US08085992B1
A method of capturing biometric data is provided that includes activating a security application in a device. The security application is activated by an operator of the device and is configured to cause the device to display an outline image. Moreover, the method includes displaying the outline image in a stationary position on a display of the device, positioning desired biometric data proximate the device such that the desired biometric data appears as a biometric image on the device display, and monitoring the outline and biometric images shown on the device display. Furthermore, the method includes positioning the device and the desired biometric data to better align the outline and biometric images when the outline and biometric images do not align and capturing the desired biometric data from an individual after approximately aligning the outline image with the biometric image.
US08085991B2
The present invention is an iterative method for normalization of a probe image against the Eigenspace learned from a database of images. The invention is also an iterative method for normalizing the n images in a database, wherein the normalization is carried out without using a predetermined criterion.
US08085990B2
The claimed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented architecture that can generate a map. The map can be a hybrid between an orthographic projection map and street-side images, thus including useful aspects from both types of representations. For example, an orthographic projection map is very effective at presenting global relationships among the features of the map but not effective at presenting local detail. In contrast, street -side images show excellent detail but do not convey the global information of an orthographic projection map. The hybrid map can thus provide a richer set of information than conventional maps and can also display objects/features of the hybrid map in multiple perspectives simultaneously on a single representation that is printable.
US08085989B2
In an authenticity determining apparatus, an image-data acquiring unit acquires image data of a paper sheet; a block-value calculating unit divides the image data into a plurality of blocks each composed of a plurality of pixels and calculates a block value of each of blocks; an average-block-value calculating unit calculates an average block value of blocks composing a predetermined area of the image data; a correction-block-value calculating unit calculates a corrected block value of each of the blocks by correcting each of the block values so that the average block value is equal to a predetermined reference value; and an authenticity determining unit that determines authenticity of the paper sheet based on whether each of corrected block values of the blocks composing the predetermined area is within a predetermined allowable numerical range that is preliminarily defined for the predetermined area.
US08085987B2
Texture of a surface, for example concrete, is evaluated by capturing images of the surface facing the surface in a direction of an orthogonal axis extending perpendicularly from the surface while sequentially projecting light onto the surface from each of four light source positions spaced circumferentially about the orthogonal axis. A specularity condition is determined to exist in one of the four images by comparing intensities of the images directly with one another. If a specularity condition exists, three images of the four images which are least affected by specularity are used to determining a surface gradient of the surface.
US08085985B2
The present invention is a method for determining a relative distance between a reference member placed above a melt surface and the melt surface upon pulling a silicon single crystal out of a raw material melt in a crucible by a CZ method characterized by at least: pulling the silicon single crystal applying a magnetic field; taking a picture of a real image of the reference member and a mirror image of the reference member reflected on the melt surface with a detector; processing the picture taken of the real image and the mirror image of the reference member as different pictures by separating the picture taken; and calculating the relative distance between the real image and the mirror image of the reference member from the processed pictures to determine the relative distance between the reference member and the melt surface.
US08085981B2
The present invention relates to an object perception method, for use by a perceiving device that is adapted to perceive at least one object in an environment comprising a plurality of objects. Each object of the plurality of objects is adapted to provision meta-information characterizing the corresponding object. The perceiving device includes at least one object of the plurality of objects in a selection by varying a perspective of the object perceiving device. The perceiving device perceives this at least one object of the plurality of objects included in the selection and captures a representation of the at least one object included in said selection in a snapshot. The perceiving device further perceives meta-information corresponding to the at least one object in the selection and additionally the meta-information corresponding to the objects of said plurality of objects not included in the selection. The perceiving device then captures in the snapshot additionally to the representation of the at least one object included in the selection, the meta-information corresponding to the at least one object in the selection, said meta-information corresponding to said objects not included in said selection.
US08085977B2
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for operating home appliances using gesture recognition. A sequence of video images is received and compared to a stored sequence of gesture images. A gesture image is associated to an operation of an appliance.
US08085971B2
The planar speaker contains a frame, a diaphragm, a driver, a surround, and a number of flexible suspension elements. The diaphragm is suspended in a front opening of the frame by the surround. The driver is positioned at the center of the frame and a voice coil of the driver is attached to a back surface of the diaphragm. Two beams are arranged in parallel between two opposing longer wall segments of the frame on either side of the driver. The suspension elements are supported by the two beams, respectively, and attached to a back surface of the diaphragm. The symmetric deformation of the diaphragm along its longer side is thereby constrained by the suspension elements and the deformations at the two end zones of the diaphragm vibrating at a phase opposite to that of the center of the diaphragm would be suppressed.
US08085970B2
Speaker damper (12) used in a speaker including frame (5), magnetic circuit (1) coupled to frame (5), voice coil unit (2) inserted into magnetic gap (8) provided in magnetic circuit (1), and diaphragm (3) coupled to frame (5) and voice coil unit (2) at its outer and inner peripheral ends, respectively. Speaker damper (12) is coupled to voice coil unit (2) and frame (5) at its inner and outer peripheral ends, respectively, and has first supporting portion (10) having a first elastic modulus at its inner peripheral end and second supporting portion (11) having a second elastic modulus different from the first elastic modulus at the outer peripheral side of first supporting portion (10). This configuration can reduce the distortion of a speaker, even if the amplitude amount of voice coil unit (2) becomes large, and a large load is not applied to vibrating voice coil unit (2).
US08085965B2
A condenser microphone provided with a battery compartment having a coil spring electrode is adapted to: extend a return stroke of the coil spring electrode; prevent high frequency current from penetrating into the microphone from the coil spring electrode to suppress the occurrence of noise; and prevent the coil spring electrode from generating mechanical noise. The condenser microphone includes: a body case into which a condenser microphone unit is incorporated; a battery compartment provided in the body case; a coil spring electrode that is provided at an end of the battery compartment, and pushed and compressed by an electrode of a battery by the battery being inserted therein; and a conductive cushion that is disposed within the coil spring electrode, and can contact with the coil spring electrode while being compressed together with the coil spring electrode at least when the coil spring electrode is compressed.
US08085940B2
Rebalancing of an audio signal refers to achieving a balance of perceived loudness, typically of right and left channels, given an unbalanced input. A flexible method to automatically rebalance an audio input signal is robust against noise in extreme cases through the individual channels combined in various ways as a function of the loudness ratio between input channels.
US08085920B1
Apparatus and methods for synthetic audio placement are described herein. In different aspects, synthetic audio placement may include a plurality of inputs, each input configured to receive a signal from a caller, at least one input being a single channel input. A bridge may be included to receive the signal from the plurality of inputs and modify the signal to include synthetic audio placement of the signal based on a location of each caller within the sound field. A multi-channel output may be included to receive the modified signal from the bridge and provide the modified signal to a listener.
US08085909B2
Included are embodiments of systems and methods for providing information. At least one embodiment of such a method includes facilitating establishment of a communication between a user on a communications device and an interface server, the interface server being configured to provide data related to an information tree to the user, the information tree being configured with a plurality of options. Some embodiments include facilitating navigation of a user through the information tree and receiving a first version of a marker from the user, the marker being configured to mark at least one position in the information tree. Still some embodiments include associating the received first version of the marker with a position in the information tree.
US08085904B2
This method includes: a step (1, 2A, 2B) of a server receiving a request from a calling terminal to set up a call between the calling terminal and an emergency call center, and a step (5) of setting up a call between the calling terminal and the call center; a step (2B, 8) of identifying, in the call set-up request, a type of event belonging to a list of predefined event types, such as medical problems, fire, etc.; a step (9) of identifying a community having capabilities suited to the type of event identified; and a step (11) of sending information to at least one terminal belonging to the community thus identified. A preferred embodiment of the method further includes sending (11) at least one terminal belonging to the community thus identified the location of the calling terminal and the type of event identified.
US08085903B2
A shutter mechanism for collimating x-rays has two parallel drive shafts and two parallel guide shafts orthogonal to the drive shafts to define a rectangular aperture. Two flexible bands moving around a generally rectangular path about the aperture independently control the positions of each set of shutters. Two cams on the drive shafts control the positions of the flexible bands and shutters. A pair of transverse shutters made of an x-ray opaque material are held in sliding engagement between the drive shafts. One end of each transverse shutter is attached to the first flexible band adjacent to the drive shafts. Similarly, a pair of longitudinal shutters are held in sliding engagement between the drive shafts. One end of each longitudinal shutter is attached to the second flexible band adjacent to the guide shafts.
US08085894B2
A nuclear fuel according to one embodiment includes an assembly of nuclear fuel particles; and continuous open channels defined between at least some of the nuclear fuel particles, wherein the channels are characterized as allowing fission gasses produced in an interior of the assembly to escape from the interior of the assembly to an exterior thereof without causing significant swelling of the assembly. Additional embodiments, including methods, are also presented.
US08085891B2
A system and method for managing mobile device communication in an enterprise includes a device management agent and a synchronization agent in the mobile device. Information about the status of the mobile device is collected by the device management agent and the synchronization agent communicates the status information to the enterprise with which the mobile device is associated. A synchronization server at the enterprise collects device information and updates records at the enterprise. Information such as device telephone number is propagated to the enterprise directory and potentially to a PBX to ensure connectivity with the mobile device.
US08085890B2
Disclosed is a base band filter apparatus and a method for base band filtering comprising filtering a base band signal in time domain, said filtering including a filter transfer function (F), wherein the base band signal is provided in frequency domain, the frequency domain base band signal is multiplicated by an inverse filter transfer function (F−1), and the signal provided as the result of said multiplication is converted from frequency domain to time domain and provided to said filtering.
US08085888B2
In various embodiments of the present invention, optimal or near-optimal multidirectional context sets for a particular data-and/or-signal analysis or processing task are determined by selecting a maximum context size, generating a set of leaf nodes corresponding to those maximally sized contexts that occur in the data or signal to be processed or analyzed, and then building up and concurrently pruning, level by level, a multidirectional optimal context tree constructing one of potentially many optimal or near-optimal context trees in which leaf nodes represent the context of a near-optimal or optimal context set that may contain contexts of different sizes and geometries. Pruning is carried out using a problem-domain-related weighting function applicable to nodes and subtrees within the context tree. In one described embodiment, a bi-directional context tree suitable for a signal denoising application is constructed using, as the weighting function, an estimated loss function.
US08085884B2
A method and apparatus for processing satellite positioning system signals at a mobile receiver is described. In one example, first bit-transitions within satellite navigation data transmitted by at least one satellite are estimated at the mobile receiver. A bit pattern is generated that includes a known preamble and an extended preamble. The extended preamble includes expected data bits within the satellite navigation data. The first bit-transitions are compared with second bit-transitions of the bit pattern to generate match data.
US08085876B2
A communication system, including a receiver, is described having a common clock source that drives both carrier frequency (fc) and sampling frequency (fs). The receiver comprises a first signal processing stage for down converting a received data stream to baseband, a demodulation module coupled to the first signal processing stage for demodulating the down-converted data stream, and a second signal processing stage coupled to the demodulation module for decoding the demodulated data stream. Additionally, the receiver includes a carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation module and a sampling frequency offset (SFO) correction module. The SFO correction module receives an estimated CFO, and then determines an SFO correction based on the estimated CFO, and applies the SFO correction to the received data stream.
US08085873B2
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for enhancing the estimation of channel response in a wireless communication system. An apparatus (and associated method) for optimizing channel estimation in a communication system includes a receiving antenna; a receiver adapted to receive a signal from the receiving antenna; an initial channel estimator module adapted to select a selected channel from among one or more channels in the communication system and to determine, for the selected channel, an initial channel estimate based upon the received signal; a transformation module adapted to transform the initial channel estimate into an initial impulse response estimate comprising a sequence of samples; a filtering module adapted to select a sub-sequence of samples from the sequence of samples and generate a truncated initial impulse response estimate by setting to zero the samples in the initial impulse response estimate that are not in the selected sub-sequence of samples; and a maximum likelihood channel estimating module adapted to compute a time domain weighted impulse response estimate using the truncated time domain impulse response estimate for the selected channel and to compute a maximum likelihood channel estimate for the selected channel by transforming the time domain weighted impulse response estimate into the frequency domain.
US08085865B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting digital data in a cellular environment. Adjacent cells of the cellular system are prevented from simultaneously transmitting data. Because the noise from transmissions of adjacent cells is a primary source of interference, the transmission rate of power limited base stations can be dramatically increased when the noise from adjacent cells is eliminated. The transmissions to each subscriber station are made at a fixed transmission power level. However, the data rate of transmitted signals differs from one subscriber station to another depending the path loss differences. In a first exemplary embodiment, the data rate of transmissions to a subscriber station is determined by selecting an encoding rate for the transmitted signal while holding the symbol rate constant. In a second exemplary embodiment, the data rate of transmissions to a subscriber station is determined by selection a modulation format for the transmitted signal which directly changes the symbol rate of transmission to a subscriber station.
US08085859B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a Fourier transform unit converts unsynchronized data received through multiple antennas to a frequency domain. Also, a spectrum estimation unit determines a power spectrum for the unsynchronized data. A notch filter removes data within a frequency band from additional unsynchronized data based on the power spectrum. A synchronization unit synchronizes the notch filtered data and a noise estimation unit determines a noise covariance matrix between the synchronized data received from multiple antennas. In addition, an equalization unit performs channel equalization on the synchronized data based on the noise covariance matrix.
US08085849B1
One embodiment relates to an automated method for estimating motion of an image segment. An image frame is segmented into irregularly-shaped image segments. Motion vectors of blocks of pixels in the image frame are estimated. A determination is made as to the blocks which overlap a segment, and candidate motion vectors are determined from the motion vectors for those overlapping blocks. A motion vector for the segment is selected from amongst the candidate motion vectors. Other embodiments, aspects, and features are also disclosed.
US08085847B2
A method and apparatus are provided for improving the compression efficiency of motion vectors of an unsynchronized picture by efficiently predicting the motion vectors using motion vectors of a lower layer. The method compresses motion vectors of an unsynchronized picture belonging to a current layer in a video encoder based on a multilayer having at least the current layer and a lower layer of the current layer. The method includes selecting a base picture for the unsynchronized picture, generating a predicted motion vector of the current layer from a motion vector of the base picture, subtracting the predicted motion vector from a motion vector of the unsynchronized picture, and encoding the result of subtraction.
US08085837B2
One embodiment of the present invention processes a signal of interest through an optional reference channel, combines the resulting signal with white noise, and then processes the noisy signal through a reference receiver. Two metrics are calculated from the results of that processing: Non-Compensable Data-Dependent Jitter (NC-DDJ) and Enhanced Transmitter and Waveform Dispersion Penalty (Enhanced TWDP). Within the reference receiver, a variable delay module sweeps the eye opening defined by the noise-free samples of the signal of interest and determines the transition points (i.e., edges) of the eye opening. Those transition points are compared to the Unit Interval to yield NC-DDJ. Further, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the noisy samples of the signal of interest is compared to the SNR of an ideal receiver (i.e., matched filter) driven by an ideal transmitter via an ideal channel with additive white Gaussian noise n(t) to yield Enhanced TWDP.
US08085824B2
One example disclosed herein relates to a method of at least partially optimizing one or more output performance parameters of a laser die. The method includes an act of identifying one or more output performance parameters to be at least partially optimized, an act of identifying one or more design parameters associated with the one or more output performance parameters, an act of determining a subset of the one or more design parameters that should be varied so as to at least partially effect the one or more output performance parameters, an act of varying the subset of design parameters to produce one or more intermediate results, and an act of using the intermediate results to determine values for the one or more design parameters such that the one or more performance parameters are at least partially optimized.
US08085822B2
A tunable laser cavity for selectively emitting laser light having a first wavelength and a second wavelength using pump light emitted by a pump light source. The tunable laser cavity includes an optical resonator, the optical resonator having a configuration, optical properties and dimensions such that a first round-trip time of the laser light having the first wavelength in the optical resonator differs from a second round-trip time of the laser light having the second wavelength in the optical resonator; a gain medium inserted in the optical resonator, the gain medium being responsive to the pump light for converting the pump light to the laser light; a pump light input port optically coupled to the gain medium for receiving the pump light and conveying the pump light to the gain medium; an optical intensity modulator inserted in the optical resonator for absorbing a portion of the laser light as the laser light propagates back and forth in the optical resonator, the optical intensity modulator having a light absorption coefficient that is modulated with a modulation period, the modulation period being selectively adjustable between a first modulation period value and a second modulation period value, the first and second round-trip times being substantially equal to a respective integer multiple of respectively the first and second modulation period values; and an output port for releasing the laser light from the optical resonator.
US08085821B2
The light-enhancing system of the invention comprises a laser diode in which a fully reflecting mirror and/or a partially reflecting mirror of the laser diode is made in the form of digital planar holography (DPH) incorporating a mode-reorganization function that decreases divergence and improves brightness of the output beam of the system by suppressing high-order modes and gaining low-order modes, or mode. The holographic elements are made in the form of rectangular grooves that can be manufactured as binary features reproduced by methods of nanolithography or nanoimprinting.
US08085819B2
The present patent application comprises a method and apparatus to compile a superposition coded packet by compiling user candidates for superposition coding, ranking the user candidates based on a result of an evaluation function, selecting a deserving user candidate from among the user candidates, and compiling a superposition coded packet by adding other user data packets to a packet of the deserving user data packet, wherein the data packets for the user candidates may conform to a plurality of different formats and wireless communication standards.
US08085816B2
A communication system comprises a central unit configured to transmit and receive communication signals; a remote unit configured to transmit and receive communication signals; and a regenerator unit configured to regenerate and transmit received communication signals, the regenerator unit comprising a first interface, a second interface and a control and status circuit configured to control operation of the first and second interface, wherein each interface is configured to operate as an independent logical regenerator unit; wherein the central unit and the remote unit communicate over a first communication loop via the first independent interface of the regenerator unit.
US08085809B2
A codec converter includes: a plurality of codec converting units each configured to convert first encoded media data encoded using a first encoding mode into second encoded media data encoded using a second encoding mode different from the first encoding mode; a media data extracting unit configured to extract input-encoded media data from an input packet, and to generate conversion information that identifies a desired format conversion; a resource allocation unit configured to route the input-encoded media data to a selected one of the plurality of codec converting units based on the conversion information; and a packet reassembling unit configured to receive output-encoded media data from the selected one of the plurality of codec converting units, and to assemble the output-encoded media data into an output packet. Each of the plurality of codec converting units selects a different pair of first and second encoding modes.
US08085806B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for detecting a collision in a carrier sense multiple access wireless communication system. Each transmitting station includes a collision detector that evaluates one or more predefined criteria to determine when a collision has occurred. The collision detector evaluates the measured energy level and optionally payload and/or preamble detection information to determine if a collision has occurred. A collision occurred when an expected ACK message is not received, in the presence of an increased energy level and possibly preamble or payload detection information. The collision detector of the present invention can be activated, for example, at a time corresponding to the start of the 802.11 Short Inter Frame Space interval.
US08085804B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed including: receiving a broadcast signal containing a set of multiplexed multimedia channels; storing said multiplexed multimedia channels in a temporary storage buffer on a mass storage device; determining a point in said temporary storage buffer to begin demultiplexing and decoding a first channel responsive to a user request to view a particular program on said first channel in its entirety, said point indicating the start of said program on said first channel; and demultiplexing and decoding said first channel of said set of multiplexed multimedia channels from said point within said temporary storage buffer.
US08085803B2
Queued real-time voice received over a data network is actively managed. Upon detecting that the amount of real-time voice stored in the queue has reached a first threshold, a selection process selects non-consecutive portions of the voice to remove from the queue while maintaining a high Quality of Service (QoS) and ensuring that the queue does not overflow.
US08085801B2
A circuit includes queue buffers, a bid masking circuit, and a priority selection circuit. Each of the queue buffers carries packets of a respective message class selected from a set of message classes and asserts a respective bid signal indicating that the queue buffer carries a packet that is available for transmission. The bid masking circuit produces a masked vector of bid signals by selectively masking one or more of the bid signals asserted by the queue buffers based on credit available to transmit the packets and on cyclical masking of one or more of the bid signals asserted by ones of the queue buffers selected for packet transmission. The priority selection circuit selects respective ones of the queue buffers from which packets are transmitted based on the masked vector of bid signals produced by the bid masking circuit.
US08085799B2
Computer system, method and program for making routing decisions. A best routing path according to an OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP or other routing function that can provide multiple routing paths is determined. A first multiplicity of routers in the best routing path is determined. If each of the first multiplicity of routers had a degree of availability and/or quality of signal during a predetermined prior interval that met predetermined respective thresholds, the message packet is forwarded to a next hop in the best routing path. If not, a second multiplicity of routers in a second best routing path determined according to said OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP or the other routing function is identified. If each of the second multiplicity of routers had a degree of availability and/or quality of signal during a predetermined prior interval that met respective thresholds, the message packet is forwarded to a next hop in the second best routing path.
US08085793B2
A method and nodes are provided for localizing traffic between communication nodes receiving service from a same network. A local mobility anchor informs media access gateways providing access to two communication nodes of each other's addresses. Traffic exchanged between the two communication nodes connected to the same network via these media access gateways are routed directly between the gateways, bypassing the local mobility anchor.
US08085790B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an access node, and the access node includes ports. The access node is operable to perform downlink switching based upon a unique Provider Virtual Local Area Network tag (S-TAG) and a unique IEEE 802.1Q tag header (C-TAG) that is assigned to each port.
US08085788B2
A system for managing a communication device having a first function of using a first communication protocol and a second function of using a second communication protocol is provided. The communication device is connected to a network including a first device using the first communication protocol and a second device using the second communication protocol. The system is provided with an inputting system that accepts an input for changing an operation regarding the communication of the communication device from a user, and a judging system that judges whether a trouble would arise in communication, in which the communication device is involved, based on the input inputted by the user through use of the inputting system.
US08085786B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate data throughput optimization in a receiver through prioritized decoding of data transmissions. In particular, mechanisms are provided that assign priorities to obtained packets and/or sub-packets of a data transmission. The priorities can be assigned based at least upon prioritization rules that identify packets and/or sub-packets most likely to successfully decode. The obtained packets and/or sub-packets are decoded based upon the assigned priorities.
US08085781B2
This disclosure relates to network data communication. Some embodiments include initiating a network connection between an original source and an ultimate destination, transmitting a block of data from the original source to the ultimate destination on the network, requesting retransmission of lost blocks from the ultimate destination to the source and retransmitting the lost blocks from source to the ultimate destination. These embodiments further include measuring round-trip time of a retransmit request, the round-trip time measured from a time of transmission of a retransmit request from the ultimate destination to a time of reception at the ultimate destination after retransmission from the original source and setting the round-trip time as a minimum retransmission request time for the network connection, wherein the round-trip time includes latencies of the network connection and in data processes at the original source and at the ultimate destination.
US08085773B2
A MPLS device which receives configuration data identifying a group of multi-labeled packets and desired EXP (corresponding to the 3-bit experimental bit field specified by MPLS protocol) bits (even in the lower label entries of the label stack) for the group when forwarding the related packets. The MPLS device sets the EXP bits of even such lower label entries, and then forwards the multi-labeled packets. MPLS devices further down the path may provide different services for different multi-labeled packets depending on the EXP bit values. A service provider may configure a autonomous system border router (ASBR) to control service levels for while packets are forwarded further down the path (even in autonomous systems not related to the service provider) according to an aspect of the present invention.
US08085771B2
An information processing apparatus which make it possible to search from an information processing apparatus, for an IPv6-compatible image processing apparatus which has an IPv6 network address designated by the information processing apparatus. A device management application determines search conditions, and specifies information associated with a designated network. Further, the device management application generates a IPv6 multicast address using the thus specified information, transmits a search message designating the IPv6 multicast address, and receives a response transmitted from an image processing apparatus associated with the IPv6 multicast address.
US08085768B1
A system and method adds and manages entries on a list of entries of routing information to allow the top entry to be used for routing to a destination corresponding to the list. Costs of a wireless link may be a function of the success rate experienced on that wireless link.
US08085757B2
A telephone number of the callee is received from a caller device. An Internet protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-based telephone number mapping (ENUM) query is constructed based on the telephone number of the callee. An ENUM database is queried based on the ENUM query. If a response to the ENUM query is absent a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Uniform Resource Indicator (URI) or a telephone (TEL) URI, the telephone number is resolved into one or more non-SIP/non-TEL URIs usable to communicate with the callee. The caller is enabled to use the caller device or other devices to select which of the one or more non-SIP/non-TEL URIs to use to communicate with the callee. For each caller-selected non-SIP/non-TEL URI, communication in a protocol associated with the URI is initiated between the caller and the callee using the caller device or other devices.
US08085748B2
A Wireless Access Point (WAP) of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) infrastructure includes a processor, a radio and a directional antenna. The radio supports communications with a plurality of wireless terminals to gather participatory data, and listens to, but does not participate in transmissions of at least some of the plurality of wireless terminals to collect non-participatory WAP data. Based upon the participatory WAP data and non-participatory WAP data, the processor creates WAP operational reports and provides the WAP operational reports to the WLAN. The WLAN creates directions based thereon and directs the WAP to alter the gain pattern of the directional antenna.
US08085747B2
A radio base station includes a first obtaining device to obtain position information for locating a position of a local station; a second obtaining device to obtain a matrix that includes blocks, each block representing an area with which a uniquely identifiable cell identifier is associated, and that covers a cell coverage of the local station and a cell coverage in which use of the same cell identifiers as those of the local station is to be avoided; and a specifying device to specify the cell identifiers associated with the blocks included in the cell coverage of the local station, on a basis of the local station position located by the position information and the matrix.
US08085745B2
A method for effectively using power resource in a wireless mesh network is disclosed to select and change a level of a power saving mode according to terminal and network situations to increase the duration of the network's existence as well as improve the power consumption of each mesh terminal. After active mesh terminals that are to perform a data relay function and super-saving mesh terminals that are not to perform the data relay function are selected in consideration of a network topology at certain periods, the level of a power saving mode of the mesh terminals selected as the super-saving mesh terminals is higher than that of the mesh terminals selected as the active mesh terminals. And then, a routing path in a tree form is formed along the mesh terminals selected as the active mesh terminals to transmit data.
US08085737B2
A broadband wireless access network (BWAN) transceiver of a multi-transceiver mobile communication device may transmit a negative scheduling (NS) request frame that includes time-related QoS parameters to a BWAN base station to request one or more negative allocation (NA) periods. In response, the base station may transmit a NS management response frame to indicate when NA periods are to occur during subsequent BWAN frames. The BWAN base station may also transmit a subsequent NS response frame to update the configuration of the NA periods including an indication of when a subsequent NA period is to occur.
US08085733B2
A method and apparatus for use by a first transceiver, (e.g., wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), access point (AP), node) for adjusting the transmission rate of packets transmitted to a second transceiver based on signals the first transceiver receives from the second transceiver. In one embodiment, a transmission packet error rate (Tx PER) process is used to adjust the packet transmission rate. In another embodiment, a relative signal strength indicator (RSSI)-based process is used to determine the RSSI of packets received at the first transceiver from the second transceiver for adjusting the packet transmission rate. In another embodiment, transmission quality indicators are measured at the second transceiver and are sent to the first transceiver, which derives a new packet transmission rate therefrom. The Tx PER and RSSI-based processes may be used individually, in combination, or in conjunction with other processes.
US08085727B2
According to one embodiment, a method involves receiving an incoming media access control (MAC) frame that includes a header, a frame body and an error detection field. Thereafter, an information element within the frame body is analyzed to determine whether to alter a mobility tunnel between a plurality of networking devices.
US08085721B2
The invention relates to a method, a base station and a computer program for selecting a spatial transmission method for a next downlink transmission in a base station. The base station can be a WiMAX, a UMTS or a 3 GPP LTE base station. According to the invention the base station makes a selection between beamforming (BF), space-time coding (STC) or MIMO for a next downlink frame. The selection is based on uplink measurements and feedback information from a particular mobile station whereto the next downlink frame is to be transmitted.
US08085719B2
An improved system and method for wireless communications, as well as a method for configuring wireless communication devices for use in such a system, are disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the system for wireless communications includes a first wireless communication device configured for communication within a first frequency range, and a second wireless communication device configured for communication within a second frequency range, where the first and second frequency ranges substantially but not entirely overlap one another. Also, in at least some embodiments, the present invention relates to a method that wireless communicating devices can use in order to co-exist or utilize wireless channels that need not be non-overlapping. By allowing wireless devices to do this, it is possible to achieve greater usage of the wireless spectrum and as a result superior performance of the wireless communication system as a whole.
US08085718B2
A technique includes receiving a radio block from a transmission channel. The radio block includes first data and second data. The technique includes evaluating the first data to obtain a first evaluation result, evaluating the second data to obtain a second evaluation result and determining whether the radio block is a partial block based on the first and second evaluation results.
US08085705B2
A mobile device generated video and camera signal is processed into cross-correlated Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) signal used in Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) systems such as the Global Mobile System (GSM), and into Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) signal for modulation and transmission. The mobile device receives and processes a position finder signal from satellite and from land based transmitters and provides processed position finder signal. The wireless unit generates a processed touch screen control signal and processes the touch screen control signal with processed position finder signal. The processed touch screen signal of the mobile device is used for web browsing and of said mobile device and to control transmission of one or more of said GMSK, CDMA, OFDM or position finder modulated signal.
US08085695B2
The present disclosure relates to attempting to automatically configure an unconfigured device utilizing a previously configured device and, more specifically, to attempting to bootstrap a universal plug-and-play (UPnP) access point utilizing a previously configured access point.
US08085693B2
A system for virtual representation of physical contact center resources includes a server coupled to a wide-area-network (WAN), a digital medium accessible to the server, and a resource virtualization application executable from the digital medium to run on the server, characterized in that at least one physical contact center having physical resources has access to the server over the network wherein the resource virtualization application categorizes and represents the physical resources in an abstract way for access by customers of one or more virtual contact centers.
US08085681B2
This description provides tools and techniques for centralized analysis and management of network packets. These tools may provide methods that include storing network packets as identified by packet-detecting devices within networks. These methods may also define baseline behavior patterns applicable to the network, as well as thresholds applicable to deviations in network behavior, relative to the baseline behavior patterns. These methods may also identify attacks against the network, as exhibited by deviations in the behavior patterns that exceed the threshold.
US08085680B1
Establishing a mobile ad-hoc network between mobile network devices may include transmitting a signal from a first mobile network device using a plurality of communications formats. One or more other mobile network devices may receive the broadcast signal, select a communications format from the plurality of communications formats and respond to the signal using the selected communications format.
US08085677B2
Systems and methods provide remote performance monitoring and testing to a cell site in a cellular communications network. The systems and methods include a network management center having remote monitoring and testing capabilities utilizing an intelligent customer service unit that traps and makes available alarm information on the transport link.
US08085672B2
A wireless communications system comprising a number of node devices and a base station, and having a routing calculator, wherein the system is operating with a first routing map, the routing calculator gathers data relating to communications between node devices and determines whether route improvement is indicated and, if so, the routing calculator generates an improved routing solution, and instructions are relayed via the first routing map to the node devices for implementing a new routing map generated from the optimized routing solution. Also, a method of operating a wireless communication system, including a base station and a number of node devices the method comprising determining whether system improvement is indicated, if so, generating an improved system configuration, distributing data related to the improved system configuration to the node devices, and replacing the current communication configuration with the improved system configuration.
