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US08072925B2	Multi-hop wireless network system A source terminal measures characteristics of the path at the source terminal itself, produces a characteristics-measurement packet, and transmits the produced characteristics-measurement packet to a relay terminal. Upon receiving the characteristics-measurement packet, the relay terminal measures characteristics of the path at the relay terminal itself, renews the characteristics of the path included in the characteristics-measurement packet using the measured characteristics of the path, and transmits the characteristics of the wireless communication path to the destination terminal. The source terminal produces an admission-request packet and transmits the packet to the destination terminal. Upon receiving the admission-request packet, the destination terminal allows or rejects the traffic quality maintenance request according to the characteristics of the wireless communication path. The allowance or rejection of the quality maintenance request is transmitted to the source terminal with the admission-reply packet by the destination terminal.
US08072924B2	Assigning radio channels in a wireless network The present invention relates to a method of assigning radio channels to a set of base stations (BS) in a wireless network, in which method one radio channel out of a determined set of radio channels is assigned to each base station (BS). In order for different networks not to interfere with each other, the available radio channels are assigned to the set of base stations (BS) upon manufacture of the base stations (BS) such that each radio channel appears substantially an equal number of times.
US08072923B2	Packet radio network and method A packet radio network comprising a gateway support node, a serving support node and a radio network controller provides a facility for communicating internet packets with mobile user equipment. The gateway support node provides a packet data protocol context for controlling communication of internet packets between the packet radio network and mobile user equipment via a packet communications bearer. The serving support node connected to the gateway support node controls communications between the gateway support node and mobile user equipment forming the packet communications bearer. The radio network part provides a radio access bearer for communicating internet packets via a radio access interface with mobile user equipment. In response to a request message, the serving support node with the gateway support node establishes a common packet data protocol context with a packet communications bearer to communicate packets. The common packet communications bearer is shared with another communications session and formed by gateway support node and serving support node using a common tunnelling protocol bearer.
US08072922B2	Method and apparatus for negotiating personalities in a wireless communications system A method and apparatus are disclosed for negotiating and managing one or more personalities in a wireless communications system. The method comprises advertising one or more supported initial protocol set identifiers. Furthermore, the method comprises selecting a starting initial protocol set identifier from the advertised initial protocol set identifiers. In addition, the method comprises establishing a session based on the selected starting initial protocol set identifier. The method also comprises establishing a connection between an access terminal and an access network based on the selected initial protocol set identifier.
US08072918B2	Network-based inter-cell power control for multi-channel wireless networks A method is described for operating a cellular network, where the cellular network uses a plurality of frequency division multiplexing (FDM) bands for wireless communication from user equipment (UE) to a base station (NodeB). At least one band-specific cell parameter is computed for at least one the plurality of FDM bands by a serving NodeB. The band-specific cell parameters are transmitted from the NodeB serving a first cell to a NodeB serving a second cell. The band-specific cell parameters may be computed in response to scheduling information and/or channel specific measurements made by the NodeB. A UE receives a first Power Configuration, a Second Power Configuration, and a Scheduling Message indicative of an FDM band from the set comprising at least from First FDM band and Second FDM band. The UE transmits with the First Power Configuration if the Scheduling Message was indicative of First FDM band, and with the Second Power Configuration otherwise.
US08072917B2	Methods and apparatus supporting adaptive decentralized traffic scheduling for wireless communications Methods and apparatus relating to scheduling of air link resources, e.g., traffic segments, in wireless communications are described. Various described methods and apparatus are well suited to wireless peer to peer networks in which traffic scheduling is decentralized, e.g. an ad hoc peer to peer network. A first wireless terminal receives a transmission request and quality of service information from a second wireless terminal corresponding to a connection. The first wireless terminal decides not to receiver yield, determines a request response transmission power level as a function of the received quality of service information, and transmits, at the determined power level, a generated request response signal. By controllably adjusting the transmission power level of a request response, transmitter yielding decisions of lower priority links are impacted, since lower priority links measure and use received power level information corresponding to request responses of higher priority links in their transmitter yielding decisions.
US08072915B1	Common power control channel in a CDMA system and a system and method for using such a channel A CDMA communication system supports designated mode data bursts and contention-based transmissions on a reverse link common channel from a subscriber unit to a base station. When transmissions are scheduled and serviced in the designated mode data burst, collisions are avoided. The number of slots consumed in the designated mode data bursts depend upon the volume of data the subscriber unit has to transmit to the base station. A common power control channel provides power control bits and reservation indications for at least one reverse link common channel for closed loop reverse link power control on the common channels.
US08072914B2	Location survey for power calibration in a femto cell System(s) and method(s) are provided to survey a confined area serviced by femto cell for power calibration. Building survey facilitates calibration of femto cell power to suit actual coverage conditions within the building. A femto access point (AP) is set to “calibration mode” while a “calibration call” is effected (e.g., by a subscriber) throughout the intended in-building coverage area. Wireless signal strength for macro and femto coverage is measured and employed to establish an optimal femto AP power. Building survey for power calibration affects operation of the both a building-based AP serving the femto cell and wireless devices, and enhances subscriber experience.
US08072905B2	Intelligent interaction between devices in a local network A device may include a network interface through which the device communicates with a media device in a local network. The device may include a processor to detect whether the device receives a call, determine whether the device is within a predetermined range of the media device based on communication between the device and the media device, and send a message to the media device via the network interface to request the media device to reduce an audio output of the media device when the device is within the predetermined range of the media device and when the device has received the call.
US08072899B2	Method and apparatus for measuring and reporting a rank and a precoding matrix for multiple-input multiple-output communication A method and apparatus for measuring and reporting a rank and/or a precoding matrix for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication are disclosed. A metric indicating a channel condition is measured and a rank is selected based on the metric. The metric may be a signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR), throughput, a block error rate (BLER), system capacity, a sum rate, or the like. An SINR for each radio block group (RBG) for each rank is calculated. A data rate is calculated for each RBG based on the SINR for each rank. An overall rate for all RBGs is calculated for each rank. At least one rank is selected based on the overall rate. At least one precoding matrix may be selected jointly with or separately from the at least one rank.
US08072897B2	Method, system and device for selecting edge connection link across different management domain networks A method, system and device for selecting an edge connection link across different management domain networks. A plurality of links is provided between a first management domain network and a second management domain network. The method includes: determining, by a first resource management and control function entity in the first management domain network, a link to the second management domain network, and sending identifier information of the determined link to a second resource management and control function entity in the second management domain network; and determining, by the second resource management and control function entity, the link to the first management domain network, in accordance with the received identifier information of the determined link. The invention can implement selecting of an edge connection link across different management domain networks.
US08072892B2	Generating test sets This invention relates to a method of defining an optimised set of test sequences for use with a packet based perceptual quality evaluation processor associated with an edge-device that receives packets containing speech data and converts said packets to a speech signal, the method comprising the steps of: defining a set of quality targets which should be produced when a test sequence of packets is processed by the edge-device; determining a value for a degradation parameter for each quality target wherein a test sequence having a degradation according to said value will substantially produce said quality target when said test sequence is processed by the edge-device.
US08072890B2	System and method for testing a dynamic communication across a network A network monitor gets a bill of materials for a communication across a network where different communication paths may be established. A bill of materials is a list of hardware/software components that are used to establish and maintain the communication. A request to generate a test communication between the same devices involved in the communication is received. A request to sample and send samples of test data is sent to a network analyzer. The test communication is established. A bill of materials for the test communication is determined. The bill of materials for the communication is compared to the bill of materials for the test communication. Test data is sent on the test communication. The sent test data is analyzed in relation to the sent samples of the test data and the compared bills of materials.
