooling air flowing into and out of the cavity at the suction side reduces the amount of cooling air flowing into the suction side, relative to the pressure side.
US08079813B2
A cooling system for a turbine airfoil of a turbine engine has a multiple suction side cooling slots extending from a front edge on the suction side to the center of the trailing edge or even to the pressure side of the center line and a pressure side cooling slot curving to a pressure side outlet forward of the trailing edge and having a front pressure side lip that is aligned with or forward of the front edge of the suction side cooling slots. The suction side cooling slots receive cooling flow from the pressure side cooling slots through a boundary layer bleed valve, which is also aligned with or rearward of the pressure side lip. The cooling system may also combine double impingement cooling with these features. The cooling system minimizes shear mixing, reduces hot spots and can reduce the trailing edge thickness, resulting in more efficient stage performance and extended operational life.
US08079811B1
A turbine blade with a squealer tip having a cooling circuit formed from a number of rows of multiple impingement cavities that extend across the blade tip from the pressure side wall to the suction side wall. One of the impingement cavities (main impingement cavity) in each row is connected to a cooling pressure supply channel through a main metering and impingement hole. The remaining impingement cavities in the row is either a pressure side impingement cavity or a suction side impingement cavity, and each are connected to the main impingement cavity through secondary metering and impingement holes. The impingement cavities located on the ends and adjacent to the side walls of the blade tip are connected top film cooling holes. Cooling air from the supply channel flows through the main metering and impingement holes and into the main impingement cavities, then flows into the pressure side impingement cavity or cavities through the secondary metering and impingement holes or through the pressure side impingement cavities through the secondary metering and impingement holes. At the last cavity adjacent to the walls, the cooling air flows through the film cooling holes to discharge from the blade tip.
US08079805B2
A separator is for a turbomachine, preferably a compressor including a casing, a primary compressor shaft with an impeller disposed within the casing, and a drive shaft connectable with the compressor shaft. The separator includes a coupler having a central axis and being configured to connect the drive shaft with the compressor shaft such that the rotation of the driver shaft rotates the coupler and connected compressor shaft. A separation surface extends circumferentially about the axis so as to at least partially define a flow passage for a fluid stream, the separation surface being disposed either generally within or generally about the coupler. The separation surface is connected with the coupler such that rotation of at least one of the two shafts rotates the separation surface generally about the axis so that liquid within the fluid stream contacting the separation surface is separated from the fluid stream.
US08079798B2
A tiltable loading ramp for loading and unloading a first vehicle onto and from a second vehicle, comprises at least two ramp sections which are abuttable or substantially abuttable to form a ramp surface, and at least one support member forming a fulcrum for the ramp surface. The in use at least one support member is provided partway between ends of the ramp surface and spaces the ramp surface away from a loading surface of the second vehicle, so that as the first vehicle passes the fulcrum, the ramp surface tilts towards the loading surface of the second vehicle.
US08079790B2
A method for making by assembling a tool to and in a tool holder, and the tool and tool holder, and the assembled tool and tool holder. The tool is shrink-fitted into a cylindrical bore of the tool holder, and a shoulder of the tool abuts an abutment face of the tool holder. Structure, such as press, a screw, a draw bolt, or a cylinder, for example, is provided to apply an axial force to the cutting tool to force the tool shoulder against the abutment face of the tool holder.
US08079789B2
The invention relates to a tool coupling for connecting a tool carrier which can be driven in a rotating manner, in particular a milling tool with a machine spindle or an adapter connected to a spindle, wherein four drivers in a crosswise formation are provided for transmitting torque between the said parts and in the clamping state engage in four recesses. To allow the tool coupling to be easily operated and to be of a simple construction, and also to counteract undesired jamming, it is proposed that the drivers respectively have on the side transmitting the torque a planar face which lies with full surface-area contact against a wall of a groove-shaped recess in the clamping state, that on the opposite side the driver has a smaller positively or frictionally engaging contact with the wall there of the groove-shaped recess and that a quick-acting clamping device is providing for the axial clamping of the tool carrier and the spindle or an adapter.
US08079785B2
A tool holder assembly that includes a tool holder member adapted to be secured to a machine tool and a cutting insert support/clamp for clamping and supporting a cutting insert. The support/clamp member includes a plurality of serrations that are engageable with complementally formed serrations on the tool holder whereby a tight fitting engagement is achieved using removable fasteners. The support/clamp includes a clamping arm elastically movable towards and away from a support base and a clamping block connected to the connecting arm adapted to receive clamping forces from a threaded clamping bolt. The clamping bolt defines a force applying surface located in a first plane whereas the clamping block defines a force receiving surface located in a second plane, the first and second planes located at a diverging angle with respect to each other. The clamping block includes an edge portion engageable with a step on the tool holder that is spaced from the clamping arm. The diverging planes and the engagement of the clamping block with the stepped portion increases the force applied by the clamping arm to the cutting insert for a given adjustment of the clamping bolt and resists rollover of the insert.
US08079776B2
The invention relates to a paver for the paving of ground courses for roads or the like, comprising a chassis and a trailed floating screed which is articulated on the latter via tow arms and of which the angle of attack relative to the ground can be adjusted via an actuating cylinder, arranged on each of the two sides of the chassis, for displacing the tow point of the tow arms, a tow-point displacement controller for setting the tow point corresponding to an intended paving height dimension of the screed being provided for each side, characterized in that displacement sensors for measuring the displacement movements of the actuating cylinders are provided and are coupled to a control unit which evaluates the displacement signals of the tow-point displacement controllers, which control unit records the displacement movements as control values and compares them with a nominal control value range for displacement movements that can be stored in the control unit and corrects recorded control values outside the nominal control value range to values within the nominal control value range.
US08079773B2
A method facilitates assembling a turbine engine casing. A first casing section is positioned radially outward from a turbine engine. The first casing includes a first flange having an outer end portion, an inner end portion, and a body therebetween. At least a portion of the outer end portion has a partial frusto-conical cross-sectional profile. A second casing section including a second flange is positioned adjacent the first casing section such that a mating surface of the second flange is positioned substantially flush against a first flange mating surface. Each respective mating surface is opposite a respective load-bearing surface. A fastener is inserted through an opening in the first and second flanges to couple casing sections together such that a portion of a load-bearing surface extending over the first flange outer end portion facilitates distributing loading induced therein substantially equally across the load bearing surface.
US08079771B2
A direction-free spray brush includes an applicator body, which defines an accommodation chamber and holds a brush at the front side and a spray tube in the brush, an accumulation tube connected to the spray tube and having an accumulation chamber and a side hole in communication between the accumulation chamber and the accommodation chamber for guiding a powder substance from the accommodation chamber into the accumulation chamber, and an air inflator, which has an air guide connected to the accumulation chamber of the accumulation tube and an inflation bulb fastened to the air guide for pumping air through the air passage in the air guide into the accumulation chamber to force the powder substance from the accumulation chamber through the spray tube into the brush for application.
US08079769B2
An ink cartridge for an inkjet printer contains an aqueous ink formulation. The ink formulation comprising an IR-absorbing naphthalocyanine dye of formula (II): or a salt form thereof, wherein: M is Ga(A1); A1 is an axial ligand selected from —OH, halogen, —OR3, —OC(O)R4 or —O(CH2CH2O)eRe wherein e is an integer from 2 to 10 and Re is H, C1-8 alkyl or C(O)C1-8 alkyl; R1 and R2 may be the same or different and are selected from hydrogen or C1-12 alkoxy; R3 is selected from C1-12 alkyl, C5-12 aryl, C5-12 arylalkyl or Si(Rx)(Ry)(Rz); R4 is selected from C1-12 alkyl, C5-12 aryl or C5-12 arylalkyl; and Rx, Ry and Rz may be the same or different and are selected from C1-12 alkyl, C5-12 aryl, C5-12 arylalkyl, C1-12 alkoxy, C5-12 aryloxy or C5-12 arylalkoxy. The ink formulation has a characteristic pH in the range of 4 to 6.5.
US08079758B2
Temperature computing instrument and method for calibrating temperature of sensor part used therefor
A sensor part is provided with a printed circuit board that is made of resin and formed with a pair of electrically conductive metal patterns. Each of the pair of electrically conductive metal patterns includes: a first pattern part connected to a pair of electrodes of a temperature sensor; a second pattern part connected to a pair of conductive wires; and a connection part making a connection between the first and second pattern parts. The connection between the pair of electrodes of the temperature sensor and the first pattern part or between the pair of conductive wires and the second pattern part is made with the use of Dotite or solder.
US08079757B2
An apparatus configured to determine water activity and weight of a sample. The apparatus may comprise a chamber configured to at least partially enclose a sample. The apparatus may also comprise a sensor configured to measure water activity of a sample in the chamber. Additionally, the apparatus may comprise a moisture content adjustment device connected to the chamber and configured to change moisture content in the chamber. An isotherm generation module is also disclosed. The isotherm generation module may be configured to receive water activity measurements from a sensor device and weight measurements from a weighing device, the isotherm generation module being configured to generate an isotherm for a sample based on the water activity measurements and the weight measurements.
US08079753B2
The invention relates to an agitator tool for use with a progressive cavity pump for agitating a slurry of sand, heavy oil or water. The agitator tool has an elongate body having a lower end, an upper end, and a plurality of longitudinal grooves spaced between the lower and upper ends and radially about the body. The upper end is configured for coupling to a pump rotating element. Agitation members are pivotally mounted within the longitudinal grooves so as to be movable from an actuation position wherein the agitation members project outwardly from the body during rotation to agitate the slurry, to resting positions wherein the agitation members are folded within the grooves during installation or removal of the tool.
US08079740B2
A lamp position adjustment device includes a bottom frame, a lamp holder, and a lamp mount. The lamp holder is disposed on the bottom frame for supporting the lamp, and the lamp mount is disposed between the lamp holder and the bottom frame. The lamp mount includes a base portion, a first side portion and a second side portion that are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the base portion, a first positioning mechanism, and a second positioning mechanism. The first positioning mechanism is disposed on the base portion to enable the lamp mount to be slidably connected to the bottom frame, and the second positioning mechanism is disposed on the first side portion and the second side portion to enable the lamp mount to be slidably connected to the lamp holder.
US08079736B2
A lighting apparatus comprises a housing and a first reflector. The first reflector is mounted beneath the light source and includes a plurality of segmented reflectors, each having at its top, a installation hole and at its bottom, an opening wider than the installation hole. A second reflector is positioned beneath the first reflector. The height of the second reflector causes a first light shielding angle defined by a straight line passing through the installation hole and the bottom edge of the corresponding segmented reflector to be larger than a second light shielding angle defined by a straight line passing through the bottom edge of the segmented reflector and the bottom edge of the second reflector.
US08079731B2
A lighting apparatus is provided including an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) disposed on a base. The base is configured to move heat away from the array of LEDs to other portions of the base and further to the atmosphere or an adjacent housing. In one embodiment, a native oxide on the base electrically insulates the base from the LEDs. In another embodiment, a cover is removably disposed over the array of LEDs, and removal of the cover prevents electrical energization of the LEDs.
US08079723B2
An adjustable lens with a self-illuminating scale for use in photography, cinematography, or videography has a housing surface with scale markings and an opaque member with a reference marking mounted over and movable relative to the surface. The movement of the member normally adjusts a parameter of the lens. The scale markings are visible through a window in the member. The edge of the member adjacent the scale has an opening. A light source is situated within a recess in the member adjacent the opening. Light is directed from the light source through the edge opening in a direction along the surface of the surface such that the visible scale markings are illuminated, while light from the light source is otherwise substantially prevented from escaping from the lens. The activation and intensity of the light source is controlled by movement of the member or an external illumination controller.
US08079713B2
A near eye image display system includes an image projector, a beam combiner assembly, and an optical assembly, optically coupled between the image projector and the beam combiner assembly. The image projector projects a display image toward an optical pathway, the optical pathway intersecting a viewing axis, the viewing axis extending from the eye of a user to an ambient scene. The beam combiner assembly includes a plurality of beam combiners optically cascaded along the optical pathway, each of the beam combiners being disposed diagonally to the optical pathway and diagonally to the viewing axis. Each of the beam combiners is arranged such that for each two adjacent beam combiners, the first of the adjacent beam combiners is optically located between the second of the adjacent beam combiners and the image projector. The geometrical projection of the second beam combiner onto a first plane perpendicular to the optical pathway, is subsumed within the geometrical projection of the first beam combiner onto the first plane. Each of the beam combiners is further arranged such that the partial geometric projection of each of the beam combiners onto a second plane perpendicular to the viewing axis forms a continuous geometric projection, the optical assembly directing display light of the display image from the image projector toward the beam combiner assembly along the optical pathway. Each of the beam combiners reflects the display light toward the eye, and further directs ambient light emerging from the ambient scene toward the eye, thereby superimposing the display image onto the ambient scene.
US08079711B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for finding the lateral position of the fovea in an OCT image volume. In one instance, a cost function is developed whose minimum is located at or near the foveal center. This cost function includes one or more measures of retinal layer thickness and/or measures of distance from blood vessels or a priori locations.
US08079710B2
An ophthalmic apparatus exhibiting a first position and a second position related by a rotation of 180° about a longitudinal axis. Automatic detection of the position is preferably provided, and the results of the detection are communicated to a computing unit portion of the ophthalmic apparatus. The ophthalmic apparatus exhibits: a first formation for receiving a user's head in the first position, which is in one embodiment a generally curved formation approximating the shape of the user's lower forehead preferably with an indent portion for receiving the user's nose when the ophthalmic apparatus in the second position; and a second formation for receiving a user's head in the second position, which is in one embodiment a generally curved formation approximating the shape of the user's lower forehead preferably with an indent portion for receiving the user's nose when the ophthalmic apparatus in the first position.
US08079709B2
A cornea shape measurement apparatus outputs data useful for prescription as well as injection and installation of a TORIC-IOL. This apparatus includes: a projecting optical system projecting an index for measurement onto a cornea; an illuminating optical system illuminating an anterior segment on which a reference mark is placed; an imaging optical system capturing an anterior segment image containing the reference mark and an image of the index reflected from the cornea; an image processor overlaying an astigmatic axis mark indicating a direction of an astigmatic axis of the cornea, which is calculated based on the index image, on the anterior segment image; and a controller displaying the anterior segment image, which contains the astigmatic axis mark, on a display.
US08079706B2
An apparatus is provided for aligning an implant with a visual axis of an eye of a patient. The apparatus has an instrument with an instrument axis and an aperture through which the patient may look along the instrument axis. The implant includes an aperture having an implant axis that can be positioned substantially collinear with the instrument axis. The implant further includes a substantially opaque annulus extending between the aperture and an outer periphery of the implant. The annulus has a nutrient transport structure for conveying nutrients between anterior and posterior surfaces of the implant.
US08079691B2
A reservoir assembly for use in an imaging device, the reservoir assembly includes an ink input port configured to receive liquid ink from an ink source and an ink tank configured to receive ink from the input port. A filter is positioned between the input port and the ink tank configured to filter ink received via the input port prior to reaching the ink tank. The reservoir assembly includes a foam reducing path configured to guide ink that passes through the filter to the ink tank, the foam reducing path having a varying cross-sectional size and/or shape configured to collapse, compress, stretch, and/or shear air bubbles in foam that passes through the filter prior to reaching the ink tank.
US08079689B2
An ink cartridge includes a first member that alters a path of a first signal originating at a first position, a second member that alters a path of a second signal when the second member is aligned with each of a second position and a third position, and when the second member alters the path of the second signal, the second member prevents at least a first portion of the second signal from reaching the third position. The second signal originates at the second position and has a first intensity, and the first portion of the second signal has a second intensity. A difference between the first intensity and the second intensity is less than a predetermined intensity value. A third member alters a path of the second signal when the third member is aligned with the second position and the third position.
US08079679B2
An image forming apparatus includes a carriage, a plurality of sub-tanks, a main tank, and a plurality of supply tubes. The carriage includes a plurality of recording heads that jet liquid droplets of a plurality of colored ink. The plurality of sub-tanks supply the plurality of recording heads with the corresponding colored ink. The main tank supplies the corresponding colored ink to each of the sub-tanks. The plurality of supply tubes connect the main tank and the sub-tanks. The plurality of supply tubes are fused in a band-shape at a position between the main tank and the carriage, and a maximum of two of the supply tubes are fused together at a position corresponding to a groove of a tube fixing unit provided to the carriage.
US08079676B2
Features described herein relate to ejecting drops from a thin layer of fluid. Piezoelectric elements can generate a uniform high acoustic field, which is transferred through a segmented metal support structure and an acoustic horn. The sound waves generate capillary waves on a thin layer of fluid on a top surface of the acoustic horn. At sufficiently high amplitudes, the capillary waves begin to break apart, resulting in the ejection of drops from the thin layer of fluid.
US08079673B2
A disclosed droplet discharging head includes: a common liquid chamber; a plurality of liquid flow paths branching from the common liquid chamber; a nozzle communicating with the liquid flow path; an actuator substrate having a heater disposed in the vicinity of the nozzle communicating with the liquid flow path; and an additional flow path on a surface above the liquid flow path in the vertical direction, the additional flow path communicating with the common liquid chamber.
US08079663B2
A printhead having at least first and second rows of print nozzles. Each nozzle has first circuitry of a first type arranged asymmetrically to second circuitry of a second type. The respective positions of the first and second circuitry of each nozzle of the first row are arranged mirrored with respect to the first and second circuitry of each nozzle of the second row.
US08079657B2
A liquid sensing device is for a liquid consuming system in which air is introduced from the upstream end in association with consumption of liquid at the downstream end. The liquid sensing device includes a sensor positioning member that defines a sensing flow channel including an inlet hole at the upstream end and a first outlet hole at the downstream end, a sensor positioned on the outside face of the sensor positioning member at a location facing the sensing flow channel as to sense whether liquid is present in the sensing flow channel, and a sensor positioning member mounting portion that mounts the sensor positioning member. The sensor positioning member mounting portion includes a downstream buffer chamber-defining portion including an aperture communicating with the first outlet hole and that in conjunction with the sensor positioning member defines a downstream buffer chamber adapted to receive the liquid and the air exiting from the first outlet hole, and a second outlet hole communicating with the downstream buffer chamber and through which the liquid and the air from the downstream buffer chamber exit. Contours of the downstream buffer chamber are defined such that the liquid and the air received from the first outlet hole flow to the second outlet hole in nonlinear fashion along a wall face of the downstream buffer chamber.
US08079649B2
A vehicle brake system for a vehicle comprises at least one source of pressurized air for pressurizing the vehicle brake system, and a brake actuator configured to receive air from the source of pressurized air. A control is operatively associated with the source of pressurized air for selective application of the brake actuator. A supplemental parking brake control system is in communication with the control and the brake actuator. The control system is responsive to data indicative of gradient and speed vehicle conditions. The control system is configured to send a signal to the brake actuator to allow gradient and speed dependent supplemental parking. The control system is configured to prevent application of the brake actuator.
US08079645B2
A furniture member component drive mechanism includes a force multiplying gear assembly. A wire member can slide within a flexible sheath in opposed first and second directions. The wire member is connected to the gear assembly for axial displacement. A lever arm connected to the gear assembly defines a lever arm first axis of rotation. Rotating the lever arm in a first direction about the first axis of rotation axially incrementally displaces the wire member in the first displacement direction. The lever arm is rotatably connected to a pivot base defining a second axis of rotation of the lever arm transverse to the first axis of rotation. Rotating the lever arm about the second axis of rotation displaces the wire member in the second displacement direction.
US08079635B2
Systems and methods that facilitate vehicle passenger protection during side impact events and, more particularly, to systems and methods which increase the survival space between the vehicle side structure and a vehicle passenger located in the vehicle passenger compartment while maintaining reasonable vehicle structure deceleration levels. The systems and methods enable the seat structure assemblies to move inboard during side impact events by coupling the seat structure assemblies to a deformable cross bar or beam. The embodiments include a deformable cross-car beam that is deformable in one or more locations along its length using changes in geometry and/or changes in material to initiate controlled deformation under a cross-car load due to a side impact event.
US08079631B2
A method and system for guiding a drive rod in a door after an impact to the door. An automobile having a door with a door handle, a drive rod, a latching system, a striker, and a drive rod guiding member. The drive rod guiding member can be positioned adjacent to the drive rod. Upon impact to the door, the drive rod can be disengaged from the door handle or the latching system. The drive rod guiding member guides the drive rod away from the door handle or the latching system. By guiding the drive rod away the door handle or the latching system, the drive rod guiding member can prevent the drive rod from re-engaging with the door handle or the latching system. This maintains the door in the closed position instead of the open position.
US08079626B2
An adjustable attachment apparatus for a container, in particular, a roll-on, roll-off container, for use with a truck equipped to transport the carrier, such as a hoist truck. The container attachment apparatus includes a connector member, more specifically a hook receiving member which is vertically adjustable in apertures of a guide member to a plurality of different heights in relation to a ground surface in order to accommodate trucks having container retrieving hoist mechanisms with a hook or other element of differing minimum heights which manipulates the container through the connector member. In one embodiment, the guide member includes a rail having a slotted track and a connector member is connected to the guide member by a locking mechanism.
US08079624B2
A bumper of a motor vehicle includes a cross member which is disposed transversely to a side rail of a motor vehicle frame and has a U-shaped cross section formed by a wall and two legs extending from opposite ends of the wall Extending longitudinally in a direction of the cross member is a reinforcement member which has a T-shaped cross section and closes off a front end of the cross member.
US08079611B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for an adjustable tow bar caddy for stowing a tow bar. The apparatus having a cross member having opposite ends; a tow bar; and a tow bar caddy selectively mounted to the cross member, the longitudinal axis of the tow bar caddy being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cross member. The tow bar caddy being adjustable commensurate to the type of tow bar used and obstructions created by the vehicle frame. A method including the steps of providing a trailer hitch assembly comprising a cross member, a tow bar, and a tow bar caddy; mounting the tow bar caddy to the cross member; and selectively adjusting the longitudinal axis of the tow bar caddy to be horizontally perpendicular or vertically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cross member.
US08079607B2
A spherical bearing including a ball having an external surface defined by an outside diameter of said ball and an outer race having an inside surface contoured to a shape defined by said external surface of the ball. The inside surface extends between a stud end and a cover end of the outer race. The ball is moveably positioned within the outer race such that the inside surface and the external surface slidably engage one another. The inside surface includes at least one lubrication groove formed therein. The lubrication groove initiates at a first position adjacent to the cover end and terminates at a second position adjacent to the cover end. Remaining portions of the lubrication groove are spaced apart from the stud end.
US08079605B2
A self-propelled vehicle comprises a frame and a platform pivotally mountable to a rear portion of the vehicle frame. The platform is pivotally movable between a first position in which the platform extends generally horizontally from the rear portion of the frame to support a rider during operation of the vehicle, and a second position in which the platform is removably secured in a generally upright position adjacent the rear portion of the frame to enable walk-behind operation of the vehicle.
