US08265174B2
A method and apparatus for detection of load impedance modulation as a result of communication of data from the secondary to the primary side of a transformer are presented. The load impedance on the secondary of the transformer barrier is modulated differentially using data to be communicated across the barrier. A detection circuit on the primary side isolates the load current from the magnetizing current in the primary. The load current is subsequently integrated over two consecutive Manchester periods and the integrated value from the first Manchester period is compared against that of the second period thereby recovering the receive data.
US08265171B2
Systems and methods for delivering real-time video imagery to a receiver over a channel. A current video frame is captured and digitized. The digitized frame is divided into a plurality of macroblocks. For each macroblock an intra, inter or skip mode coding mode is determined. Based on instantaneous feedback received from a receiver regarding successfully received video packets for a prior video frame, a quantization parameter is set and the macroblocks are encoded in accordance with their respective selected coding mode. Synchronized error concealment is performed at both the encoder and decoder sides of the system and retransmission of lost video packets, using an adaptive retransmission scheme, are performed in accordance with the instantaneous feedback from the receiver.
US08265167B2
A method, system, and medium are provided for formatting video frames such that a region of interest is emphasized and the video frames can be encoded, communicated, and rendered without excessive processing burdens. A region of interest is identified in a video frame and a feature mask is created that represents the region of interest. The feature mask can be used to crop the video frame to remove background images that are not within the region of interest and the cropped video frame can be overlayed on a simulated background before being encoded and communicated to a display device.
US08265163B2
Horizontal and vertical video shape padding (with or without attendant motion compensation) are facilitated through use of a two-dimensional small array of processing elements. Multiple pixel value assignments are determined and made with each clock cycle or iteration, thereby greatly reducing overall cycle time to complete the shape padding. This approach is compatible with MPEG 4.
US08265157B2
A method for transcoding is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a decoded frame by decoding an input video stream in an MPEG-2 format, the decoded frame including a plurality of decoded macroblocks; (B) determining a current search center to be used in encoding a current macroblock into an H.264 format, the current macroblock corresponding to a pair of the decoded macroblocks on consecutive macroblock rows, wherein when (i) the encoding uses a predictive field mode and (ii) a current field being encoded comprises a second field of a current frame and has a first field of the current frame as a reference field, the current search center comprises a temporally scaled version of a decoded motion vector from one of an upper macroblock of the pair and a lower macroblock in the pair; (C) generating a refined motion vector by searching in a temporal search direction about the current search center; and (D) generating an output video stream in the H.264 format by the encoding of the current macroblock based on the refined motion vector.
US08265154B2
The transmitting end of a content distribution system selectively employs a redundancy mechanism to encoded video data based on the frame type of each frame being transmitted. In the event that a particular frame contains information upon which the decoding of multiple frames may depend, the transmitting end can apply a redundancy mechanism to redundantly distribute the data of the frame throughout a set of data segments, each of which is separately transmitted via the network to the receiving end. Otherwise, in the event that a particular frame to be transmitted does not contain substantial information upon which the decoding of multiple frames may depend, the loss of some or all of the data of the frame may not appreciably affect the presentation of the video content at the receiving end and thus the transmitting end can forgo application of the redundancy mechanism to such frames so as to avoid unnecessarily processing and reduce the overall network bandwidth used to transmit the encoded video data.
US08265145B1
Reference frames are selected for use in a frame reference buffer in a video encoding system, so as to provide long term prediction of motion in video sequences. Candidate reference frames are characterized by characteristic vectors. From the candidate reference frames, a number of reference frames are maintained in the frame buffer so as to obtain a specified distribution of the characteristic vectors over a vector space. Frames are selected for use in encoding a current frame based on the characteristic vector of the current frame and the reference frames in the frame buffer.
US08265139B2
A packet comparator includes a match packet buffer and a first in first out (FIFO) buffer that stores a reference packet stream. Once a packet in the reference stream and a candidate stream are matched to the match packet, the reference stream and the candidate stream are considered synchronized. Thereafter, the two streams are passed through a compare function and a resultant stream is output from the packet comparator. Possible resultant streams include the results of an exclusive OR (XOR) operation between all, or selected parts, of packets in each of the streams.
US08265131B2
A channel estimation value of each path timing is determined, a path timing, the channel estimation value of which is to be set to zero, is determined based on a reception power of each path timing and a predetermined power threshold (P0), and a channel estimation value of the detected path timing to zero.
US08265126B2
A receiving device for spread spectrum communication includes a phase determining unit and a data demodulating unit. The receiving device receives a signal spread and modulated with first spreading code. The phase determining unit calculates a cross correlation between the received signal and a second spreading code and determines a phase P(0) of the received signal based on the cross correlation. The data demodulating unit synchronizes the phase P(0) and the first spreading code and despreads and demodulates the received signal with the first spreading code. The number of components in each of the first spreading code and the second spreading code is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
US08265119B2
A frequency allocation method and apparatus using a mirroring-assisted frequency hopping pattern is provided for retransmission in a wireless communication system operating in frequency hopping mode. A frequency allocation method for a wireless communication system operating in frequency hopping mode includes generating a mirroring pattern having a mirroring-assisted frequency hopping interval identical with a data retransmission interval; and allocating different frequency bands for an initial transmission and retransmission by performing frequency hopping according to the mirroring pattern. Preferably, the mirroring-assisted frequency hopping interval is shorter than the data retransmission interval.
US08265111B2
When a laser light source module includes a heat sink in which a solid laser element, an excitation light source, and a wavelength conversion element are arranged and a stem that supports the heat sink, wherein the heat sink is separated into three blocks, namely a first block including a laser oscillating unit for the solid laser element is arranged, a second block including a semiconductor laser element that emits excitation light for the laser oscillating unit and a first temperature sensor are arranged and on a specific surface of which the first heater is arranged, and a third block including the wavelength conversion element that converts the wavelength of the fundamental laser beam and a second temperature sensor are arranged and on a specific surface of which a second heater is arranged, enabling thus downsizing of the module and improvement of the positioning accuracy of the elements.
US08265110B2
A laser and monitoring system is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, the system includes a laser, pulse shaper and detection device. A further aspect of the present invention employs a femtosecond laser and binary pulse shaping (BPS). Still another aspect of the present invention uses a laser beam pulse, a pulse shaper and a SHG crystal. In yet another aspect of the present invention, a multiphoton intrapulse interference phase scan (hereinafter “MIIPS”) method is used to characterize the spectral phase of femtosecond laser pulses and to correct them. A further aspect of the system of the present invention is employed to monitor environmental chemicals and biological agents, including toxins, explosives, and diseases.
US08265109B2
A laser crystallization apparatus and method are disclosed for selectively melting a film such as amorphous silicon that is deposited on a substrate. The apparatus may comprise an optical system for producing stretched laser pulses for use in melting the film. In still another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, a system and method are provided for stretching a laser pulse. In another aspect, a system is provided for maintaining a divergence of a pulsed laser beam (stretched or non-stretched) at a location along a beam path within a predetermined range. In another aspect, a system may be provided for maintaining the energy density at a film within a predetermined range during an interaction of the film with a shaped line beam.
US08265106B2
A tunable pulsed laser source comprising a seed source adapted to generate a seed signal and an optical circulator. The optical circulator includes a first port coupled to the seed source, a second port, and a third port. The laser source also includes an amplitude modulator characterized by a first side and a second side. The first side is coupled to the second port of the optical circulator. The laser source further includes a first optical amplifier characterized by an input end and a reflective end including a spectral-domain reflectance filter. The input end is coupled to the second side of the amplitude modulator. Moreover, the laser source includes a second optical amplifier coupled to the third port of the optical circulator.
US08265102B2
Systems and techniques are disclosed wherein a gated pilot signal can be re-acquired faster by searching a last known pilot offset and/or searching a last coset in which the last pilot signal was found.
US08265097B2
A communication apparatus including multiplexed data receiving unit that receives multiplexed data including at least audio data, an extracting unit that extracts the audio data from the multiplexed data, a telephone unit that transmits/receives telephone audio data, and an audio output unit that outputs at least one of the extracted audio data and the telephone audio data. The telephone unit continues to transmit/receive the telephone audio data when an occurrence of an initiating event of the multiplexed data receiving unit is detected while the telephone audio data is being received. The audio output unit outputs the telephone audio data when the occurrence of the initiating event is detected while the telephone audio data is being received. The multiplexed data receiving unit initiates receiving the multiplexed data when the occurrence of the initiating event is detected while the telephone audio is being received.
US08265096B2
A method of constructing a frame structure for data transmission, the method comprising generating a first section comprising data configured in a first format compatible with a first communication system, generating a second section following the first section, the second section comprising data configured in a second format compatible with a second communication system, wherein the second format is different from the first format, generating at least one non-data section containing information describing an aspect of data in at least one of the first section and the second section, and combining the first section, the second section and the at least one non-data section to form the frame structure.
US08265094B2
Aspects of de-registering a multicast group member from a multicast group within a wireless communications network are disclosed. An access terminal sends a first multicast registration message to an access network, with the first multicast registration message identifying a first set of multicast groups. The access network receives the first multicast registration message and registers the access terminal for each of the first set of multicast groups. The access terminal sends a second multicast registration message, the second multicast registration message omitting at least one multicast group from among the first set of multicast groups, the second multicast registration message being sent to request de-registration, for the access terminal, from at least one multicast group. The access network receives the second multicast registration message and interprets the second multicast registration message as a request to de-register the access terminal from the omitted at least one multicast group.
US08265084B2
A local network connecting system includes a first local network, a second local network, a mobile terminal. The first local network is connected with a gateway and a first server assigned with a first local address. The second local network is connected with a second server. The mobile terminal VPN “Virtual Private Network”-connect to the second server through the first local network. The gateway provide mapping of local address for a terminal connected to the first local network. When a packet is sent to the first server from mobile terminal, the mobile terminal assigns a second local address unused over the VPN-connection to a destination address of the packet instead of the first local address, and transmits the packet to the gateway. The gateway translate the second local address into the first local address as destination address of the packet, and transmits the packet to the first server based on the translated destination.
US08265072B2
A header processing unit includes a key information supply unit that manages MAC addresses and MAC key information having a short bit length that corresponds to the addresses, and decides key information corresponding to a source MAC address and a destination MAC address of an input frame. A destination decision unit performs destination decision processing based on corresponding key information instead of destination MAC addresses. A flow decision unit decides a flow based on key information corresponding to a destination MAC address and a source MAC address. Since the key information supply unit does not need to set plural identical MAC addresses, the header processing unit becomes inexpensive. Thus, this invention achieves an inexpensive switch that performs output decision processing and flow decision processing.
US08265065B2
The invention is a method and system for reliably detecting the start and/or end of silence periods during voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) sessions in a wireless communications network. A VoIP session typically includes “talkspurt” periods, during which VoIP packets are transmitted, and silence periods, during which silence indication (SID) packets are transmitted. Both the base station (eNodeB or eNb) and the mobile device (user equipment or UE) may inspect the packets to identify them as VoIP or SID packets. Alternatively, only the eNB inspects the packets. The eNB then flags the first SID packet after a VoIP packet as the start of a silence period, and flags the first VoIP packet after a SID packet as the end of a silence period. The eNB then modifies the header of the medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) prior to transmission to the UE. The UE then detects the modified MAC headers to identify the start and/or end of silence periods.
US08265058B2
A method and an apparatus to select a route in a network device within a networked system have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving at a router in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network a first route entry via local redistribution from a first protocol to BGP and a second route entry from a peer router coupled to the router via the network, wherein the first route entry is received earlier than the second route entry. The method may further include downloading administrative distances of the first and the second route entries to a route information base (RIB) of the router and redistributing the administrative distances from the RIB to a BGP table maintained by a BGP module of the router. In some embodiments, the method further includes selecting one of the first and the second route entries based on their administrative distances.
US08265056B2
Techniques for efficiently decoding packets sent with H-ARQ are described. Packet decoding for H-ARQ may be performed based on local search around a start of packet (SOP) decision for a packet. The SOP decision for the packet may be made based on traffic detection results for received transmissions. At least one SOP hypothesis may be determined for the packet based on the SOP decision, and the received transmissions may be decoded based on the at least one SOP hypothesis. A sliding SOP window may be used to keep track of SOP hypotheses for the packet. The sliding window may be initialized at an earliest received transmission, moved forward for each subsequent received transmission with no detected packet data, and maintained at the first received transmission with detected traffic. Rotating buffers may be used to store received transmissions for packets for decoding.
US08265051B2
A beacon signal used in data communications, such as the IEEE 802.11, is provided with data extensions. The data extensions permit additional information to be provided by the beacon signal, thereby reducing the traffic overhead of the network. The data extensions further permit handoffs and handoffs based on offset values. Periodic beacon requests are made during connection between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and an access point (AP) on a WLAN. A Measurement Request field corresponding to a beacon request contains a measurement duration value and channel number for which the request applies. The beacon request permits a scan mode which includes “Active Scan” mode, “Passive Scan” mode and “Beacon Table” mode. In Active Scan mode, the measuring station (STA) transmits a probe request with a broadcast SSID. In Passive Scan mode, the measuring STA passively receives on the specified channel and return a beacon report containing one information element for each STA from which it detects a beacon or probe response. In Beacon Table mode, the measuring STA returns a beacon report containing the current contents of its beacon table without performing additional measurements.
US08265043B2
Transmitting device, receiving device, and method used in mobile communication system employing OFDM
A transmitting device includes a transmission signal generating unit configured to generate a transmission signal by inverse-Fourier-transforming reference signals and data signals mapped to subcarriers and a transmitting unit configured to wirelessly transmit the transmission signal. In the transmitting device, a total power level allocated to signals to be transmitted in a time slot is equal to a total power level allocated to signals to be transmitted in any other time slot, and a power density per unit bandwidth of the reference signals is greater than a power density per unit bandwidth of the data signals. This configuration makes it possible to equalize the total transmission power level of all time slots and thereby to improve the power amplification efficiency. Also, with this configuration, since the reference signals are transmitted with a higher power than that for other signals, it is possible to improve the accuracy of channel estimation.
US08265036B2
An apparatus and method for a centrally managed handoff comprising originating a service using a first technology and connecting the service using the first technology; activating a second technology that is different from the first technology; receiving a first request for the handoff from the first technology to the second technology; sending a second request for the handoff from the first technology to the second technology, wherein the second request relates to the first request; receiving an acknowledgement that the second technology is available; implementing the handoff from the first technology to the second technology; and determining that the handoff is successfully implemented before terminating the first technology.
US08265035B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a method for performing cell reselection in a mobile communication system. The method comprises the steps of reading, by a user equipment (UE), the Access Class (AC) barring parameters of the serving cell which are broadcast from a base station, and performing an AC barring check; calculating the cell reselection values of the serving cell and the adjacent cells according to the cell reselection parameters broadcast by the base station when the AC barring check fails; and ranking the calculated cell reselection values, selecting by the UE the cell corresponding to the maximum value of the calculated cell reselection values as the serving cell of the UE.
US08265021B2
Methods and apparatus for downlink Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat-reQuest (HARQ) Indicator Channel (PHICH) mapping and channelization in a communication system. First, a base station assigns uplink (UL) physical resource block (PRB) indices to a set of units of user equipment in a cell. Then, for each user equipment, the base station calculates an index triple (KPHICH,0,KPHICH,1,KPHICH,2) for three repetitions of a PHICH signal to be transmitted to the user equipment, with KPHICH, i being a PHICH index indicating a PHICH resource for transmitting the i-th repetition of the PHICH signal to the user equipment, and i=1, 2, 3. When a data packet is received from a unit of user equipment transmitted via at least one physical resource block (PRB) indicated by the at least one PRB index that is assigned to the user equipment, the base station transmits PHICH signals to the user equipment by using the PHICH resources indicated by the PHICH indices assigned to the user equipment.
US08265018B2
A wireless communication system is described for allocating limited network access according to priorities designated for requested transactions of wireless communications. The wireless network has a number of access links for transmitting transactions for wireless communications. A plurality of wireless communications devices request transmission of transactions on the wireless network. A designated priority level is associated with each transaction. In response to the transaction requests, an access control manager in the wireless network schedules transmission of transactions when all of the plurality of access links are occupied, by authorizing a transmission of a transaction of higher priority than another transaction that is being transmitted, and discontinuing the transmission of the transaction of lower priority.
US08265017B2
Methods and apparatus for enhancing network capacity in a network comprising multiple wireless communication that overlap at least partly in frequency spectrum. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a portable device such as a laptop or smartphone having both a WLAN (e.g., Wi-Fi) interface and a PAN (e.g., Bluetooth) interface which each operate with approximately the same frequency range. One variant places the WLAN interface into a power-saving mode as a default, thereby mitigating interference with the PAN interface in cases where the WLAN interface is not in active use. In another variant, an aggressive PAN management algorithm is used to enforce network policy on the PAN interface, thereby mitigating interference between the PAN interface and the WLAN interfaces of other devices in the network (as well as the parent device). AP-based variants are also described. Methods of operation and doing business utilizing the aforementioned apparatus are also disclosed.
US08265016B2
A method for instructing a mobile node to reduce the power used to transmit channel quality information is described. A scheduling mode of a mobile node is determined. An uplink control channel in a first format is allocated to the mobile node if the mobile node is in a first scheduling mode. The number of bits to use to insert channel quality information (CQI) on the uplink control channel is provided. The mobile node is instructed to reduce the power used to transmit CQI by a power reduction amount if the mobile node is in the first scheduling mode.
US08265015B2
A communication path allocating entity and method are described. The entity (10) comprises a receiver (11) for receiving session requests for requesting one or both of an establishment of a new communication session and a change in existing communication session between a network and one or more terminals (20), and a processor (12) for processing the session requests and for allocating one or more communication paths (21, 23, 25) to each of the communication sessions. A session database (28) is provided for keeping record of the allocated communication path and their associated sessions.
US08265013B2
An apparatus and method for providing an interactive broadcasting service in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method includes receiving content attributes, including a terminal interaction request time index information, and corresponding contents from a content provider; after transmitting the contents to a terminal, sending a burst allocation request message to a Base Station (BS) to allocate an uplink bandwidth to the terminal at the terminal interaction request time; and receiving interactive information from the terminal over the uplink bandwidth allocated to the terminal. The content provider or the service provider can request a response from a plurality of recipients through the MBS service, gather their responses, and reflect the gathered information in the contents.
US08265012B2
An adaptive subchannel and bit allocation method in a wireless communication system. A mobile station analyzes channel quality information of a subchannel at a predetermined period and determines a feedback band index with a maximum decision criterion. The mobile station feeds back the determined feedback band index with the maximum decision criterion to a base station. The base station generates band allocation information using the feedback information from the mobile station, and transmits the band allocation information to the mobile station. The mobile station transmits AMC information using the band allocation information received from the base station. The base station estimates a channel using the AMC information transmitted from the mobile station and allocates bits to the allocated band according to the channel estimation result.
US08265011B2
Two or more data packets transmitted through a wireless channel are received using a receiver device. The two or more data packets are a result of two or more transmissions that are made sequentially in time at different center frequencies in order to span a desired bandwidth. Each data packet of the two or more data packets is transmitted at a single center frequency. Time differences and/or carrier phase differences among the two or more transmissions are estimated. A time-of-arrival of one or more data packets of the two or more data packets is calculated using each data packet of the two or more data packets and one or more of the estimated time differences, the different center frequencies, and the estimated carrier phase differences.
US08265010B2
A wireless communication system, a routing method for a packet switched service, and a Femto AP (FAP) using the routing method are provided. The wireless communication system may include a core network, a broadband IP network, a FAP and at least a user equipment (UE). The UE connects the core network through the FAP and the broadband IP network. The routing method is as follows. The FAP may evaluate a request of the packet switched service sent by the UE, and may reply an accept message to the UE. The accept message may include a FAP address. The UE may use the FAP address to send a packet switching data to the FAP in order to obtain the packet switched service. The FAP may directly conduct the packet switched service with a packet switched service supply end through the broadband IP network without routing through the core network.
US08265009B2
Some embodiments provide methods for selecting tracking areas in a network, comprising: receiving messages from a plurality of base transceiver stations, the messages identifying a previous tracking area identity and a current tracking area identity; storing probabilities based on a count of transitions between the received previous tracking area identities and current tracking area identities; receiving a message from a user equipment device indicating the user equipment device is located in a first tracking area identified by a first tracking area identity; and selecting at least a second tracking area identity based on the stored probabilities and the first tracking area identity; and sending a tracking area identity list to the user equipment device based on the selected second tracking area.
US08265005B2
A communication system that allows multiple data applications to work simultaneously within a distributed execution environment in which only one IP address is assigned to the mobile system by an external wireless network. The mobile system comprises a wireless communication system with a first processing device (such as a cell phone or a network card) and a second device with another processor (such as a laptop computer or a personal digital assistant). The single IP address is assigned to the second processor, and all incoming external communications are stored in the second processor. In some embodiments the first processing device includes a filter; in other embodiments the second processing device includes a proxy for each processor. Additional processors can be connected to the mobile system by adding an additional filter or additional proxy.
US08265003B2
Provided is a technique for switching a session between a terminal and a network to a session using a plurality of peripheral terminals having respective functions, by considering the load on the distribution side system and distributing a packet to the plurality of peripheral terminals. This application for relaying a packet transmitted from a distribution node via a communication device in response to a request from a terminal to a relay destination peripheral terminal that becomes a relay destination, characterized in comprising: data acquiring means for decapsulating the packet encapsulated by the communication device, thereby to acquire a payload data; outputting means for outputting the acquired data by the data acquiring means to a predetermined reproduction function; and relay processing means for, based upon header information being contained in the decapsulated packet, relaying the decapsulated packet to the relay destination peripheral terminal.
US08265000B2
A method for receiving a common channel of a mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal receives a shared control channel, determines whether to receive a shared data channel or a common channel, and receives the shared data channel or the common channel according to control information transmitted via the shared control channel.
US08264999B2
A method for realizing paging in a mobile switching center (MSC) pool includes the following steps. An MSC server selects a media gateway (MGW) from more than one MGW connected to a base station controller (BSC)/radio network controller (RNC), delivers a paging message of an international mobile station identity (IMSI) paging type to the selected MGW, and stores a corresponding relation between an IMSI carried in the paging message and the MSC server in the MGW which is connected to the BSC/RNC and does not receive the paging message. The MGW that does not receive the paging message receives a paging response message sent by the BSC/RNC, determines an MSC server corresponding to an IMSI carried in the paging response message by looking up the corresponding relation between the IMSI and the MSC server stored therein, and routes the received paging response message to the corresponding MSC server. Several other methods and devices for realizing paging are also provided.
US08264998B2
A method, apparatus, and system for controlling multicast bearer resources are disclosed, which employ a resource and admission control subsystem (RACS) to control the multicast bearer resources. The method includes: a network entity in a RACS receives a request for controlling multicast bearer resources from a bearer-layer network entity and controls the multicast bearer resources. The network entity in the RACS includes: a receiving unit adapted to receive a request for controlling multicast bearer resources from a bearer-layer network entity and a control unit adapted to control the multicast bearer resources.
US08264994B2
A method of paging for a wireless device with multiple radio interfaces corresponding to multiple access networks. The method provides a first interface from the multiple radio interfaces to listen to paging for the multiple radio interfaces; turns the rest of the multiple radio interfaces into deep-sleep mode; and maintains attachment for each of the deep-sleep interfaces to a corresponding serving base station or access point.
US08264991B2
A data transmission/reception method in Near Field Communications (NFC) for improving data throughput is provided. Communications between a first NFC device and a second NFC device which perform NFC includes (a) transmitting, by the first NFC device, a data frame to the second NFC device, (b) setting, by the second NFC device, an indication of presence or absence of more-data in a bit of a Logical Link Control (LLC) information frame and transmitting the LLC information frame as a response frame responding to the data frame transmitted from the first NFC device, and (c) checking, by the first NFC device, the bit of the response frame and waiting for predetermined time or immediately transmitting a next transmission data bit without waiting for the predetermined time according to the check result.
US08264987B2
Limiting or controlling access to various services thereby performing a firewall function. An access router may permit or deny a packet based on at least a portion of a unique bit string (or context information) which replaced layer 2 header information (e.g., the layer 2 (e.g., MAC) address). Further, a particular quality of service may be indicated by at least a part of the unique bit string (or context information). The service provided to a group of customers, that group of customers being defined by at least a portion of the unique bit string (or context information), may be monitored. Multicast groups may be supported by checking at least a part of the unique bit string (or context information) to determine whether or not a customer associated with that port is permitted to join the multicast group.
US08264983B2
A method and system for provisioning circuits on multiple parallel links with a single setup message is disclosed. A setup message specifying links in a circuit path is transmitted to switches along the circuit path. If a switch determines that a link specified in the setup message has insufficient bandwidth for the circuit, the switch substitutes a parallel link having sufficient bandwidth for the specified link in the circuit path. The setup message can indicate whether substitution for a link is permitted. This can be used to prevent substitution for links when provisioning service routes for new circuits in order to maintain diversity requirements, while allowing substitution for links when provisioning restoration routes for failed circuits in order to reduce restoration time.
US08264974B1
A network device may include logic configured to receive a first problem report from a first network device in a first network, receive a second problem report from a second network device in a second network, receive reconfiguration information from a third network device in a third network, store event data included in the first and second problem reports, determine whether the event data included in the first or second problem reports is associated with the reconfiguration information, transmit at least one of the first or second problem reports to the third network device when the reconfiguration information is not associated with the event data included in the first or second problem reports and transmit the reconfiguration information to at least one of the first or second network devices when the reconfiguration information is associated with the event data included in the first or second problem reports.
US08264970B2
An OAM link trace message is sent from a source node to a target node in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network. The link trace message using an 802.1ag format except, as a destination address, it uses either the unicast Ethernet MAC node ID of the target node, or the multicast destination address of the service instance. A method of network topology verification in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network checks the link state protocol database at a node to ascertain the control plane topology view of at least part of the network. It then executes one or more Ethernet OAM commands from the node to ascertain the data plane topology view of the same part of the network. The control plane topology view of the network is compared to the data plane topology view of the network to see if they match. An error is flagged if they do not match.
US08264963B2
If a condition in a data transfer path is modeled appropriately, then a filter-based approach can be used to provide an estimate of the condition. This permits accurate, real-time estimates of the condition with modest requirements for data processing and memory resources. Change detection can be implemented to control a parameter of the filter.
US08264958B1
One or more computer readable media, methods and systems that allow phone calls involving a mobile telephone to be to be conducted using VOIP technology with header compression of the voice packets and dynamically adjustable tiered subscriber service. A dynamic, tiered-subscriber service allows the bandwidth allotted to users subscribing to different levels of service to be adjusted between sessions to accommodate changing network conditions. Header compression involves compressing the voice packet header into a reduced number of bites. Embodiments of the present invention enable simultaneous header compression and dynamic tiered-subscriber service through a new call flow set up that includes a new policy. The new policy is given preference over the other installed policies and includes new attribute value pairs that enables both header compression and dynamic bandwidth adjustments.
US08264955B2
A scheme to achieve fast recovery from SRLG failures in the IP layer is described. An exemplary scheme, called multi-section shortest path first (“MSSPF”), builds on the idea of IP Fast Reroute (“IPFRR”), guarantees 100% recovery of SRLG failures and causes no dead loops. Given a source node, a destination node, and a shared risk group failure on a next hop from the source node to the destination node, failure recovery information may be determined by (1) accepting a graph representing network topology information including the source node and the destination node, (2) determining a node which is able to reach the destination node using a route which does not include the source node, wherein a path from the source node to the determined node is not affected by the shared risk group failure, and (3) storing, in association with the shared risk group failure, both (i) a network address associated with the determined node and (ii) an alternative output port of the source node using the shortest path from the source node to the determined node.
US08264946B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction of a transmission signal in a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system. The proposed methods and systems are based on manipulations of an SC-FDMA transmission signal in a time- and/or a frequency-domain.
US08264945B2
A signal mapping method and a signal transmission method applying a subcarrier shift method are described. A signal mapping method using shifted subcarriers includes shifting positions of data subcarriers by as much as a frequency band corresponding to half of spacing between data subcarriers on a frequency axis, and shifting positions of random access preamble subcarriers by as much as a frequency band corresponding to half of spacing between the data subcarriers and to a specific ratio of spacing between the random access preamble subcarriers, and mapping data and a random access preamble to the data subcarriers and the random access preamble subcarrier, respectively. Even when the spacing between the data subcarriers is a multiple of the spacing between the random access preamble subcarriers, DC distortion can be minimized.
US08264944B2
An optical recording medium includes a cover layer, a plurality of recording surfaces, and a plurality of intermediate layers. The thicknesses of the layers are specifically determined and set at values which suppress a back focus problem. Because the optical recording medium suppresses back focus, the recording and reproducing of information using the optical recording medium is not obstructed.
US08264936B2
A diffractive optical element includes a first optical part and a second optical part bonded to each other with a bonded surface therebetween configured as a diffraction surface. In this diffractive optical element, the diffraction order of diffracted light with the largest quantity of light out of diffracted light for one of a plurality of kinds of laser beams obtained on the diffraction surface is different from the diffraction order for at least another laser beam.
US08264935B2
A player is provided that is capable of playing discs of either a first or a second configuration. Both types of discs can be double-sided optical discs formed with data tracks. In one configuration, the tracks on one side follow one spiral while the tracks on the other side follow a second spiral, the two spirals being oriented in opposite directions as viewed from the respective sides, and therefore being mirror images of each other. This allows data to be read by a player seamlessly from both sides of the disc without changing the direction of rotation of the disc. In the other configuration, the tracks follow identical spirals. The disc is then rotated in one direction for one side and the other direction for the other side.
US08264928B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control mechanisms.
US08264924B2
A data writing control device enable quickly writing data to optical discs. A reading process unit 62a, 62b reads data in predetermined read units from a storage device (hard disk drive 14) that has a head and stores the data. A storage unit (buffers 63a and 63b) has a storage area for storing the read units of data read by the reading process unit 62a, 62b. A writing process unit 64a, 64b acquires data stored in the storage unit in write units, which are smaller than the read units, and supplies the acquired write units of data to an optical disc drive is connected as a peripheral device.
US08264922B2
There is provided an optical disc drive, which includes a light source emitting a light beam, a beam dividing element that divides the light beam into main and sub-beams, an objective lens, an astigmatism producing unit that gives astigmatism to the main and sub-beams, a signal generation unit that has sensors for the beams and generates a focus error signal based on output signals of the sensors; and an optical element that has a function of adjusting intensity distribution of the main beam such that the main beam incident on the optical disc has a predetermined intensity distribution where a maximum intensity level is positioned at a predetermined height within a range of 70% of a pupil diameter, the predetermined height is not equal to an optical axis, and an intensity of the main beam decreases gradually from the predetermined height to a peripheral portion of the pupil.