US08072888B2	Controlling congestion in a packet switched data network A method of controlling congestion in a packet switched network includes transmitting a pause message to a node upstream of a congested node to instruct it to cease sending for a period of time. The congested node also sends information to the upstream node informing it of the buffer size required to relieve congestion. If the buffer capacity of the upstream node is greater than or equal to the signalled amount required, no further action is taken. If the buffer capacity of the upstream node is less that the required amount, it in turn sends a pause message to a node upstream of it, together with an indication of the required buffer size to reduce congestion, taking into account the amount available from the sending nodes.
US08072887B1	Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling enqueuing of packets in an aggregated queue including a plurality of virtual queues using backpressure messages from downstream queues Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling enqueuing of packets in an aggregated queue including a plurality of virtual queues are disclosed. According to one method, packets are received at the input side of a queuing system. Each packet is classified into a virtual queue corresponding to one of a plurality of output queues. The output queue sends backpressure messages to the enqueue controller. The enqueue controller determines whether to place the packets in the aggregated queue based on the backpressure messages.
US08072885B2	Traffic shaping circuit, terminal device and network node In order to allow priority transfer (fluctuation) over VLL packets while keeping each contracted bandwidth constantly, a leaky bucket model is expanded to have a threshold 1509 for permitting transmission of a packet (e.g. a WFQ packet) other than an LLQ packet and a threshold 1501 (larger than the threshold 1509) for permitting transmission of the LLQ packet (two-threshold leaky bucket model). In this manner, even when a WFQ cannot be transmitted, an LLQ can be transmitted with priority. In addition, while the total bandwidth of the WFQ and LLQ, i.e. the bandwidth of the VLL contains fluctuation, the contracted bandwidth can be complied with. The circuit of the model is provided in LLQ and WFQ transmission appointed time calculating circuits so as to calculate respective transmission appointed times so that an LLQ/WFQ is selected and a packet is selected based on the times considering priority.
US08072884B2	Method and system for output flow control in network multiplexers A method and system for initiating selective flow control within a network multiplexer. Each port of a network multiplexer is associated with high and low threshold values, as well as a list of indications of ports that have requested the port to initiate flow control and a list of indications of ports which the port has requested to initiate flow control. A port that, by queuing a message descriptor to the transmit queue of a destination port, causes the number of message descriptors queued to the transmit queue of a destination port to equal or exceed its high threshold, is flow controlled by the destination port. When the number of message descriptors queued to the transmit queue of a destination port that previously equaled or exceeded the high threshold falls below the low threshold, all ports flow controlled by the destination ports are released from flow control.
US08072879B2	Technique for determining whether to reestablish fast rerouted primary tunnels based on backup tunnel path quality feedback A technique dynamically determines whether to reestablish a Fast Rerouted primary tunnel based on path quality feedback of a utilized backup tunnel in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a head-end node establishes a primary tunnel to a destination, and a point of local repair (PLR) node along the primary tunnel establishes a backup tunnel around one or more protected network elements of the primary tunnel, e.g., for Fast Reroute protection. Once one of the protected network elements fail, the PLR node “Fast Reroutes,” i.e., diverts, the traffic received on the primary tunnel onto the backup tunnel, and sends notification of backup tunnel path quality (e.g., with one or more metrics) to the head-end node. The head-end node then analyzes the path quality metrics of the backup tunnel to determine whether to utilize the backup tunnel or reestablish a new primary tunnel.
US08072878B2	Packet ring network system, packet transfer system, redundancy node, and packet transfer program In a ring network to which a plurality of nodes are connected, even though a failure occurs in a link between a node and a client apparatus (a user terminal) or a node itself, communication between the node and the client apparatus can be achieved. Nodes (105a) and (105b) are provided, so that, even though a failure occurs at either one of the nodes in the link between the node and the client apparatus (102), communication can be done between the other node and the client apparatus (102) through the link. When the node (105a) has a failure, the node (105b) succeeds in operation of the node (105a) while the node (105a) holds a state of the node (105a) to avoid a steering operation or a lap protection operation, a packet disappearance in the packet ring caused by the operation, influence of traffics a packet route change, etc., consumption of CPU and memory resources, and a ring transfer band reduction.
US08072875B2	Avoiding collisions between users if MAP containing persistent scheduling information is lost Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a MAP may be used by a base station to allocate network users for one or more users in a wireless network using persistent scheduling. In the event one or more of the users does not successfully receive a MAP transmitted by the base station, the user may stop transmitting and/or receiving in order to minimize and/or avoid collision with transmissions from other users. The affected user may transmit an indication of the error in receiving the MAP to the base station, wherein the base station may retransmit the previously transmitted MAP to the affected user that did not successfully receive the MAP from the origination transmission.
US08072869B2	Optical pickup having an aberration correction function A spherical aberration correction mechanism includes a plurality of aberration correction lenses, a movable portion in which the aberration correction lens is held, a fixed portion in which the movable portion is arranged so as to be slidable as well as the aberration correction lens is held, a shaft supporting the movable portion so as to be rotatable about the axis as well as to be slidable in the axial direction, a feed screw having spiral grooves, an engaging portion having convex portions to be engaged with the spiral grooves from one direction and a coil spring fitted to the outside of the shaft, pressing the movable portion in the axial direction. The coil spring has a rotation prevention portion engaged with the fixed portion and a torque biasing portion engaged with the movable portion, and the coil spring is installed in a twisted state in advance.
US08072867B2	Optical pickup An optical-pickup hologram element has six regions on an x-y plane, divided as follows: the first region with a first line (an x-axis) and a second line that connects points (−xa, 0) and (−xb, yb); the second region with the first and second lines and a third line connecting points (xa, 0) and (xb, yb); the third region with the first and third lines; the fourth region with the first line and a fourth line connecting the point (xa, 0) and a point (xb, −yb); the fifth region with the first and fourth lines and a fifth line connecting the point (−xa, 0) and a point (−xb, −yb); and the sixth region with the first and fifth lines (xa
US08072866B2	Marker selection method for hologram recording device A marker selection method includes: a marker generation step for generating a marker defining a position reference when recording data according to the modulation rule of the hologram recording/reproduction; a calculation step for calculating a correlation value indicating the correlation between a template image indicating a maker and each of a first verification image containing the marker shifted by a predetermined pixel and a second verification image containing data; and a selection step for selecting such a marker that the peak of the correlation value in the first verification image becomes greater than the peak of the correlation value in the second verification image. The selected marker is used as marker data in a marker generator in a recording processing circuit during recoding and as template data of the template matching processing circuit in the reproduction processing circuit during reproduction.
US08072861B2	Method for determining completeness of optical disc and method for playing optical disc A method for determining the completeness of an optical disc and a method for playing the optical disc are provided. The method for playing the optical disc includes: performing focusing on and tracking on the optical disc; detecting whether the optical disc contains any data if the focusing on succeeds while the tracking on fails; if the optical disc contains data, turning on a servo system to perform focusing on and tracking on to the area containing the data and determining whether a file information area contains a file system; if the file information area does not contain any file system, reading the outmost data in a video data area to locate a file allocation data table; and playing the data stored in the video data area according to the file allocation data table.
US08072859B2	Optical disc, recording apparatus, reading apparatus, recording method and reading method An optical disc 1 includes a defect management area (DMA). A plurality of defective area lists (TDFLs) and structure information (TDDS) are recorded in a temporary defect management area (TDMS) of the defect management area (DMA). The defective area lists (TDFLs) indicate at least one defective area which was detected during an access to the optical disc 1. The structure information (TDDS) includes a plurality of pieces of position information that indicate positions of the defective area lists (TDFLs). The plurality of pieces of position information, corresponding one-to-one to the defective area lists, are arranged in the structure information (TDDS) in an order in which the defective area lists (TDFLs) corresponding thereto are read out.
