US08508966B2
Provided are semiconductor elements 107A, 107B, and 107C that allow a current to flow that is at most a maximum current determined by the level of control signals VGA, VGB, and VGC and that depends on the difference between the voltage of a DC power supply BA and the charging voltage of a capacitor 102, a controller 105 that outputs a control signal to each semiconductor element, and a temperature detection circuit that detects the temperature of each semiconductor element. Until a predetermined time elapses after the electric circuit is closed, the controller 105 adjusts the level of each control signal based on the temperature detected by the temperature detection circuit so that current through the electric circuit does not exceed a current limit, and after the predetermined time period elapses, the controller 105 adjusts the level of each control signal so that current through the electric circuit is allowed to exceed the current limit.
US08508965B2
An inverter for converting a DC input voltage to an AC output voltage with an H-bridge is provided. A storage choke circuit is provided between the H-bridge and output-side AC voltage terminals. The storage choke circuit includes a freewheeling path with a freewheeling diode for commutating the current after a turn-off process of a semiconductor switch of the H-bridge. In this arrangement, each switching semiconductor switch is coupled to a resonant circuit which contains capacitive resonant elements and inductive resonant elements. The freewheeling path includes first and second freewheeling diodes connected in parallel, wherein the parallel circuit is connected in series with the inductive resonant elements and the second freewheeling diode is connected in series with capacitive freewheeling elements which are charged to a corresponding voltage at the start of a freewheeling phase as elements of the resonant circuit for zero voltage switching of the second freewheeling diode.
US08508960B2
A voltage detector includes a zener diode having a cathode connected to a detect terminal of the voltage detector, a junction field effect transistor having an input terminal connected to an anode of the zener diode, and a resistor connected between an output terminal and a control terminal of the junction field effect transistor. When the voltage on the detect terminal is higher than the breakdown voltage of the zener diode, the junction field effect transistor produces a current flowing through the resistor, and thereby a detection signal can be obtained from the voltage across the resistor.
US08508958B2
A controller for use in an LLC resonant converter is disclosed. An example controller is controlled by detecting a maximum frequency signal to set a maximum switching frequency of the LLC resonant converter. A burst stop frequency and a burst start frequency are programmed in response to the maximum switching frequency. The burst stop frequency and the burst start frequency are fractions of the maximum switching frequency. The LLC resonant converter is switched in response to a feedback signal to regulate an output of the LLC resonant converter. The steps of switching the LLC resonant converter in a burst mode in response to the feedback signal reaching a value corresponding to the programmed burst start frequency and of stopping the switching of the LLC resonant converter in the burst mode in response to the feedback signal reaching a value corresponding to the programmed burst stop frequency are repeated.
US08508927B2
An electronic mobile device includes a device housing and a spacer supported within the device housing. An outer panel is supported by the spacer, and the outer panel and the spacer together define an internal recess. A display configured to display information is supported by the device housing within the internal recess. A gasket is compressed between the device housing, the spacer, and the outer panel to inhibit debris ingress to the device housing. The gasket has a first side that engages the device housing and a second side that engages the spacer and the outer panel.
US08508926B2
A protective enclosure for an electronic device such as a laptop computer or tablet computer that comprises a shell that is capable of enclosing and substantially surrounding the electronic device. The shell is substantially watertight, substantially rigid and substantially crush-resistant. The inside of the shell has a hook and loop liner with shock absorbing corner bumpers having hook and loop type bases so that the bumpers may attach at any point on the liner inside the shell to accommodate electronic devices of various sizes and to secure the device inside the enclosure in a shock absorbent suspended manner. The shell may further comprise a USB connector hub for connection to the USB port of a laptop computer or PC tablet enclosed in the protective shell.
US08508925B2
A portable electronic device includes a first body, a second body and a linkage. The first body has a first upper surface, and the second body has a second upper surface. An end of the linkage is coupled to the first body through a first pivot shaft and another end of the linkage is coupled to the second body through a second pivot shaft, in which the second body is suitable to be stacked on the first upper surface of the first body to make the portable electronic device in a retracted state. The linkage is suitable to rotate relatively to the first body so that the first body and the second body of the portable electronic device are side by side in an expanded state.
US08508921B2
A housing assembly having a housing and a clip. The housing has a pair of raised ridge portions and a first locking portion formed between the pair of raised ridge portions. Each of the pair of raised ridge portions has an undercut side wall and the undercut side wall defines a sliding groove. Additionally, the pair of raised ridge portions has a first entrance port and a second entrance port at two ends thereof. The clip has an insertion portion, a bent portion and a clamp portion. The insertion portion has side edges for inserting within the pair of raised ridge portions through either of the first entrance port and the second entrance port and a second locking portion.
US08508918B2
A device for mounting an electronic display to a wall includes a support structure operably connected to a tilt head assembly and a display interface structure. The support structure includes an arm assembly that can be extended and rotated so that the electronic display avoids contacting the wall. The tilt head assembly includes an attachment member, guide structures for tilting the electronic display so that the electronic display remains self-balancing, and a plate for positioning the guide structures. The display interface structure facilitates attachment of the attachment member to the electronic display.
US08508913B2
In a method of manufacturing a laminate type electronic component, when a heat treatment is carried out after plating films, which at least partially define external electrodes, are formed by growing plated depositions deposited on exposed ends of a plurality of internal electrodes in a component main body, the presence of the plating films may not only interfere with moisture release, but may also cause blisters or bulge defects in the plating films, while moisture such as a plating solution in the component main body is removed by evaporation. To avoid such problems, cuts to divide exposed ends into multiple sections are formed in extending sections of internal electrodes. Thus, plating films include slits extending in the stacking direction at locations corresponding to positions of the cuts.
US08508912B2
A capacitor includes a capacitor body made of a dielectric, a first internal electrode, a second internal electrode, a first signal terminal, a second signal terminal, and a grounding terminal. The first and second signal terminals are connected to the first internal electrode. The grounding terminal is disposed on the outer surface of the capacitor body so as to be connected to the second internal electrode. The grounding terminal is connected to the ground potential. The grounding terminal includes a plating layer which is disposed on the capacitor body and which is connected to the second internal electrode.
US08508908B2
Small form-factor ion flow fluid movers that provide electrostatically operative surfaces in a flow channel adjacent to an emitter electrode, but upstream of a collector electrode or electrodes, can shape operative electric fields and influence ion flows in ways that accentuate downstream flow while minimizing upstream ion migration. In some cases, dielectric surfaces (or even electrically isolated conductive surfaces) along a flow channel adjacent to an emitter electrode can be configured to collect and retain an initial population of generated ions and thereafter electrostatically repel further ions. Depending on the configuration of such dielectric or electrically isolated conductive surfaces, these repelling electrostatic forces may dissuade ion migration or flow from sensitive but closely proximate components and/or may shape fields to enhance ion flows in a desired downstream direction.
US08508905B2
A coil-driving apparatus of an electro magnetic contactor is disclosed, which replaces the main units in an analog scheme with those in a digital scheme using a PWM controller of low power consumption to reduce the number of the analog components, minimize power consumption, and controls a constant voltage that flows on the coil by receiving the feedback current flowing on the coil, whereby error and defect generation rates are reduced, and deterioration and burning of components are prevented.
US08508903B2
A network communication device for generating dying gasp signals includes a voltage detection circuit, a charging and discharging circuit, a power supply circuit, a central processing unit (CPU), a load circuit, an over-heating detection circuit, and an over-heating protection circuit. The CPU includes a dying gasp detection pin connected to the voltage detection circuit to retrieve a detected voltage of an external power supply, and determines whether the external power supply is off according to the detected voltage, and generates dying gasp signals upon the condition that the external power supply is off. The over-heating protection circuit changes voltage of the dying gasp detection pin of the CPU to make the CPU to generate the dying gasp signals and to turn off the load circuit and the power supply circuit upon the condition that the over-heating detection circuit determines that the network communication device overheats.
US08508902B2
A functional element is prevented from breakdown and deterioration because of mounting and demounting of the functional element immediately after cut-off of driving power from a constant-current power supply or during supply of the driving power.An electric circuit is configured to electrically connect a constant-current power supply 1 having a capacitance between an output terminal and a reference potential terminal and a detachable functional element 2 to each other. The electric circuit has an element breakdown prevention circuit 10 having a first circuit terminal connected to an output terminal of the constant-current power supply 1 through the functional element 2, and a second circuit terminal connected to the reference potential terminal of the constant-current power supply 1 through the functional element 2. The element breakdown prevention circuit 10 increases an impedance between the circuit terminals to a disconnected state impedance in response to a transition from a connected state, in which the functional element 2 is mounted, to a disconnected state, in which the functional element 2 is removed. The element breakdown prevention circuit 10 decreases the impedance between the circuit terminals to a connected-state impedance in response to a connection state transition.
US08508898B2
Systems and methods of diagnosing a condition of a reverse-voltage protection switch in an electric system. The electric system includes a power source, an electric load, and a reverse-voltage protection switch in a series-type configuration. The electric system further includes a ground switch configured to selectively connect the source terminal of the reverse-voltage protection circuit to ground. The terminals of the reverse-voltage protection circuit are disconnected from the power source. The ground switch is closed to connect one terminal of the reverse-voltage protection switch to ground. A bias voltage is applied to the other terminal of the reverse-voltage protection switch and the reverse-voltage protection switch is opened. An improper short-circuit condition across the reverse-voltage protection switch is detected when the voltage at the biased terminal of the reverse-voltage protection switch is less than a threshold when the reverse-voltage protection switch is opened.
US08508884B2
A spindle motor includes a stationary portion and a rotating portion. The rotating portion includes a magnet arranged around a central axis extending in a vertical direction. The stationary portion includes a base member and a magnetic member arranged below the magnet and fixed to the base member. The base member includes an upper surface extending out perpendicularly or substantially perpendicularly to the central axis, and a wall surface extending in an axial direction. The magnetic member includes an annular plate portion arranged on the base member and a projecting portion arranged to extend downward from the plate portion. At least a portion of the projecting portion is arranged to be in contact with the wall surface. An adhesive is arranged between the plate portion and the upper surface of the base member and between the projecting portion and the wall surface.
US08508879B1
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to control of magnetic recording devices, such as disk drives. A described technique includes producing signals that include a write clock signal and a servo clock signal, processing a waveform produced by a read head operated with respect to a recording medium, which includes magnetic bit cells arranged on tracks, and the servo clock signal. The technique includes producing, based on the waveform, a servo detect pulse that indicates a detection of servo data, measuring a timing difference that is based on the servo detect pulse and a write pulse of the write clock signal, and controlling an adjustment of a phase of the write clock signal based on the timing difference to align the write clock signal with at least a portion of the bit cells.
US08508878B1
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to control of magnetic recording devices, such as disk drives. A described technique includes receiving a waveform produced by a read head operated with respect to a recording medium and a servo clock signal. A medium can include magnetic data bit cells, a first servo wedge, a second servo wedge, and phase tracking fields, where at least a portion of the phase tracking fields are arranged between the first servo wedge and the second servo wedge. The servo wedges can include respective servo sync marks. The technique includes producing, based on the waveform, a servo detect pulse that indicates a detection of a servo sync mark. The technique includes controlling a first adjustment of a phase of a write clock signal, the first adjustment being responsive to the servo detect pulse. The technique includes producing, based on the write clock signal, samples of the waveform that correspond to phase tracking fields. The technique includes controlling second adjustments of the phase based on the samples to align the write clock signal with at least a portion of the bit cells, the second adjustments being responsive to the phase tracking fields, respectively.
US08508860B2
The present invention provides an optical lens system comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens element; and a fifth lens element having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric and at least one inflection point being formed on the image-side surface. Such arrangement of optical elements can effectively minimize the size of the optical lens system, lower the sensitivity of the optical system, and obtain higher image resolution.
US08508858B2
A lens barrel includes an optical system, a first frame, a second frame, a third frame, a rectilinear frame and a cam frame. The first frame supports the optical system. The second frame supports the optical system and restricts rotation of the first frame about an optical axis of the optical system. The third frame supports the optical system and restricts rotation of the second frame about the optical axis of the optical system, and the rectilinear frame restricts rotation of the third frame about the optical axis of the optical system.
US08508854B2
The disclosure relates to an optical element configure to at least partial spatially resolve correction of a wavefront aberration of an optical system (e.g., a projection exposure apparatus for microlithography) to which optical radiation can be applied, as well as related systems and methods.
US08508852B2
To suppress bad shaping generated due to fusion of neighboring cylindrical lenses in a lens sheet formed by using an ultraviolet curable resin, for example. A lens sheet includes: a substrate formed with a transparent material; a plurality of protruded lines provided on the substrate in parallel at a specific pitch; and a plurality of cylindrical lenses, each of which is provided between the plurality of protruded lines on the substrate. The protruded line for forming the lens is designed to be constituted with a set of two lines, i.e., a left protruded line and a right protruded line, to suppress fusion of the neighboring lenses.
US08508851B2
An optical system includes a display panel, an image former, a viewing window, a proximal beam splitter, and a distal beam splitter. The display panel is configured to generate a light pattern. The image former is configured to form a virtual image from the light pattern generated by the display panel. The viewing window is configured to allow outside light in from outside of the optical system. The virtual image and the outside light are viewable along a viewing axis extending through the proximal beam splitter. The distal beam splitter is optically coupled to the display panel and the proximal beam splitter and has a beam-splitting interface in a plane that is parallel to the viewing axis. A camera may also be optically coupled to the distal beam splitter so as to be able to receive a portion of the outside light that is viewable along the viewing axis.
US08508849B2
An optical filter is provided which includes a plurality of hard coating layers of alternating high and low refractive index provided on a substrate and has an associated first transmission band. The filter also includes at least one additional plurality of hard coating layers including high and low refractive index layers and Herpin equivalent layers sandwiched therebetween. The additional plurality of layers has an associated second transmission band that substantially coincides with the first transmission band, but provides additional blocking at wavelengths outside the first transmission band. Relatively wide transmission bands and high blocking over an extended range of wavelengths can be achieved such that the filter is suitable for use in multiphoton fluorescence systems.
US08508847B2
In a diffractive optical element, first and second optical members are stacked, and a diffraction grating is formed at an interface between the first and second optical members. In the diffractive optical element, an absorption coefficient α (mm−1) of the first optical member and a grating height h (μm) of the diffraction grating satisfy expressions (1) and (2): α≧0.04 (1) h≦263.18×α−0.9454 (2).
US08508846B2
A slide transfer mechanism for a laser scanner device for imaging and measuring fluorescent samples is located in a sample plane on sample slides. The device includes a first optical system for providing laser beams and at least one detector for detecting an emission beam bundle coming from the sample, and a second optical system for forwarding the emission beam bundle to the at least one detector. The slide transfer mechanism has a motorized transport device for transferring a sample slide to the sample table and back. The storage unit of the laser scanner device includes a positioning plate for mounting a sample part magazine that has an open insertion side for storing sample slides in specific depositories. At a corner opposite to the insertion side, the sample part magazine includes a check opening for monitoring the presence or absence of a sample slide in a specific depository.
US08508843B2
A laser amplifier includes a pump source and an optically active fiber having an input portion configured to receive a signal source and an output portion. The pump source is optically coupled to the optically active fiber. The laser amplifier also includes an output fiber optically coupled to the output portion of the optically active fiber. The output fiber includes a rare-earth element. The laser amplifier further includes a beam expansion section joined to the output fiber.
US08508841B2
A light conversion module includes a coupler for combining two light beams to form a combined light beam, a nonlinear crystal arranged to receive the combined light beam and configured to include a plurality of poling regions for performing successive nonlinear frequency mixing processes, a first optical device configured to focus the combined light beam onto the nonlinear crystal, a first moving stage carrying the nonlinear crystal and moving the nonlinear crystal for an adjustment of a focus position of the combined light beam on the nonlinear crystal, and an optical detector configured for measuring a power level of the light beam from the nonlinear crystal for the adjustment of the focus position of the combined light beam on the nonlinear crystal.
US08508830B1
A multi-layer optical structure includes a pixel array layer, an addressing matrix layer, and a micro lens array. The pixel array layer includes an array of quantum dot pixels for emitting an image from a first side of the multi-layer optical structure. The addressing matrix layer adjoins the pixel array layer and includes electrically conductive signal lines to individual address and activate the quantum dot pixels to generate the image. The micro lens array includes micro lenses optically aligned with the quantum dot pixels in an emission path of the image to focus the image.
US08508822B2
A communication unit transmits image data of a preceding sheet scanned to a management device communicating with a decoloring device and receives from a management device determination data which is produced by the management device based on the image data and indicates at least whether or not the preceding sheet is reusable and receives ability data of the management device or reception time indication data. A control unit conveys the preceding sheet to a predetermined conveyance destination based on the determination data and feeds sheets at a timing at which the leading end of a following sheet does not run into the tail end of the preceding sheet even if the preceding sheet is held until the determination data is received based on the ability data or the reception time indication data.
US08508821B2
A sheet feeding apparatus is disclosed that includes a plurality of size sensors configured to be arranged in line and to detect a sheet set into a predetermined position; a feeding part configured to feed the sheet set into the predetermined position to a scan position; and a controller configured to control the feeding part to feed the sheet based on two detect signals output from two size sensors among the plurality of the size sensors.
US08508815B2
A scanner with a first driving motor and a second driving motor has an improved driving structure as transmission of a driving force from one of the first and the second driving motors to the other driving motor is inhibited, thereby preventing loss of power and increased noise and vibration. The scanner may include a first driving motor, a second driving motor, an operating unit operable to move the scanning unit and configured to operate by a driving force generated from one of the first and the second driving motors and a power transmitting unit configured to transmit the driving force generated from one of the first and the second driving motors to the operating unit while disallowing transmission of the driving force between the first and the second driving motors.
US08508810B2
An image reading apparatus includes: a driving unit that drives a photoelectric conversion element by a clock; a signal generating unit that generates an analog signal; an amplification inversion unit that amplifies an alternating current component of the analog signal with an amplification factor by a setting value that is set from outside, and that switches the alternating current component between inversion and non-inversion; a signal superimposing unit that superimposes the analog image signal on an analog signal that is output from the amplification inversion unit; and a controlling unit that converts analog image signal that is superimposed by the signal superimposing unit into a digital image signal by using the analog-digital converter, and that controls the amplification factor and the inversion and non-inversion of the amplification inversion unit based on a feature amount that appears on the digital image signal.
US08508808B2
An optical scanning apparatus has: a deflection unit that scans beams emitted from a plurality of laser light sources; an imaging unit having one or more optical elements for imaging beams scanned by the deflection unit; and a supporting unit having a higher rigidity than a rigidity of the imaging unit. The supporting unit has a pair of receiving members that support the imaging unit, in a sub-scanning direction, near both ends, as seen in a main scanning direction, of the imaging unit. The optical scanning apparatus also has; a bend-adjustment unit that corrects bend. The bend-adjustment unit is disposed on the supporting unit at a plurality of positions along the main scanning direction. The optical scanning apparatus further has a free-sliding unit for securing free expansion of the imaging unit due to temperature changes thereof.
US08508805B2
An image processing apparatus capable of embedding digital watermark information in image data and capable of controlling output of the embedded digital watermark information is provided. The image processing apparatus is adapted to include: a unit for generating image data with hidden picture, embedding, in a least significant bit plane of original image data including a plurality of bit planes, at least one piece of hidden picture information and control command including specifying information for specifying a user who wants output of the original image data and user-by-user hidden picture information indicating hidden picture information to be printed on a user-by-user basis, and thereby generating image data with hidden picture; and an output control unit selecting the hidden picture information in accordance with the user based on the specifying information and the user-by-user hidden picture information, and combining and outputting a hidden picture based on the selected hidden picture information and the original image data.
US08508804B2
When at least one of first image data and second image data is captured, according to a moving speed of an object while an image sensor is capturing an image, exposure time for capturing the image is controlled to decrease a difference between object blur widths in a direction in which the object moves.
US08508803B2
An image acquiring unit reads an original and outputs whole image data of the original including a vertical streak portion corresponding to a location of a foreign material on a read surface of the reading unit. A storing unit stores therein the image data output from the image acquiring unit. A dividing unit defines an edge portion of the image data and divides the image data into vertical-streak-correction subject data and image portion data. A vertical-streak correcting unit performs a correction process on the vertical-streak-correction subject data to compensate a degradation in image quality due to the foreign material.
US08508799B2
A printing apparatus comprising a first engine for performing a print using a first print material connectable to a feed unit of a second engine for performing a print using a second print material is provided. The printing apparatus comprise a first controller configured to control the first engine and a second controller configured to control the second engine. Power control unit of the second controller configured to restrict consumption power of the image processing unit of the second controller in a case that transmitted information for the second engine from the first controller does not include the data to be processed by the second engine.
US08508792B2
In prior art, there are some occasions where functions of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern are impaired when printed on a sheet after rotation because of the level difference appearing between the density level of a latent image portion and the density level of a background portion of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern. To cope with the problem, the image processing apparatus which has a generating unit for generating copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image data and a rotation unit for rotating the generated copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image data, wherein the generating unit generates the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image data to be rotated by the rotation unit in accordance with a rotation angle in the rotation unit.
US08508791B1
A power saving apparatus and method for imaging modules in a variable data lithography system is provided. The imaging modules are arranged adjacent to each other to project a scan line of imaging data on a rotating imaging member in a variable data lithography system. The imaging module includes a look ahead buffer which stores imaging data and from which the stored data is read out for projection on the imaging member. The power saving apparatus uses an image look ahead concept to save part of the power consumed in the imaging modules in the projection mode of operation by selectively powering each laser source based on the imaging data in the look ahead buffer.
US08508790B2
An image writing system includes: a display medium displaying an image rewritably recorded according to an external force and holding the image after the external force is removed, the display medium including a memory externally readably storing capability information on a capability of displaying an image on the display medium; and a writing apparatus applying the external force to the display medium so as to write the image into the display medium, the writing apparatus including: a reading section reading the capability information from the memory; a display-capability presenting section presenting information including the capability information, a list of images to be written, and display attributes of the respective images; an image-selection accepting section accepting a selection of an image to be written into the display medium; and a writing section applying the external force to the display medium so as to write the selected image into the display medium.
US08508789B2
An image processing apparatus includes a connecting unit configured to connect the image processing apparatus to a network via which a plurality of image output devices can be connected to the image processing apparatus, an input unit configured to input image data, a specifying unit configured to specify an image processing attribute of the input unit, an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating a degree of fit between the image processing attribute of the input unit specified by the specifying unit and an image processing attribute of each of the plurality of image output devices, and a display unit configured to display a list of the plurality of image output devices with an indicator of the degree of fit based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit.
US08508788B2
An image forming apparatus is provided with a data retrieving unit that retrieves index image data and associating file information corresponding to files from a recording medium. The index image data and associating file information are allocated to a plurality of arrangement sections. The index image data and associating file information may be printed on a printing sheet in accordance with a predetermined layout. A judging unit is provided to judge whether the associating file information is less than or equal to a predetermined length. The associating file information which is longer than the predetermined length is normally printed incompletely so as to be printed within the arrangement section. A layout modifying unit is provided to modify the predetermined layout for the arrangement section if the associating file information is longer than the predetermined length so that the associating file information is printed completely on the printing sheet.
US08508768B2
Job schedulers and associated methods of scheduling jobs are disclosed. A job scheduler in one embodiment includes a job queue and a schedule processor. The job queue receives and stores a plurality of jobs to be executed on the devices, such as in a print shop. Each of the jobs defines one or more process to be performed for the job. Each of the processes in a job defines one or more operating parameters for the devices. To schedule the jobs that are stored in the job queue, the schedule processor identifies the processes from the jobs that define one or more common (i.e., the same or equivalent) operating parameters for a device. The schedule processor then schedules the jobs for execution based on the processes that define common operating parameters.
US08508737B2
A spatial frequency optical measurement instrument is provided according to the invention. The instrument includes a spatial frequency mask positioned in a light path and configured to encode light with spatial frequency information, a light receiver positioned to receive the light encoded with the spatial frequency information, wherein the light encoded with the spatial frequency information has been interacted with a sample material, and a processing system coupled to the light receiver and configured to determine a change in the spatial frequency information due to the interaction of the light with the sample material.
US08508735B2
A drive system drives a movable body, based on measurement results of a first measurement system which measures the position of the movable body in an XY plane by irradiating a measurement beam from an arm member on a grating placed on a surface parallel to the XY plane of the movable body and measurement results of a second measurement system which measures a variance of the arm member using a laser interferometer. In this case, the drive system corrects measurement errors caused due to a variance of the arm member included in the measurement results of the first measurement system, using the measurement results of the second measurement system.
US08508734B2
An annular optical device (100) includes an annular meso-optic (1) including an annulus (11) centered about an axis of revolution (A) and a secondary optical structure (2) substantially coaxial within the annulus (11). The secondary optical structure (2) and the annular meso-optic (1) are separated by a media (12) including a media refractive index that is lower than the refractive index of the secondary optical structure. The secondary optical structure (2) holds a specimen to be radiated by impinging electromagnetic radiation. Scattered radiation from the secondary optical structure (2) and within the annulus (11) of the annular meso-optic (1) is allowed into the annular meso-optic (1) if an angle of incidence of the scattered radiation exceeds a predetermined incidence threshold. The annular meso-optic (1) re-directs the scattered radiation to comprise re-directed radiation that is substantially parallel to the axis of revolution (A).
US08508727B2
An inspecting apparatus and method including first and second illuminating units for illuminating a surface of a specimen to be inspected with different incident angles and first and second detecting optical units arranged at different elevation angle directions to the surface of the specimen for detecting images of the specimen illuminated by the first and second illuminating units.
US08508724B2
A method for accurately measuring the cutoff wavelength of a high order mode of an optical fiber includes a first step of measuring power spectrum P1(λ) of light output from a light source; a second step of measuring power spectrum P2(λ) of light emitted from one end of a test fiber when light output from the light source is made incident on the other end of the test fiber placed in a form (preferably spiral) allowing the curvature to vary in the longitudinal direction thereof; a third step of obtaining difference spectrum P(λ) representing the difference between the power spectrum P2(λ) and the power spectrum P1(λ); and a fourth step of obtaining the cutoff wavelength of a high order mode of the test fiber on the basis of the difference spectrum P(λ).
US08508723B2
A system and method for measuring wind velocities are provided. A laser wind velocimeter with a radiation source includes a fiber laser. All optical signals, transmitted and received, are conveyed by optical fibers. An amplifier amplifies a source laser, which is then transmitted to one or more transceivers. The one or more transceivers, each projecting along a different axis, and each with a single optical fiber input/output interface act as both the transmission device to focus the radiation at a target region, and as the receiving system for collecting reflected radiation. The one or more transceivers transmit radiation to the target region. A portion of the reflected radiation collected by the receiving system is analyzed to determine the Doppler shift, which can me used to measure wind velocity.
US08508721B2
A multifunction light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for aircraft or other applications may use autodyne techniques. An autodyne system can use a single laser source and a single detector. The autodyne technique can mix two signal beams to produce a “beat note” at the frequency difference between the beams. Autodyne detection can leverage photon counting to support significantly reduced system complexity. Reduced complexity may provide solutions with significantly reduced power consumption, lighter weight, smaller volume, and lower cost. The multifunction LIDAR system can detect and identify regions of weather hazards such as lightning storms, aircraft wake vortex, clear air turbulence, and wind shear. The multifunction LIDAR system may also be configured to measure aircraft air and ground speed in multiple dimensions as well as aircraft altitude.
US08508719B2
Provided is a method for measuring the heights of components based on laser ranging, including the following steps of: 1) a laser ranger uniformly moving along a test route and measuring the distance from each test point to the laser ranger; 2) the laser ranger transmitting the measurement result and the measurement time to a storage unit; 3) the storage unit sending the received measurement result and the received measurement time to an analysis unit; and 4) according to the data sent by the storage unit and referring to the test route and the position of each test point, the analysis unit calculating the height of each test point and outputting it. The method of the present invention omits the time of determining the position of each point and the start-stop time of the laser ranger at each test point so that saving the large amount of the measurement time.
US08508715B2
An apparatus and method are used to form patterns on a substrate. The apparatus comprises a projection system, a patterning device, a low-pass filter, and a data manipulation device. The projection system projects a beam of radiation onto the substrate as an array of sub-beams. The patterning device modulates the sub-beams to substantially produce a requested dose pattern on the substrate. The low-pass filter operates on pattern data derived from the requested dose pattern in order to form a frequency-clipped target dose pattern that comprises only spatial frequency components below a selected threshold frequency. The data manipulation device produces a control signal comprising spot exposure intensities to be produced by the patterning device, based on a direct algebraic least-squares fit of the spot exposure intensities to the frequency-clipped target dose pattern. In various examples, filters can also be used.
US08508690B2
An optical element capable of increasing an angular field while improving luminance by condensing light, and a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display including the same. The optical element includes a light-transmitting base film; a plurality of diffusing cavities or convex diffusing structures formed in one surface of the base film to diffuse light entering the base film; and a light-condensing pattern formed in the surface of the base film where the diffusing cavities or convex diffusing structures are formed so as to condense incident light.
US08508687B2
A display device has a display panel, a backlight adjacent a first surface of the panel, a blocker adjacent a second surface of the panel, and at least one bracket between the panel and backlight. An edge of the second surface of the panel is exposed, the first and second surfaces are substantially parallel, at least one bracket is coupled to the first surface without overlapping an active region of the panel that displays an image, and the blocker does not overlap the active region of the panel and overlaps the bracket along an axis passing through the panel. The blocker is visible at a position in front of the panel.
US08508684B2
A backlight module includes a tray, a light guide plate, a lighting device, and an optical film set. The tray includes a bottom plate and a side wall connecting an edge of the bottom plate. The side wall includes a plurality of wall portions connected to one another. Some of the wall portions are perpendicular to the bottom plate, and the others are parallel to the bottom plate. The light guide plate is disposed on the bottom plate. The lighting device is disposed at a light incident side of the light guide plate. The optical film set disposed on the light guide plate leans against the side wall.
US08508681B2
The various embodiments include variable optical transmission devices with uniform or patterned polarizers or wave retarders configured to provide continuous or nearly continuous variations in light transmission based on linear translation. For example, embodiments include a variable transmission window including a first uniform polarizer with a first polarization axis, a second uniform polarizer with a second polarization axis, a first patterned wave retarder positioned between the first and second polarizers and including a first plurality of domains configured to vary in at least one of optic axis, thickness, or birefringence, and a second patterned wave retarder positioned between the first and second polarizers and including a second plurality of domains configured to vary in at least one of optic axis, thickness, or birefringence. The first or second wave retarder is configured to be linearly translatable relative to the other wave retarder.
US08508674B2
An optically intelligent image sensing device is provided. By applying different potentials across different electrode sections in the image sensing device, the electric field profiles of the corresponding liquid crystal layer sections bend the lights passing through the liquid crystal layer sections in a predetermined manner. In one embodiment, all of a certain color light entering the image sensing device can be bent towards a color filter for the specific color, thereby entering the light sensor for the specific color light. Accordingly, the optically intelligent image sensing device has improved optical efficiency. An arrangement for an array of different electrode and light sensing sections in the image sensing device is also provided as an example for how each electrode may be connected to the optically intelligent image sensing device control signals. An example using the present optically intelligent image sensing device to improve the optical efficiency of an image capturing device is also described.
US08508668B2
One or more processors and/or circuits receive a composite video signal and determine a current pixel and a plurality of reference pixels. A plurality of weighting factors corresponding to the reference pixels are determined utilizing non-local means. Chroma components and/or luma components for the current pixel are determined based on weighted least squares utilizing the reference pixels, the weighting factors and information known about the composite signal, for example, sub carrier information. The composite video signal may comprise baseband Y and modulated Cb and/or Cr components. Weighting factors are determined by comparing a block of pixels about the current pixel with a block of pixels about the corresponding reference pixels in a current, previous or future frame. A set of equations comprising reference pixel data, a set of weighting factors and/or the known information may be solved to the determine signal components.
US08508664B2
The present invention provides a method for monitoring another video source in addition to a current video source. One method according to the present invention comprises outputting a first video signal provided from a first contents source (for example, a broadcasting channel) and displaying a video from a second video signal provided from a second contents source intermittently with a video from the first video signal on a single screen. During the displaying, a multi-view displaying operation, in which the video from the second video signal is displayed together with the video from the first video signal on the single screen for a first time period, and a single-view displaying operation, in which the video from the first video signal is displayed alone on the single screen for a second time period longer than the first time period, are repeated in an alternate manner.
US08508660B2
The present invention provides de-interlacing methods and related apparatuses. One of the proposed de-interlacing methods includes edge detection of a target region corresponding to a target position. When the target region is assumed to include an edge that is considered stationary, and if the target position is on a stationary side of the edge, then a pixel value for the target position is generated by inter-field interpolation.
US08508658B2
An electronic apparatus includes an operation member which can be rotated and operated in two directions from a neutral position, a holding member configured to rotatably hold the operation member, a rotation limiting member configured to limit a rotational range of the operation member by abutting the operation member, an elastic member having a first portion which is fixed to the holding member and a second portion which engages with a part of the operation member and configured to elastically deform by rotating the operation member from the neutral position, and an abutment member configured to abut the second portion of the elastic member before the rotation limiting member limits the rotational range of the operation member.
US08508654B1
A camera including a first queue, a second queue, and a processor. The processor is generally coupled to the first queue and the second queue. The processor embodies routines that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to (i) record a first topology in the first queue and a second topology in the second queue and (ii) compare the first topology with the second topology. Recording of the second topology is generally started after the first topology is completely recorded. A focus of the camera is automatically adjusted based upon one or more similarities between the first topology and the second topology.
US08508650B2
An image pickup system includes an image pickup apparatus and a mount adaptor that adjusts a flange focal length between the image pickup apparatus and an interchangeable lens. The mount adaptor includes a phase-difference focus detection unit that can output a first phase-difference focus detection signal, and an optical device that separates first incident light into second and third incident light. The first incident light is transmitted from the interchangeable lens. The second incident light enters the image pickup apparatus. The third incident light enters the phase-difference focus detection unit. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device that can output a second phase-difference focus detection signal, and a controller that selects either of the first phase-difference focus detection signal and the second phase-difference focus detection signal on the basis of satisfaction of a predetermined condition and performs focusing.
US08508647B2
The module connector can accommodate a miniaturized module such as a camera module and reliably fix the module in an electrically connected state, and make the connector itself in lower profile. With this connector (100), a housing (110) has a concave container (110a) that accommodates an inserted camera module (200) in which a plurality of pads are disposed its bottom face. A contact (130) has: an arm (131) that projects from the bottom face of the container (110a) to the interior of the container (110a) and that elastically deforms; and, at the tip of the arm (131), a contact point part (133) that is swingable in the insertion direction of the camera module (200) by means of elastic deformation of the arm (131) and that contacts a pad. A shield cover (120) is attached to the housing (110) detachably covering the accommodating part (110a) and abuts on an upper face (211) of the camera module (200) urged in a direction opposite to the insertion direction by the arms (131) of the contacts (130), to sandwich the camera module (200) in combination with the contacts (130).
US08508644B2
An imaging apparatus includes a display unit capable of being displaced between a non use state and a use state in such a manner that a display surface displaying an image of a subject is directed at least to the subject or a user in the use state, and a display control unit that inverts a direction in a vertical direction of the image of the subject displayed on the display surface in response to an operation on an operation member when the display unit is in the use state and cancels the inversion when the display unit is in the non use state.
US08508640B2
According to one embodiment, a back side illumination type solid-state imaging device includes an imaging area in which a plurality of unit pixels each including a photoelectric conversion section and a signal scan circuit section are arranged on a semiconductor substrate, and a light illumination surface formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate located opposite a surface of the semiconductor substrate on which the signal scan circuit section is formed, wherein the unit pixel comprises a high-sensitivity pixel and a low-sensitivity pixel with a lower sensitivity than the high-sensitivity pixel. And each of the high-sensitivity pixel and the low-sensitivity element comprises a first pixel separation layer located on the light illumination surface side in the semiconductor substrate to separate the pixels from each other.
US08508639B2
A back-illuminated type MOS (metal-oxide semiconductor) solid-state image pickup device 32 in which micro pads 34, 37 are formed on the wiring layer side and a signal processing chip 33 having micro pads 35, 38 formed on the wiring layer at the positions corresponding to the micro pads 34, 37 of the MOS solid-state image pickup device 32 are connected by micro bumps 36, 39. In a semiconductor module including the MOS type solid-state image pickup device, at the same time an image processing speed can be increased, simultaneity within the picture can be realized and image quality can be improved, a manufacturing process can be facilitated, and a yield can be improved. Also, it becomes possible to decrease a power consumption required when all pixels or a large number of pixels is driven at the same time.
US08508638B2
The present invention describes in detail the solid-state image sensor, specifically the image sensors pixel that has three transistors, high sensitivity, low reset noise, and low dark current. Low reset noise is achieved by parametrically changing the voltage dependent capacitance of the charge detection node in such a manner that during reset the charge detection node capacitance is low while during sensing and integration cycles the charge detection node capacitance is high. This feature thus results in high dynamic range, which is important for sensors using very small pixels. The low dark current generation is achieved by quenching the interface states by placing a p+ implant near the silicon-silicon dioxide interface.
US08508637B2
Disclosed are an image sensor and a local binning method in which binning is applied selectively. For example, binning is applied to pixels having low illumination and binning is not applied to non-low illumination pixels. Information on pixels having low illumination for a first image frame may be stored and used to perform binning with respect to areas of a second image frame corresponding to low illumination pixel areas determined with respect to the first image frame.
US08508636B2
An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensor having a plurality of pixels and a control unit configured to control the image sensor. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert light into an electric charge, an amplifier configured to amplify accumulated electric charge, a transfer switch configured to input a signal of the photoelectric conversion element to the amplifier when being turned on, a reset switch configured to reset the input to the amplifier when being turned on, and a selection switch configured to output an output from the amplifier to a signal output line when being turned on.
US08508633B2
An imaging device (100) includes: an imaging element (103) obtained by repeatedly arranging a pixel W for entire wavelength band, a W-R pixel for R, a W-G pixel for G, and a W-B pixel for B; a filter (102) configured such that a portion corresponding to the pixel W allows the entire wavelength band of a wavelength band within a certain range to pass and portions corresponding to the W-R pixel, the W-G pixel, and the W-B pixel reflect wavelength bands of corresponding colors, respectively; a reflection amount calculating unit (113) for calculating signal values of R, G, and B by subtracting a value of an image reading signal of each of the W-R pixel, the W-G pixel, and the W-B pixel from a value of an image reading signal of the pixel W.
US08508630B2
An electronic camera includes: an image sensor having a charge transfer unit that transfers an electric charge for each pixel column; a correction unit that corrects an electric charge signal outputted from the charge transfer unit using a correction coefficient; and a control unit that controls the correction unit so that the correction coefficient is different according to operational conditions of the image sensor.
US08508628B2
According to one embodiment, a back side illumination solid-state image sensing device which comprises a pixel region where a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric converter and a signal scanning circuit are arranged on a semiconductor substrate, and in which a light illumination surface is formed on a substrate surface opposite to a surface of the semiconductor substrate on which the signal scanning circuit is formed, includes a silicon oxide film formed on the semiconductor substrate on the light illumination surface side, a p-type amorphous silicon compound layer formed on the silicon oxide film, and a hole storage layer formed by the p-type amorphous silicon compound layer near an interface between the semiconductor substrate on the light illumination surface side and the silicon oxide film.
US08508627B2
An imaging unit outputs a video signal at a frame rate higher than a standard frame rate. During a zoom operation period or a period including the zoom operation period and periods before and after the zoom operation, a video signal from the imaging unit is recorded in a recording medium at a high recording frame rate. Other than this period, a video signal is recorded in the recording medium at the standard frame rate. The recording frame rate and zoom operation information is recorded as metadata in the recording medium. During reproduction, based on a set reproduction mode, thinning processing is carried out on a video signal recorded during a zoom operation, and the processed signal is output at the standard frame rate. In this way, it is possible to change a frame rate in view of a photographer's intention and assure compatibility with existing viewing and reproduction environments.
US08508625B2
A processing circuit which generates a plurality of signals of different frequency bands from a signal and which suppresses noise by synthesizing the signals of different frequency bands and a generation circuit which generates a signal in which an aliasing signal is suppressed are provided. A signal of the highest frequency band among the signals of different frequency bands to be synthesized with one another by the processing circuit includes the signal which is generated by the generation circuit and in which generation of aliasing signals is suppressed.
US08508615B2
A projection system uses a transformation matrix to transform a projection image p in such a manner so as to compensate for surface irregularities on a projection surface. The transformation matrix makes use of properties of light transport relating a projector to a camera. A display pipeline of user-supplied image modification processing modules are reduced by first representing the processing modules as multiple, individual matrix operations. All the matrix operations are then combined with, i.e., multiplied to, the transformation matrix to create a modified transformation matrix. The created transformation matrix is then used in place of the original transformation matrix to simultaneously achieve both image transformation and any pre and post image processing defined by the image modification processing modules.
US08508612B2
The present disclosure provides techniques relates to the implementation of a raw pixel processing unit using a set of line buffers. In one embodiment, the set of line buffers may include a first subset and second subset. Various logical units of the raw pixel processing unit may be implemented using the first and second subsets of line buffers in a shared manner. For instance, in one embodiment, defective pixel correction and detection logic may be implemented using the first subset of line buffers. The second subset of line buffers may be used to implement lens shading correction logic, gain, offset, and clamping logic, and demosaicing logic. Further, noise reduction may also be implemented using at least a portion of each of the first and second subsets of line buffers.
US08508610B2
By setting an area for displaying OSD data, a high-intensity part of this area is highlighted and an area which is not to be highlighted is set. Also, by performing translucent display of the OSD data and natural-image data, an area which is not to be highlighted can be set.
US08508605B2
A method and device are provided for method for stabilization of image data by an imaging device. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting image data for a first frame and a second frame, performing motion estimation to determine one or more motion vectors associated with global frame motion for image data of the first frame, performing an outlier rejection function to select at least one of the one or more motion vectors, and determining a global transformation for image data of the first frame based, at least in part, on motion vectors selected by the outlier rejection function. The method may further include determining a stabilization transformation for image data of the first frame by refining the global transformation to correct for unintentional motion and applying the stabilization transformation to image data of the first frame to stabilize the image data of the first frame.
US08508596B2
A sensor system detection device for detecting quality of a sensor system includes a first connector electrically connected to the sensor system, a second connector; a display unit, a controller and an encoder. A first terminal of the encoder is connected to the first connector to receive first image data from the sensor system. A second terminal of the encoder is connected to the display unit via the second connector. A third terminal of the encoder is connected to the controller. The controller controls the encoder to transform the first image into second image data matching with the display unit. The second image data is transferred to the display unit.
US08508589B2
Imaging systems and methods for generating images of a sample wherein the system comprises an illumination source for illuminating the sample; an image viewing subsystem for capturing images from the sample; one or more liquid crystal panels and one or more birefringent elements, which are positioned between the sample and the image viewing subsystem, so that the images from the sample pass through the liquid crystal panels and the birefringent elements before reaching the image viewing subsystem; a device that changes one or more polarization states of the liquid crystal panels; and a controller that is configured to cause the device to change the polarization states of the liquid crystal panels.
US08508588B2
The present invention is directed to method and system for image processing of test wells on a microplates wherein the microplates' test well wall boundaries are identified through the use of a candidate edge image wherein the candidate edge image represents locations of one or more segments of the wall boundaries.
US08508579B2
A method for controlling moving picture encoding using channel information of wireless networks is provided. By the method, it is possible to use a pre-verified standard technology in the prescription of a stereoscopic image file format, thereby simplifying a verification procedure for a new standard. Also, it is possible to use a new a stereoscopic image file format, thereby selecting, generating, and reproducing either of a 2D image file or a 3D stereoscopic image file. In particular, according to a system and a method for using a file format used to generate a 3D stereoscopic image, it is possible to reproduce and display a caption in the form of a 2D image during reproduction of the 3D stereoscopic image, thereby reducing eyestrain of a user, and additionally providing an image such as news, or an advertisement, to a user.
US08508577B2
An arrangement of a panoramic video is obtained by applying navigation commands to said panoramic video. The navigation commands are formed either by navigation commands given at will by the user, or by predefined navigation commands associated with said panoramic video. The choice of the type of navigation command used at a given instant is controlled either automatically or by the user. In this way, it is avoided that a user loses the thread of the action while permitting free navigation through a panoramic video.
US08508575B2
A television system, comprising: a television set including a display and an input adapted to receive a television signal and a video conferencing signal, wherein the display is configured to display a television picture corresponding to the television signal and further configured to display a video conferencing picture of a video conference, the television set further including a first speaker adapted to output a audio signal of the video conference and a television sound signal included in said television signal, the television set further including a first microphone adapted to be used for said video conference; a remote control adapted to control the television set and including a second speaker and a second microphone; wherein the first speaker is adapted to output said audio signal and/or said television sound signal depending on a video conferencing mode; and wherein the second speaker is adapted to be switched on or off depending on said video conferencing mode; and wherein the first and second microphones are adapted to be selectively activated depending on said video conferencing mode.
US08508573B2
A communication system that may be integrated or otherwise combined with a piece of furniture, such as a conference table, desk or credenza. The communication system may provide a combination of audio, video, telephony, presentation and/or other conferencing functions and may include a number of separate user modules, a control module, a display module and a network connection. According to an exemplary embodiment, each of the separate user modules is a compact device that is integrated into the piece of furniture and includes a button that, when activated, allows a user to take control of certain aspects of the communication system. For example, a user may take over the display module or the information that is sent via the network connection by activating their user module.
US08508569B2
A method of communication with a remote user provided with a videocommunication terminal includes: establishing a communication session with the user's videocommunication terminal; loading a web page associated with the communication session, the loaded web page including at least one portion defining a respective association between at least one browsing action to be performed on the loaded web page and at least one predefined user interaction with the videocommunication terminal; rendering the loaded web page and forming an image corresponding to the rendered loaded web page; video-encoding the formed image so as to create an encoded video, and transmitting the encoded video to the user's videocommunication terminal; concurrently with the transmitting of the encoded video, receiving information related to a predefined user interaction with the videocommunication terminal; retrieving from the loaded web page the browsing action associated with the predefined user interaction with the videocommunication terminal; and executing the retrieved browsing action.
US08508559B2
A method of driving a light source includes converting a reference luminance value of the light source to a first just noticeable difference (JND) value. The JND value represents a minimum noticeable difference between two stimuli. A target luminance value lower than the reference luminance value is determined using the first JND value. A first driving signal applied to the light source is generated using the target luminance value so that a user may not notice a luminance change when a luminance value of a light source is decreased in order to decrease power consumption of a display apparatus.
US08508558B2
A color temperature adjusting device includes a display unit that displays a first pointer indicating default values of chromaticity x, y and a second pointer indicating an adjustment value of the chromaticity x, y within a frame in a corresponding manner to scales of the x coordinate and the y coordinate marked on the frame, an operating unit that is used to change the x coordinate and/or the y coordinate of the second pointer, and a control unit that sends out the adjustment value indicated by the second pointer by an operation of the operating unit, to the monitor through a communication processing unit, and in a case where the monitor changes the color temperature, receives the values of the chromaticity x, y from the monitor through the communication processing unit so as to reflect and display the values of the chromaticity x, y on the display unit.
US08508557B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display and a method of driving the same. The OLED display includes a driving circuit for generating a plurality of data signals and a plurality of scan signals based on image information stored in a memory. The driving circuit receives an inactive state signal generated when the image information is a still image, generates only a plurality of scan signals and a plurality of data signals corresponding to a light emitting region in which the still image is displayed, and transfers the generated scan and data signals to a plurality of corresponding data lines and a plurality of corresponding scan lines, respectively.
US08508551B1
Rendering graphics on a display of a device. In a portable or wireless device, a list of instructions needed to refresh or generate a frame is first created. The created instructions are then parsed or optimized to remove instructions that result in unnecessary processing instructions. The optimized list is then executed. During generation of a given frame, a view hierarchy is traversed to identify damaged portions of a display. The damaged portions are not copied to the frame. Also, information that has not changed is likewise not usually copied. Damage from the previous frame less damage from the current frame is copied to the appropriate buffer. The instructions are optimized to render only the portion of the frame that is necessary. Portions of the display that are not visible are not traversed in the view hierarchy and are not considered until visible on the display.
US08508544B1
A method and system for selective enablement of tile compression. The method includes receiving a graphics primitive for processing in a set-up unit of a graphics processor and determining a primitive characteristic that indicates a probability of whether a final compression of a tile related to the primitive will be retained. Compression for the tile related to the primitive is allowed when the characteristic indicates the final compression will be retained. Compression for the tile related to the primitive is disallowed in the characteristic indicates the final compression will not be retained.
US08508543B2
Various technologies for a layered texture compression architecture. In one implementation, the layered texture compression architecture may include a texture consumption pipeline. The texture compression pipeline may include a processor, memory devices, and textures compressed at varying ratios of compression. The textures within the pipeline may be compressed at ratios in accordance with characteristics of the devices in the pipeline that contains and processes the textures.
US08508533B2
Processes, machines, and computer-readable media are provided for expanding and simplifying a polygon or reducing and simplifying a polygon. Polygon expanding or reducing logic receives information that represents a polygon having a set of vertices. The polygon expanding or reducing logic determines another polygon having another set of vertices, such that the other polygon encompasses or is encompassed by the polygon, by determining, for each vertex of the set of vertices, a new set of vertices that are derived from the vertex and are at least a particular distance outside or inside the polygon. The vertex reducing logic determines whether an intermediate vertex is within the particular distance of a proposed segment between two other vertices of the other set of vertices, even though the intermediate vertex is not on the proposed segment, and, if so, removing the intermediate vertex from the other set of vertices.
US08508530B2
An electrocardiogram (ECG) chart device and method capable of easily assisting with the diagnosis of heart disease. Hexagonal radar charts displayed on a screen act as indicators of feature values corresponding to data obtained from each of 12 electrode leads and correlated with the related portions of the heart. For example, a (V1, V2) lead is an indicator of a right ventricle. Each of the radar charts is schematically arranged to correspond with the related portion of the heart. Each vertex of the hexagonal radar charts acts as an indicator of the recognized value. More specifically, each vertex of the radar chart is based on a value obtained by extracting a waveform critical point, a waveform start point, a waveform end point, or the like, of constituent elements of the ECG waveform as the P wave, the Q wave, the R wave, the S wave, the ST segment, the T wave, or the like. Therefore, a user of the ECG radar chart device can intuitively and easily carry out interpretation of ECG data.
US08508529B2
A method of creating a three dimensional (3D ) model which demonstrates two or three images. The method comprises rendering first and second (and optionally third) images, adjust the plurality of primitives along a first axis of the 3D space according to the first image and along a second axis of the 3D space according to the second image (and optionally, and along a third axis of the 3D space according to the third image), and creating a 3D model which demonstrates the first and second (and optionally third) images according to the plurality of adjusted primitives in the 3D space. The first and second (and optionally third) axes are independent view directions.
US08508524B2
An integrated method of detecting an image defect in an LCD screen consists in verifying the consumption of current on a power supply bus of the image display means (row driver 20, column driver 30, counter electrode CE), during capacitive charges or discharges of the selection lines Li and/or columns ColRj. The method comprises the integration of a current measurement chain comprising a measurement resistor Rm on the power supply bus and measurement 41 and comparison 42 circuits providing outside the screen a detection signal Sd which is processed by an external circuit for safety management.
US08508515B2
A buffering circuit with reduced power consumption is provided. The output buffering circuit includes first and second amplifier circuits. The first amplifier circuit includes a first input stage and a first output stage both coupled between a first power voltage and a second power voltage lower than the first power voltage, and an assistant discharging unit configured to provide a discharging current flowing from a first output node to a first intermediate power voltage during a discharging operation of the first amplifier circuit. The second amplifier circuit includes a second input stage and a second output stage both coupled between the first power voltage and the second power voltage, and an assistant charging unit configured to provide a charging current flowing from a second intermediate power voltage to a second output node during a charging operation of the second amplifier circuit. The first and second amplifier circuits can have reduced output voltage ranges and hence reduced total power consumption.
US08508502B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of circuits and methods in a capacitive touchscreen system that eliminate the need to digitize an entire array of pixel signals obtained from a touchscreen. Instead, regions of interest, or projections of object or touch signal clusters, from touchscreen 90 are employed to encode the coordinates or positions of objects or touches in an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Encoding of object positions occurs during digitization of the analog signal clusters, which eliminates the need to separately digitize individual touchscreen signals. The disclosed circuits and methods reduce the number of signal processor channels that might otherwise be required, and lead to power consumption reduction in the capacitive touchscreen system, as well as in reducing the area required to implement the circuit architecture in an integrated circuit.
US08508498B2
Systems, methods and devices for identifying characters for a display are generally described. An example system may include a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and an input device coupled to the processor. The input device may include a plurality of input members, where one or more of the input members may have a plurality of characters associated therewith. The processor may be adapted to execute computer implemented instructions to identify an occurrence of a touch force being applied to an input member, determine a particular character from the plurality of characters that is associated with the applied touch force, and/or send the identified character to a display unit. The character may be determined based at least in part on the one or more properties of the applied touch force.
US08508497B2
A touch screen can be used in a communication device having a transceiver that communicates radio frequency (RF) signals. The touch screen includes a display layer for displaying information. An inductor grid includes a plurality of inductive elements. A switch matrix selects one of the inductive elements in response to a selection signal in a first mode of operation, and couples together a group of inductive elements to form an antenna in a second mode of operation. A dual mode driver generates the selection signal and, in the first mode of operation, drives the selected inductive element to detect a touch object in proximity to the selected inductive element and generates touch screen data in response thereto. In a second mode of operation, the dual mode driver couples the antenna formed by the group of inductive elements to the transceiver to send and receive the RF signals.
US08508496B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) with a built-in touch panel includes an LCD unit, a touch panel and a second polarized plate. The LCD unit includes a lower substrate, an upper substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a first polarized plate. The upper substrate is disposed opposite to the lower substrate, and the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. The first polarized plate is disposed on the lower substrate and has a first polarized direction. The touch panel is disposed opposite to the LCD unit. The second polarized plate having a second polarized direction is disposed on the touch panel and located between the LCD unit and the touch panel. An intensity of a reflected light occurred in the LCD with the built-in touch panel is relatively low, so that good contrast and visibility are obtained.
US08508495B2
A touch screen including display pixels with capacitive elements is provided. The touch screen includes first common voltage lines connecting capacitive elements in adjacent display pixels, and a second common voltage line connecting first common voltage lines. The pixels can be formed as electrically separated regions by including breaks in the common voltage lines. The regions can include a drive region that is stimulated by stimulation signals, a sense region that receives sense signals corresponding to the stimulation signals. A grounded region can also be included, for example, between a sense region and a drive region. A shield layer can be formed of a substantially high resistance material and disposed to shield a sense region. A black mask line and conductive line under the black mask line can be included, for example, to provide low-resistance paths between a region of pixels and touch circuitry outside the touch screen borders.
US08508492B2
In a touch panel, one of conductive layers on a bottom of an upper substrate and on a top of a lower substrate is formed of belt-shaped conductive layers. The other is a single conductive layer facing the belt-shaped conductive layers. The single conductive layer is provided with a pair of electrodes in positions corresponding to both ends in a direction where the belt-shaped conductive layers extend. When the upper substrate is pressed while a voltage is applied between the pair of electrodes, the top and lower conductive layers contact with each other. Then, a voltage value corresponding to the pressed position in the direction where the belt-shaped conductive layers extend is generated from any of the belt-shaped conductive layers. From the voltage value and the position of the belt-shaped conductive layer from which the voltage value is generated, a pressed position on the upper substrate can be detected.
US08508491B2
Disclosed is an information input device including a touch panel in which a display screen for displaying operations information is integrated with a sensor unit and to which the operations information is input when the display screen is touched with a predetermined unit, the sensor unit having plural sensors, which are capable of measuring a capacitance at a front surface of the display screen, arranged in a staggered manner such that three of the plural sensors adjacent to each other are arranged at positions corresponding to apices of a regular triangle; and a position determination unit that determines a position touched with the predetermined unit on the display screen in accordance with levels of the capacitances detected with the three adjacent sensors in a region of the regular triangle formed by the three adjacent sensors among the plural sensors constituting the sensor unit.
US08508486B2
A handheld device includes at least two sections that are substantially mechanically isolated. Each section includes an actuator that generates haptic effects. The haptic effects generated by an actuator in one section are substantially isolated to that section so that, for example, directional haptic effects can be generated on the handheld device.
US08508484B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a liquid crystal display device, including a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first sensor electrode formed on the first substrate; a second sensor electrode formed on the second substrate, and disposed so as to be adapted to contact the plurality of first sensor electrodes close to one another by pressing from a side of either the first substrate or the second substrate; and a sensor drive circuit for applying a voltage to a first wiring electrically connected to one of the plurality of first sensor electrodes which the second sensor electrode is adapted to contact by the pressing, and detecting a change in potential of a second wiring electrically connected to another one of the plurality of first sensor electrodes.
US08508480B2
A handheld device comprising a first portion and a second portion rotatably coupled to the first portion. The handheld device is movable between an opened configuration and a closed configuration. A non-flush navigation button is coupled to one of the first and the second portion wherein the non-flush navigation button is disposed in a position that is accessible for manipulation in both the opened and the closed configurations.
US08508474B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a position detecting device that allows simultaneous use by a plurality of users by recognizing positional information about a plurality of pointers and associating the pointers and the users. A position detecting device of the invention includes a rear projector that projects an image, a projection screen that displays the image projected from the rear projector, imaging means that is located near the rear projector and that takes an image of light rays emitted from pointers, from the rear of the projection screen, and coordinate calculating means that analyzes the image taken by the imaging means to detect the two-dimensional positions in the detection areas where the light rays from the pointers are detected.
US08508473B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device which is capable of suitably switching between hardware buttons and an electrostatic pad such as a touch panel, depending on the operating circumstances of a user. In a cellular phone, judgment is made as to an application, which is an operation target for the user, and, in accordance with the application judged, an input device control section is able to switch between accepting inputs from an electrostatic pad input acceptance section and accepting inputs from a hardware button input acceptance section, depending on the application thus judged by a CPU.
US08508472B1
An apparatus and method for the remote control and/or interaction-with electronic-devices such as computers; home-entertainment-systems; media-centers; televisions; DVD-players; VCR-players; music systems; appliances; security systems; toys/games; and/or displays. A user may orient a pointer (e.g., laser pointer) to place a pointer-spot on/near object(s) on an active-display(s); and/or a fixed-display(s); and/or on real-world object(s) within a display region or pointer-spot detection-region. Detectors, imager(s) and/or camera(s) may be connected/attached to the display region and/or a structure that is connected/attached to display region. When the user initiates a “select”, the detectors/cameras may detect the location of the pointer-spot within the display region. Corresponding to the user's selection(s); control action(s) may be performed on the device(s) being controlled/interacted-with and additional selection-menus may be optionally presented on an active-display.
US08508465B2
A method is set forth for automatically adjusting display brightness on a mobile electronic device having a light sensor, display screen and orientation sensor, for legibility under varying lighting conditions and orientations of the device. The method includes obtaining light level samples from the light sensor, and orientation from the orientation sensor, and adjusting backlight intensity of the display responsive to the light level samples and orientation of the device. Preferably, backlight adjustments are made from dim to bright notwithstanding orientation of the device whereas adjustments from bright to dim are made only for orientations of the device where the light sensor is unlikely to be covered.
US08508445B2
A display device includes: a pixel array including pixel circuits arranged in a matrix state, in which each pixel circuit has a light emitting element, a drive transistor, and a storage capacitor storing a threshold voltage of the drive transistor and an inputted signal value; a threshold correction operation means for performing a threshold correction operation plural times, which allows the storage capacitor to store the threshold voltage of the drive transistor before giving the signal value to the storage capacitor; and a cut-off control means for allowing the drive transistor to be cut off in at least one after-correction period and for allowing the drive transistor not to be cut off in at least one after-correction period in plural after-correction periods which are periods after the plural threshold correction operation periods.
US08508441B2
A self-luminescent display device includes a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels including a self-luminescent pixel is arranged, an external light sensor which measures an external light intensity, a temperature sensor which measures an environmental temperature, an image correcting unit which corrects image data input to the image correcting unit on the basis of statistical data of the image data, a light adjusting unit which produces a light adjusting signal on the basis of a measurement signal of the external light sensor, a temperature control unit which produces a temperature correcting signal on the basis of a measurement signal of the temperature sensor, and a display control unit which produces a brightness correcting signal for correcting light emitting brightness of the pixels in the pixel unit on the basis of the light adjusting signal and the temperature correcting signal. The light emitting brightness of the pixels in the pixel unit is adjusted on the basis of the image data corrected by the image correcting unit and the brightness correcting signal.
US08508440B2
An organic light emitting display, and a method for driving an organic light emitting display and a pixel circuit capable of improving a uniformity of a luminance. In the organic light emitting display, a scan driver sequentially supplies a scan signal to a plurality of scan lines during each of a plurality of sub-frames included in one frame. A data driver applies a data voltage to a plurality of data lines during at least one light emitting sub-frame of the plurality of sub-frames included in the one frame, and applies a voltage corresponding to a black gradation to the plurality of data lines during at least one non-light emitting sub-frame of the plurality of sub-frames included in the one frame. A pixel portion displays an image according to the scan signal supplied to the plurality of scan lines and according to the data voltage and the voltage corresponding to the black gradation applied to the plurality of data lines.
US08508433B2
Various configurations of an electronic display, and devices incorporating the display, are provided. The display may have multiple portions connected along one or more axes, lines, points, or other connecting areas. The portions are movable about the connections. In various configurations, the display portions emulate different media and/or communication and computing devices. Two or more of the display devices may be coupled in an array.
US08508425B2
Provided is a patch antenna, an antenna unit and an antenna apparatus that can increase the directional gain of a patch antenna at a high angle of elevation and that can make the directional gain of a patch antenna at a given angle of elevation uniform at all azimuth angles. Patch antenna 11 has patch antenna main body 40 having antenna electrode 43 on its top surface, and a waveguide 60 mounted on the top surface of patch antenna main body 40. Waveguide 60 has top plate 62 having a larger flat surface than patch antenna main body 40 and having L-shaped slot 621 on the flat surface, and spacer 61 provided between the top surface of patch antenna main body 40 and top plate 62 and separating antenna electrode 43 and top plate 62 a predetermined distance apart.