US08264920B1
A near-field light generator includes a waveguide, a plasmon generator, and a metal layer. The waveguide includes a core having an evanescent light generating surface. The plasmon generator includes a base part, and a protruding part that protrudes from the base part toward the evanescent light generating surface. The protruding part has: a front end face located at an end in a direction parallel to the evanescent light generating surface; a band-shaped flat surface facing toward the evanescent light generating surface; and two side surfaces connected to the flat surface. In at least a portion of the protruding part, the distance between the two side surfaces increases with increasing distance from the evanescent light generating surface. The flat surface includes a first portion contiguous with the front end face, and a second portion that is located farther from the front end face than is the first portion. The metal layer has an end face facing the first portion. The evanescent light generating surface faces the second portion.
US08264919B2
A spot size converter according to the present invention is capable of shortening the waveguide length in the spot size converter and of promoting a size reduction of the optical waveguide itself because two cores having a taper portion are combined and those tapering angles are mutually aligned. Furthermore, spot size conversion efficiency is favorable even in a small size.
US08264911B2
A universal wristwatch and relevant system for setting the time according to the time zone, the wristwatch (1) including concentric dials (A, B, C) showing the 24 hours (dial B), the 24 time zones (dial C) and the minutes (winder A) and including also selecting devices (11) suitable to implement a temporary connection between the rotation of the time zone dial (C) and the 24-hour dial (B) in order to realize an identical synchronous rotation further to which it will be possible to set the hour hand (O) on the new place thus obtaining independently and at the same time the collimation with the joint unit of dials (B) and (C). Once the collimation is completed, the previous different rotation of dials (B) and (C) is restored. The wristwatch (1) showing the time of the current time zone in twelfths and twenty-fourths, universal wristwatch, in addition to the other 23 places.
US08264906B2
A system is provided with clock skew measurement and correction technology. A first circuit or memory controller 4 includes measuring circuits to measure relative timing or phase offsets of multiple clock signals of a second circuit or memory 6. One measuring circuit is configured for incremental changing of the phase of a transmitted test data sequence to measure and correct timing of a memory receiver circuit's quadrature clocks based on results of a data comparison of transmitted and received test data. Another measuring circuit is configured to scan a received test data sequence for data transitions to measure and correct timing of a memory transmitter circuit's quadrature clocks based on spacing or timing between detected transitions. Individual memory clock generators 30 are controlled with adjustable delay circuits 47 for changing phase of different clock signals of the memory to set the clock signals based on the measurements of the controller.
US08264904B2
In a method of estimating a self refresh period of a semiconductor memory device according to an exemplary embodiment, a plurality of internal address signals are reset in response to a refresh reset signal. The plurality of internal address signals are sequentially changed synchronously with an oscillation signal. A refresh completion signal is generated based on the plurality of internal address signals. The self refresh period is detected based on the refresh reset signal and the refresh completion signal.
US08264901B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor memory and a control method therefor, the semiconductor device including a first current-voltage conversion circuit (16) connected to a core cell (12) provided in a nonvolatile memory cell array (10), a second current-voltage conversion circuit (26) connected to a reference cell (22) through a reference cell data line (24), a sense amplifier (18) sensing an output from the first current-voltage conversion circuit and an output from the second current-voltage conversion circuit, a compare circuit (28) comparing a voltage level at the reference cell data line with a predefined voltage level, and a charging circuit (30) charging the reference cell data line, if the voltage level at the reference cell data line is lower than the predefined voltage level during pre-charging the reference cell data line. According to the present invention, the pre-charging period of the reference cell data line can be shortened, and the data read time can be shortened.
US08264896B2
An integrated circuit comprises a plurality of memory cells and an array supply voltage control circuit. The plurality of memory cells are organized in rows and columns. A row comprises a word line and all of the memory cells coupled to the word line. A column comprises a bit line pair and all of the memory cells coupled to the bit line pair. The array supply voltage control circuit is coupled to the plurality of memory cells. The array supply voltage control circuit is for receiving a power supply voltage and for providing a reduced power supply voltage to memory cells of a selected column during a write operation in response to a voltage differential on the bit line pair of the selected column.
US08264893B2
A data input buffer is changed from an inactive to an active state after the reception of instruction for a write operation effected on a memory unit. The input buffer is a differential input buffer having interface specs based on SSTL, for example, which is brought to an active state by turning on a power switch to cause a through current to flow and receives a signal therein while immediately following a small change in small-amplitude signal. Since the input buffer is brought to the active state only when the write operation's instruction for the memory unit is provided, it is rendered inactive in advance before the instruction is provided, whereby wasteful power consumption is reduced. In another aspect, power consumption is reduced by changing from the active to the inactive state in a time period from a write command issuing to a next command issuing.
US08264890B2
Techniques are disclosed herein for erasing non-volatile memory cells. A subset of the memory cells are pre-conditioned prior to erase. The pre-conditioning alters the threshold voltage of the memory cells in a way that may help make later calculations more accurate. As an example, memory cells along a single word line might be pre-conditioned. After the pre-conditioning, the memory cells are erased using a trial erase pulse. A suitable magnitude for a second pulse is determined based on the magnitude of the trial erase pulse and data collected about the threshold voltage distribution after the trial erase. The second erase pulse is used to erase the memory cells. Determining an appropriate magnitude for the second erase pulse minimizes or eliminates over-erasing.
US08264883B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including an even page cell group and an odd page cell group, and a page buffer configured to read data stored in memory cells of the even page cell group and the odd page cell group and store the read data. The page buffer comprises a first latch configured to store first even page data of the even page cell group when a first read operation is performed, a second latch configured to store odd page data of the odd page cell group when a second read operation is performed, and a third latch configured to store second even page data of the even page cell group when a third read operation is performed.
US08264879B2
Methods, devices, modules, and systems for operating memory cells are taught. A method for operating memory cells includes programming at least one of the memory cells to one of a number of states. Operating memory cells also includes programming at least another one of the memory cells, which is adjacent to the programmed at least one of the memory cells, to one of a different number of states. Operating memory cells also includes sensing non-erased states of the memory cells using at least one common voltage level.
US08264878B2
A method of efficiently programming charge-trapping memory cells includes sense amplifiers being dynamically connected to cells to be programmed, by switching bit lines. The method increases a number of cells that can be programmed simultaneously, such that an optimal use of sense amplifier resources is obtained.
US08264872B2
A column decoder is for a phase-change memory device provided with an array of memory cells, a reading stage for reading data contained in the memory cells, and a programming stage for programming the data. The column decoder selects and enables biasing of a bitline of the array and generates a current path between the bitline and the reading stage or, alternatively, the programming stage, respectively during a reading or a programming operation of the contents of the memory cells. In the column decoder, a first decoder circuit generates a first current path between the bitline and the reading stage, and a second decoder circuit, distinct and separate from the first decoder circuit, generates a second current path, distinct from the first current path, between the bitline and the programming stage.
US08264868B2
A memory array with Metal-Insulator Transition (MIT) switching devices includes a set of row lines intersecting a set of column lines and a memory element disposed at an intersection between one of the row lines and one of the column lines. The memory element includes a switching layer in series with an MIT material. A method of accessing a target memory element within a memory array includes applying half of an access voltage to a row line connected to the target memory element, the target memory element comprising a switching layer in series with an MIT material, and applying an inverted half of the access voltage to a column line connected to the target memory element.
US08264867B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device having a plurality of operation modes, includes: a plurality of first lines; a plurality of second lines; a plurality of memory cells; a first selection unit that charges the first line to a first selection voltage; and a second selection unit that charges a second line to an unselection voltage and discharges the second line to a second selection voltage after the first line is charged to the first selection voltage by the first selection unit, wherein the second selection unit adjusts at least one of a level of the second selection voltage to which the second line to be selected is to be discharged and a time constant when discharging the second line to be selected, in accordance with an operation mode in which the nonvolatile semiconductor storage device operates among the plurality of operation modes.
US08264865B2
A nonvolatile memory element of the present invention comprises a first electrode (103), a second electrode (108); a resistance variable layer (107) which is interposed between the first electrode (103) and the second electrode (107) and is configured to switch a resistance value reversibly in response to an electric signal applied between the electrodes (103) and (108), and the resistance variable layer (107) has at least a multi-layer structure in which a first hafnium-containing layer having a composition expressed as HfOx (0.9≦x≦1.6), and a second hafnium-containing layer having a composition expressed as HfOy (1.8
US08264860B2
A power factor correction (PFC) system includes a period determination module, a frequency generation module, an angle generation module, a signal generation module, and an angle correction module. The period determination module determines a period of an input alternating current (AC) line signal based on a time between rising edges of the input AC line signal. The frequency generation module generates a frequency based on the period. The angle generation module generates an angle based on the frequency. The signal generation module generates a sinusoidal reference signal based on the frequency and an adjusted angle. The angle correction module generates the adjusted angle based on the angle and based on a comparison of a falling edge of the sinusoidal reference signal, the period, and a rising edge of the input AC line signal.
US08264844B2
A conductive chassis plate faces a printed circuit board at a distance. One end of the conductive chassis plate is aligned with one end of the printed circuit board. One end of the conductive chassis plate is electrically connected to a ground wiring pattern provided on one end of the printed circuit board. One end of the conductive chassis plate is electrically connected to a conductive member that extends from one end of the conductive chassis plate toward the other end. As a result, in transmitting or receiving a signal with respect to external equipment attached to a connector, an influence of electrostatic discharge is reduced with a simple configuration.
US08264843B2
The invention discloses a card socket comprising a base, a first resilient member, a holder, a second resilient member and a driving rod. The base comprises a bottom surface and a side wall with a block portion. The first resilient member is disposed on the bottom surface. The holder is pivotally connected to the base and compresses the first resilient member. The holder comprises an accommodating space, and a card member is removably accommodated in the accommodating space. The second resilient member and the driving rod are also disposed in the accommodating space. The driving rod comprises a hook and a recess. The hook is against the second resilient member and is capable of driving the card member to move. The block portion restrains the driving rod on the base. Furthermore, the restriction between the driving rod and the block portion can be removed through the recess.
US08264837B2
This is directed to systems and methods for cover assembly retention of a portable electronic device. In some embodiments, a cover assembly and/or housing of an electronic device can include one or more retention features such as detents, hooks, tabs, extensions, screw plates, screw holes, shuttles, latches, or any combination of the above, for retaining the cover assembly to the housing. In some embodiments, one or more retention features can be included on an internal platform of the electronic device to retain the cover assembly. In some embodiments, a hidden screw feature can be included in a SIM tray slot of the electronic device. Once a SIM tray has been inserted into the SIM tray slot, the screw feature can be hidden from sight and may become unapparent to an end user of the electronic device.
US08264830B2
An apparatus for retaining an expansion card within an information handling system provides a first bracket including a first elongated body defining a first groove for receiving a first edge of an expansion card and wherein the first groove extends in a direction substantially parallel to a motherboard of the information handling system. The apparatus also includes a first base member extending from the first elongated body, wherein the first base member is attachable to the motherboard and a first pivot portion extending from the first elongated body, wherein the first pivot portion is angled upward toward an interior side of the first bracket.
US08264829B2
A portable computer system is provided having a base unit and a detachable display unit. The display unit can be oriented in landscape and portrait orientations, or can be replaced by display units having different physical characteristics. A support structure can be deployed to provide increased physical stability when desired.
US08264828B2
An electronic device comprises a base, a system module, and at least one axle pivot structure. The axle pivot structure connects the base and the system module, and the axle pivot structure comprises an axle shaft, a first pivotal connection portion, and a second pivotal connection portion. The axle shaft comprises a first end portion and a second end portion. The first pivotal connection portion is pivotally disposed to the first end portion of the axle shaft and the center of the lateral side of the base. The second pivotal connection portion is pivotally disposed on the second end portion of the axle shaft and one lateral side of the system module. Besides, the axle shaft is rotated with respect to the base, and the system module is rotated with respect to the axle shaft, so the different disposed location and disposed angle of the system module can be formed.
US08264827B2
A fastening device is provided for fastening at least one article on a carrier. The fastening device includes at least one positioning component, a fixed plate fixed on the carrier, and a pressing plate positioned on the fixed plate by the positioning component. The pressing plate has at least one positioned portion and a retaining plate corresponding to the fixed plate. The retaining plate abuts against a side edge of the article for preventing the article from moving along a first direction. The positioning component movably passes through the positioned portion to allow the pressing plate to selectively move along the first direction and be positioned on the fixed plate for adjusting the distance between the retaining plate and the fixed plate.
US08264821B2
A transformation structure for a redundant power system which includes at least two power supplies and a first circuit board to cluster the power supplies and deliver output thereof and a second circuit board electrically connected to the first circuit board. The second circuit board is coupled with at least one transformation module according to output potentials defined by users. The transformation module receives power from the second circuit board and regulates at least one output power. Hence, the present invention could be formed in an independent module with a function of power transformation. Thereby, the transformation module can be selected and mounted onto the second circuit board according to customer's requirements. The second circuit board has a sufficient area serving heat radiation and insulation. The present invention can obtains merits of decreasing the product size, enhancing heat radiation and providing changeable output specifications to meet customizing requirements.
US08264819B2
The present invention relates to a solid state capacitor having a conductive polymer cathode layer counter electrode that includes an acrylate binder and a method for its manufacture. In particular the present invention relates to a solid state capacitor comprising: providing a porous anode body of valve action material; forming a dielectric layer on said porous body; forming a cathode layer in contact with the dielectric layer, which cathode layer comprises a conductive polymer and an acrylic binder; and providing an anode terminal in electrical connection with the porous body anode and a cathode terminal in electrical connection with the cathode layer and a method for its manufacture.
US08264818B2
Provided is an electric double layer capacitor capable of simply connecting a current collector to an external electrode at a low cost and ensuring a sealing property of a container. The electric double layer capacitor includes: a container in which an opening of a concave portion is sealed; an electrolytic solution and a pair of electrode active materials which are accommodated inside the container; and a pair of conductive films which is respectively and electrically connected to the pair of electrode active materials and is formed from a bottom surface of the concave portion to a surface of the container through an opening edge.
US08264805B2
A module hot swap circuit includes a low voltage-drop rectifier adapted to receive either positive or negative voltages of different absolute values. The rectifier is coupled to a power manager that provides dual startup/shutdown voltage thresholds and inrush current limiting. A detector prevents reverse current flow allowing the module to hold up during input voltage drop-outs.
US08264804B2
A device for preventing the explosion of an element of an electrical transformer provided with a tank containing a combustible cooling fluid, comprising a pressure release element for decompressing the tank, and a bag placed downstream of the pressure release element and configured to pass from a flat state to an inflated state upon the rupture of the pressure release element and for confining fluid.
US08264802B2
A modular design of a fault current limiter includes one ore more current limiting units 1 with one or more superconducting elements 2 and where standardized current limiting units 1 and standardized modular insulation housings 10 can be used for modular design of a fault current limiter.
US08264794B2
According to one embodiment, a facing surface of a slider of a head includes a leading step on an inflow side of the slider, a leading pad on the leading step, a pair of side steps extending in a first direction from the leading step toward an outflow end of the slider and opposed to each other across a space in a second direction, side pads provided on the side steps to be continuous with the side pads, individually, a trailing step located on an outflow side of the airflow and provided with a head section, and induction grooves continuously extending from the leading pad to the side pads, individually, and configured to guide introduced airflow.
US08264787B2
A fixing device includes a stationary frame and a number of elongated resilient tabs. The stationary frame defines a central axis and includes four sidewalls for receiving a number of magnets. Each sidewall includes a receiving hole and at least one protrusion formed on each sidewall at a lower portion thereof. A slot is defined in each protrusion. The tabs correspond to the magnets. Each tab includes an engagement portion, an angled portion, and a contact portion. The angled portion is interconnected between the engagement portion and the contact portion. The engagement portions engage in the respective slots. The contact portions resiliently abut against the corresponding magnets. Each tab is configured to apply a force on the corresponding magnet in a direction toward the central axis.
US08264781B2
A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refracting power, a second lens group having a negative refracting power, a third lens group having a positive refracting power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refracting power, being disposed in order from an object side, and an aperture stop disposed at an object side of the third lens group. When changing the magnification from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, an interval between the first and second lens groups increases, an interval between the second and third lens groups decreases, and an interval between the third and fourth lens groups changes.
US08264780B2
A high zoom-ratio zoom lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, and a positive fourth lens group, in that order from the object side. Upon zooming from the short to long focal length extremities, at least the first through third lens groups are moved along the optical axis direction, wherein an amount of movement of the first lens group is greater than that of the third lens group. The following conditions (1), (2) and (3) are satisfied: 0.9
US08264770B2
A collimated periscope that is switchable between a normal optical view of the outside, a display view, and an overlay view in which the outside view and display view are combined. The switching element is an electronically switchable mirror with primarily reflective, primarily transparent, and intermediate states, depending on the application of electrical potentials.
US08264764B1
A switchable free-spectral-range mode selector is used to change the free spectral range of a free-space delay-line interferometer. The mode selector consists of a rotatable device with at least one transparent plate selected to produce the desired change in the free spectral range of the delay-line interferometer. The device may be rotated in and out of the free-space optical path of on of the interferometer arms. If used as a DPSK demodulator, the device enables operation at multiple predetermined free spectral ranges. In the preferred embodiment, the demodulator includes a 50/50 beam-splitter cube combined with two cavities. The mode selector consists of a plurality of different transparent slabs attached to a rotatable shaft so that any one of the slabs or none may be inserted in the appropriate optical path to obtain the desired FSR mode of operation.
US08264761B2
A mirror element comprising a front element, a rear element, electrochromic material therebetween, and a spotter optic located at the rear surface of the front element. At least a portion of the spotter optic has a first radius of curvature and at least a portion of the front surface of the front element has a greater second radius of curvature. A line perpendicular to the front surface extends through both the electrochromic material and the spotter optic. A first electrode coating and a second electrode coating are activated to activate the electrochromic material in order to dim a reflection off of the mirror element. A reflective coating of the spotter optic can form a portion of the first electrode coating. The first electrode coating and the reflective coating can overlap.
US08264756B2
An apparatus for recording holograms on an optical medium, in particular on an optically addressable spatial light modulation device is disclosed. For this purpose, the apparatus comprises an illumination device for emitting light, an optical medium, an image source having at least one modulation element, and an arrangement of microlenses. In this case, the arrangement of microlenses is arranged at a distance from the optical medium in such a way that the image focal points of the microlenses lie on the optical medium, such that the hologram can be generated on the optical medium.
US08264755B2
An image forming apparatus including: a black image forming section for forming a black image and a first black pattern for a coarse correction of black and optionally a second black pattern for a precise correction of black; a color image forming section for forming a color image optionally a third pattern for a coarse correction of color and optionally a fourth pattern for a precise correction of color; and a control section for allowing at least the first black pattern to be formed and optionally a second black pattern and third and fourth color patterns, and controlling to perform the coarse correction of black for correcting a forming condition of a black image to be formed and to perform optionally a precise correction of black, the coarse and precise correction of color based on the measurement of the formed pattern(s), wherein the control section controls to perform the coarse correction of black but not to perform the precise correction of black and the coarse and precise corrections of color in case a print job is acquired after a predetermined period elapses since the black image forming section has formed the first black pattern previously and the acquired print job includes a black-and-white page only.
US08264749B2
An image reading apparatus includes a light emitting unit which emits light to a document, a photoelectric conversion unit which converts a quantity of light reflected from the document into an analog signal, an A/D converter which converts the analog signal to a digital signal, a clock unit which clocks elapsed time from start-up of the light emitting unit, a light-quantity calculating unit which calculates the quantity of light emitted to the document from the light emitting unit on the basis of the clocked elapsed time, a correction value calculating unit which calculates a correction value of the digital signal on the basis of the quantity of light calculated by the light-quantity calculating unit and the digital signal, and a γ correction unit which corrects the digital signal by referring to the correction value calculated by the correction value calculating unit.
US08264748B2
An image reading apparatus executes stop processing to stop scanning of the carriage during the scan operation, acquires information on the stop processing executed by the control unit, corrects a restart position of the carriage for a document image reading after the stop processing based on the information acquired.
US08264723B2
A printing apparatus performs a printing process for a printing job including at least one print data and a series of process commands from a host apparatus. A session setup unit sets up a session with the host apparatus and other printing apparatus. A status obtaining unit obtains a status of the other printing apparatus that is in session with the printing apparatus. Upon performing the print process, a job synchronizing unit maintains a synchronization of the print job with the other printing apparatus that is in session with the printing apparatus.
US08264719B2
The output history of image data is made traceable when image data is processed while it is transmitted between an image processing apparatus and an external apparatus. The image processing apparatus adds specific information including information concerning the own apparatus to image data from a document. When specific information is added, either the form of writing specific information in header information of image data or the form of combining with an original image a specific image corresponding to specific information is selected. The image processing apparatus sends image data having added specific information to a management server, and the management server stores inputted image data. The management server adds information concerning the own apparatus to image data as specific information, and sends the image data to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus adds information concerning the own apparatus to image data as specific information, and prints the image data. The added specific information includes information concerning the image processing apparatus and management server which have treated the image data.
US08264716B2
A method for ringtone, voice, and sound notification of printer status, comprising obtaining status information of a printer, converting it into an audible report, and delivering the audible report. The method is especially useful for visually-impaired users and for shared printers in crowded situations where it is difficult for each user to see the panel or monitor display. The methods also include detection by the events controller, UI manager instructing an audio manager, codec decoding an audio file in firmware and hardware organization; job owner identification information embedded into a print job with a unique tag; user identification sound data embedded in a print job; audible report for multiple jobs in a job queue, with positional information; text-to-speech conversion; unique ringtone melody for each user, comprising department prefix, higher pitch modulation for higher priority, and automatically converting an alphanumeric character into the corresponding note.
US08264715B2
An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device with remote unlock. The printing device includes a locked print process that is configured to examine print data received by the printing device and determine whether locked printing is to be used for the print data. Print data designated for locked printing is stored on the printing device. The printing device also includes a Web application configured to generate Web pages that define a Web-based graphical user interface. When processed at a client device, the Web pages allow a user to enter authorization data that is transmitted to the Web application on the printing device. The locked print process verifies the authorization data and if the authorization data is successfully verified, allows the user access to locked print data on the printing device. The approach may also be implemented using a common repository to store print data.
US08264714B2
In a sheet conveyance system in which a plurality of apparatuses each including a communication unit with a plurality of communication channels are connected, and a sheet is conveyed between the apparatuses, each of the plurality of communication channels can be switched between a transmission mode and a reception mode. When a plurality of transmission channels are set by channel assignment, communication can be executed by giving a priority to each transmission destination. If transmission data are accumulated in an apparatus, and they include data for a transmission destination with a higher priority over the current data transmission destination, the number of transmission channels is increased, and the priority is raised.
US08264712B2
Provided are a wireless printing system and method based on wireless Local Area Network (LAN). A method of requesting a wireless printing, includes: requesting a printer that exists in a wireless LAN to perform a print job; and communicating with the printer according to a standard of the wireless LAN in order to transmit data regarding the print job to the printer. The method provides wireless direct printing suitable for a wireless LAN environment.
US08264711B2
In an image processing system including an image forming apparatus and one or more service providers connected to the Internet, functions available in the image forming apparatus of a user and functions provided by the service providers on the Internet are displayed on an operation control screen such that the user can select an arbitrary function and specify operation conditions of the selected function via the operation unit. A controller of the image forming apparatus acquires information indicating the functions provided by the service providers, and selectively displays first-type functions indicated by the acquired information and/or second-type functions executable by the image forming apparatus.
US08264701B2
What is disclosed is a novel system and method for emulating transparency in a PostScript-enabled image forming device, such as a PostScript-enabled print device. The present system and method uses Adobe's DeviceN color space to support transparency printing on PostScript-enabled devices. The present method uses abstract data represented by a color plane in DeviceN space to indicate the existence of a transparency layer in the image to be printed. An emulation procedure is then called to perform a color space transformation and to perform color blending of the first image into the second image. A transparency value is used as one of the colorant channels to define the blending. Advantageously, the present method is backward compatible as there is no update required to the printer's driver or firmware. The present method has been demonstrated to work with Adobe Reader and PostScript Level-3.
US08264696B2
Disclosed is a measuring instrument for determining geometric properties of a profiled element. Said measuring instrument comprises:—a device that generates at least one first light beam (7) and a second light beam (8), the direction of radiation of the first light beam being different from the direction of radiation of the second light beam;—a retro-reflecting surface (3) which is arranged in such a way relative to the light source that at least some of both light beams is incident on the retro-reflecting surface; and—a recording device (14) which can determine, across the transversal extension thereof, the light intensity distribution of at least some of the reflected light beam of the first light beam and at least some of the reflected light beam of the second light beam, the first light beam being reflected by the retro-reflecting surface and the second light beam being reflected by the/a retro-reflecting surface.
US08264691B2
Instruments and methods relating to surface plasmon imaging are described. An instrument comprises a semi-circular rail and a driving mechanism. The driving mechanism is attached to a light source mount and a detector mount, and both the light source mount and the detector mount are attached to the semi-circular rail with connectors. Each connector allows the light source mount and detector mount to slide along the rail. The synchronous movement of the light source mount and the detector mount changes the angle of incidence of a light beam from the light source with respect to the plane of the sample surface on the sample stage.
US08264685B2
A device for measuring two components of an electromagnetic field in an analysis zone includes a light source for sending a polarized light beam into a polarization-maintaining optical fiber. The beam is directed along one axis of the fiber. An isotropic electrooptic material is placed in the zone for receiving the beam from the optical fiber via a substantially quarter-wave plate, which has its axes oriented at an angle of substantially 45° to the axes of the optical fiber and for sending a beam into the fiber. The plate is slightly detuned in regard to its characteristics or its orientation. The device further includes a phase-shifter for phase-shifting the beam sent into the fiber, wherein the phase-shifter is set so as to impose a phase shift equal and opposite to that imposed by the fiber and mechanism for analyzing the orientation and ellipticity of the wave exiting the phase-shifter.
US08264669B2
Positional information of a stage within a movement plane is measured, using three encoders which include at least one each of an X encoder and a Y encoder. Based on position measurement values of the stage, the encoder used in position measurement is switched from an encoder (Enc1, Enc2 and Enc3) to an encoder (Enc4, Enc2 and Enc3). On the switching, a coordinate linkage method or a phase linkage method is applied to set an initial value of an encoder (Enc4) which is to be newly used. Accordingly, position measurement values of the stage before and after the switching are stored even though the encoder used in position measurement of the stage is sequentially switched, and the stage can be driven accurately two-dimensionally.
US08264667B2
A lithographic apparatus including an exposure unit that exposes parallel lines on a target area of a substrate by projecting two beams of radiation onto the substrate. The two beams of radiation are projected such that they interfere with each other to form the parallel lines. An actuator continuously moves the substrate relative to the exposure unit, while the exposure unit exposes the parallel lines on the target areas on the substrate.
US08264660B2
There are provided a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) display not using a backlight unit and a method of fabricating the same. The PDLC display comprises a rear substrate over which a thin film transistor (TFT), a first electrode, and a second electrode are formed, a front substrate apart from the rear substrate and having a first black matrix formed thereon corresponding to a region where the TFT is formed, a PDLC layer disposed below the first black matrix and formed between the front and rear substrates, a light source formed on one side of the PDLC layer and configured to provide light to the side of the PDLC layer, and a first reflection plate formed on the other side of the PDLC layer and configured to reflect light incident via the PDLC layer.
US08264657B2
A spherical spacer is used as a spacer member defining a gap, and is fixed to a color filter substrate. A concave portion coming in contact with a part of the spherical spacer is formed in a position in a TFT substrate, the position being opposite to the spherical spacer. The substrates are bonded with each other by engaging the spherical spacer and the concave portion with each other.
US08264648B2
An electro-optical module includes: an electro-optical panel; and a transparent protector disposed on a viewer-side surface of the electro-optical panel, wherein transparent protector has a stack structure including a first transparent protection layer that faces the electro-optical panel and is formed of an elastic material and a second transparent protection layer that has a higher dynamic elasticity value than that of the first transparent protection layer within a frequency range of 1 to 10 Hz.
US08264642B2
Single-layered color cholesteric liquid crystal display devices and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The color cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate structure having a base and periodic protrusion banks. A second substrate structure is disposed opposite the first substrate structure to enclose the periodic protrusion banks, and divide a plurality of color sub-pixel channels. A plurality of color cholesteric liquid crystals are respectfully filled in each of the color sub-pixel channel, wherein the base and the periodic protrusion banks are made of continuously integral material.
US08264639B2
The present invention provides liquid crystal devices comprised of a composite of an internal polymer network localized on the substrate surfaces and short-pitch dual-frequency switchable cholesteric liquid crystal that operate in two different modes including in-plane switching (amplitude modulation) and out-of-plane switching (phase modulation). The invention further provides a method of making a liquid crystal device demonstrating uniform lying helical axis where the device comprises a composite of an internal spatially ordered polymer network localized by in-situ photo-polymerization at the surface of the substrate. The invention can be used for flat panel displays, as well as spatial light modulators for applications such as optical waveguides, optical beam scanners, computer-generated holograms, and adaptive optics.
US08264633B2
A backlight unit and a liquid crystal display using the same are provided. The backlight unit includes a plurality of lamps, each including first and second electrodes, first and second substrates, a bottom case for receiving the substrates and lamps, first and second inverter units, and first and second wires. First and second common electrode patterns are formed on the first and second substrates and are commonly connected to the first and second electrodes, respectively. The first and second inverter units are disposed on a rear surface of the bottom case at positions corresponding to the first and second substrates, respectively. The first wire connects the first common electrode pattern and the first inverter unit via holes in the first substrate and the bottom case. The second wire connects the second common electrode pattern and the second inverter unit via holes in the second substrate and the bottom case.
US08264628B2
A capacitor element includes a lower conductive portion, an underlying film which covers the lower conductive portion, a lower electrode formed on the underling film, a capacitor insulating film including (i) a dielectric film formed on the lower electrode and (ii) a protective film formed on the dielectric film and having a lower etching rate than that of the dielectric film, and an upper electrode formed on the capacitor insulating film. The upper electrode and the lower conductive portion are electrically connected to each other through a connection portion exposed from the underlying film by partially removing the underlying film and the capacitor insulating film.
US08264627B2
A liquid crystal display panel including a data line, a first, a second and a third scan line, a first, a second and a third switch, and a first, a second and a third pixel electrode is provided. These scan lines are sequentially disposed next to each other. Each switch has a control end, an input end and an output end. These control ends are respectively coupled to these scan lines. These input ends are coupled to the data line. These output ends are respectively coupled to the pixel electrodes. A first extending electrode of the first pixel electrode is near the second pixel electrode, a second extending electrode of the second pixel electrode is near the third pixel electrode, and a third extending electrode of the third pixel electrode is near the first extending electrode.