US08072858B2	Optical disk apparatus, control method of optical disk apparatus, and integrated circuit A disk motor which rotationally drives an optical disk; a rotational phase detector which detects a rotational phase thereof; an optical head having a collecting lens which collects an optical bean; a light detector and an LE signal generator which detect a position of the collecting lens in the optical head as a position signal; an LE signal memory recorder and an LE signal memory which store, in synchronization with a rotational phase to be detected by the rotational phase detector, the positional signal from the LE signal generator; an LE signal memory regenerator which outputs as a correction signal, in synchronization with a rotational phase to be detected, the positional signal which has already been detected; a subtractor; an LE signal filter, a drive circuit and a Tk actuator which move the collecting lens using a signal from the subtractor; and a low pass filter which reduces a high-frequency component of the correction signal are provided.
US08072856B2	Recording/reproducing device and method using pulse sequences, and information recording medium A recording/reproducing device includes a laser and a laser drive carried by a pickup having a drive for movement and an input for recording information. A control controls the drives to retrieve recording parameters from a predetermined portion of the recording medium, creates pulse sequences using the input recording information and retrieved recording parameters and forms recording marks having recording mark lengths between a predetermined and maximum lengths, a top section, a last section including a cooling period, and an intermediate period. Heat of mark front edges is controlled by recording parameters for top sections that are classified according to recording mark lengths and recording parameters of the first through the maximum recording mark lengths are classified into a same group. Heat of mark rear edges is controlled by cooling start positions for cooling periods classified according to recording mark lengths.
US08072851B2	Position control apparatus and optical apparatus A position control apparatus (optical apparatus) is disclosed which is capable of preventing disadvantages caused by the absence of a dead band while achieving a required accuracy of positional control. The position control apparatus comprises a controller which controls the drive of an object (optical member) so that the position of the object, which detected by a position detector, moves closer to a target position. The controller has a control function which does not drive the object in a case where the difference between the position detected by the position detector and the target position is within a predetermined range, and changes the predetermined range according to control modes relating to the drive of the object.
US08072850B2	Optical information recording apparatus A rewritable optical disk apparatus, optical information recording and reproducing apparatus or the like is allowed to automatically and properly adjust the optical system to the optimum focal condition regardless of the readout signal detector's positional error and the residual aberration in the optical system. The spherical aberration and defocus are coarsely adjusted using the amplitude (PP amplitude) of the tracking error signal and then finely adjusted using the amplitude (RF amplitude) of the readout signal. Since the spherical aberration can properly be adjusted, it is possible to raise the reliability of the readout signal.
US08072849B2	Optical integrated module and optical pickup device An optical integrated unit according to the present invention is an optical integrated unit, including: a semiconductor laser acting as a light source; at least one light-receiving element; a light-separating section for separating light emitted by the semiconductor laser from light reflected by an optical disc and for reflecting the light reflected by the optical disc so that the light reflected by the optical disc is directed to the light-receiving element; and a support substrate, wherein a second support substrate has a concave shape, the light-separating section is constituted of at least three prisms, the prisms positioned at both ends of the light-separating section are respectively attached to two protruding sections of the concave shape of the second support substrate, and the light-receiving element is attached to the light-separating section via a cover glass. As a result, it is possible to solve such a problem that the light-receiving element cannot be adjusted with high accuracy because of a thickness error of the support substrate or an intermediate substrate in conventional techniques.
US08072847B2	Optical device, optically heat assisted magnetic recording head and optically heat assisted magnetic recording apparatus, having intensity point deviated from axis of the core Provided are an optical device, optically assisted magnetic recording head and optically assisted magnetic recording apparatus that effectively emit the introduced light, from the apex portion of a waveguide. The optical device includes: an optical element having a substantially parabolic outline which contains a side surface and the apex portion with a light-emitting surface; a light guiding unit for forming a light spot on the core layer; and a light introducing section provided on the core layer at the position at which the light spot is formed. The light introduced into the core layer travels substantially parallel to the axis of the parabola, and is reflected by the side surface so as to be converged at the focal point of the parabola and is then emitted from the apex portion. The position of the point where the light intensity is greatest in the light spot is deviated from the axis.
US08072843B1	Stepped multiply resonant wideband transducer apparatus An electro-mechanical transducer is disclosed, which provides a wideband response by activating successive multiple resonant frequencies in a way which provides additive output between the resonant frequencies with reduced cancellation below the first resonance and means for controlling the response by reducing the voltage drive. A multiply resonant wideband high output transducer is disclosed.
US08072842B2	Channel impulse response estimation A method of estimating the impulse response of a channel is disclosed. The method includes transmitting an impulse signal to the channel, detecting a received signal from the channel at a receiver, and calculating an estimate of the impulse response of the channel by applying a calculated inverse matrix of the impulse signal to the received signal.
US08072840B2	Fracture clusters identification Method for identifying one or more fracture clusters in a formation surrounding a reservoir. In one implementation, the method may include generating a P to S image, comparing the P to S image to one or more images from a borehole, and identifying one or more fracture clusters using the P to S image and the borehole images.
US08072839B2	Hand-held acoustic camera An acoustic camera includes an acoustic transmitter disposed at one longitudinal end of a housing. The transmitter has a convex radiating surface. A diameter of the transmitter is about four times a wavelength of acoustic energy emitted by the transmitter. A plurality of acoustic receivers is disposed at spaced locations in a pattern extending laterally from the housing. A signal processor is in signal communication with the acoustic receivers. The signal processor is configured to cause the acoustic receivers to be sensitive along steered beams. The signal processor is configured to cause an end of the steered beams to move through a selected pattern within a beam width of the acoustic energy emitted by the acoustic transmitter. The signal processor is configured to operate a visual display device to generate a visual representation corresponding to acoustic energy detected by the acoustic receivers. A visual display device is in signal communication with the signal processor.
US08072836B2	Systems, methods and devices for arbitrating die stack position in a multi-die stack device Embodiments are described for arbitrating stacked dies in multi-die semiconductor packages. In one embodiment, die identification data for at least two stacked dies are arbitrated to select one of the dies as the primary die and the other as secondary. Each die includes an input/output buffer that drives an output signal to a commonly shared output terminal in response to receiving a die identification data bit as the input signal. Each die also includes an arbitration circuit that generates a control signal in response to the identification bit of one die being mismatched to a corresponding identification bit of the other die. The control signal programs a stack enable fuse in accordance with the arbitration to designate one of the dies as the secondary die.
US08072835B2	Row address decoder and semiconductor memory device having the same A row address decoder includes a first main word line decoding unit decoding first and second row addresses to generate first to fourth main decoding signals. When a data storage test is performed, the first to fourth main decoding signals are enabled at first to fourth timings, respectively. The row address decoder also includes a second main word line decoding unit decoding third and fourth row addresses to generate fifth to eighth main decoding signals. When a data storage test is performed, the fifth to eight main decoding signals are enabled at first to fourth timings, respectively. A main word line enable signal generating unit decodes the first to fourth main decoding signals and the fifth to eighth main decoding signals to generate first to sixteenth main word line enable signals that are enabled at different times.
US08072824B2	Operation guarantee system An operation guarantee system includes a decoder circuit, a comparison circuit, a CPU circuit, a frequency adjustment circuit and a DQ adjustment circuit. The comparison circuit compares a test data signal input from the decoder circuit with an expected value data signal input from the exterior, and detects the presence or absence of an output error in the decoder circuit. The CPU circuit controls the frequency adjustment circuit and the DQ adjustment circuit to vary a frequency of a clock signal input to an external memory and a delay amount of the data signal. In addition, the CPU circuit acquires a result of detection of the comparison circuit under various conditions. Then, the CPU circuit determines an appropriate frequency of the clock signal input to the external memory based on a relationship between the various conditions and the presence or absence of the output error.
US08072823B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell provided at an intersection of a word line and a bit line, a precharge circuit connected to the bit line, a column select circuit controlled in accordance with a write control signal, and a clamp circuit provided as a write circuit. The clamp circuit includes a transistor configured to control the potential of a selected bit line to a first potential (e.g., 0 V), and a variable capacitor configured to control the potential of the selected bit line to a second potential (e.g., a negative potential) which is lower than the first potential. The capacitance of the variable capacitor decreases when a power supply voltage is increased, whereby the amount of a decrease from the first potential to the second potential is reduced.
