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| US07834961B2 |
Color filter substrate with openings and liquid crystal display apparatus having the same
A color filter substrate is provided, including a substrate, a color filter layer formed on the substrate and including color filters where at least one of the color filters has an opening that partially exposes a portion of the substrate, a planarization layer reducing a step difference between the color filter layer and the portion of the substrate exposed by the opening, and a transparent electrode formed on the planarization layer. |
| US07834955B2 |
Light reflector
A technology for effectively preventing deformation of a light reflector plate fabricated by forming a synthetic resin reflector plate into a three-dimensional shape enabling a thinner light reflector plate, and additionally, reducing processing costs is provided. An adhesive tape for shape-retention is adhered onto a reflector plate which is fabricated by forming predetermined areas of a light-reflecting plastic film or sheet into a three-dimensional shape. |
| US07834946B2 |
Display device and color filter substrate
A display device includes multiple signal lines that are connected to multiple pixel electrodes including first and second pixel electrodes. The distance between one end of the first pixel electrode and the centerline of a first signal line is greater than the distance between one end of the second pixel electrode and the centerline of a second signal line. Alternatively, the distance between the other end of the first pixel electrode and the centerline of an adjacent signal line, which is located on the opposite side of the first pixel electrode from the first signal line, is greater than the distance between the other end of the second pixel electrode and the centerline of another adjacent signal line, which is located on the opposite side of the second pixel electrode from the second signal line. |
| US07834944B2 |
Method for the orientation of a parallax barrier screen on a display screen
A method for the orientation of a parallax barrier screen on a display screen with pixels x(ij) in a pattern of rows (i) and columns (j) for the production of a display screen for three-dimensional representation. Particularly, a test image is presented comprising various views A(k) where k=1, . . . , n and n=6 or n=7, wherein the test image comprises at least two first straight lines having two different directions of extension from one another, said lines being disposed in different horizontal positions in the n=6 or n=7 views A(k), wherein the test image comprises at least two second straight lines that are each oriented parallel to one of the first straight lines and that are disposed at least at the same horizontal positions in the n=6 or n=7 views A(k). The method according to the invention may be performed quickly and with a high degree of accuracy and is therefore suitable for industrial use for the production of display screens for three-dimensional representation. |
| US07834941B2 |
Image display device
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image display device which includes a first TN liquid crystal modulator for modulating the polarization state of first colored light; a second TN liquid crystal modulator for modulating the polarization state of second colored light; a third TN liquid crystal modulator for modulating the polarization state of third colored light; and an optical system for synthesizing the image light emitted from the three liquid crystal modulators; where a first voltage is applied to the first liquid crystal modulator for providing the first colored light with about half-wavelength phase difference; second voltage higher than the first voltage is applied to the second liquid crystal modulator for providing the second colored light with about half-wavelength phase difference; and third voltage higher than the second voltage is applied to the third liquid crystal modulator for providing the third colored light with about half-wavelength phase difference. |
| US07834934B2 |
Video signal output device
When television screen setting is not set and thus a television screen setting completion flag is not set, and a terminals-connection judgment pin takes a low level, an i/p selection screen is initially displayed on a progressive display device. However, the i/p selection screen is not displayed on an interlaced display device. When processing performed for the i/p selection screen is completed, or when the terminals-connection judgment pin takes a high level, indicating that the video input D-terminal of the display device is not connected to the video output D-terminal, an aspect ratio setting screen is displayed. After aspect ratio setting is completed, the television screen setting completion flag is set. This eliminates the need to perform the television screen setting again. |
| US07834932B2 |
De-interlacing method
An image de-interlacing method for estimating an interpolation luminance of an interpolated pixel, including: selecting a plurality of first and second candidate pixels respectively on upper and lower lines adjacent to the interpolated pixel, calculating a plurality of weighted directional differences respectively associated with one of the first candidate pixels and one of the second candidate pixels with weighting values determined by comparing similarity of luminance decreasing/increasing patterns near the associated first and second candidate pixels on the upper and lower lines, selecting a first selected pixel and a second selected pixel respectively from the first and second candidate pixels associated with the smallest weighted directional difference, and obtaining the interpolation luminance according to the first and second selected pixels. |
| US07834929B2 |
Imaging apparatus
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to photoelectrically convert light of an object image formed by an imaging optical system to generate a signal, a first detection unit configured to detect a focusing state of the imaging optical system based on the signal generated by the imaging unit, a sensor configured to generate a signal different from the signal generated by the imaging unit without using the imaging optical system, and a second detection unit configured to detect an in-focus position of the imaging optical system based on the signal generated by the sensor. The sensor is located such that an amount of overlap between a detection range of the first detection unit and a detection range of the second detection unit at a first object distance is equal to an amount of overlap between those at a second object distance that is close to an infinite distance side compared to the first object distance. |
| US07834927B2 |
Apparatus and method for producing video signals
A method is disclosed for producing signals representative of an image of a scene including the following steps: providing an image sensor with a lenticular lens pattern thereon, and projecting the image onto the image sensor via the lenticular lens pattern, the image sensor having a pixel element pattern and the lenticular lens pattern having diamond shaped lenticles and being diagonally oriented with respect to the horizontal scanning direction of the pixel element pattern; and producing image-representative signals by reading out signals from the pixel elements of the image sensor. |
| US07834918B2 |
Method and device for evaluating random noise in image sensor
A random noise evaluation method is comprised of: capturing and obtaining current image data; calculating a difference between the current image data and an average of previous image data; calculating a current difference square sum using a sum of the difference and a previous difference square sum; and calculating a random noise value using the current difference square sum. Since a noise evaluation algorithm obtains random noises without storing image data for all pixels of a*b*n, it is able to evaluate random noise evaluation for a high-resolution image sensor even with a relatively small size of memory. |
| US07834917B2 |
Imaging apparatus, noise reduction apparatus, noise reduction method, and noise reduction program
Noise reduction is performed on the basis of characteristics of an image in a detection range. A noise reduction block 4′ performs a second-order differentiation process and a symmetry process to decide adjacent pixels with which noise reduction is preformed for an attention pixel. With the pixel level of the attention pixel in the detection range and the pixel levels of adjacent pixels used for noise reduction, an arithmetic mean processing section 16 calculates a mean value. A median filter 17 selects a median value. With the number of pixels used for noise reduction, it is determined whether the image in the detection range contains a flat portion, a ramp portion, or an edge. The mean value and the median value are weight-added with a weighted coefficient that are changed on the basis of characteristics of the image. The result is substituted for the level of the attention pixel. When the attention pixel is an isolated point, an all-pixel median filter section 31 selects a medium value of the levels of all the pixels in the detection range including the attention pixel and substitutes the median value for the level of the attention pixel. |
| US07834915B2 |
Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, imaging processing method, and computer program
An image processing apparatus that processes input image data includes an exposure-correction-value acquiring unit that acquires exposure correction values at plural stages with respect to an exposure control value during imaging of the input image data, an illumination-component generating unit that generates illumination components on the basis of the input image data, a gain-amount calculating unit that multiplies each of plural weighting coefficients with a multiplication coefficient corresponding to the exposure correction value corresponding to the weighting coefficient and adds up multiplied values to calculate a gain amount, and a gain applying unit that applies, for each of pixels, the gain amount calculated by the gain-amount calculating unit to the input image data. |
| US07834910B2 |
Method and apparatus for panoramic imaging
Camera system and methods to capture panoramic imagery from a camera mounted on a moving platform, using low-cost digital image sensors. The panoramic imagery appears seamless and natural to the eye. The panoramic imaging system and methods are specifically designed to accommodate the long acquisition times of low-cost digital image sensors, despite the motion of the camera during image capture. Pairs of cameras are arranged about an axis and a pairwise firing sequence enables capturing a series of adjacent images without gap or overlap. Additionally, when combined with suitable supplemental sensors, the image data provide location information about objects in the image for use in elementary photogrammetry. |
| US07834901B2 |
Image forming apparatus which executes an image quality control
The present invention uses a pattern that enables image quality maintaining control to be performed at a resolution lower than that used for a normal image forming process. Thus, during an initial operation upon power-on, the image quality maintaining control is performed at the resolution lower than that used for the normal image forming process. |
| US07834898B2 |
Image forming device, image forming method, and exposure head
An image forming device includes a photoconductor drum having a rotational shaft in a first direction, and an exposure head having a plurality of imaging optical systems disposed in the first direction and a second direction and each having a negative optical magnification, and a light emitting element substrate on which a plurality of light emitting elements are disposed, the plurality of light emitting elements emitting light beams imaged on the photoconductor drum by one of the imaging optical systems, and the light beams are imaged by the imaging optical systems disposed in the second direction on the photoconductive drum at positions different from each other in the second direction. |
| US07834893B2 |
Mixed-reality presentation system and control method therefor
In a mixed-reality presentation system, a handler for manipulating a virtual object is displayed as a virtual object. Then, manipulation of the handler by the hand(s) of an observer is detected as manipulation of the virtual object associated with the handler, and those detection results are reflected in a display of the manipulated virtual object. By dynamically changing virtual objects displaying the handler according to the size of the virtual objects displayed in a view volume of the observer presented with a mixed reality space, the observer can select a desired virtual object with ease. |
| US07834892B2 |
Mobile radio terminal apparatus
Control unit executes automatic scrolling display processing of allowing an explanation of an item corresponding to a focus, of listed items displayed in a list display area of display unit, to be automatically scrolled in a scrolling display area of the display unit. When the control unit repeats this processing at predetermined number of times N, the control unit stops the processing. |
| US07834885B2 |
Display apparatus and image processing method thereof
A display apparatus using a light emitting diode (LED) light source is provided. The display apparatus including an input unit which includes at least one shortcut key, a storage unit which stores at least one color gamut profile capable of being expressed by the LED light source, a detector which detects a color gamut profile from the storage unit if the color gamut profile is selected using the shortcut key, a converter which converts image data according to the detected color gamut profile, and an output unit which displays the converted image data using a light beam emitted from the LED light source. Accordingly, a user can easily apply a desired color gamut profile to an image and view the image. |
| US07834882B2 |
Virtualization of graphics resources
Graphics resources are virtualized through an interface between graphics hardware and graphics clients. The interface allocates the graphics resources across multiple graphics clients, processes commands for access to the graphics resources from the graphics clients, and resolves conflicts for the graphics resources among the clients. |
| US07834880B2 |
Graphics processing and display system employing multiple graphics cores on a silicon chip of monolithic construction
A high performance graphics processing and display system architecture supporting a cluster of multiple cores of graphic processing units (GPUs) that cooperate to provide a powerful and highly scalable visualization solution supporting photo-realistic graphics capabilities for diverse applications. The present invention eliminates rendering bottlenecks along the graphics pipeline by dynamically managing various parallel rendering techniques and enabling adaptive handling of diverse graphics applications. |
| US07834876B2 |
Providing graphic generating capabilities for a model based development process
A method and system for providing a block for use in a block diagram in a graphical modeling environment which is capable of rendering a parameterized graphic annotation. |
| US07834866B2 |
Display panel driver and display panel driving method
A display panel driver includes: a clock generator for generating a clock signal; a horizontal reference generating circuit having a first frequency divider for dividing the frequency of the clock signal; a vertical reference generating circuit having a second frequency divider for dividing the frequency of the output from the first frequency divider; a switch circuit having one input terminal to which an external vertical synchronizing signal is supplied and having another input terminal to which the output signal from the second frequency divider is supplied and which selectively output one of said input terminals; and a CPU that alters the oscillation frequency of the clock generator or the frequency division ratio at the first frequency divider when a switching between the input terminals of the switch circuit is performed. |
| US07834863B2 |
Stylus pen combined with antenna in portable wireless terminal
Disclosed is a stylus pen combined with an antenna in a touch screen type-wireless terminal. The stylus pen has a built-in antenna and is detachably disposed in the touch screen type-wireless terminal, and the built-in antenna makes electrical connection with an antenna contact portion of an RF board of the terminal when the stylus pen is completely inserted in the terminal, such that the terminal has an improved antenna radiation characteristic and quality when compared with a terminal only having a fixed terminal antenna. The built-in antenna in the stylus pen may be a λ/4 dipole antenna or a λ/4 monopole antenna. |
| US07834860B2 |
Input device
An electrostatic capacitance type input device includes a plurality of electrodes, and detects coordinate position on the basis of a variation in an electrostatic capacitance between the electrodes. The device corrects an erroneous operation in which the device is not properly operated but certain coordinate positions are continuously detected. |
| US07834858B2 |
Depressable computer touch input device for activating an additional control signal
A trace-detecting computer input device such as a touch input device, optical tracing module, or optical tracing plate includes a trace-detecting module and a microswitch. The trace-detecting module has a neutral position and a depressed position. A first control signal is generated when an object moves across the top of the trace-detecting module. When the trace-detecting module is in the depressed position, the microswitch is activated to generate a second control signal which is in addition to the trace-detecting first control signal. |
| US07834856B2 |
Capacitive sense toggle touch dimmer
A touch/toggle dimmer circuit that includes a controller coupled to at least one measurement capacitor whose capacitance is known, and at least one touch pad where the controller is configured by an algorithm to measure changes in the capacitance of the touch pad in response to a user touching the pad. These measurements are used to adjust the power delivered to a load independent of the polarity of the connection between the power source and the dimmer circuit. |
| US07834852B2 |
System having sensing device for interaction with computer software
A system for enabling user interaction with computer software. The system includes a sensing device and a computer system. The computer system generates print data and transfers it to a printer. The printer prints a form by printing information related to an interactive element and coded data indicative of the interactive element in response to the print data. The sensing device has an image sensor for capturing images of the coded data, which is coincident with the information, and a processor for identifying the coded data from the captured images, determine an orientation and position of the coded data, decode the coded data, and generate indicating data using the determined information. The indicating data, which is indicative of the interactive element is used by the computer system to identify the interactive element and perform a corresponding action. |
| US07834850B2 |
Method and system for object control
A system (111) and method (200) for providing sensory feedback (210) for touchless feedback control is provided. The system can include a touchless sensing unit (110) that detects at least one position (304) of an object in a touchless sensing space (300), and an indicator (166) communicatively coupled to the touchless sensing unit that provides sensory feedback associated with the at least one position. The indicator can change in accordance with a location, a recognized movement, or a strength of the touchless sensing space. The sensory feedback can be associated with acquiring a touchless control or releasing a touchless control. The sensory feedback can be visual, auditory, or haptic. |
| US07834849B2 |
Control framework with a zoomable graphical user interface for organizing selecting and launching media items
Systems and methods according to the present invention provide a control framework for organizing, selecting and launching media items including graphical user interfaces coupled with an optional 3D control device for collection of the basic control primitives of point, click, scroll, hover and zoom which permit for easy and rapid selection of media items, e.g., movies, songs etc., from large or small collections. The remote control maps natural hand movements and gestures into relevant commands while the graphical display uses images, zooming for increased/decreased levels of detail and continuity of GUI objects to provide easy organization, selection and navigation among the media items by a user. |
| US07834845B2 |
Display for creating colored images and text that is visible in incident light
A display for creating colored images and text that is visible in incident light. The screen of the display includes pixels arranged in a grid pattern, each pixel having at least three colored mirrors, arranged next to one another or behind one another for the colors red, green and blue or cyan, magenta and yellow. The mirrors are configured from flat, transparent containers, whose interiors are connected to color reservoirs so that the contents of the latter can be displaced by control electronics in such a way that transparent colored liquid is transported from the color reservoirs to the colored mirrors or vice versa. Light sources, which may each be assigned to a single pixel, are located behind the colored mirrors of the pixels, each individual source being electronically controlled. A white or silver reflective layer, which is partially or temporarily transparent, is positioned behind the colored mirrors. |
| US07834844B2 |
Electronic ink display device and driving method
An electronic ink panel comprises an electronic ink layer, a first substrate and a second substrate. The electronic ink layer includes first to third particles responding to voltages in different level ranges. The first substrate has a first electrode facing one surface of the electronic ink layer. The second substrate has a plurality of second electrode patterns of a size of a pixel region. The second substrate faces the other surface of the electronic ink layer. |
| US07834841B2 |
Display drive device, display device having the same and method for driving display panel
A display drive device which drives a display panel based on display data, the display panel including a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of signal lines, the signal lines being divided into a plurality of signal line groups, each of the signal line groups including a predetermined number of signal lines, a display signal generation circuit section which sequentially outputs display signal voltages based on the display data in a time sharing manner within each horizontal scanning period, and a selection circuit section which sequentially selects the signal line group corresponding to the display signal voltages output from the display signal generation circuit section in synchronization with an output timing of the display signal voltages, and applies the display signal voltages to the plurality of signal lines constituting the selected signal line group. The selection circuit section applies the display signal voltages to each signal line group plural times within each horizontal scanning period. |
| US07834840B2 |
Liquid crystal display device including transformer
A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel, a printed circuit board connected to the liquid crystal display panel, a transformer connected to the printed circuit board, and a ferrite core plate disposed between the printed circuit board and the transformer. |
| US07834839B2 |
Image display device and image display method
An image display device for displaying an image on a display panel is provided. The image display device includes a temperature variation rate detecting unit that detects a temperature variation rate of the display panel; a driving condition setting unit that sets driving conditions so as to display the image on the display panel in accordance with an image data of the image; a driving condition changing unit that changes the set driving conditions in accordance with the detected temperature variation rate; and a display panel driving unit that displays the image on the display panel by driving the display panel with the driving conditions changed by the driving condition changing unit. |
| US07834830B2 |
Field sequential liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof, and head mounted display
A display with high resolution and reduced flicker of image. The driving method of this invention, or the field sequential driving method, divides one frame of image into a plurality of subframes, i.e., divides the period of one image frame into a plurality of subframe periods; displays red, green and blue images during the corresponding subframe periods; and, when these color images are to be displayed, turns on the corresponding red, green and blue backlights successively to feed light to the display section. |
| US07834829B2 |
Control circuit for overcoming stiction
A circuit and method for controlling a micro-electromechanical system is herein disclosed. In one embodiment of a micro-electromechanical system having top and bottom capacitor plates with a pixel plate movably positioned therebetween, a release voltage sufficient to overcome stiction forces adhering the pixel plate to one of the capacitor plates is applied to the pixel plate to cause the pixel plate to be attracted to the pixel plate opposite the capacitor plate to with which the pixel plate is in contact. After the pixel plate has moved a predetermined distance away from the capacitor plate to which it had been adhered by stiction forces, the release voltage is removed. Thereafter, an positional voltage is applied to the pixel plate to move the pixel plate to a desired location between the capacitor plates. Release and positional voltages are coupled to and decoupled from the pixel plate by one or more switching mechanisms. |
| US07834826B2 |
Organic light emitting display device with improved luminance uniformity by using a feedback signal and driving method of the same
An organic light emitting display device and a driving method for the same is provided. The device includes a data driver that can cause a display of an image having a uniform luminance. The data driver includes a ramp pulse generating part for generating a ramp pulse. The data driver also includes a current digital-to-analog converting part for generating a data current using data provided to the data driver. The data driver also includes a current control part for providing the ramp pulse to data lines coupled to a pixel and comparing a pixel current from the pixel with the data current to control providing of the ramp pulse to the data lines. The pixel current corresponds to the ramp pulse. |
| US07834825B2 |
Organic electroluminescent display apparatus
An organic EL display apparatus including in each display pixel an organic EL element. A drive transistor supplies a drive current that depends on brightness data and having the display pixels arranged in a matrix form. The display includes a correction gain storage unit for storing display pixel positions and a correction gain for correcting the slope of the brightness-data-based drive current of the drive transistors in the display pixels; and a correction unit for correcting pixel-by-pixel brightness data depending on the pixel position using the correction gain stored in the correction gain storage unit into brightness data for the pixel to generate corrected brightness data, each of the display pixels is displayed by driving its drive transistor in response to the data generated by the correction gain storage unit and the correction unit and supplying the corresponding organic EL element with the drive current. |
| US07834824B2 |
Display driver circuits
This disclosure generally relates to display driver circuits for electro-optic displays, and more particularly relates to circuits and methods for driving active matrix organic light emitting diode displays with greater efficiency. A display driver for an electroluminescent display, the display including a plurality of electroluminescent display elements each associated with a display element driver circuit, each display element driver circuit including a drive transistor having a control connection for driving the associated display element in accordance with a voltage on the control connection, the display driver including at least one display element brightness controller to provide an output to drive a control connection to control the electroluminescent output from a display element; a voltage sensor to sense the voltage on a control connection; and a power controller for controlling an adjustable power supply for providing an adjustable voltage to the electroluminescent display to power said drive transistors for driving said display elements, the power controller being configured to provide a control signal to adjust said power supply voltage in response to said sensed voltage. |
| US07834813B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for adaptively controlling antenna parameters to enhance efficiency and maintain antenna size compactness
An antenna for a communications device having configurable elements controlled to modify an antenna impedance and/or an antenna resonant frequency to improve performance of the communications device. The antenna impedance is controlled to substantially match to an output impedance of a power amplifier that supplies the antenna with a signal for transmission. The antenna resonant frequency is controlled to overcome the effects of various operating conditions that can detune the antenna or in response to an operable frequency band. |
| US07834810B2 |
Antennae attachable to an electronic device enclosure or other structure
Attachable/detachable antennae for use with electronic systems. |
| US07834807B2 |
Retro-directive ground-terminal antenna for communication with geostationary satellites in slightly inclined orbits
A retro-directive antenna for communicating with a geostationary satellite autonomously detects the direction from which a signal is received, and transmits a beam that points back along the same direction. An array feed is used to illuminate a parabolic reflector. Each feed element of the retro-directive antenna is associated with a unique pointing direction of the beam in the far field. As the transmit energy is switched to different feed elements, the far-field beam is scanned, making it possible to track a geostationary satellite in a slightly inclined orbit. This eliminates the need for mechanical tracking and maintains high antenna gain in the direction of the geostationary satellite. The use of a toroidal reflector with multiple linear array feeds spaced in the azimuth direction enables multi-beam operation, allowing multiple geostationary satellites, spaced by up to fifteen beam widths in azimuth, to be tracked simultaneously and independently. |
| US07834806B2 |
System and method for utility asset data collection and management
A method and apparatus, including software, for the development and operational use of precise utility location and utility asset management information. Field-usable data sets may be produced that meet standards of accuracy and usability that are sufficient for use by field operations personnel participating in damage prevention activities associated with ground penetrating projects (e.g., excavating, trenching, boring, driving, and tunneling) or other asset applications. Some embodiments relate to integrating utility asset data including coordinate location, and geographical information data using a consistently available and accurate coordinates reference for collecting the data and for aligning the geographical information data. Some embodiments relate to managing projects with equipment that provides real time images and the updating of the data as required with this desired accuracy. |
| US07834793B2 |
Self-timed clocked analog to digital converter
An SAR analog-to-digital converter performs bit decisions in each of a plurality of clock cycles. A sense circuit monitors signals input to a latch within a comparator of the ADC and, when the signals are sufficient to establish a bit decision, the sense circuit terminates a currently active clock cycle causes a bit decision to occur in advance of a normal expiration of the clock cycle. If the signals are insufficient to establish a bit decision prior to a default expiration time of the clock cycle, the clock cycle concludes at the default expiration time. |
| US07834790B1 |
Communication device including a power reduction mechanism
A communication device includes a communication port that includes a digital to analog converter (DAC) that may be configured to output for transmission an analog signal that corresponds to a digital input such as link data that is to be transmitted on a physical link. The communication port further includes a control unit coupled to the DAC and may be configured to provide a bias current to the DAC during operation. In addition, the control unit may further be configured to reduce the bias current to the DAC dependent upon a mode of operation of the communication port and whether there is data to transmit. |
| US07834787B2 |
Techniques for delay compensation of continuous-time sigma-delta modulators
A technique for implementing compensatory feedback in a continuous-time sigma-delta modulator includes providing, based on an analog input signal, a digital output signal at an output of a quantizer circuit of the continuous-time sigma-delta modulator. A functionality of the quantizer circuit is then controlled based on the digital output signal. |
| US07834785B2 |
CABAC type encoding device and method
An encoding device and method, of CABAC type, for an initial stream of binary digital information intended to generate an outgoing stream to form video images, after decoding, the method included the following steps: bit-by-bit analysis of the successive series of bits of the initial binary stream so as to deduce therefrom, for each bit, an interval representing the probability of occurrence associated with this bit, this interval being defined by its size CIR and its lower bound CIL, analysis of this interval so as to ensure, if necessary, a renormalization thereof. The renormalization is non-iterative and for each bit of the initial stream is compliant with the appended figure in which: M is the length of the sequence S of high-order bits common to CIL and CIR, N is the integer number such that CIR.2N-1<0.25≦CIR.2N, BO is the number of bits waiting to be inserted. |
| US07834784B1 |
Data redundancy elimination mechanism including fast lookup of data patterns exhibiting spatial locality
A data redundancy elimination system. In particular implementations, a method includes accessing a data block; dividing the data block into a plurality of data chunks; computing chunk signatures for the plurality of data chunks; identifying a plurality of anchor chunks in the plurality of data chunks; accessing a second memory to identify one or more matching chunk signatures; reading one or more signature blocks corresponding to the matching chunk signatures from a first memory into the signature block search space of the second memory; and matching one or more computed chunk signatures to chunk signatures of the one or more signature blocks in the signature block search space. |
| US07834782B2 |
CABAC-type encoding device and method
A CABAC-type encoding device for encoding an initial flow of binary digital information for generating an output flow for forming video images after decoding, includes: elements for analyzing successive sequences of bits of the initial binary flow, bit-by-bit, and for deducing, for each bit, an interval representing the occurrence probability associated with the bit, the interval being defined by the size thereof and the lower boundary thereof; elements for analyzing the interval and ensuring a renormalization thereof. The elements for ensuring the renormalization include: a reference table containing, for each possible value of the lower boundary and the size, sequences of bits to be inserted into the output flow, and the number of unknown bits waiting to be inserted for this specific renormalization step; and elements for determining the address of the data, in this reference table. |
| US07834779B2 |
System and method for increasing visibility of critical flight information on aircraft displays
System and method increase the visibility of critical flight information on electronic displays. An aircraft display system includes a processing unit, a flight management system, a navigation system, a database for storing target data and terrain data, a graphics display generator, and a visual display. The flight management system and/or the navigation system provide real-time aircraft operational and flight control information. The processing unit directs the graphics display generator to generate graphic control signals for the visual display, which increase the transparency of a segment of a zero pitch reference line in the vicinity of a flight path marker on the display. |
| US07834778B2 |
Parking space locator
A method for identifying available parking spaces. The method includes receiving data about a parking space from a vehicle, the data including a geographic indicator associated with the parking space. The data is stored in a database of available parking spaces. A geographic location is received from a parking space requestor. The database is searched for an available parking space within a proximity of the geographic location. If an available parking space within a proximity of the geographic location is located in the database, a geographic indicator associated with the available parking space is transmitted to the parking space requester. |
| US07834774B2 |
Monitoring of critical dairy farm conditions
A system is provided herein for monitoring the quality of milk which is stored at a dairy facility comprising sensors, e.g., analog and/or digital sensors that are installed on equipment on a dairy farm. Such sensors report information through a communication device that sends the information, e.g., over wire-line or wireless telephony to a network operations center. The network operation center includes resident software which is programmed to interpret that information. Then, the software firstly determines whether the dairy farm operator needs to receive an alert or informational message via telephone or any other electronic communications device suggesting that the operator take appropriate action. Secondly, if necessary, the software then presents the alert and sensor information on a customized secure web site that the operator can access to review the information and prepare the compliance reporting for, e.g., HACCP-type activities. |
| US07834765B2 |
Method and apparatus for tracking objects and people
An object locating, identifying, tracking, and surveillance system, denoted the Assets Locating, Tracking, and Surveillance System (ALTSS), is provided for managing physical objects and evidence in environments such as police departments, law offices, and the Courts. ALTSS employs radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, computer programming and database applications, networking technologies, and hardware elements. ALTSS may locate and track physical evidence, merchandise, information carriers like files, folders or individual pieces of paper, and people, under certain conditions, in near-real time. It may be configured as part of a local area network, a wide area network, or the Internet. ALTSS may employ exemplary components such as RFID transponders, scanners, strategically located antennas and computers to facilitate tracking of objects and people as needed. Any number of users having access privileges and connected to the network may access ALTSS directly or remotely via the Internet to locate and track evidence or objects. |
| US07834763B2 |
Wireless tag reader/writer control system and wireless tag reader/writer control method
A wireless tag reader/writer control system includes a control apparatus for controlling a plurality of wireless tag readers/writers transmitting a signal to and receiving a signal from a wireless tag by transmitting an electromagnetic wave radiation execution timing arrangement including the time span authorized to radiate an electric wave at a time and the radiation time intervals between radiations of electric wave to each of the wireless tag readers/writers and a plurality of wireless tag readers/writers, each having a reader/writer main body for transmitting a signal to and receiving a signal from a wireless tag and receiving the execution of radiation time intervals between radiations of electric wave from the control apparatus. The control apparatus is adapted to transmit the execution of radiation time intervals between radiations of electromagnetic wave to each of the wireless tag readers/writers and each of the wireless tag readers/writers is adapted to radiate an electromagnetic wave according to the received execution of radiation time intervals. |
| US07834758B2 |
In-vehicle entertainment method and system for executing the same
An in-vehicle entertainment method includes playing through an in-vehicle audio component a received program content broadcast from a remote location; and receiving, during the playing of the received program content, a user input selecting an identifier. The selected identifier is associated with an electronic device remote from the vehicle. The method further includes transmitting, from the vehicle to the electronic device during the playing of the received program content, an alert identifying the received program content, a channel from which the received program content is playing, or combinations thereof. |
| US07834757B2 |
Method of mobile storage container protection
Mobile storage trailers are often left unattended on construction sites. A mobile asset protection unit and method is utilized for a variety of interrelated purposes, including securing, managing, and tracking a single or fleet of non-self-propelled storage trailers. The method hereby details a means of tracking and accounting for a fleet of any type of mobile trailers. The mobile asset protection unit receives a distress signal from a variety of peripherals. The circuitry will immediately sound and alarm and/or relay the signal to the communications unit. The communications unit will notify the user via any one of a number of interfaces, including via cellular technology and/or internet technology. The user then relays a response to the distress signal that is in turn received and executed by the unit to ensure the protection of the storage trailer. |
| US07834756B2 |
Failure current measurement for electronic control module
A method and system for assessing or otherwise determining defective operation of an electronic control unit (ECU). The ECU may be a vehicle or non-vehicle ECU having any number of modules configured to provide and/or support any number of operations. The defective ECU operations may be determined as a function of a voltage drop across a shunt included on the ECU. |
| US07834751B2 |
Method and apparatus for vehicle brake light control
A method for controlling the brake lights of a vehicle includes determining vehicle deceleration potential and modulating brake light activation based upon the vehicle deceleration potential, the modulating comprising changing at least one of brake light intensity and flashing of the brake lights. |
| US07834749B2 |
Stowable antenna for TPMS sensor
A tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) sensor assembly 1 has a housing 2, a pressure sensor mounted in the housing 2 and an antenna 3 connected to the sensor and extending exteriorly of the housing 2 for effecting wireless communication between the sensor and a remote module. The antenna 3 is moveable between a folded position in which it extends around at least a part of the housing 2 so as to lie substantially in the plane of the housing 2 and an erect position in which it upstands from the housing 2 so as, in use, to extend into the inflation area formed between a wheel and tire. The antenna 3 is biased towards its erect position, and further includes a releasable restraining strap 7 for restraining the antenna 3 in its folded position. |
| US07834744B2 |
Circuit monitoring device
The circuit monitoring device is disclosed. The device is for monitoring circuit resistance. At configurable thresholds digital flags are triggered, the device can be used as a Security/Building management system. The device uses open technology is fully scaleable and allows programmable logic controllers to be used as security management systems. Using a soft logic option a PC could take the place of the PLC. |
| US07834743B2 |
RFID tag and RFID tag communication distance modification method
It is possible to prevent an unauthorized read-out from both active tags and passive tags. Antenna emission is turned on and off by using a switch, or attenuated by using a resistor. A part of the antenna may be chipped. With these configurations, it is possible to lower the emission level of the antenna thus preventing an unauthorized read-out of important information from a remote reader. |
| US07834740B2 |
Audible command method for handing off messages between two appliances
A method for receiving messages in an appliance such as a clock radio modified to retrieve messages from a remote computer, converting the retrieved messages into corresponding audio messages, generating a wake up signal to the user at a selected time in the radio appliance, starting the delivery of the audio messages from a speaker in the radio appliance in response to the generated wake up signal, and receiving audible commands in the radio from the user to control delivery of the messages. In a first embodiment, these method steps are performed in the radio appliance and, in a second embodiment, a remote computer performs all of the messages except delivery of the audio messages and receiving audible commands which occur at the appliance. Where two or more appliances are used, audio commands can cause the delivery of messages to stop in one appliance and resume in another appliance. |
| US07834738B2 |
Current limiting fuse
A mounting assembly couples a current limiting fuse to an element that defines a longitudinal axis. The mounting assembly includes a mounting member on the element; a first attachment member coupled to the mounting member in a fixed position relative to the mounting member; and a second attachment member coupleable to the current limiting fuse. The first and second attachment members are configured to be attached to one another in a plurality of discreet positions about an axis that is non-parallel to the longitudinal axis. |
| US07834736B1 |
Dry type pole-mounted transformer
A distribution transformer adapted for mounting to a utility pole. The distribution transformer includes a plurality of coil assemblies mounted to a ferromagnetic core. Each of the coil assemblies includes a low voltage coil and a high voltage coil. The low voltage coils are connected together and the high voltage coils are connected together. An encasement comprised of an insulating resin encapsulates the core and the coil assemblies. The encasement includes a substantially annular body and a pair of high voltage bushings extending outwardly from the body. Terminals extend from the high voltage bushings and are connected to the high voltage coils. |
| US07834734B2 |
Bobbinless coil and method of manufacturing the same
A pair of disk-shaped guide members abut on opposite end surfaces in the axial direction of a conductor wire wound round into a coil shape by using a separable jig. The guide members are biased toward each other by engaging a part of the conductor wire with engaging portions formed at circumferences of the pair of guide members. Then, the jig is separated from the center of the conductor wire, thereby maintaining the coiled shape of the conductor wire to create a bobbinless coil having an exposed inner peripheral surface. In addition, the pair of disk-shaped guide members are biased toward each other by utilizing a part of the conductor wire, and therefore a special biasing member is not needed. |
| US07834733B2 |
Inductive component
An inductive component includes a coil former comprising connection pins, a first winding and a second winding on the coil former, and protective components comprising either a PTC element or a polyswitch. The protective components are connected directly to the coil former; and the protective components and the windings are electrically connected to the connection pins. |
| US07834731B2 |
Ferrite sheet
A ferrite sheet includes a ferrite sintered body capable of being in direct and sufficiently close contact with a signal cable and has good noise removal properties. The ferrite sheet includes a flexible sheet having a foldable portion, a plurality of ferrite sintered bodies located in a region other than the foldable portion on the flexible sheet, an elastic body arranged around the ferrite sintered bodies on the flexible sheet, and an adhesive layer arranged on the elastic body such that the elastic body is bonded to itself when the flexible sheet is bent along the foldable portion. |
| US07834720B2 |
Bulk acoustic wave filter device and a method for trimming a bulk acoustic wave filter device
A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filter device includes at least one first serial BAW resonator, at least one first shunt BAW resonator, at least one second serial BAW resonator or at least one second shunt BAW resonator. The resonance frequencies of the first and the second serial BAW resonators or the resonance frequencies of the first and the second shunt BAW resonators are detuned with respect to each other. |
| US07834719B2 |
Lange-ferrite circulator for simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) with high isolation and noise suppression
A three port circulator capable of simultaneous transmit and receive operations, high frequency, enhanced high isolation, noise suppression at the receive port and broadband performance comprising: an antenna port; a transmission port; a receiving port; wherein each port is connected to a 90 degree combiner/divider or a quadrature hybrid for splitting an input signal into two output components, the said output components have a ninety degrees relative phase difference to each other; each of said 90 degree combiners/dividers or quadrature hybrids in addition to the connection to the above mentioned ports has at least two output connections each of which are connected to a ferrite circulator and if a fourth connection, said fourth connection is attached to a matching load circuit; this arrangement of circuits allows the phase shifted signals from the transmit port to enter the 90 degree combiner/divider or quadrature hybrid and be recombined in phase at the antenna port, any residue signal due to impedance mismatch at the antenna port and/or the isolation or imperfect suppression of mode degeneracy of the ferrite circulator at the Y-junction will get to the 90 degree combiner/divider or quadrature hybrid at the receive port and is phased cancelled; said arrangement simultaneously allows the receive signal entering the antenna port and proceeding to the 90 degree combiner/divider or quadrature hybrid at the antenna port and to be combined in phase by the 90 degree combiner/divider or quadrature hybrid at the receive port. |
| US07834716B2 |
Nonreciprocal circuit device
A nonreciprocal circuit device (2-port isolator) includes a ferrite-magnet assembly including a ferrite, a first center electrode, and a second center electrode. The ferrite is sandwiched between a pair of permanent magnets and receives a direct-current magnetic field applied thereto. The first and second center electrodes are arranged on the ferrite. The ferrite includes a center layer and an outer layer ensuring an insulation state of the first and second center electrodes. The saturation magnetization of the outer layer is larger than the saturation magnetization of the center layer. |
| US07834714B2 |
HF terminating resistor having a planar layer structure
The invention relates to an HF terminating resistor having a planar layer structure which, on a substrate (16), comprises a resistor layer (10) for converting HF energy to heat, an input conductor (12) for supplying HF energy and an earthing conductor (14) for the electric connection to an earthing contact (22). The input conductor (12) is electrically connected to a first end (18) of the resistor layer (10) and the earthing conductor (14) is electrically connected to a second end (20) of the resistor layer (10) opposite the first end (18). On an earthing contact end of the layer structure, the earthing conductor (14) forms the topmost layer of the layer structure. The invention is characterized in that the earthing conductor (14) is at least partially arranged on the resistor layer (10). |
| US07834708B1 |
Method and apparatus for analog smooth switch in VCO loading control
A method and apparatus for analog smooth switch in VCO loading control, in one technique, receiving an input signal to adjust a frequency of an oscillator; activating one or more switches to control a current source/sink based on the received input signal; applying the current source/sink to a capacitor to adjust a voltage on the capacitor; and applying the voltage on the capacitor to one or more switches, each of the one or more switches connected between a load and a stage of the oscillator. |
| US07834705B2 |
Frequency synthesizer having multi-band voltage controlled oscillator
There is provided a frequency synthesizer including a multi-band voltage controlled oscillator having a plurality of voltage controlled oscillating cores outputting oscillation frequencies having different bands according to an input control voltage. Each of the voltage controlled oscillating cores outputs a frequency band divided into a plurality of bands, and the voltage controlled oscillating core operates by each of the divided bands, and one of the voltage controlled oscillating cores operates in one of the bands according to the control voltage. The frequency synthesizer further includes a comparator unit and an oscillation band-determining unit. The comparator unit compares the control voltage with a pre-set reference voltage range. The oscillation band-determining unit changes the band where the voltage controlled oscillating core operates into another one of the bands when the control voltage is out of the pre-set reference voltage range. |
| US07834702B2 |
Efficient power amplifier
A dynamic power supply for N amplifiers includes first and second power boost circuits which temporarily boost the positive or negative power supply rail, respectively. A control circuit monitors amplifier output signal levels and provides power boost control signals to the power boost circuits, which temporarily raise the positive supply voltage above the nominal voltage level in tandem with the highest output signal from the N amplifiers and lower the negative supply voltage below the nominal voltage level in tandem with the lowest output signal level from the N amplifiers. The power boost circuits each may be coupled to a reservoir capacitor from which current is drawn to provide the power boost. When inactive, the reservoir capacitors charge up from the respective power supply rails. The dynamic power supply is well suited for audio amplification systems. |
| US07834694B2 |
Differential current mirror circuit
A differential current mirror circuit includes: a first branching unit that branches current through a first current input terminal to a first current path and a second current path; a second branching unit that branches current through a second current input terminal to a third current path and a fourth current path; and a current mirror that copies current. The current copied by the current mirror is a combination of the current flowing through the second current path and the fourth current path and removal of the in-phase component from current through the first current path enables only the differential component flowing through the first current path to flow to a first current output terminal. Similarly, the in-phase component from current through the third current path is removed, enabling only the differential component flowing through the third current path to flow to a second current output terminal. |
| US07834693B2 |
Amplifying circuit
An amplifier includes: a class AB input stage, receiving an input signal, for generating an inner signal according to the input signal; class AB output stage, includes: a biasing circuit, for providing a first voltage and a second voltage according to the inner signal; and an output stage, for generating an output signal according to the first voltage and the second voltage; wherein a voltage difference between the first voltage and the second voltage generated by the biasing circuit is corresponding to the input signal. |
| US07834691B2 |
Broadband low noise amplifier
Aspects provide for the broadband amplification of RF signals. Other aspects provide for the conversion of single ended input to differential output. Various aspects provide for tuning the response to a particular frequency band. Other aspects provide for various transconductance elements. In several aspects, broadband current to voltage converters and voltage to current converters are presented. Some implementations incorporate a buffer circuit, and various implementations incorporate feedback circuits. |
| US07834688B2 |
Linearised power amplifier
A linearized power amplifier including a predistorter and a feedforward circuit is described. By using both a predistorter and a feedforward cancellation system the linearization of the amplifier is increased. The accuracy of the amplified signal may be further improved by training the predistorter using the error signal produced by the feedforward cancellation system. Improved accuracy in the linearizer results in a reduction in the power requirement of the error amplifier and a relaxation in the phase, amplitude and delay accuracy of the feedforward loop. |
| US07834686B2 |
Power amplifier
Methods to implement power control in a digital power amplifier are described. |
| US07834678B2 |
Circuit arrangement and method of driving a circuit arrangement
The present invention relates to controlling switches in a series connection of electrical devices, in particular to a circuit arrangement, and method of operating same, in which a transistor switch (44, 54) is used to control operation of the devices (12, 14). Because the transistor switches need a gate-source voltage difference, but on the other hand are connected with their source (s) and drain (d) to the main circuit branch, this voltage difference is built up by providing a control current (Ii, I2) over e.g. a resistor (42, 52). This control current (Ii, I2) enters the main current (I), which would influence the operation of the devices, e.g. LEDs (12, 14). In order to correct this, the control current (I2) is corrected for the values of one or more upstream control currents (I2), e.g. through adapting the pulse width in pulse width modulation. |
| US07834677B2 |
Transmission gate with body effect compensation circuit
A transmission gate circuit includes a first PMOS device, a first NMOS device, a second PMOS device, a second NMOS device, and a third transistor. A gate electrode, a first electrode and a second electrode of the first PMOS device are coupled to a first control signal, an input end, and an output end, respectively. A gate electrode, a first electrode and a second electrode of the first NMOS device are coupled to a second control signal, the input end, and the output end, respectively. A gate electrode, a first electrode and a second electrode of the second PMOS device are coupled to the first control signal, an input end, and a body electrode of the first PMOS device, respectively. A gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode of the second NMOS device are coupled to the second control signal, a body electrode of the first PMOS device, and the output end, respectively. A gate electrode, a first electrode and a second electrode of the third PMOS device are coupled to a second control signal, a first supply voltage, and the body electrode of the first PMOS device, respectively. |
| US07834672B2 |
Low power charge pump
A charge pump is configured to control current flow at an output node in response to input signals. A plurality of control signals are generated based upon the input signals. The control signals operate to control the timing and duration of current flows within the charge pump and to thereby reduce charge pump power consumption. Based upon the control signals, the conductivity of a first path between a power supply and the output node and a second path between the output node and a ground potential is varied. Optionally, the charge pump is disposed as part of a phase-locked loop (PLL), the input signals are produced by a phase/frequency detector, and current flow at the output node controls an oscillator element. |
| US07834671B2 |
Analog buffer with voltage compensation mechanism
An analog buffer having voltage compensation mechanism is disclosed for use in a source driving circuit of a liquid crystal display. The analog buffer includes a reference voltage generator, a plurality of capacitors, a plurality of switches, and a plurality of transistors. Each of the capacitors is utilized to store the gate-source voltage of the corresponding turn-on transistor for performing gate-source voltage compensation operation based on the reference voltages provided by the reference voltage generator. Each of the switches functions to control gate-source voltage compensation operation and is turned on/off in response to a corresponding control signal. The analog buffer is capable of compensating the gate-source voltages of turn-on transistors for generating an output voltage having an acceptable tiny offset with respect to an input voltage. |
| US07834670B2 |
Input circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit including the same
An input circuit, includes a first buffer circuit having an output signal terminal connected to an output; a capacitor having one end connected to an input signal terminal, and the other end connected to an input of the first buffer circuit; a first differential amplification circuit receiving a voltage of a first external power source terminal and an output of a second buffer circuit; a second differential amplification circuit receiving a voltage of a second external power source terminal and an output of a third buffer circuit; a first resistance having one end connected to an output of the first differential amplification circuit, and the other end connected between the capacitor and the first buffer circuit; and a second resistance having one end connected to an output of the second differential amplification circuit, and the other end connected between the capacitor and the first buffer circuit. |
| US07834665B2 |
Track-and-hold circuit with adjustable charge compensation
A circuit design incorporates charge compensation devices within a Track-and-Hold (T/H) circuit to control channel charge generated by a tracking switch. Calibrating a T/H circuit requires selecting charge compensation devices from an array of similar devices to function within the T/H circuit to absorb charge ejected from the tracking switch. The charge compensation devices can also be pseudorandomly selected to operate within the T/H circuit. Charge compensation devices are used to enhance the performance of bottom-plate sampling systems as well as bootstrapped T/H circuits. |
| US07834662B2 |
Level shifter with embedded logic and low minimum voltage
In one embodiment, a level shifter circuit may include a shift stage that also embeds transistors that implement a logic operation on two or more inputs to the level shifter. At least one of the inputs may be sourced from circuitry that is powered by a different power supply than the level shifter and circuitry that receives the level shifter output. Additionally, the level shifter includes one or more dummy transistors that match transistors the perform the logic operation, to improve symmetry of the level shifter circuit. In some embodiments, certain design and layout rules may be applied to the level shifter circuit to limit variation in the symmetry over various manufacturing variations. |
| US07834661B2 |
Ultra-low-power level shifter, voltage transform circuit and RFID tag including the same
A level shifter increase a voltage level of an output signal with relatively lower power consumption by adopting current-starved configuration. The level shifter includes an input unit and a driving unit. The input unit includes a current-starved inverter configured to generate a control signal in response to an input signal and a bias voltage. The input unit is powered by a first power supply voltage. The driving unit generates an output signal in response to the control signal. The output signal has a voltage level higher than the input signal, and the driving unit is powered by a second power supply voltage higher than the first power supply voltage. |
| US07834660B2 |
State machines using resistivity-sensitive memories
State machines using resistivity-sensitive memory elements are disclosed. The state machine includes a next state logic comprising a non-volatile memory including a resistivity-sensitive memory element and receiving an input, a state storage device connected to the next state logic including a connection to provide a state of the state machine to the next state logic, and an output connect to the state register to output the state of the state machine. The resistivity-sensitive memory elements may be two-terminal resistivity-sensitive memory elements. The two-terminal resistivity-sensitive memory elements may store data as a plurality of conductivity profiles that can be non-destructively read by applying a read voltage across the terminals of the memory elements, and new data can be written by applying a write voltage across the terminals. The two-terminal resistivity-sensitive memory elements retain stored data in the absence of power and may be configured into a two-terminal cross-point memory array. |
| US07834649B2 |
Method and apparatus for statistical CMOS device characterization
A unified test structure having a large number of electronic devices under test is used to characterize both capacitance-voltage parameters (C-V) and current-voltage parameters (I-V) of the devices. The devices are arranged in an array of columns and rows, and selected by control logic which gates input/output pins that act variously as current sources, sinks, clamps, measurement ports and sense lines. The capacitance-voltage parameter is measured by taking baseline and excited current measurements for different excitation voltage frequencies, calculating current differences between the baseline and excited current measurements, and generating a linear relationship between the current differences and the different frequencies. The capacitance is then derived by dividing a slope of a line representing the linear relationship by the excitation voltage. Different electronic devices may be so tested, including transistors and interconnect structures. |
| US07834648B1 |
Controlling temperature in a semiconductor device
Systems and methods for reducing temperature dissipation during burn-in testing are described. Devices under test are each subject to a body bias voltage. The body bias voltage can be used to control junction temperature (e.g., temperature measured at the device under test). The body bias voltage applied to each device under test can be adjusted device-by-device to achieve essentially the same junction temperature at each device. |
| US07834640B2 |
System and method for testing electrical connection
An electrical connection testing system for testing existence of an electrical connection between a first electronic device and a second electronic device. An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is provided between the first and second electronic devices. The testing system includes a comparator having a first input connected to a power for output of the first electronic device and a second input connected to an output signal from the first electronic device. The output signal is adapted to be sent to the second electronic device through the ESD protection circuit. The testing system also includes a system for determining if a comparator output from the comparator is indicative of the first and second inputs being different or if the comparator output is indicative of the first and second inputs being substantially the same. |
| US07834635B2 |
Car power source apparatus
The car power source apparatus is provided with a driving battery 1 that supplies power to the car's electric motor, a voltage detection circuit 3 that measures the voltage of batteries 2 in the driving battery 1, a plurality of voltage detection lines 8 connected in parallel between the input-side of the voltage detection circuit 3 and driving battery 1 voltage detection nodes 9, and a decision circuit 6 that determines if a voltage detection line 8 is open circuited from the voltage measured by the voltage detection circuit 3. Each voltage detection line 8 has a voltage drop resistor 10 connected in series. The voltage detection circuit 3 is provided with input resistors 13 on its input-side. The car power source apparatus makes computations on the voltage measured by the voltage detection circuit 3, which is from the voltage divider formed by the input resistor 13 and voltage drop resistors 10, to detect voltage detection line 8 open circuit. |
| US07834634B2 |
Low-power switch state detection circuit and method and mobile telephone incorporating the same
A circuit for, and method of, detecting a signal level on a node and a mobile telephone device incorporating the circuit or the method. In one embodiment, the circuit includes: (1) a switch coupled between a voltage source and the node, (2) a pulse generator coupled to the switch and configured to generate a pulse to control the switch and (3) a detection circuit coupled to the node and configured to detect a signal level at the node on closure of the switch. |
| US07834630B2 |
MRI test fixture
In one example, a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system comprises a magnetic resonance imaging assembly defining a gap region, a transmitting coil proximate the gap region, and at least one test coil separate from the transmitting coil. The at least one coil is mechanically coupled to the assembly during imaging and the at least one test coil is selectively electrically coupled to the assembly to collect test data. The at least one coil may be coupled to a test fixture coupled to the assembly. The test fixture may be deployable from a first position to a second position for collection of test data. The at least one coil may comprise a first test coil and a second test coil. Methods are also disclosed. |
| US07834625B2 |
Split-echo with fractional temporal-interpolation
An MRI to form an image of a patient includes at least one emitting coil which produces RF pulses and gradients. The MRI includes a controller in communication with the emitting coil for obtaining a steady-state image of the patient, where gradient areas balance to zero for each time repetition (TR) interval, and for causing the emitting coil to produce the RF pulses without interruption during the time repetition interval. The MRI includes at least one receiving coil in communication with the controller which receives the RF pulses and provides the RF pulses to the controller for the controller to obtain the image. A method to form an image of a patient with an MRI. A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium to form an image of a patient with an MRI. |
| US07834624B2 |
Method and device for detection of the position of an examination person in a magnetic resonance system
In a method and arrangement for detection of the position of an examination person on a table in a magnetic resonance system, the examination person on the table is moved relative to the magnetic resonance system, RF pulses are radiated while the examination person is moved through the magnetic resonance system, the resulting magnetic resonance signals caused by the RF pulses are detected and the position of the examination person is determined using the acquired magnetic resonance signals. |
| US07834623B2 |
MRI apparatus for analyzing body motion of a subject
An MRI apparatus includes a navigator device for obtaining information of body motion produced by respiration of a subject by a navigator pulse sequence, and a respiration waveform display device for displaying a respiration waveform on the basis of the body motion information obtained by the navigator device. |
| US07834622B2 |
Configurable magnet assembly for using in NMR well logging instrument
A magnet assembly for measuring properties of a formation from a borehole, the magnet assembly including a first device and a second device, each device adapted for insertion into the borehole, the first device producing a first magnetic field, the second device producing a second magnetic field; wherein the second magnetic field is configurable for one of reinforcing and reducing the first magnetic field; and wherein the first device comprises a permanent magnet and the second device comprises at least one of one of a switchable magnet and switching windings. |
| US07834621B2 |
Electromagnetic tracking employing scalar-magnetometer
Provided is an electromagnetic tracking system, including at least one electromagnetic field receiver having at least one scalar-magnetometer, at least one electromagnetic field transmitter, and tracker electronics. Also provided is a method for electromagnetic tracking, including generating at least one magnetic field, sensing the at least one magnetic field with at least one scalar-magnetometer, and determining a relative position of the at least one scalar-magnetometer based on the sensed at least one magnetic field. |
| US07834619B2 |
Magnetic detection device
A magnetic detection device includes a sensor unit including a sensor pattern having a plurality of magnetoresistance effect films whose ends in the length direction thereof are coupled via return portions, and electrode units formed at both ends of the sensor pattern in the longitudinal direction thereof. A non-magnetic conductor is electrically connected across a top surface of one of a pair of magnetoresistance effect films that are coupled via the corresponding one of the return portions and that face each other and a top surface of the other magnetoresistance effect film. Therefore, the resistance value between the electrode units can be adjusted without increasing the dimensions of the sensor unit, and deterioration or variation in magnetic characteristics can be reduced. |
| US07834614B2 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating rapid changes in current
In order to detect and evaluate changes in current as a result of electric arcs, a sensor signal, differentiated on the basis of time, is produced with a sensor-dependent frequency bandwidth whose upper cutoff frequency is 40 MHz and whose lower cutoff frequency is 100 kHz. The sensor signal is taken and an evaluation signal is produced with an upper cutoff frequency of less than or equal to 10 MHz. The evaluation signal is compared with a threshold value and a normalized signal is produced, and a pulse duration of the signal is extended to a prescribed time value. |
| US07834610B2 |
Bandgap reference circuit
A bandgap reference circuit includes a reference current generator for respectively generating a first reference current on a first current path and a second reference current on a second current path, a current mirror for generating a third reference current on a third current path based on the first and second reference currents, an operation amplifier for rendering the first reference current substantially identical to the second reference current and a feedback circuit for rendering a node voltage on the first current path substantially identical to another node voltage on the third current path, so as to eliminate possible errors caused by a channel length modulation effect in the current mirror. |
| US07834609B2 |
Semiconductor device with compensation current
A semiconductor device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a first resistor, a second resistor, and a transistor. The second resistor is configured to receive a current via the first resistor. The transistor is configured to be driven via the first resistor and the second resistor and provide a compensation current. The current includes the compensation current and a reference current and changes in the current are compensated for via the compensation current which limits changes in the reference current. |
| US07834607B2 |
Voltage generator with current limiting and semiconductor testing device
A voltage generator with current limiting generates a voltage to be fed to a load of which load current is limited. The voltage generator includes an operational amplifier; an output resistance connected between an output terminal of the operational amplifier and a load connecting terminal; a feedback resistor connected between the load connecting terminal and an inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier; a first clamper connected between the output terminal of the operational amplifier and the inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier; and a second clamper connected between the load connecting terminal and a non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier and configured with diodes. The first clamper generates a predetermined constant voltage, limits a current flowing into the output resistance, and varies the generated constant voltage. The first clamper has a predetermined abrupt current-voltage characteristic. |
| US07834606B2 |
Control circuit and method for a constant on-time PWM switching converter
A control circuit provides a control signal for a constant on-time PWM switching converter to produce an output voltage, such that the converter operates with a constant on-time at a first state and operates with a variable on-time at a second state, so as to decrease the switching frequency and thereby the switching loss, to increase the efficiency of the converter, to improve the transient response, and to reduce the recovery time of the output voltage. |
| US07834603B2 |
Circuit combining a switching regulator and an overvoltage detection circuit
An electronic circuit combines a synchronous switching regulator circuit with an overvoltage detection circuit. The overvoltage detection circuit is configured to generate an overvoltage signal capable of an overvoltage state indicative of a power supply voltage being above a predetermined threshold voltage. The switching regulator circuit is coupled to receive the overvoltage signal. The switching regulator is also configured, in response to the overvoltage signal being in the overvoltage state, to generate a first control signal resulting in at least one of two series coupled transistors being in an off condition. |
| US07834602B2 |
Feedback power control system for an electrical component
A feedback power control system includes: a multiplying unit receiving a work voltage corresponding to a voltage drop of an electrical component, and a feedback voltage corresponding to a work current flowing through the electrical component, and outputting a measuring voltage corresponding to a consumed power of the electrical component and having a value equal to a product of a value of the work voltage and a value of the feedback voltage; a control unit receiving the measuring voltage from the multiplying unit, and a reference voltage, and outputting a control voltage corresponding to a voltage difference between the measuring voltage and the reference voltage; and a regulating unit providing the feedback voltage to the multiplying unit, and including an amplifier that receives the feedback voltage from a series connection of transistor and a resistor coupled to the electrical component, and the control voltage from the control unit and that controls operation of the transistor. |
| US07834600B2 |
Regulated power supply system and an operating method therefore
A power supply system includes a regulator for receiving an input voltage and producing an output voltage, the regulator including an output device and a controller coupled to the regulator. The controller is configured to monitor at least one operating parameter of the output device and, in response, generate a control signal that adjusts the input voltage to a minimum input voltage needed to maintain the output device in saturation regardless of variation in the monitored operating parameter. |
| US07834596B2 |
Analog power-saving apparatus and method thereof for sharing electric charges
An analog power-saving apparatus and a method thereof for sharing electric charges enable the application device to entirely achieve power-saving goal by using an analog judgment mechanism. According to the judgment mechanism, in a duration when the energy-storing unit must distribute the stored electric charges to the load capacitor and an amount of the electric charges stored in the energy-storing unit is less than an amount of the electric charges stored in the load capacitor, the path for the energy-storing unit to distribute electric charges to the load capacitor is blocked; and after the load capacitor releases the electric charges thereof to the energy-storing unit for storage, the electric charges stored in the load capacitor after discharge are controlled to be not less than an amount of the electric charges stored in the energy-storing unit after storage. |
| US07834593B2 |
Thermal runaway protection system for a battery charger
A protection system and method for a battery charger is disclosed for detecting a thermal runaway condition in a battery during charging in order to protect the battery when such a thermal runaway condition has been detected. The protection system in accordance with the present invention does not require external temperature sensors nor does it rely on actions by the technician or user. Briefly, the protection system includes one or more electrical sensors normally provided with conventional battery chargers for sensing one or more electrical parameters during charging and providing an indication of a possible thermal runaway condition based upon the trend of the electrical charging parameters. In general, the protection system monitors the charging characteristics of a battery for a complete or partial charging cycle. If the charging characteristics deviate from a normal or otherwise indicate an anomaly, as determined by software, the system assumes there may be a thermal runaway condition and executes a protection measure, such as terminating charging of the battery. Even though the anomaly may not be the result of a thermal runaway condition, the protection system in accordance with the present invention treats the anomaly as an indication of a thermal runaway condition even though some other problem is the reason for the anomaly. For example, when the anomaly is the result of a bad cell, battery charging is terminated to prevent a thermal runaway condition and not because a thermal runaway condition is detected. |
| US07834592B2 |
Circuit for generating triangular waveform having relatively short linear rise time and substantially long linear fall time
A circuit includes a pulse transformer having primary and secondary windings. An oscillating waveform is applied to the primary winding to induce an oscillating waveform at the secondary winding. A transistor in series with a first resistor is coupled between the secondary winding and the ground. An R-C network formed by a second and a third resistor and a capacitor is coupled to a base junction of the transistor. The R-C network causes a slow, tapered linear pinch off of the transistor's conductance to enable the circuit to output a triangular waveform, which is characterized by a relatively short linear rise time followed by a substantially long linear fall time. The R-C network is coupled to the secondary winding via a first and a second diode, respectively. |
| US07834591B2 |
Switching battery charging systems and methods
Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for charging a battery using a switching regulator. Some embodiments include programmable switching battery chargers that can be configured using digital techniques. Other embodiments include switching battery chargers that modify the battery current based on sensed circuit conditions such as battery voltage or input current to the switching regulator. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a USB battery charger. |
| US07834590B2 |
Electronic system for a battery
An electronic system for a battery comprises a charging circuit (20) for the battery connected to a connector powering the charging circuit (15), a control and monitoring circuit (30) for the operation of the battery, and a discharge circuit connected to power connectors (2) of the battery. The control and monitoring circuit (30) interrupts battery charging when there is a call for current via the power connectors (2) of the battery. The electronic system has application to rechargeable batteries used to provide back up power. |
| US07834589B2 |
Apparatus and method for bucking voltage of battery pack
An apparatus and method for discharging a voltage in a battery pack. The apparatus includes a discharge resistance connected to a discharge target battery of plural batteries in the battery pack and discharging a voltage of the discharge target battery, a switching section for connecting the discharge target battery and the discharge resistance, a voltage measuring section for measuring a voltage of the discharge target battery, and a control section for controlling the switching section depending on the measured voltage value of the battery. The method includes measuring a voltage of the discharge target battery, calculating a PWM duty rate of a switching section connecting the discharge target battery and a discharge resistance using the measured voltage value and a value of the discharge resistance, and controlling the switching section based on the duty rate to maintain an energy consumed in the discharge resistance to be constant. |
| US07834588B2 |
Charging device capable of providing backflow current and inrush current protection
A charging device capable of providing backflow current and inrush current protection includes a reception end for receiving a charging voltage, a rechargeable battery, and a dynamic protection unit coupled between the reception end and the rechargeable battery for controlling connection between the reception end and the rechargeable battery according to a control signal and connection condition between the reception end and the charging voltage. |
| US07834587B1 |
Non-isolated charger with bi-polar inputs
Systems and methods are provided for an uninterruptable power supply having a positive DC bus, a neutral DC bus, and a negative DC bus. The uninterruptible power supply includes a battery charger circuit having an inductor, a first charger output, and a second charger output. A first switch connected to a first end of the inductor is configured to couple the positive DC bus with the first charger output. A second switch connected to a second end of the inductor is configured to couple the negative DC bus with the inductor. The neutral DC bus can be coupled to the second charger output. The battery charger circuit can be configured to draw power from at to least one of the positive DC bus and the negative DC bus to charge a battery coupled to the first charger output and the second charger output. |
| US07834585B2 |
Prioritizing power-consuming applications of an electronic device powered by a battery
A power management system is configured to selectively control use of power-consuming applications that are executable by the processor based at least on a prioritization of the power-consuming applications to enable powering of the electronic device by a battery for at least a requested duration of time. |
| US07834584B2 |
Charging system of biped walking robot
A charging system is capable of charging a battery of a biped walking robot while stabilizing the posture of the biped walking robot and also restraining the occurrence of spark discharge or noises. A charger of the charging system for charging the battery provided in the biped walking robot includes a seating and retaining unit for retaining the biped walking robot in a seated posture, a power feeding connector that is fitted to a power receiving connector provided in the biped walking robot when the biped walking robot sits on the seating and retaining unit, and a charging unit having a connection detector for detecting whether the power receiving connector and the power feeding connector are in a connected state, a charging power source for supplying charging current to the battery, and a charging controller that supplies charging current to the battery from the charging power source to charge the battery when the connection detector detects that the power receiving connector and the power feeding connector are in the connected state. |
| US07834578B2 |
Load driving apparatus, vehicle, and abnormality processing method at load driving apparatus
When an ECU determines that the motor count of a motor generator exceeds a predetermined limit value, control is effected to set the torque of motor generator to zero. Further, when the ECU determines that motor count exceeds the predetermined limit value, voltage control of inverter input voltage is reduced by a predetermined level. |
| US07834577B2 |
System and method for starting a wound rotor motor
A system and method for starting and regulating a wound rotor motor (120) including a phase-controlled SCR converter (150) and a drive circuit (130, 140) having a voltage source inverter (140) and a voltage source converter (130). The SCR converter (150) regulates power transmitted to the drive circuit from the rotor of the motor (120) so that the ratings of the drive circuit are not exceeded. |
| US07834571B2 |
Fan system and protecting device thereof
A protecting device of a fan system includes at least one first switch element and at least one control unit. The first switch element receives a first input signal. The control unit is electrically connected with the first switch element, receives the first input signal, and controls the first switch element to turn on or turn off according to the first input signal. The control unit stops outputting the first input signal when the first switch element turns on. The control unit outputs the first input signal when the first switch element turns off, so that a fan of the fan system can be driven by the first input signal. |
| US07834567B2 |
Motor drive device
A motor drive device for alternately driving a plurality of motors includes a position detection signal processing circuit for processing position detection signals of the plurality of motors, a pre-drive circuit for generating an excitation switching signal of the motors, a plurality of power switching circuits for supplying an electric current to the motors in response to an output from the pre-drive circuit, and a motor switching circuit for instructing a switchover of driving the motors. The position detection signal processing circuit, in response to an input signal to the motor switching circuit, selects a position detection signal of a motor to be driven out of the position detection signals of the plurality of motors, and inputs a position detection processed signal to the pre-drive circuit for selecting one of the plurality of power switching circuits. |
| US07834566B2 |
Generic motor control system
A method for controlling the operation of a motor utilizing a generic motor control module. The method includes sampling at least one motor operating criterion during operation of the motor and executing a generic control algorithm at a predetermined periodic interval. Execution of the algorithm provides a firing angle, duty cycle, or other suitable control function solution for an electronic valve for each periodic interval, thereby controlling the behavior of the motor. Additionally, the method includes firing the electronic valve at the calculated timing during each periodic interval such that the motor functions in accordance with desired motor operational parameters. |
| US07834560B2 |
Dimming system powered by two current sources and having an operation indicator module
A dimming system and method of operating the same are provided. The dimming system includes a first terminal configured to operatively connect to a first conductive line, a second terminal configured to operatively connect to a second conductive line, and a third terminal configured to operatively connect to a third conductive line. The first conductive line is configured to connect to a load, the second conductive line is configured to supply an alternating current, and the third conductive line is configured to connect to a current path. The dimming system further includes a controller operatively connected to at least one of the first, second and third terminals for controlling operation of the dimming system. The first and second terminals are configured for electrically connecting to a primary power supply and the first and third terminals are configured for electrically connecting to a secondary power supply. The primary power supply is powered through connection to neutral, and wherein the secondary power supply is powered through connection to an earth ground. |
| US07834545B2 |
Organic optoelectronic device electrodes with nanotubes
An electrode for use in an organic optoelectronic device is provided. The electrode includes a thin film of single-wall carbon nanotubes. The film may be deposited on a substrate of the device by using an elastomeric stamp. The film may be enhanced by spin-coating a smoothing layer on the film and/or doping the film to enhance conductivity. Electrodes according to the present invention may have conductivities, transparencies, and other features comparable to other materials typically used as electrodes in optoelectronic devices. |
| US07834544B2 |
Organic electroluminescent display device having a moisture-proof film
The invention mainly provides an organic EL display device which can prevent the intrusion of moisture into an organic EL film by applying a thin film technique to the display device. For this end, the organic EL display device is configured such that (1) a lower electrode and an upper electrode are formed with an organic EL film sandwiched therebetween, an SiOxNy film which functions as a moisture proof film is formed to cover the upper electrode by a plasma CVD method, wherein the moisture proof film protects the organic EL film from moisture, (2) an inspection-use conductive film is formed on the moisture proof film 13, and (3) the presence or the non-presence of a defect in the moisture proof film is detected by applying a DC or AC voltage between the inspection-use conductive film and the upper electrode. |
| US07834539B2 |
Extracting light from an electroluminescent layer
The electroluminescent device successively comprises a cathode, an electroluminescent layer, a transparent electrode layer, an evanescent light-scattering layer comprising a matrix composed of a low-refractive material containing light-scattering particles, and a transparent sheet/plate. Such an electroluminescent device is decreased in total reflection not only at a boundary surface between a transparent substrate and an outside air layer but also at a boundary surface of the transparent electrode layer on its light extraction side, and therefore, is considerably improved in light extraction efficiency. In addition, in the electroluminescent device provided with a barrier layer, the transparent electrode layer and the electroluminescent layer can be well protected so that deterioration of electroluminescent pigments and occurrence of dark spots can be effectively prevented, resulting in enhanced-life of the device. |
| US07834534B2 |
Illuminant substrate and manufacturing method thereof and image display apparatus
An illuminant substrate includes a substrate, first and second light emitting members provided on the substrate, a first anode covering the first light emitting member, a second anode covering the second light emitting member, a resistor located between the first and second light emitting members and electrically connecting the first and second anodes, and a rib laminated on the resistor. A side face of the resistor facing the first light emitting member projects toward the first light emitting member further than a side face of the rib facing the first light emitting member, and a side face of the resistor facing the second light emitting member projects toward the second light emitting member further than a side face of the rib facing the second light emitting member. In addition, the side faces of the resistor facing the first and second light emitting members are forward tapered faces, the side face of the rib is a reverse tapered face, and the first anode and the second anode are physically divided by the rib. |
| US07834533B2 |
T8 fluorescent lamp
A T8 fluorescent lamp can comprise a light-transmissive glass envelope, means for providing an electrical discharge to the glass envelope, a phosphor layer within the glass envelope and a discharge-sustaining fill gas inside the glass envelope. The phosphor layer can comprise phosphors of a type for producing a daylight lighting spectrum or of a type for producing a tungsten/halogen lighting spectrum. The fill gas can comprise a mixture of argon and neon. In a particular mode of operation, the T8 lamp can operate at a power of at least 45 watts. In another mode of operation, the T8 fluorescent lamp can operate at a power of approximately 70 watts. A lighting fixture can comprise an array of such T8 fluorescent lamps arranged substantially side-to-side on longitudinal centerlines that are less than one and one-half inches apart. In a particular instance, the fixture can have been retrofitted from having been outfitted to accommodate T12 lamps. |
| US07834529B2 |
Spark plug with riveted sleeve
A spark plug comprising a housing, a ceramic insulator and a sleeve is provided. The housing has an inner cavity while the ceramic insulator encloses a central electrode. The ceramic insulator is disposed inside the inner cavity and maintain from the housing with a gap. The sleeve is provided enclosing an inner wall of the housing and corresponds to an opening of the inner cavity. The level of an edge surface of the housing corresponding to the opening of the inner cavity is disposed higher than the level of an edge surface of the central electrode, and the level of the center electrode is also higher than the level of the edge surface of the ceramic insulator. |
| US07834525B2 |
Thin film piezoelectric transformer and method of manufacturing the same
A silicon substrate is trimmed in an area at the top and rear surfaces at the center, and a piezoelectric vibrator is disposed therein. As shown in a top view of FIG. 1, the piezoelectric vibrator is supported by a silicon peripheral portion provided on the peripheral portion including the left and right portions of the view having a large thickness, through two beams formed by removing silicon by a known method such as etching. This supported portion corresponds to a node portion. A film structure of the piezoelectric vibrator includes, in thickness directions of the piezoelectric vibrator from the top to the bottom, an Al electrode, a PZT thin film, a Pt underlying electrode, a Ti underlayer, and an SiO2 thin film. Thereby, the piezoelectric vibrator is supported by the beams integrated with the silicon peripheral portion, thus eliminating a mechanical connection and achieving a stable connection. |
| US07834523B2 |
Vibration actuator
An ultrasonic actuator includes: an actuator body using a piezoelectric element and generating a plurality of vibrations of different vibration directions; a driver element provided in the actuator body and operated in accordance with the vibration of the actuator body to output a driving force in a predetermined driving direction; a case containing the actuator body; at least one support rubber provided between the actuator body and the case to elastically support the actuator body along the driving direction with respect to the case; and at least one stopper provided between the actuator body and the case which comes into contact with at least one of the actuator body and the case when the actuator body is displaced in a direction opposite the driving direction such that the displacement of the actuator body in the direction opposite the driving direction is limited. |
| US07834522B2 |
Diagnostic ultrasound transducer
An ultrasound transducer includes an array of PZT elements mounted on a non-recessed distal surface of a backing block. Between each element and the backing block is a conductive region formed as a portion of a metallic layer sputtered onto the distal surface. Traces on a longitudinally extending circuit board—preferably, a substantially rigid printed circuit board, which may be embedded within the block—connect the conductive region, and thus the PZT element, with any conventional external ultrasound imaging system. A substantially “T” or “inverted-L” shaped electrode is thereby formed for each element, with no need for soldering. At least one longitudinally extending metallic member mounted on a respective lateral surface of the backing block forms a heat sink and a common electrical ground. A thermally and electrically conductive layer, such as of foil, transfers heat from at least one matching layer mounted on the elements to the metallic member. |
| US07834498B2 |
Motor drive apparatus and its inspection method
A motor drive apparatus includes a motor unit including an output shaft and a first terminal connecting portion; a control board including a second terminal connecting portion, and configured to control a current supply to the motor unit; a housing; a shaft supporting portion supporting the output shaft; and a plurality of relay terminals electrically connecting the first terminal connecting portion with the second terminal connecting portion. The housing includes a motor-unit receiving portion receiving the motor unit, and a board receiving portion formed integrally with the motor-unit receiving portion. The motor-unit receiving portion is formed with an opening on one side of the motor-unit receiving portion in an axial direction of the motor unit and includes a wall portion on another side of the motor-unit receiving portion in the axial direction. The wall portion is formed with a through-hole. The board receiving portion is formed with an opening in the axial direction to receive the control board. The plurality of relay terminals are provided via the through-hole of the wall portion. |
| US07834497B2 |
Starter
In a starter, a grommet attached to a yoke of a motor supports a motor terminal plate made of metal. The motor terminal plate is inserted in a penetration hole formed in the grommet. A pig-tail of a positive electrode brush is connected to one end of the M terminal plate projecting toward the inside of the yoke through the penetration hole. The other end of the M terminal plate projecting toward the outside of the yoke through the penetration hole is inserted into the inside of the resin cover through an insert groove formed in the resin cover of the electromagnetic switch. The M terminal plate is positioned in the grommet in the insert direction thereof to limit the movement of the M terminal plate toward the electromagnetic switch side and the motor side. This configuration provides a stable position of the M contact against the resin cover. |
| US07834496B2 |
Motor
The motor including a stator having a stator core, and an insulator provided to the stator core for winding a coil thereon, a rotor rotatably provided with respect to the stator, and a tap terminal provided to the insulator for positioning an end of the coil, wherein the coil includes a core wire of aluminum. |
| US07834485B2 |
Controlling apparatus of a power converter of single-phase current for photovoltaic generation system
A control apparatus of a single-phase power converter for a photovoltaic power generation system is disclosed, including a POS MPPT controller for calculating a rating current by applying a POS MPPT control method to an output current detected through a current transformer of a single-phase AC filter, a bandpass filter for filtering only signals of a low-frequency band from a load, a single-phase reference current generator for producing a reference current by matching a phase of the current from the POS MPPT controller to a phase from the bandpass filter, a single-phase current subtractor for subtracting an output current of a current transformer from the reference current calculated by the single-phase reference current generator to thereby calculate a difference current between the output current of the current transformer and the reference current, a PI controller for outputting a control signal, corresponding to the difference current from the single-phase current subtractor, to a PWM signal generator, and the PWM signal generator for generating a PWM phase control signal corresponding to the control signal from the PI controller. |
| US07834481B2 |
Threshold detection in back-up power supply systems
A threshold detection circuit includes, in one embodiment, a comparator having a first input connection for receiving a backup voltage from a backup power source, a second input connection for receiving a primary voltage from a primary power source, and an output connection for providing an output voltage; a first resistor and a first capacitor that are coupled in series between the first input connection and the output connection; and a second resistor that is coupled between the first input connection and the output connection, and that is coupled in parallel to the series of first resistor and the first capacitor. |
| US07834480B2 |
Energy converter system with reactive-power-management
A distributed generation system is connected to an AC power line that provides AC electrical power from a source to a load. The distributed generation system includes a DC electrical power source, a capacitor for storing DC electrical power, a converter for converting electrical power stored in the DC electrical power source at a first voltage to a second, greater voltage for storage in the capacitor. The system includes an inverter for inverting the electrical power stored in the capacitor at the second voltage into AC electrical power having a peak voltage less than the second voltage. A controller is provided and operative for controlling the operation of the converter and the inverter to deliver electrical power stored in the DC electrical power source to the capacitor for delivery as AC electrical power to the AC power line. |
| US07834474B2 |
Wave power energy generation apparatus
The present invention relates to a wave energy conversion device (1), for use in relatively shallow water, which has a base portion (2) for anchoring to the bed of a body of water (6) and an upstanding flap portion (8) pivotally connected (12) to the base portion. The flap portion is biased to the vertical and oscillates, backwards and forwards about the vertical in response to wave motion acting on its faces. Power extraction means extract energy from the movement of the flap portion. When the base portion (2) is anchored to the bed of a body of water (6) with the flap portion (8) facing the wave motion, the base portion (2) and the flap portion (8) extend vertically through at least the entire depth of the water, to present a substantially continuous surface to the wave motion throughout the full depth of water from the wave crest to the sea bed. A plurality of devices can be interconnected to form one system. The distance between the plurality of flaps is dependent on the wavelength. |
| US07834473B2 |
Momentum-conserving wind-driven electrical generator
Wind-driven electrical generators will slow and lose kinetic energy when the wind slows or stops. When the wind slows or stops, kinetic energy in the rotating turbine and other rotating components that would otherwise be lost, is conserved by supplying a supplemental mechanical energy to the rotating components using a battery-powered motor. The electrical power for the drive motor is obtained from solar-charged batteries. In an alternate embodiment, solar cells provide all of the energy for the drive motor. |
| US07834467B2 |
Layer between interfaces of different components in semiconductor devices
A layer improves adhesion between interfaces of different components in semiconductor devices. The interface of a first component includes surfaces of a circuit carrier and the interface of a second component includes contact surfaces of a plastic package molding compound. The adhesion-improving layer includes a mixture of polymeric chain molecules and carbon nanotubes. |
| US07834465B2 |
Semiconductor device, and manufacturing method of semiconductor device
In a technique connecting between bonding pads of semiconductor chips, contact between wires is prevented. A semiconductor device of the present embodiment is provided with a semiconductor chip 1 in which a plurality of bonding pads 3 are arranged in line, a semiconductor chip 2 in which a plurality of bonding pads 4 are arranged in line substantially parallel to the plurality of bonding pads 3, and a plurality of wires 7 which connect the bonding pads 3 to the bonding pads 4 respectively. At least one of the wires 7 is bended with respect to a reference straight line S which passes through the bonding pad 3 and the bonding pad 4 which are connected by the wire 7. The bended wire is extended out from the bonding pad 4 in a certain direction in which a distance between the bended wire and an adjacent wire which is adjacent to the bended wire is larger than a distance between the reference straight line of the bended wire and the reference straight line of the adjacent wire. |
| US07834464B2 |
Semiconductor chip package, semiconductor chip assembly, and method for fabricating a device
A method for fabricating a device, a semiconductor chip package, and a semiconductor chip assembly is disclosed. One embodiment includes applying at least one semiconductor chip on a first form element. At least one element is applied on a second form element. A material is applied on the at least one semiconductor chip and on the at least one element. |
| US07834463B2 |
Stack package having pattern die redistribution
A stack package includes an edge-pad-type first semiconductor chip having bonding pads arranged near the edges thereof. A pattern die is placed on the first semiconductor chip. The pattern die is smaller in size than the first semiconductor chip and has line-type-redistribution parts formed thereon. An edge-pad-type second semiconductor chip smaller in size than the pattern die is placed on the pattern die. Bonding wires electrically connect the bonding pads of the first semiconductor chip and the redistribution parts of the pattern die and also electrically connect the redistribution parts of the pattern die and bonding pads of the second semiconductor chip. |
| US07834456B2 |
Electrical contacts for CMOS devices and III-V devices formed on a silicon substrate
A semiconductor structure having a substrate, a seed layer over the substrate; a silicon layer disposed on the seed layer; a transistor device in the silicon layer; a III-V device disposed on the seed layer; and a plurality of electrical contacts, each one of the electrical contacts having a layer of TiN or TaN and a layer of copper or aluminum on the layer of TaN or TiN, one of the electrical contacts being electrically connected to the transistor and another one of the electrical contacts being electrically connected to the III-V device. |
| US07834454B2 |
Electronic structures including barrier layers defining lips
Forming an electronic structure may include forming a seed layer on a substrate, and forming a mask on the seed layer. The mask may include an aperture therein exposing a portion of the seed layer, and a barrier layer may be formed on the exposed portion of the seed layer. A bump may be formed on the barrier layer, and the mask may be removed. In addition, portions of the seed layer may be selectively removed using the barrier layer as an etch mask. |
| US07834452B2 |
Device made of single-crystal silicon
A device made of single-crystal silicon having a first side, a second side which is situated opposite to the first side, and a third side which extends from the first side to the second side, the first side and the second side each extending in a 100 plane of the single-crystal silicon, the third side extending in a first area in a 111 plane of the single-crystal silicon. The third side extends in a second area in a 110 plane of the single-crystal silicon. Furthermore, a production method for producing a device made of single-crystal silicon is described. |
| US07834447B2 |
Compliant thermal contactor
One embodiment of the present invention is a compliant thermal contactor that includes a resilient metal film having a plurality of first thermally conductive, compliant posts disposed in an array on a top side thereof and a plurality of second thermally conductive, compliant posts disposed in an array on a bottom side thereof. |
| US07834445B2 |
Heat sink with thermally compliant beams
A heat dissipating structure includes: a heat spreader; and a plurality of compliant beams attached to the heat spreader. The beams are formed of a high-conductive material such that a maximum stress of each beam is less than a fatigue stress of the high-conductive material; said beams are placed at an angle relative to a chip surface such that the beams are able to exert bending compliance in response to x, y, and z forces exerted upon them. The structure also includes a thermal material interface for bonding said structure to the chip surface. Both the heat spreader and the compliant beams can be machined from a copper block. An alternative heat dissipating structure includes compliant beams soldered to the chip surface. |
| US07834444B2 |
Heatplates for heatsink attachment for semiconductor chips
An apparatus for heatsink attachment and a method for forming the apparatus. The apparatus includes a substrate, a semiconductor chip on top of and physically attached to the substrate, and a lid on top of the substrate. The lid includes a first thermally conductive material. The apparatus further includes a heatsink on top of the lid. The heatsink includes a second thermally conductive material. The semiconductor chip and the substrate share a common interface surface that defines a reference direction perpendicular to the common interface surface and pointing from the substrate towards the semiconductor chip. The lid is disposed between the substrate and the heatsink. The lid includes a first protruding member. The first protruding member of the lid is farther away from the substrate than a portion of the heatsink in the reference direction. |
| US07834438B2 |
Sealed structure and method of fabricating sealed structure and semiconductor device and method of fabricating semiconductor device
According to a sealed structure 60 constituted by anodically bonding a silicon board 20 and a glass plate 40, an upper opening of a recessed portion 22 is sealed in an airtight state by the glass plate 40 by bonding an upper face of a wall portion 26 to the glass plate 40. A voltage applying pattern 70 is formed to surround a light transmitting region to which an optical conversion element 24 is opposed. Further, the voltage applying pattern 70 functions as a cathode pattern applied with a voltage by being brought into contact with a lower face of the cathode plate 50. |
| US07834437B2 |
Semiconductor package with passive elements
The semiconductor package includes a plate having first via patterns formed on a center portion and second via patterns formed on edge portions; a connection wiring formed on a top surface of the plate to connect at least one first via patterns to at least one second via patterns; a plurality of passive elements formed on the top surface of the plate having a connection wiring formed thereon; a semiconductor chip having a plurality of bonding pads attached to a bottom surface of the plate and electrically connected to the first via patterns; and a plurality of external connection terminals each of which being attached to each of the second via pattern on the bottom surface of the plate. |
| US07834436B2 |
Semiconductor chip package
An image processing system including an image processing device and a service providing device is provided. The image processing device includes a first processor and a first memory storing instructions that cause the image processing device to obtain parameters for receiving the service from the service providing device, request the service providing device to provide the service and implement a first or second function of the image processing device based on the parameters obtained from the parameter specifying unit. The service providing device includes a second processor and a second memory storing instructions that cause the service providing device to execute a service function to provide the service to the image processing device after receiving a request for the service from the image processing device. |
| US07834435B2 |
Leadframe with extended pad segments between leads and die pad, and leadframe package using the same
A leadframe package includes a die pad with four unitary, outwardly extending slender bars; a plurality of leads arranged along periphery of the die pad; a separate pad segment separated from the die pad and isolated from the plurality of leads; a semiconductor die mounted on an upper side of the die pad, wherein the semiconductor die contains first bond pads wire-bonded to respective the plurality of leads and a second bond pad wire-bonded to the separate pad segment; and a molding compound encapsulating the semiconductor die, the upper side of the die pad, the first suspended pad segment and inner portions of the plurality of leads. |
| US07834431B2 |
Leadframe for packaged electronic device with enhanced mold locking capability
A packaged electronic device (20) includes a die pad (30), leads (32) arranged around the die pad (30), and a die (24) attached to an upper surface (34) of the die pad (30) and electrically connected to the leads (32). A packaging material (28) encapsulates the die pad (30), the die (24), and the leads (32). The die pad (30) includes indentations (42) formed in the upper surface (34) along a sidewall (38) of the die pad (30). The die pad (30) further includes indentations (44) formed in a lower surface (36) of the die pad (30) along the sidewall. The packaging material (28) fills the indentations (42, 44) thereby promoting adhesion between the die pad (30) and the packaging material (28) so that the die pad (30) and packaging material (28) cannot readily delaminate. |
| US07834430B2 |
Drop-mold conformable material as an encapsulation for an integrated circuit package system
An integrated circuit package system includes: providing an integrated circuit; mounting a lead on the periphery of the integrated circuit; connecting the integrated circuit to the lead with an interconnect; and forming a conformable material by pressing the conformable material on the integrated circuit, the lead, and the interconnect. |
| US07834428B2 |
Apparatus and method for reducing noise in mixed-signal circuits and digital circuits
Apparatus and a method are provided for reducing noise in mixed-signal and digital circuits. One apparatus (200) includes a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) (210). MOSFET (210) includes a doped substrate (2210) with a source formed proximate a substrate tie (2224) and a substrate tie (2250) adjacent substrate (2210). A ground rail (255) is coupled to the source and substrate tie (2224), and a ground rail (285) is coupled to substrate tie (2250). Ground rails (255) and (285) are configured to be coupled to different ground networks (250 and 280). One method includes producing a model of a semiconductor device including a standard semiconductor cell (710). The semiconductor cell is identified as a noise-sensitive or a noise-producing semiconductor cell (720), and the semiconductor cell is replaced with a corresponding noise-aware semiconductor cell (730). |
| US07834426B2 |
High-k dual dielectric stack
The present invention discloses a method including: providing a Group III-V component semiconductor material; forming a first layer over a surface of the Group III-V component semiconductor material, the first layer to unpin a Fermi level at the surface; forming a second layer over the first layer, the second layer for scaling an equivalent oxide thickness (EOT); and annealing the first layer before or after forming the second layer to remove bulk trap defects in the first layer. |
| US07834425B2 |
Hybrid orientation SOI substrates, and method for forming the same
The present invention relates to a hybrid orientation semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate structure that contains a base semiconductor substrate with one or more first device regions and one or more second device regions located over the base semiconductor substrate. The one or more first device regions include an insulator layer with a first semiconductor device layer located atop. The one or more second device regions include a counter-doped semiconductor layer with a second semiconductor device layer located atop. The first and the second semiconductor device layers have different crystallographic orientations. Preferably, the first (or the second) device regions are n-FET device regions, and the first semiconductor device layer has a crystallographic orientation that enhances electron mobility, while the second (or the first) device regions are p-FET device regions, and the second semiconductor device layer has a different surface crystallographic orientation that enhances hole mobility. |
| US07834423B2 |
Method of producing a nitride semiconductor device and nitride semiconductor device
AlxInyGa1-x-yN (0≦x≦1; 0≦x≦1; 0≦x+y≦1) layered device chips are produced by the steps of preparing a defect position controlled substrate of AlxInyGa1-x-yN (0≦x≦1; 0≦y≦1; 0≦x+y≦1) having a closed loop network defect accumulating region H of slow speed growth and low defect density regions ZY of high speed growth enclosed by the closed loop network defect accumulating region H, growing epitaxial upper layers B selectively on the low defect density regions ZY, harmonizing outlines and insides of device chips composed of the upper layers B with the defect accumulating region H and the low defect density regions ZY respectively, forming upper electrodes on the upper layers B or not forming the electrodes, dissolving bottom parts of the upper layers B by laser irradiation or mechanical bombardment, and separating the upper layer parts B as device chips C from each other and from the substrate S. Chip-separation is done instantly by the high power laser irradiation or mechanical shock without cutting the substrate S. The defect position controlled substrate S is repeatedly reused. |
| US07834422B2 |
Implanted counted dopant ions
This invention concerns semiconductor devices of the general type comprising a counted number of dopant atoms (142) implanted in regions of a substrate (158) that are substantially intrinsic semiconductor. One or more doped surface regions (152) of the substrate (158) are metallized to form electrodes (150) and a counted number of dopant ions (142) are implanted in a region of the substantially intrinsic semiconductor. |
| US07834421B2 |
Isolated diode
Various integrated circuit devices, in particular a diode, are formed inside an isolation structure which includes a floor isolation region and a trench extending from the surface of the substrate to the floor isolation region. The trench may be filled with a dielectric material or may have a conductive material in a central portion with a dielectric layer lining the walls of the trench. Various techniques for terminating the isolation structure by extending the floor isolation region beyond the trench, using a guard ring, and a forming a drift region are described. |
| US07834414B2 |
Semiconductor device with tensile strain and compressive strain
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes an active region having a MOS transistor and a groove surrounding the periphery of the active region, in which the groove is filled with a combination of a first material that produces a tensile strain in the active region and a second material that produces a compressive strain. Thereby, the foregoing object is achieved. |
| US07834403B2 |
Bipolar transistor FINFET technology
This document discusses, among other things, apparatus having at least one CMOS transistor overlying a substrate; and at least one finned bipolar transistor overlying the substrate and methods for making the apparatus. |
| US07834402B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit device
To strengthen tolerance to radiation. Source and back gate of P-channel transistor P1 are connected to power supply. Gate of the P-channel transistor P1 is connected to input terminal IN. Gate of N1 is connected to IN. Drain of N1 is connected to OUT. Cathode of diode D1 is connected to power supply, anode of D1 being connected to OUT. Cathode of diode D2 is connected to OUT, anode of D2 being grounded. When seen from a direction perpendicular to a substrate on which an inverter circuit is formed, a projection plane of a region of a p+ diffusion layer of D1 includes a projection plane of a region of an n+ diffusion layer of N, and a projection plane of a region of an n+ diffusion layer of the diode D2 includes a projection plane of a region of a p+ diffusion layer of P1. |
| US07834398B2 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
There is provided a method of removing trap levels and defects, which are caused by stress, from a single crystal silicon thin film formed by an SOI technique. First, a single crystal silicon film is formed by using a typical bonding SOI technique such as Smart-Cut or ELTRAN. Next, the single crystal silicon thin film is patterned to form an island-like silicon layer, and then, a thermal oxidation treatment is carried out in an oxidizing atmosphere containing a halogen element, so that an island-like silicon layer in which the trap levels and the defects are removed is obtained. |
| US07834396B2 |
Lateral field effect transistor and its fabrication comprising a spacer layer above and below the channel layer
A lateral field effect transistor for high switching frequencies having a source region layer (4) and a drain region layer (5) laterally spaced and of highly doped first conductivity type, a first-conductivity-type channel layer (6) of lower doping concentration extending laterally and interconnecting the source region layer (4) and the drain region layer (5). The transistor has a gate electrode (7) arranged to control the properties of the channel layer (6), and a second-conductivity-type base layer (8) arranged under the channel layer (6) at least partially overlapping the gate electrode (7) and at a lateral distance to the drain region layer (5), the highly doped second-conductivity-type base layer (8) being shorted to the source region layer (4). The transistor also has at least one of the following: a) a spacer layer (10) having semiconductor material adjacent to the channel layer (6) and located between the channel layer (6) and gate electrode (7), at least in the vicinity of the gate electrode (7), and/or b) a spacer layer (9) having semiconductor material adjacent to the channel layer (6) and located between the channel layer (6) and the second-conductivity-type base layer (8). |
| US07834391B2 |
Integrated circuit memory devices including memory cells on adjacent pedestals having different heights, and methods of fabricating same
Coupling among adjacent rows of memory cells on an integrated circuit substrate may reduced by forming the adjacent rows of memory cells on adjacent semiconductor pedestals that extend different distances away from the integrated circuit substrate. NAND flash memory devices that include different pedestal heights and fabrication methods for integrated circuit memory devices are also disclosed. |
| US07834385B2 |
Multi-bit STRAM memory cells
A multi-bit spin torque magnetic element that has a ferromagnetic pinned layer having a pinned magnetization orientation, a non-magnetic layer, and a ferromagnetic free layer having a magnetization orientation switchable among at least four directions, the at least four directions being defined by a physical shape of the free layer. The magnetic element has at least four distinct resistance states. Magnetic elements with at least eight magnetization directions are also provided. |
| US07834380B2 |
Field effect transistor and method for fabricating the same
A field effect transistor includes a first semiconductor layer made of a multilayer of a plurality of semiconductor films and a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer. A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed on the second semiconductor layer to be spaced from each other. An opening having an insulating film on its inner wall is formed in a portion of the second semiconductor layer sandwiched between the source electrode and the drain electrode so as to expose the first semiconductor layer therein. A gate electrode is formed in the opening to be in contact with the insulating film and the first semiconductor layer on the bottom of the opening. |
| US07834378B2 |
SCR controlled by the power bias
A composite dual SCR circuit that acts to protect the Vcc node as well as an I/O node or pin. The dual SCR uses the Vcc to control or program the triggering point of the SCR connected to an I/O node. When Vcc is low, the SCR protecting an I/O node triggers a few volts above ground, but when Vcc is high the trigger point of the SCR protecting the I/O node is much higher. The dual SCR incorporates added diffusions to an existing first SCR structure between the power node and the ground node thereby forming a second SCR. The first and second SCRs share a common cathode transistor. In one illustrative embodiment, only one SCR is constructed incorporating the Vcc to control the triggering of the SCR. |