US08085670B2
A system for originating connectivity fault management (CFM) frames on non-CFM aware switches is disclosed. In the disclosed system, an OAM (Operations Administration and Management) proxy networking device connected to a core Ethernet network operates with one or more CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) devices to which it is communicably connected to support CFM out to the CPE devices without requiring that the CPE devices themselves implement CFM functionality. The OAM proxy networking device generates Connectivity Check (CC) frames, Loopback reply frames, and Linktrace reply frames for MEPs (Maintenance End Points) or MIPs (Maintenance Intermediate Points) contained in communication ports on the CPEs. These CFM frames generated by the OAM proxy networking device are then sent within messages from the OAM proxy networking device to the appropriate CPE. When the CPE device receives a message from the OAM proxy networking device containing one of these CFM frames, it checks the operability of a communication port indicated by the message. If the port is operable, the CPE device extracts the CFM frame from the message and originates it through the OAM proxy networking device into the core Ethernet network. The OAM proxy networking device further operates to process Connectivity Check frames received from the core Ethernet network and addressed to the CPE devices by maintaining an MEP connectivity database. As a result, these received Connectivity Check frames are dropped without forwarding to the CPE devices.
US08085666B2
A transmission apparatus for stably transmitting or receiving data of high priority is provided. In the transmission apparatus of the present invention, processing of the priority packet to be transmitted and processed by priority and processing of the non-priority packet are conducted separately. At transmission side, the above-mentioned priority packet is transmitted by priority by making its average transmission interval shorter than its average generation interval, and said non-priority packet is transmitted during the transmit margin period caused by the above-mentioned processing. At receive side, in the layer of processing the receive frame as a layer lower than the layer of processing the priority packet and non-priority packet, the priority packet and the non-priority packet is sorted based on the communication protocol header of the receive packet stored in the receive frame, and processing of the priority packet and that of the non-priority packet are conducted separately.
US08085656B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for improving transmission control protocol (TCP) performance using path recovery notification over a wireless network. The apparatus includes: a path recovery manager which detects a mobile host recovered from a temporary disconnection state and then outputs a detection signal to notify the detection result; a path recovery notification manager which receives the detection signal and generates an ACK (acknowledgement) packet to inform a transmitting end that the mobile host is recovered; and a first packet transceiver which transmits/receives the generated ACK packet and a data packet. Accordingly, a temporary disconnection state of a wireless network is explicitly informed to a transmitting end so as to transmit only lost packets without performing unnecessary congestion control, thereby improving TCP performance.
US08085651B2
In a signal processor, a sampling arrangement (SH11, S12, SH13, ADC1) samples at least a first signal (YA) and a second signal (UA, VA) so as to obtain sampled first signal (YD1) and a sampled second signal (UD1, VD1), respectively. A folding compensator (LPF11, LPF12, LPF13, SUB11, SUB12, MUX12) compensates for a folding component in the sampled first signal (YD1) on the basis of a spectral portion of the sampled second signal (UD1, VD1) that is substantially free of components that originate from the second signal (UA, VA).
US08085647B2
An optical recording/reproducing apparatus having a label printer for printing labels on an optical disk and a method for printing labels on an optical disk. The optical recording/reproducing apparatus includes an optical disk drive unit recording and reproducing information on a recording surface of an optical disk, a label printer module printing labels on a label surface of the optical disk using thermal transfer, and a controller controlling a label printing operation of the optical disk drive unit and the label printer module, wherein the label printer module includes a ribbon cartridge in which a thermal transfer ribbon to which dyes are attached is wound and which is disposed to face the label surface of the optical disk mounted in the optical disk drive unit, and a thermal printhead transferring the dyes attached to the thermal transfer ribbon onto the label surface of the optical disk using thermal transfer.
US08085635B2
An optical disc 1 includes a defect management area (DMA). A plurality of defective area lists (TDFLs) and structure information (TDDS) are recorded in a temporary defect management area (TDMS) of the defect management area (DMA). The defective area lists (TDFLs) indicate at least one defective area which was detected during an access to the optical disc 1. The structure information (TDDS) includes a plurality of pieces of position information that indicate positions of the defective area lists (TDFLs). The plurality of pieces of position information, corresponding one-to-one to the defective area lists, are arranged in the structure information (TDDS) in an order in which the defective area lists (TDFLs) corresponding thereto are read out.
US08085634B2
An optical disk drive for recording data in accordance with a recording strategy determines a recording strategy of an unknown optical disk through comparatively-simple processing. When a loaded optical disk is an unknown disk, a control section reads a recommended recording strategy from a predetermined area on the loaded optical disk and reads correction parameters corresponding to the loaded optical disk from memory. The control section makes a correction to the read, recommended recording strategy in accordance with the correction parameters, and converts a recording pattern into a recording pulse in accordance with the corrected, recommended recording strategy. After conversion of the recording pattern into the recording pulse, the control section performs OPC and subsequently commences recording of actual data.
US08085629B2
A method and system are provided for minimizing or optimising radial to vertical crosstalk (RVC) in an error signal in an optical record carrier reader is record carrier losed. Focus error offset values are applied to the reader. The radial to vertical crosstalk is determined after each focus error offset value is applied. The focus error offset value which minimizes or optimises the radial to vertical crosstalk is selected for use by the reader.
US08085622B2
An acoustic vector sensor mounted in a housing is provided for measuring ultra low frequency acoustic wave particle velocities in a liquid, comprising a horn for amplifying the acoustic wave particle velocities, and a neutrally buoyant object supported in a liquid contained in the horn. The neutrally buoyant object, in reacting to the amplified acoustic wave particle velocities, produces displacements that are sensitively measured.
US08085620B2
To determine a position of a survey receiver used to measure a response of a subterranean structure to a survey signal, positions of the survey receiver as the survey receiver descends in a body of water to a surface are received from an acoustic ranging system. Measurement information associated with movement of the survey receiver is received from at least one sensor. Based on the measurement information from the acoustic ranging system and the at least one sensor, the position of the survey receiver at the surface once the survey receiver has reached the surface is computed.
US08085614B2
A source control circuit comprises a control signal generating unit for generating a standby signal which is enabled in a standby condition, and a switching unit connected between a power line for supplying power to an internal circuit and an external power and controlling the supply of the external power in response to the standby signal.
US08085613B2
In step S508, it is determined whether or not a power low signal SRC_LOSS outputted from the data latch is change. Generally Speaking, the power low signal SRC_LOSS outputted from the data latch would be changed according to the state of the power voltage of the power input terminal. When the power voltage of the power input terminal is charged/discharged to the common voltage, the power low signal SRC_LOSS outputted from the data latch may be changed from the logical high voltage to the logical low voltage or from the original logical low voltage to the logical high voltage. Since the mention above is design of selectiveness, the detailed description is omitted. When the determination is positive, the step S509 is performed. When the determination is negative, the step S511 is performed to re-detect.
US08085612B2
A method of managing power consumption by a memory in a memory device includes determining whether the device is powered by a depletable power supply, and if it is determined that the device is powered by a depletable power supply, changing a behavior of the memory to regulate power consumed by the memory.
US08085611B2
Over-erasure induced noise on a data line in a nonvolatile memory that couples into an adjacent data line is mitigated by using twisted data lines and differential sensing amplifiers. Noise coupled into data lines is compensated by similar noise coupled into reference data lines and cancelled in the differential sensing amplifiers.
US08085610B2
An SRAM includes a memory cell; and a control circuit configured to change a signal level of a signal which is used in an ordinary mode for access to the memory cell in a test mode to apply a disturbance to the memory cell. The control circuit can change the signal level to set a level of the disturbance optionally.
US08085607B2
A page buffer for a non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a switch configured to couple a first bitline coupled to a first memory cell to a second bitline coupled to a second memory cell, a first latch block coupled to the first bitline and configured to transfer a first latch data to the first memory cell, and a second latch block coupled to the second bitline and the first latch block, and configured to transfer a second latch data to the second memory cell.
US08085599B2
Memory devices and/or methods that may estimate characteristics of multi-bit cell are provided. A memory device may include: a multi-bit cell array; a monitoring unit to extract a threshold voltage change over time value for reference threshold voltage states selected from a plurality of threshold voltage states corresponding to data stored in the multi-bit cell array; and an estimation unit to estimate a threshold voltage change over time values for the plurality of threshold voltage states based on the extracted threshold voltage change. Through this, it is possible to monitor a change over time of threshold voltages of a memory cell.
US08085582B2
A magnetic recording device includes: a laminated body including: a first ferromagnetic layer with a magnetization substantially fixed in a first direction; a second ferromagnetic layer with a variable magnetization direction; a first nonmagnetic layer disposed between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer; and a third ferromagnetic layer with a variable magnetization direction. The magnetization direction of the second ferromagnetic layer is determinable in response to the orientation of a current, by allowing electrons spin-polarized by passing a current in a direction generally perpendicular to the film plane of the layers of the laminated body to act on the second ferromagnetic layer, and by allowing a magnetic field generated by precession of the magnetization of the third ferromagnetic layer to act on the second ferromagnetic layer.
US08085579B2
In a memory cell, a margin for data preservation is provided while suppressing a current consumption associated with a low-power consumption mode. A MOS transistor has the same structure as NMOS transistors included in each of memory cells. When a low-power consumption mode is designated, a voltage developed at a node is stabilized by subtracting a margin voltage for data preservation across a first resistor from a voltage applied to a first node and by subtracting a threshold voltage of the MOS transistor from the resultant voltage is applied to a second node.
US08085578B2
A method and a system for coding and reading out information in a microscopic cluster formed with coupled functional islands includes: generating the cluster by forming a regular microscopic pattern for locating the functional islands; making use of a physical or chemical property of each individual island and making use of the coupling between the functional islands; assigning different information to different energy levels of the cluster; effecting a change of the physical or chemical property of at least one functional island in order to change the energy level of the cluster to the energy level equivalent to the information content to be coded; and reading out the information. These measures allow forming a cluster having distinct energy levels, each being assigned to a distinct information content. These systems pave the way for future devices based on clusters of coupled islands and, armed with the complete knowledge of the energy states, the door is opened for use of these finite multistate clustered structures in future spintronic devices, for example for data storage, memory applications or to perform logic operations.
US08085577B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a plurality of first lines; a plurality of second lines; a plurality of memory cells each disposed at each of crossing-points of the first lines and the second lines and each comprising a variable resistor and a bi-directional diode; and a voltage control circuit configured to control a voltage of selected one of the first lines, unselected ones of the first lines, selected one of the second lines, and unselected ones of the second lines, respectively. The variable resistor is configured to change its resistance value depending on a polarity of a voltage applied thereto. The voltage control circuit is configured to apply a voltage pulse to the selected one of the first lines and to connect a capacitor of a certain capacitance to one end of the selected one of the second lines.
US08085567B2
A technique is presented for implementing a content addressable memory (CAM) function using traditional memory, where the input data is serially loaded into a serial CAM. Various additions, which allow for predicting the result of a serial CAM access coincident with the completion of serially inputting the data are also presented.
US08085562B2
A one cycle power factor correction converter circuit comprising a switch for controlling a DC output voltage of the converter circuit, the switch being switched by a drive signal having a frequency determined by a clock signal; the converter circuit being provided with a DC input voltage and producing the DC output voltage, the DC input voltage being rectified from an AC input; a controller circuit for controlling an on-time or off-time of the switch to set the output voltage and to achieve power factor correction at the AC input; the controller circuit comprising an error amplifier receiving a feedback voltage from the output of the converter circuit and a reference voltage and producing an error signal; a ramp generator receiving the error signal and generating a first ramp signal by integrating a signal related to the error signal; a pulse width modulation circuit receiving the first ramp signal and a signal related to the error signal and producing a pulse width modulated signal by comparing the first ramp signal and the signal related to the error signal; the pulse width modulated signal determining the on-time or off-time of the switch to control the output voltage with power factor correction; further comprising a circuit for terminating the first ramp signal when a predetermined inequality exists between the first ramp signal and a reference signal and for developing the clock signal from the first ramp signal.
US08085544B2
A data card includes a casing, a circuit board in the casing, a plug electrically connected with the circuit board and a cap part capable of covering the plug; wherein one end of the casing is provided with the plug; a card slot is defined in the casing at a joint of the casing and the plug, and the cap part covers a notch of the card slot when the plug is inserted into the cap part. The invention is mainly used in wireless data signal receiving or transmitting device.
US08085539B2
A heat dissipation device for an electronic component mounted on a circuit board includes a heat pipe and a fastening assembly. The heat pipe includes an evaporation section and a condensation section. The fastening assembly includes a retention plate and a wire clip. The retention plate includes a retaining portion abutting against the heat pipe, and two fastening portions located at opposite sides of the evaporation section of the heat pipe. The wire clip includes two abutting portions, a resisting portion interconnecting the abutting portions, and two locking arms extending outwardly from two outer ends of the abutting portions, respectively. The retaining portion and the resisting portion abut against the evaporation section of the heat pipe, the abutting portions abut against inner surfaces of the fastening portions, the locking arms are fastened to the circuit board, thereby mounting the retention plate with the heat pipe on the electronic component.
US08085533B2
An electronic device includes a body, a cover, and a switching assembly. The body defines two first openings. The cover defines two second openings facing the two first openings. The switching assembly includes a locking assembly received in the body and a latching assembly received in the cover. The locking assembly includes a handle, two guiding members, and two magnetic members received in the corresponding guiding members. The handle is for impelling the guiding members to move. The latching assembly includes two latching members. Each latching member has a latching end for being attracted by one of the magnetic members. When the cover covers the body, each latching end protrudes through the corresponding second and first openings and is caught by the magnetic members. When the handle is pressed, the handle drives the two guiding members to move to impel the two magnetic members away from the corresponding latching ends.
US08085532B2
An electronic device includes a first, a second body, and an engaging mechanism. The second body is connected to the first body and rotates relatively to the first body. The engaging mechanism, disposed on the second body, includes a rotating member and a moving member. The rotating member is rotatably disposed on the second body. The moving member is movably disposed on the second body and abuts the rotating member. The second body is fastened to the first body by the moving member of the engaging mechanism. When the rotating member rotates along a first direction, the moving member is pushed along a second direction to depart from the first body.
US08085530B2
A mounting mechanism for attaching a data storage device to a chassis includes a housing, first and second driving members, a latching member, first, second, and third elastic members. The housing defines first, second and third sliding paths therein. The first and third sliding paths extend along a first direction of the housing for receiving the first driving member and the latching member. The second sliding path extends along a second direction of the housing substantially perpendicular to the first direction for receiving the second driving member. The first driving member forms an inclined guiding surface at an end thereof outside the housing. When the guiding surface is pressed down, the driving member moves inward, driving the second driving to move and disengage from the latching member, and the latching member moves along the first direction by an elastic force of the third elastic member.
US08085529B2
A button structure for a portable electronic device includes a button and a latching member, the button includes a plate portion and an extending arm, the button has a resisting block formed. The latching member includes a plate body and a branch, the plate body defines a guiding slot, the branch is bendable elastically corresponding to the plate body and has a wedge formed, the wedge is configured for latching with a housing of an electronic device. After the button structure is assembled, the distal end of the extending arm is secured to the plate body, the resisting block passes through the guiding slot. When the button is pressed, the resisting block moves together with the button to urge the wedge remove from the housing.
US08085510B2
A protective device for protecting an electronic device, e.g., MR head, from ESD/EOS damage includes a cable having leads coupled to the electronic device and a first port providing access to the leads. A second port with one-to-one electrical connection to each lead in the cable provides a second electrical access to the all leads. A shorting device is coupled to one of the ports thereby creating a short between both the leads of the extension and the leads of the cable. The other port is available for coupling to an external device, e.g., tester or end device while the short provides ESD/EOS protection.
US08085507B2
An apparatus and method for forming an opening in a base-metal layer of an electrical lead suspension (ELS) to increase the impedance. The method provides a base-metal layer having at least one opening. A dielectric layer above the base-metal layer is also provided, the dielectric layer covering a portion of the base-metal layer and at least one of the openings in the base-metal layer. A signal conductive layer is provided above dielectric layer. The signal conductive layer carries at least one solder pad portion, wherein the solder pad portion is aligned above the portion of the dielectric layer covering at least one of the openings in the base-metal layer. By aligning the at least one solder pad portion over the opening of the base-metal layer the solder pad to base-metal layer the impedance between the at least one solder pad portion and the base-metal layer is increased.
US08085506B1
A gimbal, a disk drive suspension that includes the gimbal, and a related method of manufacture, wherein the gimbal is configured to be coupled between a disk drive slider and a disk drive load beam. The gimbal includes a strut having a buss and a projection that is coupled to the buss. A combination of the projection and the buss define a gap.
US08085505B2
An elastic plate connected at both ends to a pair of supporting pieces of a supporting portion and connected at center to a member forming a load beam portion functions as a load bending portion. A balance mass member is mounted on a portion of the member forming the load beam portion positioned on a base-end side from the elastic plate. A narrowest portion of the supporting portion is positioned, with respect to the suspension lengthwise direction, between a position of a base-end of a concave portion defined the pair of supporting pieces and a position where phantom lines extending from inner side edges of arm areas of the supporting pieces intersect with a longitudinal center line of the suspension, thereby effectively reducing mass of tip-end side of the supporting portion without deteriorating rigidity of the supporting pieces.
US08085497B2
A system according to one embodiment includes a magnetic pole; a bump structure above the pole, the bump structure having a first surface oriented at a first angle between 1° and 89° from a plane of deposition of the pole, and a second surface oriented at a second angle between 1° and 89° from the plane of deposition of the pole, wherein the second angle is greater than the first angle; and a shield above the bump structure. A method according to one embodiment includes forming a bump layer above a magnetic pole; removing a portion of the bump layer for forming a step therein; and milling the bump layer for defining thereon a first surface oriented at a first angle between 1° and 89° from a plane of deposition of the bump layer, and a second surface oriented at a second angle between 1° and 89° from the plane of deposition of the bump layer, wherein the second angle is greater than the first angle.
US08085495B2
A spindle motor can suppress the generation of noise during swinging and the extend service life, and also suppress the increase in current consumption. The outside diameter of a thrust hydrodynamic groove is at least 10% of the outside diameter of a disk-shaped medium, and the depth of the radial hydrodynamic groove is greater than the depth of the thrust hydrodynamic groove. By adjusting to specific numbers, the angular stiffness in the thrust bearing is raised, and even if a disturbance torque should be applied, wear or noise caused by metal contact inside the bearing can be suppressed.
US08085489B2
A method for writing servo patterns onto a disk of a disk drive. The method includes providing a plurality of different drive currents for an actuator while pushing the actuator into a crash stop defining a swing range of the actuator. The method also includes performing a write operation for at least one of the plurality of different drive currents to write a plurality of servo pattern tracks including a plurality of separate servo pattern sectors. Furthermore, the method includes gradually changing a drive current of the plurality of different drive currents while pushing the actuator into the crash stop so as to gradually move a read element in searching for a servo pattern track to a radial position different from a radial position of the write element. Moreover, the method includes positioning the read element at one of the plurality of servo pattern tracks.
US08085486B2
In a method for causing data to be written to a non-volatile medium, first data to be encoded and written in a sector of the non-volatile medium as a codeword is transmitted to a write or read/write channel device, and a write gate signal corresponding to the sector is asserted. Asserting the write gate signal indicates to the write or read/write channel device when to write the codeword to the sector. While asserting the write gate signal to cause the codeword to be written, second data to be encoded and written to the non-volatile medium is transmitted to the write or read/write channel device.
US08085484B2
Attachments for adjusting optical properties of image forming optical systems. An example refocus flip optic adaptor for a night vision goggle may include an adaptor housing for detachably mounting to an objective lens assembly of the night vision goggle and an optical element holder pivotably mounted to the adaptor housing such that a refocus lens (or other optical element) mounted to the optical element holder is selectively positionable in an operative position in which the refocus lens is axially aligned with the objective lens of the night vision goggle and an inoperative position in which the refocus lens and the optical element holder do not affect an image viewable through the night vision goggle. In some example embodiments, the optical element viewing diameter may be substantially the same as objective lens viewing diameter. Example optical elements may affect optical properties such as objective lens focus, optical filtering, and magnification.
US08085478B2
Provided is a compact and high optical performance zoom lens system, including, in order of from an object side toward an image side: a first lens unit with a negative refractive power; a second lens unit with a positive refractive power; and a third lens unit with the positive refractive power, the first, second, and third lens units moving to perform zooming. The first lens unit includes a first lens element with the negative refractive power, and a second lens element with the positive refractive power in order of from the object side toward the image side, and in which a refractive index of a material of the first lens element (N11), an Abbe number of a material of the second lens element (ν12), and the radii of curvatures of lens surfaces of the first lens element on the object side and the image side (R11a, R11b) are appropriately set.
US08085477B2
It is preferable that for an image forming optical system a basic structure which includes a first lens group having a negative refracting power, which is made of one cemented lens component, a second lens group having a positive refracting power, a third lens group having a positive refracting power, which is made of one lens component, and is movable for focusing, and a fourth lens group which is made of one lens component having an aspheric surface, and at the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the second lens group moves only toward the object side, and the first lens group and the third lens group move while following a trajectory of movement different from a trajectory of movement of the second lens group is adopted, and that the image forming optical system satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
US08085475B2
Provided is a zoom lens system including a compact focusing lens unit and having a suppressed change in image magnification at the time of movement of the focusing lens unit. A zoom lens system of the present invention, in order from an object side to an image side, includes, a first lens unit G1 having negative optical power, a second lens unit G2 having positive optical power, a third lens unit G3 having positive optical power, and a fourth lens G4. Condition (10): 1.4
US08085470B2
A line head, includes: a lens array that includes a first lens, a second lens and a light transmissive substrate on which the first lens and the second lens are arranged in a first direction; and a light emitting element substrate on which light emitting elements are arranged in the first direction, wherein the first lens is formed such that, in a cross section in the first direction including an optical axis of an imaging optical system comprised of the first lens, a curvature of the first lens at an outer peripheral portion has a sign opposite to that of a curvature of the first lens on the optical axis or has a smaller absolute value than the curvature of the first lens on the optical axis.
US08085469B2
An optical film includes a first refraction layer having a first surface with first optical lens patterns for scattering light and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first optical lens patterns having a lens shape, and a second refraction layer on the first surface and having second optical patterns for redirecting light in a first direction that is perpendicular to the second surface of the first refraction layer, the second optical patterns being linearly arranged.
US08085467B1
A projection display surface for reducing speckle artifacts from a projector having at least one narrow band light source having an incident visible wavelength band, wherein the incident visible wavelength band has an incident peak wavelength and an incident bandwidth, comprising: a substrate having a reflective layer that reflects incident light over at least the incident visible wavelength band; and a fluorescent agent distributed over the reflective layer, wherein the fluorescent agent absorbs a fraction of the light in the incident visible wavelength band and emits light in an emissive visible wavelength band having an emissive peak wavelength and an emissive bandwidth; wherein return light from the projection display surface produced when incident light in the incident visible wavelength band is incident on the projection display surface contains light in both the incident visible wavelength band and emissive visible wavelength band, thereby reducing speckle artifacts.
US08085459B1
A plasmonic transistor device includes an electro-optic substrate and a conductive layer placed on said electro-optic substrate to establish an interface therebetween. The first conductive layer and electro-optics substrate are made of materials that are suitable for transmission of a surface plasmon along the interface. The conductive layer is further formed with a source input grating and a drain output grating, for establishing the surface plasmon. A means for varying the electro-optic substrate permittivity, such as a light source or voltage source, is connected to the electro-optic substrate. Selective manipulation of the varying means allows the user to selectively increase or decrease the substrate permittivity. Control of the substrate permittivity further allows the user to control surface plasmon propagation from the source input grating along the interface to a drain output grating, to achieve a transistor-like effect for the surface plasmon.
US08085457B2
A light source system includes a splitter that split light beams F0 emitted from a light source into at least light beams FM and light beams FS, and an optical detecting system that guides the light beams FM to a detector. A light component near a light-intensity peak of the light beams F0 in a plane perpendicular to a propagation direction of the light beams F0 is included only in the light beams FS. Accordingly, light beams have a substantially circular or elliptic cross section with the intensity peak near the center. Light at the peak is supplied to the outside, and other light is used to control an amount of light.
US08085455B2
A coupling optical system couples a light beam emitted from a light source that includes a two-dimensional array of light-emitting elements, including a first optical element having a positive power and a second optical element that has a negative power and receives the light beam passed through the first optical element. An incident surface and an output surface of the second optical element are concave. An absolute value of a paraxial curvature radius of the incident surface is larger than that of the output surface. A scanning optical system focuses the light beam that passed through the coupling optical system and deflected by a deflector on the target surface.
US08085454B2
A mirror device drive control apparatus adapted to perform drive control of a mirror device having a hysteresis characteristic.
US08085452B2
A holographic imaging system includes an electrical addressable spatial light modulator (EASLM) and an optically addressable spatial light modulator (OASLM). A read light is configured to illuminate the OASLM, and a controller is configured to address the EASLM with both positive and negative sub-images and transmit the positive and negative sub-images to the OASLM. The controller is further configured to address the OASLM with an operating voltage, wherein the read light generates a holographic image comprised of diffraction patterns from the positive and negative sub-images.
US08085449B2
An image sensor includes a housing which receives heat of a circuit board, and a light source which is supported in the housing and radiates light toward a document. The light source is an EL light-emitting element including a light emission section which emits light by organic electroluminescence. The EL light-emitting element extends in a line shape along a scanning direction. A thermal diffusion layer is interposed between the EL light-emitting element and the housing.
US08085445B2
The invention is directed to techniques of facilitating document transmission from one entity through an electronic communications network. An entity may be a legally recognized person such as a corporation, partnership, organization, government, individual, and the like. As a legally recognized person, an entity may act as a principal with respect to one or more authorized agents. Furthermore, as a legal person, an entity may authorize one or more of its agents to use fax transmission equipment such as the fax certification system described herein. The techniques of this invention assure a second entity that a first entity has indeed authorized its agent to send a document from a fax station under the controls of the first entity.
US08085438B2
A new method of creating fluorescent color images visible under UV light is proposed, which relies on fluorescent colorants obtained by superposing fluorescent ink dots, on juxtaposed halftoning, and on mapping the gamut of the image to be reproduced into the gamut of the fluorescent colorants. The resulting color images are invisible under daylight and have, under UV light, a high resemblance with the original images. Applications comprises the protection of security documents and valuable articles, as well as publicity, fashion and night life, where fluorescent images viewed in the dark under UV illumination have a strongly appealing effect.
US08085434B2
The appearance of a color print viewed under UV illumination is predicted using a target comprising color patches each printed using a known coverage of printer colorant(s). In one case, the target is illuminated using a UV light source and an electronic image of the target is captured using a digital camera or the like. In another case, a spectrophotometer is used both with and without a UV cutoff filter to measure the target. The captured image data or the spectrophotometric measurements are used to derive a UV printer characterization model that relates any arbitrary combination of printer colorants to a predicted UV color appearance value. Metameric colorant mixture pairs for visible light and UV light viewing can be determined using the UV model together with a conventional visible light printer characterization model. A visual matching task is used to determine a correction factor for the UV printer characterization model.
US08085427B2
An image processing apparatus stores, in a buffer, an image data of c bits in the main scanning direction and y lines in the sub scanning direction, and reads out a pixel data of p bits that configures the image data stored in the buffer, in accordance with the completion of the storage of the image data. Note that c is a common multiple of m, which is the number of bits in the unit of memory access, and p, which is the number of bits in a single pixel. Note further that the number of bits in the unit of memory access m is not itself a multiple of the number of bits in a single pixel p.
US08085421B2
A method, apparatus, and product for reducing resource footprints for printer operation outputs, comprising: specifying a print job rendering criteria; receiving a request to print a print job having a page number amount; and automatically selecting and printing a portion of the print job as a function of the print job rendering criteria, wherein the portion has a page number amount smaller than the print job page number amount. The print job rendering criteria may comprise a set maximum number of pages to print during one printing session, where the portion to print is less than or equal to the maximum number of pages. Where the print job comprises a plurality of document components, automatically selecting and printing a portion of the document may comprise selecting a subset of the plurality of components as a function of the identified component relevance to each selected component and printing the representation.
US08085403B2
Embodiments of the apparatus, systems, and methods relate to a photoacoustic sensor includes an excitation source, a modulator, a quantum dot filter, an interferometer, a gas chamber, and a microphone. The excitation source generates a monochromatic light. The modulator intensity modulates the monochromatic light at a first modulation frequency. The quantum dot filter down converts the modulated monochromatic light into a broadband spectrum of infrared light. The interferometer further intensity modulates the broadband spectrum such that the at least one wavelength component of the broadband spectrum is further intensity modulated at a second modulation frequency. The gas chamber stores a sample gas and receives the plurality of modulated wavelength components. The microphone detects pressure changes within the gas chamber to produce an acoustic signal, which can be used to analyze properties of the sample gas.
US08085402B2
In a cavity mode of a cavity, a diameter of a mode waist is decreased so that the diameter is similar to a wavelength of an electromagnetic wave resonant with the cavity mode, when a material is located in the cavity. The material includes a physical system having two quantum states. A relative position between the material and the mode waist is scanned along three-directions unparallel mutually. A laser coupled with the cavity mode is input to the cavity. An intensity of at least one of a reflected light and a transmitted light of the laser from the cavity is measured.
US08085399B2
A particle detection system uses a reflective optic comprising a curved surface to detect high angle scattered light generated by a particle in a liquid medium, when a laser beam is incident on the particle. When the particles transit the laser beam, light is scattered in all directions and is described by MIE scattering theory for particles about the size of the wavelength of light and larger or Rayleigh Scattering when the particles are smaller than the wavelength of light. By using the reflective optic, the scattered light can be detected over angles that are greater than normally obtainable.
US08085397B2
Fiber optic sensors employ a high brightness light source such as a fiber optic supercontinuum source, multiplexed superluminescent light emitting diodes, or a broadband tunable laser diode. Light is delivered to the measurement location via fiber optics and sensor optics directs infrared radiation onto material the being monitored that is located in a hostile environment. A disperse element is positioned in the detection beam path in order to separate the wavelengths and to perform spectral analysis. A spectral analysis of the radiation that emerges from the sheet yields information on a plurality of parameters for the material. For papermaking applications, the moisture level, temperature and cellulose content in the paper can be obtained.
US08085396B2
Properties of turbid or scattering samples are determined using Raman spectroscopy with probe light delivered to and subsequently collected from the sample using a transmission geometry. The technique may be applied to pharmaceutical products such as tablets, diagnostic tests such as lateral flow diagnostic strips, and elsewhere.
US08085381B2
A megasonic immersion lithography exposure apparatus includes an optical transfer chamber for containing an exposure liquid, at least one megasonic plate operably engaging said optical transfer chamber for propagating sonic waves through the exposure liquid, and an optical system provided adjacent to said optical transfer chamber for projecting light through a mask and said exposure liquid and onto a wafer.
