US08105996B2
The present invention relates to a personal care composition. The personal care composition comprises a surfactant phase. The surfactant phase comprises a surfactant of about 3% to about 12%, by weight of the personal care composition and a co-surfactant of about 4% or less by weight of the personal care composition. The surfactant includes sodium trideceth sulfate. The surfactant phase further comprises a structuring system. The structuring system comprises about 0.05% to about 5%, by weight of the personal care composition, of a crosslinked associative polymer and an electrolyte. The crosslinked associative polymer comprises a hydrophobic modification of less than 10% and can be hydrophobically modified with greater than a C6 alkyl. The personal care composition further comprises a benefit phase comprising a hydrophobic benefit material of about 1% to about 50%, by weight of the personal care composition.
US08105985B2
Adding relatively low molecular weight water-soluble friction loss reduction polymers to an aqueous fluid gelled with a viscoelastic surfactant (VES) increases the critical generalized Reynold's number at which the Fanning friction factor increases and friction pressure starts to increase rapidly. The water-soluble polymeric friction loss reduction additives lower surface pumping pressure in VES-gelled fracturing fluids for a given pump rate, thus lowering hydraulic horsepower (HHP) requirements for pumping fluids downhole, e.g. for hydraulic fracturing or frac packing treatments of subterranean formations.
US08105983B2
An optimum solubility screen in which a panel of buffers and many additives are provided in order to obtain the most homogeneous and monodisperse protein condition for protein crystallization. The present methods are useful for proteins that aggregate and cannot be concentrated prior to setting up crystallization screens. A high-throughput method using the hanging-drop method and vapor diffusion equilibrium and a panel of twenty-four buffers is further provided. Using the present methods, 14 poorly behaving proteins have been screened, resulting in 11 of the proteins having highly improved dynamic light scattering results allowing concentration of the proteins, and 9 were crystallized.
US08105978B2
A thermal transfer ink sheet comprising, as formed on a support, a dye layer containing a thermal transferable dye in a resin binder, wherein the dye layer contains a polyvinyl acetal modified with at least one compound of the following formula [1]: wherein R1 is a substituted linear alkyl group, a substituted branched alkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic group, and R2 is a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted linear alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted branched alkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic group.
US08105966B2
The present invention relates to a cutting tool insert preferably for machining of hardened steel, hot and cold working tool steel, die steel, case hardened steel, high speed steel and ductile grey cast iron and composed of a composite comprising from about 30 to less than about 60 vol-% of a cBN-phase and a binder phase comprising a titaniumcarbonitride phase and a TiB2 phase. According to the invention, in the XRD pattern from the composite using CuKα-radiation the peak height ratio of the strongest TiB2 peak and the strongest cBN peak is less than about 0.02.
US08105964B2
A composite material, the composite material comprising at least one prepreg, said prepreg comprising at least one polymeric resin and at least one fibrous reinforcement; and conducting particles dispersed in the polymeric resin.
US08105962B2
By providing a protection layer for suppressing stress relaxation in a tensile-stressed dielectric material during a dual stress liner approach, performance of N-channel transistors may be increased, while nevertheless maintaining a high degree of compatibility with conventional dual stress liner approaches.
US08105960B2
A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a spacer directly abutting a topographic edge of at least one patterned material layer. The spacer is a non-removable polymeric block component of a self-assembled block copolymer. A method of forming such a semiconductor structure including the inventive spacer is also provided that utilizes self-assembled block copolymer technology.
US08105951B2
A method for fabricating a device pattern includes the following steps. A first pattern having a first density is formed in a pre-determined region on a substrate. The first pattern includes a base portion along a first direction and at least two protruding portions along a second direction and connected to the base portion. A spacer is formed on a sidewall of each protruding portion. The spacers do not connect with the base portion, and the spacers between two adjacent protruding portions do not connect with each other, so as to form a gap between the two adjacent protruding portions. Then, a second pattern is formed on the substrate and located in the gap, such that a third pattern having a second density is formed in the pre-determined region by the first pattern and the second pattern.
US08105947B2
Methods for improving post etch in via or trench formation in semiconductor devices. A preferred embodiment comprises forming a re-capping layer over a dielectric film following an initial etch to form a feature in the dielectric film, followed by additional etch and etch back processing steps. The re-capping method provides protection for underlying films and prevents film damage post etch. Uniform feature profiles are maintained and critical dimension uniformity is obtained by use of the methods of the invention. The time dependent dielectric breakdown performance is increased.
US08105945B2
As a semiconductor device, specifically, a pixel portion included in a semiconductor device is made to have higher precision and higher aperture ratio, it is required to form a smaller wiring in width. In the case of forming a wiring by using an ink-jet method, a dot spreads on a wiring formation surface, and it is difficult to narrow width of a wiring. In the present invention, a photocatalytic substance typified by TiO2 is formed on a wiring formation surface, and a wiring is formed by utilizing photocatalytic activity of the photocatalytic substance. According to the present invention, a narrower wiring, that is, a smaller wiring in width than a diameter of a dot formed by an ink-jet method can be formed.
US08105941B2
A through-wafer interconnect and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The method starts with a conductive wafer to form a patterned trench by removing material of the conductive wafer. The patterned trench extends in depth from the front side to the backside of the wafer, and has an annular opening generally dividing the conductive wafer into an inner portion and an outer portion whereby the inner portion of the conductive wafer is insulated from the outer portion and serves as a through-wafer conductor. A dielectric material is formed or added into the patterned trench mechanical to support and electrically insulate the through-wafer conductor. Multiple conductors can be formed in an array.
US08105937B2
A dielectric layer is patterned with at least one line trough and/or at least one via cavity. A metallic nitride liner is formed on the surfaces of the patterned dielectric layer. A metal liner is formed on the surface of the metallic nitride liner. A conformal copper nitride layer is formed directly on the metal liner by atomic layer deposition (ALD) or chemical vapor deposition (CVD). A Cu seed layer is formed directly on the conformal copper nitride layer. The at least one line trough and/or the at least one via cavity are filled with an electroplated material. The direct contact between the conformal copper nitride layer and the Cu seed layer provides enhanced adhesion strength. The conformal copper nitride layer may be annealed to covert an exposed outer portion into a contiguous Cu layer, which may be employed to reduce the thickness of the Cu seed layer.
US08105929B2
A method of forming semiconductor structures comprises following steps. A gate dielectric layer is formed over a substrate in an active region. A gate electrode layer is formed over the gate dielectric layer. A first photo resist is formed over the gate electrode layer. The gate electrode layer and dielectric layer are etched thereby forming gate structures and dummy patterns, wherein at least one of the dummy patterns has at least a portion in the active region. The first photo resist is removed. A second photo resist is formed covering the gate structures. The dummy patterns unprotected by the second photo resist are removed. The second photo resist is then removed.
US08105926B2
A semiconductor region having an upper surface and a side surface is formed on a substrate. A first impurity region is formed in an upper portion of the semiconductor region. A second impurity region is formed in a side portion of the semiconductor region. The resistivity of the second impurity region is substantially equal to or smaller than that of the first impurity region.
US08105923B2
The invention relates to a method for forming a semiconductor material obtained by sintering powders and to a semiconductor material. The method comprises a compression and heat treatment stage such that one part of the powder is melted or becomes viscous. The material can be used in the photovoltaic field.
US08105920B2
A semiconductor device with an amorphous silicon (a-Si) metal-aluminum oxide-semiconductor (MAS) memory cell structure. The device includes a substrate, a dielectric layer overlying the substrate, and one or more source or drain regions embedded in the dielectric layer with a co-planar surface of n-type a-Si and the dielectric layer. Additionally, the device includes a p-i-n a-Si diode junction. The device further includes an aluminum oxide charge trapping layer on the a-Si p-i-n diode junction and a metal control gate overlying the aluminum oxide layer. A method is provided for making the a-Si MAS memory cell structure and can be repeated to integrate the structure three-dimensionally.
US08105919B2
A method for growing reduced defect density planar gallium nitride (GaN) films is disclosed. The method includes the steps of (a) growing at least one silicon nitride (SiNx) nanomask layer over a GaN template, and (b) growing a thickness of a GaN film on top of the SiNx nanomask layer.
US08105917B2
The invention relates to the fabrication of electronic circuits on a thinned semiconductor substrate. To produce a connection pad on the back side of the thinned substrate, the procedure is as follows: an integrated circuit is produced on an unthinned substrate, in which a portion of a polycrystalline silicon layer (18) dedicated for the connection of the pad is provided. The circuit is transferred onto a transfer substrate (30) and then its back side is thinned. A via is opened in the thinned semiconductor layer (12) in order to gain access to the polycrystalline silicon; aluminum (80) is deposited and this layer is etched so as to define a pad which is in contact with the internal interconnects of the integrated circuit by way of the polycrystalline silicon.
US08105904B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulation layer disposed on a substrate having a first area and a second area, a first wiring disposed on the insulation layer in the first area, a first active structure disposed on the first wiring, a first gate insulation layer enclosing the first upper portion, a first gate electrode disposed on the first gate insulation layer, a first impurity region disposed at the first lower portion, and a second impurity region disposed at the first upper portion. The first wiring may extend in a first direction. The first active structure includes a first lower portion extending in the first direction and a first upper portion protruding from the first lower portion. The first gate electrode may extend in a second direction. The first impurity region may be electrically connected to the first wiring.
US08105903B2
A method for making a trench MOSFET with shallow trench structures with a thick trench bottom is disclosed. The improved method resolves the problem of deterioration of breakdown voltage resulted by LOCOS having a bird's beak shape introduced in prior art, and at the same time, the inventive device has a lower Qgd and lower Rds.
US08105901B2
A method deposits an undoped silicon layer on a primary layer, deposits a cap layer on the undoped silicon layer, patterns a masking layer on the cap layer, and patterns the undoped silicon layer into silicon mandrels. The method incorporates impurities into sidewalls of the silicon mandrels in a process that leaves sidewall portions of the silicon mandrels doped with impurities and that leaves central portions of at least some of the silicon mandrels undoped. The method removes the cap layer to leave the silicon mandrels standing on the primary layer and performs a selective material removal process to remove the central portions of the silicon mandrels and to leave the sidewall portions of the silicon mandrels standing on the primary layer. The method patterns at least the primary layer using the sidewall portions of the silicon mandrels as a patterning mask and removes the sidewall portions of the silicon mandrels to leave at least the primary layer patterned.
US08105895B2
This invention discloses a semiconductor power device that includes an active cell area having a plurality of power transistor cells. Each of said power transistor cells has a planar Schottky diode that includes a Schottky junction barrier metal covering areas above gaps between separated body regions between two adjacent power transistor cells. The separated body regions further provide a function of adjusting a leakage current of said Schottky diode in each of said power transistor cells. Each of the planar Schottky diodes further includes a Shannon implant region disposed in a gap between the separated body regions of two adjacent power transistor cells for further adjusting a leakage current of said Schottky diode. Each of the power transistor cells further includes heavy body doped regions in the separated body regions next to source regions surrounding said Schottky diode forming a junction barrier Schottky (JBS) pocket region.
US08105887B2
A first aspect of the invention provides a method of forming a semiconductor device, the method comprising: providing a complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device including: a silicon substrate layer; a silicon dioxide layer thereover; and an n-type field effect transistor (NFET) gate having a first recessed source/drain trench and a p-type field effect transistor (PFET) gate having a second recessed source/drain trench, the NFET gate and the PFET gate located over the silicon dioxide layer; depositing a nitride stress liner in the first recessed source/drain trench and the second recessed source/drain trench; depositing an oxide layer over the nitride stress liner; placing the CMOS device on a handling wafer, wherein the oxide layer is closest to the handling wafer; removing the silicon substrate layer; etching the silicon dioxide layer to form an opening abutting a portion of a source/drain region, the source/drain region abutting one of the first recessed source/drain trench or the second recessed source/drain trench; and forming a contact in the opening.
US08105878B2
A thermosetting tape is adopted as a dicing tape and, after package dicing, the thermosetting tape is heated, then a desired one of divided CSPs is picked up by an inverting collet. Since the thermosetting tape is heated o a predetermined temperature so that its adhesive force becomes zero, the CSP can be picked up by the inverting collet without peeling it off from the thermosetting tape. Thus, peel-off charging does not occur and therefore it is not necessary to perform a destaticizing process. As a result, it is possible to improve the production efficiency in assembling the semiconductor device (CSP).
US08105871B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element provided over a wiring board; sealing resin configured to seal the semiconductor element; and reinforcing resin provided at least at a part of a boundary part of the sealing resin and the wiring board. In the above-mentioned semiconductor device, the reinforcing resin may be provided along a perimeter of the boundary part of the sealing resin and the wiring board. The reinforcing resin may be provided at a boundary part of the sealing resin and the wiring board in a vicinity of a corner part of the sealing resin.
US08105865B2
The present invention relates to optoelectronic and/or electrochemical devices comprising an organic charge transporting material which is liquid at a temperature of ≦180° C. In particular in dye-sensitised solar cells, quantum efficiency higher than with prior art solid organic hole-transporters is reported. The melting point of a large quantity of organic charge transporting materials may be adjusted to a desired value by selecting suitable substituents. Accordingly, general advantages of the liquid state may be associated with the properties of organic charge transporting materials.
US08105862B2
An optimized color filter array is formed in, above or below one or more damascene layers. The color filter array includes filter regions which are configured to optimize the combined optical properties of the layers of the device to maximize the intensity of the particular wavelength of light incident to a respective underlying photodiode.
US08105857B2
A method for fabricating a III-nitride semiconductor laser device includes: forming a substrate product having a laser structure; scribing a first surface of the substrate product to form a scribed mark, which extends along a reference line indicative of a direction of the a-axis of the hexagonal III-nitride semiconductor, on the first surface, a scribed mark; mounting the substrate product on a breaking device to support first and second regions of the substrate product by first and second support portions, respectively, of the breaking device; and carrying out breakup of the substrate product by press in alignment with the scribed mark in a third region, without supporting the third region of the substrate product located between the first and second regions, to form another substrate product and a laser bar. First and second end faces of the laser bar form a laser cavity of the III-nitride semiconductor laser device.
US08105855B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device is provided which requires low cost, is easy, and has high throughput. The method of manufacturing a light emitting device is characterized in that: a solution containing a light emitting material is ejected to an anode or cathode under reduced pressure; a solvent in the solution is volatilized until the solution reaches the anode or cathode; and the remaining light emitting material is deposited on the anode or cathode to form a light emitting layer. A burning step for reduction in film thickness is not required after the solution application. Therefore, the manufacturing method, which requires low cost and is easy but which has high throughput, can be provided.
US08105853B2
Surface-textured encapsulations for use with light emitting diodes. In an aspect, a light emitting diode apparatus is provided that includes a light emitting diode, and an encapsulation formed upon the light emitting diode and having a surface texture configured to extract light. In an aspect, a method includes encapsulating a light emitting diode with an encapsulation having a surface texture configured to extract light. In an aspect, a light emitting diode lamp is provided that includes a package, at least one light emitting diode disposed within the package, and an encapsulation formed upon the at least one light emitting diode having a surface texture configured to extract light. In another aspect, a method includes determining one or more regions of an encapsulation, the encapsulation configured to cover a light emitting diode, and surface-texturing each region of the encapsulation with one or more geometric features that are configured to extract light.
US08105850B1
Processes for selectively patterning a magnetic film structure generally include selectively etching an exposed portion of a freelayer disposed on a tunnel barrier layer by a wet process, which includes exposing the freelayer to an etchant solution comprising at least one acid and an organophosphorus acid inhibitor or salt thereof, stopping on the tunnel barrier layer.
US08105848B2
An embodiment of the invention relates to a device comprising (1) an array of electromagnetic elements comprising coils, metal cores, and metal core heads, and (2) a controller that is adapted to control a current for one or more coils individually, to vary the current for said one or more coils individually, to reverse the current for one or more coils individually, and to generate a specific magnetic flux distribution and gradient across two or more coils; wherein the metal core head is at one end of the coil and the metal core head has a geometry to create a desired magnetic flux, intensity and gradient, in a region of interest between two adjacent coils; further wherein the device is functionally coupled to a fluidic device to concentrate and transport magnetic particles in a fluid without fluidic movement of the fluid.
US08105840B2
Described are a urine pretreatment agent, a urine pretreatment method, and a urinary protein quantitation method which reduce or cancel the influences of urine pH variations, cancel the influences of precipitates of urinary inorganic salts, and solubilize membrane proteins. The urine pretreatment agent for urinary protein quantitation, includes a buffer, a chelating agent, and a surfactant; the urine pretreatment method includes a step of mixing 10 to 1000 parts by mass of the urine pretreatment agent of the present invention with 100 parts by mass of urine; and the urinary protein quantitation method includes steps of: mixing 10 to 1000 parts by mass of the urine pretreatment agent with 100 parts by mass of urine; and then measuring the protein concentration.
US08105830B2
The present invention relates to polyspecific binding molecules and particularly single-chain polyspecific binding molecules that include at least one single-chain T-cell receptor (sc-TCR) covalently linked through a peptide linker sequence to at least one single-chain antibody (sc-Ab). Further disclosed are methods and compositions for testing and using the molecules.
US08105825B2
The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to a multiple inducible gene regulation system that functions within cells to simultaneously control the quantitative expression of multiple genes.
US08105824B2
Methods and systems are provided for conducting a reaction at a selected temperature or range of temperatures over time. An array device is provided. The array device contains separate reaction chambers and is formed as an elastomeric block from multiple layers. At least one layer has at least one recess that recess has at least one deflectable membrane integral to the layer with the recess. The array device has a thermal transfer device proximal to at least one of the reaction chambers. The thermal transfer device is formed to contact a thermal control source. Reagents for carrying out a desired reaction are introduced into the array device. The array device is contacted with a thermal control device such that the thermal control device is in thermal communication with the thermal control source so that a temperature of the reaction in at least one of the reaction chamber is changed as a result of a change in temperature of the thermal control source.
US08105820B2
An assay chip for investigation the functionality of membrane proteins and their interactions with molecules includes a nanopore array having a plurality of nanopores in a suitable support layer deposited on the nanopore substrate and being a substantially planar support layer having a plurality of nanopores corresponding to the nanopores of the nanopore substrate. The chip includes further a biologically effective layer capable to host at least a non-lipid molecule or functional molecule, deposited on the support layer and covering the plurality of nanopores, resulting in accesible nanopores from both sides of the biologically effective layer for measurement or imaging. The structured support allows generating a biologically effective membrane, such as a lipid bilayer membrane, having high and reliable stability in a manner that its fluidity is sustained in order to keep integrated membrane proteins in the lipid bilayer in its full biological functionality.
US08105818B2
A ready-to-use electroporation cuvette is provided that includes a cuvette, first and second electrodes positioned within the cuvette and electroporation competent cells frozen in a suspension solution within the cuvette, wherein the electroporation cuvette is configured to permit electroporation of the cells when the cells are thawed. The electroporation cuvette may be sealed with a cap that may be color coded to aid the user.
US08105814B2
A DNA polymerase reaction system which provides high DNA polymerase activity even at a high temperature and at a high salt concentration. A DNA polymerase reaction system that is constructed from a DNA polymerase, a clamp, and a clamp loader without intein sequence, the DNA polymerase being from Pyrococcus horikoshii, a hyperthermophilic archaeon.
US08105813B2
Materials and methods are provided for producing aptamer therapeutics having fully modified nucleotide triphosphates incorporated into their sequence.
US08105811B2
Disclosed are nucleic acid constructs comprising coding sequences operably linked to a promoter not natively associated with the coding sequence. The coding sequences encode Pichia stipitis proteins that allow recombinant strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing the protein to grow on xylose, and allow or increase uptake of xylose by Pichia stipitis or Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing the coding sequences. Expression of the coding sequences enhances uptake of xylose and/or glucose, allowing increased ethanol or xylitol production.
US08105809B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for the synthesis of an ester derivative of acetoacetate. The method includes providing a first ester of acetoacetate and providing an alcohol. The method further includes combining the first ester of acetoacetate and the alcohol in the presence of an enzyme capable of transesterification in a non-aqueous solvent to form the ester derivative of acetoacetate. The method results in the formation of the ester derivative of acetoacetate, which, in one embodiment, is monoacetoacetin.
US08105805B2
An isolated antibody or antibody fragment that binds human interleukin-18 receptor alpha (hIL-18Rα), comprising a light chain variable region (LCVR) selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 61, 65, 69, 73, 77, and 81 and/or a heavy chain variable region (HCVR) selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35, 39, 43, 47, 51, 55, 59, 63, 67, 71, 75, and 79, or a fragment or sequence modified by an amino acid substitution, deletion or addition thereof.
US08105802B2
The present invention provides a neutral metalloprotease from actinomycetes which selectively cleaves a pro-structure part of a microbial protransglutaminase and a gene encoding said neutral metalloprotease. An active microbial transglutaminase having the pro-structure part cleaved can be obtained by culturing a microorganism into which a gene encoding the neutral metalloprotease from actinomycetes according to the present invention has been introduced, where by producing the neutral metalloprotease from actinomycetes, and reacting it on a microbial protransglutaminase.
US08105797B2
The invention provides a method of diagnosing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in a human, or of determining whether a human has been exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, comprising: (i) contacting T-cells from said human with one or more of (a) a peptide having the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) a peptide having or comprising the sequence of at least 8 consecutive amino acids of the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; or (c) a peptide having or comprising a sequence which is capable of binding to a T-cell receptor which recognizes a peptide as defined in (a) or (b); and (ii) determining whether any of the said T-cells recognize said peptide, wherein steps (i) and (ii) are optionally carried out in vitro.
US08105795B2
Methods, devices, kits and compositions for detecting the presence or absence of roundworm in a fecal sample are disclosed herein. The methods, devices, kits and compositions of the present invention may be used to confirm the presence or absence of roundworm in a fecal sample from a mammal that may also be infected with one or more of hookworm, whipworm, and heartworm. Confirmation of the presence or absence of roundworm in the mammal may be made, for example, for the purpose of selecting an optimal course of treating the mammal and/or for the purpose of determining whether the mammal has been rid of the infection after treatment has been initiated.
US08105793B2
A process for treating biological targets in a fluid of a biological organism, including introducing a fluid comprising a biological target to an assembly comprising an inlet connected to receive the fluid and an outlet connected to pass the fluid from the assembly, wherein the assembly comprises a flow chamber for conveying a flow of the fluid, and a capture zone comprising a target-specific binding agent, wherein during flow of the fluid through the flow chamber, the biological target undergoes flux rolling along the target-specific binding agent.
US08105789B2
A compound capable of specifically binding to pathogen EF-1α but not host EF-1α, wherein the compound binds to any part of an amino acid sequence having at least 70% sequence identity to amino acids 240-230 of SEQ ID NO:22.
US08105772B2
It is intended to provide a means and a method whereby a molecule for DNA detection at an elevated accuracy can be provided, different form the existing DNA detection system with the use of a molecular beacon. A molecular beacon wherein fluorescent organic groups capable of forming an excimer are bonded to the 3′ and 5′ ends of a single-stranded oligonucleotide to be hybridizable with a subject oligonucleotide and the switching of monomer emission/excimer emission is utilized; and a method of detecting SNP by using this molecular beacon.
US08105771B2
The invention relates to methods and devices for analyzing single molecules, i.e. nucleic acids. Such single molecules may be derived from natural samples, such as cells, tissues, soil, air and water without separating or enriching individual components. In certain aspects of the invention, the methods and devices are useful in performing nucleic acid sequence analysis by probe hybridization.
US08105770B2
[PROBLEMS] To provide a CGH method, in particular a CGH microarray method, enabling detection at an elevated accuracy and elevated sensitivity.[MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A method which comprises: (a) labeling a test genomic DNA fragment that is a cell-origin genomic DNA fragment to be tested with either a label represented by the following general formula (1) or another label represented by the general formula (2), and labeling a control genomic fragment that serves as a standard for detecting a difference from the test genomic DNA fragment with the other label; (b) hybridizing the labeled test genomic DNA fragment and the labeled control genomic DNA fragment each with a specimen nucleic acid containing a nucleic acid sequence for detecting the difference between the test genomic fragment and the control genomic fragment; and (c) detecting an amplification or deletion in the test genomic DNA fragment by using the fluorescent intensities thus obtained as an indication; and a kit for the above-described method which contains a nucleotide residue labeled with the label represented by the following general formula (1) and a nucleotide residue labeled with the label represented by the following general formula (2).
US08105767B2
The invention provides cell lines which are useful for the rapid detection of enteroviruses. In particular, the invention provides transgenic African green monkey kidney cell lines and buffalo green monkey kidney cell lines. The invention provides cell lines which have increased sensitivity to infection by enteroviruses in single-cell type and mixed-cell type cultures compared to other cell types which are currently used for enterovirus detection. The cells of the invention also are permissive to infection by a larger number of enteroviruses as compared to the cell type from which they were derived.
US08105766B2
Provided is a novel and useful method of measuring pyrophosphate in a sample. There may be provided a novel and useful method of measuring pyrophosphate in a sample using pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase, nicotinamide-nucleotide adenylyltransferase, and dehydrogenase.
US08105763B2
A method is provided that enables the formation of multiple level plated products with large plating depth. A negative photoresist composition comprising (a) an alkali-soluble resin, (b) an acid generator, and (c) other components is used, and a plated product is formed by (A) a step of forming a layer of this negative photoresist composition, and then either heating or not heating, before conducting exposure; (B) a step of repeating the step (A) so that the step is performed a total of 2 or more times, thereby superimposing layers of the negative photoresist, and subsequently developing all of these layers simultaneously to form a multilayer resist pattern; and (C) a step of conducting plating treatment within this multilayer resist pattern.
US08105757B2
Disclosed is a method of making a semiconductor device in which a main pattern is formed through a photolithography process over a low-density pattern area having a relatively small number of patterns to be formed in certain areas as compared to the other areas. According to the method at least one or more dummy patterns are formed over inactive areas, adjacent to active areas, where the main pattern is formed, and are spaced a predetermined distance from the sides of the main pattern. This method can improve the process margin and improve the uniformity of critical regions of patterns to thus improve the yield of a semiconductor device by making a low-density pattern area with the same pattern density as high-density or intermediate-density pattern areas by forming dummy patterns, which do not affect the semiconductor device, on the sides of a main pattern of the low-density pattern area according to a design rule.
US08105754B2
A method for electron beam nanolithography without the need for development step involves depositing a film of a resist comprising functionalized fullerenes on a substrate, and writing features by exposure to an electron beam with an accelerating voltage and dose rate sufficient to promote heating or thermal degradation of the functionalized fullerene in the irradiated volume such that a pattern is generated without a subsequent development step or with an aqueous developer. Lithographic features of about 1 nm or greater can be formed.
US08105748B2
A polymerizable anion-containing sulfonium salt having formula (1) is provided wherein R1 is H, F, methyl or trifluoromethyl, R2, R3 and R4 are C1-C10 alkyl, alkenyl or oxoalkyl or C6-C18 aryl, aralkyl or aryloxoalkyl, or two of R2, R3 and R4 may bond together to form a ring with S, A is a C2-C20 hydrocarbon group having cyclic structure, and n is 0 or 1. The sulfonium salt generates a very strong sulfonic acid upon exposure to high-energy radiation. A resist composition comprising a polymer derived from the sulfonium salt is also provided.
US08105745B2
There is provided a class of crosslinking compound, said compound comprising (i) one or more fluorinated aromatic group; and (ii) one or more ionizable group, wherein the crosslinking compound is soluble in at least one polar solvent. Methods of preparing the crosslinking compounds are also disclosed. There is further provided devices obtainable from the methods of preparing the crosslinking compounds.
US08105739B2
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer is disposed on the conductive support, and includes a layer that includes, in the same layer, at least a charge generating material and a compound having a triple bond and a hydroxy group.
US08105738B2
Disclosed is a developing method that performs a developing for forming a second resist pattern after forming and exposing a resist film on a surface of a substrate on which a first resist pattern is formed. The method includes a first process for developing the substrate for a first time period t1 in the state where the substrate stops, and a second process for developing the substrate for a second time period while rotating the substrate. The time ratio of first time period and second time period is adjusted so that a critical dimension of the first resist pattern is equal to a first predetermined value, and a total time of first time period and second time period is adjusted so that a critical dimension of the second resist pattern is equal to a second predetermined value.
US08105734B2
In a titania-doped quartz glass member having a surface where EUV light of up to 70 nm wavelength is reflected, a refractive index distribution in the surface has only one extreme point within a central 80% region of the member. The titania-doped quartz glass member has a surface with a high level of precision and thus can be formed into an EUV lithography photomask substrate which is improved in flatness and thermal expansion properties.
US08105725B2
A module for a fuel cell arrangement is provided, having plates which are configured in the form of a stack, at least two plates being partially joined to one another by a sealing element, at least one further seal being configured between the plates.
US08105722B2
A fuel cell system includes a first electrode-electrolyte assembly having a first electrode coupled to one side of the first electrode-electrolyte assembly and a second electrode coupled to an opposite side of the first electrode-electrolyte assembly and a second electrode-electrolyte assembly having a third electrode coupled to one side of the second electrode-electrolyte assembly and a fourth electrode coupled to an opposite side of the second electrode-electrolyte assembly. A first conduit is in fluid communication with the first electrode and a second conduit is in fluid communication with the fourth electrode and an electrically conductive mesh positioned between the second electrode and the third electrode. Portions of the second and third electrodes engage each other through apertures defined by the mesh. The fuel cell system also includes an electricity source connected to the first and second electrodes; and an electrical circuit connected to the first conduit and the second conduit.
US08105717B2
Provided is an anode for use in electrochemical cells, wherein the anode active layer has a first layer comprising lithium metal and a multi-layer structure comprising single ion conducting layers and polymer layers in contact with the first layer comprising lithium metal or in contact with an intermediate protective layer, such as a temporary protective metal layer, on the surface of the lithium-containing first layer. Another aspect of the invention provides an anode active layer formed by the in-situ deposition of lithium vapor and a reactive gas. The anodes of the current invention are particularly useful in electrochemical cells comprising sulfur-containing cathode active materials, such as elemental sulfur.
US08105715B2
A hydrogen absorbing alloy is provided that is represented by the general formula Ln1-xMgxNiyAz, where: Ln is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Zr, Ti, and rare-earth elements including Y; A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, V, Cr, Nb, Al, Ga, Zn, Sn, Cu, Si, P, and B; and x, y, and z satisfy the following conditions 0.05≦x≦0.25, 0
US08105707B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium, which includes a nonmagnetic substrate, and a soft magnetic layer, a first orientation control layer, a nonmagnetic intermediate layer, and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer formed sequentially on the nonmagnetic substrate. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium further includes a second orientation control layer provided between the first orientation control layer and the nonmagnetic intermediate layer. The nonmagnetic intermediate layer has hexagonal close-packed (hcp) structure. The first orientation control layer has a face-centered cubic (fcc) structure. The second orientation control layer includes Co and Cr, and has the hcp structure.
US08105706B2
A master is provided for use in a magnetic printing process. Illustratively, the master is used for printing servo patterns on a magnetic recording medium. The master includes a substrate on which a magnetic underlayer material is disposed. A second magnetic material is disposed over the magnetic underlayer material so as to form a plurality of teeth adapted for use in the magnetic printing process. The teeth may be formed in the second material by an additive or subtractive process. Further, the dimensions of the teeth may be selected to optimize use of the master in a magnetic printing process on perpendicular media.