US08079597B1
A striking device for a prize-winning game machine is disclosed, primarily comprising a striking head, an X-Z axis moving mechanism, and a Y-axis striking mechanism. The moving mechanism comprises two symmetrically disposed X-axis guiding rails and a Z-axis guiding rail where both ends of the Z-axis guiding rail are movably connected at X-axis guiding rails. The Y-axis striking mechanism can movably connected at the Z-axis guiding rail and comprises a Y-axis guiding rail and a striking rod moving along and disposed on the Y-axis guiding rail. The striking rod is off-axis aligned and connected to a back surface of the striking head for striking the targets in the prize-winning game machine. Therefore, the Y-axis striking mechanism will not be tilted or shifted during numerous striking operations to greatly increase the durations of the striking head and the striking mechanism.
US08079595B2
Various embodiments include determining a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck, and modifying the rules of a game based on the statistic.
US08079585B2
An upper limit detection sensor detects that a top face position of a sheet stack on a tray reaches an upper limit position which enables feeding of sheets one by one by a sheet feeding portion and a lower limit detection sensor detects that the top face position of the sheet stack on the tray reaches a lower limit position which enable feeding of sheets one by one. When the sheet stack is loosened by blowing air against a side face of the sheet stack on the tray with an air spouting nozzle provided on an air loosening device, if a sheet floated by air from the air loosening device exceeds an upper limit position of a feeding enabled range, the lowering amount of the tray is controlled so that at least a sheet next to the sheet to be fed is not lower than a lower end position of the air spouting port of the air loosening device.
US08079579B2
A automatic truss jig setting system is disclosed that includes a table including a plurality of segments with a side edge of adjacent segments defining a slot. At least one pin assembly, and optionally a pair of pin assemblies, is movable independently of each other along the slot. Movement apparatus is provided for independently moving the pin assemblies along the slot. Each of the side edges of the segments associated with the slot defines a substantially vertical plane with a zone being defined between the substantially vertical planes of the side edges, and the movement apparatus is located substantially outside of the zone of the slot. The invention may optionally include a system for handling the obstruction of pin assembly movement, and a system for keeping track of the position of the pin assembly when the pin assembly has encountered an obstruction.
US08079578B2
A universal holding fixture assembly includes a plurality of linear actuators supported by the fixture and adapted to engage and support a workpiece relative to the fixture. A linear displacement member is supported by a housing and adapted to move between retracted and extended positions. An end effector assembly is operatively supported by the linear actuator and adapted to engage the workpiece when the linear displacement member is in its extended position. A sensor is operatively supported by the end effector assembly and is responsive to contact with the workpiece to establish a datum of the position of the linear actuator relative to the workpiece.
US08079562B1
A foldable urine collection device which comprises a pair of wire members having first and second opposed ends and having an upwardly disposed urine collection cup intermediate said first and second ends so that the urine collection cup is generally centrally disposed within a toilet bowl for use by a user wherein the first and second ends of the wire frame connect to opposing rims of the toilet bowl so as to secure the device therein. Also shown is an intermediately disposed net having a plurality of flexible fingers disposed so as to capture the collection cup therein in a manner so that a plurality of sizes of collection cups can be captured with the flexible fingers. The flexible fingers secure the cup within the urine collection device.
US08079560B2
Adjustable mounting apparatus for securing electrical connectors and equipment to powersports vehicles such as motorcycles, all terrain vehicles and snowmobiles. These mounting brackets are low cost, compact and lightweight. The brackets install easily without the use of fasteners and are adjustable without the use of tools or modification allowing them to conform to surfaces that may be flat, curved or fully round.
US08079555B2
An apparatus for setting the spacing of a free standing range relative to a floor includes a base component for contacting the floor, a threaded element, and a winding follower. The winding follower extends into the helical recess of the threaded element such that the winding follower travels progressively further along the helical recess of the threaded element. A blocking member engages the winding follower during travel of the winding follower along the helical recess of the threaded element to resist a disengagement movement.
US08079544B2
A system for modifying a shock wave formed in a fluid by a body to modify effects of the shock wave on information transferred to or from the body. The system includes laser pulses for heating fluid along a path to form a volume of heated fluid expanding outwardly from the path, the path extending from the body and through the shock wave; an element for transferring the information to or from the body; and a timer for timing the transferring of the information relative to the heating of the fluid along the path to modify certain effects of the shock wave on the information.
US08079540B2
A towel dispenser includes a housing for receiving toweling. The housing includes a main body; a loading door that is configured to rotate relative to the main body between a closed position and an open position; and a guide system that includes a first roller attached to the main body and a second roller attached to the loading door. The towel dispenser may include a motor for driving dispensing of the toweling from the housing and an associated sensor. The towel dispenser can be mounted to an underside of a cabinet. In an aspect, the loading door includes a curved body and a lip that generally extends away from the curved body. A portion of the main body that extends over the lip when the loading door is in the closed position includes the motor therein.
US08079538B2
An apparatus for making a cementitious composition may comprise a grinding mill for producing a cementitious composition from clinker and gypsum and classifiers for separating the cementitious composition into various portions. A primary portion of the cementitious composition has a particle size distribution such that substantially all of its particles are of a size of about 10 microns or smaller. A secondary portion and a remainder portion of the cementitious composition are combinable to form a resultant cementitious composition selected from Type I portland cement and Type III portland cement.
US08079526B2
An imaging module or reader for electro-optically reading both far-out and close-in, one-dimensional symbols located at variable working distances from the module or reader, includes a solid-state imager having a linear array of image sensors arranged in a single row for capturing return light from the symbols, and an imaging lens assembly for adjustably focusing the return light onto the linear array of image sensors to enable the symbols to be read.
US08079524B2
A method utilizing an imaging-based bar code reader to identify a desired acquisition area within a captured image frame, the desired acquisition area including a target bar code and an extent of the desired acquisition area bounded by a border featuring: identifying a region of the captured image frame corresponding to an image of the target bar code; determining a reference point within the imaged target bar code; determining a reference point within an image of the desired acquisition area; searching for an image of the border of the desired acquisition area; identifying the imaged border of the desired acquisition area; and saving in memory a portion of the captured image frame corresponding to an image within the imaged border.
US08079517B2
A method of maintaining a status of a product item is provided. The product item includes an associated interface surface which has coded data including a plurality of coded data portions indicative of the product item's identity. The method includes, in a sensing device, sensing at least one coded data portion, generating indicating data indicative of the product item identity therefrom, and transferring the indicating data to a computer system. The computer system is responsive to the indicating data to update product status information stored in a data store. The method further includes, in the computer system, receiving the indicating data, determining the product item identity, determining a current product item status from the product status information stored in the data store, and updating the product status information in accordance with the indicating data.
US08079510B2
A printing apparatus using a consumable providing at least one of an image receiving tape, the consumable carrying a tag holding parameter information identifying the width of the tape and status information including the amount of tape remaining in the consumable, the printing apparatus comprising: printing means for printing an image; a tag reader arranged to receive said information from the tag via a contactless link in the form of electromagnetic waves; and a processor arranged to (i) receive said information and to control operation of the printing apparatus in dependence thereon including selecting a printing operation based on the identified width, and (ii) update the status information based on usage of the tape via the contactless link.
US08079506B2
A stud welding apparatus comprises a feeder to receive a plurality of studs and feed the stud one by one with the stud being fed in advance of a weld portion thereof from an outlet of the feeder; and a welding gun to receive the stud as fed from the feeder through a feeding pipe to hold the stud and to weld the stud to a workpiece. The outlet of the feeder is provided with a shuttle loader wherein a hollow shuttle is loaded to a rod body of the stud to extend the length of a short stud, so that the shuttle loaded stud is lengthened as a whole to prevent the shuttle loaded stud from tumbling in the feeding pipe and/or a stud path in the welding gun.
US08079502B2
A sack for compressing compressible material contained therein, the sack including: a pliable body portion (20) for receiving the material, the body portion having a lower base portion (22), wall means (21) and an upper opening (23) for introducing the material into the sack and removing it therefrom; cover means (28) exterior to the body portion and fixed thereto proximate the opening and having cover fastening means (29, 30, 31, 32) for releasably fastening to the body portion proximate the base whereby the cover means covers the opening, and a plurality of straps (25, 26) and/or connectors exterior to the body portion and attached thereto; wherein the cover fastening means and the plurality of straps and/or connectors are operable to compress material in the body portion.
US08079492B2
A polyhedron disposable container formed from flexible weldable plastic film and a method of forming the same are provided. The container has opposite ends and an openings that accommodates a port at the center of at least one of such ends. The container also has multiple sides and an opening on at least one such side located midway between the edges of such side.
US08079489B1
Methods, devices, and systems for improved trash containers with liners and a vented divider is described. The vented divider is installed in one corner of the container to facilitate air inlet such that the bag is easier to retrieve even when full. For reasons of utility and aesthetics the divider has plurality of inlets at the bottom instead of a single inlet. The divider also includes an access member, a pair of parallel flexible hinges also known as living hinges as well as a holder for a prior art air freshener. Means for easy installation and removal and reinstallation in a new trash container are also provided.
US08079486B2
A lock member L1 including an operation portion L1a and a lock bar L1b is disposed on each of first opposite side walls 2 to be brought down firstly toward a bottom portion 1, and a pivotal shaft 13 formed in the operation portion is pivotally supported in a bearing hole 2g2 formed in each of the first opposite side walls to be brought down firstly toward the bottom portion. To allow cancellation of a lock state between the lock member and each of second opposite side walls to be brought down secondly toward the bottom portion, the operation portion is pivotally moved downward. During an unlocking operation, even when an operator pivotally moves the operation portion included in the lock member, the operation portion is prevented from being tilted. Thus, the lock bar of the lock member can be used to reliably perform the unlocking operation.
US08079484B2
A combination of bottle and cap for dispensing a liquid. The bottle includes a narrow neck and a hollow handle. The hollow interior of the handle communicates at its upper and lower end with the interior of the body, to permit a flow of air through the neck opening, via the interior of the handle, to a lower region within the interior of the container so as to minimize glugging during pouring. The cap comprises a cap body attachable to the neck of the bottle. The cap includes on its crown first and second openings, for dispensing liquid and intake of air, respectively. The cap is configured to attach to the container body so as to position the second opening generally facing the handle, while the first opening is opposed to the handle. During pouring, air flows into the second opening within the cap as liquid exits the first opening, with the inflowing air being channeled into the hollow handle interior with minimal interference with the outflowing liquid so as to introduce air into the interior of the body to displace the liquid being poured from the bottle.
US08079481B2
A cabinet assembly is provided that can be quickly assembled and disassembled inside side racks used for the purpose of housing computer systems. The assembly comprises a plurality of side plates that can be secured to inside rack sides, preferably through flexible flanges, a plurality of top and bottom plates that can be secured to the side plates, and a mid-plate is disposed substantially horizontally between the top and bottom plates. Alternately, the assembly can also comprise at least one rear plate that can be secured to the side plates to provide a third side for the assembly. The rear plates having openings designed to allow for front to back air flow ventilation. The assembly can also have at least one divider plate, and preferably a plurality of divider plates, that can be secured to the top and bottom and/or mid-plate(s). In such a case, the divider plates are disposed above and/or below the mid-plate and preferably each have an upper divider plate and a lower divider plate.
US08079461B2
A belt driving control device that includes a belt, a driving roller transmitting drive force to the belt, a belt phase detecting section detecting a phase of the belt, a correction amount computing section computing a correction amount of a belt travelling velocity corresponding to the detected phase of the belt for cancelling out fluctuation in the belt travelling velocity corresponding to the detected phase of the belt, and a storage section storing the correction amount of the belt travelling velocity corresponding to the detected phase of the belt. The belt driving control device further includes a driving control section retrieving the correction amount of the belt travelling velocity corresponding to the phase of the belt and controlling drive of the driving roller to cancel out the fluctuation in the belt travelling velocity based on the retrieved correction amount of the belt travelling velocity corresponding to the detected phase of the belt.
US08079456B1
An automated spring detangler takes clumps of springs and whirls them around a rotating chamber. When they separate and fall to the bottom of the container, they are sucked into a delivery tube that continuously individually deposits them at an assembly line which may be remote from the detangler. Any non-separating clumps of springs are periodically ejected from the container.
US08079449B2
The invention relates to a brake pad (10) for a motor vehicle disk brake, which is intended to be received in a hydraulic braking caliper (12) and which is able to be applied by said caliper (12) against a rotating brake disk, of which an application face (26) is intended to be acted on by at least one end bearing face (18) of the caliper (12), characterized in that the application face (26) of the pad comprises at least one reservoir (28) of grease (32), of which at least one destructible wall (30) is intended to be mounted with a clearance (J) with respect to the bearing face (18) of the caliper (12) during the operation of mounting the pad (10) in the caliper (12), and then to be destroyed by said bearing face (18) during the first application of the pad (10).
US08079444B1
A transportable, self-erecting, battery powered, vertical lift assembly includes a wheeled frame with a towing attachment mechanism. A linear guide member with an exterior roller chain member is pivotally secured to the frame. A carriage member with attached platform member is movably mounted to the linear guide member adjacent the frame. The carriage member includes an attached drive mechanism with a battery powered DC motor driving a gear unit operatively connected to a sprocket, which engages the roller chain member on the linear guide member. The carriage member and attached platform member are movable along the linear guide member by the drive mechanism to pivot and elevate the guide member, which engages a vertical support structure, and to elevate the carriage member and attached platform member. A safety brake assembly immobilizes the carriage member with respect to the linear guide member upon relative movement between the carriage member and drive mechanism.
US08079443B2
A trim panel for an aircraft interior includes a first sound attenuating layer, a structural layer and a second sound attenuating layer. The structural layer is coupled to the exterior sound attenuating layer, and has an exterior side and an opposite interior side. The structural layer defines a plurality of passages that open to both the exterior side and the interior side so as to minimize radiation of noise due to a hydrodynamic shortcut created by each of the passages across the structural layer. The second sound attenuating layer is coupled to the structural layer and has a high sound absorption characteristic. The second sound attenuating layer is configured to be disposed adjacent to the aircraft interior.
US08079442B2
A heat expandable baffle for sealing automotive cavities comprising a carrier plate with an outer perimeter and a strand of a heat expandable material along the major part of the outer perimeter, this strand circumscribing a central section of the carrier plate which is not covered by the heat expandable material, the outer perimeter defining a mean plane limited by the outer perimeter, the central section of the carrier plate being bent away from the mean plane in a way that the point on the central section which has the greatest distance from the mean plane lies at a distance from the mean plane which is at least 5% of the maximum linear length of the carrier plate, and/or the central section having a lumped mass distribution.
US08079432B2
Configurations are provided for vehicular robots or other vehicles to provide shifting of their centers of gravity for enhanced obstacle navigation. Various head and neck morphologies are provided to allow positioning for various poses such as a stowed pose, observation poses, and inspection poses. Neck extension and actuator module designs are provided to implement various head and neck morphologies. Robot control network circuitry is also provided.
US08079429B2
Geometric compensation techniques are used to improve the accuracy by which features may be located on drill bits formed using particle compaction and sintering processes. In some embodiments, a positional error to be exhibited by at least one feature in a less than fully sintered bit body upon fully sintering the bit body is predicted and the at least one feature is formed on the less than fully sintered bit body at a location at least partially determined by the predicted positional error. In other embodiments, bit bodies of earth-boring rotary drill bits are designed to include a design drilling profile and a less than fully sintered bit body is formed including a drilling profile having a shape differing from a shape of the design drilling profile. Less than fully sintered bit bodies of earth-boring rotary drill bits are formed using such methods.
US08079425B1
A towable farm and garden implement trailer which has a modular receiver. The modular receiver is operatively configured to receive implements above or below the frame of the trailer. Implements which may be removably coupled to the underside of the trailer include such implements as a lawn de-thatcher, transport box, box blade, drag harrow, slurry blade, etc. Examples of implements which could be carried and removably coupled to the top side of the trailer frame include such implements as a spreader, tank, carrying platform and other similar implements. In one form, the implement trailer comprises an actuator positioned between the frame and the wheels to allow the wheels to be raised and lowered with respect to the trailer frame.
US08079418B2
The pump can be utilized in gassy oil wells to prevent gas slugs from locking the electrical submersible pump. A shroud assembly is provided with a bottom that can be fixed to the top of a seal section connected to the top of a motor. Additional lengths of shroud can be added as the shroud assembly is lowered into the well. The electrical submersible pump can then lowered into the shroud and supported from a production tubing string. A hanger can then be attached to the production tubing string to carry the weight of the shroud assembly, motor, and seal section.
US08079414B2
Electromagnetic free point tools are configured to determine the free point of a downhole pipe in a wellbore utilizing the amplitude or phase change in a transmitted signal for stressed and unstressed pipe. Certain examples of electromagnetic free point tools comprise a housing, one or more transmitter coils, one or more receiver coils, each coil spaced apart from one another, a power source for applying an oscillating voltage to the one or more transmitter coils which then induces a current in the receiver coil(s), and electronics for measuring the induced current in the receiver coil(s). In another embodiment, at least one of the coils is axially adjustable in position within the tool to permit the relative distance between coils to be adjusted to optimize performance of the tool in various conditions. By measuring the amplitude or phase of the induced current relative to the oscillating voltage, a log of the amplitude or phase is generated while passing the tool through a length of unstressed pipe. This process may be repeated while applying a stress to the pipe to generate a second log. By comparing the amplitude or phase of the first and second logs, the free point of the pipe may be ascertained by determining when and where the two logs diverge. This method can also be used to locate collars and measure pipe thickness.
US08079411B2
A heat absorbing device usable to cool hot beverages includes a support rim for supporting the device on a brim of a container and a heat absorbing element extending away from the support rim in a first direction. The heat absorbing element includes a thermally conductive material for absorbing heat from a liquid in the container. A handle extends away from the support rim in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The handle is usable for positioning the heat absorbing element in the container and for removing the heat absorbing element from the container.
US08079396B2
A micro device feeder is provided which is adjustable to accommodate micro devices supplied on tapes with different widths. A mounting plate has a movable drive plate slidably mounted thereto. An input mechanism on the movable drive plate receives micro devices contained in a tape and advances the tape under motor drive. A feeder width adjustment mechanism is interposed between the mounting plate and the movable drive plate for positioning of the movable drive plate relative to the mounting plate for accommodating tapes with different widths.
US08079395B2
A quick change knife blade assembly, for use in conjunction with a tape roll dispensing cartridge assembly of a case sealing machine, comprises a knife blade mounted upon a knife blade mounting plate. A pin plate is fixedly connected to mounting pins passing through the knife blade, and springs are interposed between the pin plate and the mounting plate so as to normally bias the pin plate to a position at which the mounting pins prevent the removal of the knife blade from the mounting plate. When the pin plate is depressed against the biasing forces of the springs, the mounting pins are moved so as to permit the knife blade to be removed from the mounting plate.
US08079394B2
The invention relates to a belt for a corrugator machine for making corrugated board (50) wherein at least a middle layer (52) of corrugated material is joined under pressure to cover layers (51, 53) of smooth material to form the corrugated board (50). The belt (1) is made of a fabric of warp fibers and weft fibers (4) and has a paper side facing toward the corrugated board (50) to be manufactured. The paper side (6) lies against the corrugated board (50). A driven side (7) lies facing away from the corrugated board (50). The corrugator machine has a pressure zone (70) which includes a pressure element (71) and a countersupport (73). The corrugated board (50) together with the contact engaging fabric belt (1) passes between the pressure element (71) and the countersupport (73). A drive (61) is provided on the driven side (7) of the belt to generate the tension forces acting in the longitudinal direction of the belt. To reduce the friction loss in the pressure zone, a material is provided on the driven side (7) of the fabric belt (1) for reducing the coefficient of friction of the belt side defining the driven side (7).
US08079391B2
A pneumatic tire includes a circumferential tread disposed between opposing tread edges and opposing sidewalls disposed radially inward from the opposing tread edges. Each sidewall has a rectangular extension block and a triangular extension block. The rectangular extension block protrudes axially outward by a first amount. The triangular extension block protrudes axially outward by a second amount. The first amount is less than the second amount.
US08079386B1
A variable pressure reducing device includes a hollow housing body formed with an inlet opening, an outlet opening spaced apart from the inlet opening, and an inner wall surface. The variable pressure reducing device further includes an intake tube that extends into the housing body from the inlet opening. The intake tube is formed with an inlet channel and is further formed with an outer tube surface that cooperates with the inner wall surface to form an outlet channel in fluid communication with the outlet opening. The variable pressure reducing device also includes a redirection structure movably mounted in the housing body and movable relative to the intake tube between a redirecting state and a sealing state.
US08079384B2
The present invention provides a spool seat with a positioning structure, which resolves the shortcomings of the assembly of a typical spool ceramic disc and spool seat. The spool seat of the present invention is provided with a chamber space for locating the fixed ceramic disc. The chamber space is provided with an internal locating portion which comprises an internal locating flange and external locating flange. An external locating portion is protruded from the chamber space. The chamber space is divided into inlet space and outlet space via the arrangement of internal locating portion. It is possible to eliminate the space restrictions for the fixed ceramic disc, and also prevent the rotation and slide or displacement when the fixed ceramic disc is assembled into the chamber space of the spool seat.
US08079378B1
An improved combination umbrella and gazebo is provided which protects the user from adverse weather and insects.
US08079360B2
An inhaler, capable of inhaling liquid droplets having a constant diameter regardless of use environments, for making a user inhale medicine from a suction port has: an air flow path connected with the suction port and for passing the medicine through; an opening mounted with a medicine ejection portion for ejecting the medicine and formed at a part of the air flow path so that the ejected medicine is ejected in the air flow path; a flow path length determining portion for determining a distance from the opening to the suction port according to use environments in using the inhaler; and a flow path length adjustable mechanism capable of changing the distance from the opening to the suction port.
US08079344B2
A prime mover is provided for a vehicle having a plurality of cylinder chambers, a manifold, and engine brake valves by which the cylinder chambers can be connected to the manifold. A valve or nozzle is disposed on the manifold, by which the manifold can be connected to a feed line of a compressed air treatment system.
US08079337B2
A variable valve lift apparatus may include an inner body of which an end is pivotally connected to an anchor, an outer body of which an end is pivotally connected to the anchor, a roller finger follower of which an end is pivotally connected to a hydraulic lash adjuster, wherein a portion of the roller finger follower is pivotally connected to the outer body, a valve disposed to the other end of the roller finger follower, and a connecting unit selectively connecting the inner body and the outer body.
US08079336B2
A multi-cylinder barrel internal combustion engine includes a valve actuation mechanism having generally L-shaped rockers for actuating valves in the engine. The rockers are arranged in pairs each pivotally coupled to a common rocker support. The pair of rockers actuate respective valves of an adjacent pair of cylinders in the engine.