US08072821B2	Semiconductor memory device that can perform successive accesses To provide an input/output circuit that includes a write path to which write data is supplied and a read path to which read data is supplied and first and second data lines that connect the input/output circuit to a memory cell array. The input/output circuit includes a write buffer that supplies the write data on the write path to the first data line, a read amplifier that supplies the read data supplied to the read path through the second data line, and a bypass circuit that supplies the write data on the write path to the read path in response to detection of matching between a write address and a read address. Thus, data collisions can be avoided.
US08072817B2	Tracking cells for a memory system Tracking cells are used in a memory system to improve the read process. The tracking cells can provide an indication of the quality of the data and can be used as part of a data recovery operation if there is an error. The tracking cells provide a means to adjust the read parameters to optimum levels in order to reflect the current conditions of the memory system. Read operations are performed on the tracking cells, where threshold voltages of physical states of the tracking cells are further apart than threshold voltages of physical states of non-tracking cells. Based on the read operations, an extent to which the tracking cells are errored is determined.
US08072812B2	Sensing of memory cells in NAND flash An analog voltage NAND architecture non-volatile memory data read/verify process and circuits is described that senses analog voltages in non-volatile cells utilizing source follower voltage sensing. In a source follower sensing or read operation the programmed threshold voltage of a cell in a NAND string of a NAND architecture Flash memory array is read by applying an elevated voltage to the source line, an elevated pass voltage (Vpass) is placed on the gates of the unselected cells of the string to place them in a pass through mode of operation, and a read gate voltage (Vg) is applied to the gate of the selected cell. The selected memory cell operates as a source follower to set a voltage on the coupled bit line at the read gate voltage minus the threshold voltage of the cell (Vg−Vt), allowing the voltage of the cell to be directly sensed or sampled.
US08072811B2	NAND based NMOS NOR flash memory cell, a NAND based NMOS NOR flash memory array, and a method of forming a NAND based NMOS NOR flash memory array A NOR flash nonvolatile memory device provides the memory cell size and a low current program process of a NAND flash nonvolatile memory device and the fast, asynchronous random access of a NOR flash nonvolatile memory device. The NOR flash nonvolatile memory device has an array of NOR flash nonvolatile memory circuits that includes charge retaining transistors serially connected in a NAND string such that at least one of the charge retaining transistors functions as a select gate transistor to prevent leakage current through the charge retaining transistors when the charge retaining transistors is not selected for reading. The topmost charge retaining transistor's drain is connected to a bit line parallel to the charge retaining transistors and the bottommost charge retaining transistor's source is connected to a source line and is parallel to the bit line. The charge retaining transistors are programmed and erased with a Fowler-Nordheim tunneling process.
US08072810B2	Program and erase methods with substrate transient hot carrier injections in a non-volatile memory The present invention describes a uniform program method and a uniform erase method of a charge trapping memory by employing a substrate transient hot electron technique for programming, and a substrate transient hot hole technique for erasing, which emulate an FN tunneling method for NAND memory operation. The methods of the present invention are applicable to a wide variety of charge trapping memories including n-channel or p-channel SONOS types of memories and floating gate (FG) type memories. the programming of the charge trapping memory is conducted using a substrate transient hot electron injection in which a body bias voltage Vb has a short pulse width and a gate bias voltage Vg has a pulse width that is sufficient to move electrons from a channel region to a charge trapping structure.
US08072804B2	Multi-bit flash memory devices and methods of programming and erasing the same A non-volatile memory device includes an array of non-volatile memory cells configured to support single bit and multi-bit programming states. A control circuit is provided, which is configured to program a first page of non-volatile memory cells in the array as M-bit cells during a first programming operation and further configured to program the first page of non-volatile memory cells as N-bit cells during a second programming operation. The first and second programming operations are separated in time by at least one operation to erase the first page of non-volatile memory cells. M and N are unequal integers greater than zero.
US08072801B2	Method for creating nonequilibrium photodetectors with single carrier species barriers A method of forming a diode comprises the steps of forming an extraction region of a first conductivity type, forming an active region of a second conductivity type that is opposite the first conductivity type, and forming an exclusion region of the second conductivity type to be adjacent the active region. The active region is formed to be adjacent to the extraction region and along a reverse bias path of the extraction region and the exclusion region does not resupply minority carriers while removing majority carriers. At least one of the steps of forming the exclusion region and forming the extraction region includes the additional step of forming a barrier that substantially reduces the flow of the carriers that flow toward the active region, but does not rely on a diffusion length of the carriers to block the carriers.
US08072796B2	Memory with five-transistor bit cells and associated control circuit Memory employing a plurality of five-transistor memory bit cells in a memory matrix and a power supply control circuit that is configured to provide a simultaneous full clear to all of the memory bit cells is described herein.
US08072794B2	Semiconductor memory device having DRAM-compatible addressing mode and data processing system including same In synchronism with an active command, a row address and a column address are simultaneously received, and a page address is received in synchronism with a read command or a write command. Word drivers select a word line based on the row address, and column switches select a bit line based on the column address. A page address decoder selects any one of read/write amplifiers corresponding to each page based on the page address. With this configuration, a specification for a DRAM such as an access cycle can be satisfied without arranging an amplifier for each bit line, and thus it becomes possible to secure a compatibility with a DRAM while reducing a chip area.
US08072793B2	High density resistance based semiconductor device Memory devices are described along with methods for manufacturing. A memory device as described herein includes a plurality of memory cells located between word lines and bit lines. Each memory cell comprises a diode and a plurality of memory elements each comprising one or more metal-oxygen compounds, the diode and the plurality of memory elements arranged in electrical series along a current path between a corresponding word line and a corresponding bit line.
US08072791B2	Method of making nonvolatile memory device containing carbon or nitrogen doped diode A method of making a nonvolatile memory device includes forming a first electrode, forming at least one nonvolatile memory cell comprising a silicon, germanium or silicon-germanium diode, doping the diode with at least one of nitrogen or carbon, and forming a second electrode over the at least one nonvolatile memory cell.
US08072790B2	High speed FRAM including a deselect circuit High speed FRAM including a deselect circuit is realized for replacing SRAM, wherein the deselect circuit is connected to a local bit line pair for forcing a middle voltage to storage nodes of ferroelectric capacitors of unselected memory cell while a plate line of the ferroelectric capacitors is forced to the middle voltage, so that the unselected memory cell is not polarized while selected memory cell is polarized by changing the local bit line pair when writing. With the deselect circuit, half of the memory cells are not accessed, which reduces number of sense amps. Furthermore, half of metal routing lines on the memory cells can be used for selecting columns and connecting global power as the convention SRAM configuration, while other half of metal routing lines are used for global bit lines. And various circuits for implementing the memory with the deselect circuit are described.
US08072789B2	Resistance-change memory device A resistance-change memory device is provided and includes a stack constituting a tunnel magnetoresistance effect element that has a magnetic layer in which a direction of magnetization is switchable and that is formed on a conductive layer, and the stack is included in a resistance-change memory cell performing data writing utilizing a spin transfer effect caused by current injection. The stack is formed such that a line connecting centers of respective layers of the stack is tilted with respect to a direction perpendicular to a surface of the conductive layer having the stack formed thereon.
US08072787B2	Synchronous rectifying for soft switching power converters An synchronous rectifying apparatus or synchronous rectifying circuit of a soft switching power converter is provided to improve the efficiency. The integrated synchronous rectifying circuit includes: a power transistor connected from a transformer to the output of the power converter for rectifying; a controller having a latch circuit generates a drive signal to control the power transistor in response to a switching signal generated by a winding of the transformer in response to the switching of the transformer. The controller turns off the power transistor when the switching signal is lower than a low-threshold. The power transistor is turned on when the switching signal is higher than a high-threshold. Furthermore, a maximum-on-time circuit provided in the controller is applied to generate a maximum-on-time signal for limiting the maximum on time of the power transistor.