US08508420B2
An antenna device and a wireless communication apparatus that are capable of obtaining a plurality of resonant frequencies and varying the plurality of resonant frequencies over a wide range are provided. A first antenna unit of an antenna device includes a feed electrode, a first radiation electrode, and a first frequency-variable circuit. The first frequency-variable circuit includes first and second reactance circuits each including a variable-capacitance diode. A control voltage is applied to the first frequency-variable circuit, and the resonant frequency of the first antenna unit can thus be varied. A second antenna unit includes the feed electrode, a second radiation electrode, and a second frequency-variable circuit. The second frequency-variable circuit includes first and third reactance circuits each including a variable-capacitance diode. A control voltage is applied to the second frequency-variable circuit, and the resonant frequency of the second antenna unit can thus be varied.
US08508419B2
An antenna system connectable to a vehicle includes a primary antenna, a primary data transmission line, a secondary antenna, a secondary data transmission line, and an RF device. The primary antenna is connected to the vehicle and is located in an exterior environment. The secondary antenna is connected to the vehicle and is located in one of the exterior environment and an interior cabin of the vehicle. The primary data transmission line transmits a first RF signal and is in communication with the primary antenna. The secondary data transmission line transmits a secondary RF signal and is in communication with the secondary antenna. The fixed RF device is connected to the vehicle and is in communication with the primary data transmission line and the secondary data transmission line to provide an output RF signal.
US08508417B2
A dielectric base of an antenna element has a first external terminal at a position substantially corresponding to a node of voltage-distribution distribution of a harmonic wave distributed in a feeding radiation electrode and a second external terminal at a position substantially corresponding to a node of voltage-distribution distribution of a harmonic wave distributed in a non-feeding radiation electrode. A substrate has a ground electrode and a first external-terminal electrode to which the first external terminal is connected. An extension element extends from the first external-terminal electrode so as to be separated from the ground electrode.
US08508414B2
An electrical signal connecting unit includes a predetermined length of a soft connector body; a path pattern formed along one path on the connector body, with a plurality of pattern portions thereof extending in different path directions; and an antenna disposed on the path pattern, opposite ends of the antenna protruding through opposite ends of the connector body. A length of antenna is easily disposed inside a mobile communication device having the electrical signal connecting unit and an antenna device even if the mobile communication device has a plurality of boards.
US08508413B2
An antenna includes a ground plane, a dielectric disposed on the ground plane, and an electrically-conductive radiator disposed on the dielectric. The dielectric includes at least one layer of a first dielectric material and a second dielectric material that collectively define a dielectric geometric pattern, which may comprise a fractal geometry. The radiator defines a radiator geometric pattern, and the dielectric geometric pattern is geometrically identical, or substantially geometrically identical, to the radiator geometric pattern.
US08508402B2
The invention relates to a system and method for detecting, locating and identifying objects located above ground or below ground in an area of interest, comprising an airborne vehicle which circumscribes the area of interest and which includes a built-in radar having an antenna with a respective transmitter and receiver, signal-processing means, data-storage means and graphical interface means. According to the invention, the area of interest has been pre-referenced and the radar is a heterodyne ground penetration radar (GPR). The signal transmitted by the antenna generates a beam that illuminates a strip of earth, consisting of a sinusoidal electromagnetic signal having a frequency that is varied in precise pre-determined progressive steps. This signal is mixed with the received (reflected) signal, thereby producing two sets of values corresponding to the phases of each frequency step or stage. Said sets of values, which are obtained throughout successive sweeps (as the antenna moves), are stored in the storage means and subsequently processed in the processing means in order to obtain a final map or image of the location of the objects above ground or below ground.
US08508398B1
A system for a successive-approximation-register analog-to-digital-converter (SAR ADC) includes a first capacitive digital-to-analog converter (DAC), first and second conversion control modules, and an SAR control module. The first capacitive DAC has a size less than a second DAC of the SAR ADC. The first conversion control module generates first and second signals for a comparator of the SAR ADC based on outputs of the first and second capacitive DACs and an analog input signal. The second conversion control module generates third and fourth signals for the SAR control module of the SAR ADC based on outputs of the comparator. The SAR control is configured to (i) control the first and second conversion control modules during a full conversion and a following partial conversion, (ii) determine an offset of the comparator, and (iii) control the SAR ADC based on the determined comparator offset.
US08508393B2
An analog-to-digital conversion apparatus includes: a first analog-to-digital converter configured to convert an input analog signal into a digital signal; a second analog-to-digital converter configured to convert an analog signal generated by multiplying the input analog signal by α times with a coefficient α into a digital signal; a first non-linear compensation part configured to compensate a non-linear distortion of a first output signal of the first analog-to-digital converter; a second non-linear compensation part configured to compensate a non-linear distortion of a second output signal of the second analog-to-digital converter; and a non-linear detection part configured to estimate how much the non-linear distortions of the first and second analog-to-digital converters are compensated by the first and second non-linear compensation parts depending on first and second signals by the first and second non-linear compensation parts.
US08508376B2
The invention provides use of one or more emitted beams of radiation (16), for example, laser beam(s), in combination with an image capturing means (14), for example, one or more video cameras and/or optical elements to detect particles (30), for example smoke particles, located in an open space (12).
US08508374B1
A motor power module is provided that includes a control board mounted to the terminals of a relay. The control board includes a control circuit with a processor. The processor is operative to monitor a level of current supplied by the control circuit to at least one windings terminal connected to a single phase AC motor. The processor is responsive to monitored level of current corresponding to a predetermined level to cause the control circuit to remove a supply of electrical power from a start capacitor of the start windings of the motor while the control circuit continues to supply electrical power to the run windings of the motor.
US08508372B2
A method and system for detecting motion is described. A data acquisition system is positioned at a desired position by establishing a reference line based on the desired position of the data acquisition system. Further, a field of view of the data acquisition system is partitioned into an upper region and a lower region based on the reference line. Subsequently, motion information corresponding to a person in the field of view is acquired. Additionally, it is determined if the acquired motion information corresponds to the upper region and/or the lower region in the field of view. Moreover, a magnitude of motion and an area of motion of the person are computed using the acquired motion information. Subsequently, a motion event corresponding to the person in the lower region of the field of view is detected based on the determined magnitude of motion and the determined area of motion.
US08508369B2
An apparatus for use in an RFID data collection system includes an antenna portion for wirelessly exchanging signals and a memory portion for storing RFID data. A signal processing portion is coupled among the antenna portion and the memory portion. The signal processing portion is configured to receive RFID data and to at least encode or decode the received RFID data via space-time block codes (STBC). For example, an RFID tag employs two spatially separated antennas and circuitry for transmitting to an RFID reader data stored in tag memory as STBC encoded data. Other configurations are also disclosed.
US08508368B2
A sensing device for sensing one or more conditions inside a container is provided. The sensing device comprises a radio frequency based sensor; a support for positioning the sensor in operative proximity to the inside of the container, and a pick-up coil in operative association with the sensor.
US08508366B2
A method of identifying a potential security threat in a space. A first scan of the space is performed during a first time interval by illuminating at least a portion of the space with energy from an energy source at an illumination angle, such that the energy is reflected from a surface in the space. An incident angle of the reflected energy is detected with a detector located at a known distance from the energy source and a distance from the surface to the energy source is calculated based on the incident angle. The steps are repeated for a plurality of different locations in the space. A first map of the space is generated from the first scan, and a second map is generated from a second scan of the area. The maps are compared to determine a change in the space and to determine if a potential security threat is present.
US08508365B2
An alarm color plate structure of a micro-differential pressure gauge includes a transparent casing. The transparent casing has a slot which is located corresponding to the range of movement of a pointer or a scale plate. An alarm plate is provided in the slot. The alarm plate has a plurality of areas with different colors or marks for the user to know whether the position and the value of the pointer are normal or not.
US08508364B2
A method of enhancing the safety of a region includes defining a set of rules for the region. Collecting field data from a plurality of mobile stations movable throughout the region. The field data includes information relating to the relative movement of the mobile stations. Comparing the collected field data to the set of rules to identify one or more areas of potential risk within the region.
US08508355B2
In one embodiment, the method of these teachings includes the steps of utilizing a remote server to manage security alerts, utilizing the remote server to administer security system updates and utilizing the remote server to configure the security system.
US08508347B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for controlling display operations in an electronic device. The electronic device provides an input mode, in which a first function is associated with a hovering input and a second function is associated with a touch input to an input surface. A three-dimensional virtual user interface item is displayed, and in response to detecting an input object within a guard range in relation to the input surface, the virtual user interface item is adapted to alert the user to avoid unintentionally touching the input surface.
US08508343B2
An RFID reader control system and method is provided. A protocol for controlling an RFID reader and an RFID reader control unit of a mobile phone is defined. Messages, information, commands, responses, and notification are constructed and transmitted between the RPM reader and the RFID reader control unit.
US08508341B2
An adaptive communication system and method for use in an electronic toll collection system utilizing transponders located in vehicles travelling on a toll roadway. A transponder memory stores configuration type data that identifies the type of the vehicle carrying the transponder, the transponder or the transponder's mounting. The transponder transmits the configuration type data to the communication system. The communication system includes a memory which contains a database of predetermined communication parameters for various types of configuration types. The communication system looks up the predetermined communication parameters for the configuration type and adjusts variable communication parameters accordingly. Predetermined communication variables may include the transmit power of an antenna, or the receive sensitivity of the antenna or the position of the vehicle in order to maximize the likelihood of a successful communication.
US08508338B1
The present invention is directed to a method and system for defeating replay attacks against biometric authentication systems by randomly prompting the subject to adjust a part of their body in some measurable way. The timing of these adjustments would be used to verify that the biometric input is coming from a live subject and not a recording. One embodiment of the design would include a commodity camera-equipped mobile device (130) connected to an authentication server (110) via the Internet (120). In this embodiment an encrypted video stream of the subject—for example his or her hand (140a)—would be established from the mobile device to the authentication server. The authentication server would generate a unique series of time delays, at which intervals a prompt—for example to extend or retract a specific finger—would be relayed from the server to the mobile device and subsequently the subject. The subject's coordinated response to these timed prompts—and only these timed prompts—would be measured by the authentication server. By comparing biometric features from the video stream—for example measurements of finger dimensions—to the known values for the subject in a database the authentication server will decide whether or not to authenticate the user.
US08508333B2
The invention refers to automatic parking station for cycles or bicycles, comprising at least one interactive workstation (2) and a plurality of parking posts (3). Each parking post includes a first lock portion (4) aimed at securing a cycle or bicycle thereto through a removable second lock portion (7) of the cycle or bicycle (6). The parking posts (3) are connected to the interactive workstation (2) through a local communication network (5) to allow exchange of commands between the interactive workstation (2) and the parking posts (3). Each parking post (3) comprises code reading means for reading a cycle/bicycle code univocally identifying a cycle or bicycle and stored in a memory medium, so that the cycle/bicycle can be identified by the interactive workstation (2).
US08508319B1
A rapidly tunable RF cavity includes a cavity body, and at least one ferroelectric element disposed within a hollow interior region of the cavity body. A biasing system provides a nominal DC electric field bias across the ferroelectric element so as to induce a rapid change in dielectric permittivity of the ferroelectric element, and a corresponding change in resonant frequency of the RF cavity. A change in dielectric permittivity of up to about 20% can be induced within a response time of less than 10 nanoseconds, with a biasing field strength of less than 50 kV. In some embodiments, the ferroelectric element is made of BST (barium-strontium titanate). The ferroelectric element may be cylindrically shaped, and coaxial with the cavity body. The biasing system may include one or more copper cylinders supported by supporting rods.
US08508318B2
A stop band or a pass band is generated in a transmission line filter by providing a plurality of dielectric bodies having a periodic structure in the length direction of the transmission line filter and causing Bragg reflection of transmission wave. A voltage is applied to some or all of the dielectric bodies and the frequency of the stop band or the pass band is changed or controlled by adjusting the voltage.
US08508313B1
Devices are described that combine or divide electromagnetic signal power using short-circuited parallel-coupled multiconductor transmission lines. Such devices include single-stage, multi-stage ‘traveling wave’, and multi-stage broadband filter structures. Electrically shorting each coupled conductor simultaneously provides thermal cooling from heat generated by RF dissipative loss. These features may provide a compact, thermally robust power combiner/divider covering 3:1 bandwidth or greater. The devices may be applicable to radar, electronic countermeasures (ECM), and communications transmitters.
US08508309B2
A wideband phase modulator comprises a multiphase generator, a phase selector, and a phase adjuster. The wideband phase modulator is configured to receive an N-bit digital phase-modulating signal comprising a timed sequence of N-bit phase-modulating words, where N is a positive integer representing the bit resolution of the N-bit digital phase-modulating signal. The multiphase generator generates a plurality of coarse carrier phases, all having the same carrier frequency but each offset in phase relative to the other. The M most significant bits of the N-bit phase-modulating words are used to form M-bit phase select words that control the output phase of the phase selector. The phase adjuster performs a precision rotation operation, whereby a selected coarse carrier phase is adjusted so that the phase of the resulting final precision phase-modulated signal more closely aligns with a desired precision phase.
US08508308B2
Described embodiments provide a method of calibrating, by a calibration engine, a phase-locked loop (PLL) having one or more adjustable oscillators. The method includes entering a calibration mode of the PLL. The PLL is set to an initial state, thereby selecting one of the adjustable oscillators for calibration, an initial threshold window, and an initial tuning band of the selected adjustable oscillator. If the control signal of the selected adjustable oscillator is not within the initial threshold window, the calibration engine iteratively adjusts at least one of: (i) the selected tuning band of the selected adjustable oscillator, (ii) the selected adjustable oscillator, and (iii) the selected threshold window until the control signal of the selected adjustable oscillator is within the adjusted threshold window. If the control signal is within the threshold window, the one or more calibration settings of the PLL are stored and used to set the PLL operation.
US08508305B2
An oscillation circuit includes a resonance circuit and an amplifier circuit. The resonance circuit includes an inner capacitor to be disposed inside a semiconductor integrated circuit, and an outer capacitor and an outer inductor to be disposed outside the semiconductor integrated circuit. The amplifier circuit includes an input terminal and an output terminal both connected to the resonance circuit. Further, the resonance circuit includes a first closed circuit portion including the inner capacitor, the outer inductor, and a first wiring portion for connecting the inner capacitor and the outer inductor. The resonance circuit further includes a second closed circuit portion including the outer capacitor, the outer inductor, and a second wiring portion for connecting the outer capacitor and the outer inductor. The second closed circuit portion has a wiring resistance smaller than that of the first closed circuit portion.
US08508303B2
A digital FLL/PLL is provided which is capable of converging an oscillation frequency from a VCO to a desired frequency at a high speed even without setting a damping factor corresponding to each VCO gain. A digital FLL/PLL of the present invention includes: a comparator for comparing a channel signal to a loopback signal having an oscillation frequency to generate a signal error; a digital loop filter for generating a control voltage that determines the oscillation frequency, on the basis of the signal error; a VCO for controlling an oscillation frequency on the basis of the control voltage; a loopback path through which the oscillation frequency generated by the VCO is outputted as the loopback signal to the comparator; and a control section for monitoring the signal error, and controlling the digital loop filter such that the oscillation frequency of the VCO becomes a stationary state, when detecting that the signal error meets a predetermined condition after the channel signal is switched.
US08508302B2
An electronic circuit includes: first through third transistors having a control terminal, first and second terminals; a first direct current path supplying a direct current having passed through between the first terminal and the second terminal of at least one of the second transistor and the third transistor to the second terminal of the transistor at former position compared to the transistor through which the direct current passed; a second direct current path that is different from the first direct current path and supplies a direct current having passed through between the first terminal and the second terminal of at least one of the second transistor and the third transistor to the second terminal of the transistor at former position compared to the transistor through which the direct current passed; and a common coupling point coupling the first direct current path and the second direct current path in common.
US08508297B2
An envelope amplifier includes an amplifier unit, a comparator unit and an output unit. The amplifier unit is made up of a first output section that outputs a first current in response to an amplitude of an input envelope signal, and a second output section. The second output section outputs a second current of a current value proportionate to a current value of the first current. Absolute value of the current value of the second current is greater than that of a current value of the first current. Comparator unit compares the current value of the first current. The output unit sums a current via an inductor derived from a current sustained or broken in response to a compared result of the comparator unit to the second current to deliver the resulting sum current at an output end. The first current is configured to be terminated without being delivered to the output unit (FIG. 1).
US08508296B1
A quadrature amplifier comprises first and second amplifiers, each having an input and an output, a signal splitter connected to the inputs of the two amplifiers, a signal combiner connected to the outputs of the two amplifiers, and an impedance transformer connected to the output of the signal combiner. The signal splitter is a −3 dB hybrid that splits an input signal into two output signals of equal amplitude that are in phase quadrature. The signal combiner is a −3 dB hybrid that combines the output signals at the outputs of the two amplifiers. Since the output signals are in phase quadrature, the signals are combined to produce an inphase signal. The impedance transformer matches the output signal to an impedance of approximately 50 Ohms. Capacitive and resistive tuning networks connected to the ports of the signal combiner allow for adjustment of the center frequency and impedance of the signal combiner.
US08508291B1
The digitally programmable active-RC filter provides an active-RC filter having programmable time constants. An inherently linear current division network (CDN) provides the programmable time constants while preserving a high linearity property of the active-RC filter. Using this approach, wide tuning characteristics are achieved. The programmable active-RC filter uses two op-amps per integrator. Cross-coupling two of the units configured with I and Q inputs provides the reconfigurable filter with a complex bandpass and normal lowpass response. One embodiment is formed as a fourth-order filter fabricated in a standard 0.18 μm CMOS process. The complex and lowpass filters achieve in-band spurious-free dynamic ranges (SFDRs) of about 70 dB and 71 dB for bandwidths of 1 MHz and 5.5 MHz, respectively.
US08508290B2
In a high-performance interface circuit for micro-electromechanical (MEMS) inertial sensors, an excitation signal (used to detect capacitance variation) is used to control the value of an actuation signal bit stream to allow the dynamic range of both actuation and detection paths to be maximized and to prevent folding of high frequency components of the actuation bit stream due to mixing with the excitation signal. In another aspect, the effects of coupling between actuation signals and detection signals may be overcome by performing a disable/reset of at least one of and preferably both of the detection circuitry and the MEMS detection electrodes during actuation signal transitions. In a still further aspect, to get a demodulated signal to have a low DC component, fine phase adjustment may be achieved by configuring filters within the sense and drive paths to have slightly different center frequencies and hence slightly different delays.
US08508285B2
Examples of analog delay lines and analog delay systems, such as DLLs incorporating analog delay lines are described, as are circuits and methods for adaptive biasing. Embodiments of adaptive biasing are described and may generate a bias signal for an analog delay line during start-up. The bias signal may be based in part on the frequency of operation of the analog delay line.
US08508282B2
A LIN network comprises a transmit driver and a receive comparator for communicating low frequency signals on a single communication bus. The transmit driver is operably coupled to a high frequency detector to detect a high frequency component on the low frequency signal. In response to detecting the high frequency component the LIN network is arranged to perform one or both of the following: route the low frequency signal having a high frequency component through a low pass filter; and/or bypass the low frequency signal having a high frequency component from passing through an active device operably coupled between the transmit driver and the single communication bus.
US08508279B2
The battery monitoring IC is provided with the short circuiting switch that includes the switching element that shorts the input side and the output side of the boosting circuit that boosts the power supply voltage to the driving voltage, that can drive the MOS transistor within the buffer amplifier in the saturated region, and supplies the driving voltage as the driving voltage of the buffer amplifier. An abnormality of the boosting circuit can be diagnosed by comparing the output voltage, that is measured when the short circuiting switch is turned off and the driving voltage boosted by the boosting circuit is supplied to the buffer amplifier, and the output voltage, that is measured when the short circuiting switch is turned on and the power supply voltage is, without going through the boosting circuit, supplied as is to the buffer amplifier.
US08508277B2
A third periodic signal is synthesized using a first output signal having a phase corresponding to a first periodic signal and a second output signal having a phase corresponding to the second periodic signal. A value of the third periodic signal is detected at a timing of the phase of the delayed first periodic signal. The value of the third periodic signal detected with the delayed first periodic signal is compared with the value of the third periodic signal detected by the first periodic signal delayed by the different delay amount. The delay amount is obtained for the detected third periodic signal being a maximum or a minimum. In a state of the optimum delay amount, an amplitude of the third periodic signal is adjusted so that the detected value of the third periodic signal falls within a predetermined range.
US08508276B2
The latch circuit includes a transistor whose channel region is formed with an oxide semiconductor (OS). Data is held in a node that is electrically connected to an output terminal and one of a source and a drain of the transistor and brought into a floating state when the transistor is turned off. Note that the oxide semiconductor has a band gap wider than silicon and an intrinsic carrier density lower than silicon. By using such an oxide semiconductor for the channel region of the transistor, the transistor with an extremely low off-state current (leakage current) can be realized.
US08508266B2
Designs of devices having digital phase locked loop (DPLL) circuits that include multiple digital feedback loops to generate high frequency clock signals by a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO). A time-to-digital converter (TDC) module is provided in such a DPLL circuit to receive an input reference clock signal and a first feedback clock signal from a first digital feedback loop and produces a digital TDC output indicative of a first phase error caused by a difference in time between the input reference clock signal and the first feedback clock signal. A second digital feedback loop is provided to generate a second digital feedback signal indicative of a second phase error caused by a difference in frequency between a desired clock signal and a generated clock signal generated by the DCO. The first and second digital feedback loops are coupled to the DCO to generate the high frequency clock signals.
US08508265B2
Provided is a PLL circuit driven with a differential controlled voltage. The PLL circuit includes a VCO. The VCO outputs an oscillation signal in response to a difference between first and second control voltages. The PLL circuit includes a first loop for generating the first control voltage, and a second loop for generating the second control voltage having a phase opposite to the first control voltage. Intermediate generated signals of the first loop and intermediate generated signals of the second loop which respectively correspond to the intermediate generated signals of the first loop have opposed phases.
US08508263B2
A semiconductor device includes a clock supply circuit configured to generate an internal clock by using an external clock, an internal circuit configured to operate in synchronization with the internal clock and enter a power-down mode in response to a power-down signal, and a controller configured to control an entry of the clock supply circuit into the power-down mode in response to a locking signal, which represents that the clock supply circuit has been locked, and the power-down signal.
US08508261B2
The present invention discloses a line driver for a communication system with a variable loading. The line driver includes a positive output terminal, a negative output terminal, a plurality of current cells, for generating a plurality of output currents, and a plurality of switches, for controlling a number of connections between the plurality of current cells and the positive output terminal and the negative output terminal according to impedance of the variable loading, to generate a total output current such that a output voltage swing stays within a specific range.
US08508256B2
A novel logic circuit which retains data even when power supply is stopped is provided. Further, a novel logic circuit with low power consumption is provided. In the logic circuit, a comparator comparing two output nodes, a charge retaining portion, and an output-node-potential determining portion are electrically connected to each other. Thus, the logic circuit can retain data even when power supply is stopped. In addition, the total number of transistors included in the logic circuit can be reduced. Further, a transistor including an oxide semiconductor and a transistor including silicon are stacked, whereby the area of the logic circuit can be reduced.
US08508255B2
A method and apparatus that controls the clock of a digital circuit, and therefore power consumption, without substantially comprising performance is provided. The apparatus may include monitoring the utilization of a First in First Out (FIFO) buffer. For example in a systems and methods according to the invention, clock speed may be reduced when the FIFO is relatively empty and increased when the FIFO is relatively full. The clock speed may be controlled by a phase locked loop, a clock divider, a clock masking device or a combination of more than one of these methods. Power reduction may also be obtained by controlling the clocking of different stages of a pipelined device. One or more aspects of the inventions may be implemented in combination with other aspects of the invention to further reduce power use.
US08508253B2
A nonvolatile logic circuit includes logic configuration electrodes and input electrodes. The nonvolatile logic circuit is programmable to any one of the logics between the input signals selected from logical conjunction (AND), logical disjunction (OR), logical non-conjunction (NAND), logical non-disjunction (NOR), and logical exclusive disjunction (XOR) by changing applied voltages to the logic configuration electrodes.
US08508252B2
A multi-PAM line driver circuit to drive input data along a transmission line from a voltage source is disclosed. The driver circuit includes a voltage source to supply a regulated voltage and a regulator current. A main branch is coupled between the voltage source and the transmission line and includes variable impedance circuitry. The main branch draws a drive current from the voltage source. A compensating branch is coupled to the voltage source in parallel with the main branch and includes a second variable impedance circuit to draw a compensating current from the voltage source based on the drive current, such that a sum of the drive current and the compensating current is substantially constant during the transmission of the input data.
US08508247B2
An embodiment of an electrical connecting apparatus comprises a probe base plate and a plurality of contacts provided with tips to be pressed against electrodes of a device under test and arranged on the underside of the probe base plate. The distance dimensions from an imaginary plane parallel to the probe base plate to the tips of the contacts are made the greater toward the center of the probe base plate.
US08508240B2
A system and method for soft-field tomography data acquisition are provided. One system includes a plurality of transducers that correspond to a plurality of channels, and an excitation driver coupled to generate excitation signals for the plurality of transducers. The system also includes a single reference excitation source from which excitations are generated and one or more derived excitation sources. The one or more derived excitation sources derive excitations from the single reference excitation source that are applied to each of the plurality of channels. The system further includes a response detector and a reduced bit digitizer in each of the plurality of channels configured to digitize a measured response difference between the measured response at one or more of the transducers and at least one of an excitation of the single reference excitation source or an excitation derived from the single reference excitation source or a separate reference.
US08508235B2
An electronic device, and associated method, provided with a circuit board (10), with a set of input contacts (IN/COM), a set of output contacts (OUT/COM) and an electrical circuit (18) connected between the input contacts (IN/COM) and the output contacts (OUT/COM) and a controller. The controller carries out a real-time test of the circuit board using a test signal introduced into the electrical circuit, the electrical circuit (18) being designed as a passive network having a characteristic transfer function and provided with at least one capacitive element, wherein the capacitive element is a conductor surface (221) forming a capacitor in the assembled state with a corresponding, device-side conductor surface (222″), which is connected to the electrical circuit (18) via a contact element in the assembled state, whereby the capacitive value of the capacitive element in the assembled state differs from the capacitive value of the capacitive element in the disassembled state.
US08508234B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and devices for detecting open-circuit and short-circuit failure in an electromagnetic (inductive) measurement of the conductivity of liquids and on the sensor and cable wiring. An electromagnetic measurement of the conductivity of a liquid is performed by immersing a sensor into the liquid, wherein the sensor includes at least 2 toroidal cores, one of them carrying an excitation coil and the other carrying an induction coil. When an AC excitation voltage is applied to the excitation coil, an induced current or voltage can be measured in the induction coil which is proportional to the conductivity of the measured liquid.
US08508232B2
The battery system has a current detection circuit 2, an amplifier 6, and a detection circuit 7 that detects the current flowing through batteries 1 from amplifier 6 output. The current detection circuit 2 is provided with a voltage source circuit 8 that supplies a test voltage to the input-side of the amplifier 6. Current detection lines 10 connect the current detection resistor 5 to the input-side of the amplifier 6, and the detection circuit 7 stores a reference voltage corresponding to the current detection lines 10 in the connected state. When the voltage source circuit 8 supplies the test voltage to the input-side of the amplifier 6, the detection circuit 7 compares the amplifier 6 output voltage with the reference voltage. The detection circuit 7 detects an open-circuit in the current detection lines 10 by the shift in voltage from the reference voltage.
US08508229B2
A magnetic resonance elastography (“MRE”) driver that can produce shear waves in a subject without relying on mode conversion of longitudinal waves is disclosed. More specifically, the MRE driver includes a pneumatic driver located remotely from a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system which is operable in response to an applied electrical current to oscillate, a pressure-activated driver that is positioned on a subject in the MRI system, and a tube that is in fluid communication, at one end, with the pneumatic driver. The pressure-activated driver includes a base plate and a driver plate having a region between them that receives the tube. Oscillations of the pneumatic driver produce a pressure wave in the tube that causes the driver plate to vibrate. The driver plate rests against the subject of interest to apply a corresponding shear oscillatory force to the subject during the MRE examination.
US08508228B2
A coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus has plates that each contain at least one gradient coil.
US08508226B2
In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus to reduce distortions in magnetic resonance diffusion imaging, a magnetic resonance data acquisition system is operated to acquire magnetic resonance data in a first measurement with a first diffusion weighting, and to acquire magnetic resonance data in a second measurement with a second, different diffusion weighting. A non-linear, system-specific distortion-correcting function is determined on the basis of system-specific information that is specific to said magnetic resonance data acquisition system. Correction parameters are calculated to correct distortions in subsequently-acquired diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images, based on the data acquired in the first and second measurements with the system-specific distortion-correcting function applied thereto. The subsequently-acquired diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images are corrected using the correction parameters to at least reduce distortions therein.
US08508225B2
A method of acquiring T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted images is provided. The method includes acquiring a first image and a second image in a single magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, where the first image and the second image have different echo times (TE). The single MRI scan includes a series of repeated RF excitation pulses, where the echo signal for the first image and the echo signal for the second image are acquired between a pair of RF excitation pulses. A spoiler gradient is disposed to provide a first diffusion weighting to the first image and a second diffusion weighting to the second image, where the first image and the second image have different T2 weightings and different diffusion weightings.
US08508219B2
There is provided an apparatus and method for identifying and measuring the electric field strength which occurs from each of RFID tags arranged in a detection target space by a receiver to grasp the state of an object. The apparatus is provided with m (m>=1) electromagnetic field generation means provided near a space, the space being occupied by the object when the object is in a particular state; n (n>=1) electric field strength measurement means for identifying and measuring electric field strength which occurs from each of the m electromagnetic field generation means; characteristic extraction means for calculating characteristics from m×n time-series data of the electric field strength; and state identification means for identifying, by statistical processing, a state from the characteristics and characteristic data in each state for learning.
US08508216B2
A monolithic sensor arrangement includes a housing, a sensor integrated in the housing, and two or three connecting contacts deployed on the housing so as to provide a contact with the sensor. The housing also includes an integrated digital circuit includes a freely programmable digital processor, a program memory and a data memory, which are used to control and/or process the functionalities and/or the measured data of the sensor.
US08508215B2
An arrangement for measuring values of a voltage applied to an electronic component. The arrangement comprises a first signal transmitter which can emit a first switching signal, a first switch coupled to the first signal transmitter and can be controlled by the first switching signal. The electronic component is connected in series to the first switch and can be coupled, via the same, to an electric energy source. A second signal transmitter, which can emit a second switching signal. A second switch is coupled to the second signal transmitter and can be controlled by the second switching signal. A capacitive accumulator is connected in series to the second switch and can be connected in parallel, via the same, to the electronic component or to the series connection formed by the electronic component and the first switch. An analog/digital converter which is connected in parallel to the capacitive accumulator.
US08508213B2
A frequency measurement device for measuring a frequency of a signal to be measured including a pulse signal, includes: a signal multiplier section that multiplies the signal to be measured by n (n is an integer) and outputs a multiplied signal; a counter section that counts the multiplied signal with a predetermined gate time and outputs a count value of the frequency of the signal to be measured at a predetermined period; and a low-pass filter that outputs a signal corresponding to the frequency of the signal to be measured based on the count value outputted at the predetermined period.