US08105702B2
The invention relates to an indexable insert of hard metal or cermet with a multi-layer surface coating for a machining of objects essentially made of metal or an alloy, in particular those of a polyphase material such as casting alloys and the like. To increase the service life of the tools with optionally improved machining surface, it is provided with a multi-layer coating that the outermost layer or cover layer is formed as an oxide layer, in particular of α-Al2O3, whereby the layer beneath the cover layer and connected threto is composed of TiN.
US08105701B2
An organic EL device 100 including a plurality of emitting layers (15) and (17) between a cathode (18) and (19) and an anode (12), each of the emitting layers (15) and (17) made of a host material having a triplet energy gap of 2.52 eV or more and 3.7 eV or less, and a dopant having a light emitting property related to a triplet state, the dopant containing a metal complex with a heavy metal.
US08105700B2
A device is provided, having an anode, a cathode, and two adjacent organic layers disposed between the anode and the cathode. One organic layer is a phosphorescent emissive material. The other organic layer may comprise an aromatic hydrocarbon material, comprising an aromatic non-heterocyclic hydrocarbon core optionally substituted, and wherein the substituents are the same or different, and each is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroalkyl, substituted aryl, substituted heteroaryl and heterocyclic groups. The second organic layer may comprise a material having a molecular dipole moment less than about 2.0 debyes, such that the device has an unmodified external quantum efficiency of at least about 3% and a lifetime of at least about 1000 hours at an initial luminance of about 100 to about 1000 cd m2.
US08105699B2
Zn alloy particles for high corrosion resistance rust prevention paint containing, by mass %, Mg: 0.01 to 30% and having a balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities, having physical fracture facets and/or cracks of a length of 0.01 μm or more or cracks of a depth of 0.01 μm or more, having an average particle size of 0.05 to 200 μm, and having an aspect ratio of maximum size and minimum size (maximum size/minimum size) of an average value of 1 to 1.5. Also, a high corrosion resistance rust prevention paint containing these Zn alloy particles and a high corrosion resistance steel material and steel structure coated with that paint.
US08105698B2
A plated steel wire for PWS with excellent twist properties contains, in terms of mass %, 0.8 to 1.1% of C, 0.8 to 1.3% of Si, 0.3 to 0.8% of Mn, 0.001 to 0.006% of N, and 0.0004 to 0.0060% of B, where a quantity of solid-solubilized B is at least 0.0002%, also contains either one or both of 0.005 to 0.1% of Al and 0.005 to 0.1% of Ti, and contains as the remainder, Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein an area fraction of non-pearlite structures in a region from a surface layer down to a depth of 50 μm is not more than 10%, an area fraction of non-pearlite structures within an entire cross-section is not more than 5%, and a surface of the steel wire is galvanized with a plating quantity within a range from 300 to 500 g/m2.
US08105692B2
A method for producing process equipment having a wear surface having extended resistance to one or more of abrasion, erosion, or corrosion, associated with fillers or solids processed by said process equipment includes applying to said process equipment wear surface a metal matrix coating filled with superabrasive particles. Diamond and cubic boron nitride superabrasive particles can fill the metal matrix, which can be a nickel coating.
US08105690B2
The present invention provides a glass fiber product having particles adhered to at least one fiber of the product, where the size and amount of particles is effective to reduce the tackiness of the glass fiber product and optionally effective to reduce interfilament bonding, and composition, and method for forming the same.
US08105685B2
A roofing system includes a layer of insulation boards overlying a roof deck, and a layer of cover boards overlying the insulation boards. The insulation boards include a polyisocyanurate or polyurethane foam material that has a first density. The cover boards include a polyisocyanurate or polyurethane material that has a second density. The second density is greater than the first. The roofing system may also include a waterproofing membrane overlying the cover boards.
US08105676B2
In order to fasten a silicon block on a support for improved further handling, fiber material is introduced into an adhesive joint between the silicon block and the support. The fiber material is impregnated with adhesive and consists of glass fibers. The silicon block is then positioned on the support. The fiber material assures that the adhesive joint is not pressed together too far and is more stable.
US08105666B2
Compliant coatings for insertable medical articles are provided. In some aspects, the coating includes a diene polymer-containing layer, and a second coated layer that includes another polymer. The coating can be formed by coupling the polymer of the second coated layer to the first coated layer via latent reactive groups, such as photoreactive groups. In other aspects, the insertable medical article has a coating that provides different functional features to different surfaces of the article. The medical article can have a cylindrical shape with an interior surface having a first coating, and an exterior surface with a second coating, wherein the article also includes a plurality of openings.
US08105664B2
An artificial decorative plant assembles multiple branches first which are then assembled with a main stem. Each branch is composed of a rod with resilience, a securing piece and multiple branch strips. The securing piece has two longitudinal sides and multiple clamping pieces alternatively staggered and extended from the two longitudinal sides respectively with multiple intervals and applied to wrap the rod. Additionally, multiple clamping attachments are extended from the two longitudinal sides inside the multiple intervals respectively so that each clamping attachment is between two adjacent clamping pieces to engage a corresponding branch strip with leaves. After completing assembly of the securing piece and the rod, the combination engages the main stem by a hook element on the rod. Because of such structure, it not only enhances the combinational strength but further improves efficiency of assembly convenience.
US08105649B1
The producing of shells of silicon carbide including CVD and CVI processes: A dense layer of silicon carbide is deposited upon the hollow shells, the shells being agitated during deposition to prevent sticking, bonding, or adhesion of shells to one another.
US08105634B2
The present invention provides a biomaterial comprising a mammalian umbilical cord membrane. The biomaterial can additionally comprise Wharton's jelly and/or one or more umbilical cord vessels. The biomaterial is preferably dry, and can be flat, tubular, or shaped to fit a particular body structure. The invention further provides laminates comprising at least one layer of an umbilical cord membrane biomaterial. The invention further provides methods of making the biomaterial, and laminates comprising the biomaterial, and methods of using the biomaterial.
US08105627B2
An extended release formulation for administration of venlafaxine in an oral tablet dosage form. The formulation preferably features a core, over which an outer coating is layered. The core preferably contains venlafaxine, a filler, and a water soluble cellulosic polymer, optionally and more preferably with a water insoluble cellulosic polymer. The core is preferably coated with a coating material. The coating preferably contains a mixture of water soluble cellulosic polymer and a water insoluble cellulosic polymer. According to a first embodiment of the present invention, the filler is preferably present in an amount of at least about 40% weight per weight of the total formulation. More preferably, the filler comprises microcrystalline cellulose. Most preferably, the filler solely comprises microcrystalline cellulose. Also most preferably, microcrystalline cellulose is present in the core in a range of from about 45% to about 65% weight per weight of the total formulation.
US08105625B2
The present invention provides an orally dissolving capsule comprising pullulan, a plasticizer and a dissolution enhancing agent.
US08105624B2
Topical patch preparations that contain an odorless physiological cooling agent, and methods for using the same are provided. The subject topical patch preparations are made up of an adhesive gel composition that is present on a support, where the adhesive gel composition includes the odorless physiological cooling agent, a water-soluble polymer gel, water and a water holding agent. In using the subject topical patch preparations, the topical patch preparations are applied to a skin surface of a subject and maintained at the site of application for a period of time sufficient for an effective amount of the an odorless physiological cooling agent to be administered to the subject. The subject invention finds use in a variety of applications.
US08105615B2
The present invention relates to methods of treating cancer by administering a composition of lactoferrin (LF) in combination with cancer vaccines.
US08105614B2
A convenient way of inducing a broad recognition of dominant and subdominant responses to epitopes of any given antigen of importance for prophylaxis or treatment of a chronic disease is provided. The method involves by immunizing with pools of overlapping fragments (synthetic peptides, e.g., 10-30 mers with 2-20 aa overlap) of the desired antigen in appropriate adjuvants. The T cell repertoire is primed to include not only the immunodominant epitope recognized when the intact molecule is used for immunization and induced by the chronic infection itself, but induce a much broader and balanced response to a number of the subdominant epitopes as well. The vaccination with peptide mix induces a T-cell response that includes response to subdominant epitopes is important for protection against chronic disease that on their own induces a response focused only on immunodominant epitopes. The major advantage of the present invention is that it requires no prior knowledge of the precise localization and identity of the subdominant epitopes and their recognition in a human population, but expands the T-cell repertoire and thereby the total number of epitopes recognized by specific T cells primed by vaccination from a few immunodominant epitopes to a multiple of epitopes.
US08105610B2
The invention relates to nucleic sequences derived from a human erythrovirus type V9, fragments of the sequences and their methods of use including applications as a diagnostic reagent and as immunogenic agent.
US08105607B2
The present invention features the use of PorB polypeptide as a therapeutic agent. In specific embodiment the invention features a chlamydial vaccine based on a PorB polypeptide, as well as methods for induction of a protective immune response against infection by Chlamydia and Chlamydiophila. The invention further features methods for identifying agents that affect PorB function (such as in transport of α-ketoglutarate and which are effective as anti-chlamydial chemotherapeutic agents.
US08105598B2
Disclosed herein are isolated monoclonal human antibodies that specifically binds insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) with an equilibrium dissociation constant (Kd) of 1 nM or less, wherein the antibody bind IGF-I with an equilibrium dissociation constant (Kd) of 1 mM or greater. The antibodies inhibit phosphorylation of the insulin-like growth factor receptor. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors including these nucleic acids, and isolated host cells that express the nucleic acids are also disclosed. The antibodies can be used to detect human IGF-II in a sample. Methods of diagnosing a tumor are disclosed herein that utilize these antibodies. Methods of treating a subject with a tumor are also disclosed.
US08105597B2
The present invention encompasses isolated antibodies, or fragments thereof, that are humanized variants of murine antibody 266 which employ complementarily determining regions derived from murine antibody 266. The variant antibodies are useful for treatment or prevention of conditions and diseases associated with Aβ, including Alzheimer's disease. Down's syndrome, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, mild cognitive impairment, and the like.
US08105584B2
A method of utilizing the chymotrypsin level of an individual as a measure of the success of secretin, other neuropeptides, and peptides or digestive enzyme administration to such individuals, and in particular, as a prognosticative of potential secretin, other neuropeptides, peptides, and digestive enzyme administration for persons having ADD, ADHD, Autism and other PDD related disorders. In one aspect, a method for determining the efficacy of secretin, other neuropeptides, peptides, or digestive enzymes for the treatment of an individual diagnosed with a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) comprises obtaining a sample of feces from an individual, determining a quantitative level of chymotrypsin present in the sample, and correlating the quantitative level of chymotrypsin determined to be present in the sample with the PDD to determine the efficacy of treating the individual with secretin, other neuropeptides, peptides, or digestive enzyme administration. In another aspect, a therapeutic method for treating an individual diagnosed with a PDD pervasive developmental disorder comprises determining the efficacy of secretin, other neuropeptides, peptides, and digestive enzyme administration for the treatment of the individual based on a measure of the individual's chymotrypsin level, and administering secretin, other neuropeptides, peptides, or digestive enzymes to the individual based on the determination of the measure of the individual's chymotrypsin level.
US08105581B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for inducing neuronal cell differentiation.
US08105577B1
Sunflower lecithin or sunflower lecithin with oleic acid stimulate the growth and lactic acid producing activity of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium species of probiotic bacteria, and replace polysorbate 80 for those products. They can be used in naturally occurring form, or, where they are to be combined with probiotics in a carrier, they can preferably be adsorbed to carriers to yield a stable powdered form of these naturally oily compounds. They can be sold as combined prebiotic/probiotic formulations in the same carrier, or sold as separate dietary supplements, e.g., in capsule or tablet form, to be used with the probiotic formulation as desired.
US08105576B1
Sunflower lecithin or sunflower lecithin with oleic acid stimulate the growth and lactic acid producing activity of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium species of probiotic bacteria, and replace polysorbate 80 for those products. They can be used in naturally occurring form, or, where they are to be combined with probiotics in a carrier, they can preferably be adsorbed to carriers to yield a stable powdered form of these naturally oily compounds. They can be sold as combined prebiotic/probiotic formulations in the same carrier, or sold as separate dietary supplements, e.g., in capsule or tablet form, to be used with the probiotic formulation as desired.
US08105573B2
Protease resistant modified interferon-beta polypeptides, and pharmaceutical compositions containing such modified interferon-beta polypeptides are provided. The modified interferon-beta polypeptides contain amino acid substitutions that confer increased resistance to proteolysis over unmodified IFN beta cytokine molecules. The present invention provides for pharmaceutical formulations suitable for oral, nasal and pulmonary administration, and the use of such formulations in the treatment of disease.
US08105569B2
The invention includes a method of increasing the substantivity of a personal care composition to hair, skin or nails by preparing a composition of an aqueous phase, a non-aqueous phase and a neutralized amino acid ester that is a reaction product of a neutral amino acid having a non-polar side chain with a long chain fatty alcohol and is represented by formula (I): wherein R1 is an alkyl group; R2 is a linear or branched carbon chain; and the amine group of the amino acid is neutralized with an acid. The composition is substantially free of petrochemicals and/or derivatives of petrochemical materials. The aqueous phase and the non-aqueous phase are emulsified by the neutralized amino acid ester. Other methods and an emulsifiers that is the neutralized amino acid ester are included. Because the neutralized amino acid ester and the compositions do not contain petrochemical-derived ingredient, the products are natural.
US08105560B2
A system for treating a gas stream containing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulates flowing in the system comprises means for injecting a source of ammonia (NH3) or urea (CO(NH2)2) into a flowing exhaust gas upstream of a precious metal-free particulate trap, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst disposed downstream of the particulate trap and a source of ammonia or urea.
US08105558B2
The disclosure provides methods and systems for sequestering and/or reducing carbon dioxide present in an industrial effluent fluid stream containing carbon dioxide. A scrubbing material comprising a first component, a second component (distinct from the first component), and preferably water, is contacted with the effluent fluid stream. The first component comprises a source of calcium oxide and a source of alkali metal ions. The second component comprises a slag having one or more reactive silicate compounds. Methods of reducing carbon dioxide from exhaust generated by combustion sources, lime and/or cement kilns, iron and/or steel furnaces, and the like are provided. Carbon dioxide emission abatement systems are also disclosed. Methods of recycling industrial byproducts are further provided.
US08105544B2
An exhaust gas treating apparatus includes an upstream honeycomb structure and a downstream honeycomb structure each provided along an exhaust gas flowing direction of the exhaust gas treating apparatus. Each of the plurality of honeycomb structures includes at least one honeycomb unit includes zeolite, an inorganic binder, and walls. A first ratio of weight of zeolite ion-exchanged with at least one of Cu, Mn, Ag, and V in the downstream honeycomb structure is greater than a first ratio of weight of zeolite ion-exchanged with at least one of Cu, Mn, Ag, and V in the upstream honeycomb structure. A second ratio of weight of zeolite ion-exchanged with at least one of Fe, Ti, and Co in the upstream honeycomb structure is greater than a second ratio of weight of the zeolite ion-exchanged with at least one of Fe, Ti, and Co in the downstream honeycomb structure.
US08105542B2
A selective reduction catalyst includes a catalyst support in which a plurality of through holes partitioned by porous walls are formed in parallel with each other and an active component having a catalytic action and carried by the walls. Inlet portions and outlet portions, adjacent to each other, of the through holes are alternately sealed, and the wall carrying the active component is formed so that a particle-state solid matter ammonium nitrate cannot pass through it. The exhaust gas purifier includes the selective reduction catalyst, a liquid injection nozzle which is provided on the upstream side and can inject urea liquid toward the catalyst, a diesel particulate filter provided at an exhaust pipe on the upstream side, and filter temperature raising means capable of raising the temperature of the diesel particulate filter to a predetermined value or above.
US08105537B2
A fuel quality evaluation apparatus and evaluation method enable a reliable evaluation at a low cost. The apparatus includes a combustion chamber which causes an injected fuel to combust, temperature control means which adjusts an interior temperature of the combustion chamber before injection, injection control means which controls the injection, light intensity measurement means which measures flame combustion light intensity, and analysis means which analyzes the measurement result and evaluates a fuel quality. The analysis means causes the fuel to combust a plurality of times, identifies a transformation of a flame light intensity, and evaluates the quality of the fuel based on a variation in the light intensity transformations for each combustion.
US08105531B1
Corrosion inhibitor compositions and methods of use are disclosed. Polyacrylate and calcium corrosion inhibitors combined with hypochlorite sources provide use solutions for effective corrosion inhibition for metal surfaces.
US08105526B2
A method for making a forming structure. The steps of the method include providing a forming unit, providing a backing film, providing a foraminous element, employing liquid photosensitive resin to form the forming structure, and laser machining a plurality of generally columnar protrusions into the forming structure.
US08105525B2
The present invention discloses the use in rotomolding or slush molding applications of a composition comprising a polyolefin, a processing aid and optionally a UV-stabilizer.
US08105515B2
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) product offering better productivity and a higher degree of flexibility in form of the product to be obtained than the conventional methods of manufacturing a PTFE product, and a method of manufacturing PTFE particle aggregate obtained as an intermediate while manufacturing a PTFE product. According to the manufacturing methods, aggregate of PTFE particles including water and a surfactant is obtained by applying force to a dispersion of PTFE particles containing PTFE particles, a surfactant and water as a dispersion medium, where the force makes the PTFE particles approach or contact with each other. Such a manufacturing method may be carried out, for example, with a chamber (1) shown in FIG. 1.
US08105514B2
In a mold for use in the production of a silica crucible, a mold cover corresponding to a small-diameter thinned portion of an upper part of the silica crucible is detachably disposed on a mold substrate corresponding to a main body of the silica crucible, and the mold cover has a barrier function against arc heating, and an inner diameter of the mold cover is smaller than that of the mold substrate but larger than that of the silica crucible.
US08105511B2
A method of manufacturing a carbon-carbon brake disc uses a restraint fixture (12) that includes a preform retention region configured to limit contracting forces applied against a preform (10) in the preform retention region when the restraint fixture (12) thermally contracts. In one embodiment, the restraint fixture (12) comprises a band (12) having a first surface defining the preform retention region and a first expansion portion (26, 28, 29) adapted to deform upon application of a force to the band (12).
US08105510B1
The present invention's stratified composite system of armor, as typically embodied, comprises a backing stratum and a strike stratum that includes elastomeric matrix material and low-density ceramic elements embedded therein and arranged (e.g., in one or more rows and one or more columns) along a geometric plane (or plural parallel geometric planes) corresponding to the front surface of the strike stratum. Some inventive embodiments also comprise a spall-containment stratum fronting the strike stratum. The density of the low-density ceramic material is in the approximate range 2.0-3.0 g/cm3. In the strike stratum, the volume ratio of the low-density ceramic material to the elastomeric matrix material is in the approximate range 4-20. The present invention's emulative method for designing an inventive armor system typically involves configurative change of the inventive armor system's low-density ceramic material vis-à-vis another armor system's high-density ceramic material so that the respective ceramic material areal densities are equal.
US08105495B2
A process for separating platelet rich plasma from a blood sample using a platelet rich plasma separator system is disclosed. The system includes an inner wall having a top edge and a central axis that is surrounded by a depth filter having a capacity to receive all of the erythrocytes in the blood sample, where an inner surface of the inner wall has an angle of about 0.2° from the central axis of the inner wall. The process includes spinning the inner cylinder at its central axis at a speed that separates the erythrocytes from plasma and platelets and causes the erythrocytes to collect against an inner surface of the depth filter. The cylinder is continually spun for a sufficient time to allow substantially all of the erythrocytes to flow up the inner surface and over the top edge into the depth filter, leaving platelet enriched plasma (PRP) in the inner cylinder, such that upon discontinuing the spinning, permits the platelet enriched plasma to flow to the bottom of the inner cylinder.
US08105484B2
According to one representative embodiment, a fluid storage device for storing a first fluid in a second fluid storage container fillable with a second fluid includes a first fluid storage container, a first fluid inlet coupled to the first fluid storage container, and a first fluid outlet coupled to the first fluid storage container. The first fluid storage container is flexible. The first fluid inlet is communicable in fluid receiving communication with a first fluid source. The first fluid in the first fluid storage container is caused to drain from the first fluid outlet based on at least one of a first fluid level, a first fluid storage container pressure, a second fluid storage container pressure, the second fluid storage container filling with the second fluid, the first fluid outlet being opened for first fluid egress, and a first fluid outlet pressure.
US08105481B2
A method for reducing halide concentration in a hydrocarbon product having an organic halide content from 50 to 4000 ppm which is made by a hydrocarbon conversion process using an ionic liquid catalyst comprising a halogen-containing acidic ionic liquid comprising contacting at least a portion of the hydrocarbon product with at least one molecular sieve having pore size from 4 to 16 Angstrom under organic halide absorption conditions to reduce the halogen concentration in the hydrocarbon product to less than 40 ppm is disclosed.
US08105480B2
A process for treating a heavy oil which comprises subjecting a heavy oil to cavitation to reduce the viscosity of the heavy oil. The treated heavy oil, which has a reduced viscosity and specific gravity, thus is more pumpable and transportable, which facilitates further processing. The treated heavy oil also can be fractionated with less severity than untreated heavy oil.
US08105479B2
A process and apparatus are provided for the present invention relates to a process for upgrading tar-containing effluent from a steam cracker furnace that comprises: a) contacting a steam cracker tar-containing effluent with steam and for a time, sufficient to convert at least a portion of the steam cracker tar to a mixture comprising lower boiling molecules and the steam cracker tar-containing effluent; and b) separating the mixture from step a) into i) at least one tar-lean product; and ii) a tar-rich product having a final boiling above the final boiling point of the at least one tar-lean product. Step a) can includes at least one of: 1) contacting said steam cracker tar-containing effluent with steam added to the effluent in a transfer line downstream of a steam cracker furnace comprising a quench inlet, with the steam added through or downstream of the quench inlet; 2) contacting the steam cracker tar-containing effluent with steam under heat soaking conditions in a heat soaking vessel to which the steam is added; and 3) contacting the steam cracker tar-containing effluent with steam under visbreaking conditions in a visbreaker. The steam treated tar can be separated into higher value gas oil, fuel oil and tar streams.
US08105477B2
The present invention relates to an electrochemical method for detecting a target polynucleotide. An electrode comprising an electrode surface is provided. The electrode surface includes at least one probe molecule reversibly immobilized with respect to the electrode surface. A first electrochemical signal indicative of an amount of probe molecule immobilized with respect to the electrode surface is obtained. The electrode surface is contacted with a liquid comprising the target polynucleotide. Upon the contacting step, at least some of the probe molecule immobilized with respect to the electrode surface dissociates therefrom. A second electrochemical signal indicative of an amount of probe molecule immobilized with respect to the electrode surface is obtained. The presence of the target polynucleotide is determined at least partially on the basis of the first and second electrochemical signals.
US08105465B2
Methods and apparatus for depositing an amorphous carbon layer on a substrate are provided. In one embodiment, a deposition process includes positioning a substrate in a substrate processing chamber, introducing a hydrocarbon source having a carbon to hydrogen atom ratio of greater than 1:2 into the processing chamber, introducing a plasma initiating gas selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, helium, argon, nitrogen, and combinations thereof into the processing chamber, with the hydrocarbon source having a volumetric flow rate to plasma initiating gas volumetric flow rate ratio of 1:2 or greater, generating a plasma in the processing chamber, and forming a conformal amorphous carbon layer on the substrate.
US08105450B2
A protection sheet and method of protecting a substrate is disclosed. In an embodiment, the protection sheet comprises an adhesive coated nonwoven material. In an embodiment a surface of the protection sheet captures and retains paint overspray, dust, dirt and other contaminants so as to provide a cleaner paint job. In an embodiment the protection sheet may be laminated to a second nonwoven or woven material to allow clean removal after extended use. The protection sheet may be used to protect horizontal or vertical substrates, and is particularly suited to protect the surfaces of a paint booth used in automotive spray-painting operations.
US08105447B2
An austenitic stainless steel hot-rolled steel material can be provided which has sea-water resistance and strength superior to conventional steel. Low-temperature toughness can be maintained, which is preferable in a structural member of speedy craft. The steel material can include an austenitic stainless steel hot-rolled steel material which excels in the properties of corrosion resistance, proof stress, and low-temperature toughness. In such austenitic stainless steel hot-rolling steel material, e.g., PI [=Cr+3.3(Mo+0.5W)+16N] ranges from 35 to 40, δ cal [=2.9(Cr+0.3Si+Mo+0.5W)−2.6(Ni+0.3Mn+0.25Cu+35C+20N)−18] ranges from −6 to +2, and a 0.2% proof stress at room temperature is not less than 550 MPa, Charpy impact value measured using a V-notch test piece at −40° C. is not less than 100 J/cm2, and the pitting potential measured in a deaerated aqueous solution of 10% NaCl at 50° C. (Vc′100) is not less than 500 mV (as it relates to saturated Ag/AgCl).
US08105431B2
A novel subphthalocyanine derivative having a phosphorus derivative-substituted group as an axially substituted group which has an excellent solubility, a method for producing the same and an optical film containing the same, are provided without impairing excellent properties peculiar to the original subphthalocyanines. The novel subphthalocyanine derivative is represented by the following chemical formula (1), and it is applicable for optical films.
US08105430B2
An aircraft anti-icing composition includes a freezing point depressant and a thickener including nanocrystalline cellulose. A thickening composition also includes nanocrystalline cellulose. Also taught is the use of nanocrystalline cellulose in the manufacture of an anti-icing composition and the use of nanocrystalline cellulose in a thickening composition.
US08105429B2
An ink set includes an oil-based ink composition containing a metallic pigment; and at least one oil-based ink composition selected from the group consisting of a chromatic color ink composition containing a chromatic color oil dye, a black ink composition containing a black oil dye, and a colorless and transparent ink composition that does not contain a colorant.
US08105421B2
A well fluid separator tank comprises an essentially cylindrical vertical tank (1) having an upper part (6) and a lower part (7) divided by an upward protruding conical frusta shaped wall (5), a tangentially arranged inlet (2) for fluid in the upper part of the tank, at least one first outlet (4) in the upper part of the tank, at least one second outlet (3) in the lower part of the tank, and means (12) for calming a stream around the second outlet. The upward protruding conical frusta shaped wall (5) has a first opening (8) at an upper end of said upward protruding conical frusta shaped wall to allow communication between the upper part and the lower part of the tank. The conical frusta shaped wall (5) has an inclination (9) so that the angle between the wall of the tank and the upper side of the conical frusta shaped wall is in the range from 15° to 70°.
US08105414B2
A composition may have metal nanoparticles having a diameter of 20 nanometers or less and have a fusion temperature of less than about 220° C. A method of fabricating the metal nanoparticles may include preparing a solvent, adding a precursor with a metal to the solvent, adding a first surfactant, mixing in a reducing agent, and adding in a second surfactant to stop nanoparticle formation. Copper and/or aluminum nanoparticle compositions formed may be used for lead-free soldering of electronic components to circuit boards. A composition may include nanoparticles, which may have a copper nanocore, an amorphous aluminum shell and an organic surfactant coating. A composition may have copper or aluminum nanoparticles. About 30-50% of the copper or aluminum nanoparticles may have a diameter of 20 nanometers or less, and the remaining 70-50% of the copper or aluminum nanoparticles may have a diameter greater than 20 nanometers.
US08105413B2
The invention describes a new method for the production of high nitrogen organically-augmented inorganic fertilizer that incorporates municipal biosolids or organic sludges that can compete with traditional fertilizers such as ammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate and urea on the commodity fertilizer marketplace. The method creates a thixotropic paste-like material from the biosolids or organic sludge that is blended with hot or molten ammonium salts, especially a mixture of ammonium phosphate and ammonium sulfate. The invention can be an add-on to commercial production of ammonium salts or it can stand alone by manufacturing ammonium salts prior to their introduction to the conditioned biosolids. The invention is oriented to be tailored to production facilities for individual municipal waste treatment plants in order to keep manufacturing plants small with a minimization of logistics and liability.
US08105404B2
A blast media for removal of thick coatings from heavy steel and lighter aluminum substrates where a profile is desired for new paint adhesion. The blast media is applied as a free flowing particulate in a stream of a pressurized fluid. The blast media comprises a main ingredient of a glass frit with smaller generally equal amounts by weight of angular copper slag, spherical synthetic iron oxide and aluminum oxide.
US08105398B2
Production of ester-based fuels such as biodiesel or jet fuel from renewable starting materials such as lignocellulosic material or algae is disclosed. Pulping and saccharification of the renewable starting materials produces carboxylic acids such as fatty acids or rosin acids, which are esterified via a gas sparged, slurry form of heterogeneous reactive distillation to yield ester-based fuels.
US08105396B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode group 8 including a positive electrode 4 including a positive electrode current collector 4A and a positive electrode active material formed on the positive electrode current collector 4A, a negative electrode 5 including a negative electrode current collector 5A and a negative electrode active material formed on the negative electrode current collector 5A, and a porous insulating layer 6, the electrode group 8 being formed by winding or stacking the positive electrode 4 and the negative electrode 5 with the porous insulating layer 6 interposed. The positive electrode 4 has a tensile extension equal to or higher than 3.0%. The porous insulating layer 6 is made of a material containing aramid resin. Hence, even when the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is destroyed by crush, occurrence of an internal short circuit in the battery can be prevented, thereby suppressing abnormal heat generation caused by an internal short circuit.
US08105384B2
Methods of reinforcing anulus fibrosis tissue within an intervertebral disc include the implantation of a repair device comprising one or more support members. The device may be anchored to the surrounding tissue. The device may be compressible and delivered in a minimally invasive manner.
US08105376B2
An annuloplasty band comprising a sheath, and a generally arcuate stiffening element disposed within the sheath. The stiffening element extends from a first end to a second end, and preferably includes eyelets at its first and second ends adapted to receive sutures to secure the annuloplasty band to a valve annulus. The annuloplasty band preferably has a low profile (e.g., a thickness less than 3 mm). In embodiments intended for mitral valve repair, the eyelets are particularly adapted to receive sutures to secure the annuloplasty band to the antero-lateral trigone and postero-medial trigone. A holder and sizer device useful with the annuloplasty band are also provided.
US08105367B2
A system for fixation of bone, including a bone plate with an opening comprising threads made of a first material and a fastener with a head at least partially comprising a polymeric material that is softer than the first material. In some embodiments, when the fastener is inserted into the first opening, the threads of the first opening form threads in the polymeric material on the head of the fastener and secure the fastener in place at one of a plurality of possible angles within the first opening. The first opening additionally accepts a fastener with a substantially spherical head for compression of a fracture, or a fastener with a threaded head that engages with the threads of the threaded opening. In some embodiments the first opening includes a substantially frustoconical-shaped top portion. In other embodiments there may be a second opening that is either non-threaded or comprises a plurality of protruding fins.