US08072781B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes a bracket, a rear plane, a mounting member, and a middle plane. The bracket is configured for receiving at least one hard disk drive therein, and includes a bottom plate. The rear plane is secured to the bracket. The mounting member secures the middle plane to the bottom plate, so that the middle plane is perpendicular to the bottom plate and parallel to the rear plane.
US08072779B1	Recessed electrical device housing assembly and clip A removable, uni-body, low voltage device adapter clip for an electrical device housing having an opening that is sized to accommodate a standard N-gang outlet box, makes it possible to mount a low voltage device in the sized-opening. The clip includes a longitudinal body portion having opposite ends defining an N-gang length there between. The clip has a finger structure that is configured to engage a front and a rear surface of an edge of the sized opening. It further has N device mounting bores disposed between the opposite ends, each of which is aligned with a longitudinal centerline of each one of the N-gang-sized openings. An electrical device housing assembly includes an electrical device housing having a plurality of recessed walls, wherein at least one of the walls has an opening that is sized to accommodate a standard N-gang outlet box, and a pair of removable, uni-body, low voltage device adapter clips. The assembly may include a low voltage device. The assembly may further include integrated mounting flanges and flange covers.
US08072777B2	Label assembly and circuit board using the same A label assembly includes a support and a label body. The label body is configured to allow a label to be attached thereto. The support includes an upright post, and a fixing portion formed at a distal end of the post opposite to the label body. The fixing portion is configured to removably attach the label assembly to a circuit board. A circuit board supporting the label assembly is further provided.
US08072773B2	Ultra-wideband assembly system and method An ultra-wideband assembly is provided. The assembly includes a non-conductive tapered core having a conductive wire wound on an outer surface of the non-conductive tapered core, a low-frequency inductor coupled to the non-conductive tapered core via the distal end of the conductive wire and configured to allow mounting of the non-conductive tapered core at an angle with respect to the circuit board. The low frequency inductor is being disposed on a dielectric board configured to be coupled to the circuit board. The assembly includes an ultra-wideband capacitor coupled to the non-conductive tapered core via the proximate end of the conductive wire, the ultra-wideband capacitor being also coupled to the transmission line on the dielectric board.
US08072771B2	Upright circuit board assembly structure An improved upright circuit board assembly structure includes: an electronic component to be mounted on an external device so as for electrical functions of the electronic component to be used; and at least one circuit board including at least one first electrical connection portion and at least one second electrical connection portion. The first electrical connection portion and the second electrical connection portion are coupled to the external device by soldering with a solder paste. By soldering the circuit board to the external device in a double-sided, multi-point manner, the electronic component is mounted securely on the external device, and electric connection between the electronic component and the external device is enhanced.
US08072770B2	Semiconductor package with a mold material encapsulating a chip and a portion of a lead frame Various exemplary embodiments provide components, devices, and methods of semiconductor packaging. The disclosed packaging component can include a mold material disposed around a lead frame and at least an integrated circuit (IC), wherein the IC is electrically connected with one side of the lead frame. The opposite side of the lead frame including, for example, lead segments, can be exposed from the mold material. A variety of other components, devices, and packages can then be assembled, e.g., over the disclosed packaging component, through the exposed regions so as to improve packaging densities.
US08072769B2	Component-embedded module and manufacturing method thereof A component-embedded module includes a module substrate having wiring electrodes on the upper surface thereof, first circuit components mounted on the wiring electrodes, a sub-module disposed on an area on which no wiring electrodes are provided, and an insulating resin layer provided on substantially the entire upper surface of the module substrate such that the insulating resin layer covers at least a portion of the first circuit components and sub-module. The second circuit components including an integrated circuit element are mounted on the sub-module or embedded therein. Via conductors are provided through the module substrate from the lower surface thereof and are directly coupled to terminal electrodes on the lower surface of the sub-module. By using a substrate having a wiring greater accuracy than that of the module substrate, a reliable component-embedded module is obtained.
US08072763B2	Printed circuit board assembly A printed circuit board assembly includes a heat sink, a back board, and a securing member. The heat sink is configured to be mounted on a heat generating element of a printed circuit board. The heat sink is configured to dissipate heat generated by the heat generating element. The heat sink and the back board are configured to be placed on opposite sides of the printed circuit board. The heat sink includes a first connecting heat pipe. The back board includes a second connecting heat pipe. The second connecting heat pipe contacts the first connecting heat pipe. The securing member thermally contacts the first connecting heat pipe and the second connecting heat pipe.
US08072762B2	Printed circuit board assembly A printed circuit board assembly includes a printed circuit board, a first heat dissipating module, and a second heat dissipating module. The printed circuit board includes a first heat generating element and a second heat generating element. The first heat dissipating module is disposed on the first heat generating element. The first heat dissipating module includes a heat sink and a first heat pipe. The first heat pipe includes a pipe body and an extending portion extending from the pipe body. The second heat dissipating module is disposed on the second heat generating element. The pipe body is connected to the heat sink and the extending portion is connected to the second heat dissipating module.
US08072760B2	Power inverter Water paths for feeding a coolant water through a power converter mounted on an automobile are arranged in parallel, openings are formed on the water paths respectively, heat radiating fins project from the openings, and the openings are closed by a base plate of the power module. Further, the base plate of the power module includes a metal in addition to copper to increase a hardness of the base plate, so that a deterioration of the flatness during fixing the fins with brazing is restrained.
US08072754B2	Electronic device incorporating centrifugal blower An electronic device includes a casing, a centrifugal blower and sidewall received in the casing. The casing is adapted for accommodating electronic components therein, and includes a bottom cover and an opposite top cover. The centrifugal blower is surrounded by the sidewall and includes a sleeve directly mounted to the bottom cover, a bearing member mounted in the sleeve, a stator mounted to the sleeve and an impeller rotatably supported by the bearing member. The bottom cover of the electronic device functions as a bottom plate of the centrifugal blower.
US08072750B2	Top angled offset multi-media and user interface A computer enclosure with a user interface having an improved user-accessibility. The user interface is located at the upper front corner of the computer enclosure box. In the preferred embodiment, the interface is located on a protrusion extending out of the upper front corner of the enclosure box. The user interface has a surface plane that is preferably angled between 20-70 degrees to the ground to which the enclosure sits on. In other preferred embodiments, the user interface has a surface plane that is preferably angled between 40-60 degrees to the ground to which the enclosure sits on.
US08072744B2	Portable electronic device A portable electronic device includes a main body, a handle, two anti-rotation members, and a connecting member rotatably connecting the main body to the handle. The anti-rotation members are fixed to two ends of the connecting member. The main body defines two receiving grooves. An anti-rotation hole is defined in a side wall of each receiving groove. The handle includes a rod portion and two supporting portions extending from opposite ends of the rod portion. An engaging groove is defined in each supporting portion. An end of the supporting portions of the handle is received in the receiving grooves. The anti-rotation members are detachably latched in the engaging grooves of the handle and the anti-rotation holes of the main body such that the handle and the main body are non-rotatable relative to the connecting member and define an angle.
US08072742B2	Chassis and manufacturing method thereof A chassis includes a base board defining a receiving space, a clapboard detachably received in the receiving space, and two fasteners. The receiving space includes a sidewall, and a plurality of fixing posts extend from the sidewall. Two fixing columns each defining a fixing hole extend from opposite ends of the base board, neighboring the sidewall. The clapboard includes a main body defining a plurality of engaging holes to engage with the plurality of fixing posts of the base board, and two fixing portions each defining a through hole extending from opposite ends of the main body. The two fasteners are passed through the through holes of the fixing portions and engaged in the fixing holes of the fixing columns, respectively.