US08508212B2
Calibration of a non-contact current sensor provides improved accuracy for measuring current conducted through a conductor such as an AC branch circuit wire. In a calibration mode, a predetermined current is injected through a voltage sensing conductor integrated in the non-contact current sensor. The magnitude of the magnetic field is measured using a sensing element of the non-contact current sensor. Then, when operating in measurement mode, a current conducted in a wire passing through the non-contact current sensor is determined by correcting the output of the non-contact current sensor using the result of the measurement made in the calibration mode. The voltage sensing conductor is used to provide an indication of the magnitude and/or the phase of the electrostatic potential on the wire. The calibration current may be a DC current, and calibration may be performed while the conductor is carrying an AC current.
US08508206B2
The present invention discloses an adaptive constant ON time adjustment circuit, which generates a square wave signal having a constant normal ON time during normal operation, for controlling a power stage circuit to convert an input voltage to an output voltage. When the output voltage is shifted from low to high, during the transient period, the ON time is adjusted longer; and when the output voltage is shifted from high to low, during the transient period, the ON time is adjusted shorter.
US08508205B2
A method and apparatus for converting a DC voltage to a lower DC voltage, provides for conducting current from an input terminal, through an inductor to charge a capacitor connected to the inductor at an output terminal and to provide a varying range of load current from the output terminal, alternately switching the input terminal between a supply voltage and a ground potential to produce a desired voltage at the output terminal that is lower than the supply voltage, while providing the varying range of load current, and disconnecting the input terminal from both the supply voltage and the ground potential to reduce an increase in voltage at the output terminal caused by a substantial reduction in the load current, while current through the inductor adjusts in response to the reduced load current.
US08508204B2
A controller for controlling a power generator circuit, and a method for operation such a controller, is disclosed. The invention is particularly suited to LED current generators. The current generator may be switched off to conserve power when not required for any LED circuits. The method relates to determining the time at which the controller is required to provide power, current or voltage, and to adjust the timing of switching-on of the controller, in order to ensure that power, current or voltage is available for the load when required.
US08508203B2
The present invention discloses a control circuit of a switching regulator wherein a confirmation signal is generated to confirm that an upper gate switch has been turned off, to avoid shoot-through. The confirmation signal is generated by obtaining an upper gate sampling signal from a transistor in a level shift circuit which receives a resetting signal for turning off the upper gate switch.
US08508201B2
In an inductor driving circuit, a DC voltage is applied between a positive terminal and a negative terminal. A series connection of an inductor and a transistor is provided between the positive terminal and the negative terminal. A gate control circuit is configured to turn on the transistor in response to the application of the DC voltage and turn off the transistor in response to the stop of the application of the DC voltage. A diode is connected between a source and a drain of the transistor to have a cathode connected to the positive terminal and an anode connected to the negative terminal. A feedback diode has a cathode connected to the positive terminal and an anode connected to the negative terminal.
US08508175B2
A stepping motor includes two coils. A driver circuit drives the stepping motor by setting dissimilar phases of supply currents to these two coils. One terminal of one coil is connected to ground and another terminal is set to a high impedance state, and an induced voltage generated at that coil is detected as a voltage with respect to ground. Then, in accordance with the state of the detected induced voltage, the magnitude of motor drive current supplied to the two coils is controlled.
US08508174B2
An electronically commutated motor (ECM 20) has a rotor (28) and a stator, associated with which is a winding arrangement (26) to which electrical current (i1) is applied to drive the motor (20), a computer (36), and a PWM generator (84) associated therewith. The motor (20) is designed for operation in a parameter range that encompasses at least one variable parameter, e.g. operating voltage or ambient temperature, that can have different values. The computer (36) is configured to operate by carrying out these steps: After the motor (20) is switched on and before normal startup begins, during an initial time phase (T1), current (i1) delivered to the stator winding arrangement (26) is switched off and on using a pulse duty factor (pwm) derived from said variable parameter, in order to produce startup of the motor (20); subsequent to phase (T1), when the rotor (28) is rotating, normal startup is performed.
US08508158B2
A dc accelerator system able to accelerate high currents of proton beams at high energies is provided. The accelerator system includes a dc high-voltage, high-current power supply, an evacuated ion accelerating tube, a proton ion source, a dipole analyzing magnet and a vacuum pump located in the high-voltage terminal. The high-current, high-energy dc proton beam can be directed to a number of targets depending on the applications such as boron neutron capture therapy BNCT applications, NRA applications, and silicon cleaving.
US08508150B2
A controller for controlling dimming of an LED light source includes a control terminal and dimming control circuitry coupled to the control terminal. The control terminal provides a driving signal to control a control switch coupled to the LED light source, thereby controlling the dimming of the LED light source. The dimming control circuitry generates the driving signal according to a set of operations of a power switch that transfers an AC signal. The dimming control circuitry further adjusts the driving signal by counting multiple waves of the AC signal to control the dimming of the LED light source.
US08508147B2
A dimmer circuit applicable for LED device and control method thereof is disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. The dimmer circuit is applicable for controlling at least a LED device. The dimmer circuit includes a rectifier, a bleeder, a phase angle detect circuit, a constant current circuit and a programmable micro controller. The phase angle detect circuit couples to the programmable micro controller. The constant current circuit couples to the LED device The programmable micro controller generates a PWM signal according to the output signal of the phase angle detect circuit to adjust current of the constant current circuit.
US08508141B2
A light control apparatus for a LED light-emitting device comprises a driving current supply unit supplying an AC current as a driving current via a pair of terminals to the LED light-emitting device including a set of LED elements having mutually different light emission wavelength regions connected in parallel while providing opposite polarities and the pair of terminals provided to supply the driving current to the set of LED elements; an individual amount defining unit defining a positive driving current amount and a negative driving current amount respectively to be supplied to the LED light-emitting device in a positive half cycle and a negative half cycle included in one cycle of the AC current respectively.
US08508136B2
The invention relates to an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device (200) comprising a tag element (201) that encodes operating information about the device, for example its maximal driving current, such that this information can be read out wirelessly and/or electrically by wire but approximately without Ohmic losses. The invention further comprises a socket (600) with a read-out unit (601) for reading out the operating information from such a tag element (201). The tag element may for instance comprise a tag electrode (201) that can capacitively couple to a counter-electrode (601) in the socket.
US08508130B2
A short arc type discharge lamp that includes a body member a light permeable member a pair of an anode and a cathode. The pair of the anode and cathode is arranged with a gap at a focal position of the reflective face. The cathode has a cathode tip portion that is approximately conic and a cathode rod portion. The anode has an anode tip portion that has a tapering portion and a flat tip end portion. Further, an outer diameter of the tip of the anode flat tip end portion is smaller than the outer diameter of the cathode rod portion, and an outer diameter of a back end of the anode tip portion is larger than that of the cathode rod portion.
US08508128B2
In accordance with an aspect of the invention, there is provided a thermal radiation marker (10) adapted to emit radiation within the thermal portion of the infrared spectrum. According to some embodiments of the invention, the thermal radiation marker may include an incandescent filament (16) and a glass or quartz enclosure (12). The incandescent filament may be adapted to produce radiation at least within the thermal portion of the infrared spectrum. The glass or quartz enclosure may include at least a portion that is substantially thin, and may enclose pressurized inert (14) gas and the incandescent filament surrounded by the inert gas. At least a portion of the glass or quartz enclosure may be sufficiently thin so as to enable good transmittance therethrough for tli3rmal radiation approximately in the 3-5&mgr,-m wavelength band. The pressurized inert gas enclosed within the glass or quartz enclosure and surrounding the incandescent filament may enable a regenerative cycle to take place within the enclosure.
US08508116B2
A lighting device in which a solid state light emitter in a first multi-chip light emitter is spatially offset relative to a solid state light emitter in a second multi-chip light emitter. A lighting device comprising first, second and third multi-chip light emitters, in which any solid state light emitter in the second multi-chip light emitter that is spatially offset relative to a first solid state light emitter on the first multi-chip light emitter by less than 10 degrees emits light of a hue that differs from the hue of light emitted by the first solid state light emitter by more than seven MacAdam ellipses. A solid state light emitter support member comprising a center region and at least first, second and third protrusions extending from the center region. A lighting device comprising at least a first housing member, and means for emitting substantially uniform light.
US08508110B2
An MCP has a rectangular plate shape and has a porous part, to which a plurality of pores (channels) penetrating in the thickness direction are disposed, and a poreless part including a solid glass or the like to which the channels are not provided on the both sides of the porous part. Then, on both surfaces of the MCP, an input side electrode and an output side electrode are respectively formed so as to cover the poreless parts on the both surfaces while sandwiching the porous part.
US08508108B2
Systems and methods of harvesting and converting naturally occurring energy are described that include exposing a material to an ambient condition and harvesting at least a portion of energy that is created. Energy harvesting from fluidic and flow environments or vibration can be accomplished using types of energy harvesters, such as flexible polymers. Active materials or Electro-Active Polymer (EAP)-metal composite thin films like Ionic Polymers, Piezoceramic materials, and electromagnetic systems may be used as mechanical to electrical energy transducers. One type of an ionic EAP is ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC), which includes a base polymer membrane that may be coated with a metal to act as a surface electrode. The surface electrode may be silver (Ag) nanoparticles. The silver nanoparticle functionalized IPMC can be used to convert mechanical vibrations and fluidic flow to electrical energy to power wireless devices and microelectronic systems, for example.
US08508106B2
An electroacoustic transducer is provided, particularly for use in an apparatus for medical shock-wave treatment. The transducer includes several piezoelements arranged next to one another, which are embedded in a composite mass in a carrier-free manner.
US08508102B2
A piezoelectric plate in the piezoelectric sensor is obtained from a rotated Y-plate where a rotation angle around the X-axis is set according to a type of the piezoelectric crystalline material, a detection region is located on a surface parallel to an X-Z plane, and a transmitting and a receiving parts are opposite to each other at positions sandwiching the detection region along an X-axis direction of the piezoelectric plate. When a guided wave excited by applying a frequency signal from the transmitting part satisfies ξh=mπ/(2λ) (2h: thickness of the piezoelectric plate, ξ: wave number in the X-axis, λ: wave number in thickness direction normalized by ξ, m: positive even number), the rotation angle satisfies the displacement of a P wave component of the guided wave becomes the maximum, or the displacement of the SH wave component of the guided wave becomes the maximum.
US08508094B2
A synchronous rotating electrical machine is disclosed, of the type including a stator (10) and a rotor (11). The rotor is of the flux concentration type and includes a plurality of alternate North and South poles formed from permanent magnets (PM). The magnets are housed in slots (E1) arranged in the magnetic body of the rotor. Each pole comprises a second slot (E3) roughly radial and arranged in the magnetic body of the pole, between two consecutive magnets delimiting the pole. In accordance with the invention, each pole includes a portion forming a bridge (BR) between the magnetic bodies of the rotor, on either side of the second slot, this part forming a bridge including a magnetic body height not greater than approximately one times the dimensional value of the width of the permanent magnets.
US08508091B2
An end cover adapted to engage with an end surface of a spindle of a motor rotor is proposed for securely coupling to the spindle with a plurality of permanent magnets disposed around the peripheral wall of the spindle. The end cover has a first surface facing an end surface of the spindle and an second surface opposing to the first surface, which is formed with a plurality of inserting slots indentedly disposed around the rim thereof and corresponding to the permanent magnets for coupling the ends of the permanent magnets, thereby securely fastening each of the permanent magnets to the spindle of the motor rotor. Further, the present invention further provides a motor rotor having the end covers described above.
US08508085B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an electric machine module including an electric machine with a stator assembly. The stator assembly includes a plurality of stator laminations coupled together and a plurality of conductors positioned through axial slots of the plurality of stator laminations. The electric machine module also includes a coolant channel at least partially defined within the axial slots and a housing. The housing at least partially circumscribes the electric machine and at least partially defines a machine cavity which is in fluid communication with the coolant channel.
US08508072B2
A standby wake-up circuit is configured for determining whether to wake an electronic device which is powered by a power-supplying module. The power-supply module is able to supply a standby power to the electronic device when the electronic device is in standby, and supply a main power to the electronic device when the electronic device is wakened. The standby wake-up circuit comprises an input-signal detecting circuit and a processing module. The input-signal detecting circuit comprises a power-key detecting module, an input-signal detecting module, a multiplexer and a power controller. The power-key detecting module and the input-signal detecting module are configured for detecting whether a signal is inputted. When inputting the signal, the power controller sends out a waken signal for supplying the main power to the electronic device.
US08508060B2
A hydraulic supply unit for lubricating and/or cooling mechanical and electrical components disposed in the nacelle of a wind power plant, and for supplying hydraulic actuating devices with hydraulic fluid, characterized by a tank that is divided into chambers and has a first chamber for providing oil lubricating the gearbox of the wind power plant, a second chamber for providing hydraulic oil used to operate hydraulic actuating devices of the wind power plant, a first connection for connecting the first chamber to a line for supplying the gearbox with lubricating oil, and a second connection for connecting the second chamber to a line for supplying the hydraulically operated actuating devices with hydraulic oil, and a heat exchanger for dissipating heat from the hydraulic oil, the gearbox oil and a coolant that is fed to the heat exchanger and absorbs lost heat at the electrical components of the wind power plant.
US08508039B1
In a method and system in accordance with the present invention, solder balls are added on top of vertically integrated MEMS with CMOS by using wafer scale fabrication compatible with existing chip scale packaging capabilities. In the present invention, both the MEMS and the CMOS dies are fabricated in equal dimensions. On the MEMS level, silicon islands are defined by DRIE etching to be bonded on top of CMOS pads. These conducting silicon islands later provide electrical connections between the CMOS pads and the conducting traces that lead to solder balls on top.
US08508031B2
An electronic device includes a wiring board; a semiconductor device arranged at an upper side of the wiring board with an electrically conductive member being arranged therebetween; a covering member arranged at an upper side of the semiconductor device; and a supporting member arranged at a lower side of the wiring board, the supporting member having a convex portion facing the wiring board, the supporting member being connected to the covering member and supporting the wiring board at the convex portion.
US08508018B2
Methods for fabricating integrated circuit electrical interconnects and electrical interconnects are provided. Methods include providing a substrate having a surface, the surface having a feature formed therein wherein the feature is a trench or via, depositing a metal layer, the metal of the metal layer being selected from the group consisting of Ru, Co, Pt, Ir, Pd, Re, and Rh, onto surfaces of the feature, depositing a copper seed layer wherein the copper seed layer comprises a dopant and the dopant is selected from the group consisting of Mn, Mg, MgB2. P, B, Al, Co and combinations thereof, onto the metal layer, and depositing copper into the feature. Devices comprising copper interconnects having metal liner layers are provided. Devices having liner layers comprising ruthenium are provided.
US08508013B2
A backside-illuminated active pixel sensor array in which crosstalk between adjacent pixels is prevented, a method of manufacturing the backside-illuminated active pixel sensor array, and a backside-illuminated image sensor including the backside-illuminated active pixel sensor array are provided. The backside-illuminated active pixel sensor array includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type that comprises a front surface and a rear surface, light-receiving devices for generating charges in response to light incident via the rear surface, and one or more pixel isolating layers for forming boundaries between pixels by being disposed between the adjacent light-receiving devices, a wiring layer disposed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a light filter layer disposed on the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein a thickness of the one or more pixel isolating layers decreases from a point in the semiconductor substrate toward the rear surface.
US08508002B2
A seal ring structure is formed through a multilayer structure of a plurality of dielectric films in a peripheral part of a chip region to surround the chip region. A dual damascene interconnect in which an interconnect and a plug connected to the interconnect are integrated is formed in at least one of the dielectric films in the chip region. Part of the seal ring structure formed in the dielectric film in which the dual damascene interconnect is formed is continuous. A protection film formed on the multilayer structure has an opening on the seal ring. A cap layer connected to the seal ring is formed in the opening.
US08507996B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a gate stack overlying the semiconductor substrate; a gate spacer on a sidewall of the gate stack; a first contact plug having an inner edge contacting a sidewall of the gate spacer, and a top surface level with a top surface of the gate stack; and a second contact plug over and contacting the first contact plug. The second contact plug has a cross-sectional area smaller than a cross-sectional area of the first contact plug.
US08507995B2
In a static memory cell configured using four MOS transistors and two load resistance elements, the MOS transistors are formed on diffusion layers formed on a substrate. The diffusion layers serve as memory nodes. The drain, gate and source of the MOS transistors are arranged in the direction orthogonal to the substrate, and the gate surrounds a columnar semiconductor layer. In addition, the load resistance elements are formed by contact plugs. In this way, it is possible to form a SRAM cell with a small area.
US08507994B2
In a memory cell including CMOS inverters, an increase in an area of the memory cell caused by restrictions on a gate wiring due to a leakage current and restrictions due to design rules is suppressed. A first wiring and a second wiring are laid out as a first metal layer in the memory cell that includes a first inverter and a second inverter. The first wiring is connected with two drains in the first inverter and a second gate wiring in the second inverter. The second wiring is connected with two drains in the second inverter and a first gate wiring in the first inverter. The first wiring is laid out to overlap with the second gate wiring, and the second wiring is laid out to overlap with the first gate wiring. A second metal layer is laid out above the first metal layer, and a third metal layer is laid out above the second metal layer.
US08507992B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device is provided that includes forming a Ge-containing layer atop a p-type device regions of the substrate. Thereafter, a first dielectric layer is formed in a second portion of a substrate, and a second dielectric layer is formed overlying the first dielectric layer in the second portion of the substrate and overlying a first portion of the substrate. Gate structures may then formed atop the p-type device regions and n-type device regions of the substrate, in which the gate structures to the n-type device regions include a rare earth metal.
US08507989B2
An extremely thin SOI MOSFET device on an SOI substrate is provided with a back gate layer on a Si substrate superimposed by a thin BOX layer; an extremely thin SOI layer (ETSOI) on top of the thin BOX layer; and an FET device on the ETSOI layer having a gate stack insulated by spacers. The thin BOX is formed under the ETSOI channel, and is provided with a thicker dielectric under source and drain to reduce the source/drain to back gate parasitic capacitance. The thicker dielectric portion is self-aligned with the gate. A void within the thicker dielectric portion is formed under the source/drain region. The back gate is determined by a region of semiconductor damaged by implantation, and the formation of an insulating layer by lateral etch and back filling with dielectric.
US08507981B2
A method for forming an NMOS transistor includes forming a P-substrate; forming an N-well on the P-substrate; forming an N-drift region on the N-well; forming an n+ drain on the N-drift region; forming a plurality of first contacts on the n+ drain along a longitudinal direction; forming a P-body on the N-well; forming a source on the P-body, the source including a plurality of n+ doped regions and at least one p+ doped region arranged along the longitudinal direction; forming a plurality of second contacts on the plurality of n+ doped regions and the at least one p+ doped region; forming a polygate on the P-body; and forming a gate oxide between the polygate and the source.
US08507979B1
A method of fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate and forming a gate trench therein. The method also includes filling in the gate trench partially with a work-function (WF) metal stack, and filling in the remaining gate trench with a dummy-filling-material (DFM) over the WF metal stack. A sub-gate trench is formed by etching-back the WF metal stack in the gate trench, and is filled with an insulator cap to form an isolation region in the gate trench. The DFM is fully removed to from a MG-center trench (MGCT) in the gate trench, which is filled with a fill metal.
US08507975B2
A semiconductor device having plural memory cell regions featuring nonvolatile memory cells, each nonvolatile memory cell including a first insulating film formed over a semiconductor substrate, a control electrode formed over the first insulating film, the first insulating film acting as a gate insulator for the control gate electrode, a second insulating film formed over the semiconductor substrate, and a memory gate electrode formed over the second insulating film and arranged adjacent with the control gate electrode through the second gate insulating film, the second insulating film acting as a gate insulator for the memory gate electrode and featuring a non-conductive charge trap film, wherein each of the nonvolatile memory cells of a first memory cell region and each of the nonvolatile memory cells of a second memory cell region are formed adjacent to one another such that a drain region is shared between them.
US08507973B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a channel that extends from a substrate in a vertical direction and includes a first portion including an impurity doped region and a second portion disposed under the first portion; and a plurality of memory cells and a selection transistor that are stacked over the substrate along the channel, where the impurity doped region includes a second impurity doped region that forms a side surface and an upper surface of the first portion and a first impurity doped region that covers the second impurity doped region, and a bandgap energy of the second impurity doped region is lower than a bandgap energy of the first impurity doped region.
US08507970B2
In a three-dimensional semiconductor memory device, the device includes a semiconductor substrate having a recessed region, an active pattern extending in a direction transverse to the recessed region, an insulating pillar being adjacent to the active pattern and extending in the direction transverse to the recessed region, and a lower select gate facing the active pattern and extending horizontally on the semiconductor substrate. The active pattern is disposed between the insulating pillar and the lower select gate.
US08507967B2
Provided are a method of fabricating a semiconductor device having different kinds of capacitors, and a semiconductor device formed using the same. In a fabrication process, after preparing a substrate including a storage capacitor region and a higher voltage resistance capacitor region, a lower electrode layer may be formed on the storage capacitor region and the higher voltage resistance capacitor region. A first dielectric film may be formed on the lower electrode layer, and the first dielectric film of the storage capacitor region may be selectively removed to expose the lower electrode layer of the storage capacitor region. After forming a second dielectric film on the first dielectric film and the exposed lower electrode layer of the storage capacitor region, an upper electrode layer may be formed on the second dielectric film.
US08507942B2
Provided are a light emitting device, a method of manufacturing the light emitting device, a light emitting device package, and a lighting system. The light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting structure including a first conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive type semiconductor layer on the substrate, the light emitting structure exposing a portion of the first conductive type semiconductor layer upward, a light transmissive electrode having a stepped portion on the second conductive type semiconductor layer, a second electrode on the light transmissive electrode, and a first electrode on the exposed first conductive type semiconductor layer.
US08507938B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) structure and a method for manufacturing the same are described. The light-emitting diode structure includes a p-type electrode, a bonding substrate, a p-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, an n-type semiconductor layer, an epitaxial growth substrate and an n-type electrode. The bonding substrate is disposed on the p-type electrode. The p-type semiconductor layer is disposed on the bonding substrate. The active layer is disposed on the p-type semiconductor layer. The n-type semiconductor layer is disposed on the active layer. The epitaxial growth substrate is disposed on the n-type semiconductor layer, wherein the epitaxial growth substrate includes an opening penetrating the epitaxial growth substrate. The n-type electrode is disposed in the opening and is electrically connected to the n-type semiconductor layer.
US08507931B2
Disclosed are a light emitting apparatus, a method of manufacturing the same, and a lighting system. The light emitting apparatus includes a body, a light emitting device on the body, a conductive member electrically connected with the light emitting device on the body, a resin member surrounding the light emitting device, and an inorganic oxide layer having a refractive index less than a refractive index of the resin member on the resin member.
US08507923B2
A light emitting diode (LED) package includes a first serial array of light emitting cells formed on a first substrate to emit light of a relatively short wavelength, and a second serial array of light emitting cells formed on a second substrate to emit light of a relatively long wavelength. The first and second serial arrays are connected to in reverse parallel. The LED package is capable of being operated under AC power and emitting white light with excellent color reproduction characteristics and luminous efficiency.
US08507915B2
A trench is formed in a semiconductor substrate, and is filled with a node dielectric layer and at least one conductive material fill portion that functions as an inner electrode. The at least one conductive material fill portion includes a doped polycrystalline semiconductor fill portion. A gate stack for an access transistor is formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a gate spacer is formed around the gate stack. A source/drain trench is formed between an outer sidewall of the gate spacer and a sidewall of the doped polycrystalline semiconductor fill portion. An epitaxial source region and a polycrystalline semiconductor material portion are simultaneously formed by a selective epitaxy process such that the epitaxial source region and the polycrystalline semiconductor material portion contact each other without a gap therebetween. The polycrystalline semiconductor material portion provides a robust low resistance conductive path between the source region and the inner electrode.
US08507914B2
A thin film transistor, a method of fabricating the thin film transistor, and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device equipped with the thin film transistor of which the thin film transistor includes a substrate, a buffer layer disposed on the substrate, a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer disposed on the buffer layer, a gate electrode insulated from the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer insulating the gate electrode from the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and source and drain electrodes insulated from the gate electrode and partially connected to the second semiconductor layer, wherein the second semiconductor layer is disposed on the first semiconductor layer.
US08507905B2
Methods and compositions for depositing rare earth metal-containing layers are described herein. In general, the disclosed methods deposit the precursor compounds comprising rare earth-containing compounds using deposition methods such as chemical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition. The disclosed precursor compounds include a cyclopentadienyl ligand having at least one aliphatic group as a substituent and an amidine ligand.
US08507904B2
Disclosed are a compound including an indole derivative, an organic electronic element using the same, and a terminal thereof.
US08507903B2
A light-emitting element is disclosed that can drive at a low driving voltage and that has a longer lifetime than the conventional light-emitting element, and a method is disclosed for manufacturing the light-emitting element. The disclosed light-emitting element includes a plurality of layers between a pair of electrodes; and at least one layer among the plurality of layers contains one compound selected from the group consisting of oxide semiconductor and a metal oxide, and a compound having high hole transportation properties. Such the light-emitting element can suppress the crystallization of a layer containing one compound selected from the group consisting of oxide semiconductor and a metal oxide, and a compound having high hole transportation properties. As a result, a lifetime of the light-emitting element can be extended.
US08507900B2
A benzofluoranthene derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein at least one pair of “R1 and R2” and “R3 and R4” is bonded together to form a ring represented by the following formula (2):
US08507896B2
A compound of the formula R1(CR3═CR4)nAr(CR4═CR3)nR2 wherein: n is 0 or 1; Ar represents aryl or heteroaryl having 1-5 aromatic rings which may be chain or fused or a combination of chain and fused, which may be substituted with alkoxy, fluoro, fluoroalkyl or cyano and which in the case of a 5-membered ring nitrogen heteroatom may be N-substituted with aryl or substituted aryl optionally further substituted with alkoxy, fluoro, fluoroalkyl or cyano; R1 and R2 independently represent aryl or nitrogen, oxygen or sulphur-containing heteroaryl having two to four fused aromatic rings one of which may be 5-membered and optionally substituted by aryl or heteroaryl having 1-5 chain or fused aromatic rings which may be further substituted with alkoxy, fluoro, fluoroalkyl or cyano; and R3 and R4 independently represent hydrogen, methyl, ethyl or benzyl.
US08507890B1
An infrared photoconversion device comprising a collector with at least an active layer made of a single sheet of doped single-layer, bilayer, or multilayer graphene patterned as nanodisks or nanoribbons. The single sheet of doped graphene presents high absorbance and thus, the efficiency of devices such as photovoltaic cells, photodetectors, and light emission devices can be improved by using graphene as the central absorbing or emitting element. These devices become tunable because their peak absorption or emission wavelength is changed via electrostatic doping of the graphene.
US08507889B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array where a plurality of memory cell layers having a plurality of first and second wires which cross each other and a memory cell provided at each intersection of these first and second wires are laminated on top of each other, wherein the memory cells have a variable resistance element and a non-ohmic element laminated in the direction in which the memory cell layers are laminated and tapered in such a manner that the area in a cross section gradually becomes smaller from the bottom memory cell layer towards the top memory cell layer, and the variable resistance element and the non-ohmic element in the memory cells in a certain memory cell layer are laminated in the same order as the variable resistance element and the non-ohmic element of the memory cells in another memory cell layer.
US08507879B2
An improved method and apparatus for the production of oxygen radicals that may be used for cleaning portions high vacuum instruments. The apparatus comprises a VUV vacuum ultraviolet light source or lamp placed in an irradiation chamber for the photo disassociation of oxygen in communication with the main chamber on a specimen chamber port or inside the specimen chamber. Air or other oxygen-containing gas is admitted to the irradiation chamber for photo disassociation. The VUV source radiates UV wavelengths below 193 nm that are used to disassociate oxygen in the gas to create the oxygen radicals and the pressure is held high enough for complete absorption of the light. The oxygen radicals are differentially pumped into main chamber at pressure below 100 milliTorr to prevent recombination to clean hydrocarbons from the surfaces instrument by oxidation to volatile oxide gases. The oxide gases are then removed by the vacuum pump.
US08507873B2
A detector 32 measures the value of the current formed by reflected electrons generated as a result of irradiation of a reference mark on a substrate with an electron beam 54, where the reference mark is made of a material having a different reflectance than the substrate. The signal from the detector 32 is amplified by a detecting unit 33 and converted to a digital signal by an A/D conversion unit 34. A control computer 19 then performs averaging processing on the digital signal which is then used for drift compensation by a writing data correcting unit 31.
US08507871B2
The present invention provides a radiation detecting element and a radiographic imaging device that may reliably detect irradiation of radiation even when a region where radiation is irradiated is set narrowly. Namely, the present invention provides a radiation detection element and a radiographic imaging apparatus, in which radiographic imaging pixels and radiation detection pixels are provided at intersecting portions of scan lines and signal lines.
US08507868B2
Systems and methods for determining fluid mobility in rock samples using time-lapse position emission particle tracking (PEPT). The systems and methods use PEPT to determine permeability in rock samples, such as shale, that have a permeability of less than one micro-darcy by recording gamma-ray emissions from a tag using a positron emission tomography camera as the tag traverses with a fluid through the pores in the rock sample.
US08507865B2
An organic photodetector detects infrared radiation, particularly radiation within the spectral region of over 1100 nm, the so-called imager region. Contrary to the currently known photodetectors, such as the Bolometer, II-VI semiconductor, and quantum well detectors, the photodetector contains semiconducting nano-particles for shifting the range of detection, requires no technical and cost-intensive effort in the production thereof, and may be constructed of flexible substrates by simple printing methods.
US08507852B2
There is provided of an on mobility spectrometer for separating ions according to their on mobility comprising, in various aspects: a drift tube having therein a drift space and in the drift space at least two on separation paths of different lengths: a straight drift tube having therein a helical ion separation path; a helical on separation path surrounding an axially extending inner electrode assembly; and a drift tube for separating ions according to their ion mobility wherein a rotating arcuate electric field is applied in operation to separate ions having an ion mobility such that their rotational velocity in the drift tube is matched to the rotational velocity of the rotating arcuate electric field. Various methods for separating ions according to their on mobility are also provided.
US08507849B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising a MALDI ion source coupled to an orthogonal acceleration Time of Flight mass analyzer. The mass spectrometer is operated at a first instrument setting wherein specific parent ions are selected by a mass filter and are accelerated to a first axial energy. The fragment ions are then orthogonally accelerated after a first delay time and first mass spectral data is obtained. The mass spectrometer is then operated at a second instrument setting wherein the axial energy of the parent ions is increased and the resulting fragment ions are orthogonally accelerated after a reduced delay time. Second mass spectral data is then obtained. The first and second mass spectral data are then combined to provided a final composite mass spectrum.
US08507835B2
An auto-focusing method of creating a focus value when a point light source image and an image having a low contrast are focused, a recording medium recording the method, and an auto-focusing apparatus for performing the method are provided. In an embodiment, point light source reference graphs and non-point light source graphs are previously stored in a database, a reference graph having the most similar pattern to a focus graph is created by comparing the focus graph of input images to the point light source and non-point light source reference graphs, and a focus value is created when an image is focused using a different method according to the type of corresponding reference graph.