US08264619B2
A remote control system and method comprising a television and a light pointing apparatus adapted, in a first embodiment, to transmit a first narrow beam having a first frequency corresponding to visible light, which is used to give an indication of where the pointer is pointed, and a second expanded beam surrounding the first beam and comprising a second frequency corresponding to infrared light. In a second embodiment, the pointer transmits a single frequency modulated light beam. In operation, the beam of light is shown on the television screen to activate an on screen menu based user interface via a photo sensor, microprocessor and onscreen display controller. Screen menu items appear on the screen positioned around the periphery of the screen. The user then moves the beam of light on the screen to the periphery of the screen to optically engage one of the plurality of photo conductors, which triggers an appropriate menu sequence or the performance of a television function such as, e.g., channel up.
US08264617B2
Analog TV broadcast signal receiving apparatus and analog TV broadcast signal demodulating apparatus
Disclosed herein is an analog television broadcast signal receiving apparatus including: a tuner section configured to convert an analog television broadcast signal into a predetermined intermediate frequency band signal; a demodulation circuit section configured to obtain a picture output signal and a sound intermediate frequency signal from the predetermined intermediate frequency band signal coming from the tuner section; a picture processing circuit section configured to convert the picture output signal into a display-ready picture signal; a sound demodulation processing circuit section configured to demodulate the sound intermediate frequency signal; and a control section.
US08264608B2
A television-signal receiver includes: a tuner receiving a television signal; a video demodulation unit for an analog broadcast received by the tuner; an audio demodulation unit for the analog broadcast received by the tuner; a data demodulation unit for a digital broadcast received by the tuner; a channel-selection controller that controls a channel received by the tuner and is capable of presetting the receive channel; and a determination unit that determine a country or region where the tuner receives the broadcasts, based on a receive result by each channel-selection frequency in the tuner, an analysis result of a blanking signal included in a video signal demodulated in the video demodulation unit, an analysis result of data demodulated in the data demodulation unit, and a demodulation result in the audio demodulation unit.
US08264604B2
A image processing apparatus includes an interlace/progressive converter that converts interlaced input image data into progressive image data; an up-convert material detector that detects low quality up-convert material likelihood of the interlaced input image data; and an image processor that obtains output image data by processing progressive image data on the basis of the detected signal of the up-convert material detector, wherein the up-convert material detector detects the low quality up-convert material likelihood on the basis of ratio of the sum of an inter-field pixel value difference and the sum of in-field pixel value difference, the pixels in a predetermined area being obtained as sequential notable pixels using image data of a first field and a second field that are continuous in each field.
US08264597B2
Image pickup apparatus that enables shooting with light emission device, and control method therefor
An image pickup apparatus that enables shooting with a light emission device. An image pickup unit accumulates electric charge corresponding to an incident light. A mechanical shutter runs from an impervious position that blocks the incident light to the image pickup unit to a pervious position. An accumulation control unit controls a start timing of the accumulation of electric charge by the image pickup unit. A determination unit determines whether a communication with the light emission device is possible. A control unit controls the mechanical shutter to start running from the impervious position to the pervious position before the determination unit determines that the communication with the light emission device is possible, and controls the accumulation control unit to start accumulation of electric charge after the determination unit determines that the communication with the light emission device is possible, when shooting with the light emission device.
US08264589B2
A display control apparatus comprises a display unit configured to display a captured image; an acquisition unit configured to acquire image captured direction information indicating a direction in which the image was captured; a conversion unit configured to convert a shape of the image in accordance with the image captured direction information; and a control unit configured to control to display the shape-converted image on the display unit.
US08264588B2
A digital camera has a display, a magnification input device, and a magnification control device. The display simultaneously displays images. The magnification input device is used to input the magnification factor for the images displayed in said display. The magnification control device which simultaneously changes the magnification of the images displayed in said display by substantially the same multiplier according to the magnification factor input by said magnification input device.
US08264577B2
A compact image pickup device with high sensitivity is provided, which is suitable for a spatial information detecting apparatus. The image pickup device has a plurality of image pickup units arranged on a semiconductor substrate. Each of the image pickup units has a light receiving array of photoelectric conversion elements for generating electric charges corresponding to a received-light amount, a transfer array of charge transfer elements, an accumulation array of charge accumulation elements each having a greater charge storage capacity than a saturation charge amount of the photoelectric conversion element, and a charge-amount adjusting portion configured to determine an amount of undesired electric charges to be separated from the electric charges generated by each of the photoelectric conversion elements. The transfer array and the light receiving array are arranged in a line in a vertical direction. The accumulation array is disposed adjacent to the transfer array in a horizontal direction.
US08264575B1
A digital camera has an integral flash and stores and displays a digital image. Under certain conditions, a flash photograph taken with the camera may result in a red-eye phenomenon due to a reflection within an eye of a subject of the photograph. The digital camera has a red-eye filter which analyzes the stored image for the red-eye phenomenon and modifies the stored image to eliminate the red-eye phenomenon by changing the red area to black. The modification of the image is enabled when a photograph is taken under conditions indicative of the red-eye phenomenon. The modification is subject to anti-falsing analysis which further examines the area around the red-eye area for indicia of the eye of the subject.
US08264562B2
Device and method of correcting a distortion occurring at the time of displaying a high-resolution image on a low-resolution display unit are provided. The image distortion correcting method includes the steps of: analyzing color levels of all pixels of an input original image; determining a variation of the color levels depending on positions of the pixels; adjusting the variation of the color levels in a region where the variation departs from a predetermined threshold value; correcting the color levels of the pixels in accordance with the adjusted variation; and outputting the corrected image. Accordingly, it is possible to correct the image distortion occurring at the time of displaying an image input from an image sensor on a display module.
US08264559B2
This invention makes it possible to produce a high quality synthesized panoramic image when it is difficult to highly precisely shift the image pickup direction. The present invention provides an image pickup apparatus for synthetically generating a first image, or a whole image of an entire object of shooting, the apparatus comprising an image pickup section that sequentially changes the image pickup direction and picks up section of images of the object of shooting to be imaged, a reading section that reads second images, each having a predetermined width and constituting a part of the image picked up on an imaging plane in the image pickup section, a defining section that defines a reading range of each second image to be read by the reading section, a relative position identifying section that identifies the relative position of each second image relative to the first image, and a synthesizing section that generates the first image by sequentially and synthetically combining the second images read out by the reading section, the defining section being adapted to determine the first quantity of movement of each second image by referring to the relative position thereof as identified by the relative position identifying section and define the reading range of the second image to be read out next according to the first quantity of movement.
US08264558B2
Video display apparatus, remote controller for reproduction apparatus, and reproduction apparatus meeting user's usage conditions with high operability have structure including: remote controller for video display apparatus, the remote controller having connection section connected to video display section, operation members receiving operations by user to the video display section, and control section having at least two action modes for operating the video display section responding to operations to the operation members; attachment member attaching the remote controller for video display apparatus to user's clothes etc.; and determination section determining whether the remote controller for video display apparatus is attached to the clothes by the attachment member, wherein the control section selects action mode according to result of the determination to operate video display section through the connection section based on the selected action mode and making video display section display images of the operation members corresponding to selected action mode.
US08264556B2
A lens barrel unit includes gyro sensors that detect vibration. The gyro sensors are disposed around a CCD mounting portion within a range over which the lens barrel unit is projected along the optical axis of a photographic optical system. This positional arrangement allows the lens barrel unit to be provided as a compact retractable unit, and ultimately achieves miniaturization of the camera.
US08264554B2
An imaging apparatus includes an image pickup device, a device that obtains an image from the image pickup device, a sensor that detects a roll angle of the sensor, wherein the sensor detects a reference roll angle of the sensor when the imaging apparatus is disposed at a predetermined roll angle, a device that calculates a reference roll angle of the image pickup device by using a reference image from the image pickup device when the imaging apparatus is disposed at the predetermined roll angle and a device that corrects a roll angle of the sensor by calculating a relative roll angle from the reference roll angle of the image pickup device and the reference roll angle of the sensor.
US08264552B2
An image processing apparatus includes a still/motion determining unit and a motion blur adder. The still/motion determining unit makes a still/motion determination for each region of respective unit images constituting motion image data. The motion blur adder then adds motion blur to the motion image data on the basis of the still/motion determination and imaging information expressing parameters whereby the motion image data was generated as a result of imaging by an imaging apparatus.
US08264551B2
A method and an apparatus for correcting distortions of image-taking video signals are provided. The method and an apparatus adopting the method are capable of reducing distortion generated in a taken image by correction of inter-frame and intra-frame hand movements in an image-taking apparatus employing an image-taking device of an X-Y address type. To be more specific, this method is capable of correcting distortion observed in a taken image as distortion caused by a positional change, which occurs in the horizontal and/or vertical directions of the taken image at a photographing time as a positional change of the image-taking device. In accordance with the method, in a frame period of a taken image, an inter-frame correction quantity for a positional change of the device is detected and, on the basis of the detected inter-frame correction quantity, the positional change is corrected to eliminate a displacement observed when the frame changes to the next one as a displacement of the taken image. An intra-frame correction quantity for a positional change of the image-taking device is computed for each of many locations on the screen of the taken image and, on the basis of the computed intra-frame correction quantity, distortions caused by positional changes on the screen of the taken image as distortions of the taken image are corrected.
US08264545B2
It is enabled to check a detail of a subject being a tracking object more rapidly and easily by including an image-capturing unit capturing a subject image and generating an image, a selecting unit continuously selecting a focus detection object area at the time of image-capturing by the image-capturing unit based on the image generated by the image-capturing unit, a displaying unit capable of displaying the image generated by the image-capturing unit, a generating unit cutting out a part corresponding to the focus detection object area from the image generated by the image-capturing unit and generating a tracking object checking image, and a controlling unit displaying on the displaying unit by overlapping a through image for a composition checking based on the image generated by the image-capturing unit and the tracking object checking image at the time of image-capturing by the image-capturing unit.
US08264543B2
A radiation image capturing system includes at least one image capturing apparatus including a radiation detector, at least one image capturing apparatus including a stimulable phosphor panel for generating radiation image information, which is readable by an image reading apparatus, and at least one control device for controlling at least the image capturing apparatus and the image reading apparatus based on image capturing instruction information supplied from an external source. The control device includes a change setting unit for changing settings of the image capturing instruction information depending on whether the image capturing apparatus and the image reading apparatus are usable or not, and a controller for controlling the image capturing apparatus and the image reading apparatus based on the changed settings of the image capturing instruction information.
US08264542B2
A system for image processing is provided. The system includes a region of interest (ROI) module receiving video from a camera and detects a ROI(s) in a first image. A lookup table generates a value responsive to block type for a first vanishing point (VP). A labeling module identifies a point “p” most close to the first VP, a point “q” most remote to the first VP and a length “h” between “p” and “q” in each ROI(s), and generates information on p, q and h. Another lookup table generates information on p′, q′ and h′, wherein p′ is a point most close to a second VP, q′ is a point most remote to the second VP and h′ is a length between p′ and q′ in ROI(s) in the second image. A transforming module transforms ROI(s) in the first image into an ROI in the second image.
US08264541B2
A compound camera system for generating an enhanced virtual image having a large depth-of-field. The compound camera system comprises a plurality of component cameras for generating image data of an object and a data processor for generating the enhanced virtual image from the image data. The data processor generates the enhanced virtual image by generating a first component virtual image at a first depth plane, generating a second component virtual image at a second depth plane, and inserting first selected pixels from the first component virtual image into enhanced the virtual image and inserting second selected pixels from the second component virtual image into the enhanced virtual image.
US08264531B2
The status of a driver is monitored by facial images captured by a camera mounted on the steering wheel of a vehicle. The captured image is tilt corrected by a steering angle. The status of the driver can be monitored efficiently.
US08264529B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for remotely recording an image using a mobile device. In one embodiment, a user transmits a message using a mobile device to activate a camera pod to record an image. The user makes adjustments to the settings of the camera pod using the mobile device, and in some instances, initiates a trigger sequence using the mobile device. The camera pod records the image and transmits the image to the mobile device, enabling the user to preview the image. In some instances, the camera pod transmits the image to a storage server, where it is stored in an album. In one embodiment, the storage server creates a webpage with the captured visual record that the user can retrieve using a personal computer.
US08264525B2
An apparatus and method for stereoscopic 3D image projection and viewing using a single projection source, alternating polarization, and passive eyewear. This approach is applicable to frame sequential video created using existing 3D graphics APIs, as well as other video signal formats, and is compatible with existing digital light processor (DLP) technology for both front and rear projection systems. An alternating polarizer filter actuator in the form of a closed feedback loop is used to modulate the projected image. A preferred embodiment enables an existing DLP projection system to be enhanced with 3D capability.
US08264524B1
A wide-angle camera emulating a PTZ camera via image data processing is used to generate a panoramic image of multiple regions for ease of viewing. A client can specify multiple regions for extraction from the panoramic image to stream to a separate server for further image processing and analysis.
US08264521B2
A method for distributing media packets in a multipoint conference includes receiving a plurality of audio signals. Each of the plurality of audio signals includes audio packets, wherein one or more audio packets from each of the plurality of audio signals is coded with an audiometric, the audiometric including an acoustic measurement from a conference site. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of audio signals, extracting an audiometric from one or more audio packets and selecting an active audio signal based on the extracted audiometrics. In addition, the method includes determining a change in the active audio signal and in response to determining a change in the active audio signal, updating a media forwarding table, the media forwarding table including a directory for routing one or more of the plurality of audio signals. The method further includes distributing audio packets to one or more conference sites in accordance with the media forwarding table.
US08264515B2
An optical scanning device includes: a light source; an optical deflecting unit that deflects a light beam emitted from the light source to scan on a scanning surface in main-scanning direction; and a scanning optical system that includes a first scanning lens and a second scanning lens that converge the light beam that is deflected onto the scanning surface. Distance between an exit surface of the first scanning lens and an incident surface of the second scanning lens is shorter than distance between a deflection facet of the optical deflecting unit and an incident surface of the first scanning lens, an exit surface of the second scanning lens is nearer to the deflection facet than a midpoint between the deflection facet and the scanning surface, and an image-surface-side principal point of the scanning optical system in sub-scanning direction is nearer to the scanning surface than the midpoint.
US08264514B2
A recording head is supplied capable of generating a plurality of concentration dots on the same line without providing a complicated circuit. The recording head has a recording device array in which a plurality of recording devices are arranged, and comprises a first input terminal which inputs a first driving signal for deciding a first driving time; a second input terminal which inputs a second driving signal for deciding a second driving time; a selecting section which selects whether or not the driving signal of the first input terminal or the second input terminal is used for each of the recording devices; and a driving circuit which drives the corresponding recording device by the driving signal selected by the selecting section, wherein the plurality of recording devices of the recording device array are driven by selected signals on the basis of print data.
US08264511B2
Provided is a printing apparatus including: a medium transporting unit configured to transport a printing target medium; a sheet traveling unit configured to allow a thermal transfer sheet, in which a color material layer and a protection layer are formed on a sheet in a line along a travel direction, to travel; a printing unit configured to sequentially and thermally transfer the color material layer and the protection layer onto the printing target medium by applying thermal energy to the printing target medium and the thermal transfer sheet which are sandwiched by the printing unit; and a pressure changing mechanism configured to change the sandwiching force acting on the printing target medium and the thermal transfer sheet so as to have a relationship of force P1
US08264506B2
A method for controlling display of an image includes generating a list of non-sequential random numbers, each number corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of lines in a source image. The lines in the source image are then transferred in non-sequential order from a first memory to a second memory based on the random numbers in the list and orientation change information. The resulting image in the second memory is then displayed in the desired orientation.
US08264500B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, feature receiving an image mask where the image mask identifies a first opacity value of pixels in a raster image. The first opacity value ranges between a value representing foreground and a value representing background. Each pixel in the image has a color. A first boundary pixel is identified in the image. A second opacity value for the first boundary pixel is determined using a first local color model of opacity. The first local color model of opacity is determined based on the colors of the pixels in the image within a local neighborhood of the first boundary pixel.
US08264486B2
A high-speed modeling system and a method of constructing a model are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system comprises first and second cameras, a control portion to synchronize the first and second cameras, and a projector of electromagnetic patterns. The first and second cameras are synchronized by the control portion to generate second frames a time interval after first frames are generated to thereby obtain a high frame-rate which is higher than the frame-rate of the first camera. Multiple imaging stations comprising first and second cameras may be directed to the path traveled by a mass at a high speed, in a prescribed arrangement, to model the mass with the high frame-rate system.
US08264479B2
A display control device for a flat panel display is provided and includes a display controller and a timing controller. The display controller is provided for receiving an input signal and generating a display signal and a plurality of timing signals corresponding to the display signal. The timing controller includes a timing control unit and a data processing unit. The timing control unit is coupled to the display controller for providing a plurality of control signals required for the flat panel display. The data processing unit is incorporated into the display controller in a first integrated circuit chip for receiving the display signal and generating a plurality of output signals in synchronization with the timing signals. The output signals are output to the flat panel display through a predetermined interface.
US08264469B2
A touch panel capable of decreasing concavity and convexity generated on the surface and a display unit including the same are provided. The touch panel includes: a first spacer layer on both side faces of a first wiring layer provided on a first transparent substrate; and a second wiring layer on both side faces of a second wiring layer provided on a second transparent substrate. The touch panel also includes a flexible printed circuit board in a gap between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate and in a region including at least part of a region not provided with the adhesion layer in the region opposed to the first wiring layer, the second wiring layer, the first spacer layer, and the second spacer layer.
US08264467B2
A handheld electronic apparatus comprises a touch panel, a front cover and a display panel. The front cover has a support portion with a first opening. The touch panel is placed on the support portion and covers the first opening. The touch panel comprises a touch panel body and a flexible printed circuit (FPC). The touch panel body has a first substrate having a notch configured to accommodate one end of the flexible printed circuit connected to the touch panel body. When the touch panel is assembled with the front cover, the flexible printed circuit will not be too-sharply bent due to the notch design.
US08264464B2
A method and system for activating an application on a portable electronic device are disclosed. A method of activating an application on a portable electronic device includes displaying a plurality of elements on a display device of the portable electronic device, wherein each element of the plurality of elements is associated with a respective application of a plurality of applications. In response to a first user interaction with a user interface component of the portable electronic device, changing an appearance of a first element of the plurality of elements, wherein the first element is associated with a first application of the plurality of applications. In response to a second user interaction with the user interface component, activating the first application. The first user interaction includes a user interaction along a first axis, and wherein the second user interaction includes a user interaction along a second axis.
US08264451B2
To provide a display panel control device capable of improving gap of moving pictures, etc., without increasing the dividing number of the backlight. The device includes: a black image insertion driving part which performs, on a display panel, black image insertion drive in which video display scanning and black image display scanning are executed in a specific period; and a light-up timing control part which controls a light-up start timing and a light-off start timing of each light source block based on a synchronous signal which synchronizes with the start timing of the video display scanning or the black image display scanning. The light-off period of the light source block is equal to or less than a period from the end of black image display scanning performed on all display lines within a block area to the start of video scanning performed on the first display line within the area.
US08264448B2
Representative embodiments of the disclosure provide a system, apparatus, and method of controlling an intensity and spectrum of light emitted from a solid state lighting system. The solid state lighting system has a first emitted spectrum at full intensity and at a selected temperature, with a first electrical biasing for the solid state lighting system producing a first wavelength shift, and a second electrical biasing for the solid state lighting system producing a second, opposing wavelength shift. Representative embodiments provide for receiving information designating a selected intensity level or a selected temperature and providing a combined first electrical biasing and second electrical biasing to the solid state lighting system to generate emitted light having the selected intensity level and having a second emitted spectrum within a predetermined variance of the first emitted spectrum over a predetermined range of temperatures.
US08264445B2
A drive circuit of a display device, which comprise only single conductive TFTs and in which amplitude of an output signal is normal, is provided.A pulse is inputted to TFTs 101 and 104 so that the TFTs would turn ON and then potential of a node á rises. When the potential of the node á reaches (VDD−VthN), the node á became in a floating state. Accordingly, a TFT 105 then turns ON, and potential of an output node rises as a clock signal reaches the level H. On the other hand, potential of a gate electrode of the TFT 105 further rises due to an operation of capacitance 107 as the potential of the output node rises, so that the potential of the output node would be higher than (VDD+VthN). Thus, the potential of the output node rises to VDD without voltage drop caused by a threshold of the TFT 105. An output at the subsequent stage is then inputted to TFTs 102 and 103 to turn the TFTs 102 and 103 ON, while the potential of the node á drops down to turn the TFT 105 OFF. A TFT 106 turns ON at the same time so that the potential of the output node would reach the level L.
US08264443B2
A gate driving circuit includes stages, the stages being cascaded and each including: a pull-up part which pulls up a gate voltage to a clock signal during a horizontal scanning period (1H); a carry part which pulls up a carry voltage to the clock signal during the horizontal scanning period (1H); a pull-up driving part connected to a control terminal (Q-node) common to the carry part and the pull-up part and which receives a previous carry voltage from a first previous stage to turn on the pull-up part and the carry part; and a ripple preventing part which prevents a ripple generated at a previous Q-node of a second previous stage based on a ripple generated at the Q-node of the carry part and the pull-up part.
US08264418B2
A planar antenna with an isotropic radiation pattern is provided. The planar antenna includes a substrate, a dipole antenna, a microstrip line set, and a channel selection module. The dipole antenna is disposed on a first surface of the substrate, and the microstrip line set and the channel selection module are disposed on a second surface of the substrate. A first microstrip line and a second microstrip line of the microstrip line set are spirally extended along two opposite rotation trails on a vertical projection plane to form a high-frequency path with the dipole antenna. The planar antenna controls the on/off state of the channel selection module so that a low-frequency path is formed when the dipole antenna is connected to a first line and a second line. A plurality of channels having different operating frequencies is respectively generated within the high-frequency path and the low-frequency path.
US08264416B2
An aperture antenna includes an outer conductor with substantially fixed inner diameter; and an inner conductor, an end thereof receding from an aperture of the outer conductor in a direction of electromagnetic radiation.
US08264405B2
Method and apparatus for a receive electronically steered array aperture including a plurality of radiators each having a single complex phase/amplitude control at a radiating phase center of the radiators to simultaneously receive up to four circularly polarized plane waves, each of the plane waves being arbitrarily of left hand circular polarization or right hand circular polarization, from spatially diverse sources.
US08264400B2
Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for signature matching. In some examples, the method for signature matching includes receiving a first target profile associated with a first data signal, the first data signal associated with a first target object; receiving a second target profile associated with a second data signal, the second data signal associated with the first target object or a second target object; generating a comparison distance utilizing a comparison distance function and based on a comparison of one or more data points associated with the first target profile and one or more data points associated with the second target profile; and determining a signature matching score based on the comparison distance.
US08264395B2
A radar device is disclosed. The radar device includes a radar antenna, from which detection signals are transmitted while the radar antenna being rotated, the radar device generating a radar image from reflection waves of the transmitted detection signals, a reception module for receiving the reflection waves of the detection signals, an inclination calculating module for calculating an inclination of level of the received signals that continue in a predetermined direction, the inclination being a rate of change in the received signal level per predetermined range in the predetermined direction, and a rain/snow reflection determining module for determining whether the received signals are reflection signals from at least one of rain and snow by using the inclination calculated by the inclination calculating module.
US08264388B1
A digital phase-locked loop (DPLL), a supporting digital frequency integrator, and a method are provided for deriving a digital phase error signal in a DPLL. A digital frequency integrator periodically accepts a digital tdcOUT message from a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) representing a measured ratio of a reference clock (Tref) period to a synthesizer clock (Tdco) period. Also accepted is a digital message selecting a first ratio (Nf). In response, a digital phase error (pherr) message is periodically supplied that is proportional to an error in phase between the reference clock and the (synthesizer clock*Nf).
US08264386B2
A variable length code decoding device for decoding variable length code data, including: a table memory that stores a plurality of decoding process tables having a reference relationship therein; and a decoding control unit that sequentially selects the decoding process tables according to the decoded data to control a process of decoding the variable length code data, wherein when referring to the decoding process table to perform an initial decoding of the variable length code data, the initial decoding process is conducted by a longer bit length to be clipped from the variable length code data for referring to the decoding process table than the bit length used when referring to the other portions of the decoding process table.
US08264379B2
Systems and methods are provided for displaying information on a display device associated with an aircraft. A method comprises rendering a perspective view of terrain on a display device and obtaining sensor data for a sensing region overlapping at least a portion of the viewing region. The method further comprises obtaining tracking data associated with a first object located within the sensing region and correlating a first portion of the sensor data that corresponds to the first object with the tracking data. The method further comprises rendering a graphical representation of the first object on the display device, wherein positioning of the graphical representation of the first object with respect to the terrain is influenced by the correlation with first portion of the sensor data.
US08264378B1
Technologies are described herein for providing enhanced center and range control on an aircraft display. According to embodiments, a display mode is selected to display a map on the aircraft display. A range input for displaying the map in the selected display mode at a desired range and a centering input for centering on a predefined map location on the aircraft display are received. The range input and the centering input associated with the selected display mode are then stored. When the selected display mode is deselected and then reselected, the map is displayed on the aircraft display in the selected display mode according to at least one of the stored range input and the centering input associated with the selected display mode.
US08264372B2
A communication device is disclosed for communicating telemetry data relating to a fluid, which is passed through a group of concatenated containers such as pipes, tanks and the like in a process installation, to a data processing device. The communication device includes a measuring sensor which can be spatially separated from the data processing device, the measuring sensor having a transponder and a converter for converting a physical variable of the fluid into an electrical variable. The measuring sensor can communicate with a reading device assigned to the data processing device, the measuring sensor being concomitantly loosely guided in the fluid.
US08264369B2
A downhole tool assembly with electrical connectors disposed proximate an upper end and a lower end of the tool intelligently distributes electrical power. Switches are disposed between the electrical connectors and selectively allow or disallow electrical continuity between the electrical connectors. A microprocessor is in electrical communication with the electrical connectors and the switches. The microprocessor causes the switches to open or close based on the present of a current at the electrical connectors.
US08264362B2
Disclosed is an insult-sensing absorbent article including an absorbent assembly, an insult-sensing means coupled to the absorbent assembly, and a tuned antenna system coupled to the insult-sensing means. Also disclosed is a method for indicating an insult to an absorbent article to be worn by a wearer, the method including providing an absorbent article including a conductive element; providing an antenna system associated with the absorbent article, the antenna system including a signal generator and an antenna, wherein the antenna includes the conductive element, and wherein the antenna system is adapted to transmit a signal; and maximizing the receivability of the signal by optimizing an aspect of the antenna system.
US08264358B2
Apparatus and methods for providing a substantially surface independent tagging system are disclosed. A resonant dielectric cavity is defined between upper and lower conducting layers, and closed at one end by a conducting base portion. Incident radiation couples into the cavity and is resonantly enhanced. An electronic device or tag paced at the edge of the cavity experiences a high electric field strength on account of this enhancement and is driven into operation.
US08264355B2
An optical-fiber-network (OFN) radio-frequency identification (RFID) system for deploying and/or maintaining and/or provisioning service and/or locating faults in an OFN. The system includes a plurality of OFN components, and at least one RFID tag that includes RFID tag data that has at least one property of the OFN component associated with the RFID tag. The RFID tag data is written to and read from the RFID tags using one or more mobile RFID readers either prior to, during or after deploying the OFN components. An OFN-component-data database unit is used to store and process the RFID tag data and is automatically updated by the one or more mobile RFID readers. This allows for different maps of the OFN to be made, such as an inventory map and a maintenance map, and for the maps to be automatically updated. The OFN-RFID system allows for mobile automated operations and management of OFN components by service personnel, and provides for faster and more accurate OFN system deployment and maintenance.
US08264353B2
A method and system for reducing the signal interference effects of metal doors in a metal detection system. The system includes a transmitter operable to transmit an interrogation signal that is used to detect transitory metal objects within the detection region, a receiver operable to receive instantaneous signals that represent electromagnetic field disturbances during operation of the metal detection system and include electromagnetic field disturbances attributed to the movement of metal doors. The system also includes a metal detection module that determines a resulting waveform representing the difference between the instantaneous signals received during operation of the metal detection system and a recorded pattern of signals representing electromagnetic field disturbances caused by a pattern of movement of the metal doors in the detection region when a transitory metallic object is not present. The record pattern is canceled from the resulting waveform leaving only signals from transitory metal objects.
US08264351B1
A drive assembly has a controller for moving an object. A security reset button initiates and terminates security functions for the system. An alarm is provided. A circuit assembly includes a first circuit for moving the object. The circuit assembly includes a second circuit for generating the alarm in response to unauthorized moving of the object.
US08264349B2
The disclosure relates to a portable processing system adapted for being worn by a user and comprising an input transducer for converting an input sound to an electric input signal, and a signal processing unit adapted for processing an SPU-input signal originating from the electric input signal. The disclosure further relates to use of such system and to a method. The object of the present disclosure is to provide an alerting device aiding a user in administering the dose of a hearing protecting agent. The problem is solved in that the signal processing unit comprises a monitoring part for monitoring and determining an accumulated sound dose AccD in the electric input signal from a start time t0 and for generating an alarm output at a threshold time t0+Δtth when a predefined dose threshold Dth is reached, wherein the predefined dose threshold Dth is set in relation to a recommended intake of a predefined hearing protecting agent to ensure an intended effect of the hearing protecting agent. An advantage of the present disclosure is that it helps a user to follow a prescribed dose administration scheme. The disclosure may e.g. be used in applications where a user taking hearing protecting medicine is exposed to acoustically different or noisy or loud environments.
US08264348B2
A method and system are provided for adjusting a threshold value of an alarm for a metal detecting system, based on a detected interference with other systems that operate at adjacent frequencies. The method and system include receiving a plurality of sample values and calculating a discrepancy value based on a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the plurality of sample values, wherein the discrepancy value corresponds to detected interference. The discrepancy value is compared to a predefined interference threshold value and an activation signal is generated. A fast threshold adjustor receives the activation signal when the discrepancy value is greater than or equal to the predefined interference threshold value and a slow threshold adjustor receives the activation signal when the discrepancy value is less than the predefined interference threshold value. The activation signal triggers an output from the fast threshold adjustor or the slow threshold adjustor that is applied to adjust the threshold value.
US08264345B2
A weather alert manager is used to provide real-time, site specific information to a user regarding weather and possibly other hazards. The weather alert manager compares meteorological data, a user profile including information on points of interest to the user, and geographical data to determine if weather will impact one or more of the user's points of interest. The user's points of interest include at least one mobile point of interest, which periodically transmits its location. The weather alert manager transmits a user alert message if one is needed, and a remote receiver notifies the user that a message has been received.
US08264344B2
A mobile surveillance appliance receives sensed data over a wireless link from a remote sensing post which monitors a remotely monitored space having a predefined spatial location and transmits the sensed data. The mobile surveillance appliance provides a display of the sensed data from monitored space and an intervention controller which, when activated responsive to an event perceived on the display, encodes the predefined spatial location and an event melioration onto a remote intervention request, and transmits the intervention request to a remote intervener. The remote sensing post, mobile surveillance appliance, and remote intervener may communicate using SIP messaging.
US08264330B2
A communications system for use in transmitting data in a railroad system is provided. The communications system includes a track circuit having a plurality of rails configured to transmit an electrical signal thereon, a first processor communicatively coupled to the track circuit via a first locomotive on said track circuit, and a trackside communications station operable to output cab signaling data, wherein the trackside communications station includes a second processor communicatively coupled to the track circuit. The first processor is programmed to compare a received data signal to a pre-stored database, and generate a response based on the comparison. The second processor is programmed to generate a corrected signal using the generated response.
US08264329B2
The invention relates to a method and system for room activity communication. In one embodiment, a tray sensing device detects the presence of a tray in a given location and forwards the information to a room controller. The tray can be a conventional tray for supporting food articles or can be supported or integral with a food cart. The system also includes a door lock/tag controller for monitoring door lock and door tag information. Information from the tray sensing device, door lock/tag controller is communicated to a room controller. The room controller of each room can include a wireless network to the tray controller and/or door lock/tag controller. The room controller can also monitor information of the room such as, for example, temperature, humidity and light intensity information, and receive information regarding room activities, such as, for example, room service ordering and status, housekeeping, minibar, phone messages and checkout routine. Information from the room controller can be forwarded to a central host controller for management of the information. The central host controller can display the information, activate an alarm or separate and send data to relevant controllers located, for example at security, service, housekeeping and front desk. The alarm can be an audio or visual alert. The alarm can be deactivated upon removal of the tray from the given location or acknowledgement of request.
US08264327B2
The authentication apparatus calculates authenticities based upon similarity between detected face image data and a plurality of items of registered face image data prepared beforehand. In accordance with the calculated authenticities, the apparatus causes a display unit to display, as the result of authentication, either a registered name indicating registered face image data calculated to have a maximum authenticity from among the plurality of items of registered face image data, or any group name to which the registered face image data calculated to have the maximum authenticity and other registered face image data belong.
US08264326B2
A biometrics sensor includes a portion for sucking air, a molecular sieve portion for selectively passing or adsorbing specific gas contained in the air, a gas detecting section for detecting the concentration of gas passed through the molecular sieve or the remaining gas, and a data processing section for comparing the detection result with a prestored detection result, wherein the gas detecting section selectively detects predetermined gas, and the data processing section performs determination or probabilistic determination on an authentication object person by comparing the composition ratio of gas for each authentication object person with a prestored composition ratio.
US08264323B2
A method controlling access to a door using a merged power-communication cable. An access controlled door lock in door is operated using merged power-communication cable. Access control identification mechanism in door may operate using merged power-communication cable. The access controlled door lock may include a piezoelectric controlled door lock or a standalone door lock or a solenoid controlled door lock. A processing module may operate in door to control access with power interface receiving at least part of the electrical power from the merged power-communication cable. The invention includes a strike plate containing a magnetic sensor aligns by a latch hole to a latch included an access control door lock. The invention also includes using a door conduit to provide the merged power-communication cable to at least the processing module in the door.
US08264322B2
A security control system includes a remote access control system to receive wireless information from a central access control system. The remote access control system includes a remote access controller electrically coupled to a remote wireless communicator. The remote access controller receives information from the remote wireless communicator and uses the information to control locking and unlocking of the door. The remote wireless communicator also transmits wireless information to the central access control system and a switch is provided for selectively choosing between the receiving and transmitting the wireless information. The remote wireless communicator communicates via RF information, such as spread-spectrum RF. The remote access control system also includes a reader to read user data when presented to the reader.
US08264304B2
A microwave device of the slot-line type with a photonic band gap structure, including at least: a first substrate in a dielectric material having a first permittivity ∈r1, a second substrate in a dielectric material having a second permittivity ∈r2, and between the two substrates, a conductive layer in which at least one slot-line is engraved, with, on the face of the first and second substrates opposite the face in contact with the conductive layer, facing the slot-line, periodic metal patterns. A compact filtering structure is realized.
US08264296B2
A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) securing a wide range of variable amount of oscillatory frequency is provided. In the VCO, a resistor R1 and a capacitor C1 are connected in series on a line of a crystal resonator and a control voltage supply terminal, a cathode of a variable-capacitance diode VD1 is connected between the R1 and the C1, and an anode of the VD1 is grounded. A parallel-connected circuit is disposed between the C1 and a port connected with the crystal resonator, the parallel-connected circuit including a variable-capacitance diode VD2 and a capacitor C3 connected in series, an expansion coil L1, and a Q dump resistor R6 which are connected in parallel. The parallel-connected circuit on an input side is grounded via a resistor R4, and a point between the R1 and the C1 and a point between the VD2 and the C3 are connected via a resistor R5.
US08264288B2
A circuit includes an oscillator circuit including a first oscillator and a second oscillator. The first and the second oscillators are configured to generate signal having a same frequency and different phases. A transmission line is coupled between the first and the second oscillators.
US08264287B2
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) suitable for measuring on-die DC or low frequency analog voltages may include a ring oscillator having a group of circuit cells successively and circularly coupled. Under certain circumstances, the ring oscillator may produce an output frequency that corresponds substantially linear to the input voltage. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US08264281B1
A low-noise amplifier (LNA) includes a pair of transistors connected in a cascode configuration to provide amplification to an input signal. The LNA generates an amplified output in differential form across a pair of output terminals. One of the pair of output terminals is the output node of the cascode configuration. The LNA further includes a feedback transistor with its gate terminal connected to the output node of the cascode configuration and its drain terminal connected to the other one of the pair of output terminals. The differential nature of the amplified output reduces the noise figure of the LNA. A frequency-selective network connected across the pair of output terminals sets the frequency selectivity of each of the input section and the output section of the LNA.
US08264278B2
An amplifier is realized by a distributed-constant-type amplifier including an input-side transmission line and an output-side transmission line, and a plurality of unit circuits coupled between the input-side transmission line and the output-side transmission line, in which each of the plurality of unit circuits is formed by including an amplification circuit having a gain equal to or greater than one.
US08264274B2
A charge pump apparatus comprises a plurality of charge pump stages. The charge pump stages each include a respective output node. Output nodes are connected to charge boosting circuitry and to precharge circuitry. The charge boosting circuit receives one or more clock signals. The precharge circuits have a first state allowing the respective pump-stage output node to fluctuate at a level above a standby wordline voltage, and a second state coupling the respective pump-stage output node to the standby wordline voltage.
US08264272B2
A front-end module comprises a plurality of chips that includes first and second functional blocks and an interconnection circuit. The first functional block is formed using a first process type and includes a digital control circuit that generates a digital control signal in response to an external control signal from outside the front end module. The second functional block is formed using a second process type and includes a digitally controlled circuit controlled by the digital control signal generated by the first functional block. The second process type is different from the first process type. The interconnection circuit couples the digital control circuit and the digitally controlled circuit to provide the digital control signal to the digitally controlled circuit. In one aspect, the first functional block may be a low noise amplifier formed by a pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor process. The second functional block may be a power amplifier formed by a heterojunction bipolar transistor process. In another aspect, the first functional block may be a power amplifier formed by a heterojunction bipolar transistor process. The second functional block may be a low noise amplifier formed by a pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor process.
US08264265B2
An apparatus and methodology for operating an automatic darkening filter (ADF) eye protection device alternately applies an operating voltage to a pair of control terminals of an ADF device circuit in a continuing sequence, where a first polarity voltage is applied to the pair of terminals and then reversed. A delay period is provided between application of the alternating polarities. In some embodiments ground potential is applied to both terminals of the pair of terminals during the delay period.
US08264253B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a swing compensation scheme for compensating errors in a transmitter driver.
US08264243B2
A capacitance sensing section senses a capacitance between first and second electrodes. A temperature sensing section senses fuel temperature. A microcomputer functions as a concentration sensing section and senses a concentration of ethanol contained in fuel based on the capacitance sensed by the capacitance sensing section and the temperature sensed by the temperature sensing section. The microcomputer functions as an abnormality detecting section and performs abnormality determination to determine that an abnormality has occurred in the capacitance sensing section when the capacitance sensed by the capacitance sensing section does not change and the temperature sensed by the temperature sensing section changes. Since a dielectric constant has such a temperature characteristic that the dielectric constant changes with the temperature, the abnormality detecting section can detect occurrence of the abnormality in the capacitance sensing section.
US08264238B1
A calibration method for performing open circuit and closed circuit calibrations of a voltage/current (VI) probe. In one implementation the method may involve inserting a VI probe into a circuit including a first known load (Load 1) and a applying a first signal to the circuit. A first raw impedance (ZRAW1) may be measured using the Load 1. The VI probe may then be inserted into the circuit along with a second known load (Load 2) in place of the Load 1, and a second signal may be applied to the circuit. A second raw impedance (ZRAW2) may then be measured using the Load 2. A fixed reference impedance (ZR50) may then be defined. The first and second raw impedances, and the fixed reference impedance, may then be used in determining an open circuit impedance (ZOC) and a short circuit impedance (ZSC). The ZOC and ZSC impedances may then be used to determine a plurality of calibration coefficients for the VI probe.
US08264236B2
A method for testing electronic devices involves receiving a stimulus signal for testing a device; changing an operating temperature of at least a component of an electrical filter while maintaining settings of the electrical filter, thereby altering the stimulus signal as the stimulus signal passes through the electrical filter, to create an altered stimulus signal; and outputting the altered stimulus signal.
US08264235B2
The present invention relates to a test structure that comprises at least two devices under test DUT, which respectively have a first electrical device resistance in a non-defect state and a second electrical device resistance in defect state, the first being higher than the second electrical device resistance. In the test structure the DUTs are connected in parallel to a first test contact pad via a first conducting line and connected in parallel to a second test contact pad via a second conducting line, and respectively connected to the first conducting line via respective first test resistors, which have known respective electrical test resistances, such that a total electrical resistance between the first an second test contact pads is indicative of the number of DUTs, which have the second electrical device resistance. The test structure allows testing a larger number of DUTs in parallel in a single measurement.
US08264229B2
An electromagnetic geological metrology system comprises: (a) a transmitter arrangement for generating outbound radiation towards a geological formation; (b) a receiver arrangement for receiving reflected electromagnetic radiation reflected from the geological formation and generating corresponding one or more received signals; and (c) a data processing arrangement for processing the one or more received signals, The system is distinguished in that: (d) the transmitter arrangement includes an antenna arrangement coupled via a switching arrangement to an energy storage arrangement; and (e) the switching arrangement is operable to discharge energy stored in the energy storage arrangement for generating the outbound radiation.
US08264222B2
According to at least one embodiment of the invention, at least two excitation fields with frequencies capable of being differently prescribed act on the object in the examination space, with the gradient field approximately vanishing in the examination space. In another embodiment, an arrangement includes a Maxwell coil pair for generating an inhomogeneous magnetic field with a prescribable magnetic field gradient, at least one device for exciting two auxiliary fields with different frequencies and a detection coil for recording the response signal.
US08264221B2
An eddy current probe assembly suitable for inspecting a test object with longitudinal shape, being passed through the assembly in the object's axial direction during an inspection session, the probe assembly comprising multiple probe modules being disposed in a radial plane and with the modules partially overlaying on each other forming an iris structure encircling an inspection zone, wherein a movement in unison of each of the probe modules closer to or further away from the center of the inspection zone makes the inspection zone enlarged or contracted. Spring tension is applied on each of the probe modules so that constant life-off in maintained between the probe modules and the test surface. Array of eddy current elements for each probe module and multiple layers of probe modules can be employed to achieve complete coverage of the test surface. The radial cross-sectional shapes of the test objects can be of round or polygonal.
US08264216B2
A current sensing approach makes use of two shunts in series, embedded in a switching fabric, each shunt the object of a differential measurement of voltage drop across the shunt. Methodical make-before-break cycling of the switches in the switching fabric permit real-time or very near-real-time measurement of nearly all of the errors such as offset errors present in each differential-measurement path. Additional differential measurement paths can be connected with the shunts, with RFI filtering at shorter time constants to serve electronic fuse needs.
US08264205B2
A method and apparatus for protecting an energy-storage device (ESD), such as a rechargeable battery, is provided. A protective circuit protects an ESD from adverse charging and loading conditions including overcharging, overdischarging, charging at an excessive rate and discharging at an excessive rate. The protective circuit selectively disables charging and discharging based on the present terminal conditions. A plurality of ESDs and protective circuits can be interconnected to protect a multi-cell ESD device. Embodiments of the protective circuit are adapted to protect a lithium cell operating around 2 volts. The protective circuit may also protect the ESD from adverse temperature conditions.
US08264204B2
A cell controller with excellent reliability in which noise and soon are suppressed is provided. The cell controller includes, corresponding to the number of cell packs, a plurality of ICs each having a voltage detecting circuit detecting voltages of respective cells of a cell pack in which four cells are connected in series, a switch control circuit controlling conduction and a blocking operation of a plurality of switch elements connected in parallel to the respective cells via capacity adjusting resistors, a LIN1 terminal for inputting control information, a LIN2 terminal for outputting control information, a Vcc terminal and a GND terminal, and a LIN2 terminal of a higher-order IC and a LIN1 terminal of a lower-order IC are connected in a daisy chain. The Vcc terminal of each IC is connected to a positive electrode of a higher-order cell among cells constituting a corresponding cell pack via an inductor L for eliminating noise, and the GND terminal is coupled directly to the Vcc terminal of the lower-order IC. Noise is not superposed on the LIN1, LIN2 terminals.
US08264196B2
A charge control apparatus for controlling how to charge a battery unit having a plurality of batteries connected in series, includes a connection control section that divides the batteries into a plurality of groups of batteries by switching connections between the batteries, according to a received current amount indicative of an amount of a current that can be received from one or more external power sources, and a charge control section that charges the groups of batteries in parallel with power received from the external power sources.
US08264193B2
Briefly described, the invention provides a photovoltaic assembly power output utilizing device which partially charges a capacitor assembly. This capacitor assembly is then partially discharged by a DC/DC power converter in different ranges of voltages in which the power output from the photovoltaic assembly peaks for different light intensities.
US08264192B2
A system includes a pulse-width modulation (PWM) module, a subtraction module, an error reducing module, and a summing module. The PWM module controls switching of an inverter that powers a motor. The PWM module controls the switching based on a first angle in a first mode and a second angle in a second mode. The subtraction module determines a difference between the first and second angles. The error reducing module (i) stores the difference when a transition from the first mode to the second mode is commanded and (ii) decreases a magnitude of the stored difference to zero. The summing module calculates a sum of the stored difference and the second angle. The PWM module controls the switching based on the sum in the second mode.
US08264189B2
A motor controller is provided with a first PWM circuit that repeatedly outputs an on-signal at a first carrier frequency, a second PWM circuit that repeatedly outputs an on-signal at a second carrier frequency that is lower than the first carrier frequency, an AND circuit that receives both the on-signal outputted from the first PWM circuit and the on-signal outputted from the second PWM circuit and outputs a third on-signal which is a logical product of the received on-signals, and a voltage apply circuit that applies a voltage to the motor intermittently in synchronization with the third on-signal outputted from the AND circuit. At least one of the first carrier frequency and the second carrier frequency is equal to or lower than 1 kHz or equal to or higher than 3 kHz. As a result, generation of an unpleasant noise by a motor controller using two PWM circuits may be suppressed.
US08264184B2
A low-pin count fan speed control system and a method thereof include primarily an activation unit to drive a fan to operate. When the fan starts completely, the fan slows down to a pre-determined rotation speed through an idle speed regulation unit. After achieving a pre-determined temperature through a temperature transition unit, the fan speed beings to increase from the idle speed. When the fan is operating, the rotation speed is properly increased in proportion to the temperature, using a positive temperature regulation slope unit. Therefore, through this method, the rotation speed will not be decreased by foreign objects when the fan is operating and a computer host can be provided with proper heat dissipation.
US08264183B2
A windshield wiper control unit that controls a windshield wiper based on the position of an operation member, includes: an electric value detection unit that detects an electric value that continuously changes based on the position of the operation member; a setting unit that sets a reference electric value range that is a portion of a variation range of the electric value; a determination unit that determines whether the electric value detected by the electric value detection unit falls within the reference electric value range; and a position determination unit that determines the position of the operation member based on the reference electric value range. When the detected electric value falls outside the reference electric value range, the reference electric value range is updated in such a manner that the electric value, which falls outside the pre-update reference electric value range, falls within the post-update reference electric value range.
US08264163B2
A transformer is disclosed. The transformer includes a first pin, a second pin, a first side winding, a second side winding, and a jump pin. The second side winding is coupled to the first pin and the second pin. The first pin is between the jump pin and the second pin. The jump pin is coupled to the second pin inside the transformer.
US08264152B2
A vehicle lamp includes a semiconductor light emitting device as a light source, a power supply module configured to supply electric power from a power source to the semiconductor light emitting device, and a housing in which the power supply module is accommodated. The semiconductor light emitting device is mounted on the power supply module. The power supply module comprises a current control circuit configured to control an amount of current supplied to the semiconductor light emitting device. The semiconductor light emitting device and the current control circuit are arranged to overlap each other in a direction of an optical axis of the semiconductor light emitting device.
US08264147B2
An electrical lead assembly for devices such as electrical lamps having a metallic foil for providing an electrically conducting path through a hermetic seal formed by pinch sealing a vitreous material. The metallic foil includes an oxidation-inhibiting coating of silica. In another aspect of the invention, methods of coating metallic foils with silica are disclosed. In yet another aspect of the present invention, an electrical lead assembly for lamps is provided wherein the metallic foil is extended to form an outer electrical lead for the lamp.
US08264139B2
A fluorescent display device includes a housing having with a glass substrate and a circuit board adhered to the inner surface of the glass substrate of the housing. The circuit board includes an anode formed of multiple anode conductors, control elements for controlling the anode conductors and a phosphor layer formed on the anode conductors. The fluorescent display further includes an electron source formed above the anode in the housing, from which electrons are bombarded to the phosphor layer corresponding to the anode conductors selected by the control elements so that a desired display can be obtained. An aluminum thin film with the aluminum area ratio within a range from 30 to 60% is formed on the inner surface of the glass substrate and the circuit board is fixed to the aluminum thin film via a die-bond material.
US08264137B2
A binder material, inorganic polymer, is used to formulate carbon nanotube pastes. This material can be cured at 200° C. and has a thermal-stability up to 500° C. Low-out gassing of this binder material makes it a good candidate for long life field emission devices. Due to better adhesion with this binder material, a strong adhesive peelable polymer from liquid form can be applied on the CNT cathode to achieve a uniform activation with even contact and pressure on the surface. The peelable polymer films may be used both as an activation layer and a mask layer to fabricate high-resolution patterned carbon nanotube cathodes for field emission devices using lithographic processes.
US08264129B2
A piezoelectric sensing device is described for measuring material thickness of target such as pipes, tubes, and other conduits that carry fluids. The piezoelectric sensing device comprises a substrate such as a flexible circuit material, a piezoceramic element, and a solder layer disposed therebetween. These features are arranged in manner that provides a low-profile measurement device suitable for high-temperature applications such as those applications in which the temperature exceeds 120° C. Embodiments of the piezoelectric sensing device can be configured for use as stand-alone units separately located on the target or for use as a string of sensing elements coupled together by way of the flexible circuit material.
US08264122B2
An acoustic wave device having an improved frequency-temperature characteristic and in which a spurious response of the higher order mode is suppressed includes a piezoelectric substrate made of LiNbO3, a SiO2 layer laminated on the piezoelectric substrate, and an IDT electrode disposed in an interface of the piezoelectric substrate and the SiO2 layer, wherein φ and θ of Euler angles expressed by (φ, θ, ψ) of LiNbO3 substrate satisfy φ=0° and 80°≦θ≦130°, respectively. The acoustic wave device using an acoustic wave primarily having an SH wave, wherein ψ is set to satisfy 5°≦ψ≦30°.
US08264120B2
A permanent magnet-less synchronous system includes a stator that generates a magnetic revolving field when sourced by an alternating current. An uncluttered rotor is disposed within the magnetic revolving field and spaced apart from the stator to form an air gap relative to an axis of rotation. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor pole stacks having an inner periphery biased by single polarity of a north-pole field and a south-pole field, respectively. The outer periphery of each of the rotor pole stacks are biased by an alternating polarity.
US08264118B2
A motor assembly includes a flexible base mount having an axial tube, a rigid outer mounting shell member inserted into and retained to the axial tube by retaining and retained members disposed therebetween, a stator winding subassembly surrounding the outer mounting shell member and supported by resting on a surrounding ledge of the axial tube, a plug member engaging in a socket cavity of the outer mounting shell member, a flexible inner mounting shell member inserted into the outer mounting shell member, a rotating shaft of a rotor subassembly received in the inner mounting shell member and rotatably born by an antifriction bearing, and an upper positioning ring resting on the bearing. Leakage of lubricant and deformation of the inner mounting shell member can be prevented.
US08264112B2
A small DC motor includes a motor frame having a cylindrical portion, the cylindrical portion having a constant thickness and having a cross section in a shape that comprises four sides and connecting portions, each of the connecting portions connecting adjacent two of the four sides and being located inward from a corresponding corner in a quadrangle comprising the four sides; and a magnet having a circumferential surface on an inside thereof and having conformable contact with the motor frame on an outside thereof.
US08264104B2
A motor for optical systems, for example endoscopes, has a stator with two permanent magnets having poles which are disposed in the same direction and are magnetically interconnected by a flux return element. A coil is disposed between the magnets. Laterally of each magnet, a pole shoe is also magnetically coupled with the flux return element. A slider of the motor includes a yoke of a soft magnetic material, which yoke is in magnetic engagement with the permanent magnets of the stator. When the coil is excited with a current, the slider can be displaced from its rest position along a longitudinal direction.
US08264101B2
A beam power source transmits a signal indicating power availability, receives a request for power in response, and beams power in response to the request.
US08264100B2
An electric power generating system includes a plurality of variable power sources including at least one source of DC power and at least one source of AC power. Converters convert power supplied by the plurality of power sources to a common source of power to be communicated to a collector bus. A power grid supplies three-phase power to components requiring three-phase power downstream of the collector bus. Converters provide three phases of power to the power bus from the collector bus.
US08264098B2
In a hybrid vehicle, rocker outer reinforcements serving as vehicle side frame members in a vehicle width direction extend in a vehicle front-rear direction. An electric power cable is provided such that a portion thereof along the vehicle front-rear direction is placed along an inner side surface of the rocker outer reinforcement in the vehicle width direction. An electric power cable is provided such that a portion thereof along the vehicle front-rear direction is placed along an inner side surface of the rocker outer reinforcement in the vehicle width direction. Further, each of the electric power cables is placed in a space portion formed between the rocker outer reinforcement and a center body pillar serving as an energy absorbing member absorbing energy in the event of a side collision of the vehicle.
US08264097B2
A wind turbine generator includes: a main shaft; a generator having a rotor and a stator; and a sleeve coupled to the rotor and inserted onto the main shaft. The stator includes: stator magnetic poles arrayed circumferentially of the main shaft; and first and second stator plates rotatably coupled to the main shaft to support the stator magnetic poles. The rotor includes: rotor magnetic poles and at least one magnetic pole supporting structure coupled to the main shaft to support the rotor magnetic poles and provided between the first and second stator plates such that the rotor and stator magnetic poles are detachable from the sleeve. Positions at which the rotor and stator magnetic poles are detachable from the sleeve are closer to the main shaft from a closer end of the main shaft to the generator.
US08264094B2
A variable speed wind turbine having a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG), includes an exciter machine mechanically coupled to the DFIG and a power converter placed between a rotor of the DFIG and the exciter machine. Thus, the power converter is not directly connected to the grid avoiding the introduction of undesired harmonic distortion and achieving a better power quality fed into the utility grid. Moreover, the variable speed wind turbine includes a power control and a pitch regulation.
US08264088B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a dielectric layer and a device layer on the substrate. The device layer has an opening. First and second sublayers are disposed on the device layer and line the opening. The second sublayer serves as a stop layer for planarization to provide a substantially planarized top surface for the semiconductor device.
US08264084B2
A solder-top enhanced semiconductor device is proposed for packaging. The solder-top device includes a device die with a top metal layer patterned into contact zones and contact enhancement zones. At least one contact zone is electrically connected to at least one contact enhancement zone. Atop each contact enhancement zone is a solder layer for an increased composite thickness thus lowered parasitic impedance. Where the top metal material can not form a uniform good electrical bond with the solder material, the device die further includes an intermediary layer sandwiched between and forming a uniform electrical bond with the top metal layer and the solder layer. A method for making the solder-top device includes: a) Lithographically patterning the top metal layer into the contact zones and the contact enhancement zones. b) Forming a solder layer atop each of the contact enhancement zones using a stencil process for an increased composite thickness.
US08264078B2
In one embodiment, a sub-pad assembly of metal structures is located directly underneath a metal pad. The sub-pad assembly includes an upper level metal line structure abutting the metal pad, a lower level metal line structure located underneath the upper level metal line structure, and a set of metal vias that provide electrical connection between the lower level metal line structure located underneath the upper level metal line structure. In another embodiment, the reliability of a C4 ball is enhanced by employing a metal pad structure having a set of integrated metal vias that are segmented and distributed to facilitate uniform current density distribution within the C4 ball. The areal density of the cross-sectional area in the plurality of metal vias is higher at the center portion of the metal pad than at the peripheral portion of the planar portion of the metal pad.
US08264077B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a front side and a backside. A through-silicon via (TSV) penetrates the semiconductor substrate. The TSV has a back end extending to the backside of the semiconductor substrate. A redistribution line (RDL) is over the backside of the semiconductor substrate and connected to the back end of the TSV. A silicide layer is over and contacting the RDL.
US08264074B2
A sensor package, and in one embodiment a sensor package for surface mount applications, that comprises a leadframe with an upper and lower surface for receiving a device thereon. Embodiments of the sensor package comprise a first device secured to the upper surface, and a second device secured to the lower surface so as to place connective pads from each of the first device and the second device proximate to one side of the leadframe. The sensor package further comprises a lead that is positioned in the sensor package in a manner that prevents electrical connection with circuitry that is external of the housing. The lead has an end proximate the side of the lead frame where the connective pads are positioned on the upper and lower surfaces. The end configured to receive connections, e.g., wirebonds, from the connective pads in a manner connecting the first device and the second device independent of any external connections of the sensor package.
US08264073B2
A voltage regulator module that includes components for a multi-phase converter, the converter including a plurality of power stage elements on one circuit board, a control element, driver elements, and elements for the output stages of the power stage elements on another circuit board.
US08264071B2
A power semiconductor module having at least one fuse. The power semiconductor module comprises a housing, load terminal elements that lead outside of the housing, and a substrate disposed inside the housing with a plurality of metal connecting tracks of different polarity electrically insulated from one another. On at least one of these connecting tracks, at least one power semiconductor component is disposed and is connected correctly in terms of circuitry to first connecting elements that have a first line cross section. The fuse comprises a second connecting element that has a second line cross section, less than the first, and is disposed between two connecting tracks and/or between a connecting track and a load terminal element. The second connecting element is sheathed in one portion by an explosion protection means.
US08264067B2
A through silicon via architecture for integrated circuits is provided. The integrated circuit (IC) includes a substrate with a top surface and a bottom surface with circuitry formed on the top surface, a plurality of bonding pads formed along a periphery of the bottom surface, and a backside metal layer (BML) formed on the bottom surface and electrically coupled to a second subset of bonding pads in the plurality of bonding pads. A first subset of bonding pads in the plurality of bonding pads is electrically coupled to circuitry on the top surface with through silicon vias (TSV). The BML distributes electrical signals provided by the second subset of bonding pads.
US08264065B2
Roughly described, an antenna diode is formed at least partially within the exclusion zone around a TSV, and is connected to the TSV by way of a metal 1 layer conductor at the same time that the TSV is connected to either the gate poly or a diffusion region of one or more transistors placed outside the exclusion zone.
US08264063B2
A capacitive element is characterized by including: a base (12); a lower barrier layer (13) formed on the base (12); capacitors (Q1 and Q2) made by forming a lower electrode (14a), capacitor dielectric layers (15a), and upper electrodes (16a) in this order on the lower barrier layer (13); and an upper barrier layer (20) covering at least the capacitor dielectric layers (15a) and the lower barrier layer (13).
US08264054B2
MEMS Device having Electrothermal Actuation and Release and Method for Fabricating. According to one embodiment, a microscale switch is provided and can include a substrate and a stationary electrode and stationary contact formed on the substrate. The switch can further include a movable microcomponent suspended above the substrate. The microcomponent can include a structural layer including at least one end fixed with respect to the substrate. The microcomponent can further include a movable electrode spaced from the stationary electrode and a movable contact spaced from the stationary electrode. The microcomponent can include an electrothermal component attached to the structural layer and operable to produce heating for generating force for moving the structural layer.
US08264046B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit structure, the method includes providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate; forming an opening in the dielectric layer; forming a seed layer in the opening; forming a copper line on the seed layer, wherein at least one of the seed layer and the copper line includes an alloying material; and forming an etch stop layer on the copper line.
US08264041B2
A semiconductor device along with circuits including the same and methods of operating the same are described. The device includes an electrically floating body region, and a gate is disposed over a first portion of the body region. The device includes a source region adjoining a second portion of the body region, the second portion adjacent the first portion and separating the source region from the first portion. The device includes a drain region adjoining a third portion of the body region, the third portion adjacent the first portion and separating the drain region from the first portion.
US08264038B2
A buried layer architecture which includes a floating buried layer structure adjacent to a high voltage buried layer connected to a deep well of the same conductivity type for components in an IC is disclosed. The floating buried layer structure surrounds the high voltage buried layer and extends a depletion region of the buried layer to reduce a peak electric field at lateral edges of the buried layer. When the size and spacing of the floating buried layer structure are optimized, the well connected to the buried layer may be biased to 100 volts without breakdown. Adding a second floating buried layer structure surrounding the first floating buried layer structure allows operation of the buried layer up to 140 volts. The buried layer architecture with the floating buried layer structure may be incorporated into a DEPMOS transistor, an LDMOS transistor, a buried collector npn bipolar transistor and an isolated CMOS circuit.
US08264037B2
A sinker layer is in contact with a first conductivity-type well, and is separated from a first conductivity-type collector layer and a second conductivity-type drift layer. A second conductivity-type diffusion layer (second second-conductivity-type high-concentration diffusion layer) is formed in the surface layer of the sinker layer. The second conductivity-type diffusion layer has a higher impurity concentration than that of the sinker layer. The second conductivity-type diffusion layer and the first conductivity-type collector layer are isolated from each other with an element isolation insulating film interposed therebetween.
US08264031B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a multilayer structure; a semiconductor pillar; a third insulating film; and a fourth insulating film layer. The a multilayer structure is provided on the semiconductor substrate and including a plurality of constituent multilayer bodies stacked in a first direction perpendicular to a major surface of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the plurality of constituent multilayer bodies includes an electrode film provided parallel to the major surface, a first insulating film, a charge storage layer provided between the electrode film and the first insulating film, and a second insulating film provided between the charge storage layer and the electrode film. The semiconductor pillar penetrates through the multilayer structure in the first direction. The third insulating film is provided between the semiconductor pillar and the electrode film. The fourth insulating film is provided between the semiconductor pillar and the charge storage layer.