US08072733B2	Electrochemical capacitor and electrode material for use therein An electrochemical capacitor comprising a nonaqueous electrolyte and a pair of polarizable electrodes, wherein carbon nanotubes are used as an electrode material for at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the carbon nanotubes have a specific surface area of at least 700 m2/g and contain semiconductive carbon nanotubes, and the electrode material exhibits a voltage dependency of differential capacity by electrochemical doping. The electrochemical capacitor solves the problems associated with activated carbon electrodes and, exploiting the excellent characteristics of carbon nanotubes, has increased capacitance and increased energy density, therefore realizing a reduced internal resistance and a prolonged service life.
US08072732B2	Capacitor and wiring board including the capacitor A capacitor is provided having a tough surface portion which prevents cracking that tends to occur when the capacitor is built-in or surface-mounted on a wiring board. A ceramic sintered body of the capacitor includes a capacitor forming layer portion, a cover layer portion and an interlayer portion. The capacitor forming layer portion has a laminated structure wherein ceramic dielectric layers and inner electrodes connected to a peripheral portion of capacitor via conductors, are alternately laminated. The cover layer portion is exposed at a surface portion of the ceramic body and has a laminated structure wherein ceramic dielectric layers and dummy electrodes not connected to the capacitor via conductors, are alternately laminated.
US08072731B2	Static eliminator and discharge electrode unit built therein There is provided a static eliminator capable of improving a sheath effect exerted by shielding a leading end of a discharge electrode by a clean gas so as to prevent the leading end of the discharge electrode from being contaminated, in which a first-stage circumferential chamber, a second-stage circumferential chamber and a first gas pool are arrayed in series along the longitudinal direction of a discharge electrode, the first gas pool is disposed in the mode of diametrically overlapping a gas outflow channel for shielding located on the inner circumferential side of the first gas pool, and a clean gas is supplied to the first gas pool through the chambers disposed at multi-stages by means of the circumferentially spaced multi-stage orifices (the first and second chases).
US08072728B2	Overvoltage protection device An overvoltage protection device for protection of an electrical or electronic device, with a housing, with input and output terminals for electrical conductors, with line paths which each connect one input terminal to one output terminal, with first arresters which are used for symmetrical protection between the active conductors and with second arresters which are used for asymmetrical protection between the individual conductors and the ground potential, the individual first arresters each being connected by their first terminal to a line path and by their second terminal to a common connecting point so that they are at a common reference potential and symmetrical protection between two conductors is implemented by two first arresters located in series to one another. The overvoltage protection device can also be used in signal circuits with several signal conductors and can guarantee reliable protection of a connected electrical or electronic device against overvoltages.
US08072727B2	Fault testing fault protection device and method A fault protection device tests a distribution for persistence of a fault using a selectable first fault testing procedure and a second fault testing procedure.
US08072720B2	Electrostatic protection circuit An electrostatic protection circuit that affords protection without effecting transfer of an ordinary output signal includes an output terminal; a ground terminal; a first N-channel transistor having its drain and source connected between the output terminal and the ground terminal GND; a first electrostatic protection element connecting the output terminal and the ground terminal; and a second electrostatic protection element connected the drain and gate of the first N-channel transistor. The second N-channel transistor is connected to the gate of the first N-channel transistor. The gate potential of the first N-channel transistor rises and the gate-to-drain voltage of the first N-channel transistor is limited to a value below a prescribed value by a current that flows into the second electrostatic protection element owing to application of static electricity to the output terminal, and resistance of the second N-channel transistor, which is the ON state, as seen from the gate of the first N-channel transistor.
US08072719B2	Systems, circuits, chips and methods with protection at power island boundaries Integrated circuits where the standard isolation cell, at power island boundaries, also includes a protection device, which clamps transient voltages.
US08072716B2	AFCI device An arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) device prevents malfunction of an electric circuit and checks the state of the circuit and connection state of lines. One of a phase conductor line and a neutral conductor line is wound around a transformer which converts a current difference flowing in the AC line into voltage to detect whether an arc fault occurs, and a voltage induced by the wound line is rectified into direct-current and is converted into constant voltage to obtain power for the AFCI. An arc wave generator includes a rectifier to generate a rectified signal; a drop resistor which drops the voltage of the rectified signal to generate a voltage-dropped signal; and a mono-stable multivibrator which adjusts a voltage level and a pulse width of the voltage-dropped signal and generates a pulse signal that is used to generate a false arc for testing the AFCI.
US08072711B1	System and method for the fabrication, characterization and use of magnetic corrosion and chemical sensors A chemical or corrosive environment sensing system, comprising a giant magnetoresistive effect device having at least one environmentally exposed film, and a device, for sensing changes in the GMR effect device resulting from environmental exposure of the at least one environmentally exposed film. The film may be reversibly or irreversibly altered by the exposure, and is preferably nano-textured to alter a reaction rate and surface area. The sensor may be enzyme linked, that is, respond to an enzyme reaction product rather than the substrate directly. The GMR property altered and/or sensed may be, for example, a lower or upper switching field, an electrical resistance, and the GMR value. The device may be used as a sensor or as part of a control system.
US08072705B1	Method and system for providing a magnetic writer using a BARC A method and system for providing a magnetic writer are described. The method and system include providing a bottom antireflective coating (BARC) on a portion of the magnetic writer. The BARC has a low reflectivity. The method and system also include providing a barrier layer on at least a portion of the BAR and providing a mask on at least a portion of the barrier layer. The barrier layer isolates the BARC from the mask.
US08072703B1	Disk drive detecting when head is parked on ramp A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk, a head coupled to a distal end of an actuator arm, a voice coil motor (VCM) operable to rotate the actuator arm about a pivot in order to actuate the head radially over the disk, and a ramp located near an outer edge of the disk for parking the head. A first back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage of the VCM is measured, and a current is applied to the VCM for a first interval in order to move the actuator arm in a first radial direction. After the first interval, a second BEMF voltage of the VCM is measured, and whether the head is parked is detected in response to the first and second BEMF voltages.
US08072701B2	Positioning apparatus for an optical element The present invention relates to a positioning apparatus (10) of a positioning unit for positioning an optical device of the positioning unit comprising at least one optical element in the ray path of a microscope in front of an eye to be observed, wherein the positioning apparatus comprises a carrier device (11) for coupling the positioning apparatus to the microscope and a holding apparatus (12) for holding the optical element, whereby the holding apparatus comprises holding devices (20) for connection of the optical device to the holding apparatus which are configured in such a manner that a distance space (24) is formed between the optical device and the holding apparatus.
US08072698B2	Lens barrel support apparatus A support apparatus supporting a lens barrel includes an annular fitting member, constructed by cutting a metal die case blank, to form an inner peripheral groove therein, and annular sheets disposed on front and rear cut surfaces of the inner peripheral groove in a direction of an optical axis. A plurality of engaging members provided on an outer peripheral surface of the lens barrel are positioned between the annular sheets disposed in the inner peripheral groove.
US08072695B1	Imaging lens An imaging lens includes plastic-made first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens elements arranged in the given order from an object side to an imaging side, each having object-side and imaging-side surfaces facing toward the object and imaging sides, respectively. The first lens element has a positive focusing power, and the object-side surface thereof is a convex surface. The second lens element has a negative focusing power, and the imaging-side surface thereof is a concave surface. The third lens element has a positive focusing power, and each of the imaging-side and object-side surfaces thereof is a convex surface. The fourth lens element is a meniscus lens, and the imaging-side surface thereof is a convex surface. The imaging-side surface of the fifth lens element has a concave area in a vicinity of an optical axis of the fifth lens element.
US08072685B1	Lens assembly and method for forming the same A method for forming a lens assembly is provided, including: providing a mold substrate, wherein at least a recess is formed from a surface of the mold substrate; providing a transparent substrate; disposing a lens precursor material on the surface of the mold substrate or on a first surface of the transparent substrate; disposing the mold substrate on the transparent substrate such that at least a portion of the lens precursor material is filled in the recess; disposing a mask on a second surface of the transparent substrate to partially cover the transparent substrate; after the mask is disposed, irradiating a light on the second surface of the transparent substrate to transform at least a portion of the lens precursor material on the first surface of the transparent substrate into a lens; and removing the mask and the mold substrate from the transparent substrate and the lens.