US08105365B2
Methods and apparatus for forming one or more trans-sacral axial instrumentation/fusion (TASIF) axial bore through vertebral bodies in general alignment with a visualized, anterior or posterior axial instrumentation/fusion line (AAIFL or PAIFL) in a minimally invasive, low trauma, manner and providing a therapy to the spine employing the axial bore. Anterior or posterior starting positions aligned with the AAIFL or PAIFL are accessed through respective anterior and posterior tracts. Curved or relatively straight anterior and curved posterior TASIF axial bores are formed from the anterior and posterior starting positions. The therapies performed through the TASIF axial bores include discoscopy, full and partial discectomy, vertebroplasty, balloon-assisted vertebroplasty, drug delivery, electrical stimulation and various forms of spinal disc cavity augmentation, spinal disc replacement, fusion of spinal motion segments and implantation of radioactive seeds. Axial spinal implants and bone growth materials can be placed into single or multiple parallel or diverging TASIF axial bores to fuse two or more vertebrae, or distract or shock absorb two or more vertebrae.
US08105355B2
A suture lock fastening device to cinch a suture in a suture lock, cut the suture end, and deploy the suture lock in response to a single movement of a user. The fastening device includes a fastening head with a retainer that is configured to hold a suture lock in the fastening head. To release the suture lock from the fastening head, the retainer is irreversibly deformed. The fastening device may include an axially movable cutter with a cutting edge to sever the ends of the suture close to the suture lock. A threading device may be preloaded into the fastening device to facilitate threading the suture through the fastening device.
US08105344B2
A filament-guiding device directs a filament to spool over a rotating device within tissue. The filament-guiding device has both closed and open positions. In the closed position, the filament-guiding device is resiliently straightened for delivering into tissue. Within tissue, the filament-guiding device resumes a curved configuration in the open position to orient the filament perpendicular to the rotating device for spooling. The spooled filament is deployed by withdrawing the rotating device and filament-guiding device to bulk and repair the tissue.
US08105340B2
The invention is directed to an epilator apparatus for the removal of hair. The epilator apparatus comprises a tape, which adheres to the hairs as the apparatus is moved relative to the skin. The motion of the apparatus relative to the skin feeds the tape into the plucking zone where the tape with the hairs adhered thereto is redirected perpendicular to the skin. This redirection results in the hairs being plucked from the skin as the epilator apparatus is advanced.
US08105331B2
A tool for use in spinal surgery includes a combined retractor and distractor. The retractor includes a slotted keyway wherein a keyed portion of a spinal distractor is engagable therewith. This retractor and distractor combination slide together to displace a portion of the intervertebral disk space to restore or maintain intervertebral spacing and facilitate retraction of surrounding soft tissues while disk space surgery is performed. The distractor head and mating portion of the retractor have matching profiles that enable the retractor to maintain distraction of the vertebra after removal of the distractor portion of the tool, permitting access to increase at the operating site. The retractor has convex curved surfaces that interface with a majority of retracted soft tissues during progression of the retraction process, which enhance retractor safety.
US08105330B2
A patellar 3-D guidance tool includes a template. The template includes at least one contact surface for engaging a surface of the patella. The at least one contact surface substantially conforms with the surface associated with the patellar. At least one guide aperture directs movement of a surgical instrument, wherein the shape and/or position of the guide aperture is based, at least in part, on three or more anatomic reference points associated with the patellar.
US08105321B2
Apparatus for treating age-related macular degeneration, the apparatus comprising a light source which, in operation, serves to emit a therapeutic light beam presenting an emission wavelength lying in the range 1.2 μm to 1.3 μm, and preferably equal to 1.26 μm to 1.27 μm. The laser source preferably comprises an optical fiber Raman laser.
US08105320B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a replaceable electrosurgical end effector cartridge is provided to couple to a mechanical wrist of a surgical instrument for a robotic surgical system. The replaceable electrosurgical end effector cartridge includes two end effectors, a fastener to rotatably couple the two end effectors together, and a cam mechanism. At least one of the two end effectors is a moveable end effector having a jaw portion, an off-center portion, and a base portion. The cam mechanism is coupled to the base portion of the at least one moveable end effector to pivot it about the fastener to open and close the jaw portion of the at least one moveable end effector with respect to the other.
US08105315B2
A breakaway hemostasis hub for a catheter or introducer sheath includes a splittable or separable housing, a seal within the housing, an actuator partially slidably disposed within the housing, a pair of spring retainer members in the housing each adapted to receive at least one spring, and a pair of actuator retainer members adapted to retain the seal, the actuator, and the spring retainer members in the housing. The actuator is operable to assume a closed position and an open position and includes a dilator member configured to dilate the seal when the actuator is in the open position. The hub is splittable or separable into two generally symmetrical sub-assemblies to facilitate cutting the catheter for retraction from the patient's body without displacing its payload.
US08105312B2
The present invention aims at offering: a syringe connectable to a port in a fixed manner as well as capable of demonstrating high operational performance even in the case of direct connection where a connector is not used; a connector used for the syringe; and a syringe able to attach the connector thereto. For the attainment of the above objectives, the medical syringe of the present invention is a medical syringe including a cyrindrical connection supporting member which enhances the holding force of a luer part inserted into a port when the medical syringe is connected to the port. The connection supporting member is set by sliding along the luer or a syringe body in a state of being movable between a first position near a tip of the luer and a second position away from the tip of the luer. The medical syringe is characterized in that, when the connection supporting member is moved to the second position, the tip of the luer part is exposed.
US08105308B2
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a tube having a first end and a second end. The second end prevents access to an inner wall of the tube. Further, the apparatus includes a valve operably connected to the first end of the tube and configured to provide access to the inner wall of the tube to a guiding member inserted through the valve. The guiding member positions the tube in an umbilical vessel of an umbilical cord prior to occlusion of the umbilical vessel so that the tube remains within the umbilical vessel after occlusion of the umbilical vessel.
US08105299B2
A mounting structure for installation at a corporeal port opening. The mounting structure includes mounting structure for installation at a corporeal port opening, such mounting structure including a blowmolded article comprising enlarged cylindrical sections interconnected by tube segments, adapted to engage the corporeal port opening at a tube segment intermediate the enlarged cylindrical sections and with the enlarged cylindrical sections being in abutting contact with internal and external corporeal surfaces surrounding said port opening. The mounting structure is useful employed for anchoring of a therapeutic device such as an ostomy bag at a corresponding port of the body, with the enlarged sections of the device providing effective anchoring of the mounting structure and permitting the mounting structure to be comfortably worn by a patient during therapeutic intervention.
US08105298B2
A disposable inner bag liner for an ostomy appliance, the inner bag liner being adhered to a release liner prior to attachment to an outer receiving member. The release liner includes an alignment element and a gripping element. An ostomy appliance including the aforementioned inner bag liner with the gripping element and/or the alignment element is also provided, along with a method of application of the inner bag liner.
US08105295B2
A dressing (2) and an apparatus (1) comprising the dressing, for cleansing the wounds (5) in which an irrigant fluid from a reservoir (12) connected to a conformable would dressing and would exudate from the dressing are moved by a device (18) (which may be a single pump or two pumps) for moving fluid through a flow Path (6, 7, 9, 10) which passes through the dressing with a means for providing simultaneous aspiration and irrigation of the wound, to provide a desired balance of fluid at a controlled nominal flow rate that removes materials deleterious to wound healing, while distributing materials that are beneficial in promoting would healing over the would bed.
US08105294B2
To provide a syringe barrel and a syringe capable of allowing an operator to feel the amount of injected medical solution or the inserting distance of a piston by a difference in sliding resistance when an injection operation is performed. A syringe 1 includes a syringe barrel 11 which has an inner surface provided with a structure in which a sliding resistance F is changed step by step upon sliding a piston 32. The syringe barrel 11 includes steps which are formed at one or two or more positions of the inner surface in the axial direction so as to face from the rear end to the front end or from the front end to the rear end, and which include edges formed along the circumferential direction.
US08105291B2
A device for storing and administering active substances, including a plurality of reservoirs for respectively accommodating at least one active substance. The reservoirs are disposed in a radial manner with an end face facing the direction of the center of the device. A mechanism is mounted in the device to open and close the reservoirs. A needle-free injection device delivers at least one active substance to a user.
US08105290B2
A universal device for securing a catheter on a patient includes a base which optionally has one or more locating elements for positioning or securing a catheter or catheter fitting of various shapes or sizes. The base optionally includes a recessed or flat receiving area defined by locating elements arranged in any configuration suitable to hold or receive a catheter or catheter fitting, e.g., in a tapering or V shaped formation. Additional locating elements may be positioned elsewhere on the base for receiving or holding a flange or wing of a catheter fitting and preventing its movement in various directions. The base optionally has an angled surface to maintain the desired angle for catheters or catheter fittings in a patient. A cover is removably or permanently connected to the base and may optionally have one or more top openings for receiving tabs or extensions of a catheter fitting.
US08105282B2
It may desirable to monitor or control a pump remotely. For example, the pump may be positioned near the patient, with remote control or monitoring of the pump occurring in a control room. In one exemplary embodiment, the pump is used in an MRI environment. In another exemplary embodiment, the pump is used in a hyperbaric chamber. The pump may monitor one or more physiological parameters and transmit them to the remote. The pump may also transmit information relating to the pump's operation. The pump may send the device and/or physiological data using one or more packets. The packets may consist of low priority sequential packets and high-priority asynchronous packets. The high-priority packets may enable the real-time monitoring of a patient's heart beat or other physiological parameter.
US08105277B2
The present invention relates to a device for creating a vascular access for extracorporeal blood treatment including an electrically conductive puncture needle with a proximal endpiece, a distal endpiece, and a base body made of electrically non-conductive material into which the distal endpiece is inserted. In a properly arranged vascular access, the base body, including an electrically conductive contact element, lies on the skin of the patient, when the puncture needle is located within the vessel of the patient. A disconnection or dislocation is detected by the impedance between the electrically conductive puncture needle and the electrically conductive contact element being measured and compared to a limit value. If the impedance measured is within predetermined limits, this indicates a properly arranged vascular access. A disconnection or dislocation of the puncture needle leads to a strong variation in the impedance.
US08105276B2
A disposable safety injection apparatus includes a liquid medication tube, a syringe needle, a push rod, and a tube ring. The syringe needle is connected to an insert tenon at a front end of the liquid medication tube. The insert tenon includes a connecting portion having concentric C-shape lacerable slot and circular lacerable slot respectively disposed at a connecting position of a top wall at the front end of the liquid medication tube and the connecting position of the top wall and an external side of the tube ring. A rod column having a latch portion is extended axially from the front end of the body of the push rod, passed through and fixed to the tube ring, such that the rod column can be slidably contained in liquid medication tube. The push rod is pushed forward to press the tube ring against top wall and latch the latch portion to a connecting portion in the insert tenon. The push rod is pushed further to lacerate the C-shape lacerable slot and form a torque onto a position having no groove, and thus the circular lacerable slot breaks at a thinner position and lacerates along the periphery. By then, the push rod is pulled backward to separate the liquid medication tube after the force is applied onto the circular lacerable slot.
US08105268B2
A system and process for providing safety limits on the delivery of an infusion formulation by an infusion pump system in response to a sensed biological state. The safety limits may comprise user-initiated event signals corresponding to events that may significantly affect the biological state. The safety limits may further comprise user-initiated event ranking signals for respective events which specify a degree, quantity, or measure for the respective event. The user-initiated event and event ranking signals may be communicated to a computing element associated with the infusion pump by an associated communication device having a user interface which comprises a plurality of user-selectable operators for entering information about the events and event rankings.
US08105261B2
Embodiments of the invention are related to devices and methods for modulating renal function, amongst other things. In an embodiment, the invention includes an implantable occlusive device including a wall member defining an enclosed volume, the wall member can include a semi-permeable membrane. The device can also include a solution comprising a solvent and a solute disposed within the enclosed volume of the wall member. The semi-permeable membrane can be permeable to the solvent and impermeable to the solute. The enclosed volume can be configured to expand and contract in response to changes in the osmolality of a bodily fluid. The device can include a positioning member configured to maintain the position of the implantable occlusive device relative to a lengthwise axis of a lymphatic vessel. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method of modulating renal function in a patient including implanting an occlusive device in the patient, the occlusive device comprising a semi-permeable membrane and configured to expand or contract based on the passage of a fluid across the semi-permeable membrane. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US08105254B2
Apparatus and method for the conditioning of muscular fibrils by means of the application to a muscle in isometric contraction, a succession of mechanical pulses, where the apparatus includes means for the production of pressure pulses, means for the application of said pressure pulses on the epidermis adjacent the muscle and means for the transmission of said pulses from said means for the production of pressure pulses to said application means, wherein said application means and said means for the transmission of said pulses from said production means to said application means comprise a closed circuit inside which a compressed fluid or a substantially uncompressible fluid is present.
US08105245B2
An integrated lancet and testing striplet for measuring a body analyte level in a health care regimen includes a skin piercing member and an analyte sensor coupled together.
US08105240B2
The ultrasonic imaging apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe, a detecting part, a position analyzing part, a display control part, a display part, and a storage part. The detecting part is mounted on the ultrasonic probe operable to detect a part of a prescribed pattern formed on an ultrasonic low attenuation medium. In the storage part, the prescribed pattern formed on the ultrasonic low attenuation medium has been preliminarily stored. Upon receipt of detection results from the detecting part, the position analyzing part specifies the position of a part of the detected pattern on the prescribed pattern by referring to the prescribed pattern stored in the storage part. The display control part controls the display part to display the positional relation between the ultrasonic probe and the subject to be examined regarding the position of a part of the prescribed pattern that has been detected as the position of the ultrasonic probe.
US08105236B2
A surgical access device can include a plurality of retractor members that together define a lumen having a first cross-sectional dimension. Each of the plurality of retractor members can be moved radially outward to at least a second cross-sectional dimension to create a surgical access passage. The surgical access device, systems and kits comprising the surgical access device, and methods of using the surgical access device can include a mechanism for inserting an elongate member from exterior the body to the surgical site, a mechanism for moving the retractor members radially outward, a mechanism for guiding the radially outward movement of the retractor members, a mechanism for securing each of the retractor members in a range of positions, and a mechanism for illuminating the surgical site. Variations of the devices, systems, kits, and methods are useful for creating and maintaining a surgical access passage for performing minimally invasive surgery.
US08105233B2
An endoscopic system and method that is adaptable for therapeutic applications as well as sensor operation and is capable of producing 3-dimensional human vision simulated imaging with real dynamic convergence, not virtual convergence. Applications may include use in any space, including but not limited to, intra-abdominal cavities, intra-thoracic cavities, and intra-cranial cavities. Further, two or more diagnostic/sensor probes may be used, with at least two being the same kind to create the 3-dimensional effect, such as but not limited to, camera, ultrasound, and magnetic-resonance imaging. Diagnostic/sensor probes are each mounted to the end of a different arm, with the other ends of the two arms both being attached to the same hinge that allows them to turn freely on the same axis from side-to-side within a 180 degree angle range of movement on the distal end of a main tubular shaft system. Medical, as well as other applications, are contemplated.
US08105221B2
An exercise device for the mid to lower body muscles comprising an inclined base, a base frame to support the base a first support bar and a second support bar, the first and the second support bar each having a mounting end and a support end, wherein the first support bar mounting end is pivotably attached to a first pivot point and the second support bar mounting end is pivotably attached to a second pivot point and the first and the second support bar support end are movably mounted on the perimeter of the base such that the first and the second support ends are movable through an arcuate path along the perimeter of the base a first knee pad pivotably attached to the first support bar at the first support bar support end; a second knee pad pivotably attached to the second support bar at the second support bar support end; and a handle attached to the front portion of the base frame. The exercise device may further comprise a crossbar removably attached to the first support bar and removably attached to the second support bar to temporarily immobilize the first and the second support bars relative to each other.
US08105213B2
An exercise apparatus includes a foot member configured to pivot about a horizontal pivot axis, the foot member supporting a footpad, a first surface coupled to the foot member to pivot with the foot member about the horizontal pivot axis, a second surface stationarily supported by the frame, and a bumper between the first surface and the second surface. The bumper resiliently compresses during pivoting of the first surface in the arc towards the second surface while in contact with the first surface and the second surface.
US08105212B2
An exercise ring with properties ideally suited for exercising by a user sitting at a desk or work station is disclosed. The exercise ring is nested within the outer rim of a computer mouse pad such that a user may easily remove the device and use it while seated at a desk or work station and serves the second function as a wrist rest when mounted on the mouse pad. The exercise ring is made of elastic material that exhibits high visco-elastic properties when being manually stretched and contracted. The unique visco-elastic properties cause the exercise ring to exert a larger force on the user's muscles when the ring is being stretched and a smaller force is exerted on the user's muscles while the ring is being contracted. This combination of exercise ring properties has been found to provide an optimum work out when exercising in a confined space and reduces the chance of the user being impacted by an accidentally released exercise ring. Frequent exercise is encouraged by additional embodiments that introduce new exercise regimens to the user and track the users exercise habits.
US08105211B2
A soft edged trampoline includes a flexible mat supported from a base frame by a plurality of resiliently flexible rods. Each rod has an enlarged upper end. A plurality of fittings coupled to the mat about the periphery of the mat each include a socket cavity which receives the enlarged upper end of a flexible rod, so that the upper ends of the flexible rods are pivotally connected to the periphery of the mat.
US08105208B2
Portable fitness monitoring systems with displays, and applications thereof, are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of providing training feedback to an individual using a heart rate sensor and a display module supported by the individual during a physical activity, the method including the steps of: (a) determining a maximum heart rate value for the individual; (b) defining a heart rate zone as a range of heart rate values that correspond to a range of percentages of the maximum heart rate value; (c) associating a color with the heart rate zone; (d) wirelessly transmitting heart rate data from the heart rate sensor to the display module during the physical activity; and (e) visually displaying the color associated with the heart rate zone to the individual on the display module during the physical activity in response to the heart rate data.
US08105207B1
An apparatus and method is disclosed for enabling an operator to exercise comprising a frame with a load positioned on the frame to provide a resistive force. A press is positioned on the frame for displacement by the operator. A linkage joins the load with the press for displacing the load upon displacement of the press by the operator. A display is provided for inputting and outputting data. A sensor is positioned on the frame for measuring a displacement and a speed of the linkage. A memory storage is provided for storing data. A processor communicates with the display and the sensor and the memory storage for processing data. The processor transfers data to the display for providing an exercising instruction to the operator. The processor receives data from the sensor for processing the performance of the exercising instruction by the operator. The processor transfers data to the memory storage for saving the performance of the exercising instruction by the operator.
US08105204B2
A method and a device for controlling a fluid-actuated control system of an automatic or automated transmission of a motor vehicle, which has at least one pressure medium source, at least two control elements that are actuated by pressurized fluid and a control device for controlling the fluid-actuated control system. A further control module is used to reduce; the number and power consumption of valves that are actuated simultaneously to control the control elements; and the mechanical loading of the control elements (1, 2). The control module reads signals concerning at least one current control action and, in accordance with predetermined patterns, calculation rules and/or models, generates signals that cause non-switched control elements to be manipulated by pressurized working fluid.
US08105203B2
A dual clutch transmission comprises a first clutch to be engaged for setting any one of forward-traveling odd-numbered speeds and a second clutch to be engaged for setting any one of forward-traveling even-numbered speeds. The dual clutch transmission establishes a desired forward-traveling speed by alternately engaging/disengaging the first and second clutches. A backward-traveling drive train is adapted to be driven by engaging one of the first and second clutches. When a reverse mode is established by a mode setting means, the one of the first and second clutches is engaged to drive the backward-traveling drive train by setting a speed change manipulator at a backward-traveling position, and the other of the first and second clutches is engaged to drive a fixed one forward-traveling speed drive train by setting the speed change manipulator at a forward-traveling position. While the reverse mode is established, the backward-traveling drive train and the fixed one forward-traveling speed drive train are kept activated regardless of whether the first or second clutch is engaged.
US08105201B2
In a power driver, a shifter assembly includes: a housing; a ring gear mounted for rotation on the housing; a shift collar mounted for rotation on the housing; an elongated shifter structure coupled to the ring gear and the shift collar, the shifter structure including a misalignment compensator to compensate for misalignment between the ring gear and a feature cooperating with the ring gear.
US08105193B2
A bicycle rear derailleur is basically provided with a base member, a movable member and a moving mechanism. The movable member pivotally supports a chain guide. The moving mechanism is coupled between the base member and the movable member so that the movable member is movable relative to the base member. The chain guide includes a first guide plate, a second guide plate, a guide pulley rotatably disposed between the first and second guide plates and a tension pulley rotatably disposed between the first and second guide plates. The first and second guide plates are releasably coupled together by a tool-less connection.
US08105183B2
The invention relates on one hand to a celluloid-free table-tennis ball, preferably having a diameter of 38.5 to 48 mm, a weight between 2.0 and 4.5 grams, and a shell thickness (approximately) between 0.20 mm and 1.30 mm, where the shell is composed of plastic, whose principal component is an organic non-crosslinked polymer, which in its main chain has not only carbon atoms but also heteroatoms; and on the other hand also to a process of manufacturing a table-tennis ball of this kind, where mostly in a first step two or more shell parts are manufactured, these shell parts are joined in a subsequent step.
US08105177B2
A golf swing training apparatus including a golf club guide and, preferably, a support frame having spaced apart front and rear frame members connected together by a base frame member. The support frame is adjustably inclined at the lie angle of the golf club by a support arm. The golf club guide includes closely spaced apart front and rear guide ring segments which define a substantially planar circular shaped golf club swing slot therebetween, the swing slot having an unobstructed preferably adjustable width for free swing a golf club therewithin. The front guide ring segment is attached to and is supported by the front frame members while the rear guide ring segment is attached to and is supported by the rear frame member. An economy embodiment is also provided. A substantially flat club shaft guide supportively aligns the golf club shaft at the lie angle of the head.
US08105174B1
A billiards player rating system includes a computer, a display associated with the computer, and at least one storage device. The computer determines a universal rating for a billiards player by prompting the entry of break counts of the billiards player into the computer with a user interface displayed on the display, determining a current average and a best average of the break counts entered into the computer for the billiards player, and calculating the universal rating for the billiards player from the current average and best average of break counts. The billiards player rating may be the only function of the computer or the computer may be a general-purpose computer which may selectively function in that manner by executing a computer program.
US08105173B2
A playset is operable to be erected on a site and includes a slide and an adjustable-height slide base. The slide base includes an adapter that attaches below the slide and at least one standoff that attaches below the adapter.
US08105172B2
A bearing assembly includes a rotatable hub defining a load transfer surface. A porous bearing surrounds and is movable relative to the hub. The bearing includes bearing surfaces extending radially toward the hub. A grease is disposed between the porous bearing and the hub. The grease includes a grease base oil and functions as a lubricant between the hub and the bearing. The grease generally maintains separation between the transfer surface and the bearing surfaces while simultaneously removing debris from an area defined between one of the bearing surfaces and the transfer surface. A bearing base oil is impregnated in the porous bearing and is substantially similar to the grease base oil for replenishing the grease base oil as the grease base oil is depleted.
US08105171B2
A high-precision torque limiting mechanism capable of limiting an output torque to a magnitude of not more than a prescribed value, as well as to reduce a frictional torque produced upon occurrence of a slip. To accomplish this object, a ball ramp section (13) is attached to a slip clutch section (3) for reducing friction between friction plates (31) and (32) forming the slip clutch section (3) and limiting a torque to be transmitted by utilizing an axial thrust produced at the ball ramp section (13) in accordance with the magnitude of an input torque. The precision with which the torque to be transmitted is limited is enhanced by making improvements to the shape of an internal side surface of a recess (G) formed in each of cam elements (131) and (132) of the ball ramp section (13).
US08105164B2
A controller means for playing a compuler game where the player may brace themselves using handlebars, other means which may be grasped, and/or pedals and move a support means on which the player may sit, stand, or be supported, on a bearing means to input control signals to a control means. Movement of the game player provides the normal forwards and backwards and side to side control functions of the controller to control a sprite in the computer game being played. Resistance to movement provides physiotherapy-type exercise for the player. Where particular muscle groups or limbs of patient may need to be exercised, the controller means may be set up to provide that exercise as part of a computer game.
US08105163B2
A technology for expressing object movements with higher levels of realism is provided. A control part 30 arranged in a game apparatus 10 includes an input part 40 and a control part 60. The control part 60 includes a standard mode control part 66 which controls a game mode in which a user-operated character moves in the water, and a fishing mode control part 68 which controls a game mode that starts when the character preys on a lure. The standard mode control part 66 includes a physical quantity modification part 62 which modifies a physical quantity given to the object or a physical quantity pertaining to the movement of the object depending on the type of the movement of the object. The fishing mode control part 68 includes a line control part 64 which connects a plurality of established control points with lines to express a fishing line in a simulated fashion.
US08105141B2
A system and methods are provided in which a certain level of the chance aspect of a game or other application is removed and a certain level of a skill aspect is added. This may be accomplished by using an indicator to establish a predetermined number of move numbers for one or more players in the game. For example, the indicator may be used to determine a first group of move numbers for a first player and a second group of move numbers for a second player. The players use the pre-established move numbers to advance according to the rules of the game. Depending on the particular embodiment, the move numbers within a group may be sequenced or non-sequenced. Move numbers may be replaced at each player's turn or when all or a subset of the move numbers of a group are used. Move numbers may be established by any type of indicator such as dice, dominos, or a random number generator. In some embodiments, move numbers may be traded in. Move numbers may or may not be visible at predetermined times to one or more players.
US08105140B2
In a method and device for spreading a material flow onto a field, the material flow emerging from a chopping mechanism of a chopping and spreading device, in particular a combine mounted straw chopper on a combine harvester, is conveyed to at least one guide element which is situated transversely to the longitudinal axis of the chopping mechanism, the guide element accelerates the material flow and conveys it to at least one downstream spreading unit, the material flow emerging from the at least one guide element is conveyed by a plane of conveyance, in which the material flow enters the at least one guide element, onto a spreading plane situated below the plane of conveyance; in the spreading plane, and the material flow is distributed by the at least one spreading unit onto the field.
US08105138B2
The invention relates to a device for conditioning slaughtered poultry, provided with a carries (3) provided with a contact surface for locally engaging a first carcass part of a slaughtered poultry animal at a first position. The invention also relates to a method for conditioning slaughtered poultry, and to a production line for processing poultry carcasses transported hanging in carriers.
US08105135B2
A polishing slurry includes liquid medium and particulate abrasive. The particulate abrasive includes soft abrasive particles, hard abrasive particles, and colloidal silica particles, wherein the soft abrasive particles have a Mohs hardness of not greater than 8 and the hard abrasive particles have a Mohs hardness of not less than 8, and wherein the soft abrasive particles and the hard abrasive particles are present at a weight ratio of not less than 2:1.
US08105133B2
A mask for performing high speed media finishing on airfoils includes a thicker portion and a thinner portion. The thicker portion is spaced further from an edge that will become a leading edge in the final airfoil than the thinner portion. The media is redirected by the thicker portion toward the edge where the finishing is to occur.
US08105129B2
An inflating and deflating device for connecting to an inner face of a pad includes a top cover having a first domed portion, an air intake and an air exit aperture; a bottom base connected to a lower side of the top cover; a bottom sealing cap; a deflating button located on the top cover to openably seal the air exit aperture; and a first and a second air locker unit. The bottom base has a second domed portion, which and the first domed portion together define a substantially spherical pump body, and is provided with an air intake and exit aperture. The first and second air locker units respectively openably close the air intake and the air intake and exit aperture. The inflating and deflating device has short airflow path and is airtight, and can be used to both inflate and deflate the pad.
US08105120B2
The invention relates to a high-current contact (3) wherein several individual, electric conductors (6) of a common electric line (7) are soldered to the contact element (5) individually or in groups. According to the invention, the contact element (5) comprises a plurality of recesses (13) into which the electric conductors (6) are introduced. The soldered connection of the high-current contact (3) can be tested in a simple manner.
US08105115B2
A housing for a coaxial jack including an opening for receiving the jack, the opening including a guide for preventing rotation of the jack within the opening. The housing also includes a stop to limit sliding of the jack within the opening and a flange extending from an outer surface. An outer face opposite the flange includes a ridge and a groove. A housing for coaxial jacks includes a pair of openings for receiving jacks. Each opening includes a guide to prevent rotation and a stop to limit sliding of the jack within the opening.
US08105109B2
A retaining member includes at least a leg portion having a latch portion, a coupling portion and a spring portion. When the spring portion is displaced, the coupling portion is twisted. Then, the latch portion and the coupling portion are inserted into the opening so that an electric component is retained on a main face of the substrate. In this state, a part of the latch portion is disposed at the periphery of the opening on a rear face of the substrate, a part of the coupling portion is disposed in the opening, and the spring portion is disposed on the main face of the substrate. Therefore, the retaining strength of the electric component to the substrate can be improved, and damage of a side wall of the opening can be decreased.
US08105108B2
Disclosed is a docking station for an electronic device comprising a main body which holds an electronic device and voids in the main body to allow for the passage of external connectors directly into the docked device and the securing of the external connectors to the main body.
US08105107B2
An electrical box is mounted on a wall stud, and a wiring panel is installed within the electrical box so as to partition the interior of the electrical box into a user inaccessible wiring compartment and a user accessible module compartment. A protective cover is attached to the wiring panel so as to protect the wiring panel during a makeup phase of wall panel installation and painting. After the makeup phase, the protective cover is removed from the wiring panel and a module having a user operable electrical function is mounted to the wiring panel within the user accessible module compartment.
US08105100B1
The power converter of the invention includes a housing, two conductive pins, a flexible arm and a plug. The housing has a recess. The conductive pins protrude from the recess. The flexible arm is formed with a protrudent plate and a positioning block, which protrude from the recess. The protrudent plate is located beside the conductive pins. The plug includes a disk and two leads. The protrudent plate presses either of the conductive pins when the flexible arm is depressed so that the conductive pins move away from the leads to form a disconnection. The conductive pins connect to the leads when the disk is positioned by the positioning block.
US08105087B2
A system (1) for detecting and recording impacts produced by shock waves and/or by non-lethal projectiles on the surface of a target (2), includes: a) a plurality of sensors (3i) applied to the target (2) and capable of detecting the said impacts and generating and transmitting a signal detectable by a transceiver device (4); b) a transceiver device (4), also fixed to the target (2), and capable of receiving the signals generated by the said sensors (3i), detecting which of the sensors has emitted a signal, and sending the corresponding data to a recording apparatus (5); c) a recording apparatus (5) capable of recording and storing the data received from the transceiver device (4).
US08105086B2
The embodiments herein provide a dental and medical biomaterial and its use for sealing and/or filling the tooth and bone cavities. In the embodiments herein, the calcium salt, calcium oxide, calcium silicate, and calcium phosphate compounds are mixed with a water-base solution, and a bioactive phosphate and calcium enriched mixture is prepared. The mixture comprises high concentration of water-soluble calcium and phosphate, and consequently forms hydroxyapatite during and after setting. The dental/medical biomaterial is biocompatible, antibacterial and capable of forming an effective seal against reentrance of microorganisms into the filled cavity. The biomaterial is compatible to handle and set in an aqueous environment and to stimulate soft/hard tissue healing/generation/regeneration.
US08105084B2
The invention relates to a computer readable medium that includes one or more programs for carrying out a method for restoration of a patient's tooth. The method includes the steps of generating an electronic image of a patient's tooth; providing a preliminary treatment plan for addressing the dental needs of the patient; and forwarding the electronic image and preliminary treatment plan to a dental laboratory so that technician can evaluate the image and treatment plan and in a manner such that the technician and dentist can review and discuss the preliminary treatment plan.
