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| US08542649B2 |
Method and apparatus for handover in a communication system
A handover method and apparatus in a communication system are provided. A serving Base Station (BS) alternately receives a target BS indicator and a downlink (DL) channel status from a Mobile Station (MS) at intervals of predetermined frames in a BS switching period for handover of the MS. The serving BS determines whether to continue the handover according to a signal received in a frame corresponding to a second reception of the target BS indicator. The method and apparatus provide a detailed definition of operation parameters for a switching time between the serving BS and a target BS. |
| US08542646B1 |
Interference mitigation for network communications
In a network having a plurality of network devices communicating across the network, a method, includes performing a first scan of a first plurality of channels of the network, wherein the channels are scanned for a first scan time; identifying a list of one or more potentially available channels based on results of the first scan; performing a second scan of the network channels, the second scan scanning only those channels identified as potentially available channels based on the first scan, one of the each potentially available channel for a second scan time and wherein the second scan time is longer than the first scan time; and identifying an available channel based on results of the second scan and selecting the available channel for communication. |
| US08542644B2 |
Method for requesting uplink resources and transmitting uplink data
A method for requesting uplink resources and transmitting data is provided. The method includes being allocated to a BR code from a BS by an MS, and transmitting a BR indicator in a format without an ID of the MS to the BS using the BR code in non-contention mode by the MS. Because contention-based MSs and non-contention-based MSs transmit different uplink allocation request information, unnecessary information transmission is avoided, which is efficient. Also, information specific to each MS can be transmitted in extra resources. |
| US08542641B1 |
Quick reassignment of invalid forward traffic channels
Disclosed herein are methods and systems that may, among other possible benefits, help an access network to more quickly re-assign a forward traffic channel. An exemplary method involves an access network: (i) making a determination that a forward traffic channel is invalid, wherein the forward traffic channel is initially assigned to a first access terminal; and (ii) in response to the determination that the forward traffic channel is invalid: (a) after sending a first configuration message indicating that the forward traffic channel is invalid, waiting for at least a predetermined wait period before sending a second configuration message indicating that the forward traffic channel is valid; and (b) before the predetermined wait period has ended, making the forward traffic channel available for re-assignment to a second access terminal. |
| US08542639B2 |
Frame for flexibly supporting heterogeneous modes and TDD/FDD modes, and method for transmitting signals using the same
A frame structure for flexibly supporting heterogeneous modes and TDD/FDD modes and a method for transmitting signals using the same are disclosed. A method for transmitting a signal using a preset frame structure in a communication system which supports a TDD mode and an FDD mode and supports two or more different communication schemes includes constructing a signal in units of the frames and transmitting the signal, wherein at least one of determination of a ratio of a DL region and a UL region within the frame when the communication system communicates according to the TDD mode allocation of a time region according to the modes of the communication schemes when the communication system communicates according to a heterogeneous mode supporting the two or more communication schemes and setting of a construction scheme of sub-frames within the frame in units of a prescribed number of the frames or super-frames, is performed on the basis of a specific unit comprised of n OFDM symbols corresponding to a multiple of a UL subchannelization unit. |
| US08542633B2 |
Admission control
The present invention relates to a network node and a method in a network node for admission control of broadcast transmission sessions. The method comprises receiving a broadcast transmission session start request for a first broadcast transmission session, obtaining at least a first traffic statistics parameter related to said first broadcast transmission session, obtaining the available bit rate for the broadcast transmission area, and obtaining a re-synchronization parameter indicating the time between re-synchronization of transmissions for said broadcast transmission session. The method also calculates a first expected bit error rate based on said at least first traffic statistics parameter, said available bit rate and said re-synchronization parameter, and admits said first broadcast transmission session if said first expected bit error rate is less than a first bit error rate threshold. |
| US08542632B2 |
System and method of communication in an IP multimedia subsystem network
A system and method of communication in an IMS network is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a call processing server having a controller element that receives from a terminal device a calling ID for establishing communications with a called party, submits to a telephone number mapping (ENUM) server a query corresponding to the calling ID, receives from the ENUM server a plurality of communication identifiers retrieved from a Naming Authority Pointer record according to a grade of service (GoS) of the called party, and selects according to the GoS of the called party a communication identifier from the plurality of communication identifiers to establish communications with the called party. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| US08542630B2 |
Shared radio backhaul system
Embodiments of the invention relate to wireless communications networks, and more specifically to method and apparatus relating to wireless backhaul for cellular wireless systems. Increasing data capacity of cellular wireless systems places increasing demands on the capacity of the two way connection, known as backhaul, between a cellular base station and a telecommunications network such as the PSTN backhaul, since this is the connection that has to convey the wireless-originating traffic to its destination, often in an entirely different network. Known backhaul links include leased lines, microwave links, optical fibre links or radio resources for relaying backhaul traffic between base stations. The fixed line solutions are expensive to implement and maintain, while the radio solutions suffer from interference from transmissions between base stations with transmissions from user equipment to base stations which are not communicating with other base stations. In embodiments of the invention, the relaying of access data between base stations utilises radio resources other than radio resources used by transmissions from user equipment within an area of contiguous wireless coverage. The benefit of this approach is that it provides a means of avoiding interference between inter-base station transmissions and user equipment to base station transmissions. |
| US08542629B2 |
Interference management in a hub-spoke spot beam satellite communication system
Conducting communications via a satellite includes using an antenna subsystem to provide fixed location spot beams. The spot beams may be assigned to beam groups according to an objective. At least one transmit-side switch may be sequentially switched to connect an output of a first pathway with different spot beams within a first beam group to establish traffic according to a first transmit beam switching pattern. At least one transmit-side switch may be sequentially switched to connect an output of the second pathway with different spot beams within a second beam group to establish traffic according to a second transmit beam switching pattern. The first and second transmit beam switching patterns may be coordinated to avoid substantial interference between traffic transmitted to a spot beam of the first beam group on a same frequency as traffic transmitted to a spot beam of the second beam group. |
| US08542627B2 |
System and method for determining air interface information for radio resource management in wireless communications
A method for determining values for use by radio resource management functions is disclosed. Air interface actual values and predictive values are obtained and stored. A timestamp indicating a time when each actual value or predictive value is obtained is generated and stored. The actual values and the predictive values are processed to provide an output value. |
| US08542619B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing mobility measurements in a communication network
A method and apparatus for performing mobility measurement in a communication network (100) is described. The method comprises of receiving a subframe sequence pattern from a node in the communication network (100). The subframe sequence pattern indicates types of subframes being transmitted by a neighboring cell node (104) in a neighboring cell (112). The method includes receiving a subframe from a sequence of subframes transmitted by the neighboring cell node (104) in the neighboring cell (112), and determining that the received subframe is a multicast subframe based on the subframe sequence pattern. The method then includes performing a single cell-specific reference symbol measurement in response to determining that the received subframe is the multicast subframe. |
| US08542616B2 |
Simultaneous multiple signal reception and transmission using frequency multiplexing and shared processing
A novel mechanism for simultaneous multiple signal reception and transmission using frequency multiplexing and shared processing. Multiple RF signals, which may be of various wireless standards, are received using one or more shared processing blocks thereby significantly reducing chip space and power requirements. Shared components include local oscillators, analog to digital converters, digital RX processing and digital baseband processing. In operation, multiple RX front end circuits, one for each desired wireless signal, generate a plurality of IF signals that are frequency multiplexed and combined to create a single combined IF signal. The combined IF signal is processed by a shared processing block. Digital baseband processing is performed on each receive signal to generate respective data outputs. Further, simultaneous full-duplex transmission and reception is performed using a single local oscillator. The phase/frequency modulation of the frequency synthesizer used in the TX is removed from the local oscillator signal for use in the receiver. |
| US08542615B2 |
Transmission of control information with configurable timeline in a wireless communication system
Techniques for sending acknowledgement (ACK) and/or other control information with a configurable timeline are described. A receiver may have limited processing resources and may need different amounts of time to process different amounts of data. The receiver may send ACK information earlier (or later) if less (or more) receive processing time is required. In one design, the receiver may receive a transmission of data in accordance with a grant, decode the received transmission to recover the data, and determine ACK information based on decoding result. The receiver may determine a frame to send the ACK information based on the grant. The determined frame may be one of multiple frames available for sending the ACK information. For example, different grant sizes may be associated with different frames. The receiver may send the ACK information for the transmission of data in the determined frame. |
| US08542614B2 |
Full-duplex wireless voice broadcasting apparatus with channel-changing and interference-resistance
The present disclosure is a full-duplex wireless voice broadcasting apparatus. The apparatus is capable of channel-changing. Full-duplex (two-way) voice communication is achieved by using at least one receiving device and an emitting device. The receiving device has good mobility to be used as an emergent caller to the emitting device. The present disclosure has advantages in interference resistance, energy saving, short-distance emergent calling, and calling for help. |
| US08542613B2 |
High-throughput channel operation in a mesh wireless local area network
High throughput channel operation in a mesh wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. A mesh network comprises a plurality of mesh points and a network management entity (NME). The NME is configured to retrieve capability and configuration data from the mesh points. The NME configures at least one mesh point with respect to IEEE 802.11n channelization and legacy protection mode based on the capability and configuration data. |
| US08542600B2 |
Image communicating apparatus
An image communicating apparatus includes a packet control portion that transmits/receives an IFP packet by a T.38 communicating function, and an image communicating control portion. The packet control portion includes a counting unit that counts a total number of received packets and a number of loss packets in the IFP packet. The image communicating control portion includes a calculating unit that calculates a loss ratio of the IFP packet from a rate of the number of loss packets to the total number of received packets which is counted by the counting unit in a receipt of a post message; and a response signal returning unit that returns a retraining negative signal to an apparatus on a transmitting side for the image information in response to the post message, and returns a message confirming signal to the apparatus on the transmitting side in response to the post message. |
| US08542595B2 |
Service processing switch
Methods and systems for providing IP services in an integrated fashion are provided. According to one embodiment, a load associated with multiple virtual routing processing resources of an IP service generator of a virtual router (VR) based switch is monitored. Packets are load balanced among the virtual routing processing resources. A packet flow cache is maintained with packet flow entries containing information indicative of packet processing actions for established packet flows. Deep packet classification is performed to determine whether a packet is associated with an established packet flow. If so, the packet is directed to one of multiple virtual services processing resources representing application-tailored engines configured to provide network-based IP services including one or more of virtual private network (VPN) processing, firewall processing, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) filtering and anti-virus processing. If the packet is allowed, it is returned to the source virtual routing processing resource for forwarding. |
| US08542592B2 |
Managing a network flow using application classification information and active signaling relay
Techniques for classifying and managing network flows associated with a network service using application classification information and active signaling relay are described. A network device, for example, includes a signaling interceptor and a network flow interface. The signaling interceptor monitors a communication between a customer device and an application server, and identifies a network flow associated with a network service provided to the customer device by the application server. The network flow interface applies a policy to the identified network flow. An active signaling relay module communicates with the application server using data injected within the signaling communications, and utilizes the injected data to further control the network flows and the delivery of the network service. |
| US08542584B2 |
Partitioning entity and method for partitioning capacity
The present invention relates to a partitioning entity and a method for partitioning capacity in a communication network to avoid starvation of certain data traffic and to support services with different characteristics. The method of partitioning capacity comprises assigning communication links to a group associated with a time-varying group capacity to form a group of communication links. The group comprises a first sub-group and at least a second sub-group of communication links. Further, the method comprises allocating a non-zero fraction of the time-varying group capacity to the first sub-group of communication links of the group. |
| US08542583B2 |
Manageability tools for lossless networks
Manageability tools are provided for allowing an administrator to have better control over switches in a lossless network of switches. These tools provide the ability to detect slow drain and congestion bottlenecks, detect stuck virtual channels and loss of credits, while hold times on edge ASICs to be different from hold times encore ASICs, and mitigate severe latency bottlenecks. |
| US08542582B2 |
Confirmation of delivery of content to an HTTP/TCP device
A method to confirm delivery of data to a receiving device via a sending socket is disclosed. One embodiment of the method comprises determining when a predetermined amount of data has been removed from a send buffer of the sending socket and sending a confirmation when the predetermined amount of data has been removed from the send buffer. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US08542577B2 |
Digital television transmitter/receiver and method of processing data in digital television transmitter/receiver
A digital television (DTV) transmitter and a method of processing data in the DTV transmitter/receiver are disclosed. In the DTV transmitter, a pre-processor pre-processes the enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded data. A packet formatter generates one or more groups of enhanced data packets, each enhanced data packet including the pre-processed enhanced data and known data, wherein the data formatter adds burst time information into each group of enhanced data packets. And, a packet multiplexer generates at least one burst of enhanced data by multiplexing the one or more groups of enhanced data packets with at least one main data packet including the main data, each burst of enhanced data including at least one group of enhanced data packets. |
| US08542576B2 |
Method and apparatus for auditing 4G mobility networks
A method and apparatus for auditing mobile services delivery to provide a coherent, path-based awareness of the quality level of the mobile services and the corresponding underlying transport elements supporting each service or path. In various embodiments, service or connection audits triggered within a network such as a 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network result in the execution of one or more test sequences adapted to provide service, connection or other information pertaining to the network or the supported mobile services. |
| US08542565B2 |
Optical drive apparatus
An optical drive apparatus includes: a phase-difference detection-signal generating unit that generates PEDr based on PEROd and PEFOd obtained by delaying a phase-lead output signal indicating a phase lead amount of DA with respect to DB and X that is changed to high at a timing at which NAND of the DA and the DB is changed from high to low and changed to low at a timing at which OR of the DA and the DB is changed from high to low, and generates PADr based on PAROd and PAFOd obtained by delaying a phase-lag output signal indicating a phase lag amount of the DA with respect to the DB by a predetermined time and the X; and a DPD signal generating unit that generates a phase difference signal indicating a phase difference between the DA and the DB based on the PEDr and the PADr, and generates a DPD signal based on the phase difference signal. |
| US08542563B2 |
Recording method for optical disk and optical disk recording reproduction device
There is proposed an optical disk recording method that can prevent degradation of recording quality due to occurrence of thermal interference, and an optical disk recording reproduction device used in this recording method. The recording method has a step of executing a test record on an output proofing area of the optical disk 150 while a spot diameter of the recording laser beam is varied, and deriving the relationship between the spot diameter and a characteristic value representing recording quality, a step of deriving a permissible range of a variation amount of the spot diameter on the basis of the derived relationship between the spot diameter and the characteristic value representing the recording quality; a step of irradiating a record region of the optical disk with the recording laser beam to detect spherical aberration while executing recording; and a step of executing aberration correction, in case the spherical aberration occurs, such that a variation amount of the spot diameter falls into the derived permissible range. |
| US08542558B2 |
Time information acquiring apparatus and radio controlled timepiece
A time information acquiring apparatus for acquiring time information from a time code signal included in a standard radio waver including: a pulse measuring section which detects a matching level of an individual pulse signal constituting the time code signal to a predetermined code value; a grouping section which groups pulse signals into one group; a code string estimating section which estimates a code string having a possibility of emerging in a portion of the group in a frame of the time code signal; a code string determining section which determines a probability that the code string indicated by the grouped pulse signals corresponds to the estimated code string based on the matching level; and a time information generating section which generates the time information based on the code string for which the code string determining section determines that the probability is high. |
| US08542553B2 |
Downhole sonic logging tool including irregularly spaced receivers
A downhole acoustic measurement tool includes at least one transmitter longitudinally spaced apart from a non-uniformly spaced longitudinal array of acoustic receivers. The array has a non-uniform spacing such that a first spacing between a first pair of consecutive acoustic receivers in the array is not equal to a second spacing between a second pair of consecutive acoustic receivers in the array. Non-uniform spacing of the receivers in the array reduces aliasing when the received waveforms are processed, for example, to obtain semblance data. |
| US08542539B2 |
NAND flash memory programming
A method of charging a floating gate in a nonvolatile memory cell comprises bringing a substrate channel within the memory cell to a first voltage, bringing a control gate to a programming voltage, and floating the substrate channel voltage while the control gate is at the programming voltage. Memory devices include state machines or controllers operable to perform the described method, and operation of such a state machine, memory device, and information handling system are described. |
| US08542537B2 |
Method and apparatus for temperature compensation for programming and erase distributions in a flash memory
A method and apparatus for a memory device is provided. The memory device includes a memory cell, a memory controller, and a temperature-sensing device that detects a temperature. The memory controller enables adjusting, based on the detected temperature, a parameter associated with a bit-altering operation to the memory cell that changes a threshold voltage of the memory cell such that the threshold voltage to which the memory cell is changed to by the bit-altering operation is compensated for variations in temperature. |
| US08542535B2 |
Controlling select gate voltage during erase to improve endurance in non volatile memory
A technique for erasing a non-volatile memory applies a p-well voltage to a substrate and drives select gate voltages to accurately control the select gate voltage to improve write-erase endurance. Source and drain side select gates of a NAND string are driven at levels to optimize endurance. In one approach, the select gates are driven at specific levels throughout an erase operation, in concert with the p-well voltage. |
| US08542534B2 |
Select gate programming in a memory device
Methods for programming select gates, memory devices, and memory systems are disclosed. In one such method for programming, a program inhibit voltage is transferred from a source line to unselected bit lines. Bit line-to-bit line capacitance, between the unselected bit lines and selected bit lines to be program inhibited, boosts the bit line voltage of the selected, inhibited bit lines to a target inhibit voltage. In one embodiment, the voltage on the selected, inhibited bit line can be increased in a plurality of inhibit steps whereby either one, two, or all of the steps can be used during the programming of unprogrammed select gates. |
| US08542533B2 |
Non-volatile semiconductor memory device
In performing a read operation of a memory transistor, a control circuit supplies a first voltage to a selected word line connected to a selected memory transistor. A second voltage is supplied to a non-selected word line connected to a non-selected memory transistor other than the selected memory transistor, the second voltage being higher than the first voltage. A third voltage is supplied to a bit line. A fourth voltage lower than the third voltage is supplied to, among source lines, a selected source line connected to a memory string including the selected memory transistor in a selected memory block. A fifth voltage substantially the same as the third voltage is supplied to, among the source lines, a non-selected source line connected to a non-selected memory string in the selected memory block. |
| US08542523B2 |
Method for fabricating a DRAM capacitor having increased thermal and chemical stability
A method for fabricating a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) capacitor includes forming a first electrode film. The first electrode film comprises a conductive binary metal compound and a dopant. The dopant may have a uniform or non-uniform concentration within the first electrode film. A high-k dielectric film is formed over the first electrode film. A second electrode film is formed over the dielectric film. The second electrode film comprises a conductive binary metal compound and a dopant. The dopant may have a uniform or non-uniform concentration within the second electrode film. The dopants and their distribution are chosen so that the crystal structure of the surface of the electrode is not degraded if the electrode is to be used as a templating structure for subsequent layer formation. Additionally, the dopants and their distribution are chosen so that the work function of the electrodes is not degraded. |
| US08542518B2 |
Photo-responsive memory resistor and method of operation
An optically-controlled memory resistor includes (1) a memory resistor having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photo-responsive active layer disposed between the first and second electrodes and (2) a light source in cooperation with the memory resistor. The light source is configured to controllably illuminate the memory resistor for affecting a resistance state exhibited by the memory resistor. Also, a method for operating a memory resistor includes changing a resistance state of the memory resistor in response to an application of photons to the memory resistor. |
| US08542517B2 |
Low voltage programmable mosfet antifuse with body contact for diffusion heating
An antifuse can include an insulated gate field effect transistor (“IGFET”) having an active semiconductor region including a body and first regions, i.e., at least one source region and at least one drain region separated from one another by the body. A gate may overlie the body and a body contact is electrically connected with the body. The first regions have opposite conductivity (i.e., n-type or p-type) from the body. The IGFET can be configured such that a programming current through at least one of the first regions and the body contact causes heating sufficient to drive dopant diffusion from the at least one first region into the body and cause an edge of the at least one first region to move closer to an adjacent edge of at least one other of the first regions. In such way, the programming current can permanently reduce electrical resistance by one or more orders of magnitude between the at least one first region and the at least one other first region. |
| US08542514B1 |
Memory structure having SRAM cells and SONOS devices
A memory structure and method to fabricate the same is described. The memory structure includes a first memory cell having a first pair of non-volatile portions. The memory structure also includes a second memory cell having a second pair of non-volatile portions. The first and second pairs of non-volatile portions are disposed in an inter-locking arrangement. |
| US08542513B2 |
Arrays of vertically stacked tiers of non-volatile cross point memory cells, methods of forming arrays of vertically stacked tiers of non-volatile cross point memory cells, and methods of reading a data value stored by an array of vertically stacked tiers of non-volatile cross point memory cells
An array of vertically stacked tiers of non-volatile cross point memory cells includes a plurality of horizontally oriented word lines within individual tiers of memory cells. A plurality of horizontally oriented global bit lines having local vertical bit line extensions extend through multiple of the tiers. Individual of the memory cells comprise multi-resistive state material received between one of the horizontally oriented word lines and one of the local vertical bit line extensions where such cross, with such ones comprising opposing conductive electrodes of individual memory cells where such cross. A plurality of bit line select circuits individually electrically and physically connects to individual of the local vertical bit line extensions and are configured to supply a voltage potential to an individual of the global horizontal bit lines. Other embodiments and aspects are disclosed. |
| US08542510B2 |
Power supply input device converting discharge resistance
A power supply input device including a first resistance of a discharge resistance conversion unit connected in parallel to a discharge resistance unit; and a switching unit of the discharge resistance conversion unit connected to the first resistance and performing a switching operation according to an externally received control signal, thus minimizing power losses occurring when a system is in a standby mode. |
| US08542505B2 |
Precision switching for carrier based PWM
A voltage source converter station including a multilevel voltage source converter, for conversion of electrical power between AC and DC, and a control system. The voltage source converter includes a plurality of switching cells including switchable semiconductors, and the control system includes at least one main control unit for providing a voltage reference signal and a plurality of cell control units. Each cell control unit uses carrier based pulse width modulation for controlling the switching of a respective cell, where the main control unit is communicatively connected to the cell control units and provides the reference voltage signal to each cell control unit and each cell control unit creates a switching signal to each respective switching cell using the reference voltage signal and a carrier signal to effectuate the conversion. |
| US08542504B2 |
Control circuit, power conditioner including the control circuit, and photovoltaic system
A power conditioner of a photovoltaic system is configured operate at higher accuracy. A chopper circuit, a capacitor connected in parallel to the chopper circuit, and a control circuit that controls an ON/OFF status of switch elements in the chopper circuit to control charging and discharging of the capacitor are provided. The control circuit includes a measurement control section that measures an inter-end voltage of the capacitor and a control circuit section that performs a predetermined control operation from a measurement output of the measurement circuit section. The measurement circuit section includes a differential amplifier circuit that differentially amplifies the inter-end voltage of the capacitor. The circuit control section calibrates an in-phase component in the output of the differential amplifier circuit as an in-phase error and performs the control from the calibrated output from the differential amplifier circuit. |
| US08542501B2 |
Switching power-supply apparatus
A switching power-supply apparatus includes a first converter 3, a second converter 4, an output smoothing capacitor Co1, a series resonance circuit 1 and a control circuit 11. The first converter 3, in which switching elements Q11 and Q12 are connected to both ends of a direct-current power-supply Vin in series, and a capacitor Ci1 and a primary winding Np1 of a transformer T1 including an auxiliary winding Na1 are connected to both ends of the switching element Q12 in series, includes diodes D11 and D12 that rectify voltages generated in secondary windings Ns11 and Ns12 of the transformer T1. The second converter 4, in which switching elements Q21 and Q22 are connected to the both ends of the direct-current power-supply Vin in series, and a capacitor Ci12 and a primary winding Np2 of a transformer T2 are connected to both ends of the switching element Q22 in series, includes diodes D21 and D22 that rectify voltages generated in secondary windings Ns21 and Ns22 of the transformer T2. The output smoothing capacitor Co1 smoothes currents output from the diodes D11, D12, D21 and D22. The series resonance circuit 1 includes a resonance reactor L1 and a resonance capacitor C1 connected to the auxiliary winding Na1 in series. The control circuit 11 turns on/off the switching elements Q21 and Q22 according to a current flowing in the series resonance circuit 1. |
| US08542498B2 |
Shielding enclosures
Disclosed herein are various exemplary embodiments of shielding enclosures. In an exemplary embodiment, a shielding enclosure generally includes a frame and a lid. The frame includes vertically extending sidewalls and horizontally inwardly extending lateral flanges therefrom. The lateral flanges define a top opening of the frame and include outwardly extending detent legs. The lid includes a top portion for covering the top opening of the frame. The lid also includes flanges downwardly extending from edges of the top portion. At least one of the flanges has a detent structure, such that when the lid is installed on the frame the detent legs of the frame are engaged by the detent structure. The detent structure may, for example, be detent slots or detent protrusions. |
| US08542495B1 |
Security enclosure for tablet display devices
A security enclosure for touchscreen-type electronic media display tablets such as the Apple® Ipad® tablet. The enclosure has a rear panel that can be mounted to a display or work surface, and a front panel that can be assembled to rotate open and closed on the rear panel with a novel panel-connecting structure that requires no tools or fasteners and that is tamper-resistant. The panel-connecting structure includes a U-shaped channel with radiused connecting tabs bent from an inside edge of the front panel, and a vertical wall with radiused tab-receiving slots bent from a mating interior edge of the rear panel. |
| US08542493B2 |
Flat display apparatus and high-voltage power supply
A flat display apparatus has a flat display panel; a frame that is installed on a rear face side of the display panel; a cover that covers at least a rear face side of the frame; and a high-voltage power supply that applies high voltage to the display panel. The high-voltage power supply has a plurality of cases, each of which encloses one or more transformers and rectifier circuits, and obtains high voltage by connecting the plurality of cases in series, and the plurality of cases are arranged in a space created between the frame and the cover so as to be disposed on a plane in parallel with a screen of the display panel. |
| US08542491B2 |
Structure for fixing a backplate
A structure for fixing a backplate includes a main body having at least one extended portion, on which at least one retaining arm and at least one locating post are provided. The locating post is located near an outmost portion of an end of the extended portion opposite to the main body, and the retaining arm is located near an outer periphery of the locating post. The backplate can be attached to one face of a motherboard via the locating post and the retaining arm of the structure for fixing a backplate to increase the structural strength of the motherboard without the need of using any bonding material or other adhesive medium to thereby reduce the cost of manufacturing and mounting the backplate. |
| US08542490B2 |
Vertically mounted multi-hybrid module and heat sink
A multi-hybrid module includes a plurality of hybrid assemblies that are perpendicularly mounted with respect to a plane of a circuit board. The hybrid assemblies are mounted on opposing sides of a heat sink. The heat sink has a first column disposed at a first end, a second column disposed at a second opposing end, and a generally flat center wall extending between the first column and the second column to which the hybrid assemblies are mounted. During operation the hybrid assemblies are mounted on edge perpendicular with respect to the circuit board to minimize an area profile of the multi-hybrid module on the circuit board. |
| US08542489B2 |
Mechanically-reattachable liquid-cooled cooling apparatus
An apparatus comprising a rack having a row of shelves, each shelf supporting an electronics circuit board, each one of the circuit boards being manually removable from the shelve supporting the one of the circuit boards and having a local heat source thereon. The apparatus also comprises a cooler attached to the rack and being able to circulate a cooling fluid around a channel forming a closed loop. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of heat conduits, each heat conduit being located over a corresponding one of the circuit boards and forming a path to transport heat from the local heat source of the corresponding one of the circuit boards to the cooler. Each heat conduit is configured to be manually detachable from the cooler or the circuit board, without breaking a circulation pathway of the fluid through the cooler. |
| US08542486B2 |
Electronic apparatus with improved heat dissipation
An electronic apparatus with improved heat dissipation comprises a first body with a first shell and a second shell, a second body, a coupling device and a linkage device. The first shell is pivotally connected to the second shell to form an accommodation space. The first shell can pivot relative to the second shell to enlarge the accommodation space and form an opening between the first shell and the second shell. The coupling device couples the second body and the second shell to pivot the second body relative to the second shell to expose or hide the first shell. The linkage device drives the first shell to pivot relative to the second shell. When the second body pivots relative to the second shell toward a first direction, the linkage device drives the first shell to pivot relative to the second shell toward a second direction opposite to the first direction. |
| US08542485B2 |
Electronic equipment housing cooled by natural and forced ventilation
This housing comprises rackable electronic equipment modules (2) housed in a bay. A module (2) has both internal (12, 13) and external (45) thermal radiators cooled by natural and forced ventilation. The internal thermal radiators (12, 13) are placed in thermal contact with the hot spots of the electronic equipment placed in the module (2) via hear collectors (40, 41) connected by heat pipe (42, 43) to the external thermal radiators (45) arranged outside on the edge (44) of the module (2). The internal thermal radiators (12, 13) are sized to be sufficient to cool the electric equipment when the forced ventilation is functioning normally. The external thermal radiators (45) are sized to complement the cooling provided by the internal radiators (12, 13) should the forced ventilation be lost. |
| US08542484B2 |
Electronic apparatus
An electronic apparatus includes a circuit board; a housing which incorporates the circuit board and includes, on the bottom surface of the housing, an opening, through which a portion of one surface of the circuit board is visible, and a fastening hole; an electronic component mounted in the opening and accommodated in the housing; and a fastening member inserted into the fastening hole and fixing the housing. The housing has a rib formed along the entire circumference of the opening, and the rib extends from the circumferential edge of the opening toward the circuit board and prevents the fastening member that has fallen into the opening from entering the housing. |
| US08542481B2 |
Liquid crystal display module for portable terminal
A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module for use in a portable terminal is provided. The LCD module includes a reinforcement plate of a metal material having a bottom surface, and a side surface bent and extended at a substantially constant height along an edge from the bottom surface, a backlight unit laminated onto an upper part of the reinforcement plate, and having a frame of a synthetic resin material that is formed along an edge to insert-mold the reinforcement plate, and an LCD panel fixed by a double sided tape at an upper part of the backlight unit. A portion of the side surface of the reinforcement plate is sequentially twice bent back onto itself on the outside of the reinforcement plate such that its end has a substantially constant width in contact with the bottom surface of the reinforcement plate. |
| US08542478B2 |
Electric double layer capacitor, lithium ion capacitor, and charging device
An electric double layer capacitor, a lithium ion capacitor, and a charging device including a solar cell and either of the capacitors are disclosed. The electric double layer capacitor includes a first and second light-transmitting substrates; a pair of current collectors provided perpendicular to the substrates; active material layers provided on facing planes of the current collectors; and an electrolyte in a region surrounded by the substrates and the facing active material layers. The lithium ion capacitor includes a first and second light-transmitting substrates; a positive and negative electrode active material layers provided perpendicular to the substrates; and an electrolyte in a region surrounded by the facing substrates and the positive and negative electrode active material layers. |
| US08542475B2 |
Self healing high energy glass capacitors
A self healing high energy glass capacitor is provided. The capacitor can have a glass layer with a top surface and a bottom surface. A top sacrificial layer can extend across the top surface and a bottom sacrificial layer can extend across the bottom surface. In addition, a top electrode can extend across the top sacrificial layer and a bottom electrode can extend across the bottom sacrificial layer. In some instances the glass capacitor has an energy breakdown of at least 6 joules per cubic centimeter. |
| US08542472B2 |
Protection circuitry for reversible connectors
An electronic device may include a connector port that accommodates reversible connector plugs. The connector port may include protection circuitry that protects other components in the electronic device from undesired power supply voltages. The protection circuitry may form a first branch and a second branch opposite to the first branch. The protection circuitry may receive control signals from power polarity detection circuitry. The power polarity detection circuitry may detect the presence of power supply voltages at the first branch and the second branch. In response to detecting the presence of a power supply voltage at a given branch, the power polarity detection circuitry may disable a power supply signal path through the opposite branch and enable a power supply signal path through the given branch. |
| US08542466B2 |
Magneto-resistance effect element, and method for manufacturing the same
A magneto-resistance effect element, including a fixed magnetization layer of which a magnetization is substantially fixed in one direction, a free magnetization layer of which a magnetization is rotated in accordance with an external magnetic field and which is formed opposite to the fixed magnetization layer, a spacer layer including a current confining layer with an insulating layer and a conductor to pass a current through the insulating layer in a thickness direction thereof, a thin film layer, and a functional layer. |
| US08542465B2 |
Suspension assembly having a microactuator electrically connected to a gold coating on a stainless steel surface
A novel suspension assembly includes a suspension assembly mounting plate, a microactuator mounting structure extending from the suspension assembly mounting plate, a load beam extending from the microactuator mounting structure, and a laminated flexure attached to the load beam. The laminated flexure includes a tongue that has a read head bonding surface. The suspension assembly includes a stainless steel surface having a gold coating, and a piezoelectric microactuator attached to the microactuator mounting structure and electrically connected to the gold coating. |
| US08542463B2 |
Non-uniform write gap perpendicular writer for shingle writing
A PMR writer is disclosed that includes at least one of a recessed center section in the write pole trailing edge and a center recessed trailing shield to improve the field gradient at track edge. In all embodiments, there is a non-uniform write gap between the trailing edge and the trailing shield. The recessed portion of the write pole trailing edge and/or center recess of the trailing shield has a thickness from 10 to 40 nm in a down-track direction and a width in a cross-track direction of 20 to 200 nm. The distance between the center recess and a corner of the trailing edge is from 20 to 80 nm. A sequence of steps is provided to fabricate the two embodiments of the present invention. |
| US08542455B2 |
Disk drive upsampling servo control signal
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk including a plurality of servo tracks, wherein each servo track comprises a plurality of servo sectors. The disk drive further comprises an actuator for actuating a head over the disk in response to an actuator control signal. The servo sectors are read to generate a first sequence of control samples x[k] at a sample rate corresponding to a frequency of the servo sectors. The first sequence of control samples x[k] is upsampled by a factor of N to generate a second sequence of control samples y[ki] according to: y [ k i | i = 1 : N ] = ( 1 - i N - γ ) u [ k - 1 ] + ( i N + γ ) u [ k ] where γ is a scalar greater than or equal to zero and less than one. The actuator control signal is generated in response to the second sequence of control samples y[ki]. |
| US08542453B2 |
Inspection method and inspection apparatus of magnetic disk
An inspection method and inspection apparatus of a magnetic disk are provided. A gliding test and a certification test are performed at the same time by simultaneously moving a head for the certification test and a head for the gliding test with a heat distortion utilization mechanism (a micro thermal actuator) along a recording surface of the magnetic disk during rotation at a predetermined revolving speed. A flying height of the head for the gliding test is determined according to a revolving speed of the disk. When the flying height of the head for gliding test is determined according to the revolving speed at the certification test, the head for the gliding test is adjusted to a desired height by adjusting a variation of the heat distortion utilization mechanism disposed on the head for the gliding test. The gliding and certification inspections can be performed at the same time. |
| US08542449B2 |
Enhanced variable power zoom lens
An enhanced variable power zoom lens is lightweight in whole and in part, especially, having its focusing lens optics reduced in weight so as to relieve of a load on a focusing drive system, and having its anti-vibration lens optics reduced in both diameter and weight so as to relieve of a load on an anti-vibration drive system and downsize the same. The zoom lens has the foremost or first lens group of positive refractivity, the second lens group of negative refractivity, the third lens group of positive refractivity, the fourth lens group of negative refractivity, and the fifth lens group arranged in sequence from a position closer to the object. The fourth lens group moves toward the image plane for focusing on from the infinity to a proximity object while part of the third lens group moves orthogonal to the optical axis for shifting an image. |
| US08542448B2 |
Imaging lens, imaging apparatus and portable terminal device
An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from the object side, a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a concave surface on the image side near the optical axis and having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power near the optical axis; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power near the optical axis. An image side surface of the fifth lens is concave near the optical axis and has a region where a negative power of the region decreases toward a periphery of the fifth lens as compared with a negative power near the optical axis. |
| US08542447B2 |
Photographic optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same
A photographic optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive or negative refractive power, and a third lens unit having a positive or negative refractive power, focusing being performed by moving the second lens unit, wherein at least one diffractive optical element and at least one optical element made of solid material are provided closer to the object side than a position where a paraxial chief ray intersects an optical axis, and wherein a focal length obtained by only a diffraction component of the diffractive optical element, a focal length of the optical element made of solid material, a focal length of the first lens unit, and a relative anomalous partial dispersion of a material forming the optical element made of solid material are appropriately set. |
| US08542446B2 |
Zoom lens system, imaging device and camera
A zoom lens system comprising: a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; a positive third lens unit; a fourth lens unit; and an aperture diaphragm provided between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit, wherein in zooming, the first to third lens units are moved along an optical axis to perform magnification change, the third lens unit includes two or more lens elements and one or more inter-lens-element air spaces, and the conditions: −7.0 |
| US08542440B2 |
Tube for an observation device
A tube for an optical observation device, in particular for a microscope, with a viewing level that is linearly variable in length and/or height, wherein the tube has an optical light path, in which at least two optical elements are disposed, for example, deflecting elements. The tube can be designed, for example, as a swing-in tube, with a base part, wherein a deflecting element is disposed in the base part so that it can rotate around an axis of rotation, and with an eyepiece support that can swing in relative to the base part, wherein a deflecting element is disposed in the eyepiece support so that it can rotate around an axis of rotation. The optical elements may be disposed so that they can move independently of one another in the optical light path. |
| US08542439B2 |
Method and device for scanning-microscopy imaging of a specimen
A method and a device for scanning-microscopy imaging of a specimen (28) are described. Provision is made that a plurality of specimen points are scanned by means of a scanning beam (14) in successive scanning time intervals, the intensity of the radiation emitted from the respectively scanned specimen point is repeatedly sensed within the associated scanning time interval, an intensity mean value is determined, as a mean value image point signal, from the intensities sensed in the respectively scanned specimen point, and the mean value image point signals are assembled into a mean value raster image. Provision is further made for additionally determining an intensity variance value, as a variance image point signal, from the intensities sensed in the respectively scanning specimen points, and for assembling the variance image point signals into a variance raster image signal. |
| US08542437B1 |
Earth abundant photonic structures
The present invention relates to semiconductor devices comprising rare earth based optical gain medium layers suitable for electronic and optoelectronic applications. |
| US08542432B2 |
Autostereoscopic display system with efficient pixel layout
The present disclosure is directed to autostereoscopic display systems operable to provide increased number of views and related methods. One embodiment of the display systems comprises a light-modulating display panel comprising a first set of colored subpixels and a second set of colored subpixels, and the number of subpixels in the first set of colored subpixels is greater than the number of subpixels in the second set of colored subpixels. The display system further comprises a lenticular sheet disposed in light paths of the colored subpixels of the display panel. |
| US08542427B2 |
Image projection using curved reflective surfaces
A system for projecting images has an illumination system for providing light, a spatial light modulator including an array of individually addressable pixel modulator elements with curved reflective surfaces, and projection optics for projecting the modulated light to form the image, wherein no focal planes of the projection optics are aligned to the reflective surfaces of the pixels. |
| US08542417B2 |
Image reading apparatus having reading units and processing units
An image reading apparatus including: a feeding device; a first reading unit that scans an image of a first surface of the document fed by the feeding device; a second reading unit that scans an image of a second surface of the document fed by the feeding device, wherein the second surface is opposite to the first surface; a first processing unit that processes the image data read by the first reading unit when performing a double-sided reading; a second processing unit that processes the image data read by the second reading unit when performing the double-sided reading, and a control unit that, when a one-sided reading of a following document is performed while one of the processing units is performing a processing of a one-sided reading of a preceding document, controls the other processing unit to perform processing of the one-sided reading of the following document. |
| US08542415B2 |
Image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus capable of reading an image recorded on a first surface and a second surface of a sheet, the image processing apparatus comprising a conveying path comprising a first conveying path formed in a substantially plate shape, a second conveying path disposed below the first conveying path and a curved conveying path disposed between the first conveying path and the second conveying path, a conveying mechanism configured to convey the sheet along a conveying direction from the first conveying path to the second conveying path through the curved conveying path, a first image reading section disposed below the first conveying path and comprising a first image sensor which reads the image recorded on the first surface of the sheet conveyed along the first conveying path at a first image reading position, a second image reading section comprising a second image sensor which reads the image recorded on the second surface of the sheet conveyed along the second conveying path from below the second conveying path at a second image reading position, and an upper cover configured to rotate between a closed position where the first conveying path is partly covered and an open position where the first conveying path is exposed, wherein at least the first conveying path is exposed when the upper cover is in the open position. |
| US08542411B2 |
Creating and processing a mark-able document
The invention enables creating a mark-able document for a user to mark, and recognizing and processing the user-marked mark-able document to generate an accurate user-readable result that has broad application. The application program used to create, process, and generate a printed output based on the processing includes an array of functionality to create a wide variety of mark-able documents. |
| US08542406B2 |
Data processing apparatus capable of calibrating print data to reduce ink consumption
An ink reduction rate is set in accordance with the type of image and the type of recording medium. For example, when a photograph is to be printed on a glossy paper with low resolution, the ink reduction rate is set to 10%. When a photograph is to be printed on a plain paper with low resolution, the ink reduction rate is set to 25%. When a document is to be printed with low resolution, the ink reduction rate is set to 50%, irrespective of the type of recording paper. |
| US08542403B2 |
Image forming apparatus, color conversion control method, recording medium, and information processing apparatus having printer driver
An image forming apparatus is disclosed that performs a color conversion process in accordance with a color conversion setting set by an information processing apparatus that generates print data. The image forming apparatus includes a determination unit determining whether a valid color conversion setting has been performed by the information processing apparatus based on received print data; and a control unit controlling the color conversion process to be performed by the image forming apparatus based on a result determined by the determination unit. |
| US08542401B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same
An image processing apparatus includes a printing unit to print an image on a sheet, a reading unit to read the sheet, a conversion unit to convert a background image stored in a storage medium into a reference image that represents the background image and has a luminance value higher than that of the background image, a print control unit to cause the printing unit to print the reference image obtained by the conversion unit, as an entry area for a user, on the sheet, an extraction unit to extract an image of an area that has a luminance value lower than a first threshold and a color-difference value greater than a second threshold from an image corresponding to the entry area included in the image read by the reading unit after an entry by the user in the entry area, and a combining unit to combine the image extracted by the extraction unit with the background image. |
| US08542398B2 |
Method and system to select a trim size
In one embodiment, a digitized document, formatted as an image file and representing a scanned original page with a page boundary, is received. An image resolution for the digitized document is identified. A height and width of the page boundary, measured in pixels, is identified. A desired trim size for the digitized document is determined based on a function of the identified page boundary height and width and the image resolution. An available trim size that is closest to the desired trim size is selected for printing of the digitized document, via data indicative of available trim sizes stored in a computer-readable medium. |
| US08542396B2 |
System of making a personalized photo album
A personalized photo album preparing system edits digital photos according to the page format of a photo album and allows people to browse or print on a network after saving them. The system includes a processing unit, a displaying unit, a human-machine interface, and an outputting unit. The processing unit is built in with design software. One can manipulate the design software via the human-machine interface to selectively edit the page format and digital photos in the album. The user can further output the digital photos that are edited and saved. Therefore, the invention enables its user to create a desired page format and digital photos. |
| US08542395B2 |
Image forming apparatus and control method therefor
An image forming apparatus includes DMA control units each of which is provided with DMA controllers. Each DMA controller is provided with a plurality of data buffers respectively corresponding to different addresses in a subscanning direction. Each of a predetermined number of pixel data in a main scanning direction is stored in an associated one of the data buffers. Pixel data stored in each of the data buffers are output to an image memory based on the address in the subscanning direction, which corresponds to the associated data buffer. |
| US08542393B1 |
Print control apparatus, image forming system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium
A print control apparatus includes an accepting unit, a generating unit, a transmission unit, a display, a determination unit, and a display controller. The accepting unit accepts a print request. The generating unit generates, on the basis of the print request, print data for outputting an image onto printing paper. The transmission unit transmits the print data to a printing apparatus. The display displays a display screen of a list of print requests accepted by the accepting unit, together with process states of the print requests. The determination unit determines whether a progress speed with which processes based on the print requests are to be completed is not lower than a value. When the progress speed is lower than the set value, the display controller updates the display screen at first time intervals, and, otherwise, updates the display screen at second time intervals longer than the first time intervals. |
| US08542390B2 |
Content printing system, print relay system, control method, and storage medium
A print relay system capable of connecting to an image forming apparatus and a print service system, which is provided by a vendor that publishes a unique specification for executing data communication with the image forming apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to, in response to the print service system receiving a printing instruction input by a user via a client, acquire data from the print service system according to a first specification, which is the unique specification for data communication between the print service system and a relay virtual printer, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the data acquired by the acquisition unit from the relay virtual printer to the image forming apparatus according to a second specification for executing data communication between the relay virtual printer and the image forming apparatus. |
| US08542387B2 |
Printing apparatus, printing system and printer driver
A printing apparatus having an input unit through which a print-job is input; a printing unit, which executes the print-job input through the input unit, and which prints an image onto a recording medium; a connecting unit that is connectable to a removable storage medium; and a control unit, which reads identification information of the print-job from the connected removable storage medium when the removable storage medium is connected to the connecting unit, and which causes the printing unit to execute the print-job identified by the read identification information with priority over at least one print-job that starts being input to the input unit at a time earlier than when the print-job identified by the read identification information started being input. |
| US08542384B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and computer readable medium storing program for shared image processing
An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a recognition unit, a calculation unit, a determination unit, and a controller. The receiving unit receives a print job. The recognition unit recognizes hardware information regarding the image processing apparatus. The calculation unit calculates a time required for image processing of the received print job in accordance with the recognized hardware information and image data in the print job. The determination unit determines whether or not the calculated time required for the image processing of the print job is shorter than a predetermined time. The controller performs assignment control so that, when the determination unit determines that the time required for the image processing of the print job is not shorter than the predetermined time, a dynamic reconfigurable processor included in another image processing apparatus processes a portion of the print job. |
| US08542383B2 |
Data transfer system for an electronic device, a media processing device, and a control method for a media processing device
The number of signal lines needed to communicate a plurality of data types and a plurality of data status levels is reduced and the system cost thereby reduced. A first function unit 1 and a second function unit 2 of the function units in an electronic device are connected by a signal bus 3 for communicating a plurality of data types and a plurality of data status values. The first function unit 1 and second function unit 2 each have a data table of status patterns assigning status values to the data types. The first function unit 1 converts the status pattern to conversion data by referring to the data table and sends the conversion data to the second function unit 2. The second function unit 2 reconverts the received conversion data to the status pattern by referring to the data table. |
| US08542381B2 |
Purging of print jobs from a print data path
A print controller and associated methods of purging a print data path are disclosed. A print controller comprises a job storage system that receives and stores print jobs, and a print data path, which includes components operable to process print jobs, from the job storage system to print engines. The control system receives registrations from the components for flush job messages, flush path messages, or both. The control system receives a request to purge the print data path, and identifies print jobs being processed in the print data path. The control system transmits flush job messages to the components registering for the flush job messages for each print job instructing the components to purge data for the print jobs. The control system also transmits a flush path message to the components registering for the flush path messages instructing the components to purge data for the print jobs being handled. |
| US08542376B2 |
Pre-paid document processing devices and operating methods
Document processing devices and methods are presented, in which the device stores a remaining print unit value in its memory that represents the amount of print units currently available to enable the device to perform the document processing operations, and a programmable computer of the device selectively performs document processing jobs for users and decrements the remaining print unit value until the value reaches zero and the device provides for expenditure of print units according to color content and/or coverage levels determined for a given job. |
| US08542374B2 |
Printing system and method therefor, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program
A printing system which realize a finely-tuned print function limitation and hence achieve efficient reduction in cost. The printing system comprises a printing apparatus that executes a print job, a print control apparatus that controls the printing apparatus, a print authority management server that manages an print authority of the printing apparatus, and a data base server that holds a print function limitation information. The print control apparatus transmits two or more pieces of information required to limit a print function of the printing apparatus to request production of a print authority token of limiting the print function. The print authority management server receives the two or more pieces of information, searching the print function limitation information held in the database server based on the respective pieces of information to produce a print authority token, and transmit the print authority token to the print control apparatus. The print control apparatus adds the received print authority token to the print job and then transmit the print job to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus limits an instruction to the print job based on the print authority token, when the print authority token is added to the received print job. |
| US08542373B2 |
Image processing apparatus and sheet diverting method
According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes: plural trays; a reading section configured to convert an image formed on a sheet into image data and cause a storing section to store the image data; an erasing section configured to erase the image formed on the sheet; and a control section configured to acquire the image data from the storing section, determine, using the image data, whether a trace of a staple is present on the sheet, and convey the sheet, from which the image is erased by the erasing section, to any one of the plural trays such that a conveying destination is different according to a determination result. |
| US08542371B2 |
Information processing method and information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus with a printer driver, which generates print data to be output to an image forming apparatus, corresponding to a plurality of image forming apparatuses registers a compound setting that information indicating output destinations corresponding to the plurality of image forming apparatuses and a plurality of print settings are combined, and sets information indicating an output destination included in the compound setting to the printer driver. |
| US08542370B2 |
Image forming apparatus executing a process corresponding to a function information item included in an application information item selected from a list, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium
An image forming apparatus including a receiving unit configured to receive an application information item that corresponds to an application or a job that is executed by the application, and to record the application information item in a storing unit, wherein the application information item includes a function identification item used for identifying a function for which an execution request is given to the image forming apparatus from the application included in an information processing apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus via a network; a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display a list including the application information item that corresponds to the application or the job, based on the application information item recorded in the storing unit; and a function control unit configured to execute a process corresponding to the function identification item included the application information item that is selected from the list. |
| US08542369B2 |
Printing system and method to eliminate excess blank space between print positions
A printer having multiple stages of nozzles is controlled to avoid or minimize blank space between print portions when printing on roll paper. A controller in communication with the printer is configured to determine if last partial print data to be printed contains blank raster data. If so, the controller calculates the difference between a total number of rasters in the first through the last partial print data and the number of blank rasters in the last partial print data, prints the last partial print data, and controls the paper transportation mechanism to advance the roll paper only the calculated distance to eliminate excess blank space between print portions. The functionality of the controller is also embodied in a method for controlling a printer as described above. |
| US08542366B2 |
Sensing coil and sensing unit for sagnac optical fibre current sensor
A sensing coil for a Sagnac interferometer current sensor is disclosed, the sensing coil (14) being composed of an optical fiber (for example a spun polarizing Hi-Bi fiber) that is arranged in use to transmit a single elliptical polarization state and the sensing coil comprising at least two interconnected loops (15 and 16 or 26 and 27 or 28 and 29). At least one of the loops is arranged in use to enclose a current conductor (11, 12 or 25) and the loops are interconnected such that light propagating in a first direction (23 or 30) in the first loop will propagate in a second, opposite, direction (24 or 31) in the other or, if more than one, in each other loop, whereby the sensing coil provides minimal sensitivity to rotational movement. Also disclosed are a sensing unit (FIG. 5) that incorporates the sensing coil and a current sensor (FIG. 1) that incorporates the sensing unit. |
| US08542364B1 |
System to reduce gyroscopic errors with limited power supply quality in a fiber optic gyroscope
A fiber optic gyroscope includes a light source, an optical coupler in optical communication with the light source, with the optical coupler configured to receive an optical signal from the light source, an optical modulator in optical communication with the optical coupler, and a fiber optic coil in optical communication with the optical modulator. A demodulator is configured to receive an optical signal from the optical coupler and convert the optical signal to an electrical signal. A loop closure electronics module is configured to receive the electrical signal from the demodulator. A bias modulator is responsive to an output from the loop closure electronics module and is configured to output a modulation signal to the optical modulator. A first crosstalk filter network is operatively coupled to the demodulator, and a second crosstalk filter network is operatively coupled to the bias modulator. |
| US08542363B2 |
Self-aligning light source and detector assembly for absorbance measurement
Self-aligning light source and detector assembly having a sensor support mounted in a predetermined, fixed position, a light source holder mounted in a predetermined, fixed position relative to the sensor support, a sensor mounted in a fixed position on the sensor support, and a lamp assembly removably mounted to the light source holder in a predetermined position defined by mating surfaces which engage each other and seat the lamp assembly in the predetermined position whenever the lamp assembly is installed in the holder. |
| US08542350B2 |
Optical position detection device and display device with position detection function
A position detector detecting an object's position includes: first, second and third light sources emitting first, second and third position detection light beams to form first, second and third intensity distributions in a detection area, a highest intensity portion of the second intensity distribution being shifted from that of the first intensity distribution, a highest intensity portion of the third intensity distribution being shifted from a straight line connecting the highest intensity portions of the first and second intensity distributions; a light detector detecting the first, second and third position detection light beams reflected by the object; and a position detection section detecting a two-dimensional coordinate of the object in a detection plane set in the detection area by comparing the intensities of the first and second position detection light beams, and comparing the intensities of the second and third position detection light beams. |
| US08542346B2 |
Optical system with an exchangeable, manipulable correction arrangement for reducing image aberrations
The disclosure relates to an optical system, such as a projection exposure apparatus for semiconductor lithography, including a manipulable correction arrangement for reducing image aberrations. In some embodiments, the system includes at least one manipulator configured to reduce image aberrations. The manipulator can include at least one optical element which can be manipulated by at least one actuator. The manipulator can be formed in changeable fashion together with an actuator. |
| US08542341B2 |
Exposure apparatus
An exposure apparatus includes a radiation system configured to supply a projection beam of radiation, and a patterning device configured to pattern the projection beam according to a desired pattern. The apparatus includes a substrate table having an area configured to support a substrate, and a projection system configured to project the patterned beam onto a target portion of the substrate. At least a part of the apparatus that during use of the apparatus is exposed to radiation is coated with a coating. The coating includes a metal oxide, or a photocatalyst, or a semiconductor, or any combination thereof. |
| US08542340B2 |
Illumination optimization
A method of optimizing an illumination pupil shape for a lithographic process comprises identifying a target pattern to be imaged by said lithographic process. It further comprises identifying at least one optimization point in said target pattern and identifying at least one design for manufacturing metric per optimization point. Additionally, it comprises selecting a set of illumination source points based on the identified at least one design for manufacturing metric and determining the illumination pupil shape based on the selected set of illumination source points. |
| US08542339B2 |
Liquid crystal display device having particular conductive layer
Techniques are provided for unifying steps of sealing material so that the yield and the reliability of a liquid-crystal display device become high. A starting film of scanning lines is patterned so that prismatic dummy wirings 301 for the first layer which are not electrically connected are formed in regions R1 and R2, and wirings 302 extending from the pixel section are formed in a region R3, and wirings 303 having connection end portions 303a are formed in a region R4. After an interlayer insulation film is formed, the starting film of the signal lines is patterned so that the dummy wirings 304 for the second layer are formed to embed the gaps between the wirings 301 to 303, and also the wirings 305 and the wirings 303 which extend from the pixel portion are connected to each other. This permits unification of the cross-sectional structure of the sealing material formation region. |
| US08542334B2 |
Variable contrast, wide viewing angle LCD light-switching filter
A new concept of the LCD light-switching optical filter allowing for very high, electrically controlled, continuously variable light attenuation (up to ≧100,000) optimized/symmetrized for the light incidence along the normal to the LCD plane is proposed. The new LCD light-switching optical filter also exhibits very low light attenuation dependence for the oblique incidence of light within a limited cone of angles off the normal incidence direction in compliance with the international safety and quality regulation EN 379 for personal protection equipment. According to the invention the problem is solved by specific, novel modification of the general principle of highly twisted nematic LCDs, allowing for the adaptation of the light transmission/driving voltage characteristics to specific requirements of the driving electronics as well as “symmetrizing” the overall optical birefringent properties, which in turn results in a high degree of their angular compensation. |
| US08542332B2 |
Liquid crystal display device comprising a protection sheet attached to a reflector and including a protruding part that extends along a first direction from an edge of the protection sheet
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel; a main frame surrounding sides of the liquid crystal panel; a backlight unit disposed under the liquid crystal panel and surrounded by the main frame, the backlight unit including a light guide plate, a lamp at a side of the light guide plate, a reflector under the light guide plate and an optical sheet on the light guide plate, wherein a rear surface of the reflector is exposed through an opening of the main frame; and a protection sheet attached to the rear surface of the reflector to protect the rear surface of the reflector and including a protruding part at a side of the protection sheet, the protection sheet has a rectangular shape. |
| US08542331B2 |
Display apparatus
A display device is provided that improves product yield thereof. The display device according to the present invention includes: an insulation substrate; a plurality of gate pad metal layers disposed in a first direction on the substrate; a plurality of data pad metal layers disposed in a second direction on the substrate; a gate fanout unit connecting the gate pad metal layers and gate lines of a display area; a data fanout unit connecting the data pad metal layers and data lines of the display area; and a first insulating layer pattern on the gate pad metal layers, the data pad metal layers, the gate fanout unit, and the data fanout unit, wherein the first insulating layer pattern is partially removed on at least a portion of a region between two neighboring gate pad metal layers, or two neighboring data pad metal layers, thereby forming a first opening. |
| US08542330B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
The present invention has a pixel which includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first liquid crystal element, and a second liquid crystal element. A pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a signal line through the first switch. The pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element through the second switch and the first resistor. The pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a Cs line through the third switch and the second resistor. A common electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a common electrode of the second liquid crystal element. |
| US08542329B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having a pixel electrode and a second substrate having a counter electrode. The pixel electrode includes a first pixel electrode portion in a belt-like shape extending in a first direction and a second pixel electrode portion connected with one end of the first pixel electrode portion and extending in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction. The counter electrode includes a first counter electrode portion in a belt-like shape extending in the first direction to form a lateral electric field between the first counter electrode portion and the first pixel electrode portion. A liquid crystal layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate. The lateral electric field is applied to the liquid crystal layer. |
| US08542327B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device, which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates, includes scanning lines extending in a row direction of matrix-arrayed pixels; and signal lines extending in a column direction of the pixels, wherein a pixel between a pair of ones of the signal lines, which neighbor in the row direction, includes, on an identical one of the pair of substrates, a first electrode which is connected to one of the pair of ones of the signal lines, and a second electrode which is opposed to the first electrode via an interlayer insulation film and is connected to the other of the pair of ones of the signal lines. |
| US08542325B2 |
Color changing contact lenses
The present invention generally relates to contact lenses. Specifically, this invention relates to contact lenses that change color based on one or more stimuli. The present application provides for a color changing contact lens that can change its color based on one or more stimuli. The color changing contact lens is constructed of an inner layer, an outer layer and a supply of liquid crystal. |
| US08542319B1 |
Interlaced video pre-processor
Methods and systems for pre-processing a progressive scan signal comprise: receiving by a processor thea progressive scan signal; detecting an amount of vertical motion present in the progressive scan signal; low pass filtering the progressive scan signal in a vertical domain as a function of the amount of vertical motion present to generate a pre-filtered progressive signal; and interlacing the pre-filtered progressive signal to generate an interlaced signal having a minimal amount of artifacts. |
| US08542312B2 |
Device having image reconstructing function, method, and storage medium
A reconstructed image with less noise is reconstructed from a lens array image. An image reconstructing device acquires the lens array image formed by a lens array comprising an array of multiple sub-lenses for an optical image of an object formed by a main lens. The image reconstructing device comprises an interpolation part interpolating a third sub-image formed by a third sub-lens based on the first sub-image and the second sub-image constituting the acquired lens array image, wherein the third sub-lens is positioned between the first sub-lens forming the first sub-image and the second sub-lens forming the second sub-image. The image reconstructing device comprises a reconstructing part reconstructing an image of the object formed by the main lens focused on a point at a given distance from the interpolated third sub-image, the first sub-image and the second sub-image. |
| US08542310B2 |
Imaging lens, manufacturing method and imaging unit therefor
Provided is an imaging lens, in which a space holding portion is formed outside the effective aperture of one or both of junction type compound lenses facing each other in order to hold the space between the junction type compound lenses. A mating face formed on the space holding portion which is made of the same material as that of a lens portion is brought in direct contact with a mating face provided on the other among the junction type compound lenses facing each other at the position facing the mating face of the space holding portion, outside the effective aperture of the other junction type compound lens. Alternatively, mating faces which are formed on confronting surfaces of the space holding portions formed on the facing junction type compound lenses are brought in direct contact with each other. |
| US08542308B2 |
Digital photographing apparatus with lens unit configured for flexible printed circuit boards having different lengths
Provided is a digital photographing apparatus that includes a lens unit frame having an opening through which light enters from a forward direction, and having a lens unit to be disposed inside the frame, or having a lens barrel comprising a lens unit to be disposed inside the frame; and a lens unit base disposed at a rear of the frame so as to be coupled to the frame, wherein the frame comprises a first opening through which a printed circuit board (PCB) emerges from the inside of the frame to the outside of the frame, and wherein the frame and the lens unit base are disposed to form a gap therebetween, thereby forming a second opening corresponding to the gap through which a PCB emerges from the inside of the frame to the outside of the frame. |
| US08542306B2 |
Imaging device with an operation for displaying a setting arrangement in a first display unit different from the setting arrangement in a second display unit
An imaging apparatus is provided with a first display unit, a second display unit, and a controller for controlling displays of setting screens for changing various settings in the first and second display units. The controller controls the displays of the setting screens so that the setting screen displayed on the first display unit differs from the setting screen displayed on the second display unit. The setting screens include an image in which specified setting items and candidates of the setting values related to each setting item are arranged. The controller controls the displays of the setting screens so that the types of displayed setting items and candidates of the setting values are the same in the setting screen displayed on the first display unit and the setting screen displayed on the second display unit, an arranging directions of the setting items are the same, and an arranging directions of the candidates of the setting values differ. |
| US08542296B2 |
Super-resolution digital zoom
When a user selects digital zooming in a camera such as might be included in a wireless telephone or PDA, a series of images are automatically obtained and superimposed using super-resolution techniques to produce an improved digital zoom image transparently to the user. |
| US08542294B2 |
Adjusting time metadata of digital media items
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for adjusting time metadata of digital media items. A digital image captured at a location is associated with a time of capture and a location of capture. It is determined that a time of capture of the digital image is in a preset time zone that is different from a time zone of the location. In response to the determining, multiple locations are provided, each being associated with a respective time zone including a time zone of the location. A selection of a location is received and the time of capture is adjusted based on a time zone associated with the selected location. |
| US08542293B2 |
Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling the image pickup apparatus, and storage medium
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit that picks up an image of a subject; an internal memory; a removable external memory; a compression processing unit that compresses the image picked up by the image pickup unit to generate a picked-up image; a recording processing unit that records the picked-up image in the removable external memory and records the compressed image corresponding to the picked-up image in the internal memory; and an editing processing unit that edits the picked-up image in the removable external memory and the compressed image in the internal memory. For a compressed image in the internal memory, a reservation for editing a picked-up image corresponding to the compressed image and recorded in the unmounted removable external memory can be made. |
| US08542288B2 |
Camera system and imaging method using multiple lens and aperture units
A camera system (100) comprises a plurality of imaging units (190), wherein each imaging unit (190) includes a lens unit (120) and an aperture unit (110), and wherein the apertures (115) of the aperture units (110) have different size during an exposure period. A plurality of images of the same scene are captured at different aperture sizes during an exposure period, wherein the images are shifted versions of the scene and feature different depth-of-field and exposure value ranges. A processing unit (200) applies a high-dynamic resolution and/or a super-resolution method on the basis of the obtained images. |
| US08542285B2 |
Offloading processing of images from a portable digital camera
Images are offloaded from a portable camera automatically to a network server at the time the images are taken, transparently to a user of the camera. The server executes processing functions on the images and returns the output of the processing over the network to the camera and/or other user-defined destination device to thereby relieve the camera processor of potentially complex processing chores. |
| US08542283B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and information terminal apparatus
Provision is made for obtaining a high-quality image with noise, such as ringing, reduced. An image processing device includes an image correction means for applying image-shake correction processing to an input image; a correction-image characteristic detection means for detecting a characteristic of a correction image obtained through the image-shake correction processing; a first characteristic-determination means for outputting selection information, based on a characteristic-detected correction image obtained through detection of the characteristic of the correction image; and an image outputting means for outputting the input image or the correction image, based on the selection information. As a result, it is made possible to obtain a high-quality image with noise reduced. |
| US08542278B2 |
Shaking detection device, shaking correction device, imaging device, and shaking detection method
A data thinning unit prepares thinned images by extracting only one component in raw data of each of a standard image and reference image, a block extracting unit extracts a search block and a template block for finding residual differences, a luminance difference comparing unit obtains a difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of luminance values of each block, and, when smaller than a threshold value, excludes this from a scope of acquisition of residual differences. The residual difference acquiring unit acquires residual differences from blocks which were not excluded, a block selecting unit selects a predetermined number of blocks having small residual differences, and a hand shake (blur or unintentional movement) acquiring unit finds a position of the template block at which the residual difference becomes the minimum, calculates a center value of all positions, and defines the same as the amount of hand shake. |
| US08542277B2 |
Controlling apparatus and controlling method for signal outputing circuit and video system
The invention discloses a controlling apparatus for a signal outputting circuit in an electronic system. The controlling apparatus includes a detecting circuit, a switch, and a controlling circuit. The detecting circuit is used for detecting whether the electronic system has an abnormal condition. The switch is electrically connected between a signal receiving terminal and the signal outputting circuit. The controlling circuit is electrically connected between the detecting circuit and the switch. Once the detecting circuit detects that the electronic system has the abnormal condition, the controlling circuit sets the switch into a high-impedance state. |
| US08542276B2 |
Object Tracking method and apparatus for a non-overlapping-sensor network
An object tracking method for a non-overlapping-sensor network works in a sensor network. The method may comprise a training phase and a detection phase. In the training phase, a plurality of sensor information measured by the sensors in the sensor network is used as training samples. At least an entrance/exit is marked out within the measurement range of each sensor. At least three characteristic functions including sensor spatial relation among the sensors in the sensor network, difference of movement time and similarity in appearance, are estimated by an automatically learning method. The at least three characteristic functions are used as the principles for object tracking and relationship linking in the detection phase. |
| US08542274B2 |
Wide field microscopic imaging system and method
A wide field microscopic image acquisition apparatus and method are disclosed. The apparatus is configured to acquire images of a specimen on a microscope slide and includes first and second illuminators each having unique illumination characteristics. The apparatus includes a microscope imaging system with an imaging device, an objective lens and a stage configured to digitally acquire a plurality of images of the specimen using the first and second illuminators. A controller is configured to automatically control the microscope imaging system and acquire the plurality of images of the specimen using the first and second illuminators. The first and second illuminators can be bright field, dark field or fluorescent illuminators. |
| US08542268B2 |
Compact multi-aperture three-dimensional imaging system
A stereo-imaging system estimates depth based on two images; a multiview-imaging system estimates depth based on two or more images. A passive multiview-imaging system based on a sensor array is designed by considering different candidate partitions of the sensor array into imaging subsystems, especially three or more imaging subsystems. |
| US08542266B2 |
Method and system for adapting a CP layout according to interaction between conferees
A system and method is disclosed for adapting a continuous presence videoconferencing layout according to interactions between conferees. Using regions of interest found in video images, the arrangement of images of conferees may be dynamically arranged as displayed by endpoints. Arrangements may be responsive to various metrics, including the position of conferees in a room and dominant conferees in the videoconference. Video images may be manipulated as part of the arrangement, including cropping and mirroring the video image. As interactions between conferees change, the layout may be automatically rearranged responsive to the changed interactions. |
| US08542264B2 |
System and method for managing optics in a video environment
An apparatus is provided in one example and includes a camera configured to receive image data associated with an end user involved in a video session. The apparatus further includes a display configured to interface with the camera. The camera and the display cooperate such that the apparatus can initiate the video session involving the end user, and activate a retracting mechanism configured to move the camera such that the camera is retracted from a view of the display and the camera moves to an inactive state. |
| US08542262B2 |
Light emitting element array, drive circuit, optical print head, and image forming apparatus
A light emitting element array includes a plurality of light emitting elements each having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal. The light emitting elements are arranged next to each other to form a group. The first terminal receives a drive signal, the second terminal is connected to ground, and the third terminal has a threshold voltage or a threshold current controllable from outside so that the light emitting elements are driven in a time division way. |
| US08542261B2 |
Method for color erasing process and color erasing device
According to an embodiment, a method for color erasing process includes the steps of: supplying a power to a heat source configured to heat a sheet having an image formed thereon using a color erasable material so as to cause heat generation as warming-up control; stopping the power supply to the heat source for a predetermined period of time in the warming-up control if the temperature of the heat source is increased starting from a temperature lower than a predetermined reference value that is lower than a color erasing temperature of the color erasable material and exceeds the predetermined reference value; performing maintenance control that is power supply control to maintain the temperature of the heat source at the target temperature; and performing, after the passage of the predetermined period of time, a color erasing process by the heat source. |
| US08542258B2 |
Apparatus and method for increasing pixel resolution of image using coherent sampling
An apparatus and method for adjusting the pixel resolution of an input image is disclosed. According to the present invention, the pixel resolution of the input image is adjusted by oversampling an analog signal representative of the input image at a higher frequency than the pixel rate of the original image, then digitally downscaling to the desired horizontal resolution of an output image. The horizontally downscaled image is then stored in a buffer memory and subsequently scaled up to the desired vertical resolution of the output image. Preferably, oversampling of the analog signal is performed at a frequency that is an integer multiple of the input pixel rate, thus providing coherent sampling to help avoid aliasing artifacts in the sampled image. |
| US08542257B2 |
Method of driving a light source, apparatus for performing the method and display apparatus having the apparatus
A light source apparatus includes a light source module, a luminance determiner, an illuminance sensor and a light source driver. The light source module provides a display panel with light. The luminance determiner obtains luminance data of first image data including at least white image data that is converted from image data of a red color, a green color and a blue color. The illuminance sensor obtains sensing data based upon an external illuminance. The light source driver drives the light source module based upon the luminance data and the sensing data. |
| US08542251B1 |
Access using image-based manipulation
A computer-implemented method may include presenting to a user one or more images, receiving a rotational reorientation of the one or more images by the user, and providing access to a computing service based on a comparison of the orientations of the one or more images after reorientation by the user to a standard for each image. |
| US08542249B2 |
Medical image display apparatus and method, and program for displaying medical image
A storage device of a report producing terminal stores an importance table. The importance table stores grades of importance of respective items of accessory information on medical images. Prior to displaying a medical image on a screen, an area defining section extracts a main subject display area of the medical image, and defines an accessory information display area outside the main subject display area. A display style defining section calculates a necessary display area for each individual item of the accessory information, and discriminates between those items which fit in the accessory information display area and those which do not. The display style defining section decides not to display the items which do not fit in the accessory information display area, or decides to display them in a transparent style, in a scrolling style, in a switching style or with a small font. |
| US08542246B2 |
Color conversion device, color conversion table and color conversion method
A color conversion device generates color data in a second color gamut based on first converted color data and input color data, which are obtained from input color data in a first color gamut, and outputs the color data in the second color gamut. The color conversion device includes a first color mapping unit which generates the first converted color data by mapping the input color data into the second color gamut; a color mixing unit which generates color data by mixing the first converted color data and second converted color data at a ratio corresponding to the first color gamut and the second color gamut; and a color data output unit which outputs the color data. |
| US08542241B2 |
Stereoscopic content auto-judging mechanism
A method of playing an original 3D content on a 3D enabled monitor, where the 3D enabled monitor does not support the original 3D format type of the original 3D content. The method includes the steps of automatically reading a portion the original 3D content to obtain an identity of the original 3D format type, this portion may or may not be a tag, and reading this portion may include playing multiple frames of the 3D content. The preferred method further includes automatically detecting a monitor and its 3D display format type. If no match is found between the original 3D format type and the display format type, then the method deconstruct the original image content and reconstruct the image content into a 3D format type supported by the 3D display format type. |
| US08542240B2 |
Electronic device having switchable graphics processors
An electronic device comprises at least two graphics processors, referred to herein as an integrated graphics processor and a discrete graphics processor. In some circumstances, the device may be switched between the integrated graphics processor and the discrete graphics processor. In some embodiments, techniques are implemented to lock temporarily the screen display on the output of a controller while the device executes a switch between graphics processors, thereby eliminating, or at least reducing, the presence of a blank output display on the electronic device. Other embodiments may be described. |
| US08542238B2 |
User interface for controlling animation of an object
A user can control the animation of an object via an interface that includes a control area and a user-manipulable control element. In one embodiment, the control area includes an ellipse, and the user-manipulable control element includes an arrow. In yet another embodiment, the control area includes an ellipse, and the user-manipulable control element includes two points on the circumference of the ellipse. In yet another embodiment, the control area includes a first rectangle, and the user-manipulable control element includes a second rectangle. In yet another embodiment, the user-manipulable control element includes two triangular regions, and the control area includes an area separating the two regions. |
| US08542234B2 |
System for arranging a plurality of relational nodes into graphical layout form
A system for arranging a plurality of nodes into graphical layout form partitions the nodes into a set of clusters from which a cluster graph is created. The cluster partitioning is based on the inter-nodal relationships, and cluster size depends on the number of nodes associated with each cluster. The clusters are laid out to avoid overlap, and cluster boundaries, within which nodes in a cluster are constrained, are generated. Nodes of each cluster as classified as either internal or boundary nodes, with boundary nodes being projected outward towards the boundary of the cluster. As an optional step, connection edges between nodes are routed to avoid overlap. |
| US08542226B2 |
Gate pulse modulating circuit and method
A gate pulse modulating circuit includes a timing controller capable of generating an output enable signal and a plurality of timing control signals; a high gate voltage generating unit, electrically connected to the timing controller for receiving the timing control signals, capable of generating a high gate voltage with a waveform including a plurality of cutting edges in response to the timing control signals; a low gate voltage generating unit capable of generating a low gate voltage; and a gate driver, electrically connected to the timing controller for receiving the output enable signal and the high gate voltage generating unit for receiving the high gate voltage and the low gate voltage generating unit for receiving the low gate voltage, capable of generating a plurality of gate pulses in response to a plurality of enable periods of the output enable signal; wherein a waveform of the gate pulses includes a plurality of cutting edges. |
| US08542225B2 |
Emission control line drivers, organic light emitting display devices using the same and methods of controlling a width of an emission control signal
An emission control line driver includes even-numbered stages that are connected to even-numbered emission control lines, respectively, and are driven by a first clock signal, and odd-numbered stages that are connected to odd-numbered emission control lines, respectively, and are driven by a second clock signal, wherein each of the stages includes an input unit adapted to receive a control signal and an inverted control signal output from a previous one of the even and odd numbered stages or from an external source, the input unit being adapted to control voltages of a first node and a second node, a first output unit adapted to generate an emission control signal based on the voltages of the first node and the second node, and a second output unit adapted to generate an inverted emission control signal based on the voltages of the first node and the second node. |
| US08542223B2 |
Display device having reduced reflection of visible light
A display device includes a display panel, a polarization film, and a wave plate. Below the wave plate and the polarization film there is provided a plurality of optical sensors disposed within the display panel. The display panel includes first and second substrates facing each other and a plurality of pixels configured to display an image. The optical sensors are configured to sense light in one or more predetermined light bands. The wave plate is configured to rotate polarization of first light that has passed upwardly through the polarization film such that the combination of upward and downward (reflected) passage of the light is rotated by about 90 degrees. The so-rotated light is blocked from passing down through the polarization film; advantageously, the so-rotated light is prevented from interfering with the optical sensors. |
| US08542222B2 |
Differential amplifier circuit, data line driver using the same, and liquid crystal display apparatus
A differential amplifier circuit includes: an NMOS transistor pair connected with a non-inversion input terminal and an inversion input terminal; a PMOS transistor pair connected with the non-inversion input terminal and the inversion input terminal; and an output circuit section. The PMOS transistor pair includes first and second PMOS transistors, and the NMOS transistor pair includes first and second non-doped type NMOS transistors as a depletion type of NMOS transistors in which a channel region is formed in a P-type substrate without a P well. The output circuit section includes a first current mirror of a folded cascode type connected with the first and second non-doped type NMOS transistors, and outputs an output voltage in response to a current from the first current mirror. |
| US08542214B2 |
Image display device
An image display device includes an image display unit, a capacitance type touch panel that is disposed on the surface of the image display unit, and a signal processing unit that outputs to a control unit a position signal corresponding to a pressed position on the touch panel or a signal corresponding to the distance between the touch panel and a finger based on the capacitance between the touch panel and the finger. When the approach of the finger to the touch panel is detected, sensitivity is lowered and a menu button is displayed. When the finger moves while pressing the menu button, a menu area and a menu icon are displayed. Accordingly, it is easy to operate the touch panel which is applied to a vehicle-mounted apparatus and it is easy to see a display screen. |
| US08542213B2 |
Touched position detection method for touch panel
In a touched position detection method for a touch panel for detecting a touched position, based on measured values by a plurality of sensors, presence of a touch is determined when a measured value by a sensor exceeds a touch threshold. As a touch threshold, a value which cannot be attained due to a mere noise but can due to presence of a touch is set. With respect to sensors located in the vicinity of a sensor showing a high measured value, a higher weighted value is applied to modify a measured value in a touched position calculation process than that to be applied to other sensors. |
| US08542209B2 |
Advanced touch control of interactive map viewing via finger angle using a high dimensional touchpad (HDTP) touch user interface
High Dimensional Touchpad (HDTP) or other user interface technology implemented in touch screens used on computers, smartphones, or other mobile devices provides advanced touch control of a variety of interactive map applications using one or more of a user's finger position or movement in one or more of the roll angle, pitch angle, yaw angle, and downward pressure directions. Implementations also can be responsive to a user's finger position or movement in the left-right and forward-backward directions. Implementations can also use HDTP or other user interface technology implemented on the back of a mouse. Also, the interactive map imaging application may use a connection over the internet or other network. |
| US08542206B2 |
Swipe gestures for touch screen keyboards
Systems, methods, and devices for interpreting manual swipe gestures as input in connection with touch-sensitive user interfaces that include virtual keyboards are disclosed herein. These allow for a user entering text using the virtual keyboard to perform certain functions using swipes across the key area rather than tapping particular keys. For example, leftward, rightward, upward, and downward swipes can be assigned to inserting a space, backspacing, shifting (as for typing capital letters), and inserting a carriage return and/or new line. Various other mappings are also described. The described techniques can be used in conjunction with a variety of devices, including handheld devices that include touch-screen interfaces, such as desktop computers, tablet computers, notebook computers, handheld computers, personal digital assistants, media players, mobile telephones, and combinations thereof. |
| US08542202B2 |
Electronic device and method for determining a touch input applied to a capacitive touch panel system incorporated therein
An electronic device is operable to determine a touch input applied to a capacitive touch panel system thereof so as to account for time-varying noise affecting the touch panel system. The electronic device includes the touch panel system, an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit is operable to: receive digital signal values from the ADC unit representing capacitances detected by sensing points of the touch panel system; adjust at least one of the digital signal values based at least on a time-varying noise to produce at least one noise-adjusted value; and determine the touch input based on the at least one noise-adjusted value. In one embodiment, the electronic device determines the time-varying noise prior to adjusting the digital signal values. In another embodiment, the time-varying noise is produced by a display panel of a touchscreen display that also includes the touch panel system. |
| US08542200B2 |
Touch sensing electrophoretic display device
An image display device has touch sensing sensor components integrally distributed amongst pixel components of the device. In one embodiment, the distribution is one sensor component per one pixel component. In one embodiment, the pixel component forms a pixel portion of an image by selectively reflecting light and the sensor component is composed of a material that reflects light. More specifically, in one embodiment the light reflecting pixel component is an electrophoretic unit and the sensor component includes a layer of titanium having a color filter layer disposed below it and thus protectively covering it. Reflection of light from the light reflecting sensor layer is reduced by providing an anti-reflection layer above it. The sensor component changes resistance in response to change of local temperature or of an amount of infrared radiation impinging on it. Its resistance is measured by way of two wires connected thereto and extending through contact holes provided in the color filter layer. |
| US08542198B2 |
Multi-touch input actual-size display screen for scanned items
An apparatus comprises a processor, a scanner operatively connected to the processor, and a touch screen graphic user interface operatively connected to the processor. The scanner is positioned to scan a predetermined scan area and the touch screen has a screen area that has dimensions corresponding to the scan area. The touch screen is positioned adjacent the scan area such that the scan area is aligned with the screen area. |
| US08542196B2 |
System and method for a thumb-optimized touch-screen user interface
A virtual thumb-board solution is provided that fits on a pocket-size device or even palm-size device and uses the standard keyboard layout with straight rows of keys, which is achieved while making the virtual thumb-board accurate, fast, and comfortable. And thumb-optimized virtual User Interface solutions are provided that make information searching and UI navigation on pocket-size hand-held devices exceptionally fast and intuitive. |
| US08542184B2 |
Driving device and driving method of electrophoretic display
A driving device of an electrophoretic display panel having a common electrode and a plurality of divided electrodes disposed opposite to the common electrode includes: a first driving circuit that outputs a plurality of voltages corresponding to a plurality of voltage data supplied as a series of data and supplies the plurality of voltages to the plurality of divided electrodes; and a second driving circuit that outputs a voltage corresponding to supplied data and supplies the voltage to the common electrode. |
| US08542179B2 |
Gate signal line driving circuit and display device with suppression of changes in the threshold voltage of the switching elements
A gate signal line driving circuit and a display device includes first and second low voltage application switching elements that supply a low voltage to gate signal lines, a holding capacitor that is connected to a reset target node and supplies an ON signal towards the first and second low voltage application switching elements in a signal low period, first and third control switching elements the one ends of which are connected to the switch input of the first or second low voltage application switching element, and second and fourth control switching elements which each are provided between the switch input of the first or second low voltage application switching element and one end of the holding capacitor. In a startup period, a high voltage is supplied to the holding capacitor through the first to fourth control switching elements. |
| US08542174B2 |
Display panel and driving method thereof
Display panels buffering display data from a data driver. The display panel comprises a first signal line, a first data line, a first scan line interlaced with the first data line, a first pixel coupled to the first data line and the first scan line, a first switching element comprising a first terminal coupled to the first data line, a first storage capacitor coupled between a second terminal of the first switching element and a ground, and a second switching element coupled to the first storage capacitor and the first signal line. |
| US08542168B2 |
Display device
The present invention provides a display method realizing reduction in a moving picture blurring by forming one frame by two fields of different luminance, in which increase in an unapplied voltage due to shortening of data voltage write time is suppressed. A gate voltage is applied in a light field for a period of time which is twice as long as scan line selection time, thereby decreasing an unapplied voltage. On the other hand, a gate voltage is applied normally in a dark field for the scan line selection time, so that the case where the unapplied voltage increases is eliminated. As a result, an image with high reproducibility can be obtained. |
| US08542163B2 |
Bistable electrowetting picture element
A bistable electrowetting picture element that has both stable “On” and “Off” states in which no power is consumed, and a switching voltage threshold. Displays using such picture elements may be either passive or active matrix addressed. A picture element contains two immiscible, fluids within a space between two surfaces. One of the fluids is an electroconductive, polar liquid, such as to water. The other fluid is a non-polar liquid such as silicone oil. The picture element is electrically switchable between two states, both of which are maintained without a voltage being applied. In one state the light absorbing, non-polar liquid adjoins a region of one of the surfaces, while in the second state it adjoins another region on the other surface. The region adjoined to in the second state differs in area from the region adjoined to in the first state, thereby providing “On” and “Off” states. |
| US08542162B2 |
Shift register unit, gate drive circuit, and display apparatus
Provided are a shift register unit, a gate drive circuit, and a display apparatus. The shift register unit comprises: input module for inputting first clock signal, second clock signal, frame start signal, high voltage signal, and low voltage signal, first clock signal is identical with phase-inverted signal of second clock signal within one frame; a processing module comprising multiple TFTs, for generating gate drive signal according to the first clock signal, the second clock signal, and the frame start signal, and configuring positive feedback of voltage changes between first node and second node formed by the TFTs to cut off transient DC path formed by high voltage signal input terminal, low voltage signal input terminal, and at least one TFT in time; output module for sending the gate drive signal. The present disclosure decreases the transient current, and reduces the power consumption of the shift register unit. |
| US08542161B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate, gate lines, data lines, gate tracking lines, and dummy gate tracking lines. The gate lines and the data lines are arranged perpendicularly. Each gate tracking line is disposed between one parts of two adjacent data lines, and substantially parallel to the data lines. Each dummy gate tracking line is electrically disconnected to the gate lines, disposed between other parts of two adjacent data lines, and substantially parallel to the data lines. |
| US08542159B2 |
Cable connector and antenna component
Provided is a cable connector of the present invention includes: a wiring board with a signal transmission line; and a plug connector that is provided on one surface of the wiring board and that is electrically connected with the signal transmission line. The wiring board comprises a first conductor, an insulating material, and a second conductor laminated in this order. In a slit formed in the second conductor, the signal transmission line that is a part of the second conductor cut out from the second conductor is arranged at a predetermined distance from the second conductor. The second conductor and the signal transmission line are arranged on the same plane. |
| US08542156B2 |
Pedestal for tracking antenna
A pedestal for tracking antenna includes a horizontal isolation assembly dimensioned and configured to isolate the support plate from horizontal vibration and shock of the base ring, a hub assembly including a support mounted on the horizontal isolation assembly rotatably supporting a rotating frame about a first azimuth axis, a vertical isolation assembly including an upright frame and a cross-level axis support slidably interconnected with a linear bearing assembly, the linear bearing assembly having a profiled rail slidably received within a complementary shaped bearing block, wherein the profiled rail can not twist axially relative to the bearing block, a cross-level frame pivotally mounted on the cross-level axis support about a second cross-level axis, and/or an elevation frame assembly supporting the tracking antenna and pivotally mounted on the cross-level frame about a third elevation axis. |
| US08542153B2 |
Slot halo antenna device
An antenna of the present disclosure has a housing having a shallow cavity in a top of the housing and a shallow cavity in a bottom of the housing. The antenna further has a substantially circular radiating element disposed in the shallow cavity on the top of the housing, the radiating element having an arc shape slot. In addition, the antenna has a substantially circular parasitic element disposed in the shallow cavity on the bottom of the housing. |
| US08542152B2 |
Multi-band antenna
A multi-frequency antenna includes a microwave substrate, a first antenna unit, a second antenna unit, a third antenna unit and a grounding unit. The first antenna unit, the second antenna unit, and the third antenna unit are disposed on the microwave substrate surface. The grounding unit is disposed at an edge on the surface of the microwave substrate. The grounding unit is in connection with the second antenna unit. The second antenna unit and the third antenna unit are bent to form perpendicular structures to the microwave substrate. The compact arrangement reduces the physical footprint of the antenna module to enable fitment in a wide range of products having tight special constraint. |
| US08542150B2 |
Planar broadband antenna
A planar antenna comprising a planarly configured inner radiation element that is surrounded by an outer radiation element, wherein the inner and outer radiation elements each have a feed point. A continuous or discontinuous modification of the distance, which is equal in relation to a symmetrical axis of the inner radiation element, exists between the inner radiation element and the outer radiation element. The distance between the outer and the inner radiation element is different in the area of the two feed points from that in the area facing away from the feed points. |
| US08542148B1 |
Polarization control for cell telecommunication system
A base station for use in a wireless communications system is disclosed, including transceiver circuitry for transmitting and receiving with at least one mobile device over at least one communications channel. Polarization control logic is included for controlling a polarization of signals transmitted over the at least one communications channel. The polarization control logic adjusts a polarization of the signal transmitted on the at least one communications channel responsive to at least one parameter received from the mobile device relating to a quality of signal received on the at least one communications channel. |
| US08542142B2 |
Interleaved analog to digital converter with reduced number of multipliers for digital equalization
A digital equalizer with a reduced number of multipliers for correction of the frequency responses of an interleaved ADC is disclosed. An exemplary interleaved analog to digital converter with digital equalization includes a composite ADC including M time interleaved sub-ADC, a demultiplexer, samples repositioning unit, a first PreFIRs transformer, a second PreFIRs transformer, K double buffer FIR filters, a PostFIRs transformer, a samples sequence restoration unit, and a multiplexer, coupled in series and providing an equalized, frequency response-corrected output. |
| US08542138B2 |
Ring oscillator delta sigma ADC modulator with replica path nonlinearity calibration
An embodiment provides a continuous-time delta-sigma modulator for analog-to-digital conversion. The modulator includes a signal path generating including a ring voltage controlled oscillator driven by an analog input signal. The signal path produces digital values by sampling the ring voltage controlled oscillator. A calibration circuit measures nonlinear distortion coefficients in a replica of the signal path. A nonlinearity corrector corrects the digital values based upon determined nonlinear distortion coefficients. Preferred embodiment ADC ΔΣ modulators do not require any analog integrators, feedback DACs, comparators, or reference voltages, and do not require a low jitter clock. |
| US08542135B2 |
Compression algorithm incorporating automatic generation of a bank of predefined huffman dictionaries
A system and method of selecting a predefined Huffman dictionary from a bank of dictionaries. The dictionary selection mechanism of the present invention effectively breaks the built-in tradeoff between compression ratio and compression rate for both hardware and software compression implementations. A mechanism is provided for automatically creating a predefined Huffman dictionary for a set of input files. The dictionary selection mechanism achieves high compression rate and ratio leveraging predefined Huffman dictionaries and provides a mechanism for dynamically speculating which predefined dictionary to select per input data block, thereby achieving close to a dynamic Huffman ratio at a static Huffman rate. In addition, a feedback loop is used to monitor the ongoing performance of the preset currently selected for use by the hardware accelerator. If the current preset is not optimal it is replaced with an optimal preset. |
| US08542134B2 |
Keyboard adaptive haptic response
Various embodiments provide a keyboard that adaptively provides haptic feedback to a user. In at least some embodiments, an actuation of a key or keyboard element of the keyboard is detected. This can be accomplished by detecting the closure of an associated switch caused by a user depressing the key or keyboard element. In response to detecting the actuation, an electrically-deformable material is utilized as an actuating mechanism to impart single or multi-vectored movement to the key or keyboard element according to drive parameters. This movement produces a perceived acceleration of the key or keyboard element, thus providing haptic feedback which simulates a “snapover” effect. |
| US08542131B2 |
Musical key fob vehicle locator
A musical key fob vehicle locator is disclosed that provides the ability to locate one's vehicle audibly. The musical key fob vehicle locator provides a radiofrequency linked controller to a vehicle and contains a digital audio file system to play music, a song, a riff or other recorded music composed and performed by musicians using actual musical instruments to facilitate the recording. This approach provides a pleasant, personalized, and uniquely recognizable audio locator that reflects the taste, personality, and likes of the vehicle owner. |
| US08542129B2 |
Parking aid system
A parking aid system is disclosed. The parking aid system includes: a parking space borderline recognition section configured to recognize two borderlines of the parking space based on a captured image, which is captured by an imaging device mounted to the vehicle, the two borderlines respectively being two parts of the parking space boundary opposite to each other in a width direction of the parking space; a displacement calculation section configured to calculate displacement of the vehicle in the width direction with respect to the two borderlines based on positions of the two borderlines in the captured image and an imaging range of the imaging device; and a notifier configured to notify the displacement calculated by the displacement calculation section. |
| US08542128B2 |
Parking assist apparatus and method
A parking assisting apparatus that can reduce a burden of a driver at a preliminary stage of parking. The parking assisting apparatus assists parking of a vehicle and includes an obstacle detector that detects an obstacle near the vehicle and an information outputting mechanism that informs the driver of a parking space adjacent to the obstacle detected by the obstacle detector. |
| US08542125B2 |
System for verifying the integrity of an electrical union
A system is provided for verifying the performance of an electrical union. The electrical union provides electrical connectivity across an interface between first and second elements which rotate relative to each other. The system includes a signal source associated with the first element. The signal source is adapted to send an electrical signal over the union to the second element using a first signal frequency. The system further includes a frequency modulator associated with the second element. The frequency modulator is adapted to return the electrical signal over the union to the first element using a different second signal frequency. The system further includes a comparator which compares the signal sent by the data source to the signal returned by the frequency modulator. The comparator provides an output which identifies whether a discrepancy exists between the contents of the sent and returned signals. |
| US08542120B2 |
Method and device for protecting articles
A device for protecting articles, especially displayed goods, from theft is typically configured to produce information about the article when a person is detected approaching the article or the article is moved but not taken. The device typically includes an alarm which may be sounded if the article is moved too far from the display position or under other conditions. |
| US08542119B2 |
Combination non-programmable and programmable key for security device
A combination non-programmable and programmable key for a security device of the type used to display items of merchandise includes a non-programmable portion for cooperating with a mechanical lock of the security device and a programmable portion for cooperating with a sensor of the security device that is operatively coupled to an alarm for indicating a security threat to the security device or to an item of merchandise displayed on the security device. The non-programmable portion includes a side assembly having a magnet that cooperates with a magnetically attractable locking pin to unlock the mechanical lock of the security device. The programmable portion emits an energy signal that cooperates with the sensor of the security device to disarm the alarm and thereby permit the security device to be removed or an item of merchandise to be removed without the alarm indicating a security threat. |
| US08542108B1 |
Dynamic dashboard display
A dashboard for use in a vehicle is provided. The dashboard comprises a dashboard display screen and a processor. The dashboard display presents a plurality of information components to a vehicle occupant and the processor determines a condition. The condition is comprised of at least one of a fuel condition, a brake fluid condition, a speed condition, a tire pressure condition, an oil condition, an engine condition, an instrument condition, a washer fluid condition, an anti-lock brake system condition, a traction control system condition, a windshield wiper motor condition, a safety restraint system condition, and a weather condition. The processor adapts a first display signal based on the condition and sends the first display signal to the dashboard display screen to command presentation by the dashboard display screen of the information components. Adapting the first display signal comprises at least one of changing size, changing location, and changing the scale of at least one information component presented on the dashboard display screen. |
| US08542106B2 |
Method and device for identifying and classifying objects
A method and device for identifying and classifying objects, electromagnetic radiation being emitted by a sensor, the radiation components reflected on objects being received by the sensor, the received signals being analyzed by comparison with stored characteristic values and the class of the reflecting object being deduced on the basis of the analysis. To this end, an analyzer is provided for analyzing the received signals, a memory is provided for storing characteristic patterns, its stored patterns being compared with the analyzed signals and thus the class of the reflecting objects being deducible on the basis of the comparison. |
| US08542103B2 |
Radio frequency identification reading by using error correcting codes on sets of tags
A method and a system are described for improved reading of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags using correcting codes on sets of electronic tags. A reading device requests information from each of a set of electronic tags. The information includes an identification code and a portion of a codeword, the codeword contains a coded message with identification codes of all tags in the set. The information is received from a subset of the set of tags. Portions of the codeword from the received tag information of the subset of tags are assembled. A decoding component to decode the assembled portions and to construct the coded message from the assembled portions of the codeword. Information is individually received from a remaining set of the tags in the set of tags. An enterprise system processes the received information from all tags in the set. |
| US08542099B2 |
Systems and processes for tracking items
Systems and processes for tracking the status of an item are disclosed. Systems and processes for decommissioning identifying information from pharmaceutical product containers are disclosed. |
| US08542095B2 |
Biometric authentication device, biometric authentication method, and storage medium
Provided is a biometric authentication device that can enhance usability, suppress deterioration of authentication accuracy due to ambient noise, and increase tolerance to wiretapping. A biometric authentication device generates a signal pattern toward a living body by using a signal pattern generating means 11, and transmits the signal pattern to the living body in accordance with the signal pattern by a signal transmitting means 12. Further, the device receives a response signal transmitted through the living body by a signal receiving means 13. The device then calculates transfer feature in accordance with the signal pattern and the response signal by a transfer feature calculating means 14. Further, the device extracts and collates a feature amount in accordance with the transfer features. |
| US08542094B2 |
Apparatus and method for secure detection of an item and a method of securing access to information associated with the item
Privacy of information is protected by a method of securing access to information associated with a value item, the method involving comparing a security signature and a stored profile, and permitting access to the information associated with the value item if the security signature matches the stored profile.An apparatus and method for detecting an item is provided in accordance with other aspects of the invention. The apparatus includes one or more sources operable to produce electromagnetic radiation in a range of wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum; and one or more imaging devices, such as cameras, operable to produce images of the item. Different images may be produced for different ranges of wavelengths being produced. A material profile may be made from digital representations of the images for subsequent authentication of the item and for detecting changes to the item. |
| US08542088B2 |
Method and circuit arrangement for monitoring devices activated by electrical pulses
A method for monitoring devices which are activated by electrical pulses, characterized in that first pulses which are transmitted to the device are counted, in that second pulses which are received by the device are counted, and in that the numbers of first and second pulses are compared with one another. |
| US08542086B2 |
Conductive polymer electronic devices with surface mountable configuration and methods for manufacturing same
Surface-mountable conductive polymer electronic devices include at least one conductive polymer active layer laminated between upper and lower electrodes. Upper and lower insulation layers, respectively, sandwich the upper and lower electrodes. First and second planar conductive terminals are formed on the lower insulation layer. First and second cross-conductors are provided by plated through-hole vias, whereby the cross-conductors connect each of the electrodes to one of the terminals. Certain embodiments include two or more active layers, arranged in a vertically-stacked configuration and electrically connected by the cross-conductors and electrodes in parallel. Several embodiments include at least one cross-conductor having a chamfered or beveled entry hole through the upper insulation layer to provide enhanced adhesion between the cross-conductor and the insulation layer. Several methods for manufacturing the present surface-mountable conductive polymer electronic devices are also provided. |
| US08542085B2 |
High frequency rotary transformer for synchronous electrical machines
A high frequency rotary transformer for an electrical machine includes a primary transformer component having a primary transformer winding, and a secondary transformer component having a secondary transformer winding. The primary transformer winding is configured to be coupled to a DC power source via a DC to AC converter. The secondary transformer winding is configured to be coupled to a winding of the rotor. Each of the primary and secondary transformer components are mechanically coupled to either the stator or the rotor. The secondary transformer component is configured to rotate with respect to the primary transformer component to produce a magnetic flux via the primary transformer winding and the secondary transformer winding. |
| US08542082B2 |
High-impedance line and detecting system having the same
A high-impedance line includes a plurality of windings successively arranged. Each of the windings includes an upper portion and a lower portion parallel to the upper portion. The upper portions of each of the windings are electrically connected to the lower portions of adjacent windings. A resistance unit electrically connected between every two adjacent windings. |
| US08542080B2 |
All-pass network
A phase-shift network may include a first capacitor connected between a first input node and a first output node, and a second capacitor connected between a second input node and a second output node. Further, a 5 first filter section may be connected between the first input node and the second output node, and a second filter section may be connected between the second input node and the first output node. One or both of the first and second filter sections may include an inductance and a high-pass network. The high-pass network may include third and fourth capacitors and a first inductor. The inductance and third and fourth capacitors may be connected in series between the respective input and output nodes. The first inductor may have a first end connected to an intermediate node between the third and fourth capacitors and a second end connected to a circuit ground. |
| US08542077B2 |
High-frequency circuit
A high-frequency circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of transistors, a plurality of input matching circuits, a plurality of output matching circuits, a plurality of resistors, and low-frequency oscillation suppressing circuits. The transistors are arranged on a substrate in parallel. The input matching circuits and output matching circuits are arranged on insulating substrates and connected to the transistors. The oscillation suppressing circuits are a circuit configured by a filter circuit having a desired transmission band and a resistor, and are connected to gate terminals of transistors located on both sides of the transistors, respectively. Each of resistors is formed to include a position closest to the transistor between the input matching circuits and between the output matching circuits. Furthermore, each of resistors has a length at which the oscillation suppressing circuit can suppress oscillation at the lowest frequency in the transmission band. |
| US08542075B2 |
Structure and method for reducing EM radiation, and electric object and manufacturing method thereof
A method for reducing EM radiation comprises at least one first resonance line disposed on one of electric surfaces, which is disposed at a side of a transmission line structure on one of the electric surface. The resonance line crosses over a slot of another electric surface. The slot is etched on a corresponding electric surface. In addition, the transmission line structure crosses over the slot of the electric surface. Then, the first resonance line connects the electric surface having the slot with another electric surface. It can adjust at least one of a length, a width and a shape of the first resonance line, to make an input impedance seen from a crossed point between the transmission line structure and the slot approximately 0. |
| US08542072B2 |
Spin-valve or tunnel-junction radio-frequency oscillator, process for adjusting the frequency of such an oscillator and network consisting of a plurality of such oscillators
A radio-frequency oscillator incorporates a magnetoresistive device within which an electron current is able to flow. The device includes a stack including: a magnetic trapped layer, the magnetization of which is of substantially fixed direction; a magnetic free layer; and a non-magnetic intermediate layer-interposed between the free layer and the trapped layer. The oscillator also includes a mechanism capable of making an electron current flow in the layers constituting the stack and in a direction perpendicular to the plane which contains the layers. At least the free layer is devoid of any material at its center. The electron current density flowing through the stack is capable of generating a magnetization in the free layer in a micromagnetic configuration in the shape of a skewed vortex flowing in the free layer around the center of the free layer. |
| US08542071B2 |
Chaotic oscillator-based random number generation
Chaotic oscillator-based random number generation is described. In an example, a circuit includes a negative differential resistance (NDR) device to receive an alternating current (AC) bias. The circuit further includes a capacitance in parallel with the NDR device, the capacitance having a value such that, in response to a direct current (DC) bias applied to the NDR device and the capacitance, a voltage across the capacitance oscillates with a chaotic period. The circuit further includes a random number generator to generate random numbers using samples of the voltage across the capacitance. |
| US08542050B2 |
Minimized line skew generator
The system described herein provides a minimized skew generator that has very small timing variation. Four phase signals are compressed into one signal including the four phase information. Therefore, the signal with all of the phase information travels on the same line, thus avoiding the concerns of skewing based on different sizes of metal lines. Since there are two rising edges and two falling edges within one signal, an enable line is utilized to select between the first and second, rising and falling edges. With this processing, the system has only one critical signal output, thus requiring only one signal line. Skewing of the signals and the amount of power required are both reduced. |
| US08542048B2 |
Double edge triggered flip flop
A dual edge triggered flip flop circuit uses clock signals that are delayed from a first clock signal and from one another by respective intervals. A first set of the plurality of clock signals are used to operate a first latch circuit to allow first data to be conducted to a storage element for a period of time after a rising edge of a first clock signal. The clock signals are further used to operate a second latch circuit to allow second data to be conducted to the storage element for a period of time after a falling edge of the first clock signal. |
| US08542044B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit and method for driving the same
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a delay locked loop (DLL) configured to generate a DLL clock signal by delaying a source clock signal by a first delay time for obtaining a lock, wherein an update period of the DLL is controlled in response to an update period control signal after locking is completed; and an update period controller configured to generate the update period control signal based on a second delay time occurring in a loop path of the DLL in response to the source clock signal and a plurality of control signals provided from the DLL. |
| US08542042B1 |
Phase-locked loop architecture and clock distribution system
One embodiment relates to a fracture-able PLL circuit. The fracture-able PLL circuit includes a first phase-locked loop circuit generating a first frequency output, a second phase-locked loop circuit; arranged to generate a second frequency output, and a plurality of shared output resources. Reconfigurable circuitry is arranged so that either of the first and second frequency outputs is receivable by each of the plurality of shared output resources. Another embodiment relates to an integrated circuit which includes a plurality of PMA modules, a plurality of multiple-purpose PLL circuits, and a programmable clock network. The programmable clock network is arranged to allow the clock signals output by the multiple-purpose PLL circuits to be selectively used either by the PMA modules for a transceiver application or by other circuitry for a non-transceiver application. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed. |
| US08542038B2 |
Source driver and receiver thereof
A source driver and a receiver thereof are disclosed. A two-stage amplifier of the receiver includes a first-stage circuit and a second-stage circuit. The second-stage circuit includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first node, and a second node. The first switch is coupled between the first node and a ground end; the second switch is coupled between the second node and the ground end; the third switch is coupled between the first node and the second node. When the receiver wants to wake up from a power-saving mode to a normal operation mode, the first switch and the second switch are switched to the off-state according to a control signal at first; after a period of delay time, the third switch is also switched to the off-state according to a delayed control signal. |
| US08542037B2 |
Multi-level high voltage pulser integrated circuit using low voltage MOSFETs
A multi-level high-voltage pulse generator integrated circuit has a digital logic-level control interface circuit. A pair of complementary MOSFETs is controlled by the digital control interface circuit. A pair of supply voltage rails is provided, wherein one of the pair of supply voltage rails is connected to each of the pair of complementary MOSFETs. A pair of Zener diodes is provided, wherein one of the pair of Zener diodes is connected to each of the pair of complementary MOSFETs. A pair of resistors is provided, wherein one of the pair of resistors is connected in parallel with each of the pair of Zener diodes. A pair of complementary voltage blocking-MOSFETs having predetermined gate bias voltages is provided, wherein each of the pair complementary voltage blocking-MOSFETs is attached to a corresponding one pair of complementary MOSFETs. |
| US08542035B2 |
Squelch detection circuit
A squelch detection circuit for high-speed serial communication includes: an input level shifter configured to receive signals inputted through signal lines and shift the received signals to a predetermined potential level; a comparator configured to receive signals outputted from the input level shifter, and compares the received signals to determine whether data signals are noise or signal components; and a reset signal generator configured to receive the signals outputted from the input level shifter, convert the received signals into a single signal, and then generate a reset signal for an elastic buffer. The squelch detection circuit may detect a squelch state and provide a reset value for an elastic buffer in a USB 2.0 interface, and may reduce power consumption as much as possible in a suspend mode. |
| US08542034B2 |
Semiconductor device
As semiconductor devices including semiconductors, logic circuits are given. Logic circuits include dynamic logic circuits and static logic circuits and are formed using transistors and the like. Dynamic logic circuits can store data for a certain period of time. Thus, leakage current from transistors causes more severe problems in dynamic logic circuits than in static logic circuits. A logic circuit includes a first transistor whose off-state current is small and a second transistor whose gate is electrically connected to the first transistor. Electric charge is supplied to a node of the gate of the second transistor through the first transistor. Electric charge is supplied to the node through a first capacitor and a second capacitor. On/off of the second transistor is controlled depending on a state of the electric charge. The first transistor includes an oxide semiconductor in a channel formation region. |
| US08542029B1 |
Methods and apparatus for testing of integrated circuits
Methods and apparatus for testing packaged ICs are disclosed. In some embodiments, an apparatus for testing a packaged integrated circuit (IC) can include a pre-test station having a height detection system configured to detect a height of a packaged IC when disposed therein prior to testing; a testing station for testing the packaged IC received from the pre-test station; and a device handler for moving the packaged IC to the testing station. In some embodiments, a method for testing packaged ICs may include detecting a height of a packaged IC to be tested disposed in a pre-test station; comparing the height to an expected height; and determining whether the detected height of the packaged IC is different than the expected height of the packaged IC by greater than or equal to a desired amount. |
| US08542024B2 |
Temperature-independent chemical and biological sensors
Methods and sensors for selective fluid sensing are provided. A sensor includes a resonant inductor-capacitor-resistor (LCR) circuit and a sensing material disposed over a sensing region. The sensing region comprises at least a portion of the LCR circuit. Temperature-dependent response coefficients of inductance L, capacitance C, and resistance R properties of the LCR circuit and the sensing material are at least approximately 5 percent different from one another. The difference in the temperature-dependent response coefficients of the properties of the LCR circuit and the sensing material enables the sensor to selectively detect analyte fluids from an analyzed fluid mixture substantially independent of temperature. |
| US08542022B2 |
VLF test generator
Disclosed is a very low frequency test generator for generating a high voltage having a low frequency in order to test the insulation of capacitive loads, in particular power cables. Said VLF test generator comprises two oscillators, the frequencies of which differ from one another by twice said low frequency, a resonance circuit which is fed in an interfering manner by the oscillators, is adjusted to the oscillator frequencies and causes a voltage rise of the interfering oscillator frequencies, and a demodulator for disconnecting the low-frequency high voltage generated by the interference from the resonance circuit and applying the same to the load. |
| US08542020B2 |
Electronic device and apparatus for identifying electronic product
An apparatus for identifying an electronic product and an electronic device are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a detection voltage outputting unit, configured to receive a reference voltage and output a detection voltage; a detection voltage obtaining unit, connected to the detection voltage outputting unit and configured to obtain the value of the detection voltage; a mapping storing unit, configured to store a mapping between the value of the detection voltage and a product identifier; and a product identifier obtaining unit, configured to obtain the product identifier corresponding to the value of the detection voltage from the mapping storing unit according to the value of the detection voltage obtained by the detection voltage obtaining unit. With the apparatus for identifying an electronic product, the number of occupied chip detection ports is reduced, and the use area of a printed circuit board (PCB) is reduced. |
| US08542016B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus for imaging a plurality of different slice planes having pre-pulse applying means configured to apply a pre-pulse for affecting in-plane magnetization of all slices of a measurement target, measuring means configured to make a measurement for applying one phase encode amount for one slice plane to obtain an echo signal and dispose the echo signal in a k space, and control means configured to control operations of the pre-pulse applying means and the measuring means. The control means has first control means configured to control to repeat an operation of executing the measurement once according to a predetermined order for all slice planes of the measurement target after a first pre-pulse is applied while a phase encode amount is varied in a predetermined order until all k spaces of all slices are filled, and second control means configured to control the pre-pulse applying means so that the pre-pulse is applied every time the measurement is executed at a frequency which is different from the number of the slices of the measurement target and a multiple number of the number of the slices, and the first control means sets an initial phase encode amount of each slice so as to measure a low spatial frequency area of the k space at a timing having a large effect of the pre-pulse. |
| US08542014B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging of single domain nanoparticles
A method and system are disclosed for gathering information about an object including single domain particles which have a diameter in the range of about 5 to 80 nm. In one aspect, a method includes generating a static magnetic field of less than about 0.1 Tesla on the object and generating an RF energy, pulsed or continuous wave, so as to generate electron paramagnetic resonance of the single domain particles. The method also includes detecting the electron paramagnetic resonance of the single domain particles in the form of an image of the object. The single domain particles may have a predetermined diameter and a predetermined saturation magnetization and the applied magnetic field may be such that the single domain particles reach a magnetization being at least about 10% of the saturation magnetization. The method may be used for detecting tags in an object and for activating tags. |
| US08542009B2 |
Oxygen concentration measurement with GMR
In an embodiment, an oxygen sensor comprises a giant magnetoresistance device (10), and a magnetic field generator (14, 14a, 14b) arranged to generate a magnetic field (12, 12a, 12b) overlapping the giant magnetoresistance device and an examination region (20). A component (Bx) of the magnetic field detected by the giant magnetoresistance device is dependent upon an oxygen concentration in the examination region. In an embodiment, a chip (40) includes one or more electrically conductive traces (14a, 14b) disposed on or in the chip and a giant magnetoresistance device (10) disposed on or in the chip such that electrical current flowing in the trace or traces generates a magnetic field (12a, 12b) that overlaps the magnetic field sensor, said magnetic field being perturbed (Bx) by ambient oxygen (24) such that a signal output by the magnetic field sensor indicates ambient oxygen concentration. |
| US08542003B2 |
Test apparatus to test a data signal and a clock signal output from a device under test
A first timing comparator TCP1 latches a data signal at a timing that corresponds to each edge of a first strobe signal. A first delay element delays a first strobe signal so as to output a first delayed strobe signal. A first clock recovery unit makes a comparison between the phase of the first delayed strobe signal and a clock signal, and outputs a first reference strobe signal which is used to perform phase adjustment such that the phases of these signals match each other. A third delay element delays a first reference strobe signal, and outputs the signal thus delayed as the first strobe signal. A delay amount that corresponds to the amount of skew that occurs between the data signal and the clock signal is set for the third delay element. |
| US08541998B2 |
Switching converter circuit
A switching converter circuit utilized for converting voltages applied to a first input terminal and a second input terminal into constant voltages to output the constant voltages to a load includes a first switching unit connected between the first and the second input terminals, a second switching unit cascade connected with a third switching unit between the second input terminal and an output terminal, a fourth switching unit connected in parallel with the second and the third switching units, a first comparator to control switching on or off of the third switching unit, a second comparator to control switching on or off of the fourth switching unit, and a controller to control a time to allow the first comparator to output an output signal such that the fourth switching unit is switched off before the third switch is switched off based on the signal output from the first comparator. |
| US08541996B2 |
Power control device, power supply device, and power control method
A power control device for performing switching control for an output voltage of a power supply device includes a signal generation circuit for comparing a difference between a value of the output voltage and a value of a first reference voltage with a value of a second reference voltage, and for stopping the switching control when a value of the difference is less than or equal to the value of the second reference voltage, and an adjuster circuit for adjusting the second reference voltage based on a ratio between a value of an input voltage and the value of the output voltage. |
| US08541993B2 |
DC-DC converters operable in a discontinuous switching mode
Methods and apparatus for control of DC-DC converters, especially in valley current mode. The DC-DC converter is operable so that a low side supply switch may be turned off, before the high side supply switch is turned on. During the period when both switches are off the current loop control remains active and the change in inductor (L) current is emulated. One embodiment uses a current sensor for lossless current sensing and emulates the change in inductor current by holding the value of the output of the current sensor (ISNS) at the time that the low side switch turns off and adding an emulated ramp signal (VISLP) until the inductor current reaches zero. Embodiment employing a pulse-skip mode of operation based on a minimum conduction time are also disclosed. The invention enables a seamless transition from Continuous Conduction Mode the Discontinuous Conduction Mode and Pulse Skipping and provide converters that are efficient at low current loads. |
| US08541992B2 |
Voltage converter
A DC voltage converter, comprising: a multi-ratio capacitive converter; a linear voltage regulator in series with the multi-ratio capacitive converter; and a controller; the controller arranged to control the ratio of the multi-ratio capacitive converter dependent upon the voltage difference across the linear voltage regulator. |
| US08541987B2 |
Low loss discharge circuits for EMI filter capacitors
A discharge circuit for an EMI filter capacitor includes normally-ON transistors. The normally-ON transistors may be controlled to limit current through them when an AC source is coupled across the discharge circuit. When the AC source is disconnected from the discharge circuit, the normally-ON transistors turn ON to allow current flow through them. The current flow allows the EMI filter capacitor to be discharged by a discharge resistor. |
| US08541986B2 |
Charging method and charger for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
In a charging method for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery which includes a positive electrode including a lithium-containing composite oxide as an active material, a negative electrode including an alloy-formable negative electrode active material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, a voltage of the secondary battery is detected. When the detected value is smaller than a predetermined voltage x, charging is performed at a comparatively small current value B. When the detected value is equal to or greater than the predetermined voltage x and smaller than a predetermined voltage z, charging is performed at a comparatively great current value A. When the detected value is equal to or greater than the predetermined voltage z and smaller than a predetermined voltage y, charging is performed at a comparatively small current value C. When the detected value is greater than the predetermined voltage y, constant-voltage charging is performed or charging is terminated. Here, x |
| US08541985B1 |
Multifunctional portable power bank
A multifunctional portable power bank includes a main body having a circuit board and a battery arranged therein. The circuit board includes a first control unit, a second control unit connected to the first control unit, and a wireless transmission unit connected to the second control unit. The first control unit controls an input voltage of an external power supply and an output voltage of a battery power of the battery, and informs the second control unit to turn on. The second control unit enables a wireless access via the wireless transmission unit or an access via the Ethernet, and enables a router mode or a network service mode. With these arrangements, the multifunctional portable power bank not only enables data access via local or wireless networks, but also supplies electric power for charging other electronic products connected thereto. |
| US08541980B2 |
System and method for cell balancing and charging
An apparatus for charging a plurality of series connected battery cells includes first and second input terminals for providing a charging voltage to the plurality of series connected battery cells. A transformer includes a primary side associated with the charging voltage and a secondary side including a plurality of portions. Each of the plurality of portions connected across at least two of the plurality of series connected battery cells. A first switch in series between each of the plurality of portions of the secondary side and a first battery cell of the at least two of the plurality of series connected battery cells provides a charging current to the first battery cell during a first portion of a cycle of a current in the primary side of the transformer. A second switch in series between each of the plurality of portions of the secondary side and a second battery cell of the at least two of the plurality of series connected battery cells provides a charging current to the to the second battery cell during a second portion of the cycle of the current in the primary side of the transformer. |
| US08541978B2 |
Feed control device
A feed control device includes a contact device, an output detector, a contact weld sensor, and an alarm device. The output detector is configured to detect the presence of power feeding into the side of an electrically-powered car from an external power supply. The contact weld sensor is configured to sense that the contact device is welded based on a detection result of the output detector if detecting the presence of power feeding from the external power supply to a feed line for the contact device when a state signal representing charge permission is not entered. The alarm device is configured, if the contact weld sensor senses that the contact device is welded, to indicate the occurrence of weld to the outside. |
| US08541972B2 |
Method for suppressing speed ripple by using torque compensator based on activation function
Disclosed is a method for suppressing a speed ripple occurring during an operation of an AC motor by using a torque compensator based on an activation function. The method includes the steps of calculating a speed error ωerr based on a reference speed ωref and an actual speed ωact; calculating a controller output Trm by using the speed error ωerr as an input of a PI control and an operation of a compensated torque Tcom; and determining a torque variation based on the controller output Trm and a reference torque Tref and operating the torque variation in relation to an anti-windup gain Ka to use torque variation as an input of an integral (I) control. The method suppresses the speed ripple by compensating for the torque ripple through a controller which calculates the compensated torque by taking the signs of the speed error and the differential speed error into consideration. |
| US08541971B2 |
Driving system of permanent magnet synchronous motor
When applying a high frequency voltage which alternates on positive and negative sides to a permanent magnet synchronous motor, a driving system of synchronous motor switches the applied voltage phase by 120 degrees successively and applies resultant voltages to three phases. A pulsating current generated by applying a high frequency voltage is detected at timing of elapse of a predetermined time Δt since an output voltage of at least one phase has changed from a state in which all output voltages of the three phases of a power converter are positive or negative. Current detection is conducted by using a DC resistor or a phase current sensor provided on a DC bus. A magnetic pole estimation unit calculates the rotor magnetic pole position of the permanent magnet synchronous motor on the basis of differences between positive side and negative side change quantities in three-phase currents obtained from detected current values. |
| US08541965B2 |
Motor controller and electronic power steering apparatus
A command current setting portion has a target value corrector that calculates d-axis and q-axis current command values idc, iqc that are to be supplied to an open-loop controller, based on d-axis and q-axis current target values id*, iq*. When d-axis and q-axis voltage target value vd*, vq* calculated from the d-axis and q-axis current target values id*, iq* by the motor circuit equations exceed a voltage limit, this target value corrector 26 corrects the d-axis and q-axis current target values id*, iq* by the field weakening control such that d-axis and q-axis voltages vd, vq and d-axis and q-axis currents id, iq satisfy √(vd2+vq2)≦Vlim and √(id2+iq2)≦Ilim respectively. The d-axis and q-axis current command values idc, iqc are obtained by this correction. |
| US08541960B2 |
Rejecting noise transients while turning off a fluorescent lamp using a starter unit
A local minimum of a current monitoring signal is identified by a starter unit that turns off a fluorescent lamp without using a wall switch. Closing a main switch in the starter unit stops an illuminating current from flowing through a gas in the lamp. The local minimum of the current monitoring signal is reached when an increasing valid sample is identified following four valid samples. A sample is valid if it does not differ from the preceding valid sample by more than a threshold difference based on known properties of the signal. By skipping invalid samples, the local minimum is accurately determined to have been reached despite transient noise spikes in the signal that would trip any voltage threshold used to locate the local minimum. When the main switch is opened at a predetermined time after the local minimum, the illuminating current does not again flow through the gas. |
| US08541959B2 |
System and method for providing a control signal
The system, which provides a control signal, includes an over-current control unit, a time clock that provides a periodic time signal, and a clock generator unit that includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal. The first input terminal is coupled to the time clock and the output terminal is coupled to the over-current control unit. The first input terminal of the clock generator unit receives the periodic time signal and the second input terminal of the clock generator unit receives a modification signal. The clock generator unit generates a clock signal based on the periodic time signal and the modification signal. The output terminal of the clock generator unit provides the clock signal to the over-current control unit, and the over-current control unit provides a control signal based on the clock signal. |
| US08541954B2 |
Light source apparatus
A first energy ratio A/B of a first alternating current of a steady frequency supplied to a lamp is set to a value C, when the lamp is horizontally placed. A second alternating current of a lower frequency, whose second energy ratio A/B is set to the value C, is inserted. When the lamp is vertically placed, a first energy ratio A′/B′ is set to the value C or a value D, which is smaller than the value C. A second ratio A′/B′ is set to the value D or a value E, which is lower than the value C. A and A′ each represents an energy that flows from a first electrode of a pair of electrodes of the lamp to a second electrode of the pair. B and B′ each represents an energy that flows from the second electrode to the first electrode. |
| US08541951B1 |
High temperature LED system using an AC power source
Power management and thermal management for high intensity LED lamps are disclosed. |
| US08541947B2 |
Lighting devices
Lighting devices for a vehicle are disclosed that can include a light emitting diode and control circuitry for the light emitting diode. Also disclosed are circuits for a light emitting diode. Additionally, a method of forming a lighting device is disclosed. The lighting device, circuits, and method can be used, for example, to illuminate the interior of a vehicle. |
| US08541943B2 |
Highly bright electroluminescent wire
A highly bright electroluminescent wire includes a metal core electrode, an internal electron-emitting layer, an internal highly dielectric layer, a glowing layer, an external highly dielectric layer, an external electron-emitting layer, a transparent conductive layer, an electrode of external conductive layer, a transparent protective plastic layer and a color fluorescent transparent plastic layer orderly coated around the metal core electrode. The metal core electrode and the electrode of external conductive layer are charged with a voltage of AC50-400V and a frequency of 0.05 KHz to 20 KHz to produce a colored highly bright light. |
| US08541940B2 |
Electrospun light-emitting fibers
The invention teaches electrospun light-emitting fibers made from ionic transition metal complexes (“iTMCs”) such as [Ru(bpy)3]2+(PF6−)2]/PEO mixtures with dimensions in the 10.0 nm to 5.0 micron range and capable of highly localized light emission at low operating voltages such as 3-4 V with turn-on voltages approaching the band-gap limit of the organic semiconductor that may be used as point source light emitters on a chip. |
| US08541939B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device and manufacturing method thereof
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device including an active array structure, a display structure and several conductive members is provided. The active array structure includes a first substrate and several thin film transistors. The thin film transistors disposed on the first substrate has several drains. The display structure includes a second substrate, a color changing medium, a first electrode layer, an organic material layer and a second electrode layer disposed sequentially. The location of the second substrate corresponds to that of the first substrate. The color changing medium has several color blocks. The organic material layer is used for emitting blue light and includes several lighting structures electrically insulated from each other. The second electrode layer includes several electrode structures electrically insulated from each other. Each of the conductive members is combined and electrically connected to the drain of each thin film transistor and each electrode structure. |
| US08541938B2 |
Electronic paper display device and method of manufacturing the same
There are provided an electronic paper display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The electronic paper display device includes: a lower substrate having lower barrier ribs formed thereon, the lower barrier ribs forming cells for receiving electronic paper display elements; electronic paper display elements mounted in the cells of the lower substrate and having optical and electrical anisotropy; and an upper substrate formed to cover the lower substrate and including upper patterns bonded to the lower barrier ribs so as to secure a fluid moving path of the cell. |
| US08541934B2 |
Display device
A direct-viewing type display device (100A) of the present invention includes: a display panel which has a display region (10A) that can be altered into a transparent state and a frame region (10F) provided outside the display region; and a light-transmitting cover (20) provided on a front side of the display panel. The light-transmitting cover includes a lens portion (22) positioned so as to overlap a region that includes part of the frame region of the display panel and part of a peripheral display region (10D) within the display region which adjoins the part of the frame region. The display device further includes a housing (30) which has a housing portion (36) provided at least on a side surface (10b) of the display panel. Part of light going out from the part of the peripheral display region and/or part of light entering the housing portion on a rear side goes out on a front side of the housing portion (36). In the display device of the present invention, the frame is visually obscured, and the display region can be altered into a transparent state. |
| US08541933B2 |
Transparent thermally conductive polymer composites for light source thermal management
A light emitting apparatus is provided. The light emitting apparatus includes a light transmissive envelope, a light source being in thermal communication with a heat sink, and a plurality of heat fins in thermal communication with the heat sink and extending in a direction such that the heat fins are adjacent the light transmissive envelope. The plurality of heat fins comprises a carbon nanotube filled polymer composite. |
| US08541931B2 |
LED based lamp including reflective hood to reduce variation in illuminance
A lamp comprises: a thermally conductive body; a plurality of LEDs configured as an array and mounted in thermal communication with the body and a light reflective hood located in front of the plane of light emitting diodes. The hood has at least two frustoconical light reflective surfaces that surround the array of LEDs and are configured such that in operation light emitted by the lamp is within a selected emission angle (beam spread). The hood is configured such that in operation a variation in illuminance (luminous flux per unit area incident on a surface) is 10% or less over approximately a third to one half of the selected emission angle. |
| US08541923B2 |
Dual-rotor motor having heat dissipation
An electric motor may include an outer rotor and an inner rotor, with a stator, which carries the excitation coils, formed as a hollow cylinder and engaging in the pot-shaped outer rotor and being connected to the housing or to a part of the electric motor fixedly connected to the housing, and where the electric motor may further include a water cooling and an air cooling system. |
| US08541922B2 |
Magnetic transmission assembly
A magnetic transmission assembly is adapted to integration with a motor or generator. The magnetic transmission assembly includes a rotor, a stator, and a magnetically conductive element. The rotor and the stator are sleeved coaxially and respectively have R and ST1 pole pairs. The magnetically conductive element is located between the rotor and the stator, and has permeable regions. When the magnetically conductive element is actuated, the magnetically conductive element selectively enables PN1 or PN2 permeable regions to be corresponding to the rotor and the stator. The permeable regions corresponding to the rotor and the stator interact with magnetic fields of the R and ST1 pole pairs to generate a predetermined variable-speed ratio. The magnetic transmission assembly can be integrated into the motor, so as to improve the drive power density. |
| US08541920B2 |
High density windings for a concentric wound electrical machine stator
A switched reluctance motor includes at least four stator poles and an electrically conductive material around each of the stator poles. The geometric outline, on one side of the stator pole, of at least one of the conductive materials is not rectangular, as viewed from a cross-section of the switched reluctance motor showing each of the stator poles. |
| US08541919B2 |
Rotor structure for interior permanent magnet electromotive machine including laminations profiled along a segment of a bridge to define a concave and curved bridge profile
A rotor structure for an interior permanent magnet (IPM) electromotive machine is provided. The rotor structure may include at least one rotor lamination, which in turn may include at least one slot arranged to receive at least one permanent magnet. The slot divides the rotor lamination into a pole region and a yoke region. At least one bridge is arranged to connect the pole region to the yoke region at an outer edge of the lamination. The outer edge of the lamination is profiled along a segment of the bridge to define a concave curved profile for the bridge. The concave curved profile for the bridge allows to selectively size a thickness of the bridge to affect at least some electromagnetic and/or mechanical characteristic of the machine. |
| US08541918B2 |
Rotating electrical machine and method of manufacturing the rotating electrical machine
A method of manufacturing a rotating electrical machine includes: fixing a rotor core to a shaft; assembling a stationary assembly in which a first bearing is fixed to a housing bottom portion of a substantially cylindrical housing member having a closed bottom and in which an annular stator is fixed to an inner circumferential surface of a cylinder portion of the housing member; inserting the rotor core into the stator; fitting an upper portion of the shaft into a second bearing supported by a bearing support member. The method further includes fixing the bearing support member to an upper portion of the housing member; and axially inserting a plurality of rotor magnets into a plurality of axially-extending hole-shaped or groove-shaped magnet holding portions formed in the rotor core, through a magnet insertion hole defined in one of the bearing support member and the housing bottom portion. |
| US08541913B2 |
Power tool
A power tool includes a housing, a brushless motor, and a cover member. The housing has an air intake hole and an air exhaust hole formed therein, the housing having an inner surface. The brushless motor has an outer surface disposed in the housing, a first endface near the air intake hole, and a second endface near the air exhaust hole. The cover member covers at least one of the first endface and the second endface for preventing dust from entering the brushless motor. The inner surface of the housing and outer surface of the brushless motor define a circulation path providing communication between the air intake hole and the air exhaust hole. |
| US08541912B2 |
Planar motor for positioning a load along a plane
A planar motor includes a flat base element arranged in a plane, and substantially cuboidal first magnets arranged on the base element whose magnetization is perpendicular to the plane and which are arranged at evenly spaced intervals and with alternating polarity in a first direction and in a second direction. The planar motor also includes substantially cuboidal second magnets whose magnetization is parallel to the plane and which are disposed with alternating polarity in the first direction and second direction between the first magnets, so that each first magnet is surrounded by four second magnets. The first magnets are disposed on protrusions of the base element. |
| US08541909B2 |
System having a variable frequency power distribution bus for driving a variable speed motor
A system and method for supplying power to a variable speed motor for rotating a shaft may include generating an A/C output having a variable frequency corresponding to speed of a prime mover, where the speed of the prime mover is equal to or greater than a predetermined speed limit. The A/C output of the prime mover may be distributed to the variable speed motor such that the speed of the variable speed motor is varied relative to the frequency of the A/C output. The variable speed motor may be electrically disconnected from the A/C power when the speed of the prime mover being used to drive the variable speed motor is equal to or within a predetermined range of the predetermined speed limit. An alternate A/C output may be distributed to the variable speed motor after the A/C power is electrically disconnected from the variable speed motor. |
| US08541908B2 |
Powered device capable of working in continuation in case of power failure
An exemplary powered device (PD) connected to a local power source and a power sourcing equipment (PSE) includes a constant current source drawing at least 10 mA direct current from the PSE when the local power source is in operation. The PD includes a first conversion circuit, a first diode, and a second diode. The first conversion circuit comprises a first input and is configured for converting a voltage input to the first input into the rated working voltage of the PD. The positive terminal of the first diode is connected to the local power source and the negative terminal thereof is connected to the first input. The voltage of the local power source is higher than that of the PSE. |
| US08541904B2 |
Apparatus and system for power conversion
An apparatus includes a DC-link, a voltage converter, a bus voltage controller, and a supervisory controller. The voltage converter is configured to convert a first DC voltage into a second DC voltage based on a command signal and based on an adjustment signal and to supply the second DC voltage to the DC-link. The bus voltage controller is configured to iterate calculation of the adjustment signal to communicate each iterated calculation of the adjustment signal to the voltage converter. The supervisory controller is configured to iterate calculation of the command signal and to communicate each iterated calculation of the command signal to the voltage converter and to the bus voltage controller. A frequency of the bus voltage controller to communicate each iterated calculation of the adjustment signal is higher than a frequency of the supervisory controller to communicate each iterated calculation of the command signal. |
| US08541903B2 |
Power line communication system and method
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a power line communication (PLC) system. For example, the PLC system may include a PLC server configured to provide electrical power and electronic communications through a PLC bus to a number of electronic devices, such as an instrument cluster, infotainment interface, rear-seat entertainment console, aftermarket accessories, and the like. The PLC system may also include a power system that may be coupled to an electrical grid for charging a battery associated with one or more of the electronic devices. The power system may be communicatively coupled to the PLC bus, enabling the devices coupled to the PLC bus to communicate with a service provider through the electrical grid. The communications between the devices coupled to the PLC bus and remote devices coupled through the electrical grid may be conducted using a common communication protocol. |
| US08541902B2 |
Wind power turbine electric generator cooling system and method and wind power turbine comprising such a cooling system
A cooling system for cooling an electric generator of a wind power turbine including, in one embodiment: (a) a first heat exchanger fittable to the wind power turbine to release heat, produced by the electric generator, to the outside; (b) a second heat exchanger fittable to the rotor of the electric generator to receive heat from the rotor by thermal conduction, and which rotates about the axis of rotation of the rotor with respect to the first heat exchanger; and (c) a closed circuit extending through the first and second heat exchanger to circulate cooling liquid. |
| US08541898B2 |
Control method and system for a wind power installation in case of grid faults
The present invention relates to a method and system for controlling a wind power installation connected to an electrical power grid, in case of a fault in said grid.In the electrical machines that form part of the wind power installation, generators and transformers, it is possible to change the impedance of the neutral closure introducing a plurality of active and passive elements. This limits the currents during the grid fault, thereby reducing the peak torque in the mechanical train of the wind turbines and allows guaranteeing compliance with the network connection requirements, as control of the active and reactive currents is maintained at all times. |
| US08541897B2 |
Generation of electric energy using cable-supported windmills
An electric energy generation system may include a plurality of windmills, a windmill support system, an electric generator, and a coupling system. The windmills may each be configured to transform wind energy into rotational energy. The windmill support system may support the windmills in positions that are spaced apart from one another. The electric generator may be configured to transform rotational energy into electric energy. The coupling system may be configured to couple the rotational energy generated by each of the windmills to the electric generator in a manner that permits the windmills to rotate at different speeds during operation of the electric energy generation system. Other configurations are also disclosed. |
| US08541896B2 |
Deep water power generation system and apparatus
A system for generation of power using an apparatus in deep water is disclosed. The system includes a ballast buoy configured to achieve a desired depth in the deep water, a substantially vertical hollow tube attached to the ballast buoy that is submerged under water when the ballast buoy achieves the desired depth in the deep water, and a converter for converting the physical environment created in the substantially vertical hollow tube by placement of the ballast buoy at the desired depth in the deep water. |
| US08541895B2 |
Energy regenerating damper
An energy-regenerating damper including a piston provided with a housing fitted inside a cylinder so as to be able to slide against the inner surface of the cylinder, a stator contained in/fixed to the inside of the housing, a rotor supported so as to be able to rotate inside the stator, and damping valves provided at the top and bottom ends of the housing. The housing includes an upper half and a lower half fastened together by bolts, and a damper rod is fixed to the top end of the upper half. The upper half and the lower half each contain a bearing for supporting the rotor. A plurality of orifices through which a hydraulic oil circulates are drilled towards the outsides of the upper half and lower half, and circulation holes through which the hydraulic oil circulates are drilled towards the insides of the upper half and lower half. |
| US08541894B2 |
Electrical generator
An electrical generator powered by the rotation of a central shaft. A gear train rotates with respect to the central shaft and is in operable connection to a generator for producing electrical energy. The shaft can be rotated by falling weights connected to longitudinal arms. Alternatively, a motor can be used to rotate a relatively large wheel in operable connection with the series of gears or gear train. Additionally, the shaft can be rotated by a renewable energy source, such as wind or water. |
| US08541888B2 |
Pad layout structure of a driver IC chip
A pad layout structure of a driver IC chip to be mounted to a liquid crystal display panel. The pad layout structure includes power pad sections placed at respective four corners of the driver IC chip and each having a first power pad for supplying first power to the driver IC chip, a second power pad for supplying second power to the driver IC chip, a third power pad for supplying third power to the driver IC chip and a fourth power pad for supplying fourth power to the driver IC chip. |
| US08541887B2 |
Layered chip package and method of manufacturing same
A layered chip package includes a main body, and wiring that includes a plurality of wires disposed on a side surface of the main body. The main body includes: a main part including first and second layer portions; and a plurality of first and second terminals that are disposed on the top and bottom surfaces of the main part, respectively, and are electrically connected to the plurality of wires. Each layer portion includes a semiconductor chip having a first surface and a second surface opposite thereto, and includes a plurality of electrodes. The electrodes are disposed on a side of the semiconductor chip opposite to the second surface. The first and second layer portions are bonded to each other such that the respective second surfaces face each other. The first terminals are formed by using the electrodes of the first layer portion, and the second terminals are formed by using the electrodes of the second layer portion. |
| US08541885B2 |
Technique for enhancing transistor performance by transistor specific contact design
By locally adapting the size and/or density of a contact structure, for instance, within individual transistors or in a more global manner, the overall performance of advanced semiconductor devices may be increased. Hence, the mutual interaction between the contact structure and local device characteristics may be taken into consideration. On the other hand, a high degree of compatibility with conventional process strategies may be maintained. |
| US08541879B2 |
Super-self-aligned contacts and method for making the same
A number of first hard mask portions are formed on a dielectric layer to vertically shadow a respective one of a number of underlying gate structures. A number of second hard mask filaments are formed adjacent to each side surface of each first hard mask portion. A width of each second hard mask filament is set to define an active area contact-to-gate structure spacing. A first passage is etched between facing exposed side surfaces of a given pair of neighboring second hard mask filaments and through a depth of the semiconductor wafer to an active area. A second passage is etched through a given first hard mask portion and through a depth of the semiconductor wafer to a top surface of the underlying gate structure. An electrically conductive material is deposited within both the first and second passages to respectively form an active area contact and a gate contact. |
| US08541878B2 |
Semiconductor apparatus, method of manufacturing semiconductor apparatus, method of designing semiconductor apparatus, and electronic apparatus
A semiconductor device including a first material layer adjacent to a second material layer, a first via passing through the first material layer and extending into the second material layer, and a second via extending into the first material layer, where along a common cross section parallel to an interface between the two material layers, the first via has a cross section larger than that of the second via. |
| US08541877B2 |
Electronic device package and method for fabricating the same
The invention provides an electronic device package and a method for fabricating the same. The electronic device package includes a carrier wafer. An electronic device chip with a plurality of conductive pads thereon is disposed over the carrier wafer. An isolation laminating layer includes a lower first isolation layer, which covers the carrier wafer and the electronic device chip, and an upper second isolation layer. The isolation laminating layer has a plurality of openings to expose the conductive pads. A plurality of redistribution patterns is conformably formed on the isolation laminating layer and in the openings. The redistribution patterns are electrically connected to the conductive pads, respectively. A plurality of conductive bumps is respectively formed on the redistribution patterns, electrically connected to the conductive pads. |
| US08541876B2 |
Microelectronic package having direct contact heat spreader and method of manufacturing same
A method of fabricating a microelectronic package having a direct contact heat spreader, a package formed according to the method, a die-heat spreader combination formed according to the method, and a system incorporating the package. The method comprises metallizing a backside of a microelectronic die to form a heat spreader body directly contacting and fixed to the backside of the die thus yielding a die-heat spreader combination. The package includes the die-heat spreader combination and a substrate bonded to the die. |
| US08541874B2 |
Semiconductor device
The semiconductor device 100 comprises a first semiconductor element 113 provided on a face on one side of a flat plate shaped interconnect component 101, an insulating resin 119 covering a face of a side where the first semiconductor element 113 of the interconnect component 101 is provided and a side face of the first semiconductor element 113, and a second semiconductor element 111 provided on a face on the other side of the interconnect component 101. The interconnect component 101 has a constitution where an interconnect layer 103, a silicon layer 105 and an insulating film 107 are sequentially formed. The interconnect layer 103 has a constitution where the interconnect layer 103 has a flat plate shaped insulating component and a conductive component extending through the insulating component. The first semiconductor element 113 is electrically connected with the second semiconductor element 111 through the conductive component. |
| US08541867B2 |
Metal insulator metal structure with remote oxygen scavenging
A structure includes a first metallic electrode, a dielectric film formed over the first metallic electrode, and a second metallic electrode formed over the dielectric film. The second metallic electrode includes an oxygen scavenging material. The oxygen scavenging material is selected such that an oxygen density decreases in a region between the first metallic electrode and the second metallic electrode responsive to elevating a temperature of the first metallic electrode, the dielectric film, and the second metallic electrode. |
| US08541865B2 |
Semiconductor device with improved ESD protection
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device, comprising a semiconductor substrate (102) with a thickness of less than 100 micrometer and with a first substrate side and an opposite second substrate side. A plurality of at least four monolithically integrated Zener or avalanche diodes (164,166,168,170) with a reverse breakdown voltage of less than 20 V are defined in the semiconductor substrate and connected with each other in a series connection. The diodes are defined in a plurality of mutually isolated substrate islands (120,122,124,126) in the semiconductor substrate, at least one diode per substrate island. The substrate islands are laterally surrounded by through-substrate isolations extending from the first to the second substrate side and comprising a filling (128) that electrically isolates a respective substrate island from a respective laterally surrounding area of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US08541864B2 |
Compact thermally controlled thin film resistors utilizing substrate contacts and methods of manufacture
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a resistor on an insulator layer over a substrate, and forming at least one dielectric layer over the resistor. The method also includes forming a substrate contact through the at least one dielectric layer, through the resistor, through the insulator layer, and into the substrate. The substrate contact comprises a high thermal conductivity material. |
| US08541859B2 |
Semiconductor light receiving element and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor light receiving element includes a first semiconductor layer having a first conduction type, a second semiconductor layer that is provided on the first semiconductor layer and has a light receiving area, the second semiconductor layer having a second conduction type opposite to the first conduction type, an insulation film provided on the second semiconductor layer, and an electrode provided on the insulation film, the insulation film having a plurality of windows in an area in which the electrode overlaps the plurality of windows, the electrode being electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer via the plurality of windows. |
| US08541858B2 |
Solid state imaging device
A solid state imaging device includes: a first photoelectric conversion layer of an organic material; a second photoelectric conversion layer of an inorganic material; a third photoelectric conversion layer of an inorganic material; a first filter of an inorganic material; a second filter of an inorganic material. The first photoelectric conversion layer photoelectrically-converts a light of a first color. The first filter is disposed between the first photoelectric conversion layer and the second photoelectric conversion layer to selectively guide a light of a second color, out of a light that passed through the first photoelectric conversion layer, to the second photoelectric conversion layer. The second filter being disposed between the first photoelectric conversion layer and the third photoelectric conversion layer to selectively guide a light of a third color, out of the light that passed through the first photoelectric conversion layer, to the third photoelectric conversion layer. |
| US08541855B2 |
Co/Ni multilayers with improved out-of-plane anisotropy for magnetic device applications
A MTJ for a spintronic device is disclosed and includes a thin seed layer that enhances perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) in an overlying laminated layer with a (Co/Ni)n composition or the like where n is from 2 to 30. The seed layer is preferably NiCr, NiFeCr, Hf, or a composite thereof with a thickness from 10 to 100 Angstroms. Furthermore, a magnetic layer such as CoFeB may be formed between the laminated layer and a tunnel barrier layer to serve as a transitional layer between a (111) laminate and (100) MgO tunnel barrier. There may be a Ta insertion layer between the CoFeB layer and laminated layer to promote (100) crystallization in the CoFeB layer. The laminated layer may be used as a reference layer, dipole layer, or free layer in a MTJ. Annealing between 300° C. and 400° C. may be used to further enhance PMA in the laminated layer. |
| US08541854B2 |
Method of minimizing beam bending of MEMS device by reducing the interfacial bonding strength between sacrificial layer and MEMS structure
The beam bending of a MEMS device is minimized by reducing interfacial strength between a sacrificial layer and a MEMS structure. |
| US08541852B2 |
Acoustic sensor
A diaphragm for sensing sound pressure faces a back plate including a plate portion and a fixed electrode film to form a capacitance type acoustic sensor. The back plate is opened with acoustic holes for passing vibration, and is arranged with a plurality of stoppers in a projecting manner on a surface facing the diaphragm. The stopper arranged in an outer peripheral area of the back plate has a small diameter, and the stopper arranged in an internal area has a large diameter. Thus, sticking of the diaphragm is prevented, and the diaphragm is less likely to break by impact when the sensor is dropped. |
| US08541851B2 |
MEMS package
An apparatus and method for manufacturing a micro-electrical mechanical system (MEMS) package comprising a first molded body having a first acoustic port, a second molded body connected to the first molded body, a leadframe at least partially integral with at least one of the first and second molded bodies, a die cavity provided on at least one of the first and second molded bodies and having a second acoustic port, a MEMS die provided on the die cavity, a channel connecting the first and second acoustic ports, the first molded body sealing at least a portion of the channel, and a lid attached to the second molded body and sealing at least a portion of the die cavity. |
| US08541850B2 |
Method and system for forming resonators over CMOS
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a semiconductor substrate includes complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuitry disposed outwardly from the semiconductor substrate. An electrode is disposed outwardly from the CMOS circuitry. The electrode is electrically coupled to the CMOS circuitry. A resonator is disposed outwardly from the electrode. The resonator is operable to oscillate at a resonance frequency in response to an electrostatic field propagated, at least in part, by the electrode. |
| US08541849B2 |
Noise shielding techniques for ultra low current measurements in biochemical applications
A device having an integrated noise shield is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of vertical shielding structures substantially surrounding a semiconductor device. The device further includes an opening above the semiconductor device substantially filled with a conductive fluid, wherein the plurality of vertical shielding structures and the conductive fluid shield the semiconductor device from ambient radiation. In some embodiments, the device further includes a conductive bottom shield below the semiconductor device shielding the semiconductor device from ambient radiation. In some embodiments, the opening is configured to allow a biological sample to be introduced into the semiconductor device. In some embodiments, the vertical shielding structures comprise a plurality of vias, wherein each of the plurality of vias connects more than one conductive layers together. In some embodiments, the device comprises a nanopore device, and wherein the nanopore device comprises a single cell of a nanopore array. |
| US08541846B2 |
Semiconductor device
At least one of a plurality of transistors which are highly integrated in an element is provided with a back gate without increasing the number of manufacturing steps. In an element including a plurality of transistors which are longitudinally stacked, at least a transistor in an upper portion includes a metal oxide having semiconductor characteristics, a same layer as a gate electrode of a transistor in a lower portion is provided to overlap with a channel formation region of the transistor in an upper portion, and part of the same layer as the gate electrode functions as a back gate of the transistor in an upper portion. The transistor in a lower portion which is covered with an insulating layer is subjected to planarization treatment, whereby the gate electrode is exposed and connected to a layer functioning as source and drain electrodes of the transistor in an upper portion. |
| US08541845B2 |
Semiconductor discharge devices and methods of formation thereof
In one embodiment, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a well region within a substrate. A plurality of transistors is formed within and/or over the well region. The method further includes forming a first discharge device within the substrate. The first discharge device is coupled to the well region and a low voltage node. During subsequent processing, the first discharge device discharges charge from the well region. |
| US08541840B2 |
Structure and method for semiconductor power devices
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor-on-insulator region on a substrate. The semiconductor-on-insulator region includes a first semiconductor region overlying a dielectric region. The device includes an MOS transistor and a bipolar transistor. The MOS transistor has a drain region, a body region, and a source region in the first semiconductor region. The MOS transistor also includes a gate. The device also includes a second semiconductor region overlying the substrate and adjacent to the drain region, and a third semiconductor region overlying the substrate and adjacent to the second semiconductor region. The bipolar transistor includes has the drain region of the MOS transistor as an emitter, the second semiconductor region as a base, and the third semiconductor region as a collector. Accordingly, the drain of the MOS transistor also functions as the emitter of the bipolar transistor. Additionally, the gate and the base are coupled by a resistive element. |
| US08541836B2 |
Recessed access device for a memory
Semiconductor memory devices having recessed access devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of forming the recessed access device includes forming a device recess in a substrate material that extends to a first depth in the substrate that includes a gate oxide layer in the recess. The device recess may be extended to a second depth that is greater that the first depth to form an extended portion of the device recess. A field oxide layer may be provided within an interior of the device recess that extends inwardly into the interior of the device recess and into the substrate. Active regions may be formed in the substrate that abut the field oxide layer, and a gate material may be deposited into the device recess. |
| US08541826B2 |
Memory array structure and method for forming the same
A memory array structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The memory array structure comprises: a substrate; a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell including a vertical transistor, of which a gate structure is formed in a first trench extending in a first direction; a plurality of word lines in the first direction, each word line formed in the first trench; a plurality of bit lines in a second direction, each bit line formed in lower sides of a semiconductor pillars; a plurality of body lines in the first direction, each body line having a first portion formed on the gate electrodes and a second portion covering a part of a top surface of semiconductor pillar for providing a substrate contact to vertical channel regions; and a plurality of data storage device contacts. |
| US08541817B2 |
Multilayer barrier III-nitride transistor for high voltage electronics
An improved high breakdown voltage semiconductor device and method for manufacturing is provided. The device has a substrate and a AlaGa1-aN layer on the substrate wherein 0.1≦a≦1.00. A GaN layer is on the AlaGa1-aN layer. An In1-bGabN/GaN channel layer is on the GaN layer wherein 0.1≦b≦1.00. A AlcIndGa1-c-dN spacer layer is on the In1-bGabN/GaN layer wherein 0.1≦c≦1.00 and 0.0≦d≦0.99. A AleIn1-eN nested superlattice barrier layer is on the AlcIndGa1-c-dN spacer layer wherein 0.10≦e≦0.99. A AlfIngGa1-f-gN leakage suppression layer is on the AleIn1-eN barrier layer wherein 0.1≦f≦0.99 and 0.1≦g≦0.99 wherein the leakage suppression layer decreases leakage current and increases breakdown voltage during high voltage operation. A superstructure, preferably with metallic electrodes, is on the AlfIngGa1-f-gN leakage suppression layer. |
| US08541816B2 |
III nitride electronic device and III nitride semiconductor epitaxial substrate
In a group III nitride hetero junction transistor 11a, a second AlY1InY2Ga1-Y1-Y2N layer 15 forms a hetero junction 21 with a first AlX1InX2Ga1-X1-X2N layer 13a. A first electrode 17 forms a Schottky junction with the first AlX1InX2Ga1-X1-X2N layer 13a. The first AlX1InX2Ga1-X1-X2N layer 13a and the second AlY1InY2Ga1-Y1-Y2N layer 15 are provided over a substrate 23. The electrodes 17a, 18a, and 19a include a source electrode, a gate electrode, and a drain electrode, respectively. The carbon concentration NC13 in the first AlX1InX2Ga1-X1-X2N layer 13a is less than 1×1017 cm−3. The dislocation density D in the second AlY1InY2Ga1-Y1-Y2N layer 15 is 1×108 cm−2. The hetero junction 21 generates a two-dimensional electron gas layer 25. These provide a low-loss gallium nitride based electronic device. |
| US08541815B2 |
High electron mobility transistor circuit
A transistor circuit includes a first high electron mobility transistor and a second high electron mobility transistor having a negative threshold voltage, wherein a source of the second high electron mobility transistor is coupled to a gate of the first high electron mobility transistor, and a gate of the second high electron mobility transistor is coupled to a source of the first high electron mobility transistor. |
| US08541805B2 |
Mounting substrate and manufacturing method thereof, light-emitting module and illumination device
An object of the present invention is to provide a mounting substrate, a manufacturing method, a light-emitting module and an illumination device that can sufficiently improve the luminous efficiency of an LED lamp. A mounting substrate according to the present invention includes a substrate and a reflective film that is formed on a front surface of the substrate and has a front surface on which LED chips are to be mounted, and the reflective film is made of metal oxide microparticles and a glass frit, and reflects light from the LED chips. |
| US08541800B2 |
Light emitting device package, backlight unit, display device and lighting device
There is provided a light emitting device package including: a package body providing a chip mounting area and including first and second lead terminals; an LED chip mounted on the chip mounting area and electrically connected to the first and second lead terminals; a groove portion disposed around the LED chip in the chip mounting area; and a wavelength conversion portion formed of a resin containing a wavelength conversion material with which to enclose the LED chip and having an outer shape defined by the groove portion. |
| US08541788B2 |
LED with current confinement structure and surface roughening
A light emitting diode having a vertical orientation with an ohmic contact on portions of a top surface of the diode and a reflective layer adjacent the light emitting region of the diode. This light emitting diode includes a confinement structure. The confinement structure may be an opening in the reflective layer generally beneath the top ohmic contact that defines a non-contact area between the reflective layer and the light emitting region of the diode to encourage current flow to take place other than at the non-contact area to in turn decrease the number of light emitting recombinations beneath the ohmic contact and increase the number of light emitting recombinations in the areas not beneath said ohmic contact. The LED may include roughened emitting surfaces to further enhance light extraction. |
| US08541787B2 |
High breakdown voltage wide band-gap MOS-gated bipolar junction transistors with avalanche capability
High power wide band-gap MOSFET-gated bipolar junction transistors (“MGT”) are provided that include a first wide band-gap bipolar junction transistor (“BJT”) having a first collector, a first emitter and a first base, a wide band-gap MOSFET having a source region that is configured to provide a current to the base of the first wide band-gap BJT and a second wide band-gap BJT having a second collector that is electrically connected to the first collector, a second emitter that is electrically connected to the first emitter, and a second base that is electrically connected to the first base. |
| US08541785B2 |
Display device
An object is to reduce an occupied area of a protection circuit. Another object is to increase the reliability of a display device including the protection circuit. The protection circuit includes a first wiring over a substrate, an insulating film over the first wiring, and a second wiring over the insulating film. |
| US08541783B2 |
Electric double-layer capacitor and solar power generation device
The present invention relates to a solar power generation device which includes an electric double-layer capacitor and a solar cell. The electric double-layer capacitor includes a pair of current collectors formed using a light-transmitting conductive material; active materials which are dispersed on the pair of current collectors; a light-transmitting electrolyte layer which is provided between the pair of current collectors; and a terminal portion which is electrically connected to the current collector. The solar cell includes, over a light-transmitting substrate, a first light-transmitting conductive film; a photoelectric conversion layer which is provided in contact with the first light-transmitting conductive film; and a second light-transmitting conductive film which is provided in contact with the photoelectric conversion layer. The electric double-layer capacitor and the solar cell are electrically connected to each other through the terminal portion, the first light-transmitting conductive film, and the second light-transmitting conductive film. |
| US08541780B2 |
Semiconductor device having oxide semiconductor layer
It is an object to manufacture a highly reliable semiconductor device including a thin film transistor whose electric characteristics are stable. An insulating layer which covers an oxide semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor contains a boron element or an aluminum element. The insulating layer containing a boron element or an aluminum element is formed by a sputtering method using a silicon target or a silicon oxide target containing a boron element or an aluminum element. Alternatively, an insulating layer containing an antimony (Sb) element or a phosphorus (P) element instead of a boron element covers the oxide semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor. |
| US08541779B1 |
Pixel structure of organic electroluminescence apparatus
A pixel structure of an organic electroluminescence apparatus includes at least an active device connected to a scan line and a data line, a first electrode, a dielectric material layer, a first isolating layer, a second isolating layer, an organic light-emitting material layer and a second electrode. The dielectric material layer is disposed on the first electrode and has a first opening to expose the first electrode. The first isolating layer disposed on the dielectric material layer includes an oxide semiconductor material and has a second opening to expose the first electrode. The second isolating layer is disposed on the first isolating layer and has a third opening to expose the first electrode in the first opening and the first isolating layer in a sidewall of the second opening. The organic light-emitting material layer is in the third opening. The second electrode is on the organic light-emitting layer. |
| US08541777B2 |
Color conversion film and multicolor-emitting, organic electroluminescent device comprising the color conversion film
A color conversion film is disclosed that absorbs light from an organic electroluminescent part emitting blue-green light and converts the light to visible light at a longer wavelength. The color conversion film includes two different dyes. A first dye is a polymer dye with an average molecular weight of 1000 to 1,000,000 that absorbs light incident on the color conversion film and transfers the energy of the light to a second dye. The second dye is a dye that receives the energy from the first dye and emits light. With a multicolor-emitting, organic electroluminescent device including the color conversion film, it is possible to achieve excellent conversion efficiency without increasing the thickness of the color conversion film as in a conventional device using a binder resin. |
| US08541774B2 |
Hybrid CMOS technology with nanowire devices and double gated planar devices
A substrate includes a first source region and a first drain region each having a first semiconductor layer disposed on a second semiconductor layer and a surface parallel to {110} crystalline planes and opposing sidewall surfaces parallel to the {110} crystalline planes; nanowire channel members suspended by the first source region and the first drain region, where the nanowire channel members include the first semiconductor layer, and opposing sidewall surfaces parallel to {100} crystalline planes and opposing faces parallel to the {110} crystalline planes. The substrate further includes a second source and drain regions having the characteristics of the first source and drain regions, and a single channel member suspended by the second source region and the second drain region and having the same characteristics as the nanowire channel members. A width of the single channel member is at least several times a width of a single nanowire member. |
| US08541772B2 |
Nitride semiconductor stacked structure and method for manufacturing same and nitride semiconductor device
According to one embodiment, a nitride semiconductor stacked structure having a first surface includes a substrate, a first buffer layer, a first crystal layer, a second buffer layer and a second crystal layer. A step portion is provided in the substrate and includes an upper surface, a lower surface, and a side surface between the upper surface and the lower surface. The first buffer layer includes InsAltGa1-s-tN (0≦s≦0.05, 0≦t≦1) and covers the lower surface and the side surface. The first crystal layer is provided on the first buffer layer, includes InsAltGa1-s-tN (0≦s≦0.05, 0≦t≦0.05), and has an upper surface provided above the upper surface of the substrate. The second buffer layer includes InsAltGa1-s-tN (0≦s≦0.05, 0≦t≦1) and continuously covers the upper surface of the first crystal layer and the upper surface of the substrate. The second crystal layer covers the second buffer layer, includes InsAltGa1-s-tN (0≦s≦0.05, 0≦t≦0.05), and has the first surface. |
| US08541765B2 |
Resistance variable memory cell structures and methods
Resistance variable memory cell structures and methods are described herein. One or more resistance variable memory cell structures include a first electrode common to a first and a second resistance variable memory cell, a first vertically oriented resistance variable material having an arcuate top surface in contact with a second electrode and a non-arcuate bottom surface in contact with the first electrode; and a second vertically oriented resistance variable material having an arcuate top surface in contact with a third electrode and a non-arcuate bottom surface in contact with the first electrode. |
| US08541762B2 |
Charged particle irradiation device and method
A charged particle irradiation device (10) and method for irradiating a target volume (50), adapted for receiving a treatment plan (70) defining a series of prescribed irradiation points (140) having each a prescribed dose to be delivered is provided. The device includes an irradiation unit (40) having at least one scanning magnet (100; 110), and at least one beam position monitor (130) installed in between the said scanning magnet (100; 110) and said target volume (50) is provided. A controller (80) comprises means for calculating for any said prescribed irradiation point corresponding nominal magnetic settings of the scanning magnet such that a beam (90) is pointing to said prescribed irradiation point when corresponding magnetic settings are applied, and means for calculating corresponding expected position at said beam position monitor (130) according to said first correction. |
| US08541758B1 |
Ultraviolet reactor
An ultraviolet reactor for irradiating a flow of fluid includes a set of UV lamps and baffles spaced along the ramps. The baffles generate helical flow of the fluid flowing along the lamps to enhance exposure of microorganisms carried in the fluid to UV radiation. |
| US08541756B1 |
Systems and methods for generating X-rays and neutrons using a single linear accelerator
Systems and methods for generating X-rays and neutrons using a single linear accelerator are disclosed. Such system and methods may interrogate an object at times with X-rays and at other times with neutrons, e.g., after suspicious material is detected based on the X-rays. A system may include a single linear accelerator for generating first and second electron beams; first and second targets; a magnet configured to control irradiation of the first and second targets by the first and second electron beams; and a controller that (a) causes the linear accelerator to generate the first electron beam and causes the magnet to direct the beam to first target to generate X-rays; and (b) causes the linear accelerator to generate the second electron beam and causes the magnet to direct the beam to the second target to generate neutrons. |
| US08541750B2 |
X-ray detector and fabrication method thereof
A structure of X-ray detector includes a Si-rich dielectric material for serving as a photo-sensing layer to increase light sensitivity. The fabrication method of the X-ray detector including the Si-rich dielectric material needs less photolithography-etching processes, so as to reduce the total thickness of thin film layers and decrease process steps and cost. |
| US08541748B2 |
System and method for performing nuclear mammography imaging
A system and method for performing molecular imaging of an anatomy of interest is provided. The molecular imaging system includes a gantry, a first gamma camera coupled to the gantry, and a second gamma camera coupled to the gantry, the first and second cameras are positionable in an L-mode imaging configuration, the first and second gamma cameras are configured to immobilize an anatomy of interest there between in the L-mode configuration. The molecular imaging system is also configured to operate in an H-mode imaging configuration wherein the first and second gamma cameras are configured to immobilize an anatomy of interest there between in the H-mode configuration. |
| US08541745B2 |
Methods and devices for clothing detection about a wearable electronic device
A method in a wearable electronic device of detecting clothing includes: detecting whether the wearable electronic device is coupled to a user, determining whether the wearable electronic device is covered, and adjusting one or more device settings of the wearable electronic device. A secondary check can perform an additional determination of whether the wearable electronic device is covered with clothing. One or more sensors, such as a skin sensor, a tension sensor, an infrared sensor, or microphones, can be used to execute the steps in the wearable electronic device. |
| US08541744B1 |
Method and apparatus for wavelength locking free optical frequency comb based differential absorption Lidar
Methods and systems for wavelength locking free OFC based DIAL are disclosed, including generating electromagnetic radiation from a mode-locked fiber laser; coupling the electromagnetic radiation to an acousto-optic modulator; coupling the electromagnetic radiation to a power amplifier; collimating and coupling the amplified electromagnetic radiation into a scanner; steering the collimated and amplified electromagnetic radiation onto a target; using a telescope to collect a portion of the backscattered electromagnetic radiation from the target; coupling the collected portion of the backscattered electromagnetic radiation into a DWDM; using a photon counting receiver coupled to the DWDM to measure a multiple OFC on-resonant band intensity and a multiple OFC off-resonant band intensity; and comparing the multiple OFC on-resonant band intensity with the multiple OFC off-resonant band intensity in order to determine one or more concentrations of one or more molecules within the target. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US08541739B2 |
Precession diffraction charged particle beam system
A charged particle beam system for performing precession diffraction includes a lens 11 for focusing a beam 5 in an object plane 9, and an objective lens 13 having a diffraction plane 27. A doublet 53 of lenses 35, 63 images the diffraction plane 27 into an intermediate diffraction plane 69 where a multipole 55 is located. A doublet 57 of lenses 65, 93 images the intermediate diffraction plane 69 into an intermediate diffraction plane 71 where a multipole 59 is located. A first deflection system 15 upstream of the object plane 9 can tilt to change an angle of incidence of the beam on the object plane. A second deflection system 37 between lenses 35 and 63 tilts the beam such that the change of the angle of incidence of the charged particle beam on the object plane is compensated. |
| US08541738B2 |
Surface analyzer of object to be measured and analyzing method
A surface analyzer 1 includes: a sample stage 6 for placing a sample 5; a source for generating multicharged ions 3 for irradiating a beam 4 of multicharged ions having a valence of 15 or higher to the sample 5 placed on the sample stage 6; a mass analyzer 8 for detecting secondary ions 7 generated as a result of irradiating the beam of multicharged ions 4 to the sample 5; a secondary electron detector 10 for detecting secondary electrons 9 generated as a result of irradiating the beam of multicharged ions 4 to the sample 5; and a controller of mass analyzer 12 for generating analysis start signals in response to the secondary electron signals received, and transmitting the start signals to the mass analyzer. The surface analyzer 1 enables high-quality analysis of the surface of the sample in short time by using the multicharged ions. |
| US08541732B2 |
Optical module having a multifocal optical system with an additional optical element for covering a far range and a near range in one image
The invention relates to an optical module having a semiconductor element (4) with a surface that is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation and with an objective lens (1) for the projection of electromagnetic radiation onto the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element (4), in particular for the use thereof in motor vehicles. An additional optical element (11) is arranged in a defined partial volume in the space between the objective lens (1) and the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element (4) so that, by the additional optical element (11), a first distance range (8) is imaged in a first region of the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element (4) and a second distance range (9) is imaged in a second region of the visual range where the additional optical element (11) is not located. |
| US08541731B2 |
Solid-state image sensor
A pixel output line is provided for each of the pixels two-dimensionally arrayed in a pixel area. The pixel output lines are extended to a memory area, and a memory unit is connected to each of those lines. The memory unit includes a writing-side transistor, a reading-side transistor and a plurality of memory sections for holding signals for 104 image frames. A photocharge storage operation is simultaneously performed at all the pixels, and the thereby produced signals are outputted to the pixel output lines. In the memory unit, with the writing-side transistor in the ON state, the sampling transistor of a different memory section is sequentially turned on for each exposure cycle so as to sequentially hold a signal in the capacitor of each memory section. After a burst imaging operation is completed, all the pixel signals are sequentially read. Unlike CCDs, the present device does not simultaneously drive all gate loads, so that it can be driven at high speeds with low power consumption. Thus, the burst imaging can be performed at higher speeds than ever before. |
| US08541730B2 |
Solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus, and method for manufacturing solid-state imaging device
A solid-state imaging device is provided and includes: a substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array above the substrate, the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements being divided into a plurality of photoelectric conversion element groups; a plurality of semiconductor substrates between the substrate and the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, each of the plurality of semiconductor substrates corresponding to each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion element groups; and a signal output section in the plurality of semiconductor substrates. The signal output section outputs a signal corresponding to an electric charge generated in each photoelectric conversion elements of a photoelectric conversion element group corresponding to a semiconductor substrate. |
| US08541725B2 |
Sunlight-tracking apparatus of a wall installation type having an opening and closing hinge bar pivotally connected in a hinge fixing bar
Disclosed is an apparatus for tracking and condensing sunlight of a wall installation type which tracks the position of the Sun and efficiently condenses sunlight according to variations of an altitude or orbit of the sun by installing a sunlight condensing device for adjusting an angle onto a wall. An apparatus for tracking and condensing sunlight of a wall installation type, comprises: a wall means 100; a sunlight condensing means 200 for condensing sunlight by forming onto a side surface of the wall means 100; and an opening and closing means 300 for adjusting condensing angle by opening or closing an end of the sunlight condensing means 200. |
| US08541721B2 |
Wake generating solid elements for joule heating or infrared heating
An improved solid heat transfer element composed of an elongate member having a generally cylindrical surface with male vortex generating protrusions is provided. The vortex generating protrusions, which may be referred to as “turbulators,” provide improved heat transfer by convection to a flow of air transverse to the elongate members without substantially increasing the pressure drop in the flow of air passing over the members. Advantageously, a plurality of the heat transfer elements, or of straight portions of a single serpentine heat transfer element, may be arranged in an aligned or staggered array of elements or straight portions. Many advantageous profile shapes of the element and vortex generators are provided, including aerodynamic profile shapes that are symmetrical with respect to a fluid flow to provide low drag and pressure drop. Heat in the element may be generated by means of electrical resistance or absorption of radiation. |
| US08541720B2 |
Apparatus for remotely measuring surface temperature using embedded components
In one embodiment, a temperature sensing apparatus includes a temperature sensor disposed in a structure at a first depth from a first surface of the structure. A heat flux sensor is also disposed in the structure at substantially the same depth as the first depth. A measurement circuit is coupled to the temperature sensor and the heat flux sensor. The measurement circuit calculates a surface temperature of the first surface based on a temperature of the temperature sensor and a heat flow of the heat flux sensor. |
| US08541719B2 |
System for reduced peak power consumption by a cooking appliance
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system for reducing peak power consumption in an electromechanically controlled cooking appliance is provided. The system comprises a surface heating unit comprising at least one duty cycle controlled surface heating element, a temperature controlled oven heating element, a controller configured to receive and process utility state signals indicative of the operating state of an associated utility, and a switch responsive to the controller, switchable between a first state and a second state for selectively coupling the oven heating element to a first relatively high voltage power supply and a second relatively low voltage power supply respectively. The controller is configured to switch the switch to the first and second states as a function of the utility state signal. |
| US08541716B2 |
Heater control with high-limit thermal safety shutdown
A multiple heater control system includes cables, connectors, and junction boxes for user-friendly daisy chain connections of heater controllers and heaters in various configurations or combinations of individually controlled heater series and/or master and slave heater series. The heater controllers include process control of AC power to the heaters and upper-limit safety shutoff that is substantially independent from the process control. The heater controllers also have variable levels of control, adjustment, display, and communications functionality in a base module that is expandable to various levels with expansion modules that are attachable to and detachable from the base module. Connector, cable, and junction configurations, adapters, and latch features enhance user friendliness. |
| US08541715B2 |
Hair iron and methods of operation thereof
There are provided hair irons. In a preferred embodiment an electric hair iron (1) comprises at least one heating element and control means comprising a temperature sensor and a control circuit. The control means is arranged such that power is only supplied to the heating element or elements when the temperature sensed by the sensor is at or above a predetermined minimum temperature. Also provided are methods of straightening hair. |
| US08541714B2 |
Method and system for laser processing targets of different types on a workpiece
A method and system for laser processing targets of different types on a workpiece are provided. The method includes setting a laser pulse width of one or more laser pulses to selectively provide one or more laser output pulses having one or more set pulse widths based on a first type of target to be processed. The method further includes setting a pulse shape of the one or more output pulses to selectively provide the one or more output pulses having the set pulse shape based on the types of targets to be processed. The method still further includes delivering the one or more output pulses having the one or more set pulse widths and the set pulse shape to at least one target of the first type. The method finally includes resetting the laser pulse width of one or more laser pulses to selectively provide one or more laser output pulses having one or more reset pulse widths based on a second type of target to be processed. |
| US08541713B1 |
Subsurface glass reticles
An optical instrument for light incoming along a principal optical axis includes a glass block and a subsurface object within the glass block. The subsurface object includes an arrangement of object marks. Each object mark includes a plurality of scattering layers stacked against the principal optical axis of the incoming light. First and second scattering layers of the plurality of scattering layers have different polarization responses. |
| US08541708B2 |
Button switch
A button switch includes a main body. The main body includes a switch member therein. The switch member has a start portion and a stop portion to connect with a start button and a stop button, respectively. The stop button has a first position and a second position. In a normal state, the stop button is located at the first position and doesn't drive the stop portion. When the stop button is at the second position, the stop button will drive the stop portion. Thus, the operator is enforced to press the stop button again and the stop button is returned to the first position to start the switch member, preventing the operator to press the start button unexpectedly to start the switch member. |
| US08541706B2 |
Electrical switch
An electrical switch having a housing, with a contact system being located in the interior of the housing. A movable operating member, in particular in the form of a rocker, is arranged on the housing for switching action on the contact system. An opening is located in the housing, for the switching action of the operating member. An elastic seal for the opening is attached to the housing. The operating member comprises a moving inner part, which is located in the interior of the housing, in particular an inner rocker which can pivot, and a moving outer part, which is located on the exterior of the housing, in particular an outer rocker which can pivot. The seal completely covers the opening. The outer part moves the inner part, via the elastically moving seal, for switching action on the contact system. |
| US08541704B2 |
Electrical appliance housing
An electrical appliance housing including a hard plastic housing body defining a switch-actuating aperture. The aperture is sealed with a soft plastic membrane. An actuating button is fastened to a hard plastic base that is bonded to the membrane. |
| US08541703B2 |
Automatic vibrational electrical switch device
The various embodiments of the present invention provide an automatic vibrational electrical switch device that includes a shell, a first sphere, a transient sphere and a pressure switch. The pressing operation of the transient sphere towards an upward direction results in placing the first sphere load over pressure switch to keep the electric switch in a normal mode and when any vibration occurs in a normal mode the first sphere load is released and the electric switch is automatically operated in a quake mode. |
| US08541701B2 |
Switch
A switch for detecting a tilting operation is constructed easy to assemble. A tilt detecting section A is provided on an upper surface of an intermediate wall portion 12B of an upper case 12, a depression detecting section B is provided in a central position of an upper surface of a bottom wall portion 13B of a lower case 13, and a rotation detecting section C is provided around the depression detecting section. A top cover 11 is provided to cover an upper end of the upper case 12 to which the upper case 12 is engageably connected. The lower case 13 is engageably connected to the upper case 12. |
| US08541699B2 |
Adjustable module
A module forming a part of a lead-through or transit for cables, pipes or the like is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the module includes two base parts forming an outer part of the module. Two holding parts form an inner part of the module. Inside the inner part, formed of the two holding parts a cable or the like is received. The inner part of the module is received turnable inside the outer part of the module. |
| US08541697B2 |
Dustproof structure and electronic device employing the same
A dustproof structure is used in an electronic device, which includes a housing and a display panel. The dustproof structure includes a dustproof section and a first adhesive section. The dustproof section is located and received in the housing. The first adhesive section is fixed on the one side of the dustproof section, and the display panel is fixed on the dustproof structure by the first adhesive section and is assembled to the housing. The dustproof structure fills gaps between the housing and the display panel. |
| US08541694B2 |
Multilayer wiring board
A multilayer wiring board is capable of preventing the occurrence of cracking in the vicinity of a connection portion of a conductor pattern disposed inside a basic material layer and a via-hole conductor even when the conductor pattern is connected to the via-hole conductor. A multilayer wiring board includes basic material layers and the constraining layers that are alternately stacked. In the material layer, a via-hole conductor is connected to an intermediate conductor pattern. An extended portion is defined by extending an end of the via-hole conductor beyond the intermediate conductor pattern inside the basic material layer. |
| US08541692B2 |
Printed wiring board
There is provided a printed wiring board, including: plural first conductive patterns arranged adjacently in a first direction and separated by first gaps; plural conductive pattern rows comprising the plural first conductive patterns, adjacent conductive pattern rows being offset from each other in the first direction by a second gap; a conductive pattern group comprising the plural conductive pattern rows arranged adjacently in a second direction that intersects the first direction and separated by third gaps; plural second conductive patterns that are smaller than the first conductive patterns and that connect, in the first direction, each of the plural first conductive patterns to first conductive patterns adjacent thereto in the first direction; and plural third conductive patterns that are smaller than the first conductive patterns, and that connect, in the second direction, each of the plural first conductive patterns to first conductive patterns adjacent thereto in the second direction. |
| US08541689B2 |
Method for removing a part of a planar material layer and multilayer structure
The invention relates to a method for removing a part of a substantially planar material layer (2) which is connected to at least one further, substantially planar material layer (9) in a connecting step. According to the invention, a zone where the material layers (2, 9) are not directly interconnected is provided in the zone where the part (11) is later on removed, said first zone being provided by applying a material (8) that prevents the material layers to be interconnected from sticking to each other. The invention also relates to a multilayer structure and to the use of the method and to a multilayer structure especially for producing a multilayer printed circuit board. |
| US08541685B2 |
Flexible harness and electrical connector cable using same
There is provided a flexible harness adapted to be detachably connected to electrode pads of an electric/electronic component. The flexible harness according to the present invention comprises: a flexible insulator film; a conductor pattern formed on the flexible insulator film; a terminal plane which is an end region of the conductor pattern; and ball-like contact bumps formed on the terminal plane. Each contact bump includes a core made of an elastically deformable resin and an electrical conductor layer surrounding the core. |
| US08541683B2 |
Cable termination system
An armoured cable termination system and method of assembly is provided that clamps the armour wires of the cable over and around the back of a conical inner armour clamp member. The wires are also retained between the inner clamp member and an outer body and a securing end plate. The armour wires are splayed by the inner clamp member, which is forced onto the cable to displace the armour wires. The forcing mechanism is used to support an armour wire former that bends the armour wires around the back of the inner clamp member. The top clamp is then forced onto the termination assembly, such that the armour wires adopt a smooth curve around the back of the inner clamp and are securely clamped along their length. The assembly may then be mounted to a flexible pulling head for pulling it into contact with a structure. |
| US08541681B2 |
Cable fixing member
A cable fixing member formed of one belt-like metal plate bent to fix three cables to a structure includes two flanges formed at both ends of the metal plate, two C-shaped holding portions formed to be bent into C-shapes in cross section on both sides respectively of a reference portion of the metal plate to hold two of the three cables in the C-shaped holding portions respectively, and two semicircular arc portions formed to be bent into semicircular arc shapes in cross section between the C-shaped holding portions and the flanges on both the sides respectively of the reference portion of the metal plate so that the two semicircular arc portions face each other to hold one of the three cables therebetween. The three cables are held so that the three cables are arranged to form a triangular shape in transverse cross sectional view. |
| US08541677B2 |
Music machine
This application describes a method and an apparatus which enable one to compose music using hierarchical musical scales and harmonic sequences, where each harmonic sequence of a higher level is derived from the one on the lower level. Frequencies associated with harmonic sequence on each level above the first one are obtained as multiples of the corresponding frequencies on a lower level. The sets of multipliers used to scale the frequencies between the levels is restricted to respective groups of rational numbers, or musical scales, where each level in a hierarchy of harmonic sequences can be related to its own scale, or a single scale can be used for all levels. When composing for an orchestra of multiple instruments, harmonic sequences and musical scales can be assigned independently to each musical instrument. |
| US08541673B2 |
Hammer stoppers for pianos having acoustic and silent modes
A piano hammer stopper system includes a stopper rail set comprising at least first and second stopper rail members, each movable between respective first positions allowing unobstructed movement of associated piano hammers and respective second positions stopping at least one associated piano hammer from striking any corresponding string. At least one drive shaft is rotatably coupled to one or both of the stopper rail members. A drive arm is attached to the drive shaft and engages a drive fulcrum. A travel guide directs movement of the first and second stopper rail members between respective first and second positions. Rotation of the drive shaft rotates the drive arm to engage the drive fulcrum for moving one or both of the first and second stopper rail members between respective first and second positions. |
| US08541669B1 |
Inbred corn line MXD03
An inbred corn line, designated MXD03, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line MXD03, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line MXD03 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line MXD03 with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line MXD03, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line MXD03 and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods. |
| US08541663B1 |
Soybean cultivar S110146
A soybean cultivar designated S110146 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S110146, to the plants of soybean cultivar S110146, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S110146, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S110146. 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. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S110146. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S110146, 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 cultivar S110146 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US08541660B2 |
Soybean cultivar 2484721658
A soybean cultivar designated 2484721658 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 2484721658, to the plants of soybean 2484721658, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 2484721658, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 2484721658 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 2484721658, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 2484721658, 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 2484721658 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US08541659B2 |
Soybean cultivar 2472221658
A soybean cultivar designated 2472221658 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 2472221658, to the plants of soybean 2472221658, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 2472221658, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 2472221658 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 2472221658, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 2472221658, 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 2472221658 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US08541656B2 |
Canola cultivar DN051465
The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated DN051465. Also included are seeds of canola DN051465, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051465 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051465 with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051465. |
| US08541655B2 |
Transgenic plants expressing modified Cry3A
Compositions and methods for controlling plant pests are disclosed. In particular, transgenic maize plants comprising nucleic acid molecules encoding modified Cry3A toxins having increased toxicity to western corn rootworm are provided. Such modified Cry3A toxins, into which a non-naturally occurring protease recognition site is inserted, are expressed at levels in transgenic plants to inhibit insect feeding damage and cause insect mortality. |
| US08541649B2 |
Brassinosteroid regulated kinases (BRKs) that mediate brassinosteroid signal transduction and uses thereof
The present invention identifies a novel family of kinases regulated by brassinosteroids, referred to as BRKs (brassinosteroid regulated kinases) or BSKs (brassinosteroid signaling kinases). The present invention provides methods for modulating the response of a plant cell to a brassinosteroid using BRKs. |
| US08541642B2 |
Breathable and liquid impermeable web and method of making the web
A method is disclosed for modifying the physical characteristics of a web which involves passing the web between at least one pair of interengaged rolls to incrementally stretch the web, and then withdrawing the incrementally stretched web from between the rolls under tension. A web modified according to the disclosed method has desirable breathability and liquid impermeability, as well as extensibility and a soft, cloth-like textured surface. |
| US08541639B2 |
Process for producing para-xylene
A process for producing a PX-rich product, the process comprising: (a) providing a PX-depleted stream; (b) isomerizing at least a portion of the PX-depleted stream to produce an isomerized stream having a PX concentration greater than the PX-depleted stream and a benzene concentration of less than 1,000 ppm and a C9+ hydrocarbons concentration of less than 5,000 ppm; and (c) separating the isomerized stream by selective adsorption. |
| US08541635B2 |
Diesel fuel compositions
Fuel compositions containing a hydrocarbon blend having a cetane number of at least 62, a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of greater than 3.0 cSt and a density at 15° C. of greater than 830 kg/m3 is disclosed. The Wear Scar value of the fuel composition is below 350 microns as determined by CEC-F-06-A-96 and/or contains (b) a paraffinic fuel boiling in the gas oil range comprising more than 90 wt % paraffins and having a cetane number of between 70 and 85 in combination with (a) a mineral derived gas oil having a density at 15° C. of between 800 and 860 kg/m3 and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of between 1.5 and 15 cSt (mm2/s) and/or (c) a naphthenic rich blending component boiling in the gas oil range having a density at 15° C. of greater than 860 kg/m3 and having a pour point of below −30° C. |
| US08541627B2 |
Hydroformylation process including catalyst recycle
An improved hydroformylation catalyst cycle is disclosed wherein the cobalt catalyst is recycled to the hydroformylation reaction mainly as a water soluble carbonyl salt, obtained from extraction of the acidic form of the homogeneous cobalt carbonyl catalyst from the hydroformylation product with an aqueous solution of a salt of a weaker acid. The organic product after extraction is submitted to a further demetalling step in the presence of a dilute acid and an oxidant. The water from this further demetalling step is suitable for use in the upstream extraction step. A free water phase present in the hydroformylation reaction product may be separated upstream from the extraction step and is suitable for use in the further demetalling step, such that the catalyst cycle has no waste water stream. |
| US08541626B2 |
Method for synthesis of ketones from plant oils
Ketones may be produced in high yields from glycerides of short chain fatty acids by reaction with a carboxylic acid. The reaction is conducted in the presence of a catalyst and under conditions effective for ketonization of decanoate with the carboxylic acid to produce free ketones. Reaction of a glyceride comprising at least one ester of decanoic acid with a carboxylic acid selected from acetic acid and/or propionic acid produces 2-undecanone and/or 3-dodecanone, respectively. Catalysts of the formula FemCenAlpOx, wherein m is between about 0.2 to about 0.6, n is about 0.2, p is between about 0.6 to about 0.2, and x is greater than 0, produce significantly higher yields of the ketones than other known metal oxides. |
| US08541622B2 |
Acid gas scrubbing composition
This invention provides novel compositions comprising substituted polyamines as acid gas scrubbing solutions and methods of using the compositions in an industrial system. The invention relates to the use of such polyamine compounds in industrial processes to remove acidic contaminants from natural and industrial fluid streams, such as natural gas, combustion gas, natural gas, synthesis gas, biogas, and other industrial fluid streams. The compositions and methods of the invention are useful for removal, absorption, or sequestration of acidic contaminants and sulfide contaminants including CO2, H2S, RSH, CS2, COS, and SO2. |
| US08541619B2 |
Method for purifying flue gases from combustion plants and then producing urea
A method and apparatus is provided for cleaning flue gases from combustion plants. The method includes removing dust and removing nitrogen from flue gases, bringing flue gases into contact with an aqueous ammonia solution in the presence of an oxidizing agent whereby a reaction solution forms which contains at least ammonium carbonate, heating the reaction solution such that ammonium carbonate decomposes and carbon dioxide and ammonia transfer into the gas atmosphere, and reacting the gaseous carbon dioxide and the gaseous ammonia to form urea. The apparatus includes a device for removing nitrogen and removing dust from the flue gases, a washing device downstream of the device for removing nitrogen and removing dust, a stripper downstream of the washing device, and a urea installation downstream of the stripper. |
| US08541614B2 |
Process for the preparation of (−)-(4-chloro-phenyl)-(3-trifluoromethyl-phenoxy)-acetic acid 2-acetylamino-ethyl ester
The present invention is directed to a novel process for the preparation of (4-chloro-phenyl)-(3-trifluoromethyl-phenoxy)-acetic acid 2-acetylamino-ethyl ester, useful in the treatment of metabolic disorders and further to a process for the preparation of (4-chloro-phenyl)-(3-trifluoromethyl-phenoxy)-acetic acid, a synthesis intermediate. |
| US08541613B2 |
Process for producing amide compound
There is provided a process for producing an amide compound having an excellent harmful arthropod-controlling activity and represented by the formula (3): wherein R1, R2 and R3 independently represent a C1-C6 alkyl group optionally substituted with at least one halogen atom etc., R4, R5, R6 and R7 independently represent a halogen atom etc. |
| US08541611B2 |
Bifunctional phenyl iso(thio)cyanates, processes and intermediates products for their preparation
A process for preparing phenyl iso(thio)cyanates of the formula I in which a compound of the formula II or its HCl adduct is reacted with a phosgenating agent where W is oxygen or sulfur and Ar and A are as defined in claim 1 is described. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of the phenyl iso(thio)cyanates for preparing crop protection agents. |
| US08541610B2 |
Preparation of substantially quaternized ammonium organosilane composition and self-stabilizing aqueous solution thereof
This invention relates to the preparation of a partially quaternized ammonium organosilane composition, and a self-stabilizing aqueous solution of said composition, which serves to yield an antimicrobial polysilsesquioxane coating upon thermal curing. By way of this invention, an aqueous solution is prepared, comprised in part by a partially quaternized ammonium organosilane hydrolysate, characterized in that no further manipulation or addition of potentially costly ingredients are required to yield a stable and hence marketable product. |
| US08541606B2 |
Tertiary alcohol derivative, polymer compound and photoresist composition
A polymer compound for a photoresist composition (a) having a high dissolution rate in a developing solution after exposure and (b) exhibiting little swelling during development. A tertiary alcohol derivative that is a raw material for the polymer compound. A tertiary alcohol that is an intermediate of the tertiary alcohol derivative. The tertiary alcohol is represented by formula (3): wherein R1 and R2 individually represent a linear, branched or cyclic alkylene group having 2 to 9 carbon atoms, which may contain an oxygen atom, and wherein R1 and R2 may together form a ring with a carbon atom to which R1 and R2 are bonded. |
| US08541594B2 |
Herbicides
Bicyclic dione compounds, and derivatives thereof, which are suitable for use as herbicides. formula (I) |
| US08541592B2 |
Inhibitors of 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1
The present invention relates to thiazolinones and also to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, as well as methods of use of the compounds for treatment of disorders associated with human 11-β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 enzyme and for the preparation of a medicament which acts on the human 11-β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 enzyme. |
| US08541587B2 |
Lysophosphatidic acid receptor antagonists
Described herein are compounds that are antagonists of lysophosphatidic receptor(s). Also described are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include the compounds described herein, as well as methods of using such antagonists, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating LPA-dependent or LPA-mediated conditions or diseases. |
| US08541586B2 |
Large substituent, non-phenolic opioids and methods of use thereof
8-Substituted-2,6-methano-3-benzazocines of general structure are useful as analgesics, anti-diarrheal agents, anticonvulsants, antitussives and anti-addiction medications. |
| US08541585B2 |
N-acyl cyclic amine derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof
The present invention provides compounds which show high effectiveness against positive symptoms, negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia and reduce conventional side-effect risks as well as have remarkable effects for central neurological diseases associated with cognitive dysfunction other than schizophrenia. N-Acyl cyclic amine derivatives of formula (1): wherein Ar1 and Ar2 are aryl or heteroaryl; V is nitrogen, or CR3; W1 is a single bond, —C(O)—, etc.; W2 is C1-alkylene; W3 is a single bond, methylene, —NH—, —CR4═CR5—, etc.; Ring Q is a group of formula (a) in which n is 0 or 1; m is 0 to 2; k is 1 to 3; Z is a single bond, methylene, oxygen, etc.; R1a, R1b and R1c are each, same or different, hydrogen, hydroxyl, halogen, cyano, C1-6 alkyl, etc.; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are provided. |
| US08541583B2 |
Monofunctionalized perylenetetracarboxylic acid bismides
The invention relates to novel perylenetetracarboxylic acid bisimide derivatives with improved performance properties. |
| US08541579B2 |
Substituted diketopiperazines as oxytocin antagonists
A method of treating or preventing diseases or conditions mediated through the action of oxytocin which comprises administering to a human in need thereof of an effective amount of a compound of the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| US08541573B2 |
Substituted sulfonamide compounds
Substituted sulfonamide compounds corresponding to the formula I processes for the preparation thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and the use of substituted sulfonamide compounds for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions for treating pain and other conditions at least partly mediated via the bradykinin 1 receptor. |
| US08541572B2 |
Compounds for the treatment of inflammatory disorders
This invention relates to compounds of the Formula (I): (Chemical formula should be inserted here as it appears on abstract in paper form) (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or isomer thereof, which can be useful for the treatment of diseases or conditions mediated by MMPs, ADAMs, TACE, aggrecanase, TNF—or combinations thereof. |
| US08541565B2 |
Polynucleotide encoding anti-CD14 antibody fusion protein
A protein comprising (I) an anti-CD14 antibody or its active fragment, or a derivative thereof and (II) an inhibitor for a protease, or its active fragment, or a derivative thereof is provided. |
| US08541561B2 |
DNA aptamer specifically binding to pLDH (plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase)
Disclosed herein are a DNA aptamer specifically binding to pLDH (Plasmodium Lactate Dehydrogenase), a composition for the diagnosis of malaria, comprising the same, and a diagnostic kit for malaria using the same. Superior in specificity and stability to antibodies which are conventionally used to diagnose malaria, the DNA aptamers specifically binding to pLDH (Plasmodium Lactate Dehydrogenase) in accordance with the present invention can be developed into biosensors which determine pLDH levels with high sensitivity and accuracy, greatly contributing to the diagnostic accuracy of malaria. |
| US08541560B2 |
Polypeptides comprising Fas activation and NKG2D-ligand domains
The present invention is drawn to fusion proteins comprising (a) a ligand for an NK receptor and (b) a Fas activation domain, and to nucleic acids encoding such fusion proteins. The invention also includes methods of making and using such proteins and nucleic acids, including their use in preventing or treating cancer. |
| US08541556B1 |
Lignin derivatives and uses thereof
An article including a lignin derivative, where the lignin derivative includes a moiety derived from an antimicrobial compound. Also provided are methods of inhibiting microbial growth with an article including a lignin derivative. |
| US08541555B2 |
Hydrazone-based and oxime-based fluorescent and chromophoric/pro-fluorescent and pro-chromophoric reagents and linkers
Conjugationally extended hydrazine compositions of the formula (RR2)N(H)n(NH2)n, fluorescent hydrazone compositions of the formula (RR2)NN═C(R1R2), methods of the formation of hydrazones from the reaction of conjugationally extended hydrazines with conjugationally extended carbonyls and methods of their use in assays systems are described. Use of these conjugationally extended hydrazine and oxime compositions for direct calorimetric and fluorometric assays wherein a chromophore or the fluorophore is incorporated into the linker that is positioned between a reactive linking moiety and a biotin molecule. More specifically the linker comprises one molecule of a high affinity binding pair such as for example biotin of the biotin/avidin high affinity binding pair, connected to a spacer molecule such as for example a length of polyethyleneglycol followed by a pro-chromophoric, chromophoric, pro-fluorescent or fluorescent moiety connected to an amino-, thiol- or carbohydrate-reactive moiety such as for example succinimidyl, maleimido or aminoxy group respectively, that may covalently link to a biomolecule. |
| US08541553B2 |
Antibodies specific for the melanoma-associated endogenous retrovirus (MERV) envelope glycoprotein
The present invention provides antibodies, or fragments thereof, for isolating and/or identifying epitopes of an endogenous retrovirus, preferably of a melanoma associated endogenous retrovirus, and hybridoma cells producing said antibodies. The antibodies are useful especially for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer. Further, the present application covers diagnostic kits for the detection of cancer cells, especially of melanoma cells and methods for cancer diagnosis using said antibodies. |
| US08541551B2 |
Immunogen and antivenom against violin spider venom
The invention relates to the isolation, characterization and expression of DNA fragments encoding sphingomyelinases D from three species of Loxosceles genus spiders, namely L. boneti., L. reclusa and L. laeta, and the toxoids thereof. The invention also relates to the production of active sphingomyelinases D and the toxoids thereof using recombinant means and to the use of same as an immunogen for the production in vertebrates of antibodies that neutralize the corresponding venom and the respective fragments F(ab′)2. The invention further relates to the use of recombinant sphingomyelinases D as part of an antigen matrix which can be used in the immunopurification of antibodies and the fragments thereof or as part of any diagnostic device used to obtain clinical confirmation that the causal agent of poisoning in a patient is a spider of the Loxosceles genus. In addition, the invention includes molecular vectors for the expression of the DNA fragments, strains comprising same, which can express Loxosceles sphingomyelinases D, and methods for the express thereof. |
| US08541548B2 |
Compounds and methods for reversible modification of biologically active molecules
The present invention is directed compounds for reversibly modification of biologically active molecules. Described are polyconjugates systems that incorporate targeting, anti-opsonization, anti-aggregation, and transfection activities into small biocompatible in vivo delivery conjugates. The use of reversible modification provides for physiologically responsive activity modulation. |
| US08541547B2 |
Methods and compositions for tumor vaccination and therapy
The present invention relates to peptide vaccines, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and associated methodologies that promote the immune-mediated regression of tumors expressing an onconeural antigen, e.g. a cdr-2 antigen, HuD antigen. The cancer peptide vaccines of the present invention are antigenic peptides capable of being faithfully presented on the MHC I complex of a target cell or antigen presenting cell. This external cellular presentation of these peptides promotes a specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated immune response against tumor cells expressing these proteins, thereby, inducing immunological reactivity. |
| US08541545B2 |
Stabilized melanocortin ligands
Compositions and methods are disclosed for a non-naturally occurring melanocortin ligand comprised of a melanocortin analog coupled to a degradation-resistant C-terminal extension and, optionally, an N-terminal extension, to produce a stable melanocortin ligand having diminished or abolished cardiovascular activity while retaining desired melanocortin regulatory activity. |
| US08541541B2 |
Conductive block copolymers
The invention relates to the synthesis of polythiophene (PAT) copolymers, and their use as conductive polymers in final applications. Specifically, copolymers of PAT with (meth)acrylates, or amides are useful as additives in blends of different polymer matrices in many commercial applications. |
| US08541537B2 |
Branched polycarbonate resin and process for producing the same
This invention provides a branched polycarbonate resin obtained from a dihydric phenol compound, a branching agent, monohydric phenols and phosgene by an interfacial polymerization reaction method in the presence of an alkali aqueous solution and an organic solvent, the branched polycarbonate resin having features that: (i) the branching agent content (X) thereof is over 0.70 mol % but 1.50 mol % or less, (ii) the branching agent content (X) and the melt tension (Y) thereof at 280° C. satisfy the following expression (1), 3.8X−2.4≦Y≦3.8X+4.5 (1), and (iii) the entire N content in the branched polycarbonate resin is 0 to 7 ppm. |
| US08541535B2 |
Thermoplastic polyurethane containing silane groups
The invention relates to a thermoplastic polyurethane comprising the following structural unit: R2—CO—NH—R—Si(R1)3-x(OR1)x where: R is an aliphatic, araliphatic, or aromatic organic radical having from 1 to 20 hydrocarbon atoms, R1 is an alkyl radical or aryl radical having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R2 is —NR3—CO—R4 or —O—R5—O—, R3 is a section of the polymer chain of the thermoplastic polyurethane, in particular a radical which derives from the diisocyanate used to prepare the thermoplastic polyurethane, R4 is a section of the polymer chain of the thermoplastic polyurethane, in particular a radical which derives from the following compounds used to prepare the thermoplastic polyurethane: compounds (b) reactive toward isocyanates, or from the chain extender (c), R5 is an alkylene radical having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms, preferably from 3 to 6 carbon atoms, and x is 1, 2 or 3. |
| US08541529B2 |
Positive resist composition, method of forming resist pattern, and polymeric compound
A positive resist composition including a base component (A) which exhibits increased solubility in an alkali developing solution under action of acid and an acid-generator component (B) which generates acid upon exposure, the base component (A) including a polymeric compound (A1) containing a structural unit (a0) represented by general formula (a0-1) (R2 represents a divalent linking group, and R3 represents a cyclic group containing —SO2— within the ring skeleton thereof) and a structural unit (a1) derived from an acrylate ester containing an acid dissociable, dissolution inhibiting group. |
| US08541527B2 |
Elastomers, process for preparation, and uses thereof
Elastomeric interpolymers comprising at least two, or more, cyclic olefin monomers that are prepared by ring opening metathesis polymerization, and that are characterized by having no crystallinity, a glass transition temperature (Tg) of less than −80° C., and a number average molecular weight (Mn) of at least 40 kg/mole, and functionalized products thereof.A ring opening metathesis polymerization process for producing the elastomeric interpolymers having no crystallinity.Uses of the elastomeric interpolymers in applications such as rubber compounds, tires, and the like.Cores of golf balls that are prepared by using metathesis polymerization produced elastomeric interpolymers having 0 to about 30% crystallinity. |
| US08541525B2 |
Compound comprising phenyl pyridine units
Polymers comprising structural units derived from compounds of formula I may be used in optoelectronic devices wherein R1 is independently at each occurrence a C1-C20 aliphatic radical, a C3-C20 aromatic radical, or a C3-C20 cycloaliphatic radical; and a is independently at each occurrence 0, or an integer ranging from 1 to 4. |
| US08541523B2 |
Norbornene-type polymers, compositions thereof and lithographic process using such compositions
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for non-self imageable norbornene-type polymers useful for immersion lithographic processes, methods of making such polymers, compositions employing such polymers and immersion lithographic processes that make use of such compositions. More specifically the embodiments of the present invention are related to norbornene-type polymers useful for forming top-coat layers for overlying photoresist layers in immersion lithographic process and the process thereof. |
| US08541522B2 |
Catalyst compounds and use thereof
This invention relates to Group 4 catalyst compounds containing di-anionic tridentate nitrogen/oxygen based ligands. The catalyst compounds are useful, with or without activators, to polymerize olefins, particularly α-olefins, or other unsaturated monomers. Systems and processes to oligomerize and/or polymerize one or more unsaturated monomers using the catalyst compound, as well as the oligomers and/or polymers produced therefrom are also provided. |
| US08541517B2 |
Polymer compositions, polymer films and methods and precursors for forming same
Stable, high performance polymer compositions including polybenzimidazole (PBI) and a melamine-formaldehyde polymer, such as methylated, poly(melamine-co-formaldehyde), for forming structures such as films, fibers and bulky structures. The polymer compositions may be formed by combining polybenzimidazole with the melamine-formaldehyde polymer to form a precursor. The polybenzimidazole may be reacted and/or intertwined with the melamine-formaldehyde polymer to form the polymer composition. For example, a stable, free-standing film having a thickness of, for example, between about 5 μm and about 30 μm may be formed from the polymer composition. Such films may be used as gas separation membranes and may be submerged into water for extended periods without crazing and cracking. The polymer composition may also be used as a coating on substrates, such as metal and ceramics, or may be used for spinning fibers. Precursors for forming such polymer compositions are also disclosed. |
| US08541513B2 |
Terminal-modified difunctional sulfur-containing polymers, compositions thereof and methods of use
Disclosed are terminal-modified difunctional sulfur-containing polymers that are the reaction products of a sulfur-containing diol, an aldehyde or a ketone, and a compound containing a functional group. Compositions comprising the terminal-modified difunctional sulfur-containing polymers useful as sealants are also disclosed. |
| US08541506B2 |
Polycarbonate resin composition with excellent scratch resistance and impact strength
A polycarbonate resin composition according to the present invention comprises a polycarbonate resin and an ultra-high molecular weight branched acrylic copolymer resin and can have excellent transparency, appearance, and flowability, as well as scratch resistance and impact strength. |
| US08541505B2 |
Poly(arylene ether) composition with improved melt flow and method for the preparation thereof
A thermoplastic composition is prepared by melt blending a poly(arylene ether) and an other resin, where the poly(arylene ether) has a particular molecular weight distribution. The thermoplastic composition exhibits significantly increased melt flow compared to compositions containing poly(arylene ether)s with similar intrinsic viscosities but different molecular weight distributions. The increased melt flow facilitates preparation of the thermoplastic composition and subsequent article fabrication procedures. |
| US08541503B2 |
Polymeric core-shell nanoparticles with interphase region
A polymeric nanoparticle composition is provided. The nanoparticle may be of a core/shell configuration with an interphase region connecting the core and the shell. The mean average diameter of the polymer nanoparticles may be less than about 250 nm. The size, composition, and/or configuration of the interphase region may be varied to achieve desired physical and/or chemical properties of the resulting polymeric nanoparticles, and of the compositions into which the nanoparticles are compounded. |
| US08541502B2 |
Two/three component compatible polyolefin compounds
A polyolefin compound including: A) at least one thermoplastic olefin copolymer including the reaction product of olefin 1 and olefin 2, wherein: olefin 1 is a C2 based olefin and olefin 2 is a C3 to C8 α-olefin or olefin 1 is a C3 based olefin and olefin 2 is a C4 to C8 α-olefin; B) at least one functional polymer, the functional polymer content in the polyolefin compound being between 1 and 75 weight percent of the combined components A and B; wherein the thermoplastic olefin copolymer and the functional polymer form a co-continuous phase; wherein: a) an 12 melt index of the polyolefin compound is from about 1 to about 15 as measured using ASTM D 1238; b) a Shore A hardness of the polyolefin compound is from about 55 to about 100 as measured using ASTM D2240; c) a flexural modulus of the polyolefin compound is from about 0.8 to about 30 kpsi as measured using ASTM D790. |
| US08541500B2 |
Cardanol-based associative polyurethanes, corresponding associative thickeners and uses thereof
New associative polyurethanes which are manufactured with cardanol which is potentially oxyethylated. Use of these polyurethanes as thickening agents for aqueous formulations. |
| US08541496B2 |
Energy absorbing composition and impact and sound absorbing applications thereof
A substantially non-elastic incompressible composition, which substantially does not quickly self-level under standard operating conditions, includes: a suspending agent which reacts substantially as a solid when subjected to forces below a critical force, and which becomes substantially flowable when subjected to forces above said critical force; ceramic microparticulates dispersed within the suspending agent; flexible-walled microparticulates dispersed within the suspending agent; and celled macroparticulates dispersed within the suspending agent. The composition provides an incident energy absorbing property. The incident energy may include sound energy, and the microparticulates and macroparticulates may convert some of the sound energy into heat, or may diffract the sound energy. |
| US08541492B2 |
Pigment for laser-writable plastic materials and use thereof
A pigment for laser-writable plastic materials in the form of particulate, light-sensitive compounds which under the influence of laser light change their color and/or lead to a color change in the plastic material is characterized in that the pigments include at least one salt-like compound including at least two different cations or a compound mixture which can be reacted to afford at least one such salt-like compound with at least two different cations, wherein at least one of the cations is selected from a group (A) of the elements Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ag, Sn, Sb, La, Pr, Ta, W and Ce and at least one further cation is selected from a group (B) of the elements of the 3rd to 6th periods of the main groups II and III, the 5th to 6th periods of the main group IV and the 4th to 5th periods of the secondary group III to VIII and the lanthanides of the periodic system of elements. The invention also includes plastic materials containing the pigment or the compound mixture. |
| US08541490B2 |
Aliphatic polyester resin composition and process for production thereof
A process for producing an aliphatic polyester resin composition, wherein an aliphatic polyester resin is melt-kneaded with a phosphoric acid ester having a reduced moisture content of 1.5 wt. % or less. As a result, an aliphatic polyester resin composition having an improved moisture resistance is provided. |
| US08541489B2 |
Flame resistant semiaromatic polyamide resin composition including zinc stannate, and articles therefrom
Disclosed are polyamide compositions containing non-halogenated flame retardant and zinc stannate that have reduced corrosion effects on melt processing equipment. |
| US08541487B2 |
Materials, methods and compositions for a composite building material
A solid composite material is suitable for construction and industrial uses. The solid composite material consists of at least an effective amount of assorted agricultural remnants with additives of calcium carbonate and antimony trioxide bound in an effective volume of cured resin. The cured material tolerates wet environments, is fire resistant, resistant to caustic substances and can be finished to provide a product having a desired appearance. |
| US08541485B2 |
Process for making filled resins
A method of making a filled resin includes the steps of: Providing a wiped film evaporator with an internal evaporator chamber maintained under vacuum and having an internal chamber wall maintained at an elevated temperature; introducing solvent-borne particles and organic matrix into the internal chamber; and compounding the solvent-borne particles and the organic matrix in the internal evaporator chamber by forming a thin film against the internal chamber wall, the thin film including organic matrix and particles, and the vacuum conditions and elevated temperature being sufficient to remove solvent from the particles and organic matrix to provide the filled resin. Less than about 10% of the particles in the resulting filled resin are agglomerated. |
| US08541482B2 |
Removable multilayer nail coating system and methods therefore
The present disclosure relates generally to compositions for nail coatings, and particularly, but not by way of limitation, to polymerizable compositions. The disclosure further relates to methods of making a polymerizable, protective and scratch resistant topcoat layer that can be easily removed. |
| US08541480B2 |
Apparatus and method for modifying physical properties of nanostructure using focused electron beam, and nano-barcode and serial-junction nanowire fabricated thereby
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a portion of a light-emitting polymer material or a conductive polymer material can be irradiated with a focused electron beam, so that the physical properties of that portion can be modified. For this purpose, one embodiment of the present invention comprises an apparatus for modifying the physical properties of a nanostructure using a focused electron beam, the apparatus comprising: a nanostructure; a focused electron beam-irradiating unit that serves to irradiate a nanoscale electron beam such that it is focused on the nanostructure; and a focused electron beam-controlling unit that serves to control the irradiation position of the nanoscale electron beam so as to modify the physical property of a portion of the nanostructure. |
| US08541471B2 |
Water-soluble strontium salts for use in treatment of cartilage and/or bone conditions
Compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for use in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of cartilage and/or bone conditions and for methods of treating such condition. The compounds are salts of strontium that have a water-solubility of from about 1 g/l to about 100 g/l at room temperature, especially amino acid salts of strontium or dicarboxylic acid salts of strontium. Examples of novel water-soluble strontium salts are e.g. strontium glutamate and strontium alpha-ketoglutarate. The present invention also relates to an improved method for preparing the strontium salt of glutamic acid. |
| US08541470B2 |
Topical pharmaceutical formulation
A composition for topical application of an NSAID comprises a solution or suspension of the NSAID in a carrier system comprising a polyhydric alcohol, a glycol ether and an ester of A higher fatty acid, the carrier system being present as a single phase at ambient temperatures. The NSAID may be diclofenac as diclofenac acid. The polyhydric alcohol may be a glycol such as isopropylene glycol and the glycol ether may be a diethylene glycol ether such as diethylene glycol monoethyl ether. |
| US08541468B2 |
Ophthalmic composition for treating tear dysfunction
There are provided an ophthalmic composition that comprises 3-hydroxybutyric acid and/or salts thereof as active ingredients and is used to prevent desiccation of eyes and an ophthalmic composition that is used to treat tear dysfunction. By use of the ophthalmic compositions of the present invention, desiccation of the eyes can be inhibited and tear dysfunction can be treated. Therefore, by use of the compositions, discomforts caused by tear dysfunction, such as desiccation of the eyes, foreign-body sensation, feeling of discomfort on the eyes and eye strain, can be improved. Further, the ophthalmic compositions of the present invention can inhibit diseases caused by tear dysfunction, exemplified by development of dry eye and suspected dry eye which are dysfunctions related to desiccation of the eyes, particularly, development of diseases caused by tear dysfunction without injuries on the keratoconjunctive. |
| US08541467B2 |
Use of 2,5-dihydroxybenzene compounds and derivatives for the treatment of hematological dyscrasias and cancer of an organ
The present invention refers to the use of the compound of Formula (I′) or pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, isomer, or prodrug thereof for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of hematological dyscrasias, including myelodisplastic syndromes (MDSs) and for improving the efficacy of chemotherapy, radiation therapy and/or cancer immunotherapy. In addition, it relates to the use of a compound of formula (I″) for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of cancer of an organ. |
| US08541464B2 |
Treatment of atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation (AF) can be treated or prevented by administering to a subject who suffers from or is at risk of suffering from AF a composition comprised of an amount of an active agent, which is 4-methoxy-N-(3,5-bis(1-pyrrolidinyl)-4-hydroxy benzyl)benzene sulfonamide (sulcardine) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, such that the Cmax value the active agent in the subject is in the range from about 1 μM to about 20 μM. |
| US08541463B2 |
Ketorolac tromethamine compositions for treating or preventing ocular pain
Compositions comprising ketorolac tromethamine at a therapeutically effective concentration of less than 0.5% are disclosed herein. Methods of treating or preventing ocular pain using said compositions are also disclosed herein. |
| US08541462B2 |
Tetrahydrocarbazole derivatives as ligands of G-protein coupled receptors
The present invention provides novel tetrahydrocarbazole compounds according to formula (I) as ligands of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR) which are useful in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of physiological and/or pathological conditions in mammals mediated by GPCR or of physiological and/or pathological conditions which can be treated by modulation of these receptors. |
| US08541457B2 |
Aminothiazole derivatives as human stearoyl-CoA desaturase inhibitors
Methods of treating an SCD-mediated disease or condition in a mammal, preferably a human, are disclosed, wherein the methods comprise administering to a mammal in need thereof a compound of formula (I), where V, W, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are defined herein. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula (I) are also disclosed. |
| US08541448B2 |
Compounds and methods for inhibiting NHE-mediated antiport in the treatment of disorders associated with fluid retention or salt overload and gastrointestinal tract disorders
The present disclosure is directed to compounds and methods for the treatment of disorders associated with fluid retention or salt overload, such as heart failure (in particular, congestive heart failure), chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease, liver disease, and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) gamma agonist-induced fluid retention. The present disclosure is also directed to compounds and methods for the treatment of hypertension. The present disclosure is also directed to compounds and methods for the treatment of gastrointestinal tract disorders, including the treatment or reduction of pain associated with gastrointestinal tract disorders. |
| US08541440B2 |
Derivatives of 5-pyridinyl-1-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octane, preparation method thereof and use of same in therapeutics
The invention relates to compounds having general formula (I), wherein R is as defined herein. The invention also relates to acid addition salt, a hydrate or a solvate of compounds of formula (I). The invention further relates to the method of preparing said compounds and to the use of same in therapeutics. |
| US08541439B2 |
Formable aquatic coverings for preventing biofouling
The instant invention describes an anti-biofouling structure for placement onto structures or surfaces that are exposed to aquatic environments. Embedded within the anti-biofouling structure are agents that can diffuse out of the structure and prevent the formation and/or accumulation of plant and animal species build-up that creates biofouling. The instant invention also describes a system for preventing biofouling of an object stored in an aquatic environment which includes the anti-biofouling structure, and a protective cover element constructed and arranged to fit various structures, such as boat propellers. |
| US08541433B2 |
Combination comprising macitentan and paclitaxel for treating multi-drug resistant ovarian cancer
The invention relates to the combination of an endothelin receptor antagonist of formula (I) with paclitaxel, and in particular to this combination for therapeutic use, simultaneously, separately or over a period of time, in the treatment of ovarian cancer. |
| US08541432B2 |
Heterobicyclic carboxamides as inhibitors for kinases
The invention relates to novel organic compounds of formula (I) and their use in the treatment of the animal or human body, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula I and to the use of a compound of formula I for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions for use in the treatment of protein kinase dependent diseases, especially of proliferative diseases, such as in the treatment of tumour diseases and ocular neovascular diseases. |
| US08541430B2 |
Fused thiazolo and oxazolo pyrimidinones
The present invention relates to novel compounds, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and their isomers, stereoisomers, conformers, tautomers, polymorphs, hydrates and solvates. The present invention also encompasses pharmaceutically acceptable compositions of said compounds and process for preparing novel compounds. The invention further relates to the use of the above-mentioned compounds for the preparation of medicament for use as pharmaceuticals. |
| US08541427B2 |
Phenyl-substituted 2-imino-3-methyl pyrrolo pyrimidinone compounds as BACE-1 inhibitors, compositions, and their use
In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain 2-imino-3-methyl pyrrolo pyrimidone compounds, including compounds Formula (II): and include tautomers, steroisomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates of said compounds, stereoisomers, or said tautomers, wherein R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are each selected independently and as defined herein. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds, and methods for their preparation and use in treating pathologies associated with amyloid beta (Aβ) protein, including Alzheimer's Disease, are also disclosed. |
| US08541426B2 |
Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating dry eye disorders
Inhibitors of Janus kinase-3 (“Jak3”) are useful for treating dry eye disorders and other disorders requiring the wetting of the eye. Jak3 inhibitors useful for treating eye disorders include the compound 3-{(3R,4R)-4-Methyl-3-[methyl-(7H-pyrrolo [2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)-amino]-piperidin-1-yl}-3-oxo-propionitrile. |
| US08541423B2 |
Methods and compositions for treating pain
The present application relates to compounds and methods for treating pain, incontinence and other conditions. |
| US08541420B2 |
Ketolide compounds having antimicrobial activity
The invention relates to ketolide compound of Formula-I and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof having antimicrobial activity. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of invention and methods of treating or preventing microbial infections with the compound of invention. |
| US08541418B2 |
Inhibitors of polo-like kinase
The present invention provides compounds having a structure according to Formula (I): or a salt or solvate thereof, wherein ring A, E1, E2, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are defined herein. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds of the invention and methods of making and using the compounds and compositions of the invention, e.g., in the treatment and prevention of various disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. |
| US08541416B2 |
Method for treating a sleep disorder with a dosage form of a zopiclone or eszopiclone L-malate salt
L-malate salts of (6-(5-chloro-2-pyridyl)-5-[(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl) carbonyloxy]-7-oxo-6,7-dihydro-5H-pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyrazine) are provided. |
| US08541404B2 |
Inhibitors of the human aldosterone synthase CYP11B2
The invention provides compounds of the general formula (I) which are inhibitors of the human aldosterone synthase, and also pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and a method of treating of hyperaldosteronism and/or disorders or diseases that are mediated by 11β-hydroxylase (CYP11B1) with these compounds. |
| US08541403B2 |
Dihydropyridophthalazinone inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase (PARP) for use in treatment of diseases associated with a PTEN deficiency
A compound having the structure set forth in Formula (I) and Formula (II): wherein the substituents Y, Z, A, B, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein. Provided herein are inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase activity. Also described herein are pharmaceutical compositions that include at least one compound described herein and the use of a compound or pharmaceutical composition described herein to treat diseases, disorders and conditions associated with a PTEN deficiency that are ameliorated by the inhibition of PARP activity. |
| US08541398B2 |
Hydrogen sulfide derivatives of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
The present invention relates to derivatives of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) having improved anti-inflammatory properties useful in the treatment of inflammation, pain and fever. More particularly, NSAIDs are derivatized with a hydrogen sulfide (H2S) releasing moiety to produce novel anti-inflammatory compounds having reduced side effects. |
| US08541395B2 |
Use of telocinobufagin as an analgesic in the treatment of acute and chronic pains
The present invention is directed to the use of telocinobufagin, or its pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives, in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment or prevention of acute and chronic pains. The present invention also refers to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of telocinobufagin; also provides a method to induce analgesia in response to acute and chronic pains that comprehends administering an effective amount of telocinobufagin to human beings or animals. According to the outcomes of in vivo assays, telocinobufagin is more potent than morphine, though without presenting the known side effects of opioids. In addition, in vivo and in vitro essays showed that TBC does not present cardiotoxicity. |
| US08541394B2 |
Aminoglycoside antibiotics
This invention relates to novel aminoglycoside antibiotics, which have potent antimicrobial activity against bacteria, which induce infectious diseases, particularly MRSA, and has no significant nephrotoxicity, and process for producing them. More particularly, the present invention relates to compounds represented by formula (Ia) or their pharmacologically acceptable salts or solvates, or their diastereomer mixtures, antimicrobial agents comprising them, and a process for producing them. |
| US08541393B2 |
Antimicrobial locking solutions comprising taurinamide derivatives and biologically acceptable salts and acids, with the addition of small concentrations of heparin
The present invention relates to inhibiting or preventing infection and protecting against patency complications after a blood catheter has been inserted in a patient comprising administering to the device a pharmaceutically effective amount of a composition comprising (A) at least one taurinamide derivative, (B) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of biologically acceptable acids and biologically acceptable salts thereof; and (C) heparin at a low concentration. |
| US08541392B2 |
Polymer controlled induced viscosity fiber system and uses thereof
The present invention relates generally to a method of blunting the postprandial glycemic response in a human by feeding an induced viscosity fiber system. The invention also relates to an induced viscosity fiber system and the liquid products that incorporate the induced viscosity fiber system. Further, the invention relates to a method of incorporating soluble fiber into a liquid product without the typical negative organoleptic or physical stability issues. The invention also relates to a method of inducing the feeling of fullness and satiety by feeding the induced viscosity fiber system. |
| US08541388B2 |
Methods for modulating expression of RBP4
Methods are provided for modulating RBP4 by administering a RBP4-specific modulator. Also provided are methods for treating cardiovascular and metabolic disorders in a subject or delaying or preventing risk factors thereof through the modulation of RBP4. The present invention is also directed to methods of decreasing lipid levels in a subject or for preventing or delaying the onset of a rise in lipid levels in a subject, comprising administering to said subject a RBP4-specific inhibitor. |
| US08541387B2 |
Modulation of SMRT expression
Disclosed herein are compounds and methods for decreasing SMRT and treating metabolic and/or cardiovascular diseases in an individual in need thereof. Examples of disease conditions that can be ameliorated with the administration of antisense compounds targeted to SMRT include obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypothyroidism. |
| US08541386B2 |
Cannabinoid 2 (CB2) receptor gene promoter and unique RNA transcripts in B cells and methods of use
Cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2) is expressed in B lymphocytes and is involved in immune regulation. Mouse splenic B cells express three CB2 transcripts utilizing two different first exons. Human peripheral blood B cells express one CB2 transcript utilizing one first exon. Alignment of sequenced RACE products to either the mouse or human genome reveals that isolated transcripts contain previously unidentified transcriptional start sites (TSS). B cells from mouse and human preferentially express one transcript, exon 1a in mouse and exon 1 in human. Multiple CB2 TSSs are utilized in mouse splenic B cells and one TSS in human peripheral blood B cells. The defining of the receptor gene TSSs in these cells provides materials and methods for therapeutically regulating immune function, including antibody isotype switching, using compounds such as inhibitory nucleic acids that down-regulate expression of the B cell CB2 gene (e.g., RNAi molecules). |
| US08541382B2 |
Cardiac glycoside analogs in combination with emodin for cancer therapy
A method and medicine for treating leukemia or other cancer includes administering to a patient diagnosed with leukemia or other cancer a treatment regimen that includes periodic doses of a combination of emodin and digoxin. |
| US08541379B2 |
Kokumi-imparting agent
A substance capable of imparting a kokumi having CaSR agonist activity is described. This substance is able to impart kokumi in a superior manner, in particular, at the initial taste, and is also highly stable and can easily be produced at a low cost. The present invention thus provides a kokumi-imparting composition which includes such a substance as well as a complex kokumi-imparting composition which includes the substance and other substances possessing the CaSR agonist activities in combination. More particularly, the present invention herein provides a kokumi-imparting composition including γ-Glu-Nva (L-γ-glutamyl-L-norvaline), and a complex kokumi-imparting composition including the foregoing substance and another substance having a CaSR agonist activity, in combination. |
| US08541377B2 |
Optimized dengue virus entry inhibitory peptide (DN81)
The invention relates peptide entry inhibitors and methods of determining such inhibitors that are bindable to regions of viruses having class II E proteins, such as the dengue virus E protein, as candidates for in vivo anti-viral compounds. |
| US08541375B2 |
Glycopeptide phosphonate derivatives
Disclosed are glycopeptides that are substituted with one or more substituents each comprising one or more phosphono groups; and pharmaceutical compositions containing such glycopeptide derivatives. The disclosed glycopeptide derivatives are useful as antibacterial agents. |
| US08541374B2 |
Use of a composition comprising a non-fermented rice peptidic hydrolyzate for stimulating hair growth
The present invention relates to the use of a composition comprising at least one non-fermented rice peptidic hydrolyzate as an active agent for slowing down and limiting hair loss and/or stimulating hair growth. Said composition is also intended to protect the follicular adult stem cells as well as their specific microenvironment. In addition, the composition according to the invention combats the aging and particularly the photoaging of hair. Lastly, the present invention relates to several non-therapeutic treatment methods utilizing said composition. |
| US08541372B2 |
Isolated extracellular matrix material including subserous fascia
Described are purified extracellular matrix materials isolated from the abdominal wall of animals and including the subserous fascia layer of the abdominal wall. Such medical materials can find use in treating damaged tissue and in certain aspects in providing tissue support for the repair of hernias. Related methods of manufacture and use are also described. |
| US08541371B2 |
Treatment of conditions related to cecal ligation shock
Techniques, methods and lavages are disclosed for prevention or treatment of shock, particularly cecal ligation or cecal inoculation shock, by administering a specific therapeutic agent, which is able to use smaller volumes of reagent to achieve partial to complete inhibition, than other previously described techniques. The agent includes a combination of enzyme inhibitor, cytotoxic lipid binding protein, and antibiotic. |
| US08541357B2 |
Cleaning compositions with amphoteric polycarboxylate polymers
Cleaning compositions and laundry detergents comprising amphoteric polymers are disclosed. The amphoteric polymers may be comb polymers having polycarboxylate backbones and polyalkoxylate tentacles. In particular, the amphoteric polymer includes: a cationic group structure unit derived from a cationic group-containing monomer; and a carboxyl structure unit derived from a carboxyl group-containing monomer. The cationic group structure unit may be present at a level of 1% to 99% by mass based on 100% by mass of all structure units derived from all monomers in the amphoteric polymer. The carboxyl structure unit may be present at a level of 1% to 99% by mass based on 100% by mass of all the structure units derived from all the monomers in the amphoteric polymer. The cleaning compositions have high anti-soil redeposition ability and solubility with surfactants. |
| US08541354B2 |
Catalytic laundry detergent composition comprising relatively low levels of water-soluble electrolyte
A solid laundry detergent composition having multiple catalysts and water-soluble electrolyte, wherein the ratio of (i) the total reduction in activation energy in kilojoules per mole achieved by the catalysts to (ii) the electrolytic strength of the laundry detergent composition at a concentration of 1 g/l in de-ionized water and at a temperature of 25° C. in mScm−1 laundry detergent composition is at least 300. |
| US08541353B2 |
Cleaner and polish formulation comprising a polydimethylsiloxane/wax mixture
A novel cleaner and polish formulation that is eco friendly, that is, it is formulated without alcohols, organic solvents and without normal cleaning and polishing components, for example, amine functional materials, that are undesirable with regard to the environment. |
| US08541351B2 |
Estolide compositions exhibiting high oxidative stability
Provided herein are estolide compositions having high oxidative stability, said compositions comprising at least one compound of formula: in which n is an integer equal to or greater than 0; m is an integer equal to or greater than 1; R1, independently for each occurrence, is selected from optionally substituted alkyl that is saturated or unsaturated, and branched or unbranched; R2 is selected from hydrogen and optionally substituted alkyl that is saturated or unsaturated, and branched or unbranched; and R3 and R4, independently for each occurrence, are selected from optionally substituted alkyl that is saturated or unsaturated, and branched or unbranched. Also provided herein are uses for the compositions and methods of preparing the same. |
| US08541347B2 |
Hydrocarbon-acid emulsion compositions and associated methods
Methods that include a method comprising providing a hydrocarbon-acid emulsion composition that comprises an acid phase, a hydrocarbon blend phase, and an emulsifying agent; and placing the hydrocarbon-acid emulsion composition in a subterranean formation. In some embodiments, the hydrocarbon blend phase comprises at least about 65% hydrocarbons having from six carbons (C6) through eleven carbons (C11). In other embodiments, the hydrocarbon blend phase has a flash point greater than about 100° F. Additional methods are also provided. |
| US08541344B2 |
Compositions with cyclopropenes and metal-complexing agents
A composition is provided that contains a cyclopropene and a metal-complexing agent. Also provided is a method that includes contacting such compositions to plants or plant parts. |
| US08541336B2 |
Metal-carbon compositions
A tin-carbon compound that is a reaction product of tin and carbon, wherein the tin and the carbon form a single phase material that is meltable. The compound is one in which the carbon does not phase separate from the tin when the single phase material is heated to a melting temperature. |
| US08541335B2 |
Metal-carbon compositions
A lead-carbon compound that is a reaction product of lead and carbon, wherein the lead and the carbon form a single phase material that is meltable. The compound is one in which the carbon does not phase separate from the lead when the single phase material is heated to a melting temperature. |
| US08541334B2 |
Catalyst carrier, catalyst and process for producing the same
The present invention provides a catalyst carrier having excellent durability and capable of attaining high catalytic ability without increasing the specific surface area thereof, and a catalyst obtainable by using the catalyst carrier. The catalyst carrier of the present invention comprises a metal oxycarbonitride, preferably the metal contained in the metal oxycarbonitride comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of niobium, tin, indium, platinum, tantalum, zirconium, copper, iron, tungsten, chromium, molybdenum, hafnium, titanium, vanadium, cobalt, manganese, cerium, mercury, plutonium, gold, silver, iridium, palladium, yttrium, ruthenium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and nickel. Moreover, the catalyst of the present invention comprises the catalyst carrier and a catalyst metal supported on the catalyst carrier. |
| US08541332B2 |
Catalyst for polymerization of olefins comprising thienyl-substituted silanes
Disclosed is a catalyst for the polymerization of olefins comprising thienyl-substituted silanes, which comprises a solid titanium catalyst component containing titanium, magnesium and a halogen as the main components, an alkylaluminum compound, and a component of organosiloxane compound comprising two thienyl as substituents represented by general formula (I). The molar ratio of each catalyst component is 1:50-150:5-50 based on titanium:aluminum:silicon. When the catalyst is used in the polymerization of propylene, the polymerisate obtained has a very high degree of isotacticity, and the yield is high. |
| US08541331B2 |
Iron-containing aluminosilicate zeolites and methods of making and using same
There is disclosed iron-containing aluminosilicate zeolites having both framework iron and iron cations on the ion-exchange sites. There is also disclosed a direct synthesis method of making an iron-containing aluminosilicate zeolite, which does not require the use of an intermediate step, such as ion-exchange or impregnation. In addition, there is disclosed a method of using the iron-containing aluminosilicate zeolite disclosed herein in a selective catalytic reduction reaction, typically in the presence of ammonia, to reduce or remove nitric oxides from exhaust emissions. |
| US08541329B2 |
Process for the preparation of coloured blanks and dental shaped parts
The invention relates to compositions based on ZrO2, and single- and multi-coloured blanks made from oxide ceramics, and a process for their preparation, in which a) oxide ceramic powder is coated with a colouring substance, b) the coated powders are preferably graded and at least one coloured powder is filled into a compression mould, c) the coloured powder or powders are compressed to produce a shaped body, and d) the compressed shaped body is sintered to produce a blank, and to the use of these blanks for the preparation of dental restorations. |
| US08541328B2 |
Ceramic material, member for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, sputtering target member and method for producing ceramic material
A ceramic material according to the present invention mainly contains magnesium, aluminum, oxygen, and nitrogen, the ceramic material has the crystal phase of a MgO—AlN solid solution in which aluminum nitride is dissolved in magnesium oxide, the crystal phase serving as a main phase. Preferably, XRD peaks corresponding to the (200) and (220) planes of the MgO—AlN solid solution measured with CuKα radiation appear at 2θ=42.9 to 44.8° and 62.3 to 65.2°, respectively, the XRD peaks being located between peaks of cubic magnesium oxide and peaks of cubic aluminum nitride. More preferably, the XRD peak corresponding to the (111) plane appears at 2θ=36.9 to 39°, the XRD peak being located between a peak of cubic magnesium oxide and a peak of cubic aluminum nitride. |
| US08541317B2 |
Deposition method for passivation of silicon wafers
A substrate is mounted onto an elevated substrate support of a substrate carrier plate. The substrate carrier plate with the substrate is then placed in a plasma reactor. Due to the elevated substrate support, both opposite sides of the substrate are exposed to the plasma and are therefore coated with an electrical passivation layer. |
| US08541313B2 |
Method for etching a sacrificial layer for a micro-machined structure
A method of etching a sacrificial layer for a micro-machined structure, the sacrificial layer positioned between a layer of a first material and a layer of a second material, the etching being carried out by an etching agent. The method includes: providing at least one species having an affinity for the etching agent greater than that of the layers of first material and second material and less than or equal to that of the sacrificial layer; and then etching the sacrificial layer by the etching agent, the etching being carried out to eliminate at least partially the sacrificial layer and then to eliminate at least partially the species. |
| US08541312B2 |
Selective suppression of dry-etch rate of materials containing both silicon and nitrogen
A method of suppressing the etch rate for exposed silicon-and-nitrogen-containing material on patterned heterogeneous structures is described and includes a two stage remote plasma etch. The etch selectivity of silicon relative to silicon nitride and other silicon-and-nitrogen-containing material is increased using the method. The first stage of the remote plasma etch reacts plasma effluents with the patterned heterogeneous structures to form protective solid by-product on the silicon-and-nitrogen-containing material. The plasma effluents of the first stage are formed from a remote plasma of a combination of precursors, including nitrogen trifluoride and hydrogen (H2). The second stage of the remote plasma etch also reacts plasma effluents with the patterned heterogeneous structures to selectively remove material which lacks the protective solid by-product. The plasma effluents of the second stage are formed from a remote plasma of a fluorine-containing precursor. |
| US08541310B2 |
CMP compositions containing a soluble peroxometalate complex and methods of use thereof
The present invention provides a chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) composition for polishing a ruthenium-containing substrate in the presence of hydrogen peroxide without forming a toxic level of ruthenium tetroxide during the polishing process. The composition comprises (a) a catalytic oxidant comprising a water-soluble peroxometalate complex, an oxidizable precursor of a peroxometalate complex, or a combination thereof, (b) a particulate abrasive; and (c) an aqueous carrier. The peroxometalate complex and the precursor thereof each have a reduced form that is oxidizable by hydrogen peroxide to regenerate the peroxometalate complex during chemical-mechanical polishing. CMP methods for polishing ruthenium-containing surfaces with the CMP composition are also provided. |
| US08541304B2 |
Production of TSV interconnection structures made up of an insulating contour and a conductive zone situated in the contour and disconnected from the contour
A method for producing an interconnection structure is disclosed. In one aspect, there is formation in a substrate of at least one trench forming a closed contour and at least one hole situated inside the closed contour, the trench and the hole being separated by a zone of the substrate. Furthermore, the trench is filled with a dielectric material and the hole is filled with a conducting material. |
| US08541303B2 |
Method for fabricating MOS transistor
A method for fabricating metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a semiconductor substrate having a silicide thereon; performing a first rapid thermal process to drive-in platinum from a surface of the silicide into the silicide; and removing un-reacted platinum in the first rapid thermal process. |
| US08541301B2 |
Reduction of pore fill material dewetting
In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: providing a structure having a first layer overlying a substrate, where the first layer includes a dielectric material having a plurality of pores; applying a filling material to a surface of the first layer, where the filling material includes a polymer and at least one additive, where the at least one additive includes at least one of a surfactant, a high molecular weight polymer and a solvent; and after applying the filling material, heating the structure to enable the filling material to at least partially fill the plurality of pores uniformly across an area of the first layer, where heating the structure results in residual filling material being uniformly left on the surface of the first layer. |
| US08541300B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, semiconductor device thus manufactured, and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus
A plurality of projections, respectively given later as cores of a plurality of external connection terminals, are formed first by selectively forming a curable resin layer over a protective insulating film; flat portions are then formed respectively on the top surfaces of the plurality of projections, by pressing a molding jig having a flat opposing surface onto the top surfaces of the plurality of projections, before the projections are cured; the plurality of projections are cured; and the plurality of external connection terminals, and the plurality of interconnects are formed, by selectively forming an electro-conductive film over the plurality of projections, the protective insulating film, and the plurality of electrode pads. |
| US08541296B2 |
Method of manufacturing dummy gates in gate last process
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a dummy gate in a gate last process, which comprises the steps of forming a dummy gate material layer and a hard mask material layer sequentially on a substrate; etching the hard mask material layer to form a top-wide-bottom-narrow hard mask pattern; dry etching the dummy gate material layer using the hard mask pattern as a mask to form a top-wide-bottom-narrow dummy gate. According to the dummy gate manufacturing method of the present invention, instead of vertical dummy gates used conventionally, top-wide-bottom-narrow trapezoidal dummy gates are formed, and after removing the dummy gates, trapezoidal trenches can be formed. It facilitates the subsequent filling of the high-k or metal gate material and enlarges the window for the filling process; as a result, the device reliability will be improved. |
| US08541294B2 |
Method of forming epitaxial film
A method of growing an epitaxial film and transferring it to an assembly substrate is disclosed. The film growth and transfer are made using an epitaxy lateral overgrowth technique. The formed epitaxial film on an assembly substrate can be further processed to form devices such as solar cell, light emitting diode, and other devices and assembled into higher integration of desired applications. |
| US08541293B2 |
Method of controlled lateral etching
A method of controlled lateral etching is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method may comprise: forming on a first material layer, which comprises a protruding structure, a second material layer; forming spacers on outer surfaces of the second material layer opposite to vertical surfaces of the protruding structure; forming a third material layer on surfaces of the second material layer and the spacers; forming on the third material layer a mask layer which extends in a direction lateral to a surface of the first material layer; and laterally etching portions of the respective layers arranged on the vertical surfaces of the protruding structure. |
| US08541292B2 |
Group III nitride semiconductor epitaxial substrate and method for manufacturing the same
There is provided a group III nitride semiconductor epitaxial substrate which has a suppressed level of threading dislocation in the vertical direction and excellent crystal quality, the group III nitride semiconductor epitaxial substrate including a substrate (1) for growing an epitaxial film; and an ELO layer (4) having a composition of AlxGa1-xN (0≦x≦1) formed either on top of the substrate (1) or on top of a group III nitride layer (2) formed on top of the substrate (1), wherein the ELO layer (4) is a layer formed by using a mask pattern (3), which is composed of carbon and is formed either on top of the substrate (1) or on top of the group III nitride layer (2). |
| US08541291B2 |
Thermo-compression bonded electrical interconnect structure and method
An electrical structure and method for forming electrical interconnects. The method includes positioning a sacrificial carrier substrate such that a first surface of a non-solder metallic core structure within the sacrificial carrier substrate is in contact with a first electrically conductive pad. The first surface is thermo-compression bonded to the first electrically conductive pad. The sacrificial carrier substrate is removed from the non-solder metallic core structure. A solder structure is formed on a second electrically conductive pad. The first substrate comprising the non-solder metallic core structure is positioned such that a second surface of the non-solder metallic core structure is in contact with the solder structure. The solder structure is heated to a temperature sufficient to cause the solder structure to melt and form an electrical and mechanical connection between the second surface of the non-solder metallic core structure and the second electrically conductive pad. |
| US08541290B2 |
Optoelectronic substrate and methods of making same
A method of fabricating a device by providing an auxiliary substrate having a metal nitride layer disposed thereon where the nitride layer has a nitrogen face and an opposite face and a dislocation density that is less than about 106, with the nitrogen face of the nitride layer facing the auxiliary substrate; depositing at least one epitaxial nitride layer on the exposed opposite face of the nitride layer of the structure; depositing a further metal layer over at least a portion of the epitaxial nitride layer(s); bonding a final substrate on the deposited metal layer; and removing the auxiliary substrate to form the device from the final substrate and deposited layers. Preferably, the device that is formed includes a LED or laser. |
| US08541289B2 |
Dicing die bonding film and dicing method
The present invention relates to a dicing die bonding film, which is able to maintain good workability and reliability in any semiconductor packaging process, such as adhesive property, gap filling property and pick-up property, while controlling burr incidence in a dicing process and thus contamination of die, and a dicing method. Specifically, the present invention is characterized by optimizing tensile characteristics of the dicing die bonding film, or carrying out the dicing on the parts of the die bonding film in the dicing process and separating it through an expanding process. Therefore, the present invention may regulate physical properties of films so as to have the maximized adhesive property, pick-up property and gap filling property without any specific restriction, while controlling burr incidence in the dicing process and contamination of die. As a result, workability and reliability in a packaging process may be excellently maintained. |
| US08541286B2 |
Methods for fabricating integrated circuits
Methods are provided for forming semiconductor devices. One method includes forming a first layer overlying a bulk semiconductor substrate. A second layer is formed overlying the first layer. A first plurality of trenches is etched into the first and second layers. The first plurality of trenches is filled to form a plurality of support structures. A second plurality of trenches is etched into the first and second layers. Portions of the second layer disposed between adjacent trenches of the first and second pluralities of trenches define a plurality of fins. The first layer is etched to form gap spaces between the bulk semiconductor substrate and the plurality of fins. The plurality of fins is supported in position adjacent to the gap spaces by the plurality of support structures. The gap spaces are filled with an insulating material. |
| US08541285B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing the same
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor memory device including: a semiconductor substrate having: first device regions divided by first isolation films and second device regions divided by second isolation films a gate insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate; a first element including: a first gate formed on the gate insulating film in the first device regions, a first inter-electrode insulating film formed on the first gate and on the first isolation films, and a second gate formed on the first inter-electrode insulating film; and a second element including: a third gate formed on the gate insulating film in the second device regions, and a fourth gate formed on the third gate and on the second isolation films; wherein a thickness of the third gate is larger than a thickness of the first gate. |
| US08541279B2 |
Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having high-voltage and low-voltage transistors
By covering ends of a field insulating film in a region where a MOS transistor having a relatively thin gate insulating film is formed with a relatively thick gate insulating film, a channel region of the MOS transistor having the relatively thin gate insulating film is set apart from an inversion-preventing diffusion layer formed under the field insulating film so as not to be influenced by film thickness fluctuation of the field insulating film, etching fluctuation of the relatively thick gate insulating film, and impurity concentration fluctuation at both sides of the channel due to the inversion-preventing diffusion layer. |
| US08541276B2 |
Methods of forming an insulating metal oxide
A dielectric containing an insulating metal oxide film having multiple metal components and a method of fabricating such a dielectric produce a reliable dielectric for use in a variety of electronic devices. Embodiments include a titanium aluminum oxide film structured as one or more monolayers. Embodiments also include structures for capacitors, transistors, memory devices, and electronic systems with dielectrics containing a titanium aluminum oxide film. |
| US08541274B1 |
Methods of forming 3-D semiconductor devices with a nanowire gate structure wherein the nanowire gate structure is formed after source/drain formation
In one example, the method disclosed herein includes forming a fin comprised of a semiconducting material, wherein the fin has a first, as-formed cross-sectional configuration, forming a sacrificial gate structure above the fin, forming sidewall spacers adjacent at least a portion of the sacrificial gate structure and removing the sacrificial gate structure to thereby define a gate cavity that exposes a portion of the fin. The method also includes the steps of performing a fin reflow process on the exposed portions of the fin to define a nanowire structure having a cross-sectional configuration that is different from the first cross-sectional configuration and forming a replacement gate structure in the gate cavity and at least partially around the nanowire structure. |
| US08541273B2 |
Dielectric stack
A method of forming a device is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate and forming a device layer on the substrate having a formed thickness TFD. A capping layer is formed on the substrate having a formed thickness TFC. Forming the capping layer consumes a desired amount of the device layer to cause the thickness of the device layer to be about the target thickness TTD. The thickness of the capping layer is adjusted from TFC to about a target thickness TTC. |
| US08541271B1 |
Monolithic integration of multiple compound semiconductor FET devices
Various aspects of the technology provide a dual semiconductor power and/or switching FET device to replace two or more discrete FET devices. Portions of the current may be distributed in parallel to sections of the source and drain fingers to maintain a low current density and reduce the size while increasing the overall current handling capabilities of the dual FET. Application of the gate signal to both ends of gate fingers, for example, using a serpentine arrangement of the gate fingers and gate pads, simplifies layout of the dual FET device. A single integral ohmic metal finger including both source functions and drain functions reduces conductors and contacts for connecting the two devices at a source-drain node. Heat developed in the source, drain, and gate fingers may be conducted through the vias to the electrodes and out of the device. |
| US08541266B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
In a method for manufacturing a transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate electrode is formed and then an aluminum oxide film, a silicon oxide film, and the oxide semiconductor film are successively formed in an in-line apparatus without being exposed to the air and are subjected to heating and oxygen adding treatment in the in-line apparatus. Then, the transistor is covered with another aluminum oxide film and is subjected to heat treatment, so that the oxide semiconductor film from which impurities including hydrogen atoms are removed and including a region containing oxygen at an amount exceeding that in the stoichiometric composition ratio. The transistor including the oxide semiconductor film is a transistor having high reliability in which the amount of change in threshold voltage of the transistor by the bias-temperature stress (BT test) can be reduced. |
| US08541256B2 |
Method of cadmium molecular beam based anneals for manufacture of HgCdTe photodiode arrays
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, narrow bandgap II-VI compound semiconductor HgxCd1-xTe (0.1≦x≦0.5) (HgCdTe) wafers are annealed under Cd supersaturated conditions by exposing the HgCdTe planar or mesa surfaces to a Cd molecular beam in a vacuum deposition system before, during, and/or after anneals performed during individual photodiode fabrication process steps or HgCdTe epitaxial growth steps for eliminating or neutralizing the bulk or interfacial defects. |
| US08541254B2 |
Solar cell module and method for manufacturing the same
A solar cell module and a method for manufacturing the same are discussed. The method for manufacturing a solar cell module includes forming a front protective member including a hardened first silicone resin on a first surface of a front substrate; disposing a plurality of solar cells on the front protective member; forming a back protective member including a hardened second silicone resin and a fiber material on the plurality of solar cells; and disposing a back substrate on the fiber material. |
| US08541253B2 |
III-nitride semiconductor laser device, and method of fabricating the III-nitride semiconductor laser device
A method of fabricating a III-nitride semiconductor laser device includes: preparing a substrate with a semipolar primary surface, the semipolar primary surface including a hexagonal III-nitride semiconductor; forming a substrate product having a laser structure, an anode electrode, and a cathode electrode, the laser structure including a substrate and a semiconductor region, and the semiconductor region being formed on the semipolar primary surface; after forming the substrate product, forming first and second end faces; and forming first and second dielectric multilayer films for an optical cavity of the nitride semiconductor laser device on the first and second end faces, respectively. |
| US08541251B2 |
Method for manufacturing light-emitting device
A light-emitting device manufacturing method comprises the steps of irradiating a substrate 2 having a III-V compound semiconductor layer 17 formed on a front face 2a with laser light L1 along lines to cut 5a, 5b, while locating a converging point P1 within the sapphire substrate 2 and using a rear face 2b thereof as a laser light entrance surface, and thereby forming modified regions 7a, 7b along the lines 5a, 5b within the substrate 2; then forming a light-reflecting layer on the rear face 2b of the substrate 2; and thereafter extending fractures generated from the modified regions 7a, 7b acting as a start point in the thickness direction of the substrate 2, and thereby cutting the substrate 2, the semiconductor layer 17 and the light-reflecting layer along the lines 5a, 5b, and manufacturing a light-emitting device. |
| US08541249B2 |
Method for manufacturing light emitting device package and frame for manufacturing light emitting device package
A method for manufacturing a light emitting device package includes: preparing a base frame including an annular base part, at least a pair of lead parts extending to an inner side of the base part, and at least one support part extending to the inner side of the base part in a direction different from that of the lead parts and having a step structure formed on at least one surface of an end thereof; forming a package main body such that the package main body is combined to the step structure of the support part; separating the lead parts from the base part; disposing a light emitting device on at least one of the lead parts; and separating the package main body from the support part. |
| US08541247B2 |
Non-volatile memory cell with lateral pinning
An apparatus and associated method for a non-volatile memory cell, such as an STRAM cell. In accordance with various embodiments, a magnetic free layer is laterally separated from an antiferromagnetic layer (AFM) by a non-magnetic spacer layer and medially separated from a synthetic antiferromagnetic layer (SAF) by a magnetic tunneling junction. The AFM pins the magnetization of the SAF through contact with a pinning region of the SAF that laterally extends beyond the magnetic tunneling junction. |
| US08541246B2 |
Sample plate systems and methods
A sample plate comprising a sample well is disclosed. The sample well can comprise one or more bead retaining chambers. Also provided herein is a method of using the sample plate and kits comprising the sample plate. |
| US08541242B2 |
Device and method for detection of analytes
The present invention provides assays and devices for detection of substances in liquid samples. The assays and devices utilize passive diffusion between a porous material and a porous membrane containing a specific binding pair member to enable detection of the substance of interest. |
| US08541239B2 |
Assay method for detecting primary amines
The invention provides an assay method for the detection of a primary amine analyze in an aqueous body fluid, which method comprises contacting a sample of said body fluid at a pH below 9.5 with a thiol and an unsaturated cis-dialdehyde and testing for the presence of a pyrrole reaction product. |
| US08541238B2 |
Apparatus and methods for performing real time PCR in array tape
A carrier tape (20) wound on and extending between first and second spools (40) rotatably mounted to a read head (12) is submerged with a detector (44) mounted on a guide mechanism (42) into a fluid thermal media in the form of water or air contained in tanks (76-79). While submerged, the carrier tape (20) can be wound from one spool (40) to another. Further, the read head (12) can be plunged multiple times in opposite directions in the fluid thermal media. The detector (44) allows readings while the carrier tape (20) and the contents carried thereby are submerged in the fluid thermal media and can be a multi-channel, time-resolving photometer measuring fluorescence with at least one channel per row of wells (30) arranged in an array. |
| US08541232B2 |
Composition comprising a progenitor/precursor cell population
A population of cultured cells is provided that comprises at least 10% of a sub-population of cells that: stain as CD31 Bright, demonstrate uptake of Ac-LDL+, and secrete both IL-8 and angiogenin. |
| US08541227B2 |
Cell counting
The inventions relates to compositions and method for determining the absolute counts of cells per unit volume of a sample. Such a method comprises: (a) providing a container containing (i) a predetermined quantity of microparticles; and (ii) a cell-binding agent; in which the microparticles are disposed in or on a matrix which adheres to at least one wall of the container such that substantially all the microparticles are thereby attached to the container; (b) adding a known volume of sample to the container; (c) determining the ratio of microparticles to cells by counting microparticles and cells in a volume of the sample; and (d) determining the absolute count of cells by multiplying the number of cells per microparticle by the concentration of microparticles in the sample. Preferably, the matrix retains substantially all the microparticles in or on the container during routine handling, including inversion, of the container, in the absence of mechanical retaining means such as a retainer grid in the container. |
| US08541226B2 |
Bioreactor for mesophilic and/or thermophilic fermentation
This invention relates to a bioreactor for producing high rates of hydrogen from plant biomass. It also relates to the rapid screening, selection and isolation of biofilm forming mesophilic and/or thermophilic bacteria or bacteria consortia that generate high levels of hydrogen from plant biomass or from soluble hydrolysates derived from the hydrolysis of cellulosic materials including hemicellulose. The reactor comprises a primary reactor vessel having a bed of hydrogen producing bacteria towards its base located within a secondary reactor vessel which functions as a hydrogen gas collector and as a clarifier and separator. The plant biomass may be one or a mixture of insoluble cellulosic material and a hydrolysate derived from hydrolysis of cellulosic material. In one embodiment the bed of the primary reactor vessel is fluidised by recycling hydrogen gas saturated plant biomass effluent from the secondary reactor vessel to the primary reactor vessel. |
| US08541224B2 |
Serum-free growth medium for Acholeplasma laidlawii and methods for retention testing sterilizing grade filters
A method for retention testing sterilizing grade filters comprises: a) providing a stock of Acholeplasma laidlawii; b) growing up the stock of A. laidlawii for about 24 hours or less in a single serum-free growth medium that supports cell growth to a high titer and yields a cellular morphology where the cells are small, deaggregated and spherical, thereby producing a bacterial culture; c) challenging a test filter by filtering the bacterial culture through the test filter at a known challenge level, thereby producing a filtrate downstream of the test filter; and d) detecting concentration of A. laidlawii in the filtrate. Serum-free growth media for cultivating or storing A. laidlawii are also described. |
| US08541223B2 |
Lactic acid bacteria having action of lowering blood uric acid level
Various types of lactic acid bacteria were cultured in the presence of a purine, the amount of the purine consumed and the amount of purine degradation products produced were measured, and several lactic acid bacteria showing remarkable purine-decomposing ability were selected. Lactic acid bacteria that were assessed to have high purine-decomposing ability according to the above-mentioned selection were orally administered to rats reared on purine-containing feed, the general status and serum uric acid level of the rats were measured, and the effect of lactic acid bacteria administration on serum uric acid levels was examined. As a result, lactic acid bacteria that significantly suppress the increase of serum uric acid levels, Lactobacillus gasseri OLL2959 and Lactobacillus oris OLL2779, were found. |
| US08541217B2 |
Cytoblock preparation system and methods of use
An apparatus and method that may be used for collecting target cells or tissue and preparing a cell block are disclosed. |
| US08541214B2 |
Method of conversion of syngas using microorganism on hydrophilic membrane
A stable system for producing liquid products such as ethanol, butanol and other chemicals from syngas components contacts CO or a mixture of CO2 and H2 with a hydrophilic membrane under anaerobic conditions and transfers these components into contact with microorganisms contained as a biofilm on the membrane. Maintaining the microorganisms as a biolayer on the surface of the membrane facilitates cleaning of the membrane surface that retains the biofilm. In addition the shell gas space that surrounds the membranes may be flooded to reduce or remove the biofilm. Agitation of the liquid, by for example the bubbling of gas in the surrounding shell space, can fully or partially remove the biofilm from the membrane. |
| US08541213B2 |
Recombinant yeast and branched alcohol production method using recombinant yeast
This invention provides a recombinant yeast that can produce branched alcohol appropriate for automotive fuel and the like and a branched alcohol production method whereby branched alcohol can be produced at low cost with the use of the recombinant yeast. A recombinant yeast in which a hydroxymethyl glutaryl-CoA reductase gene has been expressed to a high degree and the ADP-ribose pyrophosphatase gene and/or the yhfR gene are introduced so as to be expressed therein is provided. |
| US08541209B2 |
L-proline cis-4-hydroxylase and use thereof to produce cis-4-hydroxy-L-proline
Development of a method of economically and efficiently producing cis-4-hydroxy-L-proline. The present invention provides L-proline cis-4-hydroxylase. This enzyme may be derived from Lotus corniculatus rhizobia, Mesorhizobium loti or Medicago sativa rhizobia, Sinorhizobium meliloti. The present invention provides a method of producing cis-4-hydroxy-L-proline from L-proline by using this enzyme. The present invention provides a recombinant vector containing a polynucleotide encoding the enzyme and a transformant containing the vector. |
| US08541208B1 |
Process for the production of fine chemicals
The present invention relates to a process for the production of fine chemicals in a microorganism, a plant cell, a plant, a plant tissue or in one or more parts thereof. The present invention relates further to a process for the control of the production of fine chemicals in a microorganism, a plant cell, a plant, a plant tissue or in one or more parts thereof. The invention furthermore relates to nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, antisense molecules, antibodies, host cells, plant tissue, propagation material, harvested material, plants, microorganisms as well as agricultural compositions and to their use. |
| US08541203B2 |
Activatable binding polypeptides and methods of identification and use thereof
Activatable binding polypeptides (ABPs), which contain a target binding moiety (TBM), a masking moiety (MM), and a cleavable moiety (CM) are provided. Activatable antibody compositions, which contain a TBM containing an antigen binding domain (ABD), a MM and a CM are provided. Furthermore, ABPs which contain a first TBM, a second TBM and a CM are provided. The ABPs exhibit an “activatable” conformation such that at least one of the TBMs is less accessible to target when uncleaved than after cleavage of the CM in the presence of a cleaving agent capable of cleaving the CM. Further provided are libraries of candidate ABPs, methods of screening to identify such ABPs, and methods of use. Further provided are ABPs having TBMs that bind VEGF, CTLA-4, or VCAM, ABPs having a first TBM that binds VEGF and a second TBM that binds FGF, as well as compositions and methods of use. |
| US08541195B2 |
Method for testing a sterilization packaging unit
A testing unit and a method of testing a sterilization packaging unit for microbial contamination of sterilized objects after they have been sterilized are disclosed. The testing unit includes a dry matrix for accommodating a nutrient medium and a receptacle containing a liquid. By applying the liquid onto the matrix, the matrix is provided with a nutrient medium. In the method, the testing unit is inserted into the sterilization packaging unit which is sterilized and stored. At a desired point in time, the receptacle is opened in order to produce the nutrient medium in the matrix. After a possible multiplication of microbes on the matrix, an observation of microbes takes place. The invention also relates to a sterilization packaging unit which has a rigid outer casing and is suitable for the application of the method. |
| US08541192B2 |
Methods to identify USP1 deubiquitinating enzyme complex inhibitors
The invention provides methods used to identify new inhibitors of USP1 deubiquitinase. The inhibitors can be identified by contacting isolated USP1 with a test compound in the presence of monoubiquitinated proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), monoubiquitinated human Fanconi anemia group D2 (FANCD2), or ubiquitin-7-amido-4-methylcoumarin, and detecting the deubiquitination of said PCNA, FANCD2, or ubiquitin-7-amido-4-methylcoumarin using an antibody or fluorescence, wherein a decrease in the deubiquitination of said PCNA, FANCD2, or ubiquitin-7-amido-4-methylcoumarin in the presence of the test compound relative to the absence of the test compound identifies said test compound as an inhibitor of USP1 deubiquitinase. |
| US08541189B2 |
Method for measuring the plasmine activity of microparticles present in a sample of blood or a blood component
The invention relates to a method for measuring the plasmine activity of microparticles, in particular circulating microparticles, in a sample of a biological fluid, particularly a biological fluid in a flow situation, wherein said method can be used as a diagnosis method or a method for following a treatment. |
| US08541183B2 |
Methods of identification, assessment, prevention and therapy of lung diseases and kits thereof
The invention provides biomarkers and combinations of biomarkers that are useful in diagnosing lung diseases such as non-small cell lung cancer or reactive airway disease. The invention also provides methods of differentiating lung disease, methods of monitoring therapy, and methods of predicting a subject's response to therapeutic intervention based on the extent of expression of the biomarkers and combinations of biomarkers. Kits comprising agents for detecting the biomarkers and combination of biomarkers are also provided. |
| US08541180B1 |
Compositions and methods for assessing gastrointestinal health
The present invention relates to kits designed for the collection of stool samples and methods of analyzing those samples for biological markers of maldigestion, inflammation, and imbalanced gut flora. |
| US08541175B2 |
Detection of molecular interactions using a reduced affinity enzyme complementation reporter system
Methods and compositions for detecting molecular interactions are provided. Aspects of the invention include the use of a reduced affinity enzyme complementation reporter system. Also provided are systems and kits for use in practicing embodiments of the methods. |
| US08541173B2 |
Endometriosis-related markers and uses thereof
The present invention relates to markers of endometriosis which are differentially expressed in the endometrial cells of females with endometriosis compared to endometriosis-free females. The invention also relates to methods for determining likelihood of endometriosis in female subjects, to methods for grading endometriosis in females suffering from endometriosis and to methods for treating this disease. The invention is also concerned with polynucleotides, probes, primers and kits useful for reducing into practice the above-mentioned methods which are more rapid, non invasive, much less complicated and much less costly than laparoscopy. |
| US08541171B2 |
Assay for detection of human parvovirus B19 nucleic acid
Nucleic acid oligomers specific for human parvovirus B19 genomic DNA are disclosed. An assay for amplifying and detecting human parvovirus B19 nucleic acid in biological specimens is disclosed. Compositions for detecting the presence of parvovirus B19 genomic DNA in human biological specimens are disclosed. |
| US08541169B2 |
Prostate cancer-specific alternations in ERG gene expression and detection and treatment methods based on those alterations
The disclosure describes alterations in ERG gene expression. ERG isoforms and promoter sequence of the ERG gene that are involved in, or associated with, prostate cancer are provided. The disclosure further provides therapeutic compositions and methods of detecting, diagnosing, prognosing, and treating prostate cancer, including biomarkers for detecting the expression of two or more of the following genes: PSA/KLK3, PMEPA1, NKX3.1, ODC1, AMD1, and ERG. |
| US08541168B1 |
Multi-array, multi-specific electrochemiluminescence testing
Materials and methods are provided for producing patterned multi-array, multi-specific surfaces which are electronically excited for use in electrochemiluminescence based tests. Materials and methods are provided for the chemical and/or physical control of conducting domains and reagent deposition for use in flat panel displays and multiply specific testing procedures. |
| US08541167B2 |
Methods and compositions for vaccination
The invention provides kits, methods and compositions of matter which improve the safety of vaccination. By combining the administration of antiviral drugs, particularly ester derivatives of cidofovir, with the administration of viral vaccines, particularly the variola vaccine DryVax, side effects of the vaccine are diminished without significantly affecting the effectiveness of the vaccine. |
| US08541166B1 |
Peptide sequences for binding infectious prions
Peptide sequences that specifically bind infectious prion protein for the generation of antibodies and therapeutic agents are disclosed herein. |
| US08541163B2 |
Transporting method, transporting apparatus, exposure method, and exposure apparatus
A ladder type stage apparatus that transports a film-shaped substrate includes a plurality of rods whose longitudinal directions are aligned in a direction that is orthogonal to the moving direction of the film-shaped substrate in order to support the film-shaped substrate; chains that join the rods along a closed-loop trajectory; and a drive motor that moves the rods along this loop-shaped trajectory via the chains. |
| US08541159B2 |
Positive resist composition for immersion exposure and pattern forming method
A positive resist composition for immersion exposure includes the following (A) to (D): (A) a resin capable of decomposing by an action of an acid to increase a solubility of the resin in an alkali developer; (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation; (C) a resin having at least either one of a fluorine atom and a silicon atom; and (D) a mixed solvent containing at least one kind of a solvent selected from the group consisting of solvents represented by any one of the following formulae (S1) to (S3) as defined in the specification, in which a total amount of the at least one kind of the solvent is from 3 to 20 mass % based on all solvents of the mixed solvent (D). |
| US08541158B2 |
Positive resist compositions and patterning process
A positive resist composition is provided comprising an acid generator, a resin component which generates resin-solubilizing groups under the action of acid so that the resin component becomes soluble in an alkaline developer, at least some resin-solubilizing groups being carboxyl groups, and a compound for activating or condensing a carboxyl group. When processed by the lithography, the resist composition forms a resist pattern having a very high resolution and good mask fidelity. |
| US08541155B2 |
Resin-coated carrier for electrophotographic developer, and electrophotographic developer
There are provided a resin-coated carrier for an electrophotographic developer, in which a magnetic particle is coated with a resin on its surface, and the coating resin contains a carbon nanotube having a carbon content of 75% by weight or more, and an electrophotographic developer using the resin-coated carrier. |
| US08541154B2 |
Toner containing fluorescent nanoparticles
A method for making toners to include at least one nanoscale fluorescent pigment particle composition and/or a fluorescent organic nanoparticle composition. The particles are incorporated into emulsion of toner and used in making toner via emulsion aggregation. Such toners may have a core and/or a shell and the clay composites may be included within the core, the shell or both. The fluorescent organic nanoparticle composition includes a polymeric matrix obtained by modified EA latex process and/or emulsion polymerization and one or more fluorescent dyes and the nanoscale fluorescent pigment particle composition includes pigment molecules with at least one functional moiety, and a sterically bulky stabilizer compound including at least one functional group, 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. |
| US08541153B2 |
Toner for developing electrostatic image, developer for electrostatic image, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming method, and image forming apparatus
A toner for developing an electrostatic image contains at least one of an oxidation polymerizable monomer and a polymer having an ethylenically unsaturated group, and an oxidation polymerization catalyst in a form of a composite with inorganic particles, wherein a temperature T(10 Mpa) and a temperature T(1 Mpa) satisfies the following expression (1): 20° C.≦T(1 MPa)−T(10 MPa) (1) wherein, the temperature T(10 Mpa) is a temperature at which a viscosity of the toner under a pressure of 10 Mpa applied with a flow tester becomes 104 Pa·s, and the temperature T(1 Mpa) is a temperature at which a viscosity of the toner under a pressure of 1 Mpa applied with a flow tester becomes 104 Pa·s. |
| US08541151B2 |
Imaging members having a novel slippery overcoat layer
The presently disclosed embodiments relate in general to electrophotographic imaging members which include a protective overcoat layer comprising specific low surface energy polycarbonates of excellent optical clarity and having a slippery and adhesive surface to impact toner image transfer efficiency to receiving papers and effect contact friction reduction by which imaging members abrasion/wear resistance is enhanced. The present embodiments also disclose a process for making and using these members. |
| US08541146B2 |
Photocatalytic methods for preparation of electrocatalyst materials
The invention relates to methods of preparing metal particles on a support material, including platinum-containing nanoparticles on a carbon support. Such materials can be used as electrocatalysts, for example as improved electrocatalysts in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEM-FCs). |
| US08541139B2 |
Humidifier including an auxiliary humidifier utilzing electroosmosis
A humidifier includes an inlet assembly provided in an air exhaust pipe, through which water-supersaturated exhaust gas is discharged from a fuel cell stack, to supply water condensed from the exhaust gas to the fuel cell stack and an outlet assembly provided in an air supply pipe, through which a reactant gas to be humidified and supplied to the fuel cell stack passes, to supply the water transferred through a pumping pipe to the air supply pipe such that the reactant gas is humidified. A pumping pipe including a porous material disposed therein along with electrodes are disposed between the inlet assembly and the outlet assembly so that the water is transferred through a capillary path in the porous material via a pumping force by electroosmosis when the electrodes apply a voltage. |
| US08541138B2 |
Perfluorinated membranes and improved electrolytes for redox cells and batteries
The present invention describes an improved membrane for Redox Flow Batteries, in particular for Vanadium Redox Batteries and energy storage systems and applications employing the Vanadium Redox Cells and Batteries. Redox Flow Batteries involve the use of two redox couple electrolytes separated by an ion exchange membrane that is the most important cell component. |
| US08541135B2 |
Current collector for catalytic electrode
The invention is an electrochemical cell with a catalytic electrode and an aqueous alkaline electrolyte within a cell housing having one or more ports for the passage of a gas to or from the catalytic electrode and a process for making the cell. The catalytic electrode includes a catalytic layer, containing a catalytic material, and a porous current collector, at least partially embedded in the catalytic layer. The current collector includes a substrate with an electrically conductive metal layer, in contact with the catalytic material on the side of the current collector facing the ports, and a coating including electrically conductive particles, in contact with the catalytic layer on the side facing the separator. |
| US08541133B2 |
Electrochemical device with a magnesium anode and a stable, safe electrolyte compatible with sulfur
An electrochemical device, having an anode containing magnesium; a cathode stable to a voltage of at least 3.2 V relative to a magnesium reference; and an electrolyte containing a solvent and a LiCl complex of a magnesium halide salt of a sterically hindered secondary amine is provided. In a preferred embodiment the electrolyte contains tetrahydrofuran and 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl-magnesium chloride-lithium chloride complex. |
| US08541131B2 |
Elongate battery for implantable medical device
A battery assembly for a medical device includes an elongate cathode, an elongate anode, an electrolyte, and an elongate housing assembly encapsulating the cathode, the anode, and the electrolyte. The battery assembly also includes a first electrode that is exposed from and electrically insulated from the housing assembly. One of the anode and the cathode is electrically coupled to the first electrode, and the other of the anode and the cathode is electrically coupled to the housing assembly. One of the cathode and the anode includes a first portion and a second portion disposed in spaced relationship from the first portion. The other of the cathode and the anode is disposed between the first and second portions. |
| US08541123B2 |
Secondary battery, battery assembly, and vehicle equipped with the secondary battery
A secondary battery comprises a flat wound electrode body, a flat-type hard case housing the wound electrode body, and a film sandwiched between them. The film is formed with thick portions each of which is located at a boundary region between a flat portion and a curved portion of the surface of the wound electrode body. When a plurality of the secondary batteries are bound, therefore, load is applied widely on almost the entire wound electrode body, thereby enabling exertion of sufficient generation capability. Thus, a secondary battery with improved battery performance is provided in which load is sufficiently applied on an electrode body. The secondary battery can also be used as a battery assembly, a battery to be mounted on a vehicle, and a battery to be mounted on a battery mounting device. |
| US08541122B2 |
Lithium rechargeable cell with reference electrode for state of health monitoring
A battery management system includes one or more lithium ion cells in electrical connection, each said cell comprising: first and second working electrodes and one or more reference electrodes, each reference electrode electronically isolated from the working electrodes and having a separate tab or current collector exiting the cell and providing an additional terminal for electrical measurement; and a battery management system comprising a battery state-of-charge monitor, said monitor being operable for receiving information relating to the potential difference of the working electrodes and the potential of one or more of the working electrodes versus the reference electrode. |
| US08541119B2 |
Lithium secondary battery and method of controlling short resistance thereof
Provided is a lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material, and a polymer electrolyte composition having a polymer electrolyte, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and a lithium salt. The content of the polymer electrolyte is 9 to 20 wt %, based on the total weight of the polymer electrolyte composition. |
| US08541116B2 |
Patterned perpendicular magnetic recording disk drive and medium with patterned exchange bridge layer below the data islands
A patterned perpendicular magnetic recording disk with discrete data islands of recording layer (RL) material includes a substrate, a patterned exchange bridge layer of magnetic material between the substrate and the islands, and an optional exchange-coupling control layer (CCL) between the exchange bridge layer and the islands. The exchange bridge layer has patterned pedestals below the islands. The exchange bridge layer controls exchange interactions between the RLs in adjacent islands to compensate the dipolar fields between islands, and the pedestals concentrate the flux from the write head. The disk may include a soft underlayer (SUL) of soft magnetically permeable material on the substrate and a nonmagnetic exchange break layer (EBL) on the SUL between the SUL and the exchange bridge layer. In a thermally-assisted recording (TAR) disk a heat sink layer may be located below the exchange bridge layer and the SUL may be optional. |
| US08541113B2 |
Pyrene compounds and organic electroluminescent devices using the same
A pyrene compound is provided. The pyrene compound is represented by Formula 1: wherein A1 and A2 are as defined in the specification. Further provided is an organic electroluminescent device using the pyrene compound. The organic electroluminescent device has high color purity of blue light and shows long life characteristics. Therefore, the organic electroluminescent device is suitable for use in displays and lighting systems. |
| US08541111B2 |
Organic electroluminescent device and display apparatus
A red light-emitting organic electroluminescent device is provided and includes an anode; a cathode; and an organic layer which includes a light-emitting layer and is interposed between the anode and cathode. The light-emitting layer includes a red light-emitting guest material and a host material composed of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound whose mother skeleton has a ring member number of from four to seven. The organic electroluminescent device also includes an electron transport layer containing a benzimidazole derivative provided adjacent to the light-emitting layer. |