US08072681B2	Polarization preserving front projection screen material Polarization preserving front projection screens and diffusers provide optimum polarization preservation for stereoscopic 3D viewing, as well as improved light control for enhanced brightness, uniformity, and contrast for both 2D and 3D systems. Generally, the disclosed screens direct light from a projector toward viewers within a diffusion locus, while maintaining optimum gain characteristics. More specifically, light incident on a region of the front projection screen from a predetermined projection direction is reflected by an engineered surface to a predetermined diffusion locus after undergoing substantially single reflections. The engineered surface, comprised of generating kernels, is used to optimally diffuse illumination light into a range of viewing angles, within the diffusion locus, with suitable gain profile, while optimally preserving polarization for 3D applications. Such a screen, when combined with matched polarization analyzing eyewear, provides extremely low cross-talk from any observation point.
US08072677B2	Device for amplifying a laser with high energy and high beam quality The field of the invention is that of high-energy laser beam amplifiers and associated optical pumping devices. The object of the invention is to use an amplifier configuration and a cooling means which do not have the drawbacks of cryogenic systems that have been used up until now and which however make it possible both to obtain an amplified laser beam of high quality and to minimize transverse lasing effects. A laser beam amplifying device according to the invention combines four main principles, which are use of a crystal exhibiting circular symmetry so as to distribute the mechanical stresses radially; cooling of the entire external surface by a cooling liquid, so as to avoid the use of cryogenic techniques; use of a matching liquid so as to avoid transverse lasing effects; and use of pump laser beams with uniform energy distribution.
US08072671B2	Display device A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate. A first electrode layer is disposed on the substrate. An electrochromic material single layer is disposed on the first electrode layer, wherein the electrochromic material single layer has a plurality of spherical holes inside, and wherein the electrochromic material single layer includes inorganic materials. An electrolytic layer is disposed on the electrochromic material single layer. A second electrode layer is disposed on the electrolytic layer. A power supply is electrically connected to the first and second electrode layers, respectively. The electrochromic material single layer displays red, blue or green colors according to a driving voltage provided by the power supply.
US08072670B2	Pixel circuit to electrode translation A spatial light modulator has an array of elements organized into element rows and element columns and an array of electrodes organized into electrode rows and electrode columns to activate the array of elements. The modulator has pixel circuitry organized into circuit rows and circuit columns with the pixel circuitry being electrically coupled to the array of electrodes, such that there is at least one translation of either circuits in a column to electrodes in a row or circuits in a row to electrodes in a column.
US08072667B2	Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus An optical scanning device includes a deflecting unit that deflects a laser beam from a light source in a main-scanning direction; a scanning imaging unit that focuses the laser beam deflected by the deflecting unit on a scanning surface and scans the scanning surface with focused laser beam; and a light receiving unit that detects optical intensity of the laser beam and a synchronous timing in the main-scanning direction and that includes a plurality of photodetecting elements arranged on a substrate in the main-scanning direction.
US08072665B2	Three-dimensional space scanner A three-dimensional space scanner is configured so that a reflecting mirror is rotated and tilted so as to scan a mobile object in a horizontal as well as vertical direction, thereby obtaining spatial data.
US08072663B2	Scanning system for lidar The present invention relates to a scanning system optimized for lidar that includes a nodding mirror, a rotary electromagnetic drive, a rotary optical encoder, and control circuitry. The rotary electromagnetic drive includes a yoke incorporating a permanent magnet, and an arm having a coil at one end of the arm. The coil is enclosed within the yoke, and an opposite end of the arm is coupled to the nodding mirror, such that movement of the coil within the yoke in response to a current causes the nodding mirror to rotate. The rotary optical encoder produces an output signal in response to rotation of the nodding mirror, which serves as feedback to the control circuitry. The control circuitry adjusts the current provided to the rotary electromagnetic drive in response to the output signal, such that the nodding mirror rotates in a reference scan pattern.
US08072660B2	Hologram recording apparatus and hologram reconstruction apparatus A hologram recording apparatus includes a signal-beam spatial light modulating section, a reference-beam spatial light modulating section, and a control unit. A signal beam pattern generates a signal beam. A reference beam pattern generates a reference beam. The control unit controls the shapes of the two beam patterns. A data-recording signal beam pattern is displayed on the signal-beam spatial light modulating section and a data-recording reference beam pattern is displayed on the reference-beam spatial light modulating section so that a data-recording hologram is formed in a predetermined area of a holographic recording medium. An encryption signal beam pattern for encrypting the data-recording hologram is displayed on the signal-beam spatial light modulating section and an encryption reference beam pattern is displayed on the reference-beam spatial light modulating section so that an encryption hologram is formed in the same area as the predetermined area of the holographic recording medium.
US08072658B2	Image processing apparatus and its method Since many ICC profile generation tools print and measure a large number of color patches and then make profile generation calculations, profile re-generation requires a long time. Hence, patch data are generated, calorimetric values corresponding to the patch data are obtained. Reference values of an Lab color space, which correspond to the patch data, are calculated using a conversion lookup table from a CMYK color space to the Lab color space, which is included in a profile. A conversion lookup table from the Lab color space to the CMYK color space, which is included in the profile, is updated using the calorimetric values and reference values.
US08072657B2	Dual path scanning system and method It is a first aspect of the present invention to provide a scanning device that includes a first imaging device adapted to convert contents of a first surface of a medium to a digital representation of the contents of the first surface of the medium, a scanning path adapted to guide the medium adjacent to the first imaging device, a first output path for guiding the medium to a first output tray, the first output path connected to the scanning path, a second output path for guiding the medium to a second output tray, the second output path connected to the scanning path, and a diverter guide adapted to direct the medium from the scanning path to one of the first output path and the second output path.
US08072653B2	Image reading and recording apparatus An image reading and recording apparatus has: a carriage for mounting a recording head; a reading unit which reads an original document; a conveying roller arranged on a conveying path which is used in common for recording paper and the original; and a platen arranged so as to face the recording head. The reading unit is movable between a reading position on an upper side of the conveying path and a retracting position on a lower side of the conveying path. The platen can relatively and independently move for the reading unit.
US08072652B2	Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus including a first image reader for reading the front side of document, and a second image reader configured to read the reverse side of document. The apparatus also includes a storage device to store first image data read by the first image reader and second image data read by the second image reader, and a writing controller for writing the first image data and the second image data in parallel to the storage device. A reading controller then reads the first image data and the second image data sequentially from the storage device, and an image processor processes the first and second image data. An image converter then converts the format of the first image data and/or the second image data to be the same.
US08072651B2	System and process for simultaneously reading multiple forms An optical reader with a single optical assembly that receives images from at least two different environments. For example, one environment may be constructed in a first chamber into which a document or bulk item with a bar code may be placed. The other environment may be constructed in a second chamber with an active drive mechanism that transports a document with optical readable markings to a reading location. The environments may be separated by a baffle that prevents light from leaking between the environments, and the electronics and software are constructed to read and decode information that is found in the images from both environments either sequentially or simultaneously.
US08072648B2	Halftone independent correction of spatial non-uniformities The predicted tone response curve for each color channel and halftone is predicted using a binary printer model and stored, wherein the “predicted tone response curve” provides a model based approximation of the actual response for the printer for each addressable pixel location in the spatial range. Also stored is an “average predicted tone response” by averaging the “predicted tone response curve” over the spatial range of the printer. With the “true average” tone response curve, the “predicted tone response curve”, and the “average predicted tone response curve”, an estimate of the true tone response curve for the color channel can then be mathematically obtained, wherein the true tone response curve defines a predicted actual response for the printer for each addressable print location in the spatial range. The “predicted” and “average” tone response curves are obtained using the 2×2 binary printer model.