US08079328B2
A collapsible animal transport apparatus includes a planar floor member, front and rear members each having a lower side rotatably coupled to a rear side of the floor member, and a front member having a lower side rotatably coupled to a floor member front side. First and second side members have respective upper and lower sides, respective lower sides being rotatably coupled to opposed sides of the floor member. The apparatus includes first and second roof members each having interior and exterior sides, respective roof member exterior sides being rotatably coupled to first and second side member upper sides, respectively. The second roof member interior side is removably coupled to the first roof member interior side. The front and rear members, the first and second side members, and the first and second roof members are movable between a storage configuration and a use configuration.
US08079326B2
A teatcup and a teatcup liner are described. The teatcup liner (3) is adapted to be mounted in a shell (2) to form a teatcup (1) to be applied to a teat of an animal. The teatcup liner (3) defines a length axis (4) and an inner space (5) for receiving the teat, and includes a barrel (8) and an upper head (6) for receiving the teat, wherein the barrel (8) has an end portion (12) on which a primary engagement member (13) is arranged. The teatcup liner (3) includes a hindering member (15) arranged on the side of the primary engagement member (13) being distant from the upper head (6), hindering the primary engagement member (13) to bend away from the upper head, wherein the hindering member (15) has a smaller extension from the length axis (4) perpendicular to the length axis (4) compared with the primary engagement member.
US08079323B2
A liquid wiping apparatus that can eliminate the increase in the thickness of membranous liquid and defects in the surface quality resulting from the attachment of splash onto the surface of a metallic strip and can improve the productivity in a manner of accelerating the line speed is provided. The liquid wiping apparatus includes blade wipers for contacting with a molten metal having been attached onto the metallic strip 1 to mechanically wipe the molten metal. In the liquid wiping apparatus, a pressure applying unit 7 of the static pressure pad type using gas is installed at the outlet side of the blade wiper 6 in the strip running direction, and phase-mixed flow of gas/liquid 15 is produced in membranous liquid running between the blade wiper 6 and the strip 1.
US08079302B2
Described here is a rectangular, parallelepiped shaped, portable cooking device that consists of a rigid Stand, with attached lid and flaps, that supports multiple food heating containers. A dual purpose transport case/cooking cover, made of heat resistant materials, is a key feature to the design utility by securely transporting the device and acting as a heat efficiency Cover during the food heating process. When used in conjunction with the Stand flaps and lids, this Cover provides many innovations over prior art by preventing heat escape and weather intrusion. Various burner and fuel devices (i.e.: Sterno, Propane, Electric, Coal, Wood . . . ) can be used to provide the heat for this device. The combination of these multi-functional components, in a single compact, portable, modular unit provide significant improvements over current conventional devices by offering multiple options for food heating and serving with increased efficiency in space usage, heat efficiency and transportability.
US08079296B2
A perforating gun train for perforating two or more zones of interest includes two or more gun sets made up of guns, one or more activators, and other associated equipment. An illustrative apparatus may include a first perforating gun; an activator responsive to the firing of the first perforating gun and a fuse element detonated by the activator; and a second perforating gun that is fired by the fuse element. An illustrative method for perforating a subterranean formation may include forming a perforating gun train using at least a first perforating gun and a second perforating gun; and energetically coupling the first perforating gun and the second perforating gun with an activator.
US08079295B2
Table saw blade guards with lateral guards, blade guard assemblies, and table saws including the same. The blade guards include at least one lateral guard that restricts access to a lateral side, or face, of the saw's blade, and may include a top guard. The lateral guard is selectively moved, such as responsive to engagement by a workpiece, between a non-cutting position and a plurality of cutting positions. In some embodiments, the lateral guard is a collapsing lateral guard that has a reduced perimetrical area and/or reduced vertical dimension relative to the saw's work surface when in a cutting position compared to the non-cutting position. In some embodiments, the lateral guard collapses toward the top guard when moved from its non-cutting position to a cutting position. In some embodiments, the lateral guard does not, or does not appreciably, project above the top guard even when in its maximum cutting position.
US08079290B2
A shingle removing tool includes, among other possible things, a handle, a shaft connected to the handle, and a base connected to the shaft. A length of the shaft is adjustable. The base includes a blade portion that is configured to separate one or more shingles from a support structure to which the shingles are affixed.
US08079289B2
In compact drive, spiroid gear unit, and method for manufacturing a drive unit that includes at least an electric motor, a brake, a gear unit, and a frequency converter, the output shaft of the gear unit and the rotor shaft are positioned in parallel to each other, and the shaft-center distance is determined by at least one gear stage. The first gear stage includes a first toothed member connected to the rotor shaft, and a second toothed member, which engages with the first toothed member and is connected to an intermediate shaft, the brake, including at least a brake-rotor shaft, being integrated in the housing of the compact drive, the brake-rotor shaft being parallel to the rotor shaft, and the brake-rotor shaft being connected to a toothed member, which engages with the second toothed member.
US08079269B2
A pressure sensor comprises a first pressure chamber containing fill fluid at a first pressure, a second pressure chamber containing fill fluid at a second pressure, a porous dielectric diaphragm having first and second major surfaces exposed to the first and second pressure chambers, and first and second electrodes positioned with respect to the first and second major surfaces. A method for sensing pressure is also disclosed, comprising applying first and second pressures to fill fluid in first and second pressure chambers of a pressure sensor having a porous dielectric diaphragm, and producing an output representative of a pressure differential between the pressures, as a function of surface charges on first and second major surfaces of the porous dielectric diaphragm.
US08079268B2
The invention relates to the field of multilayer ceramics and relates to ceramic pressure sensors, such as can be used, for example, for industrial process control. The object of the invention is to disclose ceramic pressure sensors that are mounted in a largely mechanically stress-free manner and have a long service life, and the production of which is more effective and more cost-effective. The object is attained with ceramic pressure sensors, comprising a support of tapes, wherein the tape(s) embody at least one cavity that is covered with at least one ceramic pressure membrane tape or in which a ceramic pressure membrane tape covering the cavity is located, and wherein the tape(s) have at least one supply line for the pressure connection to the cavity, and the tape composite is sintered. The object is further attained with a method for production, in which at least one tape is structured for producing a cavity, at least one pressure membrane tape is positioned on the cavity for covering, and subsequently the tape composite is sintered.
US08079261B2
A fibre optic accelerometer particularly intended for use with an interferometer using the compliant cylinder approach but further providing a seismic mass at the core of the cylinder resulting in improved sensitivity and rejection of out-of-axis inputs.
US08079259B2
A gyroscope that lies generally in a plane, for detecting rotation rate about a gyro input axis. The gyroscope has a substrate, and a generally planar outer member flexibly coupled to the substrate such that it is capable of oscillatory motion about a drive axis that is orthogonal to the input axis. There is also a generally planar inner member coplanar with and flexibly coupled to the outer member such that it is capable of rotary oscillatory motion relative to the outer member about an output axis that is orthogonal to the plane of the members. There are one or more drives for directly or indirectly oscillating the outer member about the drive axis, and one or more sensors that detect oscillation of the inner member about the output axis.
US08079246B2
The present invention provides a device for in-situ monitoring of material, process and dynamic properties of a MEMS device. The monitoring device includes a pair of comb drives, a cantilever suspension comprising a translating shuttle operatively connected with the pair of comb drives, structures for applying an electrical potential to the comb drives to displace the shuttle, structures for measuring an electrical potential from the pair of comb drives; measuring combs configured to measure the displacement of the shuttle, and structures for measuring an electrical capacitance of the measuring combs. Each of the comb drives may have differently sized comb finger gaps and a different number of comb finger gaps. The shuttle may be formed on two cantilevers perpendicularly disposed with the shuttle, whereby the cantilevers act as springs to return the shuttle to its initial position after each displacement.
US08079240B2
The invention provides an electronic door lock for a door having a first side and a second side. The electronic door lock includes a locking mechanism, a credential reader, and a programmable control circuit. The locking mechanism is coupled to the door and is movable between a locked position in which the door is inhibited from opening and an unlocked position in which the door is free to open. The credential reader is coupled to the door and is operable to read a credential. The programmable control circuit is coupled to the door and is operable to move the locking mechanism between the locked position and the unlocked position at least partially in response to the read credential. The programmable control circuit is selectively programmed to move the locking mechanism to a pre-selected either one of the locked position and the unlocked position in response to a failure signal.
US08079237B2
A locking assembly for an electronic device includes a first lock-member and a second lock-member. The first lock-member includes a rotatable locking head. The locking head includes a lock lever, a locking block and an adjusting portion. The locking block and the adjusting portion are fixed at two opposite ends of the lock lever. The second lock-member is fixed to the electronic device and includes a lock core and a guiding block extending from the lock core. The lock core defines a locking groove. The guiding block is rotated together with the lock core between a first position where a longitudinal direction of the locking groove crosses that of the locking block and a second position where the longitudinal direction of the locking groove is approximately parallel to that of the locking block.
US08079236B2
The invention relates to a process and a device for the winding of nets (1) knitted from thrums (2) and wefts (3) to a given winding width at a winding point. For this the thrums (2) of the knitted net are guided along spacer elements (5, 9, 14) ahead of the winding point.
US08079234B2
Provided is a manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a porous glass base material by depositing glass particles, which has a chamber having air inlets, and an air distribution container having air outlets from which clean air is supplied to the air inlets.
US08079232B2
A heating and/or cooling system for a dwelling, including a heat exchanger that is located indoors, and ducting that directs rejected air to the attic space or outdoors. The heat exchanger is pre-heated and/or pre-cooled with indoor space air, thereby increasing the efficiency of the system. Additionally, a pair of parallel heat exchangers are mounted in the air path of the air handler that forces air in the indoor space of the dwelling. The parallel heat exchangers are connected to conduit through which refrigerant flows between the first heat exchanger, a compressor and an expansion valve. The parallel heat exchangers are mounted in the air path, and because they are heated or cooled to the same extent, they heat or cool the air blowing through them to a greater extent than a conventional heating and cooling system.
US08079228B2
A scroll compressor is provided with a multiple-speed motor. A control selects a speed for operating the motor, along with selecting between several available options for the system capacity adjustment to meet external load demands in a most efficient and reliable manner. The disclosed embodiment includes an economizer circuit, an unloader function, and an optional suction modulation valve. By utilizing each of these features in combination with the multi-speed motor for the compressor, the present invention is better able to tailor provided capacity to desired capacity.
US08079223B2
A number of compact, high-efficiency and high-power density thermoelectric systems utilizing the advantages of thermal isolation are described. Such configurations exhibit high system efficiency and power density. Some configurations exhibit a substantial reduction in the amount of thermoelectric material required.
US08079221B2
One embodiment of the present application is a gas turbine engine with a compressor that includes a variable geometry mechanism to vary working fluid flow area. A desired state of this mechanism is selected different than a current state to change the amount of flow area. The mechanism has a hysteresis band corresponding to a difference between increasing the flow area to reach the desired state and decreasing the flow area to reach the desired state. To control operation of the mechanism within this hysteresis band, a determination is made whether the desired state corresponds to a greater flow area or a lesser flow area relative to the current state.
US08079218B2
The structure and operation of a fuel nozzle for a gas turbine combustor is disclosed where the fuel nozzle provides for flameholding protection and, more specifically, to such a nozzle that provides for nondestructive protection from flameholding. The nozzle provides for differential thermal expansion between tubes forming fuel passages to allowing for the nondestructive venting of fuel during a flameholding condition. Upon extinguishing the flameholding condition, the nozzle returns to normal operating condition.
US08079216B2
An actuator for automobiles has a housing in which a communication channel for ventilation is formed, the communication channel allowing the inside and the outside of the housing to communicate with each other. Only one communication channel is formed, and the communication channel has an ascending portion that increases in height toward the inside of the housing. The ascending portion is formed so that a vertically lowermost point of the end (a second opening) of the ascending portion on the inner side of the housing is positioned higher than an uppermost point of the end (a first opening) of the ascending portion on the outer side of the housing. With such a configuration, condensation in the housing is minimized, and the risk of malfunction due to entrance of water is minimized.
US08079213B2
An object of the invention is to provide a technique for improving the efficiency of performance regeneration process that is executed on NOx storage reduction catalysts provided in a plurality of branch passages branching from the exhaust passage and reduce emissions of NOx from an internal combustion engine to the atmosphere. When the quantity of NOx discharged from an internal combustion engine and flowing into an exhaust pipe is smaller than a predetermined quantity, fuel serving as reducing agent is added through a fuel addition valve while torque change moderating process is executed (from T0 to T1). After that, a first flow rate control valve is closed to make the flow rate of the exhaust gas flowing in the first branch passage smaller than that in the second branch passage (from T1 to T3).
US08079208B2
A cord for reinforcing tires having a core of at least one p-aramid filament that has a modulus greater than about 6.5 N/dTex and a sheath of steel strands that are helically wound around the p-aramid filament. The steel strands consist of either a single steel wire or multiple steel wires twisted together.
US08079204B2
An agricultural harvester includes a feeder house drivably coupled to a power source. The feeder house has a housing frame. A faceplate is pivotally coupled to the housing frame to facilitate a pivoting of the faceplate relative to the housing frame. A hydraulic cylinder has a first end connected to the housing frame and a second end coupled to the faceplate to facilitate movement of the faceplate relative to the housing frame. The hydraulic cylinder has a plurality of hydraulic ports for facilitating movement of the operating piston of the hydraulic cylinder, with at least a first hydraulic port of the plurality of hydraulic ports being connected in fluid communication with a hydraulic power system. A first accumulator containing a compressible gas charge is connected in fluid communication with the first hydraulic port of the hydraulic cylinder.
US08079193B2
A hidden edge connector includes a connector body which includes a base guider for biasing against a rear surface of a frame, an edge guider for biasing against a surrounding surface of a frame opening, and a panel guider which is extended from the base guider and is perpendicular to the edge guider. The connector body is adapted for mounting to the frame at the frame opening thereof to keep a front surface of the frame in a clean and obstructing free manner, such that the connector body is adapted for guiding the panel being mounted within the frame opening in a hidden manner when a rear surface of the panel is biased against the panel guider to align with the rear surface of said frame so as to substantially align the front surface of the panel with a front surface of the frame.
US08079186B2
A soffit system is disclosed and has elongate first and second soffit components. Each soffit component includes a support flange and a sidewall integrally connected to one another along a lengthwise joint. A connector is carried on each of the sidewalls. A connector leg is carried on each of the sidewalls that is spaced from and parallel to the second joint. The connector and the connector leg extend in a lengthwise direction. Each sidewall is oriented at a non-parallel angle relative to each support flange, respectively. The first connector and the second connector are pushed toward one another to selectively join the first and second soffit components, and are pulled apart to separate the first and second soffit components.
US08079185B2
A window element has a cover pane which is substantially flush with an outer skin of an aircraft or other transport, achieving a fluid-dynamically favorable, substantially unbulged exterior surface. As a result of the presence of an additional back-ventilated cover pane arranged in front of the actual outer pane of the window element, a fluid-dynamically favorable integration of the window element into the outer skin of an aircraft fuselage airframe is achieved. Any deformation, such as any buckling or bulging of the outer pane of the window element, as a result of a difference in pressure between the interior of the aircraft fuselage airframe and the exterior space at cruising altitudes, has no fluid-dynamically disadvantageous effect. The outer pane is covered by the cover pane which remains substantially undeformed with respect to the outer skin of the aircraft fuselage airframe, for example. Any deformation of the cover pane is largely eliminated by back-ventilation.
US08079184B2
Pedestrian trafficable skid-resistant flexible articles (24) are described. These articles (24) include a flexible substrate (17) having a non-skid coating that may be either a pressure-sensitive adhesive (13) or a highly- filled, textured binder. These articles may be applied to trafficable surfaces such as roof and floors. Articles in the form of roof underlayments having a skid-resistant surface are described in particular.
US08079173B2
A fishing lure includes a weighted hydrodynamic head, mated artificial bait and pivoting hook. The weighted hydrodynamic head includes an integrally molded, conically-shaped or pyramid-shaped malleable body with a plurality of fins projecting laterally therefrom, a blunt leading edge, a trailing edge, a central passage extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge, and a slot formed in the side of the body and extending into the central passage. The weighted hydrodynamic head is made of a dense material such as lead. The hook is an offset hook including an eyelet, a proximal shank, an offset bend section, a distal shank, a u-shaped bend and a pointed barbed tip. The distal shank and proximal shank are substantially parallel. The eyelet, which projects through the central passage in the leading edge and the distal shank, is aligned with and extends longitudinally from the slot. The artificial bait includes a resilient elastomeric body with a head end configured to be received in the central passage, the body being hooked by the u-shaped bend of the hook. The fins extend in a fore and aft direction and for almost the entire length of the conically-shaped malleable body of the weighted hydrodynamic head. The slot is occluded (i.e., pinched partially closed) to resist withdrawal of the hook but still allow limited pivoting and translational motion. The hook may also be colored to generally match the color of the bait.
US08079172B2
A device is provided for securing against crime-of-opportunity theft at least one fishing rod and reel to be stored or transported in an outdoor, unsecured area or on an open, unsecured portion of a vehicle, such as an open bed of a pick-up truck, trailer, or boat. The device includes: (a) a flexible webbing material, wherein the flexible webbing material has a generally bag-like shape with an open end; (b) a first cable and first lock operatively connected for closing and locking the open end of the flexible webbing material around a forward portion of a fishing rod protruding through the open end when at least the rear portion thereof is positioned inside the flexible webbing material, and (c) a second cable and second lock operatively connected for attaching and locking the flexible webbing material to a fixed structure in the open area or on the vehicle; wherein each of the flexible webbing material, the first cable for closing, and the second cable for attaching is resistant to cutting with a hand-held knife.
US08079167B1
A muzzleloading rifle includes an action and a barrel assembly attached to a forward end of the action. The barrel assembly includes a barrel, a barrel extension and an intervening wall. The barrel has a breach end, a muzzle end and a primary chamber at the breach end for receiving a primary charge loaded through the muzzle end. The barrel extension is attached to the breach end of the barrel and includes a casing chamber positioned rearwardly from the primary chamber. The casing chamber is configured to receive a standard ammunition casing with an integral primer therein. The intervening wall separates the primary chamber from the casing chamber. The intervening wall includes a flash hole communicating between the casing chamber and the primary chamber.
US08079156B1
A glove holder is disclosed for coupling a glove to an air vent. The glove has a body defining an interior cavity. The body has an aperture for accessing the interior cavity. The air vent discharging an air flow. The air flow dries the glove. The glove holder comprises a cylinder having an intake end, an exhaust end, an interior surface, and an exterior surface. The interior surface defines an interior bore extending from the intake end to the exhaust end. The cylinder is insertable through the aperture and into the interior cavity of the body for positioning the exterior surface of the cylinder adjacent to the body of the glove. A support arm extends from a first end to a second end. The first end of the support arm is secured to the interior surface of the cylinder. The second end of the support arm is positioned within the interior bore. A clamp secures the second end of the support arm to the air vent. The air flow displaces from the air vent, through the interior bore of the cylinder and through the body of the glove.
US08079130B2
The invention relates to a method for assembling sheets by riveting, comprising a step for piercing a hole through the sheets, followed by a step for placing a rivet in the pierced hole, the step for piercing a hole being executed by supplying an advance speed instruction of a piercing tool as well as a rotation speed instruction of this tool. According to the invention, a previous step for determining information on the local stiffness of the sheets (Info_stiffness) is also carried out at the level of the hole to be pierced, the advance speed instruction and rotation speed instruction of the tool being a function of this information on the local stiffness of the sheets.Application most suited to the field of aircraft construction.
US08079114B2
A height adjustment device for a hinge having one hinge leaf that can be snapped into or inserted into a receiving part mounted on a door leaf or on a door frame, and with a height adjustment mechanism in the receiving part which has abutment against an edge of the hinge leaf. The height adjustment mechanism has a slide that is limitedly movable in the receiving part, and a rotatable height adjustment member. The slide has a portion for abutment against an edge of the hinge leaf. The height adjustment member has a plurality of radially directed, angularly separated arms of different lengths, wherein an end portion of such an arm is adapted to engage with an adapted engaging portion of the slide.
US08079113B2
The present invention discloses a vacuum cleaner including a main body (1) of the vacuum cleaner, a wheel (2) rotatably mounted at the body, a driving unit for driving the wheel (2), a sensor (71) positioned at the main body, for sensing an inclined direction of the main body (1), and a control unit for controlling the driving unit according to the inclined direction of the main body (1) sensed by the sensor (71). In this configuration, the posture of the main body (1) of the vacuum cleaner can be controlled according to the inverted pendulum control theory. Therefore, the main body (1) of the vacuum cleaner can maintain the posture thereof not to fall down.
US08079108B2
A cleaning system used for cleaning up plastic in a nozzle of a molding apparatus, the nozzle including a nozzle opening and a through hole connected with the nozzle opening, the plastic being received in the through hole. The cleaning system includes a bottom fixing sleeve, a top guiding sleeve and a knocking stick. The bottom fixing sleeve is configured for securely fixing the nozzle. The top guiding sleeve is configured for coupling with the bottom fixing sleeve, and the top guiding sleeve includes a guiding hole defined therein. The knocking stick is movable along the guiding hole of the top guiding sleeve such that the knocking stick strikes the plastic in a direction along the central axis of the through hole of the nozzle.
US08079107B2
In an overhead throwing sweeping machine, the cylindrical sweeping roller (4) which is rotatable about its longitudinal axis is retained on jointly adjustable pivoted arms, and the dirt container (6) arranged behind the sweeping roller (4) has a receiving opening, the bottom edge (15) of which lies adjacent to the sweeping roller (4). In order to reset the sweeping area of the sweeping roller (4) after wear of the bristles, a cable control (20) is provided which runs over a bearing surface (11) which, at a pivoted arm designed as a double-armed lever and intended for the sweeping roller (4), is formed on that arm (7) of said double-armed lever which is remote from the longitudinal axis (4′) of the sweeping roller (4). One end of the cable control (20) is held in place when the sweeping roller (4) is lowered into the sweeping position, whereas the other end is connected to an adjusting mechanism, such that the cable control (20) holds the pivoted arms in the position for the sweeping position of the sweeping roller (4) by engagement with the bearing surface (11). At least one supporting element (36) for the support of the dirt container (6) is coupled to the adjusting mechanism, such that the adjustment of the latter both changes the effective length of the cable control (20) and correspondingly displaces the at least one supporting element (36).
US08079104B2
The disclosed changing station may support a small person, such as a baby. The station may comprise a platform, a support structure, and a mounting structure. The platform may be rotatable from a vertical storage position to a horizontal use position along a rotational axis. The support structure may have a rotatable support member that rotates along the rotational axis. The mounting structure may be used for mounting the support structure to a vertical wall.
US08079101B2
A limb support coupled to a patient-support apparatus comprises a frame having a pair of locks to block vertical and horizontal pivoting of the limb support in relation to the patient-support apparatus. The lock release actuator is configured to be coupled to the frame to simultaneously unlock both the vertical and horizontal rotation locks. The limb support includes a stowable leg support configured to provide support to the leg of a patient during obstetric delivery.
US08079100B2
An apparatus for supporting a patient during radiation therapy includes a treatment table that is pivotable about a horizontal axis, and a laser measurement system which is designed to indicate a non-horizontal orientation of the treatment table to be adopted during the radiation therapy.
US08079099B1
An apparatus for wrapping a person sitting in a wheelchair having foot pedals includes a sheet having a top, bottom, right, center and left. The center has a first upwardly-open pocket and one of the right and left has a second upwardly-open pocket. The sheet is placed on a wheelchair with the pedals in the first pocket. A person can sit on the sheet on the wheelchair. The portion of the sheet having the second pocket is wrapped around the person's legs with the person's feet in the second pocket, and the final portion is wrapped around the person's legs.
US08079098B2
A pull rod coupling configured to operably couple a pull rod to a fluid control device.
US08082588B2
The objective of the present invention is a storage method in a decoder of an event encrypted by control words that guarantees the access to this event at whichever moment, even if certain keys of the system have changed for security reasons. This objective is achieved by a storage method of an event encrypted by control words in a reception and decryption unit connected to a security unit, said control words and the necessary rights being contained in management messages encrypted by system keys, comprising storing the encrypted event as well as the control messages in the storage unit, and storing in the storage unit the system keys encrypted by a predefined local key stored in the security unit.
US08082582B2
An authorization system of a navigation device includes a first identification (ID) module and a second ID module. The first ID module is arranged to perform authorization for a first portion of the navigation device, and the second ID module is arranged to perform authorization for a second portion of the navigation device. The first and the second ID modules perform bidirectional authorization of the first and the second portions, and further determine behavior of the navigation device according to a result of the bidirectional authorization. An associated authorization method for controlling the navigation device is further provided.
US08082574B2
A technique for securing message traffic in a data network using various methods for distributing security policies and keys, where policy definition is determined in a Management and Policy (MAP) functional layer that is responsible for policy distribution; a separate Key Authority Point (KAP) that is responsible for key generation, key distribution, and policy distribution; and a separate Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) which is responsible for enforcing the policies and applying the keys.
US08082573B2
A controller (1) and target devices (2, 3) are connected via a network. The controller (1) displays an operation panel for controlling the target device (2) at a display device (10) based on information from the target device (2). The controller (1) is capable of changing an element and a user action of the operation panel based on data obtained by data broadcast.
US08082564B2
Media content is received from at least one external device that is coupled to a set-top box. Subscriber channel content is generated based on the media content. The subscriber channel content is transferred to a cable network to produce a subscriber cable channel.
US08082558B2
A slot-in optical disk drive includes a power unit to drive a sliding component to rotate a loading bar, so as to process loading procedure of the slot-in optical disk drive. A base covers on a main board disposed on a rear side of a casing of the slot-in optical disk drive. A first linking bar is pivoted to a center of the base. An end of the first linking bar is driven by the sliding component, and a haul slot is for driving a right positioning bar. The other end of the first linking bar is pivoted to a second linking bar of the base. The second linking bar is for driving the unloading bar pivoted to the base. The end of the unloading bar is close to a lateral side of the casing, so as to keep away from a breach on the base.
US08082555B2
A dynamic proxy object is disclosed that is capable of intercepting calls from a calling object to a target object. The dynamic proxy can imitate the target object so that even though the calling object may be of a different version or type from the target object, it can still communicate with the target object. Specifically, the dynamic proxy can intercept early bound invocation by the calling object, obtain metadata from these invocations, and pass it to an adapter via a set of reflective interfaces. The adapter can also obtain metadata from the target object via late bound invocations, and then compare this metadata to the metadata provided by the dynamic proxy in order to make a determination whether or not the calling object and the target object should be communicating. If so, communication can occur between the calling and target objects in spite of differing versioning or object types.
US08082554B2
The present invention provides methods, apparatus and computer programs for event-based control of subscription matching in a publish/subscribe communications environment. Activation and/or deactivation events are associated with subscriptions at a publish/subscribe broker and are used to control when a subscription is active. The broker is responsive to temporally-unpredictable events, such as receipt of a published message on a predefined activation topic, to activate subscription matching for messages that are subsequently received or which have been received earlier and retained at the broker. Conventional subscription matching can be avoided for a registered subscription while that subscription is inactive, and subscribers are not required to explicitly and repeatedly subscribe and unsubscribe.
US08082545B2
Monitoring system wide task dispatch allows dynamic adaptation to conditions of a system. A monitor tracks the total tasks currently dispatched to the system. In a system with multiple processing units, this monitor is centralized and collects information about tasks dispatched to each of the processing units. The monitor compares the total dispatched tasks against a threshold that has already been defined. Further dispatching of tasks to the system is regulated based on comparison of the total dispatched tasks against the threshold. If the comparison achieves a trigger condition (e.g., total dispatched tasks exceeding the threshold), then task dispatch is throttled. Throttling further task dispatching, as long as the threshold is exceeded, allows progress to continue without overwhelming the system.
US08082538B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which an evolutionary system is managed and viewed as a software product line. In some embodiments, the core architecture is a relatively unchanging part of the system, and each version of the system is viewed as a product from the product line. Each software product is generated from the core architecture with some agent-based additions. The result may be a multi-agent system software product line.
US08082529B2
A method and system is described for mapping a system-level description of an integrated system directly to a technology-specific set of logic cells that are comprised primarily of large complex cells (bricks). The invention is based on applying aggressive Boolean operations that would be of impractical runtime complexity for a large library, but are applicable for the targeted brick libraries which typically contain a small number of complex cells, along with a much smaller number of simple cells. This invention is modular such that it can be applied in the context of incremental netlist optimization as well as optimization during physical synthesis.
US08082527B1
Methods are provided for compactly representing behaviors of a processor of packets. A declarative description of the processor is input. The declarative description specifies rules for manipulating the packets. A dependency graph is generated from the declarative description. The dependency graph specifies each rule that depends upon another one or more of the rules. The declarative description and the dependency graph are transformed into a Petri net representing the behaviors of the processor. The Petri net includes respective transitions for the rules and places for enabling the transitions to fire. A specification of the Petri net is output. The Petri net represents the behaviors of the processor.
US08082523B2
A portable electronic device displays, on a touch screen display, a user interface for a phone application during a phone call. In response to detecting activation of a menu icon or menu button, the UI for the phone application is replaced with a menu of application icons, while maintaining the phone call. In response to detecting a finger gesture on a non-telephone service application icon, displaying a user interface for the non-telephone service application while continuing to maintain the phone call, the UI for the non-telephone service application including a switch application icon that is not displayed in the UI when there is no ongoing phone call. In response to detecting a finger gesture on the switch application icon, replacing display of the UI for the non-telephone service application with a respective UI for the phone application while continuing to maintain the phone call.
US08082516B2
Generating a preview panel includes generating an auxiliary display in response to an action performed in a primary display, where the primary display is for presenting one or more entries that correspond to results of a Web-based search, receiving data identifying an entry from the primary display, and generating, for presentation in the auxiliary display, information corresponding to the entry from the primary display.
US08082509B2
A computer-implemented method includes generating a list of virtual collaboration facilities associated with an authenticated user, and detecting selection of one of the virtual collaboration facilities on the list. An authenticated user can request a key to be issued to allow an unauthenticated user to gain access to the selected virtual collaboration facility.
US08082504B1
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for the marking of media modules. Embodiments described herein include a system and method for creating a reference point on a first device. The reference point may be used to mark a point of a media module being presented on a second device by correlating the reference point on the first device to the point to be marked in the presentation of the media module presented on the second device. The media module or a copy of the media module may be presented in a presentation module utilizing the marked point created using the reference point.
US08082501B2
The present invention provides a highly scalable architecture for a three-dimensional graphical, multi-user, interactive virtual world system. In a preferred embodiment a plurality of users interact in the three-dimensional, computer-generated graphical space where each user executes a client process to view a virtual world from the perspective of that user. The virtual world shows avatars representing the other users who are neighbors of the user viewing the virtual word. In order that the view can be updated to reflect the motion of the remote user's avatars, motion information is transmitted to a central server process which provides positions updates to client processes for neighbors of the user at that client process. The client process also uses an environment database to determine which background objects to render as well as to limit the movement of the user's avatar.
US08082500B2
A method and apparatus for communicating with an intelligent electronic device coupled to a switching device used in a power system, wherein a user-interface software program operates on a computing device which is operatively connected to the intelligent electronic device. The user-interface software program when executed by the processor of the computing device provides a plurality of wizards selectable by a user. Upon selecting a wizard to be executed, the user-interface software program causes the display on a monitor of a first window displaying wizard controls for guiding a user in the execution of one or more steps related to the selected wizard, and a second window separate from the first window displaying information related to the step under execution.
US08082497B2
A user interface for improving document layout on arbitrary devices of different resolutions and size using manifold representations of content. Manifold representations of content are: multiple versions of anything that might appear in a document, from text, to images, to even such things as stylistic conventions. The specific content is selected and formatted dynamically, on the fly, by a layout engine in order to best adapt to a given viewing situation. A user interface for authoring and editing such manifold content is disclosed.
US08082495B2
A label creating apparatus includes a print data creating and editing device that creates and edits print data to be printed onto a long tape. The print data creating and editing device includes a storage device that stores a data file, a divided display control device, a print data selecting device, a print data creating device, a model tape display control device, a model data file display control device, a file display size determining device. If the file display size determining device determines that a model data file is not entirely displayed in the data file display area, the model data file display control device compresses the model data file so that the model data file can be entirely displayed in the data file display area.
US08082494B2
Embodiments are provided for rendering markup language data representing a macro as macro objects in a graphical user interface on a display device and for converting macro objects to markup language data. In one embodiment, markup language data representing the macro from a data source may be translated into macro objects for display in the graphical user interface in response to receiving a paste command in an application program. The macro objects visually represent the macro. The application program may automatically convert the markup language data into the macro objects. The macro objects are then automatically rendered in the graphical user interface. In another embodiment, a selection of macro objects displayed in the graphical user interface may be received via a copy command in the application program. In response to receiving the copy command, the application program may automatically convert the selected macro objects into markup language data.
US08082491B1
A mechanism for describing dynamic display objects in a distributed computing environment is described. A service in a distributed computing environment may generate results data for a client in response to client requests. The service may provide schemas describing the presentation characteristics of results data. The schemas may include information for use in presenting the results data. The results data may include data elements, and the presentation schema may include presentation elements each including information describing the presentation characteristics of one or more of the data elements. The client may map data elements to corresponding presentation elements from the schema, and may use the element corresponding to a data element to present the data element. Using the dynamic display objects, display behavior may be altered without having to rebuild code.
US08082489B2
This disclosure is directed to novel solutions for processing data in a manner similar to that employed by traditional spreadsheet applications (including, merely by way of example, evaluating expressions, producing reports and the like) without the need for a spreadsheet application. In an aspect, a spreadsheet calculation engine might be emulated in a Java environment, allowing for enhanced data input/output flexibility while still maintaining the ease with which traditional spreadsheet applications allow users to design a calculation model. In another aspect, the spreadsheet engine might be provided on a web server, database server and/or application server, allowing for data (including, for instance, reports comprising data processed and/or produced by the spreadsheet calculation engine) to be published easily (and, in some cases dynamically) on the web.
US08082482B2
A memory system is provided for performing error correction operations in a memory module. The memory system comprises a memory hub device integrated in the memory module and a set of memory devices coupled to the memory hub device. The memory hub device comprises a link interface integrated into the memory hub device that provides a communication pathway between an external memory controller and the set of memory devices. The memory hub device also comprises first error correction logic provided in write logic integrated in the memory hub device, the write logic providing a data path for writing data to the set of memory devices. The memory hub device also comprises second error correction logic provided in read logic integrated in the memory hub device, the read logic providing a data path for reading data from the set of memory devices.
US08082474B2
Shadow selection logic is used to select a driver bit position as a shadowed driver value, and line drivers to transmit data for the selected driver bit position and the shadowed driver value on separate link segments of a bus. In addition, shadow compare logic is used to compare a selected received value with a shadowed received value from the bus and identify a miscompare in response to a mismatch of the compare Shadow counters are used to count a rate of the miscompare relative to a bus error rate over a period of time. A defective link segment is identified in response to the rate of the miscompare within a predefined threshold of the bus error rate.
US08082467B2
A novel system and method for working around a processing flaw in a processor is disclosed. At least one instruction is fetched from a memory location. The instruction is decoded. A set of opcode compare logic, associated with an instruction decode unit and/or a set of global completion table, is used for an opcode compare operation. The compare operation compares the instruction and a set of values within at least one opcode compare register in response to the decoding. The instruction is marked with a pattern based on the opcode compare operation. The pattern indicates that the instruction is associated with a processing flaw. The pattern is separate and distinct from opcode information within the instruction that is utilized by the set of opcode compare logic during the opcode compare operation.
US08082461B2
An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit, a controlling unit, and a monitoring unit to monitor, while the printing unit and the controlling unit are in a power-saving mode in which power supply to the printing unit and the controlling unit is stopped, whether there is a resuming factor for resuming operation from the power-saving mode. When the resuming factor is detected, the monitoring unit sends to the printing unit a request to resume operation and a request to set a printing mode, before sending a request to resume operation to the controlling unit.
US08082455B2
A remote control device may include circuitry configured to receive user input to wirelessly control an electronic device, a power source electrically coupled to provide power to the circuitry, and a power state controller configured to control a power state of the circuitry based on a state of the electronic device. An electronic device may be configured to be controlled by a remote control device, and may include an input device configured to receive a wireless signal from the remote control device, an output device configured to send a wireless signal to the remote control device, and a processor coupled to the input device. The processor may be configured to control a function of the electronic device based on the received signal, to determine information regarding the state of the electronic device, and to send the determined information regarding the state of the electronic device to the remote control device.
US08082454B2
An upper power limit and an average power limit that is less than the upper power limit are selected for each server of a computer system having a plurality of servers. The instantaneous power consumption and the average power consumption of each server is determined and the instantaneous power consumption of each server is prevented from exceeding the respective upper power limit. A first subset of the servers for which the average power consumption is less than the average power limit are identified. The instantaneous power consumption of each server is allowed to exceed the respective average power limit. A second subset of the servers for which the average power consumption is not less than the average power limit is identified, and the instantaneous power consumption of each server in the second subset is prevented from exceeding the respective average power limit.
US08082439B2
A method of modifying a computer system firmware includes initiating a firmware modification. At least one prohibited pre-determined operational state is inhibited to prevent the computer system from entering the at least one pre-determined operational state until a subsequent boot. The firmware is modified.
US08082437B2
Provided is a method of variably establishing storage areas of a flash memory according to the status of a system in a computer having flash memory in which booting data and execution data are stored. The computer includes: a flash memory including a storage area that is divided into a boot area for storing booting data and a cache area for storing execution data, and supplementing a reading speed of a main storage device; a flash controller designating a location to which the data stored in the flash memory is written; and a main controller calculating an area ratio of the flash memory according to the operating status of a PC, controlling the flash controller, and reestablishing the area ratio between the boot area and the cache area.
US08082436B2
A unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) includes providing by a manufacturer, a basic input/output system (BIOS) personality module to initialize an information handling system (IHS) and receiving from an outside vendor, a BIOS initialization module to initialize the IHS. The UEFI also includes integrating operations of the personality module and the initialization module by translating communication between the personality module and the initialization module.
US08082433B1
A disk drive is disclosed wherein boot data is transmitted from a first plurality of data sectors to a host during a first boot operation, and a log is maintained identifying a plurality of the transmitted data sectors. The log is used to write the boot data to a boot disk space comprising a second plurality of data sectors. During a second boot operation, the boot data is pre-fetched from the second plurality of data sectors of the boot disk space and stored in a cache.
US08082430B2
A micro-operation (uop) fusion technique. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to a technique to fuse two or more uops originating from two or more instructions.
US08082429B2
An information processing apparatus performs switching between an exception handler and normal processing. The information processing apparatus includes a processor; a data processing unit that performs particular processing upon receiving a processing request from the processor; an interrupt controller that issues an interrupt request to the processor; and an exception control unit that controls the interrupt controller, wherein the data processing unit is connected with the exception control unit via a dedicated line. The data processing unit includes a notification unit that notifies, via the dedicated line, the exception control unit of status information indicating current status of the data processing unit, and based on the notified status information and setup information set by the processor, the exception control unit judges whether to cause the interrupt controller to issue an interrupt request to execute an exception handler to the processor.
US08082428B2
A method of resolving simultaneous branch predictions prior to validation of the predicted branch instruction is disclosed. The method includes processing two or more predicted branch instructions, with each predicted branch instruction having a predicted state and a corrected state. The method further includes selecting one of the corrected states. Should one of the predicted branch instructions be mispredicted, the selected corrected state is used to direct future instruction fetches.
US08082425B2
A system and method for efficient reliable execution on a simultaneous multithreading machine. A processor is placed in a reliable execution mode (REM) to detect possible errors during execution of a software application. Only two threads may be configured to operate in this mode. Floating-point store and integer-transfer unary instructions may be converted to new instructions. Each new instruction has two source operands, each corresponding to a different thread is specified by a same logical register number as a single source operand of the original unary instruction. All other instructions are replicated, wherein the original instruction and its twin are assigned to different threads. Simultaneous multi-threaded (SMT) floating-point logic may only be able to provide lockstep execution when it communicates using the new instruction with instantiated integer independent clusters. The new instruction cannot begin until both source operands are ready, which are subsequently compared to determine any mismatches or errors.
US08082413B2
A memory access mode detection circuit and method for detecting and initiating memory access modes for a memory device. The memory access mode detection circuit receives the memory address signals, the control signals, and the clock signal and generates a first mode detection signal in response to receipt of the memory address signals or a first combination of control signals. An first mode initiation signal is generated a time delay subsequent to the detection signal to initiate the first mode memory access operation. In response to receipt of a second combination of control signals and an active clock signal, the memory access mode detection circuit further generates a second mode detection signal to initiate a second mode memory access operation and to suppress generation of the first mode detection signal, thereby canceling the first mode memory access operation.
US08082411B1
Techniques introduced here swap logical unit meta-data of a logical unit without offlining the logical unit. In accordance with the techniques, a connection between a network storage controller and a host for the logical unit is maintained while meta-data of the logical unit are swapped with another logical unit available to the network storage controller. The swapping substitutes one logical unit for another without disconnecting the host. Advantageously, the host is not required to perform operations to re-establish a connection. Various software and hardware units can implement the techniques described herein.
US08082410B2
An address lock register managing address exclusive control is made to retain not only an address but also a request type, an access destination, and a cache block. Upon receiving a new request, firstly, the address lock register is referred to judge whether an exclusive condition is satisfied, that is, whether an address match, CPU match, LINE match or SX-WAY match is present, and whether the address lock is busy in accordance with the output of an AND circuit. Further, the configuration is such that the address lock register is referred to confirm that the addresses are identical to each other, and, additionally, the response source is validated to be identical to a lock flag and the new request causing the lock is validated to be consistent with the response request upon receiving a response request so that the lock is not released unless a correct response is made.
US08082409B2
In one embodiment, a HDD creates a segment table to associate an address of user data in a flash memory with an LBA in a magnetic disk. The HDD updates the segment table in a DRAM and saves it to the flash memory at a specific timing. The HDD creates journals indicating the update of the segment table and saves it to the flash memory. The latest segment table can be restored using the segment table and the journals in the flash memory.
US08082408B2
A first snapshot of a volume is created at a first point in time. A first backup operation to backup the volume to a first backup image using the first snapshot is initiated. The first backup operation terminates before completion, e.g., due to a failure. A second snapshot of the volume representing the state of the volume at a second point in time is then created. The second snapshot is used by a second backup operation to resume backing up the volume to a second backup image. The first backup image is then merged with the second backup image.
US08082404B2
A memory hub and method for transmitting a read response on a data path of a memory hub interposed between a transmitting memory hub and a receiving memory hub. An arbitration packet including data indicative of a data path configuration for an associated read response is received at the memory hub. The arbitration packet is decoded, and the data path is configured in accordance with the data of the arbitration packet. The associated read response is received at the memory hub and the associated read response is coupled to the configured data path for transmitting the same to the receiving memory hub.
US08082401B2
Multi-ported memory systems (e.g., register files) employ self-timing for operational synchronization. Thus, rather than using a reference clock duty cycle for operational synchronization, as in conventional multi-ported register files, embodiments of the present disclosure employ self-timing for such operational synchronization. According to certain embodiments, self-timing is employed to synchronize all the internal events within the memory so that all the events are spaced in time for appropriate synchronization. For instance, the completion of one event leads to triggering another event, the completion of which leads to triggering another event, and so on. Thus, in one embodiment, the self-timing is achieved by referencing the operational events with the memory (or register file) to each other, rather than to a reference clock duty cycle.
US08082390B1
Described are techniques for representing and using RAID group consistency information. RAID group consistency information for a slice of data included on a device may be obtained by mapping the slice to an index. The index is one of a plurality of indices each associated with a structure indicating RAID group inconsistencies for a different portion of slices of data of the device. If the index is not associated with a structure, it may be determined that there is no RAID group inconsistency for the slice. If the index is associated with a structure, a hint bit associated with the slice may be determined wherein the hint bit encodes summary consistency information for a plurality of slices. A determination is made as to whether the hint bit is set, and, if the hint bit is not set, it is determined that there is no RAID group inconsistency for the slice.
US08082389B2
This storage apparatus that provides to a host computer a logical device for storing data sent from the host computer includes a nonvolatile memory for storing the data, a disk-shaped memory device for storing the data, and a controller for controlling the nonvolatile memory and the disk-shaped memory device. The controller redundantly configures the logical device with the nonvolatile memory and the disk-shaped memory device.
US08082365B1
This invention relates to a method for assigning addresses to online computers by using full digital code. The method constitutes using a full digital coding address (“FDCA”), which is the combination of an online number, telephone number and category number. An E-mail box address, which is composed of a user name digital number and a domain name digital number of the mailbox server where the mailbox is located, can also be assigned using the FDCA. The E-mail box can be accessed, or the Internet can be browsed, by inputting to the modem of the computer by dialing up a keyboard of a dial-up telephone or the keyboard of the computer; by linking the corresponding digital code; and by converting the digital code with dedicated software. The method is easy to remember and administer, and the assigned addresses are unique.
US08082364B1
A software module operating within a router, such as an operating system, manages state information within a hierarchically ordered and temporally-linked data structure. The software module sends state change messages to other software modules within the router, referred to as consumers, in an order that corresponds to the hierarchical order and the temporal linking. The data structure may comprise a plurality of objects to store state information. The operating system may receive event messages that indicate a change to the state information. The objects may be hierarchically linked in accordance with a hierarchy representing relationships of event messages. The objects may be temporally linked in accordance with the order in which the operating system receives event messages. The operating system may traverse the data structure according to the temporal and hierarchical links to select state change messages to send to a consumer.
US08082360B2
An associative memory 4 for primary searching operation of an associative memory 23 supplies a valid state to a primary match line 13 corresponding to storage data coincident with search data 10 taking mask information into account, and supplies a value obtained from a result of a logical sum operation (an OR operation), with a valid state for the storage data as true, of all said coincident storage data to a counting means 25 as intermediate data 15. The counting means 25 supplies a result of an operation to the intermediate data 15 for counting the number of bits in an invalid state for the storage data to an associative memory 3 for secondary searching operations as secondary search data 19. Among secondary storage data obtained by carrying out said operation to said storage data, the associative memory 3 for secondary searching operation supplies a result of carrying out the searching operation of the secondary search data 19 to a secondary match line 21. The invalidation means 22 changes a secondary match line 21 corresponding to a primary match line 13 in an invalid state into an invalid state to supply to an external source as a match line 11.
US08082355B1
An architecture for inserting listener targeted advertisements into Internet retransmission of terrestrial radio broadcasts is provided. An Internet server provides aggregation of a plurality of radio broadcast programming for dissemination over the Internet to a plurality of listeners/users. Each Internet provided radio broadcast includes advertisements targeted for each individual listener/user based on a demographics profile. The demographics profile for each listener/user provides a basis for the targeted advertisements. A readily scaleable architecture is capable of supporting rapid growth in listeners/users. Scheduling data is used to predict and prestage advertising content. Timestamping of the radio broadcast aids in calculating where in the broadcast data sequence to pick up after an advertisement. Scalability is preferably achieved by a multiplexer in order to support large numbers of listener connections for streaming audio.
US08082348B1
A client computer requests a resource from an ISP/OSP. The ISP/OSP maintains multiple instances of the resource. In deciding to which instance of the resource to route the client computer, a resource selection server takes network routability information into account. Geographic proximity, resource utilization, network utilization, and/or maintenance of peering agreements may also be taken into account in selecting the instance of the resource.
US08082345B2
A method of designing a network circuit for a telecommunications network is disclosed. The method includes storing first model data in a database representing a first model of the telecommunications network. Second model data is received representing a second model of the telecommunications network. The second model data defines node groups, each representing a plurality of network nodes of the first network model, and interconnections between node groups, each representing connectivity between node groups in the first network model. The method involves searching the second model data to select a route from a start node group to an end node group, the route specifying a plurality of node groups connected by interconnections in the second network model; and searching the first model data to select a circuit from a node of the start node group to a node of the end node group.
US08082343B2
A method and device for making clients rapidly access to the peer-to-peer network comprise that the accessed clients, which are separated into one or more normal state groups; the clients that intend to log in are separated into one or more login groups; and the required contents, the variant of the contents or the content-related information are selectively transmitted to the members of the login groups immediately. After a certain login group becomes stable, the normal state groups which the login groups intend to be added into are selected and each member of the login groups is added into the selected normal state groups. In this invention, there is no need to frequently send notification individually when each client loges in, rather than send group notification, thus it can reduce network dithering, at the same time the user can receive the content or the related variant of the content immediately and watch the playing of the content without any wait when accessing to the network.
US08082336B1
Power agent control instructions based on one or more power agent device types and control environment instructions associated with a terminal server can be executed to instantiate a terminal server control environment in which the power agent control instructions are executed.
US08082333B2
A DHCP proxy agent is provided to send on behalf of a static host a DHCP request so that an access layer security feature such as DHCP snooping/IPSG can be applied to the static host and/or in a mixed static IP and DHCP environment.
US08082330B1
Described are techniques for configuring one or more physical devices of a data storage system for use in connection with provisioning storage for an application. A policy is received which includes one or more sets of data storage system best practices. Each of said one or more sets specifies data storage system best practices for a different type of data storage system including a first type associated with said data storage system. Configuration in connection with initialization of said data storage system is performed to configure a first portion of said one or more physical devices for use with one or more storage pools. The best practices for said first type of data storage system specified in said policy are used in performing said configuration processing.
US08082329B2
A character having a plurality of attributes is created by a network user while within a character-enabled network site. Each attribute is defined by at least one of either audio data and/or visual image data and is selected by the user from a plurality of attributes presented to the user through a user interface. The combination of attributes defines a persona for the character. At least one of either an audio presentation and/or a visual image presentation is provided to the user interface. The presentations presented are selected from a plurality of presentations based on the character's persona. Data related to character attributes are stored in a database. One or more of the presentations presented to the user may be interactive, in that it allows for the user to make choices. In response to a user's interaction with the interactive presentation, additional audio presentation and/or a visual image presentation is provided to the user interface. Data indicative of user interaction with the interactive presentations is also stored in a database.
US08082327B2
Systems configured to provide applications style functionality to at least one user, the systems comprising: at least one user device that includes at least one receiver for receiving data comprising a series of linked states plus additional data associated with each state, the additional data comprising, storage instructions and display instructions; and at least one decoder to decode the received data and cache each state and its corresponding display instructions in accordance with the storage instructions. The systems may also comprise: at least one server configured to communicate with the at least one user device that includes a processor for interpreting the execution of an application or rendering of a state and expressing it as a series of states through which the at least one user device may navigate to create the appearance of executing an application or browsing web content.
US08082326B2
A server comprises a content database for storing content files of a plurality of contents; a content information database for storing the content information of the content; a sharing section for sharing the content information with other server connected to a network; an access control section which permits or prohibits an access from other terminal connected to the network based on access permission information in which terminal specifying information for specifying a terminal to be permitted to access is registered; and a request response section which sends content information to the client in response to a request from the client for the content information. the sharing section shares the access permission information with other server connected to the network, the request response section, when the content information is requested from a client, determines a server which permits the client to access based on the shared access permission information and sends only the content information of the server which permits the client to access, of the shared content information to the client.
US08082325B2
An agent program (12) installed in a terminal device (10) is used to upload data, which are to be stored, to a data storage device (100) via a first network (N1). Data uploaded to a first data storage unit (110) are stored therein as they are. On the other hand, data uploaded to a second data storage unit (120) are transferred, by the function of a data transferring unit (130), to any of external storage sites (210-230) via a second network (N2), and management information, which includes the URL of the storage site that is the transfer destination, is stored into an IC card (11). When the data stored in the data storage unit (120) are required, the management information in the IC card (11) is given to the data transferring unit (130) and the relevant data are forwarded from the storage site that was the transfer destination to the data storage unit (120) and then downloaded to the terminal device (10). The limit of the storage capacity can thereby be overcome and damages due to viruses can be suppressed.
US08082308B1
A method, system and computer program product for managing tasks, including receiving an e-mail from a user, the e-mail including a subject line and at least one recipient, wherein the recipient is or is not registered in a task management system; parsing the e-mail to identify a task; adding the task to a task database of the task management system; adding the sender and recipient to a database of the task management system if needed. A web interface is provided for the sender and the recipient to interface with the task management system. The e-mail can be sent to multiple recipients and some of the recipients might not be registered with the task management system. The subject line of the e-mail is parsed for the task identification like name of the task. The subject line of the e-mail is also parsed for a due date and the due date is added to task parameters. The subject line of the e-mail is also parsed for groups in which the task should be included. The user has the highest level of privileges for setting parameters for the task. The e-mail is also parsed for body and attachments, which are used to populate a task's description properties and task attachments.
US08082307B2
Messages are redistributed in a clustered messaging environment including messaging servers and consuming applications. Each messaging server has a queue partition operable to contain messages. Each consuming application can connect to a messaging server in to consume one or more messages from a queue partition local to that messaging server. A message on a holding queue partition local to a messaging server without at least one consumer interested in consuming that message is said to be marooned. A marooned message is redistributed from the holding queue partition to a messaging server that does have at least one consumer interested in consuming the message. The redistribution involves identifying a group of servers, each of which has one or more consumers interesting in consuming the message, selecting a server from the group and forwarding the message to the selected server.
US08082295B2
In one embodiment, a method for reporting to a website owner one or more appearances of a specified word in one or more page-specific open-ended comments concerning one or more particular web pages of a website includes receiving one or more page-specific open-ended comments concerning one or more particular web pages of a website from users that have accessed the particular web pages, identifying, in the one or more page-specific open-ended comments concerning the one or more particular web pages of the website, each appearance of the specified word, and generating a report reflecting the identified appearances of the specified word in the one or more page-specific open-ended comments concerning the one or more particular web pages of the website.
US08082291B2
A system and method of providing data to a mashup application may involve receiving a request from a mashup application and supplying first data to the mashup application in response to the request. Mashup information can be received from the mashup application, wherein the mashup information indicates an inclusion of the first data with second data in the execution of the mashup application. The mashup information may be stored and analyzed to identify relationships between previously unrelated data.
US08082284B2
A reconfigurable processing device comprises one or more reconfigurable processing units. At least one processing unit utilizes a computational unit having a preprocessing module for receiving n input signals, and s1 selection signals, and providing k output signals wherein k
US08082283B1
A programmable logic device (PLD) includes a plurality of logic array blocks (LAB's) connected by a PLD routing architecture. At least one LAB is configured to determine a compression of a plurality of N-bit numbers. The LAB includes look-up table (LUT) logic cells. Each LUT logic cell is configured to receive three operand signals at three inputs of that LUT logic cell and to output two signals at two outputs of that LUT logic cell that are a sum and carry signal resulting from adding the operand signals. LAB internal routing logic couples the LUT logic cells such that the LUT logic cells collectively process the input signals to generate the output signals. The LAB internal routing logic is not part of the PLD routing architecture. By employing compressor LUT logic cells within the LAB, use of PLD routing architecture is minimized, and use of PLD resources is more efficient.
US08082282B2
A decimal floating point finite number in a decimal floating point format is composed from the number in a different format. A decimal floating point format includes fields to hold information relating to the sign, exponent and significand of the decimal floating point finite number. Other decimal floating point data, including infinities and NaNs (not a number), are also composed. Decimal floating point data are also decomposed from the decimal floating point format to a different format.
US08082278B2
A method for suggesting related queries to a user query using semantic relationships that are present in informational content stored in public domains. Semantic relationships between named entities are discovered and the named entities are extracted. The entities are indexed according to the relationships. When a user query is received that includes one of the entities, query suggestions are returned to the user based on indexed relationships corresponding to the entity named in the user query.
US08082276B2
Techniques are provided utilizing captured information. The captured information includes at least one of audio and image information. In response to connecting a capture device including the captured information to another device, the captured information is downloaded to the other device, a text portion is formed corresponding to the captured information, and at least a portion of the captured information and text portion is stored. A selected action is automatically performed using at least one of the text portion and the captured information.
US08082273B2
Dynamic control and regulation of critical database resources using a virtual memory table interface
A computer-implemented apparatus, method, and article of manufacture provide the ability to manage a plurality of database systems. A domain contains the database systems, and a database in one of the systems has segmented global memory partitions. A virtual monitor partition provides logon access to the segmented global memory partitions in a form of a virtual database. Open application programming interfaces (API) enable logon access to the virtual monitor partition to access data in the virtual database. A multi-system regulator manages the domain and utilizes the open APIs to access data in the virtual data base.
US08082272B2
A server receives and stores a contributor's content for redistribution of the content via a distributor's web site. From the distributor, the server receives and stores a specification relating to the content and the manner in which a portion of the content is to be displayed. In accordance with the specification, the server outputs the portion of the content to the distributor.
US08082271B2
Data retrieval apparatus comprises a base unit e.g. a geographic globe having a surface bearing a set of index information, and a pen-like operator separate from and co-operable wirelessly with the globe. The operator has a sensor for sensing the index information when it is brought close to the globe surface, a memory device for storing data information associated with the index information for retrieval based on a reference to the index information sensed by the sensor, a controller for retrieving said data information from the memory device by reference to the index information sensed by the sensor, and a speaker for announcing said data information retrieved by the controller.
US08082269B2
An account item management system is provided, wherein account item elements are classified into first to n'th groups in order from highest to lowest levels, such that the first group encompasses the highest-level concepts, and the n'th group encompasses the lowest-level concepts, and the account item elements classified into the first to n'th groups are memorized in the system 10 chronologically from the past to the present. The system 10 is capable of constructing a hierarchically-structured accounting database based on the account item elements, such that the account item elements are systematically related to one another, and the system comprises: database generation means for generating, in real time, the hierarchically-structured accounting database as of any given point in the past or at the present; and database output means for outputting the generated hierarchically-structured accounting database in real time.
US08082264B2
An intent guessing system receives partial user queries as they are entered by the user. The partial user queries are compared with different intents derived from previously logged queries. Guesses are made as to which of the intents are associated with the partial user query. The intent guesses are then provided as responses to the user query. Features are identified for the earlier logged queries and associated with the derived intents. The derived intents and associated features are then used to identify intents for the partial user queries.
US08082262B2
A plurality of data items are distributed across a plurality of computers, some of which may form a peer-to-peer network. A first computer receives a request for a data item from a requesting computer. The request includes a True Name of the data item. The first computer causes the requesting computer to obtain the data item from a second computer, distinct from the first computer. The first computer may not have a copy of the requested data item. The first computer may know the location of the data item. The first computer may forward the request for the data item to at least one other computer.
US08082258B2
Systems and methods for regularly updating portions of a merged index are provided. Initially, upon receiving an indication that modifications have occurred to content of web-based documents, dynamic update of index (DUI) objects that identify the documents and expose the modified content are composed by ascertaining relative positions of the modified content within the documents, and packaging identifiers of the documents, the relative positions, and metadata underlying the modified content into a message. The DUI objects are applied to an overloading index that maintains structured records of recent modifications. In particular, portions of the overloading index are targeted utilizing the document identifiers and the relative positions specified by the DUI object, thereby updating the targeted portions within the overloading index corresponding to the modified content without rewriting the entire overloading index. Periodically, an association process is invoked for grouping the merged index with the overloading index for search purposes.
US08082253B2
A system, method, and computer program product for accessing web pages on a network are provided. In use, different users are provided access to a plurality of sections of a document based on a community value for at least oen community dimension assigned to each section of the document. In particular, a user is conditionally provided access to a section of a document, based on a comparison of a user value indicating a community with which the user is associated to the community value for the at least one community dimension assigned to the section of the document.
US08082248B2
A classification method and system for documents containing text sentences and images having meta-data. The classification method and system categorizes document sentences into subjective and non-subjective sentences and categorizes document images into descriptive and non-descriptive. The categorization is further used to calculate subjectivity and descriptive-images classification of a document. This classification system can be used by a web search engine to filter, sort or tag a set of document references based on user selection.
US08082247B2
Best-bet recommendation may be provided. User behavior associated with a search result may be logged and applied to a relevance classifier. The relevance classifier may determine whether the user behavior indicates that the search result may comprise a best-bet result. A best-bet result may comprise a result associated with a high confidence that the result may be satisfactory to a user. The relevance classifier may be trained according to past searches and user behavior to improve the confidence on best-bet recommendations. Once confidence in a search result is high enough, future searches on the same query may provide the best-bet result to the searching user.
US08082244B2
A system determines a freshness of a first document. The system determines whether a freshness attribute is associated with the first document. The system identifies, based on the determination, a set of second documents that each contain a link to the first document. The system assigns a freshness score to the first document based on a freshness attribute associated with each document of the set of second documents or the freshness attribute associated with the first document.
US08082237B2
A temporal relational database includes a relational database framework that allows for all the capabilities of a standard relational database with the addition of the concept of time. Transactions, which can be modifications of attribute values or changes to the database schema, can be stored with temporal histories. Through the use of these temporal histories, the temporal database is able to seamlessly respond to queries for times that are in the past, present, or future. Furthermore, transactions can be entered into the temporal relational database that are not effective until some point in the future, thus allowing for seamless migration of the data and schema of a database. Applications that access data in a temporal database may retrieve a time appropriate schema from the temporal database. An exemplary use of a temporal database to manage roles and responsibilities within an organization is described.
US08082235B1
Based on a probability of summary metadata associated with an entity of a media hosting service being inaccurate, a determination is made as to whether to verify the accuracy of the summary metadata. In response to determining to verify the accuracy of the summary metadata, a determination is made as to whether the summary metadata is inaccurate with respect to master metadata associated with the entity of the media hosting service. The summary metadata is updated with a correct value determined from the master metadata, in response to determining the summary metadata is inaccurate.
US08082231B1
Described are techniques for representing a data segment comprising. A list of one or more tokens representing one or more data portions included in the data segment is received. A unique identifier uniquely identifying said data segment from other data segments is received. A signature value determined in accordance with said list of tokens and said unique identifier is received. The list of tokens, said unique identifier, and said signature value are stored as information corresponding to said data segment.
US08082227B2
Techniques for the session sensitive data backups and restores are presented. Data having a plurality of hard linked file references are backed up and restored once during a backup operation. Any modifications to the backed up data are noted as session-specific versions and also backed up once. The hard linked file references are maintained in a data structure and managed during backups to define associations to the backed up data and to the session-specific versions of the data. The data structure is also used during restores to re-establish desired hard linked file reference associations to either the backed up data or to a particular session-specific versions of the data.
US08082215B2
A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring a first inference data indicative of an inferred mental state of a first authoring user in connection with a particular item of an electronic message, acquiring a second inference data indicative of an inferred mental state of a second authoring user in connection with the particular item of the electronic message; and associating the first inference data and the second inference data with the particular item. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US08082209B2
An analysis system processes financial transactions data for compliance with a payment program, such that the processing involves receiving data relating to a set of financial transactions that have been authorized by a payment processing system, and determining if one or more of the authorized financial transactions will be subjected to further processing, wherein the further processing operates on the received data and identifies authorized financial transactions that may be out of compliance with transaction rules of the payment program.
US08082204B2
Systems and methods are provided for maintaining neutrality while trading a list of securities using an algorithmic trading facility coupled with at least one destination. This destination includes at least one alternative trading system (ATS). This facility is coupled, via an electronic data network, to a plurality of trading clients, and configured to receive a trade request to trade a list of securities from a trading client. This request includes user defined trading constraints that are used to generate and transmit trade orders to at least one ATS. The orders are transmitted based on trading data related to the destinations, the trade list, and the trading constraints. The facility can identify each executed trade corresponding to the trade orders and calculate a trade imbalance. The facility can determine whether the trade imbalance exceeds the trading constraints, and reallocate one or more of said submitted orders based on this determination.
US08082199B2
A shooting device with multiple barrels (10b) shooting multiple projectors (55) which propels multiple carrying cams (50) through multiple curve and straight channels (10) of which are connected with differentiated threaded pipe nuts (10a), reinforcement barrels and channels (10c) and (10d) are necessary to minimize distortion. The main shooting body (11) is divided into two halves (12) and (14) with port doors (12b) and their controls (17) and charge cartridge (12c) and ignition device (12s). Carrying cams (50) are connected with, but not limit to, fisherman's net and or safety net to distant multiple desired locations in an instance.
US08082187B2
A closed loop referral system and method is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises embedding a tracking code into a first website. The tracking code communicates with a referral system. A user interface is provided on a browser for the first website. The browser is directed from the first website to a second website. Upon performance of a user action on the second website, the tracking code is executed. The tracking code communicates with the referral system to direct the browser to a third website determined by the referral system.
US08082182B1
An apparatus, system, and method for dynamic demand monitoring and/or affectation uniquely allows a provider to access, utilize and/or integrate demand setting, reporting, and updating into a commerce system. In one non-limiting example embodiment, the present disclosure teaches a facility that responds to a user's selection of criteria in a user interface and dynamically constructs queries that will select information collected in a commerce database and generate reports of demand for goods or services based on the user's selections. The present disclosure also teaches how reported demand levels may be used to change current levels of demand to desired demand levels specified by a user. Furthermore, the present disclosure teaches how to create and utilize a cache of rejected CPOs. As a result, a provider may affect demand for their provisions to desired levels and both providers and consumers may benefit from a better balance of price levels with demand. Also, providers and consumers may benefit from executions of transactions that may otherwise expire upon initial processing.
US08082177B2
A system, computer program product and method including delivering an initial promotion to a customer, determining a status of the initial promotion delivered, selecting a related promotion based on the status of the initial promotion determined, and delivering the related promotion to the customer. The related promotion is selected based on the status of the initial promotion determined by selecting a predetermined related promotion associated with the status of the initial promotion determined. Moreover, the initial and related promotions may be delivered through an electronic or hard delivery medium, and the status of the initial promotion delivered may be determined by determining a status of the initial promotion based on electronic feedback from the customer or based on predetermined status criteria assigned to the initial promotion. Promotions may be delivered primarily through an effective delivery medium for a particular customer which is determined by applying a predetermined effectiveness criteria which includes one of determining the number of occurrences of a predetermined status within a delivery medium and determining the frequency of the customer's use of the delivery medium.
US08082173B2
One of the major components of the present invention is to provide a process to facilitate the fulfillment of drug samples to prescribers in several different manners. With the present invention, a prescriber can request actual drug samples on-line or can order on-line coupons for drug samples to be given to patients who in turn go to a pharmacy to obtain the free medications. As a third alternative, the prescriber can print the coupons in his own office to give to patients who in turn redeem the coupons for free medications at a pharmacy.
US08082171B1
Methods and systems for hosting business and other e-commerce application services are provided which provide secure shared computing resources to multiple instances of e-commerce or other business applications. The shared computing resources are dynamically allocated among the instances of the applications, and the instances of the applications are logically separated from one another to provide additional security.
US08082166B2
A party obtains (101) information from a plurality of different organizations and identifies (102) information recipient criteria as a function, at least in part, of at least one specific organization-based hierarchical function. This information and the information recipient criteria is then stored (108) non-volatily under conditions designed to preserve the information integrity of the information and the information recipient criteria for multiple successive successor organization-based agent generations. This can further comprise maintaining (110) at least this information in confidence while storing the information. As appropriate over time, the information as corresponds to a given one of the different organizations is provided (111) to respective successor organization-based agents who meet the corresponding information recipient criteria. So configured, successive generations of the successor organization-based agents within each of the different organizations will have sequential access to the information as corresponds to their respective organization while the information remains unrevealed to others.
US08082164B2
A reservation acceptance system is provided that accepts requests of reservations from customers so that the resources can be used efficiently. The reservation acceptance system includes a reservation request reception portion for accepting a request for providing a service, a position information reception portion for obtaining position information of a customer who made the request, an acceptance condition database for storing area condition information defining a predetermined area around a provision position of the service, an existence decision portion for deciding whether or not the customer is within the predetermined area in accordance with the position information and the area condition information, and a reservation acceptance processing portion that performs a reservation acceptance process of the service when it is decided that the customer is within the predetermined area and does not perform the reservation acceptance process when it is decided that the customer is not within the predetermined area.
US08082162B2
A medical implant verification card (MIVC) having information provided on one or both sides thereof. Information for enabling access to a Medical Implant Verification Account (MIVA) of a patient is one the card. An image showing a medical implant as implanted within a body of the patient (e.g., reproduction of an x-ray image) is on the card. An image of an actual implant operation scar of the patient is on the card. The implant operation scar image shows a scar on the body of the patient resulting from implantation of the medical implant within the body of the patient. Implant identification information designating a type of the medical implant is on the card. Information designating a name of a surgeon having performed the operation for implanting the medical implant and/or information for contacting the surgeon is on the card.
US08082159B1
Methods, systems, and computer-program products for routing items to resources are disclosed. Potential matches between items and resources are generated and scored according to one or more match-factor criterion. An initial assignment of potential matches is made to a Match Tracker Set, and a Set of Global conflicts is created representing resources that are not matched by the members of the initial Match Tracker set. One or more augmented versions of the Match Tracker Set are created to resolve conflicts between the Match Tracker Set and the Global Conflicts Set. Items are routed to the resources based on the matches listed in an augmented version of the Match Tracker Set.
US08082157B2
A method and/or apparatus for encoding and/or decoding an audio signal is disclosed, in which a downmix gain is applied to a downmix signal in an encoding apparatus which, in turn, transmits, to a decoding apparatus, a bit stream containing information as to the applied downmix gain. The decoding apparatus recovers the downmix signal, using the downmix gain information. A method and/or apparatus for encoding and/or decoding an audio signal is also disclosed, in which the encoding apparatus can apply an arbitrary downmix gain (ADG) to the downmix signal, and can transmit a bit stream containing information as to the applied ADG to the decoding apparatus. The decoding apparatus recovers the downmix signal, using the ADG information. A method and/or apparatus for encoding and/or decoding an audio signal is also disclosed, in which the method and/or apparatus can also vary the energy level of a specific channel, and can recover the varied energy level.
US08082155B2
A handheld camera comprises a housing containing an image sensor for generating image data; an audio sensor for generating audio data; a processor for generating coded data using the audio data and a pagewidth inkjet printhead. The printhead is configured for printing the image onto a face of a substrate using the image data and at the same time printing the coded data onto the same face of the substrate in the same area as the image.
US08082154B2
A communications system obtains verification of an expected identity of a party from a remote centralized biometric system over a communications network. A forwarder forwards, over the communications network to the remote centralized biometric system when the party attempts to obtain a service using the communications system, a biometric sample from the party and information characterizing the expected identity of the party. A receiver receives, over the communications network from the remote centralized biometric system, verification that the biometric sample matches biometric information obtained by the remote centralized biometric system from a storage such that the expected identity of the party is verified as the identity of the party. The service is provided contingent on verification of the expected identity of the party as the identity of the party.
US08082153B2
A method for conversational computing includes executing code embodying a conversational virtual machine, registering a plurality of input/output resources with a conversational kernel, providing an interface between a plurality of active applications and the conversational kernel processing input/output data, receiving input queries and input events of a multi-modal dialog across a plurality of user interface modalities of the plurality of active applications, generating output messages and output events of the multi-modal dialog in connection with the plurality of active applications, managing, by the conversational kernel, a context stack associated with the plurality of active applications and the multi-modal dialog to transform the input queries into application calls for the plurality of active applications and convert the output messages into speech, wherein the context stack accumulates a context of each of the plurality of active applications.
US08082150B2
A system for determining an identity of a received work. The system receives audio data for an unknown work. The audio data is divided into segments. The system generates a signature of the unknown work from each of the segments. Reduced dimension signatures are then generated at least a portion of the signatures. The reduced dimension signatures are then compared to reduced dimensions signatures of known works that are stored in a database. A list of candidates of known works is generated from the comparison. The signatures of the unknown works are then compared to the signatures of the known works in the list of candidates. The unknown work is then identified as the known work having signatures matching within a threshold.
US08082148B2
Methods, systems, and products for testing a grammar used in speech recognition for reliability in a plurality of operating environments having different background noise that include: receiving recorded background noise for each of the plurality of operating environments; generating a test speech utterance for recognition by a speech recognition engine using a grammar; mixing the test speech utterance with each recorded background noise, resulting in a plurality of mixed test speech utterances, each mixed test speech utterance having different background noise; performing, for each of the mixed test speech utterances, speech recognition using the grammar and the mixed test speech utterance, resulting in speech recognition results for each of the mixed test speech utterances; and evaluating, for each recorded background noise, speech recognition reliability of the grammar in dependence upon the speech recognition results for the mixed test speech utterance having that recorded background noise.
US08082147B2
A system and method of updating automatic speech recognition parameters on a mobile device are disclosed. The method comprises storing user account-specific adaptation data associated with ASR on a computing device associated with a wireless network, generating new ASR adaptation parameters based on transmitted information from the mobile device when a communication channel between the computing device and the mobile device becomes available and transmitting the new ASR adaptation data to the mobile device when a communication channel between the computing device and the mobile device becomes available. The new ASR adaptation data on the mobile device more accurately recognizes user utterances.
US08082144B1
A method for explaining a form that includes receiving input code, wherein the input code is associated with the form, processing the input code to create an explanation dynamically associated with the form, and outputting the explanation into a natural language.
US08082138B1
An embodiment of the present invention includes a partitioner, a synthesizer, and an optimizer. The partitioner partitions a design into a hierarchy of partitions having a top-level partition and lower partitions. The lower partitions include a bottom-level partition. The top-level partition has top-level constraints. The synthesizer synthesizes the lower partitions hierarchically from the bottom-level partition to create lower partition netlists based on the top-level constraints. The optimizer optimizes a top-level netlist corresponding to the top-level partition from the lower partition netlists to satisfy the top-level constraints.
US08082137B2
A method and apparatus for modeling and thermal analysis of semiconductor chip designs is provided. One embodiment of a novel method for performing thermal testing of a semiconductor chip design includes calculating full-chip temperatures over the semiconductor chip design (e.g., to identify steep thermal gradients) and modeling the full-chip temperatures in accordance with a geometric multi-grid technique. The geometric multi-grid technique is tailored to determine temperatures within the semiconductor chip design based at least in part on the physical attributes or geometry of the design.
US08082133B2
A technique is described for managing loading of terrain data into working memory of a computer during a distributed simulation, in which multiple computer systems operated by multiple users participate, where the simulation involves multiple user-controlled objects simulated with a terrain database that is too large to fit in working memory of the computer system. The technique includes calculating an area of interest around each of the objects to be simulated, and then simulating the objects by loading into working memory the terrain pages of the terrain database that overlap with at least one of the areas of interest, and generally not loading into working memory terrain pages of the terrain database that do not overlap with at least one of the areas of interest. As such, at any given time, any given server can have loaded in working memory fewer than all of the pages of the terrain database.
US08082130B2
A method and calculator for obtaining spin polarized quantum transport in 3-dimensional atom-scale spintronic (spin electronics) devices under finite bias voltage, based on implementing Density Function Theory (DFT) in combination with the Keldysh non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) formalism to calculate spin polarized quantum transport in 3-dimensional nanostructures under finite bias and external voltage.
US08082129B2
A real-time algorithm for rendering of an inhomogeneous scattering media such as smoke under dynamic low-frequency environment lighting is described. An input media animation is represented as a sequence of density fields, each of which is decomposed into a weighted sum of a set of radial basis functions (RBFs) and an optional residual field. Source radiances from single and optionally multiple scattering are directly computed at only the RBF centers and then approximated at other points in the volume using an RBF-based interpolation. Unique approximation techniques are introduced in the computational algorithms to simplify and speed up the computation of source radiance contributed by single and multiple scattering. Using the computed source radiances, a ray marching technique using slice-based integration of radiance along each viewing ray may be performed to render the final image.
US08082124B2
Provided are a data obtaining section (21) that obtains a time-series data fluctuating in accordance with the plasma conditions, a translation error calculation section (24) that calculates a determinism providing an indicator of whether the time-series data in the plasma are deterministic or stochastic, from the time-series data that have been obtained in the data obtaining unit (21), and an abnormal discharge determination section (26) that determines that the plasma is under the abnormal discharge conditions, in the case that the value representing the determinism calculated in the determinism derivation unit is less than or equal to a given threshold value, during the plasma generation. Examples of the value representing the determinism include translation error or permutation entropy. In the case the permutation entropy is used as a value representing the determinism, a permutation entropy calculation section is provided.
US08082122B2
A system and method for detecting motion by a mobile device is provided. The mobile device determines whether motion is detected by a motion detector. The motion detection is sampled at a first sampling rate when no motion is detected for a specified time. The motion detection is sampled at a second sampling rate when motion is detected, wherein the second sampling rate is more frequent than the first sampling rate.
US08082116B2
A method for estimating a life status of a lithium battery applicable to a portable electronic device is described. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, a plurality of lithium battery life status intervals are sectioned out by a plurality of voltage-electric quantity curves representing characteristics of the lithium battery. Then, an actual voltage and an actual electric quantity of the lithium battery of the portable electronic device are measured. Afterwards, positions of the actual voltage and the actual electric quantity in the lithium battery life status intervals are determined to estimate the life status of the lithium battery.
US08082110B2
In some embodiments, systems and methods for identifying a low perfusion condition are provided by transforming a signal using a wavelet transform to generate a scalogram. A pulse band and adjacent marker regions in the scalogram are identified. Characteristics of the marker regions are used to detect the existence of a lower perfusion condition. If such a condition is detected, an event may be triggered, such as an alert or notification.
US08082107B2
The invention relates to methods and computer-readable medium for computing the propagation velocity of seismic waves in the earth. The invention computes the true propagation velocity of seismic waves in the earth, which is a condition of obtaining an accurate image of subsurface geology that can be used to prospect for oil and gas deposits. In an embodiment, the method of computing the propagation velocity of seismic waves in earth, includes providing an estimate of the propagation velocity, generating a time shift gather using a depth migration at a plurality of locations of the earth, converting each of the time shift gathers to a semblance gather, transforming each semblance gather into a velocity gather whose energy peaks represent a root-mean-square average of the propagation velocity along the forward and backward path between earth's surface and a point of the subsurface geology, and converting the energy peaks to the propagation velocity.
US08082106B2
According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided herein a system and method for the imaging and monitoring of the subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs and other subsurface features, wherein the collected seismic data contain multiples therein. In brief, the instant invention is a method of removing multiples using surface-related multiple elimination (SRME), wherein wide azimuth seismic data are used to directly compute a multiple prediction via a mixed space-wavenumber-frequency domain implementation.
US08082101B2
A method of estimating a time to collision (TTC) of a vehicle with an object comprising: acquiring a plurality of images of the object; and determining a TTC from the images that is responsive to a relative velocity and relative acceleration between the vehicle and the object.
US08082100B2
In one aspect of watercraft automation and aquatic data utilization for aquatic efforts, an anchor point is obtained and a watercraft position maintenance routine is actuated to control the watercraft to maintain association with the anchor point. In another aspect, prior aquatic effort data is obtained in association with an anchor point. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data is generated in association with an anchor point. In still another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized for prediction generation. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized to obtain another anchor point for a watercraft.
US08082097B2
A method of routing a first personal navigation device (PND) away from a second PND, the method includes receiving a position or second route of the second PND, and generating a first route for the first PND that maintains at least a threshold distance from the position or second route of the second PND.
US08082095B2
A system is provided for facilitating passenger pickup via telematic routing. The system includes a call center for receiving a plurality of data feeds indicative of passenger arrival time and location, a vehicle telematics unit for receiving vehicle routing instructions from the call center based at least in part on the passenger arrival time and location, the vehicle routing instructions directed to guiding a vehicle to a passenger meeting location. The system further includes a mobile device associated with the passenger, the mobile device in communication with the call center via one or more wireless networks for receiving an indicator of the passenger meeting location.
US08082086B2
A brake-control module for a first trailer of a tractor-trailer combination reduces braking response time for the second trailer and subsequent trailers in the vehicle train. The brake-control module includes a tractor interface. The tractor interface includes a tractor CAN interface for connecting to a tractor CAN connector of a tractor, a tractor voltage-supply interface for connecting to a tractor voltage-supply connector of the tractor, and a tractor warning-light interface for connecting to a tractor warning-light connector of the tractor. The brake-control module further includes a second-trailer interface for connection of a second trailer that is coupled to the first trailer. The second-trailer interface includes a second-trailer CAN interface for connecting to a second-trailer CAN connector of the second trailer, a second-trailer voltage-supply interface for connecting to a voltage connector of the second trailer, and a second-trailer warning-light interface for connecting to a second-trailer warning-light connector of the second trailer.
US08082083B2
An active control method to control the vibrations of an articulated arm consisting of a plurality of segments articulated with respect to each other, by means of an electronic controller, comprising the following steps: a) construction of a modal model of the articulated arm starting from experimental data or from structural models; b) assignation of gains of electronic controller; c) multiplication of gains by the difference between the reference modal coordinates and those calculated through the modal model starting from directly measured quantities, in order to determine the control forces to be applied to the arm, or to at least part of the relative segments; d) evaluation of the modal coordinates by means of a states estimator; e) comparison between measurements estimated using the modal coordinates and real measurements and correction of the estimate, so that the estimate converges on real values.
US08082077B2
A steerable vehicle information display system is provided, in which images remain undisturbed even if a momentary power interruption occurs. The steerable vehicle information display system comprises: a DPF controller (21), which acquires status information (D1 to D4) from the ECUs of each section of a motor vehicle with a predetermined periodicity; a rendering controller (22), which generates component images representative of the status of each section of the motor vehicle based on the status information (D1 to D4) and generates a composite image of a motor vehicle dashboard by compositing the generated component images; and a nonvolatile memory (24), which stores the status information (D1 to D4) or intermediate information generated from the status information, with the information being at least the latest information. If any of the status information (D1 to D4) is not acquired, the rendering controller (22) generates the informational image using information read from the nonvolatile memory (24) and displays it on the liquid crystal display device (11).
US08082068B2
In one aspect, the disclosure relates to a system for managing power loads. In one exemplary embodiment, the system includes a management host processor storing a plurality of records associated with a plurality of power meters, that is operatively connected to a distribution network capable of sending and receiving messages of a first protocol. An on-premise processor is co-located with at least one of the plurality of power meters, and is operatively connected to the distribution network, for receiving messages of the first protocol from the management host processor. The on-premise processor includes an 802.11X-based wireless communications link interface for sending and receiving messages of a second protocol. A power load controller is associated with the power load and operatively communicates with the on-premise processor using 802.11X-based wireless communications to send and receive messages of the second protocol from the on-premise processor.
US08082062B2
A motion controlled system for a robotic system stores energy when the robotic system uses negative power and releases the stored energy when the robotic system uses positive power. The motion controlled system calculates the power for causing the robotic system to follow a prescribed motion and applies the appropriate control signals to the robotic system in response to detected parameters of the robotic system.
US08082053B2
An automated manufacturing system comprises a computer processing system and a plurality of consolidation systems. The computer processing system receives information on product subbatches and product packages and consolidation status information to produce consolidation assignment information, each product package comprising one or more product subbatches. The consolidation systems receive the product subbatches in accordance to the consolidation assignment information and consolidate the product subbatches into product packages, wherein the status of the consolidation systems are tracked and the consolidation status information is sent to the computer processing system.
US08082051B2
An audio system installed in a listening space may include a signal processor and a plurality of loudspeakers. The audio system may be tuned with an automated audio tuning system to optimize the sound output of the loudspeakers within the listening space. The automated audio tuning system may provide automated processing to determine at least one of a plurality of settings, such as channel equalization settings, delay settings, gain settings, crossover settings, bass optimization settings and group equalization settings. The settings may be generated by the automated audio tuning system based on an audio response produced by the loudspeakers in the audio system. The automated tuning system may generate simulations of the application of settings to the audio response to optimize tuning.
US08082048B2
A structure is provided in which a thrust feed forward structure for operating a structure to be driven without vibration and a control structure which simultaneously compensates for positional deviation caused by the thrust feed forward structure and positional deviation caused by a base displacement are included in a position controlling device (3). Alternatively, a structure is provided in which an acceleration and deceleration process for realizing response of the position of the structure to be driven and base displacement without vibration and a control structure which determines a feed forward amount with respect to a position instruction value after the acceleration and deceleration process are provided to the position controlling device.
US08082047B1
An adaptive control method that provides the ability to address control uncertainties in both the sign and magnitude of the control power of the system to ensure stability and command tracking. The adaptive control system also functions correctly and remains internally stable in spite of control limits. The control system has the following elements: (i) a filter that smoothes the command to the plant and modifies the command when a control limit is reached, (ii) an element that receives command error input and constructs a nonlinear function of the accumulated error, (iii) an element that converts the nonlinear function of the accumulated error into a control signal to be added to the output of a baseline control system, and (iv) an element that computes the difference between the actuator command and the maximum achievable output.
US08082046B2
A method for setting valve action, used by a control system having a dialog box, includes choosing a start/stop mode of the valve action. A dialog box of the control system shows start/stop condition fields according to the start/stop mode of the valve action. A start/stop condition field for start/stop timing of the valve action is set.
US08082044B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for embodiments for efficiently and flexibly controlling hardware devices in a semiconductor processing system are provided for use in a distributed control arrangement. In general, the distributed arrangement includes at least one upper-level controller that is configurable with a computer program sequence of instructions for controlling one or more hardware devices of a processing tool. The hardware devices are controlled through one or more lower-level controllers. Prior to execution of the program sequence of the upper-level controller, at least one instruction of this program is pre-compiled so as to translate the instruction for execution by a selected lower-level controller and to add an at least one interlock check to such pre-compiled instruction and make the translated instruction accessible to at least one lower-level controller. The interlock check specifies one or more condition(s) for the selected lower-level controller to execute the pre-compiled instruction. Any number of instructions of the upper-level controller may be translated for use by any number of selected lower-level controllers, where some of the translated instructions include one or more interlock checks.
US08082036B2
A system for automatically evaluating the sensing and detection of physiological processes by an implantable medical device, such as an implantable cardiac stimulation device. The system includes an automatic testing algorithm which iteratively adjusts at least one of the threshold and gain settings of the device and evaluates the accuracy of the detection for refining the programming of the device. The algorithm can include sampling the physiological process beginning at a relatively low rate to avoid excessive burden on the processing and battery capacity available and progressively increasing the rate to obtain higher resolution data. The algorithm can also evaluate the observed physiological process for periodicity and can determine repetition of an irregular pattern, such as bigeminy, and use the determined pattern for predictive purposes to refine the programming of the device. The algorithm employs observation of a change in observed pattern as indicia for loss of proper detection.
US08082028B2
A device for classifying of supraventricular tachyarrhythmia (SVT) from ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VT) comprising means for providing a template signal and a test signal originated from an electrogram, the template signal and the test signal comprising samples, means for transforming at least the test signal resulting in a representation of the test signal where the sample values of the signal take integers, means for determining a correlation between the template signal and the test signal and means for classifying of SVT from ventricular VT based on the correlation.
US08082023B2
A method and apparatus for marking a lesion in a body part is provided. The method includes the steps of obtaining a first nuclear-emission image of the body part; determining a position of the lesion from the first image; percutaneously introducing a cannula to the determined position; inserting a wire into the cannula, the wire including radioactive material; retracting the cannula while holding the wire in place; and obtaining a second nuclear-emission image of the body part. The second image includes data relating to a position of the lesion and data relating to a position of the wire.
US08082022B2
A system is disclosed for determining a position and a change in the position of an anatomical structure. The system utilizes a surgical navigation system and a substrate that is capable of being removably mounted to an outer surface of a patient's body. The substrate includes a sensor that is tracked by the surgical navigation system and a fiber optic device that determines the position of an anatomical structure relative to the sensor. The concatenation of the position of the sensor and the relative position of the anatomical structure allows a global position of the anatomical structure to be determined by a computer system and displayed to the user.
US08082021B2
Methods and apparatuses for locating a catheter, or other medical international devices are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes providing a pressure sensitive device attached to a body of a catheter, providing a resonant circuit coupled to the pressure sensitive device in the catheter, the resonant circuit having an oscillating frequency, generating a magnetic field, the magnetic field inducing and causing the resonant circuit to oscillate, applying a pressure on the pressure sensitive device, the pressure applied on the pressure sensitive device changing the frequency of the resonant circuit, detecting the oscillation of the resonant circuit, and determining location of the catheter based on the oscillation of the resonant circuit. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US08082018B2
An angiographic injector system and a method of controllably delivering medical fluid to a patient from an angiographic injector system are disclosed. A multiple processor control system is used to actively control the injection process and to monitor sensed functions of the system. The multiple processors provide dual redundancy safety circuits for critical control functions such as syringe motor drive speed and current. A motor/servo-amplifier nested control function is also disclosed. A unique method and apparatus are disclosed for establishing injection parameter default values just prior to an injection procedure that are based on physiological values of the patient to be treated. The injector system uses an interactive display panel that presents sequenced set-up screens to the user and which enables the user to select injection procedures, parameters and other modes of operation directly through the interactive panel.
US08082004B2
A Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC), such as a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card is pressed into place in a wireless communication device. The SIM card includes notched edge portions that allow a tool to be used to assist in the removal of the SIM card. The notched edge portions are positioned around the periphery of the SIM card and allow a user to pry the SIM card from the wireless communication device. In an alternative embodiment, the SIM card package may include one or more holes to allow the user to insert a tool and press to remove the SIM card from the wireless communication device. In yet another alternative embodiment, the holes may be used in combination with the notched edge portions to aid in the removal of the SIM card.
US08082003B2
A mobile terminal including a flexible display provided on a main body of the mobile terminal, in which the flexible display is configured to flex as the mobile terminal is attached to a part of the human body. The mobile terminal also includes a sensor configured to sense at least one of a position and movement of the main body, and a controller configured to control the flexible display to display an image in a first area of the flexible display so that a display direction of the image is in a first direction, and to move the displayed image in the first area to a second area of the flexible display based on the at least of the sensed position and movement of the main body so that the display direction of the image is maintained in the first direction.
US08082002B2
The invention includes a message switching equipment for transmitting messages between container units placed in containers and a monitoring server. The message switching equipment comprises at least a container unit 201, a gateway unit 202 providing communication links 203, and a message handler 204 which is coupled to the monitoring server 205. The message switching equipment is adapted to send a first message 206 from the container unit 201 via a cellular network 207 to the message handler 204 in response to an event relating to the container. In more detail, the first message 206 is sent through a cellular network radio 208 of the container unit 201. The equipment is further adapted to receive through a short range radio 209 of the container unit 201 a second message 210 originated from one of the container units and transmit the second message 210 from the container unit 201 via the cellular network 207 to the message handler 204. The equipment is further adapted to receive through a short range radio 211 of the gateway unit 202 a third message 212 and transmit the third message through the gateway unit 202 to the message handler 203.
US08081992B2
Embodiments of a system and method for displaying a geographic location associated with an incoming call being received on a mobile device are provided. The mobile device has a user interface that provides a call screen to the user for identifying a phone number associated with the incoming call, and for displaying data including the geographic location associated with the incoming call. The geographic location is resolved by identifying a geographic location associated with a contact entry in the address book of the mobile device, or by comparing the area code of the phone number of the incoming call in a list of area codes and associated geographic location to find a match corresponding to the area code of the incoming call.
US08081990B2
A method of and system for calibrating a repeater in a wireless communications system are provided. The one or more calibration parameters for the repeater are derived from (a) time measurements derived from one or more signals relayed by the repeater and received at a plurality of different measurement positions, and (b) the positions of the measurement locations. In one application, the one or more parameters are used in determining the positions of subscriber stations in the wireless communications system.
US08081987B2
Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for implementing a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) network. In one embodiment, configuration data comprising a unique identification of a mobile electronic device and an assigned membership of the mobile electronic device to a workgroup is received. The method further comprises selecting a data dictionary comprising at least one desired GIS feature type which was not originally intended for use by the mobile electronic device based upon the assigned membership of the mobile electronic device to the workgroup. The method further comprises sending the data dictionary to the mobile electronic device via a wireless communication network.
US08081979B2
Blocking of service in cellular radio system. An apparatus comprises a processor configured to control a stand-alone base station so that an emulated cell is formed by transmitting a control channel with information of a real cell and with such a transmission power that a subscriber terminal of a cellular radio system is forced to camp in the emulated cell, and to control the stand-alone base station to block service from the subscriber terminal before an integrity protection process is performed between the stand-alone base station and the subscriber terminal.
US08081976B2
A mobile radio terminal of the present invention searches for a base station by a first search method by using a frequency at which an electric field strength of a radio signal has a reference value or more, searches for the base station by a second search method by using the frequency group usable for communication with the base station belonging to the mobile communication network, searches for the base station by the first search method until a number of searches by the first base station search method corresponds to an upper limit value of a number of searches, and searches for the base station by the second search method when the base station search by the first search method does not succeed by a time when the number of searches for the base station by the first search method corresponds to the upper limit value.
US08081971B2
The present invention provides a solution to the mobile terminal address management in the WLAN inter-working. By using the access control framework, the mobile terminal could obtain the address, and setup the tunnel together with the granting of service access. The management process would be shielded by the inherent encryption and protection of the access control process, and thus does not need extra security setup procedures to be performed. The invention also provides a method for the terminal to obtain address that binds to the session, using a fine grain service authorization procedure. The terminal could maintain multiple addresses when accessing multiple parallel sessions. The address management is also integrated with the policy control mechanisms. The policy control would provide means for the terminal and its home network to configure the WLAN when necessary after an address alternation. QoS, or tunnelling information would be modified and provisioned according to the new status using channels available in the existing policy control procedures. By this, a smooth address transition in the roaming time could be achieved, and QoS interruption could be minimized.
US08081967B2
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an access point may provide multiple access to a single medium by providing time division multiple access to the medium.
US08081965B2
A method, system, and computer readable media that when executed determines and manages presence information and presents the information to a plurality of devices. A determination is made if a presence device is within a range of a detection device. If the presence device is within a detectable range, presence information is prepared. The presence information includes the location of the detection device and the availability of the user of the presence device. Then, the presence device updates a plurality of devices with the presence information.
US08081958B2
A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a user, virtually on the fly, to invite another user to participate in an on-line conferencing session, by providing a link that automatically enables the other user to participate in the conferencing session. In one embodiment, the conferencing session is a text messaging conference session, such as one that might employ instant messaging, or the like. In one embodiment, a user may request a conferencing session to be established, by sending a request to a server device. The request may, include an identifier of an invitee with whom the first user wishes to communicate. The server determines a unique link for the invitee and session, and sends the invitee an invite message with their unique link. Selecting the unique link enables the invitee to automatically access and to participate in the conferencing session with the first user.
US08081954B2
Methodologies and system functionality are provided to determine mobile device capabilities and/or configuration setting and user abilities and/or inclinations as a precursor to or as part of the management, delivery and/or assessment of the efficacy of promotional material. The determination of the mobile device capabilities and/or configuration settings and user abilities and/or inclinations may be performed, for example, when provisioning a new service or after such a service has been utilized by a mobile device user. Further, such a determination may be performed in connection with a mobile device service that provides free or subsidized service to mobile device users.
US08081943B2
A receiving apparatus includes an amplification section that amplifies a received signal and a frequency conversion section that converts a frequency of the received signal, from a radio frequency to a baseband, the baseband having a lower frequency than the radio frequency. A gain control section amplifies, by a predetermined gain, the signal that has been subjected to the frequency conversion to the baseband. A voltage calibration section performs calibration on an offset voltage generated in the signal subjected to frequency conversion to the baseband. A time constant control section sets a first time constant during a reception operation and sets a second time constant, which is reduced with respect to the first time constant, during the calibration. A filter section passes a received signal of a predetermined band, with the first time constant or the second time constant, an operation control section stops operation of the amplification section during the calibration, controls the amplification section to operate during the reception operation, and controls the operation of the amplification section so as to reduce a residual offset voltage caused by switching the operation of the amplification section.
US08081931B2
A transceiver device and an impedance matching method are provided. In the impedance matching method, a plurality of matching modes is set. Each matching mode includes a default impedance and a corresponding default power. In addition, one of the matching modes is selected for outputting a transmission signal to a load. Besides, a response signal derived from the transmission signal is received. Further, whether the default impedance is matched with an impedance of the load or not is determined according to a parameter of the response signal. Thereby, the echo signal can be restrained from being generated.
US08081926B2
A wireless device comprising a single communication stack accessing a corresponding radio interface accessed via a corresponding physical layer, may utilize a plurality of communication sessions to perform a plurality of applications simultaneously. The corresponding radio interface may be utilized to perform initial connectivity and/or control functionality associate with each of the communication sessions; whereas data communication during the communication sessions may be performed utilizing one or more other radio interfaces supporting high speed data standards, which may also be accessed by the single communication stack, using corresponding other PHY and/or MAC layers. The connectivity and/or control functionality may comprise discovery, pairing, and/or initial connection. The plurality of high speed data standard may comprise WLAN, ultra-wideband (UWB), and/or 60 GHz PHY and/or PHY/MAC layers. Two or more of the communication sessions may contemporaneously utilize different PHY and/or PHY/MAC layers pertaining to the same high speed data standard.
US08081924B2
Partner relay systems and methods are provided in which relaying is performed by a pair of partner relays. Signals received from a base station are translated by a first of the pair of partner relays to a different transmission resource for communication between the pair of partner relays, and then upon reception by a second of the pair of partner relays, the signal is translated back to the original transmission resource and re-transmitted towards the receiver.
US08081914B2
An apparatus (100) and method (200) that detaches media from a fuser in a printer is disclosed. The method can include feeding (220) a media sheet through a fuser member and applying (230) gas from an air knife to the media sheet on the fuser member to detach the media sheet at a detach point from the fuser member. The method can also include asserting (240) tension on the media sheet using a set of rotational members and continuing to apply gas from the air knife to the media sheet until the set of rotational members asserts tension on the media sheet.
US08081910B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a latent image carrier; a charging unit; a latent image forming unit; a developing unit; a transferring unit; and a cleaning unit, wherein a voltage of the non-image portion of the latent image carrier is Vo, a voltage of the developing bias at the time when a force generated to bias the toner charged with the regular charging polarity in a direction from the latent image carrier to the toner carrier is maximum is Vmax, and a voltage of the developing bias at the time when a force generated to bias the toner charged with the regular charging polarity in a direction from the toner carrier to the latent image carrier is maximum is Vmin, in the developing position, an equation |Vmax−Vo|>|Vmin−Vo| is satisfied.
US08081908B2
A toner bottle containing a cylindrical toner container having therein a toner comprising at least a resin, a colorant and an external additive, the toner container having a toner discharge port on an end thereof and a rotation axis along the cylindrical toner container, and the toner container being installable in an image forming apparatus, wherein the toner container has plural protrusions which are intermittently provided in an interior of the cylindrical container, the protrusions having a function to convey the toner toward the toner discharge port when the toner container is rotated around the rotation axis; an X-ray intensity ratio of titanium to silicon (Ti/Si) determined via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry of the toner is 1.0 to 3.0; and a conveyance index of the toner is 2.0 to 10.0 mg/sec.
US08081903B2
A fixing device includes a fixing member that comes into contact with a recording medium while rotating a heating unit that heats the fixing member, a pressing member that presses the recording medium to the fixing member while rotating, and an air supply unit that supplies air to a part included in an angle range of 90 degrees toward a downstream side of the pressing member in a rotating direction from a contact position between the pressing member and the fixing member.
US08081901B2
This invention provides a xerographic marking module that has a built-in lifting mechanism that is useful in installing a new module in a xerographic marking system. The lifting mechanism forms the bottom portion of the marking module and comprises an upper cradle to hold the remaining module portion, a lower plate that constitutes the bottom of the module when in a collapsed position, and a movable linkage that connects the cradle to the lower plate. When in installation mode, the linkage creates a vertical force which will upwardly push the cradle (holding the module) away from the lower plate into an installation elevation. After slides in the module and in the color marking system are mated, the lifting mechanism is collapsed and the module pushed into the color marking system or apparatus.
US08081896B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism for forming an image, at least one developer container replaceably provided in the image forming apparatus for containing developer, a housing for housing the image forming mechanism and the at least one developer container, and an operation device provided on the housing. The housing includes at least one openable portion opened for replacement of the at least one developer container. The operation device includes an instruction display part for indicating a message prompting opening of the at least one openable portion, and at least one developer-end display part for indicating depletion or near-depletion of the developer contained in any one of the at least one developer container. The at least one developer-end display part and the instruction display part are placed adjacent to each other and are viewable from a front side of the image forming apparatus.
US08081891B2
When an image forming job is completed that records onto a recording sheet an image formed on a photoconductor drum and conveys the recording sheet, a simple process control is carried out that forms some filled patch images with using some toners. After the simple process control is carried out, a determination is carried out, in accordance with a charge control value of a charge roller adjusted by the simple process control (a voltage value applied on the charge roller), whether a formal process control should be carried out or not that forms many patch images with using much toners. The formal process control is additionally carried out, when the determination means so.
US08081889B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image receptor; a developing member which develops a latent image on the image receptor with a toner; an anti-spattering member collecting free toner particles, a driver which drives the developing member and the anti-spattering member; and a controller which controls the driver not to drive the anti-spattering member during a printing operation, and to drive the anti-spattering member at other times when printing operation is not being performed.
US08081888B2
An image forming device includes a container accommodating toner, a light emitting unit emitting light to be transmitted through the container, a light receiving unit receiving the light transmitted through the container, an efficiency determining unit determining a light receiving efficiency based on a light intensity of the light received by the light receiving unit, an execution amount determining unit determining an execution amount of image forming operations that represents an accumulated amount of image forming operations executed since first use of the container, a correction coefficient determining unit determining a correction coefficient based on the execution amount of image forming operations, an efficiency modifying unit modifying the light receiving efficiency with the correction coefficient, and an estimating unit estimating an amount of the toner remaining in the container based on the modified light receiving efficiency.
US08081874B2
An interchangeable lens which is mountable to a camera body and operates according to a command from the camera body includes a diaphragm operable to regulate an amount of light from a subject by changing an aperture, a drive unit operable to change the aperture of the diaphragm, and a lens controller operable to control the drive unit to change the aperture of the diaphragm according to an instruction received from the camera body. When the lens controller receives a new instruction from the camera body while changing the aperture of the diaphragm, the lens controller controls the drive unit to change the aperture of the diaphragm based on the new instruction without waiting for completion of the change of the aperture according to a previous instruction.
US08081870B2
Upon reproducing a TV program, it is a common practice to display video data sent from a broadcast station as it is, and the display pattern (layout) is not effectively changed (e.g., an object in video data is erased, or the object size is changed). A program ID from additional data contained in received TV information is detected, and when layout setting data corresponding to the detected program ID is stored in a memory, the corresponding layout setting data is read out from the memory to display program video data in the set layout. When a new layout is set, the user selects an object for which a layout is to be adjusted from objects that form image data in TV information, and adjusts movement, upscaling/downscaling, display ON/OFF of the selected object.
US08081867B2
A record/playback apparatus includes a recording unit that records a televised program being received by a receiving unit to a disk-shaped recording medium such as a DVD or HD. Also, a commercial message detecting unit detects a switch from main program to commercial message and a switch from commercial message to main program. The recording unit records the main program and commercial messages inserted in the main program to the recording medium under separate titles, based on a result of the detection by the commercial message detecting unit.
US08081866B2
A playback apparatus includes a classified region selecting section that selects a classified region at random from among a plurality of classified regions on a recording medium, the recording medium including recorded data managed such that a plurality of pieces of unit data belong to corresponding classified regions serving as data storage logical regions generated in accordance with a predetermined classification rule; a unit data selecting section that selects a piece of unit data from among the pieces of unit data that belong to the selected classified region; a reading section that reads from the recording medium the selected piece of unit data in order to play back the selected piece of unit data; and an execution controller that controls the repeated execution of a series of selecting and reading operations including selection of a classified region, selection of a piece of unit data, and reading of the selected piece of unit data.
US08081863B2
A content playback apparatus obtains and plays a content section from content according to an obtaining method that varies.The content playback apparatus which obtains the content section from content and plays the obtained content section includes a reference generation unit that generates a judgment reference that varies dynamically over a playback time axis of the content, and a content section obtaining unit that obtains the content section by comparing the content with the judgment reference. With this structure, the content playback apparatus is able to obtain a content section according to a method that varies.
US08081850B2
A device includes a resonator capable of supporting a plasmon mode, a gain structure arranged to couple energy into the resonator, and a memristive layer arranged to provide an interaction with the plasmon mode. An electric signal applied to the memristive layer can change the interaction and change a resonant frequency of the plasmon mode.
US08081840B2
The invention relates to an appliance for measuring or controlling an optical element (3) comprising illumination means (1) and an associated artificial vision system (2), in which the optical element (3) can be inserted between the illumination means (1) and the artificial vision system (2), said illumination means (1) comprising programmable optoelectronic means for producing a luminous background with spatially and temporally variable brightness. The inventive appliance is characterised in that the programmable optoelectronic means are embodied in such a way as to consecutively generate a plurality of mires, each comprising a pattern which is repeated in a contrasted manner on a uniform background with a high spatial frequency of between 0.01 and 100 patterns/mm, or such that two adjacent patterns are separated by an angle between 0.1 and 30 degrees, said angle being measured from the point of the object on which the pattern is observed. Said generated mires are consecutively spatially staggered in such a way that a plurality of images corresponding to the mires is captured by the artificial vision system after reflection or transmission by the optical element (3), and recombined in the form of a single composed image.
US08081838B2
The present invention provides two-scale tone management of an input image. A method of providing two-scale tone management contains the steps of: separating the input image into a base layer and a detail layer; separating a model image into a base layer and a detail layer; analyzing the input image globally for global contrast; analyzing the input image locally for local contrast; and performing detail preservation of the input image. A system contains a memory and a processor, where the processor is configured by the memory to perform the steps of: separating the input image into a base layer and a detail layer; separating a model image into a base layer and a detail layer; analyzing the input image globally for global contrast; analyzing the input image locally for local contrast; and performing detail preservation of the input image.
US08081837B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for image sensor leakage and dark current compensation are disclosed. In one implementation, a system comprises an imaging device including imaging pixels and two or more dark pixels, processing logic coupled to the imaging device, and an antenna coupled to the processing logic through an input/output (I/O) interface.
US08081831B2
An image processor includes: a decimal point position determining unit; an image inputting unit; and a calculating unit. The decimal point position determining unit determines a position of a decimal point based on a size of a mask that has a plurality of filter coefficients. The image inputting unit receives image data indicative of an image having a plurality of pixels, the image data including a pixel value for each pixel. The calculating unit performs, while setting a decimal point to be fixed at the determined position, a convolution operation on a pixel value of each pixel and pixel values of peripheral pixels for the each pixel by using the filter coefficients of the mask to find an average peripheral pixel value for the each pixel.
US08081827B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for processing document images. In one embodiment, the method comprises extracting one or more features corresponding to one or more objects from a JPM compressed file, including extracting at least one of the one or more features without decoding, ranking document objects based on a task being performed by an application, and the one or more extracted features, and selecting a set of the document objects based on rank and at least one constraint.
US08081826B2
Change image detecting devices and methods are disclosed. In one example, a change image detecting device includes a change image detecting unit that selects a reference image and an image to be processed and a determination unit that compares an Na-th (‘Na’ is a natural number equal to or smaller than N) partial region of N (‘N’ is an integer equal to or larger than 2) partial regions. If the determination unit determines that there is a change, the change image detecting unit selects the image to be processed or an image, which is temporally later than the image to be processed, as a new reference image and detects the image to be processed or the image, which is temporally later than the image to be processed, as the change image.
US08081824B2
A method and system for generating a search request from a multimodal query that includes a query image and query text is provided. The multimodal query system identifies images of a collection that are textually related to the query image based on similarity between words associated with each image and the query text. The multimodal query system then selects those images of the identified images that are visually related to the query image. The multimodal query system may formulate a search request based on keywords of web pages that contain the selected images and submit that search request to a search engine service.
US08081816B1
The present invention is an apparatus and method for object recognition from at least an image stream from at least an image frame utilizing at least an artificial neural network. The present invention further comprises means for generating multiple components of an image pyramid simultaneously from a single image stream, means for providing the active pixel and interlayer neuron data to at least a subwindow processor, means for multiplying and accumulating the product of a pixel data or interlayer data and a synapse weight, and means for performing the activation of an accumulation. The present invention allows the artificial neural networks to be reconfigurable, thus embracing a broad range of object recognition applications in a flexible way. The subwindow processor in the present invention also further comprises means for performing neuron computations for at least a neuron. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is used for object recognition, including face detection and gender recognition, in hardware. The apparatus comprises a digital circuitry system or IC that embodies the components of the present invention.
US08081811B2
To obtain more accurate image recognition results while alleviating the burden on the user to check the image recognition results. An image recognition unit recognizes a predetermined structure in an image representing a subject, then a recognition result judging unit measures the predetermined structure on the image recognized by the image recognition unit to obtain a predetermined anatomical measurement value of the predetermined structure, automatically judges whether or not the anatomical measurement value falls within a predetermined standard range, and, if it is outside of the range, judges the image recognition result to be incorrect.
US08081810B2
A storage medium contains a program which instructs a computer to recognize a predetermined shape of each of at least one portion of a medical assembly as a real-world fiducial in image data of a patient when the image data includes the predetermined shape and is received by the digital computer. The at-least-one portion has another function apart from functioning as a real-world fiducial. A medical apparatus includes a medical assembly and a storage medium. The medical assembly includes a component having at-least-one portion each with a predetermined shape. The storage medium contains a program which instructs a computer to recognize the predetermined shape of each of the at-least-one portion as a real-world fiducial in image data of a patient when the image data includes the predetermined shape and is received by the digital computer. The component has another function apart from functioning as a real-world fiducial.
US08081809B2
Methods and apparatus for reconstructing a multiple resolution images of an object are provided. The method includes reconstructing a first three-dimensional image at a first resolution, determining at least one volume of interest in the generated image, and reconstructing a second three-dimensional image of the determined at least one volume of interest at a second resolution, the second resolution being higher than the first resolution such that a quantification of image structures is facilitated.
US08081805B2
A finger sensing device may include a finger sensing area to receive a user's finger moved in a sliding motion, and a controller cooperating with the finger sensing area for generating successive image samples. Moreover, the controller may also generate the displacement estimate of the user's finger by at least performing a plurality of different image sample correlations between at least one pair of image samples, and cross-verifying results of the plurality of different image sample correlations.
US08081794B2
A method for imaging the surrounding of a vehicle is provided. The method includes the steps of (i) taking a series of two dimensional images of the vehicle surrounding, (ii) taking a series of three dimensional images of the vehicle surrounding that including depth information, (iii) determining at least one object in an area of interest in one of the series of images and tracking the object in the area of interest, (iv) processing the others of the series of images to retrieve object information from said other series of images, (v) adjusting the objects to be tracked in the one series of images in accordance with the object information received from processing the other series of images.
US08081792B2
A method, optical arrangement, and apparatus for reading a microbead having a code. The method includes reflecting an incident light from the microbead to provide an output light. The output light is projected on a Fourier plane. The method also includes reading the code from the Fourier plane.
US08081785B2
An audio amplifier system having improved power efficiency by wasting less power in its bias voltage circuit. An amplifier provides a voice signal to a first (+) input of a loudspeaker and a high efficiency converter provides a bias voltage to a second (−) input of the loudspeaker. In multi-loudspeaker systems, a single high efficiency converter can bias all the loudspeakers at a common node. The high efficiency converter can be a charge pump or a buck converter or the like, and has greater than 90% efficiency.
US08081775B2
Loudspeaker apparatus comprise commonly some sort of casings or assemblies, in which one or more single speakers are integrated and which are used to convert electrical signals into sound. A loudspeaker apparatus 1 for radiating sound in a hemisphere is disclosed having a center axis 9, the loudspeaker apparatus 1 comprising: a set of midrange drivers 6a, b, c, d, e, f, whereby the midrange drivers 6a, b, c, d, e, f are controlled and/or arranged in a Bessel configuration and are operable to provide a first acoustic field in the hemisphere, a set of tweeter drivers 7a, b, c, d adapted to provide a second acoustic field in the hemisphere, whereby the first and the second acoustic field are respectively arranged symmetrically, whereby the main sound emitting directions of the single tweeter drivers 7a, b, c, d are angled to the center axis 9.
US08081773B2
An audio signal processing apparatus includes first, second and third omni-directional microphones each of which receives sound and generates an omni-directional audio signal and which are spaced apart by a predetermined distance, a first adder section that adds audio signals generated by the first, second and third omni-directional microphones and generates an audio signal having an omni-directivity in the whole circumferential direction, a first subtractor section that subtracts audio signals generated by the first and third omni-directional microphones and generates an audio signal having a directivity in the right-left direction, a second adder section that adds audio signals generated by the first and third omni-directional microphones, a second subtractor section that subtracts an audio signal generated by the second omni-directional microphone from the audio signal added by the second adder section and generates an audio signal having a directivity in the front-back direction, and an output section that adds the audio signal resulting from the multiplication of the audio signal having a directivity in the whole circumferential direction by a predetermined coefficient, the audio signal resulting from the multiplication of the audio signal having a directivity in the right-left direction by a predetermined coefficient, and the audio signal resulting from the multiplication of the audio signal having a directivity in the front-back direction by a predetermined coefficient and generates a unidirectional audio signal.
US08081769B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus for cancelling resonance in an outer-ear canal, comprises an outer-ear canal model includes attenuator modules representing reflection coefficients of an earphone or headphone and an eardrum, and a delay module having a delay time corresponding to a distance between the earphone or headphone and the eardrum, an inverse-filter forming unit configured to form an inverse filter of the outer-ear canal model, and a convolution module configured to perform convolution on an impulse response from the inverse filter and a sound-source signal.
US08081767B2
A method for adjusting frequency response curve of a speaker comprises these steps: testing sensitivity of the speaker in at least two types of hardware conditions and recording corresponding frequency response curves; selecting a frequency response curve that comes closest to falling within a predetermined range for selected frequency ranges; and adjusting the selected frequency response curve with a filter.
US08081763B2
The present invention provides improvements to prior art audio codecs that generate a stereo-illusion through post-processing of a received mono signal. These improvements are accomplished by extraction of stereo-image describing parameters at the encoder side, which are transmitted and subsequently used for control of a stereo generator at the decoder side. Furthermore, the invention bridges the gap between simple pseudo-stereo methods, and current methods of true stereo-coding, by using a new form of parametric stereo coding. A stereo-balance parameter is introduced, which enables more advanced stereo modes, and in addition forms the basis of a new method of stereo-coding of spectral envelopes, of particular use in systems where guided HFR (High Frequency Reconstruction) is employed. As a special case, the application of this stereo-coding scheme in scalable HFR-based codecs is described.
US08081762B2
A method for generating a parametrically encoded audio signal, the method comprising: inputting a multi-channel audio signal comprising a plurality of audio channels; generating at least one combined signal of the plurality of audio channels; and generating one or more corresponding sets of side information including channel configuration information for controlling audio source locations in a synthesis of a binaural audio signal.
US08081752B2
A method and apparatus for reducing crosstalk between digital subscriber lines includes: firstly, determining a parameter of VDSL (Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line); secondly, determining frequency range of signal to be transmitted in the line and transmitting signal in the corresponding line according to the determined frequency range. This mainly means reducing or turning off the transmitting of the signal at a high frequency band and only using low frequency band for data transmitting in the case that the line parameter exceeds the predetermined threshold, so that crosstalk to neighboring lines is reduced. The present invention can effectively overcome the crosstalk against neighboring lines during the channel discovery phase of digital subscriber line and the transfer performance of the digital subscriber line in operation can be guaranteed. The present invention is realized based on the established standard, so the present invention is simple and easy to implement.
US08081747B2
System and method of managing telephone calls within a voice over internet protocol telephone system
A voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone server is disclosed and includes a computer readable medium that is accessible to a processor. A centralized address book is embedded within the computer readable medium. Further, a computer program is embedded within the computer readable medium and the computer program utilizes the centralized address book to selectively restrict incoming telephone calls and outgoing telephone calls. The centralized address book can include a plurality of address books and each of the plurality of address books is associated with a corresponding VoIP telephone coupled to the VoIP telephone server. The computer program can include instructions to determine whether an address book only calling lock is on for the VoIP telephone. Moreover, the computer program can include instructions to determine whether an originating telephone number associated with an incoming telephone is stored within the centralized address book.
US08081726B2
A time synchronization device (TSD) that produces a synchronization signal and couples it onto energized power conductors in a power monitoring system. Monitoring devices coupled to the TSD include frequency detection algorithms, such as a Goertzel filter, for detecting the synchronization signal and interpreting the information encoded in the signal. The frequency of the synchronization signal may correspond to the fourth or tenth harmonic component of the fundamental frequency of the voltage on the power conductors. The magnitude of the signal is selected to be above the expected or established noise floor of the power monitoring system plus a predetermined threshold. The duration of the signal can be varied, such as lasting a full cycle of the fundamental frequency. Multiple TSD signals received in a predetermined sequence may be converted into digital words that convey time, configuration, reset, control, or other information to the monitoring device.
US08081718B2
An apparatus for adjusting the transmission bit rate and fragmentation threshold of a wireless station in response to transmission errors is disclosed. In particular, the illustrative embodiment of the present invention is based on a wireless station that employs both an IEEE 802.11 radio and a Bluetooth radio, and determines whether transmission errors of the IEEE 802.11 radio are due to fading, or interference from the Bluetooth radio. It will be clear to those skilled in the art how to make and use alternative embodiments of the present invention for protocols other than IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth, as well as stations that employ wireline or non-RF-wireless transceivers.
US08081717B2
An apparatus includes a radio frequency receiver and a timing adjustment unit that contains at least two channel impulse response estimators. The at least two channel impulse response estimators include an on-time estimator and at least one of an early estimator and a late estimator. The apparatus also includes a calculation unit that is configurable to obtain a channel estimate for each measured channel impulse response and to average obtained channel estimates over a plurality of received signal events to determine a timing adjustment in accordance with residual signal power.
US08081712B2
A method and apparatus for adjusting power grants in wireless communications. Multiple power grant tables are stored and one or more tables are designated during communication.
US08081710B2
A system and method for modulating and amplifying an input signal are provided in a communication transmitter. The transmitter includes a pre-distortion lookup table containing pre-distortion lookup data. An auto-calibration module is in communication with the pre-distortion lookup table. The auto-calibration module is configured to operate during a closed-loop auto-calibration interval and to calibrate the pre-distortion lookup data to compensate for a non-linearity in the transmitter. The pre-distortion is based on the pre-distortion lookup data and is used during an open-loop operational interval.
US08081697B2
An apparatus and method for lowering a tree searching complexity in a Spatial Multiplexing (SM) Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna system are provided. A transmitting apparatus includes a generator for generating a plurality of transmit streams by spatial-multiplexing a transmit data, a determiner for determining modulation schemes to be applied to the plurality of the transmit streams respectively and a modulator for modulating the plurality of the transmit streams using at least two modulation schemes under control of the determiner. The receiver detects the signals by allocating the modulation scheme of the lowest order to the upper tree level.
US08081696B2
Three channel coding schemes for multi-carrier HSDPA packet data transmission are disclosed. The first scheme includes: dividing data into N groups (S210); performing CRC attachment, code block segmentation, channel coding and rate matching on each group of data respectively (S220); scrambling and interleaving the N groups of data unitedly, and then dividing the data into N groups again to perform QAM constellation rearrangement and then map to physical channels of respective carriers for transmission. The second scheme includes: dividing data to be sent into groups (S510); and sending each group of data via a physical channel of a carrier after coding it according to single-carrier HSDPA (S520). The third scheme includes: sending N carrier channels as a whole to a physical layer to perform processing from CRC attachment to QAM constellation rearrangement (S710); dividing the processed data into groups and mapping them to respective carrier channels for transmission (S720).
US08081690B2
A receiver for receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) digital video broadcast (DVB) signal including OFDM symbol sets including data symbols and pilot symbols transmitted using a plurality of sub-carriers, the OFDM DVB signal being transmitted toward the receiver via a transmission channel, the receiver including an input processor configured to receive the OFDM DVB signal via the transmission channel and to perform a Fourier transform on the OFDM DVB signal to provide a frequency-domain signal, a channel estimation processor coupled to the input processor and configured to calculate final channel estimates, the channel estimation processor being configured to perform time-domain prediction on the frequency-domain signal to provide established sub-carriers that each have corresponding initial channel estimates, and perform minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalization on the frequency-domain signal using the initial channel estimates that correspond to a sub-set of the established sub-carriers to calculate the final channel estimates.
US08081689B2
The invention concerns a method for performing frequency selective control channel scheduling in networks using an OFDM spectrum, whereby a base station (BS1-BS8) broadcasts on at least one predefined subcarrier which is known to all mobile terminals (T1-T4) a signaling information common to all mobile terminals (T1-T4) indicating the position of at least one subcarrier of at least one frequency selective shared control channel and at least one identification of at least one addressed mobile terminal, the base station (BS1-BS8) sends signaling information for said at least one addressed mobile terminal at the indicated position of said at least one subcarrier of said at least one frequency selective shared control channel, and at least one mobile terminal (T1-T4) measures at least one subcarrier of said at least one frequency selective shared control channel for channel quality estimation, a base station (BS1-BS8), a mobile terminal (T1-T4) and a network (CN) therefor.
US08081685B2
To determine a length of a guard interval based on performance provided in a communication terminal apparatus. A communication control apparatus 100 is a communication control apparatus that adds a guard interval to transmit a symbol to a communication terminal apparatus, and is provided with a terminal information receiving section 120 that receives delayed version tolerant performance information indicating performance of a communication terminal apparatus 200 to support delayed versions from the communication terminal apparatus, a guard interval length determining section (GI length determining section) 140 that determines a length of the guard interval based on the delayed version tolerant performance information, and a data symbol transmitting section 150 that transmits the symbol with the guard interval of the determined length added thereto to the communication terminal apparatus 200.
US08081683B2
A decoding-processing apparatus that decodes bitstreams using an intermediate format. The apparatus includes a context-calculating unit (2) calculating the probability of symbols contained in incoming bitstreams, a parameter-generating unit (3) generating parameters for use in the context-calculating unit (2), and an arithmetic decoding-calculating unit (4) decoding the incoming bitstreams in accordance with the probability, thereby providing decoded data. The apparatus also includes a stream-converting unit (5) converting the decoded data into intermediate bitstreams, a storage unit (6) storing the intermediate bitstreams, a synchronization-detecting unit (7) detecting calculation start timing from the intermediate bitstreams fed out of the storage unit (6), thereby providing detected calculation start timing, and a multivalued calculating unit (8) permitting the intermediate bitstreams fed out of the storage unit (6) to be multivalued in synchronism with the detected calculation start timing from the synchronization-detecting unit (7).
US08081679B2
An image processing apparatus includes a quantizing unit configured to quantize an input moving image signal using a set quantization scale; a coding unit configured to perform variable length coding on an output of the quantizing unit; an activity detecting unit configured to detect an activity of the input moving image signal; a quantization-scale determining unit configured to determine the quantization scale; a changing unit configured to change a value determined by the quantization-scale determining unit, and to set the changed value, as the quantization scale; and a filling level detecting unit configured to detect the filling level of a virtual buffer in a decoder which decodes the coded moving image signal, and to control the changing unit such that the degree of change in the quantization scale caused by use of the activity is reduced as the detected filling level decreases.
US08081676B2
Method and apparatus for data reception are provided, retrieving digital values transmitted through a cable. In a data receiver, an equalizer equalizes an input signal based on a boost value to generate an equalized signal, and a data extractor samples the equalized signal to extract output values from each symbol period. The data extractor detects signal quality of the equalized signal to adjust the boost value accordingly. An optimal time point is detected within one symbol period where an output value is an ensured valid, and variation rate of the optimal time point is counted as an inverse indicator of the signal quality.
US08081675B2
In accordance with the teachings described herein, an extended equalizer circuit is provided for equalizing a digital communication signal transmitted over a transmission medium that causes a frequency-dependent attenuation of the digital communication signal. An equalizer may be used that includes a linear equalization circuit and a non-linear equalization circuit, the linear equalization circuit being configured to apply a linear filter to the digital communication signal to compensate for the frequency-dependent attenuation caused by a first portion of the transmission medium, and the non-linear equalization circuit being configured to apply one or more non-linear operations to the digital communication signal. A de-emphasizing equalizer circuit may be coupled in series between the transmission medium and the equalizer and configured to apply an additional linear filter to the digital communication signal in order to compensate for the frequency-dependent attenuation caused by a second portion of the transmission medium.
US08081671B2
The invention provides an optoelectronic device combining a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) and a photodetector for monitoring the output power of the vertical cavity surface emitting laser. To improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the photodetector, a light deflector is interposed between the photodetector and the VCSEL.
US08081668B2
A laser processes a workpiece with laser pulses delivered at random time intervals and at substantially constant energy levels by characterizing the laser cavity discharge behavior and utilizing that information for adjusting dummy pulse time periods to compensate for the energy errors. Dummy pulses are laser pulses that are blocked from reaching a workpiece. A second way for providing constant pulse energies employs an AOM for varying amounts of laser energy passed to the workpiece. A third way of providing constant pulse energies entails extending the pulse period of selected pulses to allow additional laser cavity charging time whenever a dummy pulse is initiated.
US08081665B2
Asynchronous/plesiochronous digital hierarchy (PDH) signals, such as DS1 and E1, are transported using virtual concatenation. The packetized data signals are frame encapsulated and subsequently inverse multiplexed into a plurality of PDH frames. An overhead packet is inserted in the transmitted frames to enable the receiver to determine the status of the frames and extract the differential delay experienced by various frames as they are routed through virtually concatenated channels. The extracted delays enables the receiver to realign the various frames of the PDH signal to reconstitute the originally transmitted signals that travel through different paths of the transport network linking the source and sink of the virtually concatenated channel.
US08081659B2
An M-CMTS compatible UEQAM device implements circuitry to identify and analyze MAP message in the data stream sent from the M-CMTS Core with respect to timing information embedded in those messages. The improved UEQAM will then create a specific message as an extension to DEPI to communicate that information to the M-CMTS Core. The M-CMTS Core will employ that analysis to automatically adjust MAP message advance time to reduce delay and thus improve system performance. This invention will provide a closed-loop between the M-CMTS Core and the UEQAM where valuable transmission information will periodically be fed back from UEQAM-to-M-CMTS Core in real-time.
US08081658B2
In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the present invention comprises a method for using the remaining TxOP time by the peer node to forward traffic to a different destination, a method for using the remaining TxOP time by the original node to send traffic to a different destination, a method for using the remaining TxOP time by a neighbor to send traffic to the original node, a method for using the remaining TxOP time by a neighbor to send traffic to another node, a method to signal the reuse rules of the remaining TxOP time, and a method to efficiently relinquish/truncate a TxOP to reset the NAV for the neighborhood.
US08081657B2
Method and system for providing data, video and voice to a group of end user devices includes receiving end user device group quality of service rules and access network node bandwidth constraints; assigning multicast addresses and unicast addresses to end user devices of the group in response to the access node bandwidth constraints; and providing, in response to the end user device group quality of service rules and requests to receive services from the residential gateways, data, video and voice utilizing the assigned multicast addresses and unicast addresses. Further methods include receiving location information representative of distances between multiple end user devices and access nodes; defining end user bandwidth constraints in response to the location information and in response to access node bandwidth constraints; and providing, in response to the end user bandwidth constraints and to requests to receive services from the end user devices, data, compressed video and voice.
US08081649B2
Low-cost intelligent control and communication devices are arranged to communicate with one another over one or more shared physical media, such as a powerline or a radio frequency band. No network controller is needed, because any device can act as a master, slave, or repeater. Adding more devices makes the system more robust, by virtue of a simple protocol for communication retransmissions and retries.
US08081645B2
A method for processing multiple data packets includes receiving from a network interface, at a packet management unit (PMU), a data packet for processing, and determining whether to store or drop the data packet. The method further includes queueing the data packet in a queue within a queueing system and preloading a portion of the data packet into a context from a pool of contexts in a stream processing unit (SPU). The queued data packet referenced by the context is processed by the SPU and outputted to the network interface.
US08081639B2
Clock recovery is used in a variety of communications network applications to enable nodes using different clocks to operate in an effectively synchronized manner. Example embodiments of the present invention include an apparatus and corresponding method for supporting client data transport with timing transparency and require neither a common clock to be available at both the ingress and egress sides of the connection nor overhead bytes to recover a client clock. Rather, client traffic clock recovery may be performed in example embodiments of the present invention entirely in the egress data path using the client data received from the ingress side after removing the clients signal from a higher level carrier signal.
US08081637B2
When a network apparatus of this invention receives an IEEE 802.3ad link application control packet from a subscriber line with a VPWS function, it processes the packet in a control unit without relaying the packet by VPWS. More specifically, the network apparatus receives an IEEE802.3ad link aggregation control packet along with receiving an IEEE802.3x flow control packet. The network apparatus transmits a link aggregation control packet. The network apparatus also relays other layer 2 control protocol packets without receiving them, and does not transmit the other layer 2 control protocol packets.
US08081632B2
Computers are caused to provide a hash table wherein each entry is associated with a binary key and indexed by a selected portion of a hash value of the associated key, and points to a data structure location for storing non-selected portions of, or the entire hash value of, the binary key, and action data corresponding to the value of the binary key. Content addressable memory entries store a binary key, or a value unique to it, and an association to a corresponding action. Pointers to the data structure use selected portions of binary key hash values as an index when not selected portions of hash values of other binary keys, and associations are established between CAM entry and associated data structure locations when selected portions of the hash values of the binary keys are the same as selected portions of hash values of one or more other binary keys.
US08081624B2
Wireless communication devices include a software-defined radio coupled to processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to execute computer programming code. Storage media is coupled to the processing circuitry and includes computer programming code configured to cause the processing circuitry to configure and reconfigure the software-defined radio to operate on each of a plurality of communication networks according to a selected sequence. Methods for communicating with a wireless device and methods of wireless network-hopping are also disclosed.
US08081622B2
It is an object of this invention to improve speech quality in voice communications.Provided is a jitter buffer controller for controlling a jitter buffer in which arrived packets are accumulated, including: a jitter measuring portion for measuring jitters in the arrived packets; a judging portion for judging whether or not the jitters of the packets can be absorbed with an accumulation capacity of the jitter buffer; a determining portion for determining levels of importance of the packets; and a control portion for performing reproduction processing or discarding processing on a packet, among the packets accumulated in the jitter buffer, having jitter that cannot be absorbed with the accumulation capacity of the buffer, depending on a level of importance of the packet.
US08081619B2
A method of deciphering parameter synchronization in a reception end of a wireless communications system includes setting a receiving window of a first entity as a Push Type window with a window size greater than or equal to a window size of a receiving window of a second entity when the second entity operates in an acknowledged mode.
US08081616B2
According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus has a transmission/reception module, a WLAN-setting data storage module, a registrar process module, a WOL-setting data storage module, and a WOL-setting data addition module. The transmission/reception module transmits and receives data to and from an external apparatus through wireless communication. The WLAN-setting data storage module stores WLAN-setting data for setting a WLAN function. The registrar process module transmits and receives data to and from the external apparatus via the transmission/reception module on the basis of the data stored in the WLAN-setting data storage module, and registers the external apparatus as an enrollee. The WOL-setting data storage module stores WOL-setting data for setting WOL function with respect to the external apparatus. The WOL-setting data addition module adds the WOL-setting data stored in the WOL-setting data storage module, to the data to be transmitted by the registrar process module to the external apparatus.
US08081615B2
The present invention relates generally to wireless transceivers, and more particularly but not exclusively to non 802.11 detection and avoidance methodologies for wireless devices including transceivers. In one or more implementations, a method for detecting non 802.11 operating in the unlicensed 5.25-5.35 and 5.47-10.725 GHz radio bands, using wireless devices, such as AP, are provided. An AP is used to automatically detect the presence of non 802.11 on all channels in these bands, alert all of its clients, and move to another channel that is known to be devoid of non 802.11 using one or more implementations.
US08081598B2
Systems and methods for evaluating packets and frames in a wireless communication system having multiple reverse-link channels including a spontaneous, burst oriented transmission channel and its corresponding rate indicator channel. One embodiment comprises a base station monitoring the rate indicator channel, decoding the rate indicator channel using a maximum likelihood decoder and detecting the presence of a packet on the rate indicator channel by comparing a likelihood with a threshold, and analyzing the validity of a frame on the burst oriented channel based on the presence and content of packets received on the rate indicator channel.
US08081592B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate wireless communication using resource utilization messages (RUMs), in accordance with various aspects. A RUM may be generated for a first node, such as an access point or an access terminal, to indicate that a first predetermined threshold has been met or exceeded. The RUM may be weighted to indicate a degree to which a second predetermined threshold has been exceeded. The first and/or second predetermined thresholds may be associated with various parameters associated with the node, such as latency, throughput, data rate, spectral efficiency, carrier-to-interference ratio, interference-over-thermal level, etc. The RUM may then be transmitted to one or more other nodes to indicate a level of disadvantage experienced by the first node.
US08081591B2
A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed providing improved paging procedures in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, a Power-down Registration signal is transmitted via a 1×RTT modem from an Access Terminal (AT) to an Access Network (AN) in a wireless communication system that includes both a 1×RTT modem and a 1×HRPD modem. The Power-down Registration signal conveys information to the AN indicating that a power-down process has been initiated by the AT, and thereby enables the AN to discontinue transmission of signals and messages to the AT that are not effective when the AT is in an off-state.
US08081589B1
An access point coupled to an Ethernet port detects whether it is using power over Ethernet, and if so, adjusts its operation to maintain its power requirements within those capable of being supplied by power over Ethernet. The access point might include a detector capable of determining if external power is available, or if that access point is operating using power over Ethernet. If the access point is operating using power over Ethernet, it adjusts the operation of its radios, gracefully degrading those radios from (first) both radios operating in 3×3 mode, to (second) a first radio operating in 3×3 mode and a second radio operating in 2×2 mode, to (third) both radios operating in 2×2 mode. The power adaptation circuit may also throttle clock speeds in the system (processor or peripherals), or shut down or idle various peripherals to lower power consumption for the duration consumption is high.
US08081587B2
A method is provided for transmitting user data messages from a network element of a radio communication system via at least one transmission channel to at least one subscriber terminal of the radio communication system, whereby the form of the user data messages is announced before the transmission thereof via planning information. The planning information includes a first planning message by which the transmission of the user data messages is announced via a first separate transmission channel, and a second planning message by which description information is transmitted via at least one second transmission channel, the description information indicating the form of the user data messages to be transmitted. The form of the user data messages to be transmitted can include the data type and/or the codification of the user data messages. Announcing the form of the user data messages in the planning information enables the subscriber terminal to only intercept or receive the user data messages that it can actually process, thus enabling energy to be saved during reception and processing.
US08081586B2
A content indirection communications method, server, device, data storage medium and computer program product, where in a method executed by the server, in response to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) registration request from a device, informing the device in a SIP message of the identity of an address where the device may send information that is to be referenced by a SIP content indirection operation, and allocating storage for the information. Informing the device preferably uses a SIP message Call-Info header field with a purpose parameter set to ci-uri for indicating that the Call-Info header field contains a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies an identity of the storage location.
US08081582B2
A method and apparatus for centralized control of a network is described. The network includes a number of nodes. The method includes creating a database and storing the database on a master node of the network. The database contains topology information regarding a topology of the network. Each of the nodes is coupled to at least one other of the nodes, with the master node being one of the nodes.
