US08653911B2
Provided is an atmospheric plasma equipment and a waveguide for the same. The atmospheric plasma equipment according to this disclosure includes: an oscillator supplying an electromagnetic wave; and a waveguide into which the electromagnetic wave generated from the oscillator is input to be propagated therethrough, wherein the waveguide includes at least one or more steps, and plasma is generated at a waveguide region including a final short portion. The atmospheric plasma equipment may simultaneously attain an effect of causing concentration of an electromagnetic wave applied through the waveguide with one or more steps and an effect of stably maintaining generated plasma.
US08653909B2
An apparatus for wireless power transmission is disclosed. According to an exemplary aspect, the wireless power transmission apparatus includes a high Q low frequency near magnetic field resonator having characteristics of a metamaterial. Accordingly, manufacturing of a compact power supply capable of wirelessly supplying power to mobile communication terminals or multimedia terminals is possible. By using a zeroth-order resonator with a DNG or ENG structure, a small-sized power supply with a simple configuration may be manufactured.
US08653908B2
A piezoelectric thin film resonator of the present has a substrate 1, an intermediate layer 7 disposed on the substrate 1 and is formed of an insulator, a lower electrode 3 disposed on the intermediate layer 7, a piezoelectric film 4 disposed on the lower electrode 3, and an upper electrode 5 disposed on a position facing the lower electrode 3 with the piezoelectric film 4 interposed therebetween, in which, in a resonant region 8 where the lower electrode 3 and the upper electrode 5 face each other, a space 6 is formed in the substrate 1 and the intermediate layer 7 or between the lower electrode 3 and the intermediate layer 7 and the region of the space 6 is included in the resonant region 8. With the structure, the dissipation of the vibrational energy to the substrate from the resonance portion can be suppressed, thereby improving the quality factor.
US08653907B2
The present invention relates to microwave circuits, and more particularly to bypass circuits for bias connections. The bypass circuit comprises a capacitor in series with an inductor, the series combination being connected between the bias conductor and ground. This series combination provides low return loss at the operating frequency. A de-queueing circuit may be included in the bypass circuit to provide loss at other frequencies.
US08653901B2
An oscillator and a control circuit thereof are provided. The control circuit is configured to control an oscillator to adjust the amplitude and the level of an oscillation signal. The control circuit includes a peak amplitude detector, an average voltage detector, and an oscillation controller. The peak amplitude detector is configured to detect the amplitude of the oscillation signal, so as to generate an amplitude value. The average voltage detector is configured to detect the direct current (DC) level of the oscillation signal, so as to generate an average value. The oscillation controller is configured to generate two power signals according to the amplitude value and the average value. The two power signals are provided to the oscillator, so that the oscillator adjusts the amplitude and DC level of the oscillation signal.
US08653900B2
There is provided an oscillator using a high-frequency crystal resonator which can satisfy the drive level needed for the crystal resonator and expand a variable frequency range. An oscillator having an oscillation circuit CC for oscillating the resonator SS is provided with a limiter circuit LM1 as a load of the resonator SS which is inductive and is a load circuit for limiting an oscillation amplitude. According to this configuration, the action of the limiter circuit LM1 allows satisfaction of the drive level needed for the crystal resonator and expansion of the variable frequency range.
US08653897B2
A thermoelectric device transfers heat away from or toward an object using the Peltier effect. In some embodiments, the length of at least one thermoelectric element is at least ten times greater than a combined average cross-sectional dimension, orthogonal to the length, of two thermoelectric elements.
US08653891B2
Embodiments of power amplification devices are described that include a power amplification circuit, a first voltage regulation circuit, and a second voltage regulation circuit. The voltage regulation circuits are configured to provide regulated voltages to the power amplification circuit. The power amplification device also includes a threshold detection circuit to get better maximum output power performance while preserving power efficiency. The threshold detection circuit is configured to increase a voltage adjustment gain of the first voltage regulation circuit when a regulated voltage level of regulated voltage from the second voltage regulation circuit reaches a threshold voltage level. In this manner, the voltage adjustment gain can be increased when the second voltage regulation circuit is close to or has railed. Increasing the voltage adjustment gain when the second voltage regulation circuit is railing or is close to railing improves the power performance and the power efficiency of the power amplification circuit.
US08653888B2
A high-frequency signal amplifier includes an amplifier having an input terminal and an output terminal, and amplifying a high-frequency signal; a signal line connected between the output terminal of the amplifier and an antenna; coupled lines arranged in parallel and coupled to the signal line and having different line lengths or differently terminated ends; and phase shifters shifting phase of high-frequency signals applied via the signal line and the coupled lines, supplying the high-frequency signals to the input terminal of the amplifier, and having different amounts of phase change.
US08653885B2
The device for generating a reference current proportional to absolute temperature comprises processing means connected to the terminals of a core and designed to equalize the voltages across the terminals of the core, the core being designed to then be traversed by an internal current proportional to absolute temperature, and an output module designed to deliver to an output terminal the said reference current on the basis of the said internal current; the processing means comprise a self-biased amplifier possessing at least one first stage arranged according to a folded setup and comprising first PMOS transistors arranged in a setup of the common-gate type, and a feedback stage whose input is connected to the output of the amplifier and whose output is connected to the input of the first stage as well as to at least one terminal of the core.
US08653873B2
One embodiment provides a system for generating a reference waveform. The system can include a first pulse-width modulation (PWM) channel configured to provide a first PWM waveform having a first duty cycle and a first frequency. A second PWM channel is configured to provide a second PWM waveform having a second duty cycle and the first frequency. Combinational logic is configured to combine the first PWM waveform and the second PWM waveform to generate a phase-shifted reference PWM waveform having the first frequency and a phase shift that is based on the first duty cycle and the second duty cycle.
US08653872B2
The present invention discloses a reset circuit that has a reset IC 12 having a terminal 2 connected to a reset terminal of the microcomputer 30 that is driven by a constant voltage (3.3V) generated by regulating a rectified voltage (V+) by a regulator 24, and a terminal 4 that inputs the constant voltage (3.3V) thorough a register R1, and outputs a reset signal to the microcomputer 30 when an input voltage input to the terminal 4 is lower than a first threshold value; and a transistor Q1 in which a collector is connected to the terminal 4 through a resistor 2 and an emitter is connected to the ground and the transistor is turned on when an output voltage of the switching transformer 21 is lower than a predetermined level, wherein the voltage lower than the first threshold value is input to the terminal 4 when the transistor Q1 is turned on.
US08653851B2
Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention including a data transmitting circuit that transmits data in parallel through a plurality of signal lines and a data receiving circuit that receives the data. The data transmitting circuit includes a plurality of data output circuits that output the data in a data transmission mode or set an output to a high impedance state in a HiZ mode, a plurality of data selection circuits that select one of the data and fixed data and output the selected data to the data output circuits, and a control circuit that controls the data output circuits to output the fixed data during a period between a time when a mode is switched from the HiZ mode to the data transmission mode and a time when the data output circuits start to output the data.
US08653850B2
An apparatus for testing number of turns, used for testing the number of turns of a winding coil on an electrical machine stator with concentrated winding, comprising: a base (6); a rod-shaped rotor bracket (4) around one end of which an excitation coil (1) is wound and around the other end of which a standard coil (2) is wound; a joining member for joining the base (6) with the rotor bracket (4) so that the base (6) and the rotor bracket (4) can rotate relative to each other, wherein the plane of the base (6) is parallel to the rotor bracket (4); a fixing member for fixing the electrical machine stator (5) with concentrated winding to the base (6) so as to make the stator (5) concentric and coplanar with the rotor bracket (4); a galvanometer (17) connected to the standard coil (2), which is connected to the tested coil (3) of the stator (5) in reverse polarity to form a loop during testing. Also provided is a method for using the apparatus to test the number of turns. The apparatus for testing number of turns has a simple structure, is of great utility and can test the number of turns of a winding coil on an electrical machine stator with concentrated winding directly.
US08653848B2
According to one embodiment, a television apparatus includes a circuit board, a conductive portion, and an easily broken portion. The circuit board is mounted with an electronic component. The conductive portion is located on a surface or the inside of the circuit board. A breakage detection mechanism detects breakage of the conductive portion by conduction. The easily broken portion is provided to at least part of the conductive portion. The easily broken portion is broken easier than other portions of the conductive portion when a stress is applied to the circuit board.
US08653844B2
A multi-fingered device can be calibrated for performance. The multi-fingered device can include a first finger configured to remain active and a second finger that is initially deactivated concurrent with the first finger being active. A measure of degradation for the multi-fingered device within an IC can be determined. The measure of degradation can be compared with a degradation threshold. Responsive to determining that the measure of degradation meets the degradation threshold, a finger of the multi-fingered device can be activated.
US08653841B2
A high-voltage discharge circuit diagnostic system includes a high voltage DC link with a positive DC link and a negative DC link, a first resistor selectably connectable between the positive DC link and the negative DC link, and a second resistor connected between the positive DC link and the negative DC link. A control module connects the first resistor between the positive DC link and the negative DC link until the high voltage DC link discharges to a first voltage after which the control module disconnects the first resistor from between the positive DC link and the negative DC link to permit continued discharge of the high voltage DC link through the second resistor to a second voltage through an elapsed time period. The control module diagnoses a fault in the second resistor based upon the first voltage, the second voltage, and the elapsed time period.
US08653838B2
A soot sensor for the detection of soot particles in an exhaust gas flow, having interdigitally engaged measurement electrodes applied on a substrate. An electrical resistance between the measurement electrodes is a measure of soot load of the exhaust gas flow. The measurement electrodes are divided into two regions, a first region in which no soot particles can be deposited and a second region where soot particles are deposited from the exhaust gas flow. The first region and the second region are exposed simultaneously to the other conditions prevailing in the exhaust gas flow.
US08653834B2
Devices and methods are provided that facilitate improved input device performance. The devices and methods utilize a transmitter sensor electrode and a receiver sensor electrode that are capacitively coupled to form a transcapacitance for capacitively sensing input objects in a sensing region. A measure of the transcapacitance may be used to determine positional information for the input objects in the sensing region. In accordance with the various embodiments, the devices and methods include a floating electrode that is ohmically insulated from other electrical elements during operation. A first portion of the floating electrode overlaps a portion of the transmitter sensor electrode and a second portion of the floating electrode overlaps a portion of the receiver sensor electrode. The floating electrode additionally includes at least one aperture within the first portion of the floating electrode, where the at least one aperture at least in part overlaps the transmitter sensor electrode.
US08653830B2
Methods and apparatuses for evaluating a material are described. Embodiments typically involve use of an impedance measurement sensor to measure the impedance of a sample of the material under at least two different states of illumination. The states of illumination may include (a) substantially no optical stimulation, (b) substantial optical stimulation, (c) optical stimulation at a first wavelength of light, (d) optical stimulation at a second wavelength of light, (e) a first level of light intensity, and (f) a second level of light intensity. Typically a difference in impedance between the impedance of the sample at the two states of illumination is measured to determine a characteristic of the material.
US08653829B2
A method and system for high gain auto-zeroing arrangement for electronic circuits. An auto-zero electronic circuit eliminates an offset associated with a test electronic circuit. The test electronic circuit includes a pair of input terminals configured to receive an input voltage signal and a pair of output terminals. The auto-zero electronic circuit includes a pair of source followers, and a pair of capacitors coupled to the output terminals of the test electronic circuit for sampling the offset associated with the test electronic circuit. The auto-zero electronic circuit also includes a differential pair coupled to the pair of source followers. A pair of diode-connected transistors, coupled to the differential pair, is configured to generate biasing voltage signals. The biasing voltage signals modulate the control terminals of a pair of input source followers of the test electronic circuit and eliminate the offset associated with the test electronic circuit.
US08653816B2
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for compensating for motion of a subject during an MRI scan of the subject. k-space data may be received from the MRI scan of the subject. Motion information may be received for the subject. Based on the received motion information, a translational motion of the subject may be determined between a first point in time and a second point in time. A search space for motion correction may be reduced using the determined change and an error margin of the capturing technique. A motion-compensated, graphical image of the subject may be generated using the reduced search space.
US08653813B2
A magnetic field vector sensor includes a substrate parallel to a plane, a support mobile relative to it and rotatable about a vertical rotation axis perpendicular to it, a magnetic field source generating a field having a moment in a non-perpendicular direction, the source being fixed to the support with no degree-of-freedom to exert torque on the support when a field to be measured is present, the field being non-collinear with the moment, a transducer to convert torque exerted on the support into a field amplitude of a component of the field along a measurement axis in the plane, wherein the source comprises a magnetostrictive permanent magnet for generating the field having a moment whose direction varies with stress on the magnet, and wherein the sensor further comprises a controllable device to reversibly modify the moment direction, and a stress generator to vary stress and hence moment direction.
US08653807B2
Techniques for ion beam current measurement, especially for measuring low energy ion beam current, are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as an ion beam current measurement apparatus has at least a planar Faraday cup and a magnet device. The planar Faraday cup is close to an inner surface of a chamber wall, and may be non-parallel to or parallel to the inner surface. The magnet device is located close to the planar Faraday cup. Therefore, by properly adjusting the magnetic field, secondary electrons, incoming electrons and low energy ions may be adequately suppressed. Further, the planar Faraday cup may surround an opening of an additional Faraday cup being any conventional Faraday cup. Therefore, the whole ion beam may be received and measured well by the larger cross-section area of at least the planar Faraday cup on the ion beam path.
US08653802B2
A chopper circuit includes an input unit that inputs a main turn-on signal for turning on a main switching element and an auxiliary turn-on signal for turning on an auxiliary switching element; and a prohibiting unit that prohibits the main switching element from turning on unless the auxiliary turn-on signal is input.
US08653795B2
The present invention discloses a charger circuit. The charger circuit comprises a control circuit and at least two charging paths. The control circuit determines to activate or inactivate each charging path according to a battery feedback signal representing the charging status. Accordingly, the battery is charged by input power in an optimal way so that the charging efficiency is improved and the overheating problem is solved.
US08653775B2
A method and a device for controlling and/or regulating an electric motor. Such electric motors are used for example in motor vehicles in the form of pump motors. In general, the electric motor is supplied with electrical energy from a battery and/or using a generator. The controlling and regulation take place using a high-frequency pulse width modulation (PWM). When the electric motor is started, the PWM is used to continuously increase the motor current required for the operation of the electric motor, e.g. beginning from 0.
US08653769B2
A method of calculating a control parameter for a component in an HVAC system includes receiving a plurality of input signals, and calculating a value of the control parameter using a control parameter equation having a plurality of predetermined coefficients and a plurality of variables, each variable corresponding to one of the input signals. This equation is stored in and subsequently fetched from memory associated with a component of the HVAC system, such as a blower motor controller or a system controller. In some embodiments, the equation is stored in a device for interfacing a system controller with a blower motor assembly.
US08653766B2
In a linear motor, a driving device calculates a deviation between a position command from a controller and a position detected by a position sensor, a position controlling is performed calculating speed command to be utilized for speed controlling of the movable member based on the deviation and a position gain, a deviation is calculated at a time when the movable member enters a control area in which at least a part of the magnet portion opposes to the coil of the stator within an area of which position is detected by the position sensor, and the position of the movable member is back-calculated from deviation from the position command and the position command, and the position detected by the position sensor is corrected with the calculated position being as the position of the movable member at a time when the movable member enters the control area.
US08653764B2
A power saw having a reciprocating blade, including a housing having a handle portion for holding the saw; a variable speed motor in the housing for driving the reciprocating blade; a mechanism configured to move the reciprocating blade in a non-linear path; an electronic controller for controlling the operation of the motor; a trigger switch configured to provide an electrical signal to the controller that is proportional to the amount of travel that the switch is moved, wherein the signal causes the controller to operate the motor through a range of operating speeds; and a mode switch operatively connected to the controller and including a first mode providing normal operating speeds responsive to the trigger switch being selectively moved through its range of travel, and a second mode wherein the operating speeds are within the range of about 50% to about 80% of the normal operating speeds.
US08653748B2
Solid-State lighting devices and fixtures are presented in which capacitor plates are formed in the fixture and in the lighting device to form AC coupling capacitors with one or more intervening dielectrics when the lighting device is placed in the fixture to power a driver circuit of the lighting device while providing a fixture with no exposed live wiring.
US08653746B2
A fluorescent lamp starter unit determines whether the lighting fixture into which it has been plugged is in a first or second state. The lamp is on in the first state and off in the second state. If the fixture is in the first state then the starter unit uses a first method to detect ballast type, whereas if the fixture is in the second state then the starter unit uses a second method to detect ballast type. In one example, the first method involves turning on the power switch of the starter unit at a time after a zero-crossing and then using the periodicity of a transient switch current signal to determine ballast type, whereas the second method involves turning on the power switch at the time of the zero-crossing and then using peak amplitude information of the transient switch current to determine ballast type.
US08653740B2
A switch device controls a voltage applied to a load element according to an electric power supply from a power source. A driver circuit controls activation and deactivation of the switch device. A circuit portion sets a duty ratio and output the duty ratio to the driver circuit for causing the driver circuit to activate the switch device according to the duty ratio to control a voltage applied to the load element. The circuit portion sets the duty ratio according to a duty ratio characteristic curve. In the duty ratio characteristic curve, the duty ratio decreases gradually with increase in a voltage of the power source, and decrease in the duty ratio with increase in the voltage of the power source becomes small gradually.
US08653739B2
An improved control circuit arrangement and control method is described for supplying power to, and for controlling, light-emitting diodes used for illuminating. The control circuit arrangement includes a driver circuit capable of operating in multiple modes for providing an operating current for operating at least one light-emitting diode, wherein the operating current has different positive intensities. In particular, the present control circuit arrangement and control method now deliberately exploit the fact that the color spectrum of a light emitting diode is dependent on the intensity or current with which it is operated, and improves the color rendering index by deliberately operating the light emitting diodes with different intensities over time.
US08653735B2
The disclosure provides a backlight module applied to a liquid crystal display device. The backlight module includes: a control circuit for outputting a driving signal according to an analog adjustment signal or a digital adjustment signal; a driving circuit for outputting a lamp voltage according to the driving signal; a fluorescent lamp set, including a plurality of lamps, for receiving the lamp voltage and thereby generating a lamp current; a lamp feedback circuit c for outputting a feedback signal according to the lamp voltage; and a dynamic protection circuit, for dynamically adjusting a protection command signal according to the analog dimming signal or the digital dimming signal, comparing the protection command signal and the feedback signal and thereby outputting a comparing result signal to the control circuit.
US08653726B2
A spark plug includes a ground electrode. The cross sectional area S of a ground electrode base member of the ground electrode satisfies a relation 1.8 mm2≦S≦3.2 mm2. The embedment depth A of a noble metal tip embedded in a second base member surface and the tip thickness B of the noble metal tip measured along the direction in which the noble metal tip is embedded in the second base member surface satisfy a relation 0.4≦(A/B)≦0.8.
US08653723B2
The invention discloses a three dimensional LED arrangement and heat management method using a heat transfer or conduction pipe to enable rapid heat transfer from a three dimensional cluster of LEDs to a heatsink with or without active cooling, the light emitted from the three dimensional cluster not being obstructed by a heat sink arrangement such that the light beam profile generated by the light appears similar to that generated by traditional incandescent bulbs.
US08653720B2
A solid state actuator arrangement comprising an actuator which is configured as a solid state bending actuator and which has a first and a second end section opposite each other, a fastening device for fastening the first end section of the actuator in such a manner that it can still be adjusted, and connections for applying a driver signal to the actuator for adjusting the second end section by bending the actuator between at least two positions, an extension element being fastened to the free second end section of the actuator.
US08653710B2
A rotor has rotor cores divided in the axial direction. A permanent magnet is mounted at the position of each of the magnetic poles of cores. The permanent magnet of each magnetic pole is configured by a single tabular member that penetrates the two divided cores in the axial direction. Convex parts are respectively provided on the outer peripheries of the respective magnetic poles of the rotor cores along the axial direction of the rotor. The convex parts are provided to positions that are displaced for each of the two divided cores. The magnetic flux density increases in the convex parts, which becomes the magnetic pole center. Since the convex parts positions are displaced to each other, a skew function can be exhibited even if the permanent magnet is mounted at the same position.
US08653705B2
A stator cooling device configured with a cylindrical stator main body that uses a rotation axis of a rotary electric machine as a central axis. A fixed portion is formed on an outer peripheral portion of the stator main body so as to protrude outward in a radial direction of the stator main body. A cooling medium flow passage includes an injection hole through which cooling medium is injected. The fixed portion is configured above a horizontal plane that passes through the central axis, and a peak portion that is farthest in the fixed portion from the central axis as viewed in an axial direction of the central axis. The injection hole opens toward the fixed portion above the outer peripheral portion of the stator and toward the first vertical plane side with respect to a second vertical plane that is a vertical plane that passes through the peak portion.
US08653703B2
The permanent magnet rotating electric machine comprising a stator with a stator coil wound on a stator iron core, a rotor with a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in the circumferential direction in a rotor iron core, which is disposed opposite to the stator iron core of the stator with a predetermined spacing therebetween and is fixed to a shaft, a water-cooling unit disposed around the outer circumference of the stator iron core, and a fan fixed to the shaft on the same side as at least one axial end of the rotor iron core to circulate cooling air in the permanent magnet rotating electric machine; further comprising ventilation paths, through which the cooling air flows, formed around the outer circumference of the water-cooling unit; wherein after the cooling air has been circulated by the fan in the machine for cooling, the cooling air is led to the ventilation paths to perform heat exchange between the cooling air flowing in the ventilation paths and the water-cooling unit, after which the cooling air is circulated again in the machine.
US08653695B2
A power switching device, a power switching method, and a projection device using the power switching device are provided. In the power switching method, a first power and a second power are received, and the voltage level of the first power is compared with the voltage level of the second power. One of the first power and the second power having the higher voltage level is sustained by using one of the first power and the second power having the lower voltage level until one of the first power and the second power having the higher voltage level stabilizes. At least one of the first power and the second power having the higher voltage level and being already stabilized is output as an output voltage.
US08653694B2
A junction box connected to a plurality of solar cell panels connected in series and under control a control device, includes a plurality of diodes, two ports, a switch, and a communication module. The plurality of diodes is forwardly connected in series to form a diode string with two ends, and each of the plurality of diodes is electrically connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of solar cell panels in parallel. The two ports are respectively connected to the two ends of the diode string and the plurality of solar cell panels, and output DC power of the plurality of solar cell panels. The switch is connected between the diode string and the two ports. The communication module is connected to the switch, and receives control signals from the control device to turn on or off the switch to control output of the DC power of the solar cell panels from the two ports.
US08653683B2
The invention relates to a device and method for controlling a double-fed asynchronous machine (4), preferably for a power plant, in particular for a wind or water power plant. The device includes an indirect converter (6) which is connected on the rotor side to the double-fed asynchronous machine (4). The indirect converter (6) includes a rotor-side converter (20) and a line-side converter (24). At least one control element (8) is provided for controlling the indirect converter (6). At least one software-based and/or hardware-based damping element (40, 46, 48, 120) is provided which has changeable damping characteristics.
US08653679B2
A generator for providing electric power. The generator includes an engine associated with an alternator. Rotation of the engine causes the alternator to generate an AC source voltage that is fed to at least one analog output receptacle. The generator further includes an inverter connected to receive the AC source voltage and generate a digital AC output voltage having a constant voltage value and a constant frequency. The inverter allows the engine to operate at less than full speed when an electric load is drawing a relatively low amount of power from the generator. The analog receptacle allows larger electric loads to be connected to the generator where the electric loads cannot be supported by the digital AC output voltage.
US08653674B1
A redistribution pattern is formed on active surfaces of electronic components while still in wafer form. The redistribution pattern routes bond pads of the electronic components to redistribution pattern terminals on the active surfaces of the electronic components. The bond pads are routed to the redistribution pattern terminals while still in wafer form, which is a low cost and high throughput process, i.e., very efficient process.
US08653666B2
A semiconductor storage device comprises a peripheral circuit region including a wiring layer having wiring patterns, a cavity formed in a non-wiring region between the wiring patterns of the wiring layer, and an insulating film forming at least a part of a wall defining the cavity, and a memory cell region.
US08653665B2
There is provided a film forming method for forming a film on a target object having thereon an insulating layer 1 that is made of a low-k film and having a recess 2 whose bottom surface is exposed to a metallic layer 3. The film forming method includes forming a first-metal-containing film containing a first metal such as ruthenium (Ru); and after forming the first-metal-containing film, forming a second-metal-containing film containing a second metal such as a manganese (Mn) having a barrier property against a filling metal to be filled in the recess.
US08653662B2
A structure and method for monitoring interlevel dielectric stress damage. The structure includes a monitor solder bump and normal solder bumps; a set of stacked interlevel dielectric layers between the substrate and the monitor solder bump and the normal solder bumps, one or more ultra-low K dielectric layers comprising an ultra-low K material having a dielectric constant of 2.4 or less; a monitor structure in a region directly under the monitor solder bump in the ultra-low K dielectric layers and wherein the conductor density in at least one ultra-low K dielectric layer in the region directly under the monitor solder bumps is less than a specified minimum density and the conductor density in corresponding regions of the ultra-low K dielectric layers directly under normal solder bumps is greater than the specified minimum density.
US08653661B2
A package structure having an MEMS element is provided, which includes: a protection layer having openings formed therein; conductors formed in the openings, respectively; conductive pads formed on the protection layer and the conductors; a MEMS chip disposed on the conductive pads; and an encapsulant formed on the protection layer for encapsulating the MEMS chip. By disposing the MEMS chip directly on the protection layer to dispense with the need for a carrier, such as a wafer or a circuit board that would undesirably add to the thickness, the present invention reduces the overall thickness of the package to thereby achieve miniaturization.
US08653659B2
This description relates to an integrated circuit device including a semiconductor substrate, an under-bump-metallurgy (UBM) layer overlying the semiconductor substrate and a copper-containing pillar on the UBM layer. The copper-containing pillar includes a top surface, an upper sidewall surface adjacent to the top surface, and a lower sidewall surface adjacent to the UBM layer. The integrated circuit device further includes a barrier layer on the upper sidewall surface of the copper-containing pillar, wherein the barrier layer exposes the lower sidewall surface. The copper-containing pillar has a first height and the upper sidewall surface has a second height. The second height is greater than about 30 percent of the first height.
US08653649B2
A device housing package includes a substrate having a device mounting region; a frame body having a through hole formed in part thereof, the frame body being disposed on the substrate so as to lie along a periphery of the device mounting region; and an input-output terminal disposed in the through hole, having a first dielectric layer; a signal line formed on the first dielectric layer; a first ground layer formed on a lower face of the first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer formed on the signal line so as to overlap the frame body; a second ground layer formed on an upper face of the second dielectric layer; and a metal layer disposed within the second dielectric layer The metal layer is formed to extend from the second dielectric layer to the first dielectric layer, being separated from the signal line.
US08653645B2
An object of the present invention is to sufficiently supply power to three-dimensionally stacked LSI chips and to dispose common through vias in chips of different types. Also, another object is to propose a new test method for power-supply through silicon vias. In order to achieve these objects, a semiconductor device includes: a first circuit block formed on a first semiconductor substrate having first and second sides extending in a first direction and third and fourth sides extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a plurality of signal-line through vias that are connected to the first semiconductor substrate and transmit signals, which are output from the first circuit block, to a second circuit block formed on another second semiconductor substrate; and a plurality of power-supply through vias for supplying power to the first circuit block, and in the semiconductor device, the plurality of power-supply through vias are formed at edges of the first semiconductor substrate along the third and fourth sides and are formed in a plurality of rows in the first direction. Also, each of the circuit blocks has a power consuming mode in which power larger than the power consumption in a normal mode is consumed.
US08653643B2
A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor element, a case member, a cylindrical body, a lid member, a bus bar, and an insulating plate. The case member includes a bottom member and an extended portion. Eight protruding portions are formed on an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical body. Eight recessed portions are formed on an inner surface of a central hole of the bus bar. The cylindrical body is inserted into the central hole of the bus bar. The protruding portions of the cylindrical body are engaged with the recessed portions of the bus bar. A direction in which an extended portion of the bus bar extends is fixed in one direction, from among a plurality of directions in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical body, by engagement of the protruding portions with the recessed portions.
US08653640B2
A semiconductor package apparatus includes a first semiconductor package including a first semiconductor chip, a first substrate, a first terminal, and a first signal transfer medium, and a second semiconductor package including a second semiconductor chip, a second substrate, a second terminal, and a second signal transfer medium. At least one package connecting solder ball is located between the first terminal and the second terminal. A first solder ball guide member is positioned around the first terminal of the first substrate and includes a first guide surface for guiding a shape of the package connecting solder ball.
