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US07995402B2	Method for erasing a semiconductor magnetic memory integrating a magnetic tunneling junction above a floating-gate memory cell A semiconductor magnetic memory device has a magnetic tunneling junction formed over a memory cell. The memory cell has a control gate surrounded by a floating gate. The floating gate is coupled to the magnetic tunneling junction through a pinning layer that maintains the magnetic orientation of the lower magnetic layer of the junction. A current through a selected word line, coupled to the control gate, generates a first magnetic field. A current through a cell select line generates a second magnetic field that is orthogonal to the first magnetic field. This changes the magnetic orientation of the upper magnetic layer of the junction to lower its resistance, thus allowing a write/erase voltage on a program/erase line to program/erase the floating gate.
US07995401B2	Non-volatile semiconductor memory with page erase In a nonvolatile memory, less than a full block maybe erased as one or more pages. A select voltage is applied through pass transistors to each of plural selected wordlines and an unselect voltage is applied through pass transistor to each of plural unselected wordlines of a selected block. A substrate voltage is applied to the substrate of the selected block. A common select voltage may be applied to each selected wordline and the common unselect voltage may be applied to each unselected wordline. Select and unselect voltages may be applied to any of the wordlines of a select block. A page erase verify operation may be applied to a block having plural erased pages and plural nonerased pages.
US07995399B2	NAND memory device and programming methods A NAND Flash memory device reduces circuitry noise during program operations. The memory includes bit lines that are electrically coupled together to charge share their respective voltage potentials prior to performing a discharge operation on the bit lines. A NAND flash cell is programmed by coupling a first memory array bit line to a program voltage to program the memory cell, biasing a second memory array bit line to a ground potential, wherein the second memory array bit line is located adjacent to the first memory array bit line, activating at least one first transistor to electrically coupling the first and second memory array bit lines together, and activating at least one second transistor to electrically couple the first and second memory array bit lines to a discharge potential.
US07995398B2	Structures and methods for reading out non-volatile memories Non-differential sense amplifier circuitry for reading out Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) and its operating methods are disclosed. Such non-differential amplifier circuitry requires exceptionally low power and achieves moderate sensing speed, as compared to a conventional sensing scheme.
US07995395B2	Charge loss compensation during programming of a memory device A selected memory cell on a selected word line is programmed through a plurality of programming pulses that are incremented by a step voltage. After a successful program verify operation, programming of the selected memory cell is inhibited while other memory cells of the selected word line are being programmed. Another program verify operation is performed on the selected memory cell. If the program verify operation fails, a bit line coupled to the selected cell is biased at the step voltage and a final programming pulse is issued to the selected word line. The selected memory cell is then locked from further programming without evaluating the final program verify operation.
US07995389B2	Multi-level nonvolatile semiconductor memory A memory includes first and second select gate transistors, memory cells which are connected in series between the first and second select gate transistors, a selected word line which is connected to a selected memory cell as a target of a reading, a non-selected word line which is connected to a non-selected memory cell except the selected memory cell, a potential generating circuit for generating a selected read potential which is supplied to the selected word line, and generating a non-selected read potential larger than the selected read potential, which is supplied to the non-selected word line, and a control circuit which changes a set up term of the selected word line and the non-selected word line based on a value of the selected read potential, wherein the value of the selected read potential is selected from two or more potentials.
US07995388B1	Data storage using modified voltages A method for data storage includes storing data in a target analog memory cell, which is one of a group of analog memory cells that are connected in series with one another, by writing an input storage value into the target memory cell. A first read operation, which reads a first output storage value from the target memory cell while biasing the other memory cells with respective first pass voltages, is applied to the target memory cell. A second read operation, which reads a second output storage value from the target memory cell while biasing the other memory cells with respective second pass voltages, is applied to the target memory cell. At least one of the second pass voltages is different from a respective first pass voltage. The data is reconstructed responsively to the first and second output storage values.
US07995387B2	System and method to read data subject to a disturb condition Systems and methods for reading data are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes measuring characteristics of a plurality of cells at a memory. The characteristics correspond to a plurality of values including a first value stored at a particular cell and a second value stored at a second cell of the memory. The method includes testing whether at least some of the plurality of values match a particular pattern correlated to a disturb condition at the particular cell, and providing a data value corresponding to the particular cell. The data value is determined at least in part based on a result of the testing.
US07995385B2	Memory array of pairs of nonvolatile memory cells using Fowler-Nordheim programming and erasing A system comprising a program component that programs one or more non-volatile memory (“NVM”) cells of an array of pairs of NVM cells using FN tunneling, an erase component that erases the one or more NVM cells of the array of pairs of NVM cells using FN tunneling, and a read component that reads the one or more NVM cells of the array of pairs of NVM cells.
US07995374B2	Semiconductor memory device, method of manufacturing the same, and method of screening the same A memory cell comprises a variable resistance film; a first conductive film having one surface contacted with one surface of the variable resistance film; and a second conductive film having one surface contacted with another surface of the variable resistance film. A width of the first conductive film or the second conductive film in a direction orthogonal to a direction that a current flows in the first conductive film or the second conductive film is smaller than a width of the variable resistance film in a direction orthogonal to a direction that a current flows in the variable resistance film. The width of the first conductive film and the second conductive film is smaller than a width of the first line and the second line in a direction orthogonal to a direction that a current flows in the first line and the second line.
US07995371B2	Threshold device for a memory array A threshold device including a plurality of adjacent tunnel barrier layers that are in contact with one another and are made from a plurality of different dielectric materials is disclosed. A memory plug having first and second terminals includes, electrically in series with the first and second terminals, the threshold device and a memory element that stores data as a plurality of conductivity profiles. The threshold device is operative to impart a characteristic I-V curve that defines current flow through the memory element as a function of applied voltage across the terminals during data operations. The threshold device substantially reduces or eliminates current flow through half-selected or un-selected memory plugs and allows a sufficient magnitude of current to flow through memory plugs that are selected for read and write operations. The threshold device reduces or eliminates data disturb in half-selected memory plugs and increases S/N ratio during read operations.
US07995368B2	Memory cell architecture Embodiments of the present invention disclose a memory architecture for optimizing memory performance and size. Memory optimization is realized by configuring the memory to a particular logic state; that is, restricting memory data storage to either logic “0” or “1.” The opposite logic state, “1” or “0,” can be available through initialization and, therefore, may be presumed. Accordingly, the presumed, initialized logic state is available unless the configured logic state in memory changes the initialized data during memory access. Memory size reduction is realized by restricting physical memory to contain only cells that store data. Memory size can be further reduced by eliminating redundant data rows and columns. By reducing memory size, processing speed can be enhanced and power consumption reduced relative to conventional memory structures.
US07995367B2	Circuit arrangement comprising a non-volatile memory cell and method The circuit arrangement comprises a symmetrically constructed comparator (3), a non-volatile memory cell (10) and a reference element (20). The comparator (3) exhibits a latching function, and is connected in a differential current path that joins the power supply terminal (9) to a reference potential terminal (8). The non-volatile memory cell (10) is connected in a first branch (35) of the differential current path, and the reference element (20) is connected in a second branch (55) of the differential current path.
US07995366B2	Homogenous cell array A system for terminating a homogenous cell array is disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises a plurality of homogenous cells arranged in rows and columns to form the homogenous cell array, wherein a first homogenous cell of each column is electrically differently connected than a rest of the homogenous cells of the column.
US07995364B2	DC/DC converter circuit and controller thereof The present invention uses a multi-phase oscillator or a mono-stable circuit in order to charge the output instantly or within an acceptable time period when a charge pump circuit is in a PFM mode and an output voltage is below a preset voltage level. Therefore, the present invention avoids the problem of charging the output in an unacceptable time delay thereby achieving the advantage of reducing the voltage ripple at the output.
US07995363B2	DC-DC converter A DC-DC converter includes a charge pump unit and a clock pulse generator unit. The charge pump unit precharges a boost node in response to a precharge clock pulse and boosts the boost node to a boosted voltage in response to a pump clock pulse. The clock pulse generator unit generates the precharge clock pulse and the pump clock pulse in which corresponding pulse widths increase during multiple time intervals over time.
US07995361B2	Circuit for output voltage error detect and feedback in SMPS The present invention relates to an error information detection circuit and an error feedback circuit, which detect the error of an output voltage from a voltage induced to a winding. The circuit for detecting error information of an output voltage of a transformer from voltage induced to the feedback winding of the transformer and feeding back the error information includes a flyback period detection circuit (34) for detecting a flyback period from a voltage induced to the feedback winding. A comparison unit (35) compares the induced voltage of the feedback winding with a reference voltage and outputs a result of comparison. A logic unit (36) outputs error information of an output voltage of the transformer according to a flyback period detection output of the flyback period detection circuit and the output of the comparison unit. An up/down control unit (32) outputs a feedback value corresponding to the error information.
US07995353B2	Circuit board and electronic device using the same A circuit board includes four positioning pads placed on a surface of the circuit board, four positioning holes corresponding to the positioning pads, respectively, and a solder mask placed on the surface around the periphery of the positioning pads. An arc-shaped recess is defined at a side of each positioning pad near the corresponding positioning hole and the space between the edges of the positioning pad and the positioning hole ranges from 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm.
US07995351B2	Printed board The invention relates to a printed board which comprises an inlay and on whose one face electrical components are provided and on whose other face at least one single cooling element for cooling the components is mounted. A component to be cooled, the inlay and the cooling element are aligned with each other. The components are SMD components of, e.g., a high-power output stage circuit with heat emissions of up to 10 to 15 watt. In order to cool the structure, the heat produced in a heating zone between the pins of a component to be cooled is guided to the inlay which is dimensioned in such a manner that it extends farther than below the pins of the component to be cooled. In order to prevent short-circuits and allow power connections, an additional layer is arranged on the printed board above the inlay and simultaneously below the component to be cooled and comprises thermic provisions between a component to be cooled and the inlay for ensuring a good to excellent heat conduction from the heating zone of a component to be cooled to the inlay.
US07995349B2	Storage device temperature sensing A storage device transporter is provided for transporting a storage device and for mounting a storage device within a test slot. The storage device transporter includes a frame that is configured to receive and support a storage device, and a clamping mechanism associated with the frame. The clamping mechanism is operable to apply a clamping force to a storage device supported by the frame The storage device transporter also includes a temperature sensor (e.g., a thermocouple). The clamping mechanism is operable to move the temperature sensor into contact with a storage device supported by the frame for measuring a temperature of the storage device.
US07995348B2	Surge protector with a mounting base A surge protector includes a housing with connectors for passing through an electrical lead that is to be protected, whereby a surge voltage discharge device is located inside the housing and a mounting base for placement on a mounting rail is located on the outside of the housing. The mounting base on the housing exhibits a power surge proof discharge contact for contacting the mounting rail with the discharge contact being connected to the discharge connector of the surge protector. An attachment is connected in a removeable fashion to the mounting base which includes a contact component which contacts the discharge contact of the mounting base and is connected in an electrically conducting manner with a lead that exits the attachment.
US07995344B2	High performance large tolerance heat sink A heat sink apparatus for electronic components provides a heat sink and a deformable, convex foil construction affixed to the heat sink around a periphery of the foil construction and adapted to extend away from the heat sink to enable deformation of the convex foil construction as a result of contact with a top surface of an electronic component mounted opposite the foil construction.
US07995342B2	Display device A display device according to the present invention comprises a display panel, a housing sealing around the display panel and making a display screen of the display panel viewable from outside, and a heat exchanger collecting heat, which is arranged on a rear surface side of the display panel. Another display device according to the present invention comprises a housing having a waterproof structure and provided with an accommodation room formed therein, a display panel arranged in the accommodation room and including a display screen viewable from a front surface side of the housing, a heat exchanger collecting heat generated from the display panel and arranged on a rear surface side of the display panel, and a second heat exchanger releasing heat collected by the heat exchanger to outside of the housing and arranged outside the accommodation room.
US07995341B2	Electronic device with heat dissipating mechanism An electronic device includes a base and a sidewall attached to the base. The sidewall includes a heat dissipating area defining a plurality of vents, a sliding plate slidably coupled to an inner side of the sidewall, and a controlling arm made of metal material having high coefficient of thermal expansion. The controlling arm is connected between the sliding plate and the sidewall, for driving the sliding plate to slide to cover or uncover the vents of the heat dissipating area according to different interior temperature of the electronic device.
US07995340B2	Ventilation device ventilating an electronic module An electronic module comprises a ventilation device used for the efficient cooling of the components of this module while at the same time minimizing the accumulation of solid particles. To this end, a selector switch is placed between an electrical power supply unit of the module and a motor of the ventilation device. This selector switch cyclically modifies the sense of rotation of the fan in order to suck in an airflow to cool the components and expel the airflow in order to expel the solid particles located in the module and on the ventilation device.
US07995339B2	Control of vent tiles correlated with a rack In a method of controlling vent tiles, the vent tiles are initially correlated with at least one rack. A vent tile family (VTF) of the at least one rack is determined, where the VTF includes vent tiles that have at least a predefined level of influence over the at least one rack as determined by the correlation between the vent tiles and the at least one rack. In addition, a vent control family (VCF) from the vent tiles in the VTF is identified, where the VCF includes vent tiles having an associated at least one rack whose inlet condition is outside of a predefined threshold. Moreover, the vent tiles in the VCF are controlled on a weighted basis determined by the correlation between the vent tiles and the at least one rack.
US07995336B2	Rear board of blade server, blade server and subrack A rear board of a blade server, a blade server and a subrack are provided. The blade server includes a front board and a back board, the rear board includes a standard ATCA interface, and the rear board is connected to the front board by the standard ATCA interface. The blade server also includes a connector configured to connect hard disks which is set on the rear board, and a portion of the rear board on which the connector is set is extended outward so as to accommodate at least two hard disks, and the at least two hard disks are connected to the connector. The blade server increases the ability of the heat dissipation ability of the front board, and the rear board supports data backup between the two hard disks and hot plug.
US07995331B2	Console for a machine tool A console for a machine tool comprising a housing mounted on a pivotable supporting arm, a keypad arranged in the housing, and an upper display unit including a screen. The housing is formed with a lower housing shell including the keypad, and a separate upper housing part including the upper display unit. The lower housing shell and the upper housing part are formed so as to be separately pivotable and lockable in preferred operating positions.
US07995329B2	Modular power distribution system and methods A modular power distribution system comprises a chassis; and a backplane including a power input, and a plurality of module connection locations. A plurality of modules are mounted in the chassis, each module mounted to one of the module connection locations. Each module includes: (i) an OR-ing diode; (ii) a circuit protection device; (iii) a microprocessor controlling the circuit protection device; and (iv) a power output connection location. A circuit option switch is located on each module for setting the current limits for each module. A control module is provided connected to the backplane.
US07995327B2	Film, a capacitor, a voltage transformer and a method of using a capacitor an exemplary film includes a base having an electrically insulating polymer which carries on one or both surfaces a sequence of electrically conductive coated areas which are separated by non-coated interstices. The film, which can include a superposition of films arranged one above another, can be shaped to form a capacitor. The capacitor can include a plurality of parallel electrodes which are insulated from each other. Each electrode can include one or more electrode layers formed by the coated areas that are separated by dielectric layers formed by sections of the base.
US07995324B2	Electrostatic attraction apparatus for glass substrate and method of attracting and releasing the same An object is providing an electrostatic attraction apparatus and an attracting/releasing method capable of reliably attracting and quickly releasing a glass substrate. An attraction force for attracting a glass substrate is obtained according to the physical properties of the glass substrate. In addition to obtaining an attraction voltage (Vc(t)) required for obtaining the attraction force, a holding voltage (Vh(t)) for holding an attraction state and a release voltage (Vr(t)) for releasing the glass substrate are also obtained (S1 to S7). Attraction time period (tc) is actually measured and if this measured time is different from a preset attraction time (t1), the holding voltage (Vh(t)) and the release voltage (Vr(t)) are recalculated according to the actually measured attraction time period (tc) (S8 to S11).
US07995319B2	Semiconductor device with overcurrent protection circuit A semiconductor device 1 includes an output MOS transistor M2, a sense MOS transistor M3, a voltage conversion circuit 20 that converts a sense current of the sense MOS transistor M3 into a sense voltage, and control MOS transistor M10 having a gate and a source which receive the sense voltage therebetween and a drain connected to a gate of the output MOS transistor M2. The voltage conversion circuit 20 includes a first MOS transistor M21 diode-connected and a second MOS transistor M22 connected in series to the first transistor M21. A gate of the second transistor M22 is connected to a node between a gate control circuit 6 and a resistor R5 which is connected to the gate of the output MOS transistor M2. A variation in threshold voltage caused by characteristic variation of the control MOS transistor M10 causes a variation in output current limiting value, but the threshold voltage of the first MOS transistor M21 diode-connected varies similarly, whereby the variation in threshold voltage caused by characteristic variation of the control MOS transistor M10 is cancelled. As a result, the variation in output current limiting value is suppressed.
US07995311B2	Magnetic shield, manufacturing method thereof and thin film magnetic head employing the same Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic shield composed of size-controlled small crystal grains and provide a more after-write read noise free thin film magnetic head. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an upper magnetic shield uses a multi-layered magnetic film formed by alternately stacking a face-centered cubic (fcc) crystalline magnetic thin layer and a body-centered cubic (bcc) crystalline magnetic thin layer by plating. The plating bath is such that the temperature is 30±1° C., pH is about 2.0−1.0 to 2.0+0.5, metal ion concentrations are about 5 to 25 (g/l) for Ni2+ and 5 to 15 (g/l) for Fe2+, saccharin sodium concentration is about 1.5±1.0 (g/l), sodium chloride concentration is about 25±5 (g/l), and boric acid concentration is about 25±5 (g/l). Each layer's crystal structure is different from that of its upper and lower layers, which results in size-controlled small crystal grains since the epitaxial growth is broken. Since crystal grains are reduced in size, it is possible to suppress the after-write read noise and therefore attain a read head which allows recording at higher frequencies.
US07995309B2	Magnetic recording medium, magnetic signal reproduction method and magnetic signal reproduction system The present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium comprising a magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder and a binder on one surface of a nonmagnetic support and a backcoat layer comprising a granular material and a binder on the other surface of the nonmagnetic support, wherein the backcoat layer has an average surface roughness ranging from 15 to 25 nm, as measured by an atomic force microscope, and a density of protrusions equal to or greater than 50 nm in height ranges from 1 to 50/mm2 on the backcoat layer surface, as measured by a three-dimensional surface roughness meter with a contact needle. The present invention further relates to a method of reproducing magnetic signals and a magnetic signal reproduction system.
US07995308B2	Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording and method of manufacturing same, the magnetic head incuding pole layer and two shields sandwiching the pole layer A magnetic head incorporates: a medium facing surface; a coil; a pole layer; first and second shields disposed to sandwich the pole layer therebetween; a first gap layer disposed between the first shield and the pole layer; a second gap layer disposed between the second shield and the pole layer; and a substrate. The first shield is located closer to the substrate than the second shield. The first shield has a first layer and a second layer disposed between the first layer and the first gap layer.
US07995303B2	Overhead calculation in writing synchronized data to magnetic tape Various embodiments for writing received synchronized data to magnetic tape having a plurality of wraps using a magnetic tape drive adapted for performing the writing according to an available plurality of predefined tape speeds are provided. In one such embodiment, for each of the available plurality of predefined tape speeds, an average overhead per synchronized command for performing a recursively accumulated backhitchless flush (RABF) cycle is calculated. One of the available plurality of predefined tape speeds having a lowest calculated average overhead is selected. The RABF cycle is performed using the selected one of the available plurality of predefined tape speeds.
US07995300B2	Detection of defective tape drive by aggregating read error statistics A plurality of tape drives writes a plurality of indicators corresponding to a plurality of data units on a tape, wherein an indicator indicates which tape drive of the plurality of tape drives has written a corresponding data unit on the tape. Each of the plurality of tape drives generates an extent of read errors, in response to reading the plurality of data units written on the tape. The extent of read errors generated by each of the plurality of tape drives are aggregated at a computational device coupled to the plurality of tape drives. A determination is made at the computational device of a defective tape drive of the plurality of tape drives from the aggregated extent of read errors.
US07995297B2	Piezoelectric driving module, camera module using same and portable electronic device using same An exemplary piezoelectric driving module includes a movable barrel, a fixed barrel receiving the movable barrel, a piezoelectric actuator, and a spring member. The piezoelectric actuator is configured for moving the movable barrel relative to the fixed barrel. The piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric body mounted on the sidewall of the fixed barrel and a friction member mounted on the piezoelectric body. The piezoelectric body is configured for driving the friction member to generate elliptical vibration. The friction member is in frictional contact with the movable barrel. The spring member connects the movable barrel to the fixed barrel. The spring member is configured for providing an resilient force to make the movable barrel be in frictional contact with the friction member such that the friction member can be driven by the piezoelectric body to move the movable barrel along the central axis of the fixed barrel.
US07995292B2	Image pickup lens and image pickup apparatus An image pickup lens includes, in order from an object side, a first lens element having a positive refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side, an aperture stop adjusting the amount of light, a second lens element having a negative refractive power, a third lens element having a positive refractive power and a concave surface facing the object side, and a fourth lens element having a negative refractive power. In the image pickup lens, the following conditional expressions are satisfied, 0.6<\|f2/f\|<1.8 0≦f2/R4<1.7 where f denotes a focal length of an entire lens system, f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens element, and R4 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the second lens element.
US07995285B2	Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes a first lens has a positive refractive power, a second lens has a positive refractive power, a third lens has a negative refractive power, a fourth lens has a negative refractive power, an image sensor and a driving device. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens and the image sensor are arranged in the order written along an optical axis of the imaging apparatus from the object side to the image side thereof. The driving device is connected to the second lens and configured for driving the second lens to move toward the object side to perform a zoom-in function of the imaging apparatus.
US07995281B2	Wide-angle objective lens system and camera A vehicle camera and wide-angle objective lens system are disclosed wherein the wide-angle objective lens has image aberrations or errors that do not deteriorate the detection of obstructions or obstacles in its field of view.
US07995280B2	Projection exposure system, beam delivery system and method of generating a beam of light A beam delivery system of a projection exposure system comprises a laser generating a beam of laser light from a plurality of longitudinal laser modes in a cavity, wherein light generated by a single longitudinal laser mode has an average line width λlat, wherein the laser light of the beam has, at each of respective lateral positions of the beam, a second line width λlat corresponding to lateral laser modes, and wherein the laser light of the beam has, when averaged over a whole cross section thereof, a line width λb corresponding to plural lateral laser modes, and wherein λm<λlat<λb, and wherein an optical delay apparatus disposed in the beam provides an optical path difference Δl, wherein 0.8 · λ 0 2 ( 2 · Δ ⁢ ⁢ λ l ) < Δ ⁢ ⁢ l < 1.8 · λ 0 2 ( 2 · Δ ⁢ ⁢ λ l ) , wherein λ0 is an average wavelength of the light of the first beam of laser light, and Δλlat represents the second line width.
US07995278B2	Methods of forming sheeting with composite images that float and sheeting with composite images that float Microlens sheetings with different types of composite images are disclosed, in which the composite image floats above, in, or below the sheeting, or some combination. One type of composite image may be viewable to the unaided eye or an observer and another type of composite image is viewable only to the aided eye of an observer. Methods for providing such an imaged sheeting are also disclosed.
US07995277B2	Apparatus for controlling energy through a skylight An apparatus for controlling energy from a skylight of a structure including a plurality of vanes positioned beneath the skylight and angularly adjustable to control solar radiation entering the structure through the skylight. The vanes are substantially S-shaped. A first light sensor is disposed proximate the skylight side of the vanes for providing a signal over time representative of changing incident solar radiation at the skylight side of the vanes, and a second light sensor disposed proximate the structure side the vanes for providing a signal over time representative of changing incident solar radiation at the structure side of the vanes. A control assembly is operably connected to the vanes for automatically controlling the angle of each of the vanes in response to the signals of the first and second light sensors which signals vary due to changes in incident solar radiation over time. A light deflecting member is positioned below the vanes a selected distance so as to cause a first portion of the light that passes through the vanes to be reflected toward the ceiling of the structure and a second portion of the light to pass directly toward the floor of the structure.
US07995275B2	Polarization conversion element, polarization conversion optical system and image projecting apparatus A polarization conversion element having plural polarization separation sections and plural phase modulation sections is disclosed. A light flux is separated into transmission light (P polarization) and reflection light (S polarization) by being input to a polarization separation section. The reflection light reflected at the polarization separation section is output in the same direction as that of the transmission light by being reflected again at an adjacent polarization separation section at a different position from a position where a light flux is input to the adjacent polarization separation section. The phase modulation section is disposed on an optical path of the transmission light or the reflection light and output light becomes the same polarization.
US07995272B2	Fixed focus microscope objective lens A fixed focus microscope objective lens designed for high magnification viewing of homogenous specimens. The fixed focus microscope objective comprises a last surface 16 which serves as a specimen mount and enables the device to operate in focus without the need for focus adjustors in the microscope system. The user can observe specimens by simply placing a sample of the specimen on the fixed focus objective lens surface 16. There is no need for preparing a microscope slide, focusing, or positioning the specimen. By eliminating focus and stage adjustors the microscope becomes both simpler to operate and less expensive to manufacture. A fixed focus microscope objective lens can be used by novice microscopists to obtain high quality images at high magnification for nominal cost, and can convert a common video camera into a high quality video microscope.
US07995271B2	Laser microscope with negative dispersion optical system A laser microscope is provided which includes a laser light source, a first optical fiber through which the ultrashort pulse laser light propagates while being positively chirped, a negative dispersion optical system that negatively chirps this propagated laser light, a second optical fiber through which the laser light that has passed through the negative dispersion optical system propagates while being positively chirped, a microscope body that further positively chirps this propagated laser light and irradiates a specimen with the resultant non-chirped ultrashort pulse laser light. The negative dispersion optical system includes a negative dispersion adjuster that adjusts the amount of negative dispersion according to the change in wavelength of the ultrashort pulse laser light outputted from the laser light source or the change in the amount of positive dispersion in the microscope body.
US07995269B2	Cost effective optical transmission with fast raman tilt transient control A method for cost-effective optical transmission with fast Raman tilt or other transient event control uses a combination of Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) and Raman fiber amplifiers (RFAs), where EDFAs are used as the primary optical amplifiers to compensate the span loss while the RFA (advantageously a forward-pumped RFA) is used only in some specific spans with a feed-forward control circuit serving as a fast Raman tilt transient compensator, the RFA also serving as an optical amplifier. A long haul optical transmission system using feed-forward controlled RFA's periodically spaced along its length, for example, when add-drop multiplexing is used, makes full use of the economics of EDFAs and the fast tilt transient control capability of a RFA enabled by an adjustable speed feed-forward or feed-back control technique.
US07995267B2	Wavelength converter manufacturing method and wavelength converter Affords a wavelength converter manufacturing method and a wavelength converter whereby the transmissivity can be improved. A method of manufacturing a wavelength converter (10a) is provided with the following steps. At first, crystal is grown. Then a first crystal (11) and a second crystal (12) are formed by sectioning the crystal into two or more in such a way that the domains are the reverse of each other. The first and second crystals (11) and (12) are then interlocked in such a way that a domain inversion structure in which the polar directions of the first and second crystals (11) and (12) periodically reverse along an optical waveguide (13) is formed, and the domain inversion structure satisfies quasi-phase-matching conditions for an incoming beam (101).
US07995265B2	Interferometric modulators having charge persistence An interferometric modulator is formed having a dielectric with charge persistence. The interferometric modulator is addressed by a method making advantageous use of the charge persistence property, wherein the interferometric modulator is pre-charged in such a way that the pre-charging is not observable to a viewer, and the actuation voltage threshold of the imod is significantly lowered. Subsequently the interferometric modulator may be actuated with a significantly lower actuation voltage, thereby saving power.
US07995258B2	Angle diversity antispeckling in spot displays Improvement of speckling noise is discussed in which a central light beam received at a double-sided mirror is divided into a plurality of sub-beams. An intensity of these sub-beams decays from a second sub-beam to a last sub-beam of the plurality. Each sub-beam is also separated at the double-sided mirror by at least a first length, such as the coherence length or intrinsic divergence, and reflected toward a display screen. The configuration of the double-sided mirror focuses the sub-beams to converge with a first sub-beam on the display screen at different angles. The decreasing intensity and different angles of impact with the screen decreases the spatial coherence of the display light. The angle diversity and combination of multiple sub-beams having different intensities offers a non-time-averaging means to decrease speckle noise without downgrading the beam quality or display resolution.
US07995253B2	Image reading device and control method thereof An image reading device feeds a document original along a sub-scanning direction over an exposure glass. A moving unit moves to and fro in the sub-scanning direction over the exposure glass thereby causing an image reading position on the exposure glass to move. A line image sensor reads one line of an image of the document original at the image reading position in a main scanning direction, while the moving unit is moving, thereby obtaining image. A dirt determining unit determines that there is dirt on the exposure glass when a straight line appears in the main scanning direction in the image data.
US07995247B2	Embedding computer information into printed media and process method thereof The present invention provides a method of generating information embedded halftone screen code. According to this method, massive digital information can be stored through printing on at least one type of print media. The information embedded can be read and recognized simply and reliably. The quality of the images will not be reduced after information embedded. The information printed on the media includes a predetermined array of halftone dots with different morphology including physical and geometrical characteristics, which forms the computer codes to embed information into printed content. The advantages of this invention are: the maximum similarity value can be reduced to under the threshold value according to this method; the recognition performance of the halftone screen code can be improved; and robustness can still be maintained at a high level even though the paper is defected or polluted.
US07995246B2	Detecting printed image copies using phase-space-encoded fragile watermark The present invention is concerned with detection of a “fragile watermark” in a printed image to aid in a determination whether a document under examination is an original or a copy. The watermark may be applied by phase-space encoding data to be included in the watermark. The image may be examined on a block-by-block basis after scanning. Correlation of detected watermark strength with block brightness and/or with wave vectors used for encoding may be used to detect that the image is a copy.
US07995244B1	Halftoner block employing average values and shifts Halftoning apparatus and method that may generate and employ average values and shifts are described herein. The apparatus may include an unpacker to determine shifts and average values for a plurality of input pixel values, each pair of average value and shift being associated with a corresponding pair of the input pixel values. The apparatus may further include a halftone core coupled to the unpacker to receive the shifts and the average values from the unpacker and to generate pairs of output pixel values based at least in part on the received shifts and average values, wherein the output pixel values are for generating pixels of an image.
US07995241B2	Method of capturing image of document with alignment of document fixer and image pickup device A method of capturing an image of a document is provided. First, a notebook computer having a base is provided, wherein an image pickup device is disposed on the notebook computer, and a symbol mark is formed on the base of the notebook computer. Next, a document fixer having a fixer middle mark is provided. The document is fixed by the document fixer, wherein a centerline of a long edge of the document is aligned with the fixer middle mark. Next, the document fixer is moved according to a size of the document until the fixer middle mark is aligned with the symbol mark. After the image of the document is captured, an image processing procedure is performed. By aligning the fixer middle mark with the symbol mark of the notebook computer, the document is precisely positioned and thus a sharp image with no tilted distortion is acquired.
US07995240B2	Image-forming device capable of forming and correcting color image An image-forming device includes: an image-forming unit; a sensor; a storing unit; a reference ratio determining unit; an estimated ratio determining unit; and a density correcting unit. The image-forming unit is capable of forming a plurality of density patches corresponding to a plurality of reference densities. The sensor detects the densities of the density patches and outputs a measured output value for each reference density. The storing unit stores reference output values for the reference densities. The reference ratio determining unit determines reference ratios to compensate for differences between the measured output values and the reference output values for the reference densities. The estimated ratio determining unit determines estimated ratios corresponding to densities other than the reference densities based on the reference ratios for the reference densities. The density correcting unit corrects density of image data based on the reference ratios and estimated ratios.
US07995239B2	Image output apparatus, method and program Correction processing is performed on a region that requires correction processing, in a photographed image obtained by taking a photograph of a subject, and a corrected image is obtained. The degree of effect is calculated in the corrected image. Then, judgment is made, based on the magnitude of the degree of effect, as to whether it is required to check the effect of correction processing performed on the photographed image. If it is judged that it is required to check the effect of correction processing, at least one of the photographed image and the corrected image is displayed to check the effect. Then, the corrected image is printed.
US07995235B2	Interactive document retrieval device An interactive document retrieval device having a processor and a print engine is disclosed. The processor receives first indicating data identifying a page identity and one or more locations on a first interactive document. The first interactive document has a page description stored in a server. The page identity contained in the first indicating data is used to determine a network address of the server storing the page description of the first interactive document. Data based upon the first indicating data is sent to the network address identified using the page identity in order to retrieve a page description of a second interactive document. The second interactive document is then printed by the print engine.
US07995230B2	Label creating apparatus and method for using the same A label creating method for creating labels to be attached to checked fixtures comprises these steps: providing a label creating system (100), which includes a database module (40) storing relational parameters and data of the checked fixtures, and a server module (30) connected to the database module; sending acquiring instruction to the server module; acquiring relational parameters and data of a checked fixture stored in the database module; creating printing instruction according to the relational parameters and data; and printing labels according to the printing instruction.
US07995225B2	Scheduling system A system suited to scheduling print jobs for a printing system includes a first processing component which identifies preliminary attributes of print jobs to be printed on sheets. A job scheduler receives the preliminary attributes and assigns each of the print jobs to one of a plurality of job queues in time order for printing. Print jobs spanning the same time are scheduled for printing contemporaneously. In one mode of operation, the assignment of the print jobs to the job queues is based on their preliminary attributes and on the application of at least one constraint which affects contemporaneous printing of at least two of the plurality of print jobs. A second processing component identifies detailed attributes of the print jobs. A sheet scheduler receives information on the assignments of the print jobs and their detailed attributes and forms an itinerary for each sheet to be printed.
US07995220B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording paper fed from a paper cassette, the apparatus comprises: a housing that accommodates the paper cassette to be drawn toward the front side of the housing and has an opening in the side surface of the housing; and a lid body including a covering part and a sliding part that slidably supports the covering part, the covering part having a member that covers the opening of the side surface of the housing and projects toward the inner side than the opening, the covering part and the sliding part integrally separating from the opening, and the covering part sliding in parallel to the opening.
US07995217B2	High-resolution encoder array A position sensing apparatus and method, motion control system, and integrated circuit are provided that include a plurality of sensors and a tracking processor. The plurality of sensors includes a linear array of sensors that sense a plurality of features of an object. A spacing between two of the plurality of sensors is substantially smaller than a spacing between two of the plurality of features. The tracking processor samples signals from the sensors, compares the samples to previous samples and calculates a position of the object. The plurality of sensors may include a second linear array of sensors. Centers of the sensors of the second linear array may be offset from centers of the sensors of the first linear array along a longitudinal axis of the plurality of sensors.
US07995216B2	Control of the positional relationship between a sample collection instrument and a surface to be analyzed during a sampling procedure with image analysis A system and method utilizes an image analysis approach for controlling the collection instrument-to-surface distance in a sampling system for use, for example, with mass spectrometric detection. Such an approach involves the capturing of an image of the collection instrument or the shadow thereof cast across the surface and the utilization of line average brightness (LAB) techniques to determine the actual distance between the collection instrument and the surface. The actual distance is subsequently compared to a target distance for re-optimization, as necessary, of the collection instrument-to-surface during an automated surface sampling operation.
US07995213B2	Measurement method, measurement apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device fabrication method A measurement method of measuring a wavefront aberration of an optical system to be measured, comprising a first measurement step of measuring wavefronts of the optical system to be measured with respect to linearly polarized light beams along at least three different azimuths, a first calculation step of calculating a wavefront of the optical system to be measured with respect to non-polarized light and a birefringent characteristic of the optical system to be measured, based on the wavefronts of the optical system to be measured, which are measured in the first measurement step, and a second calculation step of calculating a wavefront of the optical system to be measured with respect to arbitrary polarized light, based on the wavefront and the birefringent characteristic of the optical system to be measured, which are calculated in the first calculation step.
US07995211B2	Contra-propagative wave spectograph The invention relates to a spectrograph (11) comprising a waveguide (10) provided with accesses (10; 10b, 12), a means for injecting two guided contra-propagative waves by each accesses in such a way that a spatial interference is formed in the waveguide, means (19, 20, 14, 16) for detecting the energy of the evanescent wave of the guided field produced by the interference of said contra-propagative waves.
US07995208B2	Monolithic interferometer with optics of different material A monolithic frame for optics used in interferometers where the material of the monolithic frame may have a substantially different coefficient of thermal expansion from the beamsplitter and compensator without warping, bending or distorting the optics. This is accomplished through providing a securing apparatus holding the optics in place while isolating the expansion thereof from the expansion of the frame. Stability in optical alignment is therefore achieved without requiring a single material or materials of essentially identical coefficients of thermal expansion. The present invention provides stability in situations where it is not possible to utilize a single material for every component of the interferometer.
US07995207B2	Spectral interferometry method and apparatus A spectral interferometry apparatus and method is provided to supply unambiguous profiles (A—scans free of mirror terms) of the reflectivity versus optical path difference and make difference between the positive and negative optical path difference or provide output in a selected interval of optical path differences. The apparatus comprises object optics that transfer a beam from an optical source to a target object (55) to produce an object beam and reference optics that produce a reference beam. Displacing means (57) are provided to produce a gap (g) between the object beam (41′) and the reference beam (42′). Optical spectrum dispersing means (7) such as a grating or a prism receive the two relatively displaced beams, and disperse their spectral content onto a reading element such as a CCD. The combination of the displacing means and the optical spectrum dispersing means creates an intrinsic optical delay between the wavetrains of the object beam and the reference beam which can be used with the optical path difference in the interferometer to generate a channeled spectrum for the optical path difference in the interferometer on the reading element.
US07995206B2	Apparatus and method for recognizing objects An apparatus for recognizing objects with a laser light source and a light receiver has an at least partly reflective wall and an interspace between the laser light source and the wall, through which an object can be moved or in which an object can be placed. A movable mirror device is arranged between the laser light source and the wall in such a way that light emitted by the laser light source can be directed onto the wall. In a method for recognizing objects a mirror device directs the light onto an at least partly reflective wall and is controlled in such a way that the wall is irradiated by the light. The light receiver detects the light reflected from the wall and, in the process, registers an object moving or placed between the laser light source and the wall by way of a change in the reflected light detected.
US07995205B2	Visualizing birefringent structures in samples Apparatus and methods are disclosed for viewing low-birefringence structures within samples directly, with the eye, in real-time. The sample is placed between an entrance polarizer and analyzer polarizer, the transmission state of one of which is changed dynamically to create a modulated view of the scene; against this background, birefringent structures are visible because of their different appearance when modulated. Modulation rates of 4 or more states per second; use of 4 or more states, or even a continuum of states, which lie substantially on a latitude line on the Poincare sphere; and orientation of the polarization components to produce a uniform background; produce a clear view that does not produce operator fatigue. Broad-band wavelength operation spanning 50 nm or more, or the whole visible range, is achieved, and it is compatible with integration into other microscopy modes such as Hoffman relief contrast.
US07995203B2	Method for on-site drug detection in illicit drug samples The invention is intended for illicit drug detection, preferably to Cocaine detection in street samples containing in addition to Cocaine also adulterants and/or diluents (also denominated as cutting agents) used for increasing the quantity of the product and/or for disguising the existence of Cocaine. The invention provides preparing of the liquid street sample, taking an aliquot of said sample, its analysis with help of SFS (Spectral Fluorescence Signatures) technology, fixing the result of analysis as a reference value, the subsequent acidification of the liquid sample, taking an aliquot of the acidified liquid sample and its analysis with help of SFS technology, fixing the result of analysis and comparing said result with the reference value. The result of comparison enables to differentiate between Cocaine Base and Cocaine hydrochloride in the street sample.
US07995196B1	Authentication method and system A method for authenticating an object, comprising determining a physical dispersion pattern of a set of elements, determining a physical characteristic of the set of elements which is distinct from a physical characteristic producible by a transfer printing technology, determining a digital code associated with the object defining the physical dispersion pattern, and authenticating the object by verifying a correspondence of the digital code with the physical dispersion pattern, and verifying the physical characteristic.
US07995194B2	Virtual separation of bound and free label in a ligand assay for performing immunoassays of biological fluids, including whole blood Detection and characterization of immunologically detected substances are performed electronically on human and animal biological fluids such as whole blood, serum, plasma, urine, milk, pleural and peritoneal fluids, and semen, which fluids are contained in a thin chamber forming a quiescent fluid sample, which chamber has at least two parallel planar walls, at least one of which is transparent.
US07995193B2	Measuring device A measuring device includes a VCSEL of a first-order or high-order single mode emitting laser beams, a driving part configured to drive the VCSEL, a detecting part configured to detect an electric signal relating to feedback lights generated when laser beams are projected onto an object, and a calculating part configured to identify a direction of movement of the object on the basis of the electric signal detected by the detecting part.
US07995192B2	Safety system for contactless measurement of paths and/or speeds An optoelectronic safety sensor (10) is set forth for the contactless measurement of paths and/or speeds of the safety sensor (10) or of a first object connected in a fixed position to the safety sensor (10) with respect to a second object (12) moved relatively to the first object, which form a potential source of danger, wherein the safety sensor (10) has a light source (20), a light receiver (16) with a plurality of light reception elements and has an evaluation unit (22), with the evaluation unit (22) being configured to determine by means of an optical correlation process and/or by evaluation of the optical flow the path and/or the speed from at least two images of a surface structure (18, 18a, 18b) of the second object (12) taken sequentially by the light receiver (22). In this respect, the evaluation unit (22) is further configured to evaluate the quality of the determined path and/or of the determined speed, and a safety output (24) is provided via which the evaluation signal (22) can output a shutdown signal or brake signal to secure the danger source when a required quality is not reached.
US07995191B1	Scannerless laser range imaging using loss modulation A scannerless 3-D imaging apparatus is disclosed which utilizes an amplitude modulated cw light source to illuminate a field of view containing a target of interest. Backscattered light from the target is passed through one or more loss modulators which are modulated at the same frequency as the light source, but with a phase delay δ which can be fixed or variable. The backscattered light is demodulated by the loss modulator and detected with a CCD, CMOS or focal plane array (FPA) detector to construct a 3-D image of the target. The scannerless 3-D imaging apparatus, which can operate in the eye-safe wavelength region 1.4-1.7 μm and which can be constructed as a flash LADAR, has applications for vehicle collision avoidance, autonomous rendezvous and docking, robotic vision, industrial inspection and measurement, 3-D cameras, and facial recognition.
US07995188B2	Method of estimating a distance The invention relates to a method of estimating a distance to a surface, whereby an emitter emits light towards a surface, at least some light being reflected by the surface, the surface comprising a detectable feature, the reflected light being received by a first receptor and by a second receptor, the surface being in movement relative to the receptors, the first and the second receptor receiving the light reflected at a first and at a respectively second angle thereby producing a first and a respectively second dataset, each dataset including data representing said feature, the first and the second angle being different, whereby the distance is estimated using the first and the second dataset.
US07995186B2	Substrate conveyance device and substrate conveyance method, exposure apparatus and exposure method, device manufacturing method A lithographic projection apparatus includes a substrate table configured to hold a substrate, a projection system arranged to project a patterned beam of radiation onto the substrate, a liquid supply system configured to supply liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate, and a residual liquid detector configured to detect liquid remaining on the substrate and/or the substrate table after an exposure is completed. A device manufacturing method includes projecting, using a projection system of a lithographic apparatus, a patterned beam of radiation through a liquid onto a substrate, the substrate being held by a substrate table, and, after the projecting is complete, detecting residual liquid on the substrate and/or the substrate table.
US07995185B2	Systems and methods for thermally-induced aberration correction in immersion lithography Immersion lithography aberration control systems and methods that compensate for a heating effect of exposure energy in an immersion fluid across an exposure zone are provided. An aberration control system includes actuators that adjust optical elements within the immersion lithography system and a fluid heating compensation module coupled to the actuators. The fluid heating adjustment module determines actuator commands to make aberration adjustments to optical elements within the immersion lithography system based on changes in one or more of a flow rate of the immersion liquid, an exposure dose and a reticle pattern image. In an embodiment, the aberration control system includes an interferometric sensor that pre-calibrates aberrations based on changes in operating characteristics related to the immersion fluid. Methods are provided that calibrate aberrations, determine actuator adjustments and implement actuator adjustments upon changes in operating characteristics to control aberration effects.
US07995181B2	High speed and wide viewing angle liquid crystal displays Novel structural configurations of a TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display) which results in both fast response to input data and provides wide-viewing-angles. The structure of the device is comprised of one pixel electrode layer and two common electrode layers. The structure of the invention can be used with liquid crystal display television (LCD-TV) monitors that require both fast-response as well as wide-viewing-angle. In addition, other liquid crystal technologies which require high speed response would benefit from the TFT-LCD of the present invention.
US07995180B2	Method for manufacturing liquid crystal display device comprising a crossing portion connecting line and a light transmission type photosensitive resin having openings The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device. In openings of a first light transmission type photosensitive resin formed on an insulating substrate, a gate electrode, a source line, and a pixel contact layer are prepared. On these components, a gate insulator, a semiconductor layer, an ohmic contact layer (n+ semiconductor layer) and a protective film are prepared. Further, in openings of a second light transmission type photosensitive resin, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a pixel electrode are prepared. Also, the crossing portion connecting line formed at the opening of the second light transmission type photosensitive resin is, similarly to the source line or the gate line, made of baked silver produced by baking an ink containing silver fine particles plotted by ink jet process.
US07995179B2	Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus selectively reflecting and transmitting circularly polarized light having reverse rotation directions An electro-optical device includes, a first substrate, a second substrate, an electrooptic material layer, an illuminating device, and a polarizing device. The electrooptic material layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate. The illuminating device irradiates illumination light to an outer surface of the first substrate. The polarizing device is provided on the outer surface of the first substrate. The electrooptic material layer exhibits optical isotropy when no electric field is applied, and, when an electric field is applied, exhibits optical anisotropy corresponding to the magnitude of the electric field. The electrooptic material layer further has a characteristic to selectively reflect a first circularly polarized light having a first rotation direction. Light that passes through the polarizing device is a second circularly polarized light that has a second rotation direction reverse to the first rotation direction of the first circularly polarized light.
US07995173B2	Liquid crystal display device To provide a liquid crystal display device to suitably perform color balance adjustment. For this, the liquid crystal display device includes pixel regions each including a light reflection portion and a light transmission portion on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of respective substrates arranged to face each other in an opposed manner while sandwiching liquid crystal therebetween, wherein color filters are formed in pixel regions on a liquid-crystal-side surface of the other substrate out of the respective substrates, and each color filter is provided with an opening or notch at a part of a portion facing the light reflection portion in an opposed manner, material layers having a layer thickness substantially equal to a height of step generated by the color filters in regions facing the opening or notch of each color filter in an opposed manner on the liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate.
US07995167B2	Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing liquid crystal display device A transflective-type and a reflection-type liquid crystal display device having a high reflection efficiency and a high image quality are provided. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a reflection region, wherein the reflection region includes an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer and a reflective layer formed on a metal layer having a plurality of recesses therein; a plurality of protrusions of the metal layer, each having a bottom surface, an upper surface and a slope, are formed between the plurality of recesses of the metal layer; and a width a of a bottom surface of at least one of the plurality of protrusions in the metal layer satisfies a≦2(x+y)/tan θ, where a denotes the width of the bottom surface of each of the plurality of protrusions, x a thickness between the bottom surface and the upper surface, θ a tilt angle of the slope with respect to the bottom surface, and y a total thickness of the insulating layer, the semiconductor layer and the reflective layer.
US07995161B2	Surface light source and liquid crystal display including the same A surface light source includes a light source and an optical waveguide plate. The light source serves to emit light. The optical waveguide plate has an incident end face where the light is incident and a light exit surface where the light incident on the incident end face exits. Further, the optical waveguide plate has a refractive index n. The incident end face has a plurality of concave portions. The angle between a plane formed by the plurality of concave portions and a tangent plane of the incident end face is not more than (90−2·arcsin(1/n)) degree.
US07995155B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes first and second gate lines arranged in parallel to each other and sequentially transmitting a gate voltage, a data line crossing the first and second gate lines and transmitting a data voltage, a pixel electrode constituted by first and second sub-pixel electrodes and electrically disconnected from each other, a first switching element connected to the first gate line, the data line, and the first sub-pixel electrode, a second switching element connected to the first gate line, the data line, and the second sub-pixel electrode, a third switching element connected to the first sub-pixel electrode across a charge-sharing capacitor, and a fourth switching element connected to the second gate line and the second sub-pixel electrode and connected to the first sub-pixel electrode across the charge-sharing capacitor.
US07995153B2	Image processing system capable of changing a polarization angle of a polarized image and related method An image processing system includes a display device, a liquid crystal module, and a control device. The display device is used for outputting a first set of images and a second set of images. The first set of images and the second set of images have different visual angles. The liquid crystal module is disposed at a side of the display device. The control device is electrically coupled to the display device and the liquid crystal module. The control device includes a power source and a control unit. The control unit is electrically coupled to the power source for controlling whether the power source should input an electric field to a twisted nematic liquid layer of the liquid crystal module or not.
US07995151B2	Broadcast method and system A method and system for airing broadcast signals is disclosed. Preferably, the system includes a production truck interface panel receiving a broadcast signal. A transmission relay circuit relays the signal from the interface panel to a broadcast network, and preferably including a broadcast signal detection circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The detection circuit determines a signal type of the broadcast signal, and the signal processing circuit processes the determined signal type. The system preferably further includes an operations control station displaying the determined type of broadcast signal. The method for airing broadcast signals over the broadcast network preferably includes the steps of providing the broadcast signal to the transmission relay circuit, detecting the broadcast signal type with the broadcast signal sensing and discerning circuit; and reconfiguring the signal processing circuit when the configuration of the signal processing circuit does not support transmission of the determined broadcast signal type.
US07995150B1	3:2 pulldown detection Field-based detection of 3:2 pulldown in a sequence of digital video fields using a programmable graphics processor is described. The detection is performed using a threshold value to determine equivalence between a pair of fields of digital video data. Furthermore, additional threshold values may be used to control switching into a mode where duplicated fields of digital video data are identified and not displayed and out of the mode where duplicated fields of digital video data are identified and not displayed. Look ahead can be used to detect when to switch into or out of the mode where duplicated fields of digital video data are identified and not displayed, reducing the occurrence of visual artifacts.
US07995148B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image signal is resolved into a plurality of frequency components whose spatial frequencies are different from each other; a variation component of the image signal is extracted based on each of the plurality of frequency components, an absolute value of the variation component being smaller than a predetermined reference value; a level difference amount of the image signal is calculated based on the extracted variation component; and the calculated level difference amount is subtracted from the image signal.
US07995147B2	Apparatus and method for compensating for varying adjacent channel conditions An apparatus such as a television signal receiver is capable of removing adjacent channel energy for extremely different desired channel bandwidths and varying adjacent channel conditions. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a digital signal source for providing a digital signal having a symbol rate, and a plurality of symbol shaping filters. A selected one of the symbol shaping filters is used to filter the digital signal and generate a filtered digital signal based on the symbol rate.
US07995142B2	Slice level adjustment unit and EPG data obtaining device using the same A slice level adjustment unit for performing adjustment of a slice level with respect to a signal whose transmission is started at a predetermined time, includes a clock portion for measuring the current time, and performs a first adjustment of the slice level when the clock portion measures substantially the predetermined time and also performs a second adjustment when the clock portion measures a readjustment standby time past the predetermined time.
US07995133B2	Method, apparatus for correcting image signal from image sensor, and imaging system with apparatus A method of correcting an image signal generated by a charge coupled device (CCD) image sensor in an imaging system is provided. The imaging system stores a number of gamma correction curves, each of which includes a respective correction factor for increasing contrast in a dark portion of the image signal. The method includes: measuring gray scale value of each pixel of the CCD image sensor; estimating a contrast level of an object scene to be imaged using the measured gray scale values; and correcting the image signal using a corresponding gamma correction curve depending on the estimated contrast level of the object scene.
US07995127B2	Pixel drive circuit for image pickup apparatus This invention provides an image pickup device comprising a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit, a semiconductor area to which a signal from the photoelectric conversion unit is transferred, a transfer switch for transferring the signal from the photoelectric conversion unit to the semiconductor area, and a read unit for reading out the signal from the semiconductor area, and a drive circuit for outputting a first level at which the transfer switch is set in an OFF state, a second level at which the transfer switch is set in an ON state, and a third level between the first level and the second level, wherein the drive circuit controls to hold the third level for a predetermined time while the transfer switch is changing from the ON state to the OFF state.
US07995126B2	Imaging apparatus and camera An imaging apparatus includes a pixel, a current source, and a signal processing circuit. The pixel outputs signal charge, obtained by imaging, as a pixel signal. The current source is connected to a transmission path for the pixel signal and has a variable current. The signal processing circuit performs signal processing on a signal depending on an output signal to the transmission path and performs control so that a current of the current source is changed in accordance with the result of signal processing.
US07995125B2	Apparatus and method for extending the dynamic range of a read out integrated circuit of an image sensor A read out integrated circuit includes (ROIC) an array of pixel circuits, each of which has a first charge storage element electrically connected across an amplifier, and a second charge storage element having a selectively activated electrical connection across the amplifier. First and second gain select switches are configured to control the selectively activated electrical connection so as to selectively place the second charge storage element in electrical parallel with the first charge storage element and cause both the first and said second charge storage elements to store charge in response to light detected by said associated pixel. The circuit includes gain control column lines, each gain control column line configured to control a plurality of the first gain select switches belonging to pixel circuits in an associated column of the array. The circuit also includes gain control row lines, each gain control row line configured to control a plurality of the second gain select switches belonging to pixel circuits in an associated row of the array.
US07995123B2	Digital double sampling method, a related CMOS image sensor, and a digital camera comprising the CMOS image sensor A digital double sampling method, a related complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor, and a digital camera comprising the CMOS image sensor are disclosed. The method includes generating first digital data corresponding to an initial voltage level apparent in a pixel in response to a reset signal, inverting the first digital data, outputting a detection voltage corresponding to image data received from outside of the CMOS image sensor, and counting in synchronization with a clock signal, starting from an initial value equal to the inverted first digital data, and for an amount of time responsive to a voltage level of the detection voltage.
US07995121B2	Imaging unit, portable terminal device, and portable terminal system The present invention provides an imaging unit, a portable terminal device, and a portable terminal system capable of performing a satisfactory key synthesizing process. An imaging unit mainly includes an imaging section, a conversion section, and a key signal generating section. The conversion section converts the format of the imaged image data output from the imaging section from YUV format to RGB format. The key signal generating section generates a key signal based on each pixel data configuring the imaged image data and the reference data for the imaged image data input from the imaging section. The key signal generating section also outputs foreground image data having the generated key signal and the corresponding pixel data of RGB format as minimum configuring unit. An image synthesizing section of a main unit generates synthesized image data by overlapping the foreground image data from the imaging unit and the background image data stored in a RAM based on the key signal contained in the foreground image data.
US07995113B2	High gain digital imaging system The present invention provides digital imaging architectures comprising detectors coupled to readout circuitry, wherein the readout circuitry is capable of providing large amplification to small, noise sensitive input signals to improve their noise immunity, as well as capable of providing a fast pixel readout time. The readout circuitry comprises an on-pixel amplification transistor as well as additional transistors used to read out the amplified signal and/or to reset the amplified output signal stored by a portion of the circuit prior to reading a subsequent signal. The present invention also provides readout circuitry that is capable of providing large amplification and thus additional noise immunity to the input signal from the detector by implementing another amplification stage within the readout circuitry. The readout circuitry can function in particular modes, the use of which can depend on characteristics of the input signals transferred to the readout circuitry from the detectors, or can depend on the characteristics of the output signal required from the readout circuitry.
US07995112B2	Image-processing apparatus and image-pickup apparatus An image-processing apparatus includes an integration section to integrate an image signal in more than one unit of horizontal synchronization period; an interpolation section to carry out an interpolation on the basis of integration values output by the integration section in order to generate integration values corresponding to a predetermined number of sampling positions set in advance during at least one period of flickers appearing on a screen under a fluorescent lamp; a normalization section to normalize an integration value output by the interpolation section or to normalize a difference value between integration values output by the interpolation section as integration values for adjacent fields or frames, respectively; a frequency analysis section to extract a spectrum of normalized integration value or difference values output by the normalization section; and a flicker inference section to infer a flicker component from the spectrum extracted by the frequency analysis section.
US07995107B2	Enhancement of images A method of obtaining a spatial low pass filtered images from the video output of a video camera operable to produce successive video frames in the form of pixelated 2D sensed images. Each of the sensed images has a first predetermined number of rows of pixels and a second predetermined number of columns of pixels. The method may include scanning the sensor array row by row, and deriving the value of each pixel of said low spatial frequency image in such a way that said low spatial frequency value of a pixel is dependent on at least all earlier scanned pixels of the current row and all earlier scanned rows, but is not dependent on the pixels of rows located below a pixel row which is a third predetermined number of rows below the current row, said third predetermined number being significantly less than said first predetermined number.
US07995104B2	Image pick-up apparatus, image data processing apparatus, and recording medium In a moving image recording process, a shooting operation using a short exposure time appropriate for shooting a still image, and a shooting operation using a long exposure time appropriate for shooting a moving image are performed repeatedly in turn. Plural pieces of frame image data “B” shot by the shooting operations using a long exposure time are successively recorded as moving image data. When a shutter button is pressed in the moving image recording process, frame image data which is shot using a short exposure time just before the shutter button is pressed is recorded as a still image.
US07995103B2	Imaging apparatus and control method thereof, storage medium and program An imaging apparatus which can capture a still image while capturing a moving image, can capture images in consideration of the aspect ratio settings of the moving image and the still image. For example, in the case where a user instructs to capture the still image while capturing a moving image, the still image is captured in an aspect ratio of recording the moving image. The captured still image can be used to complement a missing frame of the moving image.
US07995095B2	Night vision device for a vehicle In a night vision arrangement for a motor vehicle in which a camera captures an infra-red image of the roadway in front of the vehicle, a video signal generated by the camera is processed by a signal processor so that the field of view of the image displayed by a display unit is selected in accordance with a control signal. The control signal is generated by a signal generator which is responsive to one or more parameters of the movement of the vehicle. The width of the field of view may be decreased with increasing speed. The axial direction of the field of view may be adjusted depending upon the nature of a turning movement of the vehicle.
US07995091B2	Mixed media telecommunication call manager A method of transferring communication between communication channels of differing bandwidth comprises establishing data communications on a first channel having a first bandwidth, establishing data communications on a second channel in response to a trigger indicating changes in the data to be communicated, wherein the second channel has a bandwidth providing resources different from the first bandwidth of the first channel. The method further comprises responding to the discontinuation of an in-progress mixed-media call that transmits data using a first and second media by initiating a second call not supporting the second media.
US07995090B2	Video enabled tele-presence control host A method for exchanging information in a shared interactive environment, comprising selecting a first physical device in a first live video image wherein the first physical device has information associated with it, causing the information to be transferred to a second physical device in a second live video image wherein the transfer is brought about by manipulating a visual representation of the information, wherein the manipulation includes interacting with the first live video image and the second live video image, wherein the first physical device and the second physical device are part of the shared interactive environment, and wherein the first physical device and the second physical device are not the same.
US07995089B2	Motor polygon assembly (MPA) facet reflectivity mapping A technique for minimizing motor polygon assembly output reflectivity using real time facet reflectivity measurements and mapping. An automatic power control sensor manages laser beams produced by the laser source associated with the system during overscan periods ‘outside’ of defined printing time. Errors are then recorded internal to the raster output scanner to minimize overall setup in the image output terminal.
US07995088B2	Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus comprising the same A optical scanning apparatus includes a surface emitting type laser diode, a collimator lens which converts the emitted laser beam into an substantially parallel laser beam, a stop member which shapes the substantially parallel laser beam into a desired shape, a polygon mirror which deflects and scans the shaped laser beam, an electro-optical crystal member which is provided in the optical path between the stop member and the polygon mirror, and deflects the shaped laser beam by an applied voltage, a light amount sensor which detects the amount of laser beam deflected by the electro-optical crystal member, and a light amount control unit which controls the amount of laser beam emitted from the laser diode while repeatedly comparing the detected light amount obtained from the light amount sensor with a light amount corresponding to a reference voltage for control light amount.
US07995085B2	Line head, and an image forming apparatus using the line head A line head, includes: a plurality of first substrates each of which includes a plurality of light emitting elements which emit light beams, a second substrate to which the plurality of first substrates are bonded, and an optical system which includes a plurality of lenses which focus light beams emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements toward an image plane, and in which a plurality of lenses face each of the plurality of first substrates.
US07995082B2	Three-dimensional recording and reproducing apparatus A recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, including: an optional first recording layer on which a light spot at a diffraction limit is formed; and a second recording layer on which a mark string pattern is formed, said second recording layer being different from said first recording layer, wherein when said mark string pattern is formed on a light receiving plane, while information of said first recording layer is reproduced, assuming that an optical distance between said first and second recording layers is dm, an optical distance d between optional two recording layers among a plurality of said recording layers is different from said dm.
US07995081B2	Anisotropically conductive backside addressable imaging belt for use with contact electrography An addressable imaging belt for use in printing applications having embedded anisotropically conductive addressable islands configured for electric contact on a first side of the belt by a write head consisting of an array of compliant cantilevered fingers with contact pads/points to which a voltage can be applied. The conductive addressable islands electrically isolated from one another and extending substantially through the thickness of the belt in order to allow charge to flow through the belt towards a second side of the belt, in order to form a latent electrostatic image on the second side and develop this latent image by attracting colorized toner or other electrically charged particles to the second side.
US07995080B2	Image display apparatus A drive circuit of an image display apparatus has a correction circuit for outputting driving data that is corrected on the basis of a correction value. The correction value corrects variation of brightness of a plurality of pixels. The correction is such that the number of pixels to be darkened by the correction when the driving data inputted for the plurality of pixels have a common first value is fewer than the number of pixels to be darkened by the correction when the driving data inputted for the plurality of pixels have a common second value larger than the first value.
US07995079B2	Automatic map zoom-level adaptation A method is provided for dynamically determining a zoom-level to display to a user of a mapping application executing on a mobile device. The method comprises the following steps. The zoom-level is determined in accordance with at least one predefined parameter. The at least one predefined parameter is monitored for detecting a change. A new zoom-level corresponding with the detected change is determined. Lastly, the zoom-level of the mapping application is changed to the new zoom-level. A mobile device and computer-readable medium configured to implement the method are also provided.
US07995078B2	Compound lenses for multi-source data presentation A method in a computer system for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen, the original image having one or more images relating to the region-of-interest, the method comprising: establishing a lens for the region-of-interest, the lens having a focal region with a magnification for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region across which the magnification varies to provide a continuous transition from the focal region to regions outside the lens; subdividing the focal region into one or more facets, each facet for displaying a respective image relating to the region-of-interest; and, applying the lens to the original image to produce the presentation.
US07995076B2	System and method for generating virtual images according to position of viewers A method generates and superposes virtual images to an existing image in order to show special effects. Images are generated depending on the relative position of one or more subjects viewing the existing image. The images are generated in order to see an augmented reality. The subjects are people located near a transparent support such as a screen or a window. These people watch the augmented reality through the screen/window. The virtual objects on the screen are created in such a way as to give a realistic impression for different people watching the same screen/window at the same time, thereby generating virtual images in order to create an augmented reality for one or many viewers watching the same real objects at the same time.
US07995074B2	Information presentation method and information presentation apparatus External data acquired via an input device during display of presentation information on a display device is recorded, and feature amounts are calculated from the external data. An importance level is calculated by integrating the feature amounts for each section during the display period of the presentation information. First headline information of a part of the presentation information corresponding to a section having an importance level which exceeds a predetermined threshold is generated, and is presented to be aligned along the time axis. Previous display contents of the presentation information are searched for in response to a selection operation of the first headline information, and are displayed on the display device. Second headline information of a part of the presentation information corresponding to the section when the selection operation was made is generated, and is presented on the display device.
US07995072B2	Texture replacement in video sequences and images Systems and methods for reducing bit rates by replacing original texture in a video sequence with synthesized texture. Reducing the bit rate of the video sequence begins by identifying and removing selected texture from frames in a video sequence. The removed texture is analyzed to generate texture parameters. New texture is synthesized using the texture parameters in combination with a set of constraints. Then, the newly synthesized texture is mapped back into the frames of the video sequence from which the original texture was removed. The resulting frames are then encoded. The bit rate of the video sequence with the synthesized texture is less than the bit rate of the video sequence with the original texture. Also, the ability of a decoder to decode the new video sequence is not compromised because no assumptions are made about the texture synthesis capabilities of the decoder.
US07995065B2	Animation reproducing apparatus and method An animation reproducing apparatus and method of reproducing an animation reproduces an animation of a predetermined model. The animation reproducing apparatus includes a motion blending unit blending one or more previously prepared animations according to a desired motion that is to be reproduced and a rendering unit rendering a result of the blending.
US07995064B2	Computer-implemented chat system having dual channel communications and self-defining product structures A computer-implemented chat system having dual channel communications and self-defining product structures is disclosed. The system and method includes providing a first logical communication channel between a first chat client and a second chat client, the first logical channel conveying text chat messages between the first chat client and the second chat client; providing a second logical communication channel between the first chat client and the second chat client, the second logical channel conveying text chat command/control information between the first chat client and the second chat client; and using the chat command/control information to modify a 3D chat scene displayed on each of the first chat client and the second chat client systems.
US07995063B2	Figure rendering apparatus and figure rendering method Disclosed is a figure rendering apparatus including: a figure displaying section to display a figure by rendering the figure in a display screen; a setting section to set an arbitrary point on a rendering figure as a moving point, a moving range of the moving point, and an arbitrary point on the rendering figure as a locus point on a basis of a user's operation; and a control section to render a locus of the locus point in the display screen when the moving point moves in the moving range; to obtain a plurality of pieces of position information of the locus point in the locus; and to judge whether the plurality of pieces of position information obtained by the control section fits predetermined functional formulae or not, and to display information of a functional formula judged to be fit by the pieces of position information in the display screen.
US07995056B1	Culling data selection system and method A culling data selection system and method are presented in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. In one embodiment, an occlusion prediction graphics processing method is utilized to predict which pixels are eventually occluded before intermediate processing stages are performed on the pixels. Culling information utilized to predict which pixel are occluded is selected and compressed in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. In one embodiment, cull data for a pixel culling area is retrieved and an end of pipe depth occlusion data associated with a prediction area within the pixel culling area is received. A selection metric for analyzing adjustments to cull data is established and a cull data adjustment decision is made based upon the selection metric. In one exemplary implementation the possible occlusion volumes associated with “old” culling data, “new” culling data (e.g., based upon an occlusion value received from a stage later in a graphics processing pipeline) and “merged” culling data are determined. The culling data associated with the greatest volume is selected for culling operations.
US07995055B1	Classifying objects in a scene In some implementations, a computer-implemented method of classifying image data includes receiving a plurality of data points corresponding to three-dimensional image data; creating from the plurality of data points a first subset of data points that are above a ground plane in a scene represented by the plurality of data points; identifying a second subset of data points associated with an object in the scene, from the first subset of data points; identifying a plurality of features associated with the second subset of data points and determining a signature for the identified plurality of features; and classifying the second set of data points according to a correspondence between the calculated signature and a reference signature.
US07995051B2	Driving circuit, driving method and liquid crystal display using same An exemplary driving circuit includes pixel electrodes (362) applied with voltage signals (VS) respectively via corresponding switching elements (361) connected thereto and common electrodes (363) applied with common voltage signals. Each switching elements includes an input electrode (3613). The driving circuit further includes at least one comparator (40) and a common voltage generator (34). The at least one comparator is configured for obtaining at least one voltage deviation value (ΔV) between the voltage signal of at least one of the pixel electrodes and the voltage signal of the corresponding input electrode. The common voltage generator is configured for generating a common voltage signal according to the at least one voltage deviation value, and outputting to the common voltage signal to the common electrodes.
US07995050B2	Power saving display A mobile computing device comprises a power source, a display, a display driver and a control circuit. The power source is configured to provide a power signal. The display comprises a plurality of pixels. The display driver is configured to receive the power signal and to drive the pixels based on the power signal and display data. The control circuit is configured to periodically remove the power signal from at least a portion of the display driver.
US07995048B2	Instrument panel display system for mounting on automobile, and image data output device An on-vehicle instrument panel display system preferably is mounted on an automobile and operative such that a plurality of pieces of information including information relating to an automobile are converted into images and the images are displayed all on a liquid crystal panel. The on-vehicle instrument panel display system has a vehicle system, an amenity system, and a safety system, each of which creates data for displaying the images. Further, the on-vehicle instrument panel display system has an instrument panel image composition/output section which combines data created by the systems and outputs the result as composed image data to the liquid crystal panel. The instrument panel image composition/output section includes an image composition LSI. Composed image data outputted from the image composition LSI is an RBG signal or a YUV signal.
US07995044B2	Display device A display device with reduced power consumption has pixels coupled with data lines and arranged in a matrix, a signal controller processing input image signals and outputting output image signals, and a data driver applying data voltages, corresponding to output image signals, to the data lines. When all the input image signals have either a first or second value, the output image signals have the first value. The signal controller generates a polarity signal for determining data voltage polarity, and when all the input image signals have either a first or second value, data voltages corresponding to the input image signals have a polarity equivalent to a polarity of previously applied data voltages. The signal controller generates a control signal for controlling the data driver's clock synchronization circuit, and the control signal halts the clock synchronization circuit when an operating frequency is lower than a predetermined value.
US07995041B2	Integrated touch screen Displays with touch sensing circuitry integrated into the display pixel stackup are provided. Circuit elements, such as touch signal lines, such as drive lines and sense lines, grounding regions, in the display pixel stackups can be grouped together to form touch sensing circuitry that senses a touch on or near the display. An integrated touch screen can include multi-function circuit elements that can operate as circuitry of the display system to generate an image on the display, and can also form part of a touch sensing system that senses one or more touches on or near the display. The multi-function circuit elements can be, for example, capacitors in display pixels that can be configured to operate as storage capacitors/electrodes, common electrodes, conductive wires/pathways, etc., of the display circuitry in the display system, and that may also be configured to operate as circuit elements of the touch sensing circuitry.
US07995038B2	Software flow control of rotary quad human machine interface A rotary quad control interface that allows a vehicle driver to control several vehicle systems without focusing on the interface itself. The interface includes four touch pads disposed in four quadrants of the interface, an outer rotary dial positioned substantially at the center of the four touch pads and an inner rotary dial disposed within the outer rotary dial and being concentric thereto, where the inner rotary dial also operates as a push button. A display screen displays the operation of the interface, and includes a first display portion, a second display portion, a third display portion and a fourth display portion that are provided as quadrants on the display screen and are representative of the touch pads on the interface.
US07995035B2	Mouse with adjustable button activating pressure A mouse with adjustable button activating pressure includes a body, two circuit boards, two switch sets and at least one adjusting means. The body is provided with two adjacent buttons. The two switch sets are provided in the body and electrically connected to the corresponding circuit board to correspond to the buttons of the body respectively. Each switch set includes a plurality of switches of different activating pressures. The adjusting means is adjustably assembled with the body and coupled to the switch set, thereby allowing the switch set to move with respect to the button of the body. Via the above arrangement of the present invention, the button activating pressure can be adjusted.
US07995031B2	Tongue-operated input device for control of electronic systems A method and apparatus for tongue-operated control of an electronic system is presented. The apparatus includes a sensor-mounting device secured in the mouth, a sensor that interfaces to the tongue and a sensor interface device that converts sensor outputs to sensor signals proportional to a measure of the interface of the tongue to the sensor, computes control signals from a vector sum of sensor signals, and couples either control signals or sensor signals to the electronic system by cable, radio frequency or infrared transmission.
US07995027B2	Apparatus and method for controlling backlight An apparatus and a method for controlling backlight are provided. The apparatus for controlling backlight is adapted for driving a backlight module of a display panel, and the backlight module includes M luminance-controlling blocks, in which an ith luminance-controlling block corresponds to an ith luminance data. The apparatus for controlling backlight includes a calculation unit and a driving circuit. The calculation unit receives the ith luminance data to output an ith controlling data according to the proportion of the ith luminance data and a maximum luminance data, in which M and i are natural numbers, and i<=M. The driving circuit receives the ith controlling data to determine and drive the backlight luminance of the ith luminance-controlling block.
US07995023B2	Flat panel display and method for driving the same A flat panel display and method for driving the same. The flat panel display includes a conductive substrate forming an image display unit having at least one thin film transistor and a pad unit including a plurality of terminals, wherein the conductive substrate is laminated with a plurality of insulating layers to form the image display unit and the pad unit; a substrate-exposing part for exposing the conductive substrate is formed by removing at least one area of the insulating layers formed on the pad unit; a system control panel for supplying a reverse bias voltage through the substrate-exposing part, wherein the system control panel is electrically connected with the pad unit; and a metal member for transferring the reverse bias voltage to the conductive substrate, wherein the metal member is formed between the substrate-exposing part and the system control panel.
US07995019B2	Device, system and method for color display A color Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device for displaying a color image using at least four different primary colors, the device including an array of Liquid Crystal (LC) elements, driving circuitry adapted to receive an input corresponding to the color image and to selectively activate the LC elements of the LC array to produce an attenuation pattern corresponding to a gray-level representation or the color image, and an array of color sub-pixel filter elements juxtaposed and in registry with the array of LC elements such that each color sub-pixel filter element is in registry with one of the LC elements, wherein the array of color sub-pixel filter elements comprises at least four types of color sub-pixel filter elements, which transmit light of the at least four primary colors, respectively.
US07995018B2	Display device A hold-type display device reduces the blur of a moving image and makes less conspicuous the color shift caused due to different blur positions among RGB. In the case where the relative brightness of the video data of one or two of the three primary colors RGB changes from between 0 and 0.5 inclusive for the previous frame to between 0 and 0.5 inclusive for the present frame, the video image of the one or two colors is delayed by one frame and displayed.
US07995015B2	Display device Display bright in contrast can be obtained without discrination and flicker in the display device of the direct vision type whose pixel pitches are short to 20 μm or less. A liquid crystal panel is driven through the frame inverse driving method, and the vertical frame frequency is set to 120 Hz or more. Also, each of the pixels is arranged to correspond to one of R, G and B of color filters disposed on a TFT substrate side.
US07995008B2	Drive circuit for electroluminescent device A drive circuit that compensates for the dispersion of the characteristics of drive transistors is disclosed. A switch SW2 is turned off, and switches SW1 and SW3 are turned on. Thereby, a constant current from a constant current source CC1 is flown in a drive transistor T1. Consequently, a gate voltage corresponding to the constant current Is written in the gate of the drive transistor T1. Then, the switches SW1 and SW3 are turned off, and the switch SW2 is turned on. Simultaneously, the voltage of a capacitor C1 on the side of the switch SW4 is varied according to a signal voltage, and thereby the voltage is added to the gate of the drive transistor T1 to flow a current corresponding to the signal voltage in the drive transistor T1.
US07995004B2	Display device and display method A display device for displaying an image on a light emitting display, includes addition means for adding a rim to an icon, superimpose means for superimposing the rimmed icon on the image, change means for changing a ratio of superimpose between the icon and the image, and display control means for controlling displaying the image superimposed with the rimmed icon on the display, wherein the icon is superimposed on the image in a semi-transparent manner.
US07995002B2	Tiled passive matrix electro-luminescent display A tiled, passive-matrix, EL display, including two or more EL tiles, each EL tile including an array of rows and columns of light-emitting elements, each light-emitting element being formed from a light-emitting layer that is sandwiched between an orthogonal array of row and column electrodes wherein each of the two or more EL tiles further include at least one row driver; at least one column driver for operating in conjunction with each of the at least one row drivers to control the flow of electrons between the row and column electrodes to control the emission of light from each of the light-emitting elements, with a first exception that when the boundary between the two tiles is to be illuminated, then the number of rows of simultaneously illuminated rows of light-emitting elements within one tile is less than the predetermined number.
US07994999B2	Microstrip antenna A microstrip antenna that can be linear, co-circular, or dual-circularly polarized having co-planar radiating elements and operating at dual frequency bands wherein an inner radiating element is surrounded by and spaced from an outer radiating element. Each radiating element resonates at a different frequency. In one embodiment of the invention a feed network has a single, cross-shaped, feed line that is positioned between the inner and outer radiating elements and capacitively coupled to the inner and outer radiating elements. In another embodiment of the present invention, the radiating elements are fed separately by first and second feed networks each having a plurality of feed points. The radiating elements each have one active feed point that is either directly or indirectly coupled to its respective feed network.
US07994995B2	Transponder tuning method and a transponder Tuning an antenna circuit that includes an inductance of a resonance circuit, and a component having a component impedance. The antenna circuit includes multiple connection areas for connecting the component to the antenna circuit At least two of the multiple of connection areas are part of the resonance circuit. The tuning can be performed by selecting at least one connection area for the component among the at least two of the multiple connection areas
US07994988B2	Dual-band antenna A dual-band antenna adapted for an Ultra-mobile Personal Computer has a grounding element including a first grounding portion of elongated plate shape and a second grounding portion extending substantially perpendicular to the first grounding portion from a long edge of the first grounding portion. A connecting element is connected with the second grounding portion. An installing element is connected with the second grounding portion and spaced away from the connecting portion. A radiating element includes a low frequency resonator extending from the connecting element, a high frequency resonator extending opposite to the low frequency resonator and towards the installing element from the connecting element, and an enhancing frequency resonator extending from an edge of the installing element back to the high frequency resonator. The low, high and enhancing frequency resonators are substantially aligned with each other and parallel to the second grounding portion.
US07994987B2	Notched antenna structure with a stepped shaped element An antenna assembly (10) includes a ground plane formed on a chassis (12) of the radio and the functional knob forming an antenna element (11). The antenna assembly further includes a slot or notch element (14) in the ground plane substantially adjacent to the functional knob and having a length less than ¼ wavelength, and a coaxial cable (13) feeding the antenna element. A shield of the coaxial cable can be directly connected to the ground plane and a center conductor of the coaxial cable can be directly coupled to the functional knob to provide a galvanic connection for narrowband performance or the center conductor can be electromagnetically coupled to the functional knob for wideband performance or both. The antenna assembly can create a zero volume notch type ground excitation.
US07994986B2	Antenna with near field deflector A mobile communication device having primary resonator coupled to a near field deflector. The near field deflector forms a false edge for near field deflection wherein the primary resonator couples with the false edge instead of to metallic portions of the device or the user.
US07994977B2	Method and apparatus for a GPS receiver capable or reception of GPS signals and binary offset carrier signals A system and method capable of mitigating the migration from the current GPS system to the Galileo system and allow a single satellite system positioning receiver to process both GPS signals and Galileo signals.
US07994975B2	Method and system for RF interference mitigation using a blanking watchguard A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) enabled mobile device may be operable to monitor and determine counts at which autoblank signals are asserted over time intervals corresponding to consecutive time windows during the RF interference mitigation process using autoblanking. The GNSS enabled mobile device may be operable to disable the generation of a blank signal when the count may be greater than a particular count threshold at the end of the time window. The GNSS enabled mobile device may be operable to enable the generation of a blank signal when the count may be less than or equal to a particular count threshold at the end of the time window. The blank signals may be used to blank the processing of the received GNSS signals.
US07994974B2	Device and method for the real-time monitoring of the integrity of a satellite navigation system The invention relates to a calculation device providing means for estimating an indication of integrity of a satellite navigation system, including a means for estimating in real time, by measuring data calculated by the navigation system, an indication of integrity of the system with respect to very low-probability location errors, the device including a means for receiving data calculated by the location system, a means for estimating a model of distribution of location errors, a means for estimating parameters characterizing the distribution model, a calculation means applying the extreme values theory as a function of the parameters characterizing the distribution model enabling the modeling of the distribution of very low-probability location errors, a means for estimating in real time an indication of integrity for very low-probability location errors, and a means for transmitting in real time an indication of integrity.
US07994973B2	Moving body positioning device A disclosed vehicle control device includes a first ionospheric state information receiving unit receiving information of a predicted ionospheric state at a time point later than a current time point; a second ionospheric state information receiving unit receiving information of an ionospheric state at the current time point; an ionospheric delay error estimating unit estimating an ionospheric delay error by correcting a first ionospheric delay error based on a second ionospheric delay error, the first ionospheric delay error being derived based on the first ionospheric state information, and the second ionospheric delay error being derived based on the second ionospheric state information; and a positioning unit locating a position of a moving body based on a receiving result of a radio wave from a satellite and the estimated ionospheric delay error.
US07994970B2	Positioning system, position information transmitter, communication terminal, and control method of the positioning system In a positioning system comprising a position information transmitter that transmits a position information signal containing position information indicative of a position as a signal compatible with a satellite positioning signal transmitted from an artificial satellite and a communication terminal that when receiving the satellite positioning signal, finds a current position of the communication terminal by finding a position of the artificial satellite and that when receiving the position information signal, finds a current position of the communication terminal based on the position information, the position information transmitter transmits the position information signal containing a boundary flag that determines which of the satellite positioning signal or the position information signal each of correlators of the communication terminal is to receive, and the communication terminal sets which of the satellite positioning signal or the position information signal each of the correlators is to receive based on the boundary flag.
US07994968B2	RF magnitude sampler for holographic radar A gated peak detector produces phase-independent, magnitude-only samples of an RF signal. Gate duration can span as few as two RF cycles or thousands of RF cycles. Response is linearly proportional to RF amplitude while being independent of RF phase and frequency. A quadrature implementation is disclosed. The RF magnitude sampler can finely resolve interferometric patterns produced by narrowband holographic pulse radar.
US07994966B1	Device for generation of microwaves The invention relates to a device for generation of microwaves comprising a virtual cathode oscillator (1) in a coaxial embodiment with an outer cylindrical tube forming a cathode (2) and connected to a transmission line (14) for feeding the cathode (2) with voltage pulses, and an inner cylindrical tube, at least partially transparent for electrons, forming a anode (3) and connected to a waveguide (13) for outputting microwave radiation generated by the formation of a virtual cathode (4) inside an area enclosed by the anode. Through the introduction of electrically conductive structures (5 and 6) a device for generation of microwaves is achieved that demonstrates higher efficiency and higher peak output.
US07994965B2	Surveillance apparatus and method A surveillance apparatus (100) is provided, said apparatus including a linear sub-array (101) of N omnidirectional transmitter elements (103) and a planar sub-array (102) of M receiver elements (104). A plurality of the transient elements (105) are generated by separating out at each of the receivers (104) the signals transmitted from the antenna elements (103) of the transmitter sub-array (101). This allows the geometry of each path (from each transmitter antenna element, to the point being imaged and back to the receiver antenna elements) to be converted to a delay or phase shift to focus on the particular point being imaged. The transient elements (105) form a cylindrical array (106) at the mid points between transmitter and receiver sub-arrays. Such a configuration enables a full 360 degrees of cover in azimuth and typically +/−60 degrees in elevation.
US07994964B2	Method for determining the position, notably in terms of elevation, of a target flying at very low altitude The present invention relates to a method for determining the position notably the elevation of a target flying at very low altitude. An electromagnetic detection system extracts the measurement of the elevation on the basis of the amplitude of the interference signal produced by a signal emitted directly by the target and by a signal emitted by the target towards the ground then reflected by the ground towards the radar. Embodiments of the invention can notably be used within the framework of the guidance of drones in the final landing phase.
US07994958B2	Multi-level feed-back digital-to-analog converter using a chopper voltage reference for a switched capacitor sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter A multi-bit digital-to-analog converter has a reference voltage generator generating a reference voltage with an offset voltage; a switched capacitor stage for generating a plurality of output voltages; and a switching sequencer controlling the switched capacitor stage operable to generate switching patterns for each output voltages, wherein each pattern has a charge phase and a transfer phase, and wherein for at least one output voltage the switching sequencer provides two switching patterns wherein each switching pattern contributes an offset of opposite polarity.
US07994948B2	Table generation method for decoding variable-length codes Provided is a table generation method of decoding a variable-length code. The table generation method includes receiving a variable-length code table and a search width N, generating a K-ary tree from the variable-length code table and the search width N, and generating an N-bit code table from the K-ary tree.
US07994947B1	Method and apparatus for generating a target frequency having an over-sampled data rate using a system clock having a different frequency Method and apparatus for generating a target frequency having an over-sampled data rate using a system clock having a different frequency are disclosed. In one aspect of the present disclosure, the circuit includes, a digital phase locked loop coupled to the system clock. The digital phase locked loop including an oscillator output and an oscillator input. The circuit further comprises an extra pulse eliminator coupled to the oscillator output. The extra pulse eliminator includes an extra pulse eliminator output. One or more frequency dividers may be coupled to an extra pulse eliminator output.
US07994938B2	Method and apparatus for deciding a traveling direction in a space A method and an apparatus for deciding a traveling direction in a space are provided. After receiving a starting signal from a mobile apparatus, a network node of a network apparatus generates a request signal and sends it to a processing apparatus. Then the processing apparatus decides the traveling direction and sends a direction signal comprising the traveling direction to the nearest network node to instruct a moving apparatus to move. The method, and apparatus are more convenient and more cost-effective system than those in the prior art.
US07994936B2	Traffic environment recognition method and system for carrying out the same A traffic environment recognition system includes units for image-processing and information-merging, a radar unit. A network is connected to the image-processing unit. The radar, information-merging, and a vehicle control unit control the traveling operation of the vehicle. The image-processing unit recognizes headway distance, the azimuth, relative speed and width of a preceding vehicle, and the lane position of the host vehicle. The radar unit recognizes headway distance, the azimuth and relative speed of the preceding vehicle. The information-merging unit receives recognition results provided by the image-processing unit. The radar unit through the network, merges and identifies those results. When the recognition results provided by the image-processing unit and the radar unit relate to the same vehicle, output information is produced by the information-merging unit to identify the vehicles as one and the same vehicle and sends the output information through the network to the vehicle control unit.
US07994935B2	Mutltiple mode AMR system for water meters The disclosed inventions include and apparatus and method for providing a universal Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) system. Such system may be configured to work in a plurality of modes including a walk-bay, drive-by and fixed network mode. The system configured to provide functionally-self-healing features where the system continues to function after certain hardware failures occur.
US07994932B2	Borehole telemetry system An acoustic telemetry apparatus and method for communicating encoded digital data from a down-hole location through a borehole to the surface is described including an acoustic channel terminated at a down-hole end by a reflecting terminal (133, 134), an acoustic wave generator (140) located at the surface and providing an acoustic wave carrier signal through said acoustic, channel, a modulator (162, 163) located down-hole to modulate amplitude and/or phase of said carrier wave in response to an encoded digital signal and one or more sensors (150) located at the surface adapted to detect amplitude and/or phase related information of acoustic waves traveling within said acoustic channel to determine the encoded digital data.
US07994931B2	Graphical wind gauge A wind gauge display apparatus comprising a control device and a reconfigurable display for displaying a first visual representation of a wind gauge if a wind angle is within a first range and displaying a second visual representation of the wind gauge if the wind angle is within a second range. The angles displayed on the reconfigurable display may be determined by input from a user. On the reconfigurable display, a location of a visual indicator of wind speed may be different in the first visual representation of the wind gauge than in the second visual representation of the wind gauge. The wind gauge display apparatus may also comprise a sensor for determining wind angle and wind speed.
US07994927B2	Water meter with an emergency shut-down A water meter with an emergency shutdown is a dual purpose water meter, which records the accumulated water consumption of individual runs as any regular water meter, and detects water leakage or uncontrolled flow by comparing each single continuous run in non-equal batches with a set target quantity. The water meter shuts down the water flow if a single continuous run reach that target. The water meter is adaptable to any type of water meter or method of recording, turbine, vertical turbine, positive displacement, multiple jet, propeller, or magnetic or electronic flow measuring.
US07994926B2	Nuclear detection via a system of widely distributed low cost detectors having data including gamma intensities, time stamps and geo-positions A radiation detection system includes many receivers to continuously receive radiation emission data from at least some of a sufficient density of dispersed detectors capable of communicating geo-positions and photon emission counts over a network; the data includes gamma intensities, time stamps, and geo-positions. A processor builds digital image data of the received radiation data for a geographic area by treating gamma-ray proton data from each dispersed detector as a pixel in a low-light image. The processor continuously executes a plurality of statistical computational analyses on the digital image data to separate detected radiation signals from random, undesired signal noise, and known signal noise or sources. The statistical computational analyses include match-filter and/or other convolution techniques. An interface reports to a user when the computational analyses result in detection of a radiation signal and reports a location of one or more of the dispersed detectors that contribute to the detection.
US07994925B2	Monitoring access to controlled areas using electronic monitors The present invention addresses deficiencies of the art in respect to commercial asset control and provides a novel and non-obvious system and device for monitoring access to controlled areas. In one embodiment of the invention, the device can include a securing mechanism having an open state and a closed state. The device can further include a housing coupled with the securing mechanism, the housing comprising a radio frequency-opaque material, wherein the housing completely encloses a volume when the securing mechanism is in the closed state and wherein the housing includes an opening when the securing mechanism is in the open state. The device can further include an electronic marker located inside the volume of the housing, wherein the electronic marker periodically emits a signal.
US07994922B2	Communications system and method with A/D converter A communications system includes a radio frequency identification device including an integrated circuit having a single die including a microprocessor, a receiver coupled to the microprocessor, and a backscatter transmitter coupled to the microprocessor, the integrated circuit having a digital input, and the receiver being configured to receive wireless communications from a remote interrogator; and an analog to digital converter external of the single die and having a digital output coupled to the digital input of the integrated circuit, and having an analog input configured to be coupled to an analog measuring device, wherein the radio frequency identification device is configured to transmit a signal indicative of the analog input using the backscatter transmitter. A communications method includes coupling an analog to digital converter to a radio frequency identification device.
US07994921B2	Method for wireless data transmission and a transponder A method for wireless data transmission, for example for RFID systems, between a base station and a transponder is provided. For wireless data transmission between a base station and a transponder, data are wirelessly and bidirectionally transmitted between the base station and the transponder through a first interface of a first interface type using a first data transmission protocol, and data are wirelessly and bidirectionally transmitted between the base station and the transponder through at least one second interface of a second interface type using a second data transmission protocol. The first data transmission protocol and the second data transmission protocol correspond at least in part.
US07994920B2	RFID security in an RFID-enabled medium Methods and apparatus for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) security in an RFID-enabled medium, the RFID-enabled medium including an RFID tag coupled to an antenna, and a touch sensing switch, the touch sensing switch coupled to an electrode and a power source, the touch sensing switch adapting the RFID tag to the power source, the RFID security including: sensing, by the touch sensing switch, human contact with the electrode; and providing, by the touch sensing switch only during human contact with the electrode, operating power from the power source to the RFID tag.
US07994917B2	Apparatus for fixing RFID tags An apparatus for fixing RFID tags fixes a RFID circuit element on a print label to produce a RFID label. At this time, a barcode provided on the print label side is read by a barcode sensor, and information to be written corresponding to barcode information is written into the RFID circuit element through an antenna via wireless communication. The barcode on the print label is associated with the label print, whereby a RFID label with print can be produced in which the label print and the information to be stored in the RFID circuit element are associated with each other.
US07994916B2	Microprocessor controlled security tag A microprocessor controlled security tag and accompanying security system is described. The tag generally includes a housing having external contacts to interface with elongated contacts on a connecting band. The band forms a complex impedance circuit with a patient's limb that allows detection features such as removal and band compromise. A microprocessor and related circuitry as well as a transmitter and receivers are enclosed in the housing. The tag is adapted to communicate inductively with an activator/deactivator unit as well as a tag programmer that updates and changes tag features in the tag firmware. The overall system further includes a hub to receive the data from a plurality of tags in the system. The tag can also communicate with a phased multiple antenna that sends signals to the tag.
US07994915B2	Information processing system and information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes an equipment means equipped on a predetermined portion of a living body and has a storage means which a first biological identification data associated with the predetermined portion of the living body, and a communication means which is held by the equipment means and transmits the first biological identification data to a communication target to which the predetermined position equipped with the equipment means is brought close. A biological authentication means which performs biological authentication, based on the first biological identification data and on a second biological identification data, said second biological identification data being extracted from biological information detected by a biological sensor.
US07994912B2	Intrusion-object detection system, method of detecting intrusion-object and method of detecting malfunction A method determining a malfunction when a reception signal fluctuates at a receiver owing to malfunctions occurring on a leaky cable and its related devices. The method determines, among range bins correlating the reception signal with a distance from a feed end of a radio-wave radiation unit and a radio-wave reception unit, based on a correlation between a time-delay from a transmission time of a transmission signal until a reception time of the reception signal and a transmission path distance of the reception signal in the radio-wave radiation unit and the radio-wave reception unit, when, comparing the reception signal with the transmission signal with respect to the range bin corresponding to a far end, a level of amplitude reduction in the reception signal exceeds a predetermined ratio, that a malfunction is present in either the radio-wave radiation unit or radio-wave reception unit.
US07994911B2	System, method, and apparatus for triggering an alarm According to some example embodiments, systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided for triggering an alarm. In this regard, one example apparatus includes means for receiving an instruction to alarm a security gate device, and means for tuning a security resonator at a location such that a field generated by the security gate device interacts with the security resonator to cause the security gate device to trigger an alarm in response to at least receiving the instruction to alarm the security gate device.
US07994910B2	Directing a movement of visitors in an event venue for maximizing revenue The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for directing a movement of visitors in an event venue. In one embodiment, the process generates a visitor profile for each visitor at an event venue. The visitor profile may include, without limitation, a unique identifier and location data. The location data is collected from a set of sensors distributed throughout the event venue. The process then monitors a capacity of visitors at each venue destination using the location data. In response to determining that the capacity of visitors at a first venue destination exceeds a threshold capacity for the first venue destination, the process selects a second venue destination for accommodating visitors of the first venue destination. The process selects the second venue destination based on selection criteria. The process then dispatches a venue employee to the first venue destination to direct one or more visitors at the first venue destination to the second venue destination.
US07994909B2	Systems and methods for identifying and collecting banned waste Systems and methods for authorizing a waste item to be removed from a site. In one embodiment, a waste collection vehicle includes a reader configured to obtain identification information from an identification tag associated with the waste item. A transceiver associated with the vehicle is configured to: receive the identification information from the reader, wirelessly transmit the identification information to a remote computer for processing, and wirelessly receive an indication of whether the waste item should be collected and removed by the waste collection. The received indication is based on at least one hazardous characteristic associated with the identified waste item, a determination that the waste collection vehicle is authorized to collect the waste item having the at least one hazardous characteristic, and a determination that a driver of the waste collection vehicle is authorized to collect the waste item having the at least one hazardous characteristic.
US07994906B2	Pressure-responsive vehicle alarm pad Disclosed is a pressure-responsive vehicle alarm pad for a vehicle seat to remind a presence of an object inside a vehicle to an occupant of the vehicle seat. The pressure-responsive vehicle alarm pad comprises a pressure sensor pad, a control circuitry, and alarm speakers. The pressure sensor pad disposed on the vehicle seat to detect a pressure of the occupant. The control circuitry electrically coupled to the pressure sensor pad to receive the detected pressure from the pressure sensor pad. The control circuitry generate a first electrical signal when the detected pressure is greater than a threshold pressure, and generates a second electrical signal when the detected pressure is less than the threshold pressure. The alarm speakers electrically coupled to the control circuitry to generate a first audible sound in response to the first electrical signal, and generate a second audible sound in response to the second electrical signal.
US07994903B2	Display device and vehicle A vehicle has a display device which widens the field of view (visible area) reflected by a side mirror or a back mirror mounted on the vehicle. To enable a driver driving the vehicle to confirm safety even when it is difficult for the driver to visually recognize some of objects surrounding the vehicle, a liquid crystal display device or an EL display device is provided in the side mirror (door mirror), the back mirror (room mirror) or in an interior portion of the vehicle. A camera is mounted on the vehicle and an image from the camera is displayed on the display device. Further, information read from a sensor (distance measuring sensor) having the function of measuring the distance to another vehicle, and a sensor (impact sensor) having the function of sensing an externally applied impact force larger than a predetermined value is displayed on the display device.
US07994900B1	Mini-dome, nurse call visual communication system A patient and room status display device used to provide effective communication in healthcare environments. The display device uses a RGB (Red, Green and Blue) LED (Light Emitting Diode) to illuminate a dome light with any color, thus providing signals to healthcare workers representing different patient or room statuses. The display device can be operated through an external web-based interface, a nurse call master station or at least one user controlled actuator located on the display device. Each display device is mounted outside of every patient's room to provide multiple status signals for every patient in the hospital wing.
US07994897B2	Systems and methods for managing inventory of items held in a cabinet using radio frequency identification (RFID) A RFID cabinet comprises a cabinet structure and one or more drawers or shelves. Chambers are formed within the cabinet to house the one or more drawers or shelves. An RFID scanner is configured to scan items tagged with RFID tags in the chambers via one or more antennas. The antennas can include transmit and receive antennas or antennas configured to perform both transmit and receive functions. The drawers can have a access cover, or lid that can be controlled so as to control access to the drawer. The scanner can be configured to perform inventory control for the tagged items.
US07994894B2	Varistor A varistor having a favorable heat-dissipating property is provided.In the varistor, a composite part having a favorable heat-dissipating property formed by a composite material composed of ZnO and Ag is arranged between main faces of a varistor matrix. Therefore, the heat transmitted from a semiconductor light-emitting device to a varistor part through an outer electrode can rapidly be transferred toward a main face on the opposite side through the composite part. In this varistor, side faces excluding inner side faces are exposed at side faces of the varistor matrix. Such a structure yields a favorable heat-dissipating property.
US07994892B2	Oxidative opening switch assembly and methods Embodiments of the invention are related to oxidative opening switches and related methods, amongst other things. In an embodiment, the invention includes a switch assembly including a first terminal, a second terminal, and an oxidative switch element in electrical communication with the first terminal and the second terminal, the switch element comprising a conductive material and an oxidizer, the switch element configured to interrupt electrical communication between the first terminal and the second terminal as a result of an oxidation reaction between the conductive material and the oxidizer. In an embodiment, the invention includes a fast opening switch for pulse power applications. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US07994891B2	Stacked inductive device assemblies and methods Improved inductive electronic apparatus and methods for manufacturing the same. In one exemplary embodiment, the apparatus comprises an inductive device module comprising N inductors and N+1 core elements. The core elements comprise ferrite core pieces that are optionally identical to one another. These core elements are stacked (e.g., in a longitudinal coaxial arrangement) such that the back of one core element associated with a first inductor provides a magnetic flux path for a second inductor. Form-less (bonded) windings are also optionally used to simplify the manufacture of the device, reduce its cost, and allow it to be made more compact (or alternatively additional functionality to be disposed therein). One variant utilizes a termination header for mating to a PCB or other assembly, while another totally avoids the use of the header by directly mating to the PCB.
US07994890B2	Insulating transformer and power conversion device An insulating transformer includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating substrate, a primary winding provided on one of the semiconductor substrate and the insulating substrate, a secondary winding provided on other of the semiconductor substrate and the insulating substrate, and an insulating spacer layer provided in between the semiconductor substrate and the insulating substrate for insulating and separating the primary winding and the secondary winding. The primary winding and the secondary winding are disposed to face each other. The insulating spacer layer maintains a constant interval between the semiconductor substrate and the insulating substrate.
US07994889B2	Multilayer inductor A multilayer inductor having a uniformly improved direct current superposition property and an increased inductance value is disclosed. The multilayer inductor contains a laminate of a plurality of first insulating layers and a plurality of conductive layers, and the conductive layers and through hole conductors are connected to form a helical coil in the laminate. A second insulating layer which has a magnetic permeability lower than those of the first insulating layers is disposed such that it crosses an inner magnetic path of the helical coil, and a margin of the second insulating layer overlaps with the conductive layer in the stacking direction and is in contact with the conductive layer in the overlap portion. The magnetic flux density in the laminate is likely to be highest in the overlap portion, and thus, the highest-density magnetic flux passes through the second insulating layer inevitably, whereby the direct current superposition property can be uniformly improved.
US07994885B2	High-frequency switch in multi-layer substrate A switch module consists of a build-up multi-layer structure and some passive devices. The build-up multi-layer structure has multitudes of conductive layers and dielectric layers laminated upon each another. At least one dielectric layer is interfered between any two conductive layers. Any one passive device is a portion of at least one conductive layer and electrically connects multitudes of conductive pads on the surface of the build-up multi-layer structure.
US07994879B2	Apparatus for transitioning millimeter wave between dielectric waveguide and transmission line Provided is an apparatus for transitioning a millimeter wave between dielectric waveguide and transmission line using a millimeter wave transition structure formed by the dielectric waveguide, the transmission line, and a slot to transition a signal with lower losses. The apparatus includes: transmission lines disposed respectively at input and output terminals on an uppermost dielectric substrate in a signal transition direction and adapted to transition a signal; a dielectric waveguide formed by a via array disposed between top and bottom ground surfaces of a lowermost dielectric substrate in the signal transition direction as a signal transition path; and slots disposed at a signal transition path of an upper ground surface of each dielectric substrate to connect the transmission lines to the dielectric waveguide so as to transition a signal from the transmission line of the input terminal to the transmission line of the output terminal through the dielectric waveguide.
US07994875B2	Tri-frequency duplexer circuit and multi-frequency duplexer circuit The present invention discloses a tri-frequency duplexer circuit and multi-frequency duplexer circuit. The tri-frequency duplexer circuit comprises a microstrip line circuit, two first mushrooms, two second mushrooms and two third mushrooms. The microstrip line circuit comprises a first Input/Output (I/O) port, a second I/O port, a third I/O port and a fourth I/O port. The two first mushrooms are respectively disposed at transmission line paths between the first I/O port and the second I/O port and between the first I/O port and the third I/O port. The two second mushrooms are respectively disposed at transmission line paths between the first I/O port and the second I/O port and between the first I/O port and the fourth I/O port. The two third mushrooms are respectively disposed at transmission line paths between the first I/O port and the third I/O port and between the first I/O port and the fourth I/O port.
US07994873B2	Balun device A balun device including a first to a third inductance elements and a first to a third capacitance elements is provided. The first inductance element has a first end for receiving an input signal and a second end. The second inductance element has a third end and a fourth end, wherein the third and the forth ends are for outputting a first and a second output signals corresponding to the input signal, respectively. The first output signal and the second output signal substantially have the same amplitude and opposite phases. The first and the second inductance elements generate mutual inductance. The first capacitance element is coupled to the first end. The second capacitance element is coupled to the third end. The third capacitance element is coupled to the fourth end. The third inductance element is seriesly connected to one of the first to the third capacitance elements.
US07994872B2	Apparatus for multiple frequency power application Apparatus and methods are provided for a power matching apparatus for use with a processing chamber. In one aspect of the invention, a power matching apparatus is provided including a first RF power input coupled to a first adjustable capacitor, a second RF power input coupled to a second adjustable capacitor, a power junction coupled to the first adjustable capacitor and the second adjustable capacitor, a receiver circuit coupled to the power junction, a high voltage filter coupled to the power junction and the high voltage filter has a high voltage output, a voltage/current detector coupled to the power junction and a RF power output connected to the voltage/current detector.
US07994870B2	Tunable filter with gain control circuit An apparatus includes a filter and a gain control circuit. The filter receives and filters an input signal and provides an output signal in a first mode and operates as part of an oscillator in a second mode. The gain control circuit varies the amplitude of an oscillator signal from the oscillator in the second mode, e.g., by adjusting at least one variable gain element within the oscillator to obtain a target amplitude and/or non rail-to-rail signal swing for the oscillator signal. The apparatus may further include a bandwidth control circuit to adjust the bandwidth of the filter in the second mode. The bandwidth control circuit receives the oscillator signal, determines a target oscillation frequency corresponding to a selected bandwidth for the filter, and adjusts at least one circuit element within the filter to obtain the target oscillation frequency.
US07994867B2	Oscillator control apparatus An oscillator control apparatus has a digitally-controlled oscillator which outputs an oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency in response to an oscillator adjusting signal, a counter which counts the oscillation signal and outputs a count in response to a reference signal in synchronism with the oscillation signal, a time-to-digital converter which calculates a phase difference between the oscillation signal and the reference signal, an adder which adds the count and the phase difference and outputs the added value as first phase information, a corrector which corrects the first phase information in response to a phase control signal for setting an oscillation frequency of the digitally-controlled oscillator when a time difference between a rising-up timing of the oscillation signal and a rising-up timing of the reference signal is less than a predetermined time, and outputs second phase information, and a filter for smoothing a difference between the phase control signal and the second phase information, to output the oscillator adjusting signal.
US07994866B2	Auto trimming oscillator An auto trimming oscillator includes a Successive Approximation Register (SAR), a frequency detector and an n-bit comparator. The SAR is used to iteratively trim the oscillator output clock frequency based on a difference between a reference clock frequency and the oscillator output clock frequency. The oscillator is trimmed to deliver a clock frequency which is a closest match to the reference clock frequency.
US07994865B1	Even order distortion cancellation in single-ended input, differential output amplifiers using feedback An amplifier and a method for converting a single ended signal to an amplified differential signal. The amplifier comprises an input configured to receive a single ended signal, a differential amplifier that outputs an amplified differential signal based on the single ended signal, and a compensator coupled to the differential amplifier and configured to inject an adjusted distortion compensating signal based on the even order distortion signal to compensate for a distortion in the amplified differential signal. The method comprises receiving a single ended signal, converting the single ended signal to an amplified differential signal, and generating a distortion compensating signal to substantially cancel an even order distortion signal injected to the differential signal by the converting.
US07994864B2	Audio out unit A DC-coupled audio out unit is provided, including at least one regulator and at least one audio amplifier. The regulator is coupled to at least one power terminal of the audio amplifier.
US07994860B2	Electronic component for high frequency power amplification An electronic component for high frequency power amplification realizes an improvement in switching spectrum characteristics. The gain of an amplifying NMOS transistor is controlled by a bias voltage on which a bias control voltage is reflected. Further, a threshold voltage compensator compensates for a variation in threshold voltage with variations in the manufacture of the amplifying NMOS transistor. The threshold voltage compensator includes an NMOS transistor formed in the same process specification as the amplifying NMOS transistor and converts a variation in current flowing through the NMOS transistor depending on the variation in the threshold voltage of the amplifying NMOS transistor to its corresponding voltage by a resistor to compensate for the bias voltage. It is thus possible to reduce variations in so-called precharge level brought to fixed output power in a region (0 dBm or less, for example) low in output power.
US07994853B2	Class-D amplifier with dual feedback loop A class-D amplifier with dual feedback loop scheme has a gain adjusting circuit, a second-order integrator, two comparators, a logic circuit and an output driver. Two differential output terminals of the class-D amplifier are connected to two differential amplifiers of the second-order integrator to construct a second-order feedback loop for offering second order noise shaping, eliminating non-linear components in the class-D amplifier, and also enhancing signal to noise and distortion ratio (SNDR). Further, distortion component existing in the differential signal output from the differential output terminals is amplified by the two differential amplifiers so as to improve the loop gain of the class-D amplifier. The differential signal processed by the two differential amplifiers also can be precisely adjusted.
US07994852B2	Electronic circuit and electronic device An electronic circuit includes: a circuit generating first and second balanced differential input signals; a first envelope detection circuit including a first output terminal and first and second input terminals receiving the first and second input signals, respectively, via first and second impedance elements, respectively, and outputs from the first output terminal a first output signal that is the sum of the squares of the first and second input signals; a second envelope detection circuit including a second output terminal and third and fourth input terminals receiving the first and second input signals, respectively, via third and fourth impedance elements, respectively, and outputs from the second output terminal a second output signal that is twice the value obtained by squaring the average of the first and second input signals; and a differential circuit generating a differential signal from the first and second output signals.
US07994850B2	Discrete time multi-rate analog filter A discrete time analog filter suitable for use in a receiver and other electronics devices is described herein. In one exemplary design, an apparatus may include a transconductance amplifier, a sampler, and a discrete time analog filter. The transconductance amplifier may amplify a voltage input signal and provide an analog signal. The sampler may sample the analog signal and provide analog samples at a sampling rate. The discrete time analog filter may filter the analog samples and provide filtered analog samples either at the sampling rate for a non-decimating filter or at an output rate that is lower than the sampling rate for a decimating filter. The discrete time analog filter may also filter the analog samples with either equal weights for a rectangular filter or at least two different weights for a weighted filter.
US07994848B2	Low power voltage reference circuit An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a low power voltage reference circuit. The circuit includes a first circuit for generating a PTAT voltage without using an operational amplifier. The circuit also includes a second circuit for generating the reference voltage. The first and the second circuit do not utilize a resistor.
US07994845B2	Switched-capacitor charge pumps A switched-capacitor charge pump comprises a two-phase charging circuit, cross-coupled transistors connected to output nodes of the switched capacitors, and a pump output connected to source terminals of the cross-coupled transistors. The charge pump has side transistors for boosting charge transfer, and gating logic of the side transistors includes level shifters which control connections to the pump output or a reference voltage. Negative and positive charge pump embodiments are provided. The charging circuit utilizes non-overlapping wide and narrow clock signals to generate multiple gating signals. The pump clock circuit preferably provides independent, programmable adjustment of the widths of the wide and narrow clock signals. An override mode can be provided using clamping circuits which shunt the pump output to the second nodes of the switched capacitors.
US07994833B2	Delay locked loop for high speed semiconductor memory device A semiconductor device comprises a delay locked loop (DLL) configured to control a phase delay of an internal clock to output first and second DLL clocks; an output enable unit configured to generate rising/falling data output enable signals in response to the second DLL clocks; and an output driver configured to output data in response to one of the first DLL clocks selected by the rising/falling data output enable signals, where a phase of the second DLL clock leads that of the first DLL clock.
US07994827B2	MOSFET gate drive with reduced power loss A gate driver for a power MOSFET in, for example, a DC-DC converter switches the MOSFET between a fully-on condition and a low-current condition instead of switching the MOSFET between fully-on and fully-off conditions. The amount of charge that must be transferred to charge and discharge the gate of the MOSFET is thereby reduced, and the efficiency of the MOSFET is improved. A trimming process is used to adjust the magnitude of the voltage supplied by the gate driver to the gate of the power MOSFET in the low-current condition.
US07994820B2	Level shifter with embedded logic and low minimum voltage In one embodiment, a level shifter circuit may include a shift stage that also embeds transistors that implement a logic operation on two or more inputs to the level shifter. At least one of the inputs may be sourced from circuitry that is powered by a different power supply than the level shifter and circuitry that receives the level shifter output. Additionally, the level shifter includes one or more dummy transistors that match transistors the perform the logic operation, to improve symmetry of the level shifter circuit. In some embodiments, certain design and layout rules may be applied to the level shifter circuit to limit variation in the symmetry over various manufacturing variations.
US07994819B2	Level-shifter circuit One embodiment of the invention includes a level-shifter circuit. The circuit comprises a control stage that steers a current from one of a first control node and a second control node to the other of the first control node and the second control node based on an input signal to set a first initial voltage at the first control node and a second initial voltage at the second control node, the input signal having logic-high and logic-low voltage magnitudes that occupy a low voltage domain. The circuit also includes a logic driver that is coupled to the second control node and is referenced in a high voltage domain. The logic driver can be configured to provide an output signal having logic-high and logic-low voltage magnitudes that occupy the high voltage domain based on the second initial voltage.
US07994811B2	Test device and semiconductor integrated circuit device Test devices and integrated circuits with improved productivity are provided. In accordance with example embodiments, a test device may include a first test region with a first test element and a second test region with a second test element defined on a semiconductor substrate. The first test element may include a pair of first secondary test regions in the semiconductor substrate and a pair of first test gate lines. One of the first test gate lines may overlap one of the first secondary test regions and the other first test gate line may overlap the other first secondary test region. The second test element may include structures corresponding to the first test element except the second test element does not include structures corresponding to the pair of first secondary test regions and the pair of first test gate lines.
US07994808B2	Contact insert for a microcircuit test socket A system for testing a microcircuit having a center ground (CG) terminal has an insert for electrically connecting the CG terminal to a ground contact on a load board. The insert is held within a housing by compression and frictional interaction between a resilient projection carried by the insert and a slot in a wall of an aperture holding the insert.
US07994806B2	System and method for testing embedded circuits with test islands Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system and method for testing an embedded circuit in a semiconductor arrangement as part of an overall circuit that is located on a semiconductor wafer, the system and method comprising an arrangement comprising an overall circuit with at least one input and output. The overall circuit may be provided with an embedded circuit that is not directly connected to the inputs and outputs or may be connected thereto by being specially switched. Switching elements and test islands that are connected thereto may be provided such that the input or the output of the embedded circuit may be connected to the test islands via the switching elements in case of a test. The switching elements may be switched to said test mode in case of a test by applying a voltage to the test island, or the switching elements may be switched in this manner. The arrangement may thus allow for a flexible testing system and method while the used substrate area and the number of required inputs and outputs remain low.
US07994805B2	Electromagnetic interference testing device A testing device includes a shielding case and a driving member opening and closing the shielding case. The shielding case includes a receiving space for receiving an electronic device therein, a cover, and a base. The driving member includes a first driving member mechanically connected to an outside of the cover of the shielding case and a second driving member mechanically connected to an outside of the base of the shielding case. The first driving member moves the cover vertically relative to the base. The second driving member moves the base horizontally relative to the cover. Movement of the shielding case in an open position allows the electronic device to be received in or removed from the shielding case. Movement of the shielding case in a closed position allows the electronic device to be tested.
US07994802B2	Apparatus for examining or monitoring plants An apparatus (1) is used to examine or monitor the state or state of health of plants (2) with the aid of a bipolar electrode (4) which uses its at least two different poles (5) to measure corresponding potentials of the plant and supply them to a detector and/or memory (7), in particular via an amplifier (9), with the result that conclusions regarding the state of, or the possible damage to, a plant (2) can be drawn from changes in the electrical signals and can ensure remedial action.
US07994799B2	Insulation resistance detection system, insulation resistance detection apparatus and insulation resistance detection method An insulation resistance determining system (50) comprises an insulation resistance determining portion configured by connecting a coupling capacitor (52), a detection resistor (54), and a pulse oscillating circuit (56) in series with a common mode potential measuring point (30), and an insulation resistance determining portion having a filter (58) which processes an AC signal (vx) at a junction between the coupling capacitor (52) and the detection resistor (54), an amplifier (60), a wave-peak value detection circuit (62), and a controller (70). The controller (70) has functions for detecting a drop in insulation resistance in response to an output of the wave-peak value detection circuit (62); for requesting an HVCPU (40) to change the common mode potential so as to determine a failure of the insulation resistance determining portion; and for determining a failure of the insulation resistance determining portion from an output change of the wave-peak value determining circuit (62) between before and after the common mode potential change.
US07994797B2	Implementing a coded time domain transmission distance meter A method and circuit for implementing a coded time domain transmission distance meter, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. A first transmitter module connected to a cable at a first point or power outlet, generates and sends a testing coded pulse onto the power cable. A second receiver module connected to the cable at a second point, receives the testing coded pulse, and returns a receiver response coded pulse to the transmitter module. The first transmitter module determines the round-trip elapsed time, subtracts a receiver latency time, and calculates a distance to the second receiver module. Encoded in the testing coded pulse are data representing the last calculated distance. Both the first transmitter module and the second receiver module include a display for displaying the calculated distance.
US07994788B2	Short hybrid microstrip magnetic resonance coils A hybrid microstrip coil for magnetic resonance imaging including a microstrip assembly aligned in the superior/inferior (S/I) direction. In one example, the microstrip assembly has conductive strips disposed on one side of a substrate corresponding shield planes disposed on the other side of the substrate. The microstrip assemblies are coupled together by coaxial sections forming a continuous transmission line and having a specific overall electrical length.
US07994784B2	Systems and methods for rescaling image intensities with diffusion MRI to synthesize complex diffusive geometries A method for scaling MR signal intensity after noise has been removed is disclosed. Because the signal in a DTI series varies with the apparent diffusivity in the direction of an applied gradient, one can multiply image data collected under actual clinical conditions with a spatially-dependent scaling function to synthesize different spatial diffusion distributions, after removal of noise. Recombination of the data with the removed noise preserves the bias in the system.
US07994783B2	Integrated microchip incorporating atomic magnetometer and microfluidic channel for NMR and MRI An integral microfluidic device includes an alkali vapor cell and microfluidic channel, which can be used to detect magnetism for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Small magnetic fields in the vicinity of the vapor cell can be measured by optically polarizing and probing the spin precession in the small magnetic field. This can then be used to detect the magnetic field of in encoded analyte in the adjacent microfluidic channel. The magnetism in the microfluidic channel can be modulated by applying an appropriate series of radio or audio frequency pulses upstream from the microfluidic chip (the remote detection modality) to yield a sensitive means of detecting NMR and MRI.
US07994779B2	Method for continuously determining the tensile force F in a cable of a parking brake Presented is a method for continuously determining the tensile force F in a cable of a parking brake that includes transmitting the tensile force F to a cable grommet coupled to a first end of an expandable intermediate part that includes a magnet and/or a magnetic sensor. The first end of the expandable intermediate part faces away from a drive spindle coupled to a second end of the expandable intermediate part. The method further includes changing the length of the expandable intermediate part in the direction of its longitudinal axis in response to the transmitted tensile force F, moving the magnet and the magnetic sensor relative to each other in response to the change in length, changing the signal voltage of the magnetic sensor in response to the relative movement between the magnet and the magnetic sensor, and determining the tensile force F from the respective signal voltage.
US07994778B2	Inductive presence or position sensor for detecting both ferrous and non-ferrous metals An inductive sensor or detector includes as its sensitive element, preferably defining a front working plane of the sensor, a coil system forming an air-core transformer arrangement with a primary coil or winding (2) and a secondary coil or winding (3). The primary coil or winding of the system is associated with a capacitive component (4) in order to constitute a LC oscillating circuit whose oscillation is sustained by an adapted generator (5) in the form of an operational amplifier (6) and an associated resistance arrangement (R, R5, R13). The sensor also includes a signal processing circuit, for example signal adding (8), amplifying, converting (9) and/or evaluating circuits (10), fed by at least one signal provided by at least one component of the coil system. The inductive sensor comprises a direct or indirect feedback line (11) from the secondary coil or winding (3) to the input of the operational amplifier (6) of the generator (5).
US07994776B2	Failure detection apparatus for resolver A failure detection apparatus for a resolver outputting a sine signal indicative of sin θ and a cosine signal indicative of cos θ according to a rotational angle θ of a rotator, includes an inspection value calculating section configured to calculate an inspection value based on at least one of the sine signal and the cosine signal; a failure detecting section configured to judge whether the resolver is in a failure state or not on the basis of the inspection value; a counting section configured to gradually increase a count value with a lapse of time when the failure detecting section is determining that the resolver is in the failure state, and configured to gradually decrease the count value with a lapse of time when the failure detecting section is determining that the resolver is not in the failure state; and a failure deciding section configured to finally decide that the resolver has caused the failure on the basis of the count value.
US07994775B2	Magnetic sensor A magnetic sensor comprises a read head, a position identification scale and a motion identification scale. The read head is provided with a position sensing unit opposite the position identification scale, and a motion sensing unit opposite the motion identification scale. The read head is further provided with a signal processing unit that is connected with the position sensing unit and the motion sensing unit. By such arrangements, the sensing accuracy can be improved, and the material cost can be relatively reduced.
US07994773B2	Apparatus and method for in-field magnetic measurements A magnetic field verifier apparatus includes a magnetic field detection element configured to produce a voltage signal in response to an applied magnetic field wherein the voltage signal corresponds to the strength of the applied magnetic field. A current source coupled to the magnetic field detection element provides a stimulating current for the magnetic field detection element that builds in a ramp-like progression. A microcontroller is in communication with the voltage signal wherein the microcontroller is configured to detect and control the ramping time of the magnetic field detection element and to sense after the ramping time the voltage signal from the magnetic field detection element. The magnetic field verifier apparatus is configurable to sense particular field strengths at various frequencies and store the readings to provide the user with a reliable verification that a particular magnetic field strength has been produced in a particular environment.
US07994772B2	Remote transmitter for analogue gauges In a method for converting an analogue measurement indication into electric signals, the angle of rotation of the pointer of an analogue display is contact free detected and converted into a proportional electrical output signal. This is achieved by using an application-specific integrated circuit having a Hall sensor which can detect the magnetic flux density parallel to the surface of the integrated circuit.
US07994770B2	Transmitter of a system for detecting a buried conductor A system for detecting a buried conductor comprises a transmitter for generating a test signal in the buried conductor and a detector for detecting an electromagnetic signal resulting from the test signal flowing in the buried conductor. The transmitter comprises a waveform generator for generating a drive waveform signal, a power supply, an amplifier, connected to the power supply and the waveform generator for producing an output drive signal based on the drive waveform signal and an output circuit for acting on the output drive signal to generate an output signal having a current and a voltage. In-phase and quadrature components of the current and voltage of the output signal are fed back for controlling the amplifier.
US07994769B2	Switching regulator and control circuit thereof Multiple switching transistors are provided in parallel. An output circuit includes an inductor, an output capacitor, and a rectifying device. A pulse modulator generates a pulse signal with the duty ratio adjusted such that the output voltage of a switching regulator approaches a predetermined target value. A driver distributes a pulse signal to the multiple switching transistors, and switches the multiple switching transistors to the ON state in a time divisional manner.
US07994768B2	Control apparatus and method of senseless MPPT control for photovoltaic power generation system The present invention relates to a senseless MPPT control apparatus of a photovoltaic power generation system and a method thereof. The control apparatus includes a current transformer, an A/D converter, a new and old current detector, a new duty ratio detector, an old duty ratio detector, a new and old duty ratio comparator, first and second new and old current comparators, a duty ratio adder, a duty ratio subtractor and a PWM signal generator. A maximum output point of a solar battery cell is tracked by using only one feedback current flowing into a load. Further, feedback factors can be reduced to one. It is possible to simplify the construction of a control circuit and minimize tracking control failure.
US07994765B2	Power supply device A power supply device, comprising first and second lead terminals for connection with a load, a fuel cell, an energy storage element connected between the first and second lead terminals, a synchronous-rectification switching power-source portion for converting the output voltage of the fuel cell to the output voltage of the energy storage element and outputting it to the first and second lead terminals, and a current-detecting portion for detecting the output current of the fuel cell, the switching power-source portion further comprising a first switching element connected to the energy storage element in series, a second switching element connected to the energy storage element in parallel, and a simultaneous-turn-off controller for turning off the first and second switching elements simultaneously when the output current detected by the current-detecting portion is not larger than a preset current threshold.
US07994762B2	DC to DC converter A DC to DC converter comprising an inductor, first and second electrically controllable switches and a controller, wherein the first electrically controllable switch is interposed between an input node and a first terminal of the inductor and the second electrically controllable switch extends between a second terminal of the inductor and a common node or a ground, and where a first rectifier extends between the common node or ground and the terminal of the inductor and a second rectifier connects the second terminal of the inductor to an output node, wherein the controller controls the operation of the first and second switches to perform voltage step down or step up, as appropriate, to achieve a desired output voltage and wherein a decision about when to switch the first electrically controlled switch is made as a first function of a voltage error between the output voltage and a target output voltage, and an estimate of the current flowing in the inductor.
US07994760B2	Regulation scheme for a charge pump A boost regulator system for regulating one or more output voltages includes, a first pump element coupled to receive a first input voltage, a first switching device coupled to the first pump element, the first switching device causing a finite amount of energy to be stored in the first pump element in response to a first control signal. The system further includes, a first capacitor coupled to the first pump element and the first switching device, the first capacitor storing the finite amount of energy and generating a first output voltage in response to the finite amount of energy. A boost controller (BC) coupled to receive the first output voltage, the boost controller further configured to regulate the first output voltage by generating the first control signal. The system further includes, a second switching device coupled to a second capacitor, the second switching device further causing a second voltage to develop across the second capacitor in response to a second control signal, a third capacitor coupled to the first pump element and the second switching device, the third capacitor further generating a third output voltage in response to the finite amount of energy, and a linear controller (LC) coupled to receive the third output voltage, the BC further configured to regulate the third output voltage by generating the second control signal.
US07994758B2	System and method for improving efficiency of a power factor correction boost pre-regulator A power supply device comprises a driver circuit, a transistor switch, and a first transistor. The driver circuit is configured to provide a stable driving signal and a floating driving signal. The transistor switch has a first terminal, a second terminal connected to a first terminal of the driver circuit, and a third terminal connected to a second terminal of the driver circuit, and is configured to prevent a reverse current based on the floating driving signal. The first transistor has a first current electrode connected to the first terminal of the transistor switch, a second current electrode connected to the first voltage reference, and a control electrode connected to the third terminal of the driver circuit, and is configured to activate and deactivate based on the stable driving signal, and further configured to regulate an input voltage to a substantially constant direct current output voltage.
US07994755B2	System, method, and article of manufacture for determining an estimated battery cell module state A system, a method, and an article of manufacture for determining an estimated battery cell module state indicative of a state of a battery cell module of a battery pack are provided. The method includes measuring at least one of a battery cell module voltage, a battery cell module current, and a battery cell module temperature. The method further includes determining the estimated battery cell module state of the battery cell module at a predetermined time based on an estimated battery pack state and at least one of the battery cell module voltage, the battery cell module current, and the battery cell module temperature. The method further includes storing a vector corresponding to the estimated battery cell module state in a memory.
US07994752B2	Contactless battery charging apparel A sequential power transmission between a portable user-carried battery and first and second independent accessories. At least one primary inductive coupling coil is mounted on an article of apparel worn by the user, so as to place a primary coil adjacent a first intermediary inductive coupling coil on the first independent accessory. The energizing of the first intermediary coil energizes a second intermediary coil on the first independent accessory. The second intermediary coil, when energized, energizes a secondary coil on the second independent accessory for powering the use, including the charging of the batteries of that accessory.
US07994750B2	Systems and methods for controlling a converter for powering a load Embodiments of systems and methods for powering a load are provided. In one embodiment, a method may include providing a power converter comprising electrical circuitry comprising at least a first leg and a second leg, supplying an input power signal to the power converter, supplying at least a first gating control signal to the first leg, supplying at least a second gating control signal to the second leg, and outputting at least one output power signal to the load responsive at least in part to the first and the second gating control signals supplied. According to this example embodiment, the first gating signal and the second gating signal may each comprise a waveform comprising a notch, and the second gating control signal may be phase shifted relative to the first gating control signal.
US07994748B2	Drive control system of an electric vehicle The object of the present invention is provide a drive control system of an electric vehicle that can prevent overshoot of the amount of slip. The drive control system of the electric vehicle includes: a motor to drive a driving wheel; a PDU; a number-of-revolution sensor that detects the number of revolutions of the motor; a grip number of revolutions calculating device for calculating the current grip number of revolutions of the motor; a motor power limiting value calculating portion and a conversion portion that determines the limiting torque value of the motor; and a driving torque determining portion that determines the driving torque of the motor.
US07994743B2	Device for moving a first furniture part relative to a second furniture part, and a piece of furniture A device is proposed for moving a first furniture part relative to a second furniture part, using a drive unit, by means of which the first furniture part, can be moved in a driven manner relative to the second furniture part via a monitoring unit for monitoring the movement of the first furniture part. According to the invention, the monitoring unit is designed to render the automatic closing inoperative for positioning the first furniture part, in an open position, from which the first furniture part, returns automatically to a closed position after a predetermined closing time interval.
US07994741B2	Vibration device The present invention pertains to vibration devices that do not require a rotating mass. In accordance with aspects of the invention, a coil causes a plunger to move linearly. A spring device is coupled to one end of the plunger. Activation of the coil causes the plunger to move in a first direction relative to a body and coil deactivation enables the spring device to move the plunger in an opposite direction relative to the body. Activating the coil at a predetermined frequency causes vibration of the plunger. Vibratory forces are transferred via the spring device and coil onto the body at predetermined locations. Opposing spring devices may be affixed to either end of the plunger. Spring devices may be linear or non-linear. Such spring devices may be used in conjunction with magnetic spring devices. A controller and a driver circuit may be used to control system operation.
US07994740B2	Betatron with a removable accelerator block A betatron is provided, particularly in an x-ray inspection station, comprising an accelerator block that is provided with a rotationally symmetrical inner yoke composed of two spaced-apart pieces, at least one main field coil, and a toroidal betatron tube which is disposed between the pieces of the inner yoke. The betatron further comprises an outer yoke which embraces the accelerator block, connects the two pieces of the inner yoke, and has at least one lateral opening, as well as a lead shield that accommodates the accelerator block and the outer yoke. The outer yoke is composed of at least two parts which are movable relative to one another between an open and a closed position. The accelerator block can be laterally removed from the opening of the outer yoke that is in the open position.
US07994737B2	Drive circuit of DC/DC converter, light emitting apparatus and electronic device using the same A drive circuit controls the on/off state of a switching transistor of a DC/DC converter. A first resistor is provided on a path of current flowing through a primary coil of a transformer connected to the switching transistor, and one end of the first resistor is grounded. A second resistor is provided on a path of current flowing through a secondary coil of the transformer, and one end of the second resistor is grounded. A switching controller turns off the switching transistor when a first detection voltage exceeds a first threshold voltage and, turns on the switching transistor after lapse of predetermined delay time since a second detection voltage exceeds the second threshold voltage.
US07994734B2	Circuit arrangement for operation of discharge lamps, and method for operation of discharge lamps A circuit arrangement for operating a discharge lamp, wherein the circuit arrangement comprises a commutation device, which has an input which is coupled to a DC source, and has an output which can be coupled to a discharge lamp. The commutation device is designed in such a way that it couples the DC source to the output, and the polarity at which the DC source is coupled to the output can be commutated by a control device. The control device has a sync input, and the polarity of the DC source is commutated in synchronism with sync pulses of a sync signal which can be applied at the sync input. The control device has a measuring input, which is coupled to a measuring device which is designed to provide a measured value which is a measure of the size of electrode peaks. The control device suppresses at least one commutation if the measured value overshoots or undershoots a predetermined threshold value.
US07994732B2	Intensity changing with reduced flicker for digitally-controlled lighting Changing light source intensity is disclosed. A command intensity is received for a light source, wherein the light source has a current intensity, and wherein a starting intensity is equal to the current intensity when the command is received. A sequence of at least three steps in intensity for the light source is determined, wherein each step of the sequence is used to change the light source intensity from the starting intensity toward the command intensity, and wherein each of the at least three steps of the sequence are progressively smaller. A light source intensity change is caused, wherein the sequence of the at least three steps in intensity for the light source are added each in turn to the current intensity with a time interval occurring between each of the at least three steps of the sequence.
US07994728B2	Boost driver circuit with fast discharging function The present invention discloses a boost driver circuit which converts an input voltage to an output voltage and supplies it to a load, the boost driver circuit comprising: a power transistor electrically connected with a node between the input voltage and the output voltage; a pulse width modulation driver circuit for controlling the operation of the power transistor; an output node electrically connected with the output voltage; a feedback node electrically connected with the load; a low voltage transistor electrically connected with the feedback node; and a clamp and fast discharge circuit electrically connected with the feedback node for discharging the feedback node when the voltage at the feedback node is higher than a predetermined voltage.
US07994727B2	LED driving arrangement A circuit for driving LEDs includes: —a transformer with a secondary winding for driving the LEDs and a primary winding, —a half-bridge arrangement fed with an input voltage and coupled to the transformer, —a resonant circuit between the half-bridge arrangement and the primary winding of the transformer, the resonant circuit having a given resonance frequency, and—a controller configured for switching the half-bridge arrangement with a switching frequency variable between first and second values. The second value is closer than the first value to the resonance frequency of the resonant circuit created between the half-bridge arrangement and the primary winding of the transformer. This boosts the voltage fed towards the LEDs via the transformer. The LEDs are preferably included in the form of series of LEDs connected to the secondary winding of the transformer via a rectifier placed outside the housing of the power-supply.
US07994726B2	Intelligent user interface including a touch sensor device The present invention, according to a preferred embodiment, is directed to portable electronic devices which operate on exhaustible power sources, for example, batteries. The electronic devices of the present invention comprise at least one signal switch and a microchip in communication with the switch wherein the switch is only capable of transmitting a signal to the microchip that the switch has been activated or deactivated. The microchip is in communication with the exhaustible power source of the electronic device and controls (i) the power on/off function of the device, (ii) at least one other function of the device in response to activation and deactivation signals from the switch, and (iii) an automatic shut off function in response to the receipt of an activation signal from the switch.
US07994724B2	Inductive plasma applicator An inductive plasma applicator comprises a ferromagnetic inductively coupled source and an electrode with a hole pattern centered with respect to the plasma source. Such plasma applicator provides an efficient energy transfer to the plasma. The plasma applicator is preferably manufactured using a technology for producing electrical circuits. The electrode and a coil of the ferromagnetic inductively coupled plasma source are metal track portions formed on an insulating substrate. For example, the plasma applicator is manufactured using printed circuit board technology.
US07994718B2	Plasma display panel A plasma display panel including a front panel including front glass substrate, a display electrode formed on the substrate, a dielectric layer covering the display electrode, a protective layer formed on the dielectric layer, and a rear panel facing the front panel so that a discharge space is formed. Further, the rear panel includes an address electrode formed in a direction intersecting the display electrode, and a barrier rib partitioning the discharge space. The protective layer includes a base film on the dielectric layer and aggregated particles of a plurality of aggregated metal oxide crystal particles attached to the base film, such that the aggregated metal oxide crystal particles are distributed over an entire surface. Specifically, the aggregated particles have a distribution of peak intensity values in a spectrum in a wavelength range of not less than 200 nm and not more than 300 nm of a cathode luminescence within 240% of a cumulative average value.
US07994717B2	Plasma display panel and plasma display apparatus using the same A high-luminance plasma display panel has a plurality of discharge cells including a phosphor film emitting visible rays by excitation caused by ultraviolet light generated by the discharge of a discharge gas. The phosphor film has at least two layers of a phosphor layer and a reflecting layer, and the phosphor layer is arranged closer to the discharge space side than the reflecting layer. A film thickness Wt of the phosphor film is 40 μm or less, and a film thickness Wp of the phosphor layer, a particle diameter dp of a phosphor that is at least a part of components of the phosphor layer, a film thickness Wr of the reflecting layer, and a particle diameter dr of a reflecting material that is at least a part of components of the reflecting layer satisfy 2dp≦Wp≦5dp and 2dr≦Wr≦Wt−Wp.
US07994712B2	Organic light emitting display device having one or more color presenting pixels each with spaced apart color characteristics An organic light emitting device includes a first pixel displaying a first color, a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel and displaying a second color, and a third pixel adjacent to the first pixel or the second pixel and displaying a third color, wherein the first pixel includes a first and second subpixel units that output respective lights having different color characteristics.
US07994710B2	Organic light emitting diode display A pixel of an OLED display includes: a thin film transistor (TFT) including a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a planarization layer on the TFT and including a contact hole at least partially exposing the drain electrode; a pixel electrode on the planarization layer and coupled to the drain electrode of the TFT through the contact hole; and an organic emission layer on the pixel electrode. The pixel electrode includes a corner-cube pattern facing the organic emission layer.
US07994706B2	Organic light emitting diode display device and method of fabricating the same Provided is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, including: a substrate; a semiconductor layer on the substrate; a gate insulating layer on the substrate with the semiconductor layer; a gate electrode on a region of the gate insulating layer corresponding to the semiconductor layer and insulated from the semiconductor layer; source and drain electrodes connected to the semiconductor layer; metal layers on the source and drain electrodes, spaced a distance apart from each other, and including nickel; a passivation layer over the gate insulating layer; a first electrode on the passivation layer, and electrically connected to the metal layers; an organic layer on the first electrode; and a second electrode on the organic layer.
US07994705B2	Actively driven organic EL device and manufacturing method thereof The present invention is a active-driving organic EL light emission device comprising an organic EL element comprising an organic luminous medium between an upper electrode and a lower electrode, and a thin film transistor for driving this organic EL element, wherein light emitted from the organic EL element is taken out from the side of the upper electrode, and the upper electrode comprises a main electrode formed of transparent conductive material, and an auxiliary electrode formed of a low-resistance material. According to the active-driving organic EL light emission device of this structure, the numerical aperture can be made large. Additionally, the sheet resistivity of the upper electrode can be made low even if luminescence is taken out from the side of the upper electrode. Thus, it is possible to provide an active-driving organic EL light emission device making it possible to display images having a high brightness and a homogenous brightness; and a method for manufacturing the same.
US07994702B2	Scanning beams displays based on light-emitting screens having phosphors This specification describes phosphor compositions used in fluorescent layers for scanning beam displays. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a display device having a fluorescent layer that absorbs an excitation light at a single wavelength and emits visible light. The fluorescent layer includes a plurality of parallel fluorescent stripes. At least three adjacent fluorescent stripes are made of three different fluorescent materials, which include a first fluorescent material that absorbs the excitation light and emits light of a first color, a second fluorescent material that absorbs the excitation light and emits light of a second color, and a third fluorescent material that absorbs the excitation light and emits light of a third color.
US07994701B2	Electron-emitting device, electron source, image display apparatus, and manufacturing method of electron-emitting device An electron-emitting device according to this invention has a cathode electrode, a first electrode, a second electrode, an insulating layer, a gate electrode, and an electron-emitting member. The gate electrode, the insulating layer, and the first electrode respectively have an opening communicating with each other. The electron-emitting member is provided on the cathode electrode, and at least a portion of the electron-emitting member is exposed in the opening. The second electrode is provided in the opening of the first electrode and electrically connected to the cathode electrode.
US07994698B2	Electron emitting device, display apparatus using electron emitting device, and method of manufacturing electron emitting device An electron emitting device includes an amorphous electron supply layer, an insulating layer formed on the electron supply layer, and an electrode formed on the insulating layer. The electron emits device emitting electrons when an electric field is applied between the electron supply layer and the electrode. The electron emitting device includes a concave portion provided by notching the electrode and the insulating layer to expose the electron supply layer, and a carbon layer covering the electrode and the concave portion except for an inner portion of an exposed surface 4a of the electron supply layer and being in contact with an edge portion of the exposed surface of the electron supply layer.
US07994692B2	Wire and frame, in particular niobium-based, for single-side socket lamps and a method for the production and use thereof A highly heat resistant wire based on niobium or tantalum or niobium tantalum alloy for single-side socket lamps is enriched, according to the invention, with phosphorus and converted into an annealed state. The wire exhibits a yield strength Rp 0.2 of at least 200 MPa or a tensile strength Rm of at least 300 MPa. For the production of a frame for single-side socket lamps, a metal based on niobium or tantalum or an alloy thereof is doped with phosphorus and the doped metal is cold shaped into a wire, this wire is annealed and formed into a frame. This frame is used for the simultaneous current supply and holding of a burner in a single-side socket lamp.
US07994690B2	Component for piezoelectric force or pressure sensors, held together by an electrically insulating film The invention relates to a component for installation in force or pressure sensors, in particular in a glow plug. The component comprises a disc-type or punched-disc type measuring element consisting of a piezoelectric material, punched-disc type or disc-type electrodes that lie on either side of the measuring element. The electrodes have contact points for contacting conductors. The component comprises in addition a respective transmission body or several transmission bodies that are located outside the electrodes, on either side of the latter. The measuring element, electrodes and transmission bodies are held together mechanically by an external, electrically insulating film.
US07994680B2	Motor including electrical sheets having shear droops A motor includes an output shaft rotatably provided, a rotor fixed to the output shaft and rotatable with the output shaft, a stator formed by a lamination of plurality of electrical steel sheets made by a magnetic material, the electrical steel sheets being punched by means of a press working, a coil wound at the stator, and a case accommodating the stator and the rotor and including a holder for holding the stator. The electrical steel sheets are arranged at one end of the stator in a lamination direction thereof and at the other end of the stator in the lamination direction thereof respectively. The electrical steel sheets include surfaces each at which a shear droop is formed. The surfaces of the electrical steel sheets face each other.
US07994679B2	Small air gap air core stator Stator for use in an electrical machine. A non-magnetic support frame section and a non-magnetic axial coil support are used to provide an air gap stator configuration. The present stators provide an air gap winding configuration that facilitates the fixing of stator coils in the air gap. The stator coils are located near the surface of the magnetic back iron and are separated from adjacent coils by non-magnetic structure.
US07994677B2	Stator for rotary electric machine, and rotary electric machine using the stator A stator for a multiple-phase rotary electric machine is provided with a stator core with slots and a coil formed of a plurality of windings for individual phases. Each winding has slot-accommodated portions accommodated in different slots, turn portions connecting the slot-accommodated portions outside of the slots in an axial direction, and a return portion that connects two of the turn portions and changes a winding direction of the winding at given slots. The turn portions include specific turn portions which are the same in a circumferential position as the turn portion connected to one of the return portion. The first and second windings are jointed to each other via a joined portion disposed in a specific slot among the slots.
US07994676B2	Reluctance motor rotor and reluctance motor equipped with the same A rotor is adapted to be used in a reluctance motor configured to generate a magnetic field around the rotor to form magnetic circuits passing through the rotor to produce a driving force corresponding to a torque generated by changes in magnetic reluctance in the magnetic circuits. The rotor includes a first salient pole group and a second salient pole group. The first salient pole group includes a plurality of first salient poles configured and arranged to be energized simultaneously with the first salient poles being spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the rotor. The second salient pole group includes a plurality of second salient poles configured and arranged to be energized simultaneously with the second salient poles being spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction of the rotor. The first salient pole group is magnetically insulated from the second salient pole group.
US07994669B2	Fan motor having fixing structure for circuit board A motor comprises a base, a rotor, a stator, and a circuit board. The base includes a sleeve. The stator includes at least one fastener. The sleeve has an inclined outer surface. The fastener extends to the circuit board and abuts the inclined outer surface to fasten the circuit board. A fan comprises a base, a hub, a shaft, a circuit board. The base has a sleeve. The hub comprises a plurality of blades disposed outwardly thereof. The shaft connects to the sleeve and is disposed in the hub. The stator has at least one fastener. The sleeve has an inclined outer surface. The fastener extends to the circuit board and abuts against the inclined outer surface to fasten the circuit board.
US07994667B2	Fan cooling of an electric engine An air cooling arrangement for an electric engine comprises a rotor, a stator disposed co-axially on the rotor, and a partition disposed between the rotor and the stator and extending along a complete axial length of the rotor and mounted on the rotor so as to be in co-rotational communication with the rotor, the partition providing a segregated cooling air flow so as to prevent a radial flow of cooling air from the rotor to the stator. The arrangement further comprises at least one fan configured to provide cooling air to the rotor and the stator, wherein the partition partitions and segregates the at least one fan and provides an inner fan and an outer fan and extends between the inner fan and the outer fan.
US07994664B2	System and method for cooling a superconducting rotary machine A system for cooling a superconducting rotary machine includes a plurality of sealed siphon tubes disposed in balanced locations around a rotor adjacent to a superconducting coil. Each of the sealed siphon tubes includes a tubular body and a heat transfer medium disposed in the tubular body that undergoes a phase change during operation of the machine to extract heat from the superconducting coil. A siphon heat exchanger is thermally coupled to the siphon tubes for extracting heat from the siphon tubes during operation of the machine.
US07994660B2	Supply topology with power limiting feedback loop A supply topology comprising an AC to DC or DC to DC adapter and an electronic device with an active system, a battery, and an adapter controller implements closed-loop control of adapter output voltage to limit power consumption by the electronic device to a value related to maximum adapter power. The adapter adjusts its output voltage in response to the magnitude of an error signal representing an amount by which instantaneous power consumption exceeds adapter maximum power. An adapter controller in the electronic device sets a limit for allocating current to battery charging from the signal representing maximum adapter power, with battery charging current approaching zero as instantaneous power consumption approaches maximum adapter power.
US07994659B2	Method for supplying electrical energy from a first electronic circuit to a second electronic circuit via at least one wire line A method of supplying electrical energy from a first electronic circuit (10) to a second electronic circuit (20) connected via a communication interface (30), which interface (30) comprises at least one wire line (31) within a Radio Frequency Identification communication device (1), the method comprising the steps of: providing a coded high frequency data signal (S1) in the first electronic circuit (10); transmitting said coded high frequency data signal (S1) containing data and clock information via said communication interface (30) from said first electronic circuit (10) to said second electronic circuit (20); rectifying the transmitted coded high frequency data signal (S1) via rectifier means (21) in said second electronic circuit (20) to provide a rectified power signal (RS); and supplying the electrical energy contained in the rectified power signal (RS) to the second electronic circuit (20).
US07994658B2	Windfarm collector system loss optimization A windfarm system is provided that is optimized for minimizing electrical loss. The windfarm system includes a plurality of wind turbine generators and a collector system including a conductor or network of conductors. The collector system also including a plurality of transformers with one or more transformers connected between each wind turbine generator and the conductors, and a substation transformer connecting the windfarm collector system to the electrical grid. The windfarm system also includes a monitoring system for monitoring the windfarm system electrical output and thermal condition, and outputs of the individual wind turbine generators. A control function may include voltage and real and reactive power commands to the individual wind turbine generators. The control function incorporates an algorithm whose technical effect is minimizing electrical losses for the windfarm system.
US07994654B2	Wireless-controlled power-saving apparatus A wireless-controlled power-saving apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus particularly includes a power-saving control strip and a wireless power-detection controller. The power-saving control strip has a master socket and at least one slave socket to be controlled. The strip further includes a receptacle for containing the wireless power-detection controller. More, the wireless power-detection controller connects to an external host for detecting the performance thereof. When the external host boots up, the wireless power-detection controller controls the slave socket to be powered. Or otherwise, when the external host shuts down, the wireless power-detection controller controls the slave socket to be disconnected. Thus the invention achieves the sockets mounted on the power-saving control strip to function a wireless master-slave-correlation operation.
US07994653B2	Pluggable power management module for a power distribution panel One aspect provides a pluggable power management module, comprising a module housing having input and output pluggable connectors extending therefrom configured to be couplable to a corresponding input and output terminals of a conventional, generic distribution panel, a controller interface located on or within the module housing and couplable to a controller, and a sensor located within the module housing and coupled to the controller interface and configured to produce a signal to the controller, that determines that a minimum or maximum threshold voltage or current of a source/load coupled to the pluggable power management module has been reached based on the signal.
US07994650B2	Rotor blade and wind energy installation A rotor blade for a wind energy installation, in which the rotor blade (22) is formed in a plurality of parts, preferably in two parts, with respect to the rotor blade longitudinal direction, in particular in order to temporarily reduce the longitudinal extent of the rotor blade (22) during rotor blade transportation, such that the individual rotor blade segments (24, 26) can be fitted to one another, one behind the other in the longitudinal direction, for assembly of the rotor blade (22), such that in each case at least two rotor blade segments (24, 26) can be connected to one another such that they cannot rotate or such that they can rotate with respect to one another, with the individual rotor blade segments (24, 26) each having one or more suitable contact surfaces (28, 30) which rest directly or indirectly on one another in the assembled state of the rotor blade (22), and such that at least one of the individual rotor blade segments (24, 26) can be tensioned by means of a tensioning apparatus, which can preferably be controlled and/or regulated, in the direction of the rotor center of a wind energy installation (10), and/or can be attached indirectly or directly in a stressed manner to another rotor blade segment (24, 26) and/or to the blade connection and/or to the hub (20) and/or to some other component of a wind energy installation (10).
US07994648B1	Mechanical continuous supply of electrical current from the motion of suspension components One embodiment attached to a vehicle suspension strut or vehicle suspension shock-spring assembly or a vehicle shock absorber includes a set of cylinders (64,66,68,70) containing a number of magnets (72,74,76,78,80,82,84,86,88) and a second set of cylinders (42,44,46,48,50) containing a number of electrically conducting coils (54,56,58,60,62). The set of cylinders containing the magnets is attached to one end of the suspension strut or shock-spring or shock absorber assembly and the set of cylinders containing the conducting coils is attached to the opposite end of the suspension strut or shock-spring or shock absorber assembly such that the magnets move past the conducting coils when the suspension assembly is compressed or extended during displacement of the vehicle wheel. The conducting coils are connected to an electrical charging system used to store electrical charge or generate electrical power.
US07994646B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is disclosed. One aspect provides a semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor chip including a first face and a second face opposite the first face, an encapsulant including inorganic particles encapsulating the semiconductor chip, a first metal layer attached to the first face of the semiconductor chip, a second metal layer attached the second face of the semiconductor chip, and electrically conducting material configured to connect the first metal layer with the second metal layer.
US07994645B2	Integrated circuit package system with wire-in-film isolation barrier An integrated circuit package in package system includes: providing a substrate having a first wire-bonded die with an active side mounted above; connecting the active side of the first wire-bonded die to the substrate with a bond-wire; mounting a wire-in-film adhesive having an isolation barrier over the first wire-bonded die; and encapsulating the first wire-bonded die, the bond-wires, and the wire-in-film adhesive with an encapsulation.
US07994642B2	Semiconductor device which includes contact plug and embedded interconnection connected to contact plug A semiconductor memory device includes: a first dielectric formed on top of a semiconductor substrate; a contact plug embedded in the first dielectric; a second dielectric formed on top of the first interlayer dielectric; an interconnection layer embedded in a groove formed in the second dielectric on top of the contact plug; and an insulating film formed in the second dielectric adjacent to a side surface of the interconnection layer. The contact plug has a notch in a part of a top surface of the contact plug. The insulating film is formed to extend from a top surface of the second dielectric to the notch included in the contact plug.
US07994639B2	Microelectronic structure including dual damascene structure and high contrast alignment mark A microelectronic structure, and in particular a semiconductor structure, includes a substrate and a dielectric layer located over the substrate. In addition at least one alignment mark is located interposed between the dielectric layer and the substrate. The at least one alignment mark comprises, or preferably consists essentially of, at least one substantially present element having an atomic number at least 5 greater than a highest atomic number substantially present element within materials surrounding the alignment mark Also included within the microelectronic structure is a dual damascene aperture located within the dielectric layer. The dual damascene aperture may be fabricated using, among other methods, a hybrid lithography method that uses direct write lithography and optical lithography, in conjunction with the at least one alignment mark and an electron beam as an alignment beam.
US07994638B2	Semiconductor chip and semiconductor device In this semiconductor chip 3, a table electrode 13 is interposed between a bump electrode 14 and an electrode pad 6. The table electrode 13 is formed by forming a plurality of cores 15 having a smaller Young's modulus than the bump electrode 14, on the electrode pad 6, and then covering the surfaces of the cores 15 with a conductive electrode 16. When the semiconductor chip 3 is flip-chip mounted, the bump electrode 14 is plastically deformed and the table electrode 13 is elastically deformed appropriately, thereby obtaining a good conductive state.
US07994635B2	Power semiconductor module To suppress warpage of a ceramic substrate, and to prevent a reduction in radiation efficiency.A power semiconductor module includes a module casing fitted with a radiator, and a common unit retained by the module casing. The common unit has: a ceramic substrate having a circuit surface disposed with a semiconductor element, and a radiation surface brought into abutting contact with the radiator; and a package formed by exposing the radiation surface and sealing the circuit surface with heat resistant resin. The circuit surface and the radiation surface are respectively formed of metal layers 51 formed on the ceramic substrate, and the metal layer 51 forming the radiation surface has: by forming a buffer pattern 512 including a groove part extending along a circumferential part thereof, a radiation pattern 510 formed on an inner side of the buffer pattern 512; and an outer peripheral pattern 511 formed on an outer side of the buffer pattern 512. Such a configuration enables warpage of the ceramic substrate to be suppressed, and a reduction in radiation efficiency to be prevented.
US07994629B2	Leadless integrated circuit packaging system and method of manufacture thereof A method of manufacture of a leadless integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a substrate; patterning a die attach pad on the substrate; forming a tiered plated pad array around the die attach pad; mounting an integrated circuit die on the die attach pad; coupling an electrical interconnect between the integrated circuit die and the tiered plated pad array; forming a molded package body on the integrated circuit die, the electrical interconnects, and the tiered plated pad array; and exposing a contact pad layer by removing the substrate.
US07994625B2	Integrated circuit packaging system having an internal structure protrusion and method of manufacture thereof A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing an internal structure substrate having an internal structure substrate cavity; mounting an internal structure die above the internal structure substrate; encapsulating the internal structure die with an internal structure encapsulation to form an internal structure package; forming an internal structure protrusion in the internal structure encapsulation below the internal structure substrate cavity; mounting the internal structure package above a substrate; and encapsulating the internal structure package above the substrate with an encapsulation.
US07994623B2	Semiconductor device with offset stacked integrated circuits A semiconductor device where multiple chips of identical design can be stacked, and the spacer and interposer eliminated, to improve three-dimensional coupling information transmission capability. A first semiconductor circuit including a three-dimensional coupling circuit (three-dimensional coupling transmission terminal group and three-dimensional coupling receiver terminal group); and a second semiconductor integrated circuit including a three-dimensional coupling circuit and feed-through electrode (power supply via hole and ground via hole); and a third semiconductor integrated circuit including a three-dimensional coupling circuit and feed-through electrode are stacked on the package substrate.
US07994619B2	Bridge stack integrated circuit package system An integrated circuit package system is provided including mounting a first device on a carrier, mounting a second device over the first device and the carrier in an offset face-to-face configuration, and connecting the first device and the second device at an overlap.
US07994604B2	Using floating fill metal to reduce power use for proximity communication One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates reducing the power needed for proximity communication. This system includes an integrated circuit with an array of transmission pads that transmit a signal using proximity communication. A layer of fill metal is located in proximity to this array of transmission pads, wherein the layer of fill metal is “floating” (e.g., not connected to any signal). Leaving this layer of fill metal floating reduces the parasitic capacitance for the array of transmission pads, which can reduce the amount of power needed to transmit the signal.
US07994598B2	Electronic assembly for image sensor device An electronic assembly for an image sensor device is disclosed. The electronic assembly comprises a package module and a lens set mounted thereon. The package module comprises a device substrate comprising at least one grounding plug therein, in which the grounding plug is insulated from the device substrate and an array of optoelectronic devices therein. A transparent substrate comprises a dam portion attached to the device substrate to form a cavity between the device and transparent substrates. A micro-lens array is disposed within the cavity. A conductive layer is electrically connected to the grounding plug and covers the sidewalls of the lens set and the package module and the upper surface of the lens set. A method for fabricating the electronic assembly is also disclosed.
US07994596B2	Magnetic tunneling junction film structure with process determined in-plane magnetic anisotropy An MTJ memory cell and/or an array of such cells is provided wherein each such cell has a small circular horizontal cross-section of 1.0 microns or less in diameter and wherein the ferromagnetic free layer of each such cell has a magnetic anisotropy produced by a magnetic coupling with a thin antiferromagnetic layer that is formed on the free layer. The MTJ memory cell so provided is far less sensitive to shape irregularities and edge defects than cells of the prior art.
US07994595B2	Strained semiconductor by full wafer bonding One aspect of this disclosure relates to a method for forming a wafer with a strained semiconductor. In various embodiments of the method, a predetermined contour is formed in one of a semiconductor membrane and a substrate wafer. The semiconductor membrane is bonded to the substrate wafer and the predetermined contour is straightened to induce a predetermined strain in the semiconductor membrane. In various embodiments, a substrate wafer is flexed into a flexed position, a portion of the substrate wafer is bonded to a semiconductor layer when the substrate wafer is in the flexed position, and the substrate wafer is relaxed to induce a predetermined strain in the semiconductor layer. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US07994592B2	Method for integrating micro and nanoparticles into MEMS and apparatus including the same MEMs devices are integrally fabricated with included micro or nanoparticles by providing a mixture of a sacrificial material and a multiplicity of particles, disposing the mixture onto a substrate, fabricating a MEMs structure on the substrate including at least part of the mixture, so that at least some of the mixture is enclosed in the MEMs structure, removing the sacrificial material, and leaving at least some of the multiplicity of particles substantially free and enclosed in the MEMs structure. The step of fabricating a MEMs structure is quite general and is contemplated as including one or a multiplicity of additional steps for creating some type of structure in which the particles, which may be microbeads or nanobeads, are included. A wide variety of useful applications for MEMs integrated with micro or nanoparticles are available.
US07994591B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed are a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a gate structure which includes a silicon oxynitride (SiON) layer formed on a semiconductor substrate, a hafnium silicon oxynitride (HfSiON) layer formed on the silicon oxynitride (SiON) layer, a polysilicon layer formed on the hafnium silicon oxynitride (HfSiON) layer, and a silicide layer formed on the polysilicon layer, spacers at sidewalls of the gate structure, and source and drain regions at opposite sides of the gate structure.
US07994589B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A seal ring structure is formed through a multilayer structure of a plurality of dielectric films in a peripheral part of a chip region to surround the chip region. A dual damascene interconnect in which an interconnect and a plug connected to the interconnect are integrated is formed in at least one of the dielectric films in the chip region. Part of the seal ring structure formed in the dielectric film in which the dual damascene interconnect is formed is continuous. A protection film formed on the multilayer structure has an opening on the seal ring. A cap layer connected to the seal ring is formed in the opening.
US07994587B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor device manufacturing method A semiconductor device includes a plurality of first MOS transistors has a first gate electrode formed on a first gate insulating film provided on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of second MOS transistors has a second gate electrode formed on a second gate insulating film which is provided on the substrate and which is smaller in thickness than the first gate insulating film. A first element isolation region has a first region and a second region, a bottom surface of the second region is deeper than that of the first region by the difference of thickness between the first gate insulating film and the second gate insulating film, and a bottom surface of the first region is equal in a bottom surface of a second element isolation region.
US07994585B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor layer; an element separating portion, formed in a top layer portion of the semiconductor layer and separating, in the semiconductor layer, a first element forming region for forming a first conductive type MOSFET and a second element forming region for forming a second conductive type MOSFET; a first gate insulating film, selectively formed on a top surface of the semiconductor layer in the first element forming region; a first gate electrode, formed on the first gate insulating film; a first sidewall, formed at a periphery of the first gate insulating film and the first gate electrode; a second gate insulating film, selectively formed on a top surface of the semiconductor layer in the second element forming region; a second gate electrode, formed on the second gate insulating film; and a second sidewall, formed at a periphery of the second gate insulating film and the second gate electrode. The first sidewall includes: a base, contacting the top surface of the semiconductor layer; and a main body, formed on the base and protruding laterally beyond a peripheral edge of the base.
US07994578B2	ESD protection for bipolar-CMOS-DMOS integrated circuit devices An Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) protection device is formed in an isolated region of a semiconductor substrate. The ESD protection device may be in the form of a MOS or bipolar transistor or a diode. The isolation structure may include a deep implanted floor layer and one or more implanted wells that laterally surround the isolated region. The isolation structure and ESD protection devices are fabricated using a modular process that includes virtually no thermal processing. Since the ESD device is isolated, two or more ESD devices may be electrically “stacked” on one another such that the trigger voltages of the devices are added together to achieve a higher effective trigger voltage.
US07994575B2	Metal-oxide-semiconductor device structures with tailored dopant depth profiles A method for fabricating a metal-oxide-semiconductor device structure. The method includes introducing a dopant species concurrently into a semiconductor active layer that overlies an insulating layer and a gate electrode overlying the semiconductor active layer by ion implantation. The thickness of the semiconductor active layer, the thickness of the gate electrode, and the kinetic energy of the dopant species are chosen such that the projected range of the dopant species in the semiconductor active layer and insulating layer lies within the insulating layer and a projected range of the dopant species in the gate electrode lies within the gate electrode. As a result, the semiconductor active layer and the gate electrode may be doped simultaneously during a single ion implantation and without the necessity of an additional implant mask.
US07994573B2	Structure and method for forming power devices with carbon-containing region A field effect transistor (FET) includes body regions of a first conductivity type over a semiconductor region of a second conductivity type. The body regions form p-n junctions with the semiconductor region. Source regions of the second conductivity type extend over the body regions. The source regions form p-n junctions with the body regions. Gate electrodes extend adjacent to but are insulated from the body regions by a gate dielectric. A carbon-containing region extends in the semiconductor region below the body regions.
US07994568B2	Vertical transistor of semiconductor device and method for forming the same A vertical transistor of a semiconductor device and a method for forming the same are disclosed. The vertical transistor comprises a silicon fin disposed on a semiconductor substrate, a source region disposed in the semiconductor substrate below a lower portion of the silicon fin, a drain region disposed in an upper portion of the silicon fin, a channel region disposed in a sidewall of the silicon fin between the source region and the drain region, a gate oxide film disposed in a surface of the semiconductor substrate and the sidewall of the silicon fin, and a pair of gate electrodes disposed on the gate oxide films.
US07994566B2	Stacked non-volatile memory with silicon carbide-based amorphous silicon finFETs A stacked non-volatile memory device uses amorphous silicon based thin film transistors stacked vertically. Each layer of transistors or cells is formed from a deposited a-Si channel region layer having a predetermined concentration of carbon to form a carbon rich silicon film or silicon carbide film, depending on the carbon content. The dielectric stack is formed over the channel region layer. In one embodiment, the dielectric stack is an ONO structure. The control gate is formed over the dielectric stack. This structure is repeated vertically to form the stacked structure. In one embodiment, the carbon content of the channel region layer is reduced for each subsequently formed layer.
US07994562B2	Memory apparatus The memory apparatus includes a memory device including a gate insulating layer formed on a silicon substrate by sequentially stacking a tunnel oxide layer, a charge trap layer, and a block oxide layer in this order, on the silicon substrate. In addition, a gate electrode is formed on the gate insulating layer. The block oxide layer is formed by stacking a first block oxide layer and a second block oxide layer, wherein the first block oxide layer is adjacent to the charge trap layer and the second block oxide layer is adjacent to the gate electrode. The second block oxide layer is formed of a dielectric material having higher permittivity than that of the first block oxide layer and having higher electron affinity than that of the first block oxide layer.
US07994558B2	Method for forming barrier metal layer of bit line in semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a titanium layer and a titanium nitride layer formed on a substrate, a thin layer formed on the titanium nitride layer, and a metal layer formed on the thin layer, wherein the thin layer increases a grain size of the metal layer.
US07994555B2	Spin transistor using perpendicular magnetization A spin transistor useful for device miniaturization and high-density integration is provided. The spin transistor includes: a semiconductor substrate including a channel layer; ferromagnetic source and drain disposed on the semiconductor substrate to be separated from each other and to be magnetized in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the channel layer; a gate formed on the semiconductor substrate between the source and the drain to adjust spins of electrons passing through the channel layer, wherein spin-polarized electrons are injected from the source to the channel layer, and the electrons injected into the channel layer pass though the channel layer and are injected into the drain, and wherein the spins of the electrons passing through the channel layer undergo precession due to a spin-orbit coupling induced magnetic field according to a voltage of the gate.
US07994552B2	Photoelectric conversion device, method for manufacturing the same and image pickup system An object of the present invention is to provide a photoelectric conversion device, wherein improvement of charge transfer properties when charge is output from a charge storage region and suppression of dark current generation during charge storage are compatible with each other. This object is achieved by forming a depletion voltage of a charge storage region in the range from zero to one half of a power source voltage (V), forming a gate voltage of a transfer MOS transistor during a charge transfer period in the range from one half of the power source voltage to the power source voltage (V) and forming a gate voltage of the transfer MOS transistor during a charge storage period in the range from minus one half of the power source voltage to zero (V).
US07994548B2	Semiconductor devices with non-punch-through semiconductor channels having enhanced conduction and methods of making Semiconductor devices are described wherein current flow in the device is confined between the rectifying junctions (e.g., p-n junctions or metal-semiconductor junctions). The device provides non-punch-through behavior and enhanced current conduction capability. The devices can be power semiconductor devices as such as Junction Field-Effect Transistors (VJFETs), Static Induction Transistors (SITs), Junction Field Effect Thyristors, or JFET current limiters. The devices can be made in wide bandgap semiconductors such as silicon carbide (SiC). According to some embodiments, the device can be a normally-off SiC vertical junction field effect transistor. Methods of making the devices and circuits comprising the devices are also described.
US07994547B2	Semiconductor devices and assemblies including back side redistribution layers in association with through wafer interconnects Low temperature processed back side redistribution lines (RDLs) are disclosed. Low temperature processed back side RDLs may be electrically connected to the active surface devices of a semiconductor substrate using through wafer interconnects (TWIs). The TWIs may be formed prior to forming the RDLs, after forming the RDLs, or substantially simultaneously to forming the RDLs. The material for the back side RDLs and various other associated materials, such as dielectrics and conductive via filler materials, are processed at temperatures sufficiently low so as to not damage the semiconductor devices or associated components contained on the active surface of the semiconductor substrate. The low temperature processed back side RDLs of the present invention may be employed with optically interactive semiconductor devices and semiconductor memory devices, among many others. Semiconductor devices employing the RDLs of the present invention may be stacked and electrically connected theretogether.
US07994536B2	Integrated circuit including U-shaped access device An integrated circuit includes a U-shaped access device and a first line coupled to a first side of the access device. The integrated circuit includes a contact coupled to a second side of the access device and self-aligned dielectric material isolating the first line from the contact.
US07994535B2	Semiconductor device including a JFET having a short-circuit preventing layer To improve the surge resistance of J-FET, a P-type epitaxial layer 2 and an N-type epitaxial layer 3 are formed on a P++-conductive substrate 1; N+-conductive source diffusion layer 4 and drain diffusion layer 5, and a p+-conductive gate diffusion layer 6 are formed in the N-type epitaxial layer 3; and a short-circuit preventing layer 8 of a reversed conduction-type diffusion layer is formed adjacent to the side walls of the source diffusion layer 4 and the drain diffusion layer 5. Having the constitution, the punch-through to be caused by surge voltage is prevented in the surface region of the device, and the surge resistance thereof is improved. Via the holes formed in a protective insulation film 9 on the surface of the device, a source electrode 10 connected to the source diffusion layer 4, and a drain electrode 11 connected to the drain diffusion layer 5 are formed on the surface side of the device. A gate electrode 12 is formed on the back of the substrate 1, and this is connected to the gate diffusion layer 6 via a contact diffusion layer 7 formed in the device.
US07994530B2	Light emitting diode module The present invention relates to a light emitting diode (LED) module (10), comprising at least one LED chip (12) having a surface (13) for emitting light, and a ceramic conversion plate (14). The LED module is characterized in that the ceramic conversion plate includes a first segment (18) covering a first portion of the light emitting surface of the LED chip(s) and a second segment (20) provided alongside the first segment covering a second portion of the light emitting surface of the LED chip(s), wherein at least one of the segments comprises a wavelength-converting material for converting light emitted from the LED chip(s) to a certain wavelength. The present invention also relates to a method for the manufacturing of such an LED module, and a ceramic conversion plate for use in an LED module.
US07994529B2	LED with molded bi-directional optics A double-molded lens for an LED includes an outer lens molded around the periphery of an LED die and a collimating inner lens molded over the top surface of the LED die and partially defined by a central opening in the outer lens. The outer lens is formed using silicone having a relatively low index of refraction such as n=1.33-1.47, and the inner lens is formed of a higher index silicone, such as n=1.54-1.76, to cause TIR within the inner lens. Light not internally reflected by the inner lens is transmitted into the outer lens. The shape of the outer lens determines the side emission pattern of the light. The front and side emission patterns separately created by the two lenses may be tailored for a particular backlight or automotive application.
US07994528B2	Light emitting device and method for manufacturing the same A light-emitting chip includes a base, a transparent material layer and a light-emitting chip. The base has an upper surface including a conductive pattern. The transparent material layer is disposed on the upper surface of the base and has an opening part which is located on region at least part of the conductive pattern. The light-emitting chip is mounted on the conductive pattern and located in the opening part of the transparent material layer.
US07994527B2	High light extraction efficiency light emitting diode (LED) An (Al, Ga, In)N and ZnO direct wafer bonded light emitting diode (LED) combined with a shaped plastic optical element, in which the directional light from the ZnO cone, or from any high refractive index material in contact with the LED surface, entering the shaped plastic optical element is extracted to air.
US07994526B2	Light emitting diode package and light emitting diode system having at least two heat sinks There is provided a light emitting diode package having at least two heat sinks. The light emitting diode package includes a main body, at least two lead terminals fixed to the main body, and at least two heat sinks of electrically and thermally conductive materials, the heat sinks being fixed to the main body. The at least two heat sinks are separated from each other. Thus, high luminous power can be obtained mounting a plurality of light emitting diode dies in one LED package. Further, it is possible to embody polychromatic lights mounting LED dies emitting different wavelengths of light each other in the LED package.
US07994522B2	Organic light emitting element and organic light emitting device The present invention relates to an organic light emitting element and an organic light emitting device including the same. An impurity layer close to an electrode is doped with a small amount, and an impurity layer for a p-n junction is doped with a large amount, such that a high current may flow under a low voltage.
US07994518B2	Light-emitting diode An LED includes a substrate having a substantially flat substrate surface, a plurality of electrodes extending through the substrate, an LED chip configured for emitting light, a first and a second coplanar reflective layers formed on the surface, and a light pervious encapsulation member mounted on the substrate surface. The light pervious encapsulation member covers the LED chip and the first reflective layer and a portion of the second reflective layer. The LED chip is mounted on the substrate surface and electrically connected with the electrodes. The first reflective layer and the second reflective layer are configured for reflecting the light emitted from the LED chip.
US07994510B2	Thin film transistor, method of manufacturing the same and flat panel display device having the same A thin film transistor is provided having an oxide semiconductor as an active layer, a method of manufacturing the thin film transistor and a flat panel display device having the thin film transistor. The thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode formed on a substrate; an oxide semiconductor layer isolated from the gate electrode by a gate insulating layer and including channel, source and drain regions; source and drain electrodes coupled to the source and drain regions, respectively; and an ohmic contact layer interposed between the source and drain regions and the source and drain electrodes. In the TFT, the ohmic contact layer is formed with the oxide semiconductor layer having a carrier concentration higher than those of the source and drain regions.
US07994507B2	Electro-luminescence device including a thin film transistor and method of fabricating an electro-luminescence device An electro-luminescence device including an electro-luminescence element and a thin film transistor electrically connected to the electro-luminescence element. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode formed over a substrate, an insulating layer formed over the gate electrode, and a first semiconductor pattern formed over the insulating layer. An etch stop layer is formed over the first semiconductor layer. A second semiconductor pattern is formed over the etch stop layer at one side of the etch stop layer, and a third semiconductor pattern is formed over the etch stop layer at another side of the etch stop layer. A source electrode is formed over the second semiconductor pattern, and a drain electrode is formed over the third semiconductor pattern.
US07994506B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device having a semiconductor element (a thin film transistor, a thin film diode, a photoelectric conversion element of silicon PIN junction, or a silicon resistor element) which is light-weight, flexible (bendable), and thin as a whole is provided as well as a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. In the present invention, the element is not formed on a plastic film. Instead, a flat board such as a substrate is used as a form, the space between the substrate (third substrate (17)) and a layer including the element (peeled layer (13)) is filled with coagulant (typically an adhesive) that serves as a second bonding member (16), and the substrate used as a form (third substrate (17)) is peeled off after the adhesive is coagulated to hold the layer including the element (peeled layer (13)) by the coagulated adhesive (second bonding member (16)) alone. In this way, the present invention achieves thinning of the film and reduction in weight.
US07994505B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a semiconductor layer which is formed of a poly-Si layer and an a-Si layer and formed above a gate electrode with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween. A source electrode or a drain electrode is formed above the semiconductor layer. An n+Si layer is formed between the source electrode or the drain electrode and the semiconductor layer. Since ends of the source electrode or the drain electrode are formed inside ends of the semiconductor layer, leak current at the ends of the semiconductor layer can be reduced.
US07994502B2	Semiconductor device An object is to reduce off-current of a thin film transistor. Another object is to improve electric characteristics of a thin film transistor. Further, it is still another object to improve image quality of a display device using the thin film transistor. An aspect of the present invention is a thin film transistor including a semiconductor film formed over a gate electrode and in an inner region of the gate electrode which does not reach an end portion of the gate electrode, with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween, a film covering at least a side surface of the semiconductor film, and a pair of wirings over the film covering the side surface of the semiconductor film; in which an impurity element serving as a donor is added to the semiconductor film.
US07994499B2	Semiconductor probe having wedge shape resistive tip and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor probe having a wedge shape resistive tip and a method of fabricating the semiconductor probe is provided. The semiconductor probe includes a resistive tip that is doped with a first impurity, has a resistance region doped with a low concentration of a second impurity having an opposite polarity to the first impurity, and has first and second semiconductor electrode regions doped with a high concentration of the second impurity on both side slopes of the resistive tip. The probe also includes a cantilever having the resistive tip on an edge portion thereof, and an end portion of the resistive tip has a wedge shape.
US07994494B2	Organic thin film transistor array panel and method for manufacturing the same An organic thin film transistor array panel includes; a substrate, a data line formed on the substrate, a gate line intersecting the data line and including a gate electrode, a first interlayer insulating layer formed on the gate line and the data line and including a first opening exposing the gate electrode, a gate insulator formed in the first opening, a source electrode disposed on the gate insulator and connected to the data line, a pixel electrode disposed on the gate insulator and including a drain electrode opposing the source electrode, a insulating bank formed on the source electrode and the drain electrode, the insulating bank defining a second opening which exposes portions of the source electrode and the drain electrode, and an organic semiconductor formed in the second opening.
US07994491B2	PCRAM device with switching glass layer A method of forming a memory device, such as a PCRAM, including selecting a chalcogenide glass backbone material for a resistance variable memory function and devices formed using such a method.
US07994488B2	Low contamination, low energy beamline architecture for high current ion implantation An ion implantation system comprising an ion source that generates an ion beam along a beam path, a mass analyzer component downstream of the ion source that performs mass analysis and angle correction on the ion beam, a resolving aperture electrode comprising at least one electrode downstream of the mass analyzer component and along the beam path having a size and shape according to a selected mass resolution and a beam envelope, a deflection element downstream of the resolving aperture electrode that changes the path of the ion beam exiting the deflection element, a deceleration electrode downstream of the deflection element that decelerates the ion beam, a support platform within an end station for retaining and positioning a workpiece which is implanted with charged ions, and wherein the end station is mounted approximately eight degrees counterclockwise so that the deflected ion beam is perpendicular to the workpiece.
US07994484B2	Stage apparatus and exposure apparatus The present invention provides a stage apparatus wherein an object is disposed in an atmosphere with a gas pressure lower than atmospheric pressure, and the object can be driven with high accuracy. The stage apparatus that drives a reticle comprises: a vacuum chamber, which forms a space and has an opening; an integrated coarse and fine motion table, which has an electrostatic chuck that holds the object, that, when driven, moves the electrostatic chuck inside the space; a counter mass, which is disposed so that it covers the opening, that is capable of moving because of the reaction force produced when the integrated coarse and fine motion table is driven; and a vacuum cover, which forms a space that houses the counter mass; wherein the space and the space are set to prescribed gas pressures.
US07994482B2	Radiation directional finder and isotope identification system A system and method determine a direction associated with gamma and/or neutron radiation emissions. A first radiation photon count associated with a first detector in a detector set is received from the first detector. The first radiation photon count is associated with at least one radiation source. A second radiation photon count associated with a second detector in the detector set is received from the second detector. The first radiation photon count is compared to the second radiation photon count. One of the first detector and the second detector is identified to have detected a larger number of radiation photons than the other. The at least one radiation source is determined to be substantially in a direction in which the one of the first detector and the second detector that has detected the larger number of radiation photons is facing.
US07994481B2	Radiation imaging apparatus, method of controlling the same, and radiation imaging system There are provided an apparatus capable of complying with arbitrary data acquisition period (frame rate) change instruction without increasing load and cost, and a method and a system for controlling such an apparatus. To realize this, in the present invention, there are included an area sensor for reading out an electric signal accumulated in a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, line by line, and a control unit for controlling the area sensor. The area sensor operates in a first operation for deriving radiation image data by reading during irradiation with radiation, and a second operation for deriving the radiation image data by reading during non-irradiation with radiation, alternately. The control unit switches a period for deriving the radiation image data during a time period from an end of the reading in the first operation until an end of the reading in the second operation.
US07994478B2	Inspection apparatus using electromagnetic waves An inspection apparatus for acquiring information on a measurement object using electromagnetic waves, comprising a substrate; a transmission line that is formed on the substrate; an electromagnetic wave generating unit for supplying an electromagnetic wave to the transmission line; an electromagnetic wave detecting unit for detecting the electromagnetic wave that has propagated through the transmission line; and a walled structure. The walled structure includes a side wall portion that extends along the transmission line within a region in which the electromagnetic wave that propagates through the transmission line and the measurement object interact with each other.
US07994475B2	Ion mobility spectrometer comprising two drift chambers An ion mobility spectrometer has two drift chambers and a common, doped reaction region. Each drift chamber includes an ion modifier, such as one that fragments the doped ions by a high electrical field. One of the drift chambers is doped and the other is undoped. In this way, the dopant adducts are removed by the modification process but then recombine with dopant only in the doped chamber so that different outputs are produced by the two drift chambers.
US07994471B2	Interior rearview mirror system with forwardly-viewing camera A vehicular interior rearview mirror system includes an attachment element attached at an in-cabin surface of a vehicle windshield and an interior rearview mirror assembly that includes a structure that includes a mount for attaching the mirror assembly to the attachment element, a pivot element, and an interior rearview mirror head pivotally attached at the pivot element. The interior rearview mirror head is adjustable by a driver of the vehicle about the pivot element to adjust a rearward field of view. At least one accessory is encompassed by the structure of the mirror assembly. The structure covers the at least one accessory from view by the driver operating the vehicle. One of the accessories is a forwardly-viewing camera and, with the interior rearview mirror assembly attached to the attachment element, the forwardly-viewing camera views through the vehicle windshield.
US07994466B2	Bolometer-type infrared imaging apparatus including a one or two dimensional sensor array semiconductor device Disclosed is a bolometer infrared imaging device including a plural number of readout circuits, each comprising a bias circuit that includes a bias transistor that supplies a constant voltage to a bolometer device, a bias cancellation circuit that includes a canceller transistor that removes offset current component of the bolometer device and an integrating operational amplifier that integrates the difference current between the current flowing in the bias transistor and that flowing in the canceller transistor. The bias circuit includes a source follower circuit that receives a first input voltage and supplies an output voltage to the gate of the bias transistor. The bias cancellation circuit includes a source follower circuit that receives a second input voltage and supplies an output voltage to the gate of the canceller transistor.
US07994461B2	Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging device includes: an effective pixel region where photoelectric converting portions for obtaining an imaging signal corresponding to light from an object are disposed; an OB pixel region having an element region for obtaining a reference signal of an optical black level; a first light blocking layer which is disposed on the effective pixel region, and in which openings are provided above the photoelectric converting portions; and a second light blocking layer which is disposed on the OB pixel region, the first light blocking layer and the second light blocking layer are electrically isolated from each other by an isolating region, and the imaging device further includes a light blocking section for blocking light from entering the isolating region is provided.
US07994459B2	Camera-based heliostat calibration with artificial light sources Systems and methods of calibrating heliostat parameters for subsequent open-loop sun-tracking, the calibration based on driving artificial light source reflections from one or more heliostats into one or more image sensors.
US07994458B2	Projectile having fins with spiracles A projectile has fins that are hingedly coupled to a fuselage. The fins are configured to wrap around the fuselage, assuming a location as close as possible to the fuselage, when the projectile is in a gun or launch tube. The fins have spiracles, one or more openings in each of the fins that allow pressurized gases to pass therethrough. The spiracles may be always open, or may open only when there is a sufficient pressure differential between the sides (major surfaces) of the fins. The spiracles allow release of pressurized gases that are trapped between the fins and the fuselage during the launch process. This prevents undesired outward movement or bending of the fins when the projectile reaches a muzzle brake during launch, a structure which causes a sudden release of pressure at radially outer locations of the launch tube.
US07994454B2	Beverage mate Beverage Mate consists of at least some of the following: a base, metal adaptor, power switch, power cord, cold/hot switch, adjustable flanges, heating coil, an external cooling unit and a line connecting the cooling unit to the adjustable flanges. To use Beverage Mate, a person places a beverage between the metal flanges and onto the base, plugs the unit into a cigarette lighter using the adaptor attached to the power cord and activates the power switch. The hot or cold setting is then chosen. If the user selects the hot setting, the heating coil in the base is activated allowing the beverage to heat or remain warm if it is already hot. If the user selects the cold setting, the cooling unit is activated allowing the beverage to cool or remain cool if it is already cold.
US07994453B2	Flash heating for tubing A chemical sample gas tube that is capable of being rapidly heated and cooled allows rapid purging of condensed chemical vapor from its inside surface. The tube may include a thin foil with an electrically conducting surface, a rigidly separated pair of clamps to shape the thin foil into a cylinder shape, and a temperature-controlled source of electricity that can flow sequentially through the clamps and thin foil for heating. The temperature of the cylindrical thin foil may be increased at a rate of at least 25 degrees Celsius per second, and may be cooled at a rate of at least 10 degrees Celsius per second. A temperature control sequence may be provided that includes at least one temperature that performs at least one of: condensing the chemical vapor, transmitting the chemical vapor, desorbing the condensed chemical vapor, and decomposing the condensed chemical vapor.
US07994451B2	Laser beam processing machine A laser beam processing machine comprising a chuck table for holding a workpiece, a laser beam application means for applying a pulse laser beam to the workpiece held on the chuck table, and a processing-feed means for processing-feeding the chuck table and the laser beam application means relative to each other, wherein the machine further comprises a feed amount detection means for detecting the processing-feed amount of the chuck table and a control means for controlling the laser beam application means based on a detection signal from the feed amount detection means, and the control means outputs an application signal to the laser beam application means for each predetermined processing-feed amount based on a signal from the feed amount detection means.
US07994444B2	Apparatus for monitoring the state of an electrical switching device An electrical switching device has a state indicator which is covered or uncovered in accordance with the state of the switching device. In order to reduce the amount of moved masses, the state indicator remains in a resting position during a switching process of the electrical switching device. The state indicator can be covered at least in part by the movable switching contact pieces of the electrical switching device, for example.
US07994438B2	Housing for an electronic circuit intended for a building control system A housing (3) for an electronic circuit intended for a building control system is disclosed. The housing (3) comprises a first housing part (1) comprising the electronic circuit intended for the building control system, and a second housing part (2) that is connected to the first housing part (1). Furthermore, a handle (4; 5) is movably attached to and extractable from the first housing part (1) for providing a grip when the handle is extracted from the first housing part (1) and thereby allowing, by pulling the handle (4; 5), the first housing part (1) to be removed from the second housing part (2).
US07994436B2	Base unit for dual wiring system A base unit suitable to improve easy exchangeability of a function unit in a dual wiring system is provided. The base unit is mounted in a wall surface of a structure, and connected to both of an electric power line and an information line previously installed in the structure. The base unit has a module port, which is detachably connected to a module connector of the function unit to simultaneously establish both of supplying the electric power from the base unit to the function unit, and making a signal transmission between the base unit and the function unit, thereby enabling the function unit to provide at least one of functions for supplying electric power from the electric power line, outputting information from the information line and inputting information into the information line when connected with the base unit.
US07994432B2	Heat resistant substrate incorporated circuit wiring board A circuit wiring board including a wiring substrate, and a heat resistant substrate accommodated in the wiring substrate and having a thermal expansion coefficient in a range between 3 ppm to 10 ppm and including a core substrate and a built-up wiring layer formed over the core substrate, the built-up wiring layer including conductive layers, interlayer resin insulating layers and a via hole conductor connecting the conductive layers through one of the interlayer resin insulating layers.
US07994425B2	Flexible wiring cable A flexible wiring cable includes a first wiring assembly connected to a load, a second wiring assembly connected to the first wiring assembly and extending toward an external signal source, and a circuit element mounted on the first wiring assembly to drive the load. The second wiring assembly is connected to the first wiring assembly at a position between the mounted circuit element and a connection point with the load. Thus, the heat of the circuit element is also transferred to the second wiring assembly, so that the effect of the heat on the load is reduced.
US07994424B2	Cooling of high voltage devices A high voltage system including a HVDC valve, a liquid fluid cooling system for cooling the valve, and a high voltage bushing for transferring high voltage and high current from the fluid cooled HVDC valve. The high voltage bushing includes an insulating body surrounding an electrical conductor electrically connectable to a connector of the HVDC valve. The electrical conductor of the high voltage bushing includes a cooling duct arranged for cooling the bushing utilizing a circulating gaseous fluid. A heat exchanger is connected to the cooling duct and adapted to cool the circulating gaseous fluid, wherein the heat exchanger is connected to the cooling system of the HVDC valve and adapted to receive cooling water from and to return heated cooling water to the cooling system of the HVDC valve.
US07994423B2	Charge-transport materials, methods of fabrication thereof, and methods of use thereof Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include charge-transport materials, methods of forming charge-transport materials, and methods of using the charge-transport materials.
US07994421B2	Photovoltaic devices having nanoparticle dipoles for enhanced performance and methods for making same A photovoltaic device has nanoparticles sandwiched between a conductive substrate and a charge selective transport layer. Each of the nanoparticles has a ligand shell attached to the nanoparticle core. A first type of ligand is electron rich and attached to one hemisphere of the nanoparticle core, while a second type of ligand is electron poor and attached to an opposite hemisphere of the core. Consequently, the ligand shell induces an electric field within the nanoparticle, enhancing the photovoltaic effect. The arrangement of ligands types on different sides of the nanoparticle is obtained by a process involving ligand substitution after adhering the nanoparticles to the conductive substrate.
US07994418B2	Monolithically connected photovoltaic devices on flexible substrates A method of monolithically interconnecting electrical devices that isolates and interconnects the contacts of neighboring electrical devices such as thin film PV cells, without damaging the surrounding materials.
US07994417B1	Optimal cell selection for series connection in Cassegrain PV module A solar PV panel has an array of primary mirrors that collects and reflects solar radiation toward an array of dichroic secondary elements. The dichroic secondary elements reflect near-visible solar radiation to an array of near-visible radiation sensitive solar cells and simultaneously transmit infrared radiation to an array of infrared sensitive solar cells. The array of near-visible radiation sensitive cells and the array of infrared sensitive cells are wired in series. The optical properties of the dichoic secondary element, near-visible radiation sensitive cell, and IR sensitive cell are chosen for simultaneous maximum power production from the panel.
US07994416B2	Semi-compensated pins for cold junction compensation A set of electrical connector pins for a thermocouple includes two materially similar conductor pairs, each conductor pair having conductors composed of a different material, and carried by an electrically insulating connector housing. The different materials of the conductor pairs provide a partial compensation to the thermocouple EMF developed between the hot junction and the cold junction when engaged thereto for the different type thermocouples. The conductors of each pair are operable to engage with two thermoelement conductors that form a thermocouple of differing types. The thermocouples provide a hot junction electrical interconnection therebetween at one end and are coupled to a cold junction at another end.
US07994413B2	Electromagnetic pickup for stringed musical instrument, and an electric guitar An electromagnetic pickup for a musical instrument, has two coils (2, 3) with pole pieces (4-8, 9-13) in their core regions and a connection that connects the two coils together, out of phase, in series or in parallel, so that they cancel each others extraneous noise and hum. To accomplish a noise-free pickup with the clarity and dynamics of a single coil pickup, and a uniform output level throughout its longitudinal axis, the coils are partly overlapping each other, the pole pieces in the core region of the first coil are partly overlapping with the pole pieces in the core region of the second coil, and the coils (2, 3) with the pole pieces (6-8, 1-13) induce the same voltage in the overlapping area (14) as the voltage induced by the coils and the pole pieces in their core regions outside the overlapping area (14).
US07994412B2	Sound system and method for creating a sound event based on a modeled sound field A sound system and method for modeling a sound field generated by a sound source and creating a sound event based on the modeled sound field is disclosed. The system and method captures a sound field over an enclosing surface, models the sound field and enables reproduction of the modeled sound field. Explosion type acoustical radiation may be used. Further, the reproduced sound field may be modeled and compared to the original sound field model.
US07994411B2	Computer-readable storage medium having music playing program stored therein and music playing apparatus At a time T0, prior read reproduction is started with a volume of 0. Upon starting the prior read reproduction, MIDI events containing note events are sequentially generated. Each time each of the note events is generated, note data is generated based on these note events and sequentially stored in a note pool 123. At a time T1, actual reproduction is started. After the time T1, the actual reproduction and the prior read reproduction are concurrently performed at a same speed. Accordingly, the prior read reproduction precedes invariably two bars ahead of the actual reproduction. Information pertinent to notes contained in a part from a currently played position to a position two bars ahead of the currently played position can be easily obtained from the note pool 123.
US07994409B2	Method and apparatus for editing and mixing sound recordings The present disclosure relates to audio mixing and editing devices and methods. A system is provided that permits mixing of and editing of multiple input audio tracks through the use of visual representation of audio signals. By viewing the visual representations of the audio inputs, a user is able to achieve a desired mix of signals with more accuracy and efficiency when compared with mixing based on hearing alone.
US07994407B2	Harp stand and methods of use thereof A harp support assembly is provided for supporting a portion of a harp. The harp support assembly includes a rod, a base assembly and a harp support member. The rod has a first and a second end. The base assembly is positioned near the first end of the rod, The base assembly has a plurality of legs spread apart and positioned on a surface. The harp support member is positioned near the second end of the rod. The harp support member has at least one support arm providing a harp receiving space to receive the harp.
US07994405B1	Maize variety inbred PHVP4 A novel maize variety designated PHVP4 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHVP4 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHVP4 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHVP4 or a locus conversion of PHVP4 with another maize variety.
US07994402B2	Method of increasing plant organ and seed size in a plant The present invention provides methods and DNA molecules useful for producing transgenic plants with agronomically desired traits based on altered sizes of plant organs and tissues.
US07994395B2	Method to identify disease resistant quantitative trait loci in soybean and compositions thereof The present invention is in the field of plant breeding and genetics, particularly as it pertains to the genus, Glycine. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for screening soybean plants containing one or more quantitative trait loci for disease resistance, species of Glycine having such loci and methods for breeding for and screening of Glycine with such loci. The invention further relates to the use of exotic germplasm in a breeding program.
US07994387B2	Tampon having zoned apertured overwrap Tampons having a zoned apertured overwrap. The tampons can include a compressed absorbent member having an insertion end, a withdrawal end, a longitudinal axis, and a body disposed between the insertion end and the withdrawal end. The body can have a perimeter disposed substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis and an exterior surface. The tampons can further include an overwrap covering at least a portion of the exterior surface. The overwrap can have a first zone and a second zone, the first zone having a plurality of apertures of a first diameter and the second zone having a plurality of apertures of a second diameter. In addition, the first zone and the second zone can be spaced apart from one another.
US07994386B2	Absorbent article The present invention provides an absorbent article having superior surface characteristics and improved absorbing ability. The absorbent article of the present invention includes a liquid permeable top sheet 10 disposed at a skin-side, a liquid impermeable back sheet 20 disposed at a garment side, and an absorbent body interposed between the top sheet and the back sheet. An apparent thickness (t2) of the top sheet 10 is 70% to 95% to an apparent thickness (t1) of the panty liner 1. The absorbent body 30 consists of a structure, in which a capillary rise height (h2) is higher than a capillary rise height (h1) of the top sheet 10.
US07994384B2	Absorbent composition having multiple surface treatments An absorbent composition includes absorbent material, such as superabsorbent material, surface-treated with at least two different compatible agents. The superabsorbent material may be coated with multiple surface treatment agents in such a manner that each of the surface treatment agents is exposed on a surface of the superabsorbent material. For example, one surface treatment agent may be in a liquid coating form and another surface treatment agent may be in a powder form, each applied separately to the superabsorbent material.
US07994380B2	Apparatus for transporting and/or storing radioactive materials having a jacket adapted to facilitate thermosiphon fluid flow A system, method and apparatus for transporting and/or storing radioactive materials, such as spent nuclear fuel. In one aspect, the invention is a jacket apparatus that is filled with a neutron absorbing fluid and adapted to facilitate a cyclical thermosiphon flow of the neutron absorbing fluid within the jacket when the neutron absorbing fluid is subjected to heat emanating from the cavity. In other aspects, the invention can be a method and container incorporating and/or using the same. In another aspect, the invention can be a container comprising: a gamma radiation absorbing body forming a cavity for receiving radioactive material; a jacket surrounding the body thereby forming a gap between the body and the jacket for holding a neutron absorbing fluid; a baffle positioned in the gap in spaced relation to both the body and the jacket so as to divide the gap into an inner region and an outer region; a passageway at or near a bottom of the gap between the inner region and the outer region that allows the neutron absorbing fluid to flow from the outer region into the inner region; and a passageway at or near a top of the gap between the inner region and the outer region that allows the neutron absorbing fluid to flow from the inner region into the outer region.
US07994379B2	Secondary process for radioactive chloride deweaponization and storage A radioactive containment composition may be created for containing radionuclides from a radioactive material by mixing a clay mineral with water. This mixture may form an aqueous clay suspension. The mixture can be refined by filtering to remove coarse material. The aqueous clay suspension may be applied to a radioactive material, allowing the radionuclides to be exchanged with cations in the aqueous clay suspension. The resulting aqueous slurry, a silver-based solution may be added to produce a suspension. The suspension may be collected, heated and analyzed.
US07994378B2	Process of butadiene-1, 3 extraction This invention presents a process of butadiene-1,3 extraction. The process consists of the procedure of 1st extractive fractionation, 2nd extractive fractionation, distillation and alkyne fractionation. This invention can improve the yield and capacity of butadiene extraction unit by adding an alkyne fractionator to the existing butadiene extraction unit and appropriately adjusting the process condition of 1st and 2nd extractive fractionators. This invention can decrease the energy and material consumption per unit of butadiene-1,3, which greatly improved the economic profit. The investment on various scales of butadiene extraction units for adding alkyne fractionator is almost same. Further more, the profit is in direct proportion with the scale of a plant and output is in several to some dozens of folds to investment. After the implementation of this invention, the discharge of vinyl acetylene offgas can be reduced by around 3400 tons per year, which mitigate the pollution on environment and save energy. The effect of energy saving and emission reduction is remarkable.
US07994375B2	Production of gasoline, diesel, naphthenes and aromatics from lignin and cellulosic waste by one step hydrocracking A process for the conversion of biomass to a liquid fuel is presented. The process includes the production of diesel and naphtha boiling point range fuels by hydrotreating and hydrocracking of lignin in the biomass in a one step process.
US07994373B2	Preparation and provision of high assay decabromodiphenylethane High assay, reaction-derived decabromodiphenylethane product is prepared by feeding (i) diphenylethane or (ii) partially brominated diphenylethane having an average bromine number less than about two, or (iii) both of (i) and (ii), into the liquid confines of a reaction mixture. Such reaction mixture is (a) formed from components comprised of excess liquid bromine and aluminum-based Lewis acid bromination catalyst, and (b) maintained at one or more elevated reaction temperatures of from about 45°-90° C., and at least when elevated pressure is needed to keep a liquid state in the reaction mixture at the temperature(s) used, the reaction mixture is at such an elevated pressure, whereby ar-bromination occurs. The feeding is conducted at a rate slow enough to form high assay reaction-derived decabromodiphenylethane product, which is an effective flame retardant.
US07994372B2	Parylene variants and methods of synthesis and use Fluorinated paracyclophane compounds represented by the formula: where least one of R1 and R2 comprises a fluorinated moiety is disclosed. These compounds can be utilized as precursor dimer compounds to produce polymeric coatings comprising copolymers of trifluorinated paraxylylene, including flexible fluorinated paraxylylene coatings.
US07994370B2	Method for depletion of sulfur and/or compounds containing sulfur from a biochemically produced organic compound Method of reducing the concentration of sulfur and/or a sulfur-containing compound in a biochemically prepared organic compound by bringing the respective organic compound into contact with an adsorbent, wherein the adsorbent is a clay doped with silver and/or a silver compound.
US07994369B2	Specific polybranched polyaldehydes, polyalcohols, and surfactants, and consumer products based thereon Acyclic polyaldehydes and polyalcohols having 11, 16 or 21 carbon atoms and comprising at least two aldehyde or hydroxyl alcohol groups, at least three branches, and three or less carbon-carbon double bonds.
US07994367B2	Method for producing benzaldehyde compound A method is provided for producing a benzaldehyde compound represented by the formula (4): wherein Q1 and Q2 represent an alkyl group etc., n represents 1 or 2, and Ar represents a phenyl group etc., including the steps of reacting a compound represented by the formula (3): wherein X1 represents a chlorine atom etc., and Q1, Q2, n and Ar are respectively the same meaning as above, with magnesium metal to obtain a Grignard compound and then reacting the obtained Grignard compound with a formylating agent.
US07994366B2	Process for continuously preparing methyl mercaptan from carbon- and hydrogen-containing compounds Provided is a process for continuously preparing methyl mercaptan by reacting a reactant mixture comprising solid, liquid and/or gaseous carbon- and/or hydrogen-containing compounds with air or oxygen, and/or water and sulfur.
US07994365B2	Basic acetophenones as inhibitors of NO-synthases Use of the substance characterized by general structural formula (I) for the preparation of an agent inhibiting the enzymatic activity of NO-synthase, R1, R2, R3, R4 and/or R5 being hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group and n equals 2 or 3.
US07994364B2	Crystalline forms of (−)-(1R,2R)-3-(3-dimethylamino-1-ethyl-2-methylpropyl)-phenol hydrochloride A hitherto unknown crystalline form of (−)-(1R,2R)-3-(3-dimethylamino-1-ethyl-2-methylpropyl)-phenol hydrochloride, pharmaceutical compositions containing the new crystalline form, methods of producing the new crystalline form, and a related method of use including treatment of, e.g., pain and/or urinary incontinence.
US07994361B2	Moderate-pressure gas phase phosgenation The invention relates to a process for preparing aromatic diisocyanates by reaction of phosgene with diamines in the gas phase, in which the reaction is carried out in a reaction zone at moderate pressures, i.e. the pressure in this reaction zone is more than 3 bar and less than 20 bar.
US07994359B2	Process for the synthesis of (7-methoxy-1-naphthyl) acetonitrile and its application in the synthesis of agomelatine A process for the industrial synthesis of the compound of formula (I) Application in the synthesis of agomelatine.
US07994355B2	Metallocene-based chiral phosphine or arsine ligands The present invention relates to metallocene-based phosphine ligands having chirality at phosphorus and at least one other element of chirality (planar chirality and/or chirality at carbon); and to the use of such ligands in asymmetric transformation reactions to generate high enantiomeric excesses of formed compounds. A method for the preparation of ligands according to the invention involving the conversion of the ortho-lithiated substituted metallocene to a phosphine chiral at phosphorus is also disclosed.
US07994351B2	Preparation of bile acids and intermediates thereof Synthetic methods for preparing deoxycholic acid and intermediates thereof are provided.
US07994348B2	Process for producing propylene oxide A process for producing propylene oxide, which comprises: supplying a solution containing a peroxide selected from the group consisting of hydrogen peroxide and organic hydroperoxide having 2 or more of carbon atoms as a raw material and propylene to an epoxidation step to react the peroxide with propylene, and controlling a concentration of methyl hydroperoxide in the solution to be supplied to the epoxidation step.
US07994346B2	Intermediates for the preparation of lipoxin A4 analogs This invention is directed to compounds useful as intermediates in the synthesis of lipoxin A4 analogs of the following formulas (I) and (II): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are described herein. These analogs are useful in treating inflammatory and autoimmune disorders in humans. These analogs are also useful in treating pulmonary or respiratory tract inflammation in humans.
US07994342B2	Method for producing optically active succinimide compound There is provided a novel method for producing an optically active succinimide compound which is a useful compound utilized as an intermediate raw material for pharmaceutical products or the like. The method for producing an optically active succinimide compound of formula (2) comprises processing a racemic compound of a succinimide compound of formula (1) in the presence of a hydrolase to selectively hydrolyze one of the enantiomers, and subjecting to a post-treatment.
US07994340B2	Azolylmethyloxiranes, their use for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, and compositions comprising them The present invention relates to azolylmethyloxiranes of the general formula (I) in which A stands for phenyl which is optionally substituted by one to three of the following substituents: halogen, NO2, amino, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, C1-C4-alkylamino, C1-C4-dialkylamino, thio or C1-C4-alkylthio, with the proviso that A does not stand for 2-methylphenyl, and also their plant-compatible acid addition salts or metal salts, and also to the use of the compounds of the formula I for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, and to compositions comprising them.
US07994339B2	Phthalamide derivative, agricultural or horticultural pesticide, and use of the pesticide Disclosed is a phthalamide derivative represented by the general formula (I) or a salt thereof, which shows an excellent controlling effect for use as an agricultural or horticultural insecticide alone or in combination with other agricultural or horticultural insecticide, acaricide, nematicide, fungicide, herbicide, plant growth regulator, biopesticide or the like.
US07994337B2	Benzothiazole and azabenzothiazole compounds useful as kinase inhibitors A compound of Formula (I) an enantiomer, diastereomer or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, wherein A is independently selected from: further wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and W are as described herein.
US07994335B2	Electronically tuned ligands for asymmetric hydrogenation Disclosed is a new class of chiral bidentate ligands capable of performing asymmetric hydrogenation. Also disclosed are processes of performing asymmetric hydrogenation the chiral bidentate ligands.
US07994333B2	Methods and compositions for selectin inhibition The present invention relates to the field of anti-inflammatory substances, and more particularly to novel compounds that act as antagonists of the mammalian adhesion proteins known as selectins. In some embodiments, methods for treating selectin mediated disorders are provided which include administration of compound of Formula I: wherein the constituent variables are defined herein.
US07994331B2	Heterocycle-substituted benzimidazole derivative A compound represented by the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: (I) wherein X1 to X4 independently represent a carbon atom or the like; the ring A represents a 5- to 6-membered heteroaryl having 1 to 4 heteroatoms independently selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom and an oxygen atom; X5 represents an oxygen atom or the like; X represents a carbon atom or the like; Het represents a 5- or 6-membered aliphatic heterocycle; R1 represents an aryl or the like; R2 represents a formyl group or the like; and R3 represents a —C1-6 alkyl or the like. The compound or salt has a glucokinase activation effect and is useful as a therapeutic agent for diabetes.
US07994326B2	Potent and highly selective heteroaromatic inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase Peptidomimetic compounds as can inhibit neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) for potential treatment in neurodegenerative diseases, such as but not limited to stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease.
US07994323B2	Chromen-2-one derivatives This invention relates to novel chromen-2-one derivatives useful as starting material for synthesis of pharmaceuticals. On other aspects the invention relates to a method of preparing the chromen-2-one derivatives of the invention.
US07994320B2	Narcistatin prodrugs The present invention provides prodrugs derived from the sparingly soluble anticancer isocarbostyril narciclasine, a component of various Narcissus species, said prodrugs having potential for use against animal and human cancers. Also disclosed is an efficient procedure for the synthetic conversion of narciclasine to several more soluble cyclic phosphate compounds, including “narcistatin”.
US07994316B2	1,3,5-triazine derivative, production method thereof and organic electroluminescence device comprising this as a composing component Since the conventional electron transporters have low thermal stability, the organic electroluminescent devices using them are not sufficient in terms of the compatibility of their luminance and luminous efficiency with device lifetime.A 1,3,5-triazine derivative of formula (1) is obtained by a metal catalyst-aided coupling reaction of a compound of formula (2) with a compound of formula (3), and this is used as a composing component of an organic electroluminescent device. [In the formulae, Ar1 and Ar2 represent phenyl group or the like, R1 and R2 represent hydrogen atom or the like, R3 represents methyl or the like, m is an integer of 0 to 2, X represents 2,4-pyridylene or the like, p is 1 or 2, a and b are 1 or 2, a+b is 3, q is 0 or an integer of p or less, M represents —MgR4 group or the like, R4 represents chlorine atom or the like, r is p-q, and Y represents a leaving group.]
US07994315B2	Intermediate compound for synthesizing pharmaceutical agent and production method thereof Production method of an optically active morpholine compound represented by the formula 10, or a compound represented by the formula 55, which includes the following steps: or wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification. An optically active 2-aryl-substituted morpholine compound and 3-oxo-3-(pyrimidin-4-yl)propionate, which are important as starting materials for synthesizing 2-(2-arylmorpholin-4-yl)-1-methyl-1H-[4,4′]bipyrimidinyl-6-one having a tau protein kinase 1 inhibitory activity and useful as a therapeutic drug for Alzheimer's disease and the like, can be produced in a high yield by an industrially advantageous method.
US07994313B2	Unsolvated benzodiazepine compositions and methods The present invention relates to systems and methods for generating new forms of benzodiazepine and benzodiazepine related compounds as well as new compounds and formulations generated by such methods. In particular, the present invention provides high throughput systems and methods for generating and identifying new crystalline benzodiazepine and benzodiazepine related polymorphs and new unsolvated, solvated, and other forms of the compounds that find use as improved drugs and drug formations.
US07994306B2	Methods of treating cancer using siRNA molecules directed against CD24 A method of treating a CD24-related medical condition is disclosed. The method comprises administering to a subject in need thereof at least one siRNA molecule selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 to 4. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising same are also disclosed.
US07994305B2	Compositions and methods for siRNA inhibition of angiopoietin 1 and 2 and their receptor Tie2 RNA interference using small interfering RNAs which are specific for mRNA produced from the Ang1, Ang2 or Tie2 genes inhibits expression of these genes. Diseases which involve Ang1, Ang2 or Tie2 mediated angiogenesis, such as inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, diabetic retinopathy, age related macular degeneration and many types of cancer, can be treated by administering the small interfering RNAs.
US07994304B2	Methods and compositions for sequencing a nucleic acid The invention provides a family of tethered nucleotide analogs useful in sequencing nucleic acids containing a homopolymer region comprising, for example, two or more base repeats, and to sequencing methods using such tethered nucleotide analogs.
US07994303B2	Penaeidin gene promoters in tiger shrimp and applications thereof The present invention relates to new penaeidin gene promoters found in tiger shrimps and applications thereof. The promoters of the invention are useful for the development of transgenic shrimps and valuable for the shrimp culture industry.
US07994301B2	Modulators of body weight, corresponding nucleic acids and proteins Modulators of weight, including, for example, two isoforms of murine and human ob polypeptides, are provided, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic uses and methods comprising such. Also provided are nucleotide sequences, degenerate variations thereof, and proteins expressed by such.
US07994294B2	Nucleic acids and polypeptides related to a guanine exchange factor of Rho GTPase The present invention relates to all aspects of a guanine exchange factor (GEF), for example, a Rho-GEF, such as p115 Rho-GEF. A GEF modulates cell signaling pathways, both in in vitro and in vivo, by modulating the activity of a GTPase. By way of illustration, a p115 Rho-GEF, which modulates the activity of a Rho GTPase, is described. However, the present invention relates to other GEFs, especially other Rho-GEFs. The present invention particularly relates to an isolated p115 Rho-GEF polypeptide or fragments of it, a nucleic acid coding for p115 Rho-GEF or fragments of it, and derivatives of the polypeptide and nucleic acid. The invention also relates to methods of using such polypeptides, nucleic acids, or derivatives thereof, e.g., in therapeutics, diagnostics, and as research tools. Another aspect of the present invention involves antibodies and other ligands which recognize p115 Rho-GEF, regulators of p115 Rho-GEF activity, and methods of treating pathological conditions associated or related to a Rho GTPase.
US07994287B2	Antibodies which bind human CXCR3 Antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies that bind human CXCR3 are disclosed. In preferred embodiments, the antibodies are human. Nucleic acids and vectors encoding the antibodies or portions thereof, recombinant cells that contain the nucleic acids, and compositions comprising the antibodies or antigen-binding fragments are also disclosed. The invention also provides therapeutic and diagnostic methods which employ the antibodies and antigen-binding fragments.
US07994283B2	Dimeric proteins for immunization A dimeric protein comprising a first fusion protein and a second fusion protein, wherein the first fusion protein comprises a targeting domain, a leucine zipper domain, and an antigen; and wherein the second fusion protein comprises a targeting domain, a leucine zipper domain, and optionally an antigen. Nucleic acid vectors encoding proteins of the invention are provided, particularly for use in nucleic acid vaccination.
US07994281B2	Cytokine design The present invention relates to novel methods for the design of proteins, in particular, cytokines. These methods allow the stabilisation of such cytokines, as well as modification of their selectivity/specificity for their cognate receptors. The invention also relates to various modified proteins that have been designed by the methods of the invention.
US07994275B1	Method for extruding polymers The disclosure defined by this invention provides a method for extruding thermoplastic polymers which includes the step of creating high pressure steam in the extruding apparatus so as to prevent scorching and to solubilize contaminants. The method can be used in a neutralization step of ionomers in an extrusion process to obtain an extrudate having good light transmission and improved impact resistance.
US07994272B2	Maleamic acid polymer derivatives and their bioconjugates The present invention is directed to maleamic acid derivatives of water soluble polymers, to chemically stable water-soluble polymer succinamic acid-active agent conjugates, and to methods for reproducibly preparing, characterizing and using such polymer reagents and their conjugates.
US07994270B2	Method for producing thermosetting resin having benzoxazine ring The present invention provides a method for producing a thermosetting resin having a benzoxazine ring, comprising the step of: reacting a bifunctional phenol compound, a diamine compound, and an aldehyde compound in a mixed solvent of an aromatic nonpolar solvent and an alcohol.
US07994269B2	Golf equipment formed from castable formulation with unconventionally low hardness and increased shear resistance Golf equipment including compositions including castable formulations that have low material hardness and increased shear resistance. The compositions may be used in any layer of a golf ball including cores, intermediate layers, and covers and result in high spin rates.
US07994268B2	Cardanol based dimers and uses therefor Cardanol based dimers are provided. The cardanol dimers are formed by hydrosilylation with silanes. Cardanol based dimers may be further reacted to form epoxy curing agents and epoxies which can be used as anti-fouling coatings on ship hulls and marine structures. The cardanol dimers may also be used to produce friction particles or phenolic resins. Methods of synthesizing the cardanol based dimers, the epoxy curing agents and the epoxies are also provided.
US07994267B2	Polymerization catalyst compositions containing metallocene complexes and polymers produced by using the same The present invention provides a novel catalyst composition comprising a metallocene complex, and a novel producing method for various polymer compounds. Preferably, the invention provides a novel polymer compound, and a producing method thereof. Specifically, the invention provides a polymerization catalyst composition, comprising: (1) a metallocene complex represented by the general formula (I), including: a central metal M which is a group III metal atom or a lanthanoid metal atom; a ligand Cp* bound to the central metal and including a substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl derivative; monoanionic ligands Q1 and Q2; and w neutral Lewis base L; and (2) an ionic compound composed of a non-ligand anion and a cation: where w represents an integer of 0 to 3.
US07994265B2	Vinyl alcohol copolymers for use in aqueous dispersions and melt extruded articles In a method of preparing an aqueous dispersion selected from drilling fluids, hydraulic cement compositions, mineral pigment containing coatings, and papermaking furnishes or in a method of preparing a melt extrudate, the improvement comprising: a) producing a copolymer of vinyl alcohol (VOH) and 2-acrylamido-2-methyl propane sulfonic acid or a salt of such acid (AMPS) by steps including continuously feeding with agitation, vinyl acetate (VAM) and AMPS as comonomers, a free radical yielding polymerization initiator, and a solvent for said comonomers, initiator, and copolymer resulting from the copolymerization of said comonomers, maintaining the resulting reaction mass in said first reaction zone under polymerization conditions for a residence time sufficient for a major proportion of AMPS fed to said first reaction zone to polymerize, continuously feeding reaction mass from said first reaction zone with an additional supply of AMPS to a second reaction zone, maintaining the reaction mass in the second reaction zone for a residence time sufficient to polymerize a major proportion of the AMPS added to the second reaction zone, continuously withdrawing reaction mass from the second reaction zone, separating copolymer of VAM and AMPS from the latter reaction mass, and saponifying by hydrolysis and/or alcoholysis a major proportion of the acetate groups in said copolymer to form a copolymer of VOH and AMPS; and b) incorporating the saponified copolymer into the aqueous dispersion or melt extrudate.
US07994262B2	Hardenable composition The present invention has its object to provide a reactive silyl group-containing room temperature curable composition which can give cured products having good recovery, durability and creep resistance and the mechanical physical properties of which can be adjusted so as to be adequate for the use as a sealing material or adhesive and, further, which is low in viscosity and good in workability. This object can be achieved by, for example, a curable composition which comprises an organic polymer (A) containing reactive silyl groups represented by the general formula (1) given below wherein a is 3 and an organic polymer (B) containing an average of 0.5 to 1.5 reactive silyl groups represented by the general formula (1) given below per molecule —Si(R13-a)Xa (1).
US07994261B2	Highly elastomeric and paintable silicone compositions Highly elastomeric, curable, paintable silicone compositions are provided. The paintable silicone compositions comprise an organopolysiloxane, a silicone functional crosslinker, and an organic polymer. The highly elastomeric, curable, paintable silicone compositions have an elongation of at least 150% and are useful as paintable sealants and caulks.
US07994255B2	Polyorganiosiloxane-containing graft copolymer, resin compositions containing the same and process for produciton of polyorganosiloxane emulsions The present invention relates to a flame retardant which is a graft copolymer. The graft copolymer is obtained by polymerizing a vinyl monomer containing at least two polymerizable groups, and at least one other vinyl monomer, in the presence of polyorganosiloxane particles in a latex state. The polyorganosiloxane particles contain grafting agents that are unevenly distributed on the surface thereof. The present invention also relates to thermoplastic resins containing this flame retardant.
US07994254B2	Polysiloxane-polycarbonate compositions, and related methods and articles A composition, comprising, based on the total weight of the polymer components in the composition, 1 to 40 wt. % of an aromatic polycarbonate, 30 to 98.8 wt. % of a polysiloxane-polycarbonate block copolymer, and 0.1 to 10 wt. % of a polysiloxane-polyimide block copolymer comprising more than 20 wt. % polysiloxane blocks, based on the total weight of the polysiloxane-polyimide copolymer. The compositions provide articles with low haze, high luminous transmittance, and good hydro-aging properties. The articles can further be formulated to have excellent flame retardance, particularly when KSS is used.
US07994253B2	Translucent propylene-based elastomeric compositions A composition is described in one aspect as comprising one or more propylene-α-olefin terpolymers; wherein the propylene-α-olefin terpolymer(s) possess a melting temperature (Tm) within the range of from less than 105° C., and a heat of fusion (Hf) within the range of from less than 75 J/g; one or more polyolefin(s); and oil; wherein fillers are present, if at all, at a level that maintains a Haze value of 65% or less for the composition. The terpolymer in one embodiment is a polymer comprising at least 65 wt %, by weight of the terpolymer, of propylene-derived units, within the range of from 5 to 35 wt % of ethylene or other α-olefin and a diene such as ethylidiene norbornene, and in certain embodiments having a Mooney Viscosity (ML(1+4)@125° C.) within the range of from 10 to 50 (ASTM D1646). The compositions can be cured to form transparent or translucent articles such as sheets that are also flexible.
US07994249B2	Silane coating compositions and methods of use thereof A method of treating a substrate, such as a metal surface, by application of a silane coating composition containing at least one water-soluble or dispersible silane and a polymeric resin, which may be provided as a water-based dispersion of polymeric resin, the polymeric resin being present in an amount less than 10% by weight of the composition to slow the rate of corrosion of the metal surface and/or to promote adhesion of rubber thereto. The at least one silane can include a bis-amino silane, a vinyl silane, a bis-sulfur silane, or mixtures thereof and the polymeric resin may include an epoxy resin, acrylate resin, polyurethane resin, novolac resin, or mixtures thereof. The silane coating compositions may be either water or solvent based.
US07994243B2	Stable aqueous novolac dispersion An aqueous composition including a particulate novolac resin and a polyol, wherein >50% of the number of total particles of novolac resin have a particle size of >15 μm and >5% of the number of total particles of novolac resin have a particle size of >50 μm, wherein the particulate novolac resin has a dropping point temperature of >127° C., and wherein the aqueous composition is essentially free of organic solvent. The aqueous composition will form a stable dispersion which is ideal for the preparation of a film or coating of substrates such as fiberglass, nonwoven fibers, or lignocellulosic materials which include composite boards, plywoods, parquets, laminated veneer lumber (LVL), laminated flooring, doors, wood for door frames and paper.
US07994242B2	Material for acquisition of liquids and disposable absorbent article comprising the material The present invention relates to a material for acquisition of liquids comprising individualized, crosslinked cellulosic fibers having an effective amount of a polymeric acid crosslinking agent reacted with the fibers in intra-fiber crosslink ester bond form. The material further comprises at least one basic substance, selected from basic polymers. The invention also relates to disposable absorbent articles, such as diapers, containing this material. The material can be used in a method of reducing the electrolyte concentration of aqueous mediums containing electrolytes, such as urine.
US07994241B2	Wood composite alloy composition having a compatibilizer that improves the ability to process and compress cellulosic fiber A crystalline polyamide 6 in a compounding extrusion process to make wood flour-polyolefin composite. The wood plastic composite pellet and can be post-blended with reinforced polyolefin pellets in an injection molding step to produce hybrid fibrous composites. The resulting compatibilization in the hybrid fibrous composites gives molded parts having enhanced mechanical properties at greatly reduced temperatures. There is wide variety of molded parts that can be made by varying the blend ratio of the wood plastic compounded product with or without and glass fiber reinforced pellets in the injection molding step.
US07994240B2	Process for producing shaped bodies from a mixture of particulate natural materials and thermoplastic binder Use of water redispersible polymer powders stabilized with a protective colloid as a thermoplastic binder for natural particulate materials allows thermoplastic processing such as extrusion, without formation of bubbles due to moisture present, and while maintaining physical properties.
US07994236B2	Technique for purifying polymer compositions A method for preparing a polymer product, the method comprising polymerizing conjugated diene monomer, optionally together with vinyl aromatic monomer, within a hydrocarbon solvent by employing a lithium-containing initiator, thereby forming a living polymer cement, where about 0.04 to about 0.2 moles of the alkyl lithium initiator per 100 g of the monomer are employed, where the concentration of the monomer within the solvent is about 1 to about 30% by weight, and where the living polymer cement includes a lithium-containing residue, adding a quenching agent to the living polymer cement in an amount sufficient to quench all of the living polymer within the cement, thereby forming a non-living polymer cement, passing the non-living polymer cement through a purification medium, where the purification medium includes alumina, silica, or both, thereby separating at least part of the lithium-containing residue from the polymer cement, collecting the polymer cement after passing the cement through the purification medium, adding an antioxidant, and desolventizing the polymer cement.
US07994233B2	Superabsorbent thermoplastic composition and article including same A thermoplastic composition that includes from about 1% by weight to 25% by weight block copolymer having the formula (A-B)x or A-B-A, where the A block includes polyvinylarene, the B block includes poly(monoalkenyl) and x is an integer of at least one, spherical superabsorbent particles comprising polyacrylate, and plasticizing oil, the composition exhibiting water gel time of no greater than 2 minutes, a viscosity of no greater than 100,000 centipoise and a wet tensile strength of at least 15 g/in2.
US07994229B2	Thermo-expansive microspheres, their production process and their application The present invention provides a process for producing thermo-expansive microspheres comprising a thermoplastic resinous shell and a blowing agent being encapsulated in the shell, the blowing agent which is a fluorine-containing C2-10 compound having ether linkage, being free of chlorine and bromine atoms and gasifying at a temperature not higher than the softening point of the thermoplastic resin. The thermo-expansive microspheres have preferably an average particle size ranging from 1 to 100 μm and a CV, or coefficient of variation, of particle size distribution being 30% or less, and a retaining ratio of blowing agent encapsulated being 90% or more.
US07994225B2	Bacterial efflux pump inhibitors for the treatment of ophthalmic and otic infections Efflux pump inhibitors are co-administered with antimicrobial agents for the treatment of ophthalmic or otic infections. The agents may be co-administered directly to the site of infection (e.g., the eye or ear).
US07994223B2	Amide derivatives as positive allosteric modulators and methods of use thereof The invention relates to novel amide derivatives that are positive allosteric modulators of neuronal nicotinic receptors, compositions comprising the same, processes for preparing such compounds, and methods for using such compounds and compositions.
US07994217B2	Prenatal multivitamin/multimineral supplement Multivitamin/Multimineral supplements are provided for supplementing iron and desirable nutrients in the diet of mammals. The supplements include an iron-amino acid chelate, a form of iron more bioavailable than traditional iron salts. The supplements may further include a pharmaceutically accepted salt form of iron as well as other nutritional vitamins and minerals. The supplements are useful for providing iron for pregnant and lactating females as well as for persons suffering from anemia.
US07994207B2	Process for preparing fluoromethyl-substituted heterocyclic compounds The present invention relates to a process for preparing fluoromethyl-substituted heterocyclic compounds of the general formula (I) in which R1 is H or F; R2 is an -[A-O]m—R3 group in which A is C2-C4-alkanediyl, R3 is C1-C4-alkyl and m is 1 or 2; by converting the corresponding chloromethyl-substituted compounds (II) in the presence of fluorinating agents, to processes for preparing the chloromethyl-substituted compounds (II), to processes for preparing amides of the general formula (IV) and to compounds of the general formulae (I) and (II).
US07994199B2	Heterocyclic compounds, methods for the preparation thereof, and uses thereof The compounds of the present invention are of formula I: wherein A, R3, R4 is as defined herein, are useful as ligands for nicotinic receptors.
US07994198B2	Piperidinetriol derivatives as inhibitors of glycosylceramidsynthase Compounds of formula (I); wherein R represents various substituent groups, are useful as inhibitors of glucosylceramide synthase.
US07994197B2	Method of therapeutic administration of DHE to enable rapid relief of migraine while minimizing side effect profile Pharmaceutical compositions containing dihydroergotamine (DHE) and methods in which DHE is administered to patients for treatment of migraine without side effects or adverse effects are disclosed. Methods for rapid treatment of migraine with DHE are disclosed comprising: dampening the peak plasma concentration (Cmax) and slightly delaying the peak such as to avoid activating the dopaminergic and adrenergic receptors, while achieving sufficient active binding to the serotonin receptors to provide relief from migraine symptoms within a timeframe that permits rapid resolution of migraine symptoms. Inhaler devices suitable for the methods are disclosed. Kits for practicing the methods of invention are disclosed.
US07994194B2	4-oxoquinoline derivatives This invention relates to novel compounds that are 4-oxoquinoline derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. More specifically, this invention relates to novel 4-oxoquinoline derivatives that are derivatives of elvitegravir. This invention also provides pyrogen-free compositions comprising one or more compounds of this invention and a carrier, and the use of the disclosed compounds and compositions in methods of treating diseases and conditions that are beneficially treated by administering an HIV integrase inhibitor, such as elvitegravir.
US07994193B2	Selective serotonin 2A/2C receptor inverse agonists as therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases Behavioral pharmacological data with the compound of formula (I), a novel and selective 5HT2A/2C receptor inverse agonist, demonstrate in vivo efficacy in models of psychosis and dyskinesias. This includes activity in reversing MK-801 induced locomotor behaviors, suggesting that this compound may be an efficacious anti-psychotic, and activity in an MPTP primate model of dyskinesias, suggesting efficacy as an anti-dyskinesia agent. These data support the hypothesis that 5HT2A/2C receptor inverse agonism may confer antipsychotic and anti-dyskinetic efficacy in humans, and indicate a use of the compound of formula (I) and related agents as novel therapeutics for Parkinson's Disease, related human neurodegenerative diseases, and psychosis.
US07994191B2	Heterocyclic cyclopamine analogs and methods of use thereof The present invention relates to steroidal alkaloids that can be used in the treatment of hedgehog pathway related disorders, particularly cancer.
US07994190B2	Modulators of glucocorticoid receptor, AP-1, and/or NF-κB activity and use thereof Novel non-steroidal compounds are provided which are useful in treating diseases associated with modulation of the glucocorticoid receptor, and/or AP-1 and/or NF-κB activity including inflammatory and immune diseases, obesity and diabetes having the structure of formula (I):, its enantiomers, diastereomers, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt, or hydrate, thereof, wherein the group X is O or (Rx)(Ry); is heterocyclo or heteroaryl; E is —N—, —NR1—, —O—, —C(═O), —S—, —SO2—, or —CR2—; F is —N—, —NR1a, —O—, —C(═O), —S—, —SO2—, or —CR2a—; G is independently N, —NR1b—, —O—, —C(═O), —S—, —SO2— or —CR2b— provided that the heterocyclic ring formed does not contain a S—S or S—O bond and at least one of E, F and G is a hetero atom; and Ma, Rx, Ry, R1, R1a, R1b, R2, R2a, R2b, R4, R5a, R6, R7, X, Za and Z are as defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating inflammatory- or immune-associated diseases employing said compounds.
US07994189B2	Dihydropyridine derivatives The present invention relates to dihydropyridine derivatives having general formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1 is (1-6C)alkyl, (2-6C)alkenyl, (2-6C)alkynyl, phenyl, (1-5C)heteroaryl R2, R3 are independently (1-4C)alkyl, (2-4C)alkenyl, (2-4C)alkynyl, (1-4C)alkoxy, (24C)alkenyloxy, (2-4C)alkynyloxy, halogen X is SO2, CH2, C(O) or X is absent R4 is (1-6C)alkyl, (2-6C)alkenyl, (2-6C)alkynyl, (3-6C)cycloalkyl, (3-6C)cycloalkenyl, (3-6C)cycloalkyl(1-4C)alkyl, (2-6C)heterocycloalkyl, (2-6C)heterocycloalkyl(14C)alkyl, (6-1 OC)aryl, (6-10C)aryl(1-4C)alkyl, (1-9C)heteroaryl or (1-9C)heteroaryl(14C)alkyl. The compounds are useful for the treatment of fertility disorders.
US07994187B2	HIV inhibiting 3,4-dihydro-imidazo[4,5-B]pyridin-5-ones HIV inhibitory compounds of formula: salts, hydrates, solvates, N-oxides, or stereoisomers thereof, wherein A forms pyridine, pyrimidine, pyrazine, pyridazine, triazine, imidazole, pyrazole, triazole, tetrazole, oxazole, isoxazole, oxadiazole, thiazole, isothiazole, and thiadiazole; R1 is halo, cyano, nitro, C1-6alkyl, polyhaloC1-6alkyl, —C1-6alkyl-OR4, —C(═O)—R5, —C(═O)—OR4, —C(═O)—NR6R7, —OR4, —O—C(═O)—C1-6alkyl, —O—C1-6alkyl-OR4, —O—C1-6alkyl-NR6R7, —O—C1-6alkyl-O—C(═O)—C1-6alkyl, —O—C1-6alkyl-C(═O)—OR4, —O—C1-6alkyl-C(═O)—NR6R7, —NR6R7, —NR8—C(═O)—R5, —NR8—C(═O)—OR4, —NR8—C(═O)—NR6R7, —NR8—C(═O)—C1-6alkyl-C(═O)—OR4, —NR8—C1-6alkyl-OR4, —NR8—C1-6alkyl-NR6R7, —NR8—C1-6alkyl-imidazolyl, —NR8—SO2R9, —N═CH—NR6R7, —NH—C(═NH)—NH2, —SO2NR6R7, and —O—PO(OR8)2; D forms pyridine, pyrimidine, pyrazine, pyridazine, pyrrole, imidazole, pyrazole, furane, oxazole, isoxazole, thiophene, thiazole, and isothiazole; R2 is C1-6alkyl, polyhaloC1-6alkyl, halo, cyano, —COOR4, —OR4, and —NR6R7; R3 is phenyl, pyridyl, pyrimidinyl, imidazopyridyl, pyrazolopyridyl, triazolopyridyl, quinoline, imidazopyrimidinyl, pyrazolopyrimidinyl, triazolopyrimidinyl, pyridopyrimidinyl; which may optionally be substituted; m is 0, 1, 2 or 3; n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, methods for preparing these compounds and compositions.
US07994185B2	Benzene sulfonamide thiazole and oxazole compounds The present invention provides thiazole sulfonamide and oxazole sulfonamide compounds, compositions containing the same, as well as processes for the preparation and methods for their use as pharmaceutical agents.
US07994184B2	Small molecules that replace or agonize p53 function This invention provides a novel screening system for identifying p53 mimetics/agonists. Also provided are small organic molecules that act as effective p53 mimetics/agonists.
US07994181B2	6-1H-imidazo-quinazoline and quinolines derivatives, new potent analgesics and anti-inflammatory agents The present invention is directed to novel 6-1H-imidazo-2-aryl and 2-heteroaryl quinazoline and quinoline of formula I, corresponding salts and solvates thereof, to a process for their preparation and to the use of this compounds and corresponding pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of pain and inflammatory related disorders. Compounds of the invention have been proven highly effective in the pharmacological treatment of both inflammatory and neuropathic pain, in addition to striking anti-inflammatory properties. Their effectiveness in interfering with COX-2 and inflammatory cytokines expressions and production, highlights them as interesting compounds also for the treatment of cancer in addition to several inflammatory diseases.Formula I:
US07994180B2	Processes for preparing intermediates of pemetrexed The invention provides intermediates of pemetrexed of formula VI and processes for the preparation thereof.
US07994177B2	Therapeutic agents useful for treating pain The present invention discloses a compound of formula: where Ar1, Ar2, X, Z1, Z2, R3, and m are as disclosed herein or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof (a “Pyridylene Compound”); compositions comprising an effective amount of a Pyridylene Compound; and methods for treating or preventing pain or other conditions in an animal comprising administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of a Pyridylene Compound.
US07994176B2	Inhibitors of 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 The present invention discloses novel compounds of Formula I: having 11 Beta-HSD type 1 antagonist activity, as well as methods for preparing such compounds. In another embodiment, the invention discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, as well as methods of using the compounds and compositions to treat diabetes, hyperglycemia, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, metabolic syndrome, and other conditions associated with 11 Beta-HSD type 1 activity. X-17377
US07994170B2	1,3-dihydro-imidazo[4,5-C]quinolin-2-ones as lipid kinase inhibitors The invention relates to novel organic compounds of formula (I) processes for the preparation thereof, the application thereof in a process for the treatment of the human or animal body, the use thereof—alone or in combination with one or more other pharmaceutically active compounds—for the treatment of an inflammatory or obstructive airway disease, such as asthma, disorders commonly occurring in connection with transplantation, or a proliferative disease, such as a tumor disease.
US07994169B2	3,4-diaminopyridine derivatives for use as catalysts The present invention relates to 3,4-diaminopyridine derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are, independently of each other, electron donors, wherein R2 is optionally H; and R3, R4, R5, and R6 are, independently of each other, H, optionally substituted straight-chain or branched alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxyl, or aryl, wherein R3 and/or R4 together with R5 and/or R6, optionally define a ring; processes for their preparation, and their use as catalysts.
US07994168B2	Hexahydro-pyrazino[1,2-A]pyrimidine-4,7-dione derivatives substituted with amino acids The invention relates to substituted hexahydropyrazino[1,2-a]pyrimidine-4,7-dione derivatives substituted with amino acids, and to the physiologically tolerated salts thereof, processes for their preparation and their use as medicaments.
US07994165B2	Aryl aniline derivatives as β2 adrenergic receptor agonists The invention provides novel β2 adrenergic receptor agonist compounds. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, methods of using such compounds to treat diseases associated with β2 adrenergic receptor activity, and processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds.
US07994162B2	2-alkoxy-3,4,5-trihydroxy-alkylamide-benzazepines, the preparation and use thereof, and compositions containing the same The present invention relates to 2-alkoxy-3,4,5-trihydroxyalkylamide benzodiazepine compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, to methods of treatment comprising administering such compounds, to processes for the preparation of such compounds, and to intermediate precursors to such compounds.
US07994159B2	c-Kit kinase inhibitor It was discovered that a compound represented by the general formula (I) shows strong c-Kit kinase inhibitory activity, and it inhibits proliferation of c-Kit kinase activated-cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. A novel anticancer agent showing c-Kit kinase inhibitory activity was discovered.The general formula (I): (wherein R1 represents methyl etc., R2 represents cyano etc., R3 represents hydrogen etc., R4 represents hydrogen etc.).
US07994156B2	Carboxylic acid 4-phenylazo-phenyl ester derivatives and their use as monoamine neurotransmitter re-uptake inhibitors This invention relates to novel carboxylic acid 4-phenylazo-phenyl ester derivatives useful as monoamine neurotransmitter re-uptake inhibitors.In other aspects the invention relates to the use of these compounds in a method for therapy and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention.
US07994154B2	Substituted liposaccharides useful in the treatment and prevention of endotoxemia Novel substituted liposaccharides useful as in the prophylactic and affirmative treatment of endotoxemia including sepsis, septicemia and various forms of septic shock and methods of using these agents are provided. Also provided are methods of preparing these agents and intermediates useful therein.
US07994153B2	Chloasma amelioration composition and dullness amelioration composition The present invention provides a composition that can effectively improve melasma and a composition that can effectively reduce skin dullness.The composition for improving melasma comprises a purine nucleic acid-related substance and a pharmaceutically or cosmetically acceptable carrier, and exhibits an excellent melasma improving effect due to the action of the purine nucleic acid-related substance contained. The composition for reducing skin dullness comprises a purine nucleic acid-related substance and a pharmaceutically or cosmetically acceptable carrier, and exhibits an excellent effect of reducing skin dullness due to the action of the purine nucleic acid-related substance contained.
US07994151B2	Compositions and methods for angiogenic therapy utilizing genes encoding ets-1 The present invention provides: (1) pharmaceutical compositions for angiogenic therapy which contain, as the active ingredients, at least one substance selected from substances having vasodilating effect and/or platelet aggregation inhibitory effect, and substances producing them; and a gene encoding an angiogenesis factor; (2) agents for potentiating the angiogenic effect of a gene encoding an angiogenesis factor that contain, as the active ingredient, at least one substance selected from substances having vasodilating effect and/or platelet aggregation inhibitory effect and substances producing them; (3) an angiogenic agent which contains a prostacyclin synthase gene as the active ingredient; (4) pharmaceutical compositions for angiogenic therapy which contain ets-1 gene and another gene encoding an angiogenesis factor as the active ingredients; (4) an agent which contain ets 1 gene as the active ingredient for potentiating the angiogenic effect of another gene encoding an angiogenesis factor; and (5) an angiogenic agent which contains ets-1 gene as the active ingredient.
US07994149B2	Method for treatment of Huntington's disease through intracranial delivery of sirna The present invention provides devices, small interfering RNAs, and methods for treating a neurodegenerative disorder comprising the steps of surgically implanting a catheter so that a discharge portion of the catheter lies adjacent to a predetermined infusion site in a brain, and discharging through the discharge portion of the catheter a predetermined dosage of at least one substance capable of inhibiting production of at least one neurodegenerative protein. The present invention also provides valuable small interfering RNA vectors, systems, and methods for treating Huntington's disease in vivo without impairment of cell endoplasmic reticulum, spontaneous motor activity, or locomotor activity of a patient.
US07994148B2	Transmembrane delivery peptide and bio-material comprising the same The present invention relates to a transmembrane delivery peptide derived from human in which a target protein may be easily delivered into cells, and a recombinant vector comprising a nucleic acid coding the peptide. More specifically, the present invention relates to the transmembrane delivery peptide having an amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID No. 1 including 11 amino acids of specific sites in amino acid sequences of human G protein alpha 12, and a recombinant vector comprising a nucleic acid coding the same, a transformant prepared by introducing said recombinant vector, and the like. Since transmembrane delivery peptides of the present invention can be efficiently delivered into cells, they may be usefully used for the purposes of delivering various target materials, including proteins, nucleic acid, drugs and the like.
US07994147B2	Cellular genes regulated by HIV-1 infection and methods of use thereof This invention provides cellular gene products which have anti-apoptotic activity in HIV-1 infected cells and provides agents for the inhibition of the cellular gene products.
US07994146B2	Method of enhancing an immune response A method of enhancing an immune response to an antigen is provided. The method involves augmenting the level of a TAP molecule in a target cell bearing the antigen. Preferably, the TAP molecules enhanced by administering a nucleic acid sequence encoding a TAP-1 and/or TAP-2 molecule. The method is useful in treating infectious diseases and cancer.
US07994145B2	Bicyclonucleoside analogues Oligonucleotide analogues which have anti-sense or anti-gene activity, as well as in vivo stability, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The oligonucleotide analogues have one or more structural units represented by the following formula (1a): provided that when the oligonucleotide has two or more structural units of formula (1a), each B is the same or different, wherein B represents a purin-9-yl group or a 2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyrimidin-1-yl group.
US07994144B2	Process for the preparation of a composition of genetically modified hematopoietic progenitor cells Described are compositions and methods relating to gene therapy, particularly as applied to hematopoietic progenitor (HP) cells, to transduced cells and methods of obtaining them, and to methods of using them to provide prolonged engraftment of modified hematopoietic cells in human subjects. The invention particularly relates to ex vivo gene therapy of HP cells for treatment or prevention of HIV infection.
US07994143B2	Metabolically stable alkoxyalkyl esters of antiviral or antiproliferative phosphonates, nucleoside phosphonates and nucleoside phosphates The present invention relates to phosphonate, nucleoside phosphonate or nucleoside phosphate compounds, compositions containing them, processes for obtaining them, and their use in treating a variety of medical disorders, in particular viral infections, cancers and the like.
US07994140B2	Classes of compounds that interact with GPCRs The present invention relates to a method of identifying a candidate therapeutic agent. The method comprises contacting a G-Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) with a compound of General Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof determining whether the compound inhibits or effects signal transduction activity of the GPCR, wherein a compound that inhibits or effects the activity of the GPCR is a candidate therapeutic agent.
US07994136B1	Metalloproteinase inhibitor A novel metalloproteinase inhibitor, analogs thereof, polynucleotides encoding the same, and methods of production, are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating disorders caused by excessive amounts of metalloproteinase are also disclosed.
US07994132B2	Peptides for treatment of scleroderma Peptides are provided that ameliorate one or more symptoms of scleroderma. In various embodiments, the peptides range in length from about 10 to about 30 amino acids, comprise a class A amphipathic helix, and bear at least one protecting group. The peptides are highly stable and readily administered via an oral route.
US07994131B2	Stimulation of proliferation of pluripotential stem cells through administration of pregnancy associated compounds The present invention provides for a method for stimulating the proliferation of pluripotential stem cells in a mammal comprising administration of pregnancy related compounds more particularly human chorionic gonadotropin, leutenizing hormone or prolactin. The present invention further provides for a method of treatment of tissues or organs experiencing cellular damage, injury or disease.
US07994130B2	Compositions and methods for treating ocular pathologic angiogenesis and vascular permeability Compounds, compositions and methods for inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis are described herein. Methods for producing and screening compounds and compositions capable of inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis are also described herein. Pharmaceutical compositions are included in the compositions described herein. The compositions described herein are useful in, for example, methods of inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis, including methods of inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis induced by specific angiogenic, permeability and inflammatory factors, such as, for example VEGF, bFGF and thrombin. Methods for treating specific diseases and conditions are also provided herein.
US07994122B2	Glucagon analogues The invention provides materials and methods for promoting weight loss or preventing weight gain in a subject. In particular, the invention provides novel glucagon analogue peptides effective in such methods and in the treatment of obesity, eating disorders, metabolic syndrome, and non-alcoholic liver steatosis. The peptides may mediate their effect by having increased selectivity for the GLP-1 receptor as compared to human glucagon.
US07994115B2	Three-dimensional structures of TALL-1 and its cognate receptors and modified proteins and methods related thereto Disclosed are TALL-1 and TALL-1 receptor protein homologues (agonists and antagonists) designed based on the three-dimensional structure of sTALL-1, eBCMA and eBAFF-R; agonist homologues of APRIL; methods of using wild-type APRIL to inhibit the activity of TALL-1; compositions comprising such homologues, nucleic acid molecules encoding such homologues, and therapeutic methods of using such compounds and compositions. Also disclosed are crystalline complexes of sTALL-1 and sTALL-1 in complex with either BCMA or BAFF-R; models of three-dimensional structures of such crystalline complexes and related structures, methods of drug design using any portion of such structures; methods of design and/or identification of regulatory peptides derived from the such structures; compounds identified by drug design using such structures; and the use of such compounds in therapeutic compositions and methods.
US07994111B2	Liquid detergent composition comprising an external structuring system comprising a bacterial cellulose network A structured liquid detergent composition in the form of a liquid matrix made up of an external structuring system of a bacterial cellulose network; water; and surfactant system including an anionic surfactant; a nonionic surfactant; a cationic surfactant; an ampholytic surfactant; a zwitterionic surfactant; or mixtures thereof, wherein said liquid matrix has a yield stress of from about 0.003 Pa to about 5.0 Pa at about 25° C. and provides suitable particle suspension capabilities and shear thinning characteristics.
US07994105B2	Lubricant having nanoparticles and microparticles to enhance fuel efficiency, and a laser synthesis method to create dispersed nanoparticles A combination nano and microparticle treatment for engines enhances fuel efficiency and life duration and reduces exhaust emissions. The nanoparticles are chosen from a class of hard materials, preferably alumina, silica, ceria, titania, diamond, cubic boron nitride, and molybdenum oxide. The microparticles are chosen from a class of materials of layered structures, preferably graphite, hexagonal boron nitride, magnesium silicates (talc) and molybdenum disulphide. The nano-micro combination can be chosen from the same materials. This group of materials includes zinc oxide, copper oxide, molybdenum oxide, graphite, talc, and hexagonal boron nitride. The ratio of nano to micro in the proposed combination varies with the engine characteristics and driving conditions. A laser synthesis method can be used to disperse nanoparticles in engine oil or other compatible medium. The nano and microparticle combination when used in engine oil can effect surface morphology changes such as smoothening and polishing of engine wear surfaces, improvement in coefficient of friction, and fuel efficiency enhancement up to 35% in a variety of vehicles (cars and trucks) under actual road conditions, and reduction in exhaust emissions up to 90%.
US07994102B2	Method of treating an alloy surface with an alkyl sarcosinate An acid treatment composition is provided including a corrosion inhibitor and an optional corrosion inhibitor intensifier in an acidic solution. More specifically, the composition includes an anionic surfactant. Methods for treating wells with these acid treatment compositions are also provided that help control corrosion of the steel used in the wells during the acid treatment.
US07994100B2	Reversible gelling system and method using same during well treatments An all-oil reversible gelling system includes a polymer, a crosslinker, a gel accelerator, and an oxidant, wherein temperature activates the crosslinker so as to cause the system to form a gel, and the oxidant subsequently decomposes the gel. This gel is designed to seal temporarily portions of oil-producing or water or gas injecting subterranean formations.
US07994099B2	Corrosion inhibitor compositions comprising an aldehyde and a thiol and/or an amine functionalized ring structure and associated methods Provided herein are methods and compositions that include a method comprising contacting a metal surface with an acidic fluid comprising a corrosion inhibitor that comprises a reaction product formed from a direct or an indirect reaction of an aldehyde with a thiol and/or an amine functionalized ring structure. A composition provided includes an acidic treatment fluid that comprises an aqueous-base fluid, and acid, and a corrosion inhibitor that comprises a reaction product formed from a direct or an indirect reaction of an aldehyde with a thiol and/or an amine functionalized ring structure.
US07994098B2	Light directed DNA synthesis using inverse capping for error reduction A prepared substrate upon which light directed DNA synthesis is to occur is exposed to light via an inverse mask pattern to deprotect inactive regions of the substrate where the synthesis is not intended to occur. The deprotected sites are then capped to disable permanently the inactive areas, thereby forming an inverse capped substrate. Unwanted DNA synthesis in the inactive areas is thus prevented, resulting in purer quality DNA, even though such areas may be exposed to light due to diffraction, scattering and flare during subsequent DNA synthesis of the intended active areas of the substrate.
US07994092B2	Carbohydrate polyethers for chromatographic media The present invention relates to novel chromatography stationary phases comprising non-polysaccharide carbohydrate polyethers and methods for their preparation. Particularly, the invention relates to chromatography stationary phases comprising said carbohydrate polyethers and more particularly to chiral stationary phases. Also, since the carbohydrate polyethers of the present invention can be conveniently prepared with controlled functionality, molecular weights and polydispersity indices as well as controlled microstructure, tertiary structure stationary phases prepared from these polymers can be conveniently modified or custom synthesized to accommodate specific separation requirements.
US07994091B2	Method for producing palladium-containing catalyst Disclosed is a palladium-containing catalyst for producing an α, β-unsaturated carboxylic acid from an olefin or an α, β-unsaturated aldehyde in high productivity. Also disclosed are a method for producing such a catalyst, and a method for producing an α, β-unsaturated carboxylic acid in high productivity. Specifically, a palladium-containing catalyst is produced by a method containing a step in which palladium in an oxidation state is reduced by a compound (A) which is represented by the following formula (1).
US07994090B2	Process for producing fine particles of solid solution Provided is a process for readily producing fine particles of a solid solution having a small particle size, comprising a solid solution of zirconia, ceria and a rare earth oxide in a desired composition, and being highly crystalline.The process for producing the fine particles of the solid solution comprises the following steps in the order named: obtaining a melt comprising, in terms of mol % on an oxide basis, from 5 to 50% ZrO2, CeO2 and RE2O3 (where RE is at least one member selected from rare earth elements other than Ce) in total, from 10 to 50% RO (where R is at least one member selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and Zn), and from 30 to 75% B2O3; quenching the melt to obtain an amorphous material; heating the amorphous material to obtain precipitates containing crystals of a solid solution with ZrO2, CeO2 and RE2O3; and separating the crystals of the solid solution from the precipitates to obtain fine particles of the solid solution.
US07994088B2	Supported catalyst, method of preparing the same, and fuel cell using the same A method of preparing a supported catalyst, a supported catalyst prepared by the method, and a fuel cell using the supported catalyst. In particular, a method of preparing a supported catalyst by preparing a primary supported catalyst containing catalytic metal particles that are obtained by a primary gas phase reduction reaction of a portion of the final loading amount of a catalytic metal, and reducing the remaining portion of the catalytic metal by a secondary liquid phase reduction reaction using the primary supported catalyst. The supported catalyst contains catalytic metal particles having a very small average particle size, which are uniformly distributed on a carbon support at a high concentration, and thus exhibits maximal catalyst activity. A fuel cell produced using the supported catalyst has improved efficiency.
US07994087B2	Highly active catalyst for atom transfer radical polymerization A class of catalysts with unusually high activity for polymerizing vinyl monomers such as acrylates, methacrylates and styrene is described. The catalysts consists of a metal halide such as CuBr and FeBr2 ligated with multidentate amine-based ligands, for example N,N,N′,N′-tetra[(2-pyridal)methyl]ethylenediamine, and additives. The additives, which are tertiary amine compounds, can greatly increase the catalytic activity. The complex is capable of catalyzing a living polymerization reaction at a concentration of the complex below about 0.1 mol %.
US07994083B2	Fused silica glass and method for making the same Disclosed are methods for hydrogen loading silica glass and silica glass comprising loaded H2. The methods can lead to H2 gradient in the glass material. Alternatively, the method may involve the use of varying H2 partial pressure of H2 in the atmosphere. Both can result in expedited hydrogen loading process.
US07994081B2	Area bonded nonwoven fabric from single polymer system A nonwoven fabric is provided having a plurality of semi-crystalline filaments that are thermally bonded to each other and are formed of the same polymer and exhibit substantially the same melting temperature. The fabric is produced by melt spinning an amorphous crystallizable polymer to form two components having different levels of crystallinity. During spinning, a first component of the polymer is exposed to conditions that result in stress-induced crystallization such that the first polymer component is in a semi-crystalline state and serves as the matrix or strength component of the fabric. The second polymer component is not subjected to stress induced crystallization and thus remains in a substantially amorphous state which bonds well at relatively low temperatures. In a bonding step, the fabric is heated to soften and fuse the binder component. Under these conditions, the binder component undergoes thermal crystallization so that in the final product, both polymer components are semi-crystalline.
US07994080B2	Electrically conductive non-woven fabric An electrically conductive non-woven fabric (10) for heating applications is described and comprises a three-dimensional network (11) of non-woven synthetic fibers (12) which are non-electrically conductive and electrically conductive strands (13) of synthetic fibers or fine metal wires consolidated therewith. The fabric has an intrinsic resistivity in the range of from about 0.05 to 5 m2/kg.
US07994077B2	UV-transmission fabric, method of obtaining the same and garment being made of the said fabric A fabric includes a first yarn having a UV-A transmission of between 10 and 50% while substantially blocking UV-B transmission, and at least a second yarn different from the first yarn, the yarns being interweaved such that the fabric has regular mesh openings that give rise to a transmission of the fabric of between 20 and 65% for UV-A and between 3 and 20% for UV-B.
US07994076B2	Fabric for airbag A fabric for an airbag includes a synthetic fiber woven fabric in which at least one side thereof is coated with a synthetic resin. A range of 0.1 to 10 g/m2 of the synthetic resin is adhered to the synthetic fiber woven fabric having a cover factor of less than 2000 and a FR value of 55% or more. Air permeability of the fabric under a pressure difference of 100 kPa after adhesion is 0.01 to 1.00 L/cm2/min. The synthetic resin can be a polyamide-based resin having a soft segment comprising a polyol with a number average molecular weight of 100 to 5000.
US07994073B2	Low stress sacrificial cap layer A low stress sacrificial cap layer 120 having a silicon oxide liner film 130, a low stress silicon film 140, and a silicon nitride film. Alternatively, a low stress sacrificial cap layer 410 having a silicon oxide liner film 130 and a graded silicon nitride film 420. Also, methods 300, 500 for fabricating a transistor 20, 400 having a low stress sacrificial cap layer 120, 410.
US07994068B2	Method for fabricating a 3-D integrated circuit using a hard mask of silicon-oxynitride on amorphous carbon A method for fabricating a 3-D monolithic memory device. Silicon-oxynitride (SixOyNz) on amorphous carbon is used an effective, easily removable hard mask with high selectivity to silicon, oxide, and tungsten. A silicon-oxynitride layer is etched using a photoresist layer, and the resulting etched SixOyNz layer is used to etch an amorphous carbon layer. Silicon, oxide, and/or tungsten layers are etched using the amorphous carbon layer. In one implementation, conductive rails of the 3-D monolithic memory device are formed by etching an oxide layer such as silicon dioxide (SiO2) using the patterned amorphous carbon layer as a hard mask. Memory cell diodes are formed as pillars in polysilicon between the conductive rails by etching a polysilicon layer using another patterned amorphous carbon layer as a hard mask. Additional levels of conductive rails and memory cell diodes are formed similarly to build the 3-D monolithic memory device.
US07994065B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor device A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes stacking a spin on carbon (SOC) layer and an multifunction hard mask (MFHM) layer on a substrate, forming a photoresist pattern over the MFHM layer, first etching the MFHM layer using a first amount of a fluorine-based gas, second etching the MFHM layer using a second amount of a fluorine-based gas, wherein the second amount is less than the first amount, etching the SOC layer using the MFHM layer as an etch barrier, and etching the substrate using the SOC layer and the MFHM layer as an etch barrier.
US07994064B2	Selective etch for damage at exfoliated surface Ions are implanted into a silicon donor body, defining a cleave plane. A first surface of the donor body is affixed to a receiver element, and a lamina is exfoliated at the cleave plane, creating a second surface of the lamina. There is damaged silicon at the second surface, which will compromise the efficiency of a photovoltaic cell formed from the lamina. A selective etchant, having an etch rate which is positively correlated with the concentration of structural defects in silicon, is used to remove the damaged silicon at the second surface, while removing very little of the relatively undamaged lamina.
US07994062B2	Selective silicon etch process A process for etching a silicon layer disposed on a substrate, including anisotropically etching a first trench in the silicon layer; selectively anisotropic wet etching silicon surfaces in the first trench, the wet etching comprising exposing the silicon surfaces to an aqueous composition including an aromatic tri(lower)alkyl quaternary onium hydroxide, and an unsymmetrical tetraalkyl quaternary phosphonium salt; in which the wet etching etches (110) and (100) planes of the silicon layer at about equal rates and preferentially to the (111) plane to form an enlarged trench having a sidewall in the (111) plane. A silicon alloy may be epitaxially deposited in the thus-produced trench as part of a process of introducing stress into at least a portion of the silicon layer.
US07994060B2	Dual exposure track only pitch split process An integrated circuit is formed with structures spaced more closely together than a transverse dimension of such structures, such as for making contacts to electronic elements formed at minimum lithographically resolvable dimensions by dark field split pitch techniques. Acceptable overlay accuracy and process efficiency and throughput for the split pitch process that requires etching of a hard mark for each of a plurality of sequentially applied and patterned resist layers is supported by performing the etching of the hard mask entirely within a lithography track through using an acid sensitive hard mark material and an acidic overcoat which contacts areas of the hard mask through patterned apertures in the resist. The contacted areas of the hard mask are activated for development by baking of the acidic overcoat.
US07994059B2	Enhanced stress transfer in an interlayer dielectric by using an additional stress layer above a dual stress liner in a semiconductor device By forming an additional stressed dielectric material after patterning dielectric liners of different intrinsic stress, a significant increase of performance in transistors may be obtained while substantially not contributing to patterning non-uniformities during the formation of respective contact openings in highly scaled semiconductor devices. The additional dielectric layer may be provided with any type of intrinsic stress, irrespective of the previously selected patterning sequence.
US07994058B2	Polishing slurry and polishing method The present invention relates to polishing slurry and polishing method used for polishing in a process for forming wirings of a semiconductor device, and the like. There are provided polishing slurry giving a polished surface having high flatness even if the polished surface is made of two or more substances, and further, capable of suppressing metal residue and scratches after polishing, and a method of chemical mechanical polishing using this. The polishing slurry of the present invention is polishing slurry containing at least one of a surfactant and an organic solvent, and a metal oxide dissolving agent and water, or polishing slurry containing water and abrasive, wherein the surface of the abrasive is modified with an alkyl group, and preferably, it further contains a metal oxidizer, water-soluble polymer, and metal inhibitor.
US07994054B2	Semiconductor device having oxidized metal film and manufacture method of the same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes heating a substrate having an insulation film thereon to a first substrate temperature so that oxidizing species are emitted from the insulating film, the insulating film having a recessed portion formed in a surface thereof, forming a first metal film on the insulating film at a second substrate temperature lower than the first substrate temperature, oxidizing at least part of the first metal film with oxidizing species remaining in the insulating film, and forming a second metal film, which includes any of a high melting point metal and a noble metal, on the first metal film, the first metal film and the second metal film sharing different metallic material.
US07994053B2	Patterning method of metal oxide thin film using nanoimprinting, and manufacturing method of light emitting diode A method for forming a metal oxide thin film pattern using nanoimprinting according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: coating a photosensitive metal-organic material precursor solution on a substrate; pressurizing the photosensitive metal-organic material precursor coating layer to a mold patterned to have a protrusion and depression structure; forming the metal oxide thin film pattern by irradiating ultraviolet rays to the pressurized photosensitive metal-organic material precursor coating layer to cure it; and removing the patterned mold from the metal oxide thin film pattern.
US07994052B1	High-density patterning Methods for patterning high-density features are described herein. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method comprising patterning a first subset of a pattern, the first subset configured to form a plurality of lines over the substrate, and patterning a second subset of the pattern, the second subset configured to form a plurality of islands over the substrate, wherein said patterning the first subset and said patterning the second subset comprise at least two separate patterning operations.
US07994051B2	Implantation method for reducing threshold voltage for high-K metal gate device The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a high-k dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate, forming a capping layer over the high-k dielectric layer, forming a metal layer over the capping layer, forming a semiconductor layer over the metal layer, performing an implantation process on the semiconductor layer, the implantation process using a species including F, and forming a gate structure from the plurality of layers including the high-k dielectric layer, capping layer, metal layer, and semiconductor layer.
US07994050B2	Method for forming dual damascene pattern A method for forming a dual damascene pattern includes preparing a multi-functional hard mask composition including a silicon resin as a base resin, wherein the silicon resin comprises about 20 to 45% silicon molecules by weight, based on a total weight of the resin; forming a deposition structure by sequentially forming a self-arrangement contact (SAC) insulating film, a first dielectric film, an etching barrier film, and a second dielectric film over a hardwiring layer; etching the deposition structure to expose the hardwiring layer, thereby forming a via hole; coating the multi-functional hard mask composition over the second dielectric film and in the via hole to form a multi-functional hard mask film; and etching the resulting structure to expose a part of the first dielectric film using a photoresist pattern as an etching mask, thereby forming a trench having a width greater than that of the via hole.
US07994046B2	Method for forming a dielectric layer with an air gap, and a structure including the dielectric layer with the air gap A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes providing a first dielectric layer with an opening above a substrate. An exposed surface portion of the first dielectric layer in the opening is transformed. A protective dielectric layer is formed along the transformed portion of the first dielectric layer. The opening is filled with a conductive material. The transformed portion of the first dielectric layer is removed to form an air gap between the protective dielectric layer and a remaining portion of the first dielectric layer.
US07994042B2	Techniques for impeding reverse engineering Anti-reverse engineering techniques are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming at least one feature in an insulating layer is provided. The method comprises the following steps. Ions are selectively implanted in the insulating layer so as to form at least one implant region within the insulating layer, the implanted ions being configured to alter an etch rate through the insulating layer within the implant region. The insulating layer is etched to, at the same time, form at least one void both within the implant region and outside of the implant region, wherein the etch rate through the insulating layer within the implant region is different from an etch rate through the insulating layer outside of the implant region. The void is filled with at least one conductor material to form the feature in the insulating layer.
US07994037B2	Gate dielectrics of different thickness in PMOS and NMOS transistors By providing a gate dielectric material of increased thickness for P-channel transistors compared to N-channel transistors, degradation mechanisms, such as negative bias threshold voltage instability, hot carrier injection and the like, may be reduced. Due to the enhanced reliability of the P-channel transistors, overall production yield for a specified quality category may be increased, due to the possibility of selecting narrower guard bands for the semiconductor device under consideration.
US07994035B2	Semiconductor device fabricating method including thermal oxidation of a substrate, forming a second oxide, and thermal processing a gate electrode There is provided a method of fabricating a semiconductor device in which a gate electrode is formed on an oxide film, which is formed by thermal oxidation on a substrate. The fabrication method includes: a first step of forming a first oxide film on the substrate; a second step of thermally processing the first oxide film in an inactive gas atmosphere; a third step of forming a second oxide film that is obtained by etching the first oxide film, which has been thermally processed in the inactive gas, to a predetermined film thickness; and a fourth step of forming and thermally processing a gate electrode on the second oxide film.
US07994028B2	Structures having lattice-mismatched single-crystalline semiconductor layers on the same lithographic level and methods of manufacturing the same A semiconductor substrate containing a single crystalline group IV semiconductor is provided. A single crystalline lattice mismatched group IV semiconductor alloy layer is epitaxially grown on a portion of the semiconductor layer, while another portion of the semiconductor layer is masked. The composition of the lattice mismatched group IV semiconductor alloy layer is tuned to substantially match the lattice constant of a single crystalline compound semiconductor layer, which is subsequently epitaxially grown on the single crystalline lattice mismatched group IV semiconductor alloy layer. Thus, a structure having both the group IV semiconductor layer and the single crystalline compound semiconductor layer is provided on the same semiconductor substrate. Group IV semiconductor devices, such as silicon devices, and compound semiconductor devices, such as GaAs devices having a laser emitting capability, may be formed on the on the same lithographic level of the semiconductor substrate.
US07994024B2	Object cutting method An object cutting method which can reliably remove particles remaining on cut sections of chips is provided. An expandable tape 23 is electrically charged in a state where a plurality of semiconductor chips 25 obtained by cutting a planar object to be processed along a line to cut are separated from each other on the expandable tape 23. This electric action causes particles remaining on cut sections of the semiconductor chips 25 to eject therefrom even when a molten processed region is formed in the cut sections. Therefore, particles remaining on the cut sections of the chips 25 can reliably be removed.
US07994022B2	Semiconductor substrate and semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same A semiconductor substrate having an SOI layer is provided. Between an SOI layer and a glass substrate, a bonding layer is provided which is formed of one layer or a plurality of layers of phosphosilicate glass, borosilicate glass, and/or borophosphosilicate glass, using organosilane as one material by a thermal CVD method at a temperature of 500° C. to 800° C.
US07994019B1	Silicon-ozone CVD with reduced pattern loading using incubation period deposition Aspects of the disclosure pertain to methods of depositing conformal silicon oxide layers on patterned substrates. In embodiments, dielectric layers are deposited by flowing a silicon-containing precursor and ozone into a processing chamber such that a relatively uniform dielectric growth rate is achieved across the patterned substrate surface having heterogeneous materials and/or a heterogeneous pattern density distribution. The deposition of dielectric layers grown according to embodiments may have a reduced dependence on underlying material and pattern density while still being suitable for non-sacrificial applications. Reduction in dependence on pattern density is achieved by terminating deposition near the end of an incubation period. Multiple deposition cycles may be conducted in series since the beneficial nature of the incubation period may repeat after a pause in deposition.
US07994018B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor device A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a first oxide film, a nitride film, and a second oxide film on a semiconductor substrate in succession, etching the second oxide film and the nitride film to form a second oxide film pattern and a nitride film pattern, exposing a portion of the first oxide film, performing at least one nitrogen implantation into the semiconductor substrate to form a nitrogen injection region under the exposed portion of the first oxide film, forming a third oxide film over the second oxide film pattern, the nitride film pattern, and the semiconductor substrate, forming a trench that is deeper than the nitrogen ion injection region by etching the semiconductor substrate using the second oxide film pattern as a mask, and filling the trench with an oxide film to form a device isolating film.
US07994016B2	Method for obtaining quality ultra-shallow doped regions and device having same A method of forming ultra-shallow p-type lightly doped drain (LDD) regions of a PMOS transistor in a surface of a substrate includes the steps of providing a gaseous mixture of an inert gas, a boron-containing source, and an optional carbon-containing source, wherein the concentration of the gaseous mixture is at least 99.5% dilute with the inert gas and the optional carbon-containing source, if present, forming the gaseous mixture into a plasma, and forming the LDD regions, wherein the forming step includes plasma-doping the boron into the substrate using the plasma. N-type pocket regions are formed in the substrate underneath and adjacent to the LDD regions, wherein for a PMOS transistor having a threshold voltage of 100 mV, the n-type pocket regions include phosphorous impurities at a dopant concentration of less than 6.0×1018 atoms/cm3 or a proportionately lower/higher dopant concentration for a lower/higher threshold voltage.
US07994014B2	Semiconductor devices having faceted silicide contacts, and related fabrication methods The disclosed subject matter relates to semiconductor transistor devices and associated fabrication techniques that can be utilized to form silicide contacts having an increased effective size, relative to conventional silicide contacts. A semiconductor device fabricated in accordance with the processes disclosed herein includes a layer of semiconductor material and a gate structure overlying the layer of semiconductor material. A channel region is formed in the layer of semiconductor material, the channel region underlying the gate structure. The semiconductor device also includes source and drain regions in the layer of semiconductor material, wherein the channel region is located between the source and drain regions. Moreover, the semiconductor device includes facet-shaped silicide contact areas overlying the source and drain regions.
US07994013B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the semiconductor device A semiconductor device comprises a gate electrode on a semiconductor substrate, drift regions at opposite sides of the gate electrode, source and drain regions in the respective drift regions, and shallow trench isolation (STI) regions in the respective drift regions between the gate electrode and the source or drain region, wherein the drift regions comprise first and second conductivity-type impurities.
US07994011B2	Method of manufacturing nonvolatile memory device and nonvolatile memory device manufactured by the method A method of manufacturing a nonvolatile memory device having a three-dimensional memory device includes alternately stacking a plurality of first and second material layers having a different etching selectivity on a semiconductor substrate; forming an opening penetrating the plurality of first and second material layers; removing the first material layers exposed by the opening to form extended portions extending in a direction perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate from the opening; conformally forming a charge storage layer along a surface of the opening and the extended portions; and removing the charge storage layer formed on sidewalls of the second material layers to locally form the charge storage layer patterns in the extended portions.
US07993998B2	CMOS devices having dual high-mobility channels A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes providing a semiconductor substrate including a first region and a second region; and forming a first and a second metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) device. The step of forming the first MOS device includes forming a first silicon germanium layer over the first region of the semiconductor substrate; forming a silicon layer over the first silicon germanium layer; forming a first gate dielectric layer over the silicon layer; and patterning the first gate dielectric layer to form a first gate dielectric. The step of forming the second MOS device includes forming a second silicon germanium layer over the second region of the semiconductor substrate; forming a second gate dielectric layer over the second silicon germanium layer with no substantially pure silicon layer therebetween; and patterning the second gate dielectric layer to form a second gate dielectric.
US07993993B2	Display device, manufacturing method thereof, and television receiver The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a display device comprising the steps of forming a first film pattern using a photosensitive material over a substrate, forming a second film pattern in such a way that the first film pattern is exposed by being irradiated with a laser beam, modifying a surface of the second film pattern into a droplet-shedding surface, forming a source electrode and a drain electrode by discharging a conductive material to an outer edge of the droplet-shedding surface by a droplet-discharging method, and forming a semiconductor region, a gate-insulating film, and a gate electrode over the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US07993991B2	Manufacturing method of thin film transistor and manufacturing method of display device A manufacturing method of a thin film transistor and a display device using a small number of masks is provided. A first conductive film, an insulating film, a semiconductor film, an impurity semiconductor film, and a second conductive film are stacked. Then, a resist mask having a recessed portion is formed thereover using a multi-tone mask. First etching is performed to form a thin-film stack body, and second etching in which the thin-film stack body is side-etched is performed to form a gate electrode layer. The resist is made to recede, and then, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and the like are formed; accordingly, a thin film transistor is manufactured.
US07993988B2	Techniques for fabricating a non-planar transistor Methods for fabricating a non-planar transistor. Fin field effect transistors (finFETs) are often built around a fin (e.g., a tall, thin semiconductive member). During manufacturing, a fin may encounter various mechanical stresses, e.g., inertial forces during movement of the substrate and fluid forces during cleaning steps. If the forces on the fin are too large, the fin may fracture and possibly render a transistor inoperative. Supporting one side of a fin before forming the second side of a fin creates stability in the fin structure, thereby counteracting many of the mechanical stresses incurred during manufacturing.
US07993987B1	Surface cleaning using sacrificial getter layer A method includes providing a substrate including a non-insulative, silicon-including region for silicidation, the substrate including one or more contaminants at a top surface thereof. A getter layer is deposited over the non-insulative, silicon-including region, the getter layer reacting with at least one of the one or more contaminants in the non-insulative, silicon-including region at approximately room temperature. The getter layer is removed, and siliciding of the non-insulative, silicon-including region is performed.
US07993984B2	Electronic device and manufacturing method An electronic device including a semiconductor device with a plurality of bump electrodes, a mounting board connected to the semiconductor device, thermally expandable particles, and adhesive. The thermally expandable particles are provided on the sides of the semiconductor device and the surface of the mounting board around a projected area of the semiconductor device. The adhesive is provided on the sides of the semiconductor device and the surface of the mounting board such that it covers the area of thermally expandable particles. This improves the impact resistance of the semiconductor device soldered onto the mounting board, and also facilitates removal of the semiconductor device from the mounting board when the semiconductor device needs repair.
US07993977B2	Method of forming molded standoff structures on integrated circuit devices A method of forming molding standoff structures on integrated circuit devices is disclosed which includes forming a plurality of standoff structures on a substantially rectangular sheet of transparent material and, after forming the standoff structures, singulating the substantially rectangular sheet of transparent material into a plurality of individual transparent members, each of which comprise at least one of the plurality of standoff structures.
US07993976B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming conductive vias with trench in saw street A semiconductor wafer has a plurality of semiconductor die separated by a peripheral region. A trench is formed in the peripheral region of the wafer. A via is formed the die. The trench extends to and is continuous with the via. A first conductive layer is deposited in the trench and via to form conductive TSV. The first conductive layer is conformally applied or completely fills the trench and via. The trench has a larger area than the vias which accelerates formation of the first conductive layer. A second conductive layer is deposited over a front surface of the die. The second conductive layer is electrically connected to the first conductive layer. The first and second conductive layers can be formed simultaneously. A portion of a back surface of the wafer is removed to expose the first conductive layer. The die can be stacked and electrically interconnected through the TSVs.

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