US08264027B2
A nonvolatile memory cell is disclosed, having first and second semiconductor islands at the same horizontal level and spaced a predetermined distance apart, the first semiconductor island providing a control gate and the second semiconductor island providing source and drain terminals; a gate dielectric layer on at least part of the first semiconductor island; a tunneling dielectric layer on at least part of the second semiconductor island; a floating gate on at least part of the gate dielectric layer and the tunneling dielectric layer; and a metal layer in electrical contact with the control gate and the source and drain terminals. In one advantageous embodiment, the nonvolatile memory cell may be manufactured using an “all-printed” process technology.
US08264013B2
A device separation insulating film and a device separation semiconductor layer are provided for a device separation section for separating adjacent devices from each other, end portions of the device separation insulating film and end portions of the device separation semiconductor layer are provided to overlap each other in order to surround two sides of an outer-periphery of the voltage conversion section and also to surround a channel section of the charge transfer device and the light receiving devices and an end portion of the device separation insulating film facing an end face of the light receiving device is arranged inwardly below a control electrode with respect to an end face of the control electrode on the light receiving device side.
US08264012B2
A semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor and a strain generating layer to apply a stress to a channel region of the field effect transistor. The strain generating layer contains at least one of oxygen and nitrogen of 1.0×1018 cm−3 to 5.0×1019 cm−3, or alternatively, the strain generating layer contains self-interstitial atoms and/or vacancies of 1.0×1018 cm−3 to 5.0×1019 cm−3. In the latter case, at least a portion of the self-interstitial atoms and/or the vacancies exist as a cluster.
US08264010B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for connecting a plurality of bit lines to sense circuitry comprises providing a plurality of bit lines extending from a memory array in a first metal layer. The plurality of bit lines are separated from each other by an average spacing x in a first region of the first metal layer. The method further comprises elevating a portion of the plurality of bit lines into a second metal layer overlying the first metal layer. The elevated bit lines are separated from each other by an average spacing y in the second metal layer, with y>x. The method further comprises extending a portion of the plurality of bit lines into a second region of the first metal layer. The extended bit lines are separated from each other by an average spacing z in the second region of the first metal layer, with z>x. The method further comprises connecting a bit line in the second metal layer and a bit line in the first metal layer to the sense circuitry.
US08264008B2
A cell layout of a semiconductor device includes a diffusion level layout including a plurality of diffusion region layout shapes, including p-type and n-type diffusion regions separated by a central inactive region. The cell layout also includes a gate electrode level layout for the entire cell defined to include linear-shaped layout features placed to extend in only a first parallel direction. Adjacent linear-shaped layout features that share a common line of extent in the first parallel direction are separated from each other by an end-to-end spacing that is substantially equal and minimized across the gate electrode level layout. Linear-shaped layout features within the gate electrode level layout extend over one or more of the p-type and/or n-type diffusion regions to form PMOS and NMOS transistor devices. A total number of the PMOS and NMOS transistor devices in the cell is greater than or equal to eight.
US08263984B2
In some embodiments, the invention relates to a process for making a GaN substrate comprising: transferring a first monocrystal GaN layer onto a supporting substrate; applying crystal growth for a second monocrystal GaN layer on the first layer; the first and second GaN layers thereby forming together the GaN substrate, the GaN substrate having a thickness of at least 10 micrometers, and removing at least one portion of the supporting substrate.
US08263976B2
A semiconductor structure consistent with certain implementations has a crystalline substrate oriented with a {111} plane surface that is within 10 degrees of surface normal. An epitaxially grown electrically insulating interlayer overlays the crystalline substrate and establishes a coincident lattice that mates with the surface symmetry of the {111} plane surface. An atomically stable two dimensional crystalline film resides on the epitaxial insulating layer with a coincident lattice match to the insulating interlayer. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US08263973B2
This invention relates to anthracene derivatives that are useful in electroluminescent applications. It also relates to electronic devices in which the active layer includes such an anthracene derivative.
US08263968B2
An organic light-emitting diode display which can display independent images on both sides is described. This display can be driven with passive matrix or active matrix schemes. The invention combines a unique stacked organic diode structure and special driving schemes involving time-sequential reversed fields.
US08263966B2
A photodetector 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an n-type InAs substrate 12; an n-type InAs buffer layer 14 formed on the n-type InAs substrate 12; an n-type InAs light absorbing layer 16 formed on the n-type InAs buffer layer 14; an InAsXPYSb1-X-Y cap layer 18 (X≧0, Y>0) formed on the n-type InAs light absorbing layer 16; a first inorganic insulating film 20 formed on the cap layer 18, and having an opening portion 20h in a deposition direction; a p-type impurity semiconductor region 24 fowled by diffusing a p-type impurity from the opening portion 20h of the first inorganic insulating film 20, and reaching from the cap layer 18 to an upper layer of the n-type InAs light absorbing layer 16; and a second inorganic insulating film 22 formed on the first inorganic insulating film 20 and on the p-type impurity semiconductor region 24.
US08263959B2
A method of manufacturing a memory device is provided. The method includes forming an electrode over a substrate. The method also includes forming an opening in the electrode to provide a tapered electrode contact surface proximate the opening. The method further includes forming a phase change feature over the electrode and on the tapered electrode contact surface.
US08263957B2
Provided is an apparatus for acquiring a digital X-ray image that radiates X-ray on a patient's part by using a high sensitivity imaging plate (IP), reads the radiated patient's part, acquires a signal including patient information and image information regarding a patient, converts the signal into a digital signal, and links the digital signal to external equipment.
US08263954B2
The objective is to obtain a bolus, with which there can be formed an irradiation field that is accurately suited to the depth-direction shape of an irradiation subject, and a particle beam therapy system. An irradiation orbit of a particle beam is defined by a first slant with respect to a first axis that starts from a first reference point, that is perpendicular to a beam axis, and that includes the first reference point and by a second slant with respect to a second axis that is perpendicular to the beam axis and the first axis; the shape of a bolus is set in such a way that the path length, of a particle beam, within the bolus in each of the irradiation orbits defined for combinations within a predetermined range among combinations of the first slant and the second slant, compensates the path length from a body surface to a to-be-irradiated portion.
US08263953B2
A device is disclosed herein which may comprise a chamber, a source providing a stream of target material droplets delivering target material to an irradiation region in the chamber along a path between a target material release point and the irradiation region, a gas flow in the chamber, at least a portion of the gas flowing in a direction toward the droplet stream, a system producing a laser beam irradiating droplets at the irradiation region to generate a plasma producing EUV radiation, and a shroud positioned along a portion of said stream, said shroud having a first shroud portion shielding droplets from said flow and an opposed open portion.
US08263949B2
The invention relates to a plurality of light sources to power a variety of applications including microarray readers, microplate scanners, microfluidic analyzers, sensors, sequencers, Q-PCR and a host of other bioanalytical tools that drive today's commercial, academic and clinical biotech labs.
US08263948B2
An authentication apparatus used to authenticate a moving value document with uniform or non-uniform distribution of a pre-selected covert composition that includes an active ion that emits optical radiation at a pre-selected wavelength when excited by exciting incident light. The optical radiation is imaged onto at least one photodetector having first and second detector elements. The imaged intensities are captured at pre-determined times relating to the velocity of the value document. The ratio between the second detector element and the first detector element measured at the same image location or different image locations represents the characteristic decay time intensity data of the pre-selected wavelength emission. The authenticity of the value document is rejected when the pre-selected wavelength emission is not received by the at least one photodetector or when the output electronic signal ratio does not meet expected value.
US08263943B2
Provided is an ion beam device provided with a gas electric field ionization ion source which can prevent an emitter tip from vibrating in a non-contact manner. The gas electric field ionization ion source is comprised of an emitter tip (21) for generating ions; an emitter base mount (64) for supporting the emitter tip; an ionizing chamber which has an extraction electrode (24) opposed to the emitter tip and which is configured so as to surround the emitter tip (21); and a gas supply tube (25) for supplying gas to the vicinity of the emitter tip. The emitter base mount and a vacuum container magnetically interact with each other.
US08263934B2
In a method and apparatus for measuring a potential on a surface of a sample using a charged particle beam while restraining a change in the potential on the sample induced by the charged particle beam application, or detecting a compensation value for a change in a condition for the apparatus caused by the sample being electrically charged, a voltage is applied to a sample such that a charged particle beam does not reach the sample (referred to as “mirror state”) when the charged particle beam is applied toward the sample. Information is detected, relating to a potential on the sample using signals obtained by the voltage application.
US08263927B2
An integrated circuit transimpedance amplifier arrangement constituted of: a plurality of internal matched resistors; a current multiplier arranged to output a signal whose value is a function of an input current signal, an external resistor and a first set of the plurality of internal matched resistors; and an output transimpedance amplifier coupled to the output of the current multiplier, the output transimpedance amplifier exhibiting a gain whose value is a function of a second set of the plurality of internal matched resistors, wherein the output of the output transimpedance amplifier is a function of the input current signal, the external resistor, the first set of the plurality of internal matched resistors and the second set of the plurality of internal matched resistors, wherein the variations with temperature of the first set of the plurality of internal matched resistors and the second set of the plurality of internal matched resistors cancel.
US08263925B2
The acquisition circuit comprises a second and third electronic switch connected in series between a photodetector and a first input terminal of an amplifier. A reference voltage is applied to a second input terminal of the amplifier, the reference voltage being applied between the photodetector and the second electronic switch by means of a fourth electronic switch. An integration capacitor and a first electronic switch are connected in parallel between the first input terminal and an output terminal of the amplifier. A buffer capacitor is connected between a common terminal of the second and third electronic switches and a secondary voltage. The electrical capacitance of the buffer capacitor is at least equal to that of the integration capacitor.
US08263905B2
Provided are a heat generation sheet and a method of fabricating the same. The heat generation sheet includes: a base comprising first and second sides; a heat generation layer which is formed in at least one region of the first side of the base and in which a plurality of conductive nanoparticles are physically necked; a protective layer protecting the heat generation layer; and an electric feeding part supplying power to the heat generation layer. The heat generation layer is formed by coating and heat treating a nanoparticle dispersion solution.
US08263898B2
The invention relates to a device and a method for producing tailored blanks. The device comprises a workpiece carrier for the sheets (15a, 15b) that are to be joined into tailored blanks in the butt joint by welding. The invention further comprises a plurality of laser welding heads (14a, 14b), which are arranged one behind the other over the workpiece carrier and along the butt joint to be welded and can be moved with an advancing device (11a, 11b), wherein the heads can be aligned with the joint using positioning means, wherein at least two combined laser cutting and welding heads (14a, 14b) are carried by at least two independent arms (13a, 13b), each associated with independent units (11a, 11b) of the advancing device, and wherein the positioning means can adjust the distances of the units (11a, 11b) in the direction of the butt joint and also the distances of the cutting and welding heads (14a, 14b) in the transversal direction to the butt joint.
US08263897B2
A device for sustaining a plasma in a torch is provided. In certain examples, the device comprises a first electrode configured to couple to a power source and constructed and arranged to provide a loop current along a radial plane of the torch. In some examples, the radial plane of the torch is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the torch.
US08263895B2
An electrode for machining a pattern in a workpiece has a conductive body with a lattice of closed cells and a plurality of open cells. The open cells are positioned at an edge of the lattice of closed cells. The closed cells are defined by interconnected webs, and the open cells are defined by fins extending from the interconnected webs. A thickness of the fins is less than a thickness of the webs. In use, the electrode is positioned at a plurality of locations on the workpiece, such that a position of the fins of the electrode at each location overlaps a position of the fins of the electrode at an adjacent location. The pattern is formed at each of the plurality of locations by passing electrical charges repeatedly between the electrode and the workpiece and advancing the electrode into the workpiece.
US08263891B2
An electric switching arrangement disposable in an arcing chamber, the electric switching arrangement including a busbar having a termination surface, a moving contact, a fixed contact carrier having a contact facing carrier, and a fixed contact disposed on the fixed contact carrier at a distance from the termination surface and coupled to the termination surface. The electric switching arrangement further including a ferromagnetic switch arc splitter non-positively disposed on the fixed contact carrier.
US08263889B2
Disclosed herein is a manipulating apparatus (mobile terminal) including a chassis provided with a manipulating portion (directional manipulating portion) with which an input manipulation is carried out. The manipulating portion includes: a key top exposed to an outside of the chassis through an opening portion, which the chassis has, and a key main body having a base portion on which the key top is formed within the chassis; a circuit board in which a detecting portion (switches) is disposed in a position corresponding to the key top; and a flat plate-shaped elastic body (elastic body) interposed between the key main body and the detecting portion; in which the elastic body is provided integrally with the base portion. According to the manipulating apparatus, not only the soft click feeling can be obtained from the elastic body, but also the manipulating apparatus can be thinned as compared with the case where the existing elastic body (contact rubber) is adopted by adjusting the thickness size each of the elastic body.
US08263883B2
A mechanical delay timer for operating either a toggle or a rocker-type wall switch to change the position of the switch after a preset interval includes a spring powered timer that drives a cam which, in turn, causes movement of an actuator that is arranged to engage either the toggle lever of a toggle wall switch or the rocker member of a rocker-type wall switch to move the switch from one position to another. The timer mechanism is contained within a housing that attaches to a timer base which, in turn, mounts over the existing cover plate of a conventional wall switch.
US08263876B2
A conductive substrate structure includes a substrate unit, a conductive pad unit, and a conductive layer unit. The substrate unit has a top surface, a bottom surface, two opposite lateral surfaces, and a front surface. The conductive pad unit has at least two first conductive pads separated from each other and disposed on the top surface, and at least two second conductive pads separated from each other and disposed on the bottom surface. The conductive layer unit has at least two first conductive layers formed on the front surface and respectively electrically connected to two front sides of the two first conductive pads, and at least two second conductive layers respectively formed on the two opposite lateral surfaces and respectively electrically connected to two opposite lateral sides of the two second conductive pads. The two first conductive layers are respectively electrically connected with the two second conductive layers.
US08263875B2
A surface mounting structure for a surface mounting electronic component has an electronic component, a land, a wiring, and an electrical connection pattern. The electronic component has electrodes at opposite ends thereof. The land is connected to each electrode through a solder. The wiring is connected to the land and has a width which is smaller than a width of the electronic component in a width direction thereof. The wiring is connected to the electrical connection pattern. The electrical connection pattern has on a side on which the wiring is connected to the electrical connection pattern a width which is larger than the width of the electronic component in the width direction thereof.
US08263874B2
A multilayer circuit board comprising low inductance through-conductors is disclosed. The multilayer circuit board comprises first ceramic substrate means, first layered section means, and second ceramic substrate means that allow insulation layers to be substantially thin, a length of through-conductors to be substantially short, and low relative permittivity of the insulation layers compared to resin insulation layers. Thus, increases in operation frequency of the multilayer circuit board are possible.
US08263862B2
A packaging system having a housing for providing a hermetically sealed interior space for receiving and supporting optoelectronic components. The housing has at least one section of wall comprising a layer of liquid crystal polymer (LCP). At least one hermetically sealed electrical port is formed in the LCP wall section over a predetermined area and comprises a layer of metal adhered to and overlying the predetermined area on the of the LCP wall section. An electrode passes through the metal from the exterior of the system to the interior space to provide an electrical communication path between the optoelectronic components and the exterior of said packaging system. A solder joint is formed between the electrode and the layer of metal to provide a hermetic connection between the layer of metal and the electrode to assure that the hermeticity of the housing remains unchanged with the electrical port present.
US08263861B2
The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications distribution hub having a cabinet that defines a primary compartment. The cabinet also includes one or more main doors for accessing the primary compartment. Telecommunications equipment is mounted within the primary compartment. The distribution hub further includes a secondary compartment that can be accessed from an exterior of the cabinet without accessing the primary compartment. A grounding interface is accessible from within the secondary compartment.
US08263859B2
An aspect of the present invention provides a stacked photovoltaic device that comprises a first power generating unit including a first semiconductor layer made of a substantially intrinsic non-single crystal semiconductor layer which functions as a photoelectric conversion layer; and a second power generating unit formed above the first power generating unit, the second power generating unit including a second semiconductor layer made of a substantially intrinsic non-crystalline semiconductor layer which functions as a photoelectric conversion layer. In the stacked photovoltaic device, a first density of an element mainly constituting the first semiconductor layer of the first power generating unit is lower than a second density of an element mainly constituting the second semiconductor layer of the second power generating unit.
US08263853B2
A method of forming a plurality of discrete, interconnected solar cells mounted on a carrier by providing a first semiconductor substrate; depositing on the first substrate a sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell structure; forming a metal back contact layer over the solar cell structure; mounting a carrier on top of the metal back contact; removing the first substrate; and lithographically patterning and etching the solar cell structure to form a plurality of discrete solar cells mounted on the carrier.
US08263838B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH374777. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH374777, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH374777 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH374777.
US08263834B1
A novel soybean variety, designated XB31S10 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB31S10, cells from soybean variety XB31S10, plants of soybean XB31S10, and plant parts of soybean variety XB31S10. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB31S10 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic, mutant trait, and/or native trait into soybean variety XB31S10, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB31S10. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB31S10 are further provided.
US08263830B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1015481. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1015481. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1015481 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1015481 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08263827B2
The invention provides Brassica plants and lines having an improved Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Disease Incidence (SSDI %) score and represented by, or descended from, ATCC accession number PTA-6779 or PTA-6778.
US08263823B2
The teachings are directed to an immunocompetent xenograft model. The model comprises an immunodeficient animal modified to have a reconstituted immune system, wherein a xenograft is transplanted in the animal and allowed to establish for an establishment period of at least about 10 days. The xenograft simulates a tissue in a subject in need of a treatment. In these embodiments, the reconstituted immune system is created after the establishment period, and is created by administering a total number of T-cells to the animal. The total number of T-cells consists of a preselected number of responsive T-cells, a preselected number of non-responsive T-cells, and a preselected ratio of responsive T-cells to total T-cells. The preselected number of responsive T-cells simulates a number of responsive T-cells in the subject, and the ratio of the number of responsive T-cells to total T-cells ranges from about 1:100,000 to about 30:100,000.
US08263821B2
The invention relates to a method for optical detection of the dynamics of Ca2+ in a biological system, said method comprising monitoring the photons emitted by a recombinant Ca2+-sensitive polypeptide, which comprises or consists of a chemiluminescent protein linked to a fluorescent protein, present in said biological system. In a particular embodiment, said recombinant polypeptide comprises or consists of the Aequorin and GFP linked by a linker allowing chemiluminescence resonance energy transfer (CRET), and optionally comprises a peptidic fragment capable of targeting said recombinant polypeptide into a specific cellular domain or compartment.The present invention also concerns a transgenic non-human animal expressing said recombinant polypeptide sensitive to calcium concentration, in conditions enabling the in vivo monitoring of Ca2+ dynamics. In a particular embodiment, the expression and/or localization of said recombinant polypeptide is restricted to a specific tissue, a single-cell type and/or in a particular cellular compartment or domain.
US08263813B2
A process for isomerizing olefinically unsaturated alcohols over supported noble metal catalysts with a support based on carbon in an oxygenous atmosphere.
US08263810B2
The invention provides methods for storing boranes (e.g. B-allyldiisopinocampheylborane). The invention also provides stable compositions comprising boranes, as well as methods for carrying out allylboration at high temperature and/or in the presence of water.
US08263805B2
A process for producing urea is disclosed, wherein liquid ammonia and carbon dioxide are reacted in a high-pressure synthesis section (100), and at least part of the carbon dioxide is fed to said synthesis section (100) in liquid phase. A plant operating according to said process and a method for modernizing existing plants accordingly are also disclosed.
US08263796B2
A process according to the present invention for producing a cyanohydrin compound is a process for producing a cyanohydrin compound by performing a reaction between a carbonyl compound such as an aldehyde compound and hydrogen cyanide in the presence of a catalyst, a content of the carbonyl compound in a reaction system being not more than 50 mol % with respect to the cyanohydrin compound. Thus provided is a process for producing a cyanohydrin compound in good yield from an aldehyde compound and hydrogen cyanide.
US08263787B2
There is provided a process for preparing dorzolamide and processes for preparing intermediates useful in the preparation of dorzolamide. In particular, there is provided a process for preparing an acetoamido sulfone of formula (viii) comprising oxidation of a hydroxysulfonamide of formula (vii) in the presence of an oxidizing agent selected from the group consisting of: a peracid, tert-butyl hydroperoxide, dimethyl dioxirane, selenium dioxide, m-phenanthroline di-N-oxide, nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide. There is also provided a process for preparing an acetoamidosulfone of formula (ix-a) comprising converting a hydroxysulfone of formula (viii) to the acetoamidosulfone of formula (ix-a) in the presence of acetonitrile and an acid. There is also provided a process for separating the cis- and trans-isomers of dorzolamide from a mixture of the trans-isomer of dorzolamide and the cis-isomer of dorzolamide comprising reacting the mixture of isomers with a carboxylic acid.
US08263786B2
The object of the present invention is, in methods for producing cyclic phenol sulfides, to provide methods for producing a number of more macrocyclic products, which comprise the steps of producing a mixture of cyclic phenol sulfides from an inexpensive raw material in one step without inducing the reduction in yield of a cyclic quatromer; and easily separating and purifying a single component from the mixture of cyclic phenol sulfides.The present invention discloses methods for producing a cyclic phenol sulfide which comprises the step of reacting a phenol compound as a raw material, in a one-step reaction, with 1.7 to 2.5 molar equivalent of sulfur and 0.25 to 0.75 molar equivalent of an alkali metal reagent per 1 mol of the phenol compound to obtain a mixture of cyclic phenol sulfide wherein m=4 and at least one kind(s) of cyclic phenol sulfide wherein m=5 to 9, or each separate cyclic phenol sulfide comprised in the mixture.
US08263784B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of octahydrocyclopenta[b]pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid and esters thereof of general formula (1) in the presence of a cobalt and/or nickel comprising catalyst and to the use of compounds of general formula (1) in the synthesis of ramipril.
US08263783B2
The present invention relates to a process for the sulfinylation of a pyrazole derivative, characterized in that 5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile (II) is reacted with a sulfinylating agent selected from trifluoromethylsulfinic acid, trifluoromethylsulfinic acid anhydride, and a trifluoromethylsulfinate alkaline or alkaline earth metal salt and mixtures of the acid and/or the salt(s), in the presence of at least one amine acid complex wherein the amine(s) are selected from tertiary amines and the acid(s) are selected from hydrofluoric, hydrochloric, hydrobromic and hydroiodic acid and sulfonic acid derivatives, and with the addition of a halogenating agent.
US08263781B2
The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), methods for preparing these compounds, compositions, intermediates and derivatives thereof and for treating a condition including but not limited to ankylosing spondylitis, artherosclerosis, arthritis (such as rheumatoid arthritis, infectious arthritis, childhood arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis), bone-related diseases (including those related to bone formation), breast cancer (including those unresponsive to anti-estrogen therapy), cardiovascular disorders, cartilage-related disease (such as cartilage injury/loss, cartilage degeneration, and those related to cartilage formation), chondrodysplasia, chondrosarcoma, chronic back injury, chronic bronchitis, chronic inflammatory airway disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, disorders of energy homeostasis, gout, pseudogout, lipid disorders, metabolic syndrome, multiple myeloma, obesity, osteoarthritis, osteogenesis imperfecta, osteolytic bone metastasis, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, Paget's disease, periodontal disease, polymyalgia rheumatica, Reiter's syndrome, repetitive stress injury, hyperglycemia, elevated blood glucose level, and insulin resistance.
US08263778B2
Disclosed is a process for producing compound C represented by formula C: wherein R′ represents straight chain, branched chain, or cyclic C2-6 alkylcarbonyl, wherein R1b is used as a protective group for hydroxyl at the 7-position of compound C. R1b represents formyl; optionally substituted straight chain C1-4 alkylcarbonyl; optionally substituted benzyl; group —SiR3R4R5 optionally substituted by halogen atom wherein R3, R4, and R5 each independently represent straight chain or branched chain C1-6 alkyl or phenyl; C1-6 alkyloxy-C1-6 alkyl optionally substituted by halogen atom; C1-6 alkylthio-C1-6 alkyl optionally substituted by halogen atom; straight chain, branched chain, or cyclic C1-4 alkyl optionally substituted by halogen atom, provided that, when alkyl in the C1-4 alkyl group is of a branched chain or cyclic type, the alkyl group is C3-4 alkyl; C2-6 alkenyl optionally substituted by halogen atom; C2-6 alkynyl optionally substituted by halogen atom; or an optionally substituted saturated or unsaturated five- or six-membered heterocyclic group. The process can produce pyripyropene derivatives that have acyloxy groups at the 1- and 11-positions and a hydroxyl group at the 7-position and are useful as insect pest control agents at a high yield.
US08263775B2
The present invention relates to inhibitors of insulin-regulated aminopeptidase (IRAP) and methods for inhibiting same, as well as compositions comprising said inhibitors. In particular, the inhibitors of the present invention may be useful in therapeutic applications including enhancing memory and learning functions.
US08263765B2
The invention provides compounds of formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The formula I compounds inhibit tyrosine kinase activity thereby making them useful as anticancer agents and for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.
US08263762B2
Provided herein are alkoxy-carbonyl-amino-alkynyl-adenosine compounds and derivatives thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same that are selective agonists of A2A adenosine receptors (ARs). These compounds and compositions are useful as pharmaceutical agents.
US08263756B2
The present invention provides a method for gene transfer through the vascular system or a ureter. In a preferable embodiment of this invention, an aqueous solution containing an expression vector comprising a desired gene is injected through the vascular system or a ureter of a desired organ to introduce the gene into the injected area. Specifically, the method of the present invention is effective for ex vivo gene therapy wherein the hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) gene is introduced by electroporation into a kidney to be transplanted. According to the present invention, the HGF functions continuously on the kidney to be transplanted, and the HGF within the treated area does not affect other organs of the body. Thus, the method of the present invention is a safe and effective treatment for maintaining the survival of transplanted kidneys.
US08263755B2
As described herein, the present invention provides methods for preparing compounds useful for treating or lessening the severity of a neurodegenerative disorder. The present invention also provides methods of treating or lessening the severity of such disorders wherein said method comprises administering to a patient a compound of the present invention, or composition thereof. Said method is useful for treating or lessening the severity of, for example, Alzheimer's disease.
US08263753B2
This invention relates to a method for making macrolides, and, in particular, a method for making optionally substituted 20,23-dipiperidinyl-5-O-mycaminosyl-tylonolide and derivatives thereof, as well as uses of macrolides to make medicaments, methods of treatment using macrolides, and methods for making intermediates that, inter alia, may be used to make macrolides. This invention also relates to solvated and non-solvated crystalline forms of 20,23-dipiperidinyl-5-O-mycaminosyl-tylonolide, as well as methods for making such crystalline forms, medicaments comprising (or derived from) such crystalline forms, methods for making medicaments comprising (or derived from) such crystalline forms, methods of treatment using such crystalline forms, and kits comprising such crystalline forms.
US08263748B2
The present invention provides lyophilized formulations of antibodies, such as antibodies that specifically bind to human interleukin-23 p19 (IL-23p19), or antigen binding fragments thereof.
US08263744B2
An optimized nucleic acid sequence encoding the immunoconjugate VB6-845 is described Modifications to the original VB6-845 include changes in the nucleic acid sequence encoding the VH region, CH region, CL region, VL region, the furm linker and the bouganm toxin. The optimized VB6-845 displays improved recombinant protein expression over the original in an E. coli expression system.
US08263718B2
A method for the polymerization of free radically polymerizable vinyl monomers involves polymerizing free radically (co)polymerizable vinyl monomers in a batch reaction under essentially adiabatic conditions, and utilizing scavenger monomer to reduce undesirable residual monomer.
US08263709B2
A polymer composition, including: a first copolymer, including a first monomer unit derived from a monomer of Formula A: (R1SiO1.5)x(R2SiO1.5)y Formula A wherein R1 is a polymerizable functional group, R2 is a non-polymerizable group, x is a positive integer, and y is a positive integer, provided that x+y=2n, wherein n is an integer greater than or equal to 3; a second monomer unit copolymerizable with the first monomer unit; and a second polymer having no monomer units derived from a monomer of Formula A; wherein the content of the monomer unit of Formula A is 4 wt % or less, based on the total weight of the polymer components of the polymer composition.
US08263707B2
The present invention also discloses a heterogeneous blend composition comprising; a) from 1% to 99% by weight of the blend of a first polymer component comprising a copolymer of 5% to 35% by weight of the first polymer component consisting predominantly of alpha olefin derived units and 65% to 95% by weight of the first polymer component of propylene derived units having a crystallinity of 0.1% to about 25% from isotactic polypropylene sequences, a melting point of from 45° C. to 105° C., and wherein the Melt Flow Rate (MFR@230° C.) of the first polymer component is between 300 g/10 min to 5000 g/10 min b) from 1% to 99% by weight of the blend of a second polymer component comprising isotactic polypropylene and random copolymers of isotactic propylene, wherein the percentage of the copolymerized alpha-olefin in the copolymer is between 0.0% and 9% by weight of the second polymer component and wherein the second polymer component has a melting point greater than about 110° C., wherein the first polymer component has less than 1000 ppm of reaction products arising from the chemical reaction of a molecular degradation agent.
US08263697B2
Disclosed is a resin composition comprising an aromatic polyamide having a terminal amino group concentration of 5 to 45 μmoles/g inclusive, polyphenylene ether, a compatibilizing agent for the polyamide and the polyphenylene ether, and a crystal nucleating agent. The composition is extremely useful in an automotive body panel (e.g., an automotive fender), an SMT-compliant component or the like.
US08263692B2
Disclosed are propylene-based polymer compositions and processes for producing same. Polymerization with an improved catalyst composition provides a propylene-based polymer with improved stiffness.
US08263691B2
Compositions made from a polyarylate or polyester carbonate containing greater than about 50 mole % resorcinol based ester linkages give miscible blends with polyimide resins, addition of alkyl amide compounds improves mold release and melt flow while maintaining transparency. The blends also have high refractive index and low haze.
US08263690B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a composition which contains polylactic acid and has excellent heat stability, mechanical strength and color. The composition contains 0.001 to 0.1 part by weight of a metal catalyst and 0.001 to 0.5 part by weight of a phosphono-fatty acid ester based on 100 parts by weight of polylactic acid.
US08263680B2
Acrylic polymers comprising vinyl acetate monomers, hydroxyl functional monomers and low Tg alkyl acrylate monomers are useful in adhesive compositions that find use in skin contact applications.
US08263676B2
A medical prosthesis for use within the body which is formed of radiation treated ultra high molecular weight polyethylene having substantially no detectable free radicals, is described. Preferred prostheses exhibit reduced production of particles from the prosthesis during wear of the prosthesis, and are substantially oxidation resistant. Methods of manufacture of such devices and material used therein are also provided.