US08507832B2
A method of repairing in situ a pipe or tank of thermo-fusible material, with a step for installing an electric heating element, the heating element including electrical conductors, and with a step for supplying said conductors with appropriate electric energy. The electrical conductors are supplied by a control panel set up prior to the repair and matching, for different thermo-fusible materials and different types of damage of the pipe or tank to be repaired, at least one technical characteristic of the pipe or tank, one characteristic of the electric energy to be applied and a profile of the application time of the electric energy.
US08507829B2
A method for producing rough surface structures comprising the following step: running a laser beam along filling lines (1) over an area to be processed, wherein the filling line (1) is broken down into particular laser dots (2) with a distance a, and wherein the laser dots (2) are moved in a X direction and in a Y direction in a plane with a random factor b relative to the filling line (1) so that they form a cloud of dots.
US08507825B2
Disclosed is a bonding method for dissimilar materials made from metals and its resulting structures. The materials to be bonded are formed by layering three or more sheets such that a dissimilar material interface and a same material interface are formed. A first current is conducted between a three-sheet layered plate material wherein an aluminum alloy plate, a zinc plated steel plate and a bare steel plate, for example, are layered in order. A nugget is formed in an interface between the zinc plated steel plate and the bare steel plate, which are the same materials. Then, a second current greater than the first current is conducted, and a nugget is formed in an interface between the aluminum alloy plate and the zinc plated steel plate.
US08507819B2
A flashlight is described holding at least one battery and an illumination source. A circuit interruption and completion device is provided forming a complete circuit between the illumination source and the battery, when the device is in a closed mode. The device comprises a switch which is manually actuated between at least a first position which causes the device to enter the closed mode and a second position. A switch holding structure comprises a member with means for making an electrical connection associated with the member; and at least one conductive spring is attached to the member to make electrical contact with the means for making an electrical connection with the battery. The switch controls multiple functions of the flashlight including a strobe and a momentary mode. A pushbutton switch may control the multiple functions by multiple pushes on the switch.
US08507818B2
Disclosed is a push switch device. Since a push button is pressed to relatively rotate first and second pressing members in opposite directions and a push direction conversion unit converts the relative rotation of the first and second pressing members into a push movement in a switching direction, a pressing projection of the first pressing member can accurately vertically press an apex of a movable terminal. Therefore, a sense of click when the movable terminal is resiliently deformed and recovered can be maintained well, and a slide friction generated between the movable terminal and the pressing projection of the first pressing member can be minimized, preventing decrease in sense of operation and reduction in lifespan of parts due to the friction. In addition, an operation sense of the push button can be improved because straightness of the push button can be improved and there is no additional repulsion, except the repulsion by the resilient deformation of the movable terminal.
US08507813B2
An integrating impact switch that can discriminate between accelerations due to different stimuli is provided. Embodiments of the present invention actuate only in response to an acceleration whose magnitude is equal to or greater than an acceleration threshold for a predetermined continuous period of time. Embodiments of the present invention comprise an impact switch having a throw that is operatively coupled with a viscous damper that dampens motion of the throw. As a result, a stimulus that imparts an acceleration that meets or exceeds an acceleration threshold for a time period less than a predetermined time-period threshold does not actuate the switch. A stimulus that imparts an acceleration whose magnitude is equal to or greater than the acceleration threshold for a time period equal to the time-period threshold, however, does actuate the switch.
US08507809B2
A component-equipped-holder mounting structure having an electric component; a holder holding the electric component; and a holder mounting portion. The electric component includes a housing and a terminal extending therefrom. The holder includes a holder body, a pair of holder arms extending therefrom and configured to position the housing therebetween, the holder arms holding the electric component displaceably such that the electric component is positioned in a longitudinal direction of a mating terminal to be connected to the electric component, and a locking portion protruding from the pair of holder arms and configured to be brought into locking engagement with the housing. The holder mounting portion includes an accommodating portion accommodating therein a mating terminal with the holder slidably inserted into the holder mounting portion.
US08507790B2
A solar element with increased efficiency and also a method for increasing the efficiency of a solar cell are provided. The solar cell comprises a luminescent element, an upconverter, and also at least one selectively reflecting structure.
US08507774B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV910316. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV910316, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV910316 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV910316 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV910316.
US08507773B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV236864. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV236864, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV236864 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV236864 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV236864.
US08507769B1
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated NPFA4824, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line NPFA4824 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line NPFA4824, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line NPFA4824, and plants produced according to these methods.
US08507762B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1024315. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1024315. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1024315 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1024315 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08507756B2
The invention provides seed treatment compositions as well as their use, methods for treating seeds, methods of protecting plants against pests and also treated seeds and plants. In one embodiment there is provided a method of treating a seed with a seed treatment composition to induce a plant resistance mechanism against one or more pests in a plant grown from said seed.
US08507753B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a NITR (Nitrite Reductase) polypeptide or an ASNS (Asparagine Synthase) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a NITR polypeptide or an ASNS polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs comprising NITR-encoding nucleic acids or ASNS-encoding nucleic acids, useful in performing the methods of the invention.
US08507742B2
The present invention provides a process for producing olefins from a feed comprising at least methane, ethane and carbon dioxide. The feed is separated into at least a methane-comprising feed, an ethane-comprising feed and a carbon dioxide-comprising feed. At least part of the methane-comprising feed is converted to a synthesis gas. The ethane-comprising feed is cracked to obtain at least olefins and hydrogen. At least part of the carbon dioxide-comprising feed and at least part of the synthesis gas are used to synthesis oxygenates. At least part of the oxygenates are converted in an oxygenate-to-olefin (OTO) zone to obtain at least olefins and hydrogen. At least part of the cracking effluent and at least part of the OTO zone effluent are combined to obtain a combined effluent from which hydrogen is separated. At least part of the hydrogen is supplied to the oxygenate synthesis zone.
US08507728B2
A method for manufacturing a ketone includes oxidizing an internal olefin or a cyclic olefin having one carbon-carbon double bond or more at a position other than terminals of a molecule thereof in an amide-based solvent in the presence of water, a palladium catalyst, and molecular oxygen, thereby bonding an oxo group to at least one of the carbon atoms constituting the carbon-carbon double bond, in which the amide-based solvent is represented by the formula in the formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 and R3 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an aryl group, and when R1 and R2 are alkyl groups, R1 and R2 may be bonded to each other to form a ring structure.
US08507723B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to compounds and methods useful in modulating angiogenesis and methods of treating or preventing diseases associated with angiogenesis by administering a polycationic compound. The present invention relates to methods of use and compositions for inhibiting angiogenesis-mediated disorders in mammals including animals and humans. Additionally, this invention relates to the combined use of polycations with other anti-angiogenesis agents for the treatment of different angiogenesis-mediated disorders. Additionally, those polycationic compounds can be used with various anti-inflammatory and cytotoxic agents as well as with radio-therapeutic agents in cancer patients to prevent and treat tumor growth and metastasis.
US08507717B2
The present disclosure is directed to the production of 5-tert-butyl-3-methyl-1,2-phenylene dibenzoate and the purification thereof. Synthesis pathways for a precursor to 5-tert-butyl-3-methyl-1,2-phenylene dibenzoate are provided. The precursor is 5-tert-butyl-3-methylcatechol.
US08507710B2
The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising alkylphosphocholines and antimetabolite antitumor substances. The pharmaceutical compositions of the invention are useful for the treatment of benign and malignant oncoses in humans and animals. Preferred alkylphosphocholines are described by the Formula II. One such preferred alkylphosphocholine is perifosine.
US08507706B2
Certain metallocene compounds are provided that, when used as a component in a supported polymerization catalyst under industrially relevant polymerization conditions, afford high molar mass homo polymers or copolymers like polypropylene or propylene/ethylene copolymers without the need for any α-branched substituent in either of the two available 2-positions of the indenyl ligands. The substituent in the 2-position of one indenyl ligand can be any radical comprising hydrogen, methyl, or any other C2-C40 hydrocarbon which is not branched in the α-position, and the substituent in the 2-position of the other indenyl ligand can be any C4-C40 hydrocarbon radical with the proviso that this hydrocarbon radical is branched in the β-position. This metallocene topology affords high melting point, very high molar mass homo polypropylene and very high molar mass propylene-based copolymers. The activity/productivity levels of catalysts including the metallocenes of the present invention are exceptionally high.
US08507704B2
A formulation, comprising: a) at least one metal-ligand complex, wherein one or more ligands are selected from the group consisting of β-diketonates, β-ketoiminates, β-ketoesterates, β-diiminates, alkyls, carbonyls, alkyl carbonyls, cyclopentadienyls, pyrrolyls, alkoxides, amidinates, imidazolyls, and mixtures thereof; and the metal is selected from Group 2 to 16 elements of the Periodic Table of the Elements; and, b) at least one aminoether selected from the group consisting of R1R2NR3OR4NR5R6, R1OR4NR5R6, O(CH2CH2)2NR1, R1R2NR3N(CH2CH2)2O, R1R2NR3OR4N(CH2CH2)2O, O(CH2CH2)2NR1OR2N(CH2CH2)2O, and mixtures thereof, wherein R1-6 are independently selected from group consisting of C1-10 linear alkyl, C1-10 branched alkyl, C1-10 cyclic alkyl, C6-C10 aromatic, C1-10 alkylamine, C1-10 alkylaminoalkyl, C1-10 ether, C4-C10 cyclic ether, C4-C10 cyclic aminoether, and mixture thereof.
US08507695B2
A carbazole derivative represented by the general formula (1) is provided. In the formula, Ar1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms which form a ring; α and β independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms which form a ring; R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms which form a ring; and R11 to R17 and R21 to R28 independently represent hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms which form a ring.
US08507692B2
An ester compound represented by formula (1): wherein R1 represents C1-C4 alkyl, has an excellent pest control effect and is therefore useful as an active ingredient of a pest control agent.
US08507687B2
The present invention relates to a substantially a solid form of 3-(6-(1-(2,2-difluorobenzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamido)-3-methylpyridin-2-yl)benzoic acid (Compound 1, Solvate Form A and Compound 1, HCl Salt Form A), processes for making such forms, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of treatment therewith.
US08507683B2
The disclosure provides compounds of formula I, including their salts, as well as compositions and methods of using the compounds. The compounds have activity against hepatitis C virus (HCV) and may be useful in treating those infected with HCV.
US08507682B2
The invention provides compounds represented by the formula I, each of which compounds may have sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor agonist and or antagonist biological activity, wherein these compounds selected from the group consisting of wherein A, B, C, D, X, Y, Z and R3 are defined in the specification. Said compounds are useful for treating a disease or condition of a mammal selected from the group consisting of ocular diseases; systemic vascular barrier related diseases; allergies and other inflammatory diseases; cardiac diseases or conditions; fibrosis; pain and wounds.
US08507681B2
The invention provides a compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound, wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as described herein; pharmaceutical compositions thereof; and the use thereof in treating diseases, conditions or disorders modulated by the inhibition of an acetyl-CoA carboxylase enzyme(s) in an animal.
US08507679B2
Photosensitizers having a formula of RuL1L2 (1) are provided, wherein Ru is ruthenium; L1 and L2 are heterocyclic tridentate ligands. L1 has a formula of (2), and L2 has a formula of G1G2G3 (3), wherein G1 and G3 are selected from the group consisting of formulae (4) to (7), and G2 is selected from the group consisting of formulae (7) and (8). The above-mentioned photosensitizers are suitable to be used as sensitizers for fabrication of high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells.
US08507674B2
The present invention provides a control agent that is extremely effective in controlling bacterial diseases. The quorum sensing inhibitor and bacterial disease control agent for agricultural and horticultural use of the present invention contain a pyrimidinone compound represented by General Formula (1): wherein R1 represents a C1-5 alkyl group or a phenyl group, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-5 alkyl group, provided that R1 cannot be a methyl group when R2 represents a hydrogen atom.
US08507671B2
N-Azinyl-N′-aryl ureas and thioureas derivatives are effective at controlling insects.
US08507667B2
This invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as described in the specification. The compounds are inhibitors of PLK and are thus useful for treating proliferative, inflammatory, or cardiovascular disorders.
US08507666B2
Disclosed herein are methods for modifying carbohydrates using hydroxyl radicals. The hydroxyl radicals may be formed by the photolysis of peroxide in aqueous solution using UV light. Also disclosed are compositions and products comprising carbohydrates modified by the process.
US08507664B2
The invention concerns RNA oligonucleotide sequences or sequences that are transcribed into RNA or analogous molecules able to silence the expression of the CYCLIN D1/TROP2 chimeric mRNA and their use in the treatment and the prevention of tumors.
US08507660B2
A novel N-acetyl-5-N,4-O-carbonyl-protected dibutyl sialyl phosphate donor for sialylation of both primary and sterically hindered secondary acceptors to prepare sialosides with high yield and α-selectivity is disclosed. Methods for making disaccharide building blocks comprising α(2→3), α(2→6), α(2→8), α(2→8)/α(2→9) alternate, and α(2→9) sialosides are provided. methods for one-pot synthesis of complex sialosides are disclosed. Libraries of sialosides and methods for using the libraries for detection and receptor binding analysis of surface glycoproteins or pathogens and cancer cells are disclosed. Methods for distinguishing between hemagglutinin (HA) from various strains of influenza are provided.
US08507659B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for chemically modifying biopolymer and polypeptide with a hydrophobic compound or a compound which causes degradation or reaction under basic condition. The present invention provides a method for producing a chemically modified biopolymer or polypeptide, wherein a biopolymer or polypeptide is chemically modified in a reaction solution containing an organic fluorine compound.
US08507658B2
Described are antibodies specifically directed against a cathepsin-like protease that are specific for newly excysted juvenile (NEJ) stages of Fasciola hepatica. Diagnostic tests wherein such antibodies are detected or used are also provided.
US08507652B2
The present invention refers to a pharmaceutical composition for treating skin lesion, comprising a cerium salt on a collagen matrix and a dermatologically acceptable carrier. In addition, the present invention also provides an intermediate composition for preparing a dressing for treating skin lesion and a process for preparing such dressing by lyophilizing said intermediate composition. The present invention also refers to a dressing for treating skin lesion, comprising a cerium salt on a collagen matrix, as well as to the use of a cerium salt associated with collagen in the preparation of the pharmaceutical composition or dressing according to the present invention. Another embodiment of the present invention is a method for treating skin lesion by applying such pharmaceutical composition or dressing on said skin lesion. The composition or dressing of the present invention can be used in topical applications in a variety of lesion types, such as skin lesions involving the release of toxins related to microbial proteins on human or animal organisms, or those so-called HSPs (heat shock proteins); burns which involve burned skin toxin formation or LPC (lipoprotein complex); chronically ulcerate skin lesions in which there is an overproduction of proteinase; skin lesions of difficult resolution, in which control of exudate overproduction is required; and critically infected or colonized skin lesions.
US08507650B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for killing or suppressing growth of Gram-negative bacteria that infect, infest or cause disease in plants, including pathogenic, saprophytic and opportunistic microbes that cause disease in plants and food borne illness in people or in animal feed.
US08507645B2
A process for continuously producing water-absorbing polymer particles, in a continuous polymerization reactor, wherein the amount of initiator used and/or the intensity of the UV radiation optionally used to initiate the polymerization is reduced after the startup of the polymerization reactor.
US08507640B2
A salt catalyst comprises an ionic complex of i) a nitrogen base comprising one or more guanidine and/or amidine functional groups, and ii) an oxoacid comprising one or more active acid groups, the active acid groups independently comprising a carbonyl group (C═O), sulfoxide group (S═O), and/or a phosphonyl group (P═O) bonded to one or more active hydroxy groups; wherein a ratio of moles of the active hydroxy groups to moles of the guanidine and/or amidine functional groups is greater than 0 and less than 2.0. The salt catalysts are capable of catalyzing ring opening polymerization of cyclic carbonyl compounds.
US08507630B2
The invention has an object to obtain an organic inorganic composite material having high activity and high selectivity, and suitable as a catalyst material having small elution of an active metal from a carrier, and further to obtain an organosilicon compound suitable for the preparation of the composite material. The composite material is an organic inorganic composite material comprising an organosilicon compound having at least two groups containing reactive silicon at a molecular end, bonded to one silicon atom constituting the organosilicon compound, and an inorganic oxide material, the organosilicon compound and the inorganic oxide material being bonded to each other through a plurality of groups containing reactive silicon of the organosilicon compound. The organosilicon compound is represented by the following general formula (1) or (2).
US08507615B2
Polyimide resin compositions that contain an end-capped rigid aromatic polyimide, graphite and, optionally, a filler selected from sepiolite, attapulgite, kaolinite, or a mixture thereof, are found to exhibit low wear at high temperatures. Such compositions are especially useful in molded articles that are exposed to wear conditions at high temperatures such as aircraft engine parts.
US08507609B2
The present invention provides a thermoplastic resin composition which comprises (A) a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester-based polymer forming a network-shaped disperse phase; and (B) an aromatic vinyl-cyanide vinyl based copolymer forming a continuous phase. The thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention can have an excellent low gloss characteristics while maintaining basic physical properties of a weather resistance, impact strength, thermal resistance, and delamination characteristics.
US08507608B2
A propylene polymer resin composition comprising 50-99 wt. % of a propylene polymer resin and 1-50 wt. % of an ethylene polymer resin, wherein said ethylene polymer resin has the following characteristics (A) through (E): (A) a density (d), as measured by a density gradient tube method according to JIS K6760, of 940-960 kg/m3; (B) a melt flow rate (MFR), as measured at 190° C. under a load of 2.16 kg, of 1-10 g/10 min.; (C) a frequency of terminal vinyl of not more than 0.2 per 1,000 carbon atoms; (D) a melt strength (MS160), as measured at 160° C., of at least 100 mN; and (E) an activation energy of flow (Ea) of not larger than 35 kJ/mol. The propylene polymer resin has high melt strength and exhibits enhanced fluidity, processability and shapability.
US08507604B2
A graft copolymer satisfying (a) to (e): (a) a main chain derived from one or more monomers selected from (I) an acrylic acid, (II) a methacrylic acid, (III) a vinyl ester, (IV) a styrene and (V) a vinyl group-containing silane compound, at least one kind of the monomer having a crosslinkable functional group, (b) a side chain derived from a reactive homopolymer α-olefin having a meso pentad fraction (mmmm) of from 30 to 80% by mol or a copolymer of 50% by mass or more of at least one α-olefin, (c) a graft ratio of from 1 to 150% by mass, (d) a weight average molecular weight of from 500 to 400,000, and (e) a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of from 1.5 to 4.
US08507596B2
A plasticizer composition comprising vicinally diacylated fatty acid esters derived from renewable feedstocks, and a process for the preparation thereof, are disclosed. A composition comprising a halogen-containing polymer and a plasticizer composition comprising the vicinally diacylated fatty acid esters is also described. A method for plasticizing halogen-containing polymers, such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins is provided. The plasticizer compositions may be added to PVC resins in amounts ranging between 1 and 200 phr.
US08507592B2
An adhesive composition includes a phenoxy resin having a bisphenol S skeleton in a structure and 10 to 100 parts by weight of a maleimide compound based on 100 parts by weight of the phenoxy resin. The maleimide compound has a plurality of maleimide groups in a structure and is at least one of a first maleimide compound having a melting temperature of 160° C. or lower and a gelling time at 200° C. of 180 to 350 seconds and a second maleimide compound having a melting temperature of 160° C. or lower and a gelling time at 250° C. of 110 to 150 seconds. A heat resistant adhesive film may be formed by coating the adhesive composition on a substrate film, and a wiring film may have a conductor wiring layer put between such heat resistant adhesive films.
US08507585B2
A non-aqueous pigment ink comprising a pigment, a non-aqueous solvent, and non-aqueous resin dispersion microparticles having a pigment dispersion capability, wherein the non-aqueous resin dispersion microparticles are an acrylic polymer comprising an alkyl (meth)acrylate unit having an alkyl group of 12 or more carbon atoms and a (meth)acrylate unit having a urethane group. The acrylic polymer is a copolymer of a monomer mixture comprising an alkyl (meth)acrylate (A) having an alkyl group of 12 or more carbon atoms and a reactive (meth)acrylate (B) having a functional group capable of reacting with an amino group, wherein the urethane group is introduced by a reaction between the functional group capable of reacting with an amino group, an amino alcohol and a polyvalent isocyanate compound, and the mass ratio within the acrylic polymer between the copolymer portion and the introduced urethane group portions is within a range from 60:40 to 99:1.
US08507584B2
Disclosed is a phase change ink comprising a colorant, an initiator, and a phase change ink carrier, said carrier comprising at least one radically curable monomer compound and a compound of the formula wherein R1 and R1′ are the same, and wherein R1 and R1′ are each an aromatic group; and wherein R2 and R2′ and R3 each, independently of the others, are alkylene groups, arylene groups, arylalkylene groups, or alkylarylene groups; or wherein, in embodiments, R1 and R1′ can be the same or different, and wherein R1 and R1′ each, independently of the other is an alkyl group having a least one ethylenic unsaturation, an arylalkyl group having at least one ethylenic unsaturation, an alkylaryl group having at least one ethylenic unsaturation, or an aromatic group, provided that at least one of R1 and R1′ is an aromatic group; and provided that neither of R1 or R1′ is a photoinitiator group. Also disclosed herein is a method of printing with the phase change ink.
US08507579B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous coating composition comprising a treated latex polymer dispersion with less than about 50 ppm of unreacted monomers. The latex polymer dispersion can be treated by various means, including stripping and chasing, to remove unreacted monomers from the dispersion. Unreacted monomers significantly contribute to paint odor. In an innovative aspect of the present invention, the synergistic combination of the treated latex dispersion with pigments and other low or zero-VOC additives results in an aqueous coating composition with de minimis levels of volatile emissions, low odor, and paint performance comparable to premium latex paints.
US08507574B2
The present invention provides a zirconium oxide dispersion which contains zirconium oxide particles, a metal complex, and a dispersion medium and which has excellent storage stability; a photo-curing composition containing zirconium oxide particles which contains zirconium oxide particles, a metal complex, an actinic energy ray-curing compound, a photopolymerization initiator, and a dispersion medium and which composition can form, on a surface of a substrate, a cured film having excellent transparency and high refractive index, and which composition does not corrode a metal-made apparatus employed in a dispersion process and a coating apparatus; and a cured film produced by applying onto a substrate the photo-curing composition containing zirconium oxide particles through coating or printing, followed by hardening.
US08507573B2
There is provided an inkjet ink which has satisfactory storage stability and inkjet ejection stability, exhibits excellent curability, and is capable of forming high quality images on coated paper by an inkjet system. Disclosed is an active energy ray curable inkjet ink composition comprising: 15-75% by weight of at least one polymerizable bifunctional monomer selected from the group consisting of dipropylene glycol diacrylate and 1,9-nonanediol diacrylate; and 1% by weight to 10% by weight of [4-(methylphenylthio)phenyl]phenylmethanone as a photopolymerization initiator.
US08507567B2
Method and apparatus for reducing CO2 in a stream by conversion to a Syngas for production of energy
A system and method for producing Syngas from the CO2 in a gaseous stream, such as an exhaust stream, from a power plant or industrial plant, like a cement kiln, is disclosed. A preferred embodiment includes providing the gaseous stream to pyrolysis reactor along with a carbon source such as coke. The CO2 and carbon are heated to about 1330° C. and at about one atmosphere with reactants such as steam such that a reaction takes place that produces Syngas, carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2). The Syngas is then cleaned and provided to a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reactor to produce Ethanol or Bio-catalytic synthesis reactor.
US08507565B2
The invention relates to a method for separating emulsions of oil and water, the method comprising incorporating a demulsifying-effective amount of a polyorganosiloxane demulsifier into an emulsion comprising an oil phase and an aqueous phase. The invention also relates to compositions containing polyorganosiloxane demulsifier and the water and oil phases of an emulsion.
US08507564B2
Methods for enhancing a preference for a product by repetitive use. The method involves formulating a perfume composition into a product, the perfume composition including (I) allyl caproate and (II) ambroxan or geranium oil.
US08507563B2
The composition disclosed is a pseudo-thermosetting neutralized chitosan composition, neutralized with a hydroxylated base, forming a phosphate-free transparent hydrogel at a temperature higher than 5° C. Said composition contains a homogeneously reacetylated chitosan derived from a chitosan having a deacetylation degree of 80-90%, having a molecular weight of not smaller than 200 kDa and a deacetylation degree of 30-60%, and may further contain a diol. Said composition may be used as a drug delivery system.
US08507562B2
The present invention provides convergent processes for preparing (−)-beta-elemene, (−)-beta-elemenal, (−)-beta-elemenol, and (−)-beta-elemene fluoride and analogues thereof. Also provided are intermediates useful for preparing (−)-beta-elemene. The present invention further provides novel compositions based on analogues of (−)-beta-elemene, (−)-beta-elemenal, (−)-beta-elemenol, (−)-beta-elemene fluoride and methods for the treatment of cancer, such as brain tumor, lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, colorectal cancer, gastric intestional cancer, and stomach cancer.The inventors propose a combination therapy using 1) one or more of the following anti-cancer agents: including, but not limited to, Cisplatin, 5-FU, Taxol, Taxol derivatives, and any anti-cancer agent, and 2) one or more of the following (−)-beta-elemene and its analogs, including (−)-beta-elemene, (−)-beta-elemenal, (−)-beta-elemenol, (−)-beta-elemene fluoride, and their analogs, and (−)-beta-elemene's intermediate in its chemical synthesis, for the treatment of cancer, especially for the treatment of brain tumor, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, cervical cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer.
US08507554B2
In the quorum sensing antagonist blocking the communication in bacteria, the method for preventing biofilm formation using this quorum sensing antagonist and the method for reducing the bacterial contamination, the quorum sensing antagonist contains the homoserine lactone moiety and sulfanylethanoyl group, and has a similar chemical structure to that of the autoinducer which is produced by bacteria as a signal, whereby the quorum sensing antagonist can inhibit the formation of biofilm and reduce the bacterial contamination as well.
US08507552B2
The invention provides compounds of formula (I): or a salt thereof. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula I, processes for preparing compounds of formula I, intermediates useful for preparing compounds of formula I and therapeutic methods using the compounds of formula I.
US08507549B2
Methods for synthesizing glycinols, glyceollins I and II, and isoflavene and chromane compounds using a Wittig reaction, compositions made therewith, and uses thereof are described.
US08507540B2
The present invention relates to oxazolidinone derivatives containing new bicyclic group, having antibacterial activity, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a method for preparing the same, an antibacterial composition comprising the oxazolidinone derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient, and a method for treating an infectious disease caused by pathogen using the same. The oxazolidinone derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof may exhibit excellent antibacterial activity against gram positive bacteria including various resistant strains.
US08507535B2
The invention relates to a compound of formula wherein A is defined herein or to pharmaceutically active salts, stereoisomeric forms, including individual diastereoisomers and enantiomers of the compound of formula I as well as racemic and non-racemic mixtures thereof. The present compounds are high potential NK-3 receptor antagonists for the treatment of depression, pain, psychosis, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
US08507530B2
Anti-fungal agent having excellent anti-fungal action physicochemical properties including safety and water solubility. Compound represented by formula (I), or salt thereof: wherein R1 represents hydrogen, halogen, amino, R11—NH— wherein R11 represents C1-6 alkyl, hydroxy C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 alkoxy C1-6 alkyl, or C1-6alkoxycarbonyl C1-6 alkyl, R12—(CO)—NH— wherein R12 represents C1-6 alkyl group or C1-6 alkoxy C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 alkyl, hydroxy C1-6 alkyl, cyano C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 alkoxy, or C1-6 alkoxy C1-6 alkyl or a phosphonoamino group; R2 represents hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, amino, or a di C1-6 alkylamino group or a phosphonoamino group; one of X and Y is nitrogen while the other is nitrogen or oxygen; ring A represents a 5- or 6-member heteroaryl ring or a benzene ring which may have a halogen atom or 1 or 2 C1-6 alkyl groups; Z represents a single bond, a methylene group, an ethylene group, oxygen, sulfur, —CH2O—, —OCH2—, —NH—, —CH2NH—, —NHCH2—, —CH2S—, or —SCH2—; R3 represents hydrogen or halogen or C1-6 alkyl, C3-8 cycloalkyl, C6-10 aryl, a 5- or 6-member heteroaryl group or a 5- or 6-member nonaromatic heterocyclic group which may have 1 or 2 substituents; and R4 represents hydrogen or halogen; provided that either R1 or R2 represents a phosphonoamino group.
US08507529B2
The present invention provides a dermatological and/or cosmetic composition which includes a methoxycinnamate, and a cyclic nitroxide. The present invention further provides a method of synthesizing photo absorbing-antioxidant compounds and their use in dermatological and/or cosmetic compositions. In addition, the present invention relates to the use of methoxycinnamate, and nitroxide compounds for the preparation of a composition for the dermatological and/or cosmetic treatment of skin.
US08507528B2
2-Alkyl-indazole compound and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts of acid addition, method and intermediates for preparing them, a pharmaceutical composition containing them and use of the latter. The 2-alkyl-indazole compound has the following general formula (I) in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R6, R7, X, Y, W, n, p, and m have the meanings stated in the description.
US08507527B2
The present invention provides a method for stabilizing an anti-dementia drug in a pharmaceutical composition containing the anti-dementia drug and a high molecular weight basic substance by adding a high molecular weight acidic substance to said pharmaceutical composition. Further, the present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition containing an anti-dementia drug and a high molecular basic substance in which a high molecular weight acidic substance is contained for stabilizing the anti-dementia drug. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition which comprises steps wherein a solution or suspension containing a high molecular weight acidic substance is added to a mixture of an anti-dementia drug and a high molecular weight basic substance for the sake of stabilizing the anti-dementia drug.
US08507521B2
The present invention relates to a heterocyclic derivative of formula (I) wherein the variables are as defined in the specification, or to a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said heterocyclic derivatives and to their use in therapy, for instance in the treatment or prevention of disorders mediated by glutamate dysfunction, such as schizophrenia and generalised anxiety disorder.
US08507520B2
Compounds of formula (I): wherein R, R1, R2, R3, R4, and X are as defined in the disclosure, or an acid addition salt thereof, and the therapeutic use and process of synthesis thereof.
US08507518B2
This invention provides the use of rapamycin 42-ester with 3-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-2-methylpropionic acid (CCI-779) in the treatment or inhibition of mantle cell lymphoma.
US08507517B2
Embodiments relate to Rifaximin polymorphic, salt, and hydrate forms, methods of producing polymorphic forms and to their use in medicinal preparations and to therapeutic methods using them.
US08507512B2
This inventions relates to compounds having the structure Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which are soluble guanylate cyclase activators. The compounds are useful for treatment or prevention of cardiovascular diseases, endothelial dysfunction, diastolic dysfunction, atherosclerosis, hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, angina pectoris, thromboses, restenosis, myocardial infarction, strokes, cardiac insufficiency, pulmonary hypertonia, erectile dysfunction, asthma bronchiale, chronic kidney insufficiency, diabetes, or cirrhosis of the liver.
US08507505B2
The present invention relates to a compound of General Formula (I) below, among others. In the Formula, Ar1 is an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group; R1 is a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-C6 alkyl group, or an optionally substituted aryl, aralkyl, or heteroaryl group; R2 is an optionally substituted aryl, aralkyl, or heteroaryl group; and R3 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-C6 alkyl group. A compound of the present invention has an excellent Wee1 kinase inhibiting effect, and is therefore useful in the filed of medicine, particularly in various types of cancer therapy.
US08507502B2
Fused bicyclic or tricyclic compounds of formula (I): wherein A, B, C, X, Y, m, and n are defined herein. Also disclosed are a method for inhibiting EGFR kinase activity and a method for treating cancer with these compounds.
US08507494B2
The present invention is directed to novel 3-oxo-2,3-dihydropyrazolo[4,3-c]quinolizine derived compounds of generic formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which are M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the M1 receptor is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, pain or sleep disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and to the use of the compounds and compositions in the treatment of diseases mediated by the M1 receptor.
US08507488B2
The invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with abnormal or deregulated kinase activity, particularly Ros, KDR, FMS, C-FMS, FLT3, c-Kit, JAK2, JAK3, Aurora, PDGFR, Lck, TrkA, TrkB, TrkC, IGF-IR, ALK4, ALK5 and ALK or combinations thereof.
US08507484B2
The present invention provides a preventive and/or therapeutic agent for neutrophilic inflammatory diseases which comprises, as an active ingredient, a bicyclic heterocyclic compound represented by formula (I): [wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, or the like, A1-A2-A3-A4 represents N═CR3—CR4═CR5 (wherein R3, R4, and R5 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, and the like), Q represents substituted or unsubstituted phenylene, and the like, and T represents substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aroyl, and the like].
US08507483B2
The invention relates to the novel products of formula (I): in which Z represents —O—, —NH or Nalk; n represents 0 to 4; R1 represents Hal, hydroxyl, alkyl or alkoxy; the alkyl and alkoxy radicals being optionally substituted; R2 and R3 represent H, Hal or alkyl optionally substituted with one or more halogen atoms; R4 represents H; these products being in all the isomer forms and the salts, as medicaments, in particular as inhibitors of AKT(PKB) phosphorylation.
US08507478B2
The invention relates to antibacterial compounds of formula I wherein R1 is alkoxy or halogen; U and V each independently are CH or N; is a bond or is absent; W is CH or N or, when is absent, W is CH2 or NH, with the proviso that U, V and W are not all N; A is a bond or CH2; R2 is H or, provided A is CH2, may also be OH; m and n each independently are 0 or 1; D is CH2 or a bond; G represents a phenyl group substituted once or twice in the meta and/or para position(s) by substituents selected from alkyl, (C1-C3)alkoxy and halogen, or G is a group G1 or G2 wherein Z1, Z2 and Z3 may each represent CH or N; X is N or CH and Q is O or S; it being understood that if m and n each are 0, then A is CH2; and salts of such compounds.
US08507475B2
The disclosure relates to a series pyrimidone derivatives represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof or a hydrate thereof: wherein: Y, Z, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and n are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are methods of preparing the compounds of formula (I), intermediates therefor and their utility in treating a variety of disease conditions.
US08507466B2
Described herein are various lipid mixtures, more particularly special mixtures of fatty acids esters, which may be phytosterol esters and/or glyceride esters. Said mixtures are evaluated in the context of their ability to, upon consumption, affect the levels of circulating LDL and HDL particles, and their therapeutic effect on conditions associated with lipid metabolism, such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, metabolic disorders, etc. Compositions, dietary nutrients, food supplements and nutraceuticals comprising the herein described mixtures are also described.
US08507455B2
The present invention provides iRNA agent including at least one monomer having the structure shown in formula (I′) wherein: A and B are each independently for each occurrence O, N(RN) or S; X is H, a protecting group, a phosphate group, a phosphodiester group, an activated phosphate group, an activated phosphite group, a phosphoramidite, a solid support, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-nucleoside, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-oligonucleotide, a lipid, a PEG, a steroid, a polymer, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-L6-Q′-L7-OP(Z′″)(Z′″″)O-oligonucleotide, a nucleotide, or an oligonucleotide; Y is H, a protecting group, a phosphate group, a phosphodiester group, an activated phosphate group, an activated phosphite group, a phosphoramidite, a solid support, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-nucleoside, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-oligonucleotide, a lipid, a PEG, a steroid, a lipophile, a polymer, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-L6-Q′-L7-OP(Z′″)(Z′″″)O-oligonucleotide, a nucleotide, or an oligonucleotide; R is folate, a folate analog a folate mimic or a folate receptor binding ligand; L6 and L7 are each independently for each occurrence —(CH2)n—, —C(R′)(R″)(CH2)n—, —(CH2)nC(R′)(R″)—, —(CH2CH2O)mCH2CH2—, or —(CH2CH2O)mCH2CH2NH—; Q′ is NH, O, S, CH2, C(O)O, C(O)NH, —NH—CH(Ra)—C(O)—, —C(O)—CH(Ra)—NH—, CO, where Ra is H or amino acid side chain; R′ and R″ are each independently H, CH3, OH, SH, NH2, NH(Alkyl=Me, Et, Pr, isoPr, Bu, Bn) or N(diAlkyl=Me2, Et2, Bn2); Z′, Z″, Z′″ and Z″″ are independently O or S; n represent independently for each occurrence 1-20; and m represent independently for each occurrence 0-50.
US08507453B2
A novel compound that has antimicrobial activity against penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, and an anti-penicillin resistant pneumococci agent that includes the compound as an active ingredient are provided. Thus, an anti-penicillin resistant pneumococci agent is provided that includes as an active ingredient a compound represented by the following formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, or hydrates thereof: wherein, in the formula (I), R represents any one of a halogen atom, an azido group, Ra-Wa-, Rb-Wb-, Rc-Wc-, and RdRd′N—.
US08507448B2
The invention refers to a synthetic peptide comprising an amino acid sequence of seven residues in length, preferably flanked by 2 cysteine residues at both ends, which is capable of specifically recognizing human CD154 and blocking CD40:CD154 interaction, thereby inhibiting the biological effects depending on such interaction. The peptide of the invention, which is preferably in a cyclic form, is suitable for use for diagnostic and therapeutic applications, especially for the diagnosis and therapy of tumor, inflammatory diseases and transplant rejection.
US08507436B2
The present invention relates to isolated 18-mer peptides corresponding to amino acid residues 369-386 of human plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) and fragments thereof, compositions that include such peptides, and uses of such compositions for treating thromboembolic diseases and pathological conditions associated with neurological damage.
US08507435B2
Isolated fragments of the HFE2A protein able to bind and modulate HFE2A and other proteins, such as hepcidin, involved in the iron metabolism pathway are disclosed. Also disclosed are corresponding isolated polynucleotides encoding the fragments of the HFE2A protein. Methods for identifying modulators of HFE2A, comprising contacting a test compound with HFE2A and determining a change in HFE2A activity due to the compound, are provided. Also taught are methods of diagnosing an animal afflicted with or at risk of developing a disease of iron metabolism. Methods for treating and/or preventing a disorder in animals comprising administering to an animal afflicted therewith, or at risk of developing said disorder, a therapeutically effective amount of an HFE2A modulator are provided.
US08507427B2
Structural and mechanistic basis for novel compound biosynthesis using the 4-electron hexose oxidase
A novel pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of formula (I) is disclosed. The novel compound can include a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The invention further comprises methods for making compounds of formula (I) using Dbv29, and to the use of compound of formula (I) to treat bacterial infections.
US08507417B2
Disclosed are sulfur and phosphorous free, borated organomolybdenum compositions containing borated alcohols. These compositions can be formulated with ashless antioxidants and low levels of phosphorous containing antiwear compounds to provide improved lubricating compositions.
US08507416B2
To provide a water-based lubricant for plastic working excellent in moisture absorption resistance and corrosion resistance, with which degradation in lubricating performances such as lubricity, workability and seizure resistance may not occur even under high-temperature/high humidity environments.A water-based lubricant for plastic working, comprising a resin component containing a copolymer or homopolymer of monomers having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, including at least maleic anhydride (A), an inorganic component (B), and a solid lubricating component (C), wherein maleic anhydride moieties of the resin component (A) are blocked with a nitrogen-containing compound at a blocking ratio of 10 to 80%, and unblocked maleic anhydride moieties are neutralized with an alkaline component at a degree of neutralization of 40 to 100%.
US08507413B2
Clay is stabilized in methods for drilling of wells and other formation treatment for hydrocarbon production by the addition to the drilling or other fluid including a choline compound together with an formation control additive.
US08507410B2
A pyridazinone compound represented by formula (I) wherein R1 represents a C1-6 alkyl group or a (C1-6 alkyloxy) C1-6 alkyl group, R2 and R3 represent hydrogen or a C1-6 alkyl group, W represents halogen, etc., Z1 represents a C1-6 alkyl group, Z2 represents a C1-6 alkyl group, a C3-8 cycloalkyl group, etc., and n represents 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, has a weed-controlling effect and an arthropod-controlling effect.
US08507404B2
Provided are improved regenerable SOx trap formulations for on-board vehicle applications. The regenerable sulfur trap formulations reduce the rate of sulfur poisoning of a downstream nitrogen storage reduction (NSR) catalyst trap in exhaust gas cleaning systems for combustion engines by adsorbing SOx as metal sulfate under lean exhaust conditions and desorbing the accumulated SOx under rich exhaust conditions. The regenerable sulfur oxides trap catalyst compositions include a metal (M) oxide, wherein M is selected from Cu, Fe, Mn, Ag, Co and combinations thereof and a metal (M)-La—Zr oxide, wherein M is selected from Cu, Fe, Mn, Ag, Co and combinations thereof. In addition, provided are improved exhaust gas cleaning systems and methods for treating exhaust gas from a combustion source that include a hydrogen generation system, a regenerable sulfur oxides trap, and a regenerable nitrogen storage reduction (NSR) catalyst trap. The improved exhaust gas cleaning systems and methods allow for the sulfur released from the sulfur trap to pass through the nitrogen oxide trap with no or little poisoning of NOx storage and reduction sites, which significantly improves NSR catalyst trap lifetime and performance to meet future emissions standards. The disclosed exhaust gas cleaning systems are suitable for use in internal combustion engines (e.g., diesel, gasoline, CNG) which operate with lean air/fuel ratios over most of the operating period.
US08507401B1
A metal catalyst is formed by vaporizing a quantity of metal and a quantity of carrier forming a vapor cloud. The vapor cloud is quenched forming precipitate nanoparticles comprising a portion of metal and a portion of carrier. The nanoparticles are impregnated onto supports. The supports are able to be used in existing heterogeneous catalysis systems. A system for forming metal catalysts comprises means for vaporizing a quantity of metals and a quantity of carrier, quenching the resulting vapor cloud and forming precipitate nanoparticles comprising a portion of metals and a portion of carrier. The system further comprises means for impregnating supports with the nanoparticles.
US08507398B2
Catalysts for metathesis reactions, in particular for the metathesis of nitrile rubber, are provided.
US08507394B2
There is provided a glass composition having a devitrification temperature of 1000° C. or below, a glass transformation temperature (Tg) of 535° C. or below and a specific gravity within a range from 3 to 4.The glass composition has a refractive index (nd) within a range from 1.60 to 1.75 and an Abbe number (νd) within a range from 50 to 60.
US08507389B2
Methods for forming a dielectric layer on a substrate are provided herein. In some embodiments a method for forming a dielectric layer on a substrate may include exposing the substrate to a first source gas comprising a silicon precursor and an oxidizer for a first period of time to form a first layer comprising silicon and oxygen; and exposing the substrate to a second source gas comprising a metal precursor and the silicon precursor for a second period of time to form a second layer comprising silicon and a metal, where in the first layer and the second layer form the dielectric layer.
US08507388B2
In some embodiments, a reducing gas ambient containing a reducing agent is established in a batch process chamber before substrates are subjected to a deposition. The reducing atmosphere is established before and/or during loading of the substrates into the process chamber, and can include flowing reducing gas into the process chamber while the chamber is open. The reducing gas can be a mixture of a reducing agent and an inert gas, with the reducing agent being a minority component of the reducing gas. Using the reducing gas ambient, oxidation of substrate surfaces is reduced.
US08507386B2
A method of etching recesses into silicon prior to formation of embedded silicon alloy source/drain regions. The recess etch includes a plasma etch component, using an etch chemistry of a primary fluorine-based or chlorine-based etchant, in combination with a similar concentration of hydrogen bromide. The concentration of both the primary etchant and the hydrogen bromide is relatively low; a diluent of an inert gas or oxygen is added to the reactive species. Loading effects on the undercut of the recess etch are greatly reduced, resulting in reduced transistor performance variation.
US08507385B2
A method for processing a thin film micro device on a substrate includes: 1) depositing a carbon film on the substrate as a sacrificial layer; 2) photolithographically defining a first predetermined pattern in the carbon film; 3) etching an unwanted portion of the carbon film outside the first predetermined pattern; 4) depositing a structural film including a single or multiple layers of solid state materials; 5) photolithographically defining a second predetermined pattern in the structural film; 6) etching the discarded portion of the structural film outside the second predetermined pattern; 7) selectively removing the remaining portion of the sacrificial carbon film by using a selective etch process gas in a reactor chamber, so that the overlapped portion of the remaining structural element with the first predetermined pattern is suspended above an underneath cavity above the substrate.
US08507383B2
Methods for polishing multiple dielectric layers to form replacement metal gate structures include a first chemical mechanical polish step to remove overburden and planarize a top layer to leave a planarized thickness over a gate structure. A second chemical mechanical polish step includes removal of the thickness to expose an underlying covered surface of a dielectric of the gate structure with a slurry configured to polish the top layer and the underlying covered surface substantially equally to accomplish a planar topography. A third chemical mechanical polish step is employed to remove the dielectric of the gate structure and expose a gate conductor.
US08507376B2
Described is a method of forming a solder deposit on a substrate comprising the following steps i) provide a substrate including a surface bearing electrical circuitry that includes at least one contact area, ii) form a solder mask layer that is placed on the substrate surface and patterned to expose the at least one contact area, iii) contact the entire substrate area including the solder mask layer and the at least one contact area with a solution suitable to provide a conductive layer on the substrate surface, iv) electroplate a solder deposit layer containing a tin or tin alloy onto the conductive layer and v) etch away an amount of the solder deposit layer containing tin or tin alloy sufficient to remove the solder deposit layer from the solder mask layer area leaving a solder material layer on the at least one contact area.
US08507374B2
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method for manufacturing the semiconductor device comprises: forming a plurality of first pillar patterns each of which includes a sidewall contact by selectively etching a semiconductor substrate; forming a buried bit line at a lower portion of a region between two neighboring first pillar patterns; forming a plurality of second pillar patterns by selectively etching upper portions of the first pillar patterns; and forming a gate coupling second pillar patterns arranged in a direction crossing the bit line, the gate enclosing the second pillar patterns.
US08507369B2
The invention provides a method for producing silicon nanowire devices, including the following steps: growing SiNW on a substrate; depositing an amorphous carbon layer and dielectric anti-reflectivity coating orderly; removing part of dielectric anti-reflectivity coating and amorphous carbon layer above the SiNW through dry etching to expose the SiNW device area; depositing an oxide film on the surface of the above structure; forming a metal pad connected with the SiNW in the SiNW device area; depositing a passivation layer on the surface of the above structure; applying photolithography and etching technology to form contact holes on the metal pad and to remove the passivation layer, the oxide film and the dielectric anti-reflectivity coating above the SiNW outside the device area, stopping on the amorphous carbon layer; removing the amorphous carbon layer above the SiNW outside the device area through ashing process to expose the SiNW.
US08507366B2
A rapid thermal processing system includes a rapid thermal processing furnace, a back electrode substrate, and a cover. The rapid thermal processing furnace includes a reaction chamber and a heating device. The heating device is capable of generating heat energy. The back electrode substrate is adapted to dispose in the reaction chamber and has a precursor layer and a selenium layer formed on the precursor layer. The cover is disposed at a position corresponding to the selenium layer on the back electrode substrate and has a sulfur in solid form formed thereon, so as to make the sulfur in solid form opposite to the selenium layer. After the sulfur in solid form absorbs the heat energy generated by the heating device, the sulfur in solid form reacts with the selenium layer and the precursor layer to form a photoelectric transducing layer.
US08507365B2
Growth of coincident site lattice matched semiconductor layers and devices on crystalline substrates
Methods of fabricating a semiconductor layer or device and said devices are disclosed. The methods include but are not limited to providing a substrate having a crystalline surface with a known lattice parameter (a). The method further includes growing a crystalline semiconductor layer on the crystalline substrate surface by coincident site lattice matched epitaxy, without any buffer layer between the crystalline semiconductor layer and the crystalline surface of the substrate. The crystalline semiconductor layer will be prepared to have a lattice parameter (a′) that is related to the substrate lattice parameter (a). The lattice parameter (a′) maybe related to the lattice parameter (a) by a scaling factor derived from a geometric relationship between the respective crystal lattices.
US08507364B2
An object of the present invention is to realize, by the flux process, the production of a high-quality n-type semiconductor crystal having high concentration of electrons. The method of the invention for producing an n-type Group III nitride-based compound semiconductor by the flux process, the method including preparing a melt by melting at least a Group III element by use of a flux; supplying a nitrogen-containing gas to the melt; and growing an n-type Group III nitride-based compound semiconductor crystal on a seed crystal from the melt. In the method, carbon and germanium are dissolved in the melt, and germanium is incorporated as a donor into the semiconductor crystal, to thereby produce an n-type semiconductor crystal.The mole percentage of germanium to gallium in the melt is 0.05 mol % to 0.5 mol %, and the mole percentage of carbon to sodium is 0.1 mol % to 3.0 mol %.
US08507359B2
A wire (24) and a pixel electrode (25) are formed on a surface of a flat supporting substrate (21) which surface is opposite to a surface on which a TFT (16) is formed. Accordingly, it is possible to provide an active matrix substrate (2) which makes it possible to suppress a decline in yield.
US08507352B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type having first and second surfaces is prepared. Second conductivity type impurities for forming a collector layer are implanted to the second surface using a mask that has an opening at a portion where the collector layer will be formed. An oxide layer is formed by enhanced-oxidizing the collector layer. First conductivity type impurities for forming a first conductivity type layer are implanted to the second surface using the oxide layer as a mask. A support base is attached to the second surface and a thickness of the semiconductor substrate is reduced from the first surface. An element part including a base region, an emitter region, a plurality of trenches, a gate insulating layer, a gate electrode, and a first electrode is formed on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US08507344B2
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method for forming the semiconductor device includes forming one or more buried gates in a semiconductor substrate, forming a landing plug between the buried gates, forming a bit line region exposing the landing plug over the semiconductor substrate, forming a glue layer in the bit line region, forming a bit line material in the bit line region, and removing the glue layer formed at inner sidewalls of the bit line region, and burying an insulation material in a part where the glue layer is removed. A titanium nitride (TiN) film formed at sidewalls of the damascene bit line is removed, so that resistance of the bit line is maintained and parasitic capacitance of the bit line is reduced, resulting in the improvement of device characteristics.
US08507342B2
A semiconductor device includes active regions separated by a trench, a separation layer dividing the trench, and buried bit lines buried in the trench with the separation layer interposed between the buried bit lines.
US08507340B2
A lamination pattern having a control gate electrode, a first insulation film thereover, and a second insulation film thereover is formed over a semiconductor substrate. A memory gate electrode is formed adjacent to the lamination pattern. A gate insulation film is formed between the control gate and the semiconductor substrate. A fourth insulation film, including a lamination film of a silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film, and another silicon oxide film, is formed between the memory gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate and between the lamination pattern and the memory gate electrode. At the sidewall on the side of the lamination pattern adjacent to the memory gate electrode, the first insulation film is retreated from the control gate electrode and the second insulation film, and the upper end corner portion of the control gate electrode is rounded.
US08507331B2
A method of manufacturing a display device includes forming a buffer layer on a top surface of a substrate, forming an amorphous silicon layer on a top surface of the buffer layer, and forming a polysilicon layer by irradiating the amorphous silicon layer with a laser beam. A plurality of first protrusions are formed on the top surface of the polysilicon layer, and a plurality of second protrusions are formed on a surface of the buffer layer by transferring the shape of the polysilicon layer to the buffer layer. A gate insulator on the buffer layer is then formed in the shape of bumps of the second protrusions.
US08507326B2
An approach is provided for semiconductor devices including an anti-fuse structure. The semiconductor device includes a first metallization layer including a first portion of a first electrode and a second electrode, the second electrode being formed in a substantially axial plane surrounding the first portion of the first electrode, with a dielectric material in between the two electrodes. An ILD is formed over the first metallization layer, a second metallization layer including a second portion of the first electrode is formed over the ILD, and at least one via is formed through the ILD, electrically connecting the first and second portions of the first electrode. Breakdown of the dielectric material is configured to enable an operating current to flow between the second electrode and the first electrode in a programmed state of the anti-fuse structure.
US08507317B2
The invention provides, in one aspect, a semiconductor device that comprises an interconnect layer located over a semiconductor substrate. A passivation layer is located over the interconnect layer and having a solder bump support opening formed therein. Support pillars that comprise a conductive material are located within the solder bump support opening.
US08507310B2
A method for manufacturing a thin-film photoelectric conversion device includes forming a first electrode layer, a photoelectric conversion layer having three conductive semiconductor layers laminated thereon, and a second electrode layer sequentially laminated in this order on a translucent insulating substrate, such that adjacent thin-film photoelectric conversion cells are electrically connected in series, isolating a thin-film photoelectric conversion cell into a plurality of thin-film photoelectric conversion cells by forming isolation trenches that reach from the second electrode layer to the first electrode layer, removing a part of sidewalls at an external periphery of the thin-film photoelectric conversion cells positioned at an external peripheral edge of the thin-film photoelectric conversion device, along with the external periphery, and modifying into insulation layers by performing an oxidation process on all of the sidewalls of the isolation trenches of the photoelectric conversion layer and all of the sidewalls at the external periphery.
US08507305B2
A III-nitride semiconductor laser device is provided with a laser structure and an electrode. The laser structure includes a support base which includes a hexagonal III-nitride semiconductor and a semipolar primary surface, and a semiconductor region provided on the semipolar primary surface. The electrode is provided on the semiconductor region. The semiconductor region includes a first cladding layer of a first conductivity type GaN-based semiconductor, a second cladding layer of a second conductivity type GaN-based semiconductor, and an active layer provided between the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer.
US08507298B2
At least part of a dielectric layer is implanted to form implanted regions. The implanted regions affect the etch rate of the dielectric layer during the formation of the openings through the dielectric layer. Metal contacts may be formed within these openings. The dielectric layer, which may be SiO2 or other materials, may be part of a solar cell or other device.
US08507297B2
A wafer containing a plurality of electro-optical devices, each device being enclosed in chamber that has a translucent cover. An X-Y matrix of pairs of interconnections on the wafer are connected to the circuitry of the electro-optical devices for addressing the electro-optical devices. The pairs of interconnections extend outside of the chambers enclosing the devices to testing areas on the periphery of the wafer. Testing is done by signals applied through the interconnections while simultaneously exposing the devices to light through the translucent covers.
US08507294B2
The present technology provides an illustrative method for analyte monitoring using surface plasmons with a refreshable surface. The method includes placing a solution to be monitored in contact with a working surface of a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) generation system. The working surface includes a metal surface disposed on a glass surface, and the metal surface includes a first binding substance that provides binding sites for an analyte. The method further includes applying light to the metal surface at a plurality of angles over a period of time, measuring a reflectance of the light at each of the plurality of angles to determine an SPR angle, and monitoring changes to the SPR angle over the period of time. The working surface of the SPR generation system is refreshed by depositing a new layer of the first binding substance on the working surface of the SPR generation system.
US08507282B2
When assessing the start time of the limulus reaction between biogenous biologically active substances and LAL and using the reaction start time to determine the concentration of the biogenous biologically active substances, in order to exclude the influence of progressive changes which occur regardless of the conditions of the limulus reaction, the strength of transmitted light or scattered light in the liquid mixture of the measurement sample and LAL is detected, the variation (delta) in the transmittance or number of gel particles is acquired at set intervals, and the time when the variation (delta) crosses a threshold value is taken as the reaction start time. Furthermore, the time intervals when acquiring the abovementioned delta are not uniform, and either change over time from the start of measurement as defined by a time function, or multiple sequences with differing time intervals are prepared in advance.
US08507278B2
A high throughput bioluminescence mutant screening procedure is disclosed. This procedure utilizes robotics, and bacterial luciferase to allow real-time monitoring of mutant viability. The procedure was used to develop a live attenuated vaccine for a catfish against E. ictaluri, which is further claimed herein. Additionally, genes from other bacterial species are disclosed which may also be used to create vaccines.
US08507277B2
Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. Methods for modifying the genome of non-nuclear organelles are also provided.
US08507275B2
The present invention relates to a composition for inducing embryonic stem cell differentiation comprising a MEK/ERK (mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase/extracellular regulated kinase) signal transduction inhibitor and BMP (bone morphogenetic protein), and a method for inducing differentiation of embryonic stem cells into mesodermal cells using the same. Further, the mesodermal cells obtained by the above method are able to differentiate into various mesenchymal tissue cells. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for inducing differentiation into hemangioblast by culturing the mesodermal cells obtained by the above method in the presence of VEGF (vascular endothelial cell growth factor) and bFGF (basic fibroblast growth factor). The differentiated hemangioblasts can be further differentiated into vascular endothelial cells, vascular smooth muscle cells, and hematopoietic stem cells under various culture conditions.
US08507259B2
The systems of the invention include test cells with a first sorbent material defining a first flow path for a solution, a second sorbent material defining a second flow path distinct from the first flow path for a sample, and a test line or test site with immobilized antigens or antibodies or other ligand binding molecules such as aptamers, nucleic acids, etc. located at the junction of the first and second sorbent materials. The first and second sorbent strips touch each other at the test site location.
US08507249B2
The invention relates to, in part, secreted proteins of bacterial pathogens and methods for their use. More specifically, the invention provides in part several new common secreted proteins for A/E pathogens. In some embodiments of the invention, these polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules encoding these polypeptides, or portions thereof, are useful as vaccines, diagnostics, or drug screening tools for A/E pathogenic infections, or as reagents.
US08507233B1
Methods, systems, devices and materials for producing biofuels under nanoscale control (“nanobiofuels”) are provided. In one aspect, the invention provides method for producing a biofuel, including providing a hydrocarbon producing organism; exposing the biological hydrocarbon producing organism to conditions effective to cause substantial release of the hydrocarbon from the biological hydrocarbon producing organism; and isolating at least a portion of the hydrocarbon. At least one of the actions of providing, exposing, and isolating is performed using a corresponding nanoscale control.
US08507226B2
In a method for synthesizing a pool of nucleic acid molecules, a first nucleic acid has a first 5′ region and a first 3′ region and a second nucleic acid has a second 5′ region and a second 3′ region. The second 3′ region and the first 5′ region have identical nucleic acid sequences. The first 3′ region is hybridized with an oligonucleotide, extending the hybridized oligonucleotide and producing a first extension product having a 3′ region complementary to the first 5′ region. The second nucleic acid is hybridized with the first extension product to hybridize the 3′ region of the first extension product to the second 3′ region, extending the 3′ region of the first extension product and producing a second extension product having a 3′ region complementary to the second 5′ region. Error-containing molecules are separated from error-free molecules by a component that selects for a sequence error.
US08507224B2
Lower eukaryote host cells in which an endogenous or heterologous Ca2+ ATPase is overexpressed are described. Also described are lower eukaryote host cells in which a calreticulin and/or ERp57 protein are overexpressed. These host cells are useful for producing recombinant glycoproteins that have reduced O-glycosylation.
US08507220B2
An expression vector is constructed by transferring recombinant tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) cDNA, in which a coat protein gene of ToMV having a suppressor against a virus resistant reaction has been substituted by a GFP gene, into the downstream of a promoter capable of inducing steroid hormone-dependent transcription. In a transformed tobacco BY-2 cell obtained by transferring the above expression vector into a tobacco BY-2 cells, steroid hormone-dependent transcription is induced, thereby enabling the amplification of mRNA of the GFP gene and induction of the expression of GFP.
US08507219B2
The current invention discloses novel methods for the inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthesis (iNOS) and the production of NO. Methods of inhibiting the induction of proinflammatory cytokines are also described. Methods of treating various disease states, such as X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and septic shock using inhibitors of iNOS and cytokine induction are disclosed. The inhibitors include the exemplary compounds lovastatin, a sodium salt of phenylacetic acid (NaPA), FPT inhibitor II, N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), and cAMP.
US08507211B2
A method of diagnosing in a host infection by or exposure to a mycobacterium which expresses ESAT-6 comprising (i) contacting a population of T cells from the host with one or more peptides or analogues selected from the peptides represented by SEQ ID NO:1 to 11 and analogues thereof which can bind a T cell receptor which recognises any of the said peptides, and (ii) determining whether the T cells of said T cell population recognise the peptide(s) and/or analogue(s). The method may performed in vivo. Peptides and a kit which enable the method to be carried out are provided.
US08507202B2
The present invention provides novel methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of solid cancers. The invention also provides methods of identifying inhibitors of tumorigenesis.
US08507198B2
The invention relates to methods for isolating and/or identifying nucleic acids. The invention also provides kits for isolating and/or identifying nucleic acids.
US08507195B2
The invention provides methods of diagnosing and treating cancer in a subject. The inventors have identified a series of dysregulated miRNAs that are indicative of triple-negative breast cancer. In some embodiments, the invention further provides for the administration of a cancer therapy to the subject.
US08507187B2
A first photoresist is applied over an optically dense layer and lithographically patterned to form an array of first photoresist portions having a pitch near twice a minimum feature size. The pattern in the first photoresist portions, or a first pattern, is transferred into the ARC layer and partly into the optically dense layer. A second photoresist is applied and patterned into another array having a pitch near twice the minimum feature size and interlaced with the first pattern. The pattern in the second photoresist, or a second pattern, is transferred through the ARC portions and partly into the optically dense layer. The ARC portions are patterned with a composite pattern including the first pattern and the second pattern. The composite pattern is transferred through the optically dense layer and into the underlayer to form a sublithographic pattern in the underlayer.
US08507182B2
Lithographic printing plates can be obtained by contacting infrared radiation-imaged negative-working lithographic printing plate precursors with a processing solution having a pH less than 9 and comprising a UV photoinitiator. After this processing, the lithographic printing plate is floodwise exposed with UV radiation. Providing a UV-photoinitiator in the processing solution followed by UV exposure can increase imaging sensitivity and printing plate run-length, and reduce print background.
US08507181B2
A method is described for producing an imaged lithographic printing plate, wherein the developer comprises a hydrophilic polymer comprising (m1) structural units derived from at least one compound comprising both a polyalkylene oxide chain and a free radical polymerizable group, and (m2) structural units derived from at least one compound copolymerizable with the free radical polymerizable group of (i) and comprising at least one functional group with pKs<5.
US08507173B2
A pattern is formed by applying a first positive resist composition onto a substrate, heat treatment, exposure, heat treatment and development to form a first resist pattern; causing the first resist pattern to crosslink and cure by irradiation of high-energy radiation of 200-320 nm wavelength; further applying a second positive resist composition onto the substrate, heat treatment, exposure, heat treatment and development to form a second resist pattern. The double patterning process reduces the pitch between patterns to one half.
US08507170B2
An image-forming method includes forming an electrostatic image on an electrostatic image bearing member which has been charged; developing the electrostatic image to form a toner image; transferring the toner image on the electrostatic image bearing member with or without mediating an intermediate transferring member onto a transfer material; and fixing the toner image on the transfer material. The electrostatic image bearing member is a photosensitive member obtained by sequentially laminating a photoconductive layer and a surface layer formed of hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbide, and a sum of an atomic density of silicon atoms and an atomic density of carbon atoms in the surface layer of the photosensitive member is 6.60×1022 atoms/cm3 or more. The toner has a binder resin and magnetic iron oxide particles, and the magnetic iron oxide particles contain Fe(2+) at a content of 20.0 mass % or more and 25.0 mass % or less.
US08507169B2
A two-component developer is disclosed, composing a toner comprising parent toner particles with an attached external additive and a carrier provided with a resin covering layer on a surface of a core particle, wherein the resin covering layer comprises a binder resin comprising an acrylic resin and when the resin covering layer is divided in half to a core particle side and a surface side, a nitrogen element content of the core particle side is larger than a nitrogen element content of the surface side.
US08507165B2
Black particles include a black pigment; and a cyan pigment, wherein when the reflectance to light of wavelength of 420 nm and the reflectance to light of wavelength of 770 nm of plural samples are measured, the standard deviations (1σ) of the measured values are about 1 or less with respect to both wavelengths.
US08507164B2
The invention provides a yellow toner including toner particles comprising colorants and a binder resin, the colorants including at least a C. I. Pigment yellow 180 and a carmine-based pigment, a weight ratio of the C. I. Pigment yellow 180 to the carmine-based pigment being from about 99:1 to about 10,000:1, the binder resin being a polyester resin comprising a first repeating unit derived from a first diol compound, and the first diol compound being a bisphenol A ethylene oxide represented by the following formula (1): wherein in formula (1), m and n each independently represent an integer of from 2 to 4.
US08507162B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a conductive support, an intermediate layer provided on the conductive support, and a photosensitive layer provided on the intermediate layer, in which at least one of the intermediate layer and the photosensitive layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (1):
US08507157B2
In a mask for hardening a sealant and a method of manufacturing a flat display device using the mask, the mask includes a main body in which a transmission slit is formed, and a partial shielding portion partially shielding the transmission slit. The transmission slit corresponds to the shape of the sealant enclosing a light-emitting portion formed on a substrate. By using such a mask, the partial shielding portion covers a portion where the amount of laser irradiation is relatively large, thus hardening the sealant uniformly across the entire regions of the sealant, and thus guaranteeing a stable encapsulating structure.
US08507155B2
A photomask blank for a photomask used with an ArF excimer laser. The photo mask has a light transmissive substrate with a surface on which a light-shielding film is formed. The light-shielding film has a laminated structure comprising a back-surface antireflection layer, a light-shielding layer and a front-surface antireflection layer. The thickness of the entire light-shielding film is 70 nm or less. The back-surface antireflection layer comprises a film containing a metal and having first etching rate. The front-surface antireflection layer comprises a film containing a metal and having a third etching rate. The light-shielding layer comprises a film containing the same metal as that contained in the back-surface antireflection layer or the front-surface antireflection layer, with a second etching rate that is lower than the first and third etching rates. The thickness of the light-shielding layer is 45% or less of the thickness of the entire light-shielding film.
US08507146B2
The present invention discloses a membrane for polymer electrolyte fuel cell, which comprises a hydrocarbon cation exchange resin membrane wherein a cation exchange group is covalently bonded to a hydrocarbon resin, and an adhesive layer formed on at least one side of the hydrocarbon cation exchange resin membrane, wherein the adhesive layer is made of a hydrocarbon cation exchange resin having a Young's modulus of 1 to 300 MPa and a solubility of less than 1% by mass in water of 20° C.; and a membrane-electrode assembly which is obtained by forming a catalyst electrode layer on at least one side of the above-mentioned membrane for polymer electrolyte fuel cell.
US08507145B2
A fuel cell includes an electrolyte electrode assembly and separators. A first protection layer is formed on a surface of an anode of the electrolyte electrode assembly facing the separator for preventing the anode from being exposed to an exhaust gas. A second protection layer is formed on a surface of the separator facing the anode for preventing the separator from being exposed to the exhaust gas. The first protection layer and the second protection layer tightly contact each other in part so as to form a space as a fuel gas channel for supplying a fuel gas to the anode. Alternatively, a protection layer is formed on an end surface of the separator facing the anode for preventing the separator from being exposed to the exhaust gas.
US08507135B2
Nanocomposites of conductive, nanoparticulate polymer and electronically active material, in particular PEDOT and LiFePO4, were found to be significantly better compared to bare and carbon coated LiFePO4 in carbon black and graphite filled non conducting binder. The conductive polymer containing composite outperformed the other two samples. The performance of PEDOT composite was especially better in the high current regime with capacity retention of 82% after 200 cycles. Further improvement can be obtained if the porosity of the nanocomposites is enhanced. Hence an electrode produced from a composite made of conductive, nanoparticulate polymer, electronically active material, and sacrificial polymer, wherein the sacrificial polymer has been removed leaving pores has improved electrolyte and ion diffusion properties allowing the production of thicker electrodes.
US08507120B2
A round cell rechargeable battery includes a plurality of round cells arranged alongside one another and at least one output element that is electrically insulated from the round cells. The at least one output element is in the form of a rod and is curved such that the output element runs in a zigzag shape alternately along a lower face, a side wall adjacent thereto, and an upper face of the round cells and thermally conductively connects a group of the round cells for heat dissipation.
US08507118B2
A secondary battery includes: a jelly roll that includes a positive and a negative electrode wound via a separator; a case; a lid; and electrically conductive input/output members, wherein: the electrically conductive input/output members include, at least; a positive and a negative electrode current collector plate with one end thereof connected to the positive and the negative electrode respectively; a positive and a negative electrode external conductive member with one end thereof connected to another end of the positive and the negative electrode current collector plate respectively and another end thereof extending to an outer side of the lid; the one end of the positive and the negative electrode external conductive member are respectively swage-fused to the other end of the positive and the negative electrode current collector plate; and an oxide layer is formed at a surface of each swage-fused area.
US08507103B2
This invention relates to blown films produced from copolymer made by a process for polymerizing olefins in which the amount of trimethylaluminum in a methylalumoxane solution is adjusted to be from 1 to 25 mol %, prior to use as an activator, where the mol % trimethylaluminum is determined by 1H NMR of the solution prior to combination with any support. This invention also relates to a process for polymerizing olefins in which the amount of an unknown species present in a methylalumoxane solution is adjusted to be from 0.10 to 0.65 integration units prior to use as an activator, where the amount of the unknown species is determined by the 1H NMR spectra of the solution performed prior to combination with any support. Preferably, the methylalumoxane solution is present in a catalyst system also comprising a metallocene transition metal compound.
US08507098B2
The various embodiments of the present invention are directed to wear resistant coatings, tiles having the wear resistant coatings disposed thereon, and to methods of making the coatings and tiles. A wear resistant coating generally includes a strontium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic composition that is formed from a glaze. The glaze can include a crystallizing component, which itself can include strontium, aluminum, and silicon, but also comprises less than about 2 weight percent each of lithium, boron, barium, sodium, iron, titanium, zirconium, and carbon, based on a total weight of the crystallizing component.
US08507097B2
A multilayer film comprises a layer consisting essentially of a fluorinated copolymer resin and a layer consisting essentially of an ethylene copolymer ionomer blend. The ethylene copolymer ionomer blend, or the product of crosslinking the blend, can be used as an encapsulant layer for solar cells, and the multilayer film is useful as a component of photovoltaic modules. Methods for preparing the multilayer films and the photovoltaic modules are also described.
US08507093B2
A process of comminution of wood chips (C) having a grain direction to produce a mixture of wood particles (P), wherein the wood chips are characterized by an average length dimension (LC) as measured substantially parallel to the grain, an average width dimension (WC) as measured normal to LC and aligned cross grain, and an average height dimension (HC) as measured normal to WC and LC, and wherein the comminution process comprises the step of feeding the wood chips in a direction of travel substantially randomly to the grain direction through a counter rotating pair of intermeshing arrays of cutting discs (D) arrayed axially perpendicular to the direction of wood chip travel, wherein the cutting discs have a uniform thickness (TD), and wherein at least one of LC, WC, and HC is greater than TD.
US08507087B2
A multipurpose item rest having a bottom sheet with a non-absorbent surface with an absorbent pad fixedly attached thereto, an outwardly extending tab integral to the bottom sheet having an adhesive area such that the rest may be formed into a restraining device by applying the adhesive are to the bottom surface of the bottom sheet, and a supply of such item rests comprising one or more continuous strips of rests joined with perforated attachments.
US08507086B2
A corrosion resistant seaming tape includes a metal layer capable of blocking selected frequencies of electromagnetic radiation arranged on a polymeric substrate and covered with adhesive that protects the metal layer and prevents it from corroding. Also disclosed is a method of sealing a seam between adjacent edges of two adjacent pieces of window film including an internal metal layer by applying a polymeric film to the seam.
US08507080B2
Composite with a first part composed of a thermoset material and with a second part composed of a thermoplastic material, and with an adhesion-promoter layer located between these, where the first part has been bonded by way of the adhesion-promoter layer to the second part, and where the adhesion-promoter layer comprises pyrolytically deposited semiconductor oxides and/or pyrolytically deposited metal oxides.
US08507068B2
An element sealed body comprises a glass substrate, an element mounted on the glass substrate, and a protective glass for sealing the element, wherein a surface of the protective glass and a surface of the glass substrate, which are brought into contact with each other, have a surface roughness Ra of 2.0 nm or less respectively.
US08507060B2
A pressure vessel includes a liner, a reinforcing layer, and a protective layer. An inside of the liner forms a reserving chamber. The reinforcing layer is made of fiber reinforced plastic and is provided on an outer surface of the liner. A protective layer is provided on an outer surface of the reinforcing layer and includes fiber materials and a thermally foamed material. The thermally foamed material is interposed between the fiber materials.
US08507058B2
A sensor buffer cover is provided that is easily held at a fixed position without pain or discomfort to a patient to enable high-definition imaging. It is a sensor buffer cover wherein a cover body constituted as a flexible bag body into which a sensor unit is inserted comprises an inner bag-like sheet made of resin and formed in a rectangular shape to have an opening at one end in the longitudinal direction and an outer sheath member at the base of the inner bag-like sheet constituted as a flexible bag body formed in approximately the same shape as the sensor unit, which covers the periphery of the sensor unit inserted therein and is open at one end in the longitudinal direction, the outer peripheral edge of the base of the inner bag-like sheet and the outer peripheral edge of the outer sheath member covering the base of the inner bag-like sheet being fusion-bonded on three sides to leave an opening and obtain a double bag-like structure.
US08507050B2
Disclosed are methods for depositing an ultra thin coating that exhibits both low haze (high transparency) and strong color (high optical density at a given film thickness). Also disclosed are methods for making radiation curable coating compositions comprising polymer-enclosed particles that are suitable for producing ultra thin coatings.
US08507044B2
A molding material includes a polyorganosiloxane compound having a ladder structure including a repeating unit shown by the following formula (I) in the molecule as a main component, a sealing material includes the molding material, and a sealed optical device includes an optical device that is sealed with a cured product of the sealing material. The molding material produces a cured product that exhibits excellent transparency and heat resistance for a long time. wherein A represents a single bond or a linking group, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, X0 represents a halogen atom, a haloalkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a cyano group, R2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms which may have a substituent (excluding a halogen atom and a cyano group), or an alkenyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, and l, m, and n are arbitrary positive numbers, provided that l and n are not 0 at the same time.
US08507039B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for growing a thin film onto a substrate, in which method a substrate placed in a reaction space (21) is subjected to alternately repeated surface reactions of at least two vapor-phase reactants for the purpose of forming a thin film. According to the method, said reactants are fed in the form of vapor-phase pulses repeatedly and alternately, each reactant separately from its own source, into said reaction space (21), and said vapor-phase reactants are brought to react with the surface of the substrate for the purpose of forming a solid-state thin film compound on said substrate. According to the invention, the gas volume of said reaction space is evacuated by means of a vacuum pump essentially totally between two successive vapor-phase reactant pulses. By virtue of transporting the different starting material species at different times through the apparatus effectively isolates the starting materials from each other thus preventing their premature mutual reactions.
US08507028B2
Methods and apparatus for the recovery, visualization and enhancement of latent fingerprints using Low Pressure Dye Vapor Deposition (LPDVD) are described. The LPDVD methods of the present invention provide for fine control over the deposition of a precursor in combination with a fluorescent dye, combination of dyes or a premixed dry solid compound of the precursor and dyestuffs, to make the latent fingerprints visible. The LPDVD process makes use of a heated carrier gas to dilute and carry the vapors into a vacuum chamber where they condense onto the exposed surfaces of the article being developed. The LPDVD process can be used to develop latent fingerprints on a wide variety of substrates, including metal, plastic, glass and thermal paper and has been shown to perform as well or better than conventional fingerprint development techniques on these surfaces.
US08507024B2
A method of treating food capable of easily softening or pulverizing food in a short time without losing nutrients is provided. A shock wave (SW) generated in a shock wave source is applied to food such as an apple or tea leaves to soften or pulverize the food. A large mechanical load is not necessary, so the food is easily softened or pulverized. Moreover, it is not necessary to heat the food, so the food is softened or pulverized in a short time without losing nutrients in the food due to heat during heating.
US08507019B2
A mycotoxin binder is disclosed characterized by 45% or more humic acid, maximum solubility of 20% at pH between 1.5 and 7.0, and an in vitro mycotoxin binding efficiency of at least 80% and preferably 90% with adsorption of at least 85% at pH 3.0 and desorption less than 10% at pH 6.8.
US08507018B2
Foods and pharmaceuticals which contain cocoa and/or nut procyanidin(s) in combination with L-arginine are effective to induce a physiological increase in nitric oxide production in a mammal having ingested the product. A preferred food product is a confection, particularly a dark or milk chocolate containing nuts. The procyanidins may be natural or synthetic and may be provided by food ingredients such as chocolate liquor and/or cocoa solids prepared from underfermented beans and nut skins. The L-arginine may be natural or synthetic and may be provided by food ingredients such as nut meats, nut pastes, and/or nut flours, seeds, seed pastes, and/or seed flours, or gelatin. The beneficial health effects may include, for example, reduced blood pressure, resistance to cardiovascular disease, and anticancer activity.
US08507017B2
A method for decreasing nicotine and other substance use in humans is disclosed. Tetrahydroberberine (THB) and its analogs, l-Tetrahydropalmatine (l-THP) and l-Stepholidine (l-SPD), are present in and can be isolated from several plants in the Magnoliidae superorder. According to the disclosed method, THB and its analogs are used to block nicotine-induced DA release, and modulate heterologous or homoeric expression of human nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) in humans. Specifically, THB exhibits bi-directory modulation of α4β2-nAChR-mediated currents induced by nicotine. THB also shows predominant inhibition on homologously expressed α7-nAChR function. Thus, according to the disclosed method, THB is used to simultaneous blockade midbrain DA system function, the brain reward center, and neuronal α4β2- and α7-nAChR function, the major nicotine targets in the brain. Therefore, THB and its analogs serve as a novel class of natural compounds to decrease nicotine dependence in humans. Furthermore other substances, such as alcohol, cocaine, and opiates, also operate by triggering the brain reward center, resulting in a cycle of substance or alcohol abuse. THB and its analogs can be used to decrease use of substances such as alcohol, cocaine, and opiates. Finally, because THB and its analogs are DA antagonists, THB and its analogs can also be used as a treatment for Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease and Schizophrenia.
US08507013B2
The present invention comprises compositions, methods and cell lines related to controlling insects. An embodiment of a composition comprises a plant essential oil and targets at least one receptor of insects chosen from tyramine receptor, Or83b olfactory receptor, and Or43a olfactory receptor, resulting in a change in the intracellular levels of cAMP, Ca2+, or both in the insects.
US08507011B2
A composition and method are described for suppressing or preventing fibrous adhesion formation using a multicomponent aqueous oxychlorine composition. Fibrous adhesions typically form during healing of tissue, for example following a surgical procedure. A multicomponent oxychlorine composition is provided for irrigating the tissue which minimizes post-surgical adhesion formation, the composition containing both chlorine dioxide and chlorite ion, and a complexion thereof. The chlorine dioxide level generally is in an effective range of ClO2 concentration from about 10 ppm to a maximum of about 110 ppm. In a preferred embodiment, a physiological composition is provided in a thickened form to increase retention in the area being treated. The composition is preferably based on a standard saline solution converted to the oxychlorine composition just prior to use by sequential addition of aqueous concentrates of a chlorite salt, a hypochlorite salt combined with a physiological buffer-producing salt of a multibasic acid, and an acidifying agent, optionally including a thickening agent.
US08507009B2
This invention relates to novel colonic purgative compositions in a solid dosage form, comprising at least one purgative and at least one soluble, or soluble, nonfermentable binder, such as polyethylene glycol. Further, this invention relates to methods of using the colonic purgative compositions. The present compositions and methods are designed to improve patient tolerance and compliance, while at the same time improving the quality of bowel cleansing. The formulations and methods of this invention are particularly useful to cleanse the bowel prior to diagnostic and surgical procedures and can also be employed in lower dosages as a laxative to promote elimination and/or to relieve constipation.
US08507005B2
Provided herein are particulates of {4,6-bis(dimethylamino)-2-(4-(4-(trifluoromethyl)benzamido)benzyl)pyrimidin-5-yl}acetic acid in amorphous or crystalline forms, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and methods of their use for treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of a CRTH2-mediated disorder or disease.
US08507002B2
The invention provides a hydrogel composition comprising water and a hydrophilic polymer, wherein the hydrogel composition has (a) an ultimate tensile strength of about 10 kPa or more, (b) a compressive strength of about 70 kPa or more, or (c) an ultimate tensile strength of about 10 kPa or more and a compressive strength of about 70 kPa or more. The invention further provides methods for producing a hydrogel composition.
US08507000B2
The present invention is directed to a controlled release formulation in tablet form comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of an erythromycin derivative and a lubricating effective amount of a lubricant in the absence of material selected from the group consisting of alginic acid or salts thereof or hydrophilic sustained release polymers in amounts effective to retard the release of the erythromycin derivatives in the pharmaceutical composition. It is also directed to a method for facilitating the release of erythromycin derivative from a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a lubricating effective amount of a lubricant said method comprising adding to said composition an release promoter in tablet disintegrating effective amounts to facilitate the release of the erythromycin derivative from the tablet.
US08506994B2
Use of the antimicrobial cathelicidin peptide II-37, N-terminal fragments of LL-37 or extended sequences of LL-37 having 1-3 amino acids in the C-terminal end, for stimulating proliferation of epithelial and stromal cells and thereby healing of wounds, such as chronic ulcers. The cytotoxic effect of LL-37 may be reduced by including a bilayer-forming polar lipid, especially a digalactosyldiacylglycerol, in pharmaceutical compositions and growth media comprising LL-37.
US08506993B2
According to some embodiments, the present invention provides compositions and methods for making and using multifunctional polymerized liposomes finding relevant application in medical sciences, particularly in bioimaging, diagnostics, drug delivery, and drug formulation. The compositions and methods involve lipids that are both polymerizable and have a “clickable” group that provides the ability to functionalize via a click reaction with various functional moieties useful for the above-listed applications.
US08506989B2
The invention relates to a preparation comprising a creatine component, which has excellent bio-availability and leads to improved creatine retention in the human and animal body. The present invention further relates to a method for the production of said preparation, and to the use thereof as a nutritional supplement, functional food, animal feed additive, pharmaceutical, and as an additive for cosmetic and dermatologic formulations.
US08506986B2
Biocompatible intraocular implants include an alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonist and a polymer associated with the alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonist to facilitate release of the alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonist into an eye for an extended period of time. The alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonist may be associated with a biodegradable polymer matrix, such as a matrix of a two biodegradable polymers. The implants may be placed in an eye to treat one or more ocular conditions, such as an ocular vasculopathy or glaucoma, among others.
US08506977B2
An insect bait comprising particles of an insect-killing compound onto which a coating of insect attracting material has been applied, and the method by which this bait is prepared.
US08506974B2
Non-silicone-based compositions including hydrocarbons of widely different structures and origins are combined into single, stable, homogenous products with both aesthetic and volatility properties similar to a cyclopentasiloxane. The combinations are useful to cosmetic formulators as full or partial replacement products for cyclopentasiloxanes, or “volatile silicones.”
US08506963B2
The invention provides specific binding proteins and the uses thereof. Particularly, the present invention provides a monoclonal antibody which can effectively bind to epidermal growth factor receptor variant type III (EGFRvIII) or can partially bind to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) over-expressed in cells, but not bind to EGFR normally-expressed in cells. Furthermore, the present invention said antibody has obvious therapeutic effect on a tumor cell line expressing the EGFRvIII. The invention also provides a method for preparing said monoclonal antibody and a pharmaceutical composition comprising said monoclonal antibody.
US08506958B2
The present invention provides methods and agents for the treatment of TWEAK-related conditions, including cardiac, liver, kidney, lung, adipose, skeletal, muscle, neuronal, bone and cartilage conditions. The invention also provides methods for identifying TWEAK agonists or antagonists for the treatment of TWEAK-related conditions. Additionally, the invention provides transgenic animals that express an exogenous DNA encoding a TWEAK polypeptide, or fragments, analogs, or muteins thereof, and methods for using such animals to identify TWEAK agonists or antagonists. The invention further provides methods for diagnosing a disease based on TWEAK expression. The invention also provides methods for affecting cellular differentiation of progenitor cells using TWEAK polypeptides, agonists, or antagonists.
US08506953B2
Described is a microorganism belonging to the group of lactic acid bacteria which is able to drastically reduce the peptide concentration in saliva thereby depleting the substrate used by anaerobic microorganisms of the oral micro-flora which are the causative agent for oral malodour. Moreover, described is a microorganism belonging to the group of lactic acid bacteria which is able to stimulate the growth of Streptococcus salivarius but does not stimulate the growth of Streptococcus mutans and/or Porphyromonas gingivalis. Also described are compositions containing the above-mentioned microorganisms, their use for preventing and/or treating oral malodour and/or halitosis and to methods for preventing and/or treating oral malodour and/or halitosis.
US08506952B2
Probiotic composition(s) and/or process(es) thereof. Processes may include applying Janthinobacterium, for example Janthinobacterium lividum, over a host and/or host area(s) to minimize microbe(s) and/or maximize therapeutic effects. A process to minimize a microbe may include applying to skin a composition including isolated Janthinobacterium lividum and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Probiotic composition(s) and/or process(es) thereof may include relatively heat tolerant Janthinobacterium lividum which may produce metabolites, for example violacein up to approximately 29° C. Probiotic composition(s) and/or process(es) thereof may include Janthinobacterium lividum between approximately 25×106 and 6.4×107 cells. Probiotic composition(s) and/or process(es) thereof may include Janthinobacterium lividum which has and/or produces between approximately 18 μM and 129 μM of violacein. Probiotic composition(s) and/or process(es) thereof may include a stimulant to maximize metabolites. A process to minimize a microbe may include removing a portion of resident microbes with a sanitizer. Janthinobacterium lividum may be in lysed form.
US08506946B2
The invention provides compositions for attracting noctuid moths, which include at least one pheromone and at least one synergist. The synergist is a naturally-occurring phytochemical compound. The synergist is preferably β-caryophyllene, iso-caryophyllene, α-humulene, or combinations thereof. The invention also provides traps containing the composition for attracting noctuid moths, and methods for attracting, capturing, killing or sterilizing noctuid moths using the composition.
US08506941B2
Agent for treating fibers containing keratin, particularly human hair, comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier: (a) at least one amphiphilic, cationic polymer having at least one structural unit of formulae (I) to (IV), wherein; R1 and R4 are independently hydrogen or a methyl group, X1 and X2 are independently oxygen or an NH group, A1 and A2 are independently an ethane-1,2-diyl, propane-1,3-diyl or butane-1,4-diyl group, R2, R3, R5 and R6 are independently a (C1 to C4)-alkyl group, R7 is a C8 to C30)-alkyl group and; (b) at least one film-forming cationic and/or stabilizing cationic polymer. The invention also relates to use of agents for temporarily styling hair and for haircare, particularly as an aerosol hairspray or mousse.
US08506934B2
The invention is directed to a method of detecting a biological substance in the nasal secretion and diagnosing a disease following the detection of the biological substance wherein the biological substance is not related to a respiratory disease. The invention also provides treatment of the diseases following the detection of the biological substance and/or diagnosis of the disease. In some embodiments, the diseases are cancer, hepatitis, smell loss, taste loss, diabetes, and leprosy. The invention also provides a kit for diagnosing a disease. The present invention includes methods of analyzing samples from the nose for the detection of biological substances. In particular, nasal secretion or nasal mucus is collected and analyzed for biological substances. The results of this analysis are then suitable for use in diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of suitability of therapeutic interventions.
US08506933B2
The present invention features methods of monitoring or detecting a neurological or inflammatory condition in a patient. The method comprises (1) obtaining from the patient a fluid sample from outside of a brain tissue of the patient, wherein the fluid sample contains a circulating phagocyte, and (2) detecting for one or more biomarkers (e.g., a panel of biomarkers) inside the phagocyte, wherein the biomarker is associated with the respective neurological or inflammatory condition.
US08506929B2
This invention relates to a method of imaging amyloid deposits and to styrylpyridine compounds, and methods of making radiolabeled styrylpyridine compounds useful in imaging amyloid deposits. This invention also relates to compounds, and methods of making compounds for inhibiting the aggregation of amyloid proteins to form amyloid deposits, and a method of delivering a therapeutic agent to amyloid deposits.
US08506928B2
The present invention relates to peptides which home to cells, e.g. heart cells, with high selectivity and which can be useful in the form of compositions. Such compositions can be used, e.g., for selectively targeting a systemically administered therapeutic agent or imaging agent to a cell or tissue in a subject. The present invention further relates to methods of using the compositions for imaging, e.g. PET imaging, and targeting cells, e.g. for delivering a therapeutic agent to one or more target cells in a subject.
US08506919B2
An object of this invention is to provide a fine powder of diamond particles of less than 50 nm with a narrow particle size range. The diamond is single crystalline and characterized with a lot of sharp edges and sharp points. Another object is to provide a method for efficiently producing such fine powder.The method comprises mechanically crushing a raw material of single crystalline diamond particles to prepare starting minute particles of diamond, then imparting hydrophilic quality to the surface of diamond particles. As hydrophilic the diamond particles are dispersed in water to form a slurry, which is set and kept weakly alkaline. The slurry is then subjected to a preliminary grading step, whereby the slurry is removed of a top particle size fraction of the diamond particles that has a D50 size of 60 nm or more. Eliminated of said top particle size fraction, the slurry is then diluted with water to regulate the diamond concentration to 0.1% (by weight) or less. The slurry so conditioned is subjected to a centrifugal force, whereby a coarser particle size fraction of the diamond particles is condensed to a solid cake and removed from the slurry. Effluent slurry is taken out from the centrifugal grading that contains a fraction of the diamond particles having decreased particle sizes.
US08506915B2
This invention involves a cyclic method for capturing CO2 from gas streams arising from processes of reforming, gasification or combustion of carbonaceous fuels. The method is based on these gas streams reacting with solids that contain at least CaO and a metal or an oxidized form of the metal. The method is characterized by the oxidized form of the metal being able to undergo a sufficiently exothermic reduction reaction for the heat released during the reaction to cause the decomposition of CaCO3. The thermodynamic and kinetic characteristics of the method of this invention make it ideal for the removal of the CO2 present in gas streams resulting from processes such as hydrocarbon reforming or the combustion of carbonaceous fuels.
US08506901B2
A biological material test strip and adjacently-located reference color chart are affixed to a lid portion of an all-in-one specimen cup to perform color-based reaction testing of collected biological specimens in an uncalibrated environment. After specimen collection, the lid portion is secured to a container portion of the specimen cup. The cup may then be rotated into an upside down position causing the specimen, under the force of gravity, to pass from the container portion and into a volume of the lid portion, such that the test strip is exposed to the specimen as it is received into the volume of the lid portion. An image of the exposed test strip and adjacently-located reference color chart may then be captured and processed to identify any color matches between the individual test pads on the test strip and the corresponding sequences of reference color blocks on the reference chart.
US08506895B2
A Fischer-Tropsch synthesis three-phase suspension bed reactor (“suspension bed” also called “slurry bed”) and its supplemental systems, may include: 1) structure and dimension design of F-T synthesis reactor, 2) a gas distributor located at the bottom of the reactor, 3) structure and arrangement of a heat exchanger members inside the reactor, 4) a liquid-solid filtration separation device inside reactor, 5) a flow guidance device inside reactor, 6) a condensate flux and separation member located in the gas phase space at the top of reactor, 7) a pressure stabilizer, a cleaning system for the separation device; an online cleaning system for the gas distributor; an ancillary system for slurry deposition and a pre-condensate and mist separation system located at the outlet of upper reactor. This reactor is suitable for industrial scale application of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis.
US08506879B2
A method for cooling a hot strip conveyed on a run-out table after finishing, including ejecting rod-like flows of cooling water from nozzles to the upper surface of the steel strip such that the flows are inclined toward a traveling direction of the steel strip, and draining the cooling water using draining means disposed downstream of the nozzles.
US08506873B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a fiber composite component, comprising the steps: introduction of a first body (12), consisting of fibers and a matrix material, into a mold (10), said first body (12) having a continuous first body edge (18); the first body (12) is irradiated with microwaves (28) to produce a fiber-composite component. According to the invention, the first body (12) is introduced into the mold (10) in such a way that at least parts of the first body edge (18) are brought into contact with the mold (10).
US08506872B2
In manufacturing a resin mold assembly, a first weld region of a light transmitting resin member and a second weld region of a light absorbing resin member are disposed facing each other, the first weld region of the light transmitting resin member and the second weld region of the light absorbing resin member are brought into pressed state in mutually facing direction, and a laser beam is scanned to make the laser beam be incident upon the light transmitting resin member, and repetitively radiated on the second weld region to heat and melt a whole of the first and second weld regions simultaneously, thereby welding the light transmitting resin member and the light absorbing resin member.
US08506868B2
Rubber articles such as tires, hoses and lining sheets comprising glass flakes exhibit improved fluid impermeability. Methods for the manufacture of such rubber articles are disclosed.
US08506866B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a multilayered part which comprises a moulded core (5) and a flexible polyurethane skin layer (4). The core itself comprises a moulded substrate layer (1) which is made of a substrate material, in particular a thermoplastic material, having a Shore A hardness higher than 60. The flexible polyurethane skin (4) is produced by a reaction overmoulding (ROM) process wherein a polyurethane reaction mixture is moulded in a closed mould (11, 12) over at least a first area of the core surface. The moulded core (5) comprises in addition to said substrate layer (1) a softer material which is moulded onto the substrate layer (1) and/or onto which the substrate layer (1) is moulded. This moulded softer material has a Shore A hardness lower than 60 and forms a softer layer (2) between the flexible polyurethane layer (4) and the substrate layer (1) and/or a seal (3) engaging the internal wall of the mould (11, 12) during the ROM process.
US08506864B2
A robust process for the continuous preparation of solutions of high molecular weight UHMW PO that is capable of producing strong materials at high production capacity, is conservative of capital and energy requirements, and the articles made therefrom.
US08506861B2
A method to form a displacement for use in a metal casting process, wherein the method provides a plurality of ceramic particles and a plurality of resin particles. The method grinds the plurality of ceramic particles until those ceramic particles comprise diameters less than 150 microns, and grinds the plurality of resin particles until those resin particles comprise diameters less than 100 microns, and forms a powder blend comprising the plurality of ground ceramic particles and the plurality of ground resin particles. The method then disposes the powder blend into a mold comprising a cavity defining the desired displacement. The method further densifies the blend, and cures the resin to form the displacement.
US08506858B2
A process for the automatic manufacturing of different toric optical lenses having a front surface and a rear surface having a predetermined rotational orientation relative to one another, and with at least one of the front and rear surfaces having a toric portion, comprises forming a first toric lens by: introducing a starting material into a lens mold (3) comprising a male mold half (30) and a female mold half (31) defining a mold cavity between the shaping surfaces of the male and female mold halves, the shaping surfaces being arranged at a first rotational position relative to one another and at least one of them being toric, and curing the starting material in the mold cavity to form the first toric lens. The process further comprises subsequently forming a second toric lens different from the first toric contact lens using the same male and female mold halves (30,31) by rotating the first and second mold halves (30,31) relative to one another so as to be arranged at a second rotational position relative to one another, and then forming the second lens in a similar manner. The step of rotating the male and female mold halves (30,31) relative to one another is performed automatically in the production line.
US08506853B2
The composition for optical materials includes a polymer obtained from silsesquioxanes which are represented by average composition formula (1): (R1SiO1.5)x(R2SiO1.5)y (wherein R1 is a polymerizable group, R2 is a non-polymerizable group, x is a number of 2.0 to 14.0, y is a number of 2.0 to 14.0, provided that x+y=8.0 to 16.0, and R1 groups and R2 groups may be the same or different) and include at least one cage silsesquioxane compound. This composition is suitable for use as the antireflective film in optical devices, has less film shrinkage in the curing step, has good coated surface state and excellent moisture resistance and adhesion, has small changes in the refractive index under high temperature conditions, and is capable of forming a low-refractive-index film.
US08506851B2
The present invention concerns electrode materials capable of redox reactions by electron and alkali-ion exchange with an electrolyte. The applications are in the field of primary (batteries) or secondary electrochemical generators, supercapacitors and light modulating systems of the electrochromic type.
US08506834B2
The invention provides a dry etching method for processing a wafer having an Ru film formed on a thick Al2O3 film to be used for a magnetic head, capable of realizing high selectivity. In the etching of a wafer having disposed on an NiCr film 15 an Al2O3 film 14, an Ru film 13, an SiO2 film 12 and a resist mask 11, the Ru film 13 is etched via plasma using a processing gas containing Cl2 and O2 (FIG. 1(c)), and thereafter, the Ru film 13 is used as a mask to etch the Al2O3 film 14 via plasma using a gas mixture mainly containing BCl3 and also containing Cl2 and Ar (FIG. 1(d)).
US08506833B2
A method for producing a molded body, said method comprising: providing a film comprising a thermoplastic plastic and having a film thickness D ranging from 1 μm to 1000 μm; irradiating the film with ionizing radiation, to produce irradiated regions in the film; thermally reshaping the film into a molded body and generating at least one hollow structure, wherein a temperature of the thermal reshaping remains below the melting temperature for the thermoplastic plastic; removing the irradiated regions, to create pores having a diameter δ from about 10 nm to about 10 μm in the molded body; and removing the molded body from a mold.
US08506830B2
A pattern is formed by: forming a first imprint mask layer on a processed member; forming a first imprint pattern of the first imprint mask layer using a first template; forming a second imprint mask layer made of a material having a different etching rate from the first imprint mask layer on the first imprint pattern; forming a second imprint pattern of the second imprint mask layer using a second template different from the first template; and etching the processed member using as a mask the second imprint mask layer on which the second imprint pattern is formed and the first imprint mask layer on which the first imprint pattern is formed.
US08506828B1
A method and system for fabricating a read sensor on a substrate for a read transducer is described. A read sensor stack is deposited on the substrate. A mask is provided on the on the read sensor stack. The mask has a pattern that covers a first portion of the read sensor stack corresponding to the read sensor, covers a second portion of the read sensor stack distal from the read sensor, and exposes a third portion of the read sensor stack between the first and second portions. The read sensor is defined from the read sensor stack. A hard bias layer is deposited. An aperture free mask layer including multiple thicknesses is provided. A focused ion beam scan (FIBS) polishing step is performed on the mask and hard bias layers to remove a portion of the mask and hard bias layers based on the thicknesses.
US08506823B2
A device for separating and isolating components of a biological fluid comprising a container for containing the fluid to be processed, a tube cap assembly for closing the container while providing filling and extraction communication therewith, a float assembly disposed within the container for funneling and controlling biological fluid flow into an inverted domed shaped isolation chamber within the float and controlling the biological fluid flow out of the isolation chamber for effecting an encapsulation or a sealed isolation of at least one component or fraction of the biological fluid flow within the isolation chamber during a centrifugation process. The device further comprising a flexible tube for connecting an extraction passageway disposed within the float assembly and an extraction valve of the tube cap assembly for allowing extraction of at least the one component or fraction encapsulated or isolated within the chamber.
US08506817B2
Disclosed is an economical process for the purification of water containing soluble and sparingly soluble inorganic compounds using single-stage or two-stage membrane processes that integrate membrane water purification with chemical precipitation softening and residual hardness and silica removal from the membrane concentrates using ion exchange resins and silica sequestering media, respectively.
US08506809B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for production of bio-gas, capable of improving quality of a raw material to be fed thereto. Among the raw material, a part free from inhibitory materials is directly introduced an anaerobic digestion reactor while the other part containing the inhibitory materials is introduced into a first solid-liquid separator and separated into a solid-phase material free from the inhibitory materials and a liquid-phase material containing the inhibitory materials. The solid-phase material in the first solid-liquid separator is fed to the anaerobic digestion reactor after hydrolysis. A liquid waste in the anaerobic digestion reactor and a liquid-phase material in the first solid-liquid separator are concentrated by a sludge concentrator. Through solid-liquid separation of the raw material, only a solid-phase sludge removed from the inhibitory materials is fed to the anaerobic digestion reactor, thereby suitably maintaining desired activity of microorganisms used for producing bio-gas.
US08506807B2
Disclosed herein is a spiral wound type filter cartridge and more specifically, a spiral wound type filter cartridge in which activated carbon fiber is provided. The inside of spiral wound type filter cartridge is capable of serving as a carbon filter in a water purifier, thus eliminating the necessity of the use of any carbon filter for pre- or post-treatment in the process of purifying raw water, reducing an overall size of the water purifier and considerably reducing costs associated therewith.
US08506793B2
Disclosed is a device for determining the cardiotoxicity of a chemical compound, comprising a substrate (10) carrying a deformable stack (34), said stack being partially detached from the substrate by a cavity (32) allowing an out-of-plane deformation of the stack, said stack comprising a first deformable layer (16), a second deformable layer (20) and a multi-electrode structure (18) sandwiched between the first and second deformable layers, the second deformable layer carrying a pattern of cardiomyocytes (28) adhered thereto; and a liquid container (26) mounted on the substrate for exposing the cardiomyocytes to the chemical compound. A method of manufacturing such a device is also disclosed. The present invention further relates to the use of the device for drug target discovery and/or drug development and a method for developing a disease model for a disease that is caused by or modified by stretching of cells, in particular a cardiac disease model.
US08506777B2
A localized corrosion monitoring (LCM) device is modified to obtain polarization resistance (Rp) from electrical resistance of a probe having a strip of metal under investigation (test electrode), a reference electrode and a temperature sensor (e.g. thermocouple). This configuration allows the probe to be used in areas where only a thin film of conductive fluid is available or required to provide potential monitoring. Thus, the applicability of the LCM technique is broadened. All the above devices are expected to be configured in one item of equipment, except for the probe which may be remotely located from the rest of the equipment.
US08506767B2
A thin film device, such as an intravascular stent, is disclosed. The device is formed of a seamless expanse of thin-film (i) formed of a sputtered nitinol shape memory alloy, defining, in an austenitic state, an open, interior volume, having a thickness between 0 5-50 microns, having an austenite finish temperature Af below 37° C.; and demonstrating a stress/strain recovery greater than 3% at 37° C. The expanse can be deformed into a substantially compacted configuration in a martensitic state, and assumes, in its austenitic state, a shape defining such open, interior volume. Also disclosed is a sputtering method for forming the device.
US08506765B2
An apparatus for thermally decomposing organic feedstock material utilizing a series of connected vessels. Each of the vessels is provided with an inlet and an outlet for transferring the organic feedstock material between the vessels. Separate heat exchangers are located between the inlet and outlet of each vessel. A catalyst material, such as a permeable mesh, is included between the inlet and outlet of each vessel to accelerate liquefaction of gaseous hydrocarbons.
US08506760B2
A coking plant first and second longitudinally extending rows of oven chambers all of generally the same width and generally the same longitudinal spacing and together defining a corridor into which the chambers all open. The first and second rows are longitudinally offset from each other by a predetermined distance that is greater than the oven-chamber width A device for servicing the oven chambers and movable longitudinally in the corridor between the two rows of oven chambers has first and second service machines transversely facing the respective first and second rows and operable to service the chambers thereof. A coupling of variable longitudinal length between the first and second machines operable can vary the longitudinal spacing between the two machines.
US08506753B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a process container configured to accommodate a target substrate and to be vacuum-exhausted. A first electrode and a second electrode are disposed opposite each other within the process container. The first electrode includes an outer portion and an inner portion both facing the second electrode such that the outer portion surrounds the inner portion. An RF power supply is configured to apply an RF power to the outer portion of the first electrode. A DC power supply is configured to apply a DC voltage to the inner portion of the first electrode. A process gas supply unit is configured to supply a process gas into the process container, wherein plasma of the process gas is generated between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US08506739B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and compositions useful for the manufacture of sails. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to shaped, reinforced fabrics that can be used to make high-performance, shaped, reinforced sails.
US08506734B1
A process for making metal-organic frameworks and metal-organic frameworks having host-guest complexes of either liquid energetics, solid energetics, or solid oxidizers.
US08506733B2
The present invention provides a magnesium-based composite material that can achieve excellent performance such as high tensile strength not only at ordinary temperature but also at high temperature. The magnesium-based composite material of the present invention is Al2Ca-containing magnesium-based composite material, wherein said composite material is obtained by a solid-phase reaction of an aluminum-containing magnesium alloy and an additive, said additive being calcium oxide, and said composite material contains Al2Ca formed in the solid-phase reaction. In the magnesium-based composite material, CaO, in combination with Al2Ca, can be dispersed.
US08506725B2
A washing appliance is provided, having a circulation pump for circulating a washing fluid. A monitoring device is capable of monitoring a condition of the circulated washing fluid. A control device is in communication with the monitoring device and is configured to direct execution of one of a plurality of automatic wash programs by the washing appliance, wherein each automatic wash program includes a plurality of serially-conducted wash segments, each including at least one pre-wash segment and at least one post-wash segment. The control device is further configured to direct the monitoring device to dynamically monitor the washing fluid condition during at least one of the at least one pre-wash segment and the at least one post-wash segment, and to direct an alteration of the washing fluid in response to the monitoring device determining that the washing fluid condition exceeds a threshold. An associated method is also provided.
US08506713B2
The present invention is a film deposition apparatus configured to deposit a film on a substrate that has been loaded into a vacuum container via a transfer opening and placed on a table in the vacuum container, by supplying a process gas to the substrate from a process-gas supply part opposed to the table under a vacuum atmosphere, while heating a table surface of the table, the film deposition apparatus comprising: an elevating mechanism configured to vertically move the table between a process position at which the substrate is subjected to a film deposition process, and a transfer position at which the substrate is transferred to and from an external transfer mechanism that has entered from the transfer opening; a surrounding part configured to surround the table with a gap therebetween, when the table is located at the process position, so that the surrounding part and the table divide an inside of the vacuum container into an upper space, which is located above the table, and a lower space, which is located below the table; a vacuum exhaust conduit in communication with the upper space, through which a process atmosphere in the upper space is discharged to create a vacuum in the upper space; a heating unit configured to heat a gas contact region ranging from the upper space to the vacuum exhaust conduit, to a temperature higher than a temperature allowing adhesion of reactant; and a heat insulation part disposed between the heating unit and a lower part of the vacuum container surrounding the lower space.
US08506701B2
The present invention provides the production of the hydraulic powder containing C3A in an amount of 0.5 to 9.5% by weight through a step of grinding a hydraulic compound in the presence of the alkanolamine having a freezing point of not higher than 0° C.
US08506697B2
A water-soluble azo compound represented by formula (1) or a salt thereof, and an ink composition containing the compound or salt. The ink composition has a chroma saturation and hue suitable for inkjet recording, and enables a material recorded therewith to have high fastness in various fields, in particular high ozone gas resistance, while enabling an image recorded therewith to have excellent storage stability and the like. In formula (1), Q represents a halogen atom; x represents an integer of 2 to 4; and the group A represents an amino group represented by the following formula (101). In formula (101), y represents an integer of 1 to 3.
US08506696B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid ink includes a leuco dye, a developer, and a solvent. The developer is selected from wherein X1 is selected from H and CH3, X2 is selected from H and OH, X5 is selected from C(CH3)2 and CO, and X4 is selected from phenyl group and alkyl group.
US08506695B2
Coating compositions and industrial packages including the coating compositions are disclosed.
US08506693B2
A CO2 recovery system includes an absorber 2 and a regenerator 3. The absorber 2 includes a CO2 absorbing section 21 and at least one water-washing section 22. The CO2 absorbing section 21 allows flue gas 101 to come into contact with a basic amine compound absorbent 103 so that the basic amine compound absorbent 103 absorbs CO2 in the flue gas 101. The at least one water-washing section 22 allows the decarbonated flue gas 101A in which the amount of CO2 has been reduced in the CO2 absorbing section 21 to come into contact with wash water 104A and 104B to reduce the amounts of the basic amine compounds entrained in the decarbonated flue gas 101A. The regenerator 3 releases the CO2 from the basic amine compound absorbent 103 containing CO2 absorbed therein.
US08506689B2
A fluid storage and dispensing apparatus including a fluid storage and dispensing vessel having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and an integrated gas cabinet assembly including such fluid storage and dispensing apparatus and/or a point-of-use ventilation gas scrubber in the vented gas cabinet. By the use of physical adsorbent and chemical sorbent media, the gas cabinet can be enhanced in safety of operation, e.g., where the process gas supplied from the gas cabinet is of a toxic or otherwise hazardous character.
US08506681B2
An apparatus for cleaning air includes a housing having a chamber. The scrubber includes a carbon dioxide scrubber layer disposed in the chamber which claims carbon dioxide from air passing through the scrubber layer. The scrubber includes a forcing element which draws the air into the scrubber and forces the air through the scrubber layer which is powered without any electricity. A system for supporting a breathable environment for users. The system includes an enclosure. The system includes an air scrubber disposed in the enclosure which cleans carbon dioxide from air in the enclosure that is powered without any electricity. A method for cleaning carbon dioxide from air. The method includes the steps of flowing compressed air through a fluid driven motor to operate the motor without any electricity. There is the step of rotating a fan with the operating motor. There is the step of drawing air into a chamber of a housing with the fan blowing the air through a carbon dioxide scrubber layer of soda lime in the chamber, which scrubs the air of carbon dioxide, and out through an opening in the chamber above the layer. A cartridge for a scrubber.
US08506673B2
The present invention relates generally to a process for removing dissolved or colloidal silica from a pregnant leach solution (“PLS”). More particularly, an exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to a, process which mixes PLS with an acid source, preferably lean electrolyte, to induce formation of colloidal silica that can then be collected and removed. Additionally, in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, at least one silica seeding agent is added to induce formation of colloidal silica, at least one flocculant is added to induce aggregation of the colloidal silica, and a solid-liquid separation process is utilized to remove advantageous amounts or substantially all of the colloidal silica, thereby providing relief from supersaturation of dissolved silica in the metal recovery processes.
US08506671B2
Coated fertilizer wherein the fertilizer and animal feed comprises particles coated with a biomass composition comprising 5-35 wt. % solid biomass particles with a D50 between 0 and 250 μm and a D90 of less than 400 μm and 95-65 wt. % oil, a biomass composition wherein the biomass composition comprises solid biomass particles with a D50 between 0 and 250 μm and a D30 of less than 400 μm and a process for the production of a biomass composition wherein a biomass composition comprising solid particles having a D50 between 100 and 1000 μm is filtrated and the residue is grinded until the solid particles have a D50 between 0 and 250 μm and a D90 of less than 400 μm.
US08506669B2
A pleated filter is made from a monocomponent monolayer nonwoven web of continuous monocomponent meltspun partially crystalline and partially amorphous oriented fibers of the same polymeric composition that are bonded to form a coherent and handleable web having a Gurley Stiffness of at least 100 mg and which further may be softened while retaining orientation and fiber structure. Rows of pleats are formed in the nonwoven web, and the web is cut to a desired size and shape to provide a pleated filter element containing a self-supporting porous monocomponent monolayer matrix of fibers bonded to one another at least some points of fiber intersection and having an average initial submicron efficiency of at least 15% at a 1.52 meters/sec face velocity. The filter element is deformation resistant without requiring stiffening layers, bicomponent fibers, adhesive or other reinforcement in the filter media layer.
US08506664B2
A filter pipeline for an air intake system of an internal combustion engine has a tubular body and a filter element arranged in the tubular body. The filter element is a filter bag of a flexible material that has an opening and is attachable in the area of the opening to the tubular body. The filter bag and an inner wall of the tubular body are provided with ribs projecting inwardly from the tubular body such that in a circumferential direction of the pipeline different spacings are provided between the filter bag and the inner wall of the tubular body.
US08506663B2
A filter element and a soot filter in which the temperature distribution over the cross-section of the filter element can be kept constant in first approximation.
US08506657B2
The invention relates to a dispersion of the type comprising particles of a rare earth compound, particularly a compound of cerium, an acid and an organic phase, characterized in further comprising an anti-oxidant agent which can particularly be selected from substituted derivatives of phenol, aromatic amines or tocopherols. Said dispersion may be used as additive for diesel fuel for internal combustion engines, in particular as additive for diesel for diesel engines.
US08506655B1
The present invention provides a fluorescent dye that incorporates a pentavalent phosphorus or arsenic into its ring structure. Also provided is a fluorescence energy transfer system that comprises the above fluorescent dye and a second dye, where the second dye is capable of energy transfer with the fluorescent dye. Additionally provided is a kit for labeling a target molecule. In further embodiments, another kit for labeling a target molecule is provided. A target molecule labeled with the above-described fluorescent dye is also provided. In additional embodiments, methods of labeling a target molecule are provided.
US08506653B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous direct dye formulation, comprising (a) 5 to 25% by weight of a dye composition comprising (a1) 50-99% by weight of one or more dyes obtainable by reduction or thermal treatment of Direct Yellow 11, and (a2) 1-50% by weight of a blue, black and/or red direct dye, (all based on the dye composition); (b) up to 0.9% by weight of a saturated, cyclic or acyclic water-soluble amine comprising a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group and at least one further functional group selected from primary, secondary and tertiary amino groups, OH groups and ether groups; and (c) up to 0.9% by weight of urea; and (d) water, wherein the percentages for (a), (b), and (c) relate to the total weight of the aqueous direct dye formulation. The invention moreover relates to a process for their preparation and the use thereof for the dyeing, in particular of paper, as well as paper which has been dyed with this aqueous direct dye formulation.
US08506651B2
A process for altering the appearance of hair, the process comprising the steps of (a) providing a composition for dyeing and reducing curl and/or frizziness of hair, said composition comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier: (i) at least one non-hydroxide base; (ii) at least one protein denaturant different from (a)(i); (iii) at least one dye chosen from oxidative dye precursors and direct dyes; (iv) at least one thickening agent; (v) optionally, at least one alkoxysilane comprising at least one solubilizing functional group; and (vi) optionally, at least one fatty substance; (b) contacting the hair with the composition in (a) to form treated hair; (c) rinsing the treated hair; (d) drying the treated hair; (e) smoothing the treated hair using a combination of heat and means for physically smoothing hair to form smoothed hair; (f) optionally, shampooing the smoothed hair; and (g) rinsing the smoothed hair.
US08506649B2
A system and method for securing and tracking an electronic device. The system includes hardware, software and firmware components that cooperate to allow tracking, disabling, and other interaction with the stolen electronic device. The system includes an application component, non-viewable component and Basic Input/Output Subsystem (BIOS) component that are present on the electronic device. The BIOS component maintains the secured environment of the application and non-viewable components. If only the application component was provided, a simple low level format of the hard disk drive would remove the application and bypass the security features. The system implements an “application and BIOS” based solution to electronic device security.
US08506646B2
Described are medical devices for supporting or inducing bone growth including an implant body defining one or more separation-assist lines that facilitate separation of the body into two or more substantially pre-defined pieces. The implant body can be used and implanted as a whole or may be separated into multiple pieces, some or all of which can be used at one or multiple implant sites in a patient. Separation-assist lines in implant bodies can serve a dual role in imparting increased and controlled flexibility to the overall body when used as a whole at an implant site. Also described are methods of making and using, and kits including, such medical devices.
US08506645B2
A tibial augment for use with a knee joint prosthesis, composed of annular members of different stock sizes, each size being configured to fit within a cavity formed in a human tibia. The augment may include a stepped distal surface. A provisional (temporary) tibial augment used to ensure a proper fit for the permanent augment is also provided. The provisional may include grooves configured to cooperate with a set of ribs on a tong-like holder used for removing the provisional from the cavity. A pusher for use implanting the tibial augment is also provided. In addition, a system for creating a cavity in a human tibia is also described. The system preferably includes a guide with a slot therein and a set of osteotomes that are inserted within different portions of the slot. Methods for using the tools and/or implanting the prosthetic devices discussed above are also described.
US08506642B1
A hip implant having two distinct bodies, a neck body and a bone fixation body. The neck body is formed from a solid metal and has an interface for connecting to a femoral ball. The bone fixation body has an elongated shape and is formed as a porous structure that is inserted into an intramedullary canal of a patient.
US08506640B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a system in which a knee prosthesis is capable of conversion from a cruciate retaining type prosthesis to a posterior stabilizing type prosthesis. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a system in which a knee prosthesis is converted from a cruciate retaining type prosthesis to a posterior stabilizing type prosthesis. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a method in which a knee prosthesis is capable of conversion from a cruciate retaining type prosthesis to a posterior stabilizing type prosthesis. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a method in which a knee prosthesis is converted from a cruciate retaining type prosthesis to a posterior stabilizing type prosthesis. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of making a knee prosthesis that is capable of conversion from a cruciate retaining type prosthesis to a posterior stabilizing type prosthesis. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of making a knee prosthesis that is converted from a cruciate retaining type prosthesis to a posterior stabilizing type prosthesis.
US08506638B2
A prosthesis is provided and may include a central body having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of arms extending from the central body in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The plurality of arms may each include a first planar surface, a second planar surface, and a third planar surface that are each formed at an obtuse angle relative to one another to define an outer shape of the prosthesis.
US08506637B2
A biocompatible prosthetic device comprising a thin low friction spacer for location to overlie a bone member in an interpositional location between opposed bone joint articular surfaces. The prosthesis is preferably a thin spacer with at least one low friction surface, the spacer being adapted for location about a bone member in an interpositional location between opposed bone joint articular surfaces preferably about a margin of articular cartilage of a bone member's condyle, preferably without any modification of the articular surface of the condyle. One preferred use of a prosthesis is in a human temporomandibular joint as a thin cap-like member fitted closely over the mandibular condyle to be disposed intermediate of the mandibular condyle and the mandibular fossa of the temporomandibular joint.
US08506635B2
An implant for a spinal column and a method for inserting the same into a patient is disclosed. The implant includes an elongated body positionable in a spinal disc space. The body comprises a first body member and a second body member that each include at least one wedge extending into an interior cavity. A front bracket is connected with a leading portion of the first and second body members and a rear bracket connected with a trailing portion of said first and second body members. The brackets allow the first and second body members to move between an expanded state and an unexpanded state. An expansion component is positioned within the interior cavity when the implant is in an expanded state and the implant is then positioned in an unexpanded state. The expansion component includes at least one inverted wedge in engagement with the wedge of the first and second body members. The inverted wedge is operable to cause the first and second body members to expand way from one another to the expanded state. A bone graft member is then inserted into the interior cavity defined by the first and second body members.
US08506632B2
An implant that allows immobilization of one vertebra in relation to another, having two lateral walls essentially parallel one with respect to the other and having a length, and at least one transverse wall connecting these lateral walls one to the other, at least one of these lateral walls having, on its side facing the side opposite the other lateral wall, slide prevention reliefs. The invention, the implant has, in a direction perpendicular to the length of the lateral walls, a dimension such that its two lateral walls are capable of coming into the immediate vicinity of the unci of the underlying vertebrae, the slide prevention reliefs of each of lateral wall thus being able to bear against the internal surface of the uncus of the underlying vertebra adjacent this lateral wall.
US08506630B2
A flexible prosthetic cover shaped to form a replacement nucleus pulposis for an intervetebral disc with an aperture for the introduction of filling material therein, and an elongate introducer member configured to pass into the aperture is provided. The cover has a strengthened portion substantially opposite the aperture for engaging the distal end of the member, the strengthened portion and the distal end being arranged to interlock, for facilitating orientation of the cover, for example so as to prevent relative rotation there between.
US08506626B2
The invention provides a transcorneal vision assistance device implantable in the eye of a patient. A preferred embodiment transcorneal microtelescope vision assistance device is implantable in the eye of a patient and includes a keratoprosthesis configured to replace a portion of the cornea of a patient and to secure the keratoprosthesis to a remaining front portion of the cornea. A microtelescope is carried by the keratoprosthesis for transcorneal mounting of the microtelescope.
US08506624B2
Devices and methods for treating heart valves include members that assist the valve in closing during at least a portion of the cardiac cycle. Such devices include members configured to alter the shape of a valve annulus, reposition at least one papillary muscle, and/or plug an orifice of the valve so as to provide a coaptation surface for the valve leaflets.
US08506616B2
An endoluminal stent graft deployment system incorporating an anchor wire system for temporary anchoring of a stent graft on a delivery device. The anchor wire system has an anchor wire extending from the distal end of the device and releasably retained to the portion of the stent graft by a releasable retention system. The releasable retention system includes a bead on the proximal end of the anchor wire and an anchor release wire which has fastening arrangement to retain the release wire distally of the bead. The anchor release wire extends to a distal end of the deployment system so that the anchor wire release wire can be withdrawn thereby releasing the anchor wire.
US08506605B2
A surgical system for stabilizing a first bone segment to a second bone segment, the system comprising a plate having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is configured to be secured to the first bone segment and the second end is configured to be secured to the second bone segment, and further wherein the plate has a structural integrity sufficient to stabilize the first bone segment to the second bone segment. Further embodiments comprise a supplemental plate for stabilizing a third bone segment to the second bone segment.
US08506583B2
A method for open surgical repair of a damaged portion of an artery or vein. A tubular medical assembly may include one or more shaped members, such as microbarbs, configured to anchor into the tunica intima and the tunica media of the vessel wall, and not to the tunic adventitia and vasa vasorum. The medical assembly is delivered to the damaged vessel portion via a delivery device through an open air pathway, and forms a conduit between transected ends of the damaged vessel.
US08506574B2
A compression and distraction shaft assembly applies compression and distraction to bones including vertebrae. Shaft A assembly and shaft B assembly are attached together via a polyaxial fulcrum. The polyaxial fulcrum allows all rotational degrees of freedom between shaft A assembly and shaft B assembly. Such fulcrum, during compression and distraction, does not impart ancillary stresses or motion to vertebrae. An hourglass-shaped bore for engaging pliers is formed in approximately middle of both the shaft A assembly and the shaft B assembly. Distraction pliers having cylindrical tips are used to apply distraction to vertebrae. Once handles are pressed to impart an appropriate amount of distraction to the vertebrae, they are locked in this position. Compression pliers having cylindrical tips are used to apply compression to vertebrae. Once handles are pressed to impart an appropriate amount of compression to the vertebrae, they are locked in this position.
US08506570B2
A burr guide assembly is described for guiding a burr tool during a procedure wherein the burr tool is used to cut a bone. The guide assembly includes a housing which is configured to be attached to the bone, a guide sleeve attached to the housing such that the guide sleeve can freely pivot about a pivot axis within a defined range, and a burr tool. The guide sleeve has a bore that extends along its length, which is located eccentrically within the guide sleeve. The burr tool has a cutting portion that is configured to be at least partially disposed within the bore. The guide sleeve is mounted within the housing such that the cutting portion is substantially restricted to movement in a plane that is perpendicular to the pivot axis.
US08506568B2
Penetrator assemblies that include an outer penetrator and a removable inner trocar. In some of the penetrator assemblies, the removable inner trocar has a handle including a surface with a series of discs formed along a longitudinal axis, and the outer penetrator has a flange operable to engage an insertion site proximate the bone marrow. Some of the penetrator assemblies include a connector having a recess extending toward the cutting tip and through which a longitudinal axis of the outer penetrator extends, the recess configured to receive a portion of a shaft to enable rotation of the penetrator assembly by a powered apparatus or power drill.
US08506558B2
A method and system for performing an ocular irradiation procedure on a patient's eye is disclosed. The system includes a head support for supporting the patient's head, an eye-contact device attachable to the front portion of the patient's eye, to stabilize the position of the eye; and a position detector for determining the position of the contact device in the external coordinate system. A source of a collimated electromagnetic radiation beam in the system is controlled by a beam-positioning assembly for positioning the beam source such that the beam, when activated, is aimed along a selected path at a selected coordinate in the external coordinate system corresponding to a selected target region in the patient's eye.
US08506554B2
The invention relates to a tilt and slide cover in a vehicle roof. The tilt and slide cover comprises a cover and a frame, which is supported in lateral guides of a roof opening. The special feature of the tilt and slide cover lies in the fact that the cover is arranged relatively moveable in relation to the frame and can be locked to and released from this. The frame comprises a plastic section, into which the slide guide and other fittings such as slide cheek holders or the like can be integrated in one piece. It is also possible to fix the rear water collection channel directly on the frame.
US08506552B2
An automatic pump relay system includes controllers coupled to drivers for sequentially discharging fluid from a plurality of medication containers into a coupler having a reflux barrier from which fluid is administered to a patient. The internal fluid pressure of the coupler is determined by a pressure sensing device or devices that provide signals to the controllers that, based at least on the sensor signals, cause the drivers to operate in reverse and forward directions so as to rapidly decrease and raise the fluid pressure within the coupler during a relay from an empty syringe to a filled syringe, thereby avoiding bolus formation and an interruption in infusion therapy. Independently operable syringes pumps are contemplated to be connected in relay fashion to form a modular system. An associated method is also disclosed wherein a fluid administration pressure is stored for use as a reference during a syringe changeover.