US08085369B2
Self-compensating, quasi-homeotropic liquid crystal devices overcome the contrast reducing effects of smaller pretilt angles. The devices exhibit extremely high contrast ratio but at the same time suppress fringe field-induced disclination lines in high pixel density and small pixel size quasi-homeotropic displays. The surface pretilt and cell twist angles are set at values that, in combination, contribute to establishing a cuspate singularity in the contrast ratio for normally incident light in response to a drive signal switching the liquid crystal device to the OFF director field state that provides nearly 0% optical efficiency. The OFF director field state corresponds to a subthreshold drive level that provides for the liquid crystal device self-compensation for in-plane optical retardation. Setting the cell gap (“d”) to provide substantially 100% optical efficiency in response to a value of the drive signal switching the liquid crystal device to the ON director field state achieves optimal dynamic range for the liquid crystal device.
US08085367B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; a backlight assembly for irradiating light onto the liquid crystal panel; and a reflection layer between the liquid crystal panel and the backlight assembly for increasing an amount of light incident onto the liquid crystal panel.
US08085358B2
A backlight module, an application and a fabrication method thereof are described. The backlight module comprises: a light guide plate; a housing clipped to the light guide plate, wherein the housing and the light guide plate form a disposed space; and at least one light-emitting diode (LED) light bar disposed in the disposed space and providing the light guide plate with at least one light, wherein the light-emitting diode light bar comprises a flexible circuit board and a plurality of light-emitting diodes, and the flexible circuit board comprises a first portion and at least two second portions, wherein the light-emitting diodes are disposed on the first portion of the flexible circuit board, and the second portions are stacked with respect to each other.
US08085353B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array panel for a Liquid Crystal Display apparatus (LCD) is provided. The TFT array panel comprises a plurality of gate lines, at least one data line intersecting the plurality of gate lines and at least one thin film transistor connected to at least one of the gate lines and the at least one data line. The at least one film transistor comprises a drain electrode. In addition, the TFT array panel further comprises at least one pixel electrode including at least one first subpixel electrode connected to the drain electrode of the thin film transistor and a second subpixel electrode capacitively coupled to the at least one first subpixel electrode. Moreover, the pixel electrode has a partitioning member for partitioning the pixel electrode into at least two partitions having portions which do not overlap the drain electrode. The at least two partitions are disposed symmetrically to a reference line equidistant from the plurality of gate lines.
US08085350B2
A three dimensional image display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, and a lens plate which is a plate member having a lenticular lens and which is provided to the display panel with a frame-shaped adhesive member interposed in between while having the lenticular lens facing the display panel. In this image display, a hermetic inner space is formed by the display panel, the adhesive member and the lens plate, and the internal pressure of the inner space is lower than the atmospheric pressure.
US08085344B2
A module socket for use with camera modules has an insulative housing with a base and four walls extending upward. The base and walls have L-shaped terminal-receiving cavities that receive terminal therein. The terminals extend between the two legs of the L-shaped cavities so as to position a terminal contact portion in opposition to contacts on the bottom surface of a camera module. Two metal retainers are applied to two opposing walls of the housing and these retainers have locking arms that extend horizontally into the interior space of the housing. The locking arms each include separate angled guide members and engagement members, the first of which guide a module into the socket and the second of which retain the module in place within the socket.
US08085338B2
An imaging apparatus includes an optical system including a focus lens, a driver configured to drive the focus lens, a controller configured to control a supply of power to the driver, and a setting unit configured to set a power supply mode for specifying a method of supplying power to the driver. When a predetermined power supply mode is set, the controller determines according to a magnitude of a depth of field of the optical system during whether holding power for holding the state of the focus lens is supplied to the driver when the focus lens is stopped, and controls the supply of the holding power to the driver according to the result of the determination.
US08085330B2
There is provided an image pickup apparatus comprising a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit which converts incident light into an electrical signal and accumulates the electrical signal, an amplifier transistor which amplifies and outputs the signal from the photoelectric conversion unit, a transfer transistor which transfers the electrical signal accumulated in the photoelectric conversion unit to the amplifier transistor, and a processing transistor which performs predetermined processing, and a control circuit which sets the signal level supplied to the control electrode of the transfer transistor in order to turn off the transfer transistor to be lower than the signal level supplied to the control electrode of the processing transistor in order to turn off the processing transistor.
US08085326B2
A solid imaging device includes a vertical signal line, a unit pixel including a photodiode which photoelectrically converts and stores incident light, an amplifying transistor which amplifies an input signal from the photodiode and outputs the amplified signal to the vertical signal line, and a reset transistor which resets a potential of a control electrode of the amplifying transistor, and a control circuit configured to maintain a state of a potential of the vertical signal line while the reset transistor is being driven.
US08085314B2
In an image processing apparatus which can always provide an excellent processed image, an analysis unit analyzes condition information representing a condition at a time when an image is obtained and being included in image information, and determines an algorithm of an image correction process for the image based on the analyzed result.
US08085312B2
An image input apparatus that inputs an image of an object residing within a living body is disclosed. The image input apparatus includes a light source that irradiates near infrared light on the living body, a lens array arranged at a position facing the living body and including plural lenses each having a face with zero or negative power arranged at a side facing the living body and a face with positive power arranged at a side facing an image surface, an imaging unit arranged at the image surface side of the lens array that forms a compound-eye image corresponding to a collection of ommatidium images formed by the lenses of the lens array, and a reconstruction unit that reconstructs a single image from the compound-eye image using a parallax between the ommatidium images. The reconstructed single image is input as the image of the object.
US08085309B1
A stand-alone camera system for capturing and transmitting real-time trail data over a wireless communication system to pre-programmable electronic destinations. A CPU receives triggering information and thereby sets the capturing mechanism to a triggering mode. Such triggering information is set at a sensitivity level and a time frame. The automatic toggling mechanism includes a plurality of infra-red sensors that detect a plurality of operating parameters. If a triggered interruption does not last for the time frame, the CPU returns to the sleep mode for conserving battery consumption. If the triggered interruption lasts for the time frame, the CPU wakes up the capturing and monitoring mechanism and thereby causes the capturing and monitoring mechanism to automatically capture an image of a triggered interrupter associated with the triggered interruption. Such captured images are then wirelessly transmitted to the pre-programmable electronic destinations for viewing.
US08085302B2
A combined digital and mechanical tracking system and process for generating a video using a single digital video camera that tracks a person or object of interest moving in a scene is presented. This generally involves operating the camera at a higher resolution than is needed for the application, and cropping a sub-region out of the image captured that is output as the output video. The person or object being tracked is at least partially contained within the cropped sub-region. As the person or object moves within the field of view of the camera, the location of the cropped sub-region is also moved so as to keep the subject of interest within its boundaries. When the subject of interest moves to the boundary of the FOV of the camera, the camera is mechanically panned to keep the person or object inside its FOV.
US08085297B2
According to the invention a user interface of a consumer electronic apparatus is modified, which can be used for example to update a given basic UI functionality or to temporarily implement isolated, dedicated UI sub-domains. For this purpose side information is received comprising side information components for controlling the user interface and validity information defining the validity start and/or end time of the side information components. The side information components and validity information is stored and the user interface is modified by using said stored side information components. The start time and/or end time of the user interface modification is controlled by means of said stored validity information.
US08085294B2
A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a plane display device; a lens array provided in front of the display surface to distribute light rays from pixels of the display device to predetermined angles, and having a plurality of lenses arranged in a first direction; a variable polarizer provided between the plane display device and the lens array to polarize light rays from the pixels; and a double refraction prism array provided on an opposite side of the lens array from the display device, and including a plurality of double refraction prisms. Each of the double refraction prisms has a ridge in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and arranged in the first direction with a pitch which is substantially twice a lens pitch in the lens array, and has double refraction in which a refractive index in a ridge direction is different from a refractive index in a direction perpendicular to the ridge direction.
US08085290B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for displaying a videoconference includes receiving a first video feed. The first video feed includes a first plurality of video signals, each video signal from at least one source and originating from one or more sites. The method also includes assigning for a videoconference each video signal of the first plurality of video signals to a zone of a plurality of zones of a display window. Each zone of the plurality of zones is able to display one video signal at a time. The method further includes, for each zone of the plurality of zones of the display window to which more than one video signal has been assigned, switching the current video signal to be displayed in the zone to another video signal assigned to the zone based on a switching protocol.
US08085289B1
An optical beam is selectively output towards a scanner in accordance with image data for a scan line of an image. The optical beam has a beam irradiance distribution that is elliptical in shape. The optical beam passes through an aperture stop, ordinarily creating side lobes within a focus irradiance distribution of the optical beam. The scanner scans the optical beam to form the scan line on a photosensitive surface by selectively exposing positions along the scan line in accordance with image data. The optical beam is modified before it reaches the photosensitive surface to substantially remove the side lobes that have been created within the focus irradiance distribution and/or to substantially prevent the side lobes from being created within the focus irradiance distribution of the optical beam.
US08085283B2
A data processing apparatus which revises n-bit image data, includes a frame memory which stores therein n−m bit image data of a previous frame; a memory interface which outputs n-bit revision data including upper n−m bits having n−m bit image data of the previous frame outputted by the frame memory and lower m bits having fixed data corresponding to a decimal value 1; a first reviser which revises a color temperature of current frame image data by using n-bit image data of a current frame and the revision data; and a second reviser which revises a gray scale of the current frame image data by using the image data outputted by the first reviser and the revision data.
US08085275B1
A push buffer-related system, method and computer program product are provided. Initially, an entry is obtained from a buffer storage describing a size and location of a portion of a push buffer. To this end, the portion of the push buffer is capable of being retrieved, utilizing the entry from the buffer storage.
US08085272B1
A method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system is disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of receiving a common input stream, tracking a periodic event associated with the common input stream, generating a plurality of fragment streams from the common input stream, inserting a marker based on an occurrence of the periodic event in a first fragment stream in the multiple fragment streams, and utilizing the marker to influence the processing of the first fragment stream so that a plurality of raster operation (ROP) request streams maintains substantially the same coherence as the common input stream. Each fragment stream is independently processed and corresponds to one of the ROP request streams.
US08085271B2
A system and method for dilating a glyph for glyph rendering is described. The method includes receiving information including at least one of an element value of a rendering matrix, a glyph characteristic, a display background characteristic, an application characteristic, a display characteristic, and a graphics engine characteristic. The method further includes determining a dilation factor value from the received information. The method also includes dilating the outline of the glyph using the determined dilation factor.
US08085269B1
Technologies relating to user interfaces for visualization and editing of audio signals. In some implementations, a method is provided that include the actions of receiving one or more audio signals including digital audio data; generating one or more audio objects, each of the one or more audio objects representing one or more audio signals; and displaying a corresponding representation of each of the one or more audio objects in an interface according to one or more parameters of the audio signals associated with the respective one or more audio objects such that a location of each particular audio object representation in the interface is based on the one or more parameters associated with the particular audio object.
US08085264B1
A method for multiple queue output buffering in a raster stage of a graphics processor. The method includes receiving a graphics primitive for rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics processor. The graphics primitive is rasterized at a first level to generate a plurality of tiles of pixels related to the graphics primitive. Each tile is then rasterized to determine related sub-portions of each tile. The related sub-portions are transferred to a plurality of output queues. The related sub-portions are subsequently output on a per queue basis and on a per clock cycle basis.
US08085253B2
A laptop computer, a system and/or a method for using the same are provided. The laptop computer, the system and/or the method has a monitor, input boards, a base, an intelligent pen and a headset. The monitor has a screen, a magnetic pen guidance system, an on/off switch for the magnetic pen guidance system, a taskbar area, braille signs and compartments for storing the input boards. The input boards may be, for example, a braille board, a standard keyboard, and/or a geometry board. The base may have a receiving surface, permanent input keys, permanent braille keys, speakers and a holder for the intelligent pen. The speakers and/or the headset may provide the user with audio feedback.
US08085232B2
Array substrate receiving two polarities opposite to each other and a display device having the same
An array substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a pixel matrix. The plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines define pixel areas. The pixel matrix is formed on each pixel area, and includes a plurality of pixel columns and pixel rows. Each pixel column has a first pixel group and a second pixel group. The first pixel group is electrically connected to a first gate line adjacent to the pixel column. The second pixel group is electrically connected to a second gate line adjacent to the pixel column. Each pixel row is electrically connected to one data line adjacent to the pixel column.
US08085231B2
In a display device which mounts drive circuits and a display control circuit on a substrate which constitutes a display panel, signal lines can be arranged on the substrate which constitutes the display panel without making the signal lines intersect each other. A plurality of drive circuits and a display control circuit are mounted on a peripheral portion of one long side of a first substrate. A printed circuit board is connected to one long side of the first substrate. Each drive circuit mounts, on a surface thereof facing the first substrate, a group of power source voltage input terminals to which a power source voltage is supplied, a group of gray-scale reference voltage input terminals to which a gray-scale reference voltage is supplied, and a group of gray-scale reference voltage output terminals which sends gray-scale reference voltages.
US08085230B2
In a driving device and a display apparatus having the driving device, a converter converts input image data and outputs first and second sub-image data which have different values. A first compensator compensates the first sub-image data and outputs a first compensated image data, and a second compensator compensates the second sub-image data and outputs a second compensated image data. An output circuit controls output time of the first and second compensated image data. Accordingly, sub-image data for each sub-pixel may be exactly compensated by employing compensators to individually compensate for the sub-image data of each sub-pixel.
US08085221B2
A method drives a panel and a plasma display unit, wherein one field includes a plurality of subfields, each having an addressing period for producing an address discharge selectively in the discharge cells, and a sustaining period for producing a sustain discharge by applying a number of sustaining pulses corresponding to a weight of brightness in a discharge cell where the address discharge has been produced. Additionally, a sustaining pulse generator circuit includes a power recovery section for controlling the rising or the falling of the sustaining pulse by producing resonance between an inter-electrode capacitance of a display electrode pair and an inductor, and a clamping section for clamping a voltage of the sustaining pulse at a predetermined potential, wherein the power recovery section is used to set twice a time of the rising of the sustaining pulse to be equal to or longer than a duration of the sustaining pulse.
US08085219B2
A plasma display device and a driving method thereof which can prevent address discharging from low discharging. The driving method of the plasma display device includes a plasma display panel having first to third electrodes divided into a plurality of groups including a first group and a second group, and a frame divided into a plurality of sub-fields, each sub-field divided into a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period, the method includes during an address period: sequentially supplying the first group with a scan pulse, supplying a sub scan pulse to the second group, and sequentially supplying the second group with the scan pulse.
US08085212B2
The invention relates to a reconfigurable reflecting array antenna comprising a subset of patterns capable of radiating signals emitted in a given direction and means of loading and placing said radiating arrays to place one of them in a chosen emitting position, characterized in that: the loading and placement means comprise a system for scrolling a first film (F1) comprising the subsets of radiating patterns used to selectively position a subset of radiating patterns in the emitting position. The antenna can be of the reflecting array antenna type or of the phased array antenna type.
US08085207B2
A guard (120) for an antenna (602) includes a base (206) defined between a front edge (209), a rear edge (211), and two lateral edges (213, 215). A front generally triangular surface (208) extends from the front edge (209) to a narrowed upper edge, a rear generally triangular surface (210) extends from the rear edge (211) to a narrowed upper edge, and two lateral generally triangular surfaces (212, 214), each having a narrowed upper edge, extend from their respective lateral edge (213, 215). The narrowed upper edges form an apex (204), which forms an opening (202). The surfaces (208, 210, 212, 214) at least partially define an internal cavity (304) that encloses a portion (604) of the antenna (602). The front surface (208) is at a first angle (α) relative to a mounting surface (117) and the rear surface (210) is at a second, larger angle (β) relative to the mounting surface (117).
US08085204B2
An ultra-wideband has an elongated grounding plate disposed horizontally with a long front edge defined thereon. A connecting portion extends upwards from an end of the front edge. A first antenna radiator includes a first radiating strip extended from a side of the connecting portion and a second radiating strip connecting with a free end of the first radiating strip. A third antenna radiator includes a third radiating strip suspended over the grounding plate, a fourth radiating strip connecting with an end of a long front edge of the third radiating strip and an upper side of the second radiating strip, a fifth radiating strip extended downwards from the long front edge of the third radiating strip connecting with the connecting portion. A third antenna radiator extends downwards from a middle of the long front edge of the third radiating strip. A feeding point disposes on the second radiating strip.
US08085192B2
A system and method for controlling and storing sensitive information on a global positioning system (GPS) device are provided. The system includes a locational information module for determining location information of the device; an encryption module for encrypting the location information; a processing module for storing the encrypted location information in a storage module; and an input module for inputting a code string for decrypting the location information. Information inputted to and/or generated by the device will be encrypted on the storage module. The storage module can be in any form currently available including optical media, or various types of removable memory cards or cartridges. Furthermore, the storage module may be internal memory and the GPS device may further include a transmission module or connection, e.g., hardwire or wireless, to port the information to a computer.
US08085191B2
Embodiments provided herein recite methods and systems for corroborating position system code from Navigation Satellite System (NSS) signals. In one embodiment, a NSS high yield module attempts to determine a high yield location solution based on a first set of PRN codes. In addition, a NSS high accuracy module attempts to determine a high accuracy location solution based on signal processing of the same first set of PRN codes. A location solution corroborator module receives input from both the NSS high yield module and the NSS high accuracy module and generates a corroborated location solution. In one embodiment, a position provider outputs the corroborated location solution.
US08085185B2
A method of down-converting couples a first high-frequency signal to a first detector and to a second detector. An antenna receives a signal and the received signal is provided to at least the first detector. The high-frequency signal is detected to produce a first detected signal including a first detected high-frequency signal and a demodulated signal. The high-frequency signal is concurrently detected to produce a second detected high-frequency signal. The second detected signal is subtracted from the first detected signal so as to cancel amplitude-modulated noise on a detected signal output.
US08085175B2
The present invention provides an advanced adaptive predistortion linearization technique to dramatically reduce nonlinear distortion in power amplifiers over a very wide instantaneous bandwidth (up to 2 GHz) and over a wide range of amplifier types, input frequencies, signal types, amplitudes, temperature, and other environmental and signal conditions. In an embodiment of the invention, the predistortion linearization circuitry comprises (1) a higher-order polynomial model of an amplifier's gain and phase characteristics—higher than a third-order polynomial model; (2) an adaptive calibration technique; and (3) a heuristic calibration technique. The higher-order polynomial model is generated by introducing, for example, a plurality of multi-tone test signals with varying center frequency and spacing into the power amplifier. From the power amplifier's corresponding output, the nonlinearities are modeled by employing a higher-order curve fit to capture the irregularities in the nonlinear transfer function. Different distortion transfer functions can be implemented for different operating conditions. The adaptive calibration technique is based on a feedback analysis technique, which updates the applicable distortion transfer function by analyzing the error signal between the introduced input signal and the output signal in real-time. The heuristic calibration technique implements different distortion transfer functions based on historical operating conditions and optimal configurations of the power amplifier.
US08085174B2
A current-mode DAC includes at least one to-be-corrected one current source, a referential current source, a current comparator for comparing the current of the to-be-corrected current source and the current of the referential current source, a correction controller, a successive approximation register controller controlled by the correction controller and referring to the result of the comparison for carrying out successive approximation, and at least one correction DAC electrically connected with the successive approximation register controller and the to-be-corrected current source for referring to the result acquired from the successive approximation register controller and then providing a bias for the to-be-corrected current source for carrying out current correction. Accordingly, the corrected current can have the excellent accuracy.
US08085172B2
An encoding method and an encoder for encoding data transmitted in a manner of bursts via a parallel bus and a decoding method and a decoder. The encoding method includes organizing data of the bursts into matrixes, determining for each of the matrixes whether a transform mode capable of decreasing the bus transition number exists, determining that the matrix needs to be transformed, determining a transform mode for transforming the matrix, and replacing the initial matrix with the transformed matrix. Then, forming a new matrix to be transmitted from matrixes which do not need to be transformed and matrixes which have been transformed. Thereafter, first generating a transform information word indicating transform states of the respective matrixes and then attaching the transform information word to the matrix to be transmitted to form an encoded matrix for actual transmission.
US08085169B2
A map display apparatus for displaying a map image at a plurality of display resolutions includes the following elements. An information recording unit associates an image signal of a captured image with imaging position information to record the associated signal and information as image information. A map information storage unit stores map information for the map image. A classification information recording processing unit divides a map area shown by the map information into mesh cells such that different mesh cell sizes are suitable for the respective display resolutions, and generates and records imaging classification information. A display control unit determines on each of mesh cells on the map image, each mesh cell having a size suitable for the display resolution, on the basis of the imaging classification information whether the image information is relevant to a mesh cell, and arranges an imaging identification representation in the appropriate mesh cell.
US08085163B1
A system that varies the brilliance of light bulbs in accordance with modulated audio signals. The audio signals are first compressed and then passed through a comparator. The comparator has two inputs, one of which is the aforesaid compressed audio signals. The other input is a control input which receives a second voltage in the form of a series of impulses. The compressed audio signals pass through the comparator if and when their voltage is higher than that of said second voltage.
US08085162B2
A tamper prevention system includes a mounting unit, a portable terminal device, a first data input unit, an authentication unit, a detecting unit, and a setting unit. The portable terminal device enables a user to input operation data, performs an operation in accordance with the operation data when a first mode is set, and fails to perform the operation when a second mode is set. The first data input unit enables the user to input first data. The authentication unit authenticates the user when the first data matches authentication data. The setting unit sets the portable terminal device to the first mode when the authenticating unit has authenticated the user, and sets the portable terminal device to the second mode when the authenticating unit has failed to authenticate the user and the detecting unit has detected that the portable terminal device is removed from the mounting unit.
US08085161B2
An appliance warning system comprises a floor pad for location on or adjacent a device such that a user must stand on the floor pad in order to normally use the device. The floor pad has at least one switch movable between an open position when no weight pressure is detected on the floor pad and a closed position when the switch is activated by weight pressure detected on the floor pad. A control circuit is connected operational between a ready state before the switch is activated to the closed position and a monitoring state after the switch is activated to the closed position. A warning device connected to the control circuit is activated when the control circuit determines that the switch has been in the open position for a preselected period of time after having been in the closed position.
US08085160B2
Disclosed is a circuit for detecting the presence of an inductive load. The circuit uses a voltage ringing detector to detect a voltage ringing signal across the inductive load and a signal generator for generating a signal indicating the presence of the inductive load upon detection of the ringing signal. The circuit may be used in a dimmer circuit for controlling the load. The circuit may be used as a load detector for a universal dimmer or may be used in a protection circuit for circuits not designed to control inductive loads.
US08085147B2
A building security arrangement includes a sensor for emitting an audible alarm signal. A security system installed in the building detects the audible alarm signal and transmits an electrical alarm signal over a public switched telephone network in response to the detection of the audible alarm signal. A central monitoring station receives the electrical alarm signal over the public switched telephone network and notifies an alarm authority in response to receiving the electrical alarm signal.
US08085146B2
There is described a monitoring system for monitoring an apparatus for raising and lowering a person, for example an item of adjustable furniture or a hoist. The monitoring system comprises a memory for recording information relating to the operational history of the monitored apparatus. Amongst other information the memory may record periods when power supplied to an actuator of the apparatus exceeds a pre-defined threshold, and the number of operations performed by the apparatus. When the number of operations reaches a pre-determined amount the system can inhibit operation of the device.
US08085141B2
A self-diagnostic acoustic wave touch actuated switch assembly includes a substrate having an acoustic wave cavity, a transducer operatively connected to the acoustic wave cavity, a processing unit, and at least one light emitting member operatively connected to the processing unit. The transducer is configured to generate a trapped acoustic wave within the acoustic wave cavity. The processing unit is operatively connected to one or both of the acoustic wave cavity and/or the transducer. The processing unit may be configured to activate the at least one light emitting member when the processing unit detects one or both of a switch malfunction and/or a potential switch malfunction.
US08085127B2
A remote controlling apparatus for a remote controlling system of wireless communication type is disclosed. The remote controlling apparatus includes a broadcasting section, a receiving section, a detecting section, and a setting section. The broadcasting section broadcasts a predetermined signal in a lower transmission output state than in a regular communication state. The receiving section receives acknowledge and reception state electric field intensity information from at least one device under remote control. The detecting section detects a device under remote control having highest reception state electric field intensity as a nearest device. The setting section sets the nearest device as an object device under remote control.
US08085125B2
A system and apparatus are disclosed for indicating interactions between a key and a lock, and presenting this interaction information to the user. These apparatus and system are not specific to certain types of key or lock. In embodiments, the apparatus includes a number of detector switches to identify that the key has entered the lock. In other embodiments, the usage time is measured and presented to the user. In certain embodiments, the action performed with the key, ‘lock’ or ‘unlock’, is identified by a number of tilt switches or accelerometers to detect the direction of key rotation in the lock. An electric scheme and mechanical design of some apparatus embodiments are disclosed. A method for reading information by the user on the time of usage for a particular apparatus embodiment is described. A method for processing the interaction information in the form of records is also provided.
US08085124B2
An access control installation adapted for controlling access from a first zone to a second zone, said installation comprising: at least one separating panel separating the first and second zones, said separating panel having at least one moving closure element (1) adapted for selectively opening or closing an opening; at least one opening actuator (3a, 3b) adapted for causing the closure element (1) selectively to prevent or to allow access via the opening; and a control circuit (5) for controlling the opening actuator. Said installation further comprises at least one sound sensor (6) fastened to the separating panel on the same side as the second zone and adapted for detecting knocks on the first surface of said separating panel, and the control circuit (5) is adapted for: recognizing a predetermined code represented by a particular sequence of knocks on the first surface; and controlling the opening actuator as a function of the recognized code.
US08085118B2
An inline microwave bandpass filter where cross coupling between non-adjacent resonators is realized by changing the orientation of selected resonators. The microwave bandpass filter includes a cavity and three or more resonators arranged in a row (or inline) in the cavity. At least one resonator has a different spatial orientation from at least one other resonator. For example, one or more of the resonators may be rotated 90 or 180 degrees with respect to one of the other resonators. This arrangement of resonators facilitates sequential coupling between pairs of adjacent resonators and cross coupling between at least one pair of non-adjacent resonators without the use of additional cross coupling structures such as dedicated coupling probes or extra cavities. One or more plates may be introduced between adjacent resonators to independently control the sequential and cross coupling.
US08085117B1
A piezoelectric boundary acoustic wave (PBAW) device includes a slotted dielectric body disposed over one surface of a piezoelectric body and electrodes forming an IDT at the interface between the piezoelectric body and the dielectric body. The thickness of the electrode is set so that the acoustic velocity of the boundary acoustic waves is less than acoustic waves propagating in the piezoelectric body.
US08085114B2
An electromagnetic filter, which may include a feed-through conductor. The feed-through conductor may have an integral extension for contacting an electrically conductive clip. The clip may have an extension-engaging portion to contact the extension and a dielectric component-contacting end to contact a dielectric component. The dielectric component may be, for example, a varistor, a chip capacitor, or the like, capable of affecting a signal carried by the feed-through conductor. The dielectric component may be proximate to the feed-through conductor and may be oriented such that a primary dimension of the dielectric component is substantially parallel to the feed-through conductor. Another embodiment may include a bus. The invention may also be embodied as methods for assembling electromagnetic filters.
US08085113B2
This invention discloses a complementary-conducting-strip coupled-line (CCS CL). The CCS CL includes a substrate, m layers of mesh ground planes interlacing with m−1 layer(s) of first inter-media-dielectric (IMD) to form a stack structure on the substrate, a second IMD layer being on the stack structure, and n metal lines being on the second IMD layer and being edge-coupled with each other. Wherein, the m−1 first IMD layer(s) has(have) a plurality of vias to connect matching mesh ground planes, therein, m≧2 and m is a natural number, n≧2 and n is a natural number.
US08085111B2
A thin film balun includes: an unbalanced transmission line which includes two coils; a balanced transmission line which includes two coils and is electromagnetically coupled to the unbalanced transmission line; a capacitor having one end connected to the balanced transmission line; and a ground terminal connected to the other end of the capacitor. The capacitor is disposed in a region which does not overlap a coil included in the unbalanced transmission line and a coil included in the balanced transmission line.
US08085108B2
A radiofrequency transmitting device delivers output signals having a chosen radiofrequency from input data split up into complementary phase data and amplitude data. This device includes a radiofrequency reference oscillator for outputting a reference signal having a fixed radiofrequency reference, and a digital phase modulator for synthesizing the chosen radiofrequency from the fixed radiofrequency reference and for phase modulating the reference signal with the phase data, in order to produce an output signal having the chosen radiofrequency.
US08085104B2
An oscillation circuit, a driving circuit thereof, and a driving method thereof are provided. The driving circuit generates a second enable signal according to an output signal of an oscillator and a first enable signal. The second enable signal is transmitted to the oscillator. When a number of waves of the output signal within a predetermined period is smaller than a predetermined value, the driving circuit adjusts a voltage level of the second enable signal. A voltage level of the first enable signal is equal to an enable voltage level. Through variations in voltage levels of the second enable signal, the oscillator is triggered to oscillate.
US08085097B2
An integrated ramp, sweep fractional frequency synthesizer system on an integrated circuit chip includes an integrated circuit chip having a fractional frequency synthesizer with a fractional divider responsive to a VCO and a ΔΣ modulator for modifying the divisor of the fractional divider; and a ramp generator on the same integrated circuit chip; the ramp generator being responsive to a trigger signal to generate a ramp for sweeping the frequency of said fractional frequency synthesizer.
US08085087B2
A switched capacitor circuit includes a positive side capacitor coupled to a first positive side node; a first positive side switch element for selectively coupling the first positive side node to a second node according to a first control signal; and a precharge circuit coupled to the first positive side node for precharging the first positive side node to a precharge voltage for a predetermined time when the first positive side switch element is switched off according to the first control signal, and then for charging the first positive side node to a charge voltage until the first positive side switch element is switched on according to the first control signal. By rapidly precharging the first positive side node, the clock feedthrough effect is eliminated and the locking period of the VCO is shortened. Afterwards by charging the first positive side node, the phase noise of the VCO is minimized.
US08085085B1
A substrate bias circuit may measure a leakage current of a baseline device, compare the leakage current with a reference current, and based on the comparison, adjust a reverse body bias voltage applied to a body of the baseline device.
US08085076B2
A disclosed embodiment is a data retention flip flop comprising master and slave circuits that are configured to be turned off when a single sleep mode signal is activated. The disclosed embodiment also comprises an always-on balloon circuit coupled to the master circuit, where the always-on balloon circuit includes a common sub-circuit shared with the master circuit. The master circuit writes into the always-on balloon circuit when the single sleep mode signal is activated, and the master circuit reads from the always-on balloon circuit when the single sleep mode signal is deactivated. The always-on balloon circuits comprises high threshold voltage transistors, while the slave circuit comprises low threshold voltage transistors. The master and slave circuits have no leakage current, or substantially no leakage current, after the single sleep mode signal is activated.
US08085075B2
A method and apparatus are provided for minimizing output pulse jitters in a phase locked loop. The method includes pre-setting the digital phase locked loop to a desired frequency, locking the digital phase locked loop to the desired frequency to generate an output signal, and filtering the output signal of the digital phase locked loop to maintain undesirable jitter to an acceptable range. In one embodiment, the apparatus is a medical imaging device. In another embodiment, the apparatus is a baggage imaging device.
US08085074B1
A fast locking delay-locked loop (DLL), which can also operate as a clock data recovery circuit (CDR), includes a delay chain, a sampling circuit and a transition detector. An input signal and delayed versions of the input signal generated by the delay chain are sampled by the sampling circuit. The outputs of the sampling circuit are provided to a transition detector which selects one of the input signal and its delayed versions determined to have signal transitions most closely aligned with a sampling edge of a clock. The selected signal and the clock are provided as inputs to a phase discriminator which generates an error signal representing a level of phase mismatch between the inputs. The error signal is fed back to the sampling circuit to maintain phase lock between the clock signal and the input bit stream.
US08085051B2
An abnormality detecting device for a storage element is able to improve accuracy of abnormality detection for the storage element. The device includes at least an equalization process portion, an abnormality determination portion, a voltage measurement portion, and a control portion. The control portion issues a command to the equalization process portion to start an equalization process in a case where there is a variance in capacity of storage element blocks B1, B2, . . . and BN. The abnormality determination portion performs an abnormality determination on the storage element blocks B1, B2, . . . , and BN using voltages across the terminals of the respective storage element blocks B1, B2, . . . , and BN that have been allowed to stand after an elapse of a predetermined time since the end of the equalization process.
US08085050B2
Methods and systems for determining the horizontal resistivity, vertical resistivity, and relative dip angle of anisotropic earth formations. Some of the disclosed methods and systems measure sinusoidal variation of azimuthally sensitive resistivity logging tool measurements, determine parameters representative of the sinusoidal variation, and perform inversion based on the sinusoidal parameters. When cast in this manner, the inversion process may yield more accurate and consistent resistivity and dip angle estimates. The sinusoidal parameters preferably take the form of average and peak-to-peak measurements, but may also take other forms. Moreover, use of such sinusoidal parameters enables a condensed representation of the resistivity logging tool measurements, enabling significantly more efficient communication and storage of these measurements. The condensed representations continue to enable directional boundary detection and geosteering.
US08085049B2
This invention is directed to a downhole method and apparatus for simultaneously determining the horizontal resistivity, vertical resistivity, and relative dip angle for anisotropic earth formations. The present invention accomplishes this objective by using an antenna configuration in which a transmitter antenna and a receiver antenna are oriented in non-parallel planes such that the vertical resistivity and the relative dip angle are decoupled. Preferably, either the transmitter or the receiver is mounted in a conventional orientation in a first plane that is normal to the tool axis, and the other antenna is mounted in a second plane that is not parallel to the first plane. This invention also relates to a method and apparatus for steering a downhole tool during a drilling operation in order to maintain the borehole within a desired earth formation. The steering capability is enabled by computing the difference or the ratio of the phase-based or amplitude-based responses of the receiver antennas which are mounted in planes that are not parallel to the planes of the transmitter antennas. Although this invention is primarily intended for MWD or LWD applications, this invention is also applicable to wireline and possibly other applications.
US08085044B2
A method for producing a spatially and spectrally selective radiofrequency (“RF”) excitation pulse includes establishing a desired spatial RF excitation pattern and establishing a desired spectral RF excitation pattern. The method also includes estimating an RF transmission profile map indicative of the transmission characteristics of an RF coil and determining, from the desired spatial and spectral excitation patterns and the estimated RF transmission profile map, at least one magnetic field gradient waveform indicative of locations in k-space to which RF energy is to be deposited. The method further includes determining, from the established spatial and spectral excitation patterns, the estimated RF transmission profile map, and the determined at least one gradient waveform, at least one RF excitation pulse waveform that will produce the desired spatial and spectral excitation patterns.
US08085035B2
A Hall element is provided which has a high sensitivity and contributes to an improvement in S/N ratio per current by using a low-concentration n-well within a suitable range. The Hall element includes a p-type semiconductor substrate layer of p-type silicon, and an n-type impurity region located in a surface of the p-type semiconductor substrate layer, the n-type impurity region functioning as a magnetic sensing part. A p-type impurity region is located in a surface of the n-type impurity region, and n-type regions are located laterally of the p-type impurity region. A p-type substrate region having a resistivity equal to that of the p-type semiconductor substrate layer is located to extend around the n-type impurity region. An impurity concentration N in the n-type impurity region functioning as the magnetic sensing part is preferably from 1×1016 to 3×1016(atoms/cm3) and a distribution depth of the impurity concentration is preferably from 3.0 μm to 5.0 μm.
US08085026B2
A current sense amplifier sensing current through a main switch of a converter. The amplifier includes first and second switch devices, an amplifier control circuit, a bias circuit, a current generator circuit, and a sense circuit. The main switch is coupled to an input, phase and control nodes. The first and second switch devices are smaller matching versions of the main switch and are both coupled to the main switch and form first and second nodes. The bias circuit is coupled between second and fourth nodes and the amplifier control circuit is coupled between first and third nodes. The current generator develops a first current through the amplifier control circuit and a second current through the bias circuit. The sense circuit has a current path coupled to the first node and is controlled by the third node to develop a sense voltage indicative of current through the main switch.
US08085024B2
A switched mode power can use a digital controller to control the switching of the at least one switch of the switched mode power supply. The current through the power inductor can be estimated using a self-tuning digital current estimator.
US08085018B2
Provided is a voltage regulator capable of performing appropriate phase compensation. Even when a difference between an input voltage and an output voltage is small, an appropriate phase compensation voltage based on an output voltage (Vout) is generated in a resistor circuit (19), and the appropriate phase compensation voltage is applied to a phase compensation capacitor (20). Accordingly, the voltage regulator is capable of performing appropriate phase compensation.
US08085014B2
The present invention discloses a dual power switch and a voltage regulator using the dual power switch. The dual power switch comprises a PMOS power switch and an NMOS power switch connected in parallel and operating according to corresponding predetermined conditions, respectively.
US08085011B1
A boost regulator for converting an input voltage to a higher output voltage including an inductor, an error circuit, a switching circuit, a ripple circuit, and a hysteretic comparator circuit. The inductor has a first end coupled to the input voltage and a second end. The error circuit determines an error of the output voltage and provides an error voltage indicative thereof. The switching circuit switches the second end of the inductor between the output voltage and ground as controlled by a pulse width modulation signal. The ripple circuit synthetically replicates ripple current through the inductor based on voltage applied across the inductor and provides a ripple voltage indicative thereof. The hysteretic comparator circuit develops the pulse width modulation signal based on comparing the ripple voltage within a hysteretic window voltage range based on the error voltage.
US08085006B2
A shunt regulator for stepping down an input potential to an output potential, has an input for applying the input potential, an output for tapping off the output potential and a voltage drop circuit, across which the voltage difference between the input potential and the output potential drops. It is possible for the current flowing through the voltage drop circuit or its lower and/or upper limit value to be adjusted.
US08085000B2
A charger includes: a rectifier to rectify a received radio wave to generate a charging current; a potential generator to generate a bias voltage setting an operating point of the rectifier; and a controller to supply the bias voltage generated by the potential generator when an output voltage of the rectifier is equal to or larger than a predetermined value.
US08084995B2
An intelligent lithium-battery-activating charging device is connectable between a charging power source and an application electrical device and contains an internal circuit that builds up a charging/discharging mode to correspond the charging power source to a lithium battery accommodated in the application electrical device. After a short time period of charging, which is short enough that the voltage detection circuit inside the application electrical device cannot properly respond, a time period of discharging follows and then discharging is stopped, so that the detection performed by the voltage detection circuit is delayed until the cycles of short time period charging and discharging are completed. If the detection shows the battery is not fully charged, then the charging operation starts again. During the charging process, ions are moved in one direction in one moment and then reversed in the next moment so that built up of deposition on electrodes can be avoided.
US08084989B2
A battery charger includes a rechargeable battery for providing electric power to an external rechargeable battery through a damper unit so as to charge the external rechargeable battery, and a control unit coupled to a charging socket and the rechargeable battery and operable to charge the rechargeable battery through a charging signal received by the charging socket. An alarm unit is coupled to the rechargeable battery and the charging socket for generating a detecting signal based on a battery voltage of the rechargeable battery, for outputting a reminder output upon detecting that a potential of the detecting signal is less than that of a reference signal, and for terminating the reminder output when the charging socket receives the charging signal.
US08084981B2
In a rechargeable electric power tool, upon changeover of a trigger switch, a microcomputer determines the magnitude relation between the detected temperature outputted from the first thermistor and the first temperature threshold value, the second temperature threshold value and the third temperature threshold value, and the magnitude relation between the first calculated temperature increase rate and the first preset temperature increase rate. If the detected temperature is determined to be greater than the first temperature threshold value or if the first calculated temperature increase rate is determined to be greater than the first preset temperature increase rate after the detected temperature has been determined to be greater than the second temperature threshold value, the microcomputer is set in a limited operation mode in which the revolution number of the motor is limited to a predetermined value or less.
US08084967B2
A motor controller is provided. The motor controller includes a motor drive unit that drives a plurality of motors; a thermal shutdown unit that is provided in the motor drive unit and that stops the plurality of motors in the case of an overload; a lock signal generation unit that generates a lock signal corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of motors when a rotational speed of the respective motor reaches a threshold speed set for the respective motor; and an operation determination unit which, when the lock signal generation unit interrupts lock signals for all of the plurality of motors, determines that thermal shutdown unit has operated.
US08084957B2
An illuminating apparatus used for a display device includes a plurality of illuminating units, each of which includes a first feeding member, a second feeding member, and a cold-cathode tube lamp that is fed by a power supply apparatus via the first and second feeding members. An equivalent circuit of each illuminating unit is a series combination of negative resistor and a capacitor connected to an end of the negative resistor. The illuminating units are arranged such that the capacitors of the cold-cathode tube lamps are alternate in position. This can reduce the brightness gradient for the position in the tubular axis direction of the lamp.
US08084955B2
In one example embodiment, a drive probe is coupled to the lamp body to provide the primary power for ignition and steady state operation of the lamp. Feedback may be used to adjust frequency in response to changing conditions of the lamp during startup. A phase shifter may be used to adjust the phase of the power between ignition and steady state operation. A sensor may detect a lamp operating condition that automatically triggers a shift in phase after the fill in the bulb is vaporized. In another example embodiment, a method for sequentially optimizing the drive power and phase shift applied to the lamp is disclosed that may reliably regulate the lamp current consumption to desired startup and operational levels despite variations in lamp environmental conditions.
US08084953B2
The present disclosure thus provides a technique for providing multi-level operation of ballast circuitry for discharge lamps. In one version, an auxiliary capacitance is switched in and out of circuit by a user controlled switch for lower the frequency of the voltage from the inverter to the transformer resulting in lower power output to the lamps. In another version, the auxiliary capacitance may be switched in and out of circuit by a user operated switch wherein the capacitance is connected to the secondary or output winding of the transformer for selectively reducing power to the lamps for reduced illumination. In other versions, auxiliary inductances are selectively switched in and out of circuit to alter the frequency of the primary voltage to the transformer. In another version, an auxiliary winding is selectively switched in and out of the secondary of the transformer for providing normal and reduced level power to the lamps. In another version, a variable direct current power supply is provided to the coupled inductors of the ballast circuitry for user control of the power supply to the ballast circuitry.
US08084949B2
A ballast with end-of-life (“EOL”) protection is presented in which the voltage across a lamp at EOL is controlled to prevent the lamp from overheating, while the voltage across the lamps not at EOL is maintained to allow normal operation of those lamps, and when a new lamp is added to the ballast, the AC voltage across all lamps is controlled to allow ignition of the newly added lamp without cycling the power of the ballast.
US08084946B2
A handheld electronic device includes a processor; a battery; a flash device; a number of loads powered by the battery; and a flash driver outputting a flash current to the flash device. The processor determines a temperature operatively associated with the battery and different voltage values corresponding to different combinations of the loads as a function of the determined temperature, and starts the flash device at a predetermined flash current value. The flash driver selects a corresponding different voltage value as a function of: (a) a determined number of the loads which are active, or (b) a current flowing from the battery; determines the battery voltage, and if the battery voltage is less than or equal to the corresponding different voltage value, reduces the flash current below the predetermined flash current value until the battery voltage is greater than the corresponding different voltage value.
US08084942B2
Provided is a phosphor particle group of divalent europium-activated oxynitride green light emitting phosphor particles each of which is a β-type SiAlON substantially represented by a general formula: EuaSibAlcOdNe, where 0.0055≦a≦0.4, b+c=12, d+e=16, wherein 60% or more of the phosphor particle group is composed of the phosphor particles in which a value obtained by dividing a longer particle diameter by a shorter particle diameter is greater than 1.0 and not greater than 3.0. A high-efficiency and stable light emitting apparatus using a β-type SiAlON, which includes a light converter using the phosphor particle group, and a phosphor particle group therefor are also provided.
US08084939B2
An organic light emitting display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a first pixel to represent a white color, a second pixel to represent a different color from the first pixel, a pixel electrode disposed in each of the first and the second pixels, an organic light emitting member disposed on the pixel electrode, and a common electrode disposed on the organic light emitting member. The first pixel includes a first emission area and a first optical filter, and the second pixel includes a second emission area and a second optical filter.
US08084937B2
The present invention provides a novel binaphthyl compound and an organic light emitting element having a good light emitting efficiency and a high durability at a low driving voltage. An organic light emitting element including an anode and a cathode, and a layer including an organic compound sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, wherein one of the anode and the cathode is transparent or semi-transparent, and the layer including an organic compound includes at least one binaphthyl compound represented by the following general formula [I]:
US08084933B2
An inorganic electroluminescence (“EL”) device includes a lower electrode; a dielectric layer disposed on the lower electrode; an inorganic emission layer disposed on the dielectric layer; an upper electrode disposed on the inorganic emission layer; a waveguide layer disposed on the upper electrode; and a reflection film partially coating the waveguide layer and including an emission portion through which light is emitted.
US08084932B2
Deformation of a gate by Coulomb force generated when operating an electron-emitting device is inhibited by appropriately maintaining relationship between film thickness h of the gate and distance L from an outer surface of an insulating member to an inner surface of a concave portion. According to this, in an electron beam apparatus provided with a laminate-type electron-emitting device, the deformation of the gate is prevented to reduce variation in electron emission characteristics, thereby preventing the element from being broken.
US08084926B2
An AT cut quartz crystal resonator element includes a quartz crystal element piece having an exciting part formed from an AT cut quartz crystal plate in a rectangular shape having an X-axis direction of a quartz crystal set to a long side, and an exciting electrode formed on each of front and back main surfaces of the exciting part, in which each side surface in the longitudinal direction of the exciting part is composed of two faces, an m-face of a quartz crystal and a crystal face other than the m-face.
US08084922B2
A technology is disclosed which provides an array scanning type ultrasound probe capable of preventing a diminution of ultrasound of a piezoelectric device at the time of transmission and at the time of reception due to its damage and thereby reducing a sensitivity deterioration of a diagnostic image. According to the technology, included are an electroacoustic conversion unit formed by arranging multiple piezoelectric devices and multiple acoustic matching layers in a predetermined direction, each of the multiple piezoelectric devices being an electroacoustic conversion device, the multiple acoustic matching layers being respectively stacked on the multiple piezoelectric devices; and a signal flexible board transferring electric signals to be transmitted to and received from the multiple piezoelectric devices. An incision passing through the multiple piezoelectric devices in respective thickness directions of the piezoelectric devices and extending into the corresponding acoustic matching layers stacked thereon is provided in parallel to the arrangement direction.
US08084916B2
An acoustic wave device has: a piezoelectric body; an interdigital electrode that is arranged on the piezoelectric body and excites an acoustic wave; and a dielectric layer that is arranged on the piezoelectric body so as to cover the interdigital electrode. The dielectric layer includes a composition changing portion made up of a medium where propagation velocity of a transverse wave continuously increases upward. With this configuration, it is possible to shift a spurious radiation by a high-order mode that propagates inside the dielectric layer to a higher frequency, so as to reduce an influence of the spurious radiation by the high-order mode.
US08084908B2
A generator/motor includes a ring-shaped stator core (20) fixed to a motor housing (10), and a motor rotor (30). The motor rotor (30) includes a ring-shaped rotor yoke (35) which rotates in cooperation with the crankshaft (1) and which is opposed to an inner peripheral surface of the stator core (20) with a predetermined gap therebetween. The motor rotor (30) also includes a rotor flange (31) which fixes and supports the rotor yoke (35) at its outer peripheral surface. The rotor flange (31) is rotatably supported by a support member (51a) of the motor housing (10) through a bearing (60). A cylindrical shaft portion (40) is interposed between the crankshaft (1) and the motor rotor (30), and the crankshaft (1) is spline coupled to the cylindrical shaft portion (40).
US08084905B2
An improved bearing for an electric motor includes a body portion having an open end configured to receive a portion of an armature shaft of an electric motor therein. In an illustrated embodiment, the bearing also includes a base configured to apply a spring force to an end surface of the armature shaft, and a connecting portion located between the body portion and the base.
US08084898B2
A magnetic actuator includes a housing; a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet placed in the housing and being relatively rotatable in a plane including a magnetization direction; a magnetic-field generating unit outside of the housing, the magnetic-field generating unit generating a magnetic field that relatively rotates the first permanent magnet and/or the second permanent magnet in a direction such that the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet generate a repulsive force against each other; and a first guiding portion provided in the housing to regulate a direction in which the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet relatively move by the generated repulsive force.
US08084892B2
An object is to provide a duplex power supply for auxiliary machines. A power supply device includes a switching section that is connected to a direct-current link between a generator-side inverter and a grid-side inverter via an auxiliary machine power inverter for converting direct-current power supplied from the direct-current link into alternating-current power to form a first path, that is connected somewhere between a power-converting section and a utility grid to form a second path, and that is connected to auxiliary machines to form a third path, and the switching section switches between connection of the third path to the first path and connection of the third path to the second path.
US08084890B2
A system for detecting and preventing electrical fire includes an intake fuse box, a main distribution panel/housing, a subdistribution panel/housing, a main power circuit (MPC) connecting the intake fuse box (IFB) to the main distribution panel (MDP), and a sub power circuit (SPC) connecting the MDP to the subdistribution panel. First-third gas/smoke/heat detectors are arranged in the IFB, main panel housing, and subpanel housing, respectively, and provide respective low level outputs for gas/smoke/heat exceeding a first threshold and high level outputs for a second threshold. A remote controlled main level circuit breaker is arranged in the MPC, a remote controlled sub level circuit breaker is arranged in the SPC, and a controller unit has first-third inputs connected to first-third gas/smoke/heat detectors, respectively, for receiving first-third low and high level outputs, an alarm output, and first and second breaker control outputs connected to respective main and sub level circuit breakers.
US08084887B2
An electronically reconfigurable battery includes a number of battery modules selectively interconnected by a number of electronic switches, wherein a selectable number of battery modules may be connected either in a series configuration or in a parallel configuration, as a result of placing selected switches of said plurality of switches in open states or closed states. In a parallel configuration, the battery provides power to a primary load, such as a propulsion load for a vehicle. In a series configuration, the battery is configured to provide a high voltage and high power output to a short-term and/or pulsed load, such as an additional load provided on the vehicle. Current from the battery is limited in one of three ways: a) by the batteries themselves; b) a current limiting device or system in series with the total erected battery; or c) a single level power converter or current limiter that is used to erect and charge the capacitor bank in a sequential one level at a time manner until the battery is fully erected and the capacitor is fully charged.
US08084874B2
The invention relates to a wind turbine (1) which is connected to an electrical power grid (23) and which uses a magnet generator (6) as the only electrical power generator element both in the normal operation thereof and during periods in which the turbine is disconnected from the electrical power grid. The aforementioned wind turbine can perform operations in order to maintain the wind turbine systems operational, with the continued generation of electrical power, and to adjust the quantity of electrical power produced for power consumption during the periods in which the turbine is disconnected from the electrical power grid.
US08084871B2
An enhanced redistribution layer is provided that geometrically expands redistribution layer (RDL) pads associated with a ball grid array of a wafer level package (WLP) to provide tensile stress relief during temperature cycle and/or drop testing of the WLP.
US08084855B2
A method of protecting an electronics package is discussed along with devices formed by the method. The method involves providing at least one electronic component that requires protecting from tampering and/or reverse engineering. Further, the method includes mixing into a liquid glass material at least one of high durability micro-particles or high-durability nano-particles, to form a coating material. Further still, the method includes depositing the coating material onto the electronic component and curing the coating material deposited.
US08084849B2
An integrated circuit package system includes: providing an interposer having a bond pad and a contact pad; mounting the interposer in an offset location over a carrier with an exposed side of the interposer coplanar with an edge of the carrier; connecting an electrical interconnect between bond pad and the carrier; and forming a package encapsulation over the carrier and the electrical interconnect with both the contact pad and the exposed side of the interposer not covered.
US08084843B2
A semiconductor memory device that has an isolated area formed from one conductivity and formed in part by a buried layer of a second conductivity that is implanted in a substrate. The walls of the isolated area are formed by implants that are formed from the second conductivity and extend down to the buried layer. The isolated region has implanted source lines and is further subdivided by overlay strips of the second conductivity that extend substantially down to the buried layer. Each isolation region can contain one or more blocks of memory cells.
US08084834B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes: a semiconductor layer; a gate insulation film provided on the semiconductor layer and including at least one of Hf and Zr; and a gate electrode provided on the gate insulation film and including a carbonitride which includes at least one of Hf and Zr.
US08084833B2
Provided is a LOCOS offset MOS field-effect transistor in which a first lightly-doped N-type drain offset region with a LOCOS oxide film and a second lightly-doped N-type drain offset region without a LOCOS oxide film are formed in a drain-side offset region, and both the regions are covered with a gate electrode. Provision of the first lightly-doped N-type drain offset region mitigates an electric field applied to the first lightly-doped N-type drain offset region to increase a breakdown voltage. Provision of the second lightly-doped N-type drain offset region increases carriers within the second lightly-doped N-type drain offset region to obtain a high current drivability.
US08084831B2
A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes: an n-type transistor comprising a first gate electrode formed on a semiconductor substrate via a first gate insulating film, a first channel region formed in the semiconductor substrate under the first gate insulating film, and first source/drain regions formed in the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the first channel region, the first gate electrode comprising a first metal layer and a first conductive layer thereon; and a p-type transistor comprising a second gate electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate via a second gate insulating film, a second channel region formed in the semiconductor substrate under the second gate insulating film, and second source/drain regions formed in the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the second channel region, the second gate electrode comprising a second metal layer and a second conductive layer thereon, the second metal layer being thicker than the first metal layer and having the same constituent element as the first metal layer.
US08084829B2
The invention relates to a semiconductor device (10) comprising a semiconductor body (1) with a high-ohmic semi-conductor substrate (2) which is covered with a dielectric layer (3, 4) containing charges, on which dielectric layer one or more passive electronic components (20) comprising conductor tracks (20) are provided, wherein, at the location of the passive elements (20), a region (5) is present at the interface between the semiconductor substrate (2) and the dielectric layer (3, 4), as a result of which the conductivity of an electrically conducting channel induced in the device (10) by the charges is limited at the location of the region (5). According to the invention, the region (5) is formed by deposition and comprises a semi-insulating material. As a result, the device (10) has a very low high-frequency power loss because the inversion channel is formed in the semi-insulating region (5). The device (10) further allows for a higher temperature budget and hence for the integration of active semiconductor elements (8) into the semiconductor body (1). A very suitable semi-insulating material for the region (5) is SiC, SIPOS or POLYDOX.
US08084823B2
A FET device for synchronous rectification of the present invention, a FET having no body diode, the characteristics have gate minimization threshold voltage equal or over load voltage, can be achieve FET turn on, and gate minimization threshold voltage under load voltage, can be achieve FET turn off.
US08084821B2
An integrated circuit includes a first transistor having a first gate and a first source and a second transistor having a second gate and a second source. The integrated circuit includes a first source contact adjacent the second transistor and coupled to the first source and the second source. The integrated circuit includes a first bond wire coupled to the first source contact.
US08084819B2
Semiconductor memory devices and methods of forming semiconductor memory devices are provided. The methods may include forming insulation layers and cell gate layers that are alternately stacked on a substrate, forming an opening by successively patterning through the cell gate layers and the insulation layers, and forming selectively conductive barriers on sidewalls of the cell gate layers in the opening.
US08084814B2
A semiconductor device is provided in which a semiconductor substrate can be prevented from being broken while elements can be prevented from being destroyed by a snap-back phenomenon. After an MOS gate structure is formed in a front surface of an FZ wafer, a rear surface of the FZ wafer is ground. Then, the ground surface is irradiated with protons and irradiated with two kinds of laser beams different in wavelength simultaneously to thereby form an N+ first buffer layer and an N second buffer layer. Then, a P+ collector layer and a collector electrode are formed on the proton-irradiated surface. The distance from a position where the net doping concentration of the N+ first buffer layer is locally maximized to the interface between the P+ collector layer and the N second buffer layer is set to be in a range of 5 μm to 30 μm, both inclusively.
US08084803B2
A capacitor with a mixed structure of a Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) capacitor and a Poly-silicon Insulator Poly-silicon (PIP) capacitor includes a substrate and a diffusion junction region formed over the substrate. A high concentration diffusion junction region may be formed in a portion of the diffusion junction region. An oxide layer may be formed over the substrate, the oxide layer having an opening that exposes a portion of the high concentration diffusion junction region. A first polysilicon plate may be formed over a portion of the oxide layer and spaced from the opening, and a nitride layer may be formed over a portion of the first polysilicon plate. A sidewall may be formed over a side of the first polysilicon layer, over a side of the nitride layer, and over a portion of the oxide layer between the side of the polysilicon layer and the opening. A second polysilicon plate may be formed over the nitride layer, over the sidewall, and over the high concentration diffusion junction region.
US08084798B2
A pixel area for generating an image signal corresponding to incident light is formed on a semiconductor substrate. A light-shielding layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate around the pixel area. The light-shielding layer has a slit near the pixel area and shields the incident light. A passivation film is formed in the pixel area, on the light-shielding layer, and in the slit. A coating layer is formed in the slit of the light-shielding layer and on the passivation film in the pixel area. Microlenses are formed on the coating layer in the pixel area.
US08084796B2
A solid state imaging apparatus includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion cells each including a plurality of photoelectric sections arranged in an array of at least two rows and two columns; a plurality of floating diffusion sections each being connected to each of ones of the photoelectric sections which are included in the same row of each said photoelectric conversion cell via each of a plurality of transfer transistors, and being shared by said ones of the photoelectric sections; a plurality of read-out lines each being selectively connected to at least two of the transfer transistors; and a plurality of pixel amplifier transistors each detecting and outputting the potential of each said the floating diffusion section. Charges of the photoelectric conversion sections each being connected to one of the read-out lines and being read out by the transfer transistors are read out by different floating diffusion sections.
US08084794B2
A semiconductor device includes a first wiring extending in a first direction and a second wiring extending in a second direction which crosses the first direction and being disposed with a space interposed between the first wiring and the second wiring, and including a tantalum layer, a tantalum nitride layer formed over the tantalum layer, and a metal layer formed over the tantalum nitride layer.
US08084791B2
In a non-volatile memory structure, the source/drain regions are surrounded by a nitrogen-doped region. As a result, an interface between the substrate and the charge trapping layer above the nitrogen-doped region is passivated by a plurality of nitrogen atoms. The nitrogen atoms can improve data retention, and performance of cycled non-volatile memory devices.
US08084788B2
A semiconductor fabrication method involving the use of eSiGe is disclosed. The eSiGe approach is useful for applying the desired stresses to the channel region of a field effect transistor, but also can introduce complications into the semiconductor fabrication process. Embodiments of the present invention disclose a two-step fabrication process in which a first layer of eSiGe is applied using a low hydrogen flow rate, and a second eSiGe layer is applied using a higher hydrogen flow rate. This method provides a way to balance the tradeoff of morphology, and fill consistency when using eSiGe. Embodiments of the present invention promote a pinned morphology, which reduces device sensitivity to epitaxial thickness, while also providing a more consistent fill volume, amongst various device widths, thereby providing a more consistent eSiGe semiconductor fabrication process.
US08084784B2
The invention relates to a method for forming a semiconductor heterostructure by providing a substrate with a first in-plane lattice parameter a1, providing a buffer layer with a second in-plane lattice parameter a2 and providing a top layer over the buffer layer. In order to improve the surface roughness of the semiconductor heterostructure, an additional layer is provided in between the buffer layer and the top layer, wherein the additional layer has a third in-plane lattice parameter a3 which is in between the first and second lattice parameters.
US08084782B2
Provided is a light-emitting film having controllable resistivity, and a high-luminance light-emitting device, which can be driven at a low voltage, using such light-emitting film. The light-emitting film includes Cu as an addition element in a zinc sulfide compound which is a base material, wherein the zinc sulfide compound includes columnar ZnS crystals, and sites formed of copper sulfide on a grain boundary where the ZnS crystals are in contact with each other.
US08084780B2
A light emitting diode (LED) system includes a substrate, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) on the substrate, and at least one light emitting diode (LED) on the substrate in electrical communication with the application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The light emitting diode (LED) system can also include a polymer lens, and a phosphor layer on the lens or light emitting diode (LED) for producing white light. In addition, multiple light emitting diodes (LEDs) can be mounted on the substrate, and can have different colors for smart color control lighting. The substrate and the application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) are configured to provide an integrated system having smart functionality. In addition, the substrate is configured to compliment and expand the functions of the application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and can also include built in integrated circuits for performing additional electrical functions.
US08084777B2
An apparatus having a substrate, an LED light source attached to the substrate, an electrical connector attached to the substrate and electrically connected to the LED light source, a potting material on the substrate and covering at least a portion of the electrical connector; and a barrier separating the potting material from the LED light source, the barrier having a height that exceeds the thickness of the potting material on the substrate.
US08084771B2
A bottom-gate thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer and a microcrystalline silicon layer. The gate electrode is disposed on a substrate. The gate insulating layer is made up of silicon nitride and disposed on the gate electrode and the substrate. The microcrystalline silicon layer is disposed on the gate insulating layer and corresponds to the gate electrode, in which a contact interface between the gate insulating layer and the microcrystalline silicon layer has a plurality of oxygen atoms, and concentration of the oxygen atoms ranges between 1020 atoms/cm3 and 1025 atoms/cm3. A method of fabricating a bottom-gate thin film transistor is also disclosed herein.
US08084767B2
A composition for use in the manufacture of an opto-electrical device, the composition comprising: a conductive or semi-conductive organic material; a solvent; and a first additive, wherein the first additive is an alcohol ether having a boiling point lower than 170° C.
US08084760B2
An electrode structure and a method for manufacturing an integrated circuit electrode includes forming a bottom electrode comprising a pipe-shaped member, filled with a conductive material such as n-doped silicon, and having a ring-shaped top surface. A disc-shaped insulating member is formed on the top of the pipe-shaped member by oxidizing the conductive fill. A layer of programmable resistance material, such as a phase change material, is deposited in contact with the top surface of the pipe-shaped member. A top electrode in contact with the layer of programmable resistance material.
US08084757B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for removing debris particles using a stream of charged species. One embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for removing debris particles from a beam of radiation comprising a charged species source configured to dispense electrically charged species, and a collecting plate biased electrically opposite to the charged species from the charged species source, wherein the collecting plate and the charged species source are disposed on opposite sides of the beam of radiation, a stream of charged species from the charged species source to the collecting plate intersects the beam of radiation, the stream of charged species is configured to attach and remove debris particles from the beam of radiation by electrostatic force, and the collecting plate is configured to receive the charged species and the debris particles removed from the beam of radiation.