US08263670B2
A compound of Formula 1 Rf-A-OP(O)(O−M+)(O—RH) Formula 1 wherein Rf is a C2 to C6 linear or branched perfluoroalkyl optionally interrupted by one, two or three ether oxygen atoms; A is (CH2CF2)m(CH2)n—, (CH2)oSO2N(CH3)(CH2)p—, O(CF2)q(CH2)r—, or OCHFCF2OE-; m is 1 to 4; n, o, p, and r are each independently 2 to 20; q is 2; E is a C2 to C20 linear or branched alkyl group optionally interrupted by oxygen, sulfur, or nitrogen atoms; a cyclic alkyl group, or a C6 to C10 aryl group; M is a Group I metal or an ammonium cation (NHxR2y)+ wherein R2 is a C1 to C4 alkyl, x is 1 to 4, y is 0 to 3 and x+y is 4; and RH is a C1 to C20 linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl, or a C6 to C10 aryl, and its use as a surfactant is disclosed.
US08263659B2
A method is provided for preventing, inhibiting or treating diseases or disorders associated with metabolism dysfunction or which are dependent upon the expression of a T3 regulated gene, wherein a compound as described in the general formula I below is administered in a therapeutically effective amount:
US08263649B2
The present invention relates to the novel benzofuran derivatives, the preparation thereof and the composition comprising the same. The benzofuran derivatives of the present invention showed potent inhibiting activity of beta-amyloid aggregation and cell cytotoxicity resulting in stimulating the proliferation of neuronal cells as well as recovering activity of memory learning injury caused by neuronal cell injury using transformed animal model with beta-amyloid precursor gene, therefore the compounds can be useful in treating or preventing cognitive function disorder.
US08263646B2
The invention provides compositions for preventing or treating kidney disease and improving kidney function comprising at least two ingredients selected from the group consisting of antioxidants and mitochondrial cofactors in amounts sufficient for preventing or treating kidney disease or for improving kidney function and methods for preventing and treating kidney disease or improving kidney function comprising administering such compositions to an animal susceptible to or suffering from kidney disease or impaired kidney function. In a preferred embodiment, the composition is admixed with one or more food ingredients to produce a food composition useful for preventing or treating kidney disease and improving kidney function, particularly in senior animals.
US08263645B2
Methods for the treatment of patients that are afflicted with pulmonary conditions, such as a pulmonary disease are described. The methods may involve the administration of aerosolized medicines. More specifically, compositions including disodium cromoglycate (DSCG) and therapeutic methods that include the pulmonary administration of such compositions are described.
US08263644B2
The present invention relates to xanthone compounds isolated from the plant Psorospermum molluscum Hochr. (Clusiaceae), a Madagascar plant, which are potent cytotoxic agents.
US08263643B2
Disclosed is a composition for modulating the release of a neurotransmitter, which includes naturally extracted polyphenols as an active ingredient. The disclosed composition suppresses the formation of a SNARE complex, thereby modulating the release of a neurotransmitter, and thus can be used as a modulator for a reaction within a cell related to the SNARE complex. Such an inhibitor of the SNARE complex formation can be used as a composition for reducing wrinkles and relieving pain.
US08263634B2
This invention relates to compounds of formula (I) which are activators of glucokinase and thus may be useful for the management, treatment, control, or adjunct treatment of diseases, where increasing glucokinase activity is beneficial.
US08263633B2
Benzoxepin compounds of Formula I, and including stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, solvates, metabolites and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein: Z1 is CR1 or N; Z2 is CR2 or N; Z3 is CR3 or N; Z4 is CR4 or N; and where (i) X1 is N and X2 is S, (ii) X1 is S and X2 is N, (iii) X1 is CR7 and X2 is S, (iv) X1 is S and X2 is CR7; (v) X1 is NR8 and X2 is N, (vi) X1 is N and X2 is NR8, (vii) X1 is CR7 and X2 is O, (viii) X1 is O and X2 is CR7, (ix) X1 is CR7 and X2 is C(R7)2, (x) X1 is C(R7)2 and X2 is CR7; (xi) X1 is N and X2 is O, or (xii) X1 is O and X2 is N, are useful for inhibiting lipid kinases including p110 alpha and other isoforms of PI3K, and for treating disorders such as cancer mediated by lipid kinases. Methods of using compounds of Formula I for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis, prevention or treatment of such disorders in mammalian cells, or associated pathological conditions, are disclosed.
US08263632B2
The present invention relates to a compound of Formula (I): wherein: n is 0 or 1; X is 0 or CH2; R1 is H or C1-2 alkyl; R2 is H or C1-3 alkyl; R3 and R4 are each independently H or C1-2 alkyl, where the alkyl may be substituted with one to three of the same or different substituents selected from R10; R5 is H or OCH3; R10 is F or Cl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof
US08263620B2
The present invention relates to novel oxadiazole derivatives having pharmacological activity, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of various disorders.
US08263618B2
The invention provides novel 8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octane compounds of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, A, and G are defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt or solvate thereof, that are antagonists at the mu opioid receptor. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, methods of using such compounds to treat conditions associated with mu opioid receptor activity, and processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds.
US08263608B2
Melanocortin receptor-specific compounds of formula I below: wherein the variables are as defined in the specification, and enantiomers, diastereomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Compounds disclosed herein bind to one or more melanocortin receptors and may be an agonist, a partial agonist, an antagonist, an inverse agonist or an antagonist of an inverse agonist as to one or more melanocortin receptors, and may be employed for treatment of one or more melanocortin receptor-associated conditions or disorders.
US08263597B2
Disclosed indazoles compounds that are useful as antagonists of CCR1 activity and are thus useful for treating a variety of diseases and disorders that are mediated or sustained through the activity of CCR1 including autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of using these compounds in the treatment of various diseases and disorders, processes for preparing these compounds and intermediates useful in these processes.
US08263595B2
The present invention relates to triazolopyridine compounds according to Formula (I), their use as medicament, for treating autoimmune disorders, inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases and/or neurodegenerative diseases and a process for their preparation.
US08263594B2
Imidazoquinoline compounds with an aryloxy or arylalkyleneoxy substituent at the 6, 7, 8, or 9-position, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, intermediates, and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for modulating cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases, are disclosed.
US08263588B2
GnRH receptor antagonists are disclosed which have utility in the treatment of a variety of sex-hormone related conditions in both men and women. The compounds of this invention have the structure: wherein R1a, R1b, R1c, R1d, R2, R2a, and A are as defined herein, including stereoisomers, esters, solvates, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound of this invention in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for antagonizing gonadotropin-releasing hormone in a subject in need thereof.
US08263580B2
A pharmaceutical aerosol foam composition, comprising: an effective amount of a pharmaceutically active ingredient, wherein said pharmaceutically active ingredient is a vitamin or analogue thereof; an occlusive agent; an aqueous solvent; an organic cosolvent; wherein the pharmaceutically active ingredient is insoluble in both water and the occlusive agent; and the occlusive agent being present in an amount sufficient to form an occlusive layer on the skin, in use. In a second embodiment, an oil-in water emulsion having a vitamin, an occlusive agent; an aqueous solvent; and an organic cosolvent, wherein the occlusive agent is present in an amount sufficient to form an occlusive layer on the skin.
US08263579B2
This invention relates to novel compounds obtained by fermentation of Myxobacteria strain (PM0670013/MTCC 5570). The present invention further relates to the processes for the production of the novel anti-inflammatory compounds, to the culture no. PM0670013 (MTCC 5570), and to pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds of the present invention as an active ingredient and its use in medicines for the treatment of inflammatory diseases or disorders mediated by proinflammatory cytokines such as Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-α) and/or interleukins such as IL-6, having anti-inflammatory activity The invention also includes all stereoisomeric forms of compounds of the present invention.
US08263578B2
Multi-dose formulations for bortezomib are presented in which bortezomib has significantly improved stability. Especially preferred formulations include those in which bortezomib is in a liquid form suitable for injection, wherein the solvent system predominantly comprises propylene glycol. In other preferred aspects, bortezomib is present as a Lewis donor-acceptor complex with a hetero-bifunctional Lewis base.
US08263575B2
The compounds are phosphoramidate derivatives of nucleoside compounds such as cladribine, isocladribine, fludarabine and clofarabine useful in the treatment of cancer.
US08263565B2
Disclosed herein is nanoemulsion prepared by emulsifying main metabolites of ginseng saponin obtained by conversion of glucose, i.e. compound K (20-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-20(S)-protopanaxadiol), ginsenoside F1 (20-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-20(S)-protopanaxatriol) and compound Y (20-O-[α-L-arabinopyranosyl(1→6)-β-D-glucopyranosyl]-20(S)-protopanaxadiol); and admixture thereof, in fine emulsion or liposome with dermotropic emulsifier by nano-emulsification; and having enhanced skin penetration, so to be effective in promoting proliferation of fibroblast and biosynthesis of collagen.
US08263552B2
GLP-2 analogues are disclosed which comprise one of more substitutions as compared to [hGly2]GLP-2 and which improved biological activity in vivo and/or improved chemical stability, e.g., as assessed in in vitro stability assays. More particularly, preferred GLP-2 analogues disclosed herein comprise substitutions at one or more of positions 8, 16, 24 and/or 28 of the wild-type GLP-2 sequence, optionally in combination with further substitutions at position 2 (as mentioned in the introduction) and one or more of positions 3, 5, 7, 10 and 11, and/or a deletion of one or more of amino acids 31 to 33 and/or the addition of a N-terminal or C-terminal stabilizing peptide sequence. The analogues are particularly useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of stomach and bowel-related disorders and for ameliorating side effects of chemotherapy. Also disclosed are methods and kits for selecting a patient from populations suited for treatment with GLP-2 analogues.
US08263543B2
The present composition relates to fabric care compositions comprising an organosiloxane polymer. Methods of using such compositions including contacting a fabric with the composition and rinsing the fabric are also disclosed.
US08263539B2
Improved dry stripper solutions for removing one, two or more photoresist layers from substrates are provided. The stripper solutions comprise dimethyl sulfoxide, a quaternary ammonium hydroxide, and an alkanolamine, an optional secondary solvent and less than about 3 wt. % water and/or a dryness coefficient of at least about 1. Methods for the preparation and use of the improved dry stripping solutions are additionally provided.
US08263538B2
The present invention relates to super mild surfactant systems. Specifically, a combination of specific alkanoyls or mixtures of alkanoyl surfactants with specifically identified fatty acyl isethionate product provide synergy which reduces irritation (as measured by Patch Testing) so greatly that it is comparable to mildness which normally can be only achieved using very high amounts of benefit agent (e.g., emollient).
US08263537B2
A polyalkene dispersant comprised of low MW polyalkene having an average molecular weight range of about 300 to about 10,000 and an ethylenically-unsaturated, aliphatic or aromatic, nitrogen- and oxygen-containing graftable monomer and methods of making the same are disclosed. The monomers are formed by reacting an acylating agent with amines having one or more primary or secondary amine to form a reaction product. Graft polyalkene dispersants comprising such monomers are formed by grafting the reaction product to the polyalkene backbone. Also described is lubricating oil comprising base oil and the dispersant polyalkene as described above.
US08263536B2
The resistance to deposit formation in formulated lubricating oils is enhanced by the addition to the lubricating oil of an additive amount of ionic liquids.
US08263534B2
An anti-seizure agent for hot steel working that exhibits excellent wettability and surface film-adherability comprises: an inorganic component (first component); sodium hydroxide (second component); water-soluble resins and/or water-soluble surfactants (third component); and water. With the mass of the sum of the first component, the second component, and the third component as 100 mass %, the anti-seizure agent contains: 96.5 mass % or more and 99.98 mass % or less of the first component; 0.01 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less of the second component; and 0.01 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less of the third component, and the inorganic component is one or more selected from a group consisting of Al2O3, SiO2, CaO, B2O3, K2O, and Na2O. A coating layer formed after application solidly adheres to the steel and does not come off in the environment of both cold and hot working.
US08263525B1
A new class of sorbents for the removal of mercury from contaminated water. The optimum structure of the sorbent particles and a method to produce the same is described. The newly developed carbon-based particles are differentiated from other sorbent particles by their high accessible surface area and high affinity towards mercury ions that leads to faster and higher mercury adsorption. The sorbent is based on carbon particles with a metal-oxide coating on the surface. The metal-oxide is coated on the surface of carbon, using a solution-based method. The metal-oxide coated carbon was further modified with sulfur molecules, to increase its mercury removal capacity.
US08263517B2
Catalysts for dewaxing of hydrocarbon feeds, particularly feeds with elevated sulfur and nitrogen levels, are provided. The dewaxing catalysts include a zeolite with a low silica to alumina ratio combined with a low surface binder, or alternatively the formulated catalyst has a high ratio of zeolite surface area to external surface area.
US08263514B2
The invention provides a sintered product presenting an apparent density greater than 4.00 g/cm3 and having the following mean chemical composition, as a percentage by weight based on the oxides and for a total of 100%: Al2O2: complement to 100% 16%≦Cr2O3≦29.5% TiO2 in a quantity such that the Cr2O3/TiO2 weight ratio is greater than 16 and less than 35, other species: ≦1% Application as an electrode bushing block.
US08263513B2
The present invention discloses a method that can improve the sintering ability of calcium sulfate. The material can be used as a bio-material. This method is prepared by pre-mixing +1 and/or +2 and/or +3 and/or +4 and/or +5 valence element and/or its chemical compounds which serves as a sintering additive to calcium sulfate. During sintering, the sintering additive may form a compound and/or a glass and/or a glass-ceramic to assist the densification of the calcium sulfate. The strength and biocompatibility of the specimen after sintering are satisfactory.
US08263508B2
A phosphosilicate glass ceramic with nanoscale fluoroapatite and leucite crystals. The glass ceramic is very similar to natural tooth material in terms of its optical properties. The glass ceramic has a low linear thermal expansion coefficient and a low pressing temperature and is therefore particularly suitable for pressing on metal alloys to produce dental restoration.
US08263507B2
The present invention relates to a cellulose carbamate spinning solution, the cellulose carbamate being dissolved in an ionic liquid. The invention relates furthermore to a method for the production of nonwovens in which the cellulose carbamate spinning solution is pressed through the holes of a nozzle bar and stretched by a multiple by means of an air flow. The formed fiber curtain is laid on a perforated conveyer belt, washed and dried. Likewise, the invention relates to nonwovens of this type and also the use thereof.
US08263503B2
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.
US08263489B2
A method for the deposition of an anti-reflection film on a substrate is disclosed. A substrate including a plurality of solar cell structures is provided and placed in a vacuum chamber with a target including silicon. A flow of a nitrogen-containing reactive gas into the vacuum chamber is set to a first value while a voltage between the target and ground is switched off and then increased to a second value. A voltage is applied between the target and ground, whereby a film of silicon and nitrogen is deposited on the substrate in a flow of the nitrogen-containing reactive gas which is higher than the first value.
US08263487B2
A method of forming fine patterns of a semiconductor device by using carbon (C)-containing films includes forming an etching target film on a substrate including first and second regions; forming a plurality of first C-containing film patterns on the etching target film in the first region; forming a buffer layer which covers top and side surfaces of the plurality of first C-containing film patterns; forming a second C-containing film; removing the second C-containing film in the second region; exposing the plurality of first C-containing film patterns by removing a portion of the buffer layer in the first and second regions; and etching the etching target film by using the plurality of first C-containing film patterns, and portions of the second C-containing film which remain in the first region, as an etching mask.
US08263479B2
Multiphoton absorption is generated, so as to form a part which is intended to be cut 9 due to a molten processed region 13 within a silicon wafer 11, and then an adhesive sheet 20 bonded to the silicon wafer 11 is expanded. This cuts the silicon wafer 11 along the part which is intended to be cut 9 with a high precision into semiconductor chips 25. Here, opposing cut sections 25a, 25a of neighboring semiconductor chips 25, 25 are separated from each other from their close contact state, whereby a die-bonding resin layer 23 is also cut along the part which is intended to be cut 9. Therefore, the silicon wafer 11 and die-bonding resin layer 23 can be cut much more efficiently than in the case where the silicon wafer 11 and die-bonding resin layer 23 are cut with a blade without cutting a base 21.
US08263477B2
A method for fabricating a structure for use in fabrication of a PiN heterojunction tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) includes forming an alignment trench in a silicon wafer; forming a silicon germanium (SiGe) growth trench in the silicon wafer; growing a p-type SiGe region in the SiGe growth trench; forming a first oxide layer over the alignment trench and the p-type SiGe region; forming a hydrogen implantation region in the silicon wafer, the hydrogen implantation region dividing the silicon wafer into a upper silicon region and a lower silicon region; bonding the first oxide layer to a second oxide layer located on a handle wafer, forming a bonded oxide layer comprising the first oxide layer and the second oxide layer; and separating the lower silicon region from the upper silicon region at the hydrogen implantation region.
US08263455B2
Provided are a method of forming an electrode of a variable resistance memory device and a variable resistance semiconductor memory device using the method. The method includes: forming a heat electrode; forming a variable resistance material layer on the heat electrode; and forming a top electrode on the variable resistance material layer, wherein the heat electrode includes a nitride of a metal whose atomic radius is greater than that of titanium (Ti) and is formed through a thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method without using plasma.
US08263452B2
A semiconductor device has an n-channel MIS transistor and a p-channel MIS transistor on a substrate. The n-channel MIS transistor includes a p-type semiconductor region formed on the substrate, a lower layer gate electrode which is formed via a gate insulating film above the p-type semiconductor region and which is one monolayer or more and 3 nm or less in thickness, and an upper layer gate electrode which is formed on the lower layer gate electrode, whose average electronegativity is 0.1 or more smaller than the average electronegativity of the lower layer gate electrode. The p-channel MIS transistor includes an n-type semiconductor region formed on the substrate and a gate electrode which is formed via a gate insulating film above the n-type semiconductor region and is made of the same metal material as that of the upper layer gate electrode.
US08263451B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit structure includes providing a wafer including a substrate and a semiconductor fin at a major surface of the substrate, and performing a deposition step to epitaxially grow an epitaxy layer on a top surface and sidewalls of the semiconductor fin, wherein the epitaxy layer includes a semiconductor material. An etch step is then performed to remove a portion of the epitaxy layer, with a remaining portion of the epitaxy layer remaining on the top surface and the sidewalls of the semiconductor fin.
US08263450B2
A semiconductor component with charge compensation structure has a semiconductor body having a drift path between two electrodes. The drift path has drift zones of a first conduction type, which provide a current path between the electrodes in the drift path, while charge compensation zones of a complementary conduction type constrict the current path of the drift path. For this purpose, the drift path has two alternately arranged, epitaxially grown diffusion zone types, the first drift zone type having monocrystalline semiconductor material on a monocrystalline substrate, and a second drift zone type having monocrystalline semiconductor material in a trench structure, with complementarily doped walls, the complementarily doped walls forming the charge compensation zones.
US08263442B2
A thin film transistor substrate of horizontal electric field type liquid crystal display device includes: a gate line and a common line arranged in parallel on a substrate; a data line crossing the gate line and the common line to define a pixel area; a thin film transistor having a gate connected to the gate line and a source electrode connected to the data line; a common electrode extending from the common line into the pixel area; a protective film for covering a plurality of signal lines and electrodes and the thin film transistor; a pixel hole in the protective film having an elongated shape that parallels the common electrode; and a pixel electrode connected to a side surface of a drain electrode of the thin film transistor within the pixel hole.
US08263435B2
A semiconductor wafer contains a plurality of first semiconductor die. The semiconductor wafer is mounted to a carrier. A channel is formed through the semiconductor wafer to separate the first semiconductor die. A second semiconductor die is mounted to the first semiconductor die. An encapsulant is deposited over the carrier and first semiconductor die and into the channel while a side portion and surface portion of the second semiconductor die remain exposed from the encapsulant. A first conductive via is formed through the encapsulant in the channel. A second conductive via is formed through the encapsulant over a contact pad of the first semiconductor die. A conductive layer is formed over the encapsulant between the first and second conductive vias. An insulating layer is formed over the conductive layer and encapsulant. The carrier is removed. An interconnect structure is formed over the first conductive via.
US08263427B2
Embodiments of the current invention include methods of improving a process of forming a textured TCO film by combinatorial methods. The combinatorial method may include depositing a TCO by physical vapor deposition or sputtering, annealing the TCO, and etching the TCO where at least one of the depositing, the annealing, or the etching is performed combinatorially. Embodiments of the current invention also include improved methods of forming the TCO based on the results of combinatorial testing.
US08263419B2
According to the present invention, there is provided a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, including the steps of forming an insulating film on a silicon substrate, forming a first conductive film on the insulating film, forming an aluminum crystal layer on the first conductive film, forming a ferroelectric film containing Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 (where 0≦x≦1) on the aluminum crystal layer, forming a second conductive film on the ferroelectric film, and patterning the first conductive film, the ferroelectric film, and the second conductive film to form a capacitor including a lower electrode, a capacitor dielectric film, and an upper electrode which are laminated sequentially.
US08263416B2
There is a demand for improved turbidimetric immunoassays for human Cystatin C in biological samples, especially in human clinical samples of body fluids. The present invention provides a turbidimetric immunoassay method and reagent set enabling measurement of human Cystatin C by turbidimetric methods, resulting in a surprisingly stronger and faster turbidimetric signal than in the present state of the art. The increased and faster signal is accomplished by the use of new reagents and compositions, and enables shorter assay times and kinetic reading with a stronger signal, improving overall assay speed and quality. Improved robustness to lipid interference and improved linearity is achieved.
US08263408B2
A method for quantifying the quality degradation of individual stored red blood cell (RBC) units, thereby yielding information to improve decisions regarding their respective allocation, patient suitability, and use. The method comprises: a hemolysis step; an optical analysis step; and a computation step. The method is amenable to clinical implementation as well as indicative of any given unit's relative viability and thus prospective efficacy. This would provide clinicians with actual data on RBC quality when making decisions about which and how many units to use for transfusion of a given patient. Moreover, deploying this testing throughout the supply chain will improve distribution, planning, and inventory control decisions. A vital aspect of this testing method is the accumulation of copious output and other associated data and the mathematical analyses thereof to optimize algorithms by which to characterize each subsequent test output as meaningfully as possible. While the present invention is directed toward applications in blood quality control, the core technology of “quantifying RBC fragility via stress-induced hemolysis and subsequent optical and computational analysis” could have broader application, such as in disease diagnosis.
US08263384B2
Novel organisms, including DNA construct host cell combinations, are disclosed. The organisms comprise a transcription unit (e.g. operon) comprising DNA sequences encoding for enzymes which promote the supply of single carbon units for the conversion of dUMP to dTMP. Examples include: dihydrofolate reductase genes e.g. T4 frd; Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase genes e.g. glyA; 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase genes e.g. serA; and THF synthase genes e.g. ADE3. The organisms are used in a biological method of producing thymidine with significantly reduced levels of uridine.
US08263367B2
The present invention provides at least one isolated linear composite nucleic acid molecule comprising at least one first tag from at least one first nucleic acid molecule and at least one second tag from at least one second nucleic acid molecule, wherein the first and second nucleic acids interact in a nucleic acid mixture; and wherein the first and second tags are from different nucleic acid molecules. The invention also provides a method of producing at least one isolated linear composite nucleic acid and to a method of detecting and/or identifying nucleic acid interactions.
US08263366B2
A method of creating a biotechnological product and an efficient and stable bio-luminescence vector which could be used for tracking Gram-negative bacteria when distributing inside animal body are provided. Through conjugation, this auto-luminescence vector can be easily transmitted from bacteria to bacteria among Gram-negative bacteria, and may facilitate bacteria to be luminescence-labeled for subsequently analyzing the dynamic change of bio-luminescent bacteria within animal body in vivo. This system includes a lacZ promoter-driven luxABCDE, a high copy number of ColE1 replicon, and a high plasmid stability of the conjugative and broad host-ranged plasmid pSE34 from Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis Sal550. This resulting construct pSE-Lux1 can not only conjugatively transmit among bacteria with broad host range, but also stably maintain in bacteria to efficiently express the bio-luminescent luxABCDE without supplementing the subtract for luciferases and the antibiotics for plasmid selection.
US08263361B2
A stabilized hematoxylin composition is disclosed that includes one or both of a host compound and an antioxidant. The disclosed composition exhibits sufficient stability to be utilized in an automated staining process without undue degradation prior to use of the composition to stain a biological sample. Methods of using and making the stabilized composition also are disclosed.
US08263358B2
The invention provides ion-selective sensors capable of selectively measuring ions, e.g., Na+, K+, Cl−, etc., in the cytosol of a single living cell. The sensor comprises one or more quantum dots or a fluorescent dye, a pH-sensitive dye, and optionally an ion-selective component such as an ionophore. These elements may, for example, be disposed in a polymer matrix. The polymer matrix comprises an internalizing moiety which enables the sensor to localize within the cytosol of a cell. The internalizing moiety comprises a small molecule or peptide such as an amine, antepennepedia, mastoparan, or melittin that react under acidic conditions to release a sensor from the confines of a endosome. Once in the cytosol the sensors may detect ionic analytes by selective ion extraction by the polymer, thereby inducing a pH change within the sensor which in turn changes the absorbance of the pH-sensitive dye. The change of absorbance may in turn attenuate the intensity of detectable emissions, e.g., fluorescence, from the quantum dot or dye by directly absorbing its fluorescence emission.
US08263354B2
Sensitivity of a patient's cancer to treatment with 10-propargyl-10-deazaaminopterin is assessed and patients are selected for treatment of cancer with 10-propargyl-10-deazaaminopterin, by determining the amount of a selected polypeptide expressed by the cancer and comparing the amount with the amount of the selected polypeptide expressed by a reference cancer. The polypeptide includes a member of a folate pathway polypeptide within a cell and may include at least one of reduced folate carrier-1 enzyme (RFC-1), dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), folylpoly-gamma-glutamate synthetase (FPGS), thymidylate synthase (TS), γ-glutamyl hydrolase (GGH), and glycinamide ribonucleotide formyltransferase (GARFT).
US08263353B2
The present invention provides a method for detecting autoprocessed, secreted PCSK9, a protein involved in cholesterol homeostasis, and for effectively identifying compounds that inhibit autocleavage and secretion from cells. The disclosed method involves the insertion of an epitope tag into a PCSK9 expression construct immediately C-terminal to the pro domain ending at an amino acid residue corresponding to Q152 of human PCSK9. Upon autoprocessing, the epitope tag is exposed and capable of recognition by anti-epitope antibodies or other suitable identification system, allowing for the selective and exclusive identification and/or quantification of processed PCSK9. The present disclosure thus advances the goal of providing enabling technology to the art for the effective identification of therapeutics effective in combating coronary heart disease.
US08263348B2
Disclosed are: a method for detecting pathogenic isoform of prion protein as distinguished from normal prion protein in a simple manner, rapidly, with a high degree of sensitivity and quantitatively without the need of the enzymatic treatment with protease K; and a reagent for use in the method. Specifically disclosed are: a pathogenic isoform of prion protein binder which comprises lactoferrin; and a method for detecting pathogenic isoform of prion protein by using the pathogenic isoform of prion protein binder.
US08263346B2
The present invention provides a animal model useful in identifying a molecule controlling in a lymphocyte-specific manner migration and thus elucidating immune-related diseases and pathogenic conditions such as allergy, autoimmune diseases, GvH and graft rejections at a molecular level, or in developing a novel therapy. A nonhuman animal model such as a DOCK2 knockout mouse, in which the function to control lymphocyte migration has been deleted or suppressed, is generated by deleting DOCK2 gene on the chromosome. In this DOCK2 knockout mouse, the function of activating Rac to mediate actin cyteskeleton, the lymphocyte migration function in response to stimuli with chemokines such as SLC, SDF-1, BLC, the homing function to secondary lymphoid organs such as spleen, lymph nodes and Peyer's patches, and the function of emigrating mature thymic T cells into peripheral blood in response to stimulus with chemokine ELC are impaired, and as a result of this, immune responses are suppressed.
US08263338B2
The invention encompasses methods for enriching for and identifying a polymorphism within a nucleic acid sample either by separating a subset of a nucleic acid sample or by selectively replicating a subset of a nucleic acid sample such that the polymorphism is contained within a nucleic acid population with reduced complexity, and then identifying the polymorphism within the enriched nucleic acid sample. Methods also are disclosed for enriching for and identifying a polymorphism by contacting a nucleic acid sample that includes a subset of nucleic acid molecules having a sequence that binds to a sequence-specific binding activity with a molecule having a sequence-specific binding activity under conditions which permit specific binding, such that the subset of nucleic acid molecules bound to the activity is enriched for nucleic acid molecules having the sequence recognized by the sequence-specific binding activity, and detecting a polymorphism with respect to a reference sequence in the subset of nucleic acid molecules.
US08263335B2
A method for synthesizing a nucleic acid having a desired sequence and length comprises providing a solid support having an immobilized nucleic acid, performing a nucleic acid addition reaction to elongate the immobilized nucleic acid by adding a nucleotide or an oligonucleotide to the nucleic acid, determining whether the nucleotide or the oligonucleotide is added to the nucleic acid by detecting whether there is an increase in electrophoretic force applied to the solid support when an electric field and a magnetic field gradient are applied to the support, wherein the increase in electrophoretic force applied to the support is caused by adding the nucleotide or the oligonucleotide to the nucleic acid, repeating the addition reaction and determination steps if the nucleotide or the oligonucleotide is not added to the nucleic acid, and continuing until the immobilized nucleic acid has a desired sequence and length.
US08263327B2
The present invention provides a process for producing microcapsules. The microcapsules have an effect-substance-containing capsule core and a polymer-containing capsule covering. The capsule covering is formed by enzyme-catalyzed polymerization of monomers which are present in an inverse miniemulsion, as well as microcapsules and dispersions. The present invention also provides for using the microcapsules and microcapsule dispersions as components in colorants, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, crop protection agents, fertilizers, and additives for foods or animal feed.
US08263326B2
Compositions and methods for modulating the activation of nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) are provided. The compositions comprise one or more agents that modulate ubiquitination of phosphorylated IκBα and/or IκBβ. Such compositions may be used for treating diseases associated with NF-κB activation. Modulating agents include human E3 ubiquitin ligases, antibodies thereto and variants thereof, as well as related proteins.
US08263318B2
Microstructures are fabricated by impinging a radiation beam, such as a laser beam, through a substrate that is transparent to the laser beam, into a negative photoresist layer on the substrate. The negative photoresist layer may be subsequently developed to provide a master for optical and/or mechanical microstructures. Related systems, microstructure products and microstructure masters also are disclosed.