US08105081B2
A surgical drill guide for installing dental implants with predetermined angular alignment and rotational orientation for a dental prosthesis, formed of: a. a base part formed to correspond generally to the shape and contour of a patient's upper or lower mouth, the base part having peripheral edges and having opposite tissue and mouth sides and at least one drill guide hole extending through the base part from the tissue side to the mouth side, each of the drill guide holes having a central axis at a predetermined angular orientation relative to the mouth side and having lateral location relative to the peripheral edges, and b. a set of rotational position indicators on the tissue and mouth sides respectively of the base part for each of the drill guide holes, the rotational position indicators of each set being at the same rotational position about the central axis of the drill guide hole.
US08105076B2
A radiant tube heater with a burner assembly, a radiant tube assembly and a combustion air pre-heater; wherein the burner assembly comprises: a burner fuel nozzle; a plenum chamber and a pre-mixer chamber; the plenum chamber having a combustion air inlet; wherein in use: combustion air flows from said plenum chamber through an orifice to said pre-mixer where said air is mixed with burner fuel entering said pre-mixer through said nozzle prior to being combusted at a burner head; said pre-mixer being at least partly located within said radiant tube assembly; and where in use at least part of the combustion air supplied to said plenum is preheated in said air pre-heater using residual sensible heat of the hot combustion gas products of the heater.
US08105075B2
To enable a significant flow of liquid, gas or mixed hydrocarbons to be eliminated cleanly and safely, particularly during a well test phase, a burner comprises two concentric apertures, rotationally symmetrical about a common axis, enabling a hollow flame to be generated. The central aperture (20), intended for liquid or mixed products supplied by a conduit (12), consists of 2 concentric male (22) and female (21) conical parts, with the spacing (25) therebetween being continuously adjusted by the axial movement of the rod (23) which carries the male component (22) and which is centered by a centring component (24) in the conduit pipe (12), which carries the female component (21). The peripheral aperture (60), intended for gas products or an auxiliary airflow, also consists of two concentric male (62) and female (61) conical parts, between which the spacing (65) is not necessarily continuously variable during burning.
US08105072B2
An apparatus comprises a blow-moulding mould arrangement arranged for expanding a preform to obtain a container, said blow-moulding mould arrangement comprising a die arrangement cooperating with a punch arrangement, the apparatus further comprising a compression-moulding mould arrangement comprising a further die arrangement cooperating with said punch arrangement for compression-moulding plastics to obtain said preform.
US08105065B2
An apparatus for the measurement of the temperature of a plastified plastic material at the exit of an extruder, characterised in that the function of the sound, velocity in dependence of the temperature is measured and memorised for at least one plastified plastic material, the sound velocity is measured during the extrusion of the plastic material, and the respective temperature is determined from the velocity measurement values and the function.
US08105064B2
For the purpose of molding a multilayered film/sheet having a highly precise thickness of each layer, movable choker bars (31, 32) are movably arranged in the middle of molten resin channels (111, 112), and a plurality of choker adjustment bolts (35, 36) are arranged at a predetermined pitch in the die width direction. The choker bars with the choker adjustment bolts are moved so as to adjust the gap in a choker portion. Thermal conductors (37, 38) are provided with the respective choker adjustment bolts.
US08105063B1
One aspect of the present invention relates to a molding system for use in packaging integrated circuits. The molding system includes a top cavity bar, a middle cavity bar, a bottom cavity bar, a tape and an injection unit. When an electronic substrate is positioned between the top and middle cavity bars, the top and middle cavity bars are arranged to sandwich the electronic substrate. The top and middle cavity bars are also arranged to help form one or more mold cavities over device areas of the electronic substrate. The tape is positioned below the middle cavity bar and is arranged to cover and relieve pressure on a bottom of each mold cavity. The bottom cavity bar is positioned below the tape and is arranged to support the tape. The injection unit is arranged to inject a molding material into the mold cavities.
US08105061B2
A container mold exchanging apparatus includes: a container support body which supports the jacket of the container from which the lower sidewall mold is separated; a gripping mechanism which includes upper and lower gripping members and grips each tread mold so as to be interposed between the upper and lower gripping members in the vertical direction; first and second driving mechanisms which respectively elevate the upper and lower gripping members; a third driving mechanism which expands or contracts the upper and lower gripping members in the radial direction of the container; and a fourth driving mechanism which moves the gripping mechanism along the axis of the container relative to the container support body.
US08105060B2
A target capsule includes (A) a pedestal having a central projection, (B) a pedestal aid attached to the central projection so as to define a sample-loading assembly, and (C) an impact-receiving member, wherein the components (A), (B), and (C) are detachable from each other. The impact target capsule can be readily loaded with a sample, allows the sample to be easily retrieved after application of impact pressure, and can be used repeatedly, and thereby the capsule can be preferably used as an impact compression apparatus in combination with a single-stage powder gun or a single-stage gas gun.
US08105059B2
A compressor includes a screw rotor and a gate rotor arranged to form a compression chamber. The screw rotor has an outer circumferential surface with at least one groove portion. The gate rotor has a plurality of tooth portions. Preferably, a first plane contains the screw rotor center axis, a second plane orthogonally intersects the screw rotor center axis, and a third plane orthogonally intersects the first plane and the second plane. The gate rotor center axis passes through an intersection point of the first, second and third planes. The gate rotor center axis is inclined relative to the second plane toward the same side as the groove portions of the screw rotor, as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the third plane.
US08105058B2
Drywall mud pump for pumping drywall joint compound, for instance, from a bucket into a drywall tool. The pump includes a cylinder, a piston, a rod, and a means, or a connection structure between the piston and the rod, for allowing the end of the rod to move laterally relative to the piston. Some embodiments have an elongated hole in the piston that receives a flattened or reduced diameter end of the rod, for example. Different embodiments include a pump head through which the rod passes, a handle, a linkage, a means for allowing the rod to pivot, a shortened guide, a means for preventing the piston from rotating about the rod, or a combination thereof. Pistons may include, for example, passageways with straight and curved sides, a flapper, an elongated washer to block the elongated hole, and a means for controlling the rotational position of the washer.
US08105051B2
A method of inhibiting combustion within a vacuum pump is provided. The method steps include monitoring and composition of a fluid within the pump and supplying purge gas to the pump to inhibit the onset of a combustion of the fluid. There is also provided a pumping arrangement comprising a vacuum pump (1) together with means (8) for supplying purge gas to the pump. Sensor means (21a, 21b, 21c) are provided for outputting a signal indicative of the onset of a combustion condition within the pump. Control means (22) receive the signal and, in turn, actuate the supply means (9) dependant on the signal received.
US08105044B2
A compressor turbine includes a series of compressor turbine blades each having an airfoil with a profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 2. The X and Y values are distances, which when smoothly connected by an appropriate continuing curve, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The profile sections at each distance Z are joined smoothly to one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
US08105038B2
A row of moving blades for a steam turbine has moving blades elongated radially which are arranged peripherally around and secured to a turbine rotor. The row also has an intermediate support structure for holding the blades to each other at a radially intermediate position. The support structure has a shape of a streamline cross section. The support structure may include a tie wire secured to the blades, or lugs protruding from the blades and combined to each other. The support structure may include lugs protruding from the blades to each other, and a sleeve combining the lugs. The shape of a streamline cross section may have an obtuse-angle or acute-angle upstream part.
US08105035B2
The invention relates to a wind turbine rotor blade comprising a blade tip and a lightning protection system. The rotor blade includes at least one lightning receptor at the surface of the blade in an external distance (Lex) from the distal end of the blade tip, and a lightning receptor base inside the rotor blade arranged at an first internal distance (Li1) from the distal end of the blade tip. The rotor blade further includes means for changing at least one electric property of the rotor blade at the lightning receptor base, as compared to the electric properties of the ambient air by increasing the electric field supported between the lightning receptor base and the inner surface of the rotor blade. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing a wind turbine rotor blade.
US08105034B2
The invention relates to a vertical-axis wind turbine and at least 2 turbine blades, wherein every turbine blade is connected via a supporting arm and a connecting element that can be purely tensile-loaded to the rotatable vertical axis. According to the invention, between the connecting element that can be purely tensile-loaded and the supporting arm a blade is provided that is convex at an angle of attack side defined by the turbine blades and is concave at the other side. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a wind turbine.
US08105030B2
Cooled airfoils and gas turbine engine systems involving such airfoils are provided. In this regard, a representative cooled airfoil includes: an exterior surface defining a leading edge, a trailing edge, a suction side and a pressure side; an interior surface defining an interior cavity; trenches in the exterior surface oriented spanwise along the leading edge; and cooling holes communicating between the interior cavity and the trenches such that cooling air provided to the interior cavity flows from the interior cavity though the cooling holes into the trenches, the cooling holes having exterior apertures located in the trenches and interior apertures located at the interior surface.
US08105020B2
A turbocharger comprises a turbine wheel (5) mounted within a housing assembly (1, 3) for rotation about a turbine axis, a gas flow inlet passage (8) upstream of the turbine wheel (5), and a gas flow control mechanism (10, 16, 32) located within the housing assembly (1, 3) upstream of the turbine wheel (5) and operable to control gas flow through said gas flow inlet passage (9). An actuator assembly is mounted to the housing assembly and comprises: A lead screw including a lead screw shaft (37) defining a lead screw axis, and a lead screw nut (36) threadedly engaged on a threaded portion of the lead screw shaft (37). The lead screw (36, 37) being arranged so that rotation of one of said shaft and nut relative to the housing assembly produces linear movement in the other of said shaft and nut in the direction of the lead screw axis: The lead screw (36, 37) engages the gas flow control mechanism (10, 16, 32) at a location within a housing cavity defined within said housing assembly (1, 3).
US08105015B2
A method for determining total pressure distribution across a fan entry plane of a fan situated within a fan casing provided with struts which are positioned upstream of the fan, with respect to the normal air flow direction through the fan. The method comprises the steps of measuring static pressure at first measurement points on the leading edges of at least some of the struts; deriving local angularity values at each measurement point from the respective static pressure measurements; deriving, from the local angularity values, the total pressure loss at first derived points in the fan entry plane which correspond to the first measurement points; measuring static pressure at second measurement points around the intersection between the fan entry plane and the fan casing; deriving, from the static pressure measurements at the second measurement points, the total pressure loss at each second measurement point, and interpolating between total pressure loss values at the first derived points and the second measurement points to determine total pressure distribution across the fan entry plane.
US08105010B2
A wind energy conversion apparatus includes a supporting structure. The apparatus further includes a shaft having a first and a second end, which is rotatably journalized in the supporting structure, as well as at least one rotor blade having a first end and a second end, which rotor blade is mounted on the shaft with both ends.
US08105004B2
A composite metal male fastener is provided. The metal fastener includes an elongate hollow shell made of metal. The shell includes a threaded exterior for insertion or retraction from the threads of a female fastener. In addition, the shell element includes a central bore and a radially extending flange. The male fastener further includes a core element made of a composite material including plastic, fiberglass or carbon fiber or the like. In a first embodiment, the core element fills the shell's central bore and extends proximally from the proximal end of the shell to encapsulate the shell's flange to form a male fastener head. In an alternative embodiment, the shell's proximal extremity includes a radially extending flange to form a male fastener head for rotation of the male fastener. For this embodiment, the core element extends proximally to the shell's proximal end, without projecting beyond the shell's proximal end. The shell may have a closed distal end, or alternatively, the central bore may extend the length of the male fastener so that the core element fills the shell's central bore the entire length of the shell.
US08104998B2
The hydraulic transportation apparatus and method of the present invention incorporate a multiple chamber framework internally disposed preferably within at least one single shaft structure, which facilitates movement of object transport containers within the multiple chamber framework. Preferably, fluid elevation is employed to elevate and lower object transport containers and their contents within the multiple chamber framework. Each single shaft structure may be constructed from an existing rehabilitated shaft, or a newly drilled shaft. The present invention may be utilized in vertical or incline lifting environments, and an auxiliary hoist chamber may be incorporated into the multiple chamber framework for use as an alternative to, or in conjunction with, elevating objects by employing fluid elevation. The present invention may be employed in a variety of heavy lifting scenarios, including underground mining or in above ground lifting environments.
US08104993B2
A wireless sensor probe for use in environmental monitoring and control includes a separable probe body and sensor mast. The probe body includes a void configured to house the sensor mast including one or more sensor devices for sensing a soil property surrounding the probe body when the probe body is inserted partially into the ground. The probe body includes a probe top part for encapsulating the probe body and the sensor mast. The sensor mast is inserted into the probe body to form the sensor probe. In another embodiment, a wireless sensor probe includes a housing containing one or more sensor devices. The probe further includes a collar situated near a top portion of the housing being used to anchor the housing to the top of the ground and a gasket formed on the outside perimeter of the housing for securing the housing in the ground.
US08104985B2
An applicator dispenser has a container defining a tank with a lateral wall and a neck integral with a wiper. An applicator includes a cap having an outer shell and a threaded insert, and an axial wand fixedly attached to the insert and to an application means. The lateral wall of the tank forms at its upper part a straight skirt. The container has a closure component having an upper part forming the neck, a peripheral part engaging in a sealed way with the straight skirt, and a lower part engaging with the wiper forming a forward axial stop for the wiper. The wiper has a central part forming a swaged wiping part and a lateral part engaging with the lower part of the closure component.
US08104982B2
A device for loading and applying a cosmetic composition may comprise an applicator comprising an electric heater member, a container containing the composition, the container comprising a housing configured to receive at least part of the applicator so as to load the applicator with the composition, and an electrical circuit configured to power the heater member. The circuit may be configured so that the power supply to the heater member is automatically modified, leading to an increase in the electric power that is dissipated by the heater member when said heater member is received in the housing, when a predefined condition relating to the at least part of the applicator being received in the housing is satisfied.
US08104977B2
An optical transceiver is disclosed, in which the transceiver installs a BOSA and has an additional heat conducting path from the BOSA to the cover and to the base independent of the path from the IC to the cover. The optical transceiver includes a heat conductor that comes in thermally contact with the BOSA, the cover and the base. The heat conductor, which is made of metal sheet, has a ceiling piece that comes in contact with the cover and a pair of legs with the bottom surface that comes in contact with the base in both sides of the BOSA.
US08104973B2
An adapter for holding two multi-fiber ferrules in positions to mate with one another includes a main body, a opening extending through the main body configured to receive and optically and mechanically mate the two multi-fiber ferrules. Engagement members, which preferably rotate about an axis transverse to the opening, is disposed adjacent the opening on each side of the adapter to engage and hold the multi-fiber ferrules in the adapter.
US08104972B2
A number of machines such as gas turbine engines have asymmetric axial loading along a shaft (2, 3, 4). In order to accommodate for this asymmetric loading, known as an end bearing load, a load share bearing (103) is typically provided. However, specifying the fixed bearing (11, 12) becomes increasingly difficult as space and weight considerations are taken into account. In such circumstances providing a combination of a fixed bearing (11, 12) and a load share bearing (103) to achieve an acceptable bearing end load capacity is more acceptable. The proportion of the combination provided respectively by the fixed bearing and the load share bearing can be varied dependent upon operational stage in order to achieve more efficient operation.
US08104962B2
In a preferred embodiment, an apparatus including: a longitudinally extending base member; a moving carriage assembly member adapted to move axial back-and-forth in the longitudinally extending base member; two bearing members extending sideways, on opposite sides, from the moving carriage assembly and engaging longitudinal bearing guides disposed in the longitudinally extending base member; and single means engaging the bearing members to simultaneously adjust the bearing members to take up any slop between the moving carriage assembly member and the longitudinally extending base member. A method of manufacturing the apparatus is also provided.
US08104961B2
A bag and zipper assembly includes, side gussets of the bag are at inwardly folded positions between first and second panels. Each side gusset of the bag has a set of one or more gusset openings adjacent an open end of the bag. The first panel has a corresponding set of one or more panel openings, and adhesive extends in each of the openings for the adhesive to adhere the side gussets to the first panel and restrain each side gusset from movement outwardly from between the first and second panels.
US08104955B2
A total air temperature probe includes an inlet through which airflow enters a primary airflow passage through the probe. A sensor flow passage is connected to the primary flow passage. Bleed ports extend between the primary airflow passage and a cross-port which extends laterally across the probe. An aspiration aperture in the cross-port couples the cross-port to an internal cavity of a strut of the probe. The aspiration aperture can be centered within the cross-port to provide symmetrical deicing heater error behavior of the probe during changes in angle of attack. An aspiration tube couples the internal cavity of the probe to a pressure source.
US08104950B2
In one example embodiment, a board for measuring device temperatures comprises a base and one or more fingers extending from the base. The base and the one or more fingers comprise a flexible material. One or more first temperature sensors are disposed on the one or more fingers. One or more second temperature sensors are disposed on the base. Each of the first and second temperature sensors comprises a partially thermally isolated temperature sensor.
US08104948B2
A processing liquid mixing apparatus and method capable of maintaining a mixing ratio of the processing liquid produced in a mixing tank constant, a substrate processing apparatus including the processing liquid mixing apparatus, and a storage medium storing a program for controlling the processing liquid mixing apparatus are disclosed. Discharge valves are first open and supply valves are close to discharge stock solutions to an outside through the discharge valves. After all flow rates of the stock solutions detected by LFC reach a predetermined flow rate, the discharge valves are close and the supply valves are open to supply the stock solutions to the second mixing tank through the supply valves.
US08104945B2
A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, disposed under a liquid crystal panel to illuminate the liquid crystal panel. The backlight unit includes a light guide plate, first and second light emitting diode (LED) arrays, disposed on adjacent sides, perpendicular to each other, of the light guide plate, each array having a plurality of LED blocks, consisting of one or more LEDs, and a control unit that controls electric signals, respectively inputted to the LED blocks, to regulate luminance for the respective LED blocks, wherein light emitted from the first and second LED arrays is overlapped each other in the light guide plate.
US08104942B2
A light guide sheet and a movable contact element using the sheet are inexpensive and provide adequate illumination. In the light guide sheet, light-transmissive upper conductive layers, reflective layers, and lower conductive layers are laminated in this order in predetermined positions on the bottom surface of a light-transmissive, film-like cover sheet. The reflective layers have reverse particles dispersed therein, whose top and bottom surfaces are reversed between light color and dark color.
US08104930B2
An LED module includes an LED and a lens covering the LED. The LED has an optical axis. The lens has an incident face for incidence of light of the LED into the lens and an opposite emitting face for refracting the light of the LED out of the lens. The emitting face has two elongated, ellipsoid lateral surfaces and a middle surface located between and connecting with the two ellipsoid lateral surfaces. The incident face has a sidewall and a ceiling connecting to a top of the sidewall. The middle surface of the emitting face and the ceiling of the incident face are corresponding to each other and inclined laterally relative to the optical axis of the LED.
US08104929B2
An outdoor lighting fixture using LEDs as a light source has a decorative housing that includes a cast metal dome roof and one or more LED light engines, wherein the light engines conductive metal substrate is in conformal contact with a portion of the inner surface of the roof, such that the roof provides increased heat sink mass and the outer surface of the roof provides a heat dissipative surface area outside of the housing. Preferred embodiments include a street light wherein two LED light engines are mounted at about 20 and 160 degrees to a line parallel to the street segment to produce an asymmetric light profile that reaches over and along the street for an effective distance, but does not extend very far on the side away from the street. Also disclosed is a reflector module for an LED light engine having rows of cone reflectors modified to produce an effective emission pattern.
US08104923B2
The light-emitting apparatus (1) of the present invention includes: a storage case (12) that includes a base board (10) having a concave portion (10a) and a lid portion (11) covering the concave portion (10a); and a plurality of light-emitting elements (13) that are disposed on an inner surface (12a) of the storage case (12), an opening (11a) is formed in the lid portion (11), at least a part of the inner surface (12a) is a light-reflecting surface that wave-guides light emitted by the light-emitting elements (13) as light sources to a position directly underneath the opening (11), and a reflecting portion (15) that reflects the light emitted by the light-emitting elements (13) as the light sources toward the opening (11a) is formed directly underneath the opening (11a). Thereby, the light-emitting apparatus having a point light source with high brightness can be provided.
US08104918B2
An exemplary backlight module (20) includes a plurality of linear lamps (21) and a pair of first holders (23). Each linear lamp includes a main body (212) and two electrodes (214) extending respectively from two opposite ends of the main body. Each first holder includes a plurality of cage portions (231), and each cage portion includes at least two parts elastically holding the main body and the electrode at one of the ends of a corresponding one of the linear lamps, at least one of said at least two parts electrically connecting the electrode with the first holder. A liquid crystal display (2) employing the backlight module is also provided.
US08104910B2
A light emitting device includes a plurality of light emitting diodes, a plurality of sealing resins, and a lens body formed in substantially a shape of a flat plate for guiding the light. The lens body is also disposed in a state of extending over the disposition surface of each sealing resin. The lens body includes a plurality of lens parts and a plurality of light guiding parts for reflecting the light by inside surfaces of the light guiding parts. The plurality of lens parts and the plurality of light guiding parts of the lens body are formed integrally with each other. The lens parts are disposed on the respective disposition surfaces of the sealing resins, and a plurality of light emitting function parts for sending out the light reflected by the inside surfaces of the light guiding parts are formed in the light guiding parts.
US08104908B2
An illumination module includes a light mixing cavity with an interior surface area and window that are physically separated from an LED. A portion of the window is coated with a first wavelength converting material and a portion of the interior surface area is coated with a second wavelength converting material. The window may be coated with LuAG:Ce. The window may also be coated with a third wavelength converting material with a peak emission wavelength between 615-655 nm where the spectral response of light emitted from the window is within 20% of a blackbody radiator at the same CCT. The LED may emit a light that is converted by the light mixing cavity with a color conversion efficiency ratio greater than 130 lm/W where the light mixing cavity includes two photo-luminescent materials with a peak emission wavelengths between 508-528 nm and 615-655 nm.
US08104903B2
Herein featured is a nightlight which can be worn by a user and displays projected images in two viewing modes. Mode one consists of projected images. Mode two; a silent interactive play video feature. For enhanced viewing there is a button spring release lens attachment enabling user to view the projected images and interactive adventure mode in another aspect. The interactive mode allows the user manipulation of the projected vehicle in real time within the display. The nightlight is also equipped with a pair of 3-D glasses. The panic mode feature allows the user to illuminate the body of the nightlight in the event that a user needs all the lights illuminated quickly, adding comfort.
US08104897B2
Provided is a projection optical system which includes a first optical part which projects an image; a second optical part having an image forming device, which forms an image using a light and emits the image to the first optical part; a third optical part having at least one light source which emits the light; and a deflector which guides the light emitted from the third optical part toward the second optical part, wherein an optical axis of the third optical part is angled toward an optical axis of the second optical part, and an optical axis of the first optical part and the optical axis of the second optical part are parallel to each other and separated from each other.
US08104895B2
A display system includes a projection screen and a projector. The projection screen includes a retarder plate between a polarizer and a transparent screen. The projector projects an image through the polarizer and the retarder plate onto the transparent screen. The image is visible from a first side of the transparent screen but invisible from a second side of the transparent screen because any light passing twice through the retarder plate is blocked by the polarizer.
US08104894B2
A visible laser beam projection system for a vehicle projects visible laser beam onto an instrument panel in a vehicle compartment. The instrument panel is provided with highly reflecting portions, which are scattered on the upper surface of the instrument panel. The highly reflecting portions having a diffuse reflectivity for the wavelength of a visible laser beam higher than that of other portions of the instrument panel. The visible laser beam is projected to the highly reflecting portions.
US08104893B2
A suntracking system for a central receiver solar power plant includes a heliostat field for reflecting sunlight to a receiver, cameras directed toward at least a subset of the heliostats, and a controller. The cameras are configured to produce images of sunlight reflected from multiple heliostats. The heliostats include a mirrored surface having a settable orientation and have a geometry modeled by a set of parameters. A method of estimating heliostat parameters for open-loop suntracking includes acquiring pointing samples by setting the direction of reflection of the heliostats and detecting concurrent sunlight reflections into the cameras. The method uses the acquired pointing samples and surveyed locations of the cameras to estimate the heliostat parameters. The method accurately maintains the sun's reflection directed toward the receiver open-loop utilizing the estimated tracking parameters.
US08104892B2
Various embodiments of methods and systems for improving and enhancing vision are disclosed. Adjustable lenses or optical systems may be used to provide adaptive vision modification. In some embodiments, vision modification may be responsive to the current state of the user's visual system. Certain embodiments provide correction of the subject's near and far vision. Other embodiments provide enhancement of vision beyond the physiological ranges of focal length or magnification.
US08104884B2
A coating agent for use in UV curable inkjet printing using nonaqueous UV ink. The coating agent includes a main component that is an organic-inorganic nanocomposite, and the coating agent is configured to form an undercoat before the inkjet printing or to form a finishing coat after the inkjet printing and UV curing.
US08104882B2
A duplex printer includes a pair of pagewidth printheads. Each printhead includes a casing assembly defining a channel. At least one elongate support member is received within the channel and defines longitudinally extending fluid passages. The support member further defines spaced apart groups of holes extending from the passages. A fluid distribution arrangement is mounted in fluid communication with the support member. A plurality of ink ejection integrated circuits (ICs) is mounted in fluid communication with the fluid distribution arrangement so that the ICs can be supplied with ink from respective groups via the fluid distribution arrangement.
US08104881B2
A disclosed ink cartridge includes a primary ink room and at least one secondary ink room arranged adjacent to the primary ink room, which rooms are configured to store ink therein. An ink supplying needle is made to pierce through the secondary ink room in such a manner that at least a needle hole provided in the ink supplying needle reaches the primary ink room so as to suction the ink from the primary ink room through the needle hole and supply the ink to an inkjet recording head via an ink supplying path. As the ink supplying needle is pulled out from the primary ink room, the needle hole passes through the secondary ink room so that the ink supplying needle can suction the ink from the secondary ink room.
US08104879B2
For printing, the principle of the continuous deflected jet is used: a device (1) discharges a continuous stream (2) of a conductive liquid, which is deflected by an electric field created by a deflecting electrode (8) and directed toward a gutter (6). The printing of drops (12) is performed by fragmenting the continuous jet (2) into a segment (10) formed opposite a shield electrode (14) upstream of the deflecting electrode (8), so that the segment (10) is not deflected and can be directed toward a substrate (16).
US08104874B2
An inkjet nozzle assembly includes a nozzle chamber comprising a floor and a roof. The roof has a moving portion which is moveable relative to the floor. A thermal bend actuator is configured for actuating the moving portion. The thermal bend actuator includes an active beam for connection to drive circuitry and a passive beam mechanically cooperating with the active beam. When a current is passed through the active beam, the active beam expands relative to the passive beam resulting in bending of the moving portion towards the floor of the nozzle chamber. The nozzle opening is defined in the moving portion of the roof, such that the nozzle opening is moveable relative to the floor.
US08104867B2
A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes a jetting head unit which has a nozzle which jets droplets of a liquid, and a heat generating section, a suction port which is formed in the jetting head unit, and which opens near the nozzle, and a suction device which sucks air around the nozzle from the suction port, and cools down the heat generating section of the jetting head unit by the air which is sucked. Since the heat generating portion is cooled down by the air sucked from the suction port by the suction device, it is possible to reduce a possibility of the heat of the heat generating section being transferred to the jetting head unit, and destabilizing an operation of the jetting head unit. Moreover, since the suction port opens near the nozzle, it is possible to suck fine liquid droplets together with air around the nozzle.
US08104859B2
A head array unit includes a plurality of liquid discharging heads configured to discharge liquid and a head supporter configured to support the plurality of liquid discharging heads. The head supporter includes a plurality of liquid inlets, a channel system, and at least two ports. The plurality of liquid inlets is configured to supply liquid to the plurality of liquid discharging heads, respectively. The channel system is configured to sandwich or surround each of the plurality of liquid inlets and contain coolant to control a temperature of the head array unit. The at least two ports are connected to the channel system.
US08104850B2
An office furniture unit has an outer face with slotted hangers, and a removable storage unit assembly including a bottom panel positioned in a generally horizontal orientation along the office furniture unit, and a top panel disposed above and generally parallel with the bottom panel. First and second panels are disposed at opposite ends of the top and bottom panels and are connected therewith to define a rigid, box-shaped case having an open back portion. The first and second end panels have rear portions with multiple vertically spaced slots. First and second hanger brackets have a rear portion with first hooks selectively received in the slotted hangers of the office furniture units, and a forward portion with second hooks selectively received in the slots in the rear portions of the first and second end panels to detachably support the case against the outer face of the office furniture unit.
US08104845B2
A vehicle braking apparatus is provided with a brake operating element that is operated by a driver, and an actuator that generates a braking force in accordance with a braking operation of the brake operating element. A controller is operatively arranged to control the actuator such that an increase in a rate of change of the braking force with respect to the braking operation by the driver is suppressed upon determining that vehicle cabin background noise is equal to or below a prescribed threshold value.
US08104844B2
A cutting tool has a first cutting end, a second cutting end, a shoulder at an interface between the first cutting end and the second cutting end, and a shield removably mounted on one of the first cutting end and second cutting end. The cutting ends each have a cutting tip at a distal end, a body portion, a recess in the body portion and a retainer positioned in the recess. Cutting ends can be mirror images of each other, or may be non-mirror imaged, for example with different gage lengths, to accommodate different operating conditions. One of the cutting ends is mounted in a holder and the shield protects the retainer and recess features on the operating cutting end. A combination of a reversible cutting tool and a sleeve and/or block holder system, an apparatus for cutting, a sleeve per se and a shield per se are also disclosed.
US08104834B2
A seat assembly for a motor vehicle which includes a locking mechanism is provided. The seat assembly has a base frame mounted to the floor of the vehicle. A seat cushion is pivotally mounted to the base frame for movement between a seated position and a stowed position. A locking mechanism operable to lock the seat cushion in the seated position is mounted to the base frame. The locking mechanism is capable of engaging the seat cushion at an intermediate position between the stowed position and the seated position. Upon engagement of the locking mechanism with the seat cushion at the intermediate position, movement of the seat cushion towards the stowed position is prevented while movement of the seat cushion towards the seated position is unimpeded.
US08104832B2
A seat in which a cushioning member has a high following ability to a human body motion and which can efficiently damp a vibration inputted from the outside is provided. The seat is constituted to use a torsion bar 112 and to support a cushioning member of a seat cushion section 150 by a parallel link mechanism having a first link plate 113 pivotally supported by the torsion bar 112, a second link plate 116 disposed in correspondence with the first link plate 113, and a connection link plate 117 connecting the first link plate 113 and the second link plate 116, and operational directions of the first link plate 113 and the second link plate 116 are set to almost coincide with a vertical direction along a surface of a seat back section. Thus, a rotational motion following a human body motion generated by an external vibration input is performed, so that a relative motion between a human body and the cushioning member is small and a resonance peak is lowered, whereby a vibration absorption characteristic can be improved.
US08104830B2
A vehicle seat is provided comprising a seat back frame having right and left side frames, a headrest for supporting a head of a seat occupant, and a back-and-forth movable body provided inside a backrest that is positioned at a rear of the seat occupant, wherein a backward movement of the back-and-forth movable body forwardly moves the headrest to support the head of the seat occupant. The back-and-forth movable body is attached to each side frame through a link member and is provided with a backward protrusion protruding backward, and the backward protrusion extends laterally.