| US07834375B2 |
Submounts for semiconductor light emitting devices and methods of forming packaged light emitting devices including dispensed encapsulants
A submount for mounting an LED chip includes a substrate, a die attach pad configured to receive an LED chip on an upper surface of the substrate, a first meniscus control feature on the substrate surrounding the die attach pad and defining a first encapsulant region of the upper surface of the substrate, and a second meniscus control feature on the substrate surrounding the first encapsulant region and defining a second encapsulant region of the upper surface of the substrate. The first and second meniscus control features may be substantially coplanar with the die attach pad. A packaged LED includes a submount as described above and further includes an LED chip on the die attach pad, a first encapsulant on the substrate within the first encapsulant region, and a second encapsulant on the substrate within the second encapsulant region and covering the first encapsulant. Method embodiments are also disclosed. |
| US07834373B2 |
Semiconductor device having current spreading layer
A semiconductor device has a current spreading layer between a semiconductor material and an electrode for connecting the semiconductor material to an electrical power supply. The current spreading layer has two or more sub-layers of a first conductive material with patterned regions of a second conductive material distributed between the sub-layers for spreading an electrical current passing between the electrode and the semiconductor material. The second material has an ohmic resistance lower than the first material. |
| US07834367B2 |
Low voltage diode with reduced parasitic resistance and method for fabricating
A method of making a diode begins by depositing an AlxGa1−xN nucleation layer on a SiC substrate, then depositing an n+ GaN buffer layer, an n− GaN layer, an AlxGa1−xN barrier layer, and an SiO2 dielectric layer. A portion of the dielectric layer is removed and a Schottky metal deposited in the void. The dielectric layer is affixed to the support layer with a metal bonding layer using an Au-Sn utectic wafer bonding process, the substrate is removed using reactive ion etching to expose the n+ layer, selected portions of the n+, n−, and barrier layers are removed to form a mesa diode structure on the dielectric layer over the Schottky metal,; and an ohmic contact is deposited on the n+ layer. |
| US07834361B2 |
Pixel structure and method for manufacturing the same
A method for manufacturing a pixel structure is provided. First, a first mask process is performed to form a patterned first metal layer on a substrate, wherein the patterned first metal layer includes a gate. Next, a second mask process is performed to form a patterned insulating layer and a patterned semiconductor layer over the gate, wherein the patterned insulating layer is disposed on the patterned first metal layer, and the patterned semiconductor layer is disposed on the patterned insulating layer. Then, a third mask process is performed to define a thin film transistor (TFT) and a pixel electrode connected thereto and to form a passivation layer to cover the TFT. |
| US07834358B2 |
Semiconductor LSI circuit and a method for fabricating the semiconductor LSI circuit
Basic logic gates are formed in a small area, and a highly integrated and microscopic structure is provided. In an nMOSFET and a pMOSFET, gate electrodes are formed facing each other and sandwiching a semiconductor region via gate insulting layers. Respective drain regions of the nMOSFET and the pMOSFET are connected to each other. A high potential is applied to a source region of the pMOSFET while an intermediate potential between the high and a low potential is applied to a source region of the nMOSFET. As a result, a NAND gate is provided. The intermediate potential between the high and the low potential is applied to the source region of the pMOSFET. The low potential is applied to the source region of the nMOSFET. As a result, a NOR gate is provided. |
| US07834354B2 |
Pixel structure and method for manufacturing the same
A pixel structure of a fringe field switching liquid crystal display (FFS-LCD) and a method for manufacturing the pixel structure are provided. Compared to the conventional method of using seven photolithography-etching processes for manufacturing a pixel structure, the method of the present invention uses only six photolithography-etching processes that save manufacturing costs and time. Furthermore, the pixel structure thereby only comprises two insulating layers, and thus, the light transmittance thereof can be increased in comparison to the conventional pixel structure comprising three insulating layers. |
| US07834352B2 |
Method of fabricating thin film transistor
A method of fabricating a thin film transistor, in which source and drain electrodes are formed through a solution process, even all stages which include formation of electrodes on a substrate, formation of an insulator layer, and formation of an organic semiconductor layer are conducted through the solution process. In the method, the fabrication is simplified and a fabrication cost is reduced. It is possible to apply the organic thin film transistor to integrated circuits requiring high speed switching because of high charge mobility. |
| US07834351B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The device includes a substrate and a first wiring layer overlying the substrate. The first wiring layer comprises a first wiring area surrounded by a first seal ring. The first seal ring comprises a first monitor circuit isolated by a first dielectric layer embedded in the first seal ring. The first monitor circuit is responsive to a predetermined amount of deformation occurs in the third dielectric layer. |
| US07834345B2 |
Tunnel field-effect transistors with superlattice channels
A semiconductor device includes a channel region; a gate dielectric over the channel region; a gate electrode over the gate dielectric; and a first source/drain region adjacent the gate dielectric. The first source/drain region is of a first conductivity type. At least one of the channel region and the first source/drain region includes a superlattice structure. The semiconductor device further includes a second source/drain region on an opposite side of the channel region than the first source/drain region. The second source/drain region is of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type. At most, one of the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region comprises an additional superlattice structure. |
| US07834344B2 |
Nanometric structure and corresponding manufacturing method
A hosting structure of nanometric components is described advantageously comprising: a substrate; n array levels on said substrate, with n≧2, arranged consecutively on growing and parallel planes, each including a plurality of conductive spacers alternated with a plurality of insulating spacers and substantially perpendicular to said substrate, with definition between consecutive conductive spacers of at least a gap, conductive spacers of consecutive array levels lying on distinct and parallel planes, said gaps of different array levels being at least partially aligned along a direction substantially perpendicular to said substrate with definition of a plurality of transversal hosting seats extended along said direction and suitable for hosting at least a nanometric component. A nanometric electronic device is also described comprising such a hosting structure and a method for realizing it. |
| US07834343B2 |
Nitride semiconductor and method for manufacturing thereof
A P-type nitride semiconductor and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. A nitride semiconductor includes a P-type nitride layer formed on a active layer, wherein the P-type nitride layer is a P-type nitride layer with the group 4 element doped. |
| US07834341B2 |
Phase change material (PCM) memory devices with bipolar junction transistors and methods for making thereof
Methods for fabricating highly compact PCM memory devices are described herein. The methods may include forming a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) structure on a substrate including creating a base of the BJT structure on the substrate and creating an emitter of the BJT structure on top of the base opposite of the substrate. A heating element may then be constructed on the emitter of the BJT structure, wherein the heating element includes a material to generate heat when provided with an electrical current from the emitter. A phase change material (PCM) cell may then be built on the heating element opposite of the BJT structure. |
| US07834337B2 |
Memory device
A phase-change memory device including a memory cell having a memory element and a select transistor is improved in heat resistance so that it may be operable at 145° C. or higher.The memory layer is used which has a content of Zn or Cd of 20 at % or more and 50 at % or less, a content of Ge or Sb of 5 at % or more and 25 at % or less, and a content of Te of 40 at % or more and 65 at % or less in Zn-Ge-Te. |
| US07834328B2 |
Method and apparatus for sterilizing intraluminal and percutaneous access sites
A method and apparatus for sterilizing access sites such as attachment points for various therapeutic and diagnostic medical devices. More particularly, the invention concerns a sterilization apparatus which includes a substantially UV-C transparent closure cap for closing the access site and a compact, easy to use irradiating apparatus for controllably irradiating the closure cap with UV-C radiation. |
| US07834327B2 |
Self-biasing active load circuit and related power supply for use in a charged particle beam processing system
A load circuit device having a self-biasing active load circuit, and a related high voltage power supply configured to bias an optical element in a charged particle beam processing system, such as a gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) processing system. The high voltage power supply comprises a variable voltage supply having a load terminal at a load potential and a reference terminal at a reference potential, and a self-biasing active load circuit connected between the load terminal and the reference terminal, and configured to sustain a variable voltage drop between the load potential and the reference potential while maintaining a substantially constant current. |
| US07834321B2 |
Apparatus for asymmetric dual-screen digital radiography
A radiographic imaging apparatus for taking X-ray images of an object includes a front panel and back panel. The panels have substrates, arrays of signal sensing elements and readout devices, and passivation layers. The front and back panels have scintillating phosphor layers responsive to X-rays passing through an object produce light which illuminates the signal sensing elements to provide signals representing X-ray images. The X-ray apparatus has means for combining the signals of the X-ray images to produce a composite X-ray image. Furthermore, the composition and thickness of the scintillating phosphor layers are selected, relative to each other, to improve the diagnostic efficacy of the composite X-ray image. Alternatively, a radiographic imaging apparatus has a single panel having arrays of signal sensing elements and readout devices and scintillating phosphor layers that are disposed on both sides of a single substrate. |
| US07834320B2 |
Remote biological, chemical and explosive detector
A distributed detector system is provided for remotely detecting agents indicating the presence of particular biological, explosive, or chemical targets. The distributed detector system may be used for security threat detection, manufacturing or environmental monitoring, or medical assaying. In the detection system, a central server or base station wirelessly communicates with a set of distributed detectors. In this way, the central server or base station is able to aggregate detection information, as well as apply additional processing and analysis to data collected at the detectors. Each detector has a reactive material, such as a silicon-polymer, that changes an optical property in the presence of a target agent. A camera is positioned to take images of the reactive material from time to time, and has local processing to determine when the reactive material has likely changed. In some cases, the detector may have sufficient processing power to classify the change according to its urgency or threat level. The detector wirelessly communications to the central server or base station, and appropriate alerts or notifications can be generated. |
| US07834319B2 |
Nanophosphor composite scintillators comprising a polymer matrix
An improved nanophosphor composite comprises surface modified nanophosphor particles in a solid matrix. The nanophosphor particle surface is modified with an organic ligand, or by covalently bonding a polymeric or polymeric precursor material. The surface modified nanophosphor particle is essentially charge neutral, thereby preventing agglomeration of the nanophosphor particles during formation of the composite material. The improved nanophosphor composite may be used in any conventional scintillator application, including in a radiation detector. |
| US07834317B2 |
Scanning electron microscope and system for inspecting semiconductor device
A scanning electron microscope has an electron source for illuminating a primary electron beam on a specimen wafer, an accelerating electrode, a condenser lens, a deflector, an objective lens, a detector for acquiring a digital image by sampling a signal of emissive electrons generated from the specimen wafer, a digitizing means, an image memory for storing, displaying or processing the acquired digital image, an input/output unit, an image creation unit and an image processor. The scanning electron microscope is provided with a sampling unit for sampling the emissive electron signal at intervals each smaller than the pixel size of the digital image to be stored, displayed or processed and an image creation process means for enlarging the pixel size on the basis of the sampled emissive electron signal to create a digital image. |
| US07834315B2 |
Method for STEM sample inspection in a charged particle beam instrument
A method for sample examination in a dual-beam FIB calculates a first angle as a function of second, third and fourth angles defined by the geometry of the FIB and the tilt of the specimen stage. A fifth angle is calculated as a function of the stated angles, where the fifth angle is the angle between the long axis of an excised sample and the projection of the axis of the probe shaft onto the X-Y plane. The specimen stage is rotated by the calculated fifth angle, followed by attachment to the probe tip and lift-out. The sample may then be positioned perpendicular to the axis of the FIB electron beam for STEM analysis by rotation of the probe shaft through the first angle. |
| US07834314B2 |
Ion detection using a pillar chip
Methods and assemblies for ion detection in samples using a chip with elevated sample zones, also known as a “pillar chip.” Methods include analyzing such a sample by desorbing a sample from a chip, producing a described ion sample and detecting the same. The chip comprises a base having a surface and one or more structures protruding above the surface of the base. Each structure comprises a pillar and a sample zone, the latter containing a support material and the sample to be analyzed. Assemblies include a chip such as that described above and a conductive element that comprises an aperture of sufficient proportion to allow passage of a molecular ion and that is adapted to be at a different electrical potential than the base of the chip. |
| US07834313B2 |
Mass spectrometry assay for plasma-renin
Provided are methods for measuring renin activity in a plasma sample using mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve ionizing purified angiotensin 1 from the sample and detecting the amount of angiotensin 1 ions generated. The amount of detected angiotensin 1 ions are then related to the amount of angiotensin 1 generated in the sample, which in turn is related to renin activity in the sample. |
| US07834311B2 |
Lens assembly with a rotatable adjustable member for discretely varying position of a mounting member
A lens assembly for an imaging device includes a lens for focusing external radiation towards an image sensor of the imaging device. A mounting member is between the lens and the image sensor so that the lens is spaced a set distance from the image sensor. An adjustment member varies position of the mounting member relative to the image sensor so that the set distance is varied. |
| US07834308B2 |
Imaging apparatus having electron source array that emits electrons during a blanking period
An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form and having a plurality of horizontal scan lines, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more of the horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film to produce a video signal, wherein the control and drive circuit is configured to cause the electron sources included in unselected one or more horizontal scan lines not selected in the given video signal output period to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film in a blanking period immediately preceding the given video signal output period. |
| US07834305B2 |
Image processing device
An image processing device for generating both of a distance image and a gray image from an electrical output of a light receiving element on the precondition that a light intensity-modulated at a modulation frequency is irradiated into a target space. This device has an image generator for generating the distance image having pixel values, each of which provides a distance value between an object in the target space and the device, in accordance with a phase difference between the irradiated light and the received light, and the gray image having pixel values, each of which provides a gray value of the object, in accordance with an intensity of the received light. By use of an output of the image generator, an outline of the object can be extracted. |
| US07834299B2 |
Impingement/convection/microwave oven and method
A combination oven that is operable with convection air, impingement air and microwave energy in various combinations thereof. The oven has an oven chamber and a fan box that are located front to back. A fan in the fan box circulates heated air by discharging via openings in a top and a bottom and taking in via an intermediate opening of a baffle plate. Impingement plates are easily installed and removed in the oven chamber to provide impingement air upwardly or downwardly. At least one of the impingement plates is installed and removed by a sliding motion. Microwave energy is provided through the side walls of the oven chamber. Intake ports for cooling air are located in a bevel between the side walls and bottom wall of the oven's outer enclosure so as to allow the oven to be located right next to other structures, such as a wall. An interlock assembly is also provided for the oven door. |
| US07834297B1 |
Golf club grip warning and dying apparatus and method
A golf club grip warning and drying apparatus includes a housing that has a bottom wall and a peripheral wall which is attached to and extending upwardly from the bottom wall. The peripheral wall has an upper edge defines an access opening extending into the housing. A heating assembly is positioned in the housing. The heating assembly provides warm air for an interior of the housing when the heating assembly is turned on. A securing assembly is attached to the housing. The securing assembly is configured to releasably secure the housing to the golf bag. A golf club grip is removably extendable into the housing and heated by the heating assembly. |
| US07834296B2 |
Electric grill and method of providing the same
An electric grill is provided having a grate, a first electrical insulator layer located above the grate, a heater layer deposited on a top surface of the first electrical insulator layer, and a top layer located over the heater layer for protecting the heater layer. |
| US07834294B2 |
Heating device and sanitary washing device using the same
Linear-type sheathed heaters are arranged substantially in parallel with each other in a case body. Regions near the ends of the outer peripheral surface of each of the sheathed heaters are held by elastic holding members so as to move in the axial direction. A cylindrical space is formed between the outer peripheral surface of each of the sheathed heater and the case body. A space is provided that communicates the cylindrical spaces. |
| US07834291B2 |
Electrode for electric discharge surface treatment, and method and apparatus for electric discharge surface treatment
An electrode for electric discharge surface treatment is a green compact formed by molding a metal powder, a metal compound powder, or a ceramic powder, and is used for electric discharge surface treatment in which an electric discharge is generated between the electrode and a work in dielectric fluid or air to form by the electric discharge energy on a surface of the work a coat of a material of the electrode or of a substance resulting from reaction of the material due to the electric discharge energy. The material of the electrode includes a material not desired to be carbonized and a material desired to be melted, and a particle diameter of the material not desired to be carbonized is larger than a particle diameter of the material desired to be melted. |
| US07834289B2 |
Mail processing system for address change service
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing a mailing including one or more mail pieces. The exemplary systems and method include capturing address data, addressee data, or address and addressee data associated with each respective mail piece of the mailing. A delivery point address code and a unique identifier are determined for the respective mail piece based at least in part on the captured address data, addressee data, or address and addressee data. In addition, a machine readable code is generated comprising at least a mailer identifier for the mailing and the unique identifier. The machine readable code is then printed on the respective mail piece. Also disclosed are exemplary systems and methods for retrieving a delivery point address code from a move data file. A machine readable code is generated from the delivery point address code and a unique identifier, and is printed on the mail piece. |
| US07834279B2 |
Weighing apparatus with improved cleaning capabilities
A weighing apparatus comprising a weighing pan (20) for supporting on an upper surface thereof an object (21) to be weighed, a support for the weighing pan (20), the support contacting a lower surface of the weighing pan and comprising an elongate member (23) extending downwardly from the weighing pan (20), the elongate member (23) extending through a hole (24) provided in a floor (36), located beneath the weighing pan (20), of a weighing pan region of the apparatus, a weighing mechanism (44) located beneath the floor (36) of the weighing pan region in a weighing mechanism region of the apparatus, the elongate member (23) connecting with the weighing mechanism, and a drive means (28) for selectively moving the weighing pan (20) between an upper position, at which the weighing pan (20) is spaced from the floor (36), and a lower position, at which the weighing pan (20) contacts the floor (36) in a sealing relationship for preventing material in the weighing pan region from passing through the hole (24) into the weighing mechanism region. |
| US07834273B2 |
Multilayer printed wiring board
A multilayer printed wiring board comprises a plurality of insulating layers which is about 100 μm or less in thickness and a plurality of conductor circuits formed on the insulating layers. Each of a plurality of viaholes electrically connecting conductor circuits on the insulating layers to each other is formed tapered inwardly from the surface of the insulating layer and the viaholes are disposed opposite to each other to form a multistage stacked vias. |
| US07834269B2 |
Protection of electrical power transmission systems
A method and apparatus for protecting electrical power transmissions systems that may or may not be energized. A protector and method for protecting a component of an electrical power transmission system. A dielectric cover is molded to fit around the component. The dielectric cover has a peripheral edge including portions with cooperating mating surfaces that, in use, mate together to secure the dielectric cover on the component. A grip portion, for example the mating surfaces, of the dielectric cover is preferably shaped to receive a hot stick. The dielectric cover may be provided with ventilation openings, and a friction enhancing interior surface, such as a weak adhesive on an interior surface of the dielectric cover. |
| US07834268B2 |
Method and structure for waterproofing a terminal splice
A method of waterproofing a terminal that includes a stopper inserted in one opening of a heat shrinkable tube. The heat shrinkable tube is heat-shrunk in this state to form a cap having a end closure. A fluid thermosetting waterproofing agent is injected into the cap from a second opening. A thermal splice, which is formed from welded strands stripped from a plurality of wire terminals, is inserted and immersed in the thermosetting waterproofing agent. Then, the entire cap is heated and heat-shrunk at a predetermined temperature and the thermosetting waterproofing agent is heat-hardened. |
| US07834266B2 |
Photovoltaic device
Provided is a photovoltaic device with an organic buffer layer for efficiency improvement. The photovoltaic device includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed opposite to each other, a photoactive layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a buffer layer disposed between the photoactive layer and the second electrode. The buffer layer includes a compound including an aromatic organic cation and an anion in a quantity ranging from 30 wt % to 100 wt %, more preferably 50 wt % to 100 wt % with respect to the entire weight of the buffer layer. |
| US07834261B2 |
Music composition reproducing device and music composition reproducing method
First, an extracting unit extracts chord progression of a tune to be reproduced. Then, a timing detector detects the timing of variation of the chord progression extracted by the extracting unit. Subsequently, an add-tone reproducing unit combines an add-tone with the tune to be reproduced according to the timing detected by the timing detector. The add-tone reproducing unit can also move a sound image to reproduce the tune or reproduce the tune as an arpeggio. |
| US07834255B2 |
Hybrid corn plant and seed PP88602
This invention provides hybrid maize plant designated PP88602. This invention further provides hybrid seed of PP88602, hybrid plants produced from such seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications to hybrid PP88602, as well as methods of using the hybrid and products produced from the hybrid. |
| US07834254B2 |
CE43-67B insecticidal cotton
The present application relates an insect resistant transgenic cotton plant. In particular, it relates to a specific event, designated CE43-67B. The application also relates to polynucleotides which are characteristic of the CE43-67B event, plants comprising said polynucleotides, and methods of detecting the CE43-67B event. |
| US07834253B2 |
Soybean cultivar 7034069
A soybean cultivar designated 7034069 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 7034069, to the plants of soybean 7034069, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 7034069 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 7034069 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 7034069, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 7034069 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 7034069 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US07834251B2 |
Cucumber hybrid Excelsior
Hybrid cucumber cultivars designated ‘Excelsior’, ‘15620’, ‘15660’, and ‘15597’, which are the first pickling cucumbers suitable for a vertical growing system under covered cultivation, are disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid cucumber cultivars ‘Excelsior’, ‘15620’, ‘15660’ and ‘15597’, to the plants of hybrid cucumber cultivars ‘Excelsior’, ‘15620’, ‘15660’ and ‘15597’. The invention also relates to methods for producing a cucumber plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the hybrid cultivar ‘Excelsior’ with itself or another cucumber cultivar, by crossing the hybrid cultivar ‘15620’ with itself or another cucumber cultivar, by crossing the hybrid cultivar ‘15660’ with itself or another cucumber cultivar, and by crossing the hybrid cultivar ‘15597’ with itself or another cucumber cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing other cucumber cultivars derived from the hybrids ‘Excelsior’, ‘15620’, ‘15660’, and ‘15597’. The invention also relates to pickling cucumbers suitable for vertical growing systems under covered cultivation. |
| US07834250B2 |
Synthesis of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids by recombinant cells
The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desatorase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. |
| US07834246B2 |
Root-preferred regulatory elements
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a root-preferred promoter and terminator isolated from the maize 6PGD coding region. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell. |
| US07834245B2 |
Nitrate reductases from red algae, compositions and methods of use thereof
The NR enzymes described herein were discovered in the red algae of Porphyra perforata (PpNR) and Porphyra yezoensis (PyNR). The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering NR activity, nitrogen utilization and/or uptake in plants. The invention relates to a method for the production of plants with maintained or increased yield under low nitrogen fertility. The invention provides isolated nitrate reductase (NR) nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants. Plants transformed with nucleotide sequences encoding the NR enzyme show improved properties, for example, increased yield and growth. |
| US07834243B2 |
Promoter for epidermis-specific, pathogen-inducible transgenic expression in plants
The invention relates to promoter regions, under the control of which transgenes can be expressed in plants in an epidermis-specific and pathogen-inducible manner. The invention also relates to recombinant nucleic acid molecules, including the promoters, to transgenic plants and plant cells, transformed with said the nucleic acid molecules and to methods for producing the same. The invention also relates to nucleic acid molecules, including a promoter according to the invention, nucleic acid sequences or transgenes, which can convey resistance to pathogens, plants and cell plants, transformed with the nucleic acid molecules and methods for producing the same. The invention also relates to the use of the promoter region according to the invention for analyzing pathogen-induced signal transduction pathways in plant cells. |
| US07834241B2 |
Generation of plants with improved pathogen resistance
The present invention is directed to plants that display a pathogen resistance phenotype due to altered expression of a PPR2 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with a pathogen resistance phenotype. |
| US07834240B2 |
Zea maize auxin response related genes for controlling plant growth and organ size and their use in improving crop plants
The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides (SEQ ID NO: 3 and 4) of the ZmARGOS (Auxin-Regulated Gene involved in Organ Size) gene family. The invention provides genomic sequence for the ZmARGOS genes. ZmARGOS is responsible for controlling plant growth, organ size and yield in crop plants. Transgenic plants expressing ZmARGOS show a positive impact on biomass accumulation and rate of maize plant growth, as well as an increase in organ size. These maize genes will find utility for enhancing agronomic traits in maize (and other crops). |
| US07834236B2 |
Multilayer web with extensible and inextensible regions and methods of making same
A multi-layered web is provided that includes an elastic web bonded to an inelastic web. The inelastic web has extensible and inextensible regions arranged along the machine direction. In the extensible regions, the inelastic web is bonded to the elastic web in a creped structure that is extensible by virtue of the creping. A continuous process is provided to manufacture a multi-layer web having extensible regions that are conjoined with regions that are inextensible by varying the tension that is applied during manufacture of the multi-layer web. The apparatus comprises an elastic web that is fed into a bonding nip, into which one or more inelastic webs are also provided. The elastic web is fed into the bonding nip under a tension that is alternated between a low value that is sufficient to ensure processing stability, and a higher value that provides an elongation to the elastic web. During the low tension phase of the bonding process the inextensible region is formed in the multi-layer web due to the inextensibility of the web. |
| US07834233B2 |
Reduction of odors in absorbent articles
Provided are absorbent articles for retaining a malodorous bodily fluid. The absorbent articles comprise an additive that is a quaternary ammonium salt that is water soluble at 37° C., comprises an alkyl C16-C21 chain, and contains at least two oxygen atoms in the anionic portion of the salt. Also provided are methods of preparing absorbent articles, including disposable absorbent articles, containing the above additive. |
| US07834232B2 |
Shape and pressure adjustable dressing
A method for applying pressure to skin with a dressing. The method including adhering at least a portion of the dressing to the skin and changing the shape of the dressing after application of the dressing to the skin wherein the changed shape applies pressure to the skin. The changing can include releasing a member from the dressing to allow the dressing to change the shape of the dressing; deforming at least a portion of the dressing to change the shape of the dressing or allowing the dressing to heat to above a transition temperature at which the dressing changes shape. |
| US07834230B2 |
Catalyst and process for producing liquefied petroleum gas
A catalyst for producing a liquefied petroleum gas according to the present invention comprises a Pd- and/or Pt-based catalyst component and a USY-type zeolite. By using the catalyst, a hydrocarbon containing propane or butane as a main component, i.e. a liquefied petroleum gas, can be produced with high activity, high selectivity and high yield from at least one of methanol and dimethyl ether. |
| US07834228B1 |
Synthesis of mono-substituted cyclopentadienes
Synthesis of mono-substituted alkylcyclopentadienes by mixing alkyl iodides with cyclopentadienyl magnesium chloride in tetrahydrofuran is described. |
| US07834221B2 |
Process for the preparation of tetrabromobisphenol A
A process for preparing tetrabromobisphenol A, which comprises: i) reacting bisphenol A and bromine in dichloromethane in the presence of aqueous hydrogen peroxide at a temperature in the range of room temperature to the reflux temperature, wherein said dichloromethane is present in an amount sufficient for substantially dissolving brominated derivatives of said bisphenol A formed thereby, ii) separating the substantially solid-free reaction mixture obtained in step i) into aqueous and organic phases, precipitating tetrabromobisphenol A from the organic phase and isolating said precipitated tetrabromobisphenol A from said organic phase. |
| US07834220B2 |
5,5-Diethoxy-(Z3)-3-Pentenyl Methoxymethyl Ether and Preparation Method Thereof
Provided is a method for preparing (E3,Z5)-3,5-alkadienyl acetate and (E3,Z5)-3,5-dodecadienyl acetate which is a sex pheromone of Brazilian apple leafminer. Specifically, provided is a method for preparing (E3,Z5)-3,5-alkadienyl acetate, comprising steps of hydrolyzing 5,5-diethoxy-(Z3)-3-pentenyl methoxymethyl ether in the presence of an acid to obtain 4-formyl-(E3)-butenyl methoxymethyl ether; reacting the 4-formyl-(E3)-butenyl methoxymethyl ether with alkylidene triphenylphosphorane in accordance with the Wittig reaction to obtain (E3,Z5)-3,5-alkadienyl methoxymethyl ether; and obtaining (E3,Z5)-3,5-alkadienyl acetate using the (E3,Z5)-3,5-alkadienyl methoxymethyl ether as a starting substance. |
| US07834218B2 |
Process for producing phenol and methyl ethyl ketone
A process for producing phenol and methyl ethyl ketone comprises contacting benzene and a C4 alkylating agent under alkylation conditions and in the presence of an alkylation catalyst comprising at least one molecular sieve of the MCM-22 family to produce an alkylation effluent comprising secbutylbenzene; wherein the contacting is conducted in a plurality of reaction zones and the C4 alkylating agent secbutylbenzene fraction is recovered from the alkylation effluent and comprises at least 95 wt % sec-butylbenzene, less than 100 wt ppm of C8+ olefins, and less than 0.5 wt % of isobutylbenzene and tert-butylbenzene. The sec-butylbenzene fraction is then oxidized to produce sec-butylbenzene hydroperoxide and the hydroperoxide is cleaved to produce phenol and methyl ethyl ketene. |
| US07834217B2 |
Method for producing oxidation product of cycloalkane
Disclosed is a method for industrially efficiently producing a corresponding useful oxidation product such as a cycloalkyl hydroperoxide, a cycloalkanol, and/or a cycloalkanone, especially a particularly useful cycloalkanone, from a cycloalkane with a high selectivity in a good yield at low cost. This method is advantageous in respect of energy and process. Specifically, an oxidation product of a cycloalkane is obtained by oxidizing the cycloalkane in a liquid-liquid two phase system using an aqueous solvent in the presence of a nitrogen atom-containing cyclic compound which contains, as its ring constituent, a structure represented by following Formula (I): wherein X represents an oxygen atom or an —OR group, and wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyl-protecting group, and which has a solubility in water at 25° C. of 0.5 g/100 g-H2O or more. |
| US07834215B2 |
Unsymmetrically substituted phospholane catalysts
The present invention is based on new ligand systems of the general formula (I). These ligand systems can be used advantageously in transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric syntheses. Likewise encompassed are the transition metal complexes thus prepared, a process for preparing the ligands and the use of the complexes in asymmetric synthesis. |
| US07834209B2 |
Hydrofluoroalkanesulfonic acids from fluorovinyl ethers
Hydrofluoroalkanesulfonates of the general formula R—O—CXH—CX2—SO3M, where R is selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups, functionalized alkyl groups, and alkenyl groups; X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and fluorine with the proviso that at least one X is fluorine; and M is a cation, are made by reacting fluorovinyl ether with aqueous sulfite solution. Organic onium hydrofluoroalkanesulfonates are useful as ionic liquids and photoacid generators. |
| US07834203B2 |
Manufacturing method of bio-diesel oil
The object of this invention is to provide a method of producing a bio-diesel oil in a great amount in a relatively short time, in which oil/fat and alcohol, used as reactants, are homogeneously mixed with each other to form a single liquid phase mixture which effectively react with each other. The method includes transesterifying the oil/fat and alcohol in the presence of alkyl ester. Additionally, in the method, alkyl ester is added to a mixture of the oil/fat and alcohol by recycling alkyl ester as a product to the mixture. Furthermore, the method includes (a) an acidic catalyst, and (b) transesterifying the pre-esterified oil/fat with alcohol in the presence of alkyl ester. |
| US07834200B2 |
Processes and intermediates
The invention relates to processes and compounds useful for producing modified aspartic acid derivatives, such as aspartic acid aldehyde moieties. Aspartic acid derivatives are useful for preparing caspase inhibitors and/or prodrugs thereof. |
| US07834197B2 |
Quaternary ammonium salt, electrolyte, and electrochemical device
A quaternary ammonium salt of the formula (1), electrolytic solution and electrochemical device using the salt wherein R1 is straight-chain or branched alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 is methyl or ethyl, and X− is a fluorine-containing anion. |
| US07834193B2 |
Indoline compound and process for producing the same
The present invention provides an industrial method production of silodosin, which is useful for a therapeutic agent for dysuria associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia. The production of silodosine is characterized by mixing 3-{7-cyano-5-[(2R)-2-({2-[2-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-phenoxy]ethyl}amino]propyl]-2,3-dihydro-1H-indol-1-yl}-propyl benzoate and oxalic acid to yield the oxalate, subsequently hydrolyzing the oxalate salt to yield 1-(3-hydroxypropyl)-5-[(2R)-2-({2-[2-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)phenoxy]ethyl}amino]propyl]-2,3-dihydro-1H-indole-7-carbonitrile and hydrolyzing the same, and manufacturing intermediates used therefore. |
| US07834189B2 |
Ionic liquids
The present invention relates to compositions of matter that are ionic liquids, the compositions comprising any of eleven cations combined with any of three fluorinated sulfonated anions. Compositions of the invention should be useful as solvents and, perhaps, as catalysts for many reactions, including aromatic electrophilic substitution, nitration, acylation, esterification, etherification, oligomerization, transesterification, isomerization and hydration. |
| US07834188B2 |
Insecticidal N-substituted sulfoximines
N-Substituted sulfoximines are effective at controlling insects. |
| US07834187B2 |
Crystalline variable hydrate of (S)-6-(4-(2-((3-9H-carbazol-4-yloxy)-2-hydroxypropyl)amino)-2-methylpropyl)phenoxy)-3-pyridinecarbox amide hemisuccinate salt
The present invention relates to a crystalline variable hydrate of (S)-(3-pyridinecarboxamide,6-[4-[2-[[3-(9H-carbazol-4-yloxy)-2-hydroxypropyl]amino]-2-methylpropyl]phenoxy]) -hemi-succinate, a pharmaceutical formulation containing said salt and to methods for treating obesity and/or Type 2 diabetes using said salt. |
| US07834185B2 |
Quaternary ammonium diphenylmethyl compounds useful as muscarinic receptor antagonists
The invention provides compounds of formula I: in salt or zwitterionic form or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1-6, a-e and Q are as defined in the specification. These compounds are muscarinic receptor antagonists. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, processes for preparing such compounds and methods of using such compounds to, for example, treat pulmonary disorders such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. |
| US07834183B2 |
Process for producing N-(hetero)aryl-substituted nitrogen-containing heteroaryl compound
A process for producing an N-(hetero)aryl-substituted nitrogen-containing heteroaryl compound, the process comprising: reacting a heteroaryl compound having an NH group as a ring-constituting component with a (hetero)aryl compound having a leaving group in the presence of a heterogeneous-system platinum group metal catalyst, a ligand and a base. |