US08072647B2	Color conversion apparatus and method A color conversion apparatus receives first image data including first red-green-blue color data in which the possible values of the red, green, and blue components extend beyond the range from 0% to 100%. The first color data are analyzed into first hue region data, the magnitudes of which are adjusted according to the brightness and/or saturation of the first color data to obtain second and third hue region data. The gamut of colors of the first image data is detected, and matrix coefficients are generated according to the detected gamut. The matrix coefficients are used to perform a matrix operation on the second and third hue region data to obtain second color data, thereby converting the first image data to second image data with conversion characteristics appropriate for the gamut of colors of the first image data.
US08072644B2	Image stitching for a multi-head printer Techniques are disclosed for stitching images printed by a multi-head printer in a manner that is relatively insensitive to misregistration of the image segments. When a pair of overlapping print heads print a pair of adjacent image segments which meet in a stitching region, printing at each location in the stitching region is accomplished by both print heads with a weighting that depends on the location being printed within the stitching region. In one embodiment, for example, the output of each print head is weighted by a linear function of horizontal pixel position. Techniques are also disclosed for selecting screening patterns for use when stitching is performed with variable-dot printers. Such screening patterns are selected to minimize variations in density that may arise as the result of cross-web and/or down-web misregistration.
US08072640B2	Recording system and controlling method therefor In a recording system in which a digital still camera and a photo-direct printer are directly connected to each other via a general interface, image data is transmitted to the printer from the camera, and the data is printed. A communication procedure is established by applications installed into the printer and the camera, each of a plurality of functions serving as the printing system are assigned to either the camera or the printer, data and a command are transferred between the functions assigned to the camera and the printer, and recording is performed by the printer based on image data supplied from the camera.
US08072636B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and print control system An information processing apparatus which performs a process on the basis of an access control information, or ACT, for control of a use of a function of a peripheral device for each user acquires setting information about the use of the function of the peripheral device specified by the user, and the ACT corresponding to the user. If the user-specified setting information is permitted by the ACT and if the setting information permitted by the ACT is not set by the user-specified setting information, the apparatus displays a screen indicating that the user-specified setting information can be changed according to the ACT.
US08072633B2	Print shop management method and apparatus for printing documents using a plurality of devices A method is described for managing a print shop system in which a plurality of printers are connected to and managed by a server. The server receives a print job including a job ticket and source document to be printed, and generates two or more sub-jobs each including a sub-job ticket and a sub-document by analyzing the job ticket and the content of the source document. The two or more sub-jobs are submitted to a plurality of printers and/or finishing devices in accordance with the sub-job tickets. One particular example is color split printing where black and white pages and color pages of a source document are split into two sub-jobs to be printed by a black and white printer and a color printer, respectively.
US08072632B2	Network compliant output device, information processing apparatus, control method therefor, computer program on computer-readable storage medium, and network system which determine alternative network compliant output device According to this invention, when a network device is made to leave from a network, the network device transmits a network leaving message containing information specifying an alternative network device inputted in advance. This makes it possible for a client using the network device to automatically install a printer driver corresponding to an alternative network device. For this purpose, a printer as a network device stores in advance alternative printer information specifying an alternative printer. When an instruction to make the printer leave the network is provided for maintenance or the like, the printer broadcasts a Bye message containing alternative printer information to the network. The client, who has used the printer, stores the alternative printer information. In printing, if an alternative printer is successfully found by a search, and the corresponding printer driver has not been installed, the client executes setup processing for installation.
US08072629B2	Print subscribed content on a mobile device A method of printing subscribed content on a print medium using a mobile telecommunications device, comprising the steps of: receiving, at a server, a request for the subscribed content; and, transferring the subscribed content to the mobile telecommunications device on a periodic basis; wherein, the mobile telecommunications device includes a printer module that can print the subscribed content on the print medium.
US08072627B2	Image processing apparatus, encrypted job execution method thereof, and recording medium This is to provide an image processing apparatus and others capable of ensuring security by shortening the connecting time of an external recording medium when a plurality of jobs including target data pieces encrypted with shared keys and the shared keys encrypted with a user's public key are executed. A job including a target data piece encrypted with a shared key and the shared key encrypted with a user's public key are received and stored in a job storage. To execute the plurality of jobs stored therein, the encrypted shared keys included in the respective jobs are decrypted with a secret key by the external recording medium. After completely obtaining all the plurality of decrypted shared keys, the target data pieces are decrypted with their matching decrypted shared keys, and then the jobs are executed.
US08072626B2	System for reading and authenticating a composite image in a sheeting A system for reading and authenticating a composite image in a sheeting. A exemplary embodiment of the invention provides a system for reading and authenticating a sheeting including a composite image that appears to the unaided eye to be floating above or below the sheeting or both. The present invention also relates to methods of reading and authenticating a composite image that appears to the unaided eye to be floating above or below the sheeting or both.
US08072625B2	Computer system for generating print data for printing interactive document A computer system for generating print data for an interactive document. The computer being is configured for: receiving a print request from a user; formatting user information in an electronic document so as to include a first user interactive element; determining advertising material for printing with the user information; formatting the advertising material so as to include a second user interactive element; and generating print data for printing the formatted user information and the formatted advertising material together with coincident coded data on a substrate. The coded data is readable by a sensing device and is indicative of a document identity and the first and second interactive elements.
US08072624B2	Image processing device, method, and program with editing, range setting, and printing screen conditionally displayed when application is started To enable the operability of image editing process to improve, the first procedure for making configurations relating to a print medium used in printing by a printing device, the second procedure for selecting an image to be printed by the printing device and specifying its print range, the third procedure for making configurations relating to image processing for the image for which the print range is specified, and the fourth procedure for performing printing process of the image data to which the configured image processing is applied are executed.
US08072623B2	Image processing apparatus, method for controlling image processing apparatus, control program, and recording medium An image processing apparatus is disclosed that includes an image processing unit section and an information processing unit section. The image processing unit section includes an image scanner that performs an image processing function and a SDK application that expands and controls the function of the image processing apparatus. The information processing unit section includes an operations panel that selectively performs operations between a basic application and the SDK application and a MFP service that transmits an instruction signal to the SDK application so as to control the image scanner in accordance with the operation on the operations panel. The information processing unit section confirms the corresponding relationship between the MFP service and the SDK application when the image processing apparatus performs a starting process and makes the SDK application correspond to the MFP service in accordance with the confirmation results.
US08072622B2	Printer, and method for controlling print controller A printer 1 has an I/F section 31 for receiving data from a PC 2, a parameter-deriving section 35b for deriving a control constant on the basis of print setting information included in the received data, and a printer section 11 which performs printing operation on the basis of the print setting information, the control constant, and print data included in the received data.
US08072621B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An information managing apparatus which is connected to an information processing apparatus and image processing apparatuses has: receiving means for receiving a print document and an instruction manual from the information processing apparatus, in which layout information of the print document and attribute information of each of the layout information are included in the instruction manual; and selecting means for selecting the image processing apparatuses to which the arranged print document should be outputted on the basis of the instruction manual.
US08072615B2	Alignment method, alignment system, and product with alignment mark The position of a product is measured using an alignment mark on the product. Radiation is transmitted towards the alignment mark and diffracted by a pattern in the alignment mark. Position information is determined from phase relations of the diffracted radiation. The alignment mark comprises a set of mutually parallel conductor tracks from which the diffracted radiation is collected, the pattern being defined by a pattern of variation of the pitch between successive tracks as a function of position along the surface of the product. Thus, for example the pattern comprises alternating first and second areas wherein the pitch has a first and second value, respectively. Because the tracks in the different parts of the pattern, such as the first and second areas, are parallel to each other improved measurements are possible.
US08072614B2	Method of locating an object in 3-D Methods and devices for calculating the position of a movable device are disclosed. The device may include multiple optical detectors (ODs) and the movable device may include light sources. Optics may be above the ODs. A controller may calculate the position of the light source based on data from the ODs and properