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| US07808612B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and method for masking a substrate
A method of removing a substrate from a substrate table of a lithographic apparatus. The substrate table is provided with a mask arranged to form a peripheral exposure exclusion region on a substrate. The method includes moving the mask from an in use position to a storage position. The storage position is adjacent to a projection system of the lithographic apparatus. The method also includes removing the substrate from the lithographic apparatus. |
| US07808609B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and repairing method thereof
An LCD and an LCD repairing method are provided. The LCD repairing method includes forming a hole on a first or second substrate at a position corresponding to a defective pixel and forming a pigment in the hole. The LCD includes a first substrate on which a pixel electrode and a TFT are formed in a pixel region formed in a matrix pattern, a second substrate on which a color filter layer and a black matrix are formed, the second substrate facing the first substrate, a hole formed on an outer surface of the first or second substrate to repair a defective pixel, and a repair pattern formed in the hole. |
| US07808607B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same
A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate having a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a first pattern spacer having an inverse tapered shape on an inner surface of the first substrate; a second pattern spacer having an inverse tapered shape on an inner surface of the second substrate; a seal pattern on a peripheral edge of the first and second substrates; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. |
| US07808601B2 |
Liquid crystal display device having a discharge port to discharge excess liquid crystal
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a sealing member. The sealing member is sandwiched between the first and second substrates, and forms a perimeter encircling a display area of the LCD device. After delivery of at least one drop of liquid crystal, any excessive liquid crystal trapped within the perimeter is discharged through a discharge port in the sealing member. The discharge port is plugged with a sealant. |
| US07808597B2 |
Display module
Provided is a display module. The display module includes a panel, a printed circuit board (PCB), a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB), and a support member. The panel displays images. The PCB supplies driving signals to the panel. The FPCB electrically connects the PCB to the panel. The support member is formed on the FPCB. |
| US07808587B2 |
Liquid crystal display apparatus and liquid crystal panel
A light-shielding plate and a first light-shielding layer are arranged between a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal layer in a peripheral region of a liquid crystal panel so that linearly polarized light transmitted through the polarizing plate, which is a reflection polarizing plate, is not incident on the liquid crystal layer, but is reflected to the polarizing plate in the peripheral region. |
| US07808586B2 |
Electrooptic device and electronic device including the same
An electrooptic device includes: a pair of first and second substrates that sandwich an electrooptic material; a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed in a pixel region on the first substrate; a first light shielding layer disposed on the second substrate, the first light shielding layer defining the periphery of the pixel region; a sealing material that bonds the first substrate and the second substrate together in a sealing region around the periphery of a first light shielding region having the first light shielding layer; a dustproof substrate disposed on the surface of the second substrate opposite to the electrooptic material; a second light shielding layer disposed on the dustproof substrate so as to enclose the pixel region; and a third light shielding layer disposed on the dustproof substrate so as to at least partly overlap with the first and second light shielding layers. |
| US07808584B2 |
Polarizer, method of fabricating the same and liquid crystal display having the same
Disclosed are a polarizer, a method for fabricating the same, and a liquid crystal display having the same. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel and a polarizer attached to the liquid crystal panel. The polarizer includes a polarizing film, a first support film, and a second support film. The first support film has optical anisotropy and is attached to the polarizing film. The first support film has a first thickness. The second support film is attached to the polarizing film while facing the first support film and has a second thickness, which is greater than the first thickness. The polarizer is fabricated by evaporating a solvent from a solution including polymer resin to form an optical film and then elongating the optical film. |
| US07808578B2 |
Light guide place and light-diffusing structure thereof
A light guide plate that is divided into an effective section capable of providing uniform surface illumination and a transitional section between the effective section and the point light source includes a light-receiving surface, a light-emitting surface, a light-reflecting surface, and a plurality of light-diffusing structures. The light-diffusing structures are spread on the transitional section, and each light-diffusing structure is in the shape of a part elliptic cylinder having a long axis and a short axis and the front surface of the light-diffusing structure facing the point light source is a part elliptic cylindrical surface. |
| US07808577B2 |
Light source device and liquid crystal display
A light source device capable of realizing a color display having the high light-use efficiency with a simple configuration is provided. Provided is a light source device including a prism sheet disposed to face a plane to be irradiated, and to bend an incident light to a direction substantially orthogonal to an incident direction; a light source section separately emitting a plurality of color lights having wavelength regions different from each other so that each of the color lights enters into the prism sheet at a small angle with respect to an extending direction of the prism sheet; and a light source drive means for driving the light source section so that each of the color lights periodically scans the plane to be irradiated so as to perform the line-sequential irradiation operation. |
| US07808574B2 |
Liquid crystal display device having integral receiving box and assembly method for same
An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight module parallel to the liquid crystal panel, and a receiving box. The receiving box includes a bezel and a back plate connected to the bezel. The back plate can rotate along a combination portion of the first bezel and the back plate. The bezel accommodates the liquid crystal panel and the backlight module. The back plate and the bezel fasten the liquid crystal panel and the backlight module. A related method for assembly of the LCD device is also provided. |
| US07808573B2 |
Display (LCOS) panel module having an adhesive on a subtrate with a flexible printed circuit (FPC) having an opening so that the LCOS panel may be adhesively connected to the substrate and electrically connected to the FPC through the opening
An LCOS panel module including a substrate, a flexible printed circuit (FPC), an LCOS panel, and a face mask is provided. The substrate has an adhesive region on a surface thereof. The FPC is disposed on the substrate and has an opening for exposing the adhesive region. The LCOS panel has a bottom surface and a top surface. The bottom surface of the LCOS panel is fixed on the adhesive region of the substrate exposed from the opening through an adhesive layer and is electrically connected to the FPC. The face mask used for framing the display region of the LCOS panel and sheltering from stray light is disposed on the LCOS panel and has a display opening. A display region of the top surface of the LCOS panel is exposed from the display opening of the face mask. |
| US07808568B2 |
In-plane switching LCD device
The present invention concerns a liquid crystal display device including: a substrate; a plurality of thin film transistors each including a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a gate line and a data line electrically connecting with the gate electrode and the source electrode, respectively; and a pixel electrode electrically connecting with the drain electrode, wherein overlapping widths between the gate electrode and the source and drain electrodes vary in accordance with the position of the thin film transistor. |
| US07808567B2 |
Pixel structures, methods of forming the same and multi domain vertical alignment LCDs
A pixel structure is provided. The pixel structure comprises a lower substrate with a transistor and pixel area; a first patterned conductive layer, which has a data line and a gate within the transistor area that is disposed on the lower substrate; a patterned insulator layer covering the first patterned conductive layer; an active layer disposed on the patterned insulator layer above the gate; a second patterned conductive layer with a gate line disposed on the patterned insulator layer, source and drain, wherein the source and the drain are disposed on the active layer; a pixel electrode disposed on the patterned insulator layer and electrically connected to the drain; a patterned passivation layer disposed on the patterned insulator layer, gate line, source, drain and pixel electrode; and a third patterned conductive layer, which has a data line connecting electrode, a gate line connecting electrode, at least one alignment electrode and a common electrode. The data line is electrically connected to the source through the data line connecting electrode; the gate line is electrically connected to the gate through the gate line connecting electrode; the alignment electrode is electrically connected to the pixel electrode; and a portion of the common electrode is disposed above the data line. |
| US07808564B2 |
Stereoscopic image display apparatus and manufacturing method including applying a resin, degassing the resin in a vacuum furnace then laminating an image display section with a retarder
There is provided a manufacturing method that includes: applying a resin to a region at which the right eye image generating region and the left eye image generating region of the image display section overlap with the right eye polarization region and the left eye polarization region of the retarder, on at least one of an emission-side surface of the image display section and an incident-side surface of the retarder; after the applying, laminating the image display section and the retarder so that the emission-side surface of the image display section faces the incident-side surface of the retarder; and attaching the image display section and the retarder by hardening the resin between the image display section and the retarder laminated to each other in the laminating. |
| US07808562B2 |
Method and device for receiving digital broadcasts
The invention provides a method for receiving digital broadcast signals of a plurality of channels. The method comprises: storing a channel-parameter contrast table which includes parameter values of a plurality of parameters with which each of the plurality of channels is previously received; testing whether the digital broadcast signals of one of the plurality of channels can be received according to the parameter values stored in the channel-parameter contrast table to determine a receiving status; generating a plurality of channel numbers corresponding to each of the receivable channels of the plurality of channels according to the receiving statuses of the plurality of channels; and receiving the signals of a target channel according to the parameter values stored in the channel-parameter contrast table, wherein the target channel is one of the plurality of channels and selected by a user through the plurality of channel numbers. |
| US07808561B2 |
Apparatus and method for transforming a digital TV broadcasting signal to a digital radio broadcasting signal
The present invention relates to an apparatus for transforming digital TV broadcasting signals into digital radio broadcasting signals and a method thereof. The apparatus includes: a transport stream generator for transforming TV broadcasting signals outputted from outside into digital TV broadcasting transport streams; a broadcasting transport format transformer for generating digital radio broadcasting transport streams by transforming the digital TV broadcasting transport streams in conformity to a digital radio broadcasting transport protocol based on a radio broadcasting schedule; a digital radio broadcasting multiplexer for multiplexing the generated digital radio broadcasting transport streams generated in the broadcasting transport format transformer; a modulating/up-converting unit for modulating the multiplexed digital radio broadcasting transport streams in a modulation method of digital radio broadcasting and up-converting frequencies of the modulated radio broadcasting signals into radio frequency (RF) signals; and a high-power amplifier for amplifying and transmitting the up-converted RF signals through a transmitting antenna. |
| US07808559B2 |
System and method for accumulative stillness analysis of video signals
A method and system for accumulating stillness characteristics is presented. The method and system generates field stillness characteristics for a current pixel of a current field. The field stillness characteristic is accumulated with an accumulated stillness characteristic that corresponds to a pixel location of the current pixel. The accumulated stillness characteristic includes stillness information regarding previous pixels of previous fields in the same pixel location as the current pixel. |
| US07808558B2 |
Adaptive color transient improvement
A superior Color Transient Improvement technique is adaptive to the local image features, so that more natural color edge transition improvement can be accomplished. A gain control function is provided that depends on the local image feature so that different regions of the image can be treated differently. Further, a correction signal is controlled in such a way (by the local image feature) that neither undershoot nor overshoot occurs, eliminating the need for post-processing for undershoot/overshoot removal. |
| US07808556B2 |
Image processing device
The invention provides a video system comprising at least one input for receiving incoming video data and at least one output for delivering outgoing video data to a display device. The system further comprises at least one processor for converting the incoming video data into outgoing video data as a function at least of one item of information delivered by a detecting element. According to an embodiment of the invention, the detecting element is suitable for measuring at least one colorimetric characteristic of an image produced by the display device. According to another embodiment of the invention, the processor converts incoming video data into outgoing video data as a function at least of one item of information delivered by a user. In one embodiment of the invention, the information delivered by the user represents a desired calorimetric response for different incoming data. |
| US07808552B1 |
Techniques for detecting a pulldown field sequence
Techniques for distinguishing a pulldown field sequence from a normal field sequence are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, the method for detecting pulldown field sequence comprises receiving a field sequence, combining two adjacent fields into one frame, detecting whether the combined frame has a combing phenomenon, if there is such a combing phenomenon, and determining a number of how many times the combing phenomenon occurs continuously in the combined frame. Based on the number, it can be determined whether the field sequence is a normal field sequence or a pulldown field sequence. |
| US07808551B2 |
Imaging module and method of manufacturing imaging module
An imaging module includes a flexible printed circuit board which has a first area on which a first functional element is mounted, a second area on which a second functional element is mounted, and a third area which is formed between the first area and the second area, an electronic component which is mounted on the first area, and an imaging device which is mounted on the second area. The flexible printed circuit board is formed by an insulating layer which is integrated, spreading over the first area, the second area, and the third area. The flexible printed circuit board is formed such that the flexible printed circuit board can be bent at least in the third area. |
| US07808550B2 |
Digital camera having mechanism shiftable for portability
A digital still camera includes has a camera body. An imaging unit is secured to the camera body, and has an image pickup device incorporated therein. A rotational supporting mechanism supports the camera body on the imaging unit between a closed position and an open position. The camera body is disposed lower than the imaging unit. The camera body, when in the closed position, is inside an extending region defined by extending a shape of the imaging unit downwards, and when in the open position, is offset from the extending region of the imaging unit. In a preferred embodiment, a central axis of the rotational supporting mechanism extends vertically. The open position is located horizontally from the closed position. |
| US07808549B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device is provided that has excellent portability because it can be folded to a compact size at coupling means. In addition, a first display portion of a first display unit and a second display portion of a second display unit can form a single, large-screen display portion when the first display unit is rotated 90° clockwise and the second display unit is rotated 90° counterclockwise. |
| US07808538B2 |
Image sensors with blooming reduction mechanisms
A CMOS image sensor having blooming reduction mechanisms is disclosed. The image sensor can include a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and a timing and control circuit in electrical communication with the plurality of pixels. The timing and control circuit includes a readout module configured for outputting a first row of pixels exposed for a first exposure period, outputting a second row of pixels exposed for the first exposure period after outputting the first row of pixels, and thereafter outputting a third row of pixels exposed for a second exposure period different than the first exposure period, the third row of pixels being between the first and second rows of pixels. |
| US07808537B2 |
Photoelectric conversion apparatus with fully differential amplifier
To provide a configuration including a fully differential amplifier in which decrease in a reading speed can be suppressed. A photoelectric conversion apparatus according to the present invention includes a pixel area where a plurality of pixels are arranged; an amplifier configured to amplify a signal from the pixel area; a plurality of signal paths for transmitting the signals from the pixel area to the amplifier. The amplifier is a fully differential amplifier which includes a plurality of input terminals including a first input terminal and a second input terminal to which the signals from the plurality of signal paths are supplied and a plurality of output terminals including a first output terminal and a second output terminal and the input terminals and the output terminals have no feedback path provided therebetween. |
| US07808534B2 |
Smear reduction in CCD images
Vertical and horizontal smear in images produced by a CCD imager can be compensated for by detecting the boundaries of the smear and substituting data from an alternative part of the image, or interpolated data within those boundaries. Vertical, or frame transfer, smear can also be compensated for by producing an error signal from charge accumulated during frame transfer and corresponding to one or more masked rows of the CCD imager. This error signal can be subtracted from the line signals corresponding to each row of the CCD images receiving radiation during image acquisitions. The CCD imager includes a multiplication register. The dynamic range of the imager may be extended by varying the gain of the multiplication register, for example on a line-by-line or frame-by-frame basis. |
| US07808533B2 |
Electronic camera having signal processing units that perform signal processing on image data
A CCD captures a subject image having passed through a taking lens and an image processing circuit performs various types of image pre-treatment including gamma correction and white balance on image data corresponding to n lines×m rows output by the CCD. The image processing circuit also performs format processing on the data. The data are then compressed at a compression circuit. The white balance adjustment and the like are implemented in line sequence at a line processing circuit which engages in signal processing in pixel sequence in units of individual lines in the output from the CCD. The image data having undergone the pre-treatment are then subjected to format processing prior to JPEG compression, at a block processing circuit that engages in signal processing in units of individual blocks each ranging over an n×m (N>n, M>m) block. In other words, the signal processing is performed in block sequence. |
| US07808529B2 |
Image pickup apparatus with frame addition
A preprocessor performs a signal processing operation by using an image signal DVa generated by picking up a subject image. A frame adder adds frames of an image signal DVb generated by the preprocessor so as to generate an image signal DVc with a changed frame rate. When changing the setting of the signal processing operation of the preprocessor, the signal processing operation is restarted with the new setting at the start or at the end of a frame addition period (in units of frame addition periods) of the frame adder based on a determination signal indicating the frame addition period. |
| US07808527B2 |
Image pickup apparatus and method, image processing apparatus and method, image display system, recording medium and program
An image pickup apparatus and method is disclosed by which moving pictures of a high frame rate can be displayed. The image pickup apparatus for picking up moving pictures, includes: a distribution section for distributing light incoming through an optical lens to n directions; n image pickup elements for converting the light distributed by the distribution section into signals at time intervals of 1/m second to pick up images; and a control section for controlling timings at which the light is to be converted into the signals by the image pickup elements; the control section controlling the n image pickup elements to convert the light into the signals at timings successively displaced by 1/m×n second to pick up images. |
| US07808524B2 |
Vision-based augmented reality system using invisible marker
A vision-based augmented reality system using an invisible marker indicates an invisible marker on a target object to be tracked, such that it can rapidly and correctly track the target object by detecting the invisible marker. The augmented reality system includes a target object including an infrared marker drawn by an invisible infrared light-emitting material; a visible-ray camera for capturing an image of the TO; an infrared-ray camera for capturing an image of the IM included in the TO image; an optical axis converter for allowing the infrared-ray camera and the visible-ray camera to have the same viewing point; an image processing system for rendering a prepared virtual image to the TO image to generate a new image. |
| US07808522B2 |
Method for calling video communication service by video communication terminal and associated message data form
The invention discloses a method for calling video communication service by video communication terminal. The method comprises the steps of: (a) a first video communication terminal launches a call to a multipoint control unit (MCU) and sends an conference information needed for convening a conference to the MCU through an In-Band channel established between both sides; (b) the MCU convenes the conference according to the conference information received. The invention also discloses a message data form for transferring information through an In-Band channel in a video communication service. The message data form comprises: a data starting mark field, a data type field, a data length field, a field for no less than one piece of sub-information, a data ending mark field and a cyclic redundancy check field. |
| US07808513B1 |
Automatic keystone correction system and method
The invention relates to an automatic keystone correction system and method. The system includes an interface to display a pattern on a projection surface and a controller to distort image data responsive to the pattern. The pattern includes a plurality of polygons, each with a predetermined shape. Each polygon corresponds to a particular system rotation angle. The controller distorts the image data responsive to the rotation angle. A user interacts with the interface to identify a particular polygon that, when projected on a projection surface, has a predetermined shape. |
| US07808509B2 |
Apparatus and methods for stenciling an image
The invention provides methods of protecting selected regions of an image from subsequent modification during the operation of a graphics application. The methods allow a user to select a region of an image to protect, and to assign a level of protection to the selected region. Subsequent brush strokes in the region are then attenuated according to the assigned level of protection and blended into the image without artifacts caused by overlapping strokes. The invention also provides a method of blending individual strokes into a texture without segmentation artifacts. |
| US07808506B2 |
Intelligent caching data structure for immediate mode graphics
An intelligent caching data structure and mechanisms for storing visual information via objects and data representing graphics information. The data structure is generally associated with mechanisms that intelligently control how the visual information therein is populated and used. The cache data structure can be traversed for direct rendering, or traversed for pre-processing the visual information into an instruction stream for another entity. Much of the data typically has no external reference to it, thereby enabling more of the information stored in the data structure to be processed to conserve resources. A transaction/batching-like model for updating the data structure enables external modifications to the data structure without interrupting reading from the data structure, and such that changes received are atomically implemented. A method and mechanism are provided to call back to an application program in order to create or re-create portions of the data structure as needed, to conserve resources. |
| US07808505B2 |
Scalable high performance 3D graphics
A high-speed ring topology. In one embodiment, two base chip types are required: a “drawing” chip, LoopDraw, and an “interface” chip, LoopInterface. Each of these chips have a set of pins that supports an identical high speed point to point unidirectional input and output ring interconnect interface: the LoopLink. The LoopDraw chip uses additional pins to connect to several standard memories that form a high bandwidth local memory sub-system. The LoopInterface chip uses additional pins to support a high speed host computer host interface, at least one video output interface, and possibly also additional non-local interconnects to other LoopInterface chip(s). |
| US07808504B2 |
PC-based computing system having an integrated graphics subsystem supporting parallel graphics processing operations across a plurality of different graphics processing units (GPUS) from the same or different vendors, in a manner transparent to graphics applications
PC-based computing system having an integrated graphics subsystem supporting parallel graphics processing operations across a plurality of different graphics processing units (GPUs) supplied from the same or different vendors. The graphics subsystem include a graphics controller hub (GCH) chip located on a CPU bus, and having Multi-Pipeline Core Logic (MP-CL) circuitry including a routing unit and a control unit. The plurality of different GPUs are interfaced with the GCH chip. Each different GPU supports a GPU-driven pipeline core having a frame buffer (FB) for storing a fragment of pixel data. The GPU-driven pipeline cores are arranged in a parallel architecture and operated according to a parallelization mode of operation, so that said GPU-driven pipeline cores process data in a parallel manner. In one illustrative embodiment, the different GPUs are located (i) within an integrated graphics device (IGD) within the GCH chip, and also (ii) on one or more external GPU-based graphics cards from the same or different vendors. In another illustrative embodiment, the different GPUs are located on a plurality of external GPU-based graphics cards from different vendors. Diverse illustrative embodiments are disclosed. |
| US07808503B2 |
Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features
A deferred shading graphics pipeline processor and method are provided encompassing numerous substructures. Embodiments of the processor and method may include one or more of deferred shading, a tiled frame buffer, and multiple?stage hidden surface removal processing. In the deferred shading graphics pipeline, hidden surface removal is completed before pixel coloring is done. The pipeline processor comprises a command fetch and decode unit, a geometry unit, a mode extraction unit, a sort unit, a setup unit, a cull unit, a mode injection unit, a fragment unit, a texture unit, a Phong lighting unit, a pixel unit, and a backend unit. |
| US07808501B2 |
Method of shading using sample vectors
A method of shading, by: storing shading information in a sample vector comprising a plurality of packets, wherein each packet represents a shading property; performing a series of sequential actions on the sample vector, wherein each of the sequential actions operates on at least one, but less than all of the plurality of packets in the sample vector, such that the sample vector is updated by each sequential action; and then performing a lighting computation on the updated sample vector, wherein the lighting computation operates on all of the plurality of packets in the sample vector, thereby calculating a final sample vector to be rendered for the sample vector. |
| US07808499B2 |
PC-based computing system employing parallelized graphics processing units (GPUS) interfaced with the central processing unit (CPU) using a PC bus and a hardware graphics hub having a router
A PC-based computing system capable of displaying images of 3-D objects during an interactive process between said computing system and a user thereof. The PC-based computing system includes a system memory for storing software graphics applications, software drivers and graphics libraries, and an operating system (OS), stored in the system memory, and a central processing unit (CPU), for executing the OS, graphics applications, drivers. and graphics libraries. The system also includes an CPU interface module, a PC bus, a graphics processing subsystem interfaced with the CPU interface module by way of the PC bus, and a display surface for displaying said images by graphically displaying frames of pixel data produced by the graphics processing subsystem. The graphics processing subsystem includes a plurality of GPUs arranged in a parallel architecture and operating according to a parallelization mode of operation so that the GPUs support multiple graphics pipelines and process data in a parallel manner. A hardware hub, interfaces with the CPU interface module and the GPUs, by way of the PC bus, and has a hub router for (i) distributing the stream of geometrical data and graphic commands among the GPUs, and (ii) transferring pixel data output from one or more of GPUs during the composition of frames of pixel data corresponding to final images for display on the display surface. The CPU interface module provides an interface between one or more software hub drivers and the hardware hub. |
| US07808498B2 |
CAD data evaluation method and evaluation apparatus
The apparatus has an evaluated value calculating means 102 for calculating the complexity of the object shape and the complexity of the modeling structure of the object CAD data input by the CAD data inputting means 101; a searching means 104 for searching the reference CAD data in the reference CAD data base 103 in accordance with the condition of said complexity; an evaluated value calculating means 106 for calculating the complexity of the object shape and the complexity of the modeling structure based on the searched reference CAD data; and a displaying means 105 for evaluated values obtained by the means 102 and the means 106 on the graphic representation defining its horizontal axis for the complexity of the object shape and its vertical axis for the complexity of the modeling structure. It will be appreciated that the man-hour for evaluating large amount of various models can be reduced by means of not using a CAD system. |
| US07808496B2 |
Apparatus for supplying power source
The present invention relates to an apparatus for supplying power source for providing certain voltage to a first display device and a second display device. The apparatus for supplying power source includes a boosting circuit, a boosted voltage detecting circuit and an output selecting circuit. The boosting circuit boosts a battery voltage. The boosted voltage detecting circuit detects the boosted battery voltage, and transmits the detection result to the boosting circuit. The output selecting circuit is coupled to the boosting circuit and the boosted voltage detecting circuit, and provides selectively the boosted battery voltage to a first display device and a second display device. The apparatus provides certain voltage to a first display device and/or a second display device, and thus the size of a dual panel apparatus employing the display devices may be reduced. |
| US07808487B2 |
System for disposing a proximity sensitive touchpad behind a mobile phone keymat
A proximity-based mutually capacitance-sensitive touchpad that is disposed directly beneath a keypad keymat of a mobile telephone, wherein posts associated with each key pass through a mutually capacitance-sensitive sensor electrode grid of the touchpad such that the keypad posts do not interfere with touchpad detection and tracking of a pointing object that moves along the keypad surface, to thereby enable touchpad data entry, cursor control, and scroll bar control on a display of the mobile telephone, wherein the keypad posts actuate mechanical switches underneath the touchpad. |
| US07808486B2 |
Handheld electronic device providing feedback to facilitate navigation and the entry of information, and associated method
A method of facilitating the input of information in a handheld electronic device having a plurality of input elements such as, without limitation, keys. The method includes receiving a signal indicating that a particular one of the input elements is being touched in a first manner, providing a feedback signal, such as a sound or graphic, that identifies the particular input element after the signal is received, and performing a function associated with the particular input element when it is being touched in a second manner. Also, a handheld electronic device that includes an input apparatus having a plurality of input elements, a processor, and a memory in electronic communication with the processor. The memory stores one or more routines executable by the processor for implementing the method described above. |
| US07808477B2 |
Scroll disc input apparatus for a data processing device
An apparatus is described comprising: a data processing device having a memory for storing program code and data and a processor for processing the program code and data, and a display for displaying graphical images and text; a control disc rotatably and communicatively engaged with the data processing device, the control disc rotating on an axis which is substantially perpendicular to a plane defined by the display, the control disc communicatively engaged with the data processing device to cause a graphic element on the display to move in a first direction by a first predefined amount when rotated in a first direction and causing the graphic element to move in a second direction by the first predefined amount when rotated in a second direction. |
| US07808474B2 |
Light control circuit and a liquid-crystal-display control drive device
A light control circuit that makes it possible to, when the light intensity of the area surrounding a display screen varies in a relatively short time, prevent the brightness of a backlight from being erroneously adjusted as the result of the variation being detected is provided. The light control circuit controls the backlight of a display panel. This light control circuit is provided with functions of performing the following operation: detection signals from multiple optical sensors are taken into a common sampling means in a time division manner to acquire multiple sampling values temporally dispersed; a surrounding light intensity is determined by majority decision based on the multiple sampling values, and the result of determination is externally outputted. |
| US07808473B2 |
Display apparatus and method of controlling the backlight provided in the display apparatus
According to one embodiment, a display apparatus having a display, a signal-processing unit, a luminance-curve converter, a histogram-extracting unit, a characteristic-control-data output unit, an integrator, and a multiplier. The signal-processing unit processes a video signal. The converter converts the input/output characteristic of the luminance level of the video signal. The histogram-extracting unit generates histogram distribution data for a luminance level of a video signal. The characteristic-control-data output unit sets a characteristic to the luminance-curve converter so that the converter emphasizes a low-luminance region of the image represented by the input video signal. The integrator integrates data items pertaining to the region emphasized by the converter, thereby generating an integrated value. From the output of the integrator, the multiplier generates an output that lowers the light-adjusting voltage applied to the display device. |
| US07808470B2 |
Electro-optical device having a memory circuit for each pixel and that can display with low power consumption
An electro-optical device includes an X address decoder that selects one of plural X selection lines, a Y address decoder that selects one of plural Y selection lines, and plural pixel blocks. Each pixel block is provided with respect to an intersection of a corresponding X selection line and a corresponding Y selection lines. Each pixel block includes a pixel circuit and the pixel circuits corresponding to a column share a bit line and a complementary bit line. Each pixel circuit includes a memory circuit, a selection circuit, and a pixel electrode. The memory circuit includes plural transistors that become conductive between the bit line, the complementary bit line, and terminals of the memory circuit at the time of concurrent selection of an X selection line and a Y selection line corresponding to the pixel block to which the plural transistors belong. |
| US07808468B2 |
Source driver for controlling a slew rate and a method for controlling the slew rate
A source driver for controlling a slew rate of a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a method for controlling the slew rate is provided. The source driver includes a plurality of output buffers for driving data lines, and a bias circuit for varying a bias voltage inputted to the output buffers to control a slew rate of the output buffers. |
| US07808466B2 |
Transflective liquid crystal display device
The present invention provides an IPS-type transflective liquid crystal display device in which a contrast is not inverted between a transmissive portion and a reflective portion. The transflective liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a pair of substrates and liquid crystal which is sandwiched between the pair of substrates, wherein the liquid crystal display panel includes the plurality of sub pixels each of which includes a transmissive portion and a reflective portion, each sub pixel of the plurality of sub pixels includes a pixel electrode which is formed on one substrate out of the pair of substrates and a counter electrode which is formed on the one substrate, and an electric field is generated between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode thus driving the liquid crystal. Further, each sub pixel is configured such that the pixel electrode is formed in common with respect to the transmissive portion and the reflective portion and the counter electrode is formed independently with respect to the transmissive portion and the reflective portion. |
| US07808459B2 |
Light emitting display device
A display device includes a pixel circuit unit comprising a plurality of pixels to display an image, a data driver to supply data signals to the pixel circuit unit, a scan driver to supply scan signals to the pixel circuit unit, a black/white transition detector to detect a degree of black/white transition of the image, a gamma corrector to adjust the data signal by providing a gamma value to the data driver, and a timing controller to apply control signals to the data driver and the scan driver, receive the degree of black/white transition from the black/white transition detector, and provide a corrected gamma control signal to the gamma corrector according to the degree of black/white transition. |
| US07808454B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A display device configured to minimize a layout area of a driver and a method of driving the same is provided. First and second scan drivers are disposed on opposite sides of a display panel. Each of the first and second scan drivers has a plurality of circuit parts corresponding to a plurality of scan lines. A height of the circuit part is equal to a height of subpixels adjacent in a vertical direction. A scan pulse generated from a circuit part of the first scan driver can be supplied to a circuit part of the second scan driver and subpixels disposed on the scan line connected to the circuit part. The circuit part of the second scan driver generates another scan pulse in response to the scan pulse. |
| US07808453B2 |
Driving method of plasma display panel and plasma display device
In a sustain operation in an ALIS PDP device, a combination in which a basic first waveform and a second waveform in which a discharge peak is separated are mixed is applied. In the combination, the probability that the second waveform occurs successively is sufficiently reduced to less than 20%, and the number of times of sustain discharges of various intensities is made equal in the lines to be driven. By this means, the 2L nonuniformity can be prevented, and the deterioration of Vsmin can be reduced. |
| US07808451B1 |
Organic electroluminescent display device method and apparatus