US08084751B2
An approach to extending the dynamic range of the detector of a mass spectrometer is described. In one embodiment, in the case of high intensity beams, means are provided to deflect the ion beam, after the collector slit (1), on to an attenuator (4), which may be a grid or an array of small holes, through which only a small fraction of the ion beam reaches the ion detector (6). Use of an array of holes ensures that the recorded signal is insensitive to the distribution of ions within the beam. The beam passes directly to a detector if the signal is of low intensity.
US08084750B2
An ion guide includes a plurality of curved electrodes and an ion deflecting device. The electrodes are arranged about and radially spaced from a central curved axis, and circumscribe a curved ion guide region from an ion entrance to an ion exit. The ion deflecting device may include a device for applying a DC electric field to one or more electrodes in a radial direction. The magnitude of the DC electric field, and thus the ion deflecting force, varies along the curved axis. The ion guide may for example operate as a collision cell or like instrument.
US08084749B2
An electrode for influencing ion motion in mass spectrometers, having a dielectric substrate and a conducting layer on portions of the substrate, wherein peripheral borders, edges or convex shapes of the conducting layer adjoin free regions of the substrate. According to the invention, a dielectric layer is provided on transitions from the conducting layer to the adjoining free regions of the substrate such that at least some of the peripheral borders, edges or convex shapes of the conducting layer are covered.
US08084747B2
A neutron detector that includes a hollow member extending along and circumscribing an axis. The hollow member has an interior surface and bounds a volume. The detector also includes an anode extending within the volume. The detector also includes a cathode that includes at least one fin extending within the volume. The fin has a substrate material with at least one surface. At least part of the interior surface of the hollow member and the surface of the at least one fin have neutron sensitive material thereon.
US08084743B2
A sensor for detecting a received electromagnetic wave comprising a first electrode, a second electrode and an amorphous oxide layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US08084737B2
An array-based ion storage system includes an ion generation section, and an ion storage section having a first end electrode coupled to the ion generation section and having multiple holes, a second end electrode having multiple holes, an intermediate electrode having multiple holes, a first insulator formed as a ring between the first end electrode and the intermediate electrode, and a second insulator formed as a ring between the intermediate electrode and the second end electrode. The ion storage section can be made thinner to facilitate consistency in ion extraction and reduce the spread of an ion mobility spectrum peak. The insulators have a big hole, and the ions cannot bump onto the insulation material during ion vibration or thermal movement in the storage space. Therefore, charge transfer and accumulation at the insulator and the subsequent discharge will not occur, suppressing instability of storage and loss of ions.
US08084736B2
A mass spectrometer system including a differential mobility spectrometer and a mass spectrometer at least partially sealed to, and in fluid communication, with, the differential mobility spectrometer, together with a related method, are provided. The mass spectrometer system can be operable to, and method can comprise, a) maintaining the differential mobility spectrometer at an internal operating pressure; b) providing ions to the differential mobility spectrometer; c) maintaining the mass spectrometer at a vacuum pressure lower than the internal operating pressure to draw a gas flow including the ions through the differential mobility spectrometer and into the vacuum chamber; and, d) modifying the gas flow between the differential mobility spectrometer and the mass spectrometer to change a gas flow rate through the differential mobility spectrometer.
US08084726B2
A control system for a maneuverable kill vehicle is provided. The control system includes a pressurized fluid source configured to provide a pressurized fluid, a valve in fluid communication with the pressurized fluid source, and a voice coil actuator comprising a magnet and a conductive coil oriented relative to the magnet such that when current flows through the coil, the coil moves relative to the magnet. The voice coil actuator is coupled to the valve such that the relative movement of the coil causes an adjustment in a flow rate of the pressurized fluid through the valve.
US08084725B1
Methods and apparatus for a fast action impulse thruster according to various aspects of the present invention may comprise a projectile comprising an impulse thruster system. The impulse thruster system may comprise a guidance system and a fast action impulse thruster system. The guidance system may control the trajectory of the projectile, for example by activating the fast action impulse thruster system to adjust the projectile's trajectory. The fast action impulse thruster system may be configured such that it may provide an impulse force to guide the projectile with a reaction time that is not affected by the rotational velocity of the projectile. The impulse force may be achieved by ejecting at least one mass from the projectile at high velocity such that a resulting momentum exchange may alter the trajectory of the projectile. The fast action impulse thruster system may also be configured in such a way so as to provide a significant improvement to the overall safety during the production, assembly, and handling of the projectile.
US08084721B2
An electrical heating apparatus has: a fin brazed on at least one of a main body upper wall and a main body lower wall of a tube; an insertion unit having an electro-heat-generating element pressure-welded to a wall of one of the main body upper wall and the main body lower wall; and an edge part projecting in the width direction from each of main body vertical walls to form an edge space. The edge space is formed so as to be continuous with the insertion space and is smaller in thickness dimension than the thickness dimension of the insertion unit. The edge part has an edge part upper wall, an edge part lower wall, and an edge part vertical wall disposed in a concave shape.
US08084716B2
An open forklift truck is provided having an elongated windshield that protects the operator from wind chills experienced when operating the truck in a cold storage environment. The windshield is a laminate having a plurality of heating elements disposed therein that are electrically connected to a control that monitors speed, battery voltage, temperature, and ambient feedback and adjusts the power supply to the windshield based on this feedback. Accordingly, the windshield is maintained at a predetermined temperature selected to limit condensation and fogging of the windshield.
US08084714B2
A laser processing unit includes a first working area for laser processing of a workpiece, a second working area for laser processing of a workpiece, and a dividing wall adapted to separate the first working area from the second working area between, the dividing wall having individual interconnected sections and being moveable in a vertical direction.
US08084712B2
Methods and apparatus for laser marking individual objects with indicia at a marking station wherein a predetermined window exists during which each object can be marked as the objects are conveyed along at least one path at a predetermined speed. In some embodiments, at least first and second lasers positioned adjacent one or more paths are configured to direct a laser beam onto the objects to mark the same with indicia as the objects pass through the marking station, with each of the first and second lasers marking alternate following objects as they pass through the marking station.
US08084709B2
The invention concerns a laser device for joining work pieces made of plastic by means of beam welding technology, with a processing head that has focusing devices for the laser beam. Here, the focusing device that is closest to the work pieces has a rotatably supported cylinder lens in the shape of a roller that focuses the laser beam along a single axis and presses the work pieces together in the form of a line in an area around the impact point of the laser beam. In order to enable the cylinder lens to always contact the surface of the work piece facing the processing head in a precisely tangential manner, the processing head has a pendulum-type suspension for the rotatable cylinder lens. This also makes it possible for the contact pressure exerted by the processing head to always act perpendicularly on the work pieces so that they are pressed together in all welding places in the same way in a defined manner during the welding process.
US08084706B2
A method is disclosed for on-the-fly processing at least one structure of a group of structures with a pulsed laser output. The method includes the steps of relatively positioning the group of structures and the pulsed laser output axis with non-constant velocity, and applying the pulsed laser output to the at least one structure of the group of structures during the step of relatively positioning the group of structures and the pulsed laser output axis with non-constant velocity.
US08084700B1
A programmable switch lever control timer device that fits over a standard wall switch with the switch lever engaged by a cam on the device. Rotational motion of the cam provided by a geared DC motor moves the switch lever arm to one of its two end-of-travel positions of operation. Programming and control means are provided by a microprocessor and motor driver circuitry. The programming and control means provides power from a battery source to the geared DC motor in accordance with a user selectable 24-hour program. Proper and accurate alignment of the switch lever and cam during installation is provided by a key-holed alignment plate that is attached to a standard wall switch cover plate prior to installing the device housing. The housing of the device attaches to the alignment plate allowing the housing to properly fit over the switch lever. All of the operating parts including a self-contained battery power source are within the device housing that fits over the standard wall switch cover plate.
US08084693B2
A device comprising a component and an adhesive attached to at least one exterior portion of the component. When the component is on a printed circuit and passed through a reflow operation, the adhesive melts forming a physical bond between the component and the printed circuit. The printed circuit may be a flexible printed circuit or a printed circuit board. The adhesive may melt under and to at least one edge of the component. The adhesive may also melt under and to at least one edge of the component and under and to at least one edge of at least one second component adjacent to the component.
US08084688B2
An electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing, and a sealing member. The first housing has a first sidewall, and the second housing has a second sidewall. The sealing member is positioned between the first housing and the second housing. The first sealing member is elastic, and defines a first assembly groove and a second assembly groove. The first sidewall is engaged in the first assembly groove and tightly attached to the sealing member. The second sidewall is engaged in the second assembly groove and tightly attached to the sealing member.
US08084685B2
An apparatus includes a first substrate; and a second substrate coupled to the first substrate, characterized in that, to control formation of a segregated phase domain structure within a chemical reaction product by controlling an amount of a constituent of a precursor that is present per unit surface area, at least one member selected from the group consisting of the first substrate and the second substrate defines a substantially regularly periodically varying relief with respect to basal spatial location.
US08084684B2
A three-dimensional thin-film solar cell 100, comprising a three-dimensional thin-film solar cell substrate comprising a plurality of single-aperture or dual-aperture unit cells with emitter junction regions 522 and doped base regions 530, emitter metallization regions 525 and base metallization regions 532. Optionally, the three-dimensional thin-film solar cell may be mounted on a rear mirror for improved light trapping and conversion efficiency.
US08084666B2
The invention provides for identification and use of certain chloroplast transit peptides for efficient processing and localization of dicamba monooxygenase (DMO) enzyme in transgenic plants. Methods for producing dicamba tolerant plants, methods for controlling weed growth, and methods for producing food, feed, and other products are also provided, as well as seed that confers tolerance to dicamba when it is applied pre- or post-emergence.
US08084662B2
The invention provides a novel method of detoxifying highly toxic chemicals, and treating surfaces contaminated, or potentially contaminated, with toxic chemical agents such as chemical warfare agents and/or industrial toxins. The methods utilizes a novel sorbent compound which comprises Mn(VII) mineral which can be either solid supported or non-solid supported. The Mn(VII) mineral can be provided in a number of different forms including creams, lotions, powders, liquids, slurries and aerosols.
US08084648B2
In a process for producing cyclohexylbenzene, hydrogen and a liquid feed comprising benzene are introduced into a reaction zone and are contacted in the reaction zone under hydroalkylation conditions to produce cyclohexylbenzene. An effluent stream comprising cyclohexylbenzene and unreacted benzene is removed from the reaction zone and is divided into at least first and second portions, wherein the mass ratio of the effluent stream first portion to the effluent stream second portion is at least 2:1. The effluent stream first portion is then cooled and the cooled effluent stream first portion is recycled to the reaction zone.
US08084645B2
A compound of the present invention, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is indicated by formula (1) below: wherein, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q, R8, and R9 have the same meanings as R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q, R8, and R9 in the specification.
US08084634B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing compounds of general formula I wherein R1 and R2 are defined as in claim 1, the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and the solvates thereof, which may be prepared starting from compounds of general formula II wherein R1 is defined as in claim 1.
US08084631B2
A polyol includes the reaction product of an epoxidized oil and an organic acid. The epoxidized oil and the organic acid are reacted in the presence of a Lewis base catalyst including at least one of a phosphorous atom or a nitrogen atom. The polyol is formed by a method that includes the step of reacting the epoxidized oil with the organic acid in the presence of the Lewis base catalyst.
US08084630B2
The present invention provides processes and intermediates for the synthesis of ramelteon.
US08084621B2
3-pyrrolo[b]cyclohexylene-2-dihydro-indolinone derivatives of formula (I) or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and uses thereof. The intermediates of formula (II) for preparing the above compounds. The bioassay shows that the above compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can modulate the activity of protein kinases (PKs), inhibit the activity of tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and inhibit many kinds of tumor cells as well as.
US08084609B2
The present invention is concerned with novel spiro-piperidine derivatives as V1a receptor antagonists, their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use for the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders and other diseases. The compounds of present invention are described with formula (I) wherein R1 to R5, R5′, R7 to R9, R7′, R8′, X and Y are as defined in the specification.
US08084605B2
Compositions comprising the succinate salt of 2-[6-(3-Amino-piperidin-1-yl)-3-methyl-2,4-dioxo-3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrimidin-1-ylmethyl]-4-fluoro-benzonitrile (referred to herein as Compound I) which has the formula: wherein the Compound I is present in one or more polymorphic forms. Also provided are novel methods for the preparation of the polymorphs of Compound I, and kits and articles of manufacture of the compositions, and methods of using the compositions to treat various diseases.
US08084598B1
The present invention relates to a first group of novel oligonucleotides, here identified as genomic address messenger or GAM oligonucleotides, and a second group of novel operon-like polynucleotides, here identified as genomic record or GR polynucleotides. GAM oligonucleotides selectively inhibit translation of known target genes, many of which are known to be involved in various diseases. Nucleic acid molecules are provided respectively encoding 2147 GAM oligonucleotides, and 313 GR polynucleotides as are vectors and probes both comprising the nucleic acid molecules, and methods and systems for detecting GAM oligonucleotides and GR polynucleotide and specific functions and utilities thereof, for detecting expression of GAM oligonucleotides and GR polynucleotides and for selectively enhancing and selectively inhibiting translation of the respective target genes thereof.
US08084594B2
The present invention provides influenza A viruses that include a hemagglutinin subtype H2, a neuraminidase subtype N3, or the combination thereof. Included in the present invention are H2 hemagglutinins and N3 neuraminidases, and the polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Antibody to the polypeptides, and methods of using the viruses, polypeptides, polynucleotides, and antibodies are also provided.
US08084588B2
Disclosed is a group of azo quencher compositions useful as fluorescence quenchers having the general structure of formula 1, methods of making or using the compositions, and kits comprising the composition.
US08084583B2
This invention relates to monovalent and multivalent, monospecific binding proteins and to multivalent, multispecific binding proteins. One embodiment of these binding proteins has one or more binding sites where each binding site binds with a target antigen or an epitope on a target antigen. Another embodiment of these binding proteins has two or more binding sites where each binding site has affinity towards different epitopes on a target antigen or has affinity towards either a target antigen or a hapten. The present invention further relates to recombinant vectors useful for the expression of these functional binding proteins in a host. More specifically, the present invention relates to the tumor-associated antigen binding protein designated RS7, and other EGP-1 binding-proteins. The invention further relates to humanized, human and chimeric RS7 antigen binding proteins, and the use of such binding proteins in diagnosis and therapy.
US08084580B2
The invention discloses a purified albumin solution of human origin with low prekallicrein activator (PKA) activity and stability over time characterized in that it has an antithrombin content equal to or greater than 0.03 mg/g of albumin, and a process for production thereof by the partial extraction of the antithrombin during fractionation of the human plasma.
US08084578B2
Novel scavenger receptors having an SR structure and a collectin-like structure are provided, which can be utilized in the elucidation of mechanisms of macrophage and basic immunity; in the elucidation of mechanisms of the development of a wide variety of diseases such as arteriosclerosis, diabetic complications and Alzheimer's disease, hyper β-lipoproteinemia, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hypo α-lipoproteinemia, transplantation, atherectomy, post angiogenic restenosis, bacterial infections; in the diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic methods thereof; and in the development of reagents and drugs for the same. The novel scavenger receptors include proteins comprising an amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2, 4 or 24 or proteins having equivalent properties to the same, or derivatives or fragments thereof as well as isolated polynucleotides comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding these proteins, and related molecules such as antibodies, antagonists and the like. Also disclosed are methods for the treatment using the same.
US08084567B2
The present invention relates to a composition containing as a main component, an epoxy resin which has a structure comprising a polyaryleneoxy structure such as polynaphthylene oxide as a main skeleton, (methyl)glycidyloxy group and aralkyl group being introduced on an aromatic ring of the polyaryleneoxy structure, and which has low viscosity, according to the present invention, there can be provided an epoxy resin composition which can impart remarkably excellent flame retardancy and dielectric characteristics to a cured article and a cured article thereof, an epoxy resin, a phenol resin as an intermediate of the epoxy resin, and a method for producing the epoxy resin.
US08084555B2
A spouted bed device according to the present invention includes a vertically extending cylinder; a decreasing diameter member which is formed on the cylinder, has an inside diameter that decreases progressively downward, and has a gas inlet orifice at a bottom end thereof; and a tubular portion which extends downward from an edge of the gas inlet orifice. A spouted bed is formed in a treatment zone enclosed by a top surface of the decreasing diameter member and an inner wall of the cylinder above the decreasing diameter member.
US08084553B2
The invention provides an improvement to the useable lifetimes of phenolic-epoxy, phenolic-benzoxazine, phenolic-epoxy-benzoxazine mixtures and other phenolic mixtures through the use of protected phenolics, where a phenolic compound, polymer, or resin is released on demand by the addition of a deblocking agent.
US08084548B2
The present invention relates to a process for the hydrogenation of the carbon-carbon double bonds in diene-based polymers in bulk form by treatment of said diene-based polymer with hydrogen in the presence of an iridium containing catalyst and in the absence of any organic solvent.
US08084539B2
A resin composition is provided which comprises 10 to 88% by mass of a propylene-based polymer (A) composed of 30 to 70% by mass of a propylene-based polymer (a) having a melt flow rate of 0.1 to 17 g/10 minutes measured at a temperature of 230° C. and a load of 21.18N and 30 to 70% by mass of a propylene-based polymer (b) having a melt flow rate of 80 to 300 g/10 minutes measured at a temperature of 230° C. and a load of 21.18N; 10 to 88% by mass of a polylactic acid-based resin (B); 1 to 50% by mass of an ethylene-based polymer having an epoxy group (C); and 1 to 50% by mass of an elastomer (D).
US08084532B2
A method of preparing a silicone resin film, the method comprising coating a release liner with a nanomaterial-filled silicone composition comprising a condensation-curable silicone composition and a carbon nanomaterial, and curing the silicone resin of the coated release liner; a silicone resin film prepared according to the preceding method, and a nanomaterial-filled silicone composition.
US08084530B2
The sealing agent for an optical semiconductor device, which comprises: a silicone resin having a cyclic ether-containing group in the molecular structure; a heat curing agent capable of reacting with the cyclic ether-containing group; and a fine particulate material of silicon oxide, and the sealing agent having a viscosity of 500 to 10,000 mPa·s measured by an E-type viscometer at 25° C. at 5 rpm, a thixotropic value of 1.2 to 2.5 calculated by dividing a viscosity measured by the E-type viscometer at 25° C. at 1 rpm by a viscosity measured at 10 rpm (viscosity at 1 rpm/viscosity at 10 rpm), and a minimum viscosity of 100 mPa·s or higher measured at 1 s−1 in the temperature range of 25° C. to a curing temperature by a parallel plate rheometer.
US08084521B2
This invention encompasses asphalt cement emulsions, as well as methods for preparing a pre-treated rubber-modified asphalt cement emulsions and methods for coating industrial surfaces using asphalt cement emulsions.
US08084518B2
The invention relates to an ethylenebis(hydroxyalkylphosphinic acid) and salts thereof. The acid has the general formula: A-P(O)(OX)—CR1R2—CR3R4—P(O)(OX)-A. Variable A is CR5R6—OH. Variables R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are the same or different, and denote independently from each other H, C1-C20 alkyl, C6-C20 aryl, or C6-C20 aralkyl, so long as at least one of R1 and R2 is H and at least one of R3 and R4 is H. Variable X denotes H, an alkali metal, an element of main or transition group 2, an element of main or transition group 3, an element of main or transition group 4, an element of main or transition group 5, an element of transition group 6, an element of transition group 7, an element of transition group 8 and/or a nitrogen base. Also disclosed are a method for producing same and the use thereof.
US08084517B2
A vulcanizable rubber composition is provided that comprises an elastomer, a reinforcing filler comprising silica or a mixture thereof with carbon black, a silica dispersing aid comprising about 0.1 to about 15 phr poly(vinyl acetate) (PVA), and a cure agent. The addition of PVA to the composition improves the processability of the compound, improves the tear strength and modulus of the rubber and can reduce the number of mixing stages during compounding, resulting in lowering of the cost of operation and increasing plant productivity without compromising the processability or other physical properties of the stocks. Also provided are a vulcanizate formed from vulcanizing the rubber composition, a tire component formed from the vulcanized rubber and a process for forming the tire component.
US08084516B2
The present invention relates to (A) a water dispersion for ink-jet printing including particles of a waster-insoluble crosslinked polymer which contain a colorant, and a water-insoluble organic compound, wherein the water-insoluble crosslinked polymer is (1) a polymer produced by crosslinking a water-insoluble polymer with a crosslinking agent; (2) a polymer produced by crosslinking 100 parts by weight of the water-insoluble polymer with 0.5 to 9.5 parts by weight of the crosslinking agent; or (3) a polymer having a weight-average segment molecular weight of from 1,400 to 20,000 as calculated from [(weigh-average molecular weight of the water-insoluble polymer)/(number of molar equivalents of the crosslinking agent to be reacted with 1 mol of the water-insoluble polymer+1)]; (B) an ink for ink-jet printing containing the above water dispersion which is excellent in gloss and storage stability; and (C) particles of the water-insoluble crosslinked polymer.
US08084513B2
Compositions of cross-linked polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) are disclosed that are generally in the form of an elastic, hydrophilic, water-insoluble viscous cohesive mass of material that has many important medical uses including uses as a filler for implants. The present invention also involves a process for producing such compositions.
US08084509B2
The present invention provides a pre-expanded particulate polyolefin-based resin capable of easily attaining satisfactory secondary expandability, satisfactory surface appearance, and satisfactory dimensional stability even when it is intended to obtain an in-mold expansion molded article having a thin-wall shape. The present invention provides a pre-expanded particulate polypropylene-based resin including a polypropylene-based resin X as a base resin, where the resin X includes a resin mixture of at least a polypropylene-based resin A having a melting point of 140° C. or lower and a polypropylene-based resin B having a melting point of 145° C. or higher, and the resin mixture is modified by an organic peroxide so as to have a melt index of 5 g/10 min or more and less than 20 g/10 min.
US08084503B2
Compounds of formula (Ia): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4a, R4b, R5 and R6 are defined herein, as well as other indene derivatives are disclosed herein. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods of using the compounds are also disclosed.
US08084501B2
A pharmaceutical composition containing a prostaglandin and an alkanoic acid ester of a polyethoxylated sorbitol in an amount effective to enhance the chemical stability of the prostaglandin, and the use thereof for treating ophthalmic conditions. Also disclosed are methods for enhancing the chemical stability of a prostaglandin-containing composition by using an alkanoic acid ester of a polyethoxylated sorbitol.
US08084500B2
A method of treating and preventing dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and other diseases associated with the Metabolic Syndrome and of increasing the expression of genes that promote lipid oxidation in an animal, including mammals and humans, in which a therapeutically effective amount of catalpic acid is administered orally or parenterally to the animal.
US08084474B2
Compounds of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim (1), and the agrochemically acceptable salts and all stereoisomers and tautomeric forms of the compounds of formula (I) can be used as agrochemical active ingredients and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
US08084469B2
The invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) to processes for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof for the treatment of cardiovascular disorders and tumor disorders.
US08084465B2
The present invention provides N-substituted-2(1H) pyridones or the pharmaceutical acceptable salts thereof, and the pharmaceutical preparations containing the compounds. The compounds of the present invention can be used to treat various fibrotic diseases effectively, e.g., hepatic fibrosis.
US08084463B2
Compounds of Formula (I); in salt or zwitterionic form wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 have the meanings as indicated in the specification, are useful for treating conditions that are mediated by the muscarinic M3 receptor, especially inflammatory or obstructive airways diseases. Pharmaceutical compositions that contain the compounds and a process for preparing the compounds are also described.
US08084460B2
A novel compound which is useful as an agent for treating and/or preventing emesis, vomiting and/or constipation.A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, optionally substituted lower alkyl, optionally substituted lower alkenyl, optionally substituted cycloalkyl, optionally substituted aryl etc., R3 is hydrogen, hydroxy, optionally substituted lower alkyl, optionally substituted lower alkenyl, optionally substituted lower alkynyl, optionally substituted lower alkoxy etc., R4 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R5 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, cycloalkyl lower alkyl or lower alkenyl, or a pharmaceutically acceptably salt, or a solvate thereof is provided.
US08084459B2
Compounds of the formula or salts, tautomers or isomers thereof, are useful for treating neurological conditions, especially neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease.
US08084458B2
Methods are described for the synthesis of Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA) derivatives using certain nitrogen-containing nucleophiles.
US08084456B2
A compound of general formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable prodrugs, salts, hydrates, solvates, crystal forms or diastereomers thereof is described. A method of treating a hyperproliferation-related disease state or disorder in a subject using a compound of formula (I) is also described.
US08084448B2
Compounds of the formula are inhibitors of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) and, thus, may be employed for the treatment of conditions mediated by PTPase activity. The compounds of the present invention may also be employed as inhibitors of other enzymes characterized with a phosphotyrosine binding region such as the SH2 domain. Accordingly, the compounds of formula (I) may be employed for prevention and/or treatment of insulin resistance associated with obesity, glucose intolerance, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and ischemic diseases of the large and small blood vessels, conditions that accompany type-2 diabetes, including hyperlipidemia, hypertriglyceridemia, atherosclerosis, vascular restenosis, irritable bowel syndrome, pancreatitis, adipose cell tumors and carcinomas such as liposarcoma, dyslipidemia, and other disorders where insulin resistance is indicated. In addition, the compounds of the present invention may be employed to treat and/or prevent cancer, osteoporosis, musculoskeletal, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases, and diseases involving inflammation and the immune system.
US08084445B2
Disclosed are novel formulations for the treatment of otic infections in an animal comprising a triazole anti-fungal compound, a quinolone antibiotic and a corticosteroid such as mometasone furoate monohydrate.
US08084443B2
Disclosed are compositions for isolating populations of nucleic acids from biological, forensic, and environmental samples. Also disclosed are methods for using these compositions as one-step formulations for killing pathogens, inactivating nucleases, and releasing polynucleotides from other cellular components within the sample, and stabilizing the nucleic acids prior to further processing or assay. The disclosed compositions safely facilitate rapid sample collection, and provide extended storage and transport of the samples at ambient or elevated temperature without contamination of the sample or degradation of the nucleic acids contained therein. This process particularly facilitates the collection of specimens from remote locations, and under conditions previously considered hostile for preserving the integrity of nucleic acids released from lysed biological samples without the need of refrigeration or freezing prior to molecular analysis.
US08084441B2
Interstitial cystitis and related GAG-deficient conditions of the bladder and urinary tract are treated by instillation of high dose chondroitin sulfate, such as 400 mg/20 mL. The higher dose of chondroitin is effective for the rapid reduction of symptoms, particularly in patients with severe and otherwise recalcitrant cystitis.
US08084434B2
The present invention relates to RUNX2 and RUNXdelta8, and their use in modulating conditions and diseases associated with angiogenesis and cell proliferation. For example, RUNX2delta8 can be utilized to inhibit tumor growth and to prevent or inhibit angiogenesis. The present invention also relates to antibodies which specifically recognize RUNX2delta8, and distinguish it from RUNX2.
US08084427B2
The present invention refers to compositions comprising a LH-RH-analogue and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof in a low-dose and a degradation-resistant polylactide suitable for the preparation of subcutaneous implants. Sterilization of the polylactide via gamma-radiation as well as temperature stress result in a negligible decomposition of less than 1000 Dalton.
US08084422B2
The invention relates to the use of a selective inhibitor of CB2 receptor expression and/or for the manufacture of a medicament indented for the treatment and/or the prevention of obesity and obesity-related disorders.
US08084419B2
Sustained delivery formulations comprising a water-insoluble complex of a peptide and a plurality of ligands are disclosed. The formulations of the invention allow for loading of high concentrations of peptide in a small volume and for delivery of a pharmaceutically active peptide for prolonged periods, e.g., one month, after administration of the complex. The complexes of the invention can be milled or crushed to a fine powder. In powdered form, the complexes form stable aqueous suspensions and dispersions, suitable for injection. Methods of making the complexes of the invention, and methods of these complexes are also disclosed.
US08084418B2
The subject invention relates to the surprising discovery that toxin complex (TC) proteins, obtainable from Xenorhabdus, Photorhabdus, and Paenibacillus, can be used interchangeably with each other. In particularly preferred embodiments of the subject invention, the toxicity of a “stand-alone” TC protein (from Photorhabdus, Xenorhabdus, or Paenibacillus, for example) is enhanced by one or more TC protein “potentiators” derived from a source organism of a different genus from which the toxin was derived. As one skilled in the art will recognize with the benefit of this disclosure, this has broad implications and expands the range of utility that individual types of TC proteins will now be recognized to have. Among the most important advantages is that one skilled in the art will now be able to use a single set of potentiators to enhance the activity of a stand-alone Xenorhabdus protein toxin as well as a stand-alone Photorhabdus protein toxin. (As one skilled in the art knows, Xenorhabdus toxin proteins tend to be more desirable for controlling lepidopterans while Photorhabdus toxin proteins tend to be more desirable for controlling coleopterans.) This reduces the number of genes, and transformation events, needed to be expressed by a transgenic plant to achieve effective control of a wider spectrum of target pests. Certain preferred combinations of heterologous TC proteins are also disclosed herein. Other objects, advantages, and features of the subject invention will be apparent to one skilled in the art having the benefit of the subject disclosure.
US08084415B2
Uteroglobin has been discovered to prevent IgA mediated diseases, such as IgA nephropathy, by preventing the deposition of IgA-Fibronectin immunocomplexes in tissues such as the renal glomeruli. The invention therefore includes methods of treating such diseases by administering therapeutically effective amounts of uteroglobin (and variants or mimetics) to prevent or improve the IgA mediated condition. Transgenic uteroglobin knockout animals, and animals in which uteroglobin-protein expression is reduced by antisense technology, also provide systems for studying IgA mediated diseases, and screening for appropriate treatments.
US08084402B2
An ionic liquid may be used to inhibit the swelling and/or disintegration of clay in a subterranean formation. A subterranean clay-containing formation may be treated with the ionic liquid by contacting the formation with a well treatment composition containing the ionic liquid dispersed or dissolved in a carrier fluid. Damage to the formation caused by contact with the well treating composition is reduced or substantially eliminated.
US08084390B2
A catalyst which comprises a carrier and silver deposited on the carrier, which carrier has a surface area of at least 1.3 m2/g, a median pore diameter of more than 0.8 μm, and a pore size distribution wherein at least 80% of the total pore volume is contained in pores with diameters in the range of from 0.1 to 10 μm and at least 80% of the pore volume contained in the pores with diameters in the range of from 0.1 to 10 μm is contained in pores with diameters in the range of from 0.3 to 10 μm; process for the preparation of a catalyst which process comprises depositing silver on a carrier, wherein the carrier has been obtained by a method which comprises forming a mixture comprising: a) from 50 to 95 weight percent of a first particulate a-alumina having a median particle size (d50) of from 5 to 100 μm; b) from 5 to 50 weight percent of a second particulate a-alumina having a d50 which is less than the d50 of the first particulate a-alumina and which is in the range of from 1 to 10 μm; and c) an alkaline earth metal silicate bond material; weight percent being based on the total weight of a-alumina in the mixture; and firing the mixture to form the carrier; a process for the epoxidation of an olefin, which process comprises reacting a feed comprising an olefin and oxygen in the presence of a said catalyst; and a process for preparing a 1,2-diol, a 1,2-diol ether or an alkanolamine.
US08084381B2
The present invention is to provide glass exhibiting both of a low thermal expansion and a low-temperature melting property and to provide glass which is able to be manufactured under the condition where an average linear thermal expantion coefficient at 0° C. to 50° C. is preferably not more than 40×10−7° C.−1, more preferably 35×10−7° C.−1 and, most preferably, 33×10−7° C.−1 and a fusing temperature is preferably not higher than 1550° C., more preferably not higher than 1540° C. and, most preferably, not higher than 1530° C. The means therefor is the glass, characterized in that, where an average linear thermal expantion coefficient at 0° C. to 50° C. is not more than 40×10−7° C.−1, an Al2O3 component and a B2O3 component on the basis of oxides are contained and the ratio of B2O3/Al2O3 in terms of % by mass is not less than 0.8.
US08084371B2
Field effect transistors, methods of fabricating a carbon insulating layer using molecular beam epitaxy and methods of fabricating a field effect transistor using the same are provided, the methods of fabricating the carbon insulating layer include maintaining a substrate disposed in a molecular beam epitaxy chamber at a temperature in a range of about 300° C. to about 500° C. and maintaining the chamber in vacuum of 10−11 Torr or less prior to performing an epitaxy process, and supplying a carbon source to the chamber to form a carbon insulating layer on the substrate. The carbon insulating layer is formed of diamond-like carbon and tetrahedral amorphous carbon.
US08084369B2
Disclosed is a producing method of a semiconductor device produced by transferring a plurality of substrates into a processing chamber, supplying oxygen-containing gas and hydrogen-containing gas into the processing chamber to process the plurality of substrates by oxidation, and transferring the plurality of the oxidation-processed substrates out from the processing chamber, wherein in the oxidation-processing, the hydrogen-containing gas is supplied from a plurality of locations of a region which is in proximity to the inner wall of the processing chamber and which corresponds to a substrate arrangement region in which the plurality of substrates are arranged in the processing chamber.
US08084367B2
Provided herein are etching, cleaning and drying methods using a supercritical fluid, and a chamber system for conducting the same. The etching method includes etching the material layer using a supercritical carbon dioxide in which an etching chemical is dissolved, and removing an etching by-product created from a reaction between the material layer and the etching chemical using a supercritical carbon dioxide in which a cleaning chemical is dissolved. Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device are also provided.
US08084363B2
The present invention relates to polishing slurry and polishing method used for polishing in a process for forming wirings of a semiconductor device, and the like. There are provided polishing slurry giving a polished surface having high flatness even if the polished surface is made of two or more substances, and further, capable of suppressing metal residue and scratches after polishing, and a method of chemical mechanical polishing using this. The polishing slurry of the present invention is polishing slurry containing at least one of a surfactant and an organic solvent, and a metal oxide dissolving agent and water, or polishing slurry containing water and abrasive of which surface has been modified with an alkyl group, and preferably, it further contains a metal oxidizer, water-soluble polymer, and metal inhibitor.
US08084361B2
A method includes depositing a layer of a sacrificial material in a first region above a substrate. The first region of the substrate is separate from a second region of the substrate, where a corrosion resistant film is to be provided above the second region. The corrosion resistant film is deposited, so that a first portion of the corrosion resistant film is above the sacrificial material in the first region, and a second portion of the corrosion resistant film is above the second region. The first portion of the corrosion resistant film is removed by chemical mechanical polishing. The sacrificial material is removed from the first region using an etching process that selectively etches the sacrificial material, but not the corrosion resistant film.
US08084359B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip having first and second pads, a first insulation layer pattern formed on the semiconductor chip and having first and second openings that expose the first and the second pads, respectively, a first conductive layer pattern elongated along the first insulation layer pattern from the first pad, a first external terminal formed on the first conductive layer pattern, a second insulation layer pattern formed on the first conductive layer pattern and the first insulation layer pattern to expose the first external terminal and having a third opening in communication with the second opening, a second conductive layer pattern elongated along the second insulation layer pattern from the second pad, and a second external terminal formed on the second conductive layer pattern.
US08084349B2
Disclosed is a method for forming post bumps, the method including the steps of: forming a seed layer for metal plating on a substrate; forming a resist layer having openings provided as positions where the seed layer is subjected to metal plating; forming a dummy sheet, exposing the openings, on the resist layer; forming a post by performing metal plating of the openings; forming solder balls on the post; and removing the dummy sheet and the resist layer.
US08084347B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming at least one layer over a substrate, forming at least two spaced apart features of imagable material over the at least one layer, forming sidewall spacers on the at least two features and filling a space between a first sidewall spacer on a first feature and a second sidewall spacer on a second feature with a filler feature. The method also includes selectively removing the sidewall spacers to leave the first feature, the filler feature and the second feature spaced apart from each other, and etching the at least one layer using the first feature, the filler feature and the second feature as a mask.
US08084344B2
A method of fabricating a contact plug of a semiconductor device is provided, the method includes forming a gate pattern on a substrate, forming a capping pattern to cover an upper surface and sidewalls of the gate pattern, forming an interlayer insulation layer on the substrate such that the interlayer insulation layer exposes an upper surface of the capping pattern, and removing a portion of the capping pattern and the interlayer insulation layer such that the upper surface of the capping pattern is planarized.
US08084341B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device which includes a step of forming one optional impurity region in a semiconductor substrate at a place apart from the surface thereof, and in the method described above, ion implantation is performed a plurality of times while the position of an end portion of a mask pattern used for ion implantation is changed.
US08084333B2
An object cutting method which can reliably remove particles remaining on cut sections of chips is provided. An expandable tape 23 is electrically charged in a state where a plurality of semiconductor chips 25 obtained by cutting a planar object to be processed along a line to cut are separated from each other on the expandable tape 23. This electric action causes particles remaining on cut sections of the semiconductor chips 25 to eject therefrom even when a molten processed region is formed in the cut sections. Therefore, particles remaining on the cut sections of the chips 25 can reliably be removed.
US08084329B2
In an embodiment, a method of fabricating a transistor device comprises: providing a semiconductor topography comprising a gate conductor disposed above a semiconductor substrate between a pair of dielectric spacers; anisotropically etching exposed regions of the semiconductor substrate on opposite sides of the dielectric spacers to form recessed regions in the substrate; oxidizing exposed surfaces of the substrate in the recessed regions to form an oxide thereon; removing the oxide from bottoms of the recessed regions while retaining the oxide upon sidewalls of the recessed regions; and isotropically etching the substrate such that the recessed regions undercut the pair of dielectric spacers.
US08084327B2
A method for forming a field effect transistor with an active area and a termination region surrounding the active area includes forming a well region in a first silicon region, where the well region and the first silicon region are of opposite conductivity type. Gate trenches extending through the well region and terminating within the first silicon region are formed. A recessed gate is formed in each gate trench. A dielectric cap is formed over each recessed gate. The well region is recessed between adjacent trenches to expose upper sidewalls of each dielectric cap. A blanket source implant is carried out to form a second silicon region in an upper portion of the recessed well region between every two adjacent trenches. A dielectric spacer is formed along each exposed upper sidewall of the dielectric cap, with every two adjacent dielectric spacers located between every two adjacent gate trenches forming an opening over the second silicon region. The second silicon region is recessed through the opening between every two adjacent dielectric spacers so that only portions of the second silicon region directly below the dielectric spacers remain. The remaining portions of the second silicon region form source regions.
US08084323B2
The invention provides a method for forming a stack capacitor of a memory device, including providing a substrate, forming a patterned sacrificial layer with a plurality of first openings over the substrate, conformally forming a first conductive layer on the patterned sacrificial layer and in the first openings, forming a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer to seal the first openings with a void formed therein, removing a portion of the first and second conductive layers to expose the patterned sacrificial layer, and removing at least a portion of the patterned sacrificial layer to form bottom cell plates.
US08084322B2
Techniques for forming devices, such as transistors, having vertical junction edges. More specifically, shallow trenches are formed in a substrate and filled with an oxide. Cavities may be formed in the oxide and filled with a conductive material, such a doped polysilicon. Vertical junctions are formed between the polysilicon and the exposed substrate at the trench edges such that during a thermal cycle, the doped polysilicon will out-diffuse doping elements into the adjacent single crystal silicon advantageously forming a diode extension having desirable properties.
US08084314B2
A first insulation film is provided on a semiconductor substrate. A high resistance element formed from polysilicon is provided on the first insulation film. A second insulation film is provided on the high resistance element. A hydrogen diffusion preventing film having a hydrogen diffusion coefficient smaller than that of the second insulation film is provided on the second insulation film. The hydrogen diffusion preventing film covers a part of the high resistance element.
US08084308B2
Nanowire-based devices are provided. In one aspect, a field-effect transistor (FET) inverter is provided. The FET inverter includes a plurality of device layers oriented vertically in a stack, each device layer having a source region, a drain region and a plurality of nanowire channels connecting the source region and the drain region, wherein the source and drain regions of one or more of the device layers are doped with an n-type dopant and the source and drain regions of one or more other of the device layers are doped with a p-type dopant; a gate common to each of the device layers surrounding the nanowire channels; a first contact to the source regions of the one or more device layers doped with an n-type dopant; a second contact to the source regions of the one or more device layers doped with a p-type dopant; and a third contact common to the drain regions of each of the device layers. Techniques for fabricating a FET inverter are also provided.
US08084306B2
A semiconductor device includes a body region having a source region, a drain region, a channel region interposed between the source region and the drain region, and a body region extension extending from an end of the channel region. A gate pattern is formed on the channel region and the body region, and a body contact connects the gate pattern to the body region. A sidewall of the body region extension is self-aligned to a sidewall of the gate pattern. Methods of forming semiconductor devices having a self-aligned body and a body contact are also disclosed.
US08084301B2
Provided is a circuit device manufacturing method for coating a bottom surface of a circuit board with a thin coating of sealing resin. In the present invention, a circuit board having a circuit element such as a semiconductor element embedded therein is placed in a molding die, and a resin sheet containing a thermosetting resin is interposed between the circuit board and a bottom surface of an inner wall of the molding die. Under this condition, the molding die is heated to about 180° C., and a sealing resin in liquid form is injected through a gate. Thereby, the bottom surface of the circuit board can be coated with a thin coating of the sealing resin made of the molten resin sheet.
US08084296B2
Methods for reducing stress in microelectronic devices and microelectronic devices formed using such methods are disclosed herein. One such device can include a first support member, a second support member, and a microelectronic die positioned between the first support member and the second support member such that the second support member at least approximately completely covers a surface of the die. The die is in intimate contact with both the first support member and the second support member and electrically coupled to at least one of the first support member and the second support member. The device further includes a fill material between the first and second support members and at least partially encapsulating the die. The second support member has structural material characteristics that are closer to those of the first support member than to the structural material characteristics of the fill material.
US08084295B2
Provided is a thin film transistor (TFT) which uses CIS (CuInSe2), including Se, which is a chalcogen-based material, and can provide a rectifying function, and electric and optical switching functions of a diode. The TFT according to the present invention includes, a substrate, a gate electrode formed on a portion of the substrate, an insulating layer covering the substrate and a gate electrode, a plurality of CIS (CuInSe2) films formed on the insulating layer so as to cover the region where the gate electrode is formed; and source/drain regions separated from each other so as to comprise a trench exposing a portion of a surface of the CIS films.
US08084292B2
The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method includes providing a plurality of substrates, each of the substrates having a copper and indium composite structure. The method also includes transferring the plurality of substrates into a furnace, each of the plurality of substrates provided in a vertical orientation with respect to a direction of gravity, the plurality of substrates being defined by a number N, where N is greater than 5. The method further includes introducing a gaseous species including a selenide species and a carrier gas into the furnace and transferring thermal energy into the furnace to increase a temperature from a first temperature to a second temperature, the second temperature ranging from about 350° C. to about 450° C. to at least initiate formation of a copper indium diselenide film from the copper and indium composite structure on each of the substrates.
US08084291B2
The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method includes providing a plurality of substrates, each of the substrates having a copper and indium composite structure. The method also includes transferring the plurality of substrates into a furnace, each of the plurality of substrates provided in a vertical orientation with respect to a direction of gravity, the plurality of substrates being defined by a number N, where N is greater than 5. The method further includes introducing a gaseous species including a selenide species and a carrier gas into the furnace and transferring thermal energy into the furnace to increase a temperature from a first temperature to a second temperature, the second temperature ranging from about 350° C. to about 450° C. to at least initiate formation of a copper indium diselenide film from the copper and indium composite structure on each of the substrates.
US08084279B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes below steps. A step of preparing a phase shift mask and a normal photomask. A step of stacking a first wiring layer on a semiconductor substrate, and further stacking, on the first wiring layer, a second wiring layer. The second wiring layer includes a second wiring and third wiring. A step of stacking an interlayer insulating film on the second wiring layer. A step of forming, in the interlayer insulating film, a first opening in which the second wiring is exposed, and a second opening in which the third wiring is exposed by photolithography using the normal photomask. A step of burying a metal in the first opening and the second opening. A step of providing a pad to be overlaid on the first and second openings.
US08084269B2
Provided are methods of detecting the presence or amount of a dihydroxyvitamin D metabolite in a sample using mass spectrometry. The methods generally comprise ionizing a dihydroxyvitamin D metabolite in a sample and detecting the amount of the ion to determine the presence or amount of the vitamin D metabolite in the sample. In certain preferred embodiments the methods include immunopurifying the dihydroxyvitamin D metabolites prior to mass spectrometry. Also provided are methods to detect the presence or amount of two or more dihydroxyvitamin D metabolites in a single assay.
US08084262B2
The invention generally provides methods to determine the extent to which a compound interferes with steroid metabolism, comprising a novel biomarker of a felinine derivative. The invention also provides such novel felinine derivative biomarker.
US08084259B2
The present invention describes a system for accurately measuring the concentration of a substance within a filter housing. A concentration sensor and a communications device are coupled so as to measure and transmit the concentration of a particular substance within the filter housing while in use. This system allows the operator to certify the integrity of the filters within the filter housing at the customer site without additional equipment. In one embodiment, a tracer gas, such as helium or hydrogen, is added to a carrier and injected into the system. The concentration of tracer gas at a specific operating transmembrane pressure is indicative of bubble pointing specific pores in the filter. This test will give a more sensitive indication of the bubble point and the presence of defects than a standard diffusion test. In a second embodiment, two gasses, in a known ratio, are introduced into the filter housing.
US08084258B2
The present invention is directed to methods for altering the fate of a cell, tissue or organ type by altering Notch pathway function in the cell. The invention is further directed to methods for altering the fate of a cell, tissue or organ type by simultaneously changing the activation state of the Notch pathway and one or more cell fate control gene pathways. The invention can be utilized for cells of any differentiation state. The resulting cells may be expanded and used in cell replacement therapy to repopulate lost cell populations and help in the regeneration of diseased and/or injured tissues. The resulting cell populations can also be made recombinant and used for gene therapy or as tissue/organ models for research. The invention is directed to methods for of treating macular degeneration comprising altering Notch pathway function in retinal pigment epithelium cells or retinal neuroepithelium or both tissues. The present invention is also directed to kits utilizing the methods of the invention to generate cells, tissues or organs of altered fates. The invention also provides methods for screening for agonists or antagonists of Notch or cell fate control gene pathway functions.
US08084257B2
This invention relates to methods for distinguishing and sorting cells. In particular it includes methods for distinguishing and sorting post-mitotic and post-meiotic daughter cells into two classes according to differential cellular features. Labeling, tagging, or marking of the cells' chromatin proteins, RNA, or DNA may assist in distinguishing the daughter cells. In some embodiments, two cell classes may be studied and the cells' proteins, glycoproteins, and RNA may be identified and subset. Information from these subsets may then be used to distinguish and sort the two classes of cells from similar tissues according to protein, glycoprotein, and RNA makeup.
US08084255B2
A method of in vitro fucosylation of selectin ligands on cord blood-derived hematopoietic stem cells for bone marrow transplantation is disclosed. In this method, an effective amount of an α1,3-fucosyltransferase, e.g., α1,3-fucosyltransferase VI, is used in vitro to treat cord blood-derived hematopoietic stem cells to convert non-functional PSGL-1 or other ligands on the cell surface into functional forms that bind selectins, especially P-selectin or E-selectin. The treated cells have enhanced effectiveness in reconstituting bone marrow in patients in need of such therapy.
US08084253B2
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) specific for antigenic peptides derived from IgE molecule can be generated in vitro by stimulating resting naive CD8 T cells with IgE peptides presented by artificial antigen presenting cells. The IgE specific CTLs lyse the target cells loaded with IgE peptides in vitro and inhibit antigen specific IgE response in vivo. In addition, adoptive transfer of the IgE specific CTL to an asthmatic mouse model can inhibit the development of lung inflammation and airway hypersensitivity. IgE specific CTL provides a treatment for allergic asthma and other IgE-mediated allergic diseases. Antigenic peptides identified from non-tumor self-antigens induce specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) in vitro. The CTL induced by peptides identified from CD40L can kill activated CD4 T cells. In vitro generated CTL specific for CD40L inhibit CD4-dependent antibody responses of all isotypes in vivo. In contrast, CTL induced by antigenic peptides derived from IgE specifically inhibit IgE responses, and adoptive transfer of CD40L-specific CTL to NOD mice at early age delay the development of diabetes in NOD mice. In vitro generated CTL specific for non-tumor self-antigens expressed on activated CD4 T cells regulate immune responses in vivo.
US08084251B2
Disclosed are a stable recombinant cell clones which are stable in serum- and protein-free medium for at least 40 generations, a biomass obtained by multiplying the stable cell clone under serum- and protein-free culturing conditions, and a method of preparing recombinant proteins by means of the biomass. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method of recovering stable recombinant cell clones.
US08084247B2
A biological indicator for monitoring the effectiveness of a sterilizing or disinfecting treatment or process. A compound or condition is disclosed which comprises a substrate having a surface layer containing functional groups thereon desirably free of silicon linking groups. The functional groups are desirably in the form of a monolayer of a uniformed distribution and of a selected quantity. Various types of microorganism indicators, such as spores, and/or etiological agent indicators are covalently bonded to the surface layer functional groups through a crosslinking reagent and thus form a uniform number and distribution of the microorganism and/or etiological agent indicators. After being subjected to sterilization or other similar disinfecting treatments or processes, along with various articles such as instruments, the indicator can be cultivated to determine the effectiveness of the sterilization, disinfection, etc. treatment or process.
US08084243B2
We have shown that the control of solventogenesis and sporulation can be genetically uncoupled in C. acetobutylicum. In strain 824(pASspo), the absence of SpoIIE causes sporulation to be blocked at stage II. The cell remains in a vegetative state, and this allows solvent production to proceed for longer and for solvents to accumulate more rapidly and to a higher concentration. The characteristic drop in OD600 observed in wild type and control strains of C. acetobutylicum after 48-72 hours as the cells transition from the solventogenic phase to sporulation is notably absent in the fermentations of 824(pASspo). Mutant S (wild type background, spoIIE disrupted), Mutant BS (Mutant B background, spoIIE disrupted), Mutant HS (Mutant H background, spoIIE disrupted) and Mutant bukS (buk- background, spoIIE disrupted) were generated to create stable solvent producing bacteria with complete inactivation of the SpoIIE protein. Similarity between the SpoIIE protein of C. acetobutylicum, B. subtilis, and other Clostridial species indicates that the techniques used in C. acetobutylicum can be applied to other solvent producing Clostridia.
US08084240B2
Described are variants of a parent α-amylase that exhibits an alteration in at least one of the following properties relative to said parent α-amylase: specific activity, substrate specificity, substrate binding, substrate cleavage, thermal stability, pH-dependent activity, pH-dependent stability, oxidative stability, Ca2+ dependency, pI, and wash performance. The variants are suitable for starch conversion, ethanol production, laundry washing, dish washing, hard surface cleaning, textile desizing, and/or sweetener production.
US08084238B2
A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from Acidovorax facilis 72W (ATCC 57746). Glycolic acid is recovered in the form of the acid or salt from the aqueous ammonium glycolate solution using a variety of methods described herein.
US08084221B2
The invention is based upon the discovery that red blood cells contain phosphodiesterase 3B (PDE3B), and that inhibition of that phosphodiesterase allows for an enhanced accumulation of cAMP and subsequent release of ATP. It was further discovered that RBCs treated with insulin accumulate significantly less cAMP and release significantly less ATP than normal RBCs. Likewise, RBCs of patients suffering from type 2 diabetes (hyperinsulinemia) accumulate significantly less cAMP and release significantly less ATP than normal RBCs. It was further discovered that prostaglandin analogues synergistically work with phosphodiesterase 3B inhibitors to improve or increase cAMP accumulation and ATP release by RBCs. Thus the invention is directed to compositions and methods for improving ATP release by RBCs, via administering PDE3B inhibitor or a combination of PDE3B inhibitor and prostaglandin analogue.
US08084218B2
The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing cancers by measuring proteins associated with tumorigenesis and metastasis, and a diagnostic kit using the same, particularly relates to the method for diagnosing cancers by measuring the changes of glycosylation of proteins and the kit for diagnosis of cancers using the said method. The method and kit of the present invention can effectively be used for the sensitive diagnosis of cancers comprising colon cancer, stomach cancer, lung cancer and liver cancer.
US08084213B2
The present invention to a nucleotide sequence encoding one or more Arc DNA binding domains, one or more Arc DNA binding sites and at least one polypeptide domain.
US08084193B2
A coating process comprises forming a patterned material layer on a substrate using a self-segregating polymeric composition comprising a polymeric photoresistive material and an antireflective coating material. The polymeric photoresistive material and the antireflective coating material that make up the self segregating composition are contained in a single solution. When depositing this solution on a substrate and removing the solvent, the two materials self-segregate into two layers. The substrate can comprise one of a ceramic, dielectric, metal, or semiconductor material and in some instances a material such as a BARC material that is not from the self segregating composition. The composition may also contain a radiation-sensitive acid generator and a base quencher. This produces a coated substrate having a uniaxial bilayer coating oriented in a direction orthogonal to the substrate with a top photoresistive coating layer and a bottom antireflective coating layer. The process may also include optionally coating a top coat material on the coated substrate. Pattern-wise exposing the coated substrate to imaging radiation and contacting the coated substrate with a developer, produces the patterned material layer wherein the optional top coat material and a portion of the photoresist layer are simultaneously removed from the coated substrate, thereby forming a patterned photoresist layer on the substrate. Alternatively, the optional top coat material, a portion of the photoresist layer and a portion of the bottom antireflective layers are simultaneously removed from the coated substrate by the developer, thereby forming a patterned photoresist layer on the substrate.
US08084191B2
A thermoelectric module and method of manufacture thereof, capable of preventing short-circuits between electrodes due to solder without causing increases in size or cost. A thermoelectric module is configured with lower electrodes formed on the inside surface of a lower substrate, placed in opposition to an upper substrate, on the inside surface of which are formed upper electrodes; the end faces of thermoelectric elements are soldered to the lower electrodes and upper electrodes. Each of the electrodes is configured from three layers, which are a copper layer, a nickel layer formed on one face of the copper layer, and a gold layer formed on one face of the nickel layer; a visor portion, protruding outward, is formed in the nickel layer, so that when positioning the thermoelectric elements above the electrodes and soldering the electrodes to the thermoelectric elements, the flowing of solder 18a from the side portions of electrodes to the insulating substrate is prevented.
US08084189B2
A method of making imaged elements such as lithographic printing plates is achieved by imagewise exposing an infrared radiation-sensitive positive-working imageable element to provide exposed and non-exposed regions. The imaged element is developed using a single processing solution having a pH of from about 9 to about 11.5 and containing carbonate ion and at least 1 weight % of one or more anionic surfactants, to remove predominantly only the exposed regions to provide an image and to provide a protective coating on the imaged surface. The imageable element comprises a substrate and a radiation absorbing compound, and has an imageable layer on the substrate that comprises a developability-enhancing compound and a poly(vinyl acetal) in which at least 25 mol % of its recurring units comprise pendant nitro-substituted phenolic groups.
US08084187B2
Provided is a resist composition including a compound having a molecular weight of 1,000 or less and containing at least one sulfonamide group (—SO2NH—).
US08084183B2
A positive resist composition for electron beam, X-ray or EUV includes (A) a compound represented by the following formula (I), and (B) a resin capable of decomposing by the action of an acid to increase solubility in an alkali developing solution, which includes a repeating unit represented by the following formula (II) and a repeating unit represented by the following formula (III):
US08084181B2
To provide a method for producing a carrier including treating a coating layer on a surface of a core material with a polymer precursor in a supercritical fluid and/or a subcritical fluid so as to add the polymer precursor to the coating layer, and subjecting the coating layer to oxidation treatment so as to form a polymer from the polymer precursor in the coating layer, and a carrier produced by the method.
US08084177B2
Disclosed is a toner composition comprising toner particles which comprise a resin, an optional colorant, and a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane compound.
US08084173B2
Present embodiments pertain to an improved electrostatographic imaging member having low contact friction surfaces to ease sliding mechanical interaction and suppressing abrasion/wear failure and methods of preparing thereof. The improved imaging member has layers comprising one or two low surface energy polymeric materials that enhance the physical and mechanical functions and reduce the layers surface contact friction of the imaging member to extend service life.
US08084168B2
A data storage device including: a plastic substrate having a plurality of data volumes arranged along tracks in a plurality of stacked layers; a plurality of micro-holograms each contained in a corresponding one of the data volumes; a plurality of complementary volumes, each corresponding to and being substantially aligned with one of the data volumes; a plurality of micro-holograms each contained in a corresponding one of the complementary volumes; wherein, the presence or absence of a micro-hologram in each of the data volumes is indicative of a corresponding portion of data stored; and, the ones of the complementary volumes corresponding to the ones of the data volumes containing a micro-hologram do not contain a micro-hologram; and the ones of the complementary volumes corresponding to the ones of the data volumes not containing a micro-hologram contain a micro-hologram.
US08084164B2
In at least one embodiment, the present invention provides an electrically conductive fluid distribution separator plate assembly, a method of making, and a system for using, the electrically conductive fluid distribution separator plate assembly. In at least one embodiment, the electrically conductive fluid distribution separator plate assembly comprises a metallic cathode plate having opposed surfaces and a first contact resistance, a polymeric composite anode plate adjacent to the metallic cathode plate, and a low contact resistance coating located on at least one of the surfaces of the plates, with the coating having a second contact resistance, less than the first contact resistance.
US08084157B2
A portable electronic device (100) includes a main body (10), two connecters (20), and a battery (30). The main body includes a battery receiving portion (13) defined therein. The two connecters are mounted to the main body, and are diagonally disposed across the battery receiving portion. The battery is detachably received in the battery receiving portion, and includes a main portion (31), two contact portions (33), and a pair of position poles (35). The main portion has two opposite sidewalls and two opposite side surfaces. The two contact portions are respectively diagonally formed on the sidewalls of the main portion, and can be respectively electrically connect with a corresponding connecter. The pair of position poles respectively extend outwardly from a corresponding side surface. The battery is rotatable around the position poles, relative to the main body.
US08084150B2
A fuel cartridge includes a fuel containing substance and a heater in thermal communication with the fuel containing substance.
US08084142B2
The invention comprises methods of forming a conductive contact to a source/drain region of a field effect transistor, and methods of forming local interconnects. In one implementation, a method of forming a conductive contact to a source/drain region of a field effect transistor includes providing gate dielectric material intermediate a transistor gate and a channel region of a field effect transistor. At least some of the gate dielectric material extends to be received over at least one source/drain region of the field effect transistor. The gate dielectric material received over the one source/drain region is exposed to conditions effective to change it from being electrically insulative to being electrically conductive and in conductive contact with the one source/drain region. Other aspects and implementations are contemplated.
US08084141B2
A multi-tiered building structure. The multi-tiered building structure includes a panel member having a pattern of cuts, a pattern of legs, and a pattern of tabs configured to move the panel member between a nonexpanded position, wherein the panel member forms a substantially flat shape, and an expanded position, wherein the panel member forms a substantially stepped shape. The building structure also includes a support structure configured to accept at least one of the pattern of tabs of the panel member and maintain the panel member in the expanded position.
US08084136B2
The invention relates to a heat-sealable coating system suitable for the sealing of various types of substrate and comprising a film-forming dispersion,characterized in that a polymer type A is present and is a polyester or a polyester mixture, a polymer type B is present and is a (meth)acrylate homo- or/and copolymer, containing standard methacrylates and/or standard acrylates, and a polymer type AB is present and is a graft copolymer composed of polymer type A and polymer type B, and if appropriate a polymer type C is present and is an olefin polymer or is an olefin copolymer, and a polymer type CB is present and is a graft polymer composed of polymer type C and polymer type B, and also if appropriate a polymer type D and/or a polymer type DA is present.
US08084135B2
A composition and composite article have improved adherence with an addition-curable material. The composition and therefore the composite article, which includes at least one substrate formed from the composition, include a resin and an additive that is incorporated into the resin. The resin is organic and polymeric and free of ethylenically unsaturated and silicon hydride functional groups. The additive is selected from the group of a fluorine-substituted organopolysiloxane, an amino-functional organopolysiloxane, an unsaturated carboxylic acid or carboxylic acid salt, and combinations thereof. Further, the additive includes a hydrosilylation reactive group present at a surface of the substrate for reaction with the addition-curable material. This improves adherence of the substrate with the addition-curable material. The substrate and the addition-curable material bond together to make the composition article.
US08084120B2
A composite material comprising the following components: (a) a first prepreg material with improved resistance to microbuckling and kinkband formation; and (b) a second prepreg material with improved resistance to delamination.
US08084096B1
A method for whisker formation on the surface of aluminum-containing metallic alloy fibers and substrates provides a support structure for many technical, medical and pharmaceutical applications. The novel surface modification of metallic alloy fibers and other metallic substrates involves heating the fiber or substrate in air at temperatures ranging from approximately 800° C. to approximately 1000° C. for a period of time ranging from approximately 10 hours to approximately 100 hours to form whiskers. The use of a metal oxide coating with large ions, such as zirconium oxide, allows the formation of alumina whiskers while preserving the structural integrity of the metallic alloy substrate. Uses of the present invention include, but are not limited to an advanced catalyst support, a highly efficient filter medium, a support for implants and the like.
US08084092B2
A water-insoluble colorant dispersion prepared by a production method including a step of codissolving a water-insoluble colorant and a polymer compound having one or more acid groups selected from carboxylic acid group, sulfonic acid group and phosphoric acid group as hydrophilic group in an organic solvent in the presence of a phase-transfer base represented by the Formula (I) or (II), and mixing the obtained solution with an aqueous medium; characterized by containing water-insoluble colorant fine particles, a polymer compound having one or more acid groups selected from the group consisting of carboxylic acid group, sulfonic acid group and phosphoric acid group as hydrophilic group, an aqueous medium, and a phase-transfer base represented by the Formula (I) or (II): wherein R1 to R5 each independently represents a methyl, ethyl or propyl group, n represents an integer of 1 to 4.
US08084088B2
Wafer-to-wafer thickness uniformity may be improved significantly in a process for depositing a silicon nitride layer in that the flow rate of the reactant and the chamber pressure are varied during a deposition cycle. By correspondingly adapting the flow rate and/or the chamber pressure before and after the actual deposition step, the process conditions may be more effectively stabilized, thereby reducing process variations, even after non-deposition phases of the deposition tool, such as a preceding plasma clean process or an idle period of the tool.
US08084083B2
A method for manufacturing an anisotropic conductive adhesive sheet is disclosed. The sheet comprises at least a curing agent, a curable insulating resin, and conductive particles. The method comprises providing an adhesive layer on a biaxially stretchable film to form a laminate, densely packing conductive particles having an average particle size of 1 to 8 μm on the laminate to form a conductive particle-attached film, biaxially stretching and holding the conductive particle-attached film so that the average particle distance between adjacent conductive particles is at least one to five times or less the average particle size of the conductive particles and not greater than 20 μm. The conductive particles are transferred to an adhesive sheet containing at least a curing agent and a curable insulating resin and having a thickness of at least 1.5 times the average particle distance between the conductive particles but not greater than 40 μm.
US08084074B2
Oilseed plants which have been transformed to produce at least 8.0% arachidonic acid (ARA) as well as uses of oils and seeds obtained from such transformed plants in a variety of food and feed applications are described.
US08084072B2
A composition for preserving solid food products comprising a moisture-sensitive isothiocyanate compound and a hygroscopic carrier, wherein the composition is substantially free of sorbic acid, benzoic acid, and salts thereof. Also disclosed is a solid food product containing the aforementioned preservative composition and a method for preserving solid food products including the steps of adding a moisture-sensitive isothiocyanate to the solid food product and storing the resulting product at a reduced temperature.
US08084068B2
The present invention describes a process to produce a composition containing 5′-ribonucleotides wherein a microorganism is subjected to autolysis under conditions at which a substantial part of the RNA remains in a form degradable into 5′-ribonucleotides and at which a substantial part of the RNA remains associated with the cell wall fraction. Said cell wall fraction is recovered by a solid/liquid separation method and the RNA associated with said wall fraction is converted into 5′-ribonucleotides. The present invention also describes compositions containing 5′-ribonucleotides and their use in food or feed.
US08084063B2
Disclosed is a method of increasing firmness or elasticity or reducing the appearance of sagginess in the periorbital area of a person's skin, comprising topically applying to the skin in need thereof a composition comprising magnolia extract and citrus grandis extract.
US08084058B2
A pharmaceutical dosage form comprising a controlled release component comprising an antihyperglycemic drug in combination with a second component comprising a thiazolidinedione derivative and a disintegrating agent is herein disclosed and described. The dosage formulation exhibits a significant increase in bioavailability of the thiazolidinedione derivative component compared to conventional immediate release dosage forms containing only a thiazolidinedione derivative.
US08084055B2
Collagen compositions, methods for preparing those collagen compositions, and graft compositions formed from those collagen compositions are provided. In particular, methods of isolating collagen that exhibits an enhanced rate of polymerization and enhanced microstructural and mechanical properties upon polymerization, such collagen compositions, and graft compositions formed from such collagen compositions are provided.
US08084036B2
The present invention provides new compositions and methods for preventing and treating pathogen infection. In particular, the present invention provides compounds having an anchoring domain that anchors the compound to the surface of a target cell, and a therapeutic domain that can act extracellularly to prevent infection of the target cell by a pathogen, such as a virus. Preferred target cells are epithelial cells. The invention provides compositions and methods for preventing viral diseases, such as influenza, using compounds having anchoring domains that can bind target cells linked to enzymatic activities that can act extracellularly to interfere with viral infection of target cells. The invention also provides compositions and methods for preventing viral diseases such as influenza using compounds having anchoring domains that can bind target cells linked to protease inhibitors that can act extracellularly to interfere with viral infection of target cells.
US08084035B2
The present invention relates to methods for modulating the migratory activity of cells expressing CD38 for the treatment of disorders including, but not limited to, inflammation, ischemia, asthma, autoimmune disease, diabetes, arthritis, allergies, infection with pathogenic organisms, such as parasites, and transplant rejection. Such cells include, for example, neutrophils, lymphocytes, eosinophils, macrophages and dentritic cells. The invention further relates to drug screening assays designed to identify compounds that modulate the ADP-ribosyl cyclase activity of CD38 and the use of such. compounds in the treatment of disorders involving CD38 modulated cell migration. Additionally, the invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a CD38 homologue from the parasitic flatworm, Schistosoma mansoni.
US08084029B2
The present invention provides humanized, chimeric and human anti-alpha-fetoprotein antibodies, fusion proteins, and fragments thereof. The antibodies, fusion proteins, and fragments thereof, as well as combinations with other suitable antibodies, are useful for the treatment and diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatoblastoma, germ cell tumors carcinoma and other AFP-producing tumors.
US08084015B2
The present invention provides an immunostimulatory complex specifically adapted to act as adjuvant and as a peptide immunogen stabilizer. The immunostimulatory complex comprises a CpG oligonucleotide and a biologically active peptide immunogen. The immunostimulatory complex is particulate and can efficiently present peptide immunogens to the cells of the immune system to produce an immune response. The immunostimulatory complex may be formulated as a suspension for parenteral administration. The immunostimulatory complex may also be formulated in the form of w/o-emulsions, as a suspension in combination with a mineral salt suspension or with an in-situ gelling polymer for the efficient delivery of an immunogen to the cells of the immune system of a subject following parenteral administration, to produce an immune response which may also be a protective immune response.
US08084010B2
A pulverized coal/coke (PC) boiler combusts carbon-based fuel with substantially pure oxygen and a flue gas recirculation stream (containing predominately carbon dioxide) at varied ratios to achieve a desired boiler temperature profile while producing captured sulfur, a high purity captured CO2 and electric power. The boiler includes at least one of (a) a mechanism for admixing a pulverized solid carbon-based fuel with an alkali metal salt and (b) injecting alkali metal salt into the boiler combustion zone containing a pulverized solid carbon-based fuel.
US08084008B2
A process for saturating a material capable of binding ammonia by ad- or absorption and initially free of ammonia or partially saturated with ammonia comprises treating said material under a pressure and associated temperature located on the vapor pressure curve of ammonia with an amount of liquid ammonia sufficient to saturate said material and an additional amount of a cooling agent selected from liquid ammonia, liquid or solid CO2, hydrocarbons and hydrohalocarbons that have a higher vapor pressure than ammonia, ethyl ether, methyl formate, methyl amine and ethyl amine, such that |Qabs|≦|Qevap|+Qext, wherein Qabs is the amount of heat released from said material when it absorbs ammonia from the liquid phase thereof to the point where it is saturated with ammonia, Qevap is the amount of heat absorbed by said cooling agent when it evaporates, and Qext is the amount of heat exchanged with the surroundings and is positive, if heat is removed from the process by external cooling, and negative, if heat is added to the process from the surroundings.
US08084004B2
The invention relates to a microfluidic arrangement for metering one or more first metered amounts of liquid (A) and for separating the latter from a second amount of liquid (B), having the following features: the arrangement has a first channel and one or more second channels; the first channel has one inlet and one outlet; in the area of the outlet the arrangement has a capillarity, which is greater than or equal to the capillarity in the area of the inlet; the one or more second channels branch off from the first channel at one or more branch points; the one or more second channels have a greater capillarity than the first channel at the branch points; and the one or more second channels have a predetermined volume. In the arrangement as depicted in the invention a liquid is transported in the first channel from the inlet to the outlet. At the branch points one portion of the liquid at a time enters the one or more second channels and fills them completely with the first metered amounts of liquid (A). The portion of the liquid remaining after the last branch point in the first channel emerges as the second amount of liquid via the outlet from the first channel. The amounts of liquid (A) metered in the one or more second channels are separated from the remaining amount of liquid (B) by a gas, which is located in the first channel after filling all one or more second channels.
US08084002B2
The present application relates to a chemical sensing device for detecting an analyte in a liquid sample containing suspended particles. The device comprises a radiation source adapted to generate electromagnetic radiation, a transducer (3) having a pyroelectric or piezoelectric element and electrodes which is capable of transducing a change in energy to an electrical signal, at least one reagent (2) on or proximal to the transducer (3), the reagent being capable of absorbing the electromagnetic radiation to generate energy when in contact with the analyte, a chamber (9) for holding the sample in fluid contact with transducer, and a detector which is capable of detecting the electrical signal generated by the transducer. The transducer is in a plane from +45° to −45° to the vertical.
US08083988B2
A mud gun cap is provided. The mud gun cap includes a flame resistant outer face, a ring and a mounting device wherein the mud gun cap connects to a mud gun nozzle to protect the mud gun nozzle from deterioration because of contact with molten iron and slag. The mud gun cap also prevents, or at least reduces the amount of, mud falling out of the nozzle while the mud gun nozzle is rotated into operation position.
US08083981B2
A flexible tube comprises a tubular body made of a curable flexible material, having at least an elbow shape, and made by a double curing, the first on a straight mandrel, and the second on a shaped cylindric core, to provide the tube with a desired configuration.With respect to the conventional art in this field, the invention provides the advantage that the shaped tube made thereby is directly provided, at the end portion thereof, with the required fittings, without the need of performing auxiliary processing steps to clamp the fittings.
US08083978B1
Injection molded parts having bodies and lids connected by living hinges have the lids closed against the bodies during an opening sequence of mold plates. The lid closing mechanism is arranged in an intermediate plate disposed between a movable B plate and a fixed A plate. Movable and fixed cavities can meet within the intervening plate where a lid closer accomplishes lid closing as mold plates separate during mold opening. Accomplishing the lid closure during a mold opening sequence avoids any increase in the mold cycle time.
US08083976B2
The present invention provides a device, in particular within the aeronautical and aerospace fields, comprising a first and second tool and guide means, which guide the first and second tools in such a way that they press a preliminary fabric arranged in a pressing zone of the device along a second axis as said fabric moves along a first axis through the pressing zone, said second axis being substantially transverse to the first axis, so as to form a consolidated preliminary fabric, the guide means guiding the first and second tools parallel to one another, in part, along the first axis in the pressing zone.
US08083972B2
A copper particulate dispersion containing copper particulates coated with water-soluble polymers and hydroxycarboxylic acid; hydroxycarboxylic acid; and polyhydric alcohol and/or a polar solvent. The copper particulate dispersion is produced by adding hydroxycarboxylic acid such as malic acid, citric acid, and the like or a solution thereof into a dispersion containing a polar solvent and copper particulates coated with water-soluble polymers, and stirring the obtained dispersion so that part of water-soluble polymers are substituted by hydroxycarboxylic acid; discharging released water-soluble polymers from the dispersion by ultrafiltration; and subsequently adding hydroxycarboxylic acid, polyhydric alcohol and/or a polar solvent, into the dispersion.
US08083971B2
The invention relates to compounds of general formula (I) and to the use thereof as active materials in solar cells and photodetectors. The variables in formula (I) are defined in the specification. Formula (I) also has the following example.
US08083970B2
The present invention relates to electroconductive inks and methods of making and using the same. The electroconductive inks include carbon fibrils and a liquid vehicle. The electroconductive ink may further include a polymeric binder. The electroconductive filler used is carbon fibrils which may be oxidized. The ink has rheological properties similar to that of commercially available electroconductive inks that use carbon black as their filler. The ink can be screen-printed, slot-coated, sprayed, brushed or dipped onto a wide variety of substrates to form an electroconductive coating.
US08083965B2
The refrigerating machine oil of the present invention contains a mineral oil whose nitrogen content is not more than 50 ppm by mass and whose percent in aromatic ring structures (% CA) is from 5 to 25. With the refrigerating machine oil of the present invention, high levels of lubricity, stability, and miscibility with refrigerants are attained, with a good balance between these, so refrigerating and air conditioning machines can be operated stably over a longer period.
US08083961B2
A method and system for treating a substrate using a ballistic electron beam is described, whereby the radial uniformity of the electron beam flux is adjusted by modulating the source radio frequency (RF) power. For example, a plasma processing system is described having a first RF power coupled to a lower electrode, which may support the substrate, a second RF power coupled to an upper electrode that opposes the lower electrode, and a negative high voltage direct current (DC) power coupled to the upper electrode to form the ballistic electron beam. The amplitude of the second RF power is modulated to affect changes in the uniformity of the ballistic electron beam flux.
US08083959B2
In the present invention, a plurality of rounds of patterning are performed on a substrate. In a patterning system, the substrate on which a first round of patterning has been performed is transferred to a planarizing film forming unit, where a planarizing film is formed above the substrate. The substrate is then transferred to the patterning system and subjected to a second round of patterning. The time from the completion of the forming processing of the planarizing film to the start of the second round of patterning is managed to be constant among the substrates. According to the present invention, in the pattern forming processing of performing a plurality of rounds of patterning, a pattern with a desired dimension can be stably formed above the substrate.
US08083957B2
Disclosed is a decorative material in which a metal layer (e.g., a radio-wave-transmitting metal layer) on a non-metallic-lustrous part can be removed readily and sufficiently even when the metal layer is formed partially by a process involving an etching treatment, and can decorate a molded article with a desired pattern readily and satisfactorily. Also disclosed is a method for producing the decorative material. Further disclosed is a molded article produced by using the decorative material. Specifically disclosed is a decorative material (1) which mainly comprises: a support (2) having a first main surface (S1) and a second main surface (S2) both of which are opposed to each other; a metal oxide layer (12) which is arranged on the first main surface of the support (2) and comprises aluminum oxide; a radio-wave-transmitting metal layer (14) which is arranged on the metal oxide layer (12) and contains at least one member selected from the group consisting of Sn and In as a constituent component; a mask layer (16) which is arranged on the radio-wave-transmitting metal layer (14) and comprises a synthetic resin; and an adhesive layer (20) which is arranged on the mask layer (16) and comprises a synthetic resin. In the decorative material (1), the mask layer (16), the radio-wave-transmitting metal layer (14) and the metal oxide layer (12) are so laminated that all of these layers have almost the same pattern when observed in an almost normal direction of the main surface of the support (2).
US08083956B2
To provide a display device with higher image quality and reliability or a large-sized display device with a large screen at low cost with high productivity. A function layer (such as a coloring layer or a pixel electrode layer) used in the display device is formed by discharging a liquid function-layer-forming material to an opening formed with a layer including a first organic compound which has a C—N bond or a C—O bond in the main chain as a base and a layer including a second organic compound as a partition. The fluorine density exhibiting liquid repellency to the liquid function-layer-forming material, which is attached to a surface of the layers including organic compounds, is controlled, whereby a liquid repellent region and a lyophilic region can be selectively formed.
US08083953B2
Methods for fabricating sublithographic, nanoscale linear microchannel arrays over surfaces without defined features utilizing self-assembling block copolymers, and films and devices formed from these methods are provided. Embodiments of the methods use a multilayer induced ordering approach to align lamellar films to an underlying base film within trenches, and localized heating to anneal the lamellar-phase block copolymer film overlying the trenches and outwardly over the remaining surface.
US08083950B2
The present invention relates to a method for recovering an organic-inorganic element-doped metal oxide from a hydrolysable metal compound, accompanied with contaminated water treatment. The present invention comprises steps of: a) adding a hydrolysable metal compound as a coagulant to a contaminated water to form a separable floc between the hydrolysable metal compound and contaminants present in contaminated water; b) separating the separable floc and the pre-treated water after flocculation treatment; and c) calcinating the separated floc over 500° C. to produce an organic-inorganic element-doped metal oxide. More preferably, the present invention further comprises subjecting the pre-treated water of the step b) to a microwave treatment to cause a photocatalytic degradation of an organic contaminant that remains in the pre-treated water, with the assistance of the remaining hydrolysable metal compound. A novel titanium compound is found as an alternative coagulant instead of iron and aluminum salts which most widely use in water treatment. Ability, capacity and efficiency of flocculation as the proposed titanium coagulant are similar to those of FeCl3 and alum coagulants in terms of removing organic matter. Titania produced by calcination of the separated floc after TiCl4 flocculation is mainly doped with C and P atoms.
US08083941B2
An improved construction of filtration media of a wedge filter provides a performance on both surface and inner filtration mechanisms with offering many times recycled use by washable functions. Particularly a wedge filter plate is used to construct a hollow cylindrical type media of wedge filter.
US08083936B1
The production of purified water from a residential reverse osmosis drinking water system is limited by the pressure build up in the holding tank or reservoir. While the pressure in the tank increases the brine or waste water continues to flow at a constant rate. This condition makes an undesirable out of proportion relationship between the purified water and the waste water. The production of product water is controlled by the differential pressure across the purification membrane, as the tank pressure increases the differential pressure decreases and reduced production of product water results. The purpose of the device is to utilize the increasing tank pressure as a force to actuate the valve that proportions the waste water in a direct relationship with the product water. The ratio between the product water and the waste water remains constant during the period that purified water is being delivered to the holding tank.
US08083932B2
A process for making lower olefins from a wide boiling range hydrocarbon feed by use of a combination of one or more vapor/liquid separation devices, and then pyrolytically cracking the vapor phase in separate sets of pyrolysis radiant tubes, thereby producing a higher level of lower olefin product.
US08083931B2
The invention is directed to a process wherein a feedstock or stream comprising steam cracker tar is passed to a vacuum pipestill. A deasphalted cut of tar is obtained as an overhead (or sidestream) and a heavy tar asphaltenic product is obtained as bottoms. In preferred embodiments, at least a portion of the bottoms product is sent to a partial oxidation unit (POX) wherein syn gas may be obtained as a product, and/or at least a portion of the bottoms product is used to produce a light product stream in a coker unit, such as coker naphtha and/or or coker gas oil. In another preferred embodiment at least a portion of the overheads product is added to refinery fuel oil pools and in yet another preferred embodiment at least a portion of the overheads product is mixed with locally combusted materials to lower soot make. Two or more of the aforementioned preferred embodiments may be combined.
US08083930B2
A process is described for producing deasphalted steam cracker tar comprising feeding steam cracker tar to a vacuum pipestill (VPS) including a flash zone separated from a zone comprising trays by at least one annular entrainment ring and obtaining as an overheads a deasphalted tar product and as a bottoms an asphaltenic heavy tar product. Also according to the invention, there is a system for the upgrading of tar comprising said VPS with at least one annular entrainment ring.
US08083924B2
A sensor utilizing a non-leachable or diffusible redox mediator is described. The sensor includes a sample chamber to hold a sample in electrolytic contact with a working electrode, and in at least some instances, the sensor also contains a non-leachable or a diffusible second electron transfer agent. The sensor and/or the methods used produce a sensor signal in response to the analyte that can be distinguished from a background signal caused by the mediator. The invention can be used to determine the concentration of a biomolecule, such as glucose or lactate, in a biological fluid, such as blood or serum, using techniques such as coulometry, amperometry; and potentiometry. An enzyme capable of catalyzing the electrooxidation or electroreduction of the biomolecule is typically provided as a second electron transfer agent.
US08083916B2
A biological molecule detection device that includes a detection array, arranged on a body and having one or more probes for detecting corresponding electrically charged molecules, wherein a time varying electric field generating circuit is provided for generating at least one time varying electric field around the detection array within the detection region. The time varying electric field moves the electrical charged molecules repeatedly back and forth over the probes, thus providing increased opportunities for interaction and speeding the detection process.
US08083911B2
This invention relates to an apparatus (1) for treating, e.g. coating, a substrate (35, 39) in a vacuum chamber (2). In this vacuum chamber (2) there are arranged n cathodes (7-10) and n+1 anodes (28-32), each of said anodes adjacent to a cathode (7-10). Each of the n cathodes (7-10) and n of the assigned anodes (29-32) are connected to a power supply (11-14). One of the anodes (28) not being assigned to a cathode (7-10) is connected to an electrical line (63) which is connecting each of the anodes (28-32). A pull-down resistor (34) is connected to said line (63) at its one end and to ground (33) at its other end.
US08083900B2
A process and system for separating water from bio-oil by using a partial condenser. The process comprises partially condensing vapor conversion products from a biomass conversion reaction to produce a water-rich overhead stream and a water-depleted stream comprising condensed bio-oil. The partial condenser removes a substantial portion of the water from the bio-oil, while providing an effective and flexible process for producing bio-oil.
US08083898B2
A method for manufacturing a machine felt. Firstly a tube having a longitudinal yarn layer is manufactured with a peripheral length double the length of the machine felt, and a width that corresponds to the width of the machine felt. The tube is compressed into a flattened tube with the formation of longitudinal yarn loops which are exposed by the removal of fibers of a fiber batt layer. An auxiliary substrate web is manufactured with a width that is less than that of the machine felt; for the longitudinal yarns and/or for the auxiliary substrate web, a material is used that absorbs laser energy; the longitudinal yarns are brought together with the auxiliary substrate web and connected by a laser beam; the auxiliary substrate web is helically wound until the tube is formed; and upon exposure of the longitudinal yarn loops, the auxiliary substrate web(s) are also removed.
US08083897B2
Apparatus for producing a fibrous web that includes a smooth roll and at least one opposing element. The smooth roll and the at least one opposing element are arranged to form at least one press nip, a felt is structured and arranged to guide the fibrous web through the at least one press nip, and an embossing belt is structured and arranged to receive the fibrous web from the smooth roll. The smooth roll and the embossing belt are arranged such that the fibrous web passes in an unsupported manner over a free draw between said smooth roll and said embossing belt.
US08083894B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a security paper, for security or value documents, that exhibits at least one through opening (12) having characteristic irregularities (14) in the edge region. According to the present invention, a paper web having thin sites in the form of the outline of the desired shape of the at least one through opening (12) is formed on a paper mold, and the paper web dewatered after sheet formation, the region delimited by the thin sites being removed from the paper web by the occurring forces.
US08083890B2
The various embodiments provide apparatus and methods of removal of unwanted deposits near the bevel edge of substrates to improve process yield. The embodiments provide apparatus and methods with center and edge gas feeds as additional process knobs for selecting a most suitable bevel edge etching processes to push the edge exclusion zone further outward towards the edge of substrates. Further the embodiments provide apparatus and methods with tuning gas(es) to change the etching profile at the bevel edge and using a combination of center and edge gas feeds to flow process and tuning gases into the chamber. Both the usage of tuning gas and location of gas feed(s) affect the etching characteristics at bevel edge. Total gas flow, gap distance between the gas delivery plate and substrate surface, pressure, and types of process gas(es) are also found to affect bevel edge etching profiles.
US08083888B2
The invention provides a plasma processing apparatus for measuring the etching quantity of the material being processed and detecting the end point of etching using optical interference on the surface of a sample being processed, so as to simultaneously realize long life and ensure sufficient light to be received via a light transmitting unit, to enable long term stable operation and to improve the processing accuracy via accurate etching quantity detection. In a plasma processing apparatus for processing a sample being processed by generating plasma between a shower plate and a lower electrode, a detector for detecting light from a surface of the sample being processed via the shower plate includes a light transmitting unit composed of a light guide into which light is entered and a spectroscope for analyzing the light obtained by the light transmitting unit, wherein the end surface of the light transmitting unit through which light is entered is arranged at a distance of five times or greater of the mean free path of gas molecules within the vacuum reactor from the end surface of the shower plate facing the plasma.
US08083880B2
A wearing article 4(A to D) includes a main body 5(A to D) having a front part P, a back part Q and a crotch part R coupling the front part P and the back part Q. The main body 5(A to D) includes a pair of waist edges T opposed to each other and a pair of leg edges S opposed to each other. A shirring 15 is so formed in a substantially widthwise middle portion of the crotch part R of the main body 5(A to D) as to shorten a space between the front part P and the back part Q. A ratio of the length L1 of the crotch part R along the forward and backward direction X to a length L2 between the pair of waist edges T is 1:15 to 1:2.
US08083874B2
A method for producing a low thermal expansion Ni-base superalloy including the steps of subjecting the alloy to a solution heat treatment under the condition of at a temperature of 1000 to 1200° C. and subjecting the alloy to either a carbide stabilizing treatment for making aggregated carbides on grain boundaries and stabilizing the carbides under the conditions of at a temperature of not less than 850° C. and less than 1000° C. and for 1 to 50 hours, or a carbide stabilizing treatment for making aggregated carbides on grain boundaries and stabilizing the carbides by cooling from the temperature in the solution heat treatment to 850° C. at a cooling rate of 100° C. or less per hour. The method also including the steps of subjecting the alloy to a first aging treatment for precipitating y′ phase under the conditions of at a temperature of 720 to 900° C. and for 1 to 50 hours, and subjecting the alloy to a second aging treatment for precipitating A2B phase under the conditions of at a temperature of 550 to 700° C. and for 5 to 100 hours.
US08083873B2
Endodontic instruments for use in performing root canal therapy on a tooth are disclosed. In one form, the instruments include an elongate shank having a cutting edge extending from a distal end of the shank along an axial length of the shank. The shank comprises a titanium alloy, and the shank is prepared by heat-treating the shank at a temperature above 25° C. in an atmosphere consisting essentially of a gas unreactive with the shank. In another form, the endodontic instruments have an elongate shank having a cutting edge extending from a distal end of the shank along an axial length of the shank. The shank consists essentially of a titanium alloy selected from alpha-titanium alloys, beta-titanium alloys, and alpha-beta-titanium alloys. The instruments solve the problems encountered when cleaning and enlarging a curved root canal.
US08083868B2
A rolling bearing comprises an outer ring, an inner ring and rolling elements rotatably disposed between the outer and inner rings. At least a member selected from the outer ring, inner ring and rolling elements has C content of 0.2 or more and 0.6 or less wt %, Cr content of 2.5 or more and 7.0 or less wt %, Mn content of 0.5 or more and 2.0 or less wt %, Si content of 0.1 wt % or more and 1.5 or less wt %, and Mo content of 0.5 or more and 3.0 or less wt %. Further, a carburizing or carbo-nitriding treatment, a quenching treatment and a tempering treatment are applied to the selected member. Furthermore, retained austenite on a surface thereof is 15% or more and 45% or less vol. %, and the surface hardness thereof is HRC60 or more.
US08083861B2
An apparatus and method for cleaning passageways and the like with a two-phase mixture of gas under pressure and an aqueous cleaning solution. The two-phase cleaning mixture is generated in a module and is passed out of the module at a predetermined rate that determines droplet size, velocity and droplet density at the pipeline surface to be cleaned. The droplets impact the walls of the passageway to be cleaned, thereby fragmenting, eroding and removing contaminants in said passageway. These are then flushed out of the passageway by the two-phase flow. The flow of cleaning solution can be steady or pulsed. The apparatus and process include a clean-in-place system that is useful in food, beverage, pharmaceutical and similar process industries.
US08083860B2
Example embodiments of the invention include a cleaning system having both daily cleaning tasks and periodic cleaning tasks for cleaning and dusting a room. By utilizing less inventory and more biocompatible, “bio-safe” products than traditional systems, embodiments of the cleaning system requires less tools yet, allows its users to combine cleaning processes in a time-saving feature. The invention further includes the use of an inventive cleaning brush apparatus for which allows dirt and dust to be swept into gaps between rows of bristles, which are attached to a handle via metal rails. Accordingly, dust is concurrently collected into a row of suction holes without requiring separate steps to sweep and collect the dust. As such, the spacing of the inner and outer bristles allows for dust to be trapped in the gaps rather than permanently dispersing into the breathing air.
US08083855B2
A temperature control module for a semiconductor processing chamber comprises a thermally conductive component body, one or more channels in the component body and one or more tubes concentric therewith, such that gas filled spaces surround the tubes. By flowing a heat transfer liquid in the tubes and adjusting the gas pressure in the spaces, localized temperature of the component body can be precisely controlled. One or more heating elements can be arranged in each zone and a heat transfer liquid can be passed through the tubes to effect heating or cooling of each zone by activating the heating elements and/or varying pressure of the gas in the spaces.
US08083853B2
Embodiments of a gas diffuser plate for distributing gas in a processing chamber are provided. The gas distribution plate includes a diffuser plate having an upstream side and a downstream side, and a plurality of gas passages passing between the upstream and downstream sides of the diffuser plate. The gas passages include hollow cathode cavities at the downstream side to enhance plasma ionization. The depths, the diameters, the surface area and density of hollow cathode cavities of the gas passages that extend to the downstream end can be gradually increased from the center to the edge of the diffuser plate to improve the film thickness and property uniformity across the substrate. The increasing diameters, depths and surface areas from the center to the edge of the diffuser plate can be created by bending the diffuser plate toward downstream side, followed by machining out the convex downstream side. Bending the diffuser plate can be accomplished by a thermal process or a vacuum process. The increasing diameters, depths and surface areas from the center to the edge of the diffuser plate can also be created computer numerically controlled machining. Diffuser plates with gradually increasing diameters, depths and surface areas of the hollow cathode cavities from the center to the edge of the diffuser plate have been shown to produce improved uniformities of film thickness and film properties.
US08083851B2
Efficient antimicrobial additives are provided comprising a wettable, cake-forming inorganic material having dispersed therein an inorganic or organometallic antimicrobial agent capable of releasing antimicrobial metal ions. These antimicrobial additives are especially effective for use in cements, mortars and cementitious compositions.
US08083844B2
This invention provides quality and safe chemically-curing type GIC that solves all the disadvantages of light-curing type GIC, and has mechanical strength not lower but higher than that of light-curing type GIC and, in addition to this, the original features and advantages of GIC. The chemically-curing type glass ionomer cement according to the present invention includes porous and particulate hydroxy apatite that has a means diameter of not less than 0.6 μm and less than 100 μm and a large specific surface, and is added and mixed into the glass ionomer cement.
US08083835B2
A system and related method for purifying indoor air comprising: a filter bed comprising a growing medium suitable for growing plants rooted therein and configured to be capable of sustaining an airflow therethrough between a top surface thereof and a bottom surface thereof; a micro-irrigation system comprising a plurality of irrigation source outlets for delivering water to the filter bed in a substantially-uniform fashion; an active region of the filter bed comprising that region of the filter bed configured so as to substantially have the airflow flowing therethrough; and micro-irrigation system configured such that water therefrom is capable of being projected so as to reach at least 50% of a top surface area of the active region.
US08083833B2
This invention describes a new concept of flexible template-directed microporous partially pyrolyzed polymeric membranes which have greatly improved performance in separation of gas pairs compared to their precursor polymeric membranes. Organic hosts, such as crown ethers, cyclodextrins (CDs), calixarenes (CXs), and spherands, or polymeric additives, such as poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) were used as the micropore-forming templates. Micropore-forming template/polymer blend membranes comprising organic micropore-forming templates embedded in a polymer matrix were prepared by dissolving the organic micropore-forming templates in the polymer solution followed by solution-casting and solvent evaporation or solvent exchange. Low-temperature selectively pyrolyzing micropore-forming templates in the micropore-forming template/polymer blend membranes at a nitrogen flow resulted in the formation of flexible microporous partially pyrolyzed polymeric membranes.
US08083832B2
A composite paste for forming interconnects that includes a quantity of metallic binder particles, a quantity of metallic filler particles, and a quantity of flux, where the binder particles comprise no more than 94.5% of the total weight of the quantity of the composite paste, and the total weight of the filler particles and the flux comprise the balance of the total weight of the quantity of the composite paste, where the flux is no more than 10% of the total weight of the flux and the filler particles.
US08083831B2
The present invention relates to a lightweight, anti-scratch and fracture resistant material for use in manufacture of jewelry prepared by sintering a powered mixture consisting essentially of 20% by weight of titanium carbide, 25% by weight of tungsten carbide, 35% by weight of titanium nitride, and balance being a binder consisting essentially of nickel, molybdenum and cobalt.
US08083826B2
A honeycomb filter includes cell walls and cells. The cell walls extend along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb filter to define the cells between the cell walls. The cells have first cells and second cells each having a substantially square shape in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The first cells are sealed and the second cells are open at one end face of the honeycomb filter. The substantially square shape of the first cells includes a first side whose extended line intersects a second side except for corner portions of the substantially square shape of the second cells. The second side and the extended line of the first side are substantially perpendicular.
US08083822B2
A system for treating exhaust gas from an engine is disclosed. The system may include a housing, a fluid treatment element, and a conduit. The housing has an inlet and an outlet port and defines a flow path therebetween. The fluid treatment element is arranged in the flow path. The conduit is fluidly connected with at least one of the inlet port and the outlet port and includes a first port having a first axis and a second port having a second axis substantially perpendicular to the first axis. The first port has a first cross-section with an inner diameter. The second port has a second cross-section with an inner width and an inner length. The inner length of the second cross-section is smaller than the inner diameter of the first cross-section, and the inner width of the second cross-section is greater than the inner diameter of the first cross-section.
US08083811B2
Dye mixtures, comprising at least one dye of formula and at least one dye from the group of formulae wherein the substituents are defined in the specification.
US08083807B2
A method is provided for verifying the adjustment of a leg prosthesis. The leg prosthesis includes a prosthetic knee joint pivotally connected to an upper connection and a lower leg shaft. The upper connection fixes the leg prosthesis on a user of the leg prosthesis and the lower leg shaft fastens to a prosthetic foot. The upper connection is displaceable in relation to a joint axis of the prosthetic knee joint. The method includes measuring a knee moment and an axial force by means of sensors when leg prosthesis is being used; calculating a resultant force vector using the knee moment and the axial force; calculating a normal distance relative to the joint axis and the position of the resultant force vector in relation to the joint axis; and verifying a position of the resultant force vector relative to the joint axis in the sagittal plane.
US08083805B2
This invention deals with an absorbable/disintegratable endo-urological stent and applicators for introduction into biological conduits, including such as urethras and ureters, with said stent comprising a fiber-reinforced, multicomponent tube made of polyesters having a range of physicochemical properties.
US08083804B2
Apparatus method for performing surgical anastomotic procedures are disclosed herein. The apparatus for performing the surgical anastomotic procedure includes a tubular sleeve defining an axial lumen therethrough, a positioning tube defining an axial lumen therethrough, an expansion assembly having a tubular body and an expandable tip operatively coupled to a distal end thereof, and an anchoring assembly. The positioning tube is preferably configured and adapted to be slidably received within the axial lumen of the tubular sleeve.
US08083800B2
An implant for insertion between vertebral members may include a first member with a first contact surface to contact the first vertebral member, and a second member with a second contact surface to contact the second vertebral member. A material may be secured to and extend between each of the first and second members. An interior space may be formed between the first and second members and the material. An inflatable member may be positioned within the interior space and may be inflatable upon the introduction of a substance into inflatable member. The inflatable member may be inflatable between a first size to space the first and second members a first distance apart and an enlarged second size to space the first and second members a second greater distance apart.
US08083794B2
A replica eye includes a dome-shaped eyeball, a back simulating member, a front simulating member, a container, at least one tube, and a driving member. The eyeball includes a light-transmitting area for transmitting light. The back simulating member has a simulating surface being a first color. The front simulating member has a resilient capsule being a second color other than the first color. The resilient capsule is attached to the simulating surface, and arranged between the simulating surface and the light-transmitting area. The container is used for accommodating fillers. The at least one tube is capable of passing through the simulating surface to connect between the resilient capsule and the container. The driving member is coupled to the container for driving the fillers received in the container move towards and away from resilient capsule via the tube.
US08083793B2
A heart valve assembly including an annular prosthesis implantable within a biological annulus, a prosthetic valve including a multiple lobular shape for implantation above the biological annulus, and one or more connectors for securing the prosthetic valve to the annular prosthesis. A flexible sewing cuff extends radially from the annular prosthesis that is resiliently flexible for conforming to the multiple lobular shape of the prosthetic valve to enhance a seal between the prosthetic valve and the annular prosthesis. The sewing cuff may include a core resiliently conformable with anatomy surrounding the biological annulus and fabric covering at least a portion of the core.
US08083782B2
Strip fasteners and cranial plugs for use in reattaching a skull flap removed during brain surgery and methods of using the same. The strip fasteners are flexible and can be shaped to follow the perimeter contour of the skull flap. The cranial plugs can be used to reattach the skull flap or they can be installed after the skull flap is reattached using the strip fasteners. In some embodiments, the cranial plug(s) and strip fasteners can be installed at the same time. The strip fasteners and cranial plugs are designed to encourage bone growth and healing of the skull flap and they can be used to deliver medication and bone growth enhancement compositions to the surgical site.
US08083779B2
Devices and methods that securely engage an elongated connecting element in a receiver of an anchor assembly are provided. The anchor assembly includes an anchor member engageable to bony structure and the receiver includes a passage for receiving the connecting element when the connecting element is positioned along the bony structure. The anchor assembly includes an engaging member that engages the receiver and the connecting element to secure the connecting element in the receiver.
US08083776B2
Constitutes a pedicle screw (1), a rosette (3) that fixes the pedicle screw (1) to a tulip (6), a bar that constitutes the link with other devices and a locking cap (9) associated to the closing screw (11) that is threaded on the inside of the tulip (6) and fixes the position of the bar. The locking cap (9) incorporates protuberances (12) that fit on the tulip (6), guiding the set formed by the locking cap (9) and the closing screw (11) during the positioning and threading of the closing screw (11) on the tulip (6) pressing the bar (8) against the rosette (3). The outer face of the tulip (6) and the locking cap (9) present an essentially circular configuration that is interrupted by two opposite-facing flat indentations (13, 14) that contribute to reduce the width of the device in the axial direction of the bar (8).
US08083775B2
A dynamic bone anchor for anchoring a spine stabilization assembly which supports the spine while providing for the preservation of spinal motion. The dynamic bone anchor provides load sharing while preserving range of motion and reducing stress exerted upon the bone anchors and spinal anatomy. The dynamic bone anchor includes a deflectable post connected by a ball joint to a threaded anchor. Deflection of the deflectable post is controlled by a compliant sleeve. The force/deflection properties of the dynamic bone anchor may be adapted to the anatomy and functional requirements of the patient. When implanted the pivot point for the deflectable post is placed close to the instantaneous center of rotation of the spine. The dynamic bone anchor may be used as a component of a dynamic stabilization system which supports the spine while providing for the preservation of spinal motion.
US08083774B2
A method of repositioning or fixing a first vertebrae or portion of a first vertebrae comprising fixing a bone screw in the first vertebrae and a bone screw in a second vertebrae, where each bone screw has a portal, and inflating an inflatable balloon between the portals, thereby creating a rigid structure between the bone screws.
US08083772B2
A versatile dynamic spinal rod and bone anchor assembly for use in a dynamic stabilization system to support the spine while providing for the preservation of spinal motion. Alternative embodiments can be used for spine fusion. The dynamic bone anchor provides load sharing while preserving range of motion and reducing stress exerted upon the bone anchors and spinal anatomy. The dynamic bone anchor includes a deflectable post connected by a ball-joint to a threaded anchor. The dynamic rod connects different levels of the construct in a multilevel construct. The dynamic rod is connected to the dynamic bone anchor by a joint which permits relative movement of the deflectable post and rod reducing the stress exerted upon the bone anchors and spinal anatomy.
US08083761B2
A balloon catheter includes a catheter tube and an inflatable balloon. The ends of the balloon are attached to the catheter tube. The outside surface of the balloon in an uninflated state is provided with a relief structure which in an inflated state of the balloon is substantially disappeared. A method for producing such a relief structure is by winding a wire helically around the outer surface of the balloon.
US08083760B2
The present invention provides a lancet system having a lancet tip, a lancet body, and an outer body or housing which surrounds the lancet tip and in which the lancet tip is movable. The outer body or housing comprises deformable material which can be pierced by the lancet tip during a puncture operation to produce an outlet opening. The outlet opening can be widened during the puncture operation by a thickened or widened portion of the lancet body that at least partially protrudes through the opening. Other embodiments of the present invention include a pricking aid and/or lancet system provided as a magazine for holding a plurality of lancets.
US08083758B2
Described here are devices and methods for intussuscepting a portion of stomach tissue. Typically the intussusception is created at a position near, but distal to the gastroesophageal junction, and a pouch capable of storing a volume (from about 0 cc up to about 100 cc) is created proximal the intussuscepted tissue. In this way, the amount of food that may be ingested is reduced, helping to ameliorate GERD symptoms, and aiding in weight loss efforts. Some of the devices described here include an expandable member and at least one suction inlet. In these devices, the expandable member is expanded to create a proximal cavity into which the stomach tissue is pulled (e.g., using suction), thereby creating the intussusception.
US08083754B2
A surgical device of suturing vascular vessels is described, as well as methods for suturing tissue employing the surgical device. The device includes at least one needle advanceable through tissue and into a needle capture element within a distal end of the surgical device to draw lengths of suture material which can then be used to close various puncture wounds, particularly in vascular tissue.
US08083752B2
Systems and methods introduce a tissue fastener applier to apply tissue-piercing fasteners to a prosthesis sequentially along a path established by the directing device that, between fastener applications, is manipulated into orientation with different desired fastening sites, until a plurality of tissue-piercing fasteners are placed, one-at-a-time, in the prosthesis.
US08083738B2
An energy delivering probe is used for thermally coagulating and/or constricting hollow anatomical structures (HAS) including, but not limited to, blood vessels such as perforator veins. The probe includes a shaft and at least two electrodes where at least one of the electrodes has a generally spherical or toroidal geometry.
US08083732B2
A catheter includes a cryoablation tip with an electrically-driven ablation assembly for heating tissue. The cryoablation tip may be implemented with a cooling chamber through which a controllably injected coolant circulates to lower the tip temperature, and having an RF electrode at its distal end. The RF electrode may be operated to warm cryogenically-cooled tissue, or the coolant may be controlled to conductively cool the tissue in coordination with an RF treatment regimen.
US08083730B2
An implantable medical device for delivering a therapeutic substance including a housing and a volume sensor assembly. The housing includes a stationary wall and maintains a reservoir containing the therapeutic substance and including a base wall movable relative to the stationary wall such that reservoir volume is a function of a spacing between the base wall and the stationary wall. The volume sensor assembly includes a cap, a shaft, a target, and circuitry. The cap defines a passage extending from an open end, and is mounted to the stationary wall such that the open end is open relative to a stationary wall inner face. The shaft has a first end attached to the base wall and a second end maintaining the target otherwise movably arranged within the passage. The circuitry generates information indicative of a longitudinal position of the target relative to the cap, and thus of the reservoir volume.
US08083726B1
A method including combining a cellular component with a viability enhancer material wherein the combination will inhibit an interaction between the cellular component and a delivery device; and delivering the cellular component through the delivery device. An apparatus including a delivery cannula having dimensions suitable for percutaneous delivery and a lumen therethrough, wherein a portion of a luminal surface of the cannula includes a coating that is amenable to a cellular component delivered through the delivery cannula. A method including percutaneously introducing a delivery cannula into a blood vessel; advancing a distal portion of the delivery cannula to a treatment site; and delivering a cellular component through a lumen of the delivery cannula, wherein a portion of a luminal surface of the cannula includes a coating that is amenable to a cellular component delivered through the delivery cannula.
US08083722B2
Described are novel medical delivery devices that can be used to effectively distribute a medical agent to multiple sites within a tissue volume without requiring the device to be repositioned, including for example to distribute the medical agent within the nucleus pulposus tissue of a spinal disc. Also described are medical delivery devices configured to simultaneously remove fluid from the tissue volume into which a medical agent is being delivered, thus avoiding or otherwise decreasing any pressure build-up and facilitating an effective, uniform delivery of the therapeutic agent.
US08083705B2
Low-cost, light weight portable cervical traction or spinal decompression devices for home use by a patient. A carriage is slidable along a portion of a support structure parallel to a longitudinal axis. The carriage includes a restraining mechanism adapted to releasably restrain a portion of a patient's body to the carriage. The pneumatic traction force generating apparatus is operatively coupled to move the carriage relative to the support structure when in a pressurized state. The pneumatic traction force generating apparatus is adapted to maintain a generally static traction force during a treatment period when in the pressurized state without additional pressurized air being supplied. A hand pump operated by the patient is fluidly connected to the pneumatic traction force generating apparatus to inject pressurized air. A pressure relief mechanism operated by the patient is adapted to release pressure from the pneumatic traction force generating apparatus.
US08083703B2
Disclosed is an orthotic for treating at least one component of talipes equinovarus. The orthotic includes an orthotic shell having a plantar support surface configured to support a portion of a foot disposed in the orthotic. The plantar support surface includes a cutout extending laterally through at least a portion of a midfoot portion, and a posterior cuboid supporting surface having a medial boundary, at least a portion of the medial boundary being defined by at least a portion of the cutout.
US08083696B2
A hairbrush includes a control panel, an interior vibratory element for providing massage therapy and a plurality of LEDs carried by the brush head for providing light therapy at a preselected wavelength selected to be of benefit to the hair and/or scalp. In response to user control input mode selection, the light and massage multi-therapy hairbrush selectively provides phototherapy, massage therapy, and combined massage and phototherapies.
US08083693B1
In order to monitor an individual's posture, a cable is incorporated within a garment that is configured to be worn on an individual's upper body such that at least a portion of the cable spans an upper back region of the garment. A sensor is configured to monitor tension in the cable and to generate an alert when the tension in the cable exceeds a threshold level.
US08083692B2
The present invention provides a lumen measuring device and method that allows the user to calculate the exact length and diameter of a suitable interventional prosthesis as well as the height and length of stenosis during the same exploratory procedure.
US08083690B2
A guidewire converter for use in intravascular procedures along with a guidewire. The guidewire converter includes an elongate tubular structure defining a lumen having an inner diameter and a first outer diameter. The inner diameter of the lumen is sized to receive the guidewire for intravascular procedures. The guidewire converter includes a locking mechanism coupled to the elongate tubular structure that has a second outer diameter that is less than or substantially equal to the first outer diameter. Operation of the locking mechanism releasably secures the elongate tubular structure to the guidewire.
US08083683B2
A flow system for use in a monitor for measuring blood pressure that automatically configures the flow path of the system when either a single lumen cuff or a dual lumen cuff is coupled to the monitor.
US08083666B2
Described is a tissue resection system which includes a guide element; a resection head; a positioning mechanism and an actuating mechanism. The resection head includes a guide channel slidably receiving the guide element and an endoscope channel sized to slidably receive an endoscope therein, so that, when the resection head is slid along the guide element, the endoscope and the resection head follow a path defined by the guide element. The positioning mechanism moves the resection head relative to a distal end of the endoscope between a first position in which the distal end of the endoscope extends distally out of the endoscope channel and a second position in which the distal end of the endoscope is received within the endoscope channel. The actuating mechanism moving a portion of an outer wall of the resection head to open and close a resection chamber defined by the outer wall.
US08083665B2
An apparatus for providing a restriction and sensing an associated operational parameter, comprises a restriction device and a sensing device. The restriction device is configured to be secured around a portion of an anatomical structure. The restriction device is operable to form a restriction within the anatomical structure. The sensing device is configured to sense a parameter associated with operation of the restriction device. At least a portion of the sensing device is configured to be positioned adjacent to tissue of the anatomical structure. The restriction device may comprise a gastric band, among other things. The sensing device may comprise a pressure sensor, among other things.
US08083661B2
A creasing machine (1) for forming creases in sheets (11) of flexible material, said creasing machine (1) including a creasing mechanism (5), a transport mechanism (3) for transporting sheets (11) of material through the creasing mechanism, and a control system (7) for controlling operation of the creasing mechanism (5) and the transport mechanism (3), said creasing mechanism (3) including first and second creasing members (25,27) and a drive mechanism (28) for driving the creasing members (25,27), wherein the creasing members (25,27) are arranged to move in the direction of movement of the sheet (11) and at least one of said creasing members (25,27) is moveable towards the other creasing member (25,27) to produce a crease in a sheet (11) located between those members (25,27), and wherein the control system (7) is arranged to substantially match the speed of movement of the creasing members (25,27) with the speed of the sheet to enable the sheet to be creased while moving.
US08083660B2
The invention provides for a re-closable flexible package with gussets (2, 3, 4) on the sides and bottom for increasing its volume and providing ease of storage comprising: —a slider zipper assembly (5, 6) to open and close said package; —a diaphragm (7) of at least one metalized film placed below the slider zipper assembly to seal the package and act as barrier making it tamper proof; —a scoring line (45) on said diaphragm (7) for making it easier and more convenient for the user to tear open and access the contents of the package; —a handle (8) made of a laminate for ease in lifting or carrying the flexible package.
US08083650B2
An exercise assisting device comprises foot supports having foot support surfaces respectively, a seat, a seat height adjusting unit, and a seat driving unit. The foot support is provided for bearing foot of a user. The seat is shaped to have a contact surface for supporting buttocks of the user when the user places the feet onto the foot support surfaces. The seat height adjusting unit is configured to move the seat toward a vertical direction and also toward a front-back direction in order to position the seat at a standard position which is located at a standard height from the foot support surface in the vertical direction. Consequently, a knee of the user has a predetermined angle. The seat driving unit is configured to swing the seat about the standard position so as to vary weight of the user which acts on legs of the user. The exercise assisting device further comprises a load regulating means. The load regulating means is configured to vary a load which acts on a knee joint of the user as a height between the contact surface of the seat and the foot support surface in the vertical direction becomes shorter than the standard height.
US08083649B1
A wrist exerciser that uses nested semi spheres to work the wrists. It has an outer bowl-shaped housing that can be mounted to a wall, or can he held by the user using a special glove. A second bowl-shaped device called the pendulum has a handle in the center and fits within the housing. A third member called a pressure bowl is fitted into the outer housing. The pressure bowl has an open bottom to let pendulum handle pass through the bottom of the pressure bowl. The user tightens the pressure bowl down to increase the tightness of the pendulum within the outer housing. A user can mount the device on a wall or grip the bottom of the outer bowl. Then, the user holds the handle on the pendulum and rotates the pendulum around the outer housing, back and forth in any desired direction to work the wrist.
US08083643B2
This is directed to systems and methods for accessing personalized fitness services through an integrated application available to a portable electronic device. The integrated application can provide a full fitness center experience by introducing potential new customer to a fitness center and then motivating them to return to the fitness center as active members. For example, the integrated application can provide functions to introduce new customers to a fitness center, can provide functions to motivate customers to join and actively visit the fitness center, can provide in-gym motivation, and can provide post-workout motivation.
US08083636B2
The present invention is an axle (10) for a vehicle having a housing (12), an input shaft (14) coupled to a differential on a first end, extending through the length of the housing (12), and an output gear (16) having a first tooth profile located inside the housing (12) splined to the input shaft (14). Also included is a drive gear (18) having a second tooth profile coupled to a differential housing, at least one planetary gear (20) having a single tooth profile mounted on a carrier (22), in mesh with the first tooth profile of the output gear (16) and the second tooth profile of the drive gear (18), a carrier ring (26), and an actuatable clutch pack (32) coupled to the carrier ring (26) and the housing (12). When the actuatable clutch pack (32) is actuated, the carrier (22) is slowed down, and the speeds of the planetary gear (20) and the output gear (16) are increased, increasing the speed of the input shaft (14).
US08083632B2
An eight speed transmission is provided having three planetary gear sets controlled by seven or optionally eight torque-transmitting mechanisms to provide eight forward speed ratios and a reverse speed ratio. The first planetary gear set is representable by a three-node first lever. The second and third planetary gear sets are interconnected such that they are representable by a four-node second lever.
US08083622B1
Systems and methods for automatic belt tensioning in low speed, low volume fluid recovery operations
Systems and methods for automatic belt tensioning in low speed, low volume fluid recovery. A required amount of tension is maintained across the recovery system's belt driven components under changing torque loads and operating speeds. This is accomplished by adjusting the distance between a motor output and a speed reducer input in response to a change in torque load between the motor and speed reducer. The required amount of tension is further achieved by adjusting the distance between an output of the speed reducer and a crank wheel in response to a change in torque load between the speed reducer and crank wheel.
US08083618B2
A football kicking apparatus having a football and a stand with one end supported by a ground surface and a second end positioned above the ground support surface by a distance greater than the length of the football. The football is positioned within a sling which, in turn, is rotatably mounted about a horizontal axis to the second end of the stand. In practice, a soccer style football kicker kicks the football which, after multiple rotations about the second end of the stand depending upon the force of the kick, will reposition itself for a subsequent kick.
US08083607B2
The present invention is directed to an iron-type golf club that may be included in a set. In particular, the inventive golf club includes an adjustable hosel coupling and a mechanism for altering the sole configuration. The golf club may be included in a set having a progressive sole configuration that provides desired bounce for each club within the set.
US08083606B2
A system of interchangeable club heads sharing one or more shafts and golf bag for carrying the club heads and one or more shafts. The club heads contain a shaft segment to set club length and a coupler to interconnect to the shaft and grip. The shaft contains an opposite gender coupler. The system is very lightweight and much more portable than a conventional set of golf clubs. It also creates the opportunity for players to match club heads with shafts with differing performance characteristics. Additionally, it solves a problem for golfers using long shafts on putters. These long shafts can now be disassembled for storage and transport.
US08083605B2
Putters include a putter body having a ball striking face member made of a material having a first hardness characteristic. A cavity is defined in the putter body behind the ball striking face member, and plural openings are defined in the ball striking face member extending rearward with respect to the ball striking face member and into the cavity. A polymeric material at least partially fills the openings and the cavity, wherein the polymeric material has a second hardness characteristic that is softer than the first hardness characteristic. The ball striking face member and the polymeric material exposed in at least some of the openings provide a ball striking surface of the putter. The ball striking surface may include grooves or scorelines to affect the launch angle, spin, and/or roll of the ball during a putt. Methods for making such putter devices also are described.
US08083602B2
A cue stick tip tool includes a shaper that can contour the tip to a nickel or dime radius by using an abrasive formed within a hollow shaper body. Also included is a ferrule guide surface leading to abrasive material usable to trim a side of the cue tip while holding the ferrule clear of the abrasive material to avoid scuffing the ferrule. Another included tool has a concave cylindrical grid of upstanding pointed spikes that can be rolled over the cue tip to make a pattern of chalk holding indentations in the cue tip. The tool package preferably also includes a conical recess for burnishing a side of the cue tip, arcs to measure nickel and dime radii of the cue tip, and a container holding a chalk block and talcum powder—all arranged to be carried on a belt clip.
US08083601B2
Systems and related methods are delineated for moving a provided baby container suspended above ground from a support structure. One delineated system for moving a provided baby container suspended above ground from a support structure, the system comprises: a force generator coupled to the baby container; an elastic supporter having a first end and a second end; a sound generation device proximate the force generator; wherein: the first end of the elastic supporter is coupled to the support structure; the second end of the elastic supporter is coupled to force generator; and the force generator is configured to apply a periodic force to the baby carrier to cause oscillatory motion; and the sound generation device is configured to provide an aural output when a predetermined condition is achieved. Audio/Video monitoring and transmission may be provided.
US08083597B2
A fixed type constant velocity joint includes: an outer race having an inner spherical surface, and a plurality of guide grooves formed in the inner spherical surface of the outer race; an inner race having an outer spherical surface, and a plurality of guide grooves formed in the outer spherical surface of the inner race, said guide grooves of the outer race and said guide grooves of the inner race together forming a plurality of ball guide tracks; a plurality of balls disposed in the ball guide tracks; and a cage having a plurality of windows for retaining the balls therein. The ball guide tracks include first tracks and second tracks with different groove configurations and having dual, multiple, or differentiated center offsets with smaller offsets applied to the tracks having relatively large ball movements and larger offsets applied to the tracks having relatively small ball movements as the joint is articulated for assembling.
US08083596B1
In one embodiment, a torque limiter comprises an outer cylindrical housing having a plurality of semicircular grooves disposed in an interior surface. An inner cylindrical housing is arranged at least partially within the outer cylindrical housing. The inner cylindrical housing has a plurality of slots passing from its interior surface to its exterior surface. A plurality of roller bearings are disposed within the slots. An elastic cylinder is also arranged within the interior of the inner cylindrical housing. When applied torque is below a torque limit, the elastic component presses the roller bearings into contact with the semicircular grooves to couple the outer and inner cylindrical housing. In response to applied torque exceeding the torque limit, the elastic component compresses sufficiently to allow the roller bearings to retract and disengage the semicircular grooves, thereby decoupling the outer and the inner cylindrical housings and preventing the transfer of torque.
US08083594B2
A gaming machine having a multi-tiered power supply and power distribution system which enables maintenance of low security and higher failure rate components such as video monitors, LCDs, or reel mechanisms without disconnecting power from higher security, low failure rate components such as the main processor board. The ability to provide multi-tiered power in this manner allows low security risk items to be serviced while the gaming machine is still in contact with the casino's backend reporting system, reporting on its status. This improves security, accountability of maintenance personnel, and significantly reduces overall gaming machine down time.
US08083590B2
A multidirectional control unit includes a lower body of main axis A, an intermediate part which is mounted to move relative to the body in a radial plane, radial displacement guidance means for the intermediate part, a handle of secondary axis B, which is supported by the intermediate part and which is linked to it in radial displacement, between a neutral central position and a plurality of radial actuation positions. The handle may be mounted to slide axially on the secondary axis B, between a top idle axial position and a bottom active axial position. At least one electrical switch may be able to change state when the handle is displaced towards its bottom active axial position. The handle is mounted to rotate freely, about the secondary axis B, relative to the body of the multidirectional control unit.
US08083587B2
Gaming machine with dialog outputting method to victory or defeat of game and control method thereof
A slot machine 1 of the present invention makes a control so as to: sequentially store the number of game values consumed per unit game; sequentially store the number of game values given per unit game; calculating a difference between the total number of game values given and the total number of game values consumed, as a self game value difference; transmitting the self game value difference to outside; receiving someone's game value difference from outside; when the self game value difference and the someone's game value difference are in a predetermined relationship, voice-outputting, by the conversation controller 91, an answer at volume corresponding to the predetermined relationship from the speaker 23 in response to a voice input through the microphone 90; and delete the stored numbers of game values given and consumed, under a predetermined condition.
US08083582B2
When three or more feature symbols are stopped on the variable display portion, the slot machine provides a free game. In the bonus game process, the main CPU determines the number of game condition choice images to be displayed on the selection screen according to the number of feature symbols that have been stopped on the variable display portion. When one of the game condition choice images is selected from the game condition choice images displayed on the selection screen by the player, the main CPU executes the free game according to the free game execution condition associated with the selected game condition choice image.
US08083570B2
A multilayer chemical mechanical polishing pad is provided, having a polishing layer with a polishing surface, a polishing layer interfacial region parallel to the polishing surface and an outer perimeter; a porous subpad layer with a bottom surface, a porous subpad layer interfacial region parallel to the bottom surface and an outer perimeter; a pressure sensitive adhesive layer; and, a light transmissive window element; wherein the polishing layer interfacial region and the porous subpad layer interfacial region form a coextensive region; wherein the coextensive region secures the polishing layer to the porous subpad layer without the use of a laminating adhesive; wherein the pressure sensitive adhesive layer is applied to the bottom surface of the porous subpad layer; wherein an internal opening extends through the multilayer chemical mechanical polishing pad from the bottom surface to the polishing surface and is bounded by an internal peripheral edge of the porous subpad layer.
US08083566B2
A toy top which encases a plurality of repelled magnets and a magnetic controller which encases a controlling magnet. The repelled magnets in the top direct a magnetic field away from their embodiment with an opposing polarity to the magnetic field directed by the magnetic controller and away from its embodiment. Contact of the two opposing magnetic fields results in a magnetic force which repels the top away from the magnetic controller while the top is spinning. The top is put into a rotational spin by pulling a rip cord through a handle and turning a spinning gear fit into the top's gear fitting.
US08083561B1
A display panel and a method for repairing signal lines thereof are disclosed. The display panel includes at least one shorting bar, switches, and auxiliary repair lines. The switches are electrically coupled respectively to signal lines and the at least one shorting bar. Both ends of each of the auxiliary repair lines overlap one of connections between the switches and the at least one shorting bar. When a signal line is damaged, the method for repairing includes: breaking off each of the connections between each of the switches and the at least one shorting bar by cutting; and welding both ends of one of the auxiliary repair lines which correspond to the damaged signal line with both sides of one of the connections which correspond to the damaged signal line.
US08083560B2
A pivotal surfboard fin assembly for use on a surfboard, the assembly comprising: an insert bracket having a board face mountable to the bottom surface of the surfboard and a bracket face with a lock pin aperture and a flex plug cavity; an elastomeric flex plug having a flex plug hole, a first flex plug surface, and a second flex plug surface, the flex plug disposed in the flex plug cavity; a surfboard fin having a fin blade, a mounting edge, a flex pin channel, a fixed lock pin mountable to the surfboard fin and disposable into the lock pin aperture, a biased flex pin slidably disposable into the flex pin channel and the flex plug hole; and a first compression pin and a second compression pin engaged with the insert bracket and operative to laterally compress the flex plug.
US08083549B1
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of terminals and a shielding shell which are molded integrally. The insulating housing has a top wall, two side walls, a bottom wall and a rear wall which are interconnected to form a box shape with an accommodating chamber formed thereamong. The terminals are molded in the insulating housing with contact portions extended into the accommodating chamber. The shielding shell includes an inner shell and an outer shell fixedly attached on the inner shell. The inner shell includes a top plate, two side plates and a bottom plate which are interconnected together to surround a receiving space thereamong. The shielding shell is molded in a periphery of the accommodating chamber with a portion of the outer shell exposed outside the insulating housing.
US08083539B2
A connector includes a female connector for accommodating a cylindrical and deformable female terminal provided at an end of a cable, a male connector for accommodating a male terminal configured to be inserted into the female terminal, a fastening member provided slidably around an outer periphery of the female terminal, and configured to tighten the female terminal to fasten the male terminal when inserted into the female terminal, and a slide mechanism for sliding the fastening member, which is provided in the female connector.
US08083537B2
A ground connector comprises facing pieces one ends of which are interconnected via a connecting section, a pair of holding pieces formed by folding back the other ends defining an opening into the space defined by the facing pieces, a displacement section connected between the internal surfaces if the facing pieces and forming a V shape projecting toward the opening, and a piercing piece. A ground wire is inserted into a ground-wire insertion space, the ground connector is attached to an end edge of a vehicle body panel through the opening, the insertion force of the vehicle body panel causes the vehicle body panel to push the displacement section toward the connecting section thus to reverse the projection of the displacement section toward the connecting section and the piercing piece pierces the insulation cover of the ground wire to come into contact with the conductor of the ground wire.
US08083527B2
A board-to-board connector pair includes first and second intermateable connectors with each including a housing and a plurality of terminals therein. The first connector includes a first planar reinforcing locking bracket stamped from sheet metal and the second connector includes a second planar reinforcing locking bracket stamped from sheet metal and configured to mate with the first planar reinforcing locking bracket.