| US07834181B2 |
Small-molecule Hsp90 inhibitors
Hsp90 inhibitors are provided having the formula: with a 2′,4′,5′-substitution pattern on the right-side aryl moiety. X1 represents two substituents, which may be the same or different, disposed in the 4′ and 5′ positions on the aryl group, wherein X1 is selected from halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, halogenated alkoxy, hydroxyalkyl, pyrollyl, optionally substituted aryloxy, alkylamino, dialkylamino, carbamyl, amido, alkylamido dialkylamido, acylamino, alkylsulfonylamido, trihalomethoxy, trihalocarbon, thioalkyl, SO2−alkyl, COO-alkyl, KH2, OH, CN, SO2X5, NO2, NO, C═SR2 NSO2X5, C═OR2, where X5 is F, NH2, alkyl or H, and R2 is alkyl, NH2, NH-alkyl or O-alkyl, C1 to C6 alkyl or alkoxy; or wherein X1 has the formula —O—(CH2)n—O—, wherein n is an integer from 0 to 2, preferably 1 or 2, and one of the oxygen is bonded at the 5′-position and the other at the 4′-position of the aryl ring. The compounds are useful in cancer therapy and as radioimaging ligands. |
| US07834180B2 |
Methods of preparing quinolone analogs
Compounds having formula 1: are produced by contacting a compound having formula (6A) with a compound having formula (7), or tautomers thereof, in the presence of a non-nucleophilic base, wherein V, A, Z, L, L1, W, X, B′, R and n are as defined herein. |
| US07834179B2 |
Spiroindolinone derivatives
There are provided spiroindolinone derivatives of the formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R are as herein described. The compounds exhibit anticancer activity. |
| US07834177B2 |
Method for preparation of 10,11-dihydro-10-hydroxy-5H-dibenz/b,f/azepine-5-carboxamide
A process for the preparation of 10,11-dihydro-10-hydroxy-5H-dibenz/b,f/azepine-5-carboxamide (1) by ring opening of 11a,10b-dihydro-6H-dibenz/b,f/oxireno[d]azepine-6-carboxamide (5), characterised in that the ring opening is carried out under conditions of elevated pressure. |
| US07834175B2 |
Method of preparing macrocylic metal cyanine compound
A method of preparing a macrocyclic metal cyanine. The method comprises the step of providing a corresponding macrocyclic metal-free cyanine compound dissolved in a solvent and adding a metal reagent thereto. The metal reagent is highly soluble in the solvent and typically comprises one or more organic ligands. |
| US07834173B2 |
Esters of hyaluronic acid with rhein, process for their preparation and compositions comprising the same
The present invention relates to esters of hyaluronic acid with rhein, more particularly to a compound based on hyaluronic acid, wherein alcohol groups of hyaluronic acid are esterified with rhein, to a process for preparing said ester and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising said ester. |
| US07834171B2 |
Modified polynucleotides for reducing off-target effects in RNA interference
Methods and compositions for performing RNA interference with decreased off-target effects are provided. The methods and compositions permit effective and efficient applications of RNA interference to applications such as diagnostics and therapeutics through the use of modifications to the siRNA. Uniquely modified siRNAs have been developed that reduce off-target effects incurred in gene-silencing. The modifications comprise 2′-O-alkyl or mismatch modification(s) at specific positions on the sense and/or antisense strands. |
| US07834169B2 |
P300 histone acetylase inhibitor
An inhibitor of histone acetyltransferase p300 was isolated from human cDNA library and identified as a nuclear protein composed of 855 amino acid residues. It binds to the cysteine/histidine-rich region of p300, thereby inhibiting the transcriptional activation by p300. It also inhibits the transcription activity of p53, with p300 functioning as a coactivator, and inhibits the discontinuance of cell cycle that relies on p53. |
| US07834166B2 |
Nucleic acid and amino acid sequences relating to Streptococcus pneumoniae for diagnostics and therapeutics
The invention provides isolated polypeptide and nucleic acid sequences derived from Streptococcus pneumoniae that are useful in diagnosis and therapy of pathological conditions; antibodies against the polypeptides; and methods for the production of the polypeptides. The invention also provides methods for the detection, prevention and treatment of pathological conditions resulting from bacterial infection. |
| US07834161B2 |
Process for proteolytic cleavage and purification of recombinant proteins produced in plants
The present invention relates to improved methods for protein purification of high-value heterologous proteins by providing fusion proteins suitable for affinity purification and improved and economical methods of proteolytic cleavage of fusion proteins. The methods are useful for large-scale production of purified recombinant proteins from plants, plant-derived tissue or plant cells. The invention aims to reduce the cost and improve the quality of downstream processing of heterologous proteins produced in plants and other biological production systems. |
| US07834159B2 |
Glycoprotein synthesis
Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| US07834158B2 |
Mutated immunoglobulin-binding protein
The present invention relates to an immunoglobulin-binding protein, wherein at least one asparagine residue has been mutated to an amino acid other than glutamine or aspartic acid, which mutation confers an increased chemical stability at pH-values of up to about 13-14 compared to the parental molecule. The protein can for example be derived from a protein capable of binding to other regions of the immunoglobulin molecule than the complementarity determining regions (CDR), such as protein A, and preferably the B-domain of Staphylococcal protein A. The invention also relates to a matrix for affinity separation, which comprises an immunoglobulin-binding protein as ligand coupled to a solid support, in which protein ligand at least one asparagine residue has been mutated to an amino acid other than glutamine. |
| US07834154B2 |
Anti-ROBO4 antibodies and uses therefor
The invention provides anti-Robo4 antibodies, and compositions comprising the antibodies and methods of using these antibodies, including diagnostic and therapeutic methods. |
| US07834152B2 |
Antagonists of interleukin-15
Disclosed herein are mutant IL-15 polypeptides and methods for using these polypeptides to modulate the immune response in a patient. |
| US07834151B2 |
SDRD protein from Staphylococcus aureus and diagnostic kits including same
An isolated extracellular matrix-binding protein, designated as SdrD and its corresponding amino acid and nucleic acid sequences and motifs are described. The proteins, peptides, fragments thereof or antigenic portions thereof are useful for the prevention, inhibition, treatment and diagnosis of S. aureus infection and as scientific research tools. Further, antibodies or antibody fragments to the proteins, peptides, fragments thereof or antigenic portions thereof are also useful for the prevention, inhibition, treatment and diagnosis of S. aureus infection. In particular, the proteins or antibodies thereof may be administered to wounds or used to coat biomaterials to act as blocking agents to prevent or inhibit the binding of S. aureus to wounds or biomaterials. |
| US07834149B2 |
Card-domain containing polypeptides, encoding nucleic acids, and methods of use
The invention provides caspase recruitment domain (CARD)-containing polypeptides and functional fragments thereof, encoding nucleic acid molecules, and specific antibodies. Also provided are screening methods for identifying CARD-associated polypeptides (CAPs), and for identifying agents that alter the association of a CARD-containing polypeptide with itself or with a CAP. Further provided are methods of altering a biochemical process modulated by a CARD-containing polypeptide, and methods of diagnosing a pathology characterized by an increased or decreased level of a CARD-containing polypeptide. |
| US07834146B2 |
Recombinant polypeptides associated with plants
Recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides useful for improvement of plants are provided. The disclosed recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties. |
| US07834145B2 |
HCV protease substrates
The present invention features HCV NS3 protease substrates containing a europium label and a quenching group. The europium label and quenching group are located on different sides of an ester HCV NS3 protease cleavage site. The substrate can be used in a time-resolved fluorescence (TRF) assay to measure HCV protease activity. |
| US07834143B2 |
Recombinant C140 receptor, its agonists and antagonists, and nucleic acids encoding the receptor
Nucleic acid molecules encoding the C140 cell surface receptor have been cloned and sequenced. The availability of C140 receptor DNA permits the recombinant production of the C140 receptor which can be produced on the surface of a cell, including an oocyte. The nucleic acid molecules are useful in an assay for detecting a substance which affects C140 receptor activity, either receptor agonists or antagonists. Further, the elucidation of the structure of the C140 receptor permits the design of agonist and antagonist compounds which are useful in such assays. The availability of the C140 receptor also permits production of antibodies specifically immunoreactive with one or more antigenic epitopes of the C140 receptor. |
| US07834141B1 |
Non-mammalian GnRH analogs and uses thereof in tumor cell growth regulation and cancer therapy
Specially designed non-mammalian GnRH analogs resistant to degradation by the tumor tissue enzymes, post-proline peptidases as well as endopeptidases, are disclosed. The GnRH analogs are further defined as analogs of chicken II GnRH, salmon GnRH, or herring GnRH, but can include any non-mammalian GnRH analog with similar amino acid structure. These non-mammalian analogs incorporate D-arginine, D-leucine, D-tBu-Serine or D-Trp or other similar amino acids at position 6 and ethylamide or aza-Gly-amide or similar amides at position 10. These analogs demonstrate preferential binding to tumor cell GnRH receptors that is greater relative to the binding of the mammalian analogs to the tumor cell GnRH receptor. These non-mammalian GnRH analogs may be used in pharmaceutical preparations, and it specifically in various treatments as an anti-tumor, anti-proliferation, anti-metastatic and/or an apoptotic agent. The non-mammalian GnRH analogs are also provided in pharmaceutical preparations that may be used clinically for tumor regression when used in very low doses and administered in pulsatile fashion. |
| US07834140B2 |
Polypeptide fragment of constitutive coactivator of PPARgamma
This invention relates generally to compositions and methods which utilization nuclear receptors for regulating adipogenesis in cells. Specifically, the invention is directed to compositions which regulate transcription factor PPARγ. and enhance or inhibit the transcription of genes responsible for directing cell differentiation towards a pathway of adipogenesis. More specifically, disclosed herein is a novel polypeptide coactivator of PPARγ, and fragments thereof, which possess coactivator or corepressor activity. Also related are nucleotide sequences which express these polypeptides. Also disclosed is an interfering RNA that may be used to inhibit adipogenesis. |
| US07834139B2 |
Magnetic nanotubes
A magnetic nanotube includes bacterial magnetic nanocrystals contacted onto a nanotube which absorbs the nanocrystals. The nanocrystals are contacted on at least one surface of the nanotube. A method of fabricating a magnetic nanotube includes synthesizing the bacterial magnetic nanocrystals, which have an outer layer of proteins. A nanotube provided is capable of absorbing the nanocrystals and contacting the nanotube with the nanocrystals. The nanotube is preferably a peptide bolaamphiphile. A nanotube solution and a nanocrystal solution including a buffer and a concentration of nanocrystals are mixed. The concentration of nanocrystals is optimized, resulting in a nanocrystal to nanotube ratio for which bacterial magnetic nanocrystals are immobilized on at least one surface of the nanotubes. The ratio controls whether the nanocrystals bind only to the interior or to the exterior surfaces of the nanotubes. Uses include cell manipulation and separation, biological assay, enzyme recovery, and biosensors. |
| US07834132B2 |
Electronic devices
An electronic device, such as a thin film transistor containing a semiconductor of Formula/Structure wherein R, R′ and R″ are, for example, independently hydrogen, a suitable hydrocarbon, a suitable hetero-containing group, a halogen, or mixtures thereof; and n represents the number of repeating units. |
| US07834126B2 |
Amide-containing polymers for rheology control
The invention relates to amide-containing polymers of the general formula (I) A-X—CO—(CH2)2—NR1—R2—[Y—R3—Y—R4)a—B (I) and also their salts with carboxylic acids, phosphoric esters and sulphonic acids. The invention further relates to processes for preparing the amide-containing polymers and to their use as rheology control agents. |
| US07834120B2 |
Monofunctional monomer having cage oligosiloxane structure and method of making
A novel monofunctional monomer having a cage oligosiloxane structure is represented by formula (1) wherein X is a polymerizable oxygen-containing C1-C40 group, R1 is a C1-C20 saturated hydrocarbon group, C6-C20 aromatic hydrocarbon group, C1-C20 organoxy group or halogen atom, and R is a non-polymerizable monovalent C1-C40 hydrocarbon group which is optionally halogenated. The monomer has improved compatibility with various solvents and polymerizable monomers. A method for preparing the same is also provided. |
| US07834114B2 |
Polycyclic ester containing cyano group and lactone skeleton
Disclosed is a polycyclic ester containing a cyano group and a lactone skeleton, represented by following Formula (1): wherein Ra represents, for example, a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having one to six carbon atoms which may have a halogen atom; R1s each represent, for example, a halogen atom or an alkyl or haloalkyl group having one to six carbon atoms; “m” is the number of R1s; “n” is the number of cyano groups; and CH2═C(Ra)COO— group may have either of an endo conformation and an exo conformation. Accordingly, there is provided a novel polycyclic ester containing a cyano group and a lactone skeleton which is useful typically as a monomeric component for highly functional polymers. A polymer, for example, derived from this compound is highly soluble in an organic solvent while remaining stable typically to chemicals and exhibits improved hydrolyzability and/or improved solubility in water after hydrolysis. |
| US07834113B2 |
Photoresist compositions and processes for preparing the same
The present invention relates to novel photoresist compositions and processes for preparing the same utilizing polymers having a low polydispersity via the use of certain chain transfer agents (CTA) with certain monomers to provide said polymers. The polymers incorporating the chain transfer agents can be homopolymers, or made with additional monomers to provide copolymers. These polymers/copolymers are then converted into photoresist compositions for use as such. |
| US07834109B2 |
System for producing low impurity polyester
A polyester production facility capable of producing an esterified product stream having a low impurity concentration relative to product streams produced in conventional polyester production facilities. |
| US07834107B2 |
Preparation of polyolefins having high molecular weights in the presence of an organic transition metal compound in a gas-phase fluidized-bed reactor
Process for preparing polyolefins having high molecular weights in the presence of a catalyst comprising an organic transition metal compound in a gas-phase fluidized-bed reactor, where the polyolefins prepared have a melt flow rate at 2.16 kg and 190° C. in accordance with ISO 1133 of less than 4 g/10 min. According to the present invention, a start-up phase during which a polyolefin having an increased melt flow rate of above 4 g/10 min is produced for a transitional period is provided. In this way, trouble-free start-up of the reactor is ensured even in the case of polymer products having a high molecular weight and a melt flow rate below 4 g/10 min and even when using catalysts based on organic transition metal compounds, in particular metallocene catalysts. |
| US07834101B2 |
Epoxidized vegetable oil, epoxidized alkyl esters and/or cycloaliphatic epoxides
The invention is a composition comprising a blend of two or more epoxide containing compositions selected from epoxidized vegetable oils, epoxidized alkyl esters or cycloaliphatic epoxides. In another embodiment, the invention is a blend of one or more epoxidized vegetable oils, epoxidized alkyl esters, or cycloaliphatic epoxides with one or more aromatic epoxides or epoxy functionalized polyoxyalkylene polyols. |
| US07834097B2 |
Fluoroelastomers
VDF-based curable fluorelastomers, having a glass transition temperature from −10° C. to −35° C., comprising: B) monomer of formula: CF2═CFOCF2OCF3 (a), C) one or more comonomers selected from: tetrafluoroethylene (TFE), per-fluoromethylvinylether (PMVE), perfluoropropene (HFP), and an amount of —COF end groups in the polymer lower than the sensitivity limit of the method which uses the FT-IR spectroscopy described in the present application. |
| US07834088B2 |
Thioester-terminated water soluble polymers and method of modifying the N-terminus of a polypeptide therewith
The invention provides reagents and methods for conjugating a polymer specifically to the α-amine of a polypeptide. The invention provides monofunctional, bifunctional, and multifunctional PEGs and related polymers having a terminal thioester moiety capable of specifically conjugating to the α-amine of a polypeptide having a cysteine or histidine residue at the N-terminus. The invention provides reactive thioester-terminated PEG polymers that have suitable reactivity with an N-terminal cysteine or histidine residue of a polypeptide to produce an amide bond between the PEG molecule and the polypeptide. |
| US07834086B2 |
High performance aqueous coating compositions
This invention relates to coating compositions that include water; a latex polymer and a silane coupling agent. The latex polymer preferably comprises acetoacetoxy functionality, or is a multistage latex, or is an acetoacetoxy functional multistage latex. The silane coupling agent is preferably a functionalized silane coupling agent (more preferably an epoxy-functional silane coupling agent). The compositions may be used to coat a variety of substrates, including wood, cement and fiber cement. Articles having the coating applied thereto are also provided. |
| US07834085B2 |
Composition and method for preparing novel cationic thickners
A self-reversible invert latex having a crosslinked cationic polyelectrolyte, formed by the copolymerization of at least one cationic monomer with at least one neutral monomer and at least one nonionic surfactant monomer. |
| US07834084B2 |
Light stabilizer emulsion composition and aqueous coating agent composition containing the same
An object of the present invention is to provide: a light stabilizer emulsion composition which has good long-term storage stability and does not deteriorate various physical properties of a coating film to be formed even when the composition is added to an aqueous coating agent composition; and an aqueous coating agent composition containing the light stabilizer emulsion composition. The light stabilizer emulsion composition of the present invention is characterized by containing: an emulsifier having as a hydrophilic group a polyether chain obtained by a reaction between two or more kinds of alkyleneoxides and having as a hydrophobic group a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; at least one of a light stabilizer and a UV absorber; and water. Further, the aqueous coating agent composition of the present invention is characterized by containing the light stabilizer emulsion composition. |
| US07834081B2 |
Methods of producing vinyl aromatic polymers using (meth)acrylic macroinitiators
The present invention relates to the use of poly acrylic and/or methacrylic macroinitiators in the free radical addition reaction of vinyl aromatic monomers to improve the properties of the resulting copolymer and/or composite. More particularly, the present invention relates to the production of poly acrylic and/or poly methacrylic macroinitiators having nitroxyl end groups. Using such macroinitiators in the free radical addition reaction of vinyl aromatics such as polystyrene compatibilizes the acrylic monomer in the vinyl aromatic matrix thereby improving the properties of the resulting polymer. |
| US07834079B2 |
Water-soluble anionic polymer dispersion and method for producing the same
Disclose is a water soluble anionic polymer dispersion containing a radical copolymer created in water salt which includes anionic monomer, non-ionic monomer, ionic dispersant and radical polymerization initiator, and anionic surfactant or non-ionic surfactant. Also disclosed is a water soluble anionic polymer dispersion is characterized by containment of radical copolymer created in salt water which includes anionic monomer, non-ionic monomer, ionic dispersant, and radical polymerization initiator, and anionic surfactant, and non-ionic surfactant. Manufacturing methods for the water soluble anionic polymer dispersions are further disclosed herein. |
| US07834076B2 |
Aluminium oxide-containing dispersion
A dispersion containing aluminum oxide of pyrogenic origin and water, where the aluminum oxide is present in the form of aggregated primary particles with a BET surface area of 20 to 200 m2/g and has a mean, volume-based aggregate diameter in the dispersion of less than 100 nm, and is surface-modified with (i) organophosphonic acids, or salts thereof, and (ii) at least one hydroxycarboxylic acids or salts thereof. |
| US07834072B2 |
Non-aqueous compositions containing nanosized particles of monoazo laked pigment
Non-aqueous disperson compositions, such as ink compositions, contain a polymeric dispersant, a polymeric resin, an organic liquid, and a nanoscale pigment particle composition including an organic monoazo laked pigment including at least one functional moiety, and a sterically bulky stabilizer compound including at least one functional group, wherein the functional moiety of the pigment associates non-covalently with the functional group of the stabilizer; and the presence of the associated stabilizer limits the extent of particle growth and aggregation, to afford nanoscale-sized pigment particles. |
| US07834070B2 |
Halogen-free and thermal resistant composition
The invention provides a halogen-free and thermal resistant composition, including a mixture of bismaleimide and maleimide with molar ratio of 99:1-50:50; a barbituric acid, wherein the molar ratio of the mixture and the barbituric acid is 93:7-80:20; and an epoxy resin, wherein (the mixture with the barbituric acid) and the epoxy resin have a weight ratio of 5:95 to 50:50. The mixture undergoes reaction at 110-130° C. for about 2˜7 hours to form a maleimide modified epoxy resin. The procedure of forming the composition is solvent-free, thereby providing improved integrity for electronic packaging, lower curing temperature, and a simplified process. |
| US07834068B2 |
Epoxy composite material containing polyaniline/carbon black and preparation method thereof
An epoxy composite material containing polyaniline/carbon black composite and preparation method thereof are disclosed. The epoxy composite material containing polyaniline/carbon black composite includes a plurality of polyaniline/carbon black composite with core-shell structure distributed in epoxy resin while polyaniline covers on surface of nanoscale carbon black to form the polyaniline/carbon black composite with core-shell structure. The polyaniline/carbon black composite with core-shell structure contains 10 to 30 wt. % of nanoscale carbon black. |
| US07834064B2 |
Clinical method for the immunomodulatory and vaccine adjuvant use of poly-ICLC and other dsRNAs
An improved understanding and method for the clinical adjuvant and immunomodulatory use of dsRNAs and ply-ICLC in particular, alone or in conjunction with other drugs and various vaccines designed to prevent or treat various microbial, viral, neoplastic, autoimmune diseases, and or degenerative diseases. |
| US07834062B2 |
Aminoalkylphenols, methods of using and making the same
The present invention relates to Mannich base antimalarial aminoalkylphenol compounds and their use against protozoa of the genus Plasmodium, particularly emerging strains of drug-resistant Plasmodia. This invention further relates to compositions containing such compounds and a process for making the compounds. This and other aspects of the invention are realized upon review of the entire specification. |
| US07834054B2 |
Hydroxamates as therapeutic agents
The present invention is directed to certain hydroxamate derivatives that are useful in the treatment of hepatitis C. These compounds are also inhibitors of histone deacetylase and are therefore useful in the treatment of diseases associated with histone deacetylase activity. Pharmaceutical compositions and processes for preparing these compounds are also disclosed. |
| US07834049B2 |
Integrin expression inhibitor
The present invention provides an integrin expression inhibitor, and an agent for treating arterial sclerosis, psoriasis, cancer, retinal angiogenesis, diabetic retinopathy or inflammatory diseases, an anticoagulant, or a cancer metastasis suppressor on the basis of an integrin inhibitory action. Namely, it provides an integrin expression inhibitor comprising, as an active ingredient, a sulfonamide compound represented by the following formula (I), a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof or a hydrate of them, wherein in the formula, B means a C6-C10 aryl ring or 6- to 10-membered heteroaryl ring which may have a substituent and in which a part of the ring may be saturated; K means a single bond, —CH═CH— or —(CR4bR5b)mb— (wherein R4b and R5b are the same as or different from each other and each means hydrogen atom or a C1-C4 alkyl group; and mb means an integer of 1 or 2); R1 means hydrogen atom or a C1-C6 alkyl group; Z means a single bond or —CO—NH—; and R means a C6-C10 aryl ring or 6- to 10-membered heteroaryl ring which may have a substituent and in which a part of the ring may be saturated, respectively. |
| US07834048B2 |
Azabicycloheptyl compounds suitable for treating disorders that respond to modulation of the dopamine D3 receptor
The present invention relates to a compound of the formula (I) wherein R1 is H, C1-C6-alkyl which may be substituted by C3-C6-cycloalkyl, fluorinated C1-C6-alkyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl, fluorinated C3-C6-cycloalkyl, C3-C6-alkenyl, fluorinated C3-C6-alkenyl, formyl, acetyl or propionyl; A is phenylene, pyridylene, pyrimidylene, pyrazinylene, pyridazinylene or thiophenylene, which can be substituted by one or more substituents selected from halogen, methyl, methoxy and CF3; E is NR5 or CH2, wherein R5 is H or C1-C3-alkyl; Ar is a cyclic radical selected from the group consisting of phenyl, a 5- or 6-membered heteroaromatic radical comprising as ring members 1, 2 or 3 heteroatoms selected from N, O and S and a phenyl ring fused to a saturated or unsaturated 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, where the heterocyclic ring comprises as ring members 1, 2 or 3 heteroatoms selected from N, O and S and/or 1, 2 or 3 heteroatom-containing groups each independently selected from NR8, where R8 is H, C1-C4-alkyl, fluorinated C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkylcarbonyl or fluorinated C1-C4-alkylcarbonyl, and where the cyclic radical Ar may carry 1, 2 or 3 substituents Ra; wherein the variable Ra has the meanings given in the claims and in the description; and physiologically tolerated acid addition salts thereof. The invention also relates to the use of a compound of the formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for preparing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of a medical disorder susceptible to treatment with a dopamine D3 receptor ligand. |
| US07834043B2 |
HIV protease inhibiting compounds
A compound of the formula is disclosed as an HIV protease inhibitor. Methods and compositions for inhibiting an HIV infection are also disclosed. |
| US07834040B2 |
Isoxazolic derivative to relieve neuropathic pain
The present invention relates to new pharmaceutical uses of an isoxazolic derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in the preparation of a medicament useful for treating the neuropathic pain. |
| US07834038B2 |
Methods for preparing nonpeptidic oligomers from amino acids
The present invention relates to nonpeptidic oligomers. Methods for preparing nonpeptidic oligomers from amino acids by replacing the amide bond with heterocyclic rings are also disclosed. |
| US07834035B2 |
Allosteric modulators of metabotropic glutamate receptors
The present invention relates to new compounds of formula (I) wherein A, B, P, Q, W, R1 and R2 are defined in the description; invention compounds are useful in the prevention or treatment of central nervous system disorders as well as other disorders modulated by mGluR5 receptors. |
| US07834031B2 |
Radiolabeled glycine transporter inhibitors
The present invention is directed to radiolabeled glycine transporter inhibitors which are useful for the labeling and diagnostic imaging of glycine transporters in mammals. |
| US07834026B2 |
Spirocyclic compounds
The present invention relates to a novel class of substituted spirocyclic compounds, represented by the following structural Formula: I Wherein A, B and D are independently selected from CR12, NR1a, C(O) and O; E is selected from a bond, CR12, NR1a, C(O) and O; wherein at least one of A, B, D or E is CR12; and provided that when A is O, then E is not O; G is CR12; R is selected from NH2 and OH; These compounds can inhibit histone deacetylase and are suitable for use in selectively inducing termin differentiation, and arresting cell growth and/or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, thereby inhibiting proliferation of such cells. Thus, the compounds of the present invention are useful in treating a patient having a tumor characterized by proliferation of neoplastic cells. The compounds of the invention may also be useful in the prevention and treatment of TRX-mediated diseases, such as autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory diseases, and in the prevention and/or treatment of diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), such as neurodegenerative diseases. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the instant invention and safe dosing regimens of these pharmaceutical compositions, which are easy to follow, and which result in a therapeutically effective amount of these compounds in vivo. |
| US07834025B2 |
Substituted indolyl-alkyl-amino-derivatives as inhibitors of histone deacetylase
This invention comprises the novel compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, X and Y have defined meanings, having histone deacetylase inhibiting enzymatic activity; their preparation, compositions containing them and their use as a medicine. |
| US07834023B2 |
Substituted dihydroquinazolines as platelet ADP receptor inhibitors
Compounds of formula I are provided: wherein Ar1 and Ar2 are substituted aromatic rings and L1 and L2 are independent divalent linking groups. The compounds are useful as platelet ADP receptor inhibitors, for treating thrombosis and for reducing the likelihood and/or severity of a secondary ischemic event in a patient. |
| US07834021B2 |
3-aminopyrrolidine derivatives as modulators of chemokine receptors
The present invention relates to 3-aminopyrrolidine derivatives of the formula I: (wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, X, Y and X are as defined herein) which are useful as modulators of chemokine receptor activity. In particular, these compounds are useful as modulators of chemokine receptors and more specifically as a modulator of the CCR2 and/or CCR5 receptor. The compounds and compositions of the invention may bind to chemokine receptors, e.g., the CCR2 and/or CCR5 chemokine receptors, and are useful for treating diseases associated with chemokine, e.g., CCR2 and/or CCR5, activity, such as atherosclerosis, restenosis, lupus, organ transplant rejection and rheumatoid arthritis. |
| US07834019B2 |
Substituted pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidinone derivatives
The invention relates to compounds of a general formula (I): wherein Ar1 is an optionally-substituted aryl or heteroaromatic group; R1 is an optionally-substituted lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl or cyclo-lower alkyl group, or is an aryl, aralkyl or heteroaromatic group optionally having a substituent; R2 is a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkenyl group or a lower alkynyl group, or is an aryl, aralkyl or heteroaromatic group optionally having a substituent; R3 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R4 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a lower alkyl group or a group of —N(R1k)R1m; T and U are a nitrogen atom or a methine group, etc. The compounds of the invention have excellent Weel kinase-inhibitory effect and are therefore useful in the field of medicines, especially treatment of various cancers. |
| US07834012B2 |
Pharmaceutical compositions as inhibitors of dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPP-IV)
The present invention relates to compounds, which inhibit dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) and are useful for the prevention or treatment of diabetes, especially type II, as well as hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, hyperinsulinemia, obesity, atherosclerosis, various immunomodulatory diseases, and other diseases. |
| US07834011B2 |
Heterocyclylalkyl derivatives as novel inhibitors of histone deacetylase
This invention comprises the novel compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, T, X, Y, A, n, m and p have defined meanings, having histone deacetylase inhibiting enzymatic activity; their preparation, compositions containing them and their use as a medicine. |
| US07834003B2 |
5-aminopyrazole derivatives as pesticidal compounds
The invention relates to 5-Aminopyrazole derivatives of formula (I) or salts thereof, a process for their preparation, to compositions thereof and to their use for the control of pests, including arthropods and helminths. |
| US07834000B2 |
CGRP receptor antagonists
The present invention relates to CGRP receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods therewith for treating CGRP receptor-mediated diseases and conditions. |
| US07833994B2 |
Ethanol extraction of phytosterols from corn fiber
The present invention provides a process for extracting sterols from a high solids, thermochemically hydrolyzed corn fiber using ethanol as the extractant. The process includes obtaining a corn fiber slurry having a moisture content from about 20 weight percent to about 50 weight percent solids (high solids content), thermochemically processing the corn fiber slurry having high solids content of 20 to 50% to produce a hydrolyzed corn fiber slurry, dewatering the hydrolyzed corn fiber slurry to achieve a residual corn fiber having a moisture content from about 30 to 80 weight percent solids, washing the residual corn fiber, dewatering the washed, hydrolyzed corn fiber slurry to achieve a residual corn fiber having a moisture content from about 30 to 80 weight percent solids, and extracting the residual corn fiber with ethanol and separating at least one sterol. |
| US07833990B2 |
Use of low-molecular-weight highly sulfated polysaccharide derivatives for modulating angiogenesis
The invention relates to the use of certain low-molecular weight highly sulphated polysaccharide derivatives obtained from a bacterial polysaccharide for preparing a pharmaceutical composition suitable for modulating angiogenesis, particularly for use in accelerating vascular endothelial repair with a low haemorrhage risk in the event of thrombotic injuries. |
| US07833987B2 |
Small synthetic RNA, a method of preparing the same and uses thereof
Translation of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA is mediated by the interaction of ribosomes and cellular proteins with an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) located within the 5′untranslated region (5′UTR). We have investigated whether small RNA molecules corresponding to the different stem-loop (SL) domains of the HCV IRES, when introduced in trans, can bind to the cellular proteins and antagonize their binding to the viral IRES, thereby inhibiting HCV IRES-mediated translation. We have found that an RNA molecule corresponding to SL III of the HCV IRES could efficiently inhibit HCV IRES-mediated translation in a dose-dependent manner without affecting cap-dependent translation. The SL III RNA was also found to bind efficiently to most of the cellular proteins which interacted with the HCV 5′UTR. A smaller RNA corresponding to SL e+f of domain III also strongly and selectively inhibited HCV IRES-mediated translation. This RNA molecule showed strong interaction with the ribosomal S5 protein and prevented the recruitment of the 40S ribosomal subunit by the HCV IRES. In conclusion our results demonstrate a novel approach to selectively block HCV RNA translation using a small RNA molecules mimicking the structure of the stem-loop IIIe+f subdomain of the HCV-IRES. The discovery provides a basis for developing a potent antiviral therapy targeting the interaction between the ribosome and the HCV-IRES RNA. |
| US07833985B2 |
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitory peptides
It is intended to provide ACE inhibitory tripeptides which are not easily digested by digestive enzymes after being orally taken and thus have fewer tendencies to lose their ACE inhibitory activity in vivo. More specifically, 3 tripeptides having an ACE inhibitory activity and showing a hypotensive effect in an animal experiment are discovered from a thermolysin digestion product of sesame. These tripeptides respectively have amino acid sequences Leu-Ser-Ala, Val-Ile-Tyr and Leu-Val-Tyr and show an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitory activity. |
| US07833984B2 |
Peptide inhibitors of protein kinase C
PKC V5 isozyme-specific peptides are described. The sequences and compositions comprising the sequences are useful for treating disease states associated with the PKC isozyme from which they are respectively derived. Methods of treatment, pharmaceutical formulations and methods of identifying compounds that mimic the activity of the peptides are also described. |
| US07833982B2 |
Methods of treating dermal ulcers with thrombin derived peptides
Disclosed is a method of promoting healing of a chronic dermal skin ulcer, such as a diabetic ulcer, on a subject. The method comprises the step of contacting the chronic dermal skin ulcer with an effective amount of an agonist of the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor. |
| US07833981B2 |
Deglycosylated and desialidated long pentraxin PTX3
Deglycosylated long pentraxin PTX3 and desialidated long pentraxin PTX3 are disclosed, as well as processes for their preparation, pharmacological compositions containing them, and their use for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of diseases in which the use of the long pentraxin PTX is indicated, particularly infectious and inflammatory diseases and female fertility disorders. These proteins are endowed with therapeutic activity superior to that of glycosylated pentraxin. |
| US07833978B2 |
Thrombomodulin derivatives and conjugates
The transmembrane human protein thrombomodulin (TM), as a critical regulator of the protein C pathway, represents the major anticoagulant mechanism that is operative in both normal and injured blood vessels under physiologic conditions in vivo. Compositions and methods are disclosed relating to thrombomodulin derivatives and conjugates, including methods for site-specific pegylation and compositions of a truncated thrombomodulin derivative. |
| US07833975B2 |
Prophylactic/therapeutic agent for neurodegenerative disease
To provide a prophylactic/therapeutic agent for neurodegenerative diseases (such as polyglutamine diseases), the agent containing an HMGB family protein or a derivative thereof, such as a protein according any one of (a) and (b) below: (a) a protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6 or 8; and (b) a protein having an amino acid sequence resulting from deletion, substitution, addition or insertion of one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6 or 8 and having binding activity to an abnormal polyglutamine protein produced in a neurodegenerative disease. |
| US07833973B2 |
Pharmaceutical formulations for reducing pain
The present invention is direct to a method of producing analgesia in a mammalian subject. The method includes administering to the subject an omega conopeptide, preferably ziconotide, in combination with an analgesic selected from the group consisting of morphine, bupivacaine, clonidine, hydromorphone, baclofen, fentanyil, buprenorphine, and sufentanil, or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the ω-conopeptide retains its potency and is physically and chemically compatible with the analgesic compound. A preferred route of administration is intrathecal administration, particularly continuous intrathecal infusion. The present invention is also directed to a pharmaceutical formulation comprising an omega conopeptide, preferably ziconotide, an antioxidant, in combination with an analgesic selected from the group consisting of morphine, bupivacaine, clonidine, hydromorphone, baclofen, fentanyl, buprenorphine, and sufentanil. |
| US07833972B2 |
Proteins and use thereof
A method of suppressing the differentiation of an adipocite and/or lipid accumulation in an adipocyte, which comprises contacting the adipocyte with a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or a salt thereof, or with a polynucleotide comprising a sense strand sequence encoding a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2. |
| US07833961B2 |
Fabric enhancing compositions comprising nano-sized particles and anionic detergent carry over tolerance
A fabric enhancing composition comprising: at least one fabric softening active, wherein said fabric softening active comprises a plurality of particles comprising a intensity weighted particle size distribution wherein at least about 50% said particles have a particle size below about 170 nm. |
| US07833959B1 |
Method to increase flash points of flammable solvents
The present invention relates to a method to decrease the flammability of normally flammable alcohols and solvents. The additive is Alpha Terpineol, which will increase the flash point of flammable alcohols or solvents, by blending the Terpineol into the flammable solvent or alcohol. Solvents such as acetone, methanol, ethylacetate, ethanol and xylene, to name a few, increases flash points by 50° C. to 60° C., by addition of 12-14% terpineol. The said solvent can then be blended with other organic solvents to produce performance solvents, such as paint strippers with flash points greater than 140° F. and meet Federal and state Volatile Organic Compound regulations. |
| US07833953B2 |
Lubricant composition