An organic electroluminescent display device connected by a blocking diode in series to an organic light-emitting diode (OLED). Each pixel or subpixel of the electroluminescent display device comprises an OLED, a blocking diode to prevent the OLED from being reversed biased, a rectification diode to isolate the column electrode from unselected rows and a capacitor as a memory device. The charge stored in each memory capacitor may be increased by the blocking diode in series with each OLED. A frame period of the display device is divided into sub-frames that have address and light emission periods. Current mode data programming is used to address the device in each sub-frame. A ramp waveform is applied to the row electrode during the light emission period, to cause the capacitor to discharge through the OLED and control the forward current level. |
| US07808444B2 |
Two-way antenna connector
A system includes a first matching network having a first impedance and a second matching network having a second impedance, where the second impedance is different than the first impedance. The system further includes a switching connector having first and second switching positions, where when the switching connector is in the first switching position an input terminal is connected through the first matching network to a first antenna and where when the switching connector is in the second switching position the input terminal is connected through the second matching network to a second antenna and the first antenna is connected to ground. |
| US07808441B2 |
Polyhedral antenna and associated methods
The antenna includes an electrically conductive antenna body having a polyhedral shape with opposing first and second ends and a medial portion therebetween. The medial portion of the electrically conductive antenna body is wider than the opposing first and second ends thereof, and the electrically conductive antenna body has a slot therein extending from at least adjacent the first end to at least adjacent the second end. The polyhedral antenna has an omnidirectional pattern, is horizontally polarized and broad in bandwidth above a lower cutoff frequency. |
| US07808438B2 |
Handheld electronic devices with isolated antennas
Handheld electronic devices are provided that contain wireless communications circuitry having at least first and second antennas. An antenna isolation element reduces signal interference between the antennas, so that the antennas may be used in close proximity to each other. A planar ground element may be used as a ground by the first and second antennas. The first antenna may be formed using a hybrid planar-inverted-F and slot arrangement in which a planar resonating element is located above a rectangular slot in the planar ground element. The second antenna may be formed from an L-shaped strip. The planar resonating element of the first antenna may have first and second arms. The first arm may resonate at a common frequency with the second antenna and may serve as the isolation element. The second arm may resonate at approximately the same frequency as the slot portion of the hybrid antenna. |
| US07808437B2 |
Antenna arrangement
An antenna arrangement comprising a multi-layer PCB (10) with a ground plane (20) in a first layer and a first antenna (11) in a second layer, and an extended ground plane (20) connected to the ground plane of the PCB. A second antenna (110, 120, 130, 140, 150) is formed integral with the extended ground plane (20). The extended ground plane is positioned opposite the first antenna. |
| US07808436B2 |
Folding type communication terminal device
In a communication terminal in which a first enclosure and a second enclosure are foldable, to provide the communication terminal with an antenna characteristic with a wide band performance in either when the enclosures are opened or folded. In a folding communication terminal comprising an upper enclosure 2 and a lower enclosure 3 which are foldable through a hinge, and an antenna 5 attached to the lower enclosure 3, the antenna 5 is arranged along the edge of the end face 3A on the upper side abutting on the hinge of the lower enclosure 3, a conductor is placed in the upper enclosure 2 not provided with the antenna, and a second printed board 31 is provided so that when the upper enclosure 2 and the lower enclosure 3 are opened, it is connected to the antenna 5 at a high frequency to operate as the antenna, thereby transmitting/receiving an electromagnetic wave. |
| US07808431B2 |
Antenna apparatus capable of directivity control
The antenna apparatus includes first to fourth antenna elements successively arranged at regular angular intervals around the central point on the same plane and respectively having first to fourth feed points, and a phase shifter delaying the phase of the received electric wave approximately by 90 degrees. The unidirectivity of the antenna apparatus is controlled in four directions of 0 degree, 90 degrees, 180 degrees and 270 degrees by selectively connecting the first to fourth feed points, the phase shifter and a television receiver. Therefore, multipath interference in these directions can be suppressed. |
| US07808429B2 |
Beam steering control for mobile antennas
A method and apparatus for steering a beam from a phased array antenna mounted on a mobile platform. Rate sensors mounted on the phased array antenna are used to update lower bandwidth data from the mobile platform, resulting in improved pointing performance. |
| US07808425B2 |
Space-borne altimetry apparatus, antenna subsystem for such an apparatus and methods for calibrating the same
The present invention is directed to a space-borne altimetry apparatus having a first receiving antenna, pointing to outer space, for receiving at least one signal emitted by a remote satellite emitter via a direct path; a second receiving antenna, pointing to the Earth, for receiving said signal via an indirect path including a reflection from the Earth surface; and a signal processing means for computing a distance of the apparatus from a specular reflection point of the signal on the Earth surface by cross-correlating the signals received by said first and second antennas; wherein both the first and second receiving antennas are high-gain steerable antennas; and wherein the apparatus may also include antenna control means for steering at least one receiving lobe of the first antenna toward the remote satellite emitter, and at least one receiving lobe of the second antenna toward a specular reflection point on the Earth surface. |
| US07808424B2 |
Method and apparatus for measuring distance
A device measures distance using a wireless signal that has two simultaneously transmitted components. Each of the two components includes a respective repeated code, the two codes having different durations. On receipt of the signal, the propagation distance is calculated separately for each code and compared. The calculated distance is considered to be valid only if the two calculations yield the same result. The durations of the two codes may be proportional to numbers having a relative prime relationship. The signal is generated and transmitted by the same device that performs the distance calculation, with the signal being retransmitted back to the device by a remote device, or may be generated and transmitted by the remote device. |
| US07808421B2 |
Methods and apparatus for creating a scan strategy
Some embodiments of the invention are directed to generating a scan strategy based on parameters input from a user, without requiring that the user be aware of information such as the specifics of the receiver hardware or the specific signal characteristics of the emitters that are desired to be detected. |
| US07808414B2 |
A/D conversion circuit and electronic instrument
An A/D conversion circuit includes a continuous-time filter that performs a filtering process on an input signal, an SCF that is provided in a subsequent stage of the continuous-time filter and performs a filtering process utilizing the continuous-time filter as a prefilter, a cut-off frequency of the SCF being variably set corresponding to a frequency band of the input signal, an A/D converter that is provided in a subsequent stage of the SCF and performs an A/D conversion operation utilizing the continuous-time filter and the SCF as prefilters, and a digital filter that is provided in a subsequent stage of the A/D converter and performs a digital filtering process utilizing the continuous-time filter and the SCF as prefilters, a cut-off frequency of the digital filter being variably set corresponding to the frequency band of the input signal. |
| US07808412B2 |
Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument
An integrated circuit device includes an amplifier circuit that receives an input signal and performs an offset adjustment corresponding to a DC offset of the input signal and a gain adjustment corresponding to an amplitude of the input signal, a filter that is provided in a subsequent stage of the amplifier circuit, a cut-off frequency of the filter being variably set corresponding to a frequency band of the input signal, an A/D converter that is provided in a subsequent stage of the filter and performs an A/D conversion process on a signal amplified by the amplifier circuit, and a control circuit that sets an offset adjustment of the amplifier circuit, a gain adjustment of the amplifier circuit, and the cut-off frequency of the filter. |
| US07808404B1 |
Method and apparatus for generating a seed set in a data dependent seed selector
A seed generator for a scrambler comprises a seed set identifier that identifies a seed set based on received user data symbols, which include a plurality of M-bit symbols. A seed selector selects a scrambling seed for the scrambler from the seed set based on Hamming distances between at least two of the M-bit symbols in the seed set. |
| US07808403B2 |
Display system for an aircraft
A display system for an aircraft includes an automatic reconfiguration device that, upon detecting a failure of a screen of the system, displays an image that is associated with the failed screen on an associated valid screen having lesser priority. |
| US07808400B2 |
Electrical circuit monitoring device
The present invention is directed to a method of (1) providing continuous monitoring of various operating and environmental characteristics using RFID technology or similar wireless technology and (2) capturing data on historical events that have occurred on the circuits used for the transmission and distribution of electric power. The invention has the additional capability to communicate the information to operators at the site, in remote locations, or to other equipment (peer to peer). The invention provides a low cost method and apparatus to monitor and store operating characteristics and events on the electric power distribution circuit. The information can be used to reduce the duration of outages, for improving system reliability, to study the impact on the power grid of various environmental factors, to enhance the ability to react to operating conditions such as overloads, etc. |
| US07808399B2 |
Electronic device enabling hardware and methods
The teachings described herein are generally concerned with systems and methods for selectively enabling an electronic device, such as an optical transceiver, that is configured to communicate with a remote computer. In one example of such a method, identification data is initially transmitted from the electronic device to the remote computer. At the remote computer, a determination is made as to whether the identification data is valid. If the identification data is valid, the remote computer generates encrypted data based upon the valid identification data. The encrypted data is then transmitted to the electronic device, where the encrypted data and the identification data are process to facilitate a determination as to whether operation of the electronic device will be enabled. The scope or extent to which the electronic device can be enabled is defined by predetermined criteria. |
| US07808398B2 |
Transformer systems including standby loss prevention modules
A transformer system for sensing load requirements and controlling a transformer accordingly to reduce power consumption when the load is in a stand by mode. One embodiment of the system includes a transformer implemented to receive an input and transform the input for use by a load, a sensor connected between an output of the transformer and the load, a communication link including the sensor and being connected between the transformer and the load, and a control switch connected to the transformer and sensor through the communication link. The sensor detects a mode of load operation and communicates a corresponding load mode signal over the communication link. |
| US07808397B2 |
Sensor with wireless communication function
A sensor transmits and receives wireless signals at intervals. A sensor unit, a processor 130, a wireless transmitter circuit, and a wireless receiver circuit are activated in sequence only for a fixed time when the electric power generated by a generator circuit and charged in a capacitor reaches a preset level. Sensing information detected by the sensor unit is processed by the processor circuit and, information on the number of receivable bytes is added to the processing results in the wireless receiver circuit. This added information is sent as sensor information to the wireless host from the wireless transmitting circuit, and the wireless receiver circuit that activated after the wireless transmitter circuit was activated, receives a control information signal from the wireless host. This received information is processed in the processor circuit. |
| US07808396B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus
It is intended to provide a substrate processing apparatus capable of reliably informing a running state of the apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus 100 having a signal indicator for indicating the running state, including a signal indicator 306 capable of setting at least one operation condition under which the signal indicator 306 operates as well as of operating under any one of a plurality of operation conditions and a display unit 314 capable of displaying that a cause of the operation is any one of the operation conditions during the operation of the signal indicator 306. |
| US07808394B2 |
Seat folding apparatus with a passive radio frequency link and foreign object detection system
A seat folding apparatus is provided with a passive Rf frequency link that requires that a person be within a certain limited distance from the vehicle to operate the seat folding mechanism. A foreign object detection system, such as a plurality of weight sensors, is provided in the seat to detect foreign objects on the seat. |
| US07808391B2 |
Remote caregiver support system
The current invention provides a remote caregiver support system which allows caregivers to provide informal care to care receivers. The systems of the current invention comprise a caregiver system and a care receiver system operating on personal computers. Each system is linked by a communications network. Preferably, the communications network is a high speed internet connection. Additionally, the current invention provides methods for delivering informal care to a care receiver remotely located from the caregiver. In the methods of the current invention, the caregiver accesses a remote caregiver support system and interacts with the care receiver providing text reminders and other informal care necessary to ensure the continued health and wellbeing of the care receiver. |
| US07808389B2 |
Data transmission method and a RFID reader provided with a coil and a control circuit for field quenching outside of a communication area
The present invention relates to a method, a reading device and a system for transmitting data and/or energy between a reading device and a transponder unit. Via a first antenna coil of the reading device generating a first magnetic field data and/or energy are transmitted to the transponder unit. By means of a second antenna coil a second magnetic field with opposite sign is generated. Within a near field or communication range (12) of the reading device the second magnetic field is weaker than the first magnetic field. In a tap-proof range (13), i.e. outside the near field, the two magnetic fields have the same absolute value and cancel each other out due to the opposite signs. |
| US07808386B1 |
Theft deterrent tag with resilient attachment
An article surveillance tag that has a barrier that is resiliently maintained between a first and second portion of the tag and is adapted to adjustably maintain an article to be monitored there between. |
| US07808385B2 |
Interactive clothing system
An interactive clothing system includes a control unit having a processor and an antenna, and an item of clothing having a controller and a antenna. The antenna at the item of clothing communicates signals to the antenna at the control unit, the signals containing information about the item of clothing. |
| US07808384B2 |
Information carrier arrangement, washable textile goods and electronic ear tag for living beings
An information carrier arrangement for an item to be identified includes a detection plate connected to the item and an electric antenna associated with the item. An electronic chip or an electronic chip module is provided on the detection plate, and a coupling element is disposed on the detection plate and connected to the electronic chip or electronic chip module. The coupling element is inductively and/or capacitatively coupled to the electric antenna. The item to be identified can be a product, a living being, a label, a tag, a single package, a containerized package or a transport aid. |
| US07808382B2 |
Anti-theft device, particularly for displays that can be placed in points of sale
An anti-theft device comprising a flexible cable provided with two conducting wires which are mutually connected in order to close an electrical contact and are connected, at a first end, to a control unit designed to act in response to the opening/closure of the electrical contact, characterized in that the flexible cable is connected, at the second end, to means for detachable connection to at least one item to be restrained, the detachable connection means comprising security means of the mechanical type which are adapted to prevent the opening of the detachable connection means, a deactivation device being provided which can engage the detachable connection means in order to open the security means. |
| US07808376B2 |
Continuous enhanced vehicle hazard warning lights
Potential disadvantages of the enhanced emergency hazard warning lights set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 7,352,278 are overcome by adding a lamp that beams its light rearward toward approaching traffic, is located approximately midway between and above the horizontal alignment of the rear turn signal lamps, thereby forming a triangular flashing emergency hazard warning signal that cannot be discontinued or otherwise disturbed when the vehicle's brakes and brake lights are simultaneously operated. |
| US07808371B2 |
Vehicle fleet security system
The invention relates to a fleet security system comprising a vehicle security unit (VSU) to be installed inside each vehicle, on the sun visor or on the dashboard of the vehicle, and connected to the vehicle using the On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) connector of the vehicle. An authorized user holds the key of the vehicle to be used and an electronic security key. When the authorized user opens the door of the vehicle, the VSU detects a disturbance in the vehicle and wirelessly sends a disturbance event message to a fleet master unit. The authorized user then has a given deactivation time period (such as thirteen seconds) to show its security key to a key reader located inside the vehicle, on the VSU. The security key code is validated by the master unit which will command the VSU to disarm its disturbance detection. |
| US07808368B2 |
Appliance network for a networked appliance and an audio communication accessory
An appliance network comprising an appliance in communication with an audio communication accessory to effect communication therebetween. |
| US07808358B2 |
Inductor and method for fabricating the same
An inductor includes a flat substrate and a conductor in a spiral shape having a plurality of turns. The plane on which the conductor is formed is substantially in parallel with a principal surface of the substrate. The turns of the conductor are equally spaced from each other in a direction parallel to the plane on which the conductor is formed. An outer one of the turns of the conductor is wider and thinner than an inner one of the turns of the conductor. A level of at least one of a top and a bottom of the conductor differs from one turn to another in a cross section vertical to the plane on which the conductor is formed. |
| US07808355B2 |
Combined type transformer and buck-boost circuit using the same
Combined type transformer includes: a transformer core; first and second coils provided with respect to the transformer core; first and second inductor cores provided around the first coil; and third and fourth inductor cores provided around the second coil. The transformer core and the first and second coils constitute a transformer, the first coil and the first and second inductor cores constitute a first inductor, and the second coil and the third and fourth inductor cores constitute a second inductor. |
| US07808346B2 |
Rotary joint having air bearings for contact free mounting
A high frequency (HF) rotary joint including a rotor and a stator is disclosed. The rotor is connected to the stator by a high frequency connection via a λ/4 line. The rotor, moreover, is mounted in the stator utilizing at least one radial aircushion bearing and at least one axial aircushion bearing. The bearings prevent contact between the rotor and the stator. |
| US07808344B2 |
Boundary acoustic wave filter
A longitudinally coupled resonator boundary acoustic wave filter device includes a piezoelectric substrate made of LiNbO3 having a principal plane obtained by rotating the Y-axis through about 15 degrees +−10 degrees, a dielectric substrate made of silicon oxide and laminated on the piezoelectric substrate, and an electrode structure arranged at a boundary between the piezoelectric substrate and the dielectric substrate. The electrode structure includes a plurality of IDTs arranged in a direction in which a boundary acoustic wave propagates, and reflectors, wherein where in each of the plurality of IDTs, the overlap width of electrode fingers is W and the interval of electrode fingers is P, W/P is in a range of about 20 to about 45. |
| US07808343B1 |
Radio frequency (RF) signal combiner having inverted coupler
A radio frequency (RF) communication device may include an RF 90-degree hybrid combiner having stable phase and loss characteristics over greater than one octave of bandwidth, while providing a high degree of isolation between input and isolated port. The structure may include a first element and a second element. The first element includes a first port, a first section for phasing matching, a second section for conductive-layer inversion, a third section for phase-matching section, and a third port. The second element includes a fourth port, a fourth section for phasing matching, a fifth section for conductive-layer inversion, a sixth section for phase-matching, and a second port. In one example, the second and fifth sections are utilized for signal coupling. In another example, the first, third, fourth, and sixth sections are utilized for signal coupling. Different ports may have matched phase differences. |
| US07808341B2 |
Broadband RF connector interconnect for multilayer electronic packages
A coaxial transition arrangement including a coaxial connector for connecting a coaxial cable to a multilayer package has an improved coaxial connector for accomplishing impedance matching and providing improved broadband performance. Impedance matching is provided by a metal disk structure comprising a plurality of metal disks mounted on a center conductor pin of the coaxial connector. The disks are mounted in spaced-apart relation on the center conductor pin and have different radiuses which decrease with increasing distance from the base of the center conductor pin. The coaxial connector has a shroud which is configured to accommodate the metal disk structure therein, as does the ring of ground vias forming a part of the multilayer package. |
| US07808337B2 |
T-shape waveguide twist-transformer
A junction for connecting two waveguides having substantially a 90-degree angular offset between longitudinal symmetry axes of their cross-sections. The junction has a first interface and a second interface for connecting the waveguides, and at least a first transformer section and a second transformer section, both having cross-sections of substantially rectangular shape, and both having the 90-degree angular offset between longitudinal symmetry axes of their cross-sections. The first and second transformer sections are connected such that a T-shape connection is formed and the first transformer section has a first protruded ridge on its broad wall and the second transformer section has a second protruded ridge on its broad wall. The broad wall with the second ridge is connected to the top narrow wall of the first transformer section and the ridges are located such that they overlap. |
| US07808334B2 |
Oscillation driver circuit, oscillation driver device, physical quantity measurement circuit, physical quantity measurement device, and electronic instrument
An oscillation driver circuit that drives a physical quantity transducer includes a one-input/two-output comparator. The one-input/two-output comparator includes a shared differential section that compares a voltage signal input from a drive current/voltage conversion amplifier circuit with a given voltage, a first output section that receives a signal output from the differential section, variably adjusts a voltage amplitude of the received signal, and outputs the resulting signal, and a second output section that receives the signal output from the differential section, and outputs a synchronous detection reference signal of which the voltage amplitude is fixed. |
| US07808329B2 |
Methods and apparatus for improved phase linearity in a multi-phase based clock/timing recovery system
Methods and apparatus are provided for improved phase linearity in a multi-phase based clock/timing recovery system. Averaging and interpolation techniques improve phase linearity in a multi-phase clock system. A multi-phase output clock is generated in accordance with one aspect of the invention by generating a plurality of clocks each having a substantially similar frequency and a different phase; applying each of the plurality of clocks to at least one corresponding amplifier such as a differential pair circuit; and summing an output of the corresponding amplifiers to generate the multi-phase output clock. A multiple-stage averaging operation can provide further linearity improvements. |
| US07808328B2 |
Ring oscillator with constant gain
This disclosure relates to delay cells in a ring oscillator that include sub-cells having a gain that is a function of a variable control signal and sub-cells with a gain that is set by a fixed control signal. |
| US07808322B1 |
System and method for modifying output power of an information communication system
A system comprises a variable gain amplifier (VGA) that amplifies an input signal with a gain that is based on a gain control signal. A power amplifier receives an output of the VGA. Memory switches between at least two of N output power settings each including a predetermined reference value and a predetermined gain offset value. The memory substantially concurrently changes from the predetermined reference value and the predetermined gain offset value of a prior one of the N output power settings to the predetermined reference value and the predetermined gain offset value of a current one of the N output power settings, where N is an integer greater than one. A gain control adjuster adjusts the gain control signal based on an output of the power amplifier and the predetermined reference value and gain offset value of the current one of the N output power settings. |
| US07808317B1 |
Baseband filter start-up circuit
An electrical circuit includes an amplifier. The amplifier includes an input circuit in communication with an input of the amplifier. A start-up circuit is in communication with the input circuit. The start-up circuit is configured to generate a start-up signal to enable subsequent operation of the amplifier. The start-up circuit turns off when an output of the amplifier reaches a threshold voltage. An output circuit is in communication with each of the outputs of the amplifier, the input circuit, and the start-up circuit. |
| US07808304B1 |
Current switch for high voltage process
In a current switch, a bias generation circuit electrically connected to a high voltage power supply generates a bias current. The bias current is mirrored by a current mirror containing a first plurality of transistors to a first one of a second plurality of transistors. The first one of the second plurality of transistors amplifies the mirrored bias current and transmits the amplified bias current to a second one of the second plurality of transistors. The second one of the second plurality of transistors sinks the amplified bias current into a node shared by an internal reference voltage, thereby putting the node in a first logic state. A third one of the second plurality of transistors receives the amplified bias current from the second one of the second plurality of transistors and sinks the amplified bias current into a node shared by a gate of a high voltage p-type transistor, thereby putting the node in the first logic state. Putting both nodes in the first logic state turns off the high voltage transistor. |
| US07808300B2 |
Power regulation scheme for a high voltage output in integrated circuit devices
A power regulation scheme for high voltage output in integrated circuits is realized in a regulated high voltage generator, a voltage clamp, and a power regulator connected between the voltage clamp and the voltage generator. The voltage clamp produces a clamp current during a voltage limiting operation. A regulating clamp current corresponds to an initial limit voltage of the clamp. The power regulator senses the clamp current and suspends voltage generation as the limit magnitude of clamp current is attained. The clamp current is mirrored in a current comparator circuit that triggers a stop signal to the regulated high voltage generator, thus saving power. |
| US07808299B2 |
Switching power converter with reduced switching losses
A switching power converter has at least one electronic power switch. To minimize switching losses and optimize efficiency, the gate drive voltage level used to drive the electronic power switch is optimized. In an aspect, a digital controller generates optimizes the gate drive voltage using efficiency optimization algorithms, which in an aspect are programmed in the digital controller. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, the switching power supply has at least two electronic power switches coupled in parallel. Optimization algorithms are used to determine the optimum number of switched electronic power switches that are actively being switched at a given time in order to achieve optimized efficiency for condition changes, such as input voltage variation, load and environmental temperature changes. In an aspect, the algorithms are programmed in a digital controller chip. In an aspect, both gate drive voltage level and the number of electronic power switches being actively switched at a given time are optimized. |
| US07808298B1 |
Thermal compensation of an exponential pair
To compensate for changes in temperature, a pair of bipolar transistors is connected to a voltage divider and receives a differential voltage that varies with temperature. The voltage divider includes a set of resistors placed in parallel. The set of resistors has a resistance that changes with temperature. As the resistance changes with temperature, the differential voltage provided by the voltage divider changes in proportion to a change in thermal voltage. |
| US07808287B2 |
Frequency divider circuits
A circuit for deriving an output clock signal from an input clock signal, the output clock signal having a frequency which is 1/Nth of the frequency of the input clock signal, where N is an odd number. The circuit comprises a plurality of latches configured as a latch ring, the latches being arranged in successive pairs, each pair of latches comprising a first latch that switches on one of the rising or falling edge of the input clock signal, and a second latch that switches on the other of the rising or falling edge of the input clock signal. An RS flip flop is coupled to receive at one of its set and reset inputs an output from the latch ring that is switched on a rising edge, and at the other of the set and reset inputs an output from the latch ring that is switched on a falling edge. Said output clock signal is provided at an output of the RS flip flop. |
| US07808286B1 |
Circuitry in a driver circuit
A driver circuit includes a first and a second voltage rail, a first pre-driver circuit, a power transistor, comparison circuitry which indicates when a voltage level of the first voltage rails is above or below a reference voltage level, a level shift circuit coupled between the first voltage rail and the second voltage rail which provides a level shifted output, a tapered buffer circuit coupled to the first voltage rail and to a first circuit node, wherein the tapered buffer circuit receives the level shifted output and provides a buffered output to a control electrode of the first pre-driver transistor, and a rail voltage adjusting circuit coupled between the first circuit node and the second voltage rail, which, in response to the comparison circuitry indicating that the voltage level of the first voltage rail is above the reference voltage level, adjusts a voltage level of the second voltage rail. |
| US07808285B2 |
Driving circuit for capacitive load
A power switch assembly for a capacitive load 10 which includes a common electrode 14 and first and second discrete electrodes 16, 18, includes a node n1 coupled to a voltage source Vcc for receiving power there from, a first switching device connected between the node n1 and ground, a second switching device connected between the node n1 and ground, and a dividing circuit connected between the node and ground. The dividing circuit includes an output terminal connected to the common electrode 14 of the capacitive load. The first switching device is coupled to the first electrode 16 of the capacitive load configured to control movement of the capacitive load 10 in a first direction. The second switching device is coupled to the second electrode 18 of the capacitive load configured to control movement of the capacitive load 10 in a second direction reverse to the first direction. |
| US07808283B2 |
Synchronous frequency synthesizer
An apparatus for clock generation is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a phase interpolator that generates an output with a phase value within reference phases associated with two input clocks. Logic units are coupled to determine a number of phase settings for the phase interpolator. A divider is coupled to the phase interpolator to generate an output clock based on a modifiable divider setting. |
| US07808277B2 |
Bidirectional signal separation module for a bus converter
A bidirectional signal separation module includes a comparator having a first input node communicatively coupled to a bidirectional single-ended bus, a second input node communicatively coupled to a first voltage source, and an output node communicatively coupled to a unidirectional data transmission node; and a resistive network having a first node communicatively coupled to the second voltage source, a second node communicatively coupled to the bidirectional single-ended bus, a third node communicatively coupled to ground, and a fourth node communicatively coupled to an electronic switch. The electronic switch is configured to alternately couple the fourth node of the resistive network to the second voltage source or ground according to a voltage level on a unidirectional data receiving node. |
| US07808275B1 |
Input buffer with adaptive trip point
Disclosed is a circuit comprising an inverter circuit which comprises inverters and level shifters; and a modulation circuit comprising a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit, the modulation circuit coupled to the inverter circuit to regulate the response of the circuit to an input voltage for various power supply voltage levels by the pull-up or pull-down circuit. Other embodiments are also disclosed. |
| US07808272B2 |
Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit for analyzing the waveform of an input signal includes a first storage circuit and a second storage circuit that are each supplied with the input signal. The first and second storage circuits are controlled by a clock signal. The first storage circuit is used to store a state for the input signal when the clock signal has a rising edge. The second storage circuit is used to store a state for the input signal when the clock signal has a falling edge. An evaluation circuit compares the states of the input signal that are stored in the first and second storage circuits during a selected time span. The comparison can be used to decide whether the input signal assumes periodic fluctuations or an approximately permanently static value during the time span. |
| US07808269B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a control signal generating circuit which is configured to set, at least at a time of a first state, first and fifth control signals at a first voltage level, and second, third and fourth control signals at a second voltage level, and to set, at a time of a second state, the first to fourth control signals at the first voltage level, and the fifth control signal at an arbitrary voltage level. |
| US07808268B2 |
Time based driver output transition (slew) rate compensation
Apparatus controlling the driver output slew rate that includes a driver circuit having an input signal and an output signal, where the driver circuit is structured and arranged to facilitate control of the slew rate of the output signal. A delay circuit having a time delay proportional to a desired transition time of the driver output signal is coupled to the output of the driver circuit. A first comparator detects when the driver output signal rises through a specified level, and a second comparator detects when the driver output falls through a second specified level. A phase detector is coupled to outputs of the first and second comparators and an output of the delay circuit for aligning the phases of the comparator outputs and the delayed comparator outputs by adjusting the driver output slew rate. |
| US07808266B2 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating the effects of stress on an RF oscillator
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for evaluating degradation of a transistor in a cross coupled pair of an RF oscillator independently. A MOS device can be coupled between a separated center-tap inductor. By appropriately sizing the MOS device and turning the MOS device on during operation of RF oscillator, a good contact can again be made that allows the oscillator to operate at design performance. By turning the MOS device off, the supplies can be separates such that I-V characteristics of both transistors of the cross-coupled pair may be obtained. |
| US07808265B2 |
Differential voltage defectivity monitoring circuit
A circuit uses a differential voltage response to identify fabrication process defects that would result if an IC design is fabricated (without re-designing to correct such defects). The circuit includes two stacks, whose respective outputs may be compared by a comparator, and comparator's output used to determine defectivity. In some embodiments, each stack includes a first-type device (e.g. a p-channel device) and at least two second-type devices (e.g. n-channel devices). The first-type device is used as a current source or as a select switch (depending on the mode of operation of the differential voltage defectivity monitoring circuit). One second-type device may be used as a select switch and for back-bias control, while another second-type device may be used as a blocking switch and/or a select switch. The circuit may be built into an addressable array of multiple test structures that have digitally multiplexed control lines, in some embodiments. |
| US07808259B2 |
Component assembly and alignment
A method or an apparatus for aligning a plurality of structures can include applying a first force in a first plane to a first structure. The method can also include constraining in the first plane the first structure with respect to a second structure such that the first structure is in a position with respect to the second structure that aligns first features on the first structure with second features on the second structures. The second feature can be in a second plane that is generally parallel to the first plane. The first and second structures can be first and second electronic components, which can be components of a probe card assembly. |
| US07808253B2 |
Test method of microstructure body and micromachine
It is an object to provide a test method of a process, an electric characteristic, and a mechanical characteristic of a structure body in a micromachine without contact. A structure body including a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer provided in parallel to the first conductive layer, and a sacrifice layer or a space provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer is provided; an antenna connected to the structure body is provided; electric power is supplied to the structure body wirelessly through the antenna; and an electromagnetic wave generated from the antenna is detected as a characteristic of the structure body. |
| US07808252B2 |
Measurement apparatus and measurement method
Provided is a test apparatus for testing the jitter tolerance of a device under test which receives a data signal and a strobe signal indicating the timing at which the data signal should be received, and acquires the data signal at the timing indicated by the strobe signal, including a signal generating section which generates the data signal and the strobe signal to be supplied to the device under test, a jitter applying section which applies a combinational jitter obtained by combining a data jitter which should be tolerated for the data signal and a strobe jitter which should be tolerated for the strobe signal to the data signal or the strobe signal, and a signal supplying section which supplies the data signal and the strobe signal, to one of which the combinational jitter has been applied, to the device under test. |
| US07808251B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining an interfering field strength in an aircraft
The disclosed embodiments relates to a method and an apparatus for determining the interfering field strength in an aircraft and the impairment of an electric system in the aircraft including cables between the outer shell and the interior panelling of the fuselage for transmitting signals within the aircraft. In order to enable direct and reliable determination of interfering field strength in an aircraft and assessment of the electromagnetic vulnerability of the communications system in the aircraft depending on the results of the determination, either a predetermined transmission signal is fed in at least one leaky line between outer shell and panelling of the fuselage and the reception signal that is irradiated by the leaky line is received with a receiver, or a predetermined transmission signal is transmitted with a transmitter and the reception signal is extracted from the leaky line. Subsequently the amplitudes of the transmission and the reception signals are compared with each other. |