US08104828B2
An adjustable workstation with a hideaway seat and method are disclosed. The table may be adjustable in height so that the workstation may be used as a sitting desk or a standing workstation. The chair is pivotably coupled to the table so that it may be extended and used for sitting or stowed away under the desk while the user stands. The workstation may also have wheels for mobility.
US08104822B2
A vehicle roller blind or a sunshield roller blind for motor vehicles includes a roller blind web which is connected to a thrust element, which is rigid in compression and/or bending-resistant, for tensioning the roller blind web, and having an adjusting device which actuates the thrust element, which is embodied in the manner of a single-strand cable window lifter and which is at least partially encapsulated together with the thrust element. The thrust element and the adjusting device are arranged in a housing which holds the thrust element and the adjusting device and which comprises a drive housing for the roller blind drive and a preferably tubular guide channel which holds the thrust element and the flexible traction means.
US08104815B2
An arm-folding mechanism for use in a vehicle-mounted radiation imaging system. The vehicle includes a vehicle body behind a driving cab. The vehicle body includes a generator cabin and a control cabin. The arm-folding mechanism includes a vertical detection arm, a main arm frame, and a hinged mechanism hingedly connecting the vertical detection arm with the main arm frame. The hinged mechanism includes: a first connection arrangement having a free end and a fixed end fixedly connected with or integral with the main arm frame; a second connection arrangement fixedly connected with the vertical detection arm; and an intermediate arrangement connecting the first connection arrangement with the second connection arrangement so that the vertical detection arm can rotate relative to the main arm frame. The bottom of the first connection arrangement is at the same level as or above the bottom of the main arm frame.
US08104810B2
A gripper assembly includes at least one movable gripper jaw and a sensor member coupled for movement with the at least one gripper jaw. The sensor member includes a slot. A sensor is located at least partially within the slot and includes at least one inductor for inductively detecting a proximity of the sensor member.
US08104806B1
An easy operated pick up tool comprises a body which includes a first tube member, an extending tube, and a second tube member; an actuating post fitted into the first tube member, between the actuating post and the first tube member being defined a first resilient element, wherein the actuating post including a holder and a string inserted into a front end of the second tube member to connect with an expandable paw; a cell set received in the holder; a bulb disposed in the second tube member and including a first leg connected with a first electrode of the cell set; a controlling assembly including a receiving cylinder screwed with the holder to receive a stem for pushing an electricity conducting shaft which contacts with a second electrode of the cell set; a magnetic attracting member having an insulation sleeve fitted on the body and including a magnet loop.
US08104796B2
A pipe joint and can include a first pipe having a flange and a second pipe having a flange. A first sleeve can be installed within the first pipe and a second sleeve can be installed within the second pipe. Moreover, an annular ring can be disposed between the flange of the first pipe and the flange of the second pipe. The annular ring is configured to engage the first sleeve and the second sleeve and create a sealing engagement between the annular ring, the first sleeve and the second sleeve when a compressive force is applied to the first sleeve, the second sleeve, or a combination thereof along a longitudinal axis of the pipe assembly.
US08104790B2
A vehicular occupant restraint system including: a four-point seatbelt system having left and right webbings for restraining an occupant, each of the left and right webbings having an upper body restraining portion that restrains the upper body of the occupant; a left first inflating portion which is provided on the upper body restraining portion of the left webbing and which inflates by receiving a gas supply and deploys in front of the upper body of the occupant, and a right first inflating portion which is provided on the upper body restraining portion of the right webbing and which inflates by receiving a gas supply and deploys in front of the upper body of the occupant; and a second inflating portion which inflates by receiving a gas supply when the first inflating portions inflate, and deploys to support the first inflating portions from the outside in the seat width direction.
US08104781B2
The apparatus has two tilting wheels which, when attached to a two-wheeled vehicle such as a motorcycle or a scooter, allows the vehicle to tilt into a curve notwithstanding the addition of the two wheels. The apparatus includes a frame, a pair of wheel supports and a pair of wheels each rotatable about a separate wheel support. A pair of links interconnect the frame with the wheel supports. The apparatus includes a rocker pivotally connected to the frame and a pair of transverse arms each pivotal about a separate wheel support and the rocker. Each transverse arm has a coil spring for biasing the wheel support and rocker apart. When a vehicle equipped with the apparatus rounds a curve, the frame tilts in the direction of the curve with like tilting of the wheels of the apparatus.
US08104773B2
An air conditioner system fitting is disclosed including a first seal portion with a metal material adapted to provide a primary scat, and a second seal portion attached to a free edge of said first seal portion and adapted to provide a secondary seal, wherein the fitting militates against leakage during operation of the air conditioning system.
US08104768B2
A board game includes a multi-color game board including eight distinguishing colors on a white background. The game also includes eight game pieces of eight colors that match the color spaces on eight radially extending arms surrounding a central hub. Each of the radially extending arms includes eight outwardly directed colored spaces and eight inwardly directed spaces abutting the eight outwardly directed spaces. The inwardly and outwardly directed spaces adjacent to the central hub and a turnaround space at the end of that arm are of the same color while the spaces in between the adjacent spaces and the turnaround spaces are of different colors.
US08104766B2
A sheet conveyor includes a first roller and a second roller pressurized to the first roller to hold and convey a sheet, wherein when the sheet is held between the first roller and the second roller, the first roller and second roller are separated at a space equivalent to a thickness of the sheet. The sheet conveyor has a pressurizing delay mechanism configured to bring slowly the first roller and the second roller into contact with each other after the sheet is conveyed from the first roller and the second roller.
US08104750B2
A fluid filled vibration damping device including: a fluid passage interconnecting a pressure receiving chamber partially defined by a rubber elastic body connecting a first and second mounting members, and an equilibrium chamber partially defined by a flexible film; a movable valve body provided for switching the fluid passage between a communicating state and a blocked state through reciprocating operation; an electric motor employed for actuating the movable valve body; an actuating force converter mechanism provided on an actuating force transmission path from the electric motor to the movable valve body. A rotational actuating force of the electric motor is transmitted as reciprocating actuating force to the movable valve body by the actuating force converter mechanism.
US08104748B2
Disclosed is a hollow fiber system for a humidifier, including hollow fibers that are permeable to steam. A first air flow can be conducted within the hollow fibers while a second air flow can be conducted outside the hollow fibers. The hollow fibers are located at least in part at a distance from each other via a device (6) that is disposed between the hollow fibers, respectively.
US08104736B2
A mount system for an auxiliary component includes two side brackets and a top bracket for rigidly attaching an auxiliary component to an engine casing. Each side bracket defines mount segments, a deformable member and two retainer members between the mount segment. The deformable member plastically deforms during a fan-blade out event, thereby absorbing a majority of the high shock load experienced on the auxiliary component. The retainer members maintain the attachment between the auxiliary component and the engine casing subsequent to the fan-blade out event.
US08104728B2
An adjustable display screen support includes a support arm with a mounting assembly at the bottom end for fastening to the top of a desk and a coupling block at the top end for holding a coupling block that has a base frame, an attachment frame hooked on the base frame, and a lock for locking the attachment frame to the base frame, a rail that has a flat base panel, a cover shell, a slide affixed to the attachment frame and movable along longitudinal sliding slots of the flat base panel, and spiral springs mounted in the slide each having one end affixed to the cover shell, and a display screen mount affixed to the cover shell to support a display screen.
US08104713B2
A reinforced inflatable wing improves the tolerance of the OML and reinforces the wing in at least the high load areas. This approach provides fitment constrained air vehicles with wings having increased surface area to improve flight endurance or aerodynamic control. A wing box forms a first portion of the wing. A skin having a plurality of rigid plates affixed thereto is inflated to form a second portion of the wing to either increase the chord length or lengthen the wing span. The skin is suitably inflated with foam to form a solid wing.
US08104710B2
An actuator arrangement comprises a first screw shaft, a first nut cooperating with the first screw shaft such that rotation of the first screw shaft causes the first nut to translate thereon, a second screw shaft, a second nut cooperating with the second screw shaft such that rotation of the second screw shaft causes the second nut to translate thereon, and first and second linkages connecting the first and second nuts, respectively, to an output member, rotation of the first and second screw shafts to cause translation of the first and second nuts towards one another causing extending movement of the output member and rotation of the first and second screw shafts to cause translation of the first and second nuts away from one another causing retracting movement of the output member.
US08104707B1
Disclosed herein is a propulsion system, which may be implemented in an air-vehicle, such as a ducted-fan organic air-vehicle. The propulsion system comprises (a) a power source, (b) a fan located within a duct and powered by the power source, (c) a plurality of vanes arranged in an x-clocked configuration and configured to produce control moments from the flow generated by the fan. The maximum control moments, which can be created by the vanes in the x-clocked configuration, are substantially oriented along the flight axes of the air-vehicle or the principle axis of the maximum moment of inertia.
US08104706B2
It is presented a note transport unit for feeding notes one after the other to and from a note handling unit. The note transport unit comprises at least one note storage drum to and from which input notes and output notes, respectively, are transported. A bidirectional roller is arranged to transport notes along a first guide surface towards and from the at least one note storage drum. Moreover, first and second films are provided, between which films notes are stored on the at least one note storage drum. Several converging areas are used for the capturing of both input notes and output notes when notes are transferred between the note handling unit and the at least one note storage drum. It is also presented a method for bidirectional transfer of notes to and from the note transport unit.
US08104704B2
A distributor plate (10) is shown for use in an impelling rotor of a vertical shaft impactor (14). Typically the impelling rotor is a chamber (12) arranged to rotate about a vertical axis A-A. Feed materials for breakage are gravity-fed into the rotating chamber (12). These materials strike the rotating distributor plate (10) which is located at the base of the rotor chamber (12). The plate has a substantially planar single-piece upper surface (24) onto which the feed materials are received. This substantially flat surface (24) facilitates rapid and easy expulsion of feed materials there across and out of the rotor chamber (12). The plate shown is a circular disc made of metal carbide. Use of a single-piece upper surface of the distributor plate (10) also will not result in the development of preferential wear sites at corners, edges, join lines etc, as can happen with the known distributor plates.
US08104701B2
A grinding machine having a mounting arrangement and an anvil. The grinding machine generally including a feed table and a grinding drum positioned within a mill box. The mounting arrangement being configured to support an end of the feed table and the anvil. The anvil including a wedge-shaped portion and having a length. The length of the anvil being configured to extend beyond sides of the mill box.
US08104691B2
Provided are a tag antenna for wireless identification and a wireless identification system including the tag antenna. The tag antenna includes: a substrate formed of a first dielectric; a conductive ground layer formed underneath the substrate; an AMC layer formed on the substrate; and a wireless identification chip adhered onto the AMC layer.
US08104689B2
A smart card includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chip and a second IC chip. The first IC chip receives a read signal from an external read device, and is responsive to the read signal to output a data signal to the external read device based on information data stored in a memory. The second IC chip receives the read signal from the external read device, and is responsive to the read signal to output an anti-skimming signal. The anti-skimming signal interferes with the data signal when both the first and second IC chips are in a read zone of the read device.
US08104684B2
There is provided a bar code made of electronic paper. A bar code made of electronic paper according to an aspect of the invention may include: one or more e-paper stacks having a plurality of pieces of e-paper each having an entire surface displaying black, white or being transparent, wherein an upper level of e-paper of the e-paper stack is narrower than a lower level of e-paper thereof, the outermost layer of e-paper of the e-paper stack has the same width as the narrowest constituting a bar code, and part of the lower level of e-paper exposed by the upper level of e-paper adjacent to the lower level of e-paper has the same width as the narrowest constituent bar of the bar code.
US08104680B2
A system detects a transaction outcome by obtaining video data associated with a transaction area and by obtaining transaction data concerning at least one transaction that occurs at the transaction area. The system correlates the video data associated with the transaction area to the transaction data to identify specific video data captured during occurrence of that at least one transaction at the transaction area. Based a transaction classification indicated by the transaction data, the system processes the video data to identify appropriate visual indicators within the video data that correspond to the transaction classification.
US08104675B2
The invention includes systems and methods for facilitating risk assessment for point of sale transactions utilizing at least one risk triggering value (RTV) stored within a distributed (e.g., local and/or regional) processing site. An RTV is a condensed version of a set of complex risk data and strategies usually found in central processing sites. The distributed site, after receiving a request for payment authorization, a risk value is calculated for the request. The distributed processing site compares the risk value to the RTV to determine whether to authorize payment. If the risk value is less than or equal to the RTV, the payment is authorized while a risk value greater than the RTV will not be authorized. After one or more authorizations, the distributed processing site forwards the information from the transaction(s) to the central site, wherein the central site calculates a new RTV for the account and distributes the new RTV to the distributed processing site.
US08104672B2
System, device and methods that provide proximate environmental and security intelligence to a guard making a security tour or round in an installation, as well as that provide for certifying that the guard has visited designated and known checkpoints on or about the times at which the guard is expected at those checkpoints.
US08104663B2
The periphery of a mask (3) is formed higher than a region where a ball holding hole (3a) is formed, a work (1) is arranged at a lower section of the ball holding hole (3a) of the mask (3), and the ball holding hole (3a) and an electrode of the work (1) are aligned with each other. A ball (B) is applied on the mask (3), and in such state, vibration is applied to the mask (3) to move the solder ball (B) on the surface of the mask (3) and drop the solder ball (B) into the ball holding hole (3a). The periphery of the mask (3) is permitted to be lower than the ball holding hole (3a), and an excessive portion of the solder ball (B) is recovered from over the mask (3).
US08104660B2
A transducer is provided that comprises a horn having a longitudinal axis, a bonding tool attached to the horn, and an ultrasonic generator attached to the horn and spaced from the bonding tool along the longitudinal axis of the horn. A flexure is attached to the horn between the bonding tool and the ultrasonic generator for supporting the horn whereby to increase its dynamic rigidity in directions transverse to the longitudinal axis.
US08104642B2
A beverage container (10) is disclosed having an outer housing (11), a discharge nozzle (12), one or more beverage chamber (18) and a plunger means that may be a base cup (14) with shaft members (50). Preferably there are two or three beverage chambers. The beverage container (10) may include a mixing nozzle (75). The device may include positioning for a travel position, initial discharge position and fully discharged position. The beverage chambers (18) may be separately filled and held in position by a sleeve (62) frangible seals and a safety cap may be included. The invention extends to a method of providing a beverage, preferably an alcoholic beverage to a consumer.
US08104639B1
An electrical device cover comprises a base with an opening in a back wall of the base sized to receive an electrical device and a lid coupled to the base at a first base end through a hinge, the lid pivotable between and open position and at least one closed position. The base comprises a track and a notch in a side of the track extending away from the first base end. A first end of the lid in a closed position is adjustable generally parallel to the back wall of the base toward and away from a second base end. A lid pin extends from the lid towards the track when the lid is in a closed position. In each closed position the lid pin seats in the at least one notch of the track when the first lid end is selectively adjusted toward the second base end.
US08104632B2
There is provided a synthetic resin bottle having high commercial value, which prevents plastic deformation accompanied with buckling. The invention provides a PET bottle comprising a body portion connected to a mouth portion via a shoulder portion, and a constricted portion provided on the body portion and looping along the circumferential direction. The body portion comprises a front wall and a back wall which face to each other, a left sidewall and a right sidewall which face to each other, and connecting portion which respectively join the walls. The cross section of the body portion along the circumferential direction a generally polygonal outer profile. The constricted portion comprises left lateral grooves extending from the left sidewall at least to the connecting portion along the circumferential direction, right lateral grooves extending from the right sidewall at least to the connecting portion along the circumferential direction and intermittent portions formed by spacing apart adjacent terminal ends of the lateral grooves.
US08104624B2
A multipolymeric mixture is provided that includes a hydrophobic polymer, two different grades of a water-soluble polymer, water as non-solvent and a solvent suitable for all polymers involved. The dissolved hydrophobic polymer has the affinity to enmesh the water-soluble polymers to form a clear and viscous dope. Water-soluble polymers contribute to the pore formation process and hydrophilicity of the finally coagulated membrane according to the makeup of their molecular weight distribution.Water as a non-solvent takes the dope very near towards unstable zone, which helps in speeding up the membrane formation process in a diffusion induced phase inversion technique. The dope is then spun through a concentric orifice spinneret and solidified by passing it through a coagulation bath to form hollow fiber asymmetric membranes of ultra filtration grade with superior water permeability and separation characters even at higher feed turbidity.
US08104619B2
A wafer container comprising a base and a cover that nest together. The base includes a staggered wall structure composed of inner and outer walls. The staggered wall structure is arranged so that forces from side impacts are absorbed principally by outer wall segments. A rib on the cover restrains the outer wall segments from flexing beyond the inner wall diameter. Reference tabs on the base facilitate alignment of the base to the cover.
US08104618B2
Primary packages configured for display and sale without secondary packaging are stacked horizontally in a product display tray. The consumer-facing surface of the back panel of the product display tray may contain graphics including product information provided on the primary package's principal display panel (which is typically faced towards consumers). Thus, consumers may readily view the product information provided on the principal display panel as primary packages are removed from the product display tray and principal display panels of remaining primary packages are hidden from view by one or more walls of the product display tray. The individual primary packages may be contoured specifically to inhibit lateral relative shifting while in a horizontally stacked configuration. The individual primary packages may shaped to facilitate grasping by having a first surface contoured for grasping in the user's palm, a second surface opposite the first surface with molded branding information for engagement by a portion of the user's fingers. Molded branding information may be positioned on a surface of the primary package that faces upwardly when the primary packages are positioned in the product display tray.
US08104617B2
An overwrap packed body is obtained by heating and shrinking a wrapping material in a condition that five drink products collectively wrapped by the wrapping material. Three perforated lines passing through gap portions between the adjacent drink products are formed on the wrapping material at an interval of 2 mm in parallel. When the three perforated line portions are pushed with fingers in the gap portion between the adjacent drink products, the wrapping material torn from the pushed portion in a vertical direction. Thus, the packed drink products DG can be easily taken out one by one.
US08104591B2
A shock absorber having a valve controlling the flow rate of fluid between a compression chamber and a rebound chamber in a housing and separated by a piston. The valve has an orifice component and a blocker component, one of which has a permanent magnet, and the other of which has a magnetically permeable material. Upon the application of sufficient fluid pressure, the blocker component is forced away from the orifice component, despite the magnetic bias that tends to attract the two structures. Because the magnetic force decreases as the two components are spaced farther apart, the shock absorber has excellent performance characteristics. Alternatively, a mechanical spring urges the blocker closed, and magnetic attraction between the blocker and a spaced opener mitigates the increased force of the compressed spring tending to close the valve.
US08104587B2
An elevator car consists of a floor, side walls, a back wall and a roof which are each constructed in a modular manner from a plurality of panels and which can be held together by means of connecting elements. The floor is formed from, in total, eight floor panels. The threshold is connected with the floor panels. The side walls each consist of ten wall panels. The back wall consists of eight wall panels and the roof consists of six roof panels. On site, the elevator car can be constructed in a short assembly time by means of plug connections and with a few screw connections. The panel mode of construction enables a low-volume transport of the elevator car to the construction site directly from the punching and changing machine.
US08104586B2
An elevator machine (20) assembly useful in an elevator system (10) includes a motor frame (26) that supports a motor (24) for selectively rotating a motor shaft (28). A brake (36) selectively applies a braking force to resist rotation of the motor shaft (28). At least one load sensor (46) resists undesirable movement of the brake (36) and provides an indication of a load that results from applying the braking force. A disclosed example includes using a first resistive member (46) to resist movement of the brake (36) relative to the motor frame (26) when the load is below a threshold load and using a second resistive member (60) to resist movement when the load exceeds the threshold load.
US08104583B2
A materials handling vehicle is provided comprising a power unit, a mast assembly and a fluid supply system. The mast assembly is coupled to the power unit. The mast assembly comprises a weldment, a movable element and a ram/cylinder assembly coupled to the movable element to effect movement of the element. The fluid supply system includes manifold apparatus and at least one fluid line coupled to the manifold apparatus and the ram/cylinder assembly. The manifold apparatus provides pressurized hydraulic fluid to the ram/cylinder assembly via the fluid line to raise the movable element. The manifold apparatus is mounted to the mast assembly.
US08104580B2
A locking mechanism for a collapsible ladder (1) comprising several ladder sections (5), each ladder section comprising two ladder bars (2, 3) arranged parallel to each other and interconnected at one end by a rung to form a U-shaped ladder section, and where each ladder section (5) is telescopically inserted into a lower ladder section to form a collapsible ladder (1), and where dampers (23) are provided at the lower end of the ladder bars (2, 3, and where the locking mechanism comprises retaining mechanisms (20, 41) provided on each ladder bar (2, 3), where a single pair of actuators of the locking mechanism can be arranged on any of the ladder sections (5) and still be able to collapse the entire ladder (1).
US08104579B1
A scaffold includes a plurality of upright posts, a plurality of transverse posts, a plurality of locking units, a plurality of oblique posts and a plurality of fasteners. Thus, the upright posts, the locking units, the transverse posts, the oblique posts and the fasteners are detachable from each other so that the scaffold is detachable before assembly, thereby facilitating packaging, storage and transportation of the scaffold. In addition, the upright posts, the locking units, the transverse posts, the oblique posts and the fasteners are combined together by a worker himself so that the scaffold is assembled easily and quickly without needing aid of any hand tool, thereby greatly facilitating the worker mounting the scaffold.
US08104567B2
In a vehicle steering apparatus in which a housing for supporting coaxially to a rack shaft a ball nut that is provided with a ball screw mechanism constructed between itself and the rack shaft for moving in an axial direction for the purpose of steering and that is rotated by transmission from a steering motor is constructed in a separated form consisting of first and second housings fit to each other by spigot-joint fitting on an outer side of a retaining ring of a thrust bearing for thrust-supporting a rotating cylinder, a gap is provided in a part of the spigot-joint fitting part located on an outer side of the fixing nut screwed into the retaining ring in order to apply from one side a tightening force on a thrust bearing fit into and retained by the retaining ring.
US08104564B2
An antitheft system and method for construction equipment is disclosed. The antitheft system and method can prevent the construction equipment from driving if a driver gets out of a cabin in the state in which an ignition is turned on so as to preheat a heater or engine or in a case where a driving unit is not manipulated during a predetermined period.
US08104562B2
There is provided a saddle-riding type small vehicle where a power unit is mounted on a vehicle body frame. The power unit includes a valve control device that controls the operation of valve-operation mode changing mechanisms capable of changing operation modes of engine valves, and a clutch control device that controls the operation of a clutch unit provided between a crankshaft and a shift mechanism so as to shift the connection/disconnection of power transmission. In the vehicle, the valve control device and the clutch control device are disposed to balance the center of gravity, so as to make a power unit compact. A valve control device and a clutch control device are disposed on left and right sides of a center line CB of a vehicle in a width direction of the vehicle.
US08104554B2
A device for transporting a physically impaired person includes a support frame member having electric motors secured thereto for operating rear drive wheels; a stabilizing plate for maintaining the position of the support frame member when lifting a physically impaired person, the stabilizing plate being positioned via an electric motor operating a linear actuator; and opposite lifting arms rotationally extended from the support frame member via electric motors operating linear actuators, the lifting arms ultimately placing a physically impaired person upon or removing the impaired person from an inclinable seat member secured to the support frame member.
US08104549B2
An activating device is mounted in a drill string to control the activation and deactivation of an enlargement tool used for enlarging a bore hole. In order to assemble the activating device, pistons are mounted in passages and spline bars, in which plates are screwed, are then slid along T-slots of the body, through apertures of the pistons. In order to deploy the pistons and cutters, pressurized drilling fluid is applied to the inner faces of the pistons. When a pre-determined pressure level is reached, screws break and the pistons move from the inward position to the outwardly deployed position.
US08104547B2
A resilient stop assembly for an impact tool includes first and second resiliently deformable parts, and a substantially rigid part situated between the deformable parts. Each of the first and second resiliently deformable parts and the substantially rigid part comprises: first and second opposite impact surfaces, at least one peripheral surface joining the impact surfaces, and an aperture extending entirely through the part between exit openings in the impact surfaces. The first impact surface of the second resiliently deformable part is separated from the second impact surface of the first resiliently deformable part by contact of those first and second impact surfaces with the substantially rigid part.
US08104538B2
A fracturing operation is done in open hole. The annular space is spanned by telescoping members that are located behind isolation valves. A given bank of telescoping members can be uncovered and the telescoping members extended to span the annular space and engage the formation in a sealing manner. Pressurized fracturing fluid can be pumped through the telescoped passages and the portion of the desired formation fractured. In a proper formation, cementing is not needed to maintain wellbore integrity. In formations that need annular space isolation, the string in a preferred embodiment can have an external material that grows to seal the annular space in lieu of a traditional cementing operation.
US08104531B2
A plate-type heat exchanger including a plurality of stacked plates and a device for evaluating the extent to which the fluid circuit(s) have become coated in scale, whereby the evaluating device has an electrical resistor which is thermally connected to a plate located at the end of the stack while measuring the temperature in the immediate vicinity of the resistor.
US08104528B2
A vacuum die casting method according to the present invention solves the problems relating to seal performance, differential pressure, and the stability of the degree of vacuum. The method carries out the casting with a casting cavity evacuated. In the method, a molten metal is poured from a molten metal inlet of a plunger sleeve, followed by forming a vacuum chamber surrounding the inlet and an open end of the plunger sleeve located on the opposite side of the die, and an evacuation of the vacuum chamber and the cavity starts before starting an operation of a plunger tip. When the evacuation starts, the plunger tip is positioned between the open end of the plunger sleeve and the inlet so that the vacuum chamber is communicated to the inside of the plunger sleeve through the inlet.
US08104515B2
A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate.
US08104505B2
Disclosed herein is a two-way actuator. The actuator includes, a tubular, movably positionable within a structure between at least a first position and a second position, the tubular having a first density selected such that buoyancy forces urge the tubular toward the first position in response to submersion of the tubular within a fluid having a second density that is greater than the first density, and at least one flow resistor disposed at the tubular configured to urge the tubular toward the second position in response to fluid flow interacting with the at least one flow resistor.
US08104503B2
An optimized activation prevention assembly for a gas delivery system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a pneumatically operated valve assembly. The apparatus also includes a toggle switch mechanically attached to the pneumatically operated valve assembly, the toggle switch includes a toggle arm, the toggle arm being positioned in one of an activation zone and a deactivation zone, wherein when the toggle arm is positioned in the activation zone, the pneumatically operated valve is activated, and wherein when the toggle arm is positioned in the deactivation zone, the pneumatically operated valve is deactivated. The apparatus further includes an activation prevention mechanism attached to the toggle switch, wherein when the activation prevention mechanism being configured for preventing the toggle arm from being repositioned from the deactivation zone to the activation zone without at least bypassing a lockout function of the optimized activation prevention mechanism.
US08104496B1
A reverse flow back pressure pump that enables liquid to flow in a reverse direction in plumbing fixtures in order to loosen and discharge sediment freed during the reverse flow.
US08104493B2
A two-stage collapsing device includes a base having a passage with first and second slots defined in an inner periphery thereof. A first locking member and a second locking member are movably received in the two slots. The first and second locking members each include a latch to be engaged with a hole of the runner. A button is connected to the base and the second locking member is fixed to the button. A U-shaped member is pivotably connected to the inside of the button and two legs of the U-shaped member can push the first locking member inward to release the runner when opening the umbrella. During the first stage of collapsing the two legs of the U-shaped member are pivoted away from the two distal ends of the first locking member, so that even if the button is pressed, the umbrella does not open.
US08104475B2
A tracheostomy assembly has an outer tube and an inner cannula, the outer tube having a lip at its patient end to limit insertion of the inner cannula. The lip is formed with a recess or gap on the outside of the curve of the tube. This enables a suction catheter or similar device to be slid along the tube, after removal of the inner cannula, without the risk of catching on the lip.
US08104474B2
A collateral ventilation bypass trap system directly linked with a patient's lung or lungs may be utilized to increase the expiratory flow from the diseased lung or lungs, thereby treating one aspect of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The system includes a trap, a filter/one-way valve and an air carrying conduit. The system also includes a retention device for securing system elements in position.
US08104471B2
The invention is directed to an apparatus and a method for surveying and analyzing flow signals that can be picked up by means of flow measuring arrangements in the flow through breathing gas supply systems, in particular CPAP devices, air humidifiers, breathing gas lines, and breathing masks. One aspect of the invention is to furnish ways to increase the reliability of flow signals. In one embodiment, there is provided a device for evaluating a flow signal, picked up from a line provided for carrying breathing gas, having an electronic measurement data processor. The measurement data processor is configured such that it subjects the measurement data detected to a time-frequency-amplitude (TFA) series analysis and generates recordings, by which for the flow signal, the amplitude value of the frequencies contained is apparent.
US08104464B2
Superabrasive tools and methods for the making thereof are disclosed and described. In one aspect, superabrasive particles are chemically bonded to a matrix support material according to a predetermined pattern by a braze alloy. The brazing alloy may be provided as a powder, thin sheet, or sheet of amorphous alloy. A template having a plurality of apertures arranged in a predetermined pattern may be used to place the superabrasive particles on a given substrate or matrix support material.
US08104463B2
The proposed invention is a new bolt and gas release valve mechanism for a projectile launching device, such as a paintball marker, that uses significantly less gas per shot than prior art devices. The open gas chamber between the projectile, such as a paintball, and the gas release mechanism is eliminated thereby requiring much less gas to be used for each launch of a given projectile. Thus, only the launching gas to propel the projectile is needed and not the additional gas required to fill the chamber in the bolt directly behind the projectile. This enables desirably smaller gas supply tanks to be used during use to launch the same number of projectiles. Also, with the present invention, more projectiles can be launched using the same gas supply tank.
US08104461B2
A crossbow with an improved cocking assembly. The improvement includes a means for automatically disengaging a hook associated with a cocking assembly from a bowstring once the bowstring has been drawn the desired distance behind a bowstring retainer. The automatic disengagement of the hook from the bowstring reduces movement and sound associated with disengagement, and reduces the likelihood of injury associated with placement of the fingers in front of the cocked bowstring. The disengagement mechanism may either be mechanical or magnetic as desired.
US08104447B2
A method for producing a piston for internal combustion engines includes the following steps: a first part is pre-fabricated by hot forging and a recess which has an undercut is formed in the first part during pre-fabrication by forming on the first part a projection, to which projection a lateral force is applied to form the undercut; a second part is pre-fabricated by hot forging and a projection is formed on this second part whose dimensions are matched to the dimensions of the recess; the two parts are joined together so that the projection on one part engages in the recess in the other part; and a compressive force is applied to the two parts which is sufficiently large and so aligned that the material of the projection on one part flows into the recess in the other part and completely fills it to connect the parts by positive fit.
US08104443B2
A helical cam device for use with a wide variety of applications generally includes a first cam component, a second cam component and an axial guide. The cam components each have a helical cam track located on an axial end, so that coaxial alignment of the two cam components allows opposing cam tracks to contact and rotate against each other. The helical cam tracks, which are preferably divided into quadrant sections, are designed such that relative rotational movement between the cam components causes a corresponding relative axial movement. According to one embodiment, the axial guide is a cylindrical rod passing through the center of the cam components; in another embodiment, it is a cylindrical sleeve surrounding the cam components. Moreover, barrel slots, detents and/or truncated peaks can be used to control the travel of the cam components.
US08104441B2
A cam follower for a valve drive of an internal combustion engine. The cam follower has a housing and a cam roller. The cam roller is arranged between the side walls of the housing and is mounted on a journal which bridges the side walls. The cam roller, which has an outer ring, a rolling body set and an inner ring, is a combined plain and rolling bearing. The outer ring and the inner ring are in sliding contact with one another, and the rolling body set is arranged between the inner ring and the journal.
US08104437B2
An electromechanical device (800) which can be used to control the compression ratio of a variable compression ratio engine, includes mechanical elements for transmitting movement (801) between at least one electric engine (802) and at least one control rod (20) of a control jack (8) of a control device (12) for adjusting the vertical position of a control rack (7) of the variable compression ratio engine.
US08104422B2
An adhesive take-up, metering and spreading unit, for bonding machines is truck-mounted so that it can be replaced without having to interrupt the operation of the plant, includes a plurality of rollers arranged in series, wherein a first rubber-clad roller takes up adhesive from a reservoir and transfers it to an anilox roller, from which the adhesive is taken up by a second rubber-clad roller, which transfers it to a film to be bonded. Each roller rotates at a higher speed than the preceding one, and the unit is fitted with members that regulate the distance between the rollers, and consequently the pressure that each rubber-clad roller exerts on the anilox roller, in order to meter the precise quantity of adhesive taken up and spread on the film. This characteristic allows even special adhesives, whose application is particularly difficult due to their viscosity characteristics, to be precisely spread and metered.
US08104416B1
A floating natural gas processing station for receiving dry gas and forming liquefied natural gas for offloading is disclosed herein. The station can use a station heat exchanger, a natural gas liquefaction train, and an offloading device having a primary quick connect/disconnect device, a secondary emergency disconnect device, and a tertiary emergency disconnect device to allow quick connect/disconnect or emergency disconnect of the floating natural gas processing station from a transport vessel. At least two telescoping mooring arms with a boom and a jib in a nested arrangement can hold the transport vessel at a nominal distance from the floating natural gas processing station, while forming a gangway to safely move personnel and loads between the floating natural gas processing station and the transport vessel.
US08104414B2
An apparatus for producing large stitched products has a multiple needle stitching unit, a storage device, and a processing station. The multiple needle stitching unit has a large number of stitching elements and a guide device which is arranged in the region of the stitching elements and movable in relation to the stitching elements in a direction substantially perpendicular to the conveying direction of the stitched product. Between the multiple needle stitching unit and the processing station is a device for compensating for an annular offset of the stitched product between an output of the guide device and an input of the processing station.
US08104413B1
A camless automated thread cutting system for an electronic lockstitch pattern tacking sewing machine having a sewing needle driven by a main shaft and having a knife mechanism in proximity with the needle for cutting thread at the end of a pattern sewing cycle. The cutting system comprises a pneumatic cylinder for mechanically engaging the knife mechanism through a mechanical linkage in the machine, a solenoid-actuated air valve in fluid communication with the pneumatic cylinder, a programmable logic controller (PLC), and a pair of independently adjustable discs mounted on the main shaft of the sewing machine and operatively coupled to a proximity sensor which supplies an electrical signal to the PLC. The PLC is responsive to a machine signal indicative of the end of a sewing cycle and to the proximity sensor signal for generating a control signal for actuation of the valve so as to initiate and subsequently terminate a knife movement sequence at the end of the sewing cycle. The discs are preferably parallel, overlapping discs and the proximity sensor signal is preferably based on detection of the leading edge of one disc and the trailing edge of the other disc during rotation thereof.
US08104412B2
A deflector device for improving particle distribution within a coal piping system includes a base defining an outer circumference. The base is configured to be mounted inside a pipe such that the base extends partially around the inner circumference of the pipe with the circumferences of the pipe and base being substantially aligned concentrically. A deflector extends radially inward from the base. The deflector is configured to direct a concentrated flow of coal particles toward the center of the pipe.
US08104409B2
A freight rail car suspension has independent but co-operating springs; a first spring is load carrying and has a variable damping function and a second control spring operates on a friction shoe to apply a constant damping component. A practical embodiment has a friction shoe engaged for vertical displacement by the first spring which is mounted on a side frame and the second spring is obliquely arranged between the bolster of the bogie and the friction shoe, which has guides to cause it to move into greater frictional engagement upon load being applied through the spring. This arrangement provides a dual damping characteristic involving both constant damping and variable damping forces.
US08104403B2
A header assembly includes a header holding a plurality of electrode pins to be insulated from one another, an ignition element mounting capacitor having at the center of its outer circumferential surfaces external terminal electrodes for electrically connecting to an ignition element mounted on the capacitor, an IC having first, second, and third electrode pads to be electrically connected to end electrodes of the ignition element mounting capacitor and the external terminal electrodes and further having connection electrodes to be electrically connected to the electrode pins of the header for communication with the external. The IC is located on the header, and the ignition element mounting capacitor is located on the IC and electrically connected to the electrode pins through the connection electrodes provided on the IC. The invention provides a squib enabling a size to be minimal and quality to be improved, while maintaining high productivity, and hence provides the header assembly and the ignition element mounting capacitor as components of the squib, and further a gas generator with the squib installed therein for an air bag, and a gas generator having the squib installed therein for a seat belt pretensioner.
US08104402B2
A hand-operated stamp (1) includes an at least partially open-pored printing plate (27) which can be displaced counter to a spring force, from a resting position in which it is retracted into a housing (2), into a printing position by an actuation element (3). The printing plate rests against an ink storage body (25) in order to receive stamping ink therefrom, the ink storage body being mounted in a holder (24) which at least partially encloses it. The holder (24) is trough-shaped and is directly locked with a connecting part (6) which is locked with the actuation unit and which comprises at least one refill support (40, 41) which is oriented towards an ink refill opening (42, 43) in the base wall of the holder (24).
US08104398B2
A hydrostatic axial piston machine utilizing a swashplate design has a cylinder drum (3) that is mounted so that it can rotate around an axis of rotation (2). The cylinder drum (3) is provided with cylinder bores (4), in each of which a piston (5) is mounted so that it can be displaced longitudinally. The pistons (5) are each supported on a swashplate (7) by a sliding element (6). Between the piston (5) and the cylinder bore (4), there is at least one annular groove (20; 20a, 20b) which is located in the area of the inner half (LFi) of the guided length (LF), such as the minimum guided length (LF) of the piston (5) in the cylinder bore (4).
US08104392B2
The invention relates to a rod-shaped fiber composite material (400) composed of a matrix (412) and a circular braid (402) embedded into the matrix. To increase the stability of the fiber composite material (400) and also to perform ducting functions for electricity and fluids, the wall of the circular braid is provided with wall chambers (408) which are separated by a phase boundary from the matrix (412) of the fiber composite material (400). These wall chambers (408) lead to inner and outer sections of the wall of the circular braid (402) being spaced apart, which is useful for the stability with regard to flexing and torsional loading in particular. Rod-shaped fiber composite materials (400) according to the invention can be used for creating stable structural components as well as for producing efficiently protected ducts. The invention further relates to an apparatus and a process which are useful for producing fiber composite material according to the invention.
US08104388B2
A workpiece feeding device used in a saw machine is disclosed to include a carrier having a base frame movably mounted on the machine base of the saw machine and an angle scale fastened to the base frame, a fence unit having a rip fence pivotally mounted on the base frame of the carrier and biasable relative to the angle scale, a magnetic plate assembly mounted on the base frame of the carrier and carrying a magnetic strip, and a magnetic sensor mounted in the fence unit and movable with the fence unit to measure the biasing angle of the fence unit relative to the angle scale subject to change of magnetic induction between the magnetic sensor and the magnetic strip.
US08104386B2
A quick release device for a saw blade guard assembly in a circular saw includes a mounting block having two spaced sidewalls, a mounting groove defined between the two sidewalls for receiving a spreader, and two through holes respectively defined through the sidewalls and in communication with the mounting groove and a locating hole. At least one movable engagement member is movably disposed in the through hole of the mounting block. A locking member having two spaced locking blocks mounts onto the mounting block. Each of the locking blocks has a retaining wall portion for engaging the at least one movable engagement member and forcing the at least one movable engagement member to be held in the locating hole of the spreader.
US08104377B2
In an index table, a left-hand specification and a right-hand specification of a motor can be changed. As solving means, there is provided an index table 1 in which a rotating table 3 is rotatably supported at a frame 2 by a rotating shaft 10, a setting surface 5 is provided at the frame 2 orthogonally to a rotating table surface 4 of the rotating table 3, a motor 8 is disposed at a surface 6 among two surfaces (6, 7) of the frame 2 that are orthogonal to the rotating table surface 4 and the setting surface 5, an output shaft 9 of the motor 8 is connected to an end portion at a side of the surface 6 of the worm shaft 11 through transmitting elements (14, 15), the worm shaft 11 being orthogonal to the surface 6, and the motor 8 drives the rotating table 3 through the transmitting elements (14, 15), a worm 12 of the worm shaft 11, and a worm wheel 13, the worm wheel 13 being provided at the rotating shaft 10. The motor 8 is mountable to the other surface 7 by being removed from the surface 6 among the two surfaces (6, 7), and the output shaft 9 is connected to an end portion at a side of the other surface 7 of the worm shaft 11 through the transmitting elements (14, 15).
US08104372B2
A horizontal multijoint type robot is so constructed that it comprises a first arm connected through a first joint shaft to a base, a second arm connected through a second joint shaft to the first arm, and a working shaft provided rotatably and movably up and down on the distal end of the second arm, and that the arm length L1 of the first arm and the arm length L2 of the second arm are equal to each other so that the second arm is able to overlap the first arm.
US08104369B2
The one end side portion is nipped by a jig including a jig member having a pair of convex portions which are to be fitted to a depressions in contact with a tooth side face and a inclined portion and positioning a bar and a jig member which is to be clamped/opened with respect to the jig member. A die having an inside diameter smaller than the diameter of the outer periphery is pressed onto the outer periphery of the end portion of the cylindrical end side portion projected from the jig up to a press-in depth determined preliminarily based on the rack, so as to reduce the diameter of the end portion.
US08104362B2
An inline virtual impactor comprising an outer housing having a housing inlet, a housing inner surface, a major flow outlet and a minor flow outlet; a flow accelerator member disposed in the upstream portion of the outer housing; and a flow stabilizer member disposed within the outer housing downstream of the flow accelerator member, wherein the disposition of the flow accelerator creates an annular flow passage between the flow accelerator and the outer housing, and wherein a flow divider that is at least partially downstream of the flow stabilizer member effects splitting of the flow stream entering the housing into major and minor flows. The minor flow comprises primarily particles having a size greater than a cutpoint size and the major flow comprises primarily particles smaller than the cutpoint size. The inline virtual impactor may further comprise an aspiration section located upstream of the flow accelerator member.
US08104361B2
A method for operating a resonance-measuring system, in particular, a Coriolis mass flowmeter, having at least one oscillation element, at least one oscillation driver and at least one oscillation sensor, the oscillation element being excited to oscillation in at least one control using at least one control loop by at least one oscillation driver being excited by at least one excitation signal and the excited oscillations of the oscillation element being detected by the oscillation sensors as at least one response signal. At least one set variable of the closed loop is varied in a pre-determined manner and by evaluating at least one resulting excitation signal and/or at least one resulting response signal with the help of a mathematical model of the resonance-measuring system, at least one parameter of the excited eigenform is selectively identified.
US08104357B2
The invention proposes a connection unit for a pressure measuring cell, comprising at least one pressure measuring cell (40) which detects, in particular, a pressure of a hydraulic block, wherein the pressure measuring cell (40) has at least one connection point (18) via which at least one electrical output signal from the pressure measuring cell (14) can be tapped off, having at least one circuit mount (20) on which at least one electronic component (26) and/or a printed circuit board (32) with an electronic component (26) can be arranged, wherein the circuit mount (20) has at least one external conductor track (47), for the purpose of establishing contact between the connection point (14) and the electronic component (26), wherein at least one contact means (51) is provided, via which an output signal from the electronic component (26) can be tapped off, wherein the electronic component (26) is connected to the contact means (51) via at least one external conductor track (47) of the circuit mount (20).
US08104354B2
A capacitive sensor includes a substrate, at least one first electrode, at least one second electrode, a sensing device, at least one anchor base, at least one movable frame, and a plurality of spring members. The first and second electrodes are disposed on the substrate, and the anchor base surrounds the first and second electrodes and is disposed on the substrate. The movable frame surrounds the sensing device. Some of the spring members connect the movable frame and the sensing device, and the other spring members connect the movable frame and the anchor base. The sensing device and the first electrode are both sensing electrodes. The movable frame is disposed above the second electrode, and cooperates with the second electrode to act as a capacitive driver.
US08104349B2
A tracking device is provided with a non-contact type displacement gauge, a positioner which moves a flaw detecting sensor within a plane perpendicular to an axial direction of a pipe or tube, and a positioning controller which controls the positioner. The positioning controller predicts a time until a portion of the pipe or tube whose displacement is measured by the displacement gauge reaches a predetermined position on a straight line extending in a Z-axis direction through a rotational center of the pipe or tube on the basis of the positional relationship between the displacement gauge and the flaw detecting sensor and a rotational speed of the pipe or tube; controls the positioner on the basis of the displacement measured by the displacement gauge and an operational delay time of the positioner in such a manner that the relative position of the flaw detecting sensor to the pipe or tube after the lapse of the predicted time becomes substantially constant in the Z-axis direction; and moves the flaw detecting sensor along the Z-axis direction. The positioning controller performs the same control in an X-axis direction.
US08104347B2
A method and system for ultrasonic time of flight diffraction inspection of a plastics wall, such as a pipe wall. The method includes providing an ultrasound transmitter and transmitting an ultrasound signal having a nominal frequency into the wall, providing an ultrasound receiver and receiving the ultrasound signal transmitted through the wall. The ultrasound signal provided by the transmitter has a bandwidth of more than 80%, preferably more than 100% of the nominal frequency of the ultrasound signal provided by the transmitter.
US08104339B2
Systems and methods determine at least one air data parameter, such as an angle of attack (AOA), an angle of sideslip (AOS), a total pressure (pt), and/or a static pressure (ps), from information provided by four pressure sensors coupled to four ports on a surface of a vehicle. Each of the ports may be defined by at least a unit vector, wherein the unit vectors are oriented in different planes.
US08104338B2
In a particular embodiment, a method and system are disclosed for measuring ion concentrations for a fluid and determining a degree of sample cleanup during sampling of a fluid downhole. The method includes but is not limited to deploying an ion selective sensor downhole, exposing the fluid to the ion selective sensor downhole, measuring ion concentrations of the fluid over time during sampling and estimating a degree of sample clean up from the ion concentration measurements. The system includes but is not limited to a tool deployed in a wellbore, an ion selective sensor in the tool, a processor in communication with the ion selective sensor and a memory for storing an output from the ion selective sensor.
US08104334B2
An engine control system comprises a model pressure determination module and a sensor diagnostic module. The model pressure determination module determines a modeled fuel rail pressure based on an injection duration of a fuel injector and a desired fuel mass injected by the fuel injector. The sensor diagnostic module generates a status of a fuel rail pressure sensor based on a comparison of the modeled fuel rail pressure and a sensed fuel rail pressure.
US08104330B2
In order to obtain a temperature gradient elution method which is rapid and accurate, a mobile phase (1) is supplied through two mobile-phase flow channels (2a) and (2b), mixed together, and introduced into the column (15) while the column (15) is made adiabatic. In this operation, the temperature of the mobile phase in one mobile-phase flow channel, i.e., the channel (2a), is regulated to a constant temperature higher than the upper limit of the target temperature range to be obtained in the column (15), while the temperature of the mobile phase in the other mobile-phase flow channel, i.e., the channel (2b), is regulated to a constant temperature lower than the lower limit of the target temperature range in the column (15). By controlling the flow rates in the two mobile-phase flow channels (2a) and (2b), the proportion in which these mobile-phase portions are mixed is changed with time to thereby change the temperature of the mobile phase in the column (15) with time. The temperature gradient elution method is thus conducted.
US08104325B2
A device is provided for collection of gases in molten metals, the device having an immersion end with a gas collection body, a gas supply line opening at the immersion end, and a gas discharge line for gases penetrating the gas collection body. The gas collection body has an end face arranged on the immersion end and side walls of the collection body, and at least one part of the gas collection body has a gas impermeable layer. A measurement method is also provided using the device.
US08104322B2
The method according to the invention for working in pressing dies using marking paint wherein a fluorescent marking paint is used. This enables the operator in the manual working in of pressing dies to identify the painted tool surface without error and error-free detection of the tool surface occupied by marking paint is also possible by means of suitable devices (camera) for working-in of the pressing die which is done more or less automated.
US08104304B2
The present invention relates to an ice-making device for a refrigerator. The ice-making device of the present invention comprises a water tank detachably installed to a rear surface of a refrigerator door for selectively opening or closing a storage space, first and second ice trays rotatably installed to the rear surface of the door to make ice using water supplied from the water tank, and an ice bank installed to the rear surface of the door to store therein the ice made in the first and second ice trays. According to the present invention, ice can be more simply and easily taken out while minimizing the leakage of cold air circulating in the storage space. Further, ice can be stored in a more sanitary way while minimizing the contamination of the storage space in the process of making ice.
US08104290B2
The present invention are directed towards a system and method for providing a way of reducing the vibrations and wear between mating components of a gas turbine combustor. The gas turbine combustor includes a flow sleeve having a plurality of liner stops and a combustion liner located radially within the flow sleeve. Spring dampers are positioned between the combustion liner and the flow sleeve to restrict the relative movement between the flow sleeve and the combustion liner and dampen vibrations at their assembly location. The spring dampers are capable of compressing to permit thermal growth between the combustion liner and flow sleeve.
US08104286B2
A fuel nozzle including a swirler assembly that includes a shroud, a hub, and a plurality of vanes extending between the shroud and the hub. Each vane includes a pressure sidewall and an opposite suction sidewall coupled to the pressure sidewall at a leading edge and at a trailing edge. At least one suction side fuel injection orifice is formed adjacent to the leading edge and extends from a first fuel supply passage to the suction sidewall. A fuel injection angle is oriented with respect to the suction sidewall. The suction side fuel injection orifice is configured to discharge fuel outward from the suction sidewall. At least one pressure side fuel injection orifice extends from a second fuel supply passage to the pressure sidewall and is substantially parallel to the trailing edge. The pressure side fuel injection orifice is configured to discharge fuel tangentially from the trailing edge.
US08104282B2
A power generation complex plant has a control switch, an overall control unit and a steam bypass facility. The overall control unit determines that a desired steam volume has reached a limit value of the volume of steam to be generated by a steam generating facility. A steam bypass facility control unit adds a bias value B1 to a control command value V4 of the steam bypass facility to generate a new control command value V5 when the desired steam volume is determined to have reached the limit value. The steam bypass facility control unit then controls the volume and pressure of steam passing through the steam bypass facility on the basis of the new control command value V5 so that no switch of control may be made in the control switch.
US08104279B2
In a method and a device for determining an operating characteristic of an injection system, to determine an operating characteristic (30) of an internal combustion engine (1) that is charged by a turbocharger (4), the method has the following steps: A) carrying out a pilot injection of fuel into a cylinder (51, 52, 53, 54) of the internal combustion engine using the injection system (30); B) determining an operating parameter of the turbocharger (40); C) determining an operating characteristic of the injection system (30) using the operating parameter of the turbocharger (40) previously determined.
US08104275B2
A hydraulic circuit for heavy equipment is provided, which can prevent signal pressure exceeding a predetermined pressure from being formed in a pilot signal path provided in a switching valve to sense whether the switching valve has been shifted in a hydraulic system that minimizes the discharge flow rate of a hydraulic pump when a working device such as a boom is not driven. The hydraulic circuit includes first to fourth hydraulic pumps connected to an engine, first switching valves installed in flow paths of the first hydraulic pump and shifted to control hydraulic fluid fed to a working device, second switching valves installed in flow paths of the second hydraulic pump and shifted to control hydraulic fluid fed to a working device, third switching valves installed in flow paths of the third hydraulic pump and shifted to control hydraulic fluid fed to a swing device, a pilot signal path for sensing whether the first to third switching valves are shifted, a throttling part installed in the pilot signal path to form a signal pressure, and a valve installed in a parallel flow path branch-connected to the pilot signal path and supplying the signal pressure in the pilot signal path to the pilot signal pressure supply path when a signal pressure exceeding a predetermined pressure is formed in the pilot signal path.
US08104260B2
An exhaust mixer for a gas turbine engine including a plurality of circumferentially distributed alternating inner and outer lobes, where each of the inner lobes is configured with a circumferential offset between the base and the tip thereof, and a direction of the circumferential offset defined from the base to the tip of each of the inner lobes is the same for all of the inner lobes and opposite to that of a swirl component of a main gas path flow entering the exhaust mixer.
US08104255B1
A lawn mower includes a housing having a cutting chamber defined by a top wall and a circumferential sidewall. A side discharge opening is provided on the sidewall. A side discharge chute selectively opens and closes the discharge opening. The discharge chute has a side door pivoted to the sidewall about a vertical pivot axis and a top deflector pivoted to the side door about a substantially horizontal pivot axis. When the discharge chute is in an open position to open the discharge opening to the flow of grass clippings, the top deflector pivots downwardly on the side door into an inclined position to intercept the grass clippings and direct them downwardly towards the ground.
US08104249B2
An aesthetic cover assembly includes first mounting portion of a cover wall for concealing a portion of a building structure that is secured to the building structure. An alignment pin is secured on one of the first mounting portions and the building structure. The alignment pin supports a second mounting portion of a cover wall for concealing a portion of the building structure. A method of installing an aesthetic cover assembly is also included.
US08104240B2
A portable air conditioner support arrangement for supporting a portable air conditioner in a window frame assembly. The support arrangement comprises an elongated flange-engaging rail having a first end and a second end, with a channel engaging tab arranged on the first end and the second end of the rail. Each of the tabs are arranged to mate with a channel on the sides of the window frame assembly. The rail has an elongated face to engage a flange on the upper front edge of the air conditioner and maintain the air conditioner free of support by a window sash of the window frame assembly.
US08104238B2
A window spacer for integrated glass units is disclosed. The window spacer has an elongated housing with two distal ends. The housing is bent upon itself so that the distal ends are adjacent to each other. One end has an engaging slot, and the other end has an engaging member formed in it. When the engaging member is inserted into the engaging slot, a restraining portion of the engaging member prevents the engaging member from disengaging from the engaging slot.
US08104233B2
A net layer (32) defines the shell (40) of a building, carried by any necessary supports. A hardening layer (34) is applied to fix the shape of the net layer (32) and to establish wall, roof, and floor. Optionally the shell is of sufficient strength to receive application of further layers in order to define an exoskeleton. Structures of roof sections include parallel-sided segments and converging-sided segments, with troughed or domed section shapes. Structures of walls include opposed shell sides (35), (78) and central filler layers (70), together defining an exoskeleton. Posts (72) can add additional structural capacities for supporting walls, roof and floor and can be formed integrally of net (32) and hardener (34).
US08104231B1
An improved roof ridge apparatus and method for its use includes a longitudinally extending rigid member that has a plurality of keyways located along its top and bottom wall surfaces and extending along the length of the rigid member. The rigid member is placed into a continuous paddy of foam adhesive laid along a roof underlayment and the keyways receive and engage with the expanding adhesive for bonding the rigid member directly to the roof without the need for mechanical fastening. The keyways protrude from the top and bottom wall surfaces. The protrusions provide spacing between the bottom wall surface and the roof and between the top wall surface and a roof tile so that an adequate amount of foam adhesive resides between these wall surfaces and those structures.
US08104209B1
A dynamic latch to selectively retain a magazine within the magazine port of a long gun. The dynamic latch permits the magazine to be inserted into the magazine port by movement in a single direction eliminating the need to rotate the magazine in order to secure it within the magazine port. The dynamic latch may include an outer housing, a piston positioned within the housing, and a spring positioned between the outer housing and the piston. A latch profile on the end of the piston may extend out of an opening in the end of a magazine well when the spring is in an uncompressed state.
US08104208B2
A picture frame assembly includes a backing plate having a front surface, a rear surface, and a plurality of parallel grooves in one of the surfaces. The material and thickness of the backing plate are chosen so that the backing plate can be plastically deformed about a bending axis parallel to the grooves. At least one frame element, which can be formed integrally with the backing plate, is for provided for retaining a planar picture element against the front surface of the backing plate. A fastener extends from the rear surface for mounting the assembly to any of various objects, such as a tree, flower stem, a candle, a vase, a basket, a gift wrapping device, a container, a column, and furniture.
US08104207B2
A high ceiling sign hanging arrangement for enabling the attachment and removal of a suspended sign from an extended height, comprising: an elongated upper rail having an upper channel therein for receipt of a ceiling attachment member, the upper rail having an upper rail support cleat, for receipt of a sign bearing anchor rail; an elongated anchor rail for bearing a sign therefrom, the anchor rail comprising an anchor cleat on an upper edge thereon; and a lift means comprising a main flange for mating with the anchor rail and subsequent dis-engagement from the anchor rail upon deposit of the anchor rail on the upper rail support cleat of the upper rail.
US08104204B1
An electronic sign having vertically hinged face panel doors which open individually about offset hinge assemblies and which aid in minimizing distorted seal compression. Individual door stop assemblies allow an operator to manageably open the face panel doors and to lock the face panel doors. In the open position, the face panel doors are protected from damage due to wind currents or gusts. The use of face panel doors having a parallelogram cross section profile allows for closely spaced face panel doors with a minimum panel-to-panel gap for uniform spacing and viewing of lighted pixel displays.
US08104193B1
A spinning shoe having an upper and sole member in which the sole member has a spinning assembly in the forefoot. The spinning assembly is placed within a recess in the forefoot region of the sole member. Thus, the user may walk about like wearing a normal shoe and then by simply placing their weight on the forefoot region, they may spin about on a vertical axis.
US08104190B2
A moisture metering calibration method and system for, e.g., determining the moisture lumber within a lumber drying kiln is disclosed. Calibration of moisture indicative electrical signals obtained from, e.g., moisture sensing capacitive plates spaced apart within a stack of drying lumber is performed, wherein long lengths (e.g., up to 1000 linear feet or more) of coaxial cable can be used for transmitting the signals, and effectively removing signal anomalies induced in such cabling so that accurate lumber moisture measurements result. Such extended cable lengths provides flexibility with respect to placement of electronic moisture metering equipment. This flexibility allows such equipment to be placed in an environmentally-controlled enclosure, rather than on the weather exposed exterior of a kiln whose lumber is being monitored.
US08104182B2
A portable band saw has a main housing and a saw band circulating within the main housing. A motor for driving the saw band is disposed within a motor housing that is mounted to the main housing. The main housing defines an opening across which the saw band moves in order to cut a workpiece. A battery for driving the motor is mounted to a motor receiving portion of the motor housing. The motor receiving portion has a width corresponding to the width of the opening and opposing to the opening in the forward and rearward directions.
US08104169B2
An automatic assembly jig adapted for assembling an electronic component and a case is provided. The jig includes a working platform, a carrier, a pressure exerting device and at least a gear. The working platform has a guiding rail. The carrier is disposed on the working platform and is slidably mounted on the guiding rail. The pressure exerting device is disposed above the working platform. The gear is disposed on the working platform and connected with the carrier, so as to drive the carrier moving along the guiding rail to the position under the pressure exerting device.
US08104166B1
A method is provided for fabricating a read element with leads that overlay a top surface of a sensor of the read element. The method includes forming a mask over a sensor layer, then using the mask to define the sensor from the sensor layer. The mask is then narrowed and a lead layer is formed that overlays both ends of the top surface of the sensor without covering a center portion of the top surface.
US08104164B2
A manufacturing method of a rotor of and AC generator for a vehicle according to the invention includes the steps of applying a fluid resin material to a conductor immediately before the conductor is wound on a spool, and heating the entire structure to cause the resin to be heat-cured after the conductor to which the fluid resin material has been applied is wound around the spool in multi-rows and multi-layers.
US08104161B2
A hydraulic subassembly is preassembled outside the vehicle into which it is later installed, using an assembly tool. The components of the subassembly are fastened in predetermined positions on the assembly tool, following which hydraulic connections are made between the components. The completed subassembly is fastened to a pickup tool and then disconnected from the assembly tool, allowing an assembly operator to lift the subassembly away from the assembly tool and carry it to the vehicle for installation. The pickup tool is also used to position and hold the subassembly within the vehicle while the subassembly is being connected to hydraulic systems on the vehicle. Following installation of the subassembly, the pickup tool is unfastened from the subassembly and removed from the vehicle.
US08104157B2
A fixing apparatus is provided to fix a cylindrical object. The fixing apparatus includes a support board, a rotating member rotatably mounted to the support board, a moving member, and a number of positioning members. The rotating member defines a receiving space, and a number of receiving slots communicating with the receiving space. The moving member includes a taper-shaped pushing portion, and the pushing portion is slidably received in the receiving space. The number of positioning members are slidably received in the corresponding receiving slots. Each positioning member includes a slanting surface resisting against a circumference of the pushing portion, and a sliding surface to resist against an intrados of the cylindrical object.
US08104155B2
The method of manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator, includes the steps of: forming a lower electrode film on an insulating substrate; forming a piezoelectric film on the lower electrode film; forming a slit on the piezoelectric film to expose a portion of the lower electrode film on an upper surface side of the piezoelectric film; forming an insulating layer which covers a portion of the piezoelectric film; forming an upper electrode film so as to span the insulating layer and the piezoelectric film; forming, on the piezoelectric film, a lower wire in connection with the portion of the lower electrode film exposed through the slit; depositing a first metal film on the lower wire and thereby making a film thickness of the lower wire greater than a film thickness of the lower electrode film; and depositing a second metal film on a portion of the upper electrode film on the insulating layer and thereby making a film thickness of the portion of the upper electrode film on the insulating layer greater than a film thickness of a portion of the upper electrode film that has been deposited directly on the piezoelectric film.
US08104151B2
A casket assembly includes a casket body, lid, and insert. The body may be arranged in at least two configurations, one of which is a low profile arrangement that allows for a reduced shipping volume. The insert is made from a leak resistant material, and fits inside the casket body. The profile of the shipping configuration is not altered when the insert is in place. The lid fits both configurations of the casket body. Handholds on the casket are spaced off-center to better distribute the weight of the contents.
US08104150B1
An improved apparatus for correcting deflection in small diameter feed and retard rolls of an open width stabilizer so as to create a straight line nip with uniform pressure across the nip. The improved apparatus provides apparatus for adjusting deflection of the rolls to thereby maintain a desired size to a passageway between them so as to optimize compaction of a fabric web material. A wedge-like member is disposed between, and in moving relationship to, feed and retard roller bearings. The wedge-like member is asymmetrical, has feed and retard sides that engage the feed and retard roller bearings, respectively, and exerts reaction forces against each of the respective bearings. Improvement resides in the reaction forces causing the rolls the rolls to not deflect downwardly.
US08104144B2
A hinge assembly includes a first pivot shaft, a second pivot shaft, a third pivot shaft, a first bracket, a second bracket, a first meshing wheel, a second meshing wheel, a third meshing wheel, and a transmission belt member sleeved on both the first meshing wheel and the third meshing wheel. The first pivot shaft, the second pivot shaft, and the third pivot shaft are substantially parallel. The first and second brackets are non-rotatably sleeved on the first and second pivot shafts, respectively. The third meshing wheel is disposed between the first meshing wheel and the second meshing wheel, and meshes with the second meshing wheel and the transmission belt member. An electronic device using the hinge assembly is also provided.
US08104142B2
A damped hinge module is disclosed and includes a first member, a second member and a torsion spring. The second member is rotationally movable relative to the first member between a first position and a second position. The second member being received at least in part within the first member. The torsion spring is located internally with respect to the first member and biases the second member toward the first position relative to the first member. The spring has a preload with the second member in the first position relative to the first member.
US08104138B2
A portable handheld suction/blower apparatus includes a motor-driven blower (1) and at least one air guide tube (3) connected to the blower (1) at a connecting location (2) to conduct flow. The connecting location (2) is configured at least as a double-winding connection (9) which has pairs of outer thread sections (4) of an outer winding (5) and inner thread sections (7) of an inner winding (8). The pairs are distributed about the periphery of the threaded connection. The periphery of the connecting location (2) is subdivided by the number of pairs of thread sections (4, 7) into a corresponding number of angular segments (10). The sum of angular extents (α, β) of a pair of individual thread sections (4, 7) is in total less than an angular extent (γ) of the corresponding angular segment (10).
US08104132B2
An applicator brush is provided having a base tuft comprised of bristles affixed to a ferrule at a first end, the bristles having a second end terminating to form an edge. The brush includes a protruding tuft comprised of bristles configured to protrude from an interior portion of the base tuft. The interior portion of the base tuft comprises any location within a perimeter of the base tuft. A handle may be provided affixed to the ferrule.
US08104125B2
A self-contained gatching mattress is provided having a gatching mattress sleep deck, a first air bladder cushion, a second cushion material, a control box having an air pump system and a manifold, a conduit distribution unit, a sliding bridge, and a cushion material positioned above the sliding bridge and the control box. The sliding bridge forms a gap area for conduits to extend from the control box to the conduit distribution unit which decreases the chances of the conduits being kinked or the conduits altering the cushion's tissue interface pressure to a patient positioned on the cushion when the sleep deck is gatched and/or portions are retracted or extended.
US08104124B2
This invention is directed to a durable, compact, two-piece, light weight, load sustaining litter system for the transport of humans, animals or objects. The litter system comprises a litter frame, a fabric disposed between the structure of the frame, at least one hinge and at least one coupling mechanism. The litter system may be quickly assembled under adverse conditions and may be particularly beneficial in transporting individuals who are injured, disabled and/or incapable of movement under combat and/or emergency conditions.
US08104121B2
A combination ambulance cot and chair is disclosed. The invention includes a support frame, and a segmented patient support pivotally mounted to the support frame for movement at least between a chair position and a fully-reclined position. The segmented patient support has a seat segment. A securing device is connected functionally to the support frame and the seat segment, and configured to releasably secure the combination ambulance cot and chair in at least the fully-reclined position.
US08104115B2
The invention relates to a handling system for lifting or moving a person from a first position to another, such as from a bed to a chair. The system includes a bottom part being vertically fixed, a lifting arm being guided by the bottom part allowing the lifting arm to at least be vertically adjustable, a support part for fixating and supporting the person during the lifting and moving, and a support connection for the support part. The support connection is connected to drive means, for winding and unwinding the support connection, via the lifting arm, and the drive means being part of the bottom part.The invention also relates to a weighting system and a method for lifting or moving a person.
US08104114B2
Embodiments of a disposable liner that is disposed in a cavity of a basin are disclosed. In one embodiment, a disposable liner that is disposed in a cavity of a basin includes sidewalls that are designed to adapt to the contours of the cavity of the basin and a bottom wall that is attached to the sidewalls and includes a drainage hole that is aligned with the drainage hole of the basin. The disposable liner further includes a cover that seals the drainage holes, preventing water from draining out of the disposable liner through the drainage hole. The cover includes an elongated tab that extends to a top edge of at least one of the side walls. The elongated tab is designed to facilitate peeling the cover off the disposable liner.
US08104112B2
A portable solar shower includes two detachable water reservoirs. One of the reservoirs may be coupled to a water source and includes a diverter valve regulating the flow and temperature of water spayed by a shower head, and the other reservoir has a port for coupling to the shower head. When the solar shower is not in use, the reservoirs may be separated from one another to form a compact package adapted for storage or transportation.
US08104109B2
A movable floor system for a swimming pool, including a structural platform comprising a horizontal frame designed to support a finished covering, the platform being designed to be installed in a cavity acting as the swimming pool. The system includes a lifting mechanism, a plurality of parallel crossmembers fixed within a layer formed by the frame of the platform; and a plurality of carrier pulleys located along outer lateral edges of the frame, the carrier pulleys designed to accommodate a platform-driving cable. The lifting mechanism further includes: a driver; a shaft; first and second drive pulleys situated at the ends of the shaft designed to take at least one platform-driving cable; an attachment to secure at least one cable in the cavity; and means for actuating the drive shaft.
US08104106B2
A free-standing urinal (1) having: a housing (2); a trough (3) for urine; a urine collection tank (4) located within the housing (2); a drain (7) and waste trap (8) arrangement extending between the trough (3) and the tank (4); a valved outlet (28) from the tank (4); a hand wash sink (9); a drain (10) extending between the sink (9) and the trough (3); a fresh water dispenser for dispensing water into the sink (9); a paper towel dispenser (60); a paper towel waste container (70); and lifting fixtures (35, 36, 37) for moving the urinal (1) by forklift, hand or crane; The drain (7) and waste trap (8) arrangement has an “S bend” (30) containing an oily sealant (31). The urinal (1) is portable, it is freestanding and need not be mounted to a wall or other fixture, and it need not be connected to a mains water supply and sewerage system.
US08104101B2
An integrated ensemble for personal protection and comfort. The integrated ensemble may generally include one or more multifunctional layers. Each layer may include functionality directed to provision of specific types of protection and/or personal comfort. A liner may be generally capable of providing immersion protection, cooling, and cold weather protection. A shell may be designed for wear in cooperation with the liner. The shell may be capable of providing protection against flame, acceleration, and other environmental factors, as well as providing cooling and gear carriage. The disclosed integrated ensembles are generally low-bulk to facilitate movement.
US08104100B2
A suspenders assembly including a pair of suspenders having a pair of front strap portions configured to be coupled to a front portion of a pair of trousers and a pair of rear strap portions configured to be coupled to a rear portion of the pair of trousers. The assembly further includes an attachment tab, wherein both of the rear strap portions or both of the front strap portions are both directly and permanently coupled to the attachment tab. The attachment tab includes a portion of hook-and-loop fastening material located thereon.
US08104099B2
Transformable womens' trousers which, comprised of an upper part with means to fasten a belt around a user's waist, and having a zipper on its lower hem region with which to join other parts corresponding to the trouser legs, with side zippers that allow its extension in order to be joined in different combinations or in such a manner as to form a skirt, or even produce a handbag by joining specific parts, characterized in that the upper part has a peripheral zipper that corresponds to its lower hem region, to which a second bridge part is joined to comprise the upper part of the trouser legs, said zipper being disposed above the crotch of said bridge part or piece so as to comprise, through the separation thereof, a mini-skirt.
US08108939B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates security-enabled content caching. The system operates by first receiving a request from a user at a cache server for restricted content, wherein the cache server stores content for an application server. Next, the system determines if the restricted content is located on the cache server. If so, the system determines if the user is authorized to access the restricted content. If the user is authorized to access the restricted content, the system provides the restricted content to the user from the cache server. Providing the restricted content from the cache server eliminates the time consuming operations involved in requesting and receiving the restricted content from the application server.
US08108930B2
An approach for providing managed security services is disclosed. A database, within a server or a pre-existing anomalous event detection system, stores a rule set specifying a security policy for a network associated with a customer. An anomalous detection event module is deployed within a premise of the customer and retrieves rule sets from the database. The anomalous detection event module monitors a sub-network of the network based on the rule sets. The anomalous event detection module is further configured to self-organize by examining components of the network and to monitor for anomalous events according to the examined components, and to self-provision by selectively creating another instance of the anomalous detection event module to monitor another sub-network of the network.
US08108926B2
A method and system to manage security in an online collaborative process are provided. The method includes receiving a requirement containing trustworthiness properties of a participant and establishing one or more trust parameters relating to the trustworthiness properties. In addition, the method applies the trust parameters with a statistics and probability function, such as stochastic process, to derive a trust parameter value. The trust parameter value indicates future development of the trustworthiness properties of the participants. Furthermore, the trust parameters are classified under one or more trust domains. The trust parameters of each trust domain are aggregated to derive a trust domain value. The trust domain value provides a high-level indication of the future development of the trustworthiness properties of the participant. The aggregation may be performed using statistics and probability function. The method also includes collecting feedback regarding the trust parameters so as to adjust the trust parameter values and the trust domain values based on the feedback. The adjustment is made by re-applying the trust parameters values and trust domains values with the respective statistics and probability functions. In addition, the method provides initial trust parameter values and trust domain values for a new participant with no prior record of trustworthiness properties.
US08108916B2
A system and method are disclosed for user fraud protection and prevention of access to a distributed network communication system. A first set of identification data associated with a first network access are stored. A second set of identification data associated with a second network access are stored. The first and second sets of identification data comprise a first computing device identification and a second computing device identification, respectively. If one or more fraud indicators are determined in the two sets of identification data, then the first and/or second network access may be revoked. The fraud indicators may include, e.g., use of the same username with different computing device identifications, use of the same computing device identification at different geographical locations, violation of a threshold for computing device identifications, violation of a threshold for authentication failures, and violation of a threshold for rate of network propagation by a user account.
US08108914B2
A security management system that includes a hierarchical security platform, converged IT and physical security management, unified credentialing, credential issuance and incident(s) management. An exemplary aspect of the invention also relates to physical and logical security management and information technology/network security management, with a credential issuance and integrity checking system as well as associated readers and printers of the credential. Still further aspects of the invention relate to obtaining, assembling and analyzing one or more of data, video information, image information, biometric information, sensor information, terrorist information, profile information, and/or other types of information to provide a comprehensive platform for all aspects of security management. A toolkit is also provided that allows complete management, integration, scalability, interoperability and centralized control of all aspects of security including personnel credentialing, personnel management, personnel tracking, task management, security system integration, security information exchange and scalability.
US08108912B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the management of secure data in a cloud-based network. A secure data store can store sensitive or confidential data, such as account numbers, social security numbers, medical or other information in an on-premise data facility. Regulatory and/or operational requirements may prohibit the migration or unprotected transmission of the secure data to the cloud. An operator can instantiate a set of virtual machines to access and process the secure data, for example to process online purchase transactions. To prevent unauthorized disclosure of the secure data, the secure data store can receive data access requests via a translation module that translates the secure data. The secure data store can retrieve and transmit the secure data using a protection mechanism such as a masking and/or encryption mechanism, avoiding the unprotected transport or exposure of that data to the cloud.
US08108911B2
A method for limiting user access to a captive domain or an open domain. The captive domain may include electronically accessible content that is selected/controlled by a service provider and the open domain may include electronically accessible content that is not completely selected/controlled by the service provider. The method may include configuring a modem or other user device in such a manner as to limit use access to the desired domain.
US08108910B2
Techniques are disclosed for adaptively determining trust in client-server environments. By way of example, a method for assigning a trust level to a client in a client-server environment including at least one client communicating with a plurality of servers includes the following steps. Information associated with a server s1 and a server s2 different from s1 is obtained regarding a request r1 sent by a client and received by s1 and a request r2 sent by the client and received by s2. The obtained information is utilized to assign at least one trust level to the client.
US08108906B2
The present invention provides an electronic document authenticity assuring method in which a series of procedures concerning redactable signature are divided into procedures dependent on a document to be signed and procedures dependent on a redactable signature method. Further, the present invention provides program codes that realize the divided procedures and a system comprising apparatuses for implementing those program codes. According to the present invention, even when type of electronic document to be signed is changed or added to, it is sufficient to add a procedure dependent on a document to be signed, without changing procedures dependent on redactable signature methods. Similarly, even when a redactable signature method is to be changed or added, it is sufficient to add a procedure dependent on the redactable signature method without changing procedures dependent on document to be signed.
US08108887B2
Methods and apparatus to identify media content using temporal signal characteristics are disclosed. An example method to identify media content includes receiving a reference signal corresponding to known media content and generating a reference signature based on the reference signal. The method further includes generating a plurality of sums based on peaks in the media signal and identifying one or more signal peaks based on the generated sums. The method then generates a second signature based on a plurality of normalized curve features, wherein each normalized curve feature corresponds to a signal peak at the temporal location of the signal peak, and determines whether the media signal corresponds to the reference signal based a comparison of the reference signature and the second signature.
US08108876B2
Mechanisms for modifying an operation of one or more processors executing message passing interface (MPI) tasks are provided. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing work loads of the processors are provided so as to minimize wait periods for waiting for all of the processors to call a synchronization operation. Each processor has an associated hardware implemented MPI load balancing controller. The MPI Load balancing controller maintains a history that provides a profile of the tasks with regard to their calls to synchronization operations. From this information, it can be determined which processors should have their processing loads lightened and which processors are able to handle additional processing loads without significantly negatively affecting the overall operation of the parallel execution system. As a result, operations may be performed to shift workloads from the slowest processor to one or more of the faster processors.
US08108870B2
An ASCII-based processing system is disclosed. A memory is divided into a plurality of logical partitions. Each partition has a range of memory addresses and includes information associated with a particular task. Task information includes contents of task state register and one or more task data registers, with each task data register having an ASCII name. Each task data register is successively labeled with a unique alphabetic character label starting with the character ‘A.’ A dataflow unit within the processing system is configured to manage a mapping between registers with ASCII names and the memory addresses of a particular task. Task instructions can include ASCII characters that indicate a request for resources and indicate the ASCII-character designated names of task data registers on which the task instruction operates. A processing element receiving the task instruction performs the operation indicated by the ASCII operator code on the indicated task data registers.
US08108859B2
The multi-threading changeover control apparatus of the present invention changes over threads in an information processing device in which a multi-threading method is used, and comprises a thread changeover request unit outputting a thread changeover request signal after a cache miss occurs in which an instruction to be fetched is not stored when the instruction is fetched or a thread execution priority order change request unit outputting a thread execution priority order change request signal.
US08108856B2
Systems and methods are described herein that discuss how a computing platform executing a virtualized environment, in one example, can be integrity verified adaptively and on demand. This may occur at initial runtime, as well as during continued operations, and allows the platform user to install software from various vendors without sacrificing the integrity measurement and therefore the trustworthiness of the platform.
US08108855B2
Deploying a set of virtual software resource templates to a plurality of nodes is provided. The process identifies a set of virtual machine images and metadata to form a set of virtual software resource templates. The process creates a model that indicates a performance metric based on a number of nodes on which a number of virtual machine images is deployed. The process receives a quality of service requirement. The process determines, using the model, a sufficient number of virtual software resource templates in the set of virtual software resource templates and a sufficient number of nodes in the plurality of nodes to fulfill the quality of service requirement. The process deploys the sufficient number of virtual software resource templates on the sufficient number of nodes using the metadata.
US08108850B2
The present invention discloses a power-aware compiling method, wherein the power model of an application program are established via building and analyzing the control flow chart and the data flow chart of the application program; each functional unit of the application program is assigned a power mode; a judgment is undertaken to determine whether the idle functional units are independent; if none dependency exists between those idle function units, the program codes of the same idle function units are merged into a new basic block, and the idle functional units are turned off for saving power; each new basic block is assigned an appropriate power mode; the basic blocks with the same power modes are merged to reduce the transitions between different power modes; thus, the power consumed by changing voltage or frequency can be decreased.
US08108849B2
A compiler has the capability to selectively compile individual portions of a compilable code module for optimum execution performance or for serviceability. In one aspect, individual portions, such as procedures (being less than the entire module) are selectively optimized. In another aspect, debug activity data is used for determining whether or not to optimize compiled code. It is optionally possible to support one or more levels of partial selective optimization.
US08108848B2
Functions are memoized automatically and transparently. Memoized code can be injected automatically within a program to facilitate efficient and/or expeditious execution thereof, among other things. The memoized code can intercept calls to an original function and return values in accordance with the code. Accordingly, callers of the function need not do anything special and can invoke the function without knowledge of it being memoized.
US08108847B2
A system can include an analyzer module configured to analyze spill code generated by a register allocator to determine that register spill instructions can be paired, wherein paired register spill instructions relate to corresponding register locations in each of a first register set and a second register set and that no instructions between said register spill instructions modify any of said register spill instructions; a rewriter module configured to, based on the determining, modify said register spill instructions as a parallel register spill instruction; and a storage module configured to configure storage of associated register spills in memory so said register spills can be loaded back in parallel into corresponding registers of said first and second register sets based on said modified parallel register spill instruction, wherein the configuration of storage includes allocation of space on a memory stack such that the register spills are double word aligned.
US08108845B2
A computing system receives a program created by a technical computing environment, analyzes the program, generates multiple program portions based on the analysis of the program, dynamically allocates the multiple program portions to multiple software units of execution for parallel programming, receives multiple results associated with the multiple program portions from the multiple software units of execution, and provides the multiple results or a single result to the program.
US08108841B2
A method for minimizing total cost of interaction among components of a computer program, each of the components being characterized by at least one implementation property includes steps of: a) carrying out at least a partial run of the program; b) monitoring the at least partial run of the program to measure an amount of interaction between each pair of components; c) determining a cost of interaction between each pair of interacting components; d) determining a choice of implementation properties which minimizes total cost of the at least partial run; and e) assigning that choice of implementation properties to the components for a subsequent at least partial run of the program.
US08108834B2
A computer-implemented technique for executing a process is provided. The technique includes providing a class having at least one annotation that defines at least a portion of the process. The annotation is a run-time-readable, non-executable declarative programming construct that is associated with a first method of the class, and specifies at least one transition rule and a second method of the class associated with the transition rule. A process engine, which runs on a computer and is not an instance of the class, parses the annotation to extract the transition rule. The process engine receives a message from a source external to the process engine, and evaluates whether the transition rule is satisfied, responsively to the message. Upon finding that the transition rule is satisfied, the process engine invokes the second method, so as to generate an output with respect to the message. Other embodiments are also described.
US08108819B2
A method, system, and computer usable program product for an improved object placement in integrated circuit design are provided in the illustrative embodiments. The IC design includes cells, the cells including electronic components, wires, and pins defined for interconnections of the IC. An initial placement corresponding to the design is received. A characteristic of the initial placement is estimated, which may include congestion, pin density, or both in an area of the initial placement. A transformation is performed on a part of the initial placement including the area to improve the characteristic. If the characteristic has improved in the transformed placement, a final placement corresponding to the transformed placement is produced. The transformation may be any combination of resizing an object, weighting a connection, clustering a plurality of objects, shortening of a route taken by a wire, and straightening a bend in a wire in the initial placement.
US08108817B2
Method and semiconductor structure to avoid latch-up. Method includes identifying at least one high voltage device on a semiconductor chip, identifying a circuit on the semiconductor chip separated from the identified at least one high voltage device by a guard ring, evaluating the circuit for a latch-up condition, and when the latch-up condition occurs, adjusting the contact-circuit spacing in the circuit.
US08108812B1
An electronic automation system performs register retiming on a logic design, which may be a logic design for a programmable logic integrated circuit. Register retiming is a moving or rearranging of registers across combinatorial logic in a design in order to improve a maximum operating frequency or fmax. In one implementation, the system includes machine-readable code, which may be stored on a computer-readable medium such as a disk, executing on a computer. The system balances timing in order to trade off delays between critical and noncritical paths. Register retiming may make changes to a design at a gate level.
US08108808B2
A receiving unit receiving a description expressing a finite state machine comprising states 0, 1, 2, . . . , N−1; a dividing unit dividing the states 0, 1, 2, . . . , N−1 into groups 0, 1, 2, . . . , M−1, wherein the dividing unit allocates the states 0, 1, . . . , L[0]−1 to the group 0, allocates the states L[0], L[0]+1, . . . , L[1]−1 to the group 1, allocates the states L[1], L[1]+1, . . . , L[2]−1 to the group 2, . . . , and allocates the states L[M−2], L[M−2]+1, . . . , L[M−1]−1=N−1 to the group M−1; and a generating unit generating a register transfer level description so that decoders which acquire the current state are generated for each group are provided.
US08108802B2
A desired set of diffracted waves using mask features whose transmissions are chosen from a set of supported values are generated. A representation of the mask as a set of polygonal elements is created. Constraints which require that the ratio of the spatial frequencies in the representation take on the amplitude ratios of the desired set of diffracted waves are defined. An optimization algorithm is used to adjust the transmission discontinuities at the edges of the polygons to substantial equality with the discontinuity values allowed by the set of supported transmissions while maintaining the constraints.
US08108799B2
Described are systems and methods for remoting applications, such as those based on Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF). The systems and methods are based on remoting information associated with a structural representation. The structural representation corresponds to visual contents or elements of a desktop to be displayed at a remote end or client end, without rendering the contents at a client or remoted end. The information associated with the structural representation or structural information includes data that specifies the placement of the visual contents on the desktop when displayed. The information is used for recreating the structural representation at the client end and displaying the visual contents in conformance with the structural representation.
US08108796B2
An embodiment generally relates to a method of operating a device. The method includes receiving at least one character of a sequence for a default application on a user interface of a device and determining at least one other task supported by the device based on the at least one character sequence. The method also includes displaying the at least one other task on a display of the device along with the at least one character sequence for the default application.
US08108785B2
A method for managing windows in a display is disclosed. The method comprises forming clippings for windows located in a focal region of a display; displaying the clippings in a peripheral region of the display; hiding the windows in the focal region of the display; indicating the states of the clippings; and in response to a user action, displaying the windows and hiding the clippings. A clipping comprises an image of a region of a window and an icon. A clipping is formed when a window is dragged from the focal region into the peripheral region or when the minimize button of a window is clicked. A clipping list is formed when a clipping is moved near another clipping. A clipping moved near a clipping list is inserted into the clipping list. Indicating the change state of a clipping comprises detecting that the contents of the clipping are changing; providing a visual cue for the clipping; changing the appearance of the visual cue in response to detecting that the contents of the clipping are no longer changing; and removing the visual cue in response to a user action. The change state of a clipping in a clipping list is propagated to the clipping list.
US08108781B2
A method of searching for a data item in a stored chronological sequence of communication events relating to a user of a user terminal is provided. The method comprises: querying a communication event database comprising individually accessible records of each of the communication events, each record being associated with an event time at which the communication event occurred, wherein the step of querying locates a target event comprising the data item and having an event time earlier than a predetermined first time instance; loading the target event into a storage means; displaying the contents of the target event to the user in a user interface; and loading communication events occurring in a time period between the event time and the first time instance of the target event into the storage means and updating the display to include the contents of the communication events occurring in the time period.
US08108775B2
An operation image displaying device is provided with a displaying unit configured to display an operation image including operation input areas for inputting operations commands, a pointer displaying unit configured to show a pointer, which points a position on the displaying unit in accordance with an operation of a user, a distance detecting unit configured to detect a distance between the pointer and one of the operation image and the operation input areas.
US08108764B2
Systems and methods of recognizing a business document and creating a document signature. In one embodiment, a business document is scanned and a business document image is created. The business document image is compared to a template database. If a matching template is found, document fields are defined and extracted. If no matching document template is found, the document image is compared to a skeleton database. If a matching document skeleton in found, document fields are defined and extracted. A document skeleton is generated and then stored in the template database. If no matching document skeletons are found in the skeleton database, document fields are manually extracted. A document skeleton is then generated from the identification of static and variable strings and stored in the skeleton database. Document fields are validated after all document fields have been extracted.
US08108760B2
A decoding method and system for stochastic decoding of linear codes with the parity check matrix comprising elements of a Galois field is provided. Each encoded sample of a set of encoded samples is first scaled by a scaling factor proportional to a noise level of the set of encoded samples. Each of the scaled encoded samples is then converted into a corresponding probability. For each probability a corresponding probability message is the generated by encoding each probability as a sequence of symbols or bits. Each probability message is then provided to a respective variable node of a logic circuitry for stochastic decoding. The logic circuitry represents a factor graph of the parity check matrix of the linear code. Using the logic circuitry each probability message is passed through the factor graph by performing for each received symbol at the variable nodes the equality function, at the permutation nodes one of multiplication and division, and at the parity check nodes the parity check function, wherein each of the variable nodes provides an output symbol in dependence upon each received symbol.
US08108759B2
In general, the disclosure describes techniques for detecting and correcting single or multiple occurrences of data error patterns. This disclosure discusses the generation and application of high-rate error-pattern-correcting codes to correct single instances of targeted error patterns in codewords, and to further correct a significant portion of multiple instances of targeted error patterns, with the least redundancy. In accordance with the techniques, a lowest-degree generator polynomial may be constructed that targets a set of dominant error patterns that make up a very large percentage of all observed occurrences of errors. The lowest-degree generator polynomial produces distinct, non-overlapping syndrome sets for the target error patterns. The lowest-degree generator polynomial may be constructed such that no two error patterns within the list of dominant error patterns map to the same syndrome set, and the single occurrence and starting position of any of the target error patterns can be successfully identified.
US08108757B2
A method of performing HARQ performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving a bundling indicator which indicates the number of bundled downlink subframes, determining whether at least one bundled downlink subframe is missed by comparing the bundling indicator with the number of detected bundled downlink subframes, generating a representative ACK/NACK signal when no bundled downlink subframe is missed, and transmitting the representative ACK/NACK signal on an uplink channel. Recovery capability is maximized and the packet loss is reduced in such a situation that less number of ACK/NACK signals are fed back than that of downlink packets.
US08108753B2
Method of generating cyclic redundancy checks (CRCs) for a message with N data blocks. The method includes calculating a partial CRC for an out of order data block and storing the result, generating, using a division operation, a CRC remainder multiplier associated with the out of order data block and storing the result, repeating the calculating and generating steps until all N data blocks for the message are received, and combining the results of the calculating step and the generating step.
US08108752B2
A device, method, and program are provided to prevent an increase of the probability of erroneous correction for a burst error having a length exceeding detection capability even if high correction capability is selected for a random error. In one embodiment, an apparatus corrects errors in a product code block including C1 codes in a row direction and C2 codes in a column direction. First, a C1 decoder performs C1 correction for each of an even C1 including even-numbered bytes in the C1 code and an odd C1 including odd-numbered bytes in the C1 code. Next, a C2 decoder performs erasure correction in C2 correction in the case where any one of the C1 correction results for the even C1 and the odd C1 is correction failure, and where one of the results is the 3-byte correction while the other one is the correction failure or the 3-byte correction.
US08108751B2
A turbo decoding apparatus comprises: a backward-probability calculation unit that executes backward-probability calculation from time N to time 0 with respect to coded data having an information length N (N is a natural number) which is encoded with turbo-encoding; a storage unit to store backward-probability calculation results extracted from a plurality of continuous backward-probability calculation results regarding a predetermined section of at intervals of n-time; a forward-probability calculation unit that executes forward-probability calculation from time 0 to time N with respect to the coded data; and a decoded result calculation unit that calculates a decoded result of the coded data through joint-probability calculation using forward-probability calculation results by the forward-probability calculation unit and the backward-probability calculation results stored in the storage unit and backward-probability calculation results obtained through recalculation by the backward-probability calculation unit.
US08108747B2
The invention relates to a method for data repair in a system capable of one-to-many transmission. The method comprises transmitting data from a sender to at least one receiver and provides for various sender driven or receiver driven repair methods of missing data.
US08108744B2
A system and method of sharing testing components for multiple embedded memories and the memory system incorporating the same. The memory system includes multiple test controllers, multiple interface devices, a main controller, and a serial interface. The main controller is used for initializing testing of each of the dissimilar memory groups using a serial interface and local test controllers. The memory system results in reduced routing congestion and faster testing of plurality of dissimilar memories. The present disclosure further provides a programmable shared built in self testing (BIST) architecture utilizing globally asynchronous and locally synchronous (GALS) methodology for testing multiple memories. The built in self test (BIST) architecture includes a programmable master controller, multiple memory wrappers, and an interface. The interface can be a globally asynchronous and locally synchronous (GALS) interface.
US08108737B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for sending failure information from a solid state drive (SSD) to a host device. In operation, an error is detected during an operation associated with a Serial ATA (SATA) solid state drive. Additionally, a command is received for failure information from a host device. Further, the failure information is sent from the solid state drive to the host device, the failure information including failure information associated with the solid state drive.
US08108735B2
Solid-state memory devices featuring pluralities of lines of data storage elements are configured for read and/or write access by alternately or simultaneously accessing different lines.
US08108733B2
Techniques for monitoring distributed software health and membership of nodes and software components operating in a compute cluster are disclosed. In one embodiment, each node in the compute cluster operates a watchdog monitoring component in addition to software operating components. The watchdogs are provided with a list of all nodes in a compute cluster that identifies every node's neighboring nodes. Each watchdog checks the health of one of its neighboring node, ensuring that this neighboring node is healthy and is operating successfully. Additionally, each watchdog verifies the cluster membership of its other neighboring nodes to ensure that the cluster is operating an adequate number of operating nodes, and that an adequate number of watchdogs are present in the cluster. If an unhealthy or non-member node is identified, the watchdog may initiate corrective action and attempt to restore the node to a correct operational state.
US08108721B2
A method to enable an adaptive fault tolerance in a data system is provided. The method includes communicatively coupling a radiation hardened hardware element to at least one interrupt service routine application in a respective at least one processing element, triggering an interrupt service routine by an interrupt signal received from the radiation hardened hardware element at the interrupt service routine application after an execution of a code block by the at least one processing element, and inspecting the internal state of the at least one processing element to determine if an error occurred.
US08108719B2
An information processing device comprises a plurality of processing units on which OSs and execution environments operate, and shared peripheral devices shared by the plurality of processing units. The information processing device is provided with a failure concealing device for concealing a failure which has occurred in a processing unit. The failure concealing device determines a substitutional processing unit that will act as a substitute for a failed processing unit so that the OS and execution environment which have operated on the failed processing unit will operate on the substitutional processing unit, switches the OS and execution environment which have operated on the failed processing unit so that they will operate on the substitutional processing unit, and switches a shared resource used by the failed processing unit such that it is available to the substitutional processing unit.
US08108710B2
A system and method is presented for reducing skew between the positive and negative components of a differential signal in a high speed communications link. The communications link includes a signal generator producing and transmitting complementary positive and negative signals over separate transmission lines and a receiver receiving the complementary signals. The communication link further includes a skew compensation circuit having a skew detector, a controller, and separate delay and buffer elements for both the positive and negative component of the differential signal. The controller separately controls each of the delay or buffer elements in response to the detected skew between differential signal components.
US08108696B2
A technique for low-power detection of a grace period following a shared data element update operation that affects non-preemptible data readers. A grace period processing action is implemented that requires a processor that may be running a non-preemptible reader of the shared data element to pass through a quiescent state before further grace period processing can proceed. A power status of the processor is also determined. Further grace period processing may proceed without requiring the processor to pass through a quiescent state if the power status indicates that quiescent state processing by the processor is unnecessary.
US08108694B2
Apparatus for combining powers coming from a plurality of I/O ports. Use of the apparatus to power electronic appliances that can require more power than can be delivered by a single I/O port, e.g. in order to charge more quickly energy storage means forming part of the portable electronic appliance connected to the apparatus.