US08653634B2
A wafer level package including a shield connected to a plurality of conductive elements disposed on a silicon wafer. The conductive elements are arranged to individually enclose micro-structure elements located on the silicon wafer within cavities formed by the conductive elements for better shielding performance. The shield and the conductive elements function as the EMI shield.
US08653632B2
A method for passivating a biomaterial surface includes exposing the biomaterial surface to therapeutic electrical energy in the presence of blood or plasma. The biomaterial surface may be removably secured within a chamber of a treatment system, which communicates the therapeutic electrical energy to the biomaterial surface while interfacing the biomaterial surface with blood or plasma.
US08653631B2
Provided are a transferred thin film transistor and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes: forming a source region and a drain region that extend in a first direction in a first substrate and a channel region between the source region and the drain region; forming trenches that extend in a second direction in the first substrate to define an active layer between the trenches, the second direction intersecting the first direction; separating the active layer between the trenches from the first substrate by performing an anisotropic etching process on the first substrate inside the trenches; attaching the active layer on a second substrate; and forming a gate electrode in the first direction on the channel region of the active layer.
US08653618B2
A unit pixel of an image sensor and a photo detector are disclosed. The photo detector of the present invention can include: a light-absorbing part configured to absorb light by being formed in a floated structure; an oxide film having one surface thereof being in contact with the light-absorbing part; a source being in contact with one side of the other surface of the oxide film and separated from the light-absorbing part with the oxide film therebetween; a drain facing the source so as to be in contact with the other side of the other surface of the oxide film and separated from the light-absorbing part with the oxide film therebetween; and a channel formed between the source and the drain and configured to form flow of an electric current between the source and drain.
US08653616B2
It is aimed to provide a photoelectric conversion device having high adhesion between a first semiconductor layer and an electrode layer as well as high photoelectric conversion efficiency. A photoelectric conversion device comprises an electrode layer, a first semiconductor layer located on the electrode layer and comprising a chalcopyrite-based compound semiconductor of group I-III-VI and oxygen, and a second semiconductor layer located on the first semiconductor layer and forming a pn junction with the first semiconductor layer. In the photoelectric conversion device, the first semiconductor layer has a higher molar concentration of oxygen in a part located on the electrode layer side with respect to a center portion in a lamination direction of the first semiconductor layer than a molar concentration of oxygen in the whole of the first semiconductor layer.
US08653615B2
A magneto-resistive device having a large output signal as well as a high signal-to-noise ratio is described along with a process for forming it. This improved performance was accomplished by expanding the free layer into a multilayer laminate comprising at least three ferromagnetic layers separated from one another by antiparallel coupling layers. The ferromagnetic layer closest to the transition layer must include CoFeB while the furthermost layer is required to have low Hc as well as a low and negative lambda value. One possibility for the central ferromagnetic layer is NiFe but this is not mandatory.
US08653614B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device with magnetroresistive effect element is disclosed. The element includes first metal magnetic film (MMF) with nonmagnetic element and axis of easy magnetization perpendicular (EMP), first insulating film, first intermediate magnetic film between the first MMF and the first insulating film, second MMF on the first insulating film and including nonmagnetic elements, the second MMF having axis of EMP, second intermediate magnetic film between the first insulating film and the second MMF, and diffusion preventing film including metal nitride having barrier property against diffusion of the nonmagnetic elements between the first MMF and the first intermediate magnetic film.
US08653612B2
An object of the invention is to provide a smaller semiconductor device of which the manufacturing process is simplified and the manufacturing cost is reduced. Furthermore, an object of the invention is to provide a semiconductor device having a cavity. A device element 3 is formed on a front surface of a semiconductor substrate 4, and a sealing body 1 is attached to the semiconductor substrate 4 with an adhesive layer 6 being interposed therebetween. A main surface (a back surface) of the sealing body 1 which faces the semiconductor substrate 4 is curved inward, and there is a given space (a cavity 2) between the sealing body 1 and the semiconductor substrate 4. Since the back surface of the sealing body 1 is curved, the sealing body 1 is used as a planoconcave lens (a reverse direction) as well as a sealing member for the device element 3.
US08653598B2
An electrical switch using a gated resistor structure includes an isolation layer, a doped silicon layer arranged on the isolation layer and having a recessed portion with reduced thickness, the doped silicon layer having a predetermined doping type and a predetermined doping profile; a gate layer arranged corresponding to the recessed portion. The recessed portion in the doped silicon layer has such thickness that a channel defined under the gate can be fully depleted to form a high resistivity region. The recessed channel gated resistor structure can be advantageously used to achieve high interconnect density with low thermal budget for 3D integration.
US08653593B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer provided with a gate trench, a first conductivity type source region exposed on a surface side of the semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type channel region formed on a side of the source region closer to aback surface of the semiconductor layer to be in contact with the source region, a first conductivity type drain region formed on a side of the channel region to be in contact with the channel region, a gate insulating film formed on an inner surface of the gate trench, and agate electrode embedded inside the gate insulating film in the gate trench, while the channel region includes a channel portion formed along the side surface of the gate trench and a projection projecting from an end portion of the channel portion closer to the back surface of the semiconductor layer toward the back surface.
US08653592B2
A method of forming an isolation structure, comprising: (a) providing a base having a recess; (b) forming a stop layer on the base and in the recess; (c) forming a dielectric material on the stop layer so as to allow the rest of the recess to be filled with the dielectric material; (d) removing the dielectric material over the base by performing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process until a part of the stop layer is exposed so as to form a dielectric layer in the recess; and (e) removing a part of the stop layer, wherein the another part of the stop layer and the dielectric layer filled in the recess constitute the isolation structure.
US08653589B2
An integrated circuit includes a plurality of trench MOSFET and a plurality of trench Schottky rectifier. The integrated circuit further comprises: tilt-angle implanted body dopant regions surrounding a lower portion of all trenched gates sidewalls for reducing Qgd; a source dopant region disposed below trench bottoms of all trenched gates for functioning as a current path for preventing a resistance increased caused by the tilt-angle implanted body dopant regions.
US08653576B2
A method of forming a SONOS gate structure. The method includes forming a gate pattern with sidewalls on a substrate, wherein the gate pattern includes a gate dielectric layer patterned on the substrate and a gate electrode patterned on the gate dielectric layer, forming a first oxide layer on the gate pattern and the substrate; etching back the first oxide layer to expose the substrate and the top of the gate electrode, leaving oxide spacers along the sidewalls of the gate pattern respectively; forming a second oxide layer on the substrate and the oxide spacers; and forming trapping dielectric spacers on the second oxide layer adjacent to the sidewalls of the gate pattern respectively.
US08653575B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming buried bit lines separated from each other by a trench in a substrate, forming a plurality of first pillar holes that expose a top surface of the substrate, forming first active pillars buried in the first pillar holes, forming a gate conductive layer over entire surface of a resultant structure including the first active pillars, forming a gate electrode by etching the gate conducting layer to cover the first active pillars, forming a plurality of second pillar holes that expose the first active pillars by partially etching the gate electrode, and forming second active pillars buried in the second pillar holes and connected to the first active pillars.
US08653574B2
A flash memory and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The flash memory comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a storage medium layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and comprising from bottom to top: a tunneling oxide layer, a silicon nitride layer and a blocking oxide layer; a semiconductor layer formed on the storage medium layer and comprising a channel region and a source region and a drain region located on both sides of the channel region respectively; and a gate stack formed on the channel region and comprising a gate dielectric and a gate formed on the gate dielectric.
US08653570B2
A solid-state image capturing element includes, disposed in a surface portion from an upper part of the photodiode region to the electric charge detecting section: a second conductivity type first region; a second conductivity type second region; and a second conductivity type third region, one end of which is adjacent to the second conductivity type second region and the other end of which is adjacent to the electric charge detecting section, where each impurity concentration of the first, second and third regions is set in a manner to form an electric field being directed from the second conductivity type first region through the second conductivity type second region to the second conductivity type third region.
US08653569B2
An electric-field blocking film is provided between a BL insulation film and BL insulation film of a transistor, and a blocking film includes those three layers. The electric-field blocking film blocks an electric field produced by a drain electrode, a source electrode, and an n+-Si film. Even if misalignment of the drain electrode, the source electrode, and the n+-Si film in each drive transistor varies to make a portion overlying an i-Si film larger, therefore, the electric field at this portion is blocked by the electric-field blocking film, thereby making a variation in characteristic smaller.
US08653567B2
A chemically sensitive sensor with a lightly doped region that affects an overlap capacitance between a gate and an electrode of the chemical sensitive sensor. The lightly doped region extends beneath and adjacent to a gate region of the chemical sensitive sensor. Modifying the gain of the chemically sensitive sensor is achieved by manipulating the lightly doped region under the electrodes.
US08653565B1
Various aspects of the technology includes a quad semiconductor power and/or switching FET comprising a pair of control/sync FET devices. Current may be distributed in parallel along source and drain fingers. Gate fingers and pads may be arranged in a serpentine configuration for applying gate signals to both ends of gate fingers. A single continuous ohmic metal finger includes both source and drain regions and functions as a source-drain node. A set of electrodes for distributing the current may be arrayed along the width of the source and/or drain fingers and oriented to cross the fingers along the length of the source and drain fingers. Current may be conducted from the electrodes to the source and drain fingers through vias disposed along the surface of the fingers. Heat developed in the source, drain, and gate fingers may be conducted through the vias to the electrodes and out of the device.
US08653564B1
A millimeter-wave transistor device includes a plurality of sub-cells arranged in matrix array, each of the sub-cells having a longitudinal gate finger elongating along a reference y-axis, a source doping region disposed at one side of the longitudinal gate finger and a drain doping region at the other side of the longitudinal gate finger opposite to the source doping region; and at least three parallel connecting bars extending along a reference x-axis, electrically connecting with respective distal ends of the longitudinal gate finger of each of the sub-cells.
US08653561B2
A III-nitride semiconductor electronic device comprises a semiconductor laminate provided on a primary surface of a substrate, a first electrode in contact with the semiconductor laminate, and a second electrode. The semiconductor laminate includes a channel layer and a barrier layer making a junction with the channel layer. The channel layer comprises first III-nitride semiconductor containing aluminum as a Group III constituent element, and the barrier layer comprises second III-nitride semiconductor containing aluminum as a Group III constituent element. The semiconductor laminate including first, second and third regions arranged along the primary surface, and the third region is located between the first region and the second region. The barrier layer includes first to third portions included in the first to third regions, respectively. A concentration of impurity in the first portion is the same as that of impurity in the second portion, and the first and second electrodes is provided on the first and second regions, respectively. The first electrode includes a drain electrode or a source electrode. An aluminum composition of the first III-nitride semiconductor is not less than 0.16, and a bandgap of the second III-nitride semiconductor being larger than that of the first III-nitride semiconductor.
US08653559B2
A field effect transistor (FET) includes source and drain electrodes, a channel layer, a barrier layer over the channel layer, a passivation layer covering the barrier layer for passivating the barrier layer, a gate electrode extending through the barrier layer and the passivation layer, and a gate dielectric surrounding a portion of the gate electrode that extends through the barrier layer and the passivation layer, wherein the passivation layer is a first material and the gate dielectric is a second material, and the first material is different than the second material.
US08653549B2
Provided are a phosphor, a phosphor manufacturing method, and a white light emitting device. The phosphor is represented as a chemical formula of aMO-bAlN-cSi3N4, which uses light having a peak wavelength in a wavelength band of about 350 nm to about 480 nm as an excitation source to emit visible light having a peak wavelength in a wavelength band of about 480 nm to about 680 nm. (where M is one selected from alkaline earth metals (0.2≦a/(a+b)≦0.9, 0.05≦b(b+c)≦0.85, 0.4≦c/(c+a)≦0.9)).
US08653546B2
A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting stacked layer having an active layer, and a composite substrate located under the light-emitting stacked layer. The composite substrate includes a supportive substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface non-parallel to the active layer; a metal substrate located under the supportive substrate; and a reflective layer located between the supportive substrate and the metal substrate.
US08653543B2
The deposition substrate of the present invention includes a light-transmitting substrate having a first region and a second region. In the first region, a first heat-insulating layer transmitting light is provided over the light-transmitting substrate, a light absorption layer is provided over the first heat-insulating layer, and a first organic compound-containing layer is provided over the light absorption layer. In the second region, a reflective layer is provided over the light-transmitting substrate, a second heat-insulating layer is provided over the reflective layer, and a second organic compound-containing layer is provided over the second heat-insulating layer. The edge of the second heat-insulating layer is placed inside the edge of the reflective layer, and there is a space between the first heat-insulating layer and the second heat-insulating layer.
US08653540B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor body includes a semiconductor layer sequence which has an active layer suitable for generating electromagnetic radiation, and a first and a second electrical connecting layer. The semiconductor body is provided for emitting electromagnetic radiation from a front side. The first and the second electrical connecting layer are arranged at a rear side opposite the front side and are electrically insulated from one another by means of a separating layer. The first electrical connecting layer, the second electrical connecting layer and the separating layer laterally overlap and a partial region of the second electrical connecting layer extends from the rear side through a breakthrough in the active layer in the direction of the front side. Furthermore, a method for producing such an optoelectronic semiconductor body is specified.
US08653535B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a contact region 201 of a second conductivity type which is provided in a body region 104. The contact region 201 includes a first region 201a in contact with a first ohmic electrode 122 and a second region 201b located at a position deeper than that of the first region 201a and in contact with the body region 104. The first region 201a and the second region 201b each have at least one peak of impurity concentration. The peak of impurity concentration in the first region 201a has a higher value than that of the peak of impurity concentration in the second region 201b.
US08653532B2
Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a substrate; a circuit part configured to include a drive element; a planarization insulating layer; an electrically-conductive layer including a plurality of first electrodes and an auxiliary interconnect; an aperture-defining insulating layer configured to insulate the plurality of first electrodes from each other and have an aperture through which part of the first electrode is exposed; a plurality of light emitting elements; and a separator configured to be formed by removing the planarization insulating layer at a position between a display area, in which the plurality of light emitting elements connected to the drive element are disposed, and a peripheral area which is surrounding the display area. A method of manufacturing a display device is also provided.
US08653527B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor in which a semiconductor film in a channel portion is provided between a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein a partition layer (a bank) can be appropriately formed. The method comprises the steps of: forming two underlying electrodes on an underlying layer; forming a partition layer on the surface of the underlying layer containing the two underlying electrodes so as to surround an area where the source electrode and the drain electrode are to be formed; forming the source electrode and the drain electrode by a plating method on the surfaces of the two underlying electrodes, which are surrounded by the partition layer; and applying semiconductor solution, in which a semiconductor material is dissolved or dispersed, to the area surrounded by the partition layer so that a semiconductor film is formed in the area.
US08653525B2
A thin-film transistor according to the present disclosure includes: a substrate; a gate electrode above the substrate; a gate insulating layer on the gate electrode; a channel layer on the gate insulating layer which is located on the gate electrode; a source electrode above the channel layer; a drain electrode above the channel layer; and a barrier layer between the channel layer and the source electrode and between the channel layer and the drain electrode. Each of the source electrode and the drain electrode is made of a metal including copper, and the barrier layer contains nitrogen and molybdenum and has a density greater than 7.5 g/cm3 and less than 10.5 g/cm3.
US08653519B2
The electronic device includes a substrate, a first electrode formed over a surface of the substrate, a second electrode located on an opposite side of the first electrode from the substrate so as to face the first electrode, and a functional layer interposed between the first electrode and second electrode and formed by means of anodizing a first polycrystalline semiconductor layer in an electrolysis solution so as to contain a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals. The electronic device further includes a second polycrystalline semiconductor layer interposed between the first electrode and the functional layer so as to be in close contact with the functional layer. The second polycrystalline semiconductor layer has an anodic oxidization rate in the electrolysis solution lower than that of the first polycrystalline semiconductor layer so as to function as a stop layer for exclusively anodizing the first polycrystalline semiconductor layer.
US08653510B2
In certain embodiments, a field effect transistor (FET) can include a substrate, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a ferroelectric material layer, a first gate electrode, and a second gate electrode to maintain an optimal polarization state of the ferroelectric material layer. In other embodiments, a FET can include a film, first and second gates on the film, a ferroelectric material layer covering the film and gates, an insulating layer substantially covering the ferroelectric material layer, a source and a drain on the insulating layer, and a pentacene layer.
US08653494B2
Some embodiments include methods of patterning platinum-containing material. An opening may be formed to extend into an oxide. Platinum-containing material may be formed over and directly against an upper surface of the oxide, and within the opening. The platinum-containing material within the opening may be a plug having a lateral periphery. The lateral periphery of the plug may be directly against the oxide. The platinum-containing material may be subjected to polishing to remove the platinum-containing material from over the upper surface of the oxide. The polishing may delaminate the platinum-containing material from the oxide, and may remove the platinum-containing material from over the oxide with an effective selectivity for the platinum-containing material relative to the oxide of at least about 5:1. Some embodiments include methods of forming memory cells. Some embodiments include integrated circuitry having platinum-containing material within an opening in an oxide and directly against the oxide.
US08653491B2
An extreme ultraviolet light system and method includes a drive laser, a chamber including an extreme ultraviolet light collector and a target material dispenser including an adjustable target material outlet capable of outputting multiple portions of target material along a target material path. Also included: a drive laser steering device, a detection system including at least one detector and a controller coupled to the target material dispenser, the detector system and the drive laser steering device. The controller includes logic for detecting a location of the first portion of target material from the first light reflected from the first portion of target material and logic for adjusting the target material dispenser outlet to output a subsequent portion of target material to a waist of the focused drive laser. A system and a method for optimizing an extreme ultraviolet light output is also disclosed.
US08653475B1
An arc chamber assembly for an ion source comprising a housing having a base and at least one pair of side walls extending upwardly from opposite sides of the base to define an arc chamber, the base having a plurality of channels extending to each sidewall; an inlet port connected to the base for delivering a flow of gas into the channels; a bottom liner having at least one pair of notches in each of two opposite side edges thereof and disposed in the housing in spaced parallel relation to the base and opposite the channels for conducting a flow of gas from the inlet port towards the sidewalls, each notch being in communication with a respective channel of the plurality of channels to pass gas upwardly into the arc chamber; and a pair of side liners, each side liner being disposed in the housing in spaced parallel relation to a respective one of the side walls for conducting a flow of gas between the base and the bottom liner, each side liner having at least one pair of slots to horizontally pass gas into the arc chamber.
US08653471B2
A detector array (110) of an imaging system (100) includes a radiation sensitive detector (114, 116) that detects radiation and generates a signal indicative thereof. A current-to-frequency (I/F) converter (202) converts the signal to a pulse train having a frequency indicative of the signal for an integration period. Circuitry (120) generates a first moment and at least one higher order moment based on the pulse train.
US08653470B2
A neutron spectrometer is disclosed, which consists of a Helium-3 proportional counter connected by cable to signal and data processing circuits, and a series of moderator shells and moderator lids. The series of cylindrical moderator shells are designed to fit within one another, like Russian Matryoshka dolls, with the counter at the center. Small air gaps are introduced between the shells so that removal of one shell from another is facilitated. The counter is placed within the smallest cylindrical moderator shell, and then a circular lid matching the smallest shell is placed on the opening of the first shell to close the first shell. This first closed shell is then placed within a second shell, which shell is closed with its corresponding circular lid. The cable is routed through the series of shells. A method for using the invention is also disclosed, wherein the counter reading is taken from the fully-assembled neutron spectrometer. Then the outer cylindrical shell and circular lid pair is removed, and another measurement of the counter is recorded. This is continued until the last shell is removed, and a measurement is recorded using the bare counter.
US08653467B2
A receiver chip for use in an imaging system includes a plurality of receiver dies, each of the receiver dies comprising one or more receiver circuits; a die interconnection layer located on top of the plurality of receiver dies; a quarter wave dielectric layer located on top of the die interconnection layer; and a plurality of antennae located on the quarter wave dielectric layer, each of the plurality of antennae corresponding to a respective receiver circuit, wherein the plurality of antennae are connected to the one or more receiver circuits through the quarter wave dielectric layer and the die interconnection layer by respective vias, such that a distance between a topmost layer of the die interconnection layer and the plurality of antennae is determined by a thickness of the quarter wave dielectric layer.
US08653459B2
There is provided a technique that is capable of attracting a sample without making the voltage applied to an electrostatic chuck unnecessarily large. Attraction experiments with respect to the electrostatic chuck are performed using a testing sample whose degree of warp and pattern of warp are known, and a critical application voltage at which the attraction state changes from “bad” to “good” is found. When measuring an inspection target sample, the flatness of the inspection target sample is measured, and the degree of warp and pattern of warp of the inspection target sample are detected. Based on the degree of warp and pattern of warp of the inspection target sample and on the known critical application voltage, the application voltage for the electrostatic chuck is set.
US08653456B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique capable of accurately inspecting a circuit pattern in which the contrast of an observation image is not clear, like a circuit pattern having a multilayer structure. A pattern inspection method according to the present invention divides a circuit pattern using the brightness of a reflection electron image and associates the region in the reflection electron image belonging to each division with the region in a secondary electron image.
US08653455B2
The charged particle beam device has a problem that a symmetry of equipotential distribution is disturbed near the outer edge of a specimen, an object being evaluated, causing a charged particle beam to deflect there. An electrode plate installed inside the specimen holding mechanism of electrostatic attraction type is formed of an inner and outer electrode plates arranged concentrically. The outer electrode plate is formed to have an outer diameter larger than that of the specimen. The dimensions of the electrode plates are determined so that an overlapping area of the outer electrode plate and the specimen is substantially equal to an area of the inner electrode plate. The inner electrode plate is impressed with a voltage of a positive polarity with respect to a reference voltage and of an arbitrary magnitude, and the outer electrode is impressed with a voltage of a negative polarity and of an arbitrary magnitude.
US08653453B2
An analysis device for mass discrimination is disclosed. The analysis device comprises: a sample chamber for holding a gaseous sample; an analysis chamber arranged to receive sample gas from the sample chamber; a mass discriminator arranged to discriminate in the analysis chamber between ion species generated from the sample gas; and a wall separating the sample chamber from the analysis chamber, the wall comprising a rupture zone controllable to rupture and thereby release sample gas from the sample chamber into the analysis chamber. In one embodiment the rupture zone is adapted to rupture on application of an electric current or mechanical force. The wall may be micromachined. A method of mass discrimination is also disclosed.
US08653448B1
In order to provide an analysis method that is capable of determining a glycan structure with high detection sensitivity, a method of the present invention includes the steps of: carrying out triple quadrupole mass spectrometry at various values of CID energy; creating an energy-resolved profile including yield curves representing relationships between (i) a value of the CID energy and (ii) measured amounts of specific types of product ions; preparing a reference profile, and identifying a glycan structure of a test material by comparing the energy-resolved profile with the reference profile.
US08653447B2
When an SIM measurement for ions originating from a target component separated by a chromatograph is performed, the measurement is performed while the mass-resolving power is switched among a plurality of levels of resolving power, with the mass-to-charge ratio fixed at a target value (S2), and an extracted ion chromatogram is created based on each of data obtained corresponding to respective mass-resolving powers (S3). After the extracted ion chromatograms are obtained, an S/N ratio is calculated for a peak of the target component on each of the chromatograms (S4), and a mass-resolving power which yields the highest S/N ratio is selected (S5). The selected mass-resolving power is set as the mass-resolving power in the subsequent measurements of the same target component in the same kind of sample (S6), and the quantitative determination of the target component is performed using the extracted ion chromatogram obtained with the selected mass-resolving power (S7).
US08653444B2
A method and a calibration system for calibrating a measurement tool for measuring the radiation in a radiation system, such as a radiation therapy system, are provided. The measurement tool, including a holder and at least one photodiode element, is adapted to be mounted in a positioning unit of the radiation system. The radiation sensitive volume of the photodiode element is embedded in a light transparent coating transparent for, for instance, light in the visible spectrum. Thereby, the position of the sensitive volume can easily be determined or calculated with high accuracy relative to the holder on which the photodiode element is arranged, from which the position of the sensitive volume can be determined or calculated in relation to the positioning unit of the radiation system.
US08653442B2
The invention provides a method, apparatus and system for separating cellular components, and can be combined with holographic optical trapping manipulation or other forms of optical tweezing. One exemplary method includes providing a first flow having a plurality of components; providing a second flow; contacting the first flow with the second flow to provide a first separation region; and differentially sedimenting a first cellular component of the plurality of components into the second flow while concurrently maintaining a second cellular component of the plurality of components in the first flow. The second flow having the first cellular component is then differentially removed from the first flow having the second cellular component. Holographic optical traps may also be utilized in conjunction with the various flows to move selected components from one flow to another, as part of or in addition to a separation stage.
US08653434B2
An accurate and rapid method for characterizing the performance of an APD and setting its operating voltage Vop to an optimal value uses an on-board LED or other pulsed light source to measure APD responses at different operating voltages Vop. An estimated breakdown voltage Vb is determined by comparing the measured responses, and the Vop is adjusted to a new value at a fixed offset from the estimated Vb. The fixed offset is selected according to ambient light conditions, including the presence or absence of light background noise, and whether the sun is partially or fully in the field of view. The method is iterated until convergence, or until a maximum number of iterations is reached. In embodiments, a plurality of APD's having a common Vop can be adjusted, and the Vop is never set below a minimum value VopBW necessary to meet timing requirements for a missile guidance system.
US08653429B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to an imaging device. The imaging device includes a photosensor and an exposure system or developer. The exposure system or developer controls illumination or exposure of light sensitive elements of the photosensor based on their location within the photosensor.
US08653427B2
A digital SAL receiver implements a multiobject tracking method to detect EM pulses transmitted by a known source at a pulse repetition interval (PRI) and returned off of a target object to acquire multiple tracks. Intra and inter track temporal information is used to associate pulses with different tracks and to rank the tracks in order to designate a primary track for the target object.
US08653424B2
A method to optimize the welding energy input into the heating coil of a heating coil fitting is disclosed. In particular, the invention pertains to a compensation method for the effects on the welding energy input from using a fundamental frequency outside the tolerance range for the AC welding voltage established for the heating coil fitting. A generator is one option to supply power to a device for the implementation of the invention-based method. It supplies an AC welding voltage to the heating coil with a fundamental frequency outside the tolerance range for the AC welding voltage as marked out for the heating coil fitting. Another option is especially the use of DC welding voltage for the heating coils of heating coil fittings. To execute the method, a welding power supply unit is connected to the contact elements of a heating coil fitting via connecting leads and connecting elements. The electrical parameters for the heating coil fitting are determined, especially the heating coil inductance of the heating coil. Based on the established effective AC welding voltage, a suitable welding voltage and welding time are then determined.
US08653421B2
The invention relates to a device for heating weather masts on wind turbines. The object of the invention is to eliminate the drawbacks of the prior art and to keep the weather masts of a wind turbine free of ice. The device according to the invention for heating a weather mast on a wind turbine is that the weather mast comprises interconnected pipings. In the pipings, there is arranged a heating system which is formed by one or a plurality of electric heating wires.
US08653414B2
A wireless controller (14) comprises a housing including a first portion (20a) and a second portion (20b) moveably attached to the first portion (20a). The first portion (20a) supports the controller (14) relative to an external surface and is adjustable between an elevated position and a collapsed position, wherein a first end of the first portion (20a) is elevated relative to a second end of the first portion (20a) when the first portion is in the elevated position. A sensing element (22) senses a position of the second portion (20b) relative to the first portion (20a) and provides a corresponding position signal. A transmitter (24) is coupled with the sensing element (22) and wirelessly transmits the position signal.
US08653405B2
In one aspect, operating a vacuum plasma process system including a plasma discharge chamber is accomplished by generating a main plasma in the discharge chamber in a first operating state, and generating an auxiliary plasma in the discharge chamber in a second operating state. Generating the main plasma includes generating a main plasma power with a first number of RF power generators, and generating an auxiliary plasma power with a second number of RF power generators, such that the second number is smaller than the first number.
US08653394B2
The present invention provides an electrostatic separation method and an electrostatic separation device each of which, even in a case where the concentration of unburned components of coal ash produced by a boiler of a coal-fired power plant is as high as 15% to 30%, can stably separate the ash without generating spark, reuse the high unburned component ash as fuel, and reuse the low unburned component ash as, for example, an auxiliary material of concrete. The electrostatic separation device may include a substantially flat plate lower side electrode and an upper side electrode including a high dielectric resin element. A separation zone is formed in a region of electrostatic force between the lower side electrode and the upper side electrode, with one of the electrodes having positive polarity and the other having negative polarity. Unburned carbon ash in the coal ash supplied to the separation zone is separated.
US08653392B2
A handpiece for a medical instrumentation device is formed with manually deformable ribs on an outer sleeve. The ribs align with conductive surfaces inside the handpiece that make contact with an internal flexible electronic circuit to activate the device when force is applied to the ribs. Removing the force deactivates the device.
US08653382B2
A touch screen panel according to an embodiment includes a substrate; an electrode forming part including a plurality of first electrode serials arranged in parallel in a first direction and a plurality of second electrode serials arranged in parallel in a second direction to cross the first direction, and each of the first electrode serials including a plurality of first electrode patterns, each of the second electrode serials including a plurality of second electrode patterns; and a routing wire forming part formed on the substrate outside the electrode forming part, and including a plurality of first routing wires connected to the plurality of first electrode serials, respectively and a plurality of second routing wires connected to the plurality of second electrode serials, respectively.
US08653381B2
A wiring board includes: a first wiring; a second wiring being disposed adjacently to the first wiring; a third wiring being disposed adjacently to the first wiring; a fourth wiring being disposed adjacently to the third wiring; and an insulating layer, wherein the second wiring and the fourth wiring are disposed adjacently to each other, the first wiring and the fourth wiring are not overlapped, the second wiring and the third wiring are not overlapped, a crest and a trough are provided on a side face of the first wiring, the crest and the trough are provided on a side face of the second wiring, the trough provided on the side face of the first wiring and the third wiring are overlapped, and the trough provided on the side face of the second wiring and the fourth wiring are overlapped.
US08653377B2
Embodiments enable for the creation of microelectronic modules that may be configured in any order within a microelectronic assembly. The microelectronic modules provide for point-to-point interconnects between the modules using a standardized connector that is the same for each module. This, thereby, eliminates the need for a backplane. The modules may be configured in any order within a microelectronic assembly. No prior knowledge regarding the functions of an individual microelectronic module is required if the microelectronic modules conform to the standardized I/O of the standardized connector.
US08653372B2
A wire harness is constructed by bundling a plurality of electric wires in which conductors are surrounded with insulating coatings respectively. The electric wires are constructed of aluminum electric wires in which the conductors consist of aluminum or aluminum alloy and copper electric wires in which the conductors consist of copper or copper alloy. A plurality of the aluminum electric wires is disposed so as to surround the copper electric wires having a lower shape retention property than the aluminum electric wires. The bundles electric wires include bent portions formed by bending or curving the bundled electric wires respectively.
US08653370B2
Cable having a stress parameter less than 0 MPa and method for cable. The cable has a longitudinal core having a thermal expansion coefficient; and a plurality of wires collectively having a thermal expansion coefficient greater than the thermal expansion coefficient of the core. The plurality of wires, which are stranded around the core, include at least one of aluminum wires, copper wires, aluminum alloy wires, or copper alloy wires. Embodiments of the cable are useful, for example, as an overhead power transmission line.
US08653367B2
The disclosure relates to a spherical cap for a high-voltage outgoing line, including an electrically conductive element, which is arranged hollow-cylindrically about a rotational axis and which merges into a hemispherical form at its first axial end. A connection device has a passage opening for electrically and mechanically connecting the element, to an electrical screening pipe. At least two insulation barriers are spaced apart from one another and respectively adapted to the form of the hollow-cylindrical element and enclose the latter at a respective first and second distance. The insulation barriers respectively have a pipe attachment connector for leading through a screening pipe to the connection device. The first insulation barrier is spaced apart from the second insulation barrier by at least one insulation ring which is arranged about the rotational axis and which has a radially fashioned corrugated form.
US08653366B2
A method of fusing cables and a dead end assembly and a cable are provided. A joint assembly for fusing cables and a dead end fusing assembly for fusing a cable and a forge assembly are provided. The method includes cutting back strands of a cable, exposing the core; inserting the core of cables into a core grip; positioning the joint assembly over the core grip within certain marked sections of the cables; wrapping the joint assembly with one wrap of detonation cord; securing a detonator to the detonation cord explosive charge and detonating the detonator, such that the core grip fuses the cables together.
US08653361B2
An umbilical for transfer of fluids and electric current/signals between the sea surface and equipment deployed on the sea bed, in particular in deep waters, is disclosed. The umbilical comprises a number of pipes and electric conductors/wires collected in a bundle, a filler material lying at least partly around and between the pipes and the conductors/wires, and a protective sheath enclosing the pipes, conductors/wires and filler material. The load carrying elements of the umbilical are light weighted rods of composite material that can either be collected in bundles or appear individually or in a combination thereof.
US08653357B2
A device and method wherein a thermo electric generator device is disposed between stacks of a multiple level device, or is provided on or under a die of a package and is conductively connected to the package. The thermo electric generator device is configured to generate a voltage by converting heat into electric power. The voltage which is generated by the thermo electric generator can be recycled back into the die itself, or to a higher-level unit in the system, even to a cooling fan.
US08653353B2
An electronic keyboard musical instrument, including: a key; a mass body driven by a depressed key for pivotally moving in a movement region between a rest position and an end position; a back check portion to back check the mass body; a position detecting portion to detect a position of the mass body; and a controller for controlling silencing of a tone, such that the currently generated tone is silenced when the mass body reaches a preset tone silencing position in its movement from the end position to the rest position, wherein the controller is configured to change the tone silencing position on the basis of respective times required for the mass body to pass through first and second sub regions of the movement region in the movement of the mass body, the second sub region being located nearer to the rest position than the first sub region.
US08653346B2
A harmonica is provided comprising a blow reed plate having a plurality of blow reeds, a draw reed plate having a plurality of draw reeds, and a comb having a plurality of air channels therein, wherein each blow reed and each draw reed corresponds to one of a plurality of musical tones, wherein the plurality of air channels are grouped into a first group of air channels and a second group of air channels, wherein blowing air through a first subset of the first group of air channels produces the musical tones of a first musical chord and drawing air from the first subset of the first group of air channels produces the musical tones of a second musical chord, and wherein blowing air through a first subset of the second group of air channels produces the musical tones of a third musical chord and drawing air from the first subset of the second group of air channels produces the musical tones of a fourth musical chord.
US08653344B2
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated NPFX7687, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line NPFX7687 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line NPFX7687, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line NPFX7687, and plants produced according to these methods.
US08653342B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1026473. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1026473. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1026473 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1026473 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08653341B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1026458. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1026458. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1026458 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1026458 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08653340B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1026361. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1026361. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1026361 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1026361 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08653337B2
A novel soybean variety, designated XR22N12 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XR22N12, cells from soybean variety XR22N12, plants of soybean XR22N12, and plant parts of soybean variety XR22N12. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XR22N12 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XR22N12, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XR22N12, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XR22N12. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XR22N12 are further provided.
US08653332B2
Disclosed are polypeptides, nucleic acids, and related compositions that render plants resistant to bacterial pathogens. Also disclosed are transgenic plants having the nucleic acids and resistant to bacterial pathogens.
US08653327B2
Methods for introducing a linear nucleic acid molecule of interest into a cell comprising a cell wall include use of nanoparticles coated with polyethylene glycol. In some embodiments, the cell comprising a cell wall is a plant cell. Methods include genetically or otherwise modifying plants and for treating or preventing disease in plant cells comprising a cell wall. Transgenic plants include a nucleic acid molecule of interest produced by regeneration of whole plants from plant cells transformed with linear nucleic acid molecules.
US08653318B2
The present invention provides process for preparing an alkylate comprising contacting in a reactor a hydrocarbon mixture comprising at least an isoparaffin and an olefin with an acidic ionic liquid catalyst under alkylation conditions to obtain an alkylate, which process further comprises: —withdrawing an alkylate-comprising reactor effluent from the reactor, wherein the reactor effluent comprises an ionic liquid phase and a hydrocarbon phase; —separating at least part the reactor effluent into a hydrocarbon phase effluent and a multiple-phase effluent in a centrifugal separation unit; —fractionating at least part of said hydrocarbon phase effluent into at least a stream comprising alkylate and a stream comprising isoparaffin.
US08653317B2
A supported catalyst and process for dehydrogenating a hydrocarbon, the catalyst comprising a first component selected from the group consisting of tin, germanium, lead, indium, gallium, thallium, and compounds thereof; a second component selected from the group consisting of metals of Group 8 of the Periodic Table of the Elements and compounds thereof, and a support comprising alumina in the gamma crystalline form. The catalysts are especially active and efficient when employed in concurrent flow in a dehydrogenation reactor having an average contact time between the hydrocarbon and catalyst of from 0.5 to 10 seconds.
US08653312B2
Provided herein is a method for producing a water-insoluble liquefied fuel oil containing a hydrocarbon from biomass. The method includes converting an oxygen-containing compound in a liquefied fuel oil obtained after liquefaction to a hydrocarbon and converting a water-soluble organic substance contained in an aqueous phase to a hydrocarbon, thereby improving the yield of the water-insoluble liquefied fuel oil.
US08653305B2
Provided are: a compound represented by formula (I): (wherein ring A and ring D each represent a cyclic group which may have a substituent(s); E and G each represent a bond or a spacer having 1 to 8 atoms in its main chain; L represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents amino which may have a substituent(s), or a heterocylcic group which contains at least one nitrogen atom and which may have a substituent(s); n represents 0 to 3, and when n is 2 or more, a plurality of ring A's may be the same or different from one another); a salt, an N-oxide form, a solvate, or a prodrug thereof; and a medicament which includes those. The compound of formula (I) is capable of binding S1P receptors (in particular, EDG-1 and/or EDG-6), and useful for preventing and/or treating rejection in transplantation, autoimmune diseases, allergic diseases, etc.
US08653304B2
A 2,3-dihydro-1H-indene-2-yl urea represented by Formula (Ia) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof:
US08653293B2
A compound having the formula: Each R1 is C1-C3 alkyl group or fluoridated C1-C3 alkyl group. The value n is a positive integer. Each R2 is alkylene group or polyethylene glycol group. Y1 is hydrogen, quaternary ammonium containing group, or phenol-containing group. Y2 is quaternary ammonium-containing group or phenol-containing group. The quaternary ammonium-containing group is non-aromatic and contains no more than one quaternary ammonium.
US08653287B2
A process is provided for the synthesis of furan and related compounds by liquid-phase decarbonylation of furfural and derivatives, using a palladium/metal aluminate catalyst. The compounds so produced can be used as starting materials for industrial chemicals for use as pharmaceuticals, herbicides, stabilizers, and polymers such as polyether ester elastomers and polyurethane elastomers.
US08653286B2
Methods for forming maleimide functionalized polymers are provided. In one such embodiment, a maleimide functionalized polymer is prepared in a method that includes a step of carrying out a reverse Diels-Alder reaction. Intermediates useful in the methods, as well as methods for preparing the intermediates, are also provided. Also provided are polymeric reagents, methods of using polymeric reagents, compounds and conjugates.
US08653285B2
An aminopropylidene derivative having excellent histamine receptor antagonistic action, a compound which is useful as a pharmaceutical composition, especially as an active ingredient, having alleviated side effects in the central nervous system is described. In the aminopropylidene derivative, R1 and R2, which may be identical or different, stand for a hydrogen, a substituted carbonyl, a substituted carbonylalkyl, and acrylic acid, excluding a case where both are hydrogen; R3 and R4, which may be identical or different, stand for hydrogen, an alkyl which may be substituted with phenyl, or the like; A stands for unsubstituted or an oxo; B stands for a carbon or an oxygen; one of X and Y stands for a carbon and the other stands for a sulfur, a broken line part stands for a single bond or a double bond, and a wavy line stands for cis-form and/or trans-form.
US08653277B2
It is to provide a fungicidal composition having stable and high fungicidal effects against cultivated crops infected with plant diseases resulting from plant diseases.A fungicidal composition containing as active ingredients (a) a benzoylpyridine derivative represented by the formula (I) or its salt: (wherein X is a halogen atom, a nitro group, a substitutable hydrocarbon group, a substitutable alkoxy group, a substitutable aryloxy group, a substitutable cycloalkoxy group, a hydroxyl group, a substitutable alkylthio group, a cyano group, a carboxyl group which may be esterified or amidated, or a substitutable amino group, n is 1, 2, 3 or 4; R1 is a substitutable alkyl group, R2′ is a substitutable alkyl group, a substitutable alkoxy group, a substitutable aryloxy group, a substitutable cycloalkoxy group or a hydroxyl group, p is 1, 2 or 3, and R2″ is a substitutable alkoxy group or a hydroxyl group, provided that at least two of R2′ and R2″ may form a condensed ring containing an oxygen atom) and (b) at least one another fungicide.
US08653276B2
The present invention is directed to compounds of the general formula: as defined herein, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The invention is also directed to their therapeutic use as urotensin II receptor antagonists, e.g., in the treatment of cardiac, coronary, and central nervous system disorders. In particular embodiments, the invention relates to 5,6-bisaryl-2-pyridinecarboxamides, to their preparation and to their therapeutic use as urotensin II receptor antagonists.
US08653273B2
The present invention relates to compounds that exhibit vasodilatory and anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting the activity of soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH). The present invention is also directed to methods of identifying such compounds, and use of such compounds for the treatment of diseases related to dysfunction of vasodilation, inflammation, and/or endothelial cells. In particular non-limiting embodiments, components of the invention may be used to treat hypertension.
US08653271B2
The present invention is directed to novel codrugs comprising bupropion or hydroxybupropion and an opioid antagonist or an opioid agonist joined together by chemical bonding. The codrugs provide a significant increase in the transdermal flux across human skin, as compared to the basic opioid antagonist or opioid agonist.
US08653261B2
Actinomysin-based near IR emitting compounds and methods of their use as nucleic acid stains are provided. The actinomysin-based near IR emitting compounds have the structure: wherein R is H or NH2; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently a moiety comprising 1-30 atoms selected from H, O, C, and N, wherein the atoms are in a linear, branched, or cyclic configuration; R3 and/or R4 comprise a quaternary nitrogen atom; and R5 is H, F, or Cl.
US08653258B2
The present disclosure encompasses compounds and compositions that are useful as specific AI-2 antagonists for the control of bacterial quorum sensing. Although the AI-2 antagonists according to the present disclosure may not have bactericidal effect, their ability to attenuate virulence, drug resistance, and/or biofilm formation have therapeutic benefits. In addition, the AI-2 antagonists of the present disclosure can also be used as tools to probe bacterial AI-2 functions. The present disclosure also encompasses methods for inhibiting or attenuating microbial virulence, biofilm formation, and drug resistance. The methods are suitable for preventing bacteria from accruing and forming extensive biofilms that may be a health or hygiene hazard or a physical issue, such as in the blockage of water or fuel lines.
US08653249B2
The present inventors successfully constructed expression vectors that enable high-level production of foreign gene-derived proteins in mammalian host cells, which comprise a translation-impaired drug resistance gene cistron whose expression has been attenuated by altering the codons to the least frequently used codons in mammals; and a gene cassette which has a cloning site for incorporation of a foreign gene between a highly transcriptionally active promoter and a highly stable polyadenylation signal.
US08653248B2
The present invention provides 2-aminopyridine and 2-pyridone C-nucleosides and oligonucleotides containing the subject nucleosides. The nucleosides are useful in the preparation of the subject oligonucleotides. The oligonucleotides are useful in oligonucleotide-based diagnosis and separation through triplex binding.
US08653247B2
Rinsable dyes with improved fugitivity are formulated by attaching dyestuff compounds with amine-capped sulfonic solubilizing groups to commercially available ethoxylated aniline, so that the surfactant effect of the ethoxylated aniline counteracts the substantivity of the dyestuff compound, while the neutralization of the sulfonic solubilizing groups reduces substantivity.
US08653243B2
Compositions and methods are provided that are useful to treat respiratory diseases such as whooping cough. Further, compositions and methods of immunizing are provided.
US08653242B2
Improved antibodies are provided selected from human, dual-specific, chimeric or humanized antibodies, wherein said human chimeric and humanized antibodies specifically bind to flagellin type A or type B of P. aeruginosa, and said dual-specific antibodies specifically binds to flagella type A and type B of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and said antibodies are protective against infection caused by P. aeruginosa. These antibodies as well as pharmaceutical composition comprising them are useful for the treatment of indications caused by P. aeruginosa infection.
US08653238B2
Conjugates of a cargo molecule with a transporter molecule are disclosed, where the cargo molecule and the transporter molecule are linked covalently by a releasable linker. The cargo of the conjugate can be a biologically active agent or a reporter molecule. The transporter modulates the transport of the cargo across a biological barrier (e.g., a cell membrane) compared to the transport of the unconjugated cargo. Releasable linkers suitable for rapid and facile conjugation to various types of cargo and transporters are also disclosed, along with methods for using the linkers in the synthesis of conjugates.
US08653237B2
Some embodiments relate to analogs of peptides corresponding to class I MHC-restricted T cell epitopes and methods for their generation. These analogs can contain amino acid substitutions at residues that directly interact with MHC molecules, and can confer improved, modified or useful immunologic properties. Additionally, classes of analogs, in which the various substitutions comprise the non-standard residues norleucine and/or norvaline, are disclosed.
US08653234B2
The present invention provides peptides having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 192, 195, 197, 209, 225, 226, 228, 230, 240, 241, 243, 244, 249, 253, 254 or 255, as well as peptides having the above-mentioned amino acid sequences in which 1, 2, or several amino acids are substituted, deleted, or added, wherein the peptides possess cytotoxic T cell inducibility. The present invention also provides drugs for treating or preventing a disease associated with the over-expression of MPHOSPH1 and/or DEPDC1, e.g. cancers, containing these peptides as an active ingredient. The peptides of the present invention can also be used as vaccines.
US08653230B2
Implementations and techniques for preparing and using monomers, oligomeric complexes, and coordination polymers are generally disclosed.
US08653225B2
A polyamide compound containing from 25 to 50 mol % of a diamine unit that contains at least 50 mol % of an alicyclic diamine unit represented by the following general formula (I); from 25 to 50 mol % of a dicarboxylic acid unit that contains a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid unit represented by the following general formula (II-1) and/or an aromatic dicarboxylic acid unit represented by the following general formula (II-2) in an amount of at least 50 mol % in total; and from 0.1 to 50 mol % of a constituent unit represented by the following general formula (III): wherein, in the formulae, n indicates an integer of from 2 to 18; Ar represents an arylene group; and R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group.
US08653219B2
Proposed is a process for preparing a reactive polyurethane composition that is characterized in that in a first process stage, from an isocyanate-reactive polymer or mixture of isocyanate-reactive polymers with a fraction of at least 90%, preferably at least 95%, more preferably at least 99% by weight of linear molecules, by reaction with a polyisocyanate having a molecular weight <500, in a molar deficit of the isocyanate groups of the polyisocyanate relative to the isocyanate-reactive end groups of the polymer or mixture of polymers, a monomer-free thermoplastic polyurethane is prepared which in a second process stage is reacted with a low-monomer-content, isocyanate-terminal prepolymer, in a molar ratio of the isocyanate-reactive end groups of the thermoplastic polyurethane to the isocyanate groups of the prepolymer of 1:1.1 to 1:5, to give the isocyanate-reactive polyurethane composition.
US08653215B2
A process for producing water-absorbing polymer particles by polymerizing an aqueous monomer solution in a kneader having at least two shafts in axially parallel rotation, wherein the reaction mixture is transported in axial direction and the region at the start of the kneader is trace-heated.
US08653210B2
The present invention relates to a continuous process for the production of a superabsorbent polymer comprising providing an acidic liquid aqueous monomer mixture containing dissolved oxygen; continuously feeding the aqueous monomer mixture to a reactor; introducing a source of carbonate or hydrogen carbonate into the aqueous monomer mixture prior to entry into the reactor thereby forming a gas phase comprising carbon dioxide and at least a part of the dissolved oxygen, the gas phase being dispersed in the liquid phase; subjecting the gas/liquid mixture to at least partial phase separation immediately prior to or after entry into the reactor and at least partially removing the separated gaseous phase; subjecting the liquid phase in the reactor to free-radical polymerization to obtain the superabsorbent polymer, and continuously removing the superabsorbent polymer from the reactor.
US08653209B2
This invention relates to a co-oligomer having an Mn of 300 to 30,000 g/mol comprising 10 to 90 mol % propylene and 10 to 90 mol % of ethylene, wherein the oligomer has at least X % allyl chain ends, where: 1) X=(−0.94(mole % ethylene incorporated)+100), when 10 to 60 mole % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer, and 2) X=45, when greater than 60 and less than 70 mole % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer, and 3) X=(1.83*(mole % ethylene incorporated)−83), when 70 to 90 mole % ethylene is present in the co-oligomer. This invention also relates to a homo-oligomer, comprising propylene, wherein the oligomer has: at least 93% allyl chain ends, an Mn of about 500 to about 20,000 g/mol, an isobutyl chain end to allylic vinyl group ratio of 0.8:1 to 1.2:1.0, and less than 100 ppm aluminum. This invention also relates to a process of making homo-oligomer, comprising propylene, wherein the productivity is greater than 4500 g/mmol Hf (or Zr)/hour.
US08653206B2
The invention relates to an improved process for manufacturing an olefin polymer composition, in particular polyethylene, that incorporates two or more reaction zones in an optimized configuration that ease product transitions and allows for improved reactor quality control.
US08653188B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a thermoplastic polymer composition which is excellent in the impact resistance, a fracture morphology and rigidity, as well as has a possibility of the effect for reducing environmental load.The thermoplastic resin composition comprises 15 to 85% by mass of aliphatic polyester-based resin (A) comprising the following (AI) and (AII) components, and 15 to 85% by mass of styrene-based resin (B) which is at least one selected from the group consisting of the following (BI) to (BIII). The above (AI) is an aliphatic polyester-based resin having units formed from an aliphatic diol and/or an alicyclic diol and an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid (including derivatives thereof) and/or an alicyclic dicarboxylic (including derivatives thereof) as repeating units, and the above (AII) is a polylactic acid-based aliphatic polyester resin having not less than 70 mol % of lactic acid unit content.The above (BI) is a graft copolymer obtained by polymerizing vinyl-based monomers (b2) comprising an aromatic vinyl compound and another vinyl compound copolymerizable therewith in the presence of rubber polymer (b1), the above (BII) is a polymer of vinyl-based monomers (b2), and the above (BIII) is a mixture of said (BI) and (BII).
US08653187B2
Disclosed is a method of making a polystyrene based nanocomposite by combining a monomer with a nanoparticle to form a mixture and subjecting the mixture to polymerization conditions to produce a polymeric composite. In an embodiment the nanoparticle has been treated with an additive prior to combining with the monomer and the additive contains a silane moiety.
US08653182B2
The present invention provides an ink jet recording medium having an ink receiving layer excellent in the coloration resistance and water resistance; and a coating solution for forming an ink receiving layer, which exhibits a large difference in the gelation rate between at ambient temperature and under heating, and is stable at ambient temperature and swiftly gelled when heated. The present invention relates to an ink jet recording medium comprising an ink receiving layer containing an acetoacetic ester group-containing polyvinyl alcohol resin crosslinked by a glyoxylate on a supporting base; and a coating solution for forming an ink receiving layer containing an acetoacetic ester group-containing polymer compound, a glyoxylate and water.
US08653175B2
The present invention provides a terminally modified acrylic polymer having excellent thermal decomposition properties at low temperatures, an inorganic fine particle dispersed paste composition obtained by using the terminally modified acrylic polymer and a method of producing of the terminally modified acrylic polymer.
US08653171B2
Plastisol compositions are disclosed containing methacrylate core/shell copolymer, non-phthalate ester plasticizers, pigment, filler, and thixotropic agent. Other additives are optional. The plasticizer is a blend of dibenzoate and DINCH. The plastisol can be used an ink of various colors for use in application to textiles. The plastisol compositions avoid polyvinyl chloride polymer resins and phthalate plasticizers conventionally employed in plastisol inks.
US08653165B2
Thermoplastic articles may be manufactured having a high degree of visual appeal to consumers. Clarifying agents may be employed as additives in such thermoplastic articles to produce high clarity articles. A coloring agent may be mixed with clarifying agents to form a first blend, and then such a first blend may be applied in very low loadings to form a clarified polymeric article. It is possible to achieve an observable visual benefit while using very low loadings of coloring agent in a polyolefin, such as polypropylene. Carbon black is a pigment that may provide such observable benefits in polypropylene.
US08653163B2
The subject matter of the invention are coated aggregates for producing concrete and methods for the production thereof. The invention also relates to concrete compositions for producing concrete and concrete provided with aggregates, production methods and the use of organic polymers for the improvement of the stability of concrete.
US08653160B2
The invention is an epoxy resin composition for sealing a semiconductor, including (A) an epoxy resin and (B) a clathrate complex. The clathrate complex is one of (b1) an aromatic carboxylic acid compound, and (b2) at least one imidazole compound represented by formula (II): wherein R2 represents a hydrogen atom, C1-C10 alkyl group, phenyl group, benzyl group or cyanoethyl group, and R3 to R5 represent a hydrogen atom, nitro group, halogen atom, C1-C20 alkyl group, phenyl group, benzyl group, hydroxymethyl group or C1-C20 acyl group. The composition has improved storage stability, retains flowability when sealing, and achieves an effective curing rate applicable for sealing delicate semiconductors.
US08653157B2
A polyurethane compound is disclosed, comprising the reaction product of an isocyanate and one or more polyols including at least one polytetramethylene ether glycol and polyethylene wax. The latter two ingredients greatly enhance abrasion resistance of the compound, making the compound particularly suitable for use as an outsole of footwear for rugged use applications.
US08653154B2
Oxidation resistant crosslinked ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) is described, wherein at least two different additives in the manufacture synergistically increase the oxidation resistance of crosslinked UHMWPE. This allows the manufacture of oxidation resistant crosslinked UHMWPE using lower levels of additives and/or lower levels of crosslinking irradiation or chemicals. The lower levels of additives and/or crosslinking produce crosslinked UHMWPE having desired physical properties not possible without the synergistic interaction of the additives. This crosslinked UHMWPE may be used in medical prostheses such as in bearing components having desired physical properties such as wear resistance and oxidation resistance not possible without the synergistic interaction of the additives.
US08653152B2
The present invention relates to a porous resin bead containing a first aromatic monovinyl compound-divinyl compound-(meth)acrylonitrile-second aromatic monovinyl compound copolymer, in which the second aromatic monovinyl compound contains a group capable of binding with a carboxyl group by dehydration condensation reaction, and in which the porous resin bead has a dry volume of from 2 to 3 ml/g.
US08653141B2
A compound of the formula is disclosed as an HIV protease inhibitor. Methods and compositions for inhibiting an HIV infection are also disclosed.
US08653138B2
The present invention relates to calcium salts of compounds of the general formula (I) wherein X is selected from the group consisting of CH2, S, or O; D is O or S; R8 is hydrogen or alkyl; E is an optionally substituted phenylene group; Y is a monocyclic or bicyclic substituted or unsubstituted 6-9 membered ring system which may contain one or more heteroatoms selected from N or S and which contains at least one aromatic ring; n is 0 or 1, and q is 0 or 1; with the proviso that compounds wherein X═CH2, q=0, Y=unsubstituted phenyl and E=unsubstituted phenylene are excluded; or a hydrate thereof.
US08653137B2
Buffer solutions for pharmaceutical preparations that have bactericidal activity preferentially against gram negative bacteria are provided. The buffers have a pH of greater than about 10 or less than about 4.5 with low buffer capacity. Methods of their use in reducing the occurrence of blood stream infections in a mammal is also provided.
US08653129B2
The present invention provides a novel therapeutic combination comprising one or more anti-androgen agents and one or more antibiotic/anti-inflammatory agents or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or hydrates thereof, useful for the treatment of a dermatological disorder.
US08653124B2
Disclosure is provided for imidazole derivative compounds that prevent, remove and/or inhibit the formation of biofilms, compositions comprising these compounds, devices comprising these compounds, and methods of using the same.
US08653121B2
An agrochemical composition comprises an azole active ingredient and an N,N-dialkyl long chain alkylamide. The N,N-dialkyl long chain alkylamide is present in sufficient amount to prevent or inhibit the crystallization of the azole derivative during the application of the composition to a locus. Preferred N,N-Dialkyl long chain alkylamide(s) comprised in the composition is/are selected from the group consisting of compounds of the formula (I): in which (a) R1 and R2 are independently normal alkyl radicals having 2 carbon atoms, and R represents an alkyl group having from 10 to 30 carbon atoms; or (b) R1 and R2 are independently normal alkyl radicals having 3 carbon atoms, and R represents an alkyl group having from 9 to 30 carbon atoms; or 20 (c) R1 and R2 are independently normal alkyl radicals having from 4 to 20 carbon atoms and R represents an alkyl group having from 6 to 30 carbon atoms. The composition is particularly advantageous when formulated with a fungicide, in particular one or more of tebuconazole, cyproconazole, difenoconazole, diniconazole, triticonazole, hexaconazole, triflumiazole, metconazole, tricylazole, flusilazole, flutriafol, and myclobutanil.
US08653119B2
Kinetic stabilization of the native state of transthyretin is an effective mechanism for preventing protein misfolding. Because transthyretin misfolding plays an important role in transthyretin amyloid diseases, inhibiting such misfolding can be used as an effective treatment or prophylaxis for such diseases. Treatment methods are disclosed.
US08653115B2
The invention relates a kind of antiviral agents, more concretely, relates to a kind of heterocyclic non-nucleoside compounds with the following structures, their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds. The said compounds can be used as antiviral agents and as medicaments for treating diseases such as hepatitis B, influenza, herpes, HIV and so on.
US08653114B2
The present invention relates to O-CYCLOPROPYLCYCLOHEXYL-CARBOXANILIDES derivatives of formula (I); their process of preparation, their use as fungicide, particularly in the form of fungicide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi, notably of plants, using these compounds or compositions.
US08653110B2
Disclosed are novel active compound combinations comprising at least one substituted enaminocarbonyl compound and azadirachtin, which combinations are highly suitable for controlling animal pests such as insects and unwanted acarids. Methods of controlling insects and acarids are also disclosed.
US08653109B2
The present invention relates to novel substituted 2,4′- and 3,4′-bipyridine derivatives, to processes for their preparation, to their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, preferably for the treatment and/or prevention of hypertension and other cardiovascular disorders.
US08653108B1
The present invention relates to non-charged oxime compounds which are acetyl cholinesterase (AChE) reactivators of inhibited AChE and which protect against organophosphate poisoning both peripherally and in the central nervous system. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and methods for preparing the reactivator compounds and associated intermediates.
US08653103B2
The present invention relates to a substantially crystalline and free solid state form of 3-(6-(1-(2,2-difluorobenzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamido)-3-methylpyridin-2-yl)benzoic acid (Form I), pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of treatment therewith.
US08653102B2
The invention relates to substituted 2-oxo- and 2-thioxo-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxamides to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and also to these compounds for use in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of pain and further diseases and/or disorders.
US08653101B2
The invention relates to substituted 2-oxy-quinoline-3-carboxamides, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and also to these compounds for use in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of pain and further diseases and/or disorders.
US08653099B2
Disclosed are compounds, compositions and methods for treating various diseases, syndromes, conditions and disorders, including pain. Such compounds are represented by Formula (I) as follows: wherein A, L, R1, R2, R4 and R5 are defined herein.
US08653093B2
The invention provides a pharmaceutical combination comprising: a) a pyrimidylaminobenzamide compound, and b) imatinib. and a method for treating or preventing a proliferative disease, especially GIST, using such a combination.
US08653092B2
The invention relates to substituted tetrahydro-pyrido-pyrimidine derivatives of the formula (I), wherein Y, R1, R2 and m are as defined in the description. Such compounds are suitable for the treatment of a disorder or disease which is mediated by the activity of the PI3K enzymes.
US08653091B2
Fused heterocyclic compounds are provided according to formula 1a or 1b: where R1, R2, and R3 are as defined herein. Provided compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are useful for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, pain, inflammation, cognitive disorders, anxiety, depression, and others.
US08653088B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or mixtures thereof. These compounds are inhibitors of protein kinases, particularly inhibitors of GSK mammalian protein kinase, and more particularly inhibitors of GSK-3 mammalian protein kinase. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of the invention and methods of utilizing those compounds and compositions in the treatment of various protein kinase mediated disorders.
US08653082B2
Heterocyclic compounds of formula (I), (II), (III) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein R1, R2 and R3 are each independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, C1-6alkyl, C2-6alkenyl, N—(C1-6alkyl)2, and N—(C2-6alkenyl)2, the C1-6alkyl and C2-6alkenyl being straight or branched; and Y1 and Y2 are selected from N and CH where one of Y1 and Y2 is N and the other is CH, are provided. Also provided are the synthesis of and pharmaceutical compositions including these compounds. These compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof can be used for the treatment of disorders, and in particular, cancer.
US08653077B2
Methods of inhibiting phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase delta isoform (PI3Kδ) activity, and methods of treating diseases, such as disorders of immunity and inflammation, in which PI3Kδ plays a role in leukocyte function are disclosed. Preferably, the methods employ active agents that selectively inhibit PI3Kδ, while not significantly inhibiting activity of other PI3K isoforms. Compounds are provided that inhibit PI3Kδ activity, including compounds that selectively inhibit PI3Kδ activity. Methods of using PI3Kδ inhibitory compounds to inhibit cancer cell growth or proliferation are also provided. Accordingly, the invention provides methods of using PI3Kδ inhibitory compounds to inhibit PI3Kδ-mediated processes in vitro and in vivo.
US08653076B2
The invention relates to novel inhibitors of kinases of the general formula (I): in which Q and R1 are defined in the claims, method for preparing such inhibitors, intermediates for preparing such inhibitors and uses of such inhibitors.
US08653070B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or prodrugs thereof: which inhibit RNA-containing virus, particularly the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Consequently, the compounds of the present invention interfere with the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HCV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HCV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention.
US08653069B2
The present invention discloses an aralkyl substituted piperidine or piperazine derivative and the use of the derivative in preparation of medicaments for treating schizophrenia and correlative psychoneuroses. It is shown by pharmacological tests that the derivative of the present invention has better antischizophrenic effect and less toxicity. Said derivative is a free base or salt of the compound having the following general formula.
US08653068B2
A compound or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, composition and method are disclosed that can provide analgesia and reduce inflammation. A contemplated compound has a structure that corresponds to Formula A, wherein the R group substituents, d, e, f, k, n, m, D, E, F, K, G, P, Q, W, and Z are defined within.
US08653065B1
A pharmaceutical composition comprising a drug substance consisting essentially of a pharmaceutically acceptable organic acid addition salt of an amine containing pharmaceutically active compound wherein the amine containing pharmaceutical active compound is selected from the group consisting of racemic or single isomer ritalinic acid or phenethylamine derivatives and the drug substance has a physical form selected from amorphous and polymorphic.
US08653063B2
This invention relates to compounds of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein X, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, k, m, n, p, q, r and s are each as described herein, and compositions containing such compounds, and the use of such compounds in the treatment of a condition mediated by CB2 receptor activity.
US08653059B2
The present invention is directed to substituted six-membered heterocyclic compounds of structural formula (I) which are inhibitors of the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved, such as obesity and diabetes, particularly Type 2 diabetes. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved.
US08653053B2
A cream base for the topical application of skin care therapeutics and a process for making the cream base. In one embodiment, the therapeutic is tretinoin, hydroquinone and fluocinolone acetonide for the treatment of hyperpigmented skin conditions, such as melasma.
US08653051B2
The invention relates to the field of male and/or female sexual dysfunction. The invention specifically relates to the use of 3-alpha-androstanediol, preferably in combination with a type 5 phosphodiesterase (PDE5) inhibitor.
US08653038B2
An HLA-A*1101-restricted WT1 peptide, specifically, a peptide comprising an amino acid sequence consisting of 9 contiguous amino acids from a WT1 protein, wherein the peptide has an ability to bind to an HLA-A*1101 molecule, and has an ability to induce a CTL is described. A peptide dimer having an ability to bind to an HLA-A*1101 molecule and having an ability to induce a CTL, in which two peptide monomers each comprising an amino acid sequence cons sting of 9 contiguous amino acids from a WT1 protein and comprising at least one cysteine residue are bound to each other through a disulfide bond is also described. Furthermore, a polynucleotide encoding the peptide, a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and/or prevention of a cancer comprising the same and the like are provided.
US08653036B2
The present invention relates to methods of treating retinitis pigmentosa using β-turn peptidomimetic cyclic compounds or derivatives thereof. The β-turn peptidomimetic cyclic compounds can be used alone, in combination and/or in conjunction with one or more other compounds, molecules or drugs useful in treating retinitis pigmentosa.
US08653031B2
We describe preparation of compounds of an AT1 receptor antagonist(s) and Angiotensin (1-7), for example, Angiotensin-(1-7) losartanate and analogues thereof, and/or mixtures of these systems, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and use of their derivative products. Cyclodextrins and derivatives thereof may be used for the micro-encapsulation of compounds, for example, Angiotensin (1-7) losartanate, liposomes and biodegradable polymers and/or mixtures of these systems and/or derivative products for the obtainment of nano- or microparticles as controlled or sustained release devices of Ang-(1-7) losartanate and analogues and/or mixtures thereof. The compounds may be used as agents for treating or preventing hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, heart hypertrophy, heart failure, coronary diseases, such as angina pectoris, endothelial disorder or endothelial lesions, as a consequence, for example, of atherosclerosis processes or in association with diabetes mellitus. They may also be used in the study and therapy of cardiovascular, renal, reproductive, dermatological, neoplastic, blood and cerebral diseases, and when formulated in controlled release systems, encapsulated or not in cyclodextrins, for use in stent, with a view to modulate the growth of the neointima after catheterization procedures.
US08653030B2
A formulation containing a biologically active compound having a chemical structure with hydrogen bonding sites, a first biocompatible, hydrolytically degrading polycarbonate with hydrogen bonding sites and tyrosine-derived diphenol monomer units, and a second biocompatible hydrolytically degrading polymer that is less hydrophobic than the polycarbonate, wherein the second polymer degrades hydrolytically to form acidic degradation products that promote the release of the active compound. Methods for active compound delivery are also disclosed.
US08653028B2
The present invention provides isolated stabilized EPO-derived peptides and their mimics that protect against tissue damage in subjects having diverse forms of neural and non-neural organ system injury, pharmaceutical compositions containing the isolated stabilized EPO-derived peptides, methods for treating symptoms of a disease, disorder or condition having an inflammatory or an autoimmune component in a subject in need thereof, and methods for downregulating immune mediator activity in a subject in need thereof.
US08653026B2
Methods for prevention and treatment of type-2 diabetes comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of FTY-720 or an analog are described.
US08653025B2
The present invention discloses the structure, preparation methods and uses of a series of novel polyheterocyclic based compounds (Ia-Ib and IIa-IIb) that are highly effective for inhibiting hepatitis C virus (HCV): where the structural variables are defined herein. The present invention is also provides a method of treating HCV infection by the polyheterocyclic based HCV inhibitory compounds, compositions and therapeutic methods.
US08653024B2
Provided is treatment of urinary tract infections including bladder infections caused by uropathogenic bacterial strains such as for example Escherichia coli with a beta-hairpin antimicrobial Arenicin polypeptide derived from the murine polychaeta Arenicola marina. Also provided are variants of Arenicin for treatment of urinary tract infections.
US08653020B2
The present invention relates in one embodiment to PAPP-A exosite(s) interactors such as antibodies which bind to a region comprising LNR3 of PAPP-A and efficiently inhibit proteolysis of IGFBP-4, but not -5. The region comprising LNR3 represents a substrate binding exosite, which can be targeted for selective proteolytic inhibition. Accordingly, the present invention relates in one embodiment to differential inhibition of natural protease substrates by exosite targeting.
US08653014B2
A shampoo composition having from about 5% to about 50% of a combination of sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium laureth-n sulfate, less than 3.82% of sodium laureth-n sulfate having n>1. The shampoo composition further includes from about 0.5% to about 3% of a co-surfactant selected from the group consisting of amphoteric, zwitterionic, and nonionic surfactants. The shampoo composition has a dispersed gel network phase having at least 0.05% of one or more fatty alcohols, at least 0.01% of one or more secondary surfactants, and water. The shampoo composition further includes at least about 20% of an aqueous carrier. The shampoo composition further has an enthalpy of transition from about 0 J/g to about 0.2 J/g as measured according to differential scanning calorimetry in a peak melt transition temperature range between about 18° C. to about 30° C.
US08653011B2
A gelled organic-based fluid system and method of forming and using the system. The fluid system is prepared by gelling an organic solvent, a viscoelastic surfactant, and a nitrogen compound having a free electron pair such as urea in an amount effective to both increase viscosity and increase a rate of breaking the viscosity, relative to the gelled system without the nitrogen compound. In a further aspect, the method is used to treat a well penetrating a subterranean formation, for example, in a coiled tubing cleanout, or the like.
US08653008B2
A method for delivering a scale treatment agent to a hydrocarbon producing system. The method includes the steps of contacting the system with a foam comprising the scale treatment agent, and shutting the scale treatment agent in the system for at least 0.5 hour.
US08653000B2
The present invention relates to imine compounds which are useful for combating or controlling invertebrate pests, in particular arthropod pests and nematodes. The invention also relates to a method for controlling invertebrate pests by using these compounds and to plant propagation material and to an agricultural and a veterinary composition comprising said compounds.
US08652998B2
Disclosed is an insecticidal composition comprising by weight based on total weight of composition (a) from about 9 to about 91% of one or more anthranilic diamide insecticides; and (b) from about 9 to about 91% of a branched copolymer component having water solubility or dispersibility at least about 5% by weight at 20° C., wherein: the branched copolymer component comprises one or more branch segments attached to linear backbone segment; the branch segments comprise at least two repeating monomer units and have number average molecular weight (Mn) at least about 1,000; the branched copolymer component comprises hydrophilic groups; and ratio of component (b) to component (a) is about 1:10 to about 10:1 by weight. Also disclosed is a geotropic propagule coated with insecticidal composition. Further disclosed is a liquid composition comprising the insecticidal composition, and method for protecting a geotropic propagule and plant derived therefrom a phytophagous insect pest.
US08652990B2
Provided is a method for producing a catalyst for purification of exhaust gas, including the steps of: adding Zr ions to a solution containing a platinum hydroxide polymer; diluting the solution to which the Zr ions are added by using an aqueous ammonium acetate solution; immersing a support made of Al2O3, SiO2, CeO2, ZrO2, or a composite oxide of any ones of these oxides in the diluted solution, followed by heating at 60 to 70° C., to thereby support the platinum hydroxide polymer on the support; and calcining the support, on which the platinum hydroxide polymer is supported, at 150 to 800° C.
US08652987B2
A method for producing an alloy catalyst for redox reaction comprising alloy particles of platinum and nickel, wherein the alloy particles are equipped at an outer surface with a crystal lattice plane represented by a Miller index {111} and have an average particle diameter in a range of 6 to 20 nm, the method comprising: dissolving, in an alcohol, a salt and/or complex of platinum, a salt and/or complex of nickel, and a polymer containing a plurality of salt structures comprising an organic cation and a halogen anion in a polymer chain and heating the resulting solution to reflux under an inert atmosphere.
US08652986B2
The present invention relates to a Ziegler-Natta catalyst, and more specifically to a Ziegler-Natta catalyst for olefin polymerization which may use a compound of Formula 3 as an internal electron donor to obtain polymers with high activity, wide molecular weight distribution and low content of fine particle.
US08652984B2
A dielectric ceramic composition comprising a main component and at least one or more subcomponent elements has a dielectric particle and a grain boundary. The dielectric particle has a main component phase substantially composed of the main component, and a diffusive phase around the main component phase where at least one selected from the subcomponent elements is diffused, a local minimal value of Cs is located at an outside edge side with respect to a position of the local maximum value of Cs, and Cs is increased from a position of the local minimal value of Cs toward the outside edge, when the dielectric particle is cut on an arbitrary cutting plane including the main component phase, and Cs is defined as a concentration of one or more elements selected from the subcomponent elements in an arbitrary position in the dielectric particle.
US08652983B2
A hexagonal type barium titanate powder comprising barium titanate as a main component shown by a generic formula of (Ba1-αMα)A(Ti1-βGaβ)BO3 and having hexagonal structure wherein; an effective ionic radius of 12-coordinated “M” is −25% or more to +25% or less with respect to an effective ionic radius of 12-coordinated Ba2+, and said A, B, α and β satisfy relations of 0.975<(A/B)≦1.015, 0.0015≦α<0.005, 0.075≦β≦0.15.
US08652979B2
Provided is a glass substrate satisfying ion exchange performance and devitrification resistance of a glass simultaneously and having higher mechanical strength compared to a conventional glass substrate. A tempered glass substrate which has a compression stress layer on a surface thereof, has a glass composition including, in terms of mole %, 50 to 85% of SiO2, 5 to 30% of Al2O3, 0 to 20% of Li2O, 0 to 20% of Na2O, 0 to 20% of K2O, 0.001 to 10% of TiO2, and 15 to 35% of Li2O+Na2O+K2O+Al2O3, has a (Li2O+Na2O+K2O)/Al2O3 value of 0.7 to 3 in terms of mole fraction, and is substantially free of As2O3 and F.
US08652978B2
A silicate glass that is tough and scratch resistant. The toughness is increased by minimizing the number of non-bridging oxygen atoms in the glass. In one embodiment, the silicate glass is an aluminoborosilicate glass in which −15 mol %≦(R2O+R′O—Al2O3—ZrO2)—B2O3≦4 mol %, where R is one of Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs, and R′ is one of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba.
US08652974B2
A fiber laser system enables a method for treating a semiconductor material by preheating a wafer for laser annealing and gas immersion laser doping by a laser source. A long wave length fiber laser having a Gaussian or similar profile is applied in a full-width ribbon beam across an incident wafer. Preferably the wavelength is greater than 1 μm (micron) and preferably a Yb doped fiber laser is used. The process is performed in a suitable environment which may include doping species. The process ensures the temperature gradient arising during processing does not exceed a value that results in fracture of the wafer while also reducing the amount of laser radiation required to achieve controlled surface melting, recrystallization and cooling.
US08652965B2
One object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a thick film metal electrode that is able to form a positive-negative reverse type resist, which has a thickness of 7 μm or more and excellent in-plane uniformity, on the circuit element formed on the silicon carbide substrate, and a method for producing a thick film resist, and the present invention provides a method for producing a thick film resist wherein a first positive-negative reverse type resist having a first viscosity is formed on an upper surface of a circuit element layer which is treated with HMDS, and a second positive-negative reverse type resist having a second viscosity, which is larger than the first viscosity, on the first positive-negative reverse type resist such that a total thickness of the first and second positive-negative reverse type resists constituting a thick film resist be 7 μm or more.
US08652950B2
A carbon-rich carbon boron nitride dielectric film having a dielectric constant of equal to, or less than 3.6 is provided that can be used as a component in various electronic devices. The carbon-rich carbon boron nitride dielectric film has a formula of CxByNz wherein x is 35 atomic percent or greater, y is from 6 atomic percent to 32 atomic percent and z is from 8 atomic percent to 33 atomic percent.
US08652944B2
Fabricating semiconductor nanowires (5) on a substrate (1) having a metallic oxide layer (2), includes: a) exposing the metallic oxide layer to a hydrogen plasma (11) of power P for a duration t suitable for reducing the layer and for forming metallic nanodrops (3) of radius (Rm) on the surface of the metallic oxide layer; b) low temperature plasma-assisted deposition of a thin layer (4) of a semiconductor material on the metallic oxide layer including the metallic nanodrops, the thin layer having a thickness (Ha) suitable for covering the metallic nanodrops; and c) thermal annealing at a temperature T sufficient to activate lateral growth of nanowires by catalysis of the material deposited as a thin layer from the metallic nanodrops. Nanowires are obtained by this method and nanometric transistors including a semiconductor nanowire.
US08652937B2
A back-illuminated semiconductor imaging device on a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate is disclosed. The device includes an insulator layer, a semiconductor substrate having an interface with the insulator layer, an epitaxial layer grown on the semiconductor substrate; and one or more imaging components in the epitaxial layer. The semiconductor substrate and the epitaxial layer exhibit a net doping concentration profile having a maximum value at a predetermined distance from the interface which decreases monotonically on both sides of the profile. The doping profile between the interface with the insulation layer and the peak of the doping profile functions as a “dead band” to prevent dark current carriers from penetrating to the front side of the device.
US08652934B1
A method of forming a substrate with isolation areas suitable for integration of electronic and photonic devices is provided. A common reticle and photolithographic technique is used to fabricate a mask defining openings for etching first and second areas in a substrate, with the openings for the second trench isolation areas being wider than the openings for the first trench isolation areas. The first and second trench isolation areas are etched in the substrate through the mask and filled with an oxide material. The oxide material is removed from the bottom of the second trench isolation areas. The second trench isolation areas are further etched to the deeper than the first trench isolation areas, and are then filled with oxide material. Electrical devices can be formed on the substrate and electrically isolated by the first trench isolation areas and photonic devices can be formed over the second trench isolation areas and be optically isolated from the substrate.
US08652926B1
A method of forming capacitors includes providing first capacitor electrodes within support material. The first capacitor electrodes contain TiN and the support material contains polysilicon. The polysilicon-containing support material is dry isotropically etched selectively relative to the TiN-containing first capacitor electrodes using a sulfur and fluorine-containing etching chemistry. A capacitor dielectric is formed over sidewalls of the first capacitor electrodes and a second capacitor electrode is formed over the capacitor dielectric. Additional methods are disclosed.
US08652922B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a resistor on an insulator layer over a substrate and forming a trench in the resistor and into the substrate. The method also includes forming a liner on sidewalls of the trench and forming a core comprising a high thermal conductivity material in the trench and on the liner.
US08652920B2
A process for forming a laminate with capacitance and the laminate formed thereby. The process includes the steps of providing a substrate and laminating a conductive foil on the substrate wherein the foil has a dielectric. A conductive layer is formed on the dielectric. The conductive foil is treated to electrically isolate a region of conductive foil containing the conductive layer from additional conductive foil. A cathodic conductive couple is made between the conductive layer and a cathode trace and an anodic conductive couple is made between the conductive foil and an anode trace.
US08652916B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure, including forming a gate structure on a substrate; performing a first angled implantation on a first side of the gate structure to form a first doped region in the substrate, the first doped region partially extends within a channel of the gate structure and the gate structure blocks the first angled implantation from affecting the substrate on a second side of the gate structure; forming sidewall spacers on sidewalls of the gate; and forming a second doped region in the substrate on the second side of the gate, spaced apart from the channel.
US08652913B2
By providing a protection layer on a silicon/germanium material of high germanium concentration, a corresponding loss of strained semiconductor material may be significantly reduced or even completely avoided. The protection layer may be formed prior to critical cleaning processes and may be maintained until the formation of metal silicide regions. Hence, high performance gain of P-type transistors may be accomplished without requiring massive overfill during the selective epitaxial growth process.
US08652909B2
A method of forming a nonvolatile memory cell includes forming a first electrode and a second electrode of the memory cell. Sacrificial material is provided between the first second electrodes. The sacrificial material is exchanged with programmable material. The sacrificial material may additionally be exchanged with select device material.
US08652907B2
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit including a first region and a second region each having different poly-silicon gate structures is provided. The method includes depositing a first poly-silicon layer over the first and the second region and depositing, within the second region, an oxide layer over the first poly-silicon layer. A second poly-silicon layer is deposited over the first poly-silicon layer and the oxide region. A portion of the second poly-silicon layer that lies over the oxide region is then stripped away.
US08652906B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and semiconductor device. One embodiment provides a semiconductor substrate with an active region and a margin region bordering on the active region. The spacer layer in the margin region is broken through at a selected location and at least part of the spacer layer is removed in the active region using a common process. The location is selected such that at least part of the semiconductor mesa structure is exposed and the spacer layer in the margin region is broken through to the conductive layer and not to the semiconductor substrate.
US08652895B2
A memory cell of an SRAM has two drive MISFETs and two vertical MISFETs. The p channel vertical MISFETs are formed above the n channel drive MISFETs. The vertical MISFETs respectively mainly include a laminate formed of a lower semiconductor layer, intermediate semiconductor layer and upper semiconductor layer laminated in this sequence, a gate insulating film of silicon oxide formed on the surface of the side wall of the laminate, and a gate electrode formed so as to cover the side wall of the laminate. The vertical MISFETs are perfect depletion type MISFETs.
US08652884B2
The present invention proposes a semiconductor device structure and a method for manufacturing the same, and relates to the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The method comprises: providing a semiconductor substrate; forming gate electrode lines on the semiconductor substrate; forming sidewall spacers on both sides of the gate electrode lines; forming source/drain regions on the semiconductor substrates at both sides of the gate electrode lines; forming contact holes on the gate electrode lines or on the source/drain regions; and cutting off the gate electrode lines to form electrically isolated gate electrodes after formation of the sidewall spacers but before completion of FEOL process for a semiconductor device structure. The embodiments of the present invention are applicable for manufacturing integrated circuits.
US08652880B2
To provide a technique that can improve the data retention characteristic of an MRAM device by improving the resistance against an external magnetic field in a semiconductor device including the MRAM device. A first magnetic shield material is disposed over a die pad via a first die attach film. Then, a semiconductor chip is mounted over the first magnetic shield material via a second die attach film. Furthermore, a second magnetic shield material is disposed over the semiconductor chip via a third die attach film. That is, the semiconductor chip is disposed so as to be sandwiched by the first magnetic shield material and the second magnetic shield material. At this time, while the planar area of the second magnetic shield material is smaller than that of the first magnetic shield material, the thickness of the second magnetic shield material is thicker than that of the first magnetic shield material.
US08652872B2
A photovoltaic cell, the cell comprising: a silicon substrate of bulk silicon material having front and rear surfaces; an emitter layer on the rear surface of said substrate; elongate channels through the emitter layer; elongate contacts to the bulk of the silicon substrate within at least some of the elongate channels, wherein the contacts are narrower than the channels; and gaps in the emitter between at least some of the elongate contacts and the emitter layer on the sides of the contacts.
US08652862B2
A method for etching an insulating film includes the steps of forming an insulating film; forming a first resin layer composed of a non-silicon-containing resin on the insulating film; forming a pattern including projections and recesses in the first resin layer; forming a second resin layer composed of a silicon-containing resin to cover the projections and the recesses of the pattern in the first resin layer; etching the second resin layer by reactive ion etching with etching gas containing CF4 gas and oxygen gas until the projections of the first resin layer are exposed, a Si component of the second resin layer being oxidized in etching the second resin layer; selectively etching the first resin layer until the insulating film is exposed using as a mask the second resin layer buried in the recesses of the first resin layer to form a resin layer mask; and etching the insulating film using the resin layer mask. Further, in the step of etching the second resin layer, the reactive ion etching is performed under applying a self-bias voltage so that a Si product is removed, the Si product being provided from the Si component remaining in the second resin layer without being oxidized.
US08652861B1
HPC techniques are applied to the screening and evaluating the materials, process parameters, process sequences, and post deposition treatment processes for the development of ohmic contact stacks for optoelectronic devices. Simple test structures are employed for initial screening of basic materials properties of candidate materials for each layer within the stack. The use of multiple site-isolated regions on a single substrate allows many material and/or process conditions to be evaluated in a timely and cost effective manner. Interactions between the layers as well as interactions with the substrate can be investigated in a straightforward manner.
US08652855B2
An integrated circuit contains lower components in the substrate, a PMD layer, upper components over the PMD layer, lower contacts in the PMD layer connecting some upper components to some lower components, an ILD layer over the upper components, metal interconnect lines over the ILD layer, and upper contacts connecting some upper components to some metal interconnect lines, and also includes annular stacked contacts of lower annular contacts aligned with upper annular contacts. The lower contacts and upper contacts each have a metal liner and a contact metal on the liner. The lower annular contacts have at least one ring of liner metal and contact metal surrounding a pillar of PMD material, and the upper contacts have at least one ring of liner metal and contact metal surrounding a pillar of ILD material. The annular stacked contacts connect the metal interconnects to the lower components.
US08652852B2
A method is provided for pumping fluid through a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel has an input port and an output port. The channel is filled with fluid and a pressure gradient is generated between the fluid at the input port and the fluid at the output port. As a result, fluid flows through the channel towards the output port.
US08652849B2
This invention relates to a composite material that comprises a support member that has a plurality of pores extending through the support member and, located in the pores of the support member, and filling the pores of the support member, a macroporous cross-linked gel. The invention also relates to a process for preparing the composite material described above, and to its use. The composite material is suitable, for example, for separation of substances, for example by filtration or adsorption, including chromatography, for use as a support in synthesis or for use as a support for cell growth.
US08652846B2
The invention provides an apoptosis-modulating cell-free composition comprising conditioned extracellular medium of a stem cell and uses thereof, particularly therapeutic uses. Also provided is a method of obtaining such a composition and an in vitro method of modulating apoptosis.
US08652841B2
In a culture method of the present invention, by culturing bone marrow stromal cells or mesenchymal stem cells under a pseudo micro-gravity environment generated by multi-axis rotation, bone marrow stromal cells or mesenchymal stem cells having an average cell size smaller than that before the culture are obtained. The bone marrow stromal cells or mesenchymal stem cells thus cultured are suitable as graft cells for a central nerve diseases therapy.
US08652840B2
The present invention relates to female germline stem cells and their progenitors, methods of isolation thereof, and methods of use thereof.
US08652836B2
Methods are disclosed for producing defective ribosomal products (DRiPs) in blebs (DRibbles) by contacting cells with a proteasome inhibitor, and in some examples also an autophagy inducer, thereby producing treated cells. DRibbles can be used to load antigen presenting cells (APCs), thereby allowing the APCs to present the DRiPs and antigenic fragments thereof. Immunogenic compositions that include treated cells, isolated DRibbles, or DRibble-loaded APCs are also disclosed. Methods are also provided for using treated cells, isolated DRibbles, or DRibble-loaded APCs to stimulate an immune response, for example in a subject. For example, DRibbles obtained from a tumor cell can be used to stimulate an immune response against the same type of tumor cells in the subject. In another example, DRibbles obtained from a pathogen-infected cell or cell engineered to express one or more antigens of a pathogen can be used to stimulate an immune response against the pathogen in the subject.
US08652828B2
Nanochannel arrays that enable high-throughput macromolecular analysis are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of preparing nanochannel arrays and nanofluidic chips. Methods of analyzing macromolecules, such as entire strands of genomic DNA, are also disclosed, as well as systems for carrying out these methods.
US08652825B2
Microbial production of pyruvate and metabolites derived from pyruvate in cells exhibiting reduced pyruvate dehydrogenase activity compared to wild-type cells. Acetate and glucose are supplied as a carbon sources.
US08652819B2
Provided herein are methods for producing a fermentation product, such as ethanol, by co-culture of a member of the genus Paenibacillus and an ethanologenic microbe, such as yeast or E. coli. Also provided are methods for making enzymes useful in the saccharification of a pretreated lignocellulosic material. The enzymes may be made by culturing a member of the genus Paenibacillus in a composition suitable for production of such enzymes. An example of such a composition is a pretreated lignocellulosic material, for example, spent hydrolysates. Also provided are genetically modified members of the genus Paenibacillus that have been genetically modified to not produce an antimicrobial, for instance, a polymyxin E.
US08652816B2
Methods of obtaining mutant nucleic acid sequences that demonstrate elevated oxaloacetate α-decarboxylase activity are provided. Compositions, such as genetically modified microorganisms that comprise such mutant nucleic acid sequences, are described, as are methods to obtain the same.
US08652804B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for detecting dicarboxylic acids using a transcription factor biosensor.
US08652801B2
The present invention features hydrophilic IR-transparent porous membranes, particularly hydrophilic IR-transparent porous polyethylene membranes and methods of preparing the hydrophilic membranes by treatment of hydrophobic IR-transparent porous membranes with plasma. The present invention further features spectroscopic sample holders which incorporate the hydrophilic IR-transparent porous membranes and methods of identifying bacteria and other microorganisms in samples by infrared spectroscopy.
US08652798B2
Analysis of ex vivo cells for disease state detection and therapeutic agent selection and monitoring
Described herein is the analysis of nanomechanical characteristics of cells. In particular, changes in certain local nanomechanical characteristics of ex vivo human cells can correlate with presence of a human disease, such as cancer, as well as a particular stage of progression of the disease. Also, for human patients that are administered with a therapeutic agent, changes in local nanomechanical characteristics of ex vivo cells collected from the patients can correlate with effectiveness of the therapeutic agent in terms of impeding or reversing progression of the disease. By exploiting this correlation, systems and related methods can be advantageously implemented for disease state detection and therapeutic agent selection and monitoring.
US08652796B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for detecting protein-protein and/or protein-nucleic acid interactions in cells.
US08652793B2
The present invention relates to a method for the measurement of active alpha1-proteinase inhibitor (A1PI) in a sample, comprising the steps of binding elastase to a solid support, letting the A1PI contained in the sample bind to the solid phase-bound elastase, and detecting solid phase-bound A1PI with a detection reagent.
US08652790B2
The present invention provides methods for the determination of the degree of molecular recognition of a protein with a ligand, including a first protein with a second protein. The methods may comprise determining the squared generalized order parameter (hereinafter, O) for at least one intramolecular bond of the first protein. The protein is then formed into a complex with a ligand. The value or values of O2 for the said at least one bond of the protein is then determined while the protein and the ligand are in the complex. The O value or values determined for the protein while the protein and the ligand are in a complex are compared or related to the O value or values determined for the uncomplexed protein.
US08652786B2
The present invention provides a novel method to determine the likelihood of effectiveness of a treatment in an individual affected with or at risk for developing cancer. The method involves detecting the presence or absence of Met amplification in an individual. The presence of Met amplification indicates that a Met targeting treatment is likely to be effective. Preferably, the Met targeting treatment is PHA-665752 or PF-02341066. In addition, the present methods allow for the detection of cancer in an individual, wherein the presence of Met amplification indicates that cancer is present and further that it will be treatable, namely with a Met targeting treatment.
US08652784B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions and kits for detecting the presence or absence of an integrated insertion polynucleotide.
US08652783B2
A circular DNA is provided comprising endogenous DNA common to both genetically modified wheat and non-genetically modified wheat along with one or more pieces of DNA each having a sequence present specifically in a strain of genetically modified wheat. Also provided is a method for determining a mix rate of genetically modified wheat in a test sample.
US08652777B2
The invention relates to a method for the analysis of ovarian cancer disorders, comprising determining the genomic methylation status of one or more CpG dinucleotides in a sequence selected from the group of sequences according to SEQ ID NO. 1 to 10 and/or SEQ ID NO. 50 to SEQ ID NO. 60. Optionally, additionally following steps are performed, the one or more results from the methylation status test is input into a classifier that is obtained from a Diagnostic Multi Variate Model, calculating a likelihood as to whether the sample is from a normal tissue or an ovarian cancer tissue and/or, calculating an associated p-value for the confidence in the prediction.
US08652772B2
Described are recombinant yeast which ferment xylose to ethanol and which maintain their ability to do so when cultured for numerous generations in non-selective media. The preferred yeast contain multiple copies of integrated genes encoding xylose reductase, xylitol dehydrogenase, and xylulokinase fused to promoters which are non-glucose inhibited and which do not require xylose for induction. Also described are preferred methods for integrating multiple copies of exogenous DNA into host cells by transforming cells with replicative/integrative vectors, and then replicating the cells a number of times under selective pressure to promote retention of the vector in subsequent generations. The replicated vectors thus serve to integrate multiple copies of the exogenous DNA into the host cells throughout the replication/selection phase. Thereafter the selective pressure can be removed to promote loss of the vector in subsequent generations, leaving stable integrants of the exogenous DNA.
US08652771B2
The present invention relates in general to the discovery of urinary succinate as a novel biomarker of kidney disease. More specifically, the invention provides for the measurement of succinate in urine samples that has great potential for the easy and early diagnosis of kidney damage and would allow early prediction of kidney disease and therapeutic intervention.
US08652768B1
Micron-size and sub-micron-size patterns on a substrate can direct the self-assembly of surface-bonded mixed polymer brushes to create nanoscale patterns in the phase-separated mixed polymer brush. The larger scale features, or patterns, can be defined by a variety of lithographic techniques, as well as other physical and chemical processes including but not limited to etching, grinding, and polishing. The polymer brushes preferably comprise vinyl polymers, such as polystyrene and poly(methyl methacrylate).
US08652764B2
A substrate 20 is prepared. “A piezoelectric material layer 32a which has not been fired” and which will become a piezoelectric membrane is formed above a first principal surface 20a of the substrate 20. A first mask 131 is formed above the piezoelectric material layer 32a. “The piezoelectric material layer 32a existing within a portion where the first mask 131 does not exist” is eliminated by injecting a blast media including at least one of abrasive grains or an organic solvent onto the first principal surface 20a of the substrate 20. Thereafter, the first mask 131 is eliminated, and the piezoelectric material layer 32a is fired. The substrate has a hollow portion, however, it does not necessarily have the hollow portion.
US08652763B2
This invention provides processing steps, methods and materials strategies for making patterns of structures for integrated electronic devices and systems. Processing methods of the present invention are capable of making micro- and nano-scale structures, such as Dual Damascene profiles, recessed features and interconnect structures, having non-uniform cross-sectional geometries useful for establishing electrical contact between device components of an electronic device. The present invention provides device fabrication methods and processing strategies using sub pixel-voting lithographic patterning of a single layer of photoresist useful for fabricating and integrating multilevel interconnect structures for high performance electronic or opto-electronic devices, particularly useful for Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) and Ultra large Scale Integrated (ULSI) devices. Processing methods of the present invention are complementary to conventional microfabrication and nanofabrication methods for making integrated electronics, and can be effectively integrated into existing photolithographic, etching, and thin film deposition patterning systems, processes and infrastructure.
US08652762B2
An antireflective coating that contains at least two polymer components and comprises chromophore moieties and transparent moieties is provided. The antireflective coating is useful for providing a single-layer composite graded antireflective coating formed beneath a photoresist layer.
US08652760B2
A printing plate precursor for laser engraving, including a relief forming layer including a cured resin material formed by thermally crosslinking a resin composition including at least (A) non-porous inorganic particles, (B) a binder polymer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 20° C. or higher, and (C) a crosslinking agent.
US08652759B2
A method is described for producing an imaged lithographic printing plate, wherein the developer comprises a hydrophilic polymer which comprises (m1) primary, secondary and/or tertiary amino groups, and (m2) acid groups selected from —COOH, —SO3H, —PO2H and —PO3H2, and (m3) optionally alkylene oxide units —(CHR1—CH2—O)p—, wherein R1 is H or —CH3 and p is an integer from 1 to 50.
US08652755B2
A positive photosensitive resin composition that forms an image for a liquid crystal display device and an organic EL display device, for example. The resin is made of a cured film that is highly water repellent and highly oleophobic on the surface. The resin has insulating properties, retains an excellent image and causes no reflow, for example, when being cured to form a film having excellent reworkability. A positive photosensitive resin composition comprising component (A), component (B), component (C) and component (D); Component (A) is an acrylic polymer containing an acid dissociable group, an aliphatic hydroxy group, and an N-substituted maleimide group; Component (B) is an acrylic polymer containing an acid dissociable group and a blocked isocyanate group; Component (C) is an acrylic polymer containing an acid dissociable group, an aliphatic hydroxy group, a C3-10 fluoroalkyl group, and a silyl ether group, and Component (D) is a photoacid generator.
US08652750B2
A silicon-containing film is formed from a heat curable composition comprising (A) a silicon-containing compound obtained through hydrolytic condensation of a hydrolyzable silicon compound in the presence of an acid catalyst, (B) a hydroxide or organic acid salt of Li, Na, K, Rb or Ce, or a sulfonium, iodonium or ammonium compound, (C) an organic acid, (D) a cyclic ether-substituted alcohol, and (E) an organic solvent. The silicon-containing film ensures effective pattern formation, effective transfer of a photoresist pattern, and accurate processing of a substrate.
US08652737B2
A toner which has i) toner base particles containing at least a binder resin and a colorant and ii) a fatty acid metal salt composition as an external additive. The fatty acid metal salt composition contains a nonionic surface-active agent and a fatty acid metal salt. This toner and an image forming process making use of the toner can keep the toner from adhering to a toner carrying member throughout running, promise a stable chargeability of the toner and can keep any deterioration of halftone image quality from being caused by excess charging of the toner and any image fog from being caused by insufficient charging of the toner.
US08652736B2
The present invention provides a carrier core material for use in the production of an electrophotographic developer which, even when applied, for example, to MFPs (multifunction printers), can realize stable, high-quality and high-speed development, and has a prolonged replacing life of magnetic carriers, and a method of manufacturing the same, a magnetic carrier including the carrier core material, and an electrophotographic developer manufactured from the magnetic carrier. An electrophotographic development carrier is prepared by adding resin particles, a binder, a dispersant, a wetting agent, and water to a raw material powder, wet pulverizing the mixture, drying the pulverized product to give granulated powder, calcinatng the granulated powder, and then sintering the granulated powder to prepare a carrier core material having an internally hollow structure, and coating the carrier core material with a resin. An electrophotographic developer is manufactured by mixing the electrophotographic development carrier with a toner.
US08652735B2
A carrier including a magnetic core particle and a resin layer covering a surface of the magnetic core particle. The magnetic core particle is a ferrite particle including strontium in an amount of 0.005 to 3% by mass, measured by fluorescent X-ray spectroscopy. The resin layer comprises a resin obtained by heating a copolymer comprising a silicon-containing unit A and another silicon-containing specific unit B.
US08652730B2
An electrostatic image developing toner including: a toner particle containing a binder resin having a polyester resin and a coloring agent; and a non-colored particle containing a polyester but not containing a coloring agent and having a shape factor SF1 of not more than 110, wherein an amount of Sn element contained in the non-colored particles is larger than an amount of Sn element contained in the toner particle.
US08652722B2
An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains a binder resin, a release agent, a black colorant, a methylglycine diacetate, and an aluminum element, the content of the methylglycine diacetate is in the range of from 5 ppm to 500 ppm, and the content of the aluminum element is in the range of from 0.07 atomic % to 0.18 atomic % in total element analysis using fluorescent X-rays.
US08652718B2
Provided is a resin composition containing a pyrylium-based squarylium compound represented by the following Formula (I) and a resin, wherein in Formula (I), each of R1, R2, R3, and R4 independently represents an alkyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms.
US08652709B2
Methods of sealing a bipolar plate supported solid oxide fuel cell with a sealed anode compartment are provided. The solid oxide fuel cell includes a cathode, an electrolyte, and an anode, which are supported on a metallic bipolar plate assembly including gas flow fields and the gas impermeable bipolar plate. The electrolyte and anode are sealed into an anode compartment with a metal perimeter seal. An improved method of sealing is provided by extending the metal seal around the entire perimeter of the cell between an electrolyte and the bipolar plate to form the anode compartment. During a single-step high temperature sintering process the metal seal bonds to the edges of the electrolyte and anode layers, the metal foam flow field and the bipolar plate to form a gastight containment.
US08652708B2
A fluid flow plate of a fuel cell includes a main body and a supporting frame. The main body includes a plurality of fluid channels and an opening, wherein the fluid channels converge at the opening. The supporting frame, mounted on the periphery of the opening, is annular shaped and frames the fluid channels. The supporting frame includes a pair of supporting walls respectively disposed on two sides of the fluid channels.
US08652700B2
A fuel cell comprises an electrolyte electrode assembly which includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and an electrolyte; a separator which includes a sandwiching portion; a fuel gas channel which is formed at a first surface of the sandwiching portion, and is covered by the anode electrode; fuel gas outlets which are formed around the fuel gas channel; an oxygen-containing gas channel which is formed at a second surface of the sandwiching portion, and is covered by the cathode electrode; and oxygen-containing gas outlets which are formed around the oxygen-containing gas channel, in which the oxygen-containing gas outlets are formed at phases different from phases of the fuel gas outlets in a thickness direction of the separator.
US08652697B2
A method of controlling a fuel cell system includes applying alternating current (AC) signals to an individual fuel cell. The AC signals have a plurality of different frequencies. A voltage across the individual fuel cell is determined at each of the plurality of different frequencies. An impedance characteristic of the individual fuel cell is determined based at least in part on the voltage across the individual fuel cell at each of the plurality of different frequencies. The individual fuel cell is controlled based at least in part on the impedance characteristic.
US08652696B2
The present invention relates to processes and apparatuses for generating electrical power from certain non-gaseous carbonaceous feedstocks through the integration of catalytic hydromethanation technology with fuel cell technology.
US08652685B2
The invention is a process for making an electrochemical cell with a catalytic electrode including a catalyst made by a solution precipitation process via an oxidation-reduction reaction between water-soluble oxidizing and reducing agents, at least one of which includes manganese. The reaction is carried out at less than 65° C., preferably with little or no heating. The oxidizing agent does not have a cation that is reduced in the reaction, and the reducing agent does not have an anion that is reduced in the reaction.
US08652676B2
The assembled battery system according to the present invention includes at least two non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cells, each including a positive electrode that occludes and emits lithium ions, a negative electrode that occludes and emits lithium ions, and a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising an electrolyte dissolved in a non-aqueous solvent, all received in a parallelepiped cell case. These cells are arranged so that each larger area side of an adjacent pair of the parallelepiped cell case faces in parallel one another. A cooling member with a cooling medium flow conduit is provided between each opposing pair of larger area cell case sides, and cooling medium flowing in this conduit directly contacts the sides of the parallelepiped cell cases that define the two opposite sides of the cooling conduit.
US08652674B2
A cathode material includes a primary active cathode material and an amount of NiS2. Primary batteries (e.g., thermal batteries) can be provided that contain such a cathode material.
US08652672B2
An assembly includes non-load bearing housings, each housing including several cavities. Each cavity includes a stack of freely stacked electrochemical storage cells in the housings. Each electrochemical storage cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The assembly is configured such that pressure applied to the assembly is born by the freely stacked electrochemical storage cells.
US08652661B2
A secondary battery with a protection circuit module and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The secondary battery includes a bare cell, and a protection circuit board including a circuit board and a coupling member positioned at least one side in the longitudinal direction of the circuit board to couple the circuit board to the bare cell. The coupling member includes a coupler fixed to the circuit board, and first and second supports respectively extending from the coupler and spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the circuit board.
US08652658B2
A method and apparatus for the production of C-plane single crystal sapphire is disclosed. The method and apparatus may use edge defined film-fed growth techniques for the production of single crystal material exhibiting low polycrystallinity and/or low dislocation density.
US08652653B2
Novel materials are provided, having a single phenyl or a chain of phenyls where there is a nitrogen atom on each end of the single phenyl or chain of phenyls. The nitrogen atom may be further substituted with particular thiophene, benzothiophene, and triphenylene groups. Organic light-emitting devices are also provided, where the novel materials are used as a hole transport material in the device. Combinations of the hole transport material with specific host materials are also provided.
US08652649B2
Coated articles and methods for applying coatings are described. In some cases, the coating can exhibit desirable properties and characteristics such as durability, corrosion resistance, and high conductivity. The articles may be coated, for example, using an electrodeposition process.
US08652643B2
Provided a thin plate glass laminate of a thin plate glass substrate and a support glass substrate, which suppresses inclusion of bubbles and occurrence of convex defects due to foreign matters, from which the thin plate glass substrate and the support glass substrate are easily separated, and which is excellent in heat resistance. A process for producing a display device using the thin plate glass laminate, and a silicone for release paper for the thin plate glass laminate are also provided. A thin plate glass laminate is formed by laminating a thin plate glass substrate and a support glass substrate using a silicone resin layer having releasability and non-adhesive properties.
US08652637B2
The present invention is core-shell polymer particles comprising a common binder polymer for the core and the shell wherein the core has a porosity and the shell is non-porous The particles have a porosity from 10 to 70 percent.
US08652628B2
The present teachings provide a fuser member. The fuser member includes a substrate layer comprising a polymer blend polyimide polymer and amino silicone.
US08652625B2
A transparent gas barrier film comprising a substrate having thereon a gas barrier layer comprising at least a low density layer and a high density layer, wherein one or more intermediate density layers are sandwiched between the low density layer and the high density layer.
US08652624B2
The invention provides an article comprising a first layer and a second layer, and wherein the first layer is formed from a first composition comprising an ethylene/α-olefin/diene interpolymer, an isoprene rubber (synthetic), a natural rubber, a butadiene rubber, a styrene butadiene rubber, a chloroprene rubber, a nitrile rubber, a hydrogenated nitrile rubber, a chlorinated polyethylene, a chlorosulfonated polyethylene, an ethylene/propylene rubber, an ethylene/diene copolymer, a fluoro rubber, a polyurethane, a silicone rubber, or a combination thereof; and wherein the second layer is formed from a second composition comprising a butyl rubber, a halobutyl rubber, polyvinylidene chloride, a brominated polymer derived from a copolymer of isobutylene and p-methyl styrene, a nitrile rubber, a chloroprene rubber, a chlorosulfonated polyethylene, a chlorinated polyethylene, a polyurethane, a fluoro rubber, or a combination thereof.
US08652620B2
A sliding element in an internal combustion engine has a coating which has the following layers from the outside inwards: a first carbon-based layer, a second carbon-based layer which is harder and/or has a smaller proportion of hydrogen than the first carbon-based layer, a PVD layer and a bonding layer.
US08652618B2
Purpose: The present invention provides a multi-layer film comprising a polyolefin film, an aluminum foil and a polyamide layer which are laminated sequentially, wherein the aluminum foil is adhered directly to the polyolefin film without any anchor coat agent or adhesive and the multi-layer film is excellent in adhesion strength between the polyolefin film and the aluminum foil and in low-temperature resistance.The multi-layer film according to the present invention comprises an aluminum layer (B) subjected to chromium-free chemical conversion treatment, a polyolefin resin film (A) on one side of the layer (B) and a polyamide layer (C) on the other side of the layer (B), wherein the film (A) comprises a layer (A-1) composed of an acid-modified polyethylene resin (α) and a layer (A-2) composed of a crystalline polyethylene resin (β), a temperature at which the acid-modified polyethylene resin (α) has a crystallinity of 60%, Tmα60, is lower than a temperature at which the crystalline polyethylene resin (β) has a crystallinity of 60%, Tmβ60, and the layer (B) is present directly on the layer (A-1).
US08652617B2
Biolaminate composite assemblies are provided. Generally, the biolaminate composite assemblies may comprise one or more biolaminate layers and at least one biolaminate layer may comprise polylactic acid. In one embodiment, a biolaminate composite assembly is provided comprising one or more biolaminate layers wherein the biolaminate composite assembly is three-dimensionally formable over a rigid non-plastic substrate. At least one of the biolaminate layers comprises polylactic acid and a natural wax. In another embodiment, a method for forming a biolaminate composite assembly is provided.
US08652616B2
A method for forming a printable coating includes providing a calcium carbonate, combining a dispersant with the calcium carbonate, nanomilling the calcium carbonate and the dispersant to inhibit re-floccing of the nanomilled calcium carbonate, and combining the mixture with a binder at alkaline pH. According to one exemplary embodiment, the coating may be applied to one or more sides of a media substrate.
US08652610B2
Fibrous products are disclosed containing an additive composition. The additive composition, for instance, comprises a water-soluble film forming component, a first water-soluble modifier component and a hydrophobic polymer component. In some aspects, the additive composition further comprises an additional water-soluble modifier component. The additive composition may be incorporated into the fibrous web by being combined with the fibers that are used to form the web. Alternatively, the additive composition may be topically applied to the web after the web has been formed. In one aspect, the additive composition may be applied to the web as a creping adhesive during a creping operation. The additive composition may improve the perceived softness of the web without substantially affecting the absorbency of the web in an adverse manner.
US08652604B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising: a) a polyolefin (A); b) a compound (B) according to formula (I), wherein R and R′ each is the same or different residue and comprising at least 6 C-atoms; c) a phenolic compound (C), having the formula (II) wherein R is an non-substituted or substituted aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbyl radical which may comprise heteroatoms, or R is an heteroatom; X is H, OH, and/or R′; whereby R′ is a hydrocarbyl radical or hydrogen, and n is 1 to 4; and d) optionally, an UV-light stabilizer (D), wherein for the composition the total amount of migrated compounds (B), (C) and, if present, (D), as well as their decomposition products is equal to or less than 1.8 microgram per liter with a ratio S/V dm−1 of 11.70 to 12.30, to the use of said composition for the production of a pipe and to a pipe comprising said composition.
US08652601B2
A cover film comprising a substrate layer, an intermediate layer comprising a resin composition containing 50% by mass or more of a metallocene linear low-density polyethylene resin having a density of 0.900 to 0.940×103 kg/m3, and a sealant layer comprising an ethylene-type copolymerized resin containing 50 to 85% by mass of an olefin component.
US08652594B2
A recording sheet is provided, which comprises: a paper substrate comprising a plurality of cellulosic fibers; and a sizing agent comprising a water soluble divalent metal salt; wherein the paper substrate and sizing agent cooperate to form an I-beam structure. Methods of making and using the recording sheet are also provided.
US08652583B2
The cavity has first and second main walls covered by a photoresist. The photoresist is subjected to electronic or electromagnetic radiation of wavelength comprised between 12.5 nm and 15 nm. A first thickness of the photoresist is exposed to form a first area of sacrificial material and a second area of different nature defining the surface coating. The sacrificial material is removed, the surface coating is formed and has a surface against one of the main walls and a free opposite surface. The lateral dimensions of the surface coating are defined in the cavity by the radiation through the first main wall.
US08652580B2
A manufacturing method of tiles includes the steps of: preparing mixed powder having a water content of 2 to 7% by mixing 30 to 80 parts by weight of calcium hydroxide powder or dolomite plaster powder, 20 to 70 parts by weight of porous aggregate, 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of a first photocatalyst and water; filling the mixed powder into a mold of a molding machine; forming a formed body by pressurizing the filled mixed powder; curing the formed body in a carbon dioxide atmosphere; and forming a thin layer made of a second photocatalyst on a surface of the formed body.
US08652579B2
Processes are described for binding a fibrous material. The processes may include applying to a surface of the fibrous material an aqueous binding composition to form a coated fibrous material. The binding composition may include: (a) a water-soluble polyamic acid, and (b) an organic crosslinking agent capable of undergoing a covalent crosslinking reaction with the water-soluble polyamic acid when heated. The water-soluble polyamic acid may be formed by the reaction of: a (i) a polycarboxylic acid or polyanhydride having a molecular weight of at least 150 g/mol, and (ii) ammonia or an amine compound. The processes may further include heating the coated fibrous material to crosslink the water-soluble polyamic acid with the organic crosslinking agent to form a cured binder. One or more adjoining fibers of the fibrous material may be bound to each other at cross over points by the cured binder.
US08652575B2
A light-cyan solid ink including an ink vehicle and a colorant. The colorant includes a cyan colorant, a hue-adjusting colorant that absorbs light having a wavelength of from about 500 to about 600 nm, and an optional shade-adjusting colorant that absorbs light having a wavelength of from about 400 to about 500 nm.
US08652564B2
Protein binding onto a polymeric surface is enhanced by treating the surface with an amine-bearing polymer like poly(ethylene imine). When used in ELISA, the treated surface improves the performance of the assay.
US08652558B2
Provided is a cream composition superior in handleability. The cream composition contains milk fat, a sugar, and water. The content of the milk fat is more than 5 mass % and 30 mass % or less. The content of the sugar is 40 to 65 mass %. The median diameter of the cream composition is 0.2 to 4.0 μm, and the viscosity of the cream composition at 20° C. is 100 to 2,500 mPa·s.
US08652556B1
A cooking system and a method for cooking food products. The cooking system comprises a forced-convection cooker having a conveyor continuously conveying stacks of product-laden trays through a cooking chamber. Fans in the cooking chamber establish a generally vertical convection path traversed by the conveyor. Foraminous bottoms in the trays allow cooking fluid in the convection path to be forced through the trays and products.
US08652552B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for estimating the air humidity within an oven cavity (14) by using ultrasound waves with at least two different frequencies (f1, f2). Said apparatus comprises at least one ultrasound transmitter (10) for generating the ultrasound waves, at least one ultrasound receiver (12) for receiving the ultrasound waves and at least one phase detecting device for detecting the phase (φ1, φ2) of the ultrasound wave at the ultrasound receiver (12) relative to the same ultrasound wave with the same frequency (f1, f2) at the ultrasound transmitter (10). Said apparatus comprises further at least one evaluation unit for calculating the velocity (V) of the ultrasound waves on the basis of the phases (φ1, φ2) and frequencies (f1, f2) of the ultrasound waves with the two different frequencies (f1, f2), at least one temperature sensor (32) for detecting the temperature (T) in the oven cavity (14) and at least one estimation unit for estimating the humidity in the oven cavity (14) on the basis of the temperature (T) and the velocity (V) of the ultrasound waves. Further, the present invention relates to a corresponding method for estimating the air humidity within an oven cavity (14).
US08652549B2
The invention relates to a post-extraction process for preparing low acyl gellan gum having high solubility property, the process comprising the following steps: (1) enzyme treatment of fermentation broth; (2) flocculation of fermentation broth; (3) deacylation treatment; (4) clarification treatment of deacylated solution; (5) dehydration treatment of clarified and deacylated gellan gum solution; (6) ion exchange and decoloration treatment; and (7) drying and milling. The process according to the invention produces a product, which has largely improved solubility, largely improved quality, good appearance, high transparence, and high gel strength.
US08652538B2
The present invention provides a composition for accelerating a change in muscle type, increasing the amount of muscle, strengthening muscle, enhancing athletic abilities, reducing lipids, suppressing the accumulation of lipids, lowering blood sugar, controlling body weight or lowering body weight, containing a PPAR-δ promoter, an AMPK promoter and a PGC1-α promoter as an active ingredient.
US08652528B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods of making nanoparticles having about 0.2 to about 35 weight percent of a therapeutic agent; and about 10 to about 99 weight percent of biocompatible polymer such as a diblock poly(lactic) acid-poly(ethylene)glycol.
US08652517B2
A process for the coating of tablet cores, said tablet core comprising an effective amount of at least one pharmaceutically active compound, comprising spraying a coating solution or suspension comprising a sugar, or a starch, or a mixture of a sugar and a starch onto the tablets or tablet cores with the proviso that film-forming agents in the coating solution or suspension are excluded, to obtain coated tablets, such coated tablets and corresponding coating mixtures.
US08652511B2
A composition suitable for use in a transdermal delivery patch for administration of a biologically active compound, the composition comprising a phosphate compound of tocopherol and a polymer carrier.
US08652504B2
The present invention provides an implantable solid polymer delivery composition that can be formulated to release a bioactive agent to an interior body site at a controlled rate over an extended period of time by adjusting the various components of the composition. The controlled delivery of the composition avoids an initial drug spike, resulting in a smooth delivery profile over time. Polymer layers in the composition can be porous and are both biodegradable in water and body enzymes and biocompatible. Methods of making the implantable solid polymer compositions and methods of delivering a bioactive agent at a controlled rate to an interior body site are also provided.
US08652499B2
A medical antimicrobial composition includes a siloxanyl structure-containing polymer and an ammonium group-containing polymer, which is excellent in transparency, flexibility and mechanical properties, and also excellent in adhesion to a base resin with good mechanical properties, particularly to a silicone resin. The medical antimicrobial composition includes an ammonium group-containing polymer compound dispersed in a siloxanyl structure-containing polymer and a medical device comprising the medical antimicrobial composition.
US08652495B2
Disclosed are oral care compositions, for example dentifrice compositions, comprising an oral care composition comprising an orally acceptable vehicle, metal oxide particles having an average particle size of no greater than a dentin tubule and at least one amino acid capable of chelating the metal oxide. The composition may comprise a polymeric adherent material for adhering the metal oxide particles in the dentin tubule. The metal oxide particles have a median particle size of 5 microns or less, and may comprise zinc oxide.
US08652493B2
The present invention pertains to oil-in-water emulsion compositions having hydrophobic materials stably dispersed therein and methods for making such. The preferred method of making the emulsion compositions the formation of two O/W emulsions. A first O/W emulsion is for wetting or otherwise pre-treating the hydrophobic components. Thereafter, the first emulsion is added to a second O/W emulsion after the second emulsion has been formed. Both emulsions use a ternary surfactant blend of cationic, anionic and bridging surfactants, making the finished product a double or “binary-CAN” emulsion system. Generally, the system has a bi-modal oil droplet distribution.
US08652492B2
Disclosed are tablets comprising hydrolytically stable formulations of (6-(5-fluoro-2-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenylamino)pyrimidin-4-ylamino)-2,2-dimethyl-3-oxo-2H-pyrido[3,2-b][1,4]oxazin-4(3H)-yl)methyl phosphate disodium salt (Compound 1) prepared by a wet granulation process.
US08652489B2
The present invention pertains to pharmaceutical compositions which comprise a botulinum neurotoxin from Clostridium botulinum, the neurotoxin being free of the complexing proteins naturally present in the botulinum neurotoxin complex or being chemically modified or being modified by genetic manipulation. Moreover the pharmaceutical compositions of the instant invention have good stability and are advantageously formulated free of human serum albumin.
US08652486B2
The invention relates to methods and compositions for preventing or treating human rhinovirus infection.
US08652475B2
Disclosed are novel inhibitors of the alternative complement pathway and particularly, novel anti-factor B antibodies. Also disclosed is the use of such inhibitors to reduce or prevent airway hyperresponsiveness and/or airway inflammation by selectively inhibiting the alternative complement pathway, thereby treating diseases in which such conditions play a role. Also disclosed is the use of such inhibitors to reduce or prevent other diseases and conditions, including ischemia-reperfusion injury, by inhibition of the alternative complement pathway.
US08652474B2
A composition comprising a main species HER2 antibody that binds to domain II of HER2 and acidic variants thereof is described. Pharmaceutical formulations comprising the composition, and therapeutic uses for the composition are also disclosed.
US08652471B2
The invention relates to antibodies that specifically bind to tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) and that reduce the clotting time of blood. Such antibodies have utility in the treatment of subjects with a coagulopathy.
US08652454B2
Hair conditioner comprising silicone and a conditioning gel phase, said phase obtainable by heating a fatty alcohol and an oil until they are molten, separately heating a cationic surfactant in water until it is dissolved/suspended, then adding the molten fatty alcohol and oil mix to the cationic surfactant before adding any remaining ingredients.
US08652449B1
The disclosure relates to sunscreen compositions having a synergistic combination of ultraviolet light (UV) filtering agents that provide a high sun protection factor (SPF). Compositions according to the disclosure have high SPF values without requiring high overall amounts of UV filtering agents. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to methods of using the described compositions for protecting keratinous substances such as skin and hair from UV radiation.
US08652445B2
A one-component prescription fluoride treatment composition having both fluoride efficacy and sensitivity relief is disclosed. The composition includes at least one metal fluoride and a nerve desensitizing agent such as potassium nitrate. The invention further includes a composition having at least one metal fluoride less than about 1.15% by weight of at least one metal fluoride; less than about 5 percent by weight of at least one alkali metal salt having desensitizing effect; at least one carrier; and at least one foaming agent that has thickening property. The composition may be formulated into a gel, a paste or any other convenient form, some of which contain abrasives.
US08652442B2
Methods of imaging distribution of myeloperoxidase activity in a subject are disclosed. These methods include the use of bioluminescent substrates, including luminol and wavelength-shifted analogues of luminol. Bioluminescent myeloperoxidase substrates that emit light at longer wavelengths compared to luminol are shown to be useful for imaging myeloperoxidase activity in vivo. The disclosed methods can be used for imaging sites of inflammation and other pathological conditions associated with abnormal levels of MPO activity in vivo. Methods of synthesis of luminol analogues are also disclosed.
US08652438B2
There is provided a central nervous system labelling composition for intranasal administration for the purpose of labelling the central nervous system from the olfactory epithelium by way of the olfactory bulb and by means of intranasal administration. Additionally, there is provided a method of non-invasively labelling the central nervous system by way of an administration route that entails little transferability to the entire body. Furthermore, there is provided a screening method using a central nervous system labelling composition for intranasal administration. A central nervous system labelling composition for intranasal administration is characterized by labelling the central nervous system from the olfactory epithelium by way of the olfactory bulb and by means of intranasal administration and by containing at least one compound expressed either by the general formula (1) or the general formula (2) shown below as effective component:
US08652437B2
A method of manufacturing an artificial zeolite. The method includes the steps of: heating a waste insulator to form a molten insulator; quenching and pulverizing the molten insulator; and heat treating the quenched and pulverized insulator in an alkaline aqueous solution.
US08652431B2
A method of synthesis of a metal fluorophosphate having the following general formula (1): XaMb(PO4)cFd (1), in which: X is an alkaline metal selected among sodium (Na) and lithium (Li) or a mixture of said metals; M is a transition metal selected among the following elements: Co, Ni, Fe, Mn, V, Cu, Ti, Al, Cr, Mo, Nb or a combination of at least two of said metals, 0≦a≦5; 0.5≦b≦3; 0.5≦c≦3; and d is an integer equal to 1, 2 or 3. The method contains an electric-field-activated sintering process for a mixture (1) formed by at least one first phosphate-containing solid precursor and at least one second fluorine-containing solid precursor.
US08652429B2
The invention provides an exhaust gas cleaning oxidation catalyst and in particular to an oxidation catalyst for cleaning the exhaust gas discharged from internal combustion engines of compression ignition type (particularly diesel engines). The invention further relates to a catalysed substrate monolith comprising an oxidizing catalyst on a substrate monolith for use in treating exhaust gas emitted from a lean-burn internal combustion engine. In particular, the invention relates to a catalysed substrate monolith comprising a first washcoat coating and a second washcoat coating, wherein the second washcoat coating is disposed in a layer above the first washcoat coating.
US08652425B2
This invention relates to the integration of ammonium carbonate leach processes with established acid and alkaline uranium leach processes as multifunctional industrial processes for the extraction, high degree purification and conversion of processed or semi-processed uranium as U3O8, UO2, or most tetra or hexa-valent forms of uranium, and where applicable, for the recovery of uranium from uranium ores, using advanced multiple stage membrane based technologies for the separation and concentration of uranium in solution from heavy metals and lighter elements that may be present in the solution, and the selective leach and precipitation properties of an ammonium carbonate leach.
US08652422B2
The invention is directed to an apparatus useful in conducting detection of compounds on blotting membranes. The device is comprised of several layers including a porous support layer below the blotting membrane(s), a flow distributor above the blotting membrane(s) and optionally a well on the flow distributor to contain the liquid to the desired area and to allow for lower starting volumes of such liquid. Preferably, the flow distributor is a non-binding or low binding hydrophilic porous membrane such as a 0.22 micron membrane and the support layer is a grid or sintered porous material. The distributor and support are held together to form an envelope around the membrane(s). The use of a hinge, clips and other such devices is preferred in doing so.
US08652419B2
A method of manufacturing a microfluidic chip includes: irradiating, with a laser light, an area to be provided with a valley for storing a fluid on a surface of a substrate so as to form a modified region having a periodic pattern formed in a self-organizing manner in a light-collecting area of the laser light, the laser light having a pulse width for which the pulse duration is on the order of picoseconds or less; carrying out an etching treatment on the substrate in which the modified region is formed, removing at least some of the modified portion so as to provide the valley, and forming a periodic structure having a plurality of groove portions along one direction which have a surface profile based on the periodic pattern on at least a bottom surface of the valley; and forming a metal layer that covers the periodic structure of the bottom surface.
US08652417B2
A set of crystallization solutions includes a plurality of crystallization solutions of Crystallization Solution Set I, a plurality of crystallization solutions of Crystallization Solution Set II or a plurality of crystallization solutions of Crystallization Solution Set III.
US08652409B2
Fluid analyte sensors include a photoelectrocatalytic element that is configured to be exposed to the fluid, if present, and to respond to photoelectrocatalysis of at least one analyte in the fluid that occurs in response to impingement of optical radiation upon the photoelectrocatalytic element. A semiconductor light emitting source is also provided that is configured to impinge the optical radiation upon the photoelectrocatalytic element. Related solid state devices and sensing methods are also described.
US08652385B2
An eyeglass frame including a thermoplastic sheet laminate incorporating transfer printing eyeglass decorative patterns and a one or more covering layers bonded thereto. A process for manufacturing an eyeglass frame including: preparing a thermoplastic sheet laminate incorporating eyeglass decorative patterns; bending said thermoplastic sheet laminate under heat and pressure forming a one or more intermediate products in a first mold; and bonding a one or more covering layers to the intermediate products from the bending step in a second mold.
US08652381B2
A resin transfer molding (RTM) molding device is designed to mold a fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) molded body by injecting a resin composition into a mold and by impregnating the molded body therewith. The resin composition is a chain curing polymer (CCP). A CCP accommodating layer is disposed adjacent to an outer side of the molded body. The layer contains the CCP. The layer is provided with a Vf limit value, the value defined by the curing characteristics of the CCP and the characteristics of dissipation of heat from the CCP to the exterior. An element for separating the molded body is disposed between the body and the layer.
US08652370B2
A hot isostatic pressing method is disclosed wherein workpieces are accommodated within a high pressure vessel and the interior of the high pressure vessel is filled with an inert gas of a high temperature and a high pressure to treat the workpieces. The method includes a cooling step which is performed after maintaining the interior of the high pressure vessel at a high temperature and a high pressure for a predetermined time and in which a liquid inert gas is fed into the high pressure vessel. According to this method it is possible to shorten the cycle time of an HIP apparatus.
US08652368B2
A resorbable tissue scaffold fabricated from bioactive glass fiber forms a rigid three-dimensional porous matrix having a bioactive composition. Porosity in the form of interconnected pore space is provided by the space between the bioactive glass fiber in the porous matrix. Strength of the bioresorbable matrix is provided by bioactive glass that fuses and bonds the bioactive glass fiber into the rigid three-dimensional matrix. The resorbable tissue scaffold supports tissue in-growth to provide osteoconductivity as a resorbable tissue scaffold, used for the repair of damaged and/or diseased bone tissue.
US08652367B2
Methods and apparatus for prilling are provided which include dynamically controlling the pressure at the prill head for increased control over prill quality and size distribution. In one embodiment, the pressure of a headspace above a volume of liquid or slurry is regulated to maintain a more precise control of the pressure of the liquid or slurry at the prill head. In another embodiment, an axial upflow device is used to maintain a more precise control of the pressure of the liquid or slurry at the prill head.
US08652364B2
A polymer film comprising at least one compound represented by formula (I) is disclosed. A1 and A2 each independently represent a group having a Hammett's σp value of 0.2 or more, or bond each other to form a cyclic active methylene structure; and X1 and X2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, aryl group, hetero-cyclic group, cyano, N-alkyl- or N-aryl-carbamoyl, or alkyl- or aryl-oxycarbonyl, or bond each other to form a saturated ring in which nitrogen and carbon atoms are embedded, and the group and ring may have at least one substituent.
US08652360B2
The present invention aims to provide a method of use for surface-modifying a semiconductor nanocrystal comprising at least the steps consisting in having a semiconductor nanocrystal, the organic coating layer of which is provided, at the outer surface of the nanocrystal, with at least one reactive group G1 that reacts according to a cycloaddition reaction of click chemistry type; and bringing said nanocrystal together with an adjoining material provided at the surface with at least one G2 group complementary to the G1 group with respect to said click chemistry reaction, under conditions favorable to the interaction of said G1 and G2 groups, characterized in that said G1 and G2 groups are respectively an azide and a strained cycloalkynyl radical, or vice versa.
US08652357B2
Disclosed are a phosphor, a method for preparing and using the same, a light emitting device package, a surface light source apparatus, a lighting apparatus using the phosphor, and a display apparatus. The phosphor includes an inorganic compound represented by an empirical formula (Sr, M)2SiO4-xNy:Eu, where M is a metallic element, 0
US08652356B2
The blue phosphor of the present invention is represented by the general formula aBaO.bSrO.(1−a−b)EuO.cMgO.dAlO3/2.eWO3, where 0.70≦a≦0.95, 0≦b≦0.15, 0.95≦c≦1.15, 9.00≦d≦11.00, 0.001≦e≦0.200, and a+b≦0.97 are satisfied. In the blue phosphor of the present invention, two peaks whose tops are located in a range of diffraction angle 2θ=13.0 to 13.6 degrees and one peak whose top is located in a range of diffraction angle 2θ=14.6 to 14.8 degrees are present in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by measurement on the blue phosphor using an X-ray with a wavelength of 0.774 Å.
US08652351B2
This invention provides a titanic acid compound-type electrode active material having a high battery capacity and, at the same time, having excellent cycle characteristics. The titanic acid compound exhibits an X-ray diffraction pattern corresponding to a bronze-type titanium dioxide except for a peak for a (200) plane and having a peak intensity ratio between the (001) plane and the (200) plane, i.e., I(200)/I(001), of not more than 0.2. The titanic acid compound may be produced by heat dehydrating H2Ti3O7 at a temperature in the range of 200 to 330° C., by heat dehydrating H2Ti4O9 at a temperature in the range of 250 to 650° C., or by heat dehydrating H2Ti5O11 at a temperature in the range of 200 to 600° C.
US08652347B2
Provided are new compositions of ruthenates in the pervoskite and layered pervoskite family, wherein the ruthenate compositions exhibit large magnetoresistance (MR) and electric-pulse-induced resistance (EPIR) switching effects, the latter observable at room temperature. This is the first time large MR and EPIR effects have been shown together in ruthenate compositions. Further provided are methods for synthesizing the class of ruthenates that exhibits such properties, as well as methods of use therefor in electromagnetic devices, thin films, sensors, semiconductors, insulators and the like.
US08652331B2
A method of backwashing a membrane filtration system comprising at least one permeable membrane, preferably a hollow fiber membrane, the method comprising the step of applying a pressurized gas at a variable pressure to permeate remaining present in the system when filtration process is stopped or suspended to provide liquid for backwashing pores of the permeable membrane during a backwashing process. Also provided are methods of filtering solids from a liquid suspension using alternating liquid backwash pressures.
US08652311B1
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for an immunoassay technique that uses amperometric measurements to rapidly analyze different pathogenic microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, toxins, and parasites. A conductive membrane is used to provide support for antibody immobilization and serve as a working electrode. The proposed technique is adaptable for use with different materials so as to form a membrane having a pore size that is suited to the particular application. A compact and simple disposable element can be used. The immunoassay can be automated using microprocessor control so as to reduce the amount of human intervention in sample analysis.
US08652308B2
An electrolyzer for high temperature electrolysis capable of operating in an allothermal mode including an enclosure, at least one electrolysis plate (8) including an anode and a cathode in combination and means for heating an active fluid intended to undergo a high temperature electrolysis, characterized in that the enclosure is capable of maintaining an electrolyte bath under high or very high pressure of several tens of bars, in that said heating means ( 10) are positioned in the enclosure and use a heat transfer fluid.
US08652307B2
In an apparatus and method for magnetic field assisted electrochemical discharge machining (ECDM), the magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) effect is utilized to improve the thickness of bubble film and the electrolyte circulation so as to enhance the machining accuracy and efficiency. Since charged ions in a magnetic field are induced by Lorenz force to move, and the electrolysis bubbles generated in the ECDM process are suffused with electrification ions on their surfaces, the electrolysis bubbles can be forced to move in the direction of the magnetic field without the need of mechanical disturbance. The present invention can be widely applied in the micro-machining of non-conductive brittle materials of different dimensions and shapes, comprising the forming of microchannels and microholes on a biochip, and in the micro-opto-electro-mechanical system (MOEMS) and various kinds of micro-machining fields. The machined surface is smooth and does not require a second time machining.
US08652303B2
A desalination device includes a vessel, a breathable sheet, a water-repellent particle layer and a tank layer. The tank layer is positioned at the lower portion inside the vessel and the breathable sheet is interposed between the water-repellent particle layer and the tank layer. The breathable sheet includes a through-hole, the water-repellent particle layer is composed of a plurality of water-repellent particles, and the surface of the respective water-repellent particles includes a water-repellent film. The saltwater is desalted by a step of pouring saltwater into the vessel to dispose the saltwater on the surface of the water-repellent particle layer, a step of heating the saltwater to evaporate the saltwater into vapor; and a step of liquefying the vapor to obtain fresh water in the tank layer.
US08652294B2
A composition for the protection of sheer hosiery comprising: a styrene polymer; an octylacrylamide/acrylates/butylaminoethyl methacrylate copolymer; a polyurethane-14 AMP-acrylates copolymer; and an AMP-100™ (amino methyl propanol) or triethanolamine emulsifier and surfactant; dissolved in a denatured alcohol/ethanol solvent and contained in a pump spray bottle. The composition to be sprayed on a detected imperfection and the surrounding area, and being allowed to dry, binding in a flexible, natural manner the elongated and broken fibers of the material to the surrounding weave thus preventing further damage to the hosiery.
US08652287B2
An apparatus for positioning an optical device includes (i) a holder assembly for holding an optical device and for limiting movement of the optical device within the holder assembly to movement in the Z-direction and (ii) a housing for permitting limited movement of the holder assembly in the X-direction, for supporting and optionally permitting movement of the holder assembly in the Y-direction, for supporting and for substantially preventing movement of the holder assembly in the Z-direction. When the holder assembly optionally holding the optical device is positioned within the housing to obtain a desired position of the optical device, a bonding material may be used for fixing the location in the X-direction, and optionally the Y-direction, of the holder assembly within the housing. A method of operating the apparatus for obtaining a desired position of an optical device is further provided.
US08652284B2
A self-sealing vascular graft with kink resistance is described. The vascular graft includes a substrate that can be ePTFE, having a self-sealing region that may include several layers of material. The central section of the vascular graft may be constructed differently from surrounding self-sealing regions, in order to provide kink resistance following the clamping of the graft. Also described is a graft with a flared cuff attached to one or both ends, the attachment or transition region including reinforcement beading.
US08652283B2
To close the tail end (L) of the web material forming the log (R) there is provided mechanical ply-bonding between the tail end and a portion of the last turn of web material, preferably a portion forming a fold (F) projecting from the log.
US08652280B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for medical structure embellishments. The apparatus includes a medical structure that facilitates the mobility or healing of a patient. The apparatus also includes a heat source that outwardly radiates heat. Further, the apparatus includes a shrink-film structure cover that shrinks around a surface of the medical structure when the shrink-film structure cover is exposed to heat radiated from the heat source and a marking instrument adapted to mark the shrink-film structure with an embellishment.
US08652278B2
A shaped body comprised of individual, interconnected layers may be produced from fibers in accordance with a solid freeform fabrication or rapid prototyping method. The fibers may be produced by extrusion molding a thermoplastic material.
US08652269B2
Disclosed herein are a flux and a soldering paste based on the flux. The flux is free from a change in viscosity with age, “skinned surface,” and “rough and crumbling,” and is excellent in printability and solderability. The flux contains, as elements, a resin, a thixo agent, an activator, a solvent and glucopyranosylamine type nanotube. The soldering paste further contains a solder powder. Preferably, the solder powder is free from lead.
US08652263B2
A double bucket cleaning system for use with microfiber mat mops. One bucket contains clean water; the second holds dirty water. The second bucket has a slide press for extracting dirty water from the mop. The system can use a connector to connect the two buckets together, or a single bucket with two compartments can be used. Both designs use a footpad upon which the user stands during the pressing operation. This ensures that the device remains in place during the sliding. Finally, once the dirty water has been extracted from the mop, the user can pick up clean water from the first bucket for the next portion of the floor to be cleaned. In this way, the user is able to quickly clean a large floor with clean water, instead of repeatedly dipping the mop back into dirty water.
US08652258B2
It is intended to provide a substrate treatment device capable of adjusting both of a growth speed and an etching speed in a selective epitaxial growth, avoiding particle generation from nozzles, and achieving good etching characteristics. A substrate treatment device for selectively growing an epitaxial film on a surface of a substrate by alternately supplying a raw material gas containing silicon and an etching gas to a treatment chamber, the substrate treatment device being provided with a substrate support member for supporting the substrate in the treatment chamber, a heating member provided outside the treatment chamber for heating the substrate and an atmosphere of the treatment chamber, a gas supply system provided inside the treatment chamber, and a discharge port opened on the treatment chamber, wherein the gas supply system comprises first gas supply nozzles for supplying the raw material gas and second gas supply nozzles for supplying the etching gas.
US08652257B2
A melting furnace, mounted adjacent a growth furnace, comprises a receiving container for melting therein raw material in a particle or powder form falling in it from a feeder. The receiving container accommodates a set of slope-wise plates providing a distributed sliding of partially melted raw material particles over the surface of these plates and their complete melting while moving downward; eventually the melted raw material flows into the crucible of the growth furnace through a conveying tube extending slantingly from the bottom of the receiving container to the crucible through coaxial openings in housings of both furnaces. The rate of feeding is given solely by the feeder, and at continuous feeding the raw material flows continuously by gravity from the feeder to the crucible of the growth furnace, first in a solid state (powder, granules, pellets, etc.) and then in a liquid state.
US08652255B2
A method of: flowing a silicon source gas, a carbon source gas, and a carrier gas into a growth chamber under growth conditions to epitaxial grow silicon carbide on a wafer in the growth chamber; stopping or reducing the flow of the silicon source gas to interrupt the silicon carbide growth and maintaining the flow of the carrier gas while maintaining an elevated temperature in the growth chamber for a period of time; and resuming the flow of the silicon source gas to reinitiate silicon carbide growth. The wafer remains in the growth chamber throughout the method.
US08652245B2
A dual color electronically addressable ink includes a non-polar carrier fluid; a first colorant of a first color; and a second colorant of a second color that is different than the first color. The first colorant includes a first particle core, and a first functional group attached to a surface of the particle core. The first functional group is capable of carrying a positive charge and is chosen from a base or a salt of the base. The second colorant includes a particle core, and a second functional group attached to a surface of the particle core. The second functional group is capable of carrying a negative charge and is chosen from an acid or a salt of the acid. The ink further includes an additive chosen from polyhydroxystearic amide salt, polyhydroxystearic acid, aromatic butyric acid, and combinations thereof.
US08652242B2
A dust collection device includes a machine body that forms an air chamber and a chassis arranged below the machine body. The chassis receives therein a dust collection tank. A mechanics case that contains a motor and blower assembly is arranged at one side of the machine body. The mechanics case includes a partition board to divide the mechanics case into an inlet flow channel communicating the air chamber and an outlet flow channel for discharging air. The partition board forms an air vent hole in communication with the outlet flow channel. A block unit is provided on the partition board and includes a block plate that selectively blocks the air vent hole. When a fire occurs inside the air chamber, the partition board prevents the fire flame from being drawn into the mechanics case, and the block plate timely blocks the air vent hole to improve operation safety.
US08652241B2
A filter assembly includes a filter pad comprising fibers including natural, synthetic and/or hybrid fibers. A stabilizer frame formed of a non-metallic material may be imbedded in the filter pad. The stabilizer frame may be configured to provide support to the filter pad to maintain the filter pad in a generally flat configuration. In accordance with a particular embodiment, the filter pad may be comprised of at least first and second fibrous mats that are coupled together. In this embodiment, the stabilizer frame may be disposed between and coupled with the first and second fibrous mats.
US08652239B2
A method of making a membrane permeable to hydrogen gas (H2↑) is disclosed. The membrane is made by forming a palladium layer, depositing a layer of copper on the palladium layer, and galvanically displacing a portion of the copper with palladium. The membrane has improved resistance to poisoning by H2S compared to a palladium membrane. The membrane also has increased permeance of hydrogen gas compared to palladium-copper alloys. The membrane can be annealed at a lower temperature for a shorter amount of time.
US08652225B2
A flexible abrasive finishing article including a backing of fabric or paper having first and second major surfaces with abrasive particles adhesively secured to said first major surface and a layer of cyanoacrylate based material substantially covering the second major surface. The method of making a flexible abrasive finishing material including the steps of applying a layer of cyanoacrylate based material to a surface of a backing material opposite the surface to which abrasive particles are adhesively secured and covering said cyanoacrylate material.
US08652215B2
A scaffold for tissue regeneration is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the scaffold is implantable in a patient in need of nerve or other tissue regeneration and includes a structure which has a plurality of uniaxially oriented nanofibers made of at least one synthetic polymer. Preferably, at least 75% of the nanofibers are oriented within 20 degrees of the uniaxial orientation. The scaffold beneficially provides directional cues for cell and tissue regeneration, presumably by mimicking the natural strategy using filamentous structures during development and regeneration.
US08652211B1
Modular toe joint implant is a multi-piece device. Various sized piece(s), for example, head(s) and stem(s), can be provided in a kit or separately.
US08652207B2
A component for satisfactorily plugging a bone tunnel formed in surgery such as ACL reconstruction by regenerating bone in a space portion of the bone tunnel (e.g., a bone tunnel for an arthroscope). The plug component is made of a calcium phosphate-based material, and includes a porous part having a porosity of 50 to 85%. The plug component has a cylindrical shape such that one of its end surfaces forms an angle of 30 to 60 degrees to its central axis.
US08652201B2
A method is provided for treating a cardiovascular disease, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension, an arrhythmia, or heart failure. One step of the method includes providing an apparatus. The apparatus includes an expandable support member having oppositely disposed proximal and distal end portions and a main body portion extending between the end portions. The proximal end portion includes a plurality of wing members extending from the main body portion. At least a portion of the expandable support member is treated with at least one therapeutic agent for eluting into a blood vessel. The expandable support member is inserted into the pulmonary vasculature and then advanced to a bifurcation in the pulmonary vasculature. The bifurcation includes the intersection of a first pulmonary vessel, a second pulmonary vessel, and a third pulmonary vessel. The expandable support member is secured at the bifurcation to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension, for example.
US08652198B2
A luminal prosthesis comprises a plurality of radially expandable prosthetic stent segments arranged axially. Two or more of the prosthetic stent segments are separable upon expansion from the remaining prosthetic stent segments and a coupling structure connects at least some of the adjacent prosthetic stent segments to each other. The coupling structure permits a first group of the adjacent prosthetic stent segments to separate from a second group of the prosthetic stent segments upon differential radial expansion of the first group relative to the second group and the coupling structure maintains or forms an attachment between the adjacent prosthetic stent segments in the first group which have been expanded together. A delivery system and methods for deploying the multiple coupled prosthetic stent segments are also disclosed.
US08652188B2
To provide a light irradiation device capable of easily removing and reducing hair with low power light without burden on skin. The light irradiation device according to the present invention includes a light source giving pulses of light in a wavelength range from 400 to 1200 nm and a light guide distributing the pulses of light given from the light source with energy intensity of 0.2 to 10 J/cm2 at a predetermined distance from the light outgoing surface.
US08652180B2
Bone fixation system, including methods, apparatus, and kits, and comprising a bone plate and at least one instrument that attaches to the bone plate and provides at least one radiopaque region to facilitate positioning the bone plate on bone visualized by radiographic imaging. The instrument may be a handle assembly and/or a targeting guide.
US08652179B2
The disclosure includes a bone plate extender and extension system. The system includes a first bone plate extender and may additionally include a bone fixation element and/or an additional bone plate. The bone plate extender may be affixed to a bone portion at one end, for instance, a fractured bone portion, via a bone fixation element, and associated with a second bone plate at an opposite end, so as to facilitate alignment and stabilization of the bone and thereby correct and treat a bone fracture. The bone plate extender may include an extended body, which includes a bone plate engagement portion, a bone fixation portion, and an intercalating portion there between. In certain variations, the extended body is planar, and in certain variations the extended body is angled, curved or arced. Methods of using such bone plate extension systems for the reduction, restoration and treatment of bone fractures are also provided.
US08652177B1
Systems and methods of treating spinal deformity, including one or more intervertebral implants to be introduced laterally into respective intervertebral spaces, a plurality of bone screws introduced generally laterally into vertebral bodies adjacent to the intervertebral implants and/or the intervertebral implants themselves, and a cable dimensioned to be coupled to the bone screws and manipulated to adjust and/or correct the spinal deformity.
US08652176B2
A polyaxial screw connection assembly includes a first longitudinal member comprising a bored fastener channel and a first bulbous body; a second longitudinal member comprising a cylindrical body to fit within the fastener channel, and a second bulbous body; a fastener with a bored cylindrical channel, connected to the first longitudinal member and the cylindrical body and securely couples the first longitudinal member to the second longitudinal member; a first fixation component directly connected to the first bulbous body; a second fixation component directly connected to the second bulbous body; a first pin engaged within the first longitudinal member via a bored first channel and contacting the first bulbous body causing the first bulbous body to outwardly expand; and a second pin engaged within the second longitudinal member via a bored second channel and contacting the second bulbous body causing the second bulbous body to outwardly expand.
US08652164B1
The tourniquet is a lightweight, compact, and highly efficient device that can be used to assist in the control of life threatening extremity hemorrhage. The tourniquet utilizes a ratchet mechanism to obtain a mechanical advantage when tightening the tourniquet. A ratchet assembly is located a distance away from a strap end of the tourniquet and overlays a contiguous portion of the strap, allowing the tourniquet to be tightened while minimizing pinch, and further includes an elongated ratchet lever for ease of use, requiring minimal, if any, fine motor skills. The design also includes an indicator region for assistance in use of the device and a sealed and tapered strap-end with indicator for efficient use.
US08652158B2
A return spring arrangement for a lancet (6) is provided by a pair of undulating plastic webs (14) formed integrally with the lancet. The undulations of the two webs (14) are shown out of phase with one another. These webs (14) are flexible and thus are caused to concertina when the tips (15) of the webs hit the interior of a lancet holder on release of a drive spring. The energy stored within the collapsed webs (14) is then released to drive the lancet back within the lancet holder. This positive return of the lancet ensures that a needle (5) will retract safely into the lancet holder, after operation, and does not rely on the spring being locked into the lancet holder and onto the lancet.
US08652156B2
A morcellator (1) for morcellating tissue within a body cavity of a patient is provided in combination with first (17) and second (18) tissue-pulling devices, and an insert (19). The morcellator (1) comprises a handle portion (2) having a lumen (6) passing therethrough, and an aperture (10) communicating with the proximal end of the lumen. A tube (3) extends from the handle portion and has a tissue cutting device (7) located at the distal end of the tube. The handle includes first (11) and second (12) valves associated with the lumen of the handle portion, and the first and second tissue-pulling devices have shafts of a first diameter and second diameter respectively. The insert (19) comprises a stem (21) and a body portion (20), the stem being received in the aperture (10) to form a substantially gas-tight seal in combination with the first valve (11). The body portion (20) remains outside the aperture and includes a third valve (22), the third valve (22) being such that is forms a substantially gas-tight seal around the shaft of the second tissue pulling device (18) when the second tissue pulling device is inserted into the lumen of the insert.
US08652152B2
A clip applying apparatus is provided for applying a ligating clip to tissue. The clip applying apparatus includes, inter alia, a handle assembly, a central body portion, an anvil jaw, and a slide member movably supported in relation to the anvil jaw. The anvil jaw and the slide member are configured to define an enclosed tissue receiving area when the slide member is in an advanced position. A method is also provided for ligating tissue using the presently disclosed clip applying apparatus.
US08652148B2
A system and method for repairing an area of defective tissue reduces the removal of healthy tissue at the margins of the defect. During excision of diseased or damaged tissue, the system tracks the movement and function of a tissue resection tool within a monitored surgical space. This movement is continuously recorded to create a three-dimensional set of data points representative of the excised volume of tissue. This data set is then communicated to a custom implant forming device which creates a custom implant sized to fit the void created by the excision. The system and method of the present disclosure allows a surgeon to exercise intraoperative control over the specific shape, volume and geometry of the excised area. Moreover, the surgeon may utilize a “freehand” resection method to excise only that tissue deemed to be diseased and/or damaged, because the custom-formed implant will accommodate an irregularly-shaped resection volume.
US08652147B2
A tissue isolation and removal device has a containment pouch that is opened and supported by the device. The pouch has two open/close portions both able to be closed and reopened. One portion positioned away from tissue being inserted in the pouch and covering the other portion to enclose or isolate any tissue captured in the other portion.
US08652146B2
A retrieval device with a shapeable snare shaft for use in minimally invasive medical procedures. The retrieval device may further comprise a delivery conduit configured to receive both a snare shaft and a guidewire in one or more lumens. The retrieval device may also include a snare loop at both ends of the snare shaft.
US08652143B2
A surgical tool for inserting an implant in a vertebral body. The surgical tool includes a shaft with a shaft thread adapted to engage the implant, a piston coupled to the shaft thread to articulate the implant from a starting linear position to a final curvilinear position, an actuator coupled to the piston to adjust a position of the implant, and an annular structure surrounding the shaft to increase a stability of an end part of the implant on an impact of insertion. A screw attached to the piston may lock the end part of the implant. A lock lever may lock the position of the piston in at least one position, and a knob may disengage the implant from the surgical tool.
US08652137B2
Devices and methods for creating holes in the articular process of the vertebra are provided. One embodiment of the invention comprises a drill head comprising a frame, punch arm with punch tip and opposing plate. Methods of using the resulting holes to anchor or stabilize facet joint prosthesis, and also altering the spacing and motion at the facet joints of the vertebral column, are provided.
US08652127B2
A method of performing an ablation procedure includes the steps of inserting an antenna assembly into tissue and supplying energy thereto for application to tissue. The method also includes the step of causing contact between a first material and at least one other material disposed within the antenna assembly to thermally regulate the antenna assembly. According to another embodiment, an ablation system includes an energy delivery assembly. A first chamber is defined within the energy delivery assembly and is configured to hold a first chemical. Another chamber is defined within the energy delivery assembly and is configured to hold at least one other chemical. The first chamber and the other chamber are configured to selectively and fluidly communicate with each other to cause contact between the first chemical and the at least one other chemical to cause an endothermic reaction and/or an exothermic reaction.
US08652121B2
A control console is disclosed for controlling one or more medical devices. The control console communicates to at least one medical device, and at least one peripheral module associated with the medical device if needed. The control console has a microprocessor for processing data to direct an operation of the medical device.
US08652115B2
A two-piece wearable absorbent article (such as a diaper) including an outer cover, and particularly, an absorbent insert for use therewith, are disclosed. The insert has a fastener component disposed at either or both a forward region and a rearward region thereof, for fastening the insert within the outer cover. The end of the insert associated with the region bearing the fastener component may have a specified stiffness, to help the insert to retain structural integrity while fastened within an outer cover and while being worn. The insert may include an end support stiffener that helps impart stiffness.
US08652104B2
A catheter assembly includes a catheter hub defining an interior cavity and a catheter tube extending distally thereof. A rigid actuator extends proximally in the interior cavity and supports a seal member thereon. The seal member includes a central membrane, a distal portion, and a proximal portion. An hourglass shaped actuator cavity is formed in the distal portion and receives a barbed end of the actuator. The outer surface of the seal member is in partial circumferential engagement with the catheter hub to define an air path that allows fluid communication between areas of the interior cavity distal and proximal of the seal member. A punch tool is provided to form a tri-slit in the membrane of the seal member. The seal member may be configured for multi-use and include a biasing member that moves the seal member to force the membrane back over the actuator to close the membrane.
US08652099B2
A medical device for the delivery of treatment fluid to body vessels is described. The device has a distal (21) and a proximal (20) end with a self-expanding, hollow tubular member (9) and a delivery catheter (10) suitable for deploying a self-expanding, tubular member (9). The tubular member (9) is configured to expand radially to form a central part (11) flanked by two annular ridges, which creates, in situ, an annular lumen that can apply treatment fluid locally to a vessel and a passageway that can maintain the flow of blood through the vessel. The device is particularly suited for minimally invasive and repeatable organ perfusion. A method for organ perfusion is also disclosed.
US08652093B2
Medical pumps may obtain programming data from a database through the use of a remote query process which allows the individual pump to flexibly request data from existing hospital databases, to identify the necessary information in those databases, and to convert that data for use without the need for manual programming or a centralized pump control system.
US08652089B2
The present invention provides a system and a method for distending a body tissue cavity of a subject by continuous flow irrigation such that minimal or negligible fluid turbulence is present inside the cavity, such that any desired cavity pressure can be created and maintained for any desired outflow rate. The present invention also provides a method for accurately determining the rate of fluid loss, into the subject's body system, during any endoscopic procedure without utilizing any deficit weight or fluid volume calculation or flow rate sensor. The system and the methods of the present invention described above can be used in any endoscopic procedure requiring continuous flow irrigation few examples of such endoscopic procedures being hysteroscopic surgery, arthroscopic surgery, trans uretheral surgery, endoscopic surgery of the brain and endoscopic surgery of the spine.
US08652078B2
A shower head with water-powered vibrating function wherein a diverting member is disposed in the water diversion chamber which is operable by a diverting member actuating means between a normal shower position and a massage shower position. At the normal shower position the diverting member diverts water flow received from the water diversion chamber inlet to leave the water diversion chamber through the first water diversion chamber outlet for exiting the shower head through a first water outlet; and at the massage shower position, the diverting member diverts water flow received from the water diversion chamber inlet to leave the water diversion chamber through the second water diversion chamber outlet for entering the turbine chamber for rotating the turbine and thereafter leaving the turbine chamber to exit the shower head through a second water outlet.
US08652071B2
According to some exemplary embodiments, a method or system can involve associating a plurality of biokinetographic comparison results with a first specific dysfunction from a group of specific dysfunctions, each of the biokinetographic comparison results obtained from a comparison of a biokinetographic value to a standard for a corresponding biokinetographic variable.
US08652053B2
In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in life activities or to measure blood pressure at intervals or continuously where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention solves the problems by providing an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information. The biologic information detecting apparatus includes a sensor for detecting biologic information in a pair of arms connected via a spindle, and the sensor is tightly attached to a projecting part in a living body, particularly, a tragus of an auricle.
US08652052B2
In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in life activities or to measure blood pressure at intervals or continuously where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention solves the problems by providing an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information. The biologic information detecting apparatus includes a sensor for detecting biologic information in a pair of arms connected via a spindle, and the sensor is tightly attached to a projecting part in a living body, particularly, a tragus of an auricle.
US08652046B2
A method and system for performing minimally invasive tissue examination with a computer-assisted hand tool. The computer-assisted hand tool is moved into contact with the tissue under examination. An indication is received from a first sensor in the computer-assisted hand tool of each feature detected in a time interval during movement of the hand tool in contact with the tissue under examination. Each feature detected in the preset time interval is processed to determine a haptic feedback to provide to the user. A haptic feedback is generated and provided to the user via an actuator that is responsive to at least one feature detected in the time interval.
US08652041B2
In a system and method for assessing and modifying fatigue, an input device receives current work-rest pattern and/or sleep data from an individual. A data aggregation and processing platform combines the current work-rest pattern and/or sleep data with previous data related to the individual to generate a fatigue assessment result, a diagnostic assessment result, and a corrective intervention result. At least one output display outputs the fatigue assessment result, diagnostic assessment result and corrective intervention result in a user-readable format to a user. The user uses this information to revise the work-rest pattern to reduce or control future fatigue risk.
US08652035B2
A vaginal cuff closure system includes a speculum having a closed rear aspect, a secure suture ring and a fastener for removably attaching the secure suture ring with a blade of the speculum. A related method of using the closure system in knot-free laparoscopic hysterectomy is also disclosed.
US08652030B2
A two-part bending endoscope includes: a first bending part which configures one side of a bending portion; a second bending part which configures the other end side of the bending portion; and a bending portion operation apparatus including a first operation device for causing the first bending part to perform a bending action and a second operation device for causing the second bending part to perform a bending action, wherein the bending portion operation apparatus includes a selective power-transmitting mechanism section which enables at least a bending action of the first bending part by the first operation device, and an interlocking operation of the second bending part and the first bending part by the second operation device.
US08652029B2
Endoscope sheaths and associated endoscopy data collection and analysis systems and methods are described. In one implementation an endoscope sheath include a body and one or more sensors disposed in the body. The sheath may further include a leak detection apparatus configured to detect leaks in the sheath body. In addition, the sheath may include actuator apparatus, such as a balloon catheter or other surgical instrument. Data from the endoscope and endoscope sheath may be collected, fused and displayed for use in medical procedures and/or analysis.
US08652027B2
An applicator for urinary incontinence devices has an insertion barrel, a deployment plunger, and an adjustable insertion depth indicator. The applicators are useful to correct for a consumer's body mass index to ensure that urinary incontinence devices are placed in the appropriate position to be effective.
US08652023B2
An electrical system having an underlying structure resembling the double helix most commonly associated with DNA is used to produce useful electromagnetic fields for health applications and/or medical applications.
US08652022B2
A method of treating a region of diseased tissue using a probe is disclosed. A probe cannula is introduced into the tissue of the patient until a distal end of the cannula is located at or proximate to the treatment region. A plurality of electrodes are then deployed from the distal end of the cannula into the treatment region. Energy (e.g., radiofrequency energy) is then delivered through the plurality of electrodes to the tissue. The cannula is then secured to an immobile object external to the patient. The treatment region is irradiated with a therapeutically effective dose of an ionizing radiation while the plurality of electrodes remain at least partially advanced within the treatment region and while the cannula remains secured to the immobile object.
US08652020B2
A guide nozzle (112) for use with an apparatus (110) for the manufacture of filter rods for smoking articles. The guide nozzle comprises a support member (130) configured to be fixed relative to said apparatus for the manufacture of filter rods, a funnel (120) through which loose filter material is propelled, mounted to the support member and, an adjuster (140) mounted between the support member and the funnel to enable the relative position of the funnel and the support member to be adjusted to control the direction of flow of loose filter material propelled through the funnel. An apparatus for the manufacture of filter rods for smoking articles having such a guide nozzle, and a method of manufacturing a filter rod using the same.
US08652016B2
A collapsible exercise weight comprises a first end wall portion, a second end wall portion and a peripheral outer wall that together define a substantially hollow interior. A capped aperture permits the ingress of water into and the egress of water from the substantially hollow interior. A handle connector is for connecting the collapsible exercise weight to a handle. The peripheral outer wall comprises a plurality of wide diameter bellows folds and a plurality of narrow diameter bellows folds disposed alternatingly one with the other. The wide diameter bellows folds and the narrow diameter bellows folds are each movable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration. The narrow diameter bellows folds at least partially fit within adjacent ones of the wide diameter bellows folds when the narrow diameter bellows folds are in the collapsed configuration.
US08652015B2
A safety device (20) for a gymnastic machine (1) provided with a frame (5) and with a gravitational load group (10) connected to an interface (2) designed to allow a user of the gymnastic machine (1) to perform exercises against the action of the load group (10); the load group (10) comprising a movable equipment (19) provided with at least one load element (11) carried, in a freely sliding manner along a given direction (V), by respective guiding elements (12) associated to the frame (5); the safety device (1) comprising a return group (21) suitable, in use, to exert a given return force (F) on the movable equipment (19) so as to prevent substantially inertial ascending displacements thereof.
US08652012B2
A gyroscopic wrist exerciser has a transparent plastic housing and a gyroscopic rotor mounted on an axle rotating on a primary axis of rotation about the axle. Ends of the axle are extended into a circumferential housing groove disposed on an inside surface of the transparent plastic housing to rotate in a secondary axis of rotation about the circumferential groove to provide precession of the gyroscopic rotor. A permanent magnet cooperating with a coil produces an electric current proportional to the speed of the rotor. A microcontroller connected to and powered by the coil has three separate outputs, namely a first output, a second output and a third output which receive degrees of voltage depending upon an input voltage from the coil. A first LED chip, a second LED chip, and a third LED chip are connected to the microcontroller at the three outputs.
US08652001B2
In a vehicle driving apparatus including a rotating electrical machine having a rotor and a case housing a power transmission device, a second projecting portion formed on a front cover member of the power transmission device is supported rotatably relative to a first projecting portion formed on a support wall of the case via a support bearing, a positioning fitting portion is provided to position a rotor support member for supporting the rotor relative to the front cover member in the radial direction, a torque transmitting coupling portion is provided on a radial direction outer side of the positioning fitting portion to couple the rotor support member and the front cover member so as to be capable of transmitting torque, and the positioning fitting portion and the torque transmitting coupling portion are respectively disposed to overlap a rotary support portion in an axial direction.
US08651988B2
A tensioning device for a traction element, such as a belt, band or chain, is provided having a tensioning arm (1) arranged on a machine part on which an idler pulley or deflection pulley for the traction element is rotatably mounted via a roller bearing (2), and includes a protective cap (15) which is in a frictionally locking or positively locking manner on the idler pulley and covers the bearing region of the idler pulley. The idler pulley is a sheet-metal sheave (16) and includes, for securing the protective cap (15), a snap-in groove (17) which is formed in an end region of the sheet-metal sheave (16) which has an outwardly conical shape, with the end region having a thickness (A) which is less than a thickness (E) of the sheet metal of the sheet-metal sheave (16).
US08651987B2
A system and a method for orientation of a ring by rotation, including a cable engaging the ring which rotates about a ring axis, a motor assembly providing a first rotation reduction, and a stretcher for stretching the cable. The system has at least one proximal pulley and at least one distal pulley rotating about a pulley axis each pulley having grooves configured for receiving the cable therein. The ring is rotated by the motor assembly and the pulley assembly is configured to provide a second reduction of rotation to the ring relative to motor rotation, whereby the ring is driven via at least a double reduction of rotation relative to rotation of the motor, and the cable, the plurality of pulleys, and the ring provide a one-way mechanism.
US08651985B2
A racket frame 2 includes a head 4, a shaft 8, and a pair of throats 6 extending from the head 4 to the shaft 8. A flexural rigidity G15 of the throats 6 in a low load range (from 5 kgf to 15 kgf) is equal to or greater than 600 kgf/mm but equal to or less than 900 kgf/mm. A flexural rigidity G55 of the throats 6 in a high load range (from 45 kgf to 55 kgf) is equal to or greater than 900 kgf/mm but equal to or less than 1200 kgf/mm. A rigidity ratio (G15/G55) of the flexural rigidity G15 and the flexural rigidity G55 is equal to or greater than 0.70 but equal to or less than 0.85.
US08651975B2
A golf club head with sound tuning composite members forming at least a portion of the surface of the golf club head is disclosed herein. The composite members being a composite layer made out of a sandwiched core layer that is interposed inside the midsection of the composite member to provide vibration damping and sound tuning characteristics.
US08651973B2
Golf club, golf club shaft and golf club head structures are presented. The golf club may include a shaft having a core and an airfoil shaped skin substantially surrounding the core and in contact with the core. The golf club may further include a golf club head having a plurality of apertures formed in a front face of the golf club head and extending through an interior of the golf club head to a rear portion of the golf club head. The apertures may narrow or widen as they extend from the front face to the rear portion.
US08651969B1
Mask display systems, sales and display systems, and related methods are shown and described. In one example, a mask display system comprises a head portion, a pair of hands attached to the head portion, and a suspension system, serving as a novelty simulation of a peeping tom.
US08651963B1
Examples disclosed herein relate to an interface utilized to enhance production of the electronic gaming device. The systems and methods may allow for easier installation of the cabinet and pedestal via utilization of the interface.
US08651960B2
A system, method and computer program enable an interactive game. A game server, in response to a user request, provides a unique identifier associated with an instance of the interactive game. The game server forwards one or more invitations to join the interactive game in accordance with the user request. Thereafter, the game server registers one or more wireless communication devices to be used as data controllers for use by participants that join the game.
US08651952B2
Operation data acquisition means acquires operation data at least including motion data, which is data representing a motion of a predetermined input device, from the input device. Amount-of-change calculation means calculates an amount of change of the input device in a predetermined period of time, based on the motion data. Position orientation calculation means calculates a position and an orientation of a player object in a virtual game space. Degree-of-contact calculation means calculates a degree of contact, which represents a degree of the player object and a field object contacting each other in the virtual game space. Orientation change means changes the orientation of the player object, based on the amount of change and the degree of contact.
US08651944B1
Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive wagers. The systems and methods may include scrape away functionality.
US08651935B2
A combined future lottery and optional instant game uses a central computer connected on-line with multiple game terminals. The player chooses: 1) a first set of at least one game piece, typically numbers, at one of the game terminals and 2) whether or not to play an instant game. The central computer receives the selections, and stores them. If an optional instant game is selected, the central computer acquires a random second set of at least one number and transmits it to the game terminal. A ticket, whether printed at the terminal or displayed, includes the first and second sets of number(s) and an indication of whether the optional game was selected for play. Matching of one or more numbers in the first and second sets results in a win in any of a variety of numbers games and lotto games. The first selected set of numbers is also used in a future lottery such as a weekly draw lottery. A spacing between the first and second number sets appearing on the ticket, and bracketing of displayed winning amounts on a ticket, deter retailer fraud.
US08651932B1
A method and device for conducting a game includes receipt of an ante wager designating either a first game hand or a second game hand for resolution of the ante wager. A first game hand of unexposed playing cards is dealt and exposed in stages, with each stage interceded by an election received from players to either place an additional wager on the same game hand designed by the ante wager or check by proceeding to a subsequent stage without placing an additional wager. After the first game hand is exposed, an election is received to either place an additional wager on the same game hand designated by the ante wager or fold. A second game hand is dealt, exposed, and compared to the first game hand to resolve ante wagers on the respective hands. Optional and/or mandatory bonus wagers may be received on the game hands.
US08651930B2
An apparatus for table poker games aims to increase odds of the table poker games. The apparatus includes an electronic display panel which has at least one display zone to represent a corresponding betting zone and display a dynamic raising odds. Banker can pay player's bets according to the dynamic raising odds. Thus an expected value of the table poker games can be increased to give players extra award, thereby can increase the attraction of the table poker games and also enhance utilization of the poker tables.
US08651929B2
The game involves playing video poker in a contest between a player and an opponent. The player makes a wager to be eligible to play the game and the player plays an initial hand of video poker against an opponent who plays the same initial hand of video poker. If the player beats the opponent, the player wins an award. If the opponent beats the player, the player loses. If the player and the opponent tie, then any amount in the pot carries over to the next round, a new wager is made by the player to play the next round and the player and the opponent play another hand of video poker. This continues until either the player or the opponent win a round outright. Each of the player and the opponent start with the same initial cards on each hand that is played in any particular round.
US08651928B2
A plurality of symbols are provided to a player wherein one or more of the provided symbols are based on the predetermined game outcome. The player is enabled to select one or more of the initially dealt symbols to hold. If a symbol combination with an associated payout equal to the value associated with the predetermined game outcome may be obtained based on the held cards, the gaming device utilizes one or more backfill algorithms, to determine which card or cards, if any, need to be dealt to the player. The determined cards are provided to the player to replace the symbols designated by the player not to hold and the selected predetermined game outcome which is associated with a value equal to the payout of the player's symbol combination is provided to the player.
US08651926B2
An ice separator is provided that includes, but is not limited to at least one curved airflow deflection surface. The ice separator includes, but is not limited to an inflow aperture with a downstream trapping pocket at the airflow deflection surface, in which trapping pocket ice particles from an airflow flowing onto the ice separator are trapped due to their inertial forces. In this way with simple means an effective device for removing ice particles from airflow may be achieved.
US08651925B2
Disclosed is a ventilating air intake arrangement of an aircraft. The arrangement includes at least one air duct connected to an air intake orifice. At least one confined zone connects with the air duct and the air intake orifice, and the confined zone is configured in a manner in which outside air enters through the air intake orifice. A controllable mobile element modifies the flow of air entering the confined zone by varying a cross section of the air duct. A control unit is used to control the controllable mobile element, with the control unit being arranged so as to control the controllable mobile element to vary the cross section of the at least one air duct as a function of speed and altitude of the aircraft.
US08651912B2
An anode 2 is formed on an element substrate 1. By using a film-forming solution containing a stacking material that forms an organic layer 43, a film is formed on a donor substrate 10 to form a transfer layer 11, thereby fabricating a transfer substrate 12. The transfer substrate 12 and the element substrate 1 are placed so as to face each other with spacers 13 interposed therebetween, such that the surface of the transfer substrate 12, which has the transfer layer 11 formed thereon, faces the element substrate 1 having the anode 2 formed thereon. The transfer substrate 12 and the element substrate 1 facing each other are held under vacuum conditions. The transfer substrate 12 is heated by the heat source 15 under the vacuum conditions to transfer the transfer layer 11 to the element substrate 1.
US08651906B1
An apparatus for intake of air to an outboard motor includes an inlet receiving a mixture of air and water from atmosphere surrounding the outboard motor and an outlet discharging the air. A conduit extends between the inlet and the outlet. The conduit has a vertically downwardly oriented first flow path, a vertically upwardly oriented second flow path, and a junction joining the first and second flow paths. The junction is oriented with respect to the first and second flow paths such that both centrifugal and gravitational forces separate the water from the air as the mixture flows therethrough.
US08651903B1
A hydro-propulsion system operably coupled to a watercraft wherein the hydro-propulsion system functions to propel the watercraft. The hydro-propulsion system further includes a fluid chamber being modified-triangular in shape having walls, a bottom and a top forming an interior volume. A plurality of inlets are formed within the walls of the fluid chamber and function to allow water to flow into the interior volume thereof. An aft opening is present and is configured to allow water to flow outward from the interior volume of the fluid chamber. Disposed within the interior volume is a propulsion member that is generally rectangular in shape having a first end and a second end. The propulsion member is movably mounted within the interior volume so as to laterally oscillate proximate the second end. The hydro-propulsion system includes a leverage apparatus operably coupled to the propulsion member so as to control the movement thereof.
US08651891B2
A hot line clamp employs a pair of jaw members which have clamp surfaces. The jaw members are coupled under the load of a compression spring. One jaw member has a ring which allows for relative angular positioning so that a clamp surface of the jaw member engages a shoulder of the second jaw member in a cocked position. When a torque is applied to the ring, the clamp members snap together to clamp over a hot line disposed between the clamp surfaces.
US08651887B2
A coaxial connector's plug and socket as well as a coaxial connector are provided. The coaxial connector's plug comprises: a plug body (10) comprising a centre conductor (11), an insulator (12) provided around the centre conductor and a shell (13) provided around the insulator; a locking member (14) sleeved on the shell and comprising a supporting ring (141) and at least two claws (142) with their roots provided on the supporting ring; an unlocking sleeve (16) provided on the locking member and comprising an unlocking operation portion (161) and windows matching with the claws.
US08651885B2
A board connector comprising: a contact comprising a first and a second clipping portion and for clipping therebetween a board which is inserted from the outside, a first beam portion supporting the first clipping portion, and a second beam portion supporting the second clipping portion; a housing that supports the contact; and an actuator that is fixed to the first beam portion, wherein the actuator has an action point portion that is formed more on a rear side in a board insertion direction than the first and second clipping portions and and that is pushed by the board at the time of insertion of the board, and the first clipping portion is elastically displaceable independently of the actuator in a direction away from the second clipping portion.
US08651879B2
A compact power adapter is disclosed. In one embodiment, a compact power adapter is facilitated by improved approaches to construct and assemble the power adapter. According to one aspect, connectors can serve to electrically couple blades (or prongs) of a power adapter plug to a printed circuit board assembly internal to a housing for the power adapter. The connectors serve to couple AC power to the printed circuit board assembly where the AC power can be converted to DC power. The connectors also facilitate assembly of the power adapter in that reliable interconnections can be provided without wires, soldering or other custom assembly operations. In one embodiment, a base for a power adapter plug of a power adapter can include a metal base connected to a blade (or prong) of the power adapter plug. The metal base can provide mechanical support to the blade as well as electrical connectivity to an internal terminal for the power adapter plug. The internal terminals used by a power adapter plug of a power adapter can be coupled to a printed circuit board assembly using connectors, thereby facilitating interconnection with electrical components used by the power adapter.
US08651867B2
The present invention provides a dental crown formed of a thermoplastic polymer material, the crown comprising: a tooth shaped top surface; and flexible side surfaces, at least one of which includes an inwardly directed bottom portion.
US08651862B2
A dental tool may include a head that may include a working portion and a neck. The neck may include a first end and a second end, and the working portion may extend from the first end. A handle may include a clamp and a socket. The socket may be configured to receive the second end of the neck. The second end may pivot within the socket to move the working portion and the neck relative to the handle. The clamp may be adapted to selectively fix the second end relative to the handle.
US08651855B2
A candle includes a vessel of some volume containing some smaller volume of at least one variety of wax beads, having a diameter of less than or equal to 2.35 millimeters and in most embodiments also including a particular fragrance and color pigment. The was beads topped with a solid wax topping. The solid wax topping may cover the entire exposed surface of the candle, holding the wax beads in place during shipping and use and holding the wick in a centralized location.
US08651853B2
An equipment (10) for producing vessels (12), includes at least one variable pitch wheel (38) arranged between a blower (14) having a first pitch (P1) and a filler (16) having a second pitch (P2), and that includes transfer elements (40) controlled by control elements adapted for selectively varying the pitch between two successive transfer elements (40) between an initial pitch (P) and a final pitch (P′), the initial pitch (P) being for example equal to once or twice the first pitch (P1) and the final pitch (P′) being equal to the second pitch (P2).
US08651849B2
Positive and negative stamp masters derived from UV curable ink molds comprising ultraviolet (UV) curable inks and methods for digitally preparing those stamp masters. In particular, the digitally prepared molds provide a method of printing micropatterns of fine variable features or images in a more efficient manner than the methods currently available.
US08651845B2
An apparatus (1) for injection molding a plastic molded part onto a functional part so as to form a multi-component part has an injection mold which has a mold opening for receiving the functional part. The injection mold (5) itself has at least three mold plates (6a, 6b, 6c) which can be adjusted between a closed injection position and a processing position with the mold plates spaced apart from one another in each case. A functional part carrier (13), which can be positioned between a functional part store (12) and a first opening region (7a) between two mold plates (6b, 6c) in the processing position thereof, is provided for transferring the functional parts (3) from the functional part store (12) to one of the mold plates (6c), and a withdrawal gripper (19) is provided for withdrawing the multi-component part (4) from a second opening region (7b) between two mold plates.
US08651841B2
Disclosed is a rotary compressor in which a connecting protrusion is formed at an inner circumferential surface of a vane chamber in which a connection tube is inserted, so as to increase a sealing area between the connection hole and the connection tube, and the size of the connection hole is definitely designated so as to prevent the deformation of the cylinder when press-fitting the connection tube into the connection hole, whereby an amount of leaked refrigerant from the vane chamber can remarkably be reduced and accordingly a fast and accurate mode switching of the vane can be achieved, thereby improving the performance of the compressor and preventing noise caused by vibration of the vane in advance.
US08651838B2
A vacuum pump that includes a housing, a control unit including control elements for controlling electronic and electrical components located in the inner chamber of the housing, and a separation member for separating the inner chamber in which an underpressure prevails, from an environment in which the vacuum pump is located and including a printed circuit board having elements for conducting electrical current and voltage in the inner chamber of the pump housing.
US08651828B2
A combined debris catcher and pressure relief valve positionable between first and second ports of an inlet arrangement that is upstream of the main body of a vacuum pump. The debris catcher includes an open ended tube that is spring biased upwardly and in normal operation forms a seal with the inlet arrangement. In the raised or sealed position, incoming fluid from the system to be evacuated travels along a closed flow path through the first port of the inlet arrangement, through the debris catcher, and out through the second port of the inlet arrangement into the main body of the vacuum pump. If the inlet arrangement is hooked up initially or at any time to a system that is above atmospheric pressure, the above atmospheric pressure will overcome the upward force of the spring on the tube and cause the tube to move to an open position spaced from the inlet arrangement harmlessly venting the high pressure fluid to ambient air and avoiding potential damage or contamination to the pump.
US08651820B2
Swivel dovetail connections, such as a tangential entry, straight axial entry or curved axial entry dovetails, for connecting a blade and a rotor wheel in a turbomachine are disclosed. A modified shape of dovetail contact surfaces creates a swivel dovetail connection between blades and rotor wheels, and allows limited motion of blades relative to wheels, while still maintaining the structural connection between blades and wheels. The swivel dovetail connection is achieved by providing concave or convex dovetail contact surfaces between a rotor wheel and a blade such that the contact surfaces lie along a common substantially toroidal arc, an axially extending, substantially cylindrical arc, or a substantially frusto-conical arc.
US08651819B2
Anti-ovalization tool for introduction into a wind turbine blade root comprising two or more rigid bodies connected to one another along their side edges with distances in between them and together forming a substantially cylindrical body, wherein the distances between the rigid bodies are adjustable. The invention is further related to the method of reducing ovalization of a wind turbine blade root and to the use of a tool comprising two or more rigid bodies as an anti-ovalization tool.
US08651817B2
An aerofoil blade assembly having a rotor disc having a radially outer surface provided with an axial slot and a radially inner surface provided with a circumferential slot, wherein the lower region of the axial slot intersects the upper region of the circumferential slot; an aerofoil blade having a blade root which is received by the axial slot and which is provided with a locating slot which corresponds to the circumferential slot; a retention key which engages with the circumferential slot and the locating slot to restrict axial displacement of the aerofoil blade with respect to the rotor disc, the retention key being provided with a socket which, when the retention key is engaged in the circumferential slot and the locating slot, is substantially aligned with the axial slot.
US08651815B2
A ram air turbine (RAT) includes a movable turbine support structure that is prevented from moving to a stowed position by a stow abort mechanism when turbine blades are not locked in a desired position. The stow abort mechanism includes a pawl that is driven by a cam on a release lever. The release lever is movable in response to a position of a release pin that prevents rotation of a turbine drive shaft from a desired orientation that locks the turbine blades in a desired position required for stowage. Disengagement of the release pin causes the stow abort mechanism to maintain a position where the pawl blocks movement to the deployed position. Engagement of the release pin to prevent rotation results in movement of the pawl to a position that provides for movement to the stowed position.
US08651810B2
A ball bearing for a cryogenic application including an inner ring and an outer ring positioned around the inner ring. The inner ring and the outer ring define a raceway therebetween. The ball bearing includes a plurality of rolling balls disposed in the raceway and a slug separator positioned between and slidingly engaging each of adjacent pairs the rolling balls. The slug separator defines an exterior surface thereon, which has a recess extending at least partially into the slug separator. The recess is configured to flow cryogenic fluid therethrough.
US08651806B2
An inlet housing assembly for an Air Turbine Starter includes an outer flowpath curve of an inlet flowpath defined by a multiple of arcuate surfaces in cross-section.
US08651803B2
A variable stator vane assembly for a gas turbine engine has a projection protruding from the upper stem of the vane and which engages an aperture in the vane lever to provide a visual indication of correct alignment between the lever and the vane.
US08651796B2
A substrate transport apparatus including a drive section having at least one drive shaft and at least two scara arms operably coupled to the at least one drive shaft, the at least one drive shaft being a common drive shaft for the at least two scara arms effecting extension and retraction of the at least two scara arms, wherein the at least two scara arms are coupled to each other so that, with the at least one drive shaft coupled to the at least two scara arms, rotation of the drive shaft effects extension and retraction of one of the at least two scara arms substantially independent of motion of another of the at least two scara arms.
US08651780B2
A method and apparatus for a cutting tool system. In one advantageous embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a carriage that is movable along an axis, a cutting tool, and a depth controller. The cutting tool may be capable of being removably attached to the carriage. The depth controller may be capable of controlling a cutting depth of the cutting tool with respect to a surface of a workpiece closest to a part.
US08651761B2
A package for dispensing a substance is described, where the package includes a stiff sheet that has a score formed on and traversing the first surface. The package also includes a flexible sheet defining a cavity for receiving the substance between the stiff sheet and the flexible sheet. The package also includes an applicator having a porous material pad, where the applicator is attached to the stiff sheet over the score by two hinges. The stiff sheet is configured to be folded about the score to cause the substance to be expelled from the cavity through a metering hole into the porous material pad and the two hinges allow the porous material pad to remain generally flat as the stiff sheet is folded.
US08651759B2
A cylindrical cosmetic container with an inner cap (7) inside a cap (5) fit outside an upper end of a container body (X) uses a first motion resistance at a halfway covering posture to an immediately preceding covering posture and a second motion resistance from the immediately preceding covering posture to a fully cover posture while the container body (X) is covered with the cap (5), in which the inner cap (7) includes a protrusion (7f) to deform towards an outer diameter side while applying the first motion resistance by being pressed into sliding contact with an extending upper end (4c) of the container body (X) and a projection (7d) projecting from an outer circumferential surface for applying the second motion resistance greater than the first motion resistance when a convex rib (4b) moves over the projection (7d).
US08651756B2
A tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface and a pair of side surfaces, a tape that is a print medium housed in the housing, a tape exit that discharges, from the housing, the tape guided in the housing along a predetermined feed path, at least a part of the feed path extending parallel to the front surface, and a type indicator portion provided adjacent to the tape exit and in a specified area of the front surface on an upstream side of the tape exit in a feed direction of the tape, the type indicator portion indicating a type of the tape and including vertical information sections and an aperture formed in at least one of the vertical information sections, the vertical information sections being strip-shaped sections extending along a direction orthogonal to the feed direction.
US08651751B2
In the present disclosure, a termination apparatus and process is disclosed that optimizes the termination of polymer optical fiber ribbons, eliminates the need for a ferrule and connector, and utilizes lower-cost materials instead of diamond for the cutting blade.
US08651743B2
Embodiments relate to tilting superhard bearing element bearing assemblies and apparatuses. The disclosed assemblies/apparatuses may be employed in downhole motors of a subterranean drilling system or other mechanical systems. In an embodiment, a bearing assembly may include a support ring and a plurality of superhard bearing elements each of which is tilted and/or tiltably secured relative to the support ring and distributed circumferentially about an axis. Each of the superhard bearing elements includes a bearing surface and a base portion. The base portion of the at least one of the superhard bearing elements may include a tilting feature configured to allow the at least one of the superhard bearing elements to be tiltable about a tilt axis. The bearing assembly includes retaining features that secure the superhard bearing elements to the support ring.
US08651742B2
A sliding bearing 1 is formed cylindrically of a pair of half bearings 11 and 12. A dust pocket 4 formed of a recess part is formed in the inner peripheral edges of joining surfaces 11A and 12A of the half bearings 11 and 12, and foreign-substance discharge grooves 5 and 5′ are formed in a sliding surface 3 continuing from the dust pocket 4.
US08651727B2
The present invention provides a display apparatus, a backlight module and a holder structure thereof. The display apparatus comprises the backlight module and a display panel. The backlight module comprises a back bezel, at least one light source and two holders. The at least one light source light source is disposed on the back bezel. The holders are disposed at the two opposite sides of the backlight module. Each of the holders comprises two extension holding portions and a panel supporting surface. The extension holding portions are formed at two ends of each of the holders. The panel supporting surface is formed on the holders and the extension holding portions. The present invention can reduce the number of the components and the weight thereof.
US08651725B2
A backlight module provided includes a light source, a first light-guided plate, and a second light-guided plate stacked on the first light-guided plate. The first light-guided plate includes a plate body and an extension disposed on an edge of the plate body and extending towards the second light-guided plate aside a lateral side of the second light-guided plate. The plate body and the extension form a seamless light incident surface. The extension has a reflection surface. The reflection surface connects the light incident surface or the surface of the plate body. The light source is disposed at a light incident surface of the first light-guided plate for projecting light into the light-guided plate.
US08651723B2
The invention relates to GLS-look-alike LED light source (100) comprising two different types of LEDs (21, 22), preferably LEDs emitting with a near UV spectrum and a blue or white spectrum, respectively. The light source (100) further preferably comprises a transparent bulb (40) with a shape similar to an incandescent lamp that is coated by a luminescent layer (30) to achieve a white lamp spectrum. The luminescent layer may contain one or two luminescent compositions.
US08651710B2
A detachable lamp includes a seat, a fastening mechanism and a lighting module. The fastening mechanism includes a rotary latch having a stem and a latching portion extending from the stem. The lighting module is disposed on the seat corresponding by the fastening mechanism and includes a frame and an LED assembly received in the frame. The frame has an engaging member for being fastened by the latching portion. Thereby, the lighting module can be detachably mounted on the seat.
US08651709B1
The present invention provides a multi-level light fixture retrofit kit 10 that can be easily attached to a parabolic reflector 54 of an existing HID light fixture 50. The retrofit kit 10 comprises of a frame 12 with four or more sides and a center opening 18. The center opening 18 can be secured and be suspended onto the parabolic reflector 54 with or without any mounting. Housing 20 with one or more lamp sockets 22 is disposed of on each side of the frame 12. The retrofit kit 10 also includes a partition 34 cutting across the frame 12 and held together by a hinge 36 on one end and by a locking mechanism 38 on the opposite end to facilitate installation and removal of the retrofit kit 10.
US08651708B2
A heat transfer system is provided for a LED lamp. The LED lamp includes a board surface to supply heat energy during an operation of the LED lamp. The LED lamp is mounted within a recessed housing that separates a first area having a first temperature from a second area having a second temperature, where the second temperature is lower than the first temperature. The system includes a thermal dissipator positioned within the second area. The system further includes a heat transfer device with a first end mounted to the board surface, and a second end mounted to the thermal dissipator, to transfer the heat energy from the board surface in the first area to the thermal dissipator in the second area, and dissipate the heat energy within the second area.
US08651706B2
An illuminator arrangement with less heat intervention includes a reflecting body having a top opening and a bottom opening, a lens assembled above the top opening, an aluminum base assembled at the bottom opening, at least one heat pipe extended from the aluminum base, a light source assembled on the aluminum base, the heat pipe being made of the material which is a good heat conductor. Under this arrangement, the aluminum base could be moved up and down relative to the top opening so that the light source on the aluminum base could move toward the lens or moves away from the lens so as to diffuse light or focus light. Furthermore, the heat pipe dissipates the heat generated by the light source away from the reflecting body.
US08651703B2
A light emitting device with at least one LED die, a filter element and a reflective element. The filter element may be configured to preferentially attenuate light passing through the filter element, such that light output has improved color uniformity when compared to similar light emitting devices without a filter element.
US08651698B2
A cable lighting assembly comprising two electrically isolated electrical conductors, and at least one light emitting diode comprising an anode lead and a cathode lead. An electrical joint is formed between the anode lead and one of the electrical conductors, an electrical joint is formed between the cathode lead and the other electrical conductor, and a thermal joint is formed between the light emitting diode and one of the electrical conductors.
US08651693B2
An optical module for an lighting fixture for providing roadway illumination. The optical module comprising circuit board having a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). A reflector cups surrounds each of the plurality of LEDs, the cup comprises a narrow end surrounding the LED and a larger opening at a second end opposite the LED. A refractor lens cover comprising a plurality of molded lens, each lens positioned at the second end of the reflector cups.
US08651683B2
A lighting device includes a light source, a chassis, a reflection sheet, a spacer, and a press member. The chassis includes a bottom plate disposed on a side opposite to a light output side with respect to the light source and houses the light source. The reflection sheet includes a bottom portion disposed along the bottom plate and a rising portion rising from the bottom portion toward the light output side and reflects light. The spacer is arranged between the bottom plate and the rising portion. The press member has a press surface pressing the rising portion from the light output side. The press member and the spacer have mounting structures with which the press member is mounted to the spacer by moving the press member in a direction along the rising portion and to hold the press member to the spacer.
US08651679B2
A display device includes a first light guide member provided with a first reflecting surface formed at its first end to reflect light emitted by a light source; a second light guide member provided with a penetrating hole in which the first light guide member is intended to be inserted and a second reflecting surface formed at its first end to reflect the light; a first pointer and a second pointer fixed to the first end of the first light guide member and the first end of the second light guide member to be illuminated by the light reflected by the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface, respectively, and a driving member configured to separately rotate the first light guide member and the second light guide member around a same rotation axis with the first pointer and the second pointer, respectively.
US08651678B2
In exemplary implementations of this invention, a flat screen device displays a 3D scene. The 3D display may be viewed by a person who is not wearing any special glasses. The flat screen device displays dynamically changing 3D imagery, with a refresh rate so fast that the device may be used for 3D movies or for interactive, 3D display. The flat screen device comprises a stack of LCD layers with two crossed polarization filters, one filter at each end of the stack. One or more processors control the voltage at each pixel of each LCD layer, in order to control the polarization state rotation induced in light at that pixel. The processor employs an algorithm that models each LCD layer as a spatially-controllable polarization rotator, rather than a conventional spatial light modulator that directly attenuates light. Color display is achieved using field sequential color illumination with monochromatic LCDs.
US08651677B2
A laser scan unit for an imaging apparatus, including an optical paths having a plurality of optical components for directing and focusing a light beam. A component mounting mechanism is employed having a first member which is substantially fixed and resistant to movement, and a second member having an end portion which flexibly moves in response to forces acting thereon that are generated by changes in temperature due to differences in thermal expansion between the component and the first and second members.
US08651676B2
Foldable compact mirror apparatus (10) comprises at least three planar mirror elements (12) which are foldably interconnected so that the planes of the mirror elements (12) can lie in parallel or substantially in parallel with each other, and attachment means (16) for releasably attaching the mirror elements (12) to an upright surface. Preferably, the mirror elements (12) have different widths to provide a tapering appearance and reduced weight during transport.
US08651662B2
Provided are an optical tomographic imaging apparatus and an imaging method for an optical tomographic image, in which high measurement sensitivity and high lateral resolution of a specific portion of an object may be obtained with a simple structure. The optical tomographic imaging apparatus of a Fourier-domain method includes: an optical path length adjustment portion for adjusting an optical path length of the reference beam; a position adjustment portion for adjusting a position of a focusing device for focusing the measuring beam onto the object; and a drive control portion for controlling drive of the optical path length adjustment portion and the position adjustment portion. The drive control portion is controlled based on information from a layer constituting a cross section from cross section information that is obtained in advance for a portion to be imaged of the object.
US08651660B2
The present invention describes ophthalmic lens products comprising a multilayer wafer and an injection-molded polycarbonate inner portion. The multilayer wafer includes a dyed, photochromic or polarized layer between a tinted inner layer and an outer polymeric layer. The inner layer may be solid or gradient-tinted. The polycarbonate inner portion of the lens product is directly fused to the tinted inner layer of the multilayer wafer during injection molding. The invention further describes a method to produce a gradient-tinted polarized polycarbonate eyewear lens product by obtaining a multilayer wafer having an outer layer, an inner polycarbonate layer, and a polarized layer between the inner and outer layers, applying a gradient tint to the wafer's inner layer, placing the gradient tinted wafer within an injection-molding cavity, and injecting molten polycarbonate directly against the wafer's gradient-tinted layer to form the inner portion of the lens product and to fuse it to the wafer.
US08651657B2
Printer module includes a media processing member and a bumper that is arranged to be adjusted in height to provide for a parallel arrangement of the media processing member with respect to a printer roller.
US08651653B2
An apparatus and method apply release fluid to a leveler in a printing apparatus. The apparatus can include a substrate path, at least one release fluid spray nozzle, and a marking material leveling system having a marking material leveler. The method can include transporting a substrate with marking material along the substrate path. The method can include pulse spraying release fluid to the marking material leveling system using the at least one release fluid spray nozzle to apply the release fluid to the marking material leveler. The method can include leveling marking material on the substrate using the marking material leveler with release fluid.
US08651647B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a recording head that ejects an ink from a plurality of nozzles, a liquid supply passage and a reservoir that supply the ink from an upstream side toward a downstream side, a maintenance pump that is able to suck and discharge the ink from and to the liquid supply passage, a filter that clarify the ink in the reservoir, and a control unit that performs a recovery process of the nozzles by controlling an operation of the pump, wherein the control unit causes the maintenance pump to perform a sucking operation to suck the ink, and then causes the pump to perform a discharging operation to discharge the ink, thereby supplying the ink clarified by the filter to the nozzle side.
US08651645B2
A print cartridge identification system includes a housing, a family key provided on one side of the housing to identify an associated printer of the print cartridge, a fluid key provided on the one side of the housing to identify a property of fluid in the print cartridge, and a location datum provided on the one side of the housing to position the print cartridge in the associated printer.
US08651644B2
An ink cartridge includes a storage portion, a housing, a movable member, a support portion, and an intermediate member. The storage portion has flexibility and is configured to store ink. The housing that covers the storage portion and at least a central portion of the storage portion is fixed to the housing. The movable member contacts with the storage portion in the housing, and is rotatable in accordance with changes in a position of contact with the storage portion. The support portion is provided in the housing and includes a pair of engagement portions. The pair of engagement portions are disposed at an interval therebetween and rotatably support the movable member. The intermediate member is disposed between the movable member and the storage portion.
US08651636B2
A liquid droplet ejection apparatus includes: a plurality of discharge openings for discharging bubbles in liquid supply flow passages supplying liquid from liquid chambers to a liquid droplet ejection head, for each of the liquid chambers; a first opening and closing section being capable of opening and closing the discharge openings; and a first pushing section causing the discharge openings to be opened and closed by moving the first opening and closing section. The first opening and closing section includes a plurality of first cover portions that can cover each of the discharge openings, a first contact portion corresponding to the first pushing section and common to the first cover portions, and a first connecting portion connecting the first cover portions with the first contact portion.
US08651634B2
An image data processing device processes image data. The image data processing device includes an image data storing unit, a correction data producing unit, and an image density value addition unit. The image density value is either a first density value that is greater than or equal to a prescribed value or a second density value that is less than the prescribed value. The ink droplet is ejected on the first subject pixel whereas the ink droplet is unejected on the second subject pixel. The correction data producing unit produces correction data including a plurality of correction density values. The image density value addition unit adds the correction density value to the second density value of the corresponding pixel. The correction data producing unit produces a first correction density value and a second correction density value as the correction density value.
US08651630B2
In one embodiment, a fluid ejector structure includes: a chamber for containing a fluid; a flexible membrane forming one wall of the chamber; a plurality of piezoelectric elements; a backing operatively connected to the piezoelectric elements such that an expansion and/or contraction of a piezoelectric element causes the piezoelectric element to bend; a rigid plate overlaying a center portion of the membrane; a post coupling the piezoelectric elements to the plate through the backing such that a movement of each piezoelectric element toward the chamber is transmitted to the plate through the post. The plate is configured to transmit movement of the post to the membrane in a rigid, or substantially rigid, piston-like manner.
US08651626B2
A liquid ejecting head comprises a pressure chamber communicating with nozzle and a piezoelectric actuator including a piezoelectric layer and an electrode which applies a voltage to the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer is composed of a solid solution containing bismuth sodium titanate and 0.2 mol % or more and 8.0 mol % or less of copper.
US08651625B2
A fluid ejection device includes a chamber, at least one fluid supply channel, and more than two fluid inlets disposed between the fluid channel and the chamber. An inkjet printing system includes a fluid ejection device having a chamber disposed along fluid supply channels within the fluid ejection device, where a first channel is disposed along a first side of the chamber and a second channel is disposed along a second side of the chamber. The chamber includes multiple fluid inlets, where a first plurality of fluid inlets is disposed between the chamber and the first channel and a second plurality of fluid inlets is disposed between the chamber and the second channel.
US08651615B2
Test pattern template data are stored in a memory of a printer to identify locations spatially within image data of a test pattern printed by printheads in an inkjet printer. The test pattern template data identifies an origin of a test pattern in the image data and the distances between structures in the test pattern to enable test pattern structure in the image data to be detected and identified more easily.
US08651609B2
Color material recording amount determination unit configured to determine a color material recording amount data according to a gradation value and colorless material recording amount calculation unit configured to determine, according to the color material recording amount data, a base colorless material recording amount data of a colorless material that is recorded as a base of the color material are included.
US08651607B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a heating unit which heats a medium; a head which ejects liquid droplets onto the medium opposed thereto; and a driving signal generating unit which generates a driving signal to be applied to the head in order to eject the liquid droplets and which generates a driving signal different in accordance with whether the heating unit is used.
US08651601B2
This invention relates to realization of a more efficient power-saving mode in a printing apparatus capable of connecting an extension board for function enhancement. When the printing apparatus connects an extension board including a CPU and memory, the CPU of the extension board receives information required to return to a normal operation mode from a controller unit, and stores the received information in the memory before transition from the normal operation mode to the power-saving mode. Then, the controller unit lowers an operation frequency of a CPU thereof, and stops power supply to respective units of the apparatus, which do not require any power supply. In the power-saving mode, the extension board monitors an elapse of a predetermined time period and reception of print data, thereby, even in the power-saving mode, normally returning to the normal operation mode after the elapse of the time period.
US08651596B2
An image formation apparatus is provided with a housing, a rockable member rockably secured to the housing, and a lock mechanism including an engaging portion and an engageable portion. The rockable member is locked to the housing when the engageable portion is engaged with the engaging portion. The image formation apparatus is further provided with a displaceable guide member secured to the housing or the rockable member. A guiding member is provided to the housing or the rockable member. The guiding member slide-contacts the guide member when the rockable member rocks so that the state of the rockable member is changed from a rockable state to an unrockable state. The engageable portion is displaced to move closer to the engaging portion in a case where the guide member contacts the guiding member than in a case where the guide member does not contact the guiding member.
US08651589B2
A control device 10 of an industrial vehicle which performs the control of actuating a parking brake 7 during operator's absence in an industrial vehicle includes a seat switch 1, a vehicle speed sensor 2, and the parking brake 7 controlled by a parking brake solenoid 6, and a counter 11 which counts the elapsed time after the seat switch 1 detects the operator's absence. The control device sets the time corresponding to the time until the operator leaves the vehicle after the operator leaves the seat as a preset absence time. When the seat switch 1 has detected absence, a control signal which validates the parking brake 7 is output to the parking brake solenoid 6, thereby actuating the parking brake 7 if the vehicle speed shows a vehicle stopped state, and the elapsed time becomes equal to or more than the set absence time.
US08651564B2
A polygonal cross-sectional frame has an L closed cross-sectional shape such that the frame has an inwardly recessed section. A rear vehicle body structure includes a depressing member provided, along the lower surface of a rear frame extending rearward from a floor of a passenger compartment, in opposed relation to a predetermined vehicle-body-mounted component part disposed beneath the depressing member. As a rear section of the rear frame deforms due to a load input to the rear end of the rear frame, the depressing member deforms downward to depress and displace the predetermined vehicle-body-mounted component part.
US08651563B2
A bearing structure arrangement of a motor vehicle body is provided with a side panel structure adjoining a bulkhead, and a linking component secured thereto for accommodating a frame rail section located upstream from the side panel structure in the traveling direction. The linking component facing the frame carrier section includes, but is not limited to an attachment profile corresponding with the profile cross section of the frame rail section.
US08651553B2
A tank closure system intended for closing a filling opening of a tank includes a tank cap, which closes the filling opening, and a tank flap, which covers the tank cap. The sides of the tank cap and the tank flap that face each other are designed to engage with one another in a positive locking manner by way of a defined shape, when the tank cap is situated in a predetermined position, in which the filling opening is closed, relative to the tank flap.