| US07808249B1 |
Methods and apparatus for measuring a length of a cable
A physical layer (PHY) device of a network device includes a first module, a first cable-length measuring (CLM) module, and a first control module. The first module determines whether a remote PHY that communicates with the PHY device over a cable is capable of measuring a length of the cable. The first CLM module measures a first length of the cable. The first control module causes the first length to be transmitted to the remote PHY, receives a second length of the cable measured by the remote PHY, and adjusts an operating parameter of the PHY based on at least one of the first and second lengths. |
| US07808248B2 |
Radio frequency test key structure
A radio frequency test key structure includes a substrate, a bottom metal layer and a top metal layer. A narrow testing region is defined on the substrate. The bottom metal layer is positioned on the substrate and in the narrow testing region, and including an opening to expose parts of a device under test. The top metal layer is a metal pad in a sheet form, positioned in the narrow testing region and on the bottom metal layer. At least two signal pad regions and at least two ground pad regions are defined in the top metal layer. The signal pad regions and the ground pad regions are arranged in one row, and the row is parallel to the narrow testing region. Accordingly, the radio frequency test key structure can be positioned in a scribe line, and get an accurate testing result. |
| US07808247B1 |
Fast cable tester
A physical layer (PHY) device of a network device includes a signal generator module that generates a first test signal and that transmits the first test signal on a first conductor of a first pair of a cable at time T1, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module that has an input that communicates with a second conductor of the cable and an output that generates first S outputs at times (T1+(S*t)), where S is greater than 1, and t>0, and a control module that determines a distance from the PHY to one of an open-circuit and short-circuit of the first pair based on the first S outputs. |
| US07808238B2 |
Echo-decay-acceleration data acquisition method for gas identification using a low-field gradient
A first NMR echo train is acquired with a single TE. A second NMR echo train is acquired with a first portion having the same TE and the second portion having a longer TE. When measurements are made with a low magnetic field gradient, processing the two echo trains can be used to determine gas in the formation. |
| US07808235B2 |
Apparatus and methods for proximity sensing circuitry
An inductive proximity sensor is disclosed. The proximity sensor includes a resonator with a bifurcated inductance coupled to a plurality of transimpedance amplifiers. A portion of the resonator is configured to generate eddy currents in a target containing metal. In various embodiments, the transimpedance amplifiers provide signals associated with eddy currents to a synchronous detector. Apparatus and methods for operating the inductive proximity sensor are disclosed. |
| US07808231B2 |
Sensor according to the runtime principle with a detector unit for mechanical-elastic waves
A detector unit apparatus and method for operating and producing a detector unit to be adapted to varying environmental influences or to its own, in particular mechanical, electrical or magnetic parameters of the detector unit, which are dependent on measuring lengths. An inventive positional sensor operating according to the running time principle of a mechanically elastic shaft and comprising a waveguide, a positional element, e.g. a positional magnet, which can be displaced in particular along the waveguide, in addition to a detector assembly that is located on the waveguide and comprises a detector coil wherein the detector assembly has a current source so that a current can flow through the detector coil. |
| US07808229B2 |
Magnetic device and frequency analyzer
A magnetic device and a frequency analyzer are provided as those industrially utilizing a resonance phenomenon of a direction of magnetization of a magnetoresistive element. Since polarities of an alternating current i vary with time, the direction of magnetization oscillates as affected by the magnitude and frequency of the alternating current. When the frequency fF of the direction of magnetization of a free layer in the magnetoresistive element coincides with the frequency f of the alternating current flowing in the magnetoresistive element, the oscillation of the direction of magnetization resonates to increase a voltage between output terminals. A magnetic yoke applies such a magnetic field as to cause resonance, to the free layer. A direct current is used as an electric current outputted from a current control circuit and, while this direct current is swept, voltages at respective specific resonance frequencies are detected by a monitor circuit. |
| US07808225B2 |
Parallel arranged power supplies
A power supply system comprises a parallel arrangement of a first switched mode power supply (1) which has a first system bandwidth (LB 1) and a second switched mode power supply (2) which has a second system bandwidth (LB2) covering higher frequencies than the first system bandwidth (LB 1). The first switched mode power supply (1) is dimensioned to supply a first maximal output power (P1m), the second switched mode power supply (2) is dimensioned to supply a second maximal output power (P2m) being smaller than the first maximal output power (P1m). A control circuit (3) varies a reference voltage (Vr) of both the first switched mode power supply (1) and the second switched mode power supply (2) to obtain a corresponding variation of an output voltage (Vout) of the parallel arrangement. |
| US07808223B1 |
Transistor with spatially integrated schottky diode
An integrated circuit device for delivering power to a load includes a composite transistor and a composite schottky diode. The composite transistor is formed by a plurality of component transistors that have commonly coupled source terminals, commonly coupled drain terminals and commonly coupled gate terminals. The composite schottky diode is formed by a plurality of component schottky diodes that have anodes coupled in common and coupled to the source terminals of the plurality of component transistors, and for which drain terminals of the commonly coupled drain terminals constitute respective cathodes. |
| US07808220B2 |
Method and apparatus for a charge pump DC-to-DC converter having parallel operating modes
According to one or more aspects of DC-to-DC voltage conversion as taught herein, a DC-to-DC converter selectively operates in a first mode wherein an included linear pass output circuit supplies the output power from the DC-to-DC converter, in a second mode wherein an included charge pump output circuit supplies the output power, and in a third mode wherein the linear pass and charge pump output circuits operate in parallel to supply the output power. With this third mode, also referred to as a “dual” mode, wherein the linear pass and charge pump output circuits operate in parallel, the DC-to-DC converter keeps the more efficient output circuit on after it has begun switching to operation with the less efficient output circuit. Such switchover may be performed dynamically in response to changing operating conditions. Detected operating conditions may include input voltages, output voltages, and output load conditions. |
| US07808214B2 |
Short-cycling serial hybrid drivetrain with high power density storage
A serial hybrid drivetrain enables “super-efficiency” (fuel efficiency exceeding 100 miles-per-gallon) in a lightweight transportation vehicle, utilizing only high power density storage media (for example ultracapacitor media), with the total energy of storage constrained to minimize storage mass, and the resulting low energy requiring a short-cycle of charge and discharge. A unique control system design enables a high extraction of the total energy from the medium, as well as full-rate recovery of regenerative braking energy. |
| US07808210B2 |
Battery charge indication methods, battery charge monitoring devices, rechargeable batteries, and articles of manufacture
Battery charge indication methods, battery state of charge monitoring devices, rechargeable batteries, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a battery charge indication method includes first determining a state of charge of a battery at a first moment in time using a first method, second determining a state of charge of the battery at a second moment in time using a second method different than the first method, and providing information regarding the state of charge of the battery at the first and second moments in time using information of the first and second determinings. |
| US07808205B2 |
Battery charger and method for communicating battery pack charging status information
A battery charger and method for communicating battery pack charging status information of a battery pack coupled to both the battery charger and an electronic device such as a radio is presented. An authenticity battery pack identifier and battery status information provided by the battery pack to the battery charger is read. The authenticity battery pack identifier and charging status information is transmitted over a wireless link from the battery charger to the radio. The charging status information is then processed by the radio when the authenticity battery pack identifier matches a currently coupled battery pack identifier stored on the radio. The currently coupled battery pack identifier identifies the battery pack that is coupled to the radio. |
| US07808204B2 |
Controller for fuel cell system
A fuel cell system capable of learning its current-voltage characteristics precisely in a short time even when the current-voltage characteristics of a fuel cell varies due to reduction of a catalyst of an oxidizing agent electrode during the stop of operation of the fuel cell system. A controller (13) learns current-voltage characteristics of a fuel cell stack (2), detects the amount of variation in voltage of current-voltage characteristics before a stop of power generation and those after restart of power generation, and corrects the learnt value of the current-voltage characteristics by the amount of variation in voltage. |
| US07808203B2 |
Motor control device
A motor control device that includes a first speed estimator estimating the rotation speed of the rotor of a permanent-magnet synchronous motor and that controls the motor so that a first estimated rotation speed estimated by the first speed estimator follows the specified speed value further includes a second speed estimator that estimates the rotation speed of the rotor by an estimation method different from that used by the first speed estimator. The motor control device detects synchronization failure based on a comparison between a second estimated rotation speed estimated by the second speed estimator and the first estimated rotation speed or the specified speed value. |
| US07808202B2 |
Beat-less controller for permanent magnet motor
In a driving system for an inverter that uses a diode rectifying circuit to convert a single-phase or three-phase AC voltage to a desired DC voltage and drives a permanent magnet motor, a DC-voltage pulsating frequency is estimated from a pulsating frequency setting calculated from the power supply frequency of an AC voltage and the detected current values of the inverter, and the resulting estimated pulsating frequency value and detected current values are used to correct the output voltage of the inverter. |
| US07808197B2 |
Control apparatus for opening/closing member of vehicle and control method for opening/closing member of vehicle
A control apparatus for an opening/closing member of vehicle includes a driving member for moving an opening/closing member for a vehicle, speed detecting means for detecting a drive speed of the driving member and control means for calculating a current speed difference between the drive speed of the driving member and a target drive speed, for calculating a current change amount between the calculated current speed difference and a previous speed difference calculated a predetermined time before, for calculating a current deviation by integrating the current change amount and for detecting an entrapment of an object by comparing the calculated deviation to a predetermined threshold. |
| US07808196B2 |
Electromotive auxiliary drive for vehicles
In the case of an electromotive auxiliary drive for vehicles, particularly for windscreen wiper drives or adjustment drives for vehicle elements with a secondary transmission for the electromotor, with at least one magnetic sensor, which acts in conjunction with a signal transmitter or permanent magnet arrangement formed of at least one permanent magnet and rotating with a drive shaft or a gear wheel in order to record the angle position and/or modification of the angle position of the rotation of the shaft or the gear wheel, the permanent magnet arrangement is arranged on the front side on a shaft end bedded in a bearing arrangement or on a drive element bedded in the bearing arrangement and arranged on the shaft. The at least one magnetic sensor is arranged opposite the permanent magnet arrangement in the direction of the shaft axis within the bearing arrangement. |
| US07808194B2 |
Control apparatus for electric vehicles
In a hybrid vehicle control apparatus, a motor control unit executes the input power control on a MG unit independently from a torque control on an AC motor so that the input power control and the torque control are stabilized. The motor control unit further executes a torque difference reduction control, which controls current vector of the AC motor, to reduce a torque difference to zero substantially thereby preventing uncomfortable torque variation in a transient condition of input power control of the MG unit. The torque difference is calculated based on a first estimated torque calculated from a detected motor torque of the AC motor and a second estimated torque calculated from a command current vector for torque control of the AC motor. |
| US07808193B1 |
Motor spindle control system and method
In a motor having a number of poles that have nominally equiangularly-spaced positions that in fact deviate from those positions, the actual periods between zero-crossings of the back-EMF generated during pole-pair interactions are measured. The ratios of the various pole periods can then be computed, and the motor drive profile can be adjusted for each pole by applying the respective ratio to fit samples of the back-EMF profile to each respective pole. |
| US07808189B2 |
LED circuit arrangement having a diode rectifier
An LED circuit arrangement including an AC voltage source for providing a voltage supply. A diode rectifier is provided and has at least one rectifier diode, which can be a radiation-emitting LED chip. The LED circuit arrangement also includes at least one radiation-emitting LED chip which simultaneously functions as a luminous element and as a rectifier diode. |
| US07808186B2 |
Power supply apparatus for arc-generating load
An output of a rectifying circuit (6), which rectifies commercial AC power, is supplied to an inverter (12) through a power factor correction circuit (8). The output of the inverter (12) is voltage-transformed in a transformer (16), rectified in a rectifying circuit (18) and is applied to a xenon lamp (2). A secondary winding (22s) of a transformer (22) of an igniter (20) is connected between the rectifying circuit (18) and the xenon lamp (2) in order to generate an arc in the xenon lamp (2). A pulse generator provides a pulse for a short time period to a primary winding (22p) of the transformer (22). An auxiliary power supply (26) supplies arc-sustaining current prepared based on the commercial AC power to the junction of the rectifying circuit (18) and the secondary winding (22s) of the transformer (22). |
| US07808184B2 |
Methods and apparatus for generating strongly-ionized plasmas with ionizational instabilities
Methods and apparatus for generating strongly-ionized plasmas are disclosed. A strongly-ionized plasma generator according to one embodiment includes a chamber for confining a feed gas. An anode and a cathode assembly are positioned inside the chamber. A pulsed power supply is electrically connected between the anode and the cathode assembly. The pulsed power supply generates a multi-stage voltage pulse that includes a low-power stage with a first peak voltage having a magnitude and a rise time that is sufficient to generate a weakly-ionized plasma from the feed gas. The multi-stage voltage pulse also includes a transient stage with a second peak voltage having a magnitude and a rise time that is sufficient to shift an electron energy distribution in the weakly-ionized plasma to higher energies that increase an ionization rate which results in a rapid increase in electron density and a formation of a strongly-ionized plasma. |
| US07808179B2 |
Plasma display panel
A plasma display panel that shortens the delay time of an address discharge by providing an exoelectron emission layer on a protective layer is disclosed. The plasma display panel includes first and second substrates facing each other and spaced apart from each other, barrier ribs arranged between the first and second substrates and defining discharge cells, phosphor layers formed within the discharge cells; address electrodes formed on the first substrate and extending along a first direction, first and second electrodes formed on the second substrate and extending along the second direction, a protective layer formed in a discharge region of the discharge cells, and an exoelectron emission layer formed outside the discharge region. |
| US07808176B2 |
Display unit
A display unit capable of preventing corrosion of a metal wiring and improving the reliability is provided. The display unit includes a driving panel having a bonding region and a terminal region on a driving substrate and a sealing panel bonded on the bonding region of the driving panel with an adhesive layer in between. The bonding region includes a circuit section, a coating layer covering the circuit section, and a display portion composed of a plurality of display devices. A plurality of metal wirings is electrically connected to the circuit section in the bonding region and extended to the terminal region. The coating layer has at least one separated region between the plurality of metal wirings. |
| US07808175B2 |
Light emitting material and light emitting device
Provided is a light emitting material of which a light emitting device having high luminous efficiency and high stability and capable of being provided at a low cost can be formed. A light emitting material includes the following partial structural formula (1): wherein at least one of R1 to R10 represents a substituent except a hydrogen atom, a total number of benzene ring structures in R1 to R10 is 3 or more, and R1 to R10 include a trifluoromethyl group, or a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl or alkoxyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms a hydrogen atom of which may be substituted by a halogen atom. |
| US07808174B2 |
Polymer light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (1) has a first electrode (3), a second electrode (4), a light-emitting layer (5) which comprises a matrix, and ions. A layer (6) of a cation receptor (CR) is positioned adjacent to the first electrode (3), has captured cations, and has generated immobilized cations (+). A layer (7) of an anion receptor (AR) is positioned adjacent to the second electrode (4), has captured anions, and has generated immobilized anions (−). The ion gradients provide for quick response in emission of light (L) when the diode (1) is exposed to a forward bias. A diode (1) is manufactured by first forming a laminate (2) of the above structure. The laminate (2) is exposed to a forward bias to make the ions become immobilized at respective sites (S1, S2) of the respective receptors (CR, AR). |
| US07808172B2 |
Organic light emitting display
An organic light emitting device is provided. The device may include a substrate having an emission region and a non-emission region, a sub-pixel formed on the substrate in the emission region of the substrate, and a sealant provided in the non-emission region that seals the emission region of the substrate. The sub-pixel may include a first electrode formed on the substrate in the emission region of the substrate, an emission portion formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode arranged on the emission portion. A barrier rib may be provided to partition the second electrode. A width of an end portion of the barrier rib may be narrower than a width of another portion of the barrier rib. |
| US07808170B2 |
Device for generating UVC radiation
A device for generating ultraviolet radiation by an excimer discharge includes at least partly UV-transparent discharge vessel whose discharge space is filled with a gas filling. The device further includes electrodes for triggering and maintaining an excimer discharge in the discharge space, and a luminescent material that contains a phosphor comprising a host lattice of general formula (Y1-x-y-z,Lux,Scy,Az)PO4 wherein 0≦x<1 and 0 |
| US07808162B2 |
Stacked piezoelectric element and vibration wave driving apparatus
A stacked piezoelectric element comprising a driving unit and a non-driving unit, and a vibration wave driving apparatus, which are capable of suppressing occurrences of deformation, particularly warping, that are generated during firing and polarization of the stacked piezoelectric element. A driving unit has a first conductive layer and a first piezoelectric layer consisting of a piezoelectric material, which is driven by an application of voltage to the first conductive layer to generate vibration on the stacked piezoelectric element. A non-driving unit has a plurality of second conductive layers and a plurality of second piezoelectric layers consisting of the piezoelectric material, which is arranged to have a thickness that enables generation of the vibration. |
| US07808155B2 |
Monolithic piezoelectric element
A monolithic piezoelectric element includes an element assembly in which internal electrode layers and piezoelectric ceramic layers are laminated alternately. The internal electrode layers contain an Ag—Pd alloy, which has an Ag content of 85 percent by weight or more as a primary component, a metal element having a valence of at least one of pentavalence or hexavalence. The piezoelectric ceramic layers contain a composite oxide represented by Pb(Ti,Zr)O3 as a primary component, a part of Ag contained in the internal electrode layers is almost uniformly diffused therein and, the metal element is diffused in the form of a metal oxide in such a way that the concentration is reduced with decreasing proximity to the internal electrode layers. In this manner, a monolithic piezoelectric element having a desired large piezoelectric constant can be obtained without inviting an increase in cost even when a firing treatment is conducted at low temperatures. |
| US07808153B2 |
Inertial drive actuator
An inertial drive actuator includes a fixed member, a vibration substrate which is disposed on the fixed member, a displacement generating unit which causes a reciprocating movement of the vibration substrate with respect to the fixed member, a moving body which is disposed on the vibration substrate, and which is made of a magnetic body which moves with respect to the vibration substrate due to inertia with respect to the reciprocating movement of the vibration substrate, a coil which is provided on the moving body, and a driving unit which applies a voltage for causing a reciprocating movement of the moving body, and which controls a frictional force generated between the vibration substrate and the moving body by making an electromagnetic force act by applying an electric current to the coil. |
| US07808152B2 |
Drive device
A driving apparatus is provided with: a first base portion; a first stage portion; a first elastic portion which has elasticity to displace the first stage portion in one direction (X axis); a second stage portion which is disposed on the first stage portion and on which a driven object is mounted; a second elastic portion which has elasticity to displace the second stage portion in other direction (Y axis); a first applying device for applying an excitation force for displacing the second stage portion such that the second stage portion is resonated in the other direction at a resonance frequency determined by the second stage portion and the second elastic portion; and a second applying device for applying a driving force for displacing, in a stepwise manner or in a continuous manner, the first stage portion in the one direction. |
| US07808148B2 |
Stator winding assembly and method
Disclosed herein is an electric machine stator. The electric machine stator includes a tubular body with a plurality of radial slots formed into a perimetrical surface thereof, each of the plurality of slots having a width that varies over at least a portion of a radial depth of the slot such that the slot width is narrower near the perimetrical surface than the slot width further from the perimetrical surface. The stator further includes at least one winding positioned within each of the plurality of slots and at least one of the at least one winding is deformed within the slot such that at least one dimension of the at least one winding is greater than a narrowest slot width dimension thereby retaining the winding within the slot. |
| US07808147B2 |
Rotor for permanent magnet motor
A rotor (3) for a permanent magnet motor has a is rotatable around an axis of rotation (A) and has a plurality of axially extending permanent magnets (6) which are offset circumferentially in a symmetrical manner and arranged, respectively, in receptacles (16) of a yoke (7) which is assembled from axially stacked sheet lamellas (10), with the sheet lamellas (10) each having a coaxial inner hole (9), at least a first recess (8a) which is open toward the inner hole (9), and one second recess (8b) which is closed toward the inner hole (9), and with the lamellas being formed in a rotationally symmetrical manner so as to be offset at least by a phase angle, with at least two sheet lamellas (10) being oriented so as to be offset relative to one another by half of the phase angle. |
| US07808145B2 |
Armature in rotary electric device and its manufacturing method
An armature where at least one of a first winding wire and a second winding wire is wound around slots that are opposed to all magnetic poles serving as a same magnetic pole in a predetermined winding direction so as to correspond to a predetermined winding number as a total winding number between respective slots, so that the plurality of coils are formed, and a slot from which the first winding wire is led out and a slot into which the second winding wire is led are located circumferentially at both sides of commutator segments with which the first winding wire and the second winding wire are conductive. |
| US07808136B2 |
Cooling device for an electrical machine, electrical machines having a cooling device such as this, core laminate and production method for such electrical machines
The invention relates to a cooling device for an electric machine, in particular, for an electric motor comprising a stator (2) and a rotor. According to the invention, axial channeled recesses (6) are provided on the outside of the stators (2), in which a cooling tube or cooling hose may be introduced and/or which may be sealed by means of a cover (10) to give a cooling air channel, an electric motor with such a cooling device and a core sheet (4) for a lamination bundle of a stator (2), the core sheet (4) comprising amongst other things a number of stator grooves (5). The core sheet (4) comprises recesses (6) with a channel cross-section on the outer edge thereof. The invention further relates to an electric machine the stator (2) of which has a lamination bundle made up of a plurality of such core sheets (4). The invention also relates to a production method for such electric machines. The cooling tubes or cooling hoses can be simply inserted in the half-open channeled recesses from without for cooling. |
| US07808133B1 |
Dual-axis planar motor providing force constant and thermal stability
A motor is provided comprising a magnet assembly having two rows of magnets arranged along a first axis, which are separated by a gap for generating magnetic flux lines between the rows of magnets. The motor further comprises a coil bracket which is located within the gap between the two rows of magnets. The coil bracket includes a first set of coils arranged along the first axis that are operative to drive movement of the coil bracket relative to the magnet assembly along the first axis. A second set of coils arranged along the first axis are operative to drive movement of the coil bracket relative to the magnet assembly along a second axis which is orthogonal to the first axis between a first end position and a second end position along the second axis. The first set of coils is fully located within the flux lines generated by the magnet assembly at both the first and second end positions of the coil bracket and the second set of coils is located at least partially outside the flux lines generated by the magnet assembly at the second end position of the coil bracket. |
| US07808132B2 |
Electric machine comprising a screened leakage-field-sensitive sensor
The aim of the invention is to improve the precision of measuring leakage field sensitive sensors on electric machines. According to the invention, the electric machine comprises a sensor device (4) which is sensitive to magnetic leakage fields mounted on one of the two active parts (1) or in a defined relative position in relation to the active parts. A magnetic screening device is arranged between the sensor device (4) and one of the two active parts (1). Also, the magnetic leakage fields no longer have an influence on the sensor device such that measuring precision is increased. |
| US07808130B2 |
Electronic device for commutation of electric load controlled by a microcontroller
An electronic device and method for commuting an electric load, including an electronic commutator controlled by a microcontroller, positively supplied at a voltage, with an outlet that may adopt at least three states and operating in a nominal mode that may be switched intentionally or by default to a failsafe mode in case of malfunction of the electronic commutation device. The electronic commutation device additionally includes a positive commuted supply greater than the voltage and connected to the microcontroller of the electronic commutation device by a resistive polarization device to carry out the function of safety barrier, and an interface device for recognizing the presence or absence of the positive commuted supply. |
| US07808126B2 |
Wind farm and method for controlling the same
A method for controlling dynamic power factor or the reactive power of a wind farm is provided. The wind farm comprises a number of wind turbines connected to a utility grid driven with a requested power factor or a requested reactive power. The wind turbine output voltage is controlled to a specific voltage set point. In the method, the wind farm power factor is measured and compared with the power factor requested for the utility grid, or the wind farm reactive power is measured and compared with the reactive power requested for the utility grid, respectively; the ratio of the wind farm voltage to the utility grid voltage is adjusted, and the output voltage of the individual wind turbines is regulated to correspond to the specific voltage set point; the steps are repeated until the power factor of the wind farm electricity corresponds to the requested reactive power. |
| US07808123B2 |
Power supply system, multiple dwelling, and computer program
A power supply system for supplying power to a plurality of loads includes a plurality of fuel cells for generating and supplying power to be supplied to the respectively corresponding loads, wherein the fuel cells are provided to correspond to the plurality of loads, a power network for receiving surplus power, which is generated ‘by the fuel cells except power to be supplied to the loads corresponding to the fuel cells, and supplying the surplus power to the loads short of power, wherein the power network is coupled to the plurality of fuel cells, and a control unit for stopping power generation of a first fuel cell among the fuel cells corresponding to a first load among the loads and controlling a second fuel cell among the fuel cells to generate power to be supplied to the first load as the surplus power if an amount of power to be supplied to the first load is less than a predetermined first threshold. |
| US07808122B2 |
Automatic sensing power systems and methods
An automatic sensing power system automatically determines a power a requirement for an electrical device, converts power to the required level, and outputs the power to the electrical device when the electrical device is connected to the automatic sensing power system. |
| US07808120B2 |
Method and apparatus for energy generation from wave motion
A method and apparatus for generating electric energy from the motion of the waves. The apparatus comprises at least one member which is moved by the motion of the waves. The apparatus also comprises an energy transfer mechanism coupled to the or each member. The energy transfer mechanism converts the kinetic energy from movement of the or each member to potential energy by pressurization of a fluid. The apparatus further comprises a first chamber, arranged to store the pressurized fluid and a conversion means for converting the potential energy stored in the pressurized fluid into electric energy. The apparatus can be arranged such that any substantially vertical displacement of the or each member causes actuation of the or each corresponding energy transfer mechanism. |
| US07808113B2 |
Flip chip semiconductor device having workpiece adhesion promoter layer for improved underfill adhesion
A semiconductor device assembly (200) includes a workpiece (205) having a surface including a die attach region corresponding to regions under an integrated circuit (IC) die 210. The die attach region of workpiece (205) includes non-noble metal surfaces (215) and a plurality of flip chip (PC) pads at pad locations (214). A solder mask layer (207) is on a surface of the workpiece (205) outside the die attach region. The non-noble metal surfaces (215) in the die attach region include an adhesion promoter layer (221), wherein the adhesion promoter layer 221 is absent from the plurality of PC pads (214). An integrated circuit (IC) die (210) having a plurality of bumps (211) bonded in a flip chip arrangement to the workpiece (205). An underfill material (232) fills a space between the bumped IC die (210) and the workpiece (205). |
| US07808107B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit device
Circuit elements and wirings constituting a circuit, and first electrodes electrically connected to such a circuit are provided on one main surface of a semiconductor substrate. An organic insulating film is formed on the circuit except for openings on the surfaces of the first electrodes. First and second external connecting electrodes are provided on the organic insulating film. At least one conductive layer for electrically connecting the first and second external connecting electrodes and the first electrodes is placed on the organic insulating film. |
| US07808106B1 |
Nano-laminate difussion barrier for direct electrochemical deposition copper
A plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD)-grown mixed-phase/nano-laminate barrier having the robust barrier properties of TaN with direct plate characteristics of Ru. Ru:TaN layers as thin as 5 nm act both as robust copper barrier and as a copper direct plating layer. Direct plated copper films exhibit preferred (111) orientation with the use of medium acid level electrolyte (0.8M H2SO4) and higher plating current density (10 mA/cm2) during the copper electrochemical deposition process. (111) texture in the direct plated copper films improves as Ru content in the mixed-phase barrier is increased. Direct plated copper films possess larger grain size characteristics as compared to copper electroplated on PVD copper seed. The filling characteristics in sub-65 nm features are equivalent for seeded copper and Ru:TaN barrier films without a seed layer. |
| US07808100B2 |
Power semiconductor module with pressure element and method for fabricating a power semiconductor module with a pressure element
The invention relates to a power semiconductor module comprising at least one power semiconductor chip, and comprising a pressure apparatus which exerts a pressure on the top side of the power semiconductor chip when the power semiconductor module is fixed to a heat sink. In addition, a bonding wire which is arranged distant from the pressure element, is bonded to the top side. The invention also relates to methods for fabricating a power semiconductor module, and for fabricating a power semiconductor arrangement comprising a power semiconductor module and a heat sink. |
| US07808096B2 |
Semiconductor package and production method thereof, and semiconductor device
A semiconductor package production method includes the step of die-cutting part of a lead side portion of a seal formed by molding and dam bars using a pedestal and punch. The pedestal has an outer surface at a position retreating from a side surface of an upper seal portion as far as possible and an inner surface generally near a side surface of a lower seal portion. Width Wa of the upper surface of the upper surface of the pedestal is smaller than the overhang size of the upper seal portion. Tip end region Ra of the lead side portion which is present right under the overhang portion of the upper seal portion has a slanted surface Fa1which is sloped inwardly from top to bottom. |
| US07808089B2 |
Leadframe having die attach pad with delamination and crack-arresting features
One aspect of the invention pertains to a semiconductor package having a die and a die attach pad with a plurality of spaced apart pedestals supported by a web. A die is mounted on the die attach pad such that the die is supported by at least a plurality of the pedestals. Selected edge regions of the die are arranged to overlie recessed regions of the die attach pad between adjacent pedestals. The die is electrically connected to at least some of the contact leads. An adhesive is arranged to secure the die to the die attach pad, with the thickness of the adhesive between the web of the die attach pad and the die being greater than the thickness of the adhesive between the die and the top surfaces of the pedestals that support the die. The die attach pad may have rounded peripheral corners between adjacent edge surfaces of the die attach pad. In another aspect of the invention, a method of packaging integrated circuits is described, wherein the resulting packages include at least some of the aforementioned leadframe structures. |
| US07808086B2 |
Lead frame and manufacturing method thereof, and semiconductor apparatus and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention includes a plurality of mounting portions on which a semiconductor element is mounted, a plurality of electrodes to which the semiconductor elements that are mounted on each of the mounting portions are electrically connected, a corner portion which connects the plurality of mounting portions and which has a hanging lead piece that supports the mounting portions and an electrode connection piece that connects the plurality of electrodes, and a half-blanking portion that has a concave portion formed in a thickness direction of the lead frame and a protrusion formed at a position corresponding to the concave portion, and which is covered with a sealing resin material that seals the semiconductor element. A stress-dispersing portion for dispersing stress that arises, when the half-blanking portion is formed, is provided in the corner portion. |
| US07808084B1 |
Semiconductor package with half-etched locking features
Disclosed is a lead frame, a semiconductor device and a fabrication method related to the semiconductor device. Since the lead frame has a land connecting bar, an upper surface of which is half-etched, the land connecting bar is more easily removed by a blade than a conventional land connecting bar in a fabrication process for the semiconductor device. Accordingly, stress applied to the lands when the land connecting bar is removed is reduced, and a flatness of the lands is maintained. Also, first and second lands constituting the lands are alternately formed with the land connecting bar, leads are alternately formed with the second lands, and wire bonding regions of the leads are positioned on a plane higher than the second lands. Accordingly, an interval between the conductive wires can be constantly maintained and the conductive wires have different traces, thus preventing a short between the conductive wires due to wire sweeping in an encapsulation process. |
| US07808083B2 |
Semiconductor device
Disclosed is a semiconductor device having a wafer level package structure which is characterized by containing a resin layer composed of a resin composition which is curable at 250° C. or less. Such a semiconductor device having a wafer level package structure is excellent in low stress properties, solvent resistance, low water absorbency, electrical insulation properties, adhesiveness and the like. |
| US07808079B2 |
Circuit arrangement and integrated circuit
A circuit arrangement includes a plurality of type-identical and identically operated active components, or separate sections of an active component, and includes a branched wiring structure for the interconnection of component connections. In each case the wiring end portions lie between a branching point and an input of different components or sections, wherein the wiring end portions are formed with predetermined geometrical asymmetry with respect to one another in such a way that there is an electrical symmetry of the interconnection configuration between all the connected type-identical components or sections. More particularly, the impedance values between the branching point and the different inputs and outputs are substantially identical. |
| US07808078B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor integrated circuit is reduced in size by suppressing lateral extension of an impurity region when impurities in the impurity region are thermally diffused in a semiconductor substrate. A second photoresist is formed on an insulation film. The second photoresist is formed to have second openings K2 on both sides of a P-type impurity region so that the second openings K2 partially overlap the P-type impurity region. The insulation film is etched off together with an underlying surface of the semiconductor substrate using the second photoresist as a mask so as to remove the P-type impurity region partially. Then, phosphorus ions (P+) are implanted into the surface of the semiconductor substrate in the etched-off regions using the second photoresist as a mask to form N-type impurity regions that are adjacent the P-type impurity region. After removing the second photoresist, the impurities in the P-type impurity region and the impurities in the N-type impurity region are thermally diffused. |
| US07808076B2 |
Semiconductor device
The semiconductor device which has an electric straight line-like fuse with a small occupying area is offered.A plurality of projecting portions 10f are formed in the position shifted from the middle position of electric fuse part 10a, and, more concretely, are formed in the position distant from via 10e and near via 10d. A plurality of projecting portions 20f are formed in the position shifted from the middle position of electric fuse part 20a, and, more concretely, are formed in the position distant from via 20d and near 20e. That is, projecting portions 10f and projecting portions 20f are arranged in the shape of zigzag. |
| US07808069B2 |
Robust structure for HVPW Schottky diode
A high-voltage Schottky diode including a deep P-well having a first width is formed on the semiconductor substrate. A doped P-well is disposed over the deep P-well and has a second width that is less than the width of the deep P-well. An M-type guard ring is formed around the upper surface of the second doped well, A Schottky metal is disposed on an upper surface of the second doped well and the N-type guard ring. |
| US07808067B2 |
Semiconductor device and temperature sensor structure for a semiconductor device
A temperature sensor structure for a semiconductor device. One embodiment provides a semiconductor substrate including the semiconductor device. A dissipation region of the semiconductor device is adjacent to a main surface of the semiconductor substrate. A first layer arrangement is disposed on the main surface of the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the dissipation region of the semiconductor device. A second layer arrangement is disposed on the first layer arrangement with an insulation layer for galvanic separation therebetween. The first and second layer arrangements and the insulation layer form a layer structure on the main surface above the dissipation region. A circuit element is disposed in the second layer arrangement, the circuit element having a temperature-dependent characteristic and being coupled thermally to the dissipation region. |
| US07808066B2 |
Image sensor and method of manufacturing the same
An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate including a pixel region and a peripheral circuit region; interlayer insulating films including metal wires arranged on the pixel region and the peripheral circuit region; and a photodiode and an upper electrode disposed on the interlayer insulating film of the pixel region. Further, the image sensor includes a protective layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate including the upper electrode and the interlayer insulating film of the peripheral circuit region and having a sloping portion in a region corresponding to the sidewall of the photodiode; via holes disposed on the protective layer so as to selectively expose the upper electrode and the metal wires of the peripheral circuit region; and upper wiring disposed on the protective layer including the via holes. |
| US07808065B2 |
Semiconductor light receiving element
A semiconductor photosensitive element comprises: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a first light absorption layer, a first semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a second light absorption layer, and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, arranged in this order on the semiconductor substrate; a first electrode connected the second semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type; a second electrode connected to the semiconductor substrate; and a third electrode electrically connecting the first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type to the first semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type. The third electrode is located outside a light detection region for detecting optical signals. |
| US07808063B2 |
Structure and method for FPN reduction in imaging devices
Imaging devices having reduced fixed pattern noise are disclosed. The fixed pattern noise in the imaging devices is reduced by measuring and adjusting the spectral characteristics of the imager device on a pixel by pixel basis. The fixed pattern noise of the pixel cells are changed by modifying the absorption, reflectance, refractive index, shape, and/or micro structure of the material. |
| US07808061B2 |
Multi-die apparatus including moveable portions
An electronic apparatus includes a first die, a second die, a third die, and a fourth die, wherein a portion of the second die and a portion of the third die are movably connected between the first die and the fourth die. |
| US07808058B2 |
Method of forming a transistor having gate protection and transistor formed according to the method
A microelectronic device and a method of forming same. The method comprises: a transistor gate; a first spacer and a second spacer respectively adjacent a first side and a second side of the gate; a diffusion layer supra-adjacent the gate; contact regions super-adjacent the diffusion layer and adjacent the first spacer and the second spacer; a protective cap super-adjacent the gate and between the contact regions, the protective cap being adapted to protect the device from shorts between the gate and the contact regions. |
| US07808057B2 |
PMOS transistor with increased effective channel length in the peripheral region and method of manufacturing the same
In manufacturing a PMOS transistor, a semiconductor substrate having an active region and a field region is formed with a hard mask layer, which covers a center portion of the active region on the substrate in a lengthwise direction of a channel. The hard mask layer exposes the center portion of the active region in a widthwise direction of the channel and covers both edges of the substrate and the field region adjacent to the both edges. The substrate is etched to a predetermined depth using the hard mask layer as an etching barrier. The hard mask layer is then removed. A gate covering the center portion of the active region is formed on the lengthwise direction of the channel. Source and drain regions are formed at both edges of the gate. |
| US07808055B2 |
Methods and apparatus for semiconductor memory devices manufacturable using bulk CMOS process manufacturing
The present invention discloses semiconductor devices that can be manufactured utilizing standard process of manufacturing and that can hold information. In accordance with a presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, one or more semiconductor devices can be formed in a well on a substrate where isolation trenches surround one or more devices to create storage regions (floating wells) that is capable of holding a charge. Depending on the charge in the storage region (floating well), it can represent information. The semiconductor devices of the present invention can be manufactured using the standard process of manufacturing (bulk cmos processing). |
| US07808047B1 |
I/O ESD protection device for high performance circuits
A trigger circuit is provided for a pull-down device by connecting a diode between the I/O pad and the body of the pull-down device. In one embodiment, the pull-down device is formed as a plurality of discrete transistors in a single well. The drain of each transistor is connected through a ballast resistor to the I/O pad; and the source of each transistor is connected through a ballast resistor to ground. The trigger circuit is a diode formed in a different well from that of the transistors. The cathode of the diode is connected to the I/O pad and the anode is connected to the transistor well through a center tap located between the transistors. Preferably, the transistors are NMOS transistors formed in a P-well. Advantageously, the diode is an N+/PLDD diode. Alternatively, the diode is an N+/P diode where the P region is formed by an ESD implant. In other embodiments the diode is formed in the same well as the transistors. In these embodiments, either an N+/PLDD diode or an implanted diode is formed in place of one of the transistors. |
| US07808042B2 |
Systems and devices including multi-gate transistors and methods of using, making, and operating the same
Disclosed are methods, systems and devices, including a device having a digit line and a plurality of transistors each having one terminal connected to the digit line and another terminal disposed on alternating sides of the digit line. In some embodiments, each transistor among the plurality of transistors comprises a fin. |
| US07808038B2 |
Method of making three dimensional NAND memory
A monolithic, three dimensional NAND string includes a first memory cell located over a second memory cell. A semiconductor active region of the first memory cell is a first pillar having a square or rectangular cross section when viewed from above, the first pillar being a first conductivity type semiconductor region located between second conductivity type semiconductor regions. A semiconductor active region of the second memory cell is a second pillar having a square or rectangular cross section when viewed from above, the second pillar located under the first pillar, the second pillar being a first conductivity type semiconductor region located between second conductivity type semiconductor regions. One second conductivity type semiconductor region in the first pillar contacts one second conductivity type semiconductor region in the second pillar. |
| US07808037B2 |
High voltage device
A high-voltage semiconductor device includes a silicon substrate having a main surface, a gate on the main surface of the silicon substrate, a source region in a portion of the silicon substrate proximate the main surface and a drain region in a portion of the silicon substrate proximate the main surface. The drain region is spaced apart from the source region. A channel region is defined in a portion of the silicon substrate proximate the main surface between the source region and the drain region. The channel region is at least partially beneath the gate. An additional region is disposed on the main surface proximate the channel region. The additional region being formed of one of a high-k material and a conductive material. |
| US07808034B1 |
Non-volatile memory cell with fully isolated substrate as charge storage
In a non-volatile memory cell, charge is stored in a fully isolated substrate or floating bulk that forms a storage capacitor with a first poly strip and includes a second poly strip defining a control gate and a third poly strip coupled to a read transistor gate. |
| US07808029B2 |
Mask structure for manufacture of trench type semiconductor device
A mask structure and process for forming trenches in a silicon carbide or other wafer, and for implanting impurities into the walls of the trenches using the same mask where the mask includes a thin aluminum layer and a patterned hard photoresist mask. A thin LTO oxide may be placed between the metal layer and the hard photoresist mask. |
| US07808028B2 |
Trench structure and method of forming trench structure
Disclosed are embodiments of an improved deep trench capacitor structure and memory device that incorporates this deep trench capacitor structure. The deep trench capacitor and memory device embodiments are formed on a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) wafer such that the insulator layer remains intact during subsequent deep trench etch processes and, optionally, such that the deep trench of the deep trench capacitor has different shapes and sizes at different depths. By forming the deep trench with different shapes and sizes at different depths the capacitance of the capacitor can be selectively varied and the resistance of the buried conductive strap which connects the capacitor to a transistor in a memory device can be reduced. |
| US07808027B2 |
Free layer/capping layer for high performance MRAM MTJ
An MTJ MRAM cell and its method of formation are described. The cell includes a composite free layer having the general form (Ni88Fe12)1-xCo100x—Ni92Fe8 with x between 0.05 and 0.1 that provides low magnetization and negative magnetostriction. The magnetostriction can be tuned to a low value by a multilayer capping layer that includes a positive magnetostriction layer of NiFeHf(15%). When this cell forms an MRAM array, it contributes to a TMR≧26%, a TMR/Rp—cov≧15.5 and a high AQF (array quality factor) for write operations. |
| US07808022B1 |
Cross talk reduction
A method and apparatus for reducing cross-talk between pixels in a semiconductor based image sensor. The apparatus includes neighboring pixels separated by a homojunction barrier to reduce cross-talk, or the diffusion of electrons from one pixel to another. The homojunction barrier being deep enough in relation to the other pixel structures to ensure that cross-pixel electron diffusion is minimized. |
| US07808017B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit
A semiconductor integrated circuit having a first p-type MOS transistor; a first n-type MOS transistor; a second p-type MOS transistors; a and second n-type MOS transistors having fourth gate electrodes disposed so as to be adjacent to the second diffused regions of the first n-type MOS transistor. The semiconductor integrated circuit further having an absolute value of a threshold voltage of the second p-type MOS transistor being higher than an absolute value of a threshold voltage of the first p-type MOS transistor, and an absolute value of a threshold voltage of the second n-type MOS transistor being higher than an absolute value of a threshold voltage of the first n-type MOS transistor. |
| US07808015B2 |
Apparatus comprising an avalanche photodiode
Avalanche photodiodes are provided, wherein the APDs provide both high optical coupling efficiency and low dark count rate. The APDs are formed such that their cap layer has an active region of sufficient width to enable high optical coupling efficiency but the APD still exhibits a low dark count rate. These cap layers have a device area with an active region and an edge region, wherein the size of the active region is substantially matched to the mode-field diameter of an optical beam, and wherein the size of the edge region is made small so as to reduce the number of defects included. These APD designs maintain a substantially uniform gain and breakdown voltage, as necessary for practical use. |
| US07808011B2 |
Semiconductor light emitting devices including in-plane light emitting layers
A semiconductor light emitting device includes an in-plane active region that emits linearly-polarized light. An in-plane active region may include, for example, a {11 20} or {10 10} InGaN light emitting layer. In some embodiments, a polarizer oriented to pass light of a polarization of a majority of light emitted by the active region serves as a contact. In some embodiments, two active regions emitting the same or different colored light are separated by a polarizer oriented to pass light of a polarization of a majority of light emitted by the bottom active region, and to reflect light of a polarization of a majority of light emitted by the top active region. In some embodiments, a polarizer reflects light scattered by a wavelength converting layer. |
| US07808006B2 |
White-emitting phosphors and lighting apparatus using the same
A phosphor has a general formula of (M1-m-nCemEun)3Al2O5X2, wherein M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr and Ba; and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of Cl and Br, while 0 |
| US07808005B1 |
Light-emitting device with photonic grating configured for extracting light from light-emitting structure
Various aspects of the present invention are directed to light-emitting devices including a photonic grating configured to extract spontaneous emission of electromagnetic radiation from a light-emitting structure. In one aspect of the present invention, a light-emitting device includes a light-emitting structure having an active region designed to emit electromagnetic radiation with a selected frequency. The light-emitting device further includes a photonic grating spaced from the active region of the light-emitting structure. The photonic grating is capable of supporting a leaky guided mode that extends within the active region of the light-emitting structure. The leaky guided mode has a mode frequency approximately equal to the selected frequency emitted by the active region and a mode wavevector that is approximately equal to a reciprocal lattice vector of the photonic grating. |
| US07808001B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device and semiconductor device
An n-channel MOS transistor and a p-channel MOS transistor are formed on a semiconductor substrate 100. The p-channel MOS transistor includes a gate electrode 102a, a first offset sidewall 103a formed on side surfaces of the gate electrode 102a so as to contain fine particles 110 of group IV semiconductor therein. The n-channel MOS transistor includes a gate electrode 102b and a second offset sidewall 103b formed on side surfaces of the gate electrode 102b. After ion implantation of group IV semiconductor, heat treatment is performed to form the fine particles 110, so that a thickness of the first offset sidewall 103a can be made larger than a thickness of the second offset sidewall 103b. |
| US07807999B2 |
Array substrate, liquid crystal display apparatus having the same and method for driving liquid crystal display apparatus
An array substrate includes a gate line, a data line, a switching device, a transmissive electrode, a reflective electrode and a compensating wiring. A pixel region includes first and second regions. The switching device is connected to the gate line and the data line. The transmissive electrode is connected to the switching device. The transmissive electrode is formed in the first region. The reflective electrode is insulated from the transmissive electrode. The reflective electrode is formed in the second region that is adjacent to the first region. The compensating wiring is connected to the switching device. The compensating wiring faces the reflective electrode in the second region with an insulation layer interposed therebetween. Thus, both of a reflectivity of the reflective electrode and a transmissivity of the transmissive electrode are enhanced simultaneously, while the liquid crystal display apparatus maintains a uniform cell gap. |
| US07807995B2 |
Nonvolatile semiconductor memory apparatus and manufacturing method thereof
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory apparatus 25 comprises a semiconductor substrate 11, a lower-layer wire 12 formed on the semiconductor substrate 11, an upper-layer wire 20 formed above the lower-layer wire 12 to cross the lower-layer wire 12, an interlayer insulating film 13 provided between the lower-layer wire 12 and the upper-layer wire 20, and a resistance variable layer 15 which is embedded in a contact hole 14 formed in the interlayer insulating film 13 and is electrically connected to the lower-layer wire 12 and the upper-layer wire 20. The upper-layer wire 20 includes at least two layers which are a lowermost layer 21 made of an electrically-conductive material having a hydrogen barrier property and an electric conductor layer 22 having a specific resistance which is lower than a specific resistance of the lowermost layer 21. |
| US07807987B2 |
Device and method for locally resolved control of a radiation dose
A device for locally resolved control of a radiation dose applied with a pulsed particle beam in particle beam therapy, with a processing unit, which is set up to detect continuously a count rate of x-ray quanta measured with a positron emission tomograph and to determine the applied radiation dose from the pattern of the measured count rate, by determining by computation from the measured pattern of the count rate the time intervals, in which an interaction of the particle beam takes place at the application site and by rejecting these time intervals for the determination of the applied radiation dose. |
| US07807986B1 |
Ion implanter and method for adjusting ion beam
An ion implanter and method for adjusting the shape of an ion beam are disclosed. After an ion beam is outputted from an analyzer magnet unit, at least one set of bar magnets is used to adjust the shape of the ion beam when the ion beam passes through a space enclosed by the bar magnets. The set of bar magnets can apply a multi-stage magnetic field on the ion beam. Hence, different portions of the ion beam will have different deformations or alterations, because the multi-stage magnetic field will apply a non-uniform force to change the trajectory of ions. Moreover, each bar magnet of the set is powered by one and only one power source, such that the set of bar magnets essentially only can adjust the magnitude of the multi-stage magnetic field. Particular structures and techniques for achieving the multi-stage magnetic field are not limited. |
| US07807984B2 |
Ion implanters
Components in an ion implanter that may see incidence of the ion beam include a chamber having an elongate slot opening defined by edges so that a central portion of the ion beam enters the component through the opening with the edges clipping at least a peripheral portion of the ion beam. The arrangement mitigates the problem of sputtered material escaping back out from the component and becoming entrained in the ion beam. |
| US07807983B2 |
Technique for reducing magnetic fields at an implant location
A technique for reducing magnetic fields at an implant location is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as an apparatus and method for reducing magnetic fields at an implant location. The apparatus and method may comprise a corrector-bar assembly comprising a set of magnetic core members, a plurality of coils distributed along the set of magnetic core members, and connecting elements to connect ends of the set of magnetic core members with each other to form a rectangular corrector-bar configuration. The corrector-bar assembly may be positioned at an exit region of a magnetic deflector to improve uniformity of a ribbon beam having a plurality of beamlets exiting from the magnetic deflector and the rectangular corrector-bar configuration may provide a desired magnetic field clamping action. |
| US07807981B2 |
Data processing device, tomography apparatus for examination of an object of interest, method of examining an object of interest, computer-readable medium and program element
A data processing device, comprising a plurality of emitter antennas arranged on a movable data acquisition device and adapted to emit electromagnetic radiation including data acquired by the movable data acquisition device, a plurality of receiver antennas each adapted to receive the electromagnetic radiation emitted by each of the plurality of emitter antennas, and a data processing unit coupled to the plurality of receiver antennas and adapted to extract the data acquired by the movable data acquisition device from the electromagnetic radiation received by the plurality of receiver antennas. |
| US07807980B2 |
Charged particle beam apparatus and methods for capturing images using the same
The present invention provides a charged particle beam apparatus used to measure micro-dimensions (CD value) of a semiconductor apparatus or the like which captures images for measurement. For the present invention, a sample for calibration, on which a plurality of polyhedral structural objects with known angles on surfaces produced by the crystal anisotropic etching technology are arranged in a viewing field, is used. A beam landing angle at each position within a viewing field is calculated based on geometric deformation on an image of each polyhedral structural object. Beam control parameters for equalizing the beam landing angle at each position within the viewing field are pre-registered. The registered beam control parameters are applied according to the position of the pattern to be measured within the viewing field when performing dimensional measurement. Accordingly, the present invention provides methods for reducing the variation in the CD value caused by the variation in the electron beam landing angle with respect to the sample with an equal beam landing angle and methods for reducing the instrumental error caused by the difference in the electron beam landing angle between apparatuses. |
| US07807979B2 |
Specimen kit and fabricating method thereof
A specimen kit for enclosing a specimen is described, including a first substrate, a second substrate and a sealant. The first substrate has a first observation window at which a thickness thereof is smaller than that of the other parts thereof. The second substrate has a second observation window at which a thickness thereof is smaller than that of the other parts thereof, and is disposed on the first substrate such that the second observation window is aligned to the first observation window and an interval is present between the first and the second substrates. The sealant is disposed between the first and the second substrates and surrounds the first and the second observation windows to seal a space between fringes of the first and the second substrate, thus defining a specimen cell between the first and the second substrates. |
| US07807971B2 |
Measurement of moisture in composite materials with near-IR and mid-IR spectroscopy
A method of determining moisture content of a composite material includes providing composite material standards with moisture content, collecting infrared spectra on the composite material standards, calibrating the infrared spectra to the moisture content, providing a composite material and predicting moisture content of the composite material based on the infrared spectra and the composite material standards. |
| US07807969B2 |
Method and system for determining the rate of non uniformity of bolometer based systems
A focal plan array system of the bolometer type having means for determining the rate of non-uniformity which comprises: (a) an array of i×j pixel detectors of the bolometer type for sensing scenery radiation; (b) a case which accommodates said array of detectors, said case having a front window that provides exposure to the sensing element of all the i×j pixel detectors to radiation coming from the scenery; (c) at least a portion of column j+1 of blind detectors that are shielded from the scenery by a homogeneous reference surface; (d) reading circuitry for reading indication for the scenery radiation as sensed by each of the i×j detectors of the array, and for reading indication for the non uniformity as sensed by said detectors in column (j+1); (e) a register for recording the radiation values as read from all the detectors within column (j+1); and (f) a processing unit for finding the standard deviation σ of all the values in said register, and for comparing the same to a predetermined threshold Q, wherein a standard deviation above Q being an indication for a non uniformity above the allowed level. |
| US07807968B2 |
Method and system for measuring and compensating for the case temperature variations in a bolometer based system
A focal plan array system of the bolometer type which comprises: (a) an array of i×j pixel detectors of the bolometer type for sensing scenery radiation; (b) a case which accommodates said array of detectors, said case having a front window that provides exposure to the sensing element of all the i×j pixel detectors to radiation coming from the scenery; (c) at least one blind detector of the bolometer type within the case in a column j+1 for sensing case radiation, the sensing elements of said at least one detector are irradiated by one or more reference surfaces whose radiation is proportional to the case radiation; (d) reading circuitry for reading indication for the scenery radiation as sensed by each of the i×j detectors of the array, and for reading indication for the case radiation as sensed by said at least one blind detector; and (e) compensation circuitry for compensating each of said scenery radiation indications of each detector for the effects resulted from the case radiation, based on the case radiation indication as sensed by said at least one blind detector. |
| US07807958B2 |
Switch for an illumination device, and projection system including the same
An illumination device and a projection system including the same are disclosed. The illumination device can implement a small-sized and high-efficiency projection system, and the projection system includes the illumination device. The projection system generates a light signal in which a luminous flux is maximally distributed, and displays a desired image using the generated light signal. |
| US07807949B2 |
Locking mechanism for soldering iron
A cartridge system for a cartridge type soldering iron has a sleeve stopper with hooks and a sleeve which goes over the stopper. The hooks of the sleeve stopper lock with a socket assembly of the soldering iron which connects to an electrical source. A tip cartridge of the soldering iron has a tip retaining mechanism to fix the sleeve stopper with respect to the tip cartridge. The sleeve is made from a non-heat conducting material to protect a user's fingers from heat. |
| US07807947B2 |
Laser sintering process chamber gas curtain window cleansing in a laser sintering system
An inert gas dispenser for mounting to a process equipment functional window is provided to dispense an inert gas in a laminar flow at an effective velocity across the exposed surface to form a curtain of inert gas across the exposed surface to prevent a build-up of chemical by-product from the powder material during laser sintering. The gas flow rate is characteristic of a flow geometry having a Reynolds number below the turbulent range. The diffuser is used in a laser sintering system. |
| US07807945B2 |
Method for fabricating helical gears from pre-hardened flat steel stock
An improved method of cutting a helical gear sector onto a pivoting arm of a casement window is disclosed. The method includes beginning with a pre-hardened flat sheet of steel stock and cutting the arm and the helical gear sector of the arm in two steps. The non-toothed portions of the arm are cut with a laser and nitrogen assist or shielding gas to prevent any oxidation to the non-toothed portions of the structure. The helical gear sector is also cut with a laser, but using oxygen assist gas. Use of the oxygen prevents recasts slag from accumulating in the gear sector. Thus, a finished part is completed with two laser cutting operations thereby eliminating the need for separate stamping, shaping, deburring and subsequent heat treatment processes used in conventional manufacturing methods. The subsequent heat treating is eliminated because a pre-hardened steel stock may be utilized. |
| US07807944B2 |
Laser processing device, processing method, and method of producing circuit substrate using the method
A laser processing apparatus for performing processing such as perforation on a ceramic green sheet etc. using a laser beam efficiently. The laser processing apparatus is provided with a plurality of optical path systems disposed between a laser oscillator and an irradiation position control optical system for irradiating a predetermined position on a work piece with a laser beam. The plurality of optical path systems includes an optical path system that guides the laser beam to the irradiation position control optical system without changing its cross sectional shape in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the laser beam and an optical path system that guides the laser beam while changing its cross sectional shape so that these optical path systems are selectively used in accordance with the processing condition. |
| US07807937B2 |
Method and system of conserving plasma torch consumable
A system for conserving a consumable component of a plasma torch is disclosed. The system includes a controller of a plasma torch that is connected to a power source. The controller is configured to, during a single trigger actuation, delay generation of an arc after a prior arc collapses. Such a control allows the consumable components of the plasma torch to cool prior to subsequent operation. |
| US07807935B2 |
High-frequency uninterruptible signal and power bypass
High frequency signals and power carried in a main cable delivering the same to a device are insured continuance flow within the main cable through use of a shorting bypass bar assembly in the device that is activated to electrically connect input and output ports of the device whenever the cover of the device is removed for servicing, for insuring continuity of the signal and power flow through the main cable. The shorting bypass bar itself is electrically connected to ground whenever the cover of the device is installed and the shorting bypass bar is disabled. Also, printed circuit board connectors for coupling to the input and output ports of the device to conduct signals from the input port into a PCB board for processing, and for delivering signals and power back into the main cable from another PCB board connector, include RF shielding, and the minimization of the size of the electrically interconnecting components both on the PCB connectors, and on the shorting bypass bar for maintaining a 75 ohm impedance at all times for electrical signals having frequencies ranging from less than to at least 3 GHz. |
| US07807931B2 |
Electrical component on a substrate and method for production thereof
In an arrangement having at least one substrate, at least one electrical component is disposed on a surface section of the substrate and is provided with an electrical contact area, and at least one electrical contact lug has an electrical connecting area electrically contacting the contact area of the component. The connecting area of the contact lug and the contact area of the component are interconnected so that at least one zone of the contact lug protrudes beyond the area of the component. The contact lug is provided with at least one electrically conducting film while the electrically conducting film is provided with the electrical connecting area of the contact lug. The arrangement is particularly useful for large-area, low-inductive contacting of power semiconductor chips, as it allows for high current density. |
| US07807930B1 |
High-voltage feed-through bushing with internal and external electric field grading elements
A high-voltage (HV) bushing that comprises first and second sections, at least two internal grading elements, and at least two external grading elements. The first and second sections each have a HV end and a grounded end. The exterior of the first section is configured to be exposed to open air. One internal grading element is mounted to the HV end of the first section and another internal grading element is mounted to the grounded end of the first section. One of the external grading elements is mounted to the HV end of the first section and another external grading element is coupled to the grounded end of the first section. The internal grading elements and the external grading elements are each configured to moderate an electric field along the inner and outer surfaces of the HV bushing near the HV end and the grounded end of the first section. |
| US07807927B2 |
Transmission line with high flexibility and characteristic impedance
A transmission line including a flexible flat cable, an insulating layer and a metal layer, wherein the insulating layer and the metal layer are formed sequentially on a surface of the flexible flat cable to change the thickness of the insulating layer, in order to change the characteristic impedance (Z0) of the flexible flat cable. Particularly, the insulating layer is made of a woven fabric material, a foam material or a net material. |
| US07807924B2 |
Power post
A power post includes of a vertically disposed post member having a lower end which is embedded in the ground and which has one or more of the following mounted in the front portion thereof: an electrical receptacle, a water-proof speaker, and/or an Ethernet receptacle. |
| US07807922B2 |
Vibration resistant cable
A vibration resistant cable having a first conductor and a second conductor. The second conductor may be twisted around the first conductor at a lay length configured to cause a locking force between the first conductor and the second conductor. The locking force may be configured to prevent relative movement of the first conductor and the second conductor that may result in bags in the vibration resistant cable. The lay length may be predetermined or may vary a predetermined amount per unit of length of the vibration resistant cable. The lay length may be c1d+c2, where d may be the diameter of the first conductor and the second conductor and c1 and c2 may be constants configured to obtain the locking force to eliminate bags in the vibration resistant cable and provide Aeolian vibration dampening in the vibration resistant cable. |
| US07807921B2 |
Multijunction solar cell having a lattice mismatched GrIII-GrV-X layer and a composition-graded buffer layer
A multijunction solar cell includes a first photoactive subcell layer having a first-subcell lattice parameter and a composition including (a) at least one Group III element, at least one Group V element other than (nitrogen, phosphorus), and (nitrogen, phosphorus), or (b) a material selected from the group including GaInAsBi, GaInAsSb, GaInAsP, ZnGeAs2, or BGaInAs. The multijunction solar cell also has a substrate having a substrate lattice parameter different from the first-subcell lattice parameter, and a composition-graded buffer layer between the first photoactive subcell layer and the substrate and having a buffer-layer lattice parameter graded between the first-subcell lattice parameter and the substrate lattice parameter. The substrate may be a second photoactive subcell layer having a second-subcell lattice parameter different from the first-subcell lattice parameter and sensitive to a second-photoactive-subcell-layer wavelength, and the buffer layer is transparent to the second-photoactive-subcell-layer wavelength. |
| US07807920B2 |
Concentrated solar photovoltaic module
A solar photovoltaic module containing a housing that supports an array of photovoltaic cells and corresponding light guides. The housing includes a base member having a generally planar support surface and two side walls projecting from the support surface. Two side panels detachably connect to the side walls, and a top panel detachably connects to the side panels. The top panel includes a plurality of concentrating lenses that focus incident solar radiation into the inside of the housing towards the light guide. The light guides are disposed between the corresponding concentrating lenses and photovoltaic cells such that the concentrating lenses and light guides work together to direct light onto the photovoltaic cells. At least one retaining member interfaces to the light guides and applies a downward force that biases the respective light guides toward the corresponding photovoltaic cells. |
| US07807918B2 |
Modular shade system
A modular shade system comprises a support structure supporting modular panels. The support structure defines a first area having a length and a width. The modular panels have upper, exposed surfaces and lower surfaces and are mounted to and supported by the support structure. The modular panels cover at least about 80% of the first area. The modular panels comprise PV panels and supplemental panels, the supplemental panels providing a feature other than shading and optionally providing shading. Protective panels may be mounted opposite the lower surfaces of the PV modules. A protective panel may so be used when the PV module is part of an installation other than a modular shade structure. |
| US07807916B2 |
Method for generating music with a website or software plug-in using seed parameter values
Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and/or stored (for later play). The system preferably is provided in a handheld form factor, and a graphical display is provided to display status information, graphical representations of musical lanes or components which preferably vary in shape as musical parameters and the like are changed for particular instruments or musical components such as a microphone input or audio samples. An interactive auto-composition process preferably is utilized that employs musical rules and preferably a pseudo random number generator, which may also incorporate randomness introduced by timing of user input or the like, the user may then quickly begin creating desirable music in accordance with one or a variety of musical styles, with the user modifying the auto-composed (or previously created) musical composition, either for a real time performance and/or for storing and subsequent playback. The graphic information preferably is customizable by a user, such as by way of a companion software program, which preferably runs on a PC and is coupled to the system via an interface such as a USB port. A modified MIDI representation of music is employed, preferably, for example, in which musical rule information is embedded in MIDI pitch data, and in which sound samples may be synchronized with MIDI events in a desirable and more optimum manner. The system architecture preferably includes a microprocessor for controlling the overall system operation. A synthesizer/DSP preferably is provided in order to generate audio streams. Non-volatile memory preferably is provided for storing sound banks. Preferably removable non-volatile storage/memory is provided to store configuration files, song lists and samples, and optionally sound bank optimization or sound bank data. A codec preferably is provided for receiving microphone input and for providing audio output. A radio tuner preferably is provided so that output from the radio tuner may be mixed, for example, with auto-composed songs created by the system, which preferably includes a virtual radio mode of operation. |
| US07807913B2 |
Motion-based sound setting apparatus and method and motion-based sound generating apparatus and method
A motion-based sound setting apparatus and method and motion-based sound generating apparatus and method. The motion-based sound setting apparatus includes a mode selection recognizing unit, a motion sensing unit, a motion pattern recognizing unit, and a sound signal setting controlling unit. The mode selection recognizing unit recognizes a user's action with respect to a sound setting mode or a sound generating mode. The motion sensing unit senses a motion of a predetermined device and outputting a result of the sensing as a sensing signal. The motion pattern recognizing unit recognizes a motion pattern of the predetermined device, which corresponds to the sensing signal, in response to a result of the recognition made by the mode selection recognizing unit. The sound signal setting controlling unit sets a sound signal corresponding to the motion pattern recognized by the motion pattern recognizing unit. |
| US07807909B2 |
Musical instrument and supporting system incorporated therein for music players
A saxophone is equipped with a supporting system, and the supporting system assists a player in performance on the saxophone; the supporting system includes pressure sensors respectively adhered to the keys of the saxophone, torque motors provided in association with the keys for exerting assisting force on the keys and a controller for adjusting a driving signal to a certain amount corresponding to the pressure; since a conversion table is stored in the controller, the controller looks up the amount of driving current to be adjusted in the conversion table, and supplies the driving signal to the torque motor, whereby the keys are depressed by the total of finger force and assisting force. |
| US07807906B2 |
String-bridge interface system and method
A string-bridge interface system includes a plurality of string-bridge interface units to provide coupling between strings of a musical instrument and one or more sound bridges of the musical instrument, which are further coupled to the sound board of the musical instrument. Such coupling provided by the string-bridge interface units allows for reduced loading of the sound board and more direct routing of the strings. |
| US07807901B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH467836
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH467836. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH467836, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH467836 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH467836. |
| US07807900B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH511197
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH511197. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH511197, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH511197 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH511197. |
| US07807892B2 |
Plants and seeds of corn variety CV473730
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV473730. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV473730, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV473730 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV473730 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV473730. |
| US07807891B2 |
Plants and seeds of corn variety CV253048
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV253048. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV253048, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV253048 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV253048 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV253048. |
| US07807887B2 |
Plants and seeds of corn variety CV427441
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV427441. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV427441, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV427441 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV427441 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV427441. |
| US07807883B1 |
Soybean variety XB21F08
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB21F08. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB21F08, to the plants of soybean XB21F08 to plant parts of soybean variety XB21F08 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB21F08 with another soybean plant, using XB21F08 as either the male or the female parent. |
| US07807881B2 |
Methods to confer herbicide resistance
Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance to plant cells and bacterial cells are provided. The methods comprise transforming the cells with nucleotide sequences encoding herbicide resistance genes. In particular, herbicide resistance is conferred by expression of proteins with homology to decarboxylase enzymes. Compositions comprise transformed plants, plant tissues, and seeds, as well as transformed bacterial cells. |
| US07807880B2 |
Modification of plant lignin content
DNA constructs comprising a first DNA segment that corresponds to at least a portion of a gene in the monolignol biosynthetic pathway, a spacer DNA segment, and a second DNA segment that is complementary to the first DNA segment can be used to reduce or modulate the lignin content in plants. In some embodiments, DNA constructs comprise at least a portion of a gene for 4CL, C3H, CCR, C4H or CCoAOMT. Vascular-preferred and constitutive promoters can be used to drive expression of the constructs. |
| US07807876B1 |
Antimicrobial peptides and methods of use
The invention provides isolated KCP-like nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering KCP-like nucleic acid and/or protein concentration and/or composition of plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants. |
| US07807873B2 |
Seed specific USP promoters for expressing genes in plants
The present invention relates to the field of plant genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to seed specific gene expression. The present invention provides promoters capable of transcribing heterologous nucleic acid sequences in seeds, and methods of modifying, producing, and using the same. |
| US07807872B2 |
Down regulation of plant cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors
The present invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding plant cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors (ICKs). The nucleic acid molecules may be used to downregulate expression of a plant ICK, thereby providing useful plant phenotypes. |
| US07807867B2 |
Gene encoding protein involved in cytokinin synthesis
A gene is provided that encodes an amino acid sequence indicated in SEQ ID NO. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or 14 originating in, for example, Arabidopsis thaliana. |
| US07807866B2 |
Method and compositions for the production of transgenic plants
The present invention relates generally to a process of producing transgenic plants and more particularly transgenic oil palm plants carrying exogenous genetic material which confers on said plants or cells of said plants particular phenotypic traits. The present invention further provides plant parts, reproductive material and plant products from the transgenic plants. The present invention particularly provides transgenic plants and even more particularly transgenic oil plants having beneficial and useful phenotypic characteristics not present at least to the same extent in non-transgenic plants of the same species. The present invention is further directed to oil, and particularly palm oil, having beneficial and desirable characteristics, produced by the transgenic plants made in accordance with the present invention. |
| US07807863B2 |
Transgenic bovine having reduced prion protein activity and uses thereof
The invention provides cloned transgenic ungulates (e.g., bovines) in which prion protein activity is reduced by one or more genetically engineered mutations. Desirably, these transgenic bovines are also genetically modified to express xenogenous (e.g., human) antibodies. Because of their resistance to prion-related diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopy (also known as mad cow disease), these bovines are a safer source of human antibodies for pharmaceutical uses and a safer source of agricultural products. |
| US07807861B2 |
Absorbent article with tension-dividing side panels
Absorbent articles such as disposable diapers, incontinent briefs, diaper holders, training pants, and the like, that provide dynamic fit about the wearer by the use of extensible, outwardly extending side panels. The side panel includes at least one discontinuity for dividing the tensile force extending the side panel into a waist-directing force and a leg-directing force. The waist-directing force is transmitted by the side panel to the waist area of the article to maintain the waist area in a snug, but comfortable, fit against the waist of the wearer. The leg-directing force is transmitted by the side panel to the leg cuff area of the article to prevent leakage between the leg cuff and the wearer's leg. |
| US07807857B2 |
Lanthanum-promoted supported metal catalysts and process for producing guerbet alcohols using same
The present invention relates to novel catalyst compositions and their use in a process for the catalytic conversion of ethanol to a reaction product comprising 1-butanol. The catalysts comprise Group II metal salts selected from the group consisting of oxides, carbonates, bicarbonates, hydroxides, and mixtures thereof, supported on a lanthanum-promoted oxide containing alumina. |
| US07807854B2 |
Effective use method of medicaments and method of preventing expression of side effect
To provide a medicament which efficiently expresses an immunosuppressive agent or an anti-inflammatory agent and reduces expression of side effect.A medicament includes diaryl sulfide or diaryl ether compound having a 2-amino-1,3-propanediol structure having an activity of reducing lymphocytes circulating peripherally, in combination with an immunosuppressive agent and/or an anti-inflammatory agent. |
| US07807852B2 |
Polymerizable sulfonate ionic liquids and liquid polymers therefrom
Disclosed is a new ionic liquid monomer salt and methods of is synthesis and polymerization. The ionic liquid monomer salt is prepared by mixing equimolar amounts of an amine, such as tris[2-(2-methoxyethoxy)-ethyl]amine and an acid functionalized polymerizable monomer, such as 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid (AMPS), which is stirred at ambient temperature until salt formation is complete. Also disclosed is a new ionic liquid polymer salts and method for making the same. The synthesis of AMPS-ammonium salt polymer is accomplished by adding 2,2′-azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) to the ionic liquid monomer salt and heating the homogeneous melt at 70° C. for 18 hr. |
| US07807850B2 |
Preparation of 2R,3S-N-isobutyl-N-(2-hydroxy-3-amino-4-phenylbutyl)-P-nitrobenzenesulfonylamide hydrochloride and other derivatives of 2-hydroxy-1,3-diamines
The present invention provides a new process for the preparation of 2R,3S-N-isobutyl-N-(2-hydroxy-3-amino-4-phenylbuty1)-p-nitrobenzenesulfonylamide hydrochloride, wherein this compound is prepared directly from the chloromethylalcohol. Importantly, the process of the present invention results in higher yields of 2R,3S-N-isobutyl-N-(2-hydroxy-3-amino-4-phenylbutyl)-p-nitrobenzenesulfonylamide hydrochloride without sacrificing its purity. The processes of the present invention can be used to prepare not only the 2R,3S-derivative, but also the 2S,3S-, 2S,2R- and the 2R,3R-derivatives. |
| US07807841B2 |
Spiro-containing compounds and compositions as modulators of steroid hormone nuclear receptors
Described herein are compounds that have a spiro structural feature. Also described herein are methods for making such compounds, methods for using such compounds to modulate the activity of steroid hormone nuclear receptors, and pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising such compounds. Also described herein are methods of using such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments to treat and/or prevent diseases or conditions associated with the activity of steroid hormone nuclear receptors. |
| US07807839B2 |
Organometallic complex, and light-emitting element and light-emitting device using the same
It is an object of the present invention to provide an organometallic complex that can emit phosphorescence. In the following general formula (G1), X represents —O— or —N(R10)—. R1 to R9 each represent any of hydrogen, an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an acyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an acyloxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a halogen group, a haloalkyl group, and an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms. In addition, R10 represents any of an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an acyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and a heteroaryl group having 4 to 10 carbon atoms. Moreover, M represents an element belonging to Group 9 or 10. |
| US07807838B2 |
Methods for the preparation of HCV polymerase inhibitors
The present invention relates to methods and compounds useful in the preparation of compounds of the formula (I). |
| US07807834B2 |
Capped pyrazinoylguanidine sodium channel blockers
The present invention relates to group of pyrazinoylguanidine compounds useful as sodium channel blockers. The compounds may be used to promote promoting hydration of mucosal surfaces. |
| US07807833B2 |
Method for total synthesis of ecteinascidins and intermediate compounds thereof
An intermediate compound for total synthesis of ecteinascidins comprising, a compound represented by general formula 2 having thioether group at C4 site, and the substituent R2 of N12 site is trichloroethoxicarbonyl (Troc) to which various substituents can be introduced by mild condition, further having 10 members ring structure which can be converted to a ring of other numbered members. |
| US07807829B2 |
Process for {3-[2(R)-[(1R)-1-[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl) phenyl]ethoxy]-3(S)-(4-fluorophenyl)morpholin-4-yl]methyl]-5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-[1,2,4]-triazol-1-yl}phosphonic acid
The present invention is concerned with a process for the preparation of the compound {3-[2(R)-[(1R)-1-[3,5-bis(tri-fluoromethyl)phenyl]ethoxy]-3(S)-(4-fluorophenyl)-morpholin-4-yl]methyl]-5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-[1,2,4]-triazol-1-yl}phosphonic acid, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. This compound is useful as a substance P (neurokinin-1) receptor antagonist. In particular, the compound is useful e.g., in the treatment of emesis and inflammatory diseases. |
| US07807821B1 |
Method for the synthesis of nucleic acid without protecting base moiety
A phosphoramidite method for the synthesis of a nucleic acid oligomer without protecting the base moiety characterized in that a 3′ or 5′ hydroxyl group of a nucleotide is reacted with a nucleoside phosphoramidite, a cyclonucleoside phosphoramidite, a 2′-substituted nucleoside phosphoramidite, a 4′-substituted nucleoside phosphoramidite, or a 2′,4′-di-substituted nucleoside phosphoramidite to produce a phosphodiester linkage. The phosphoramidite is contacted with an activator containing both a) hydroxybenzotriazole-1-ol (HOBt), a mono-substituted HOBt, a di-substituted HOBt, or a di-substituted phenol and b) imidazole, tetrazole, benzimidazoletriflate (BIT), 4-ethylthiotetrazole, imidazolium triflate(trifluoromethane sulfonate) or 4,5-dicyanoimidazole. |
| US07807820B2 |
siRNA targeting beta secretase (BACE)
Efficient sequence specific gene silencing is possible through the use of siRNA technology. By selecting particular siRNAs by rational design, one can maximize the generation of an effective gene silencing reagent, as well as methods for silencing genes. Methods, compositions, and kits generated through rational design of siRNAs are disclosed including those directed to nucleotide sequences for BACE. |
| US07807815B2 |
Compositions comprising immunostimulatory siRNA molecules and DLinDMA or DLenDMA
The present invention provides siRNA molecules and methods of using such siRNA molecules to modulate an immune response and to silence expression of a target gene. |
| US07807814B2 |
Compositions and methods for combined therapy of disease
A desired physiological state can be induced by altering the amount of gene products in target cells of a subject. The target cells are treated with at least one compound designed to reduce expression of at least one first gene by RNAi, and with at least one compound designed to increase expression from at least one second gene. The reduced expression of the first gene and the increased expression from the second gene in the target cells induces the desired physiological state in the subject. By altering target cell gene expression in this way, conditions such as angiogenesis or tumor growth and metastasis can be inhibited. |
| US07807813B2 |
Identification of oligonucleotides for the capture, detection and quantitation of West Nile virus
West Nile virus capture oligonucleotides, primers and probes derived from conserved regions of the West Nile virus genome are disclosed. Also disclosed are nucleic acid-based assays using the capture oligonucleotides, primers and probes. |
| US07807812B2 |
Actin regulatory elements for use in plants
The present invention provides polynucleotide molecules isolated from Oryza sativa and Zea mays and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides expression constructs containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides transgenic plants and seeds containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants. |
| US07807810B2 |
Nucleic acids encoding the major outer membrane protein of the causative agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis and peptides encoded thereby
The present invention relates to diagnostic tools for serodiagnosing HGE. The diagnostic tools are structurally related proteins, the “Group 44 proteins”, and to antibodies to such proteins. the Group 44 proteins comprise a single central hypervariable region of approximately 94 amino acid residues, a first conserved region and a second conserved region which flank the central hypervariable region. The hypervariable region of each Group 44 protein has a higher hydrophilicity, a higher antigenic index, and a higher surface probability than either the first conserved region or the second conserved region of the respective protein. The hypervariable region is basic and has an isoelectric point, i.e., a pI, of from about 7.1 to about 9.2 and a molecular mass, i.e., an Mr, of from about 8.5 kDa to about 11 kDa. The Group 44 proteins comprise the P44 protein, the P44-2 protein, the P44-12 protein, the P44-15 protein, the P44-18 protein, and the P44-19 protein and variants of such proteins. The present invention also provides isolated polynucleotides or nucleic acids, referred to collectively hereinafter as the “Group 44 polynucleotides”, which encode the Group 44 proteins and fragments thereof. The present invention provides synthetic oligopeptides of 14-16 amino acids in length. Each of the oligopeptides comprise a sequence which is specific to one Group 44 protein. The present invention also relates to antibodies which are immunospecific for and bind to members of the P44 family of proteinss. The present invention also relates to kits containing reagents for diagnosing HGE. |
| US07807809B2 |
Molecular characterization of chromosome translocation t(11;18)(q21;q21) and its correlation to carcinogenesis
Methods for determining whether a tissue sample or an analogue and/or derivative thereof comprises a cell with a chromosome (11:18) translocation associated with malignancies such as mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas. The invention further provides insight into a novel mechanism of transformation of primary cells. The mechanism involves expression of a fusion proteinaceous molecule comprising at least apoptosis inhibitor 2 (API2) or a functional part, derivative and/or analogue thereof fused to at least one other proteinaceous molecule. The invention also provides a novel nucleic acid sequence and proteinaceous molecule expressed from the sequence termed “MALT-lymphoma associated Translocation (MLT) protein.” |
| US07807808B2 |
Bacteria with increased levels of protein secretion, nucleotide sequences coding for a SecA protein with increased levels of protein secretion, and method for producing proteins
The invention relates to bacteria that have increased levels of protein secretion due to genetic modification, to nucleotide sequences and gene structures containing at least one gene coding for a SecA protein having increased levels of protein secretion, to a SecA having increased levels of protein secretion, and to a method for producing desired proteins using the inventive bacteria. The invention also relates to nucleic acids coding for a SecA protein having increased levels of protein secretion, containing a SecA gene sequence or allele, a SecA homologue or derivative, or nucleotide sequences hybridising therewith and comprising at least one mutation. Surprisingly, just one mutation in a nucleotide of a SecA gene leads to increased levels of protein secretion or to protein secretion for the first time. |
| US07807806B2 |
RNA detection assays
The present invention provides novel cleavage agents and polymerases for the cleavage and modification of nucleic acid. The cleavage agents and polymerases find use, for example, for the detection and characterization of nucleic acid sequences and variations in nucleic acid sequences. In some embodiments, the 5′ nuclease activity of a variety of enzymes is used to cleave a target-dependent cleavage structure, thereby indicating the presence of specific nucleic acid sequences or specific variations thereof. |
| US07807804B2 |
Methods and compositions for improving recombinant protein production
Nucleic acid molecules modified to enhance recombinant protein, e.g., antibody, expression and/or reduce or eliminate mis-spliced and/or intron read-through (IRT) by-products are disclosed. The invention also provides methods for producing proteins devoid of mis-spliced and/or intron read-through by-products by the use of such vectors in host cells under cell culture conditions suitable for recombinant protein expression. |
| US07807796B2 |
ULBP antibodies
The invention is directed to purified and isolated novel ULBP polypeptides, the nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides, processes for production of recombinant forms of such polypeptides, antibodies generated against these polypeptides, fragmented peptides derived from these polypeptides, and the uses of the above. ULBP polypeptide can be found on the surface of human B cell lymphomas. Mammalian forms of ULBP polypeptide in isolated or purified forms are provided. In addition, isolated nucleic acids encoding ULBP polypeptides and expression vectors comprising a cDNA encoding ULBP polypeptides are provided. The ULBP polypeptides can be isolated or synthesized and used to prepare antibodies, and in particular monoclonal antibodies, against the polypeptides. The antibodies, in turn, are useful for detecting the presence of ULBP polypeptides in human cell samples, which can be correlated with the existence of a malignant condition in a patient. ULBP polypeptides stimulate IFN-γ production, NK cell proliferation, and CTL activity. |
| US07807793B2 |
Recombinant IL4 antibodies useful in treatment of IL4 mediated disorders
Chimeric and humanized IL4 MAbs derived from affinity MAbs, pharmaceutical compositions containing same, and methods of treatment are provided. |
| US07807791B2 |
Antibodies immunoreactive with mutant 5-enolpyruvlshikimate-3-phosphate synthase
Antibodies immunoreactive to double mutant EPSPS are provided, and in an embodiment the double mutant EPSPS is one in which the wild-type EPSPS is substituted at residue 102 with isoleucine and at residue 106 with serine. Also provided are hybridomas producing the antibodies, as well as methods of making and using the antibodies. |
| US07807789B2 |
Reagents for the detection of protein phosphorylation in EGFR-signaling pathways
The invention discloses 168 novel phosphorylation sites identified in signal transduction proteins and pathways downstream of, and including, EGFR kinase, and provides phosphorylation-site specific antibodies and heavy-isotope labeled peptides (AQUA peptides) for the selective detection and quantification of these phosphorylated sites/proteins, as well as methods of using the reagents for such purpose. Among the phosphorylation sites identified are sites occurring in the following protein types: Actin Binding proteins, Adaptor/Scaffold proteins, Calcium-Binding Proteins, Cell Cycle Regulation proteins, Cytoskeletal proteins, DNA Binding and Replication Proteins, GTPase Activating proteins, Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor proteins, Lipid Kinases, Receptor Tyrosine Kinases, Receptor Tyrosine Kinase ligands, Protein Kinases, Receptor and Protein Phosphatases, Transcription Factor proteins, Tumor Suppressor proteins, and Vesicle proteins. |
| US07807788B2 |
Chimeric and humanised monoclonal antibodies against Interleukin-13
The present invention concerns immunoglobulins, particularly antibodies which specifically bind human Interleukin 13 (hIL-13). Antibodies of the invention may be used in the treatment of a variety of diseases or disorders responsive to modulation of the interaction between hIL-13 and the human IL-13 receptor. Such diseases include severe asthma, atopic dermatitis, COPD and various fibrotic diseases. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising said antibodies and methods of manufacture are also disclosed. |
| US07807784B2 |
Increased T-cell tumor infiltration by mutant LIGHT
Mutant LIGHT expressed in a tumor environment elicited high levels of chemokines and adhesion molecules, accompanied by massive infiltration of naïve T lymphocytes. Methods and compositions to elicit immune responses against tumors including tumor volume reduction and reduced metastasis using mutant LIGHT are disclosed. |
| US07807783B1 |
Methods and compositions for regulating FAS-associated apoptosis
This invention provides a novel protein designated FADD, FADD fragments, and anti-FADD antibodies which are useful to modulate Fas-associated cellular functions such as apoptosis. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules coding for these proteins and antibodies as well as process for making these compositions. Further provided are diagnostic and therapeutic methods for these compositions. |
| US07807781B2 |
Inhibitors of serine protease activity and their use in methods and compositions for treatment of viral infections
A novel method of treating and preventing viral infection is provided. In particular a method of blocking viral infection facilitated by a serine proteolytic (SP) activity is disclosed, which consists of administering to a subject suffering or about to suffer from viral infection a therapeutically effective amount of a compound having a serine protease inhibitory or serpin activity. Among compounds are α1-antitrypsin (AAT), peptide derivatives from the carboxyterminal end of AAT, and man-made, synthetic compounds mimicking the action of such compounds. The preferred viral infections include retroviral infection such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. |
| US07807778B2 |
Cysteine-containing peptide tag for site-specific conjugation of proteins
The present invention is directed to a biological conjugate, comprising: (a) a targeting moiety comprising a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence comprising the polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 and the polypeptide sequence of a selected targeting protein; and (b) a binding moiety bound to the targeting moiety; the biological conjugate having a covalent bond between the thiol group of SEQ ID NO:2 and a functional group in the binding moiety. The present invention is directed to a biological conjugate, comprising: (a) a targeting moiety comprising a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence comprising the polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 and the polypeptide sequence of a selected targeting protein; and (b) a binding moiety that comprises an adapter protein, the adapter protein having a thiol group; the biological conjugate having a disulfide bond between the thiol group of SEQ ID NO:2 and the thiol group of the adapter protein. The present invention is also directed to biological sequences employed in the above biological conjugates, as well as pharmaceutical preparations and methods using the above biological conjugates. |
| US07807776B2 |
Procees of preparing regioregular polymers
The invention relates to a process of preparing regioregular polymers, in particular head-to-tail (HT) poly-(3-substituted) thiophenes with high regioregularity, to novel polymers prepared by this process, and to the use of the novel polymers as semiconductors or charge transport materials in optical, electrooptical or electronic devices including field effect transistors (FETs), electroluminescent, photovoltaic and sensor devices, to FETs and other semiconducting components or materials comprising the novel polymers. |
| US07807775B2 |
Point of purchase displays comprising polyester compositions formed from 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1, 3,-cyclobutanediol and 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol
Described are point of purchase displays comprising polyester compositions comprising polyesters which comprise (a) a dicarboxylic acid component having terephthalic acid residues; optionally, aromatic dicarboxylic acid residues or aliphatic dicarboxylic acid residues or ester residues thereof; 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol residues; and 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol residues. |
| US07807773B2 |
Biodegradable polyester resin composition, preparation method therefor, and foamed article and molded article produced therefrom
A biodegradable polyester resin composition which comprises a thermoplastic polymer comprising 100 parts by mass of an aliphatic polyester (A) and 0.01 to 5 parts by mass of a (meth)acrylic ester (B1) and/or a glycidyl ether (B2, and has a gelation index (1) of not lower than 0.1% and a gelation index (2) of not higher than 0.5%. |
| US07807772B2 |
Aliphatic diol-based polycarbonates, method of making, and articles formed therefrom
Disclosed herein is a copolymer comprising isosorbide carbonate units and a polysiloxane block, wherein the copolymer comprises greater than or equal to 50 mol % isosorbide carbonate units. |
| US07807768B2 |
Highly viscous, largely amorphous polyolefin
A polyolefin which contains the following monomer units: a) not more than 25% by weight of units which are derived from ethene, b) not more than 75% by weight of units which are derived from propene and c) from 5 to 100% by weight of units which are derived from an α-olefin having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, the polyolefin having the following parameters: d) a weight-average molecular weight in the range of from 70 000 to 10 000 000 g/mol, e) a polydispersity in the range of from 4 to 60, f) a melt viscosity, measured by oscillation rheometry at a shear rate of 1 Hz at 190° C., in the range of from 100 000 to 100 000 000 mPa·s, g) a needle penetration in the range of from 3 to 70·0.1 mm, h) an enthalpy of fusion in the range of from 2 to 100 J/g, i) a glass transition temperature Tg in the range of from −15° C. to −80° C. and j) a final melting point of the crystalline fraction in the range of from 85 to 175° C., is compatible both with ethylene polymers and with propylene polymers and is suitable for use in sheets, sealing sheets and shaped articles. |
| US07807765B2 |
Heterocyclic latex copolymer and methods of making and using same
A latex copolymer composition comprising >5 wt % of polymerized units derived from a monomer X containing an unsaturated heterocycle, wherein the latex copolymer composition comprises ≦1,000 ppm of residual monomer X is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the latex copolymer compositions. |
| US07807755B2 |
Method for removing sulfur-containing end groups
This invention provides a method for removing certain sulfur-containing groups from polymers, especially those made via RAFT polymerization processes. |
| US07807752B2 |
Coating composition
There is provided a coating composition which comprises (A) a synthetic resin having functional group, (B) a stain-proofing component which is a liquid polydialkylsiloxane having functional group or a liquid fluoropolyether having functional group and (C) a curing agent, and the composition is excellent in a stain-proofing property, particularly removability of oily stain, thereby enabling scribbling to be easily wiped off, and is suitable for outdoor coating being excellent in weather resistance and adhesion. |
| US07807750B2 |
Thermally-reactive polymers
A thermally-reactive polymer that forms a polymer-coupled reactive species upon heating is described and useful for forming coated surfaces. The polymer-coated surface has improved lubricity and passivity. A thermally-reactive quaternary amine-containing polymer was produced that provides passivity and anti-microbial activity. |
| US07807748B2 |
Phenol-formaldehyde resin having low concentration of tetradimer
A phenol-formaldehyde resin, having a low concentration of tetradimer, making the resin suitable for preparing a binder composition for making non-woven fiber products, such as fiberglass insulation, prepared by reacting phenol and formaldehyde in the presence of a sulfite source. |
| US07807746B2 |
Curable composition
The present invention provides a curable composition capable of giving rubbery cured products having excellent adhesion properties to all-purpose substrates, improved weather-resistant adhesion properties to photocatalyst-coated transparent adherends, low modulus and high elongation and, further, showing high weather resistance without undergoing surface cracking or discoloration even when used outdoors for a long period of time. The curable composition of the present invention includes a vinyl polymer (I) and an antioxidant (II). A main chain of the vinyl polymer (I) is a product of living radical polymerization, and the vinyl polymer (I) contains at least one crosslinkable silyl group. |
| US07807745B2 |
Molding compositions containing polycarbonate and modified polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) random copolymers derived from polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
A molding composition comprising: (a) from 5 to 90 wt. % of a modified polybutylene terephthalate random copolymer that (1) is derived from polyethylene terephthalate component selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate and polyethylene terephthalate copolymers and (2) has at least one residue derived from the polyethylene terephthalate component, and (b) from 5 to 90 wt. % of a polycarbonate component; and from at least 1 wt. % of an impact modifier component, wherein the modified polybutylene terephthalate random copolymer, the polycarbonate component, the impact modifier, and optionally at least one additive, have a combined weight % of 100 wt %. The invention also encompasses methods for making the composition and articles made from the composition. |
| US07807744B2 |
Architectural coating compositions containing silicone resins
An architectural coating composition is disclosed containing a silicone resin, an acrylic resin, a carrier, a pigment, a surfactant, and an optional additive. The silicone resin is a DT silicone resin, an MQ silicone resin, or an MTQ silicone resin. The carrier is water, a water compatible carrier, or a mixture of water and a water compatible carrier. The surfactant is an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, or a mixture of anionic surfactants and nonionic surfactants. |
| US07807741B2 |
Coating liquid, film production method, production method of functional device, and functional device
The present invention provides a coating liquid which is excellent in stabilities and capable of being stably ejected by an ejection equipment and suppressing variation in film thickness inside a film or between films, in application for various uses, a film production method, a production method of a functional device, and a functional device, using the coating liquid. The present invention is a coating liquid comprising a mixed solvent and a functional material, wherein the mixed solvent comprises a first solvent constituted by a compound having two or more aromatic rings such as diphenyl sulfide, diphenylmethane, diphenyl ether, and a symmetric structure and another solvent constituted by a compound having an aromatic ring such as xylene, and a proportion by volume of the another solvent is 90% or less in the mixed solvent. |
| US07807739B2 |
Aqueous emulsion polymer
An aqueous composition for coating substrates comprising a blend of a metal-containing crosslinkable polymer, acrylic polymer, and an epoxysilane and method therefore. |
| US07807738B2 |
Compound for color-producing composition, and recording material
A urea-urethane compound having one or more urea groups and one or more urethane groups in the molecular structure, the number of said urea groups (A) and the number of said urethane groups (B) satisfying the following numerical formula: 10≧(A+B)≧3 wherein each of A and B is an integer of 1 or more. |
| US07807735B2 |
Lignocellulosic products and methods for their manufacture
Disclosed are methods for improving the water resistance of a lignocellulosic composite product prepared by mixing lignocellulosic material with a binder to form a mixture and solidifying the mixture in a selected configuration to form the composite product comprises adding to the mixture an emulsion including a wax component comprising a nonsaponifiable wax and a saponified wax, an alkyl phenol component comprising a C20-C42 alkyl group, a dispersant/surfactant, a carboxymethylcellulose component, and water. Also disclosed are lignocellulosic products resulting from said method. |
| US07807734B2 |
Low friction type anti-fouling paint
Provided is a low friction type anti-fouling paint. The anti-fouling paint includes prepolymer fluid formed of 10% to 30% NCO mythylene diisocyanate of 100 wt %; and resin fluid formed of polyoxylpropylenediamine of about 42 wt % to 48 wt % for adjusting an elongation and a tensile strength of a paint film, polyethertriamine of about 8 wt % to 10 wt % having a molecular weight of 5,000 for adjusting a curing time, polydiphenyltriamine of about 15 wt % to 20 wt % for adjusting a curing physical property and increasing the elongation, a modified silicone fluid of about 8 wt % to 12 wt % for increasing a slip and an anti fouling property, a filler of about 5 wt % to 9 wt % for increasing an abrasion resistance, an adhesion promoter of about 1 wt % to 2 wt %, and a pigment of about 1 wt % to 2 wt %. |
| US07807732B2 |
Tire sealant composition
A tire sealant composition for use in pneumatic tires is provided. The tire sealant composition primarily serves to seal the tire around the wheel rim and particularly in the tread area of the tire against punctures. The composition includes a naturally derived viscous carrier fluid and at least one fibrous material, polymeric material or combination of both, wherein the composition remains fluid in use. The naturally derived viscous carrier fluid is preferably desugared molasses (less than 30% by weight sucrose) and is able to sustain a temperature of −30° F. (−34.4° C. and below) without freezing. The tire sealant composition is fire-retardant, non-toxic, non-corrosive and non-abrasive and is environmentally friendly. |
| US07807731B1 |
Mineral oil infusion of polypropylene
A biodegradable plastic used for disposable packaging and other product which will degrade when disposed of in a land fill. The biodegradation begins in about 10 years after disposal. The shelf life of the disposable products is about 90 to 120 days before the infused mineral oil will begin to weep out of the plastic. The shelf life will be decreased if the plastic is stored at above 50 degrees Centigrade. The biodegradable plastic is made from a mixture of about 11.5% by weight of medical grade mineral oil to polypropylene. A mixing device having a feed chamber with polypropylene and mineral oil added to the feed chamber at a rate coordinated with the movement of the mixing and infusion screw delivers infused mineral oil in the polypropylene at a desired mixture ratio to a mold. |
| US07807730B2 |
Composition containing unsaturated silicone compounds, dental materials containing them and use thereof
The invention relates to a curable composition comprising addition curable silicone component (A) having a linear siloxane backbone at least one unsaturated, non-activated side group pendant from the Si atom or atoms in the backbone, component (A) having an equivalent weight in the range of about 68 to about 1000, crosslinker component (B) comprising at least 2 SiH groups, catalyst component (C) being able to catalyse the reaction between component (A) and component (B), filler component (D), wherein the equivalent weight is defined as (molecular weight of the molecule)/(number of unsaturations in the molecule). |
| US07807727B2 |
Selective separation of used fragmented polymeric materials by using a dynamically stabilized dense aqueous suspension
The invention relates to a method for selectively separating mixed synthetic organic materials such as filled or non-filled polymers and/or copolymers that are wastes, particularly used, for recycling in order to upgrade them. These synthetic organic materials result from the destruction by crushing of automobiles and durable consumer goods that have reached the end of their serviceable lives. Said selective separation method acts by separating these materials with regard to a density threshold selected in a dense medium consisting of separating fluid liquid suspensions composed of powdery particles dispersed in an aqueous phase. These suspensions are stabilized by using a dynamic stabilizing means at a density threshold value selected for causing the selective separation of a determined fraction from the mixture of the used materials to be separated. |
| US07807722B2 |
Biobeneficial coating compositions and methods of making and using thereof
A biobeneficial coating composition for coating an implantable device, such as a drug eluting stent, and a method of coating the device with the composition, and an implantable device coated with the composition are provided. |
| US07807721B2 |
Compositions for inhibiting the scent tracking ability of mosquitoes in environmentally defined three dimensional spaces
Composition for inhibiting the ability of mosquitoes to locate a target by olfactory emissions of the target comprise a composition of at least one inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of 3-methyl-1-alkene-3-ols of the formula: and 3-methyl-1-alkyn-3-ols of the formula: wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing from 1 to about 12 carbon atoms, in a vehicle base that is a porous or waxy medium. The composition being capable of dispensing the inhibiting compound in an non-lethal amount effective to inhibit the ability of mosquitoes to sense a target in a three dimensional environmental space. |
| US07807717B2 |
Pesticide for insect control
A method for the control of insects breeding on water surfaces and particularly mosquitoes, comprising blending in a high shear mixer water, the ester of a fatty acid of 10 to 25 carbon atoms and a low molecular weight alcohol, such as methanol or ethanol, an emulsifying agent and a thickener until an emulsion containing the ester with droplet sizes ranging from 1 to 20 microns in diameter is obtained and applying such to the surface of insect infested water in sufficiently diluted form, to break the emulsion and form a thin continuous film. |
| US07807712B2 |
Oxy substituted chalcones as antihyperglycemic and antidyslipidemic agents
The present invention provides appropriately substituted chalcones, such as, for example, represented by the structural formula as shown herein below Wherein R1, R2 and R3 are selected from the group consisting of H, OH, O-alkyl, O-phenyl and O-substituted phenyl; B represents Ar—Z—O or RO; where Z is an alkane having up to 5 carbon atoms; R is substituted propanol amino, wherein substituted amino groups are selected from the group consisting of t-butyl, n-butyl, i-butyl, i-propyl, 4-phenyl piperazine-1-yl, 4-(2-methoxyphenyl)-piperazin-1-yl and 3,4-dimethoxy phenethyl; and Ar is thiazolidine-dione methylene phenoxy. The compounds prepared have been demonstrated to exhibit significant antidiabetic effect in various animal models indicating potential for further exploitation. |
| US07807708B2 |
Ligands that modulate RAR receptors and pharmaceutical/cosmetic compositions comprised thereof
Novel ligand compounds having the general formula (I): and pharmaceutical/cosmetic compositions comprised thereof are useful in human and veterinary medicine or, alternatively, in cosmetics. |
| US07807707B2 |
Hair and/or scalp care compositions incorporating amino-oxo-indole-ylidene compounds
A hair and/or scalp treatment composition comprising an amino-oxo-indole-ylidene compound of general formula (I): (I) formula should be here in which: R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each, independently, hydrogen or a monovalent organic group selected from alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, alkylenearyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, and heterocyclyl. |
| US07807704B2 |
Bicyclic, nitrogen-containing compounds modulating CXCR4 and/or CCXCKR2
The present invention is directed to novel compounds and pharmaceutical compositions that inhibit the binding of the SDF-1 chemokine to the chemokine receptor CXCR4 and/or the binding of the SDF-1 or I-TAC chemokines to the chemokine receptor CCXCKR2 (CXCR7). These compounds are useful in preventing tumor cell proliferation, tumor formation, metastasis, inflammatory diseases, treatment of HIV infectivity, treatment of stem cell differentiation and mobilization disorders, and ocular disorders. |
| US07807699B2 |
Dimeric pyrrolidine amide-containing small molecule apoptosis promoters
The invention provides small molecule mimics of the Smac peptide that are dimer- or dimer-like compounds having two amide-containing domains connected by a linker. These compounds are useful to promote apoptosis. The invention includes pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods to use them to treat conditions including cancer and autoimmune disorders. |
| US07807698B2 |
Azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane derivatives as modulators of the dopamine D3 receptor
The present invention relates to novel compounds of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein G is selected from a group consisting of: phenyl, pyridyl, benzothiazolyl, indazolyl; p is an integer ranging from 0 to 5; R1 is independently selected from a group consisting of: halogen, hydroxy, cyano, C1-4alkyl, haloC1-4alkyl, C1-4alkoxy, haloC1-4alkoxy, C1-4alkanoyl and SF5; or corresponds to a group R5; R2 is hydrogen or C1-4alkyl; R3 is C1-4alkyl; R4 is C1-4 alkyl or C1-6 cycloalkyl optionally substituted by 1 or 2 substituents selected from the group consisting of: halogen, cyano, C1-4alkyl, haloC1-4alkyl, C1-4alkoxy, C1-4alkanoyl; R5 is a moiety selected from the group consisting of: isoxazolyl, —CH2—N-pyrrolyl, 1,1-dioxido-2-isothiazolidinyl, thienyl, thiazolyl, pyridyl, 2-pyrrolidinonyl, and such a group is optionally substituted by one or two substituents selected from: halogen, cyano, C1-4alkyl, haloC1-4alkyl, C1-4alkoxy, C1-4alkanoyl; processes for their preparation, intermediates used in these processes, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy, as modulators of dopamine D3 receptors, as antipsychotic agents, or to treat obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders or premature ejaculation. |
| US07807697B2 |
Fused bicyclic-substituted amines as histamine-3 receptor ligands
Compounds of formula (I) are useful in treating conditions or disorders prevented by or ameliorated by histamine-3 receptor ligands. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the histamine-3 receptor ligands and methods for using such compounds and compositions. |
| US07807695B2 |
Cosmetic use of piperidine derivatives
The present invention relates to the cosmetic use, as an agent for combating wrinkles, especially expression wrinkles, and/or for dencontracting the skin and/or relaxing the features, of at least one piperidine derivative chosen from the compounds of formula (I): and the salts and optical isomers thereof. The invention also relates to novel piperidine derivatives and also to cosmetic compositions containing them. |
| US07807682B2 |
Pyridyl cyanoguanidine compounds
Compounds according to formula I wherein R1 represents hydrogen, halogen or one or more straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated C1-6 hydrocarbon radical, optionally substituted with halogen, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, carboxy, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, formyl, amino, aminoalkyl, aminocarbonyl, alkylcarbonylamino, sulfo, aminosulfonyl, alkylsulfonylamino, hydroxysulfonyloxy, dihydroxyphosphinoyloxy or phosphono; X represents a straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated C1-12 hydrocarbon diradical, optionaly substituted with halogen, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, carboxy, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, formyl, amino, aminoalkyl, aminocarbonyl, alkylcarbonylamino, sulfo, aminosulfonyl, alkylsulfonylamino, hydroxysulfonyloxy, dihydroxyphosphinoyloxy or phosphono; Y represents a bond, 0, C(O), S, S(O), S(0)2, C(O)O, NH, C(O)NH, OC(O) or NHC(O); Z represents an aromatic or non-aromatic heterocyclic radical with 5-12 ring atoms, optionally substituted with halogen, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, formyl, aminoalkyl or straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated C1-4 hydrocarbon radical, optionally substituted with halogen, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, formyl or aminoalkyl; provided that R1 is not attached to the nitrogen-atom in the pyridyl ring; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, N-oxides and prodrugs thereof are disclosed. The compounds are useful in therapy. |
| US07807681B2 |
Hydroxyamidine and hydroxyguanidine compounds as urokinase inhibitors
The present invention relates to novel compounds for inhibiting the urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), which have high bioavailability and oral administerability, and also to the use thereof as therapeutic active compounds for the treatment of urokinase- or/and urokinase receptor-associated disorders such as, for example, tumors and metastasizing. The invention relates in particular to compounds containing hydroxyamidine or hydroxyguanidine groups. |
| US07807680B2 |
Controlled release sterile injectable aripiprazole formulation and method
A controlled release sterile freeze-dried aripiprazole formulation is provided which is formed of aripiprazole of a desired mean particle size and a vehicle therefor, which upon constitution with water and intramuscular injection releases aripiprazole over a period of at least about one week and up to about eight weeks. A method for preparing the controlled release freeze-dried aripiprazole formulation, and a method for treating schizophrenia employing the above formulation are also provided. |
| US07807679B2 |
Piperazine derivatives and their use in controlling pests
The use of a compound of formula (I) wherein Y is a single bond, C═O, C═S or S(O)m where m is 0, 1 or 2; the ring is a 6-membered aromatic or is a 5 or 6 membered heteroaromatic ring; Ra, R1, R2, R4 and R8 are specified organic groups; n and p are independently 0-4; or salts or N-oxides thereof or compositions containing them in controlling insects, acarines, nematodes or molluscs. Novel compounds are also provided. |
| US07807676B2 |
Diketo-Piperazine and Piperidine derivatives as antiviral agents
This disclosure provides compounds having drug and bio-affecting properties, their pharmaceutical compositions and method of use. In particular, the disclosure is concerned with diketo piperazine and piperadine derivatives that possess unique antiviral activity. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to compounds useful for the treatment of HIV and AIDS. |
| US07807673B2 |
2-pyrimidinyl pyrazolopyridine ErbB kinase inhibitors
The present invention provides 2-pyrimidinyl pyrazolopyridine compounds, compositions containing the same, as well as processes for the preparation and their use as pharmaceutical agents. |
| US07807672B2 |
Compounds that are ERK inhibitors
Disclosed are the ERK inhibitors of formula 1.0: and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof. Q is a piperidine or piperazine ring that can have a bridge or a fused ring. The piperidine ring can have a double bond in the ring. All other substituents are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of treating cancer using the compounds of formula 1.0. |
| US07807670B2 |
Inhibitors of papilloma virus
A compound of formula (I) or its enantiomers or diastereoisomers thereof: wherein: A,; X, W, R1, Y; R3; and R4 are as defined herein. The compounds of the invention may be used as inhibitors of the papilloma virus E1-E2-DNA complex. The invention further provides a method of treating or preventing human papilloma virus infection. |
| US07807667B2 |
1,4-diaza-bicyclo[3.2.2]nonyl oxadiazolyl derivatives and their medical use
This invention relates to novel 1,4-diaza-bicyclo[3.2.2]nonyl oxadiazolyl derivatives and their use in the manufacture of pharmaceutical compositions. The compounds of the invention are found to be cholinergic ligands at the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.Due to their pharmacological profile the compounds of the invention may be useful for the treatment of diseases or disorders as diverse as those related to the cholinergic system of the central nervous system (CNS), the peripheral nervous system (PNS), diseases or disorders related to smooth muscle contraction, endocrine diseases or disorders, diseases or disorders related to neuro-degeneration, diseases or disorders related to inflammation, pain, and withdrawal symptoms caused by the termination of abuse of chemical substances. |
| US07807661B2 |
Silver ion releasing articles and methods of manufacture
A biologically-active article includes a substrate having a substrate surface and a silver releasing chromonic material disposed adjacent to the substrate surface. The silver releasing chromonic material includes a chromonic compound and a silver ion source. Methods of forming the same are also disclosed. |
| US07807658B2 |
Use of GabaB receptor agonists
Novel compounds of formula I, with the exception of i) the racemate of (3-amino-2-hydroxypropyl)phosphinic acid; and ii) (2R/S, 3R)-(3-amino-2-hydroxybutyl)phosphinic acid, having affinity to one or more GABAB receptors, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and stereoisomers, as well as processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing said therapeutically active compounds and the use of said active compounds in therapy. |
| US07807657B2 |
Separate type medical material
A separate type medical material containing a hyaluronic acid ester derivative, which satisfies the storage stability of a hyaluronic acid ester derivative and avoidance of irritation and pain at the time of injecting a therapeutic agent for joints, is provided. A separate type medical material comprising liquid (A) which is an aqueous solution containing a hyaluronic acid ester derivative and buffered to a pH of from 4.5 to 6.5, and liquid (B) which is an aqueous solution having such a buffering power that when it is mixed with the liquid (A), the mixed liquid has a pH within a range of from 6.8 to 7.8, kept separately from each other. |
| US07807655B2 |
Use of pyrimidine nucleotides for the treatment of affections of the peripheral nervous system
The invention relates to the use of a pyrimidine nucleotide for treating affections of the peripheral nervous system, particularly polyneuropathies, neuritides, and myopathies, and the use thereof for stimulating the regeneration of nerves. |
| US07807650B2 |
Methods and compositions for the treatment of intestinal conditions
Methods and compositions for the treatment of intestinal disorders, such as IBD and Crohn's disease, are disclosed. Preferred compositions include siNA. Also disclosed is a method of specifically targeting siNA to treat intestinal disorders by intrarectal administration of siNA compounds. |
| US07807648B2 |
G-rich polynucleotides for the treatment of Huntington's Disease
The present invention relates to oligonucleotide compositions and therapeutic uses thereof to modify protein-protein interactions. In particular, the invention relates to the use of a guanidine-rich oligonucleotides to disrupt disease-causing protein aggregates, for example, Huntington's Disease (HD) protein aggregates. |
| US07807647B2 |
Methods and compositions for cancer therapy
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the inhibition of gene expression. In particular, the present invention provides oligonucleotide-based therapeutics for the inhibition of oncogenes involved in cancers. |
| US07807642B2 |
Tumor-associated peptides binding promiscuosly to human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II molecules
The present invention relates to immunotherapeutic methods, and molecules and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumour-associated T-helper cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumour-associated peptides, that serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions which stimulate anti-tumour immune responses. In particular, the present invention relates to 49 novel peptide sequences derived from HLA class II molecules of human tumour cell lines which can be used in vaccine compositions for eliciting anti-tumour immune responses. |
| US07807641B2 |
Methods and reagents for treating glucose metabolic disorders
The invention relates to methods for potentiating, enhancing or restoring glucose responsivity in pancreatic islets or cells. The methods can be used as therapies for diseases caused by, or coincident with, aberrant glucose metabolism, such as Type II Diabetes Mellitus. |
| US07807639B2 |
Methods for preventing and treating local tracheal, bronchial or alveolar bleeding or hemoptysis
The present invention provides methods for the local treatment of tracheal, bronchial or alveolar bleeding or hemoptysis and/or reducing unwanted effects associated with systemic administration of thrombotic agents to a subject via intratracheal, intrabronchial or intraalveolar administration of a blood coagulation factor to the subject. Methods of the present invention are useful in treating diffuse alveolar hemorrhage secondary to blast lung injury, HIV infection and AIDS. |
| US07807625B2 |
Anti-wrinkle composition
A composition is disclosed for treating the skin comprising an acylated short chain bioactive peptide and Lycium barbarum extract product. Also disclosed is a method for topically administering the composition in an amount therapeutically effective to reduce wrinkles by building the dermal fibroblast matrix. The composition may contain dimethylisosorbide or ethoxydiglycol as solubilizing and penetration enhancers for the hydrophobically modified peptide. |
| US07807624B2 |
Methods and compositions for promoting attachment of cells of endothelial cell lineage to medical devices
The present invention provides compositions and methods for an improved coating for medical devices. Provided is a biofunctional coating composition comprising at least one binding domain that has binding specificity for a surface material of a medical device, and at least one binding domain that has binding specificity for cells of endothelial cell lineage. Methods for coating a surface of a medical device, and for manufacturing of a medical device, comprise contacting the surface to be coated with the biofunctional coating material in an amount effective to form a coating, and may further comprise contacting the coated surface with cells of endothelial cell lineage to bind the cells of endothelial cell lineage to the coated surface. |
| US07807623B2 |
Use of pentagastrin to inhibit gastric acid secretion or as a diuretic
This invention pertains to the discovery administration of a CCK receptor agonist can increase urinary sodium excretion and/or free water excretion in a mammal. CCK receptor agonist can thereby be used in the treatment of conditions such high blood pressure, fluid retention associated with heart failure, fluid retention associated with acute or chronic kidney failure, fluid retention associated with cirrhosis, fluid retention associated with liver failure, calcium kidney stones, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, and renal tubular acidosis. |
| US07807620B2 |
Long-acting follicle stimulating hormone analogues and uses thereof
This invention provides FSH analogues having increased serum half-life relative to FSH. This invention also provides related compositions and methods for increasing fertility, egg production and spermatogenesis in a subject. |
| US07807607B2 |
Color-forming compounds and use thereof in imaging members and methods
There are described novel rhodamine color-forming compounds. The rhodamine color-forming compounds exhibit a first color when in a crystalline form and a second color, different from the first color, when in an amorphous form. Thermal imaging members containing these color-formers are also described. |
| US07807603B2 |
Catalyst extrudates based on copper oxide and their use for hydrogenating carbonyl compounds
The invention relates to a catalyst provided in the form of an extrudate, which contains 5 to 85% by weight of copper oxide and comprises, in the active material and as binders, the same oxidic carrier material. The invention also relates to the use of the catalyst for hydrogenating carbonyl compounds. |
| US07807602B2 |
Process for hydrocarbon synthesis
A method for the preparation of a catalyst or catalyst precursor comprising: (a) admixing a carrier material, a homogeneous crystalline solid solution of a cobalt compound and one or more d-metal compounds and/or one or more co-catalysts or precursors thereof, and optionally a liquid; (b) forming the mixture of step (a); and (c) optionally drying and/or calcining the product of step (b). |
| US07807601B2 |
Mixed metal oxide catalysts and processes for their preparation and use
A catalyst for the oxidation of an alkane, alkene or mixtures thereof. The catalyst includes a mixed-metal oxide having the formula MoaVbNbcTedSbeOf wherein, when a=1, b=0.01 to 1.0, c=0.01 to 1.0, d=0.01 to 1.0, e=0.01 to 1.0, and f is dependent upon the oxidation state of the other elements, the catalyst further characterized by having at least two crystal phases, the first crystal phase being an orthorhombic M1 phase and the second crystal phase being a pseudo-hexagonal M2 phase, the orthorhombic M1 phase present in an amount between greater than 60 weight percent to less than 90 weight percent. The catalysts disclosed herein exhibit a chemisorption of NH3 of less than about 0.2 mmole per gram of metal oxide. |
| US07807600B2 |
Catalyst for acrylonitrile synthesis
A catalyst for acrylonitrile synthesis is disclosed which is composed of particles containing silica and a composite oxide including at least molybdenum. When the Mo/Si atomic ratio in bulk composition of the catalyst is represented by A and the Mo/Si atomic ratio in surface composition of the particles is represented by B, B/A is not more than 0.6. |
| US07807599B2 |
Hydroconversion processes employing multi-metallic catalysts and method for making thereof
A process for making a catalyst precursor is disclosed. In one embodiment, the process comprises co-precipitating at reaction conditions forming a precipitate or cogel: at least a promoter metal compounds selected from Group VIII, Group IIB, Group IIA, Group IVA and combinations thereof, at least one of Group VIB metal compounds, at least an organic oxygen-containing ligand L. The precursor is represented by the formula Av[(MP) (OH)x(L)ny]z(MVIBO4), wherein A comprises an alkali metal cation, an ammonium, an organic ammonium or a phosphonium cation, MP is at least one of Group VIII, Group IIB, Group IIA, Group IVA and combinations thereof, L is the organic, oxygen-containing co-ordinating ligand, MVIB is at least one of Group VIB metals, and the atomic ratio of MP:MVIB is between 100:1 and 1:100. |
| US07807596B2 |
Coloration agent for use in ceramic articles and a color developing clay using the same
There are provided a coloration agent for use in ceramic articles which offers an effective reuse of shot waste and which contributes to the reduction of manufacture costs, as well as a color developing clay using the same. The coloration agent contains metal powder separated from the shot waste and uses metal oxide powder contained in the metal powder as a basic raw material. The color developing clay is prepared by admixing the coloration agent with a clay raw material. |
| US07807595B2 |
Low loss chalcogenide glass fiber
This invention pertains to a chalcogenide glass of low optical loss that can be on the order of 30 dB/km or lower, and to a process for preparing the chalcogenide glass. The process includes the steps of optionally preparing arsenic monochalcogenide precursor or the precursor can be provided beforehand; dynamically distilling the precursor in an open system under vacuum from a hot section to a cold section to purify same; homogenizing the precursor in a closed system so that it is of a uniform color; disposing the distilled or purified precursor and at least one chalcogenide element at a hot section of an open distillation system; dynamically distilling under vacuum in an open system so that the precursor and the at least one chalcogenide element are deposited at a cold section of the open system in a more purified state; homogenizing the precursor and the at least chalcogenide element in a closed system while converting the precursor and the at least one chalcogenide element from crystalline phase to glassy phase. |
| US07807591B2 |
Fibrous web comprising microfibers dispersed among bonded meltspun fibers
A nonwoven fibrous web comprising a matrix of continuous meltspun fibers bonded to a coherent self-sustaining form, and separately prepared microfibers dispersed among the meltspun fibers. The microfibers may have median diameters less than one or two micrometers. A method for preparing such a nonwoven fibrous web comprises establishing a stream of continuous oriented meltspun fibers having a longitudinal axis, establishing a stream of meltblown microfibers that exit a meltblowing die at a point near the stream of meltspun fibers, the meltblown stream being aimed to merge with the meltspun stream and having a longitudinal axis that forms an angle of between 0 and 90 degrees to the longitudinal axis of the meltspun stream, capturing the meltblown fibers in the stream of meltspun fibers, and collecting the merged stream as a web on a collector spaced near the intersection point of the meltspun and meltblown streams. |
| US07807590B2 |
Isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber spun yarn, composite yarn and fabric using the same, and manufacturing methods thereof
A method of manufacturing an isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber spun yarn fabric includes the following steps of: obtaining composite yarn by winding a water-soluble polymer fiber around a surface of isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber spun yarn; obtaining a composite yarn fabric by weaving the composite yarn; and obtaining the isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber spun yarn fabric by dissolving and removing the water-soluble polymer fiber from the composite yarn fabric. |
| US07807589B2 |
Method for manufacturing polyacrylonitrile fiber cloth and fireproof cloth made of such cloth
A kind of fireproof cloth includes a piece of polyacrylonitrile fiber cloth; to make the polyacrylonitrile fiber cloth, first polymer of polyacrylonitrile is spun into fiber, and flame-resisting treatment is carried out on the polyacrylonitrile fiber in air, and next the polyacrylonitrile fiber is woven into polyacrylonitrile fiber cloth; because of the flame-resisting treatment, the polyacrylonitrile fiber has high strength, high elasticity and heat isolation capability, and is highly resistible to instantaneous high temperature; the polyacrylonitrile fiber cloth has excellent water absorbing capability therefore structure of the fireproof cloth won't be damaged when the fireproof cloth is washed with water. |
| US07807584B2 |
Method of forming metallic oxide films using atomic layer deposition
Example embodiments are directed to methods of forming a metallic oxide film using Atomic Layer Deposition while controlling the power reflected by a reactor. The method may include feeding metallic source gases, for example, first and second metallic source gases, and/or a reactant gas including oxygen into the reactor individually. One of the metallic source gases may include an amino-group or an alkoxy-group and another metallic source gas may include neither an amino-group nor an alkoxy-group. A plasma may be produced in the reactor from the reactant gas. |
| US07807579B2 |
Hydrogen ashing enhanced with water vapor and diluent gas
An oxygen-free hydrogen plasma ashing process particularly useful for low-k dielectric materials based on hydrogenated silicon oxycarbide materials. The main ashing step includes exposing a previously etched dielectric layer to a plasma of hydrogen and optional nitrogen, a larger amount of water vapor, and a yet larger amount of argon or helium. Especially for porous low-k dielectrics, the main ashing plasma additionally contains a hydrocarbon gas such as methane. The main ashing may be preceded by a short surface treatment by a plasma of a hydrogen-containing reducing gas such as hydrogen and optional nitrogen. |
| US07807576B2 |
Structure and method for forming a thick bottom dielectric (TBD) for trench-gate devices
A semiconductor structure which includes a trench gate FET is formed as follows. A plurality of trenches is formed in a semiconductor region using a mask. The mask includes (i) a first insulating layer over a surface of the semiconductor region, (ii) a first oxidation barrier layer over the first insulating layer, and (iii) a second insulating layer over the first oxidation barrier layer. A thick bottom dielectric (TBD) is formed along the bottom of each trench. The first oxidation barrier layer prevents formation of a dielectric layer along the surface of the semiconductor region during formation of the TBD. |
| US07807575B2 |
Methods to reduce the critical dimension of semiconductor devices
A method of forming features on a target layer. The features have a critical dimension that is triple- or quadruple-reduced compared to the critical dimension of portions of a resist layer used as a mask. An intermediate layer is deposited over a target layer and the resist layer is formed over the intermediate layer. After patterning the resist layer, first spacers are formed on sidewalls of remaining portions of the resist layer, masking portions of the intermediate layer. Second spacers are formed on sidewalls of the portions of the intermediate layer. After removing the portions of the intermediate layer, the second spacers are used as a mask to form the features on the target layer. A partially fabricated integrated circuit device is also disclosed. |
| US07807565B2 |
Method of forming bit line of flash memory device
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming drain contact holes in a first interlayer insulating layer provided over a semiconductor substrate. First metal material is formed over the first interlayer insulating layer and fills the drain contact holes. A first metal layer formed by patterning the first metal material includes first lines and landing pads. Trenches formed in a second interlayer insulating layer formed over the patterned first metal material expose the landing pads. A second metal layer is formed by providing second metal material over the second interlayer insulating layer and filling the trenches. The second metal layer includes second lines within the trenches that contact the landing pads. The first and second metal layers define a first metal level of the semiconductor device. The first lines define odd-number lines of the first metal level, and the second lines define even-number lines of the first metal level. |
| US07807562B2 |
Dendrite growth control circuit
A circuit is provided which prevents dendrite formation on interconnects during semiconductor device processing due to a dendrite-forming current. The circuit includes a switch located in at least one of the dendrite-forming current paths. The switch is configured to be open or in the “off” state during processing, and is configured to be closed or in the “on” state after processing to allow proper functioning of the semiconductor device. The switch may include an nFET or pFET, depending on the environment in which it is used to control or prevent dendrite formation. The switch may be configured to change to the “closed” state when an input signal is provided during operation of the fabricated semiconductor device. |
| US07807560B2 |
Solder bump forming method
A solder bump forming method of carrying out a reflow treatment over a conductive ball mounted on a plurality of pads, thereby forming a solder bump, includes a metal film forming step of forming a metal film capable of chemically reacting to a tackifying compound on the pads, an organic sticking layer forming step of causing a solution containing the tackifying compound to chemically react to the metal film, thereby forming an organic sticking layer on the metal film, and a conductive ball mounting step of supplying the conductive ball on the pads having the organic sticking layer formed thereon, thereby mounting the conductive ball on the pads through the metal film. |
| US07807556B2 |
Method for doping impurities
A method for doping impurities into a device layer includes providing a carbonized dopant layer including one or more dopant impurities over a device layer and heat treating the carbonized dopant layer to thermally diffuse the dopant impurities into the device layer. |
| US07807553B2 |
Substrate heating apparatus and semiconductor fabrication method
A substrate heating apparatus having a heating unit for heating a substrate placed in a process chamber which can be evacuated includes a suscepter which is installed between the heating unit and a substrate, and on which the substrate is mounted, and a heat receiving member which is installed to oppose the suscepter with the substrate being sandwiched between them, and receives heat from the heating unit via the suscepter. A ventilating portion which allows a space formed between the heat receiving member and substrate to communicate with a space in the process chamber is formed. |
| US07807550B2 |
Method of making MEMS wafers
A wafer level package for a MEMS device is made by bonding a MEMS wafer and a lid wafer together to form a hermetically sealed cavity. One or more vias filled with conductive or semiconductive material is etched one of the wafers to form one or more rods extending through the wafer. The rods provide electrical connection to components within the hermetically sealed cavity. |
| US07807549B2 |
Method for low temperature bonding and bonded structure
A method for bonding at low or room temperature includes steps of surface cleaning and activation by cleaning or etching. One etching process The method may also include removing by-products of interface polymerization to prevent a reverse polymerization reaction to allow room temperature chemical bonding of materials such as silicon, silicon nitride and SiO2. The surfaces to be bonded are polished to a high degree of smoothness and planarity. VSE may use reactive ion etching or wet etching to slightly etch the surfaces being bonded. The surface roughness and planarity are not degraded and may be enhanced by the VSE process. The etched surfaces may be rinsed in solutions such as ammonium hydroxide or ammonium fluoride to promote the formation of desired bonding species on the surfaces. |
| US07807548B2 |
Process of forming and controlling rough interfaces
The invention provides a method for forming a semiconductor component with a rough buried interface. The method includes providing a first semiconductor substrate having a first surface of roughness R1. The method further includes thermally oxidizing the first surface of the first semiconductor substrate to form an oxide layer defining an external oxide surface on the first semiconductor substrate and a buried oxide-semiconductor interface below the oxide surface, so that the buried oxide surface has a roughness R2 that is less than R1. The method also includes assembling the oxide surface of the first semiconductor substrate with a second substrate. The invention also provides a component formed according to the method of the invention. |
| US07807545B2 |
Method for manufacturing SIMOX wafer
A SIMOX wafer having a BOX layer with a thin film thickness is obtained without a reduction in productivity or deterioration in quality. In a method for manufacturing a SIMOX wafer comprising: a step of forming a first ion-implanted layer in a silicon wafer; a step of forming a second ion-implanted layer that is in an amorphous state; and a high-temperature heat treatment step of maintaining the wafer in an oxygen contained atmosphere at a temperature that is not lower than 1300° C. but less than a silicon melting point for 6 to 36 hours to change the first and the second ion-implanted layers into a BOX layer, a gas containing chlorine that is not less than 0.1 volume % but less than 1.0 volume % is mixed into an atmosphere during temperature elevation in the high-temperature heat treatment. |
| US07807544B2 |
Solar cell fabrication using extrusion mask
Large-area ICs (e.g., silicon wafer-based solar cells) are produced by positioning a mask between an extrusion head and the IC wafer during extrusion of a dopant bearing material or metal gridline material. The mask includes first and second peripheral portions that are positioned over corresponding peripheral areas of the wafer, and a central opening that exposes a central active area of the wafer. The extrusion head is then moved relative to the wafer, and the extrusion material is continuously extruded through outlet orifices of the extrusion head to form elongated extruded structures on the active area of the wafer. The mask prevents deposition of the extrusion material along the peripheral edges of the wafer, and facilitates the formation of unbroken extrusion structures. The mask may be provided with a non-rectangular opening to facilitate the formation of non-rectangular (e.g., circular) two-dimensional extrusion patterns. |
| US07807543B2 |
Methods of manufacturing trench isolation structures using selective plasma ion immersion implantation and deposition (PIIID)
A semiconductor device is manufactured by forming trenches in a substrate and selectively performing Plasma Ion Immersion Implantation and Deposition (PIIID) on a subset of the trenches in the substrate. The PIIID may be performed on only a portion of a surface of at least one of the trenches in the substrate. Semiconductor devices can include a semiconductor substrate having first, second and third trenches therein, and an oxide liner layer that fully lines the first trenches, that does not line the second trenches and that partially lines the third trenches. |
| US07807540B2 |
Back end thin film capacitor having plates at thin film resistor and first metallization layer levels
An integrated circuit back end capacitor structure includes a first dielectric layer on a substrate, a thin film bottom plate on the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and the bottom plate, and a thin film top plate disposed on the second dielectric layer. The thin film top plate and bottom plate are composed of thin film resistive layers, such as sichrome, which also are utilized to form back end thin film resistors having various properties. Interconnect conductors of a metallization layer contact the top and bottom plates through corresponding vias. |
| US07807539B1 |
Ion implantation and process sequence to form smaller base pick-up
Methods for forming a bipolar junction transistor device are described herein. A method for forming the bipolar junction transistor device may include doping a first portion of a substrate with a first dopant to form a base pick-up region, and after doping the first portion of the substrate, doping a second portion of the substrate with a second dopant to form at least one emitter region. A bipolar junction transistor device may include a floating collector, in which case the bipolar junction transistor device may be operated as a diode for improved emitter current. |
| US07807536B2 |
Low resistance gate for power MOSFET applications and method of manufacture
A trench gate field effect transistor is formed as follows. A trench is formed in a semiconductor region, followed by a dielectric layer lining sidewalls and bottom of the trench and extending over mesa regions adjacent the trench. A conductive seed layer is formed in a bottom portion of the trench over the dielectric layer. A low resistance material is grown over the conductive seed layer, wherein the low resistance material is selective to the conductive seed layer. |
| US07807535B2 |
Methods of forming layers comprising epitaxial silicon
The invention includes methods of forming layers comprising epitaxial silicon. In one implementation, an opening is formed within a first material received over a monocrystalline material. Opposing walls, of a second material, are formed within the opening which are laterally displaced inwardly of the opposing sidewalls, a space being received between the opposing walls and the opposing sidewalls, with monocrystalline material being exposed between the opposing walls within the opening. A silicon-comprising layer is epitaxially grown from the exposed monocrystalline material within the second material-lined opening. Other aspects and implementations are contemplated. |
| US07807532B2 |
Method and structure for self aligned formation of a gate polysilicon layer
A method for processing semiconductor devices includes providing a semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming a pad oxide layer overlying the substrate and forming a silicon nitride layer overlying the pad oxide layer. The method includes forming a trench region extending through an entirety of a portion of the silicon nitride layer and extends into a depth of the semiconductor substrate. The method also includes filling the trench region with an oxide material. The oxide material extends from a bottom portion of the trench region to an upper surface of the silicon nitride layer. The method includes planarizing the oxide material and selectively removing the silicon nitride layer to form an isolation structure. A polysilicon material is deposited overlying the isolation structure. The polysilicon material is planarized to expose a top portion of the isolation structure and form a first electrode and a second electrode structures separated by a portion of the isolation structure. |
| US07807530B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit device and a method of manufacturing the same
Manufacturing technique for an IC device which includes forming the first conductor film over a memory cell forming region and over a peripheral circuit forming region of a semiconductor substrate, patterning the first conductive film lying over the memory cell forming region to form a first conductive pattern which serves as a first or control gate electrode of a memory cell and leaving the first conductive film over the peripheral circuit forming region, forming a second conductive film over both the memory cell forming region and the first conductive film in the peripheral circuit forming region, etching the second conductive film to form a second or memory gate electrode of the memory cell on at least a side wall of the first conductive pattern, and followed by the formation of a gate electrode of a peripheral circuit transistor by etching the first conductive film in the peripheral circuit forming region. |
| US07807528B1 |
ESD protection transistor
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) transistor structure includes a self-aligned outrigger less than 0.4 microns from a gate electrode that is 50 microns wide. The outrigger is fabricated on ordinary logic transistors of an integrated circuit without severely affecting the performance of the transistors. The outrigger is used as an implant blocking structure to form first and second drain regions on either side of a lightly doped region that underlies the outrigger. The self-aligned outrigger and the lightly doped region beneath it are used to move the location of avalanche breakdown upon an ESD event away from the channel region. Durability is extended when fewer “hot carrier” electrons accumulate in the gate oxide. A current of at least 100 milliamperes can flow into the drain and then through the ESD transistor structure for a period of more than 30 seconds without causing a catastrophic failure of the ESD transistor structure. |
| US07807526B2 |
Method of fabricating high-density, trench-based non-volatile random access SONOS memory cells for SOC applications
The present invention provides two-transistor silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-semiconductor (2-Tr SONOS) non-volatile memory cells with randomly accessible storage locations as well as method of fabricating the same. In one embodiment, a 2-Tr SONOS cell is provided in which the select transistor is located with a trench structure having trench depth from 1 to 2 μm and the memory transistor is located on a surface of a semiconductor substrate adjoining the trench structure. In another embodiment, a 2-Tr SONOS memory cell is provided in which both the select transistor and the memory transistor are located within a trench structure having the depth mentioned above. |
| US07807525B2 |
Low power circuit structure with metal gate and high-k dielectric
FET device structures are disclosed with the PFET and NFET devices having high-k dielectric gate insulators, metal containing gates, and threshold adjusting cap layers. The NFET gate stack and the PFET gate stack each has a portion which is identical in the NFET device and in the PFET device. This identical portion contains at least a gate metal layer and a cap layer. Due to the identical portion, device fabrication is simplified, requiring a reduced number of masks. Furthermore, as a consequence of using a single layer of metal for the gates of both type of devices, the terminal electrodes of NFETs and PFETs can be butted with each other in direct physical contact. Device thresholds are further adjusted by oxygen exposure of the high-k dielectric. Threshold values are aimed for low power consumption device operation. |
| US07807524B2 |
Semiconductor device with strained transistors and its manufacture
A semiconductor device has: a semiconductor substrate made of a first semiconductor material; an n-channel field effect transistor formed in the semiconductor substrate and having n-type source/drain regions made of a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material; and a p-channel field effect transistor formed in the semiconductor substrate and having p-type source/drain regions made of a third semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material, wherein the second and third semiconductor materials are different materials. The semiconductor device having n- and p-channel transistors has improved performance by utilizing stress. |
| US07807523B2 |
Sequential selective epitaxial growth
By forming MOSFETs on a substrate having pre-existing ridges of semiconductor material (i.e., a “corrugated substrate”), the resolution limitations associated with conventional semiconductor manufacturing processes can be overcome, and high-performance, low-power transistors can be reliably and repeatably produced. Forming a corrugated substrate prior to actual device formation allows the ridges on the corrugated substrate to be created using high precision techniques that are not ordinarily suitable for device production. MOSFETs that subsequently incorporate the high-precision ridges into their channel regions will typically exhibit much more precise and less variable performance than similar MOSFETs formed using optical lithography-based techniques that cannot provide the same degree of patterning accuracy. A multi step epitaxial process can be used to extend the ridges with different dopant types, high mobility semiconductor, and or advanced multi-layer strutures. For CMOS integrated circuits a capping layer is formed over the a first region. Epitaxial layers are formed in a second region. Then the capping layer is removed from the first region and a capping layer is formed over the second region. Epitaxial layers can than be formed in the first region. |
| US07807521B2 |
Nitride semiconductor light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same
A nitride semiconductor light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The nitride semiconductor light emitting device comprises an n-type nitride semiconductor layer formed on a substrate, an active layer formed on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer formed on the active layer, an undoped GaN layer formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer, an AlGaN layer formed on the undoped GaN layer to form a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer at a bonding interface between the AlGaN layer and the undoped GaN layer, and an n-side electrode and a p-side electrode respectively formed on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer and the AlGaN layer to be connected to each other. As a hetero-junction structure of GaN/AlGaN is formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer, contact resistance between the p-type nitride semiconductor layer and the p-side electrode is enhanced by virtue of tunneling effect through the 2DEG layer. |
| US07807520B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
To provide a method for manufacturing a large semiconductor device which easily operates normally and has excellent current characteristics. A first single-crystal semiconductor layer is provided over an insulating substrate. Then, the first single-crystal semiconductor layer is processed into an island shape. After that, a second single-crystal semiconductor layer is provided over the insulating substrate so as to overlap with part of a region where the first single-crystal semiconductor layer is provided. After that, the second single-crystal semiconductor layer is processed into an island shape. Thus, defects at joint portions in the case of providing the single-crystal semiconductor layers can be reduced. |
| US07807517B2 |
Method of fabricating a semiconductor device having a single gate electrode corresponding to a pair of fin-type channel regions
Provided are methods for fabricating semiconductor devices incorporating a fin-FET structure that provides body-bias control, exhibits some characteristic advantages associated with SOI structures, provides increased operating current and/or reduced contact resistance. The methods for fabricating semiconductor devices include forming insulating spacers on the sidewalls of a protruding portion of a first insulation film; forming a second trench by removing exposed regions of the semiconductor substrate using the insulating spacers as an etch mask, and thus forming fins in contact with and supported by the first insulation film. After forming the fins, a third insulation film is formed to fill the second trench and support the fins. A portion of the first insulation film is then removed to open a space between the fins in which additional structures including gate dielectrics, gate electrodes and additional contact, insulating and storage node structures may be formed. |
| US07807516B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same
To provide a manufacturing method in which LDD regions with different widths are formed in a self-aligned manner, and the respective widths are precisely controlled in accordance with each circuit. By using a photomask or a reticle provided with an auxiliary pattern having a light intensity reduction function formed of a diffraction grating pattern or a semi-transparent film, the width of a region with a small thickness of a gate electrode can be freely set, and the widths of two LDD regions capable of being formed in a self-aligned manner with the gate electrode as a mask can be different in accordance with each circuit. In one TFT, both of two LDD regions with different widths overlap a gate electrode. |
| US07807512B2 |
Semiconductor packages and methods of fabricating the same
A semiconductor package and module, and methods of fabricating the same are provided. A method of fabricating a semiconductor package may include bonding rear surfaces of first and second semiconductor chips to each other, each of the semiconductor chips having chip pads exposed on front surfaces. The method may also include forming an encapsulation portion configured to encapsulate side surfaces of the bonded semiconductor chips, forming via plugs configured to pass through the encapsulation portion, forming an insulating layer configured to expose surfaces of the chip pads and the via plugs on the exposed surfaces of the two semiconductor chips and surfaces of the encapsulation portion, and forming package pads on the exposed surfaces of the chip pads and the surfaces of the via plugs. |
| US07807506B2 |
Microelectromechanical semiconductor component with cavity structure and method for producing the same
One aspect of the invention relates to a semiconductor component with cavity structure and a method for producing the same. The semiconductor component has an active semiconductor chip with the microelectromechanical structure and a wiring structure on its top side. The microelectromechanical structure is surrounded by walls of at least one cavity. A covering, which covers the cavity, is arranged on the walls. The walls have a photolithographically patterned polymer. The covering has a layer with a polymer of identical type. In one case, the molecular chains of the polymer of the walls are crosslinked with the molecular chains of the polymer layer of the covering layer to form a dimensionally stable cavity housing. |
| US07807504B2 |
Semiconductor module
A semiconductor module is disclosed. One embodiment provides a first semiconductor chip having a first contact pad on a first main surface and a second contact pad on a second main surface, a first electrically conductive layer applied to the first main surface, a second electrically conductive layer applied to the second main surface, and an electrically insulating material covering the first electrically conductive layer, wherein a surface of the second electrically conductive layer forms an external contact pad and the second electrically conductive layer has a thickness of less than 200 μm. |
| US07807499B2 |
Stacked module and manufacturing method thereof
A manufacturing method of a stacked module includes a step of fabricating the first wiring board which includes a wiring pattern provided on at least one of a surface and an inner portion and a bump electrode which is integrated from the simultaneous sintering with the wiring pattern, and which extends in the vertical direction, a step of layering the first wiring board with the second wiring board having the wiring pattern provided on at least one of the surface and the inner portion thereof to be connected to the second wiring board via the bump electrode. |
| US07807494B2 |
Method for producing a chalcogenide-semiconductor layer of the ABC2 type with optical process monitoring
A method of monitoring the chalcogenation process in which the chalcogenide semiconductor layer is produced by initially sequentially depositing the two precursor layers of elements A and B and thereafter carrying out a chalcogenizing process with a simultaneous optical process control in which the layer sequence A B is irradiated by light from at least one coherent light source, the light diffusely scattered at the surface is detected and the scattered light signal measured as a function of time is evaluated such that characteristic changes in the layer developing during the chalcogenation are assigned to four characteristic points of the scattered light signal curve. |
| US07807493B2 |
Methods for fabricating a CMOS image sensor
A method for fabricating a CMOS image sensor includes providing a substrate having a sensor array region and a peripheral region defined thereon, forming at least a contact pad on the substrate of the peripheral region, forming a first dielectric layer covering the contact pad on the substrate, performing a first etching process to expose the contact pad and to form a step height, forming an optical shielding layer on the first dielectric layer, forming a plurality of color filters on the first dielectric layer, sequentially forming a planarizing layer and a plurality of micro-lenses on the first dielectric layer. |
| US07807491B2 |
Method of manufacturing nitride semiconductor light-emitting device
Provided is a method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor light-emitting device including the step of contacting a surfactant material with the surface of an n-type nitride semiconductor layer or the surface of a p-type nitride semiconductor layer before the growth of an active layer, or, with a grown crystal surface during or after the growth of the active layer. According to this manufacturing method, a nitride semiconductor light-emitting device having higher light-emitting efficiency can be obtained. |
| US07807489B2 |
Light-emitting device with a protection layer to prevent the inter-diffusion of zinc (Zn) atoms
A light-emitting device with a protection layer for Zn inter-diffusion and a process to form the device are described. The device of the invention provides an active layer containing aluminum (Al) as a group III element, typically AlGaInAs, and protection layers containing silicon (Si) to prevent the inter-diffusion of zing (Zn) atoms contained in p-type layers surrounding the active layer. One of protection layers is put between the active layer and the p-type cladding layer, while, the other of protection layers is disposed between the active layer and the p-type burying layer. |
| US07807485B2 |
Process for producing surface emitting laser, process for producing surface emitting laser array, and optical apparatus including surface emitting laser array produced by the process
Provided is a process for producing a surface emitting laser including a surface relief structure provided on laminated semiconductor layers, including the steps of transferring, to a first dielectric film, a first pattern for defining a mesa structure and a second pattern for defining the surface relief structure in the same process; and forming a second dielectric film on the first dielectric film and a surface of the laminated semiconductor layers to which the first pattern and the second pattern have been transferred. Accordingly, a center position of the surface relief structure can be aligned with a center position of a current confinement structure at high precision. |
| US07807480B2 |
Test cells for semiconductor yield improvement
A test cell for localizing defects includes a first active region, a second active region formed substantially parallel to the first active region, a third active region formed substantially parallel to the first and second active regions, a fourth active region formed between the first and second active regions, and a fifth active region formed between the second and third active regions. The fourth and fifth active regions are formed adjacent to opposite end portions of the second active region. The fourth and fifth active regions are also formed substantially perpendicular to the second active region. |
| US07807479B1 |
Method and apparatus for improving force control in wafer scribing
When scribing a substrate, the precise location of the outer peripheral edge of the substrate on a stage is determined and movement of a scribe tool is controlled to first bring the scribe tool into engagement with the substrate at a location inwardly of the outer peripheral edge of the substrate. After a downwardly directed force of predetermined magnitude exerted by the scribe tool has been attained and stabilized, the scribe tool is moved along the substrate to form a scribe line. |
| US07807474B2 |
System and method for direct digitization of NMR signals
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a transmitter that produces an RF excitation pulse that is applied to a subject positioned in the MRI system to induce emission of at least one of an NMR signal and an ESR signal therefrom, and that produces a reference signal indicative of the phase of the RF excitation pulse. A first analog-to-digital converter has an input for receiving the reference signal that is synchronous with the RF excitation pulse. One or more additional analog-to-digital converters/processors have inputs for receiving the at least one of NMR signals and ESR signals produced by a subject placed in the MRI system and produce one or more complex digital signals therefrom. A normalizer is connected to receive and normalize the digital reference signal and a mixer is connected to receive the normalized digital reference signal and the digital signal. Accordingly, the mixer is operable to multiply the normalized complex digital reference signal with the complex digital signal. |
| US07807473B2 |
Material compositions for sensors for determination of chemical species at trace concentrations and method of using sensors
A method of quantitatively measuring the concentration of a chemical species in a sample solution with a sensor film. A hydrogel sensor film is prepared having a chemical composition comprising an indicator that changes its optical property in the ultra-violet, visible or near-infrared spectral range upon being exposed to the chemical species in the sample solution. The film is exposed to a fixed amount of the sample solution. The concentration of the chemical species in the sample solution is quantified using the average absorbance measured from the sensor film. |
| US07807469B2 |
Methods for determining the feeding habits of an animal
A method of determining whether an animal has ingested a plant of interest is provided. The method includes screening the animal for the presence of at least one indicator of a plant of interest. |
| US07807463B2 |
Pre-transplant accommodated organs resistant to anti-donor immunity
This invention includes the composition of organ grafts accommodated prior to transplantation and therefore resistant to rejection by preformed antibodies. Accommodation is achieved within the donor animal by administration of sub-lethal levels of accommodation inducing factors derived from animals sensitized to the donor. |
| US07807461B2 |
Multipotent stem cells derived from human adipose tissue and cellular therapeutic agents comprising the same
This invention relates to human adipose tissue-derived multipotent adult stem cells. More particularly, the invention relates to human adipose tissue-derived multipotent stem cells, which can be maintained in an undifferentiated state for a long period of time by forming spheres and have high proliferation rates, as well as methods for isolating and maintaining the adult stem cells, and methods for differentiating the multipotent adult stem cells into nerve cells, fat cells, cartilage cells, osteogenic cells and insulin-releasing pancreatic beta-cells. Also, the invention relates to cellular therapeutic agents for treating osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and diabetes and for forming breast tissue, which contain the differentiated cells or the adult stem cells. Although the multipotent stem cells are adult stem cells, they have the ability to differentiate into osteogenic cells, nerve cells, astrocytes, fat cells, chrondrogenic cells or insulin-releasing pancreatic beta-cells, and so are effective in treating osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, nerve disease, diabetes, etc. Also, the stem cells form spheres in a serum-free medium containing CORM-2, and thus can be maintained in an undifferentiated state for a long period of time. Also, the stem cells have very high proliferation rates. Accordingly, the stem cells are useful as cellular therapeutic agents. |
| US07807456B2 |
Recombinant attenuated Clostridium organisms and vaccine
The present invention discloses attenuated Clostridium perfringens organisms that express a substantially nontoxic alpha-toxin. The expressed alpha-toxin is a deletion mutein that relative to the alpha-toxin of the mature alpha-toxin of Clostridium perfringens strain 13, is missing at least nine consecutive amino acid residues including His68. The present invention also discloses attenuated organisms that encode the muteins, as well as the use of such attenuated organisms as vaccines. |
| US07807454B2 |
Microfluidic magnetophoretic device and methods for using the same
A microfluidic device may employ one or more sorting stations for separating target species from other species in a sample. The separation is driven by magnetophoresis. A sorting station generally includes separate buffer and sample streams. A magnetic field gradient applied to the sorting station deflects the flow path of magnetic particles (which selectively label the target species) from a sample stream into a buffer stream. The buffer stream leaving the sorting station is used to detect or further process purified target species labeled with the magnetic particles. |
| US07807450B2 |
Plasma extraction apparatus
A system that is suitable for extracting plasma from blood received from a blood supply is provided. The system comprises a housing, an inlet opening for receiving the blood, a filtration chamber comprising a membrane, and a plasma compartment. The membrane forms a barrier between the blood and the plasma extracted from the blood, and the plasma compartment collects the plasma extracted from the blood. In some embodiments, the system comprises a plasma flow path compression chamber for pulling plasma across the membrane. In some embodiments, the system comprises a blood flow path compression chamber for facilitating blood flow. Some embodiments of the system further comprise means for measuring plasma and blood analytes using spectroscopic and biosensor techniques. |
| US07807449B2 |
Nucleic acid amplification reaction station for disposable test devices
An instrument for conducting nucleic acid amplification reactions in a disposable test device. The test device includes a first reaction chamber containing a first nucleic acid amplification reagent (e.g., primers and nucleotides) and a second reaction chamber either containing, or in fluid communication, with a second nucleic acid amplification reagent (e.g., an amplification enzyme such as RT). The instrument includes a support structure receiving the test device. A temperature control system maintains the first reaction chamber at a first elevated temperature but simultaneously maintains the second nucleic acid amplification reagent at a second temperature lower than the first temperature so as to preserve the second nucleic acid amplification reagent. An actuator operates on a fluid conduit in the test device to place the first and second reaction chambers in fluid communication with each other after a reaction has occurred in the first reaction chamber at the first temperature. A pneumatic system is also provided that assists in fluid transfer of a reaction solution from the first chamber to the second chamber. |
| US07807445B2 |
Antibiotic compound
Fermentation of a nutrient medium with a eubacterium Streptomyces sp. yields a novel antibacterial compound of structural formula (I). |
| US07807443B2 |
Microorganisms providing novel gene products forming or decomposing polyamino acids
The invention relates to five or four novel genes and the gene products thereof from Bacillus licheniformis and sufficiently similar genes and proteins which are involved in vivo in the formation of polyamino acids. The gene in question is ywsC, ywsC′, ywtA, ywtB and ywtD or proteins coded thereby. The gene ywsC, ywsC′, ywtA and ywtB can be used to improve biotechnological production methods by microorganisms, wherein they are functionally inactivated; the gene ywtD which codes for a peptide decomposing poly-gamma glutamate can, inversely, contribute to the improvement of biotechnological production methods by increased expression. Said genes can be used positively, preferably to result in a modification or decomposition of poly-gamma glutamate. |
| US07807441B2 |
Methods for therapeutic vaccination
A method is disclosed for inducing cell-mediated immunity against cellular antigens. More specifically, the invention provides for a method for inducing cytotoxic T-lymphocyte immunity against weak antigens, notably self-proteins. The method entails that antigen presenting cells are induced to present at least one CTL epitope of the weak antigen and at the same time presenting at least one foreign T-helper lymphocyte epitope. In a preferred embodiment, the antigen is a cancer specific antigen, e.g. PSM, Her2, or FGF8b. The method can be exercised by using traditional polypeptide vaccination, but also by using live attenuated vaccines or nucleic acid vaccination. The invention furthermore provides immunogenic analogues of PSM, Her2 and FGF8b, as well as nucleic acid molecules encoding these analogues. Also vectors and transformed cells are disclosed. The invention also provides for a method for identification of immunogenic analogues of weak or non-immunogenic antigens. |
| US07807440B2 |
Probiotic Lactobacillus strains for improved vaginal health
The present invention relates to a probiotic bacterial strain belonging to the genus Lactobacillus having the ability to colonize the human vagina, or a variant thereof. More specifically the probiotic bacterial strain belongs to a species chosen from the group comprising Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus crispatus, and Lactobacillus gasseri. Further it relates to its use as a medicament, a composition comprising the strain, the composition, e.g., being a food product or a pharmaceutical composition, a hygiene product, a biological pure culture of the strain, and a novel food. |
| US07807439B2 |
Staphylococcus aureus-specific detection media and identifying and/or counting method using same
The invention concerns a medium for specific detection of Staphylococcus aureus and/or discrimination between positive-coagulase Staphylococcus and negative-coagulase enabling Staphylococcus to isolate bacteria of the genus staphylococcus and identify the Staphylococcus aureus species, which use at least an enzymatic substrate, preferably a chromogenic or fluorescent agent, and still more preferably consisting of an indoxyl or naphthol base. The invention also concerns a method for identifying, and optionally counting, Staphylococcus aureus using such a medium. It consists of a Staphylococcus aureus culture medium and at least an enzymatic substrate enabling testing of an α-glucosidase activity. The invention is particularly applicable in the field of diagnosis. |
| US07807438B2 |
Preparation of purified exosomes comprising HCV RNA
The invention relates to a method for isolation of hepatitis C virus. The method comprises the separation of particles termed exosomes from the blood plasma of an individual infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and the extraction or RNA from these exosome particles. |
| US07807431B2 |
Detection of nucleic acid differences using combined endonuclease cleavage and ligation reactions
The present invention is a method for detecting DNA sequence differences including single nucleotide mutations or polymorphisms, one or more nucleotide insertions, and one or more nucleotide deletions. Labeled heteroduplex PCR fragments containing base mismatches are prepared. Endonuclease cleaves the heteroduplex PCR fragments both at the position containing the variation (one or more mismatched bases) and to a lesser extent, at non-variant (perfectly matched) positions. Ligation of the cleavage products with a DNA ligase corrects non-variant cleavages and thus substantially reduces background. This is then followed by a detection step in which the reaction products are detected, and the position of the sequence variations are determined. |
| US07807426B2 |
Processes for producing optically active 1-substituted 2-methylpyrrolidine
The present invention relates to a process for producing an optically active 1,4-pentanediol by asymmetrically reducing 5-hydroxy-2-pentanone, which is easily available at low cost. The present invention also relates to a process for producing an optically active 1-substituted 2-methylpyrrolidine including sulfonylating the optically active 1,4-pentanediol to convert it to an optically active sulfonate compound, and reacting the compound with an amine. According to the processes of the present invention, an optically active 1,4-pentanediol and an optically active 1-substituted 2-methylpyrrolidine, which are useful as an intermediate for medicines and an intermediate for agricultural chemicals, can be simply produced from an inexpensive starting material. |
| US07807420B2 |
Method for recovering a basic amino acid from a fermentation liquor
The invention relates to a method for recovering a basic amino acid from the fermentation liquor of a micro-organism strain that produces the basic amino acid. The method comprises the following steps: a) isolation of the micro-organisms from the fermentation liquor and b) separation of the basic amino acid from the aqueous liquor that has been obtained in step a) by the successive charging of a single or multiple stage arrangement of a strongly acidic cation exchanger in the form of a salt with the liquor obtained in step a) and the elution of the basic amino acid. According to the invention, prior to the charging process in step b), the aqueous liquor has a pH value ranging between 4 and 7.5 and at least the first stage of the carbon exchanger arrangement is pre-treated with an aqueous acid in such a way that at the end of said pre-treatment, the pH value at the discharge of the pre-treated cation exchanger ranges between 4.5 and 7. |
| US07807418B2 |
Method for producing hybrid polyketide synthases
A hybrid type I polyketide synthase gene typically containing a starter module and a plurality of heterologous extender modules is used to synthesise novel polyketides. It is preferably under the control of type II polypolyketide synthase promoter e.g. act I or S. coelicolor. |
| US07807412B2 |
VEGF-C ΔR226ΔR227 mutants and uses thereof
Provided are purified and isolated VEGF-C polypeptides capable of binding to at least one of KDR receptor tyrosine kinase (VEGFR-2) and Flt4 receptor tyrosine kinase (VEGFR-3); analogs of such peptides that have VEGF-C-like or VEGF-like biological activities or that are VEGF or VEGF-C inhibitors; polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides; vectors and host cells that embody the polynucleotides; pharmaceutical compositions and diagnostic reagents comprising the polypeptides; and methods of making and using the polypeptides. |
| US07807407B2 |
Detection of truncation mutations by mass spectrometry
This invention relates to the detection and analysis by mass spec of nascent proteins, and in particular truncated proteins, translated within cellular or cell-free translation systems. N-terminal and C-terminal epitopes introduced into these nascent proteins permit rapid and efficient isolation, as well as a mass difference. |
| US07807406B2 |
Fagopyritol synthase genes and uses thereof
The present invention relates to an isolated DNA molecule encoding a fagopyritol synthase. A method for producing a fagopyritol, an insulin mediator, an insulin mediator analogue, an insulin mediator homologue, or an insulin mediator inhibitor is also described. The method includes providing a fagopyritol synthase, providing a substrate comprising a galactosyl donor and a galactosyl acceptor, and combining the fagopyritol synthase with the substrate under conditions effective produce a fagopyritol, an insulin mediator, an insulin mediator analogue, an insulin mediator homologue, or an insulin mediator inhibitor. |
| US07807400B2 |
Methods for identifying chemical modulators of Ras superfamily GTPase activity
The present invention provides a method of identifying a compound having the ability to modulate the guanine nucleotide exchange cycle of a Ras superfamily GTPase, comprising: a) contacting the compound with a guanine nucleotide exchange factor and a GTPase and obtaining a baseline fluorescence measurement; b) contacting the guanine nucleotide exchange factor and the GTPase without the compound and obtaining a baseline fluorescence measurement; c) adding a fluorophore-conjugated GTP to the components of (a) and (b), respectively; d) obtaining fluorescence measurements of the respective components of (c) over time; e) subtracting the respective baseline fluorescence measurements of (a) and (b) from each fluorescence measurement of (d); and f) comparing the resulting fluorescence values of (e), wherein a decrease or increase in the rate of fluorescence change with the compound as compared with the rate of fluorescence change without the compound identifies a compound having the ability to modulate the guanine nucleotide exchange cycle of a Ras superfamily GTPase. Further provided are compounds of the invention and pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the invention useful for the treatment of cancer and neurological disorders. |
| US07807399B2 |
Methods for detecting thiol-containing nucleotide diphosphates with thiol-reactive fluorescent reagents
Disclosed are methods for detecting thiol-containing nucleotide diphosphates. The methods utilize thiol-reactive fluorescent reagents. |
| US07807397B2 |
Diagnostic method for disorders using copeptin
The use of copeptin as diagnostic marker for the determination of the release of vasopressin, especially in connection with disorders associated with non-physiological alterations of vasopressin release from the neurohypophysis, especially for detection and early detection, diagnosing and monitoring of the course of cardiovascular diseases, renal and pulmonary diseases as well as shock, including septic shock, sepsis and diseases/disorders of the central nervous system and neurodegenerative diseases. |
| US07807396B2 |
Insulin degrading enzyme assays for treatment of alzheimer's disease
Estrogen has been shown to increase the expression and activity of amyloid peptide inactivating enzymes in the brain. Peptides have been shown to increase the activity of an amyloid peptide inactivating enzyme. Methods of identifying compounds for, and methods of treating patients with, Alzheimer's Disease is disclosed. |
| US07807395B2 |
Method for the determination of prosthetic infections
A method for the laboratory determination of prosthetic infections is described. This method, performed on biological fluids isolated from patients, is based on the detection of antibodies specific for the polysaccharides produced by bacteria colonizing prosthetic devices. |
| US07807391B2 |
Gold-binding protein and use thereof
A protein utilizing an anti-gold antibody and a gold-binding side which is a part of the anti-gold antibody is constructed. This protein is capable of specifically binding to gold. This protein or a complex protein containing such a protein can be used for the detection of a target substance. |
| US07807390B2 |
G-protein coupled receptor ligands and methods
The present invention relates to RF-amide peptides and their use for treating, preventing and curing neurological and metabolic medical disorders. The invention also relates to methods for modulating a G-protein coupled receptor and for identifying substances which modulate the receptor. |
| US07807387B2 |
Biological agent that causes IL-6 receptor release
This disclosure describes inventions related to the use of biological agents that cause cytokine receptors to be released from the surface of cells. One aspect of this invention is based on the unexpected finding that extending the length of an exemplary agent at the N-terminus enhances expression and production of the product by at least 10-fold. The extended protein can be used to prepare pharmaceutical compositions for treating inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis. Another aspect of this invention is based on the identification of biological agents that cause release of cytokine receptors not previously known as natural enzyme targets, such as the IL-1 Type I receptor, IL-1 Type II receptor and the IL-6 receptor. This disclosure provides products, assays, expression systems, purification methods, and production protocols useful for developing cytokine receptor releasing proteins as therapeutic agents. |
| US07807386B2 |
Peptides for discrimination of prions
The aim of the present invention is to provide a non-intrusive way to isolate, concentrate and monitor the TSE disease-related pathogenic prion protein. The invention described several peptides and their ability to capture PrPSc from brain homogenate of prion disease infected animal and human. These eight peptides do not capture cellular prion protein from individual with no prion disease. |
| US07807382B2 |
Methods for inhibiting the binding of endosialin to ligands
The invention provides methods for inhibiting the interaction of endosialin with endosialin ligands. The inhibition is effectuated on the genetic level, by inhibiting endosialin gene expression, and on the protein level, by blocking the interaction of cell-surface expressed endosialin with ligands such as fibronectin and collagen. The invention provides methods for identifying inhibitors of the interaction of endosialin with endosialin ligands. Also provided are methods for inhibiting angiogenesis and neovascularization in vivo and in vitro. |
| US07807381B2 |
Methods for assessing CDK5 activation and function
As described herein, signaling events occurring in neurons or at neuronal synapses have been identified that involve Cdk5 and various other molecules which bind to, are activated by, and/or activate Cdk5. Of particular relevance are interactions that stimulate calpain cleavage of p35 into p25, which binds Cdk5 in pathologic states. Assays to identify modulators of these interactions are provided. |
| US07807379B2 |
Tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases type-1 (TIMP-1) as a cancer marker
The present invention describes a method for determining whether an individual is likely to suffer from cancer by determining a parameter representing the TIMP-1 concentration in body fluid samples from the individual. |
| US07807370B2 |
Methods for identification of merle gene
Animals with mutations in SILV present with the merle coat color pattern phenotype. Methods for the identification of animals that harbor a mutation in the SILV gene are described. Mutations in the SILV gene can be identified from any biological sample such as a cell or tissue that contains genomic DNA. A microsatellite marker identified using linkage disequilibrium mapping that segregates with merle is also described. |
| US07807368B2 |
Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors as targets for opiod growth factor treatment
The present invention provides methods of cell cycle control by administering opioid growth factor (OGF), which activates opioid growth factor receptor (OGFr) signaling. Particularly, the present invention provides a method for monitoring OGF modulation or treatment of a cell proliferation or growth related condition in a subject by assessing the level of the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor (CKI) relevant or corresponding to the condition. The present invention also provides a method for screening the eligibility of a subject for OGF modulation or treatment by assessing the level of OGF receptor (OGFr) and the relevant CKI. A method for enhancing the efficacy of OGF therapy by increasing the level of the relevant CKI and/or OGFr is also provided. |
| US07807367B2 |
Enzymatic fluorometric assay for cAMP and adenylate cyclase and kits therefor
The present invention relates to a method for quickly determining cAMP content or an adenylate cyclase activity in a biological sample containing non-cyclic adenine nucleotides without the use of radioactive agents.Particularly, the present invention provides a method of determining CAMP content or an adenylate cyclase activity in a biological sample containing non-cyclic adenine nucleotides selected from the group consisting of cAMP produced by endogenous adenylate cyclase, and AMP, ATP, ADP and a mixture thereof, which comprises (1) combining a biological sample with effective amounts of apyrase, adenosine deaminase and alkaline phosphatase to enzymatically remove non-cyclic adenine nucleotides other than cAMP, and glucose-6-phosphate in the sample; (2) enzymatically converting cAMP into AMP; (3) determining an amount of AMP without the use of radioactive agents, and a kit to carry out the method. |
| US07807365B2 |
Cleavage of nucleic acids
The invention relates to compositions and methods of generating a signal indicative of the presence of a target nucleic acid in a sample, where the method includes forming a cleavage structure by incubating a sample comprising a target nucleic acid with a probe. The invention also includes the steps of cleaving the cleavage structure with a nuclease to release a nucleic acid fragment to generate a signal, wherein generation of the signal is indicative of the presence of a target nucleic acid in a sample. |
| US07807364B2 |
Angiogenesis pathway gene polymorphisms for therapy selection
A method for determining whether a patient in need thereof will respond to anti-VEGF antibody based chemotherapy by screening a suitable cell or tissue sample isolated from the patient for at least one genomic polymorphism or genotype selected from (i) IL-8(−251); (ii) VEGF(936); or (iii) AM (3′ CA repeats), wherein the patient is suitably treated if the corresponding genotype is (i) (T/T) for IL-8(−251); (ii) (T/T or C/T) for VEGF(936); or (iii) at least one AM allele having 14 or more 3′ CA repeats. |
| US07807363B2 |
Superoxide dismutase-2 expression for glaucoma diagnosis
The present invention concerns a method for diagnosing or monitoring elevated intraocular pressure or glaucoma in a patient comprising providing a biological sample from the patient and measuring the expression level of a superoxide dismutase-2 (SOD-2) gene in the biological sample. The present invention also concerns methods for treating glaucoma or elevated intraocular pressure in a patient comprising administering to a patient an effective amount of an agent that modulates SOD-2 expression or SOD-2 activity. |
| US07807362B2 |
Diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
This invention features methods and compositions useful for the treatment and diagnosis of attentional disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Also disclosed are methods for identifying compounds useful for such therapy. |
| US07807360B2 |
Method and apparatus for concentrating and amplifying nucleic acid in single micro chamber
A method of sequentially performing concentration and amplification of nucleic acid in a single micro chamber includes: introducing a nucleic acid-containing sample and a solution including a kosmotropic salt to a micro chamber having a hydrophilic interior surface to concentrate the nucleic acid by binding the nucleic acid on the interior surface of the micro chamber; and performing a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) by adding a PCR mixture to the chamber. Since the nucleic acid is reversibly bound to the interior surface of the micro chamber, PCR yield is higher compared with a surface of aluminum oxide in which irreversible binding occurs. In addition, all processes are sequentially performed in a single micro chamber so that the number of samples, consumables, time, and labor for treatment and analysis can be reduced, detection sensitivity can be improved, and risk of sample cross contamination significantly reduced without sample loss by eliminating transporting of the sample. A complete automated system for concentration and amplification of nucleic acid is thus readily provided. |
| US07807358B1 |
High-throughput methods for detecting DNA methylation
The present invention provides a method of hybridization, differential methylation hybridization (DMH) for high throughput methylation analysis of multiple CpG island loci. DMH utilizes nucleic acid probes prepared from a cell sample to screen numerous CpG dinucleotide rich fragments affixed on a screening array. Positive hybridization signals indicate the presence of methylated sites. Methods of preparing the hybridization probes and screening array are also provided. |
| US07807353B2 |
Common marmoset-derived HPRT gene and use thereof
The present invention provides a common marmoset-derived hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase gene and use thereof. |
| US07807347B2 |
Immuno-PCR method for detecting nasopharyngeal carcinoma markers and kit thereof
The present invention is related to an immuno-PCR method for detecting nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and kit thereof, especially related to an immuno-PCR method for detecting markers of early stage NPC and kit thereof. The present invention includes providing a substrate whereon protein markers immobilized; applying a patient's specimen to the substrate; adding a solution which has biotinylated anti-human IgA secondary antibody and incubating the solution; adding a solution with a linker and biotinylated target DNA; proceeding a polymerase chain reaction; and finally, detecting the target DNA fragments via electrophoresis. |
| US07807344B2 |
Methods and systems for ensuring the security of grain stores
Aspects include claims, systems, and methods for testing bulk grain stores to identify the presence of contaminants. Such contaminants tested for may include biological, chemical, or radio nuclear material. Another aspect is marking and/or tracking grain stores that have been certified as either being contaminated or safe. Still another aspect is an automated or automatic system for measuring the level of contamination in a given grain store, and for marking and tracking grain stores tested for contamination. |
| US07807340B2 |
Photoresists for visible light imaging
A method of creating patterned objects using a class of lithographic photoresist combinations is disclosed which is suitable for use with visible light and does not require a post-exposure bake step. The disclosed photoresists are preferably chemical amplification photoresists and contain a photosensitizer having the structure of formula (I): where Ar1 and Ar2 are independently selected from monocyclic aryl and monocyclic heteroaryl, R1 and R2 may be the same or different, and have the structure —X—R3 where X is O or S and R3 is C1-C6 hydrocarbyl or heteroatom-containing C1-C6 hydrocarbyl, and R4 and R5 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and —X—R3, or, if ortho to each other, may be taken together to form a five- or six-membered aromatic ring, with the proviso that any heteroatom contained within Ar1, Ar2, or R3 is O or S. The use of the disclosed photoresists, particularly for the manufacture of holographic diffraction gratings, is also disclosed. |
| US07807339B2 |
Printing plate and patterning method using the same
A patterning method includes depositing a pattern target layer on a surface of a substrate, providing a printing plate with concaves in a first side of a transparent substrate and an opaque layer on the first side except in the concaves of the first sides, filling resins into the concaves of the printing plate, positioning the substrate of the printing plate to correspond to an upper portion of the pattern target layer, and transferring resins of the printing plate onto the pattern target layer by exposing resins to a curing light to harden resins. |
| US07807333B2 |
Method and apparatus for development of lithographic printing plate precursor
To provide a development system for lithographic printing plate precursors using a neutral developer, capable of preventing the non-image area of the resulting printing plates from being stained. In developing a lithographic printing plate precursor with a neutral developer having a pH of from 5.8 to 8.6, ultrasonic waves and/or an electric current are imparted to the neutral developer. |
| US07807331B2 |
Hydrogenated ring-opening metathesis polymer, resist composition and patterning process
Resist compositions comprising a hydrogenated ring-opening metathesis polymer bearing an alicyclic structure in its backbone and comprising structural units having an oxygen atom incorporated as part of the cyclic structure exhibit a high resolution and minimal proximity bias upon ArF excimer laser lithography and have high etching resistance. |
| US07807330B2 |
Heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet and coating composition for forming heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet
A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet provided with at least one receptor layer on a support, wherein the receptor layer has a polymer containing a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by formula (1); and a coating composition for forming the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet: wherein, R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a methyl group; L1 represents a divalent linking group; R2 represents an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms which may be further substituted; n represents an integer of 1 to 40; Z1 represents a hydrogen atom or a linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms which may be further substituted; and when n is 2 or more, R2s may be the same or different. |
| US07807327B2 |
Method for producing electrophotographic toner
A method for producing an electrophotographic toner comprising the step of polymerizing two or more polymerizable monomers under existence of a non-polar liquid hydrocarbon, wherein at least one of the polymerizable monomers comprises a polar group; a kinematic viscosity of the liquid hydrocarbon at 40° C. is in the range of 7-300 mm2/s. |
| US07807326B2 |
Printing semiconducting components
A toner particle for use in electrostatic printing of a semiconducting electronic device, the particle comprising: a resin; and non-organic semiconductor particles dispersed in the resin. |
| US07807325B2 |
Toner for use in electrostatic image development
An electrostatic image developing toner is disclosed, comprising a resin and a colorant, wherein the toner contains at least one iminocarboxylic acid or its salt in an amount of from 26 to 388 ppm by mass. |
| US07807324B2 |
Photoconductors
An imaging member containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, a charge transport layer, and an overcoat layer comprised, for example, of a phenolic resin containing a phenolic charge transport component. |
| US07807319B2 |
Photomask including contrast enhancement layer and method of making same
A photomask and a method of making same. The photomask includes a plate defining transparent regions in a predetermined pattern and opaque regions, the transparent regions adapted to transmit light therethrough; and a contrast enhancement layer disposed over an entire surface of at least one of the transparent regions and the opaque regions. |
| US07807318B2 |
Reflective photomask and method of fabricating the same
A reflective photomask for EUV light is disclosed. The reflective photomask may include a projecting pattern selectively formed on a substrate and a reflective layer on the substrate and the projecting pattern. |
| US07807317B2 |
Anode electrodes for direct oxidation fuel cells and systems operating with concentrated liquid fuel
An anode electrode for use in a fuel cell comprises a stacked structure including, in sequence: a catalyst layer, a hydrophobic, microporous layer (“MPL”), a porous gas diffusion layer (“GDL”), and an anode plate with at least one recessed fuel supply-fuel/gas exhaust channel formed in a surface thereof facing the GDL, wherein the stacked structure further comprises at least one hydrophobic region aligned with the at least one recessed channel. The electrode is useful in direct oxidation fuel cells and systems, such as direct methanol fuel cells operating with highly concentrated liquid fuel. |
| US07807313B2 |
Compact fuel cell package
The invention relates to a compact and portable fuel cell package. The package includes a fuel cell that generates electrical energy. Some packages also include a fuel processor that produces hydrogen from a fuel source. Fuel cell packages described herein provide power densities (power per unit volume or mass) at levels not yet seen. One package employs an interconnect disposed at least partially between a fuel cell and a fuel processor. The interconnect forms a structural and plumbing intermediary between the two. Given the portable size of fuel cell packages described herein, the invention is well suited to power portable electronics devices. One portable fuel cell package includes a tether, which allows electrical and detachable coupling to an electronics device. |
| US07807312B2 |
Portable electrical energy generation equipment
The invention relates to a portable electrical energy generator, its components, and manufacture of the components and generator. The generator includes a bi-polar plate stack, which is well suited for use in a fuel cell. The stack may include at least one spacer that limits compression of a membrane electrode assembly in the fuel cell. The stack may also include a polymer binder that holds the stack together and/or maintains a compression force on the membrane electrode assembly. An open cathode manifold may also provided to ease oxygen movement. High throughput and low cost manufacture of bi-polar plates is also described herein. |
| US07807307B2 |
System and method for distributing fuel to multiple fuel cells
A Personal Area Network (PAN) (100) including multiple communication devices (104, 106, 108) is provided. The communication devices are capable of communicating with each other and a connection point. The communication devices derive energy from multiple fuel cells (110, 112, 114). The PAN is capable of distributing fuel to the multiple fuel cells from a common fuel container (116), if the communication devices are attached to the connection point. |
| US07807305B2 |
Fuel cell system suitable for complex fuels and a method of operation of the same
A fuel cell system comprising a first electrode-electrolyte assembly having a first electrode coupled to one side of thereof and a second electrode coupled to a generally opposite side of the first electrode-electrolyte assembly, and a first conduit for delivering fuel to the first electrode at ambient temperature. The fuel cell system includes a second electrode-electrolyte assembly having a third electrode coupled thereto assembly, and a fourth electrode coupled to a generally opposite side of the second electrode-electrolyte assembly; and a mesh positioned between and in sealing engagement with the second electrode and the third electrode. A second conduit is in fluid communication with the fourth electrode for delivering oxidant thereto. The fuel cell system further includes means for providing an electrical potential across the first electrode-electrolyte assembly and an electrical load circuit for using an energy output generated across the second electrode-electrolyte assembly. |
| US07807303B2 |
Microbial fuel cell and method
A microbial fuel cell includes a cell housing having first and second chambers. The first chamber is adapted for containing a fluid including a biomass. The second chamber is adapted for containing an oxygenated fluid. A cathode extends into the cell housing second chamber and an anode segment of an electrode assembly extends into the cell housing first chamber. The electrode assembly has multiple, substantially aligned, fibers. The outer surfaces of the fibers of the anode segment are adapted for receiving a biofilm. |
| US07807302B2 |
Preventing fuel starvation of a fuel cell stack
The direction of flow of purged fuel reactant gas (20) is sensed (38, 39, 44, 53, 54) to ensure it flows outwardly from a fuel cell stack (9) towards the ambient (21). If the purged fuel reactant. gas is not flowing outwardly, a signal (39) causes a controller (26) to open the circuit (35) thereby disconnecting the electrical load (33) from the fuel cell stack. |
| US07807294B2 |
Negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for producing the same
A negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including: an active material layer capable of electrochemically absorbing and desorbing at least Li; and a current collector sheet that supports the active material layer thereon and that does not react with Li, wherein the active material layer includes a plurality of deposited films or sintered films supported on a surface of the current collector sheet, and each of the deposited films or sintered films is provided with at least one groove formed in a side surface thereof, the groove extending from a top surface side towards the current collector sheet side thereof. It is preferable that the plurality of deposited films or sintered films are arranged in a grid configuration, a staggered grid configuration or a honeycomb configuration on a surface of the current collector sheet. It is preferable that, in a discharged state, the plurality of deposited films or sintered films have an average height of not less than 1 μm and not more than 30 μm. |
| US07807290B2 |
Battery cell assembly
A battery cell assembly includes a plurality of battery cells. Each battery cell comprises a first end that is positively charged and a second end that is negatively charged. One or more flexible conductors are adapted to electrically connect the plurality of battery cells. A plurality of bands secures the one or more flexible conductors to the plurality of battery cells. The flexible conductors are configured to withstand a current on the order of 300 amps and a minimum temperature of 170° F. |
| US07807278B2 |
Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and magnetic storage apparatus
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium, including a soft-magnetic backing layer; and a recording layer provided over the oft-magnetic backing layer. There is provided a magnetic flux slit layer between the soft-magnetic backing layer and the recording layer. The magnetic flux slit layer includes a soft-magnetic layer having a generally columnar structure generally isolated magnetically in an in-plane direction. The magnetic flux slit layer contains at least one selected from the group consisting of Co, Fe, Ni, a Co alloy, a Fe alloy, and a Ni alloy, as a major component, and the magnetic flux slit layer further contains any one selected from the group consisting of Ta, Cu, Pb, Cr, and Re. |
| US07807275B2 |
Non-blocked phosphorescent OLEDs
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) architecture in which efficient operation is achieved without requiring a blocking layer by locating the recombination zone close to the hole transport side of the emissive layer. Aryl-based hosts and Ir-based dopants with suitable concentrations result in an efficient phosphorescent OLED structure. Previously, blocking layer utilization in phosphorescent OLED architectures was considered essential to avoid exciton and hole leakage from the emissive layer, and thus keep the recombination zone inside the emissive layer to provide high device efficiency and a pure emission spectrum. |
| US07807271B2 |
Polymers for paper and paperboard coatings
The invention is directed to the composition and use of substantially water-soluble amphoteric (co)polymers as co-binders for paper and paperboard coating applications. |
| US07807269B2 |
Silicide joint and method for manufacturing the same
A strong silicide joint between silicon carbide and a metal is resistant to fracture even at high temperature. A method for manufacturing the silicide joint is also provided. This method includes the steps of: bringing a silicon carbide-based member into contact with a Kovar (Fe—Ni—Co alloy) member; and thermally joining the silicon carbide-based member to the Kovar member. |
| US07807267B2 |
Method of modifying porous film, modified porous film and use of same
The present invention relates to a method for modifying a porous film mainly having Si—O bonds wherein a thermal treatment is conducted without using a metal catalyst by bringing an organic silicon compound into contact with the porous film. The organic silicon compound includes one or more Si—X—Si bond unit (wherein X represents O, NR, CnH2n, or C6H4; R represents CmH2m+1 or C6H5; m is an integer between 1 and 6; and n is 1 or 2) and two or more Si-A bond units (wherein A represents H, OH, OCeH2e+1 or a halogen atom and can be the same or different within a single molecule; and e is an integer between 1 and 6). Since the porous film obtained by this method is excellent in the hydrophobic property and the mechanical strength, it can be used as an optically functional material or an electronically functional material. The porous film is especially useful as a semiconductor material, and can be preferably used as an interlayer insulating film in a semiconductor device. |
| US07807265B2 |
Partially passivated quantum dots, process for making, and sensors therefrom
A partially passivating core shell particle includes a luminescent nanocrystal core, and a partially passivating semiconducting core shell on a surface of the nanocrystal. The shell allows selected analytes to alter a luminescent response of the core shell particle. A quantum dot-based sensing system includes at least one partially passivating core shell particle, a light source for irradiating the partially passivating core shell particle, and a light detector for receiving emissions from the particle, wherein emissions from the core shell particle change in response to the presence of at least one analyte. |
| US07807262B2 |
Thermal insulative label
A thermally insulative label is provided. The label includes a first layer of material including an insulative coating, and a second layer of shrink material coupled to the first layer wherein the second layer includes graphics. |
| US07807260B2 |
Multi-layered foamed polymeric objects and related methods
The invention disclosed herein relates to relates to foamed thermoplastic material objects and articles of manufacture having an internal layered cellular structure, as well as to methods of making the same. In one embodiment, the invention is directed to a multi-layer foamed polymeric article of manufacture, comprising: a non-laminated multi-layer thermoplastic material sheet, wherein the multi-layer thermoplastic material sheet has first and second discrete outer layers sandwiching a plurality of discrete inner foamed layers, and wherein the two outer layers and plurality discrete inner foamed layers are integral with one another. The thermoplastic material may be a semi-crystalline polymer such as, for example, PET (polyethylene terephthalate), PEEK (polyetheretherketone), PEN (polyethylene napthalate), PBT (polybutylene terephthalate), PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate), PLA (polylactide), polyhydroxy acid (PHA), thermoplastic urethane (TPU), or blends thereof. The two outer layers may be unfoamed skin layers having smooth outer surfaces, and the discrete inner foamed layers may be microcellular. |
| US07807258B2 |
Topologically controlled composite structure
A composite structure is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, a composite structure has relative layer-to-layer fiber orientations of between approximately 5° and 15°, inclusive. A further aspect of the present invention employs relative fiber offset angles less than 30° on a curved section. Yet another aspect of the present invention provides a three-dimensionally woven configuration where the first sheet is interwoven or mechanically linked with both the adjacent second layer and the opposite third or deeper layer. |
| US07807252B2 |
Chemical mechanical polishing pad having secondary polishing medium capacity control grooves
A chemical mechanical polishing pad (104, 400) that includes a polishing layer (108, 420, 500) having a set of primary grooves (124, 408, 516) formed in a polishing surface (110, 428, 520) of the pad. The pad also includes a set of secondary grooves (128, 404, 504) that become selectively active as a function of the wear of the polishing layer from polishing. |
| US07807251B1 |
Smart coating system—aircraft deicing & periscope defouling
Coating array technology is demonstrated for applications in aircraft ice removal in-situ, and for submarine periscope head window to remove fouling and provide enhanced optical features. The coating arrays comprise a first layer and a second layer with an adhesive interface therebetween. The first layer separates from the second layer upon application of energy to the interface. The method is applicable to many areas including ship antifouling, medical antifouling (antibacterial), chemical biological warfare agent removal, anti-corrosion, etc. It can be applied to substrates including: ships, vehicles (cars), windows, walls of buildings, clothing, etc. |
| US07807250B2 |
Wall-flow honeycomb filter with hexagonal channel symmetry
A wall-flow honeycomb filter has a monolith body which includes repeating hexagonal unit cells, wherein each hexagonal unit cell has inner cells and outer cells arranged in a hexagonal symmetry, and wherein the inner cells are bordered by the outer cells and the outer cells are of diamond shape. |
| US07807247B1 |
Flexlock with headed pintle and conical buttressing
Flexlock non-textile fabrics use intimately linked elements that are formed from formable, preferably solid phase forgeable materials into generally triangular shapes with hinging connection features along edges of a generally triangular overall shape. These hinging connection portions permit other elements to rotate about axes that intersect at intersections. Buttressing portions are located near these intersections and include cylindrical or conical shapes that abut the buttressing portions of adjacent formed elements. This abutting can occur even when adjacent elements are rotated or twisted out of a common plane. Connection portions include direct formed engagements with knuckles of the other elements. These connection portions and the engaged knuckles can include headed pintles, axles, or oppositely facing conical protrusions, and may be configured to permit the non-textile fabric to bend on itself within its own thickness without undue strain on the connection features. |
| US07807245B2 |
Impact-modified polyamide hollow body
Hollow bodies made from impact-modified polyamide. Fuel line hoses for both liquid fuel delivery and fuel vapor recovery. |
| US07807244B2 |
Bendable touch fastener products
A bendable touch fastener product having a longitudinally continuous foundation member that has an array of touch fastener elements, having respective resin stem extending outwardly from an outer surface of the foundation member, such that the array of fastener element is bounded by longitudinal array edges and spaced apart from opposite side sealing surfaces, and a method of manufacture of the bendable touch fastener product. |
| US07807232B2 |
Inline passivation of vacuum-deposited aluminum on web substrate
In a continuous in-vacuum process for the manufacture of a film metallized with aluminum, the aluminum layer is exposed to a passivating agent, inline, immediately after deposition and prior to rewinding of the film onto a take-up roller. Passivation is carried out by plasma treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere (oxygen, nitrogen or others). The resulting product exhibits no peel-off problems during unwinding of the take-up roller and greatly improved corrosion resistance. |
| US07807230B2 |
Curcumin and curcuminoid compounds, and use thereof as photosensitizers of onium salts
Curcumin and curcuminoid compounds as photosensitizers for onium salt photoinitiators in cationic photopolymerization reactions are presented. |
| US07807228B2 |
Method of forming luster coating film
The present invention provides: luster coating film forming method I comprising (1) applying an aqueous luster thermosetting base coating composition (A) to a substrate in three to five stages, in such a manner that the thickness of the base coating composition (A) applied in each of the second and subsequent stages becomes 0.3 to 5 μm when cured; (2) applying a thermosetting clear coating (B) over the uncured or heat-cured coating layer of the base coating composition (A); and (3) heating the two-layer coating comprising the base coating composition (A) and clear coating composition (B) to obtain a cured two-layer coating film; and luster coating film forming method II comprising the above steps (1) to (3) and further including the step of applying and curing a thermosetting clear coating composition (C). |
| US07807227B2 |
Composite material and method for the preparation thereof
A composite material with a porous inorganic-nonmetallic matrix and a second material, and a process for its production, are characterized in that the porous inorganic-nonmetallic matrix has a bending strength ≧40 MPa as measured according to ISO 6 872; the second material is an organic material which at least partly fills the pores of the porous matrix; and the composite material has a modulus of elasticity, E, ≧25 GPa as measured according to ISO 10 477. |
| US07807223B2 |
Precursors having open ligands for ruthenium containing films deposition
Ruthenium containing precursors for ruthenium containing films deposition comprising a ruthenium precursor selected from the group essentially consisting of Ru(XOp)(XCp), Ru(XOp)2, Ru(allyl)3, RuX(allyl)2, RuX2(allyl)2, Ru(CO)x(amidinate)y, Ru(diketonate)2X2Ru(diketonate)2(amidinate)2, their derivatives, and any mixture thereof. |
| US07807220B2 |
Boron coated abrasives
A process forming boron coated abrasives, in particular boron coated abrasive particles, which may be used in saw blade segments, grinding wheels and other grit-containing tools. While the process is particularly suited to the coating of abrasive particles, it can be applied to any abrasives for use in grinding, cutting or polishing tools, or to such tools themselves. In the case of abrasive particles, these are mixed with boron and boric acid powder, in a suitable ratio, and furnaced at a temperature between 800 and 1200° C. for a length of time in an inert atmosphere sufficient to coat the particles. |
| US07807218B2 |
High performance magnetic tunnel barriers with amorphous materials
A magnetic tunneling element is constructed from a MgO or Mg—ZnO tunnel barrier and an amorphous magnetic layer in proximity with the tunnel barrier. The amorphous magnetic layer includes Co and at least one additional element selected to make the layer amorphous. Magnetic tunnel junctions formed from the amorphous magnetic layer, the tunnel barrier, and an additional ferromagnetic layer have tunneling magnetoresistance values of up to 200% or more. |
| US07807217B2 |
Method of producing self-assembled cubic FePt nanoparticles and apparatus using same
A method comprises: heating a solution of platinum acetylacetonate, Fe(CO)5, oleic acid, and oleylamine in dichlorobenzene to a reflux temperature, refluxing the solution, and using the solution to deposit FePt nanoparticles. A magnetic storage medium that includes cubic FePt particles is also provided. |
| US07807216B2 |
Process for producing nanocrystalline composites
A process to produce dense nanocrystalline composites such as ceramic bodies, coatings and multi-layered devices with uniform microstructure is disclosed. The invention utilizes sol-gel solutions to reduce agglomeration of nanocrystalline powders in the production of “green bodies” or intermediate products. This novel use of sol-gel solutions also reduces grain growth and porosity in products during sintering. In finished products, final grain sizes are typically less than 100 nm with densities of the final products approaching 99.5% of theoretical densities. In addition, sintering temperatures required are lower than those in conventional methods, typically less than 1,100° C. While FIG. 1 shows one application of this novel process, this invention has wide application in the manufacture of many other products, particularly for composite coatings and in the production of nanodevices. |
| US07807213B2 |
Method and system for characterizing porous materials
A method and system for diagnosing the effectiveness of a treatment on a porous material. For example, the porous material can include a porous low dielectric constant material. In particular, the method can utilize FTIR spectroscopy to characterize the porosity of materials, and assess the effectiveness of sealing pores in the material. |
| US07807212B2 |
Plasma method for TiOx biomedical material onto polymer sheet
A biomedical material is prepared through a plasma method. The material is a film containing titanium oxide onto polymer sheet. The film is hydrophilic, bacterial inactivated and biocompatible. The present invention can be applied to artificial guiding tube and wound dressing material. |
| US07807209B1 |
Watermelon juice products and food products produced with the juice products
A composition comprising a watermelon juice includes the following colorimeter values, an L value of about 19 or greater, an A value of about 32 or greater, a B value of about 24 or greater. Watermelon juice extract is typically free of any added, artificial colorants or sweeteners. The present invention also generally includes a food composition that utilizes a clarified watermelon juice or a cloudy watermelon juice, where the cloudy watermelon juice has the following colorimeter values, an L value of about 19 or greater, an A value of about 32 or greater, a B value of about 24 or greater, and the clarified watermelon juice is derived from the cloudy watermelon juice. The food compositions incorporating the watermelon juice are usually a beverage, a sorbet, a yogurt, a sauce, a salad dressing, a fruit salad, a dessert, a bakery filling, a candy, or a bar mix. |
| US07807208B2 |
Trans free hard palm oil fraction, trans free non-hydrogenated hard structural fat and fat blends and methods
A trans free hard palm oil fraction, a trans free non hydrogenated hard structural fat and a fat blend using the trans free non hydrogenated hard structural fat and liquid oils suitable for the manufacture of low SAFA (Saturated Fatty Acid) high poly/mono unsaturated margarine and spreads, wherein the trans free non hydrogenated hard structural fat is made from a selectively fractionated non-hydrogenated high melting palm oil fraction which is interesterified with dry fractionated non-hydrogenated lauric fat, such as a palm kernel oil or its fractions, the resultant interesterified fat is obtained with high yield ratios that can be economically and commercially used as trans free non hydrogenated hard structural fat for the aforesaid manufacture. |
| US07807207B2 |
Cheese compositions and related methods
The present invention relates to cheese compositions and methods of making cheese compositions, including methods of formulating cheese compositions. Cheese compositions of the present invention include casein protein, non-casein protein, and non-pregelatinized, modified starch. Methods of making cheese compositions according to the present invention relate to making cheese compositions that include casein protein, non-casein protein, and non-pregelatinized, modified starch. Methods of formulating cheese compositions of the present invention include reducing an amount casein protein by replacing it with an amount of non-pregelatinized, modified starch and an amount of non-casein protein. |
| US07807206B2 |
Sweetner and use
Sweeteners on the basis of a simultaneously transglucosylated sweet glycoside mixture of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni are prepared. The transglycosylation was developed in the presence of starch under the action of cyclodextrin glucanotransferase. The remaining maltodextrins are transferred to the fructose-terminated oligosaccharides. The sweeteners are purified to not less than 98% content of sweet glycosides and derivatives. The preparations are almost non-caloric, non-cariogenic, non-bitter, non-lingering sweeteners, which may be advantageously applied in foods, beverages, cosmetics and milk products. |
| US07807200B2 |
Formulations for spray-drying large porous particles
Particles having a tap density less than about 0.4 g/cm3 are formed by spray drying from a colloidal solution including a carboxylic acid or salt thereof, a phospholipid, a divalent salt and a solvent such as an aqueous-organic solvent. The colloidal solution can also include a therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic agent. Preferred carboxylic acids include at least two carboxyl groups. Preferred phospholipids include phosphatidylcholines, phosphatidylethanolamines, phosphatidylglycerols, phophstidylserines, phosphatidylinositols and combinations thereof. The particles are suitable for pulmonary delivery. |
| US07807198B2 |
Compositions containing inclusion complexes
The invention provides a composition containing particulate composite of a polymer and a therapeutic agent. The composition also contains a complexing agent. The polymer interacts with the complexing agent in a host-guest or a guest-host interaction to form an inclusion complex. A therapeutic composition of the invention may be used to deliver the therapeutic agent and to treat various disorders. Both the polymer of the particulate composite and the complexing agent may be used to introduce functionality into the therapeutic composition. The invention also relates to a method of preparing a composition. The method combines a therapeutic agent, a polymer having host or guest functionality, and a complexing agent having guest or host functionality to form the therapeutic composition. The complexing agent forms an inclusion complex with the polymer. The invention also relates to a method of delivering a therapeutic agent. According to the method, a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic composition of the invention is administered to a mammal (e.g. person or animal) in recognized need of the therapeutic. Also disclosed are compounds having the formula: |
| US07807190B2 |
Methods for eradicating lice and fleas from a host
A composition and method for eliminating foreign bodies from a host. The composition include active ingredients of menthol, camphor, and capsaicin, as well as additional components including aloe vera extract, carbomer, decyl polyglucose, deionized water, grapefruit seed extract, green tea extract, orange peel extract, queen of the prairie extract, rose water, silica, sodium, hydroxymethyl glycinate, vegetable glycerin, witch hazel, and yucca extract. The composition kills and eradicates the foreign bodies providing relief to the host. |
| US07807188B2 |
Simulated vernix compositions for skin cleansing and other applications
A composition and a method of producing a composition which simulates hydration, cleansing and other properties of native vernix. The composition contains hydrated synthetic cells in a lipid matrix to provide rheological properties which are substantially similar to those of native vernix, and may also contain proteins. In one embodiment, the composition contains cubosomes/water with up to 30% protein and about 5% lipid to about 30% lipid. The composition may be used to cleanse newborn skin, compromised skin surfaces, as well as normal skin, to provide hydration/barrier function, and other applications. |
| US07807187B2 |
Endogenous adjuvant molecules and uses thereof
Methods of modulating the immune response using pharmaceutical compositions containing crystalline adjuvants are described. In various embodiments the crystalline adjuvants are selected from the group consisting of monosodium urate (MSU), xanthine, basic calcium phosphate (BCP), calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD), hydroxyapatite, calcium oxalate, cholesterol, lipid liquid, other crystalline lipids, lithium heparin, talc, and starch. |
| US07807186B2 |
Tumor cells from immune privileged sites as base cells for cell-based cancer vaccines
The present invention relates to tumor cell-based vaccines and methods of using same, wherein the vaccines are based on naturally immune privileged tumor cells that have been genetically modified to express MHC-II restricted peptides derived from endogenously encoded tumor antigens, activate CD4+ T-lymphocytes, provide an array of antigens to which the host is not tolerized and/or induce immunity against the originating tumor cells as well as against metastatic tumor cells. |
| US07807183B2 |
Transport agents for crossing the blood-brain barrier and into brain cancer cells, and methods of use thereof
The present invention discloses methods and materials for delivering a cargo compound into a brain cancer cell and/or across the blood-brain barrier. Delivery of the cargo compound is accomplished by the use of protein transport peptides derived from Neisseria outer membrane proteins, such as Laz. The invention also provides synthetic transit peptides comprised of the pentapeptide AAEAP (SEQ ID NO: 25). The invention further discloses methods for treating cancer, and specifically brain cancer, as well as other brain-related conditions. Further, the invention provides methods of imaging and diagnosing cancer, particularly brain cancer. |
| US07807173B2 |
Influenza vaccine formulation
Peptide-based anti-influenza formulations against influenza are disclosed. The peptides are derived from influenza-based epitopes. The formulations are based on peptide mixtures which may be formulated so that variability is present at particular residues. The formulations can be used to prepare vaccines for preventing influenza, particularly avian influenza. |
| US07807170B2 |
Protein A compositions and methods of use
Methods and compositions for modulating an immune response in a subject are provided. Methods include administering to the subject a composition comprising an effective amount of a lymphocyte differentiation factor, e.g., protein A (PA), sufficient to modulate the immune response. Compositions include a lymphocyte differentiation factor, e.g., protein A (PA), in an amount less than 1 μg. |
| US07807169B2 |
Stratified and cryogenically stored vaccines, process for their preparation
A composition comprising at least one antigenic medium and at least one adjuvant, wherein the at least one antigenic medium and the at least one adjuvant each comprise one or more phases which are distinct from each other when the composition is in a solid state, and the composition is in the liquid state when its temperature is greater than or equal to 4° C. |
| US07807168B2 |
Selection of human TNFα specific antibodies
The invention relates to antibodies which bind to tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) and uses thereof, in particular in the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune diseases, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Specific human monoclonal antibodies which inhibit TNFα-mediated signalling pathways, and variants, fragments, and derivatives thereof are provided. Also provided are specific human monoclonal antibodies which block the ability of TNFα to bind to its receptor, as well as fragments, variants and derivatives of such antibodies. The invention also includes polynucleotides encoding the above antibodies or fragments, variants or derivatives thereof, as well as vectors and host cells comprising such polynucleotides. The invention further includes methods of diagnosing and treating autoimmune diseases, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis (RA), using antibodies of the invention. |
| US07807157B2 |
Monoclonal antibodies and use thereof
An antibody capable of recognizing amyloid β while not recognizing amyloid β precursor proteins, and a method for using the same.A monoclonal antibody characterized by being capable of recognizing the N-terminus peptide of amyloid β while not recognizing amyloid β precursor proteins, an amyloid β assay kit, a therapeutic agent of Alzheimer's disease, and a method for treating Alzheimer's disease using the monoclonal antibody. |
| US07807156B1 |
Methods of treating OX40 mediated recall immune responses
T cell memory can persist in the absence of antigen. However, some memory cells by default are subject to signals accompanying periodic antigen exposure. OX40 is essential to the extent and persistence of Th2 memory when antigen is re-encountered. In an animal model of allergic asthma, inhibiting OX40/OX40L signaling during the secondary response to inhaled antigen suppressed lung inflammation. Inhibiting OX40 at the time of memory cell reactivation reduced the longevity of memory with further inflammation prevented upon tertiary encounter with antigen. |
| US07807155B2 |
IL-17 antagonistic antibodies
An IL-17 binding molecule, in particular an antibody to human IL-17, more preferably a human antibody to human IL-17 is provided, wherein the hypervariable regions of the heavy and light chains have amino acid sequences as defined, for use in the treatment of an IL-17 mediated disease or disorder, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis. |
| US07807148B2 |
Organotypically cultured skin tissue comprising NIKS cells that express exogenous HIF-1a
The present invention relates to in vitro cultured skin tissue, and in particular to cultured skin tissue comprising exogenous genes encoding angiogenic growth factors. In some embodiments, the keratinocytes express exogenous angiopoietin-1, HIF-1α, or a member of the VEGF family, preferably VEGF-A. In particularly preferred embodiments, the keratinocytes are incorporated into cultured skin tissue. |
| US07807146B2 |
Methods for treating cancer with a recombinant MVA expressing HER-2
The invention relates to compositions, kits, and methods for cancer therapy using recombinant MVA viruses encoding a tumor-associated antigen, such as HER-2, particularly in combination with taxanes. The taxanes can be administered prior to, at the same time as, or after the recombinant MVA virus. |
| US07807145B2 |
Method of inducing neuronal production in the brain and spinal cord
The present invention relates to methods of inducing neuronal production in the brain, recruiting neurons to the brain, and treating a neurodegenerative condition by providing a nucleic acid construct encoding a neurotrophic factor, and injecting the nucleic acid construct intraventricularly into a subject's brain. |
| US07807144B2 |
Oral vaccines
This invention features a composition that includes a multiple-cell organism for use as food for an aquatic animal (e.g., a fish or a shrimp), and a single-cell organism fed to, and as a result, bioencapsulated by, the multiple-cell organism. The single-cell organism has been transformed to express a recombinant antigen that induces an immune response in the aquatic animal. |
| US07807141B2 |
Peptide-based oral care surface reagents for personal care
Peptides have been identified that bind to oral surfaces such as teeth and gums. Peptide based oral care reagents have been created by couple such peptides to oral care benefit agents such as whiteners. |
| US07807138B2 |
Biomarkers of metabolic responses to hepatic drugs
Methods for the measurement and prediction of response to hepatotoxicants and carcinogens through the detection of metabolites in a mammal are provided. The metabolites can be used as biomarkers, including efficacy biomarkers, surrogate biomarkers, and toxicity biomarkers. The methods find use for early prediction of toxicity, target identification/validation, and monitoring of drug efficacy. |
| US07807136B2 |
Method and composition for the treatment of cancer by the enzymatic conversion of soluble radioactive toxic precipitates in the cancer
The invention features compositions and methods for treating or alleviating a symptom of cancer. The compositions and methods of the invention direct supra-lethal doses of radiation, called Hot-Spots, to virtually all cancer cell types. |
| US07807131B2 |
Hydrogen producing fuel for power generator
A hydrogen producing fuel comprises a chemical hydride and metal hydride. In one embodiment the chemical hydride evolves hydrogen spontaneously upon exposure to water vapor, and the metal hydride reversibly absorbs/desorbs hydrogen based on temperature and pressure. The hydrogen producing substance may be formed in the shape of a pellet and may be contained within a hydrogen and water vapor permeable, liquid water impermeable membrane. |
| US07807130B2 |
Fuel processor dewar and methods
Described herein is a fuel processor that produces hydrogen from a fuel source. The fuel processor comprises a reformer and burner. The reformer includes a catalyst that facilitates the production of hydrogen from the fuel source. Voluminous reformer chamber designs are provided that increase the amount of catalyst that can be used in a reformer and increase hydrogen output for a given fuel processor size. The burner provides heat to the reformer. One or more burners may be configured to surround a reformer on multiple sides to increase thermal transfer to the reformer. Dewars are also described that increase thermal management of a fuel processor and increase burner efficiency. A dewar includes one or more dewar chambers that receive inlet process gas or liquid before a burner receives the process gas or liquid. The dewar is arranged such that process gas or liquid passing through the dewar chamber intercepts heat generated in the burner before the heat escapes the fuel processor. |
| US07807126B2 |
Diamond single crystal substrate
A method for manufacturing a diamond single crystal substrate, in which a single crystal is grown from a diamond single crystal serving as a seed substrate by vapor phase synthesis, said method comprising: preparing a diamond single crystal seed substrate which has a main surface whose planar orientation falls within an inclination range of not more than 8 degrees relative to a {100} plane or a {111} plane, as a seed substrate; forming a plurality of planes of different orientation which are inclined in the outer peripheral direction of the main surface relative to the main surface on one side of this seed substrate, by machining; and then growing a diamond single crystal by vapor phase synthesis. |
| US07807121B2 |
Lithium metal phosphates, method for producing the same and use thereof as electrode material
The invention describes a process for producing a compound of the formula LiMPO4, in which M represents at least one metal from the first transition series, comprising the following steps: a) production of a precursor mixture, containing at least one Li+ source, at least one M2+ source and at least one PO43− source, in order to form a precipitate and thereby to produce a precursor suspension; b) dispersing or milling treatment of the precursor mixture and/or the precursor suspension until the D90 value of the particles in the precursor suspension is less than 50 μm; and c) the obtaining of LiMPO4 from the precursor suspension obtained in accordance with b), preferably by reaction under hydrothermal conditions. The material obtainable by this process has particularly advantageous particle size distributions and electrochemical properties when used in electrodes. |
| US07807118B2 |
Decontamination system
A decontamination system suitable for decontaminating items of medical equipment such as endoscopes, the system comprising: (I) a plurality of pre-clean wipes comprising moist fabric members for wiping an item to be decontaminated; (II) a two-part sterilant system comprising: (a) a first part comprising a first reagent in a carrier medium; and (b) a second part which is miscible with the first part and which comprises a second reagent in a carrier medium; wherein the first reagent and the second reagent will react when mixed to provide a sterilising composition; the first part being contained in a dispenser (2) whereby it may be dispensed as a fluid, and the second part being absorbed or impregnated in a plurality of sterilising wipes (18) each of which comprises a fabric member in a sealed container (20); and (III) a plurality of rinse wipes, each rinse wipe comprising a moist, sterile, fabric member in its own sealed container (40). |