A lubricant composition comprising a dispersant and a base oil comprising more than about 1.6% by weight of tetracycloparaffins is disclosed. Methods of making and using the lubricant composition are also disclosed. |
| US07833948B1 |
CO2 foamed well treatments
A composition and a method for treating a subterranean formation with an injection liquid containing liquid carbon dioxide, a treating liquid and optionally a foaming agent and/or methanol. The treating liquid may be an acid, a corrosion inhibitor, a solvent or a scale inhibitor. |
| US07833939B2 |
Herbicide compositions
A herbicidal composition which comprises i) an isoxazoline derivative represented by the following general formula (I) or its salt and ii) at least one compound selected from the Group A: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are defined in the specification. |
| US07833938B2 |
Thermal transfer sheet
To provide a thermal-transfer sheet having a back layer that can be prepared without heat treatment such as aging and is superior in heat resistance and sliding property, and has no such defect of printed images as wrinkling and tailing during printing.A thermal-transfer sheet having a substrate film, a transfer ink layer formed on one face thereof, and a back layer formed on the other face thereof,the back layer comprising:a binder containing a polyamide-imide resin (A) having a Tg of 200° C. or higher and a polyamide-imide silicone resin (B) having a Tg of 200° C. or higher, as determined by differential thermal analysis,a mixture of a polyvalent metal salt (C) of alkylphosphoric ester and a metal salt (D) of alkylcarboxylic acid,a silicone oil (E), andan inorganic filler (F) containing fine particles (F1) of an inorganic material having a Mohs' hardness of 3 or less alone or a mixture of fine particles (F1) of an inorganic material and fine particles (F2) of an inorganic material having a Mohs' hardness of more than 3,the metal salts (C) and (D) having an average particle size of 5 μm to 20 μm and the inorganic filler (F) having an average particle size of 0.05 to 5.5 μm. |
| US07833937B2 |
Image destruct feature used with image receiving layers in secure documents
An image destruct material comprises a release layer positioned between an image receiving layer and a base layer. The adhesion between the release layer and the base layer is greater than adhesion between the release layer and the image receiving layer. The release layer material can be used in secure documents that have an image receiving layer. After information is printed on the image receiving layer, an overlaminate is applied over it. Removal of the overlaminate destroys the printed image on the receiving layer because of the relative adhesive properties of the image receiving layer, overlaminate and release layer. |
| US07833933B2 |
Process for the preparation of a paraffin isomerization catalyst
A process for preparation of a paraffin isomerization catalyst comprising a mixture of a Group IVB metal oxide, a Group VIB metal oxide, a Group IIIA metal oxide and a Group VIII metal. The process includes the steps of: a) contacting a hydroxide of the Group IVB metal with an aqueous solution of an oxyanion of the Group VIB metal to provide a mixture, (b) drying the mixture to provide a dry powder, (c) kneading the powder with a Group IIIA hydroxide gel and a polymeric cellulose ether compound to form a paste, (d) shaping the paste to form a shaped material, (e) calcining the shaped material to form a calcined material, (f) impregnating the calcined material with an aqueous solution of a Group VIII metal salt to provide the catalyst, and (g) calcining the catalyst. |
| US07833927B2 |
Single site palladium catalyst complexes
Catalyst structures comprising a single palladium metal center and a substituted tri-arylphosphine ligand. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the catalyst structures to facilitate polymerization reactions and Heck coupling reactions. |
| US07833923B2 |
Monolithic refractory material having low expansibility, high strength, and crack extension resistance
A monolithic refractory material is provided by a method including the steps of kneading cordierite powder having a median diameter in a range of 10 to 50 μm, and having a sharp mountain-like particle size distribution in which the content of particles smaller than 10 μm is 1% or more to 36% or less, the content of particles ranging from 10 μm or more to 50 μm or less is 50% or more to 75% or less, and the content of particles of 51 μm or more is 1% or more to 14% or less, and a solvent including water and alumina sol or silica sol solution. |
| US07833919B2 |
Glass compositions having high thermal and chemical stability and methods of making thereof
Described herein are alkali-free, boroalumino silicate glasses exhibiting desirable physical and chemical properties for use as substrates in flat panel display devices, such as, active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). In accordance with certain of its aspects, the glasses possess good dimensional stability as a function of temperature. |
| US07833914B2 |
Capacitors and methods with praseodymium oxide insulators
Methods of forming and the resulting capacitors formed by these methods are shown. Monolayers that contain praseodymium are deposited onto a substrate and subsequently processed to form praseodymium oxide dielectrics. Monolayers that contain titanium or other metals are deposited onto a substrate and subsequently processed to form metal electrodes. Resulting capacitor structures includes properties such as improved dimensional control. One improved dimensional control includes thickness. Some resulting capacitor structures also include properties such as an amorphous or nanocrystalline microstructure. Selected components of capacitors formed with these methods have better step coverage over substrate topography and more robust film mechanical properties. |
| US07833913B2 |
Method of forming crystallographically stabilized doped hafnium zirconium based films
A method is provided for forming doped hafnium zirconium based films by atomic layer deposition (ALD) or plasma enhanced ALD (PEALD). The method includes disposing a substrate in a process chamber and exposing the substrate to a gas pulse containing a hafnium precursor, a gas pulse containing a zirconium precursor, and a gas pulse containing one or more dopant elements. The dopant elements may be selected from Group II, Group XIII, silicon, and rare earth elements of the Periodic Table. Sequentially after each precursor and dopant gas pulse, the substrate is exposed to a gas pulse containing an oxygen-containing gas, a nitrogen-containing gas, or an oxygen- and nitrogen-containing gas. In alternative embodiments, the hafnium and zirconium precursors may be pulsed together, and either or both may be pulsed with the dopant elements. The sequential exposing steps may be repeated to deposit a doped hafnium zirconium based film with a predetermined thickness. |
| US07833899B2 |
Multi-layer thick metallization structure for a microelectronic device, intergrated circuit containing same, and method of manufacturing an integrated circuit containing same
A multi-layer thick metallization structure for a microelectronic device includes a first barrier layer (111), a first metal layer (112) over the first barrier layer, a first passivation layer (113) over the first metal layer, a via structure (114) extending through the first passivation layer, a second barrier layer (115) over the first passivation layer and in the via structure, a second metal layer (116) over the second barrier layer, and a second passivation layer (117) over the second metal layer and the first passivation layer. |
| US07833897B2 |
Process for making interconnect solder Pb-free bumps free from organo-tin/tin deposits on the wafer surface
A method is provided for making of interconnect solder bumps on a wafer or other electronic device without depositing any significant amount of tin or other solder component from the solder onto the wafer surface which tin can cause shorts or other defects in the wafer. The method is particularly useful for well-known C4NP interconnect technology. In one aspect of the invention, a reducing gas flow rate is used to remove oxides from the solder surfaces and wafer pad surfaces and is of a sufficient determined or pre-determined flow and/or chamber or mold/wafer spacing to provide a gas velocity across the solder surfaces and wafer pad surfaces so that Sn or other contaminants do not deposit on the wafer surface during solder transfer. In another aspect, the transfer contact is performed below the melting point of the solder and subsequently heated to above the melting temperature while in transfer contact. The heated solder in contact with the wafer pads is transferred to the wafer pads. |
| US07833895B2 |
TSVS having chemically exposed TSV tips for integrated circuit devices
A method for fabricating ICs including via-first through substrate vias (TSVs) and ICs and electronic assemblies therefrom. A substrate having a substrate thickness including a top semiconductor surface and a bottom surface is provided including at least one embedded TSV including a dielectric liner and an electrically conductive filler material formed on the dielectric liner. A portion of the bottom surface of the substrate is mechanically removed to approach but not reach the embedded TSV tip. A protective substrate layer having a protective layer thickness remains over the tip of the embedded TSV after the mechanical removing. Chemical etching exclusive of mechanical etching for removing the protective substrate layer is used form an integral TSV tip that has an exposed tip portion that generally protrudes from the bottom surface of the substrate. The chemical etching is generally a three step chemical etch. |
| US07833894B2 |
Devices and systems having at least one dam structure
A method for forming through-wafer interconnects (TWI) in a substrate. Blind holes are formed from a surface, sidewalls thereof are passivated and coated with a conductive material. A vent hole is then formed from the opposite surface to intersect the blind hole. The blind hole is solder filled, followed by back thinning of the vent hole portion of the wafer to a final substrate thickness to expose the solder and conductive material at both the active surface and the thinned back side. A metal layer having a glass transition temperature greater than that of the solder may be plated to form a dam structure covering one or both ends of the TWI. Intermediate structures of semiconductor devices, semiconductor devices and systems are also disclosed. |
| US07833893B2 |
Method for forming conductive structures
A method of forming a method a conductive wire. The method includes forming a dielectric hardmask layer on a dielectric layer; forming an electrically conductive hardmask layer on the dielectric hardmask layer; forming a trench extending through the conductive and dielectric hardmask layers into the dielectric layer; depositing a liner/seed layer on the conductive hardmask layer and the sidewalls and bottom of the trench; filling the trench with a fill material; removing the liner/seed layer from the top surface of the conductive hardmask layer; removing the fill material from the trench; electroplating a metal layer onto exposed surfaces of the conductive hardmask layer and liner/seed layer; and removing the metal layer and the conductive hardmask layer from the dielectric hardmask layer so the metal layer and edges of the liner/seed layer are coplanar with the top surface of the dielectric hardmask layer. |
| US07833891B2 |
Semiconductor device manufacturing method using oxygen diffusion barrier layer between buried oxide layer and high K dielectric layer
A semiconductor device and method is provided that has an oxygen diffusion barrier layer between a high-k dielectric and BOX. The method includes depositing a diffusion barrier layer on a BOX layer and gate structure and etching a portion of the diffusion barrier layer from sidewalls of the gate structure. The method further includes depositing a high-k dielectric on the diffusion barrier layer and the gate structure. |
| US07833890B2 |
Semiconductor device having a pair of fins and method of manufacturing the same
Example embodiments relate to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. A semiconductor device according to example embodiments may have reduced disturbances during reading operations and a reduced short channel effect. The semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate having a body and a pair of fins protruding from the body. Inner spacer insulating layers may be formed on an upper portion of an inner sidewall of the pair of fins so as to reduce the entrance to the region between the pair of fins. A gate electrode may cover a portion of the external sidewalls of the pair of fins and may extend across the inner spacer insulating layers so as to define a void between the pair of fins. Gate insulating layers may be interposed between the gate electrode and the pair of fins. |
| US07833887B2 |
Notched-base spacer profile for non-planar transistors
A method of forming a notched-base spacer profile for non-planar transistors includes providing a semiconductor fin having a channel region on a substrate and forming a gate electrode adjacent to sidewalls of the channel region and on a top surface of the channel region, the gate electrode having on a top surface a hard mask. a spacer layer is deposited over the gate and the fin using a enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PE-CVD) process. A multi-etch process is applied to the spacer layer to form a pair of notches on laterally opposite sides of the gate electrode, wherein each notch is located adjacent to sidewalls of the fin and on the top surface of the fin. |
| US07833885B2 |
Microcrystalline silicon thin film transistor
Methods for forming a microcrystalline silicon layer in a thin film transistor structure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for forming a microcrystalline silicon layer includes providing a substrate in a processing chamber, supplying a gas mixture having a hydrogen-based gas, a silicon-based gas and an argon gas into the processing chamber, the gas mixture having a volumetric flow ratio of the hydrogen-based gas to the silicon-based gas greater than about 100:1, wherein a volumetric flow ratio of the argon gas to the total combined flow of hydrogen-based gas and the silicon-based gas is between about 5 percent and about 40 percent, and maintaining a process pressure of the gas mixture within the processing chamber at greater than about 3 Torr while depositing a microcrystalline silicon layer on the substrate. |
| US07833884B2 |
Strained semiconductor-on-insulator by Si:C combined with porous process
A method of fabricating a strained semiconductor-on-insulator (SSOI) substrate is provided. The method includes first providing a structure that includes a substrate, a doped and relaxed semiconductor layer on the substrate, and a strained semiconductor layer on the doped and relaxed semiconductor layer. In the invention, the doped and relaxed semiconductor layer having a lower lattice parameter than the substrate. Next, at least the doped and relaxed semiconductor layer is converted into a buried porous layer and the structure including the buried porous layer is annealed to provide a strained semiconductor-on-insulator substrate. During the annealing, the buried porous layer is converted into a buried oxide layer. |
| US07833883B2 |
Precursor gas mixture for depositing an epitaxial carbon-doped silicon film
A precursor gas mixture for depositing an epitaxial carbon-doped silicon film is described. The precursor gas mixture is comprised of a volume of a silicon precursor gas, a volume of acetylene gas and a volume of a carrier gas. A method of forming a semiconductor structure having an epitaxial carbon-doped silicon film is also described. In the method, a substrate having a high polarity dielectric region and a low polarity crystalline region is provided. A precursor gas is flowed to provide a silyl surface above the high polarity dielectric region and a carbon-doped silicon layer above the low polarity crystalline region. The silyl surface is then removed from above the high polarity dielectric region. The flowing and removing steps are repeated to provide a carbon-doped silicon film of a desired thickness above the low polarity crystalline region. |
| US07833874B2 |
Technique for forming an isolation trench as a stress source for strain engineering
By forming a non-oxidizable liner in an isolation trench and selectively modifying the liner within the isolation trench, the stress characteristics of the isolation trench may be adjusted. In one embodiment, a high compressive stress may be obtained by treating the liner with an ion bombardment and subsequently exposing the device to an oxidizing ambient at elevated temperatures, thereby incorporating silicon dioxide into the non-oxidizable material. Hence, an increased compressive stress may be generated within the non-oxidizable layer. |
| US07833870B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device having recessed gate electrode and self-aligning stacked contact structures
A semiconductor device is fabricated having a stack gate structure where a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode and a gate hard mask are stacked. The stack gate structure secures a contact open margin while reducing a loss of the gate hard mask during a self-aligned contact (SAC) etching process of forming a landing plug contact. An intermediate connection layer is formed in a landing plug contact region between the first gate electrodes. Furthermore, the occurrence of a bridge between a gate and a contact can be prevented while forming the landing plug contact. A conductive material is filled into a gate region including a recess between intermediate connection layers to form the first gate electrode. The second gate electrode and the gate hard mask are formed during a gate-patterning process using a gate mask, even though misalignment occurs between the gate and the contact. |
| US07833868B2 |
Method for fabricating a semiconductor device having recessed gate electrode and elevated source and drain regions
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, the method includes forming an isolation layer defining an active region over a substrate, forming a conductive layer over the substrate including the isolation layer, patterning the conductive layer to form a conductive pattern over the active region defined on both sides of a gate region, forming insulation spacers on a sidewall of the conductive pattern, forming a conductive layer for a gate electrode and a gate hard mask layer over the resulting structure including the conductive pattern, and patterning the gate hard mask layer and the conductive layer for the gate electrode to form a gate in the gate region of the substrate. |
| US07833862B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for forming same
A semiconductor device and method. One embodiments provides a semiconductor substrate having a trench with a sidewall isolation comprising a first isolating material, a field electrode formed in lower portion of the trench, a cover comprising a second material above the field electrode, the second material being selectively etchable to the first isolating material, a gate dielectric on the sidewall in an upper portion of the trench and a gate electrode in the upper portion of the trench. |
| US07833858B2 |
Superjunction trench device formation methods
Methods for forming semiconductor structures are provided for a semiconductor device employing a superjunction structure and overlying trench with embedded control gate. An embodiment comprises forming interleaved first and second spaced-apart regions of first and second semiconductor materials of different conductivity type and different mobilities so that the second semiconductor material has a higher mobility for the same carrier type than the first semiconductor material, and providing an overlying third semiconductor material in which a trench is formed with sidewalls having thereon a fourth semiconductor material that has a higher mobility than the third material, adapted to carry current between source regions, through the fourth semiconductor material in the trench and the second semiconductor material in the device drift space to the drain. In a further embodiment, the first and third semiconductor materials are relaxed materials and the second and fourth semiconductor materials are strained semiconductor materials. |
| US07833857B2 |
ESD protecting circuit and manufacturing method thereof
An ESD protecting circuit and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The ESD protecting circuit includes a device isolation layer, first and second high-concentration impurity regions, a third high-concentration impurity region of a complementary type, first and second conductive wells, and a fourth conductive impurity region. The ESD protecting circuit is configured as a field transistor without a gate electrode, and the high breakdown voltage characteristics of the field transistor are lowered by implanting impurity ions, providing an ESD protecting circuit with a low breakdown voltage and low leakage current. Because the leakage current is reduced, the ESD protecting circuit can be used for an analog I/O device that is sensitive to current fluxes. Also, an N-type well may protect a junction of the field transistor. |
| US07833854B2 |
Structure and method of fabricating a hybrid substrate for high-performance hybrid-orientation silicon-on-insulator CMOS devices
The present invention provides a method of integrating semiconductor devices such that different types of devices are formed upon a specific crystal orientation of a hybrid substrate that enhances the performance of each type of device. Specifically, the present invention provides a method of integrating semiconductor devices such that pFETs are located on a (110) crystallographic plane, while nFETs are located on a (100) crystallographic plane of a planar hybrid substrate. The method of the present invention also improves the performance of creating SOI-like devices with a combination of a buried insulator and counter-doping layers. The present invention also relates to semiconductor structures that are formed utilizing the method of the present invention. |
| US07833850B2 |
Method of fabricating a thin film transistor
A method of fabricating a thin film transistor includes forming a gate electrode on a substrate, forming a semiconductor layer on the gate electrode, forming a source electrode on the semiconductor layer, forming a drain electrode on the semiconductor layer spaced apart from the source electrode, forming a copper layer pattern on the source electrode and the drain electrode, exposing the copper layer pattern on the source electrode and the drain electrode to a fluorine-containing process gas to form a copper fluoride layer pattern thereon, and patterning the semiconductor layer. |
| US07833849B2 |
Method of fabricating a semiconductor structure including one device region having a metal gate electrode located atop a thinned polygate electrode
A method of fabricating semiconductor structure is provided in which at least one nFET device and a least one pFET device are formed on a semiconductor substrate. Each device region formed includes a dielectric stack that has a net dielectric constant equal to or greater than silicon dioxide. Gate stacks are provided on each of the dielectric stacks, wherein one of the gate stacks includes a metal gate electrode located atop a surface of a thinned polygate electrode. |
| US07833848B2 |
Method for removing hard masks on gates in semiconductor manufacturing process
A method for removing hard masks on gates in a semiconductor manufacturing process is conducted as follows. First of all, a first gate and a second gate with hard masks are formed on a semiconductor substrate, wherein the second gate is larger than the first gate. The first gate and second gate could be associated with silicon-germanium (SiGe) source and drain regions to form p-type transistors. Next, a photoresist layer is deposited, and an opening of the photoresist layer is formed on the hard mask of the second gate. Then, the photoresist layer on the first and second gates is removed completely by etching back. Because there is no photoresist residue, the hard masks on the first and second gates can be removed completely afterwards. |
| US07833841B2 |
Semiconductor apparatus and method for manufacturing the same
The present invention is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus including a chip which is fabricated in large numbers on a wafer and has a plurality of information blocks. In the method, a unique information bit is written in a chip discrimination block of each chip within a shot, which is a segmented region of the wafer, by a fixed pattern method. In addition, an information bit uniquely given to each shot within the wafer is written by a mask shift method. Further, an information bit uniquely given to each wafer is written in a wafer discrimination block of the chip which is fabricated on the wafer by the mask shift method and mask combination method. |
| US07833833B2 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
The quality of a non-leaded semiconductor device is to be improved. The semiconductor device comprises a sealing body for sealing a semiconductor chip with resin, a tab disposed in the interior of the sealing body, suspension leads for supporting the tab, plural leads having respective to-be-connected surfaces exposed to outer edge portions of a back surface of the sealing body, and plural wires for connecting pads formed on the semiconductor chip and the leads with each other. End portions of the suspending leads positioned in an outer periphery portion of the sealing body are not exposed to the back surface of the sealing body, but are covered with the sealing body. Therefore, stand-off portions of the suspending leads are not formed in resin molding. Accordingly, when cutting the suspending leads, corner portions of the back surface of the sealing body can be supported by a flat portion of a holder portion in a cutting die which flat portion has an area sufficiently wider than a cutting allowance of the suspending leads, whereby it is possible to prevent chipping of the resin and improve the quality of the semiconductor device (QFN). |
| US07833827B1 |
Method of making a semiconductor chip assembly with a bumped terminal, a filler and an insulative base
A method of making a semiconductor chip assembly includes providing a metal base, a routing line, a bumped terminal and a filler, wherein the routing line contacts the bumped terminal and the filler, then mechanically attaching a semiconductor chip to the metal base, the routing line, the bumped terminal and the filler, then forming an encapsulant, then etching the metal base to expose the bumped terminal, and then forming an insulative base that covers a peripheral portion of the bumped terminal. |
| US07833824B2 |
Multilevel phase change memory
A multilevel phase change memory may be formed of a chalcogenide material formed between a pair of spaced electrodes. The cross-sectional area of the chalcogenide material may decrease as the material extends from one electrode to another. As a result, the current density decreases from one electrode to the other. This means that a higher current is necessary to convert the material that has the largest cross-sectional area. As a result, different current levels may be utilized to convert different amounts of the chalcogenide material to the amorphous or reset state. A distinguishable resistance may be associated with each of those different amounts of amorphous material, providing the opportunity to engineer a number of different current selectable programmable states. |
| US07833823B2 |
Programmable resistance memory element and method for making same
A programmable resistance memory element. The active volume of memory material is made small by the presence of a small area of contact between the conductive material and the memory material. The area of contact is created by forming a region of conductive material and an intersecting sidewall layer of the memory material. The region of conductive material is preferably a sidewall layer of conductive material. |
| US07833822B2 |
Method for making PMC type memory cells
A microelectronic device includes: at least one cell or element including at least one first electrode, at least one second electrode, and at least one stack of thin layers between the first electrode and the second electrode. The stack includes at least one doped chalcogenide layer capable of forming a solid electrolyte, the doped chalcogenide layer being provided on and in contact with the first electrode; at least one interface layer provided on and in contact with the doped chalcogenide layer, the interface layer being based on a material different from the chalcogenide, the material being carbon or carbon comprising a metallic additive or a semiconducting additive; and at least one metallic ion donor layer provided on and in contact with the interface layer, the metallic ion donor layer being an ion source for the solid electrolyte. |
| US07833820B2 |
Nanoparticle containing siloxane polymers
A method of producing a polymer composition for semiconductor optoelectronics, comprising the steps of providing at least one type of disilane monomer which is homo- or copolymerized to form a (co)polymer and then combined with nanoparticles to provide a polymer composition. The nanoparticle containing composition has excellent properties with high refractive index or dielectric constant. |
| US07833819B2 |
Method and apparatus for decreasing storage node parasitic charge in active pixel image sensors
Methods, systems and apparatuses for an imager that improve the quality of a captured image. The imager includes a pixel having a photosensor that generates charge in response to receiving electromagnetic radiation and a storage region that stores the generated charge. A protection region assists in keeping undesirable charge from reaching the storage region. |
| US07833816B2 |
Forming a thin film thermoelectric cooler and structures formed thereby
Methods of forming a microelectronic structure are described. Embodiments of those methods include forming a first plurality of openings through a first surface of a substrate, forming a p-type TFTEC material within the first plurality of openings, forming a second plurality of openings substantially adjacent to the first plurality of openings through the first surface of the substrate, and then forming an n-type TFTEC material within the second plurality of openings. |
| US07833813B2 |
Thin film transistor array panel and method of manufacturing the same
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a TFT array panel in a cost-effective manner. The method includes: forming thin film transistors each having a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; forming an insulating layer on the thin film transistors; forming a first conductive layer electrically connected to the drain electrodes on the insulating layer; forming a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer; forming a photoresist layer including first portions and second portions thinner than the first portions; selectively etching the second conductive layer with a first etchant by using the photoresist layer as an etch blocker; and selectively etching the first conductive layer with a second etchant by using the photoresist layer and the second conductive layer as etch blockers. |
| US07833811B2 |
Side-emitting LED package and method of manufacturing the same
The invention relates to a side-emitting LED package and a manufacturing method thereof. The side-emitting LED package includes a substrate with an electrode formed thereon, and a light source disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the electrode. The side-emitting LED package also includes a molded part having an upper surface with a center thereof depressed concavely, covering and protecting the substrate and the light source, and a reflection layer covering an entire upper surface of the molded part to reflect light sideward from the molded part which forms a light transmitting surface. The package is not restricted in the shape of the molded part and is not affected by the LED chip size, enabling a compact structure. The invention can also process a substrate by a PCB process, enabling mass-production. |
| US07833810B2 |
Method of fabricating isolation structures for CMOS image sensor chip scale packages
Isolation structure for CMOS image sensor device chip scale packages and fabrication methods thereof. A CMOS image sensor chip scale package includes a transparent substrate configured as a support structure for the package. The transparent substrate includes a first cutting edge and a second cutting edge. A CMOS image sensor die with a die circuitry is mounted on the transparent substrate. An encapsulant is disposed on the substrate encapsulating the CMOS image sensor die. A connection extends from the die circuitry to a plurality of terminal contacts for the package on the encapsulant, wherein the connection is exposed by the first cutting edge. An isolation structure is disposed on the first cutting edge passivating the exposed connection and co-planed with the second cutting edge. |
| US07833804B2 |
Structure for introducing a plurality of solutions, micro fluidic device having said structure and method for introducing solution
The present invention relates to a solution introducing structure for introducing a plurality of solutions (a sample and/or a reagent solution) in highly accurate volume, in high amount and simply, into a channel (1) of a micro fluidic device, said channel (1) comprising not less than three side channels (2) for drain and not less than two side channels (3) for introducing a sample or a reagent solution. |
| US07833800B2 |
Thermal sensing with bridge circuitry
Thermal sensing devices can include two subsets of thermal sensors connected in a bridge by circuitry on the same support layer or surface with the sensors. Each thermal sensor can be formed in a patterned layer of semiconductor material, and the bridge circuitry can include leads formed in a patterned layer of conductive material, over or under the semiconductor layer. In one implementation, the bridge circuitry includes conductive portions that extend across and electrically contact the lower surface of each sensor's semiconductor slab. The bridge circuitry can also include pads that can be electrically contacted, such as by pogo pins. The device's reaction surface can be spaced apart from or over the thermal sensors. The device's components can be shaped and positioned so that the bridge's offset voltage is below the sensitivity level required for an application, such as by left-right symmetry about an axis. |
| US07833799B2 |
Zwitterionic dyes for labeling in proteomic and other biological analyses
The invention relates to compositions and methods useful in the labeling and identification of proteins. The invention provides for highly soluble zwitterionic dye molecules where the dyes and associated side groups are non-titratable and maintain their net zwitterionic character over a broad pH range, for example, between pH 3 and 12. These dye molecules find utility in a variety of applications, including use in the field of proteomics. |
| US07833797B2 |
Method of staining proteins using Alta
The present invention relates to a method of staining proteins in gels and membranes using stain alta. |
| US07833794B2 |
Fecal sampling device and method
A specimen sampling device having a first panel including multiple apertures (e.g., a first, second and third aperture) for receiving samples; a second panel having a removable tab at least partially aligned with the first, second and third apertures for receiving the samples, the removable tab accessible from an exterior of the device. A method of obtaining a fecal sample is also disclosed. |
| US07833793B2 |
Method and device for monitoring inhibition of platelet function
The invention provides a method of monitoring the response of platelets to a COX1 inhibitor such as aspirin. The method involves collecting platelet-containing mammalian blood treated with a COX1 inhibitor; mixing the blood with a COX1-dependent platelet agonist, such as arachidonic acid, monitoring extracellular ATP in the agonist-activated blood to generate a measurement, and comparing the measurement to a standard value. Devices, systems, and kits for carrying out the method are also provided. |
| US07833791B2 |
Lactobacilli expressing biologically active polypeptides and uses thereof
The present invention relates to Lactobacillus species recombinantly altered to express a biologically active protein. The invention also related to methods of providing the bacteria to the vagina. |
| US07833787B2 |
Method for recloning Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells
A new method for selecting clones and recloning mammalian cells which are of importance for the production of biopharmaceuticals, preferably hamster or mouse myeloma cells, with a high degree of automation and throughput. The invention relates to methods of depositing and replicating single cell clones of the cells in question. The invention also relates to methods of preparing proteins using cells which have been obtained and replicated by single cell deposition as well as compositions which allow the replication of single cells. |
| US07833785B2 |
Method for chemical dissociation of cells from physical surfaces
The invention provides a novel method of dissociating anchorage independent and dependent cell aggregates. The invention also includes the cells resulting from the methods of the invention and the use of the cells in various applications requiring the generation of a single cell suspension. |
| US07833784B2 |
Zinc finger binding domains for TNN
Polypeptides that contain zinc finger-nucleotide binding regions that bind to nucleotide sequences of the formula TNN are provided. Compositions containing a plurality of polypeptides, isolated heptapeptides possessing specific binding activity, polynucleotides that encode such polypeptides and methods of regulating gene expression with such polypeptides, compositions and polynucleotides are also provided. |
| US07833779B2 |
Methods and systems for polynucleotide detection
Optimization techniques for selecting indicator polynucleotides for an experiment and for determining expression levels resulting from the experiment. The optimization technique corrects for variations in polynucleotide melting temperatures during analysis of the experimental results. The optimization technique selects set of indicator polynucleotides for the experiment. The optimization technique then performs the experiment with the indicator polynucleotides and a sample and identifies the relative amounts of the indicated polynucleotides. The optimization technique then adjusts the relative amounts of the indicated polynucleotides based on melting temperatures associated with the indicator polynucleotides. |
| US07833774B2 |
Screening methods for identifying viral proteins with interferon antagonizing functions and potential antiviral agents
The present invention relates, in general, to a screening method for identifying novel viral proteins with interferon antagonizing function using a transfection-based assay, and the use of such proteins in isolating various types of attenuated viruses for the development of vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. The invention also relates to the use of viral interferon antagonists in screening assays to identify potential anti-viral agents. The invention further relates to protocols utilizing interferon antagonists, e.g., NS1, to enhance gene therapy or DNA vaccination based on their ability to increase gene expression. |
| US07833773B2 |
Bacillus mHKcel cellulase
The present invention provides a novel cellulase nucleic acid sequence, designated mHKcel, and the corresponding mHKcel amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding mHKcel, recombinant mHKcel proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| US07833771B2 |
Polypeptides having alpha-amylase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
The present invention relates to polypeptides having alpha-amylase activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to a polypeptide having carbohydrate-binding affinity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. |
| US07833769B2 |
McrA variants and uses thereof
Compositions and methods are provided in which the composition is a protein with at least 50% but less than 100% amino acid sequence identity with McrA or is a variant McrA protein with at least one amino acid sequence modification. The variant or protein has the property of cleaving DNA with methylated cytosine and not hydroxymethylated cytosine in a target DNA sequence, or substantially lacks catalytic activity while maintaining binding activity. Methods are provided in which the protein or McrA variant are used to identify methylation sites either by cleavage or by binding to the methylation site in the presence of a marker or by binding to an immobilized protein or McrA variant. |
| US07833768B2 |
Polypeptides having phytase activity
The invention relates to Citrobacter phytases derived from Citrobacter amalonaticus, Citrobacter gillenii, and related phytases. The phytases belong to the acid histidine phosphatase family, are acid-stable, and expectedly of a high specific activity. The invention also relates to the corresponding DNA, the recombinant and wild-type production of the phytases, as well as the use thereof, in particular in animal feed. |
| US07833765B2 |
Galenic formulation for colon-targeted delivery of active ingredients
The invention concerns multiparticulate galenic formulations for oral administration and designed for colon targeted delivery of active principles selected from the group comprising enzymes capable of inactivating macrolides and the like, enzymes capable of inactivating quinolones and β-lactamases. |
| US07833764B2 |
DNA encoding xylitol dehydrogenase
The present invention relates to DNA encoding novel xylitol dehydrogenase and a method for using the same. Specifically, the present invention comprises providing the nucleic acid sequence of a xylitol dehydrogenase gene from Candida shehatae and introducing this gene into a host organism, thereby producing a microorganism having the ability to utilize xylose. |
| US07833761B2 |
Amino acid producing microorganism and a method for producing an amino acid
A microorganism is provided which has an ability to produce an L-amino acid such as L-lysine, L-tryptophan, L-phenylalanine, L-valine, L-leucine, L-isoleucine and L-serine, and has been modified to increase the activity of pyruvate synthase or pyruvate:NADP+ oxidoreductase. This microorganism is cultured in a medium containing ethanol or an aliphatic acid as the carbon source to produce and accumulate the L-amino acid in the medium or cells, and the L-amino acid is collected from the medium or the cells. |
| US07833756B2 |
Methods of labelling polynucleotides with dibenzorhodamine dyes
Dibenzorhodamine compounds having the structure are disclosed, including nitrogen- and aryl-substituted forms thereof. In addition, two intermediates useful for synthesizing such compounds are disclosed, a first intermediate having the structure including nitrogen- and aryl-substituted forms thereof, and a second intermediate having the structure including nitrogen- and aryl-substituted forms thereof, wherein substituents at positions C-14 to C18 taken separately are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, chlorine, fluorine, lower alkyl, carboxylic acid, sulfonic acid, —CH2OH, alkoxy, phenoxy, linking group, and substituted forms thereof. The invention further includes energy transfer dyes comprising the dibenzorhodamine compounds, nucleosides labeled with the dibenzorhodamine compounds, and nucleic acid analysis methods employing the dibenzorhodamine compounds. |
| US07833753B2 |
Methods of producing erythropoietin isoforms comprising Lewis-X structures and high sialic acid content and compositions of the same
Disclosed are immortalized human embryonic retina cells, having a nucleic acid sequence encoding an adenoviral E1A protein integrated into the genome of the cells, and further comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding an enzyme involved in post-translational modification of proteins, such as a sialyltransferase, wherein the nucleic acid sequence encoding the enzyme involved in post-translational modification of proteins is under control of a heterologous promoter. Methods for producing recombinant proteins from such cells and obtaining such recombinant proteins having increased sialylation are provided as are novel compositions of isoforms of erythropoietin. |
| US07833750B2 |
Card-domain containing polypeptides, encoding nucleic acids, and methods of use
The invention provides caspase recruitment domain (CARD)-containing polypeptides and functional fragments thereof, encoding nucleic acid molecules, and specific antibodies. Also provided are screening methods for identifying CARD-associated polypeptides (CAPs), and for identifying agents that alter the association of a CARD-containing polypeptide with itself or with a CAP. Further provided are methods of altering a biochemical process modulated by a CARD-containing polypeptide, and methods of diagnosing a pathology characterized by an increased or decreased level of a CARD-containing polypeptide. |
| US07833749B2 |
Isolated photoprotein mtClytin, and use thereof
The invention relates to the photoprotein mtClytin, to its nucleotide and amino acid sequences and to the activity and use of the photoprotein mtClytin. |
| US07833747B2 |
Methods for detecting an endotoxin with a lysate reagent
An object of the present invention is to provide a method capable of detecting and quantifying endotoxin in a sample in which endotoxin derived from gram-negative bacteria cannot be accurately detected or quantified by the method described in Commentary of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia Fourteenth Edition, Hirokawa Publishing Co. 2001 B-63. It has been found that the above object can be achieved by performing an endotoxin test using a lysate reagent in which the lysate reagent is added into a sample in the presence of albumin and/or globulin. |
| US07833746B2 |
Blood test instrument using a disposable cartridge
A blood test instrument using a disposable cartridge and a method of measuring a blood sample using the instrument are disclosed. The instrument includes a cell counting station for counting blood cells by electrical resistance measurement, a pressure actuating component adapted to apply a pressure alternately on two flexible receptacles of a disposable cartridge removably placed in the instrument to cause flowing of a mixture of a blood sample and a liquid agent between the two receptacles to obtain proper mixing, and a conduit adapted to deliver the mixture to the cell counting station for counting. After measuring the blood sample, the instrument withdraws a washing liquid contained in another receptacle of the disposable cartridge and uses the washing liquid to clean the instrument and to deliver the mixture back to the cartridge for disposal. |
| US07833745B2 |
Direct detection method for products of cellular metabolism using ToF-SIMS
A rapid and efficient method for novel biological substance screening by surface analysis has been developed using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS). This method relies on the surface screening of an array of micro-organisms grown on porous membranes, which had previously been in contact with a solid growth medium. ToF-SIMS analysis differentiates among organisms producing different substances, either directly as molecular product, or indirectly through the use of multivariate statistical data reduction techniques. This method has many advantages over traditional microbial screening methods, which require sample preparation and time for assay development. |
| US07833741B2 |
Uncoupling of DNA insert propagation and expression of protein for phage display
The present invention provides an advance in phage display technology by permitting the uncoupling of the propagation of phages containing inserted sequences encoding heterologous polypeptides from the expression of said polypeptides. The invention provides phage constructs and methods for their use to permit phage coat protein expression, and thus phage propagation, in the absence of display of heterologous polypeptides, which may be expressed as a fusion with said coat protein in a regulated manner. |
| US07833739B2 |
CA IX-specific inhibitors
Therapeutic methods for inhibiting the growth of preneoplastic/neoplastic vertebrate cells that abnormally express MN protein are disclosed. Screening assays are provided for identifying compounds, preferably organic compounds, preferably aromatic and heterocylic sulfonamides, which inhibit the enzymatic activity of MN/CA IX and that are useful for treating patients with preneoplastic/neoplastic disease. Further, the CA IX-specific inhibitors when labeled or linked to an appropriate visualizing means can also be used diagnostically/prognostically for preneoplastic/neoplastic disease, and for imaging use, for example, to detect hypoxic precancerous cells, tumors and/or metastases, by selectively binding to activated CA IX, preferably CA IX activated under hypoxic conditions, and not to inactive CA IX. Such detection of hypoxic conditions can be helpful in determining effective treatment options, and in predicting treatment outcome and the prognosis of disease development. Still further, the CA IX-specific inhibitors can be used therapeutically to selectively target hypoxic cells expressing activated CA IX. The CA IX-specific inhibitors can be labelled or conjugated to radioisotopes for radiotherapy of hypoxic cells. Alternatively, the CA IX-specific inhibitors can be used for gene therapy coupled to vectors for targeted delivery to hypoxic preneoplastic/neoplastic cells expressing activated CA IX on their surfaces. In an alternative mode of the invention, CA IX-specific inhibitors may be used therapeutically to target acidic conditions of a tumor, e.g., to increase pHe in order to enhance the efficacy of weak base chemotherapeutic drugs. |
| US07833735B2 |
Detection of surface-associated human leukocyte elastase
In order to accurately and reliably quantitate HLE on the plasma membranes of the lymphocytes and mononuclear phagocytes, a test sample containing the lymphocytes and mononuclear phagocytes is initially treated with a first antiserum specific for CD4 receptors on the plasma membrane or with a second antiserum specific for chemokine receptors on the plasma membrane. Once the CD4 or chemokine receptors have been rendered non-reactive (competitive) relative to the HLE receptors (also “binding sites”) on the plasma membrane, the test sample is contacted with an immunoreagent specific for interaction with one or more of the HLE receptors on the plasma membranes of the lymphocytes and mononuclear phagocytes. The immunoreagent forms a complex with the HLE binding sites and produces a characteristic physical change in the lymphocytes and mononuclear phagocytes that can be monitored by anyone of a number of standard techniques, (e.g., confocal laser scanning microscopy and flow cytometry). |
| US07833731B2 |
Gold-binding protein and use thereof
A protein utilizing an anti-gold antibody and a gold-binding side which is a part of the anti-gold antibody is constructed. This protein is capable of specifically binding to gold. This protein or a complex protein containing such a protein can be used for the detection of a target substance. |
| US07833728B2 |
Soluble form of carbonic anhydrase IX (s-CA IX), assays to detect s-CA IX, CA IX's coexpression with HER-2/neu/c-erbB-2, and CA IX-specific monoclonal antibodies to non-immunodominant epitopes
Disclosed herein is the discovery of a soluble MN/CA IX (s-CA IX) in body fluids, such as, urine and serum. Said s-CA IX comprises the extracellular domain of CA IX or portions thereof. The predominant s-CA IX species is the extracellular domain comprising a proteoglycan-like (PG) domain and carbonic anhydrase (CA) domain, and having a molecular weight of about 50/54 kilodaltons (kd) upon Western blot. A smaller s-CA IX form of about 20 to about 30 kd comprising the CA domain or parts thereof, not linked to the PG domain, has also been found in body fluids. Diagnostic/prognostic methods for precancer and cancer that detect or detect and quantitate said s-CA IX in body fluids, are described. Also disclosed herein is the coexpression of CA IX and HER-2/neu/c-erbB-2 that provides parallel, alternative and potentially synergistic diagnostic/prognostic and therapeutic strategies for precancer and cancer. Further disclosed are new MN/CA IX-specific antibodies generated from MN/CA IX-deficient mice, preferably monoclonal antibodies and immunoreactive fragments and engineered variants thereof. Such new MN/CA IX-specific antibodies, fragments and variants are useful diagnostically/prognostically and therapeutically for cancer and precancer. Particularly preferred are the new monoclonal antibodies, fragments and variants that are specific for the non-immunodominant epitopes of MN/CA IX, which antibodies are, among other uses, useful to detect soluble MN/CA IX (s-CA IX) in body fluids, alone but preferably in combination with antibodies specific to the immunodominant epitopes of MN/CA IX, for example, in a sandwich assay. |
| US07833726B2 |
Antibody for assaying ADAMTS13 activity and method for assaying the activity
The subject of the present invention is to provide a useful antibody for measuring ADAMTS13 activity, in particular, a monoclonal antibody and a method for measuring ADAMTS13 activity. Further, another subject of the present invention also is to provide a monoclonal antibody which has specific reactivity to an antigenic determinant site produced by reacting ADAMTS13 with VWF that is a substrate or a partial peptide of VWF that is a potential substrate, but has no specific reactivity to the complete VWF molecule, and a use of the antibody of interest. Those subjects were achieved by succeeding in obtaining a monoclonal antibody (anti-N-10 monoclonal antibody) which has specific reactivity to a cleavage site that is cleavable by ADAMTS13 in the partial peptide of VWF, and further by finding a method for measuring ADAMTS13 activity using the monoclonal antibody of interest. |
| US07833724B2 |
Methods for comparing the immunogenicity of products and uses thereof
The present invention relates to methods of determining the immunogenic potential of a test product by comparing the immunogenic profile or fingerprint of the test product to the immunogenic profile or fingerprint of a reference product. |
| US07833716B2 |
Tagged oligonucleotides and their use in nucleic acid amplification methods
A method for selective amplification of at least one target nucleic acid sequence, comprising the steps of: treating a sample with a tagged oligonucleotide comprising a target hybridizing sequence that hybridizes to a 3′-end of the target nucleic acid sequence, and a tag sequence situated 5′ to the target hybridizing sequence that does not stably hybridize to a target nucleic acid, wherein tagged oligonucleotide hybridized to target nucleic acids form tagged target nucleic acids; prior to initiating a primer extension reaction, reducing the effective concentration of unhybridized tagged oligonucleotide having an active form; initiating an extension reaction to produce a primer extension product; separating the primer extension product from the target nucleic acid; and producing amplification products therefrom using an oligonucleotide that hybridizes to the complement of the tag sequence. |
| US07833714B1 |
Combinatorial affinity selection
In one aspect of the invention, methods for analyzing nucleic acid sample are provided. In a preferred embodiment, nucleic acids are selected using affinity matrices prior hybridization with a microarray. |
| US07833710B2 |
Polynucleotide associated with breast cancer comprising single nucleotide polymorphism, microarray and diagnostic kit comprising the same and method for diagnosing breast cancer using the same
Provided is a polynucleotide for diagnosis or treatment of breast cancer, including at least 10 contiguous nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID No: 1 to SEQ ID No: 5 and comprising a nucleotide at 101st position of the nucleotide sequence, or a complementary polynucleotide thereof. |
| US07833709B2 |
Thermo-controllable chips for multiplex analyses
The present invention provides miniaturized instruments for conducting chemical reactions where control of the reaction temperature is desired or required. Specifically, this invention provides chips and optical systems for performing and monitoring temperature-dependent chemical reactions. The apparatus and methods embodied in the present invention are particularly useful for high-throughput and low-cost amplification of nucleic acids. |
| US07833707B2 |
Methods of overexpression and recovery of porcine circovirus type 2 ORF2
An improved method for recovering the protein expressed by open reading frame 2 from PCV2 is provided. The method generally involves the steps of transfecting recombinant virus containing open reading frame 2 coding sequences into cells contained in growth media, causing the virus to express open reading frame 2, and recovering the expressed protein in the supernate. This recovery should take place beginning approximately 5 days after infection of the cells in order to permit sufficient quantities of recombinant protein to be expressed and secreted from the cell into the growth media. Such methods avoid costly and time consuming extraction procedures required to separate and recover the recombinant protein from within the cells. |
| US07833704B2 |
Methods for detecting aneuploidy using microparticle multiplex detection
The present invention provides a method for the detection and sorting of microparticles in a mixture of microparticles. The method of the present invention allows for the detection and sorting of many distinct microparticle classes. Detection and sorting is on the basis of microparticle size, the fluorescence spectrum of any attached reporter molecule, the fluorescence intensity of the reporter molecule, and the number of particles in each classification bin. These microparticle classes have particular applications in many genetic or biochemical multiplexing studies and especially as binding agents for the detection of aneuploidy in an organism or embryo of the organism. In humans, the detection and sorting of at least 24 classes of microparticles would be sufficient for a single tube method for the simultaneous detection of aneuploidy in all chromosomes, wherein each distinct microparticle class comprises a polynucleotide sequence complementary to, and specific for, a polynucleotide sequence that is unique to a particular human chromosome. Furthermore, using currently available technology, the present method has application for the simultaneous detection of aneuploidy in all chromosomes for an organism that has 216 or fewer pairs of chromosomes. Kits for the simultaneous detection of aneuploidy in one or more human chromosomes are also provided. |
| US07833703B2 |
Method for the construction of randomized gene sequence libraries in cells
An in vivo method for the construction of randomized gene libraries and/or domain replacement in gene libraries by homologous recombination using a Kluyveromyces lactis killer toxin, in particular the (γ-subunit of the K. lactis killer toxin, as negative selection marker is described. The use of the (γ-subunit of K. lactis as negative selectable marker increases the percentage of randomized clones. |
| US07833702B2 |
Replication protein
This invention relates to a screening method for the identification of agents which modulate the activity of a DNA replication protein as a target for intervention in cancer therapy and includes agents which modulate said activity. The invention also relates to the use of the DNA replication protein, and its RNA transcripts in the prognosis and diagnosis of proliferative disease e.g., cancer. |
| US07833699B2 |
Detection of tuberculosis and infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis using HBHA
The present invention concerns methods for in vitro detection of an infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mammals, and methods for in vitro distinction between mammals infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in which the disease is declared (active form) and mammals which are infected but asymptomatic for tuberculosis (latent form), and a method for in vitro distinction between mammals presenting an active form of tuberculosis and mammals not infected by M. tuberculosis or presenting a latent form of tuberculosis. The present invention also pertains to kits for detection and distinction between infected mammals presenting tuberculosis symptoms and infected mammals with no disease development, and a kit for distinguishing between mammals presenting an active form of tuberculosis and mammals not infected by M. tuberculosis or presenting a latent form of tuberculosis. |
| US07833697B2 |
Endothelial stem cells, populations, methods of isolation and use thereof
The present invention provides stem cells characterized as having the ability to renew and the ability to give rise to endothelial and/or endothelial-like cells, methods of isolating such stem cells and methods of use thereof. Also provided are progeny cells derived from the stem cells of the invention. |
| US07833696B2 |
Method for forming anti-reflective coating
Silsesquioxane resins useful in forming the antireflective coating having the formula (PhSiO(3-x)/2(OH)x)mHSiO(3-x)/2(OH)x)n(MeSiO(3-x)/2(OH)x)p(RSiO(3-x)/2(OH)x)q where Ph is a phenyl group, Me is a methyl group, R is selected from ester groups and polyether groups, x has a value of 0, 1 or 2; m has a value of 0.05 to 0.95, n has a value of 0.05 to 0.95, p has a value of 0.05 to 0.95, q has a value of 0.01 to 0.30 and m+n+p+q≈1. |
| US07833693B2 |
Photoactive compounds
The present application relates to a compound of formula A-X—B, where (i) A-X—B form an ionic compound Ai Xi Bi where Ai and Bi are each individually an organic onium cation; and Xi is anion of the formula Q-R500—SO3− or (ii) A-X—B form a non-ionic compound Ac-Xc-Bc, where Ai, Bi, Q, R500, Ac, Bc, and Xc are defined herein. The compounds are useful as photoactive materials. |
| US07833683B2 |
Photosensitive member having an overcoat
An imaging member including a substrate; a charge generation layer; a charge transport layer containing a mixture including a polymer and charge transport components, wherein the mixture has a glass transition temperature of less than about 70° C.; and an overcoat having a crosslinked polymer network including a resin, charge transport molecules, crosslinking component, an acid catalyst and an optional low surface component, and wherein the resin is a resin selected from the group consisting of polyester and polyol resins, and further wherein the resin has crosslinking sites selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl and carboxy groups. |
| US07833680B2 |
Fuel cell separator plate reinforcement via bonding assembly
A fuel cell bipolar plate assembly is disclosed which includes a reinforcement positioned between the anode and cathode plates to strengthen the assembly. |
| US07833679B2 |
Fuel cartridge and direct methanol fuel cell device
A fuel cell device comprising a fuel cell cartridge having a container for containing methanol mixed solution fuel and a direct methanol fuel cell on which the fuel cartridge is set the fuel cartridge being provided with a fuel injection nozzle on part of the container and a projection disposed around the fuel injection nozzle; the size of which is determined according to the concentration of methanol of the fuel in the container, and the direct methanol fuel cell being provided with a concavity, which is designed to engage with the projection of the fuel cartridge at a portion where the fuel cartridge is to be set when the concentration of methanol is proper. |
| US07833678B2 |
Fuel cell stack
A spring module is mounted to a fuel cell stack. The spring module includes a first member and a second member capable of inclining relative to each other and moving in a direction toward and away from each other, and a plurality of springs independent of each other and disposed in parallel with each other between the first and second members. The spring module is disposed between an end plate and the pile of fuel cells. The first member includes a first casing, and the second member includes a second casing, whereby the sparing module includes a casing assembly housing the springs. The bottom surface of the casings is deformable to be wavy. The spring module may include a shock absorber. The plurality of springs may include a coil spring and a sponge of a low-resilience type. |
| US07833677B2 |
Nonaqueous electrolyte battery
This invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte battery that has excellent output characteristics, is small in individual difference, and is more stable. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery comprises a negative electrode and a positive electrode that contain or can occlude and release lithium, a lithium salt-containing ionic liquid and is characterized in that the electrolyte contains a cation containing a fluoroalkyl group attached through a methylene chain to a basic structure selected from the group consisting of imidazolium, piperidinium, and pyrrolidinium structures. |
| US07833674B2 |
Method for improving robustness of solid oxide fuel cell stacks
A method for forming a solid oxide fuel cell stack from a plurality of individual solid oxide fuel cells, wherein the anodes of the solid oxide fuel cells are infiltrated by one or more materials for making the anodes less sensitive to sulfur poisoning and/or less subject to carbon degradation and/or for improving the electrochemical performance of the stack, the method comprising the steps of oxidizing the anodes of the individual solid oxide fuel cells before forming a stack, building a solid oxide fuel cell stack with all of the anodes in an oxidized state, reducing all of the anodes, and then infiltrating all of the anodes with at least one of the materials. |
| US07833673B2 |
Solid polymer electrolytic fuel cell
Elastic members that are integrally joined to a frame member are placed between an outer edge of an electrode unit and an inner edge of the frame member, and in the assembled state of the single cell module, the elastic members are elastically deformed in the thickness direction of a membrane-electrode-frame assembly so that the gap between the membrane-electrode-frame assembly and the separator is sealed in a tight contact state. |
| US07833669B2 |
Fuel cell system and control method
An energy supply (ES) is formed by a fuel cell (1), a power distributor (4) connected to the fuel cell (1), and a secondary cell (7) connected to the power distributor (4), a whole load set (WL) is connected to the power distributor (4), and a controller (8) controls the power distributor (4) to warm the energy supply (ES) by alternatively repeating a power charging distribution (S61) in which power (Gm) generated at the fuel cell (1) is distributed to the secondary cell (7) and the load set (WL), and a power discharging distribution (S71) in which a sum of power (Gr) generated at the fuels cell (1) and power (Dp) discharged from the secondary cell (7) is distributed to the load set (WL). |
| US07833668B2 |
Fuel cell system with greater than 95% fuel utilization
A method of operating a fuel cell system includes providing a fuel inlet stream into a fuel cell stack, operating the fuel cell stack to generate electricity and a hydrogen containing fuel exhaust stream, separating at least a portion of hydrogen contained in the fuel exhaust stream using a cascaded electrochemical hydrogen pump, such as a high temperature, low hydration ion exchange membrane cell stack having at least two membrane cells arranged in process fluid flow series, and providing the hydrogen separated from the fuel exhaust stream into the fuel inlet stream. |
| US07833667B2 |
Biofuel cell
A method and device for processing organic waste in an environmentally friendly manner. The waste flow is processed in a bipolar biofuel cell. The waste is introduced into a space having a pair of electrodes, which includes at least one anode and at least one cathode, while in a bipolar cell the anode and cathode are separated spatially and/or by a porous, electronically non-conductive, non-ion-selective wall, while an oxidizer is introduced in the space around the cathode, and where a potential difference is formed across the pair of electrodes such that at the anode CO2 is produced and electricity is produced. The method can be carried out with waste flows including animal manure, waste water, waste water purification sludge, kitchen and garden waste (KGW), roadside grass, residual flows from industrial processes (such as molasses, whey, draff) and/or dredgings. |
| US07833657B2 |
External case for secondary batteries and secondary battery using the external case
An external case for secondary batteries, and a secondary battery using the external case, in which the covering surfaces for the lower surface and side surfaces of a pouch type core pack are joined to prevent unfolding due to the resilience of the material. The external case includes: a base covering the lower surface of the pouch type cell, a pair of sidewalls joined to two opposing longer edges of the base to respectively form single linear boundaries, and covering two broad side surfaces of the pouch type cell, and skirts extending from two longer edges of each of the sidewalls, and covering two narrow side surfaces of the pouch type cell. The base, sidewalls, and skirts are all formed of a metallic material. |
| US07833653B2 |
Reserve cell-array nanostructured battery
A battery having an electrode with at least one nanostructured surface is disclosed wherein the nanostructured surface is divided into cells and is disposed in a way such that an electrolyte fluid of the battery is prevented from contacting the portion of electrode associated with each cell. When a voltage is passed over the nanostructured surface associated with a particular cell, the electrolyte fluid is caused to penetrate the nanostructured surface of that cell and to contact the electrode, thus activating the portion of the battery associated with that cell. The current/voltage generated by the battery is controlled by selectively activating only a portion of the cells. Multiple cells can be active simultaneously to produce the desired voltage. The more cells that are active, the higher the current/voltage and the lower the overall life of the battery. The life of the battery can be extended by activating fewer cells simultaneously. |
| US07833652B2 |
Battery loading mechanism and electronic apparatus
A battery loading mechanism includes: a battery loading section having an insertion space capable for accommodating a battery, in which a portion of an outer circumference of each of two end surfaces on insertion and ejection sides, respectively, is formed as a curve section; and lock means for locking the battery loaded into the battery loading section, the lock means rotatably supported on the battery loading section. The lock means includes a lock section, the lock section being formed in such a shape that it becomes wider the further away it is from a point at which the lock means is rotatably supported, and at least a portion of a side edge of the lock section in a width direction is formed as a curve section corresponding to the curve section of the battery. |
| US07833649B2 |
Battery fluid manager using shape memory alloy components with different actuation temperatures
A fluid consuming battery (10) is provided with a fluid regulating system (50) for regulating fluid entry into the battery. The battery (10) includes a fluid consuming cell (20) having a cell housing with fluid entry ports for the passage of a fluid into the cell housing. A first fluid consuming electrode and a second electrode are disposed within the cell housing. The fluid regulating system (50) includes a valve having a moving plate (66) disposed adjacent to a fixed plate (62). The moving plate and fixed plate both have fluid entry ports (68, 64) that align in an open valve position and are misaligned in a closed valve position. The fluid regulating system (50) also includes an actuator that may include one or more shape memory alloy (SMA) components (82a, 82b) for moving the moving plate (66) relative to the fixed plate (62) to open and close the valve. |
| US07833646B2 |
Method of and apparatus for dismantling and storage of objects comprising alkali metals, such as alkali metal containing batteries
There is disclosed a method of and an arrangement for dismantling and storage of objects comprising alkali metal containing substances, in particular lithium containing batteries, in the presence of a protective atmosphere, wherein the protective atmosphere is carbon dioxide. The arrangement comprises a gas-tight chamber for bringing the objects under a protective environment, and a gas-tight chamber for dismantling the objects within the protective atmosphere of carbon dioxide gas. |
| US07833641B2 |
Magnetic disk
Disclosed is a magnetic disk which has a lubricant layer with excellent heat resistance and high adhesiveness and is free from fly-stiction failure or corrosion failure even at an extremely low flying height of 10 nm or lower. Also disclosed is a magnetic disk which has a lubricant layer with good thermal properties and can exert a stable action over a wide temperature range. The magnetic disk comprises a substrate (1), and a magnetic layer (3), a carbon-containing protective layer (4) and a lubricant layer (5) provided on the substrate (1), wherein the lubricant layer (5) contains a magnetic disk lubricant comprising a compound having a phosphazene ring and two or more hydroxyl and/or carboxyl groups in the molecule. |
| US07833640B2 |
Intermediate tri-layer structure for perpendicular recording media
An improved structure for the construction of perpendicular recording media is disclosed. The structure includes a tri-layer IML resident between a soft under layer CoTaZr film and a CoPtCr—SiO2 magnetic media. In an embodiment, the tri-layer comprises a RuxCr1−x layer over dual nucleation layers of Ni—Fe and Ni—Fe—Cr. The tri-layer replaces the typical Ru and Ni—Fe intermediate layers of the prior art, resulting in considerable improvement in lattice matching between the Ru containing intermediate layer and the CoPtCr—SiO2 magnetic media, further resulting in improved magnetic media performance. |
| US07833637B2 |
Easy-to-clean cooking surface and electrical household appliance comprising such a surface
Food cooking surface for a kitchen utensil or cooking appliance, constituted by the surface of a compound fabricated starting from an alloy whose two principal components are zirconium and cobalt. |
| US07833633B2 |
Full color organic electroluminescence display device
Disclosed is a full color organic electroluminescence display device, comprising a substrate; a first electrode; organic film layers including red, green and blue emission layers and an electron transporting layer; and a second electrode. The thickness of the electron transporting layer, which is preferably formed as a common layer, is different in the red and green emission regions from that in the blue emission region so that the device has an excellent purity of color and improved luminous efficiency of red and green colors. |
| US07833631B2 |
Multi metal base thermal resistance alloy and mold with multi metal base thermal resistance alloy layer
A multi metal base thermal resistance alloy and a mold with the multi metal base thermal resistance alloy layer are provided. The weight percent of each element in this alloy is less than 45%. The structure of the alloy is an amorphous structure and the phonon thermal conductivity of the amorphous structure is intrinsically low. Therefore, the alloy is a metal material with low thermal conductivity coefficient and high thermal stability, which can increase the heat retaining property of the die casting mold, enhance the forming yield and stability of a metal sheet with a low fusion point, and is suitable to be used as a thermal-resistance coating material on die casting molds. |
| US07833629B2 |
Transparent substrate comprising an antireflection coating
The subject of the invention is a transparent substrate (6) having at least one antireflection coating, made from a film (A) comprising multiple thin layers of alternately high and low refractive indexes.The multilayer film comprises, in succession: a high-index first layer (1), having a refractive index n1 of between 1.8 and 2.3 and a geometrical thickness e1 of between 5 and 50 nm; a low-index second layer (2), having a refractive index n2 of between 1.30 and 1.70 and a geometrical thickness e2 of between 5 and 50 nm; a high-index third layer (3), having a refractive index n3 of between 1.8 and 2.3 and a geometrical thickness e3 of at least 100 nm; a low-index fourth layer (4), having a refractive index n4 of between 1.30 and 1.70 and a geometrical thickness e4 of at least 80 nm. This antireflection coating can be used in solar modules. |
| US07833620B2 |
Apparatus for gluing an object to a surface by means of two or more component glue
A device for attaching an object to a substrate by means of glue includes at least one part (21) provided with a breakable sealed cavity, each containing one of the glue components, and one or more cavities (22) in the device (20), which are filled with the remaining glue components, where the parts (20, 21) are movable relative to each other like a piston pump, which makes the glue components flow towards a gluing surface (24, 42) through a system of channels (29, 30) and optionally through mixing chambers (31) and where the breakable seal (26) is broken by this movement. In order not to obstruct an equal flow of glue components, the device according to the invention comprises a cam (27) and a seal storing chamber (35) to store the seal away from the flow after it is broken. |
| US07833616B2 |
Self-aligning nanowires and methods thereof
A self-aligning nanowire includes a nanowire portion and an aligning member attached to the nanowire portion. The aligning member interacts with another aligning member on an adjacent self-aligning nanowire to align the nanowires together. A method of aligning nanowires includes providing a plurality of the self-aligning nanowires, suspending the plurality in a carrier solution, and depositing the suspended plurality on a substrate. An ink formulation includes the plurality of suspended self-aligning nanowires in the carrier solution. A method of producing the self-aligning nanowire includes providing and associating the nanowire portion and the aligning member such that the nanowire produced is self-aligning with another nanowire. |
| US07833615B2 |
Composite porous materials and methods of making and using the same
The invention provides composite porous materials in which a second material is fused to and/or is in the pores and/or is fused directly to some of the pore walls of a porous first material. The invention also provides methods of filtering a fluid using these composite porous materials and methods of manufacturing the composite porous materials. |
| US07833613B1 |
Grade board with integrally formed ledge
A grade board with an integrally formed ledge projecting outwardly from the board. The board may be made of a polymeric and cellulosic composite. |
| US07833612B2 |
Substrate for inkjet printing and method of manufacturing the same
A substrate for inkjet printing, which includes a photoresist layer structure on a base substrate, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The substrate, which has high surface tension variation and slight thickness variation, may be manufactured at a low cost. The substrate includes a discontinuous organic layer structure made of a fluorinated hydrocarbon or a polysiloxane on the photoresist layer structure. |
| US07833611B2 |
Olefin based compositions and floor coverings containing the same
A composition is described that includes at least one compatibilizer having at least one polyolefin and at least one polar group. The composition can include a blend of polymers. Surface coverings and floor coverings, such as laminated floor coverings, having the composition, are also described. |
| US07833609B2 |
Multi-layer sliding member, and method for forming coating layer of sliding member
The present invention is intended to provide a sliding member which exhibits an excellent anti-seizure property even under starved lubricant conditions. In the present invention, there is provided a sliding member with a structure, in which a coating layer having a sliding surface is adhered to the surface of the base material, wherein the coating layer does not contain a resin binder but has solid lubricant plate crystal particles laminated therein, wherein these solid lubricant plate crystal particles have a lamellar crystal structure in which (001) planes are stacked in parallel, and at least in the sliding surface, the orientation index of the (001) plane of the solid lubricant plate crystal particles is 90% or more. |
| US07833608B2 |
Beam, ink jet recording head having beams, and method for manufacturing ink jet recording head having beams
A beam having a base material of silicon monocrystal and at least one projection which is integrally formed so as to be supported at least at one end thereof and which has two surfaces having an orientation plane (111), includes a bottom surface in a plane which is common with a plane of the base material; a groove penetrating from the bottom surface to a top of the projection; and a protecting member having a resistance property against a crystal anisotropic etching liquid and covering an inner wall of the groove. |
| US07833607B2 |
Laminated film, filter for display, and display
A multilayer film includes a substrate film (a), a hard coat layer (b) containing a (meth)acrylate compound, an electrically conductive layer (c) containing electrically conductive particles, and a resin layer (d) containing a fluorine compound, those layers being disposed on at least one face of the substrate film (a). The resin layer (d) has fine irregularities on the surface and an arithmetic average surface roughness Ra ranging from 0.003 μm to 0.025 μm and the surface of the resin layer (d) of the multilayer film has a reflectance of less than 2%. The display filter and the display each include the multilayer film. |
| US07833605B2 |
Vacuum heat insulator
A vacuum heat insulator small in limitation in shape of applicable objects, and wide in application is presented. A vacuum heat insulator is formed of a plurality of core members of thickness of 5 mm or less made of glass fiber shaped nearly in a regular octagonal shape, being coated with a gas barrier enveloping member and evacuated in side. The core members are shaped in octagon, and disposed in lattice layout at specified intervals so as to form folding lines in four directions of vertical, lateral and oblique 45-degree directions, parallel to each side. In order that the plurality of core members may be located in independent spaces individually, the entire surface of the enveloping member around the core members is formed as heat seal parts, and it is foldable in four directions and is flexible. By cutting the heat seal parts along the core members so as to leave about 3 mm in the periphery, a vacuum heat insulator of any desired shape and wide effective heat insulating area can be obtained. The core members may be formed in desired shape, and complicated shapes and through-holes can be formed, so that vacuum heat insulators applicable in a very wide scope of purposes can be presented. |
| US07833604B2 |
Ag alloy reflective layer for optical information recording medium, optical information recording medium, and sputtering target for forming Ag alloy reflective layer for optical information recording medium
An Ag alloy reflective layer for optical information recording medium having excellent environmental resistance, an optical information recording medium having such Ag alloy reflective layer, and the like are provided. This Ag alloy reflective layer for an optical information includes 0.1 to 5 atomic % in total of at least one element selected from W, Ti, V, Mn, Zr, Cr, and Ni; 0.005 to 1 atomic % of Bi; and the residue of Ag and inevitable impurities. As a consequence, this Ag alloy reflective layer has improved environmental resistance including the light resistance for the light beam of particular wavelength and resistance to moist heat under particular set of conditions. |
| US07833597B2 |
Polymeric marker with high radiopacity for use in medical devices
High radiopacity is achieved in a polymeric marker by combining a polymeric resin, a powdered radiopaque agent having uniformly shaped particles of a specific particle size distribution and a wetting agent. The method to produce the marker calls for the blending and pelletization of these materials followed by extrusion onto support beading. The resulting supported tubing is subsequently cut to length with the beading still in place. After ejection of the beading remnant the marker is slipped into place on the device to be marked and attached by melt bonding. Marking of a guidewire allows lesions to be measured while the marking of balloon catheters allow the balloon to be properly positioned relative to a lesion. |
| US07833593B2 |
High efficiency optical devices
Optical devices according to the present invention include a multilayer optical film in which at least one of the layers comprises an oriented birefringent polymer. The multilayer optical film exhibits low absorptivity and can reflect light approaching at shallow angles as well as normal to the film. |
| US07833591B2 |
Image recording element comprising encapsulated mordant particles
The present invention discloses an ink printing method using an image-recording element, which provides an image having excellent image quality and superior dry time, comprising insoluble cationic core-shell polymeric particles each comprising a core comprising cationic core polymer having at least 10 mole percent of a cationic mordant monomeric unit and a shell comprising hydrophilic shell polymer that is substantially less cationic than the cationic core polymer, wherein the shell is at least 10% by weight of the core. |
| US07833587B2 |
Method for plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition and apparatus for plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition
A method for making the characteristics of the distribution of film thickness uniform is provided, avoiding generation of phase differences among streams of high-frequency electric power by manipulating the electrical characteristics of cables through which the high-frequency electric power is transmitted. Coaxial cables (19a to 19h and 24a to 24h) having a standard length and vacuum cables (20a to 20h and 25a to 25h) are installed, then a film is formed on a substrate by actually supplying high-frequency electric power, and thereafter the condition of vapor deposition such as the thickness of the film is observed. Based on the observations, the full lengths of the coaxial cables which communicate with the feeding points and the electrodes which correspond with positions over the substrate which need to be adjusted are changed. The coaxial cables are installed again, and high-frequency electric power equivalent to that used in the previous operation is supplied to form a film. The distribution of the film formed on the substrate is made uniform by repeating the above operations. |
| US07833585B2 |
Hyperbranched maleic anhydride-diene polymers
A hyperbranched polymer having pendent olefinic groups and comprising polymer units derived from one or more terminally-unsaturated, acyclic aliphatic diene and polymer units derived from maleic anhydride. Optionally, the hyperbranched polymer may further comprise polymer units derived from one or more 1-alkenes and/or a chain transfer agent. A process to prepare the hyperbranched polymer comprises contacting maleic anhydride with at least one terminally unsaturated acyclic aliphatic diene having at least 7 carbon atoms in the presence of an effective amount of a radical initiator in an aprotic solvent under dilute conditions. |
| US07833584B2 |
Aqueous vinyl coating compositions
Aqueous coating composition comprising a blend of 20 to 60 wt % of a multistage vinyl polymer (A) comprising 5 to 40 wt % of at least one hard polymer stage (i) having a Tg≧50° C. and 95 to 60 wt % of at least one soft polymer stage (ii) having a Tg≦−5° C.; and 80 to 40 wt % of a vinyl oligomer-polymer (B) comprising 15 to 50 wt % of at least one alkaline soluble oligomer (iii) and 85 to 50 wt % of at least one vinyl polymer (iv) having a Tg in the range of from −20 to 30° C. |
| US07833582B2 |
Method for producing a metallic coating in certain areas of a substrate, transfer film, and use thereof
The invention concerns a process for the production of a region-wise metallization on a carrier substrate, wherein the carrier substrate is at least region-wise provided with a soluble colored first layer which on its side remote from the carrier substrate is provided over its full area with a metal layer, as well as a transfer film with a region-wise metalization and the use thereof. |
| US07833580B2 |
Method of forming a carbon nano-material layer using a cyclic deposition technique
A method of forming a carbon nano-material layer may involve a cyclic deposition technique. In the method, a chemisorption layer or a chemical vapor deposition layer may be formed on a substrate. Impurities may be removed from the chemisorption layer or the chemical vapor deposition layer to form a carbon atoms layer on the substrate. More than one carbon atoms layer may be formed by repeating the method. |
| US07833576B2 |
Use of self-adhesive materials having anisotropic properties for producing stamping products
The use of a pressure sensitive adhesive possessing anisotropic properties for producing punched products. |
| US07833565B2 |
Heart valve prosthesis and method of manufacture
A cardiac valve prosthesis having a frame and two or more leaflets (preferably three) attached to the frame. The leaflets are attached to the frame between posts, with a free edge which can seal the leaflets together when the valve is closed under back pressure. The leaflets are created in a mathematically defined shape allowing good wash-out of the whole leaflet orifice, including the area close to the frame posts, thereby relieving the problem of thrombus deposition under clinical implant conditions. |
| US07833561B2 |
Liquid coffee concentrates
Improved liquid coffee concentrates that have furfuryl acetate to 4-ethyl guaiacol ratio values that approach the furfuryl acetate to 4-ethyl guaiacol ratio values of fresh brewed coffees brewed with the same coffees used to produce said coffee concentrates are shown. Methods of evaluating and adjusting a liquid coffee concentrate's furfuryl acetate to 4-ethyl guaiacol ratio value are also shown. |
| US07833560B2 |
Beverage derived from the extract of coffee cherry husks and coffee cherry pulp
A beverage formulation having a beverage having caffeine wherein the beverage contains caffeine levels in the range of about 0.07 to about 0.30 mg/ml, being optically clear, and having an added aroma; and wherein the beverage comprises an extract that is derived from at least one member of the group of coffee cherry husks and coffee cherry pulp; wherein the extract is in the range of about 5 to about 30% based on standardized extract of the beverage; wherein at least a portion of the caffeine is derived from the extract; wherein the optically clear is measured by a haze value of at least below about 10; and wherein at least a portion of the added aroma is derived from aroma recovered from the extract. |
| US07833559B2 |
Methods and apparatus for the reduction of moisture variability in large cheese blocks
The present invention is directed to processes for making blocks of cheese having reduced moisture variability using controlled cooling of cheese curd to form the final cheese blocks. |
| US07833557B2 |
Method of impregnation treatment for foods and a vitamin C-containing egg obtained thereby
The method of impregnation treatment for foods comprises impregnating the foods with a liquid component or a gas component by contacting the foods with the liquid component or the gas component after vacuum treatment or in the vacuum state and/or cooling the foods in contact with the liquid component. The method of impregnation treatment for foods of the present invention enables readily impregnating various kinds of foods with various liquid components or gas components. The invention also provides a vitamin C-containing egg and a pidan-like egg. |
| US07833552B2 |
Xanthohumol-enriched hop extract
A method for preparing a xanthohumol-rich hop composition. The method includes providing a solution that contains xanthohumol-containing hop substances and effecting precipitation of non-xanthohumol hop substances by adjusting both the salt concentration and pH value of the solution. The xanthohumol-rich hop composition prepared by this method can be used for treating various diseases, e.g., skin disorders, and bacterial infection. |
| US07833550B2 |
Dry powder formulations of antihistamine for nasal administration
Dry powder formulations of drugs such as antihistamine for nasal administration are provided where the drug is retained in the nasal cavity, and systemic side effects minimized or eliminated, through the selection of a narrow particle size range, between approximately 10 and 20 microns in diameter. In a preferred embodiment wherein the drug is an antihistamine, retention of the antihistamine at the nasal mucosa is improved and the bitter aftertaste associated with liquid antihistamine formulations significantly reduced. By making a dry powder formulation of an antihistamine (e.g., azelastine) having an average particle size of between 10 and 20 microns, the antihistamine is restricted primarily to the desired target organ, the nasal mucosa. Because the active ingredient stays in the nasal region, a lower dose can be used to achieve the same desired effect. As demonstrated by the examples, this lower dose reduces the incidence of somnolence, and because the active ingredient remains at the target organ and does not accumulate in the back of the throat and mouth, this formulation does not impart a bitter taste. |
| US07833548B2 |
Bioactive agent release coating and controlled humidity method
A coating composition in the form of a one or multi-part system, and method of applying such a composition under conditions of controlled humidity, for use in coating device surfaces to control and/or improve their ability to release bioactive agents in aqueous systems. The coating composition is particularly adapted for use with medical devices that undergo significant flexion and/or expansion in the course of their delivery and/or use, such as stents and catheters. The composition includes the bioactive agent in combination with a first polymer component such as polyalkyl(meth)acrylate, polyaryl(meth)acrylate, polyaralkyl(meth)acrylate, or polyaryloxyalkyl(meth)acrylate and a second polymer component such as poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate). |
| US07833535B2 |
Clostridial toxin derivatives and methods for treating pain
Agents for treating pain, methods for producing the agents and methods for treating pain by administration to a patient of a therapeutically effective amount of the agent. The agent can include a clostridial neurotoxin, or a component or fragment or derivative thereof, attached to a targeting moiety, wherein the targeting moiety is selected from a group consisting of transmission compounds which can be released from neurons upon the transmission of pain signals by the neurons, and compounds substantially similar to the transmission compounds. |
| US07833528B2 |
Use of multispecific, non-covalent complexes for targeted delivery of therapeutics
Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for treating target cells, tissues or pathogens in a subject, comprising administering a non-covalently bound complex which comprises a multispecific targeting protein and a hapten-enzyme covalent conjugate, followed by administration of a prodrug that is converted to an active drug by the enzyme. Other embodiments of the invention further relate to kits comprising the non-covalently bound complex or the components to prepare the complex. |
| US07833525B2 |
Crystals of whole antibodies and fragments thereof and methods for making and using them
This invention relates to crystals of whole antibodies and fragments thereof, and formulations and compositions comprising such crystals. More particularly, methods are provided for the crystallization of high concentrations of whole antibodies, and fragments thereof, in large batches, and for the preparation of stabilized whole antibody crystals for use alone, or in dry or slurry formulations or compositions. This invention also relates to methods for stabilization, storage and delivery of biologically active whole antibody crystals. |
| US07833521B2 |
Methods of treating using hormone-albumin fusion proteins
Biologically active polypeptides comprising a therapeutically active polypeptide fused to human serum albumin or a variant of human serum albumin, methods for preparation, nucleotide sequences encoding such fusion polypeptides, expression cassettes comprising such nucleotide sequences, self-replicating plasmids containing such expression cassettes, and pharmaceutical compositions containing fusion polypeptides. |
| US07833520B2 |
Method of using interferon-like protein ZCYTO21(IL-29) to treat hepatitis B
The present invention relates to polynucleotide and polypeptide molecules for Zcyto21, an interferon-like protein, which is most closely related to interferon-α at the amino acid sequence level. The present invention also includes antibodies to the Zcyto21 polypeptides, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides. |
| US07833517B2 |
Transparent oil-in-water emulsion cosmetic treatment composition
A transparent composition for cosmetic treatment of keratinous materials comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, at least a compound selected among polyols and mineral electrolytes, at least a volatile silicone, at least a siliconized surfactant, and at least a cationic surfactant in a concentration strictly higher than 0.5 wt. % relative to the composition total weight. The proportions of the polyols and mineral electrolytes are such that the (polyol and/or electrolyte)/oil ratio is not less than 2, the oil comprising at least the volatile silicone. A method for cosmetic treatment of keratinous materials using the transparent composition is also disclosed. |
| US07833514B2 |
CA IX-specific inhibitors
Therapeutic methods for inhibiting the growth of preneoplastic/neoplastic vertebrate cells that abnormally express MN protein are disclosed. Screening assays are provided for identifying compounds, preferably organic compounds, preferably aromatic and heterocylic sulfonamides, which inhibit the enzymatic activity of MN/CA IX and that are useful for treating patients with preneoplastic/neoplastic disease. Further, the CA IX-specific inhibitors when labeled or linked to an appropriate visualizing means can also be used diagnostically/prognostically for preneoplastic/neoplastic disease, and for imaging use, for example, to detect hypoxic precancerous cells, tumors and/or metastases, by selectively binding to activated CA IX, preferably CA IX activated under hypoxic conditions, and not to inactive CA IX. Such detection of hypoxic conditions can be helpful in determining effective treatment options, and in predicting treatment outcome and the prognosis of disease development. Still further, the CA IX-specific inhibitors can be used therapeutically to selectively target hypoxic cells expressing activated CA IX. The CA IX-specific inhibitors can be labelled or conjugated to radioisotopes for radiotherapy of hypoxic cells. Alternatively, the CA IX-specific inhibitors can be used for gene therapy coupled to vectors for targeted delivery to hypoxic preneoplastic/neoplastic cells expressing activated CA IX on their surfaces. In an alternative mode of the invention, CA IX-specific inhibitors may be used therapeutically to target acidic conditions of a tumor, e.g., to increase pHe in order to enhance the efficacy of weak base chemotherapeutic drugs. |
| US07833510B2 |
Method for activating hydrogenation catalyst and method for producing hydrogen peroxide including same
A method for producing hydrogen peroxide by an anthraquinone process includes the steps of: reducing with hydrogen a working solution containing an organic solvent and anthraquinone in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst; and activating the hydrogenation catalyst when a hydrogenation selectivity has decreased due to repeated use, wherein the catalyst activation step includes a step of treating the hydrogenation catalyst with a first alkaline aqueous solution of pH 10 or above containing an alkali metal, and then washing the treated hydrogenation catalyst with water or a second alkaline aqueous solution that is more weakly alkaline than the first alkaline aqueous solution so as to set a catalyst soak solution comprising 5 parts by weight of pure water in admixture with 1 part by weight of the activated hydrogenation catalyst to a pH of 8.0 or above. |
| US07833508B2 |
Reaction vessel and process for its use
The invention relates to a reaction vessel in which hydrogen sulphide is prepared from sulphur and hydrogen, wherein the reaction vessel consists partly or entirely of a material which is resistant to the reaction mixture, its compounds or elements and retains its resistance even at high temperatures. |
| US07833507B2 |
Process for the production of sulphuric acid
Process for the production of concentrated sulphuric acid and oleum from feed gases with up to 70% SO2+SO3 (SOx) and a content of H2O corresponding to H2O/SO3 molar ratios up to 1.6, particularly in the range of 0.5 to 1.6 upstream an intermediate sulphuric acid condenser comprising an air recycling loop with water addition. The process of the invention minimizes power consumption of the sulphuric acid plant by reducing the consumption of cooling water and obtaining maximum possible recovery of the heat liberated in the process for production of high pressure steam for power production. Up to 99.95% of the SOx in the feed gas can be recovered as typically 98.5-99.5 wt % concentrated sulphuric acid and/or oleum with up to 25 wt % SO3. |
| US07833506B2 |
Process for the synthesis of nanosize metal-containing nanoparticles and nanoparticle dispersions
The invention relates to a process for producing morphologically uniform and virtually monodisperse metal-containing nanoparticles, characterized in that the separation both in time and space of the nucleation and growth processes is achieved by regulation of the temperature and volume flows, with the reaction and particle formation preferably being initiated and carried out in a suitable microstructured modular reactor system. Modularization of the microreaction plant (micro heat exchanger, residence reactor, micromixer, etc.) allows optimal setting of the respective chemical and process-engineering process parameters and thus the preparation of virtually monodisperse and morphologically uniform nanoparticles. |
| US07833505B2 |
Methods and systems for synthesis on nanoscale materials
A method and apparatus for production of nanoscale materials is disclosed. In the preferred embodiments, the invention is scalable and tunable to reliably produce nanoscale materials of specifically desired qualities and at relatively high levels of purity. In a preferred embodiment, combustible gas is discharged onto a substrate through a multi-zone flame facilitating the formation of nanoscale materials such as single and multi-wall nanotubes. |
| US07833502B2 |
Integrated process for the production of hydrogen from hydrogen sulphide
A process to efficiently remove sulfur compounds from a hydrocarbon stream in a refinery operation includes the production and recycle of hydrogen from the sulfur compounds. The sulfur compounds present in the hydrocarbon cut are converted to hydrogen sulphide which is split to hydrogen and sulfur in a non-thermal plasma reactor. |
| US07833500B1 |
Abatement of mercury in flue gas
The present invention provides a method for the oxidation of Hg0 in coal fired flue gas to form Hg2+ which is absorbed by the scrubber solution in wet-FGD or SDA, or adsorbed by the fly ash and subsequently removed from the flue stack with ESP and FF, and/or any other means as are known in the art for SOx, NOx and particulate removals. The addition of a second flue gas stream having a halogen and fly ash therein simultaneously with said hydrogen halogen or interhalogens into a coal fired flue gas further increases the oxidation of Hg0 to Hg2+. |
| US07833497B2 |
Separation and purification of fullerenes
A method of processing fullerenes includes generating a gas stream having suspended soot particles and condensable gases, wherein the condensable gases comprising fullerenes, and separating at least a portion of the condensable gases from the suspended soot particles using a gas/solid separations process. At least a portion of the fullerenes in the condensable gases can be condensed and collected after separation of the condensable gases. |
| US07833493B2 |
Combustor for combustion synthesis of fullerenes
A mode of combustion and multi-component reactor to accomplish this mode of combustion are disclosed which produces fullerenes and fullerenic material by combustion. This mode consists of de-coupling an oxidation region of a flame from a post-flame region, thus giving greater control over operating parameters, such as equivalence ratio, temperature, and pressure; allows conditions of the operating parameters of the combustion reaction to be attained which would not be easily attained by conventional methods; and offers the ability to more easily stabilize the combustion reactions to allow for higher throughputs of fuel and oxidant. Several embodiments of a primary zone of a multi-component reactor are also disclosed. Said primary zone serves as the oxidation region, operates on the principle of providing recycle to the reacting combustion mixture, and which may be operated as approximately a well-mixed reactor. A secondary zone is also disclosed which provides further residence time for reaction and the ability to control operating parameters, operates on the principle of minimizing recycle of the reacting combustion mixture. The secondary zone may be operated as approximately a plug-flow reactor. The primary and secondary zones may be operated in conjunction or either one alone. |
| US07833492B2 |
Wearable chemical dispenser
Disclosed herein are wearable devices for dispensing insect repellents, fragrances, and/or other chemicals along the outside of the clothing of a human, to avoid the need to apply such chemicals directly to clothing or to human's skin. The devices have an on/off switch that automatically controls a shutter which enables and restricts air flow, while also controlling fan operation and covering of a use-up cue. The device also is designed to prevent fan operation when an impregnated slab is not present. Also disclosed are preferred refills for use with such devices. |
| US07833491B2 |
Sample container holder
The present invention provides a sample container holder for securely holding sample containers of various shapes and sizes. The holder comprises a base having at least one slot extending from an upper portion of the base to a lower portion of the base. The holder further comprises at least one retainer inserted into the slot creating at least a partial enclosed area on the base to accommodate the sample container. |
| US07833490B2 |
Crucible for the treatment of molten silicon
A crucible for the treatment of molten silicon includes a basic body with a bottom surface and lateral walls defining an inner volume. The basic body comprises at least 65% by weight of silicon carbide, and from 12 to 30% by weight of a constituent selected from silicon oxide or nitride. Moreover, the basic body comprises at least one silicon oxide and/or nitride coating, at least on the surfaces defining the inner volume of the crucible. |
| US07833489B2 |
Fluid sample testing system
A sample testing system may include a vessel comprising at least two flexible compartments and a self-sealing injection channel. The injection channel may be capable of (a) being in fluid communication with at least one of the flexible compartments, and (b) being pierced by a needle in fluid communication with a reagent reservoir. The system may further include a housing, a cavity in the housing, so sized and shaped to receive the vessel, at least one contact member, and a sensor to sense a condition of a fluid sample in the vessel and to generate an output signal indicative of that condition. The contact member may be so positioned as to be engageable with one of the flexible compartments when the vessel is in the cavity and as to compress the engaged flexible compartment, thereby driving fluid flow from the engaged flexible compartment to the other of the at least two compartments of the vessel. The vessel may include a wall constructed of a flexible material permitting substantial compression of the vessel. |
| US07833484B2 |
Method of checking the hermeticity of a closed cavity of a micrometric component and micrometric component for the implementation of the same
In order to check the hermeticity of a closed cavity of at least one micrometric component, said component includes a structure made over or in one portion of a substrate, a cap fixed to one zone of the substrate to protect the structure, and an indicator element whose optical or electrical properties change in the presence of a reactive fluid. The indicator element may be a copper layer for an optical check or a palladium resistor for an electrical check. The micrometric component is placed in a container which is then hermetically closed. This container is filled with a reactive fluid under pressure, which is oxygen for the optical check and hydrogen for the electrical check. The component in the container is subjected to a reactive fluid pressure higher than 10 bars for a determined time period, and to thermal (T>100° C.) or optical (λ<500 nm) activation. After this time period, an optical or electrical check of the indicator element determines the hermeticity of said cavity. |
| US07833483B2 |
Mesoporous nano-crystalline titania structures for hydrogen sensing
A structure includes a substantially non-conductive frame having an exterior surface. The structure defines a plurality of passages that open to the exterior surface. Mesoporous material is disposed in the plurality of passages and is supported therein by the frame. In a method for making a mesoporous nanocrystalline titania hybrid material, a templating agent, an acid, and a titania precursor is mixed into a template liquid. A frame that defines a plurality of passages is placed into the template liquid. A solvent is evaporated from the template liquid, thereby forming a titania gel encapsulating the templating agent. The gel is heated to remove substantially the templating agent from the non-conductive frame and the titania, thereby leaving a mesoporous titania material. |
| US07833479B2 |
Cuvette and a method and shaping tool for manufacture thereof
A cuvette for taking up a body fluid sample and for providing the body fluid sample to an analysis comprises an inlet cavity for receiving a body fluid sample to be analyzed, a centrifugation reception cavity, which is arranged in communication with the inlet cavity such that spontaneous flow from the inlet cavity to the centrifugation reception cavity is prevented and such that body fluid from the inlet cavity may be forced into the centrifugation reception cavity by applying a centrifugation force on the cuvette, an analysis sample reception cavity, which is arranged in capillary connection with at least part of the centrifugation reception cavity for providing a sample transport by capillary action from the centrifugation reception cavity to the analysis sample reception cavity, wherein the analysis sample reception cavity has an opening through an outer wall of the cuvette, said opening extending over the entire width of the analysis sample reception cavity. |
| US07833478B2 |
Separation structure
A centrifugal-based microfluidic device (1) that comprises a hydrophilic microchannel structure (2) in which there is a A) a separation microcavity I (4) that comprises i) a liquid inlet I (5), and ii) a liquid outlet I (6) that is at a level below the level of liquid inlet I (5) and above the level of the bottom (8) of the microcavity (4) thereby defining a lower part (4b) and an upper part (4a) of the microcavity (4), and B) a microconduit I (17) that has an inlet end I (16) directly connected to liquid outlet I (6), and an outlet end I (18) that is at a lower level than inlet end I (6). A capillary valve I (24) is associated with microconduit I (17). The flow direction through liquid outlet I (6) is directed upwards and/or liquid outlet I (6) is placed in a downwardly turned part of an inner wall of the separation microcavity (4), and/or the part of microconduit I (17) next to liquid outlet I (6) is directed upwards. |
| US07833476B2 |
Flamer fuel pressure control
A flamer may be used to sterilize poultry litter, soil, concrete, etc. The stationary or mobile flamer disclosed comprises a hood to contain the heat, an external frame, and burners. A fuel tank may be carried on the flamer or on a tractor. An additional embodiment provides for mounting the flamer on wheels, permitting the unit to be towed by a truck, four-wheeler, tractor, etc. The burners are adjustable as to angle, and fueling rate. A pressure in the fuel system is controlled by selectively switching between the liquid and vaporous components of the fuel. By limiting how low the pressure may fall, the flow of fuel from the tank to the torches is more consistent. |
| US07833474B2 |
Sterile device and method for producing same
A sterile device immersed in a sterile buffer and a method for providing same. The sterile device may be a medical device such as a biosensor having a biomolecule as a sensing element such as, for example, a glucose oxidase enzyme. The buffer may be a bicarbonate solution. Both the device and the buffer may be packaged and stored over long term while maintaining sterilization. The sterilization method may comprise a combination of gaseous, liquid and light sterilization. |
| US07833472B2 |
Article prepared by depositing an alloying element on powder particles, and making the article from the particles
An article is prepared by furnishing a plurality of powder particle substrates made of a substrate metal, providing a nonmetallic precursor of a metallic coating material, wherein the metallic coating material comprises an alloying element that is thermophysically melt incompatible with the substrate metal, contacting the powder particle substrates with the nonmetallic precursor, chemically reducing the nonmetallic precursor to form coated powder particles comprising the powder particle substrates having a surface-enriched layer of the metallic coating material thereon without melting the powder particle substrates, and processing the coated powder particles to form the article, without melting the powder particle substrates. |
| US07833471B2 |
Carburizing apparatus and carburizing method
A carburizing apparatus that can reduce cost and shorten the carburizing time is provided. A single coil for raising temperature, a plurality of coils for soaking, and a conveying mechanism that conveys a treatment object from a position of induction heating with the coil for raising temperature to positions of induction heating with the coils for soaking are provided inside a container for carburization treatment. The rated capacity of a power source for raising temperature that is connected to the coil for raising temperature is higher than the rated capacity of a power source for soaking connected to the coil for soaking. |
| US07833468B2 |
Longitudinal orientation of a tubular thermoplastic film
The improved method and apparatus for longitudinal orientation of a tubular thermoplastic film as it leaves an annular extrusion die aims at a better control of this orientation. On its travel between the exit orifice (21) and the draw-down means, the at least partly molten film passes an annular frictional device (101), and the frictional force set-up hereby is variable in controlled manner. This device is cooled from its interior (105) in controlled manner by means of a fluid cooling medium. The friction may be controlled by airlubrication with air pressed through holes (123) in the frictional device or through microporous metal, (102) or alternatively by sucking the film against the frictional device. In a preferred embodiment the extrusion out of the die is peripherical extrusion, and in another preferred embodiment the film contains a blend of at least two compatible or compatibilized polymers, and the main proportion of the orientation takes place while one is predominantly in a crystalline state and the other predominantly in a molten state. |
| US07833467B2 |
Polyester container having excellent heat resistance and shock resistance and method of producing the same
A polyester container obtained by stretch-forming a preform of a thermoplastic polyester resin formed by injection forming wherein the central portion of the bottom wall is the remaining part of the gate at the time of injection forming, and is formed relatively thicker than the bottom wall surrounding the central portion, and the central portion of the bottom wall is substantially amorphous, and the bottom wall surrounding the central portion is oriented and crystallized. The container exhibits excellent heat resistance and shock resistance despite a thick portion that is the remaining portion of the injection gate is formed at the center of the bottom portion. |
| US07833464B2 |
Imprinting apparatus and imprinting method
An imprinting apparatus and an imprinting method that prevents movement of an imprinting mold during an imprinting process. The imprinting method includes coating a resin on a substrate; aligning an imprinting mold on the resin; temporarily securing the imprinting mold on the substrate; pressing the imprinting mold; hardening the resin; and detaching the imprinting mold. |
| US07833458B2 |
Imprinting method and stamper
According to one embodiment, an imprinting method includes applying a resist to a substrate, imprinting a stamper on which protruded patterns are formed against the resist applied to the substrate, forcing a distal end of a peeling wedge into a part between the substrate and the stamper, and introducing a gas between the substrate and the stamper to peel off the stamper from the substrate, in which a gap between the substrate and the stamper is made larger than a thickness of the resist at a part into which the distal end of the peeling wedge is forced. |
| US07833457B2 |
Method for producing birefringent film, optical film and image display device using the same
A birefringent film with excellent uniformity in in-plane retardation, retardation in the thickness direction, and alignment axis is provided. The birefringent film is produced in such a manner that, in the step of stretching a polymer film, the polymer film is stretched in a width direction while being shrunk in a longitudinal direction, and assuming that lengths in the width direction and the longitudinal direction of the polymer film before being stretched are 1, a change ratio (STD) of the length in the width direction of the polymer film resulting from the stretching and a change ratio (SMD) of the length in the longitudinal direction of the polymer film resulting from the shrinking satisfy the following formula (1). (1/STD)1/2≦SMD<1 (1) |
| US07833456B2 |
Systems and methods for compressing an encapsulant adjacent a semiconductor workpiece
Systems and methods for compressing an encapsulant adjacent a semiconductor workpiece are disclosed. A method in accordance with one aspect includes placing a semiconductor workpiece and an encapsulant in a mold cavity and driving some of the encapsulant from the mold cavity to an overflow chamber. The method can further include applying pressure to the encapsulant in the mold cavity via pressure applied to the encapsulant in the overflow chamber. |
| US07833451B2 |
Mold and molding method
In a mold, at least a first half includes an insert member forming a cavity surface on one end side; a body member having an insertion part into which the insert member is inserted; and an insert member fixer interposed between the insert member and the insertion part, for holding the insert member. The insert member fixer is made of a shape memory alloy, and presses and holds the insert member when the insert member fixer restores its memorized shape, to make a center axis alignment of the insert member with respect to the body member. |
| US07833446B2 |
Method of manufacturing aggregated particles
The aggregated particles are manufactured through a method of manufacturing aggregated particles, which includes an aggregating step, a depressurizing step, and a cooling step. In the aggregating step, a slurry is prepared which contains aggregated particles obtained by flowing an aqueous slurry of resin fine particles having a volume average particle diameter in the range of 0.4 μm to 3 μm through a coiled piping in a heated and pressurized state and thereby aggregating the resin fine particles. In the depressurizing step, the slurry containing the aggregated particles is depressurized, and a particle size control is conducted by disintegrating coarse particles so as to homogenize particle diameters of the aggregated particles. In the cooling step, the slurry containing the aggregated particles of which particle diameters have been homogenized is cooled. |
| US07833442B2 |
Method for coating an ophthalmic lens within an injection molding machine
A method for in-mold coating of an injection molded thermoplastic lens that resides in an injection molding machine oriented to a horizontal parting line. An optical lens is initially formed by injecting molten thermoplastic resin into an edge-gated lens-forming cavity held closed under a primary clamp force. The mold is opened at a time when the lens is rigid enough to retain its shape. An unpressurized full metered charge of coating is applied onto the center of the lens. The coating is co-molded by ramping up the clamp force from zero to a secondary clamp force less than the primary clamp force to compress the coating into a uniformly thick, fringe-free layer. |
| US07833438B2 |
Thermofluorescent pigments for security and safety applications
The invention is directed to use of polythiophenes in a method to determine the genuineness of an article which method comprises providing an article treated with a composition comprised of a polythiophene, the polythiophene having a low temperature color and a weak fluorescence and the structure of the polythiophene being designed such that when the composition is placed in a heat-exchange relationship with the article, the low temperature color will change to a high temperature color and the weak fluorescence will change to a strong fluorescence when a pre-determined temperature is met or exceeded in the article, heating the article to a temperature that meets or exceeds the pre-determined temperature and detecting the color and the fluorescence change. |
| US07833437B2 |
Moisture-resistant electroluminescent phosphor with high initial brightness and method of making
The present invention is an electroluminescent phosphor wherein each individual phosphor particle is encapsulated in an inorganic coating applied by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) coating method. In a preferred embodiment, the coating is aluminum oxyhydroxide. The encapsulated phosphor shows an extreme insensitivity to atmospheric moisture and suffers only minor loss of initial brightness in lamps. |
| US07833435B2 |
Polishing agent
The invention relates to the use of gluconates in the production of semiconductor wafers, preferably in the polishing of the semiconductor wafers during the production process, and to a polishing agent based on an abrasive substance and/or colloid and a mixture of disuccinates or methylglycine diacetic acid (MGDA) and gluconates. |
| US07833434B2 |
Tetrafluoropropene production processes
A process is disclosed for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and 1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene. The process involves pyrolyzing 1,1,1,2,3-pentafluoropropane. |
| US07833431B2 |
Aqueous dispersion for CMP, polishing method and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
An aqueous dispersion for chemical mechanical polishing is provided, which includes water and a resin particle. The resin particles accompany with a projection having a curvature radius ranging from 10 nm to 1.65 μm on a surface. The maximum length of the resin particles is not more than 5 μm and is 2.5 to 25 times as large as the curvature radius. |
| US07833430B2 |
Method for fabricating microstructure and microstructure
A method of making a microstructure with thin wall portions (T1-T3) includes a step of performing a first etching process to a material substrate having a laminate structure including a first conductive layer (11) and a second conductive layer (12) having a thickness of the thin wall portions (T1-T3), where the etching is performed from the side of the first conductive layer (11) thereby forming in the second conductive layer (12) pre thin wall portions (T1′-T3′) which has a pair of side surfaces apart from each other in an in-plane direction of the second conductive layer (12) and contact the first conductive layer (11). The method also includes a step of performing a second etching process from the side of the first conductive layer (11) for removing part of the first conductive layer (11) contacting the pre thin wall portions (T1′-T3′) to form the thin wall portions. |
| US07833428B2 |
Processes and apparatuses for producing porous materials
Processes and apparatuses for producing a porous material, such as nano-porous silicon (npSi) media suitable for storage and retrieval of elemental hydrogen. Processes of this invention generally entail applying a magnetic field to a substrate that contains charge carriers and is in contact with an etchant, and then etching the substrate with the etchant while relative movement occurs between the substrate and the magnetic field. During etching, the charge carriers move relative to the substrate and the magnetic field, and porosity forms at surfaces of the substrate contacting the etchant. |
| US07833426B2 |
Features in substrates and methods of forming
The described embodiments relate to features in substrates and methods of forming same. One exemplary embodiment can be a microdevice that includes a substrate extending between a first substrate surface and a generally opposing second substrate surface, and at least one feature formed into the first surface along a bore axis that is not transverse to the first surface. |
| US07833424B1 |
Backwash assembly and method having a rotating backwash arm for cleaning cloth filter media
The present invention relates to a method for cleaning cloth filter media supported on a plurality of opposingly-spaced filter plate frames. A backwash assembly (23) moves linearly and includes at least one cylindrical backwash arm (200) that rotates to consecutively clean the media of the spaced filter plate frames. |
| US07833423B2 |
Enhanced oxidation process for removal of water and soil contaminants
The treatment of contaminated waters or soils by an oxidizing agent and a catalyst is described. The addition of silica as a catalyst to an oxidizing agent with or without an additional metal catalyst showed a greater remediation effect. Subsequent normal bacterial processes are unimpeded since the treatment process does not leave residual chemicals. |
| US07833420B2 |
Method for cleaning reclaimed water reuse device
A method for cleaning a reclaimed water reuse device, the reclaimed water reuse device comprising a clean water supply device, a first aeration device, a backwash device and a membrane module, the method comprising detecting an operating signal of the clean water supply device; enabling the first aeration device or the backwash device according to the operating signal, so as to perform backwash of the membrane module; and completing washing back and restoring to a normal operating state. |
| US07833411B2 |
Ballast water treatment apparatus
The present invention provides a ballast water treatment system including a reaction tank in which raw water and ozone are imported and made to react each other for a predetermined period of time to kill microorganisms existing in raw water, an ozone decomposer in which water containing residual ozone discharged from the reaction tank is imported and the residual ozone is decomposed, and a circulation pump installed between the reaction tank and ozone decomposer, forming a circulation system which removes the residual ozone by means of circulating the water containing the residual ozone between the reaction tank and ozone decomposer. Accordingly, this system dispenses with a deaeration tank which would require a wide space for installation, small cost and is able to be applied to existing ships easily. |
| US07833410B2 |
Bio tank/gas replenishment system
In systems for treating wastewater liquid by utilizing aerobic biological species, the contaminated wastewater stream is pretreated in a dissolved air flotation system to remove suspended solid waste, including large particles such as fats, grease, and physically emulsified oils. The purified wastewater containing dissolved waste is thereafter gasified and further decontaminated in a bioreactor tank. Biological species in the bioreactor tank consume gas and perform bodily functions that converts dissolved waste into easily removable carbon dioxide and suspend solids. Gas consumed by the biological species is replenished by pumping the wastewater though a liquid-gas mixer. A controller regulates the speed of the pump based on real-time gas concentration measurements provided by a corresponding gas probe disposed within the wastewater in the bioreactor tank. |