US08263313B2
The invention provides a photosensitive resin composition that can form resists with excellent adhesiveness for conductive layers and that does not easily produce conductive layer discoloration, as well as a photosensitive film employing the composition. A preferred photosensitive film (1) according to the invention comprises a support (11), resin layer (12) and protective film (13), where the resin layer (12) is composed of a photosensitive resin composition comprising a binder polymer, a photopolymerizing compound, a photopolymerization initiator and a benzotriazole derivative represented by the following general formula (1). [wherein R11 and R12 each independently represent hydrogen or a monovalent organic group, and R13 represents a halogen atom, an alkyl, cycloalkyl, allyl, aryl, amino, alkylamino, nitro, cyano, mercapto, alkylmercapto, hydroxyl, hydroxyalkyl, carboxyl, carboxyalkyl, acyl or alkoxy group or a monovalent group with a heterocyclic ring, with the proviso that at least one of R11 and R12 is an optionally substituted aryl group or an organic group containing a C10 or greater hydrocarbon group.]
US08263312B2
Antireflective coatings comprising (i) a silsesquioxane resin having the formula (PhSiO(3-x)/2(OH)x)mHSiO(3-x)/2(OH)x)n(MeSiO(3-x)/2(OH)x)p where Ph is a phenyl group, Me is a methyl group, x has a value of 0, 1 or 2; m has a value of 0.01 to 0.99, n has a value of 0.01 to 0.99, p has a value of 0.01 to 0.99, and m+n+p=1; (ii) a polyethylene oxide fluid; and (iii) a solvent; and a method of forming said antireflective coatings on an electronic device.
US08263308B2
A polyimide silicone having in the molecule a phenolic hydroxy group in which a part or all of hydrogen atoms are substituted with an acid labile group is provided. The polyimide silicone comprises the unit represented by the formula (1): wherein X is a tetravalent group at least a part of which is a tetravalent organic group represented by the formula (2): wherein R1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group, R2 is a trivalent group, and n is an integer of 1 to 120 on average; and Y is a divalent organic group at least a part of which is a divalent organic group having a phenolic hydroxy group in which a part or all of hydrogen atoms are substituted with an acid labile group represented by the formula (3): wherein R3 and R4 are a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R5 is an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group. R3 and R4, R3 and R5, or R4 and R5 may be bonded to each other to form a ring together with the carbon atom or the carbon atom and the oxygen atom to which they are bonded with the proviso that the R3, R4, and R5 are independently an alkylene group.
US08263298B1
Embodiments provide novel imaging members used in electrostatography. More particularly, there is provided flexible electrophotographic imaging members which have improved imaging layer(s) formulated to comprise of a plasticizer in a material matrix of a solid solution comprising a charge transporting compound and a film forming polymer binder which is a novel A-B diblock copolymer or a binary polymer blend of a novel A-B diblock copolymer and a bisphenol polycarbonate. The flexible imaging members thus prepared have improved photoelectrical cyclic function stability, chemical resistive property, and are curl-free, and thus eliminate the need for an additional anticurl back coating layer.
US08263294B2
Cleaning is carried out by using a sulfuric acid type detergent at a resist stripping and cleaning step (step 5) in a semitranslucent portion forming process and a resist stripping and cleaning step (step 10) in a shielding band forming process, and a sulfuric acid removing step of partially or wholly removing a surface layer portion in a pattern into which a sulfate ion is adsorbed is then carried out to effectively remove the adsorbed sulfate ion.
US08263293B2
In a monolithic ink jet printhead, a structural layer is made comprising cavities, obtained from the polymerization of a solution of a monomer, or an oligomer, and a photointiator; during the polymerization by radiation, acid species are unduly generated in zones protected by a mask, due to reflection of the radiation on reflecting surfaces of the support of the sructural layer; these acid species cause undue polymerization of the solution on the inside of the cavities to oppose the formation of these acid species, a polymerzation inhibitor basic compound is used.
US08263282B2
In a power generation unit incorporated in a fuel cell system, a mixture fuel with a certain concentration is supplied to an anode, power is generated by electrochemical reaction between the anode and a cathode exposed to air, and a discharge liquid containing an unreacted mixture fuel is discharged from the anode. The power generation unit is connected to a fuel circulation path for circulating the discharge liquid to the anode. If a mixture fuel is low in pressure, a fuel supply unit supplies fuel to the fuel circulation path. The temperature of the power generation unit is controlled in accordance with the concentration or volume of the mixture fuel supplied to the anode.
US08263281B2
A stable and high reliability fuel cell electricity-generating device capable of generating electricity even in the case of sudden drop of load power includes a fuel cell generating electric power from a fuel and an oxidizer, a fuel processor producing fuel to be supplied into the fuel cell from an electricity-generating material, a combustion device combusting a residual fuel gas unconsumed in the fuel cell to raise the temperature of the fuel processor, and an electric power generation instructor determining the electric power generated by the fuel cell, wherein when the electric power generation instructor either decreases or prevents a decrease in the electric power generated by the fuel cell upon a decrease of load power to be supplied, depending on the temperature of the fuel processor.
US08263279B2
A system for cooling a fuel cell stack and a drive unit in a fuel cell vehicle is disclosed, wherein the system includes a drive unit and a fuel cell stack. An oil cooling loop for the drive unit includes a three way valve, a liquid to liquid heat exchanger, and a pump. The liquid to liquid heat exchanger may be used to transfer drive unit off heat into the stack coolant loop. By not using an oil to air heat exchanger overall heat exchanger arrangement air side pressure drop can be minimized and airflow increased. The three way valve allows decoupling of the cooling loops if needed to inhibit negative impact on the fuel cell stack.
US08263274B2
Embodiments are disclosed that relate to temperature distribution in a reaction chamber of a steam reformer. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a steam reformer, comprising a central chamber through which feed gas flows, a reaction chamber surrounding the central chamber and having an inner wall and an outer wall, and a recuperative heat exchanger disposed between the inner wall of the reaction chamber and the central chamber.
US08263266B2
A secondary battery, which may include an electrode assembly, a can having an upper opening to receive the electrode assembly and a cap assembly finishing the opening of the can is disclosed. The electrode assembly may include a positive electrode plate provided with a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode plate provided with a negative electrode active material layer, a separator interposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate and an insulation coating layer coated on the positive electrode plate. The insulation coating layer may includes a first coating layer coated on the positive electrode coating portion. The insulation coating layer may contain olivine type lithium phosphate compound. A second coating layer coated on the first coating layer may contain ceramic powder and a binder.
US08263264B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material having a Lithium ion insertion potential of 0.4 V (vs. Li/Li+) or more. The separator is provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator has a porosity of 50% or more and a pore diameter distribution in which a median diameter is larger than a mode diameter. The porosity and the pore diameter distribution are measured by mercury porosimetry. A surface roughness of the negative electrode is larger than the mode diameter.
US08263261B2
Disclosed are an active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery usable as a power source for backup, which has a large battery capacity and which may prevent the increase in the internal resistance after a storage test; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising the active material. The active material is used as a positive electrode active material or a negative electrode active material of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and this is prepared by adding at least one additive element selected from a group consisting of Al, B, Nb, Ti and W to molybdenum dioxide; and the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises the active material.
US08263260B2
A method of manufacturing a positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery is provided. The positive electrode has a current collector and an active material layer formed on the current collector. The method includes: coating a slurry onto the current collector, the slurry having a pH of from 5 to 9 and containing a positive electrode active material, water as a dispersion medium, carboxymethylcellulose, and a pH adjuster; and drying the coated slurry to form the active material layer.
US08263258B2
An electric storage device 10 has an electrode laminate unit 12 including positive electrodes 14, negative electrodes 15 and a lithium electrode 16 provided at the outermost part of the electrode laminate unit 12. The lithium electrode 16 has a lithium-electrode current collector 26 welded to a negative-electrode current collector 22 and a lithium unit 27 sandwiched between the lithium-electrode current collector 26 and the negative electrode 15. The lithium unit 27 is composed of a lithium holding plate 27a that is in contact with the lithium-electrode current collector 26, and a lithium ion source 27b that is provided to the lithium holding plate 27a. The lithium ion source 27b is not mounted on the lithium-electrode current collector 26, but only the lithium-electrode current collector 26 is laminated and welded, whereby the damage of the lithium ion source 27b is prevented, and the manufacturing operation is simplified.
US08263256B2
A highly safety cell is provided in which short-circuiting is unlikely to occur. In order to prevent short-circuiting, for example, burrs generated when a laminate film used as an exterior packaging material is cut are prevented from penetrating an interior resin layer of the laminate film. When an electrode terminal extension side of the laminate film is thermal welded, heating and compression are performed by a heater head on a part of the laminate film apart from the edge portion thereof so that the thickness of the above edge portion is larger than that of a thermal welded portion. In addition, thermal welding is performed so that the thickness of a thermal welded portion including an electrode terminal is larger than that of a thermal welded portion including no electrode terminal, and as a result, short-circuiting can be more effectively prevented.
US08263251B2
An insulating plate of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell is interposed between a cell element and a cover member in a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell including the cell element formed by stacking cathodes and anodes through separators, a cell can including a can body which houses the cell element and the cover member which closes an opening of the can body to seal the cell element, and an electrolyte injected into the cell can. The insulating plate includes a plate-shaped insulating plate body having insulating property, an injection hole which passes through the insulating plate body in the thickness direction and through which the electrolyte can be injected, and a filter member permeable to only the electrolyte and provided on one of the surfaces of the insulating plate body so as to cover the injection hole.
US08263250B2
A liquid cooling manifold assembly for use in the thermal management system of a battery pack is provided. The liquid cooling manifold assembly includes a coolant channel portion through which the coolant channels run, and a dual layer thermal interface interposed between the coolant channel portion and the cells of the battery pack. The outer material layer of the dual layer thermal interface is comprised of an electrically non-conductive, high dielectric material that is preferably tear resistant, deformable and has a high tensile strength and a relatively low surface friction. The inner material layer of the dual layer thermal interface is comprised of a highly compressible material.
US08263248B2
An electrochemical device comprising alternating layers of positive and negative electrodes separated from each other by separator layers. The electrode layers extend beyond the periphery of the separator layers providing superior contact between the electrodes and battery terminals, eliminating the need for welding the electrode to the terminal. Electrical resistance within the battery is decreased and thermal conductivity of the cell is increased allowing for superior heat removal from the battery and increased efficiency. Increased internal pressure within the battery can be alleviated without damaging or removing the battery from service while keeping the contents of the battery sealed off from the atmosphere by a pressure release system. Nonoperative cells within a battery assembly can also be removed from service by shorting the nonoperative cell thus decreasing battery life.
US08263246B2
A current collector for an electrochemical cell includes a member having an outer member and an inner member coupled to the outer member by a plurality of flexible arms configured to allow the inner member to move relative to the outer member.
US08263241B2
A method for producing a secondary cell according to the present invention includes step (A) of putting a solution having an electrochemically reversibly oxidizable/reducible organic compound and a supporting electrolyte dissolved therein into contact with a positive electrode active material, thereby oxidizing or reducing the positive electrode active material; and step (B) of accommodating the oxidized positive electrode active material and a negative electrode active material in a case in the state of facing each other with a separator being placed therebetween, and filling the case with an electrolyte solution. By oxidizing or reducing the positive electrode active material, lithium ions or anions as the support electrode are incorporated into the positive electrode active material.
US08263240B2
A secondary battery includes a bare cell having an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly has cathode plates, anode plates and separators insulating the cathode plates from the anode plates. The secondary battery also includes a can housing the electrode assembly, the can having an opening for receiving the electrode assembly and a cap assembly having a cap plate sealing an opening of the can, the cap plate having a terminal through-hole, an electrode terminal inserted into the terminal through-hole, and a gasket insulating the electrode terminal from the terminal through-hole. A protective circuit board is coupled to the bare cell and a molding resin molds the protective circuit board with the bare cell. The gasket includes a coupling extension constraining the molding resin at the cap plate.
US08263236B2
A compound is represented by the following formula (I): wherein N represents a nitrogen atom; C represents a carbon atom; Pt represents a platinum atom; Z1, Z4, Z5, and Z8 represent a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; Z2, Z3, Z6, and Z7 represent a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; Z11, and Z16 represent a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; Z12, Z13, Z14, Z15, Z17, Z18, Z19, and Z20 represent a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, or a sulfur atom; Y1 and Y2 represent a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a nitrogen atom; A11 represents a divalent linking group; B1 and B2 represent a single bond or a divalent linking group.
US08263230B2
A ceramic composition is prepared to contain a B2O3—SiO2—Al2O3-MO based glass composition (M: Ca, Mg, Sr and/or Ba, B2O3: 4 to 17.5 weight %, SiO2: 28 to 50 weight %, Al2O3: 0 to 20 weight %, and MO: 36 to 50 weight %): 24 to 40 weight %, SrTiO3 and/or CaTiO3: 46 to 75.4 weight %, CuO: 0.1 to 5.0 weight %, CaO: 0.5 to 7.0 weight %, and MnO, ZnO and/or CoO: 10 weight % or more (however, including 0% by weight). The ceramic composition is subjected to firing to produce a ceramic sintered body, and obtain a composite LC component including the ceramic sintered body. While suppressing the shrinkage behavior during firing, dielectric properties can be improved dramatically as compared with conventional cases, and moreover reliability can be ensured.
US08263228B2
A vehicle glazing comprising two panes of glazing material spaced apart from one another, a self-cleaning coating extending over the outermost surface of the glazing, and having a solar control function. The solar control function may result from the presence of a solar control coating or at least one pane of glazing material being body-tinted. The glazing may be a laminate or a double glazing unit and it may also include a functional layer, such as a liquid crystal film or a layer of light emitting diodes.
US08263225B2
Copper clad laminates having reduced laminate curl include copper foil with a tensile strength of less than 47 ksi.
US08263216B2
Disclosed is a fiber-reinforced composite material that is high in heat resistance and strength while being low in the content of volatile matter that volatilizes during curing. Also disclosed are an epoxy resin composition for production thereof, and a prepreg produced from the epoxy resin composition. Specifically the invention provides an epoxy resin composition comprising: [A] an epoxy resin comprising two or more ring structures each consisting of four or more members, and at least one amine type or ether type glycidyl group directly connected to the ring structures, [B] a tri- or more-functional epoxy resin, and [C] a curing agent, and also provides a prepreg produced by impregnating reinforcing fiber with the epoxy resin composition and a fiber-reinforced composite material produced by curing the prepreg.
US08263207B2
A gas diffusion layer, a manufacturing apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The gas diffusion layer having different hydrophilic/hydrophobic structure and channel therein can be manufactured quickly and easily by using a coating mask. The gas diffusion layer is used in various fuel cells to enhance the ability of water management and to solve the problem of flooding at the cathode, the problem of water deficit at the anode, and the problem of gas transfer. The gas diffusion layer includes a gas diffusion medium having a first property and a micro porous layer having a second property. The micro porous layer is formed on one surface of the gas diffusion medium. The micro porous layer has a plurality of channel layers penetrating the gas diffusion medium. One of the first property and the second property is hydrophilic, and the other is hydrophobic.
US08263202B2
The present disclosure relates to a film heating device, having even heating, for high temperature long term use. The film based heating device of the present disclosure has a base film and at least a first and second laminate. The base film comprises a base film aromatic polyimide and a base film electrically conductive filler. The first laminate and second laminate each have an adhesive layer and a metal foil. The adhesive layers contain a thermoplastic polyimide and electrically conductive filler. The thermoplastic polyimide is derived from at least one aromatic diamine and at least one aromatic dianhydride.
US08263201B2
A self-laminating rotating cable marker label is constructed of a transparent film having a first adhesive area, an adhesive-free smooth area, and a second adhesive area. A print-on area forms one side of the transparent film, the print-on area adapted to receive indicia identifying the cable about which the marker label is applied. A perforation extends across the transparent film providing a line of separation of the transparent film. When wrapped around a cable, the second adhesive area overlies the print-on area such that the cable identifying indicia is visible through the transparent second adhesive area. As the transparent film is wrapped around the cable, the first adhesive area adheres to the cable. The remainder of the transparent film is rotated, breaking the perforation, whereby the smooth area of the film in contact with the cable provides smooth rotation of the label around the cable.
US08263198B2
The present techniques provide multi-layer plastic structures and methods for making such. The multi-layer plastic structures include an inner surface made from a polyolefin resin, and resistant to environmental stress cracking, and an outer surface that includes a styrenic copolymer. The outer surface has a kinetic coefficient of friction with itself of 0.42 and a static coefficient of friction with itself of 0.44.
US08263185B2
The invention relates to compositions comprising or consisting of a reaction product obtained from a reaction mixture of aminosilane of formula (I), a mecaptosilane of formula (II) and an epoxysilane of formula (III). Said compositions are suitable as bonding agents, especially in the form of primers. The compositions are highly adhesive and especially suitable for low-temperature applications and especially for sticking glass together.
US08263173B2
A manufacturing method of a color filter including following steps is provided. First, a partition is formed on a substrate to form a plurality of pixel regions on the substrate. Next, a color pigment is provided along a continuous pigment-providing route, so as to form the color pigment on a sequence of pixel regions among the plurality of pixel regions and the partition. The method mentioned above can prevent the unfilled phenomenon of the pigment around the corners of the pixel region. Besides, a liquid crystal display panel having the color filter is also provided.
US08263168B2
The present invention is directed to an indulgent edible composition that provides an orally pleasurable eating experience similar to chocolate as the chocolate melts in the oral cavity comprising (a) a starch that when combined with water in a weight ratio of 5:95 starch to water, has a viscosity at 22° C. of about 0.03 Pa-s to about 2 Pa-s at a shear rate of 10 sec−1; (b) a protein-containing component that will substantially hydrate in water and will not coagulate; (c) a sweetener that when substantially hydrated is at least 90% free of crystals in said edible composition; (d) a fat-containing component that melts at a temperature of about 45° C. or less; (e) a hydrocolloid gelling agent that facilitates the formation of a gel matrix that will break down at a temperature of about 45° C. or less; and (f) an edible surfactant that is food-grade and has a HLB value of about 0 to about 12, wherein the edible composition has a total moisture content from about 10% to about 50% moisture by weight of the composition.
US08263158B2
The invention provides a meat stretching device. The device includes a receptacle and a flexible sleeve. The flexible sleeve is mounted within the receptacle, the flexible sleeve having a cross-section that defines an aperture to receive one or more cuts of meat. The receptacle is connectable to an air pressure device that is capable of generating a positive pressure in the receptacle to cause the flexible sleeve to constrict around and stretch the one or more cuts of meat that are received in the aperture. In one form the flexible sleeve has a first end and a second end, and a cross-section that defines an aperture, the first end being adapted to receive one or more cuts of meat and the second end being adapted to allow the one or more cuts of meat to be removed from the flexible sleeve. In this form the flexible sleeve is mounted within the receptacle such that an airtight volume is formed between the flexible sleeve and the receptacle. The flexible sleeve constricts around and stretches the one or more cuts of meat when the airtight volume is subjected to positive pressure. The invention further provides a related method of stretching meat.
US08263148B2
A capsule for preparation of a beverage in a beverage production machine that includes a body and a delivery wall forming a chamber containing an extractable beverage ingredient, The delivery wall has at least one outlet, an inner layer including at least one first orifice and an outer layer including at least a second orifice, with the first and second orifices extending in the axial direction of the capsule, The first and second layers are adjacent or the first and second layers are distant by a confined gap and when a gap is present, a labyrinth structure is provided which extends transversally in the gap between the first and second orifices.
US08263139B2
Botanical compounds to modulate kinase activity are disclosed. The compounds and methods disclosed also inhibit expression of COX-2, inhibit synthesis of prostaglandins selectively in target cells, and inhibit inflammatory response selectively. The compositions contain at least one fraction isolated or derived from hops or Acacia.
US08263138B2
A composition for prophylactic and/or therapeutic medicinal applications, or plant protection applications, in particular for the control of microorganisms, either planktonic or organized in biofilms. The composition includes at least one ion selected from hypohalite, at least one compound selected from lactoferrin, lactoferrin peptide, lysozyme, immunoglobulins or a combination thereof, optionally hypothiocyanite, and optionally at least one growth factor.
US08263137B2
A nutritional supplement comprising a variety of vitamins and minerals is described. A nutritional supplement comprising between about 1 mg and about 5 mg of vitamin B1, between about 2 mg and about 8 mg of vitamin B2, between about 7 mg and about 30 mg of vitamin B6, between about 10 mcg and about 40 mcg of vitamin B12, between about 1 mg and about 4 mg of folic acid, between about 250 IU and about 900 IU of vitamin D3, between about 100 mg and about 400 mg of vitamin C, between about 20 IU and about 90 IUs of vitamin E, between about 0.5 mg and about 4 mg of copper, between about 20 mg and about 80 mg of zinc, between about 10 mg and about 70 mg of iron, and between about 100 mg and about 800 mg of omega-3 fatty acids is disclosed.
US08263106B2
The present invention relates to a gold-plated stent and its preparation method. More specifically, it relates to a gold-plated stent that is coated with various chemical materials such as 2-aminoalkanethiol, epihalogenhydrin, and diamine compounds in a sequence and also oligonucleotide gold-plated stent, which is prepared by binding oligonucleotide, a biomaterial, to the gold-plated stent coated with said chemicals. The oligonucleotide gold-plated stent of the present invention has an advantages of raising the local concentration in injured parts and minimizing the toxicity overall the body, so it can be used for prevention of restenosis after angioplasty.
US08263105B2
An antimicrobial coating is provided for use on textiles, medical devices, packaging materials, and the like.
US08263103B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, medical articles are provided, which are at least partially biodegradable. The medical articles comprise (a) biodegradable polymers that produce acidic molecules upon degradation; and (b) acid neutralizing cationic species.
US08263097B2
A method for treating acne on the skin. The method has the steps of (a) providing an drapeable or flexible porous article impregnated with an aqueous cleansing composition having a carrier, benzoyl peroxide, and one or more cleansing agents; (b) contacting an area of the skin affected by acne with the porous article such that the skin is contacted by the composition; and (c) removing the composition from the skin wherein residual benzoyl peroxide remains on the skin in an anti-acne effective amount. There are also anti-acne compositions.
US08263091B2
A method is disclosed herein for increasing an immune response to an opportunistic infection in an immunocompromised subject. In one embodiment, the subject is infected with a lentivirus. The method includes increasing an immune response to a pathogen using D oligodeoxynucleotides including a CpG motif.
US08263090B2
The present invention relates to the preparation and use of variants of the group 1 allergens of the Poaceae (sweet grasses) which are characterised by reduced IgE reactivity compared with the known wild-type allergens and at the same time by substantially maintained reactivity with T-lymphocytes. These hypoallergenic allergen variants can be employed for the specific immunotherapy (hyposensitisation) of patients having grass pollen allergy or for the preventive immunotherapy of grass pollen allergies.
US08263082B2
Methods and compositions for immediately immunizing an individual against any molecule or compound. The present invention comprises an immunity linker with at least two sites; (1) at least one first binding site that binds to an immune response component in an individual that has been pre-immunized with a universal immunogen, and (2) at least one second binding site that binds specifically to a desired compound or molecule, the target.
US08263079B2
The invention provides a human antibody that binds human CSF-1R with high affinity. Antibodies of the present invention have significant advantages over the antibodies known in the art by being multifunctional: inhibiting signaling of CSF-1R, internalizing and inducing CSF-1R degradation and stimulating ADCC in cell including tumors, macrophages and monocytes. They are also shown to be effective in treating leukemia, breast, endometrial and prostate cancer alone or in combination with docetaxel, paclitaxel, Herceptin® or doxorubicin.
US08263075B2
Binding members are provided for alpha chain of receptor for granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSFRα), especially antibody molecules. Use of the binding members in treating inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, allergic response, multiple sclerosis, myeloid leukaemia and atherosclerosis is also provided.
US08263073B2
The present invention provides isolated monoclonal antibodies that bind to CTLA-4 and that are capable of increasing the response of T cells to antigenic stimulation in vivo yet the antibodies do not substantially block the binding of CTLA-4 to B7 ligands (e.g., B7-1 and B7-2) in vitro. Thus, the antibodies of the invention demonstrate that is it possible to separate the immunostimulatory function of anti-CTLA-4 antibodies from their ability to block the binding of B7 ligands. Immunoconjugates, bispecific molecules and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies of the invention are also provided. The invention also provides methods for increasing the response of T cells to antigenic stimulation using the antibodies of the invention, including methods for treating cancer using the antibodies of the invention.
US08263068B2
The present invention relates to modified cells carrying a heterologous gene sequence encoding a protein, such as an Inhibitor of differentiation (Id) gene sequence that binds a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) protein to inhibit cell growth, differentiation and/or tumorigenesis of the modified cells. The modified cells are differentiated, proliferate and do not become tumorigenic when grafted into a recipient subject. Additionally, the modified cells produce a factor or factors that enhance the viability of co-grafted organs, tissues or cells. Thus, the modified cells are useful for testing agents for effects on the cells, for co-grafting with transplant organs, tissues or cells. The modified cells are also useful for enhancing the viability of thawing cells that have been cryo-preserved. In one embodiment, the modified cells are modified Sertoli cells.
US08263067B2
The invention is related to a nucleic acid comprising an adenoviral nucleic acid, which also comprises a nucleic acid sequence coding for YB-1.
US08263052B1
A topical drying composition is provided for removal of sweat from skin areas which are vulnerable to sweating after sweat producing activities. The drying efficacy of the composition is due to the presence of encapsulated trehalose, with or without aluminum used as aluminum zirconium compound. Application of an effective amount of the composition to the skin prior to exercise or sweat removal activity reduces sweating and accelerates drying of the skin.
US08263049B2
This invention relates to a composition useful as an oral care composition comprising an organophosphate material, additional oral care composition ingredients, for example, a surfactant agent, and optionally an abrasive agent.
US08263048B2
The invention is directed to a calcium phosphate complex and the composition containing the same for oral care applications, in which the calcium phosphate complex is formed by chelating the γ-polyglutamic acid (γ-PGA) with amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP). This complex can prevent crystallization of ACP and maintain its high solubility. The calcium phosphate complex has superior mucoadhesion properties, allowing it to remain in the mouth longer and offering effective buffering, by which dental caries can be alleviated and prevented.
US08263045B2
A sunless tanning composition having dihydroacetone and an amphoglycinate (amphoacetate) in an amount effective for sunless tanning is provided. Also provided is a method of sunless tanning having the step of topically applying to the skin an effective amount of a sunless tanning composition having dihydroacetone and an amphoglycinate.
US08263040B2
The invention relates to the subjects characterized in the patent claims, namely metal chelates having a perfluorinated PEG radical, processes for their preparation, and their use, processes for their preparation and their use in NMR and X-ray diagnosis, radiodiagnosis and radiotherapy, and in MRT lymphography.
US08263038B2
A method for controlling volatiles in recycled carbon black, such as from pyrolysis of tires, includes deagglomerating the recycled carbon black to substantially reduce the carbon black particle size and impinging an air current on the carbon black particles, preferably in a countercurrent direction, to increase the processing temperature and thereby enhance the release of volatiles. Associated apparatus is disclosed.
US08263037B2
A method for producing carbon nanostructures according to the invention includes injecting acetylene gas into a reactant liquid. The injected acetylene molecules are then maintained in contact with the reactant liquid for a period of time sufficient to break the carbon-hydrogen bonds in at least some of the acetylene molecules, and place the liberated carbon ions in an excited state. The liberated carbon ions in the excited state then traverse a surface of the reactant liquid and enter a collection area where carbon ions combine to produce carbon nanostructures.
US08263034B2
The present invention relates to an efficient method of removing nitrogen and producing struvite from nitrogen-rich wastewater. Additionally, the present invention provides an economical method of removing nitrogen while producing a large quantity of struvite from nitrogen-rich wastewater with an appropriate usage of a solution containing phosphorus ion and a solution containing magnesium ion and/or calcium ion.
US08263031B2
A method is provided for purifying exhaust gas from an engine having an exhaust passage with a selective reducing catalyst and an oxidation catalyst upstream of the selective reducing catalyst. The method calculates an amount of NOx that flows into the selective reducing catalyst; sets an amount of an additive agent to be supplied to the selective reducing catalyst based on the calculated amount of NOx; determines a degradation degree of the oxidation catalyst; determines whether a correction to the amount of the additive agent is necessary based on the determined degradation degree of the oxidation catalyst; corrects the amount of the additive agent to be supplied when the correction is necessary; and supplies the additive agent to the selective reducing catalyst in the corrected amount if the amount is determined to be corrected and in the uncorrected amount if the amount is determined not to be corrected.
US08263027B2
Apparatus and methods for the production of hydrogen using a reformer including a housing, a first plate having a first plurality of fin structures and a second plate having a second plurality of fin structures assembled such that the first plurality of fin structures is interleaved with the second plurality of fin structures. At least one inlet port is formed in at least one of the first plate and the second plate, and at least one outlet port is formed in at least one of the first plate and the second plate. The fin structures may be coated with a catalytic material to enhance or stimulate reactions taking place within the apparatus. A heat exchange device may also be integrated into one or both plates of the reformer.
US08262999B2
Tempering of sample (58) in test strip (37) is carried out by temperature regulating unit (40) and heating/cooling unit (92). The sample is fed to the test strip by a developer fluid (57) and a metering unit (55). The result of the detection reaction becomes visible by a change in color (36), which is detected optically and analyzed. The data of a control chart (52) with the measured values of first and second temperature sensors (41, 42) are used to set the control parameters for tempering. Code (86) on the test sample holder (35) is read in a sequence of steps. Parameters for phases of the measurement are determined from measured values of first and second temperature sensors, values of the control chart and the code of the test sample holder. These parameters are used by the temperature regulating unit during the measurement.
US08262995B2
The invention concerns a pluggable data transfer module and a method that can be used to transfer data from an analytical system to a data processing unit in a galvanically decoupled manner. This invention is particularly suitable for medical fields of application in which recently it has become more and more desirable to process analytical data of a patient.
US08262994B2
An analyzer comprising: a first specimen holder configured to hold a plurality of first specimen containers; a conveying assembly for conveying the first specimen containers held in the first specimen holder; a second specimen holder arranged at a position higher than an upper end of the first specimen containers held in the first specimen holder; a holder moving assembly for moving the second specimen holder so as to pass the upper side of at least one of the first specimen containers held in the first specimen holder; a container transferring assembly for transferring at least one of the first specimen containers from the first specimen holder to the second specimen holder; and a controller for controlling the holder moving assembly and the container transferring assembly, is disclosed.
US08262989B2
A micro-calorimeter apparatus comprises a thermostated housing (3,4,5); a pair of essentially flat heat sinks (9,10), suspended in the housing (2) and thermally floating relative to the environment inside the housing (3,4,5). The heat sinks (9,10) are arranged with their surfaces facing each other. A pair of Peltier elements (11) are thermally attached to the heat sinks (9,10), one element (11) on each heat sink (9,10), on the facing surfaces, forming a gap between them for the accommodation of a generally flat biosensor unit (12).
US08262987B2
A sterilizing apparatus for retorted products is provided, which can transfer the retorted products unidirectionally to and from a retort and which can heat and sterilize the retorted products homogeneously for a short time, while sliding a carriage carrying the retorted products reciprocally in the retort. The rotating motions of a rotating drive source (16) disposed on the outside portion of the retort (3) are transmitted through a shaft sealing mechanism (13) to a cam mechanism in the retort, and are converted into reciprocal motions by the cam mechanism and transmitted to the carriage (7) carrying the retorted products (4), so that the retorted products can be heated and sterilized while the carriage (7) being slid forward and backward or rightward and leftward of the retort.
US08262982B2
An apparatus for the removal and replacement of a lid on a metallurgical transport vessel such as a ladle or a torpedo car. The apparatus comprises a frame, means for supporting the frame such that the vessel may be moved into position thereunder, a linkage including at least one lifting member pivotally connected to the frame, and at least one actuator connected to the linkage. The actuator is operable to move the lifting member such that when the vessel is moved to a designated position below the apparatus, the lifting member can be moved by the actuator and linkage from a first position providing clearance above the vessel, through a curved path to an intermediate position where it engages the lid, providing a vertical lifting force and a horizontal hinge releasing force to the lid, and to a second position where the lid is raised to a sufficient height to clear the vessel. The lifting member may subsequently be moved back by means of the actuator and linkage through a reverse curved path to the first position, and thereby lower the lid back on to the vessel.
US08262974B2
A manufacturing apparatus of display element is provided in which the position of a drive circuit or thin-film transistor on a flexible substrate roll can be confirmed easily. The manufacturing apparatus of display element (100) is provided with a supply roll (RL) that feeds a flexible, elongated substrate (FB) which has been wound into a roll shape in a first direction; a mold (10) that, by pressing onto the fed elongated substrate, forms at least one first index mark (AM) for one row of display elements and partition walls (BA) for a plurality of display elements (50) that are lined up in a second direction which intersects the first direction; and a droplet applying section (20) that applies droplets onto a groove portion formed between the partition walls.
US08262973B2
The present invention is related to microporous polyolefin films that may be used for battery separators and the methods of manufacturing the same. These microporous polyolefin films are characterized by being manufactured in a method comprising the steps of melt-extruding a composition, comprised of 20-50 weight % of a resin composition, comprised of 90-98 weight % of polyethylene (Component I) having a weight average molecular weight of 2×105˜4×105 and less than 5 weight % of molecules of which molecular weight is less than 1×104 and less than 5 weight % of molecules of which molecular weight is greater than 1×106, and 2-10 weight % of polypropylene (Component II) of which weight average molecular weight is 3.0×104˜8.0×105 and the peak of the melting point is higher than 145° C., and 80-50 weight % of a diluent (Component III), to mold in the form of sheets; stretching the above sheets to the form of films; extracting the diluent from the above films; and heat-setting the above films. They are also characterized by having a puncture strength of greater than 0.14 N/μm, Darcy's permeability constant of greater than 1.5×10−5 Darcy, shut-down temperature of microporous films of lower than 140° C., and melt-down temperature of higher than 160° C. They can enhance the performance and stability of batteries using them as well as the productivity of microporous films owing to their high thermal stability and superior extrusion compoundability and physical properties.
US08262970B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device sealed in a cured silicone body by placing an unsealed semiconductor device into a mold and subjecting a curable liquid silicone composition that fills the spaces between the mold and the unsealed semiconductor device to compression molding under a predetermined molding temperature, wherein said curable liquid silicone composition has viscosity of 90 Pa·s or less at room temperature, a time interval from the moment directly after measurement of a torque with a curometer at the molding temperature to the moment when the torque reached 1 kgf·cm is not less than 1 min., while the time interval during which the torque grows from 1 kgf·cm to 5 kgf·cm is not more than 1 min.
US08262968B2
A molded article with multi-material or color and soft portions and a method of making the same is disclosed. The molded article comprises a multi injection substrate, and a coverstock or skin. The article is formed by a process wherein the coverstock or skin is secured within the mold, a first material is injected into a first cavity, a retractor member is moved to define a second cavity, and a second material is injected into the second cavity. The first and second materials may be different types of plastic, different colors, or combinations thereof. The first cavity is defined by two mold sections (e.g., a cavity and a core) and the retractor member. The second cavity is also defined by the two mold sections, the retractor member, and the (at least partially) hardened first material. The first material may be configured to couple to the second material by a locking interface provided by recesses and/or projections on the mold sections. A method of forming the flexible skin may include coupling a compressible material to the skin; positioning the skin and compressible material in a mold; and forming a rigid substrate around the skin and compressible material providing a first soft region wherein the compressible material is disposed between the skin and the substrate so that a first soft region is defined by the compressible material.
US08262958B2
Disclosed are water-dispersible fibers derived from sulfopolyesters having a Tg of at least 25° C. The fibers may contain a single sulfopolyester or a blend of a sulfopolyester with a water-dispersible or water-nondispersible polymer. Also disclosed are multicomponent fibers comprising a water dispersible sulfopolyester having a Tg of at least 57° C. and a water non-dispersible polymer. The multicomponent fibers may be used to produce microdenier fibers. Fibrous articles may be produced from the water-dispersible fibers, multicomponent fibers, and microdenier fibers. The fibrous articles include water-dispersible and microdenier nonwoven webs, fabrics, and multilayered articles such as wipes, gauze, tissue, diapers, panty liners, sanitary napkins, bandages, and surgical dressings. Also disclosed is a process for water-dispersible fibers, nonwoven fabrics, and microdenier webs. The fibers and fibrous articles have further applications in flushable personal care and cleaning products, disposable protective outerwear, and laminating binders.
US08262957B2
The present invention is a method for producing a ceramic porous body with high porosity and continuous macropores, which comprises mixing a ceramic powder with an aqueous solution of a gelable water-soluble polymer to form a slurry, gelling for a while to fix the tissue structure, freezing it to produce ice crystals in the gel tissue and creating structures that become continuous pores, thawing the ice by controlled atmospheric substitution-type drying method with the resulting water being replaced without damaging the gel, and then sintering it to produce a ceramic porous body having various porosities, pore diameters and pore shapes, while conventionally cracks and contraction were likely to occur during drying when the solids concentration of the slurry is less than 20 vol %, with the method of the present invention it is possible to control these problems even at a solids concentration of 10 vol % or less, manufacture and provide a ceramic porous body with a porosity of 72% to 99% and a compression strength of 0.4 MPa or more.
US08262949B2
The instant invention relates to novel benzotriazole UV-absorbers having a long wavelength shifted absorption spectrum with significant absorbance up to 410-420 nm. Further aspects of the invention are a process for their preparation, a UV stabilized composition containing the new UV-absorbers and the use of the new compounds as UV-light stabilizers for organic materials.
US08262948B2
Disclosed are ophthalmic device materials having improved light transmission characteristics. The materials contain a combination of certain UV absorbers and blue-light absorbing chromophores.
US08262941B2
There is provided a reaction accelerator for polymerizing a conductive polymer, comprising: a salt of an anion derived from a sulfonic acid having a skeleton of benzene or naphthalene having at least one OH group, and at least one divalent or more cation other than a transition metal cation. There is also provided a conductive polymer including the salt concerning the reaction accelerator. There is also provided a solid electrolyte capacitor including the conductive polymer as a solid electrolyte. The conductive polymer has a high electric conductivity and good heat-resistance. The solid electrolyte capacitor is reliable for an extended period of time.
US08262937B2
A green phosphor for a plasma display panel and a plasma display panel including the same, the green phosphor including a first phosphor of YAl5O12:Ce, and a second phosphor of Zn1-xMgx (Ga1-yAly)2O4:Mn, wherein 0≦x<1, 0≦y<1.
US08262930B2
The instant invention relates to dielectrically positive nematic media comprising one, two or more compounds of formula I one or more compounds selected from the group of formulae II and III and one or more compounds selected from the group of formulae IV and V wherein the parameters are as defined in claim 1 with the proviso that the media comprise one or more compounds of formula III, wherein n and o both are 1 and all rings are 1,4-phenylene, which independently of each other optionally are fluorinated once or twice, and/or one or more compounds of formula V, wherein q is 2, as well as to liquid crystal displays comprising these media, especially to TN-displays and in particular to active matrix displays.
US08262924B2
Azeotropic or azeotrope-like compositions are disclosed. The azeotropic or azeotrope-like compositions are mixtures of E-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene with methyl formate, n-pentane, 2-methylbutane, trans-1,2-dichloroethylene, 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane, n-butane or isobutane. Also disclosed is a process of preparing a thermoplastic or thermoset foam by using such azeotropic or azeotrope-like compositions as blowing agents. Also disclosed is a process of producing refrigeration by using such azeotropic or azeotrope-like compositions. Also disclosed is a process of using such azeotropic or azeotrope-like compositions as solvents. Also disclosed is a process of producing an aerosol product by using such azeotropic or azeotrope-like compositions. Also disclosed is a process of using such azeotropic or azeotrope-like compositions as heat transfer media. Also disclosed is a process of extinguishing or suppressing a fire by using such azeotropic or azeotrope-like compositions. Also disclosed is a process of using such azeotropic or azeotrope-like compositions as dielectrics.
US08262922B2
Plasma confinement ring assemblies are provided that include confinement rings adapted to reach sufficiently high temperatures on plasma-exposed surfaces of the rings to avoid polymer deposition on those surfaces. The plasma confinement rings include thermal chokes adapted to localize heating at selected portions of the rings that include the plasma exposed surfaces. The thermal chokes reduce heat conduction from those portions to other portions of the rings, which causes selected portions of the rings to reach desired temperatures during plasma processing.
US08262916B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to multi-layer, multi-material fabrication methods (e.g. electrochemical fabrication methods) which provide improved versatility in producing complex microdevices and in particular in removing sacrificial material from passages, channels, or cavities that are complex or that include etching access ports in their final configurations that are small relative to passage, channel, or cavity lengths. Embodiments of the present invention provide for removal of sacrificial material from these passages, channels or cavities using one or more initial or preliminary removal steps that occur prior to completion of the such passages that results from the completion of the layer forming steps. In some embodiments, first sacrificial material is replaced after a secondary solid sacrificial material after the initial removal step or steps. In other embodiments, the first sacrificial material is replaced after a liquid material after the initial removal step or steps. In some embodiments, desired structure formation may occur along or separately from one or more etchant directing manifolds that can force etchant into the passages, channels, and cavities.
US08262912B1
Bioactive compounds extracted from a fermentation broth created by a unique microbial community during a fermentation process and fractionated into several fractions based on size. Four of the resulting fractions stimulate growth of plants that are planted in soil to which the fractions have been applied. The fractions can be applied to the soil individually or combined together prior to application. In another embodiment, the unique fractions can be freeze dried or spray dried.
US08262904B2
This invention relates to a crystalline molecular sieve having, in its as-synthesized form, an X-ray diffraction pattern including d-spacing maxima at 13.18±0.25 and 12.33±0.23 Angstroms, wherein the peak intensity of the d-spacing maximum at 13.18±0.25 Angstroms is at least as great as 90% of the peak intensity of the d-spacing maximum at 12.33±0.23 Angstroms. This invention also relates to a method of making thereof.
US08262877B2
Disclosed is a sensitive glass for use in a pH-sensitive glass electrode, which comprises at least Me2O3 (Me represents a lanthanoid) and further comprises Y2O3 or Sc2O3 in an amount smaller than that of the Me2O3. Also disclosed is a sensitive glass for use in a cation-sensitive glass electrode, which comprises at least Y2O3 or Sc2O3.
US08262871B1
An apparatus for electroplating a layer of metal onto a work piece surface includes a membrane separating the chamber of the apparatus into a catholyte chamber and an anolyte chamber. In the catholyte chamber is a catholyte manifold region that includes a catholyte manifold and at least one flow distribution tube. The catholyte manifold and at least one flow distribution tube serve to mix and direct catholyte flow in the catholyte chamber. The provided configuration effectively reduces failure and improves the operational ranges of the apparatus.
US08262869B2
Work piece processing is performed by pulsed discharges between an anode (2) and a magnetron sputtering cathode (1) in solid-gas plasmas using a chamber (2) containing the work piece (7). A system (12) maintains a vacuum in the chamber and another system (14) provides sputtering and reactive gases. The pulses are produced in a plasma pulser circuit including the anode and the cathode, the discharges creating gas and partially ionized solid plasma blobs (3) moving or spreading from a region at a surface of the cathode towards the work piece and the anode. A potential is applied to the work piece so that a pulsed current comprising biasing pulses arises between the second electrodes. In particular biasing discharges are produced between the anode and the work piece when said plasma blobs have spread to regions at the anode and at the work piece so that the pulsed current is the current of these biasing discharges. The method is efficient for processing or modifying surface regions of work pieces of various kinds and configurations and can be employed for achieving efficient work piece etching, interface mixing, surface and balk diffusion, gas absorption and desorption, initial and further stages of thin film condensation, and for performing ion plating.
US08262868B2
The invention relates to controlling the formation of water in a reaction system comprising hydrogen, oxygen and atomic hydrogen by irradiating the reaction system with electromagnetic emissions from a platinum lamp such that the atomic hydrogen is direct resonance targeted. Physical platinum may also be present in the reaction system.
US08262866B2
A system for recovering products from a gas stream comprises a cooled chamber having an inlet that feeds the gas stream to a plurality of sequential conduit loops within the chamber. A critical orifice follows each loop, and each loop includes an output port. Based upon the physical characteristics of each loop, the sizing of the critical orifice following the loop, and the temperature within the chamber, different products are condensed from the gas stream through the output ports. The system may be configured to condense hydrocarbonaceous products such as ethane, propane, butane or methane, as well as fundamental products such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen or hydrogen. Gaseous products may be stored in gas or liquid form or vented to atmosphere depending upon amount, purity, and so forth.
US08262862B2
The papermaking felt 10 of the present invention comprises a base body 20, a wet paper web side batt fiber layer 31, and a backside batt fiber layer 32, in which the wet paper web side batt fiber layer 31 is contained in high molecular weight elastic material and the backside batt fiber layer 32 includes a melting fiber.
US08262859B2
The present invention is directed to compositions comprising a cellulose reactive functionalized polyvinylamine first adduct, compositions comprising combinations of the cellulose reactive functionalized polyvinylamine first adduct and cellulose reactive functionalized polyvinylamide second adduct, methods for preparing first adduct and second adduct blends and finally methods of increasing the wet or dry strength of paper by incorporation into the paper furnish or coating a paper or board with said adducts.
US08262854B2
An improved method for treating lignocellulosic material, including a prehydrolysis-mass transfer process, which produces a concentrated hydrolysate volume during the time required for the hydrolysis itself. The improved process comprises the heating of the digester and chip content by direct steam to the required hydrolysis temperature, starting a flow of hot, stored hydrolysate to the top of the chip bed in order to create a trickle-bed type down-flow of hydrolysate, collecting a first fraction of the trickled-down hydrolysate as a product fraction, adding extraction liquid and continuing the trickle flow to collect a second hydrolysate fraction, which will be discharged from the digester to a hot hydrolysate storage tank to be used as the first trickle flow liquid in the next batch.
US08262844B2
Provided is a plasma processing apparatus including a processing vessel accommodating a target object; a microwave generator configured to generate a microwave; a waveguide configured to induce the microwave to the processing vessel; a planar antenna having a plurality of microwave radiation holes through which the microwave induced to the waveguide is radiated toward the processing vessel; a microwave transmission plate configured to serve as a ceiling wall of the processing vessel and transmit the microwave passed from the microwave radiation holes of the planar antenna; a processing gas inlet unit configured to introduce a processing gas into the processing vessel; and a magnetic field generating unit positioned above the planar antenna and configured to generate a magnetic field within the processing vessel and control a property of plasma of the processing gas by the magnetic field, the plasma being generated by the microwave within the processing vessel.
US08262829B2
An adhesive layer is formed on a substrate by printing such that the adhesive layer has a predetermined pattern. A film having a phase-difference characteristic is bonded thereon to form a divided waveplate material layer. The divided waveplate material layer is divided all at once with cutter blades disposed in a row such that the divided waveplate material layer has the predetermined pattern. Then the divided waveplate material layer remaining on portions to be removed is removed, thereby forming divided waveplates on the substrate such that the divided waveplates have the predetermined pattern.
US08262826B1
A method for producing insulation tape. A strip of fabric is provided and a layer of insulation powder material is deposited onto the fabric. The fabric is folded over the insulation powder to form insulation tape that may be wrapped around pipes. The method of folding the fabric includes first bending the fabric into a trough shape that has a bottom portion and lateral upstanding flaps that terminate in lateral edges. The insulation powder may be deposited onto the bottom portion of the trough. The insulation powder is packed onto the bottom portion. Tape with adhesive on both sides is placed on one of the flaps so that when the flaps are folded in overlapping contact over the insulation powder the powder is enclosed and the flaps remain secured to each other. Stitching may be added to further secure the adhered flaps to each other and to the bottom portion.
US08262819B2
The present disclosure describes methods of heat treating Ti-based alloys and various improvements that can be realized using such heat treatments. In one exemplary implementation, the invention provides a method of forming a metal member that involves forming an alloy into a utile shape and cooling the alloy from a first temperature above a beta transus temperature of the alloy to a second temperature below the beta transus temperature at a cooling rate of no more than about 30° F./minute. If so desired, the alloy my be treated for a period of about 1-12 hours at about 700-1100° F. Titanium alloys treated according to aspects of the invention may have higher tensile strengths and higher fracture toughness than conventional wrought, mill-annealed Ti 64 alloy.
US08262816B2
A hafnium alloy target containing either or both of Zr and Ti in a gross amount of 100 wtppm-10 wt % in Hf, wherein the average crystal grain size is 1-100 μm, the impurities of Fe, Cr and Ni are respectively 1 wtppm or less, and the habit plane ratio of the plane {002} and three planes {103}, {014} and {015} lying within 35° from {002} is 55% or greater, and the variation in the total sum of the intensity ratios of these four planes depending on locations is 20% or less. As a result, obtained is a hafnium alloy target having favorable deposition property and deposition speed, which generates few particles, and which is suitable for forming a high dielectric gate insulation film such as HfO or HfON film, and the manufacturing method thereof.
US08262815B2
The present invention provides high purity ferrite stainless steel able to reduce deterioration in surface conditions due to pitting corrosion or rusting or other corrosion to an extent no different from SUS304 or better without inviting a drop in manufacturability or workability and without relying on the addition of rare elements, and a method of production of the same, that is, ferritic stainless steel containing, by mass %, C: 0.01% or less, Si: 0.01 to 0.20%, Mn: 0.01 to 0.30%, P: 0.04% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 13 to 22%, N: 0.001 to 0.020%, Ti: 0.05 to 0.35%, Al: 0.005 to 0.050%, Sn: 0.001 to 1%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities to which Sn is added to modify the passive film and improve the corrosion resistance. To improve the effect of modification of the passive film by the addition of Sn, after the final annealing, the steel is held in the 200 to 700° C. temperature range for 1 minute or more.
US08262813B2
A process for providing a niobium wire and its use for connection to niobium or niobium oxide capacitors. The wire is enriched with oxygen and preferably has oxygen concentrations of about 3,000 to 30,000 μg/g.
US08262811B2
For producing corrosion resistant yellow passivate layers on zinc and zinc alloy surfaces, an aqueous reaction solution is utilized that contains trivalent chromium ions, at least one acid as well as at least one heteroaromatic compound selected from the group comprising nicotinic acid, the salts and derivatives thereof.
US08262809B2
An easily handleable composition for metal surface treatment is provided which achieves foundation surface concealment, coating adhesion and corrosion resistance equal to or higher than those obtained by the conventional metal surface treatment compositions. This composition for metal surface treatment places no burden on the environment. A method for treating the surface of a metal material in which such a composition for metal surface treatment is used, and a metal material treated by such a metal surface treatment method, are also provided. Specifically disclosed is a metal surface treatment composition used for a treatment of a metal surface, which composition contains a zirconium compound and/or titanium compound substantially not containing fluorine, and an inorganic acid and/or a salt thereof. This metal surface treatment composition has a pH of not less than 1.5 but not more than 6.5.
US08262804B2
A phosphate-free detergent formulation for machine dishwashing, having from 1 to 20% by weight of a mixture of from 5 to 95% by weight of hydrophobically modified polycarboxylates I formed from 20 to 80 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated C3-C10-mono- or -dicarboxylic acid or anhydrides thereof, from 0 to 80 mol % of at least one monomer of the general formula (I) in which R1, R2 and R3 are each independently H, CH3 or C2H5, and R4 is a linear, branched or cyclic radical having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aromatic radical having from 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and from 0 to 20 mol % of at least one further monomer, from 5 to 95% by weight of hydrophilically modified polycarboxylates II, where the sum of a1) and a2) adds up to 100% by weight.
US08262799B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holding and rotating mechanism for holding and rotating a substrate; a positioning member disposed on the substrate holding and rotating mechanism for positioning a substrate at a predetermined substrate holding position; a substrate transfer mechanism for transferring a substrate to the substrate holding and rotating mechanism; and a pressing unit disposed on the substrate transfer mechanism for pressing a substrate toward the positioning member.
US08262796B2
A thin-film single crystal growing method includes preparing a substrate, irradiating an excitation beam on a metallic target made of a pure metal or an alloy in a predetermined atmosphere, and combining chemical species including any of atoms, molecules, and ions released from the metallic target by irradiation of the excitation beam with atoms contained in the predetermined atmosphere to form a thin film on the substrate.
US08262794B2
A method is provided of growing crystals from compounds that melt congruently with negligible volatilization. The composition of one or more crystal samples is measured. A determination is made of a deviation of crystal composition from congruency. A determination is made of an initial melt composition and a source material composition correction relative to the deviation. Crystals are grown using the composition correction to yield reproducible material for surface acoustic substrate manufacturing.
US08262793B2
The invention relates to a pulverulent building material composition, preferably a factory dry mortar and in particular a tile adhesive, joint grout, knifing filler, sealing slurry, repair mortar, equalization mortar, basecoat adhesive, adhesive for composite thermal insulation systems (CTISs), mineral plaster or render, fine knifing filler or screed system, containing an ester of A) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of neopentyl glycol, 2-methyl-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-propanediol and pentaerythritol with B) a carboxylic acid component.
US08262783B2
A gas separation device is disclosed. In particular, seal assemblies and adsorbent element constructions for a gas separation device such as a pressure swing adsorption device are disclosed. The seal assembly can be part of a rotary valve and can include a seal backer and a floating seal positioned within a bore in the seal backer. The floating seal is configured to press towards and seal against an adjacent rotor. Valve action is provided as apertures in the floating seal and rotor are brought into and then out of alignment as a result of relative rotation therebetween. The seal assembly can include two types of gas chambers to apply balanced sealing pressures over the sealing surface of the valve, one type configured to receive pressurized process gas from within the device and the other configured to receive gas from an independently controlled pressurized gas source. The adsorber elements in the device may comprise improved spacer cross support structures at the ends of wound laminate adsorbent structures.
US08262776B2
A system and method for producing biofuel from pollutant-fed algae are disclosed. Specifically, the system includes a scrubber with a chamber for receiving a pollutant-contaminated fluid stream. Further, a scrubber solution is received in the chamber for scrubbing the pollutant-contaminated fluid stream. Also, the system includes a bioreactor that is provided with an input port to receive the scrubber solution with pollutants for use as nutrients to support algae cell growth. Further, the system includes an algae separator that removes the algae from the bioreactor and a device for processing the algae into biofuel. In order to recycle the scrubber solution, the algae separator is in fluid communication with the scrubber. With this arrangement, the effluence from the bioreactor may be recycled for use as the scrubber solution.
US08262772B2
A process and system for recovering valuable by-products (e.g., hydrogen) from refinery gas streams. For hydrogen-only recovery, the invention comprises a partial condensation step to upgrade the refinery fuel gas to a minimum of 60% hydrogen, which is further purified in a pressure swing adsorption process. When configured to recover hydrogen, methane-rich gas and raw LPG (methane depleted gas containing C2 hydrocarbons and heavier), the invention comprises two partial condensation steps where the feed is cooled in the first step to allow separation of ethane and heavier hydrocarbons, and the resulting vapor is cooled to a lower temperature in a second step for hydrogen recovery.
US08262770B2
The present invention is directed to flotation of refractory gold sulfide ores and to pressure oxidized residue neutralization using flotation tailings that have been contacted with an off gas of pressure oxidation.
US08262769B2
A Cu-based material 5 is immersed into an alkali hydroxide solution with a concentration of 3.0 to 37.5 mass % and a H2O2 solution with a concentration of 3.0 to 50.0 mass % is added in the alkali hydroxide solution, a temperature of the alkali hydroxide solution when the Cu-based material is immersed ranges from 60 to 105° C., a ratio A/B between a mol number A of alkali hydroxide in the alkali hydroxide solution and a mol number B of H2O2 in the H2O2 solution is 10 or more, and where a mol number of Sn in the Sn layer is C and a mol number of Sn in the CuSn layer is D, B≧C×2+D×6.
US08262765B2
Methods of preparing a controlled release fertilizer include obtaining an amino acid fermentation byproduct liquor, and converting ammonium in the amino acid fermentation byproduct liquor to magnesium ammonium phosphate to obtain the controlled release fertilizer.
US08262763B2
A vacuum cleaner having a housing, a suction fan, a dustcup, a cover and an inlet into the dustcup. The dustcup is removably secured to the housing, and includes a cup end wall, a sidewall extending from the cup end wall, and an open end opposite the cup end wall. The cover can be connected to the open end of the dustcup, and includes an air outlet in fluid communication with the suction fan, and a filter covering the air outlet and extending from the cover towards the cup end wall. The cup end wall includes a barrier positioned to be contacted by air flowing through the dustcup to thereby separate dirt particles from the air.
US08262753B2
An apparatus suitable for generating gaseous hydrocarbon fuel from a carbon based synthesis gas including a reaction chamber having a rotating shaft including a plurality of radial blades mixing and circulating carbon based synthesis gas and particulate catalyst upwardly generating gaseous hydrocarbon fuel, a stripping chamber located above the reaction chamber having a second axial rotating shaft including a plurality of radial blades driving hydrocarbon fuel radially outwardly, a source of hot stripping gas, an annular filter surrounding the stripping chamber and an annular gas collection chamber surrounding the filter. The blades in the stripping chamber are rotated independently at a greater velocity than the blades in the reaction chamber and the reaction is controlled by the temperature of the synthesis gas and the rotational velocity of the mixing blades in the reaction chamber.
US08262748B2
A method for manufacturing an emulsifier package is disclosed. The method comprises blending a flow of fuel soluble product, a flow of stabilizer, and a flow of water in a mixing vessel to form a mixture. Mixing the mixture in the mixing vessel and recirculating the mixture through the mixing vessel. Lastly, shearing the mixture with a shearing device at a rate of about 27,500 shears per second to about 87,500 shears per second. A method for manufacturing an aqueous fuel emulsion is also disclosed.
US08262745B2
The capacitor has a monolithic anode and at least one anode lead wire extending from the anode. At least one sacrificial lead wire extends from the anode. A dielectric layer is on said anode and a cathode layer is on the dielectric layer. The anode lead wire is in electrical contact with the anode and a cathode lead is in electrical contact with the cathode.
US08262744B2
Novel compounds based on diaminostilbene are provided. The compounds conform to the general structures The compounds are useful as optical brighteners. Compositions, such as laundry compositions, containing such compounds are also provided.
US08262740B2
The present invention relates to bleaching composition for hair comprising at least one compound with bleaching and/or highlighting effect and at least one dipeptide.
US08262737B2
An interbody spinal implant including a body having a top surface, a bottom surface, opposing lateral sides, opposing anterior and posterior portions, a substantially hollow center, and a single vertical aperture. The single vertical aperture extends from the top surface to the bottom surface, has a size and shape predetermined to maximize the surface area of the top surface and the bottom surface available proximate the anterior and posterior portions while maximizing both radiographic visualization and access to the substantially hollow center, and defines a transverse rim. The body may be non-metallic and may form one component of a composite implant; the other component is a metal plate disposed on at least one of the top and bottom surfaces of the body.
US08262734B2
An intervertebral device for spacing apart vertebral members comprises a plurality of stackable shims including at least a first shim and a second shim. The first shim includes a first body with a first portion of a male-female connector, and a removable guide that is affixed to the first body and extends along at least a portion of the first body. The second shim includes a second body with a second portion of the male-female connector. A longitudinal passage extends through the second body and is sized to receive the guide on the first body. The second shim is moveable relative to the first shim with the guide disposed in the passage between a disengaged position and an engaged position. In the engaged position, the first shim is stacked on the second shim.
US08262727B2
In accordance with the present invention, a multifocal intraocular lens provides greater or lesser refraction in relation to the position of the head and eyes of a user. A multifocal intraocular lens body for insertion into a fluid-filled enucleated natural lens capsule of an eye is provided wherein the lens body encompasses the optical axis of the eye and provides different greater or lesser refraction depending upon the position of the eye.
US08262724B2
An apparatus for treating a heart valve apparatus includes at least two anchoring elements designed to be anchored at the annulus and/or heart wall of the valve to be treated. Each anchoring element has a support surface. At least one linking element includes a central branch and two curved side branches, one of which is designed to be engaged on the support surface of an anchoring element, while the other is designed to be engaged on the support surface of another anchoring element, the linking element then being designed to be pivoted to a position such that the anchoring elements interconnect and in which the ends of the central branch are located in the vicinity of the support surfaces.
US08262723B2
Implantable medical devices are fabricated from polymer blends with star-block copolymers. The polymer blends include a biodegradable matrix polymer blended with a biodegradable star-block copolymer. The copolymer has at least three arms and the arms include inner segments and outer segments. The inner segments form a discrete phase within a continuous phase, the continuous phase including the matrix polymer and the outer segments. The segments can include units having acidic degradation products that enhance the degradation rate of the blend.
US08262721B2
A stent for facilitating flow between a branch of a bifurcated lumen and an interior region of the stent is provided. The stent includes proximal and distal ends and an interior region defined therethrough. The stent typically includes scaffolding having a cover applied thereto. The stent also includes at least one drainage region having at least one drainage hole defined between the scaffolding and through the cover such that fluid is capable of flowing through the drainage holes. The drainage region is typically offset from the proximal and/or distal end to facilitate fluid flow between the branch of the bifurcated lumen and the interior region of the stent.
US08262717B2
A device and associated method for providing vestibular stimulation to an individual includes active elements positioned on or proximate an ear insert. The active elements include but are not limited to at least one electrode, at least one thermometer, and at least one thermoelectric transducer. The device includes a computerized control module regulating the active elements. The device incorporates an ear insert that allows the active elements to engage the individual's ear canal and therefore access the individual's vestibular system. Vestibular stimulation applied to the individual is customized for directly stimulating desired regions of the brain for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes. In a preferred embodiment, the device provides vestibular stimulation sufficient to promote physiological changes in the individual, the changes selected from the group consisting of circadian temperature cycle time shifts, ascorbic acid production, serotonin production, acetylcholine production, histamine production, and heat shock protein production.