US08108693B2
Methods for data storage protection and encryption are disclosed. In some of these methods, the method may include any of the following, among other things, storing information about the storage format to a Geometrical Cell Location Table (GCLT), shuffling a Geometrical Cell Location Table giving rise to a Shuffled Geometrical Cell Location Table (SGCLT), encrypting data using more than one key, renewing content, and/or filling empty sectors with encrypted data.
US08108691B2
A secure memory card with encryption capabilities comprises various life cycle states that allow for testing of the hardware and software of the card in certain of the states. The testing mechanisms are disabled in certain other of the states thus closing potential back doors to secure data and cryptographic keys. Controlled availability and generation of the keys required for encryption and decryption of data is such that even if back doors are accessed that previously encrypted data is impossible to decrypt and thus worthless even if a back door is found and maliciously pried open.
US08108690B2
A data writing and reproducing device using a password when writing and reproducing data is provided. The data writing and reproducing device includes a signal processor to scramble video data using an encryption key, a data writing module to write the video data scrambled by the signal processor to a recording medium, a key signal input part to provide a function to input a password, and a controller to generate the encryption key from the password and to provide the encryption key to the signal processor. The recording medium storing data by use of the data writing and reproducing device is reproducible only through a CSS-compliant reproducing device. Accordingly, the data is protected from illegal copying and viewing by a third party and the possibility of hacking can be reduced.
US08108689B2
An obfuscation evaluation method which sufficiently evaluates an obfuscation performed on a program. The obfuscation evaluation method includes: a step of executing an obfuscated code module produced by obfuscating an original code module of a program, and generating a trace output file by logging a result of the execution; and a step of identifying the degree of obfuscation of the obfuscated code module by evaluating the trace output file.
US08108684B2
A security system control system using a host object with a near field communication device and a target object with a near field communication device. The target object broadcasts a carrier signal to the host object. Using the near field communication device, the host object modulated identification information on the carrier signal and broadcasts the modulated signal. The target object demodulates the signal to determine if a user associated with the identification information is authorized to perform the intended control function. The target object determines the intended control function based upon a detection criterion. The target object causes the intended control function to be performed if the associated user is authorized to control the intended control function such as to arm or disarm the security system. The identification information can expired after a predetermined period of time. The target object updates the identification information after expiration.
US08108682B2
To achieve high safety, large-sized nonlinear permutation is employed; however, the larger permutation processing is, the more the period of time required for the processing is, which hence is not efficient. There is provided a hash value generation method or a hash value generator which has the following aspects and which is highly safe and is capable of executing processing at a high speed. 1. As a message insertion method, there is employed a linear conversion in which the insertion message affects all subblocks. 2. An internal state is divided into a plurality of subblocks, and nonlinear permutation is conducted in each subblock unit. 3. Additionally, the linear conversion of item 1 above may be configured such that each subblock of the internal state affects the subblocks of the output.
US08108680B2
To prevent poaching of an Internet Protocol (IP) set top box (STB) asset or similar network computing device from one system operator to another, code executing in the IP STB not only authenticates downloaded software images using a public key provided in a serial-number assigned digital certificate, but also confirms that the serial number appears on a signed whitelist, or does not appear on a signed blacklist. The code executing in the STB further preferably enforces a rule that only the authority that signed the already-loaded whitelist/blacklist may replace it with a new list. Such a “sticky whitelist/blacklist” ensures that if the STB boots or resets in a new network, the existing authentication list will not be replaced by a list that is valid for a new or different network, and, as a result, that new software code images will not be authenticated.
US08108679B2
A firewall system employs signature validation hardware communicating via low level communication protocols and with inner and outer host computers, which have network protocol stacks and for implementing complex communication protocols with remote source and destination computers. The source computer has data checker and signature functionalities, which respectively check data and generate digital signatures for data to be transmitted. The inner host computer receives transmitted data and converts it to a lower protocol level at which the hardware operates. The hardware uses digital circuitry for protocols and checking. It validates signatures in data at a software application level, but only requires protocols that are simple and low level. The firewall system communicates with the source and destination computers via high performance connection media. The hardware itself communicates with the host computers also via high performance connection media, and avoids involvement with complex communications protocols which make other firewalls vulnerable.
US08108673B2
Configuring an interface of a switch includes sending an authentication request requesting authentication for an endpoint from a switch to an authentication server. The switch comprises interfaces and is operable to access templates, where a template is operable to generate one or more interface commands for an interface. An instruction is received from the authentication server. The instruction instructs the switch to apply an identified template to an interface, where the identified template is identified by the authentication server as associated with the endpoint. The identified template is applied to configure the interface according to the instruction.
US08108672B1
Systems and techniques to provide transparent authentication integration. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: receiving a request from a client to take an action with respect to an electronic document, in response to the request, obtaining an authentication process, and sending the authentication process to the client for use in identifying a current user and controlling the action with respect to the electronic document based on the current user and document-permissions information associated with the electronic document. Obtaining the authentication process can involve requesting and receiving the authentication process from a second server. The authentication process can use an existing interface provided by the client to communicate authentication information to the server.
US08108668B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for creating an instance of a virtual trusted platform module (TPM) in a central platform and associating the instance with a managed platform coupled to the central platform. Multiple such vTPM's may be instantiated, each associated with a different managed platform coupled to the central platform. The instances may all be maintained on the central platform, improving security. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08108665B2
The present disclosure relates to a technique or device to allow hardware related drivers to present a centralized configuration program and, more particularly, to a technique or device to allow hardware related drivers to present configuration information to a centralized user interface manager.
US08108663B2
A micro controller includes a first storing circuit configured to store program data for performing a power on operation of a system, and a second storing circuit configured to temporarily store algorithm program data for operation of the system loaded from an external storing means while the system operates in response to control of the first storing circuit.
US08108659B1
Thread synchronization techniques are used to control access to a memory resource (e.g., a counter) that is shared among multiple threads. Each thread has a unique identifier and threads are assigned to instances of the shared resource so that at least one instance is shared by two or more threads. Each thread assigned to a particular instance of the shared resource has a unique ordering index. A thread is allowed to access its assigned instance of the resource at a point in the program code determined by its ordering index. The threads are advantageously synchronized (explicitly or implicitly) so that no more than one thread attempts to access the same instance of the resource at a given time.
US08108648B2
Various methods and apparatus are described for a memory scheduler. The memory scheduler couples to a target memory core that includes a bank of memories. The memory scheduler contains two or more configurable address tiling functions to transform an incoming address of data requested in a request to the target memory core to determine what physical addresses in the bank of memories will service the first request. The two or more configurable address tiling functions are programmable by a user to create two or more distinctly different memory regions in the target memory core. Each memory region has its own distinct tiling function based on configuration parameters 1) selected by the user and 2) stored in tiling registers in the memory scheduler. The multiple tiling functions are configured to operate concurrently in the integrated circuit.
US08108635B2
A storage system and a method for copying data is provided. The method includes storing data at a first storage unit of a primary site, transferring the data from the first storage unit to a second storage unit of a remote site and updating shadow storage unit metadata to reflect the storing of the data at the first storage unit, and copying, in response to the updating of the shadow storage unit metadata, the data from an entity that differs from the shadow storage unit to a third storage unit.
US08108634B1
In one aspect, a method to replicate data includes determining if an I/O data block from a journal is generated by a replication initialization process; if the I/O data block from a journal is generated by the replication initialization process, determining if the I/O data block from the journal comprises zero data; if the I/O data block from the journal comprises the zero data, reading an I/O data block in a volume; and determining if the I/O data block from the volume comprises zero data. The method also includes, if the I/O data block from the volume comprises zero data, bypassing writing the I/O data block from the journal to the I/O data block in the volume.
US08108630B2
The present invention aims at providing a storage apparatus that does not increase the I/O load on a primary volume, even if there are several secondary volumes for which data consistency with the primary volume should be guaranteed. A storage apparatus writes write data for write access directed to a primary volume P to a secondary volume S1. A controller in the storage apparatus copies that write data from the secondary volume S1 to secondary volumes. S2 and S3 in background processing. The storage apparatus uses bitmaps to manage data in the secondary volume S1 shared by each of the secondary volumes S2 and S3.
US08108618B2
An information handling system includes a processor integrated circuit including multiple processors with respective processor cache memories. Enhanced cache coherency protocols achieve cache memory integrity in a multi-processor environment. A processor bus controller manages cache coherency bus interfaces to master devices and slave devices. In one embodiment, a master I/O device controller and a slave I/O device controller couple directly to the processor bus controller while system memory couples to the processor bus controller via a memory controller. In one embodiment, the processor bus controller blocks partial responses that it receives from all devices except the slave I/O device from being included in a combined response that the processor bus controller sends over the cache coherency buses.
US08108615B2
A pre-fetch controller for pre-fetching data from a memory and providing data to a logic operation unit is disclosed. The pre-fetch controller includes a register for storing a counter value and a controller connected to the register for changing the counter value when a pre-fetching is activated and for changing the counter value when a cache hit occurs.
US08108610B1
One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for efficiently processing atomic operations transmitted from multiple general processing clusters to an L2 cache. A tag look-up unit tracks the availability of each cache line in the L2 cache, reserves the necessary cache lines for the atomic operations and transmits the atomic operations to an ALU for processing. The tag look-up unit also increments a reference counter associated with a reserved cache line each time an atomic operation associated with that cache line is received. This feature allows multiple atomic operations associated with the same cache line to be pipelined to the ALU. A ROP unit that includes the ALU may request additional data necessary to process an atomic operation from the L2 cache. Result data is stored in the L2 cache and may also be returned to the general processing clusters.
US08108606B2
A computer system including a first storage system connected to a first host computer, a second storage system connected to a second host computer and a third storage system connected to the first and second storage systems. The second storage system sets transfer setting before an occurrence of a failure, the transfer setting being provided with a dedicated storage area to be used for transferring data to the third storage system by asynchronous copy in response to a failure at the first host computer. Before the start of data transfer between the second storage system and third storage system to be executed after an occurrence of the failure, the second storage system checks the dedicated storage area, data transfer line and transfer setting information, and if an abnormal state is detected, this abnormal state is reported to the host computer as information attached to the transfer setting.
US08108597B2
A second storage system (SS2) comprises a plurality of tapes, a first storage device capable of performing random access at a rate higher than the tapes, and a virtual storage device emulating the first storage device. A first storage system (SS1) comprises a second storage device and a third storage device that has the virtual storage device mapped therewith. The SS2 reserves a storage space on the first storage device and reads data from the tape corresponding to the virtual storage device into the storage space. The SS1 performs copying between the second storage device and third storage device and, in this process, sends a command for access generated in the third storage device to the virtual storage device. When receiving the Access Command corresponding to the virtual storage device, the SS2 accesses the storage space.
US08108588B2
A memory device includes an executable flash memory partition and a non-executable partition, both partitions being fabricated on a common die. Preferably, both partitions are fabricated using the same flash memory technology. Most preferably, the flash cells of both partitions have insulating floating gates.
US08108584B2
A method and system of relaxing the ordering of a read completion by setting an ordering attribute in the read completion. The relaxed ordering allows the read completion to bypass pending writes.
US08108581B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus including a suspension/resume function includes a bus controller which controls a bus capable of transmitting data at a first transmission speed or a second transmission speed lower than the first transmission speed, a storage module which stores setting information for limiting a data transmission speed of the bus to the second transmission speed, an initializing module which initializes the bus controller so as to limit the data transmission speed of the bus to the second transmission speed if the setting information is stored in the storage module when the apparatus is activated or returned from a suspended state, and a controller which stores the setting information into the storage module and makes the apparatus transit to the suspended state and return from the suspended state, when the transmission speed of the bus is limited to the second transmission speed.
US08108579B2
Described are techniques and mechanisms for media data storage management. Briefly stated, a media control component monitors the usage patterns of media files on a local device. Any media files whose usage pattern falls below a given threshold is identified as a trim candidate. The media control component trims those trim candidates by eliminating data (content) from the media files. The data is eliminated from the latter portion of the media file so that the trimmed media file will continue to render properly when initially launched. If the trimmed media file is launched, the media control component retrieves the eliminated data from a content server on which is stored a library of media files.
US08108576B2
A dongle module including a digital video differential signal input terminal, a keyboard control signal I/O terminal, a mouse control signal I/O terminal, a processing unit, a transforming unit, a synthesizer unit and a signal I/O terminal is provided. The digital video differential input terminal receives a digital video differential signal, which includes multiple differential data signals, a differential clock signal and multiple low-frequency signals. The processing unit processes the low-frequency signal, a keyboard control signal and a mouse control signal to obtain a digital hybrid data. The transforming unit transforms the digital hybrid data into a differential hybrid signal. The synthesizer unit receives and composes the differential clock signal and the differential hybrid signal into a differential synthesized signal. The signal I/O terminal receives and outputs the differential data signals and the differential synthesized signal.
US08108574B2
Apparatus and methods for translation of data formats between multiple interface types. Translation logic is interposed between a producer circuit and a consumer circuit to translate data formats of data signals generated by the producer for application to the consumer. The translation logic may include multiple translators to provide translations between any of multiple producer data formats and any of multiple consumer data formats. One or more producer circuits may thus be selectively coupled with one or more consumer circuits through the translation logic circuit.
US08108573B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for enqueue prioritization. The apparatus for enqueue prioritization is provided with a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of anticipating a need to access a computing resource, generating a dummy request, the dummy request configured to hold a place for an actual request in a queue of requests to access the computing resource, and generating an actual request to access the computing resource, wherein the actual request is configured to replace the dummy request in the queue. These modules in the described embodiments include a forecast module, a dummy generator, and a request generator.
US08108572B2
This invention relates to a communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the first apparatus, the second apparatus comprising: a second storage medium for storing management information of data to be transferred to the first storage medium; communication means for communicating data with the first apparatus; edit means capable of editing the management information; and control means for making a control to transfer data stored in the second storage medium to the first storage medium by way of the communication means on the basis of the management information edited by the edit means.
US08108567B2
An apparatus and a method for providing serialized HDMI data from an HDMI source to an HDMI sink. An HDMI transmitter may include inputs including control inputs, a deserializer, and a parser. The inputs may receive serialized HDMI data from an HDMI data source. A deserializer may deserialize the serialized HDMI data received on each of the respective inputs and outputting parallel data for each of the inputs. A parser may parse the parallel data output from the deserializer from each of the respective inputs into serial video data at a first clock rate and audio data at a second clock rate. Control inputs of the transmitter may be set to a first mode in which from the deserializer is caused to bypass the parser, and the parallel data is output from the HDMI transmitter.
US08108562B2
Provided is a storage subsystem capable of improving the data processing speed by balancing the load on processors and controllers. This storage subsystem includes a controller for controlling the input and output of data to and from a storage apparatus that provides to a host computer a plurality of logical units to become a storage extent for the host computer to read and write data, processes a command issued by the host computer, and has a storage resource in relation to the logical unit. The controller has a local memory for storing the command, and a processor configured from a plurality of cores for controlling the input and output of data to and from the logical unit to be subject to the input and output of the data based on the command. The local memory stores association information representing the correspondence between the plurality of logical units and the plurality of cores. Each of the plurality of cores processes the command to the logical unit to be handled by a self core based on the association information and executes I/O processing of the data to the logical unit.
US08108560B2
The present invention relates to a method of transferring data from an application buffer to a network socket, in which memory usage faults are reduced. In one embodiment, the method for managing data transfer in a computer memory includes transferring data from an application program memory to a network stack using zero copy data transfer, monitoring the number of potential copy on write (COW) faults generated during the transfer of data for the application program, and controlling the transferring of data so that if the number of potential COW faults exceeds a predetermined threshold for the application then in subsequent data transfers from the application program, data is copied to another memory location before transferring the data to the network stack.
US08108554B1
Disclosed is a system and method for providing persistence in network access, by enhancing the likelihood that a gateway that is employed by a server array controller to send a client's message to a resource in another network outside of a local network behind the server array controller, is the same gateway employed by the resource for a responding message. In one embodiment, an outbound gateway is selected based on load-balanced gateways that have been enabled for automatic mapping of a source address to an available corresponding global Internet Protocol address. In another embodiment, multiple server array controllers are employed in a multi-active mode that enables multiple network address translation tables to be available in the event of a failover of one or more of the server array controllers.
US08108551B1
A computer-implemented method for monitoring physical paths within a computer network may include: 1) identifying a first logical path within a computer network, 2) identifying a physical path that corresponds to the first logical path, 3) probing the physical path to determine whether the first logical path is active, 4) identifying a second logical path within the computer network, 5) determining that the physical path also corresponds to the second logical path, and then 6) using the results of the probe of the physical path to determine whether the second logical path is active without probing the physical path a second time. Additional computer-implemented methods for monitoring physical paths within multi-host computer networks are also disclosed.
US08108533B2
Creating an agency relationship among clients of a computer system with respect to personal privileged, or otherwise sensitive permissions and/or attributes, is described. The technique enables a querying client to obtain permission and/or attributes from a queried client, even if the queried client is unavailable.
US08108528B2
A system for verifying the identity of a chat partner during an instant messaging session. The identity of an instant messaging partner can be verified at any given moment during an instant messaging session. The status of the verification is displayed in the current session, and is contained into any subsequently saved session history file. Prior to the beginning of communication, a participant has the ability to challenge one or more other participants to verify that they are really the people assigned to the corresponding instant messaging identifiers. During the instant messaging session, participants are further allowed to challenge any other participant before going further with the session (e.g. prior to discussing confidential information or accepting files). The system addresses the problem of an unauthorized user gaining access to another user's instant messaging identifier.
US08108527B1
A system and method for dynamic updating of display windows using a pushed stream of data.
US08108519B2
Techniques for Inter-Process Communication (IPC) in a more secure manner are disclosed. A communication component operating outside of an operating system can obtain operating-system data pertaining to processes that also operate outside of the operating system. The operating-system data can be more reliable than information that may have been provided by the processes, thereby allowing more secure IPC and consequently a more secure computing environment and/or system. A communication component can also be operable to make control decisions regarding the IPC data (e.g., IPC messages) based on the information provided and/or originated by the operating system (or operating-system data) and/or effectively provide the operating-system data pertaining to a sender process to its intended recipient process. A recipient process can also be operable to obtain the operating-system data pertaining to a sender process. Moreover, a recipient process can make control decisions regarding the IPC data originated by the sender process based on the operating-system data effectively provided and/or originated by the operating system rather than the sender process, thereby allowing the recipient process to make control decisions based on information provided by a more reliable (e.g., Trusted) source.
US08108513B2
Computer-executable instructions comprising some or all of a program can be delivered to a client for execution on a real-time basis such that the client receives anew the computer-executable instructions for each new execution of the program. Such an environment enables instrumentation instructions to be inserted into the computer-executable instructions after a request and prior to the delivery of the computer-executable instructions. The inserted instrumentation instructions can be spread across multiple deliveries of the same computer-executable instructions, and they can be modified to account for information received from previously inserted instrumentation instructions. The instrumentation instructions can be inserted as part of the server process, the client process, or as part of a proxy server that can be used at the discretion of the program developer.
US08108506B2
According to one embodiment, a method of making it possible to identify the connection of an external device reliably, the method comprises transmitting a command to check the connection of an external device to a logical address to which no physical address has been caused to correspond in an address list, if there has been a response to the command to check the connection, transmitting to the logical address a command to obtain a physical address allocated to an external device to which the logical address has been allocated, and registering a physical address included in a response to the command to obtain the physical address so as to correspond to the logical address to which the command to check the connection has been transmitted in the address list stored in a storage unit.
US08108505B2
In a method for controlling channel access in wireless communications, an admitted time value is calculated for each access category in a station. The admitted time value is a maximum amount of medium time the station can use in a time period. A used time value is calculated for each access category in the station. The used time value is an amount of medium time used by the station. A determination is made whether the used time value is less than the admitted time value. If the used time value is less than the admitted time value, a frame with enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) parameters is transmitted. If the used time value is not less than the admitted time value, a frame without the EDCA parameters is transmitted.
US08108502B2
A storage device configured to join a shared community storage network. All or a portion of the storage device is registered with the community storage network as a storage node. Once registered with the network, third party data may be stored on the storage node and remotely accessed by third parties. In addition, data stored on the storage device by a user may be stored in the shared community storage network by encrypting the data, adding redundancy, and distributing it to other storage nodes within the storage network. Data that is stored in the storage network is accessible to the user even if their storage device is inaccessible or fails. The user may receive economic or non-economic incentives for allowing the storage device to join the shared community storage network.
US08108501B2
A device, system, and method are directed towards providing location information from a social network. A GPS coordinate and a search criterion are received from a client device associated with a member of a social network. The social network is searched for another member associated with a location name based on the GPS coordinate and the search criterion. The location name may be a sponsored advertisement. The location name is provided to the client device. A communication may be enabled between the member and the other member. Moreover, a start and end location may also be received. The GPS coordinate and/or search criterion may be associated with either the start or end location. The searched location name is used to determine a location of interest. A route is determined between the start and end location and through the location of interest. The route is provided to the client device.
US08108500B2
A method for selecting a mode of operation for at least two modems is described. First, a handshake procedure is performed in order to determine a set of possible modes of operation supported by said modems. From said set of possible modes of operation, a set of favorable modes of operation is derived. In case there exist two or more favorable modes of operation, a probing-based selection is performed that comprises evaluating respective performances of said favorable modes of operation. The favorable mode of operation with the best performance is selected as a resultant mode of operation.
US08108499B2
A Name Registrar (NaR) system and method incorporating a separate software component that permits manipulation, control, and distribution of names/objects under direction of a distributed naming policy is disclosed. The present invention teaches creation of a separate software component to handle name registration running within a separate software process. This separate software process has a remote interface utilized by a software application to send information related to names/objects in their most basic form to the Name Registrar (NaR). Subsequently, the NaR performs all other functions that are necessary to publish the supplied name/object in the proper form and type required by the accessing system consumers.
US08108490B2
This Invention provides a system which enables recording/replaying Web-based user steps including a client and a server, wherein the server includes: Web Application means for displaying Web interface for the client, where user's actions on web interface form said Web-based user steps; A recorder/player which is set in front of the Web application means for recording said Web-based user steps and enables replaying the recorded user steps; the storage means for storing the Web-based user steps recorded in recorder/player. This invention also provides a related Server, recorder/player and method. With this invention, the user steps can be easily recorded and replayed in the browser without any help from other installation programs and thus can be shared by other users.
US08108486B2
A remote copy system includes a first storage system including a first storage controller and a first data volume. The first storage controller is configured to control data access requests to the first data volume. The first storage system is configured to store write data in the first data volume upon receiving a write request from a first host associated with the first storage system and generate a journal including control data and journal data. A second storage system includes a journal volume and configured to receive and store the journal generated by the first storage system in the journal volume. A third storage system includes a second data volume and configured to receive the journal from the second storage system and store the journal data of the journal to the second storage system according to information provided in the control data.
US08108484B2
The present invention relates generally to processing audio and video data. One claim recites a method of accessing content stored in a remote database. The method includes: receiving video or audio data; decoding an auxiliary machine-readable code from the video or audio data; deriving a fingerprint, which fingerprint is separate from the machine-readable code, from the video or audio data itself; providing user characteristics or an index to user characteristics; and by using the machine-readable code, fingerprint and user characteristics or information obtained with the index to user characteristics, accessing the content stored in the remote database. Of course, additional combinations and claims are provided as well.
US08108477B2
A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying all items of a certain type in the message, determining whether each of the items meets a criterion, and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determining a classification of the message. The system includes an interface configured to receive the message, a processor coupled to the interface, configured to identify all items of a certain type in the message; determine whether each of the items meets a criterion; and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determine a classification of the message.
US08108469B2
Embodiments, among others, of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for integrating communication services. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. An association of communications services is created. Accordingly, options are specified for a first communication services this is included in the association. Therefore, when one of the communication services in the association is actively utilized by a user, then the specified options are implemented for the first communications service in a first graphical display area for the first communications service. Other systems and methods are provided.
US08108468B2
There is provided a system and method for providing customized experiences to a plurality of client stations in a shared environment. There is provided an accounts database having data relating to a plurality of clients, an online server having a server processor and hosting the shared environment for access by the plurality of client stations, and an online client application for execution by a client processor of a client station. The server processor is configured to retrieve client data from the accounts database relating to a client, determine client preferences of the client based on the client data, create a customized environment from the shared environment according to the client preferences, and send the customized environment to the online client application of a client station associated with the client for rendering the customized environment on a client display. User interactions may be filtered to maintain a shared environment perception.
US08108466B2
Technologies are described herein for the automated offloading of the execution of a user-defined function (“UDF”) to a high performance computing (“HPC”) system. When a request is received to calculate a workbook that references a UDF, a spreadsheet application program determines, based upon a tag set by the UDF, whether the UDF is safe for execution on the HPC system. If the UDF is safe for execution on the HPC system, the spreadsheet application program causes the UDF to be executed on the HPC system using a connector that communicates with the HPC system to cause the UDF to be executed thereupon. A container executing on the HPC system emulates interfaces provided by the spreadsheet application program and is utilized to execute the UDF. Results of the execution of the UDF on the HPC system may be returned asynchronously to the connector and to the spreadsheet application program.
US08108464B1
A networked application and email application were described herein that provide for an intuitive system by which users can participate in collaborative workflow relating to a network document. In one implementation, a system includes a messaging server component to provide messaging services and an application server component to provide a networked application. The application server component interacts with the messaging server component in response to a user command to initiate collaboration on the network document. The interaction with the messaging server component includes providing a link that refers to a version of the network document as created or edited by the user.
US08108463B2
A demand driven process of collecting and collaborating around reviews including the steps of: receiving a request for a review from a requestor, associating one or more potential responders with the request for a review, providing the request for a review to one or more potential responders, receiving and organizing one or more reviews from the responders, providing access to the organized reviews to the requestor and to the responders, and updating the accessible organized reviews as additional reviews are received, all electronically. An arrangement for the same includes user computers for receiving requests for a review, network communication devices for transmitting the requests to potential responders, memory for storing electronic reviews and a controller for organizing, updating, and providing access to the electronic reviews.
US08108455B2
Embodiments of a mechanism for implementing mobile agents in peer-to-peer networks. An initiating peer may generate a mobile agent to perform one or more tasks on or gather information from other peers in the peer-to-peer network. The mobile agent may include an itinerary of peers that the mobile agent may visit. The mobile agent may be transmitted on communications channels in the peer-to-peer network to each peer on the itinerary in turn, and return to the initiating peer after visiting or attempting to visit each peer on the itinerary. In one embodiment, the mobile agent may traverse its itinerary via virtual communication channels (pipes) implemented according to a peer-to-peer platform. A mobile agent may include information identifying input pipes for each peer on its itinerary. Peers may generate and advertise input pipes for use by mobile agents.
US08108454B2
A method of initializing a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) link between a Fiber Channel over Ethernet node (ENode) and Fiber Channel Forwarders (FCFs) in a network by discovering the presence of FCFs available to the ENode and other FCFs, assigning second MAC addresses to the ENode corresponding to each available FCF, and converting from a management and initialization process using the first MAC address to normal Fiber Channel operation using the second MAC addresses. The implementations described herein may additionally distinguish management and initialization processes from normal Fiber Channel operation using separate Ethertypes.
US08108452B2
Keyword based audio data comparison. A method comprises extracting at least one feature from audio content of an audio data set to form feature arrays. The feature arrays may comprise a pitch array and a rhythm array. A set of keywords is formed for each feature array by performing the following for each feature array. Keywords are formed from overlapping sequences of values in the feature array, wherein each successive keyword comprises at least one value of a previous keyword and further comprises at least one value from the feature array that is not in the previous keyword. Another aspect audio is keyword-based audio data searching. Search keywords are formed from audio content. An index comprising sets of keywords formed from audio content of respective ones of audio data sets is searched using the search keywords formed from audio content of the specified audio data to identify audio data having similar audio content.
US08108447B2
A computer-implemented method for garbage collection in deduplicated data systems may include: 1) identifying a deduplicated data system, 2) identifying at least one segment object added to the deduplicated data system during a garbage-collection process of the deduplicated data system, 3) locking the segment object to prevent removal of the segment object by the garbage-collection process, and 4) unlocking the segment object after the garbage-collection process. The method may allow a small possibility of incorrectly removing useful segment objects. The method may also verify data objects during the garbage-collection process and recover incorrectly removed segment objects. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US08108444B1
The present invention creates a buddy list in association with an information vehicle, such as a word processing document, presentation document, or email. The buddy list is created from contacts associated with the information vehicle, and includes communication information such as directory numbers or communication addresses, which are sufficient to establish communications with the contacts. Accordingly, the buddy list may be displayed to a user, and upon the selection of one or more contacts, communication sessions may be established with the selected contact or contacts. Presence information bearing on the relative availability of the contacts may be supported in the buddy list, such that the user can readily determine whether a particular contact is available or determine the best way in which to communicate with the particular contact by viewing the buddy list. The presence information may be periodically updated or may be updated when a particular contact is selected.
US08108439B2
This invention aims to provide a method and apparatus for displaying and/or browsing a multi-faceted data set containing hierarchical subject labels. In the present invention, subject labels can be located into a 3D space. Complex information, such as, the relationship between subject labels and weights of respective subject labels can be presented by displaying the 3D space. In this way, the screen size can be reduced and the user experience is improved.
US08108437B2
A method for providing symbolic access to a plurality of objects stored in a data storage is provided. An associative array comprising a plurality of associative array keys and a plurality of associative array values may be generated. A data array comprising a plurality of data array elements may be generated, such that each object stores a sortable property value of the object and an original offset of the object. A mapping table to map original offsets to modified offsets is generated. The mapping table includes a plurality of mapping table elements, and each associative array value is used as an offset into the mapping table, and each mapping table element storing a modified offset, each modified offset is a numeric value used as an offset into the data array.
US08108435B2
Methods, systems and media are provided for turning large volumes of globally distributed data into actionable information by building a distributed semantic graph and maintaining such graph with up to date changes in data and client needs are provided. The semantic graph can be used to run subscriptions over interconnected semantic servers where each server can be capable of coupling to data sources, client applications and other semantic servers.
US08108434B2
A system may include generation of extension metadata defining an extension node associated with a core node of a business object and extension fields associated with the extension node, and generation of a runtime metadata buffer comprising enhanced metadata, the enhanced metadata based on core metadata of the business object and the extension metadata. In some aspects, a service request associated with the business object is received, it is determined whether the service request is associated with the extension node, an extension service associated with the extension node is provided if it is determined that the service request is associated with the extension node, and a core service associated with core data of the business object is provided if it is determined that the service request is not associated with the extension node.
US08108431B1
A method providing a level of indirection that abstracts the details of physical data storage, requiring neither indexing nor contiguity of data elements in physical storage for efficient data access. Tables are organized in a diagonal pattern (with a natural implementation in electronic spreadsheets), where the region occupied by each table is expandable and shrinkable. A novel query processing mechanism applies successive expressions in a query to progressively smaller arrays of references to a table's records. A novel method for implementing join operations avoids data replication, where the table derived from the join contains a matrix of references to values in the original tables. The derived table can subsequently be used to update the original tables via references, where this capability can be utilized in a user interface supporting atomic data entry transactions, where users may edit the derived table, and the corresponding original tables are atomically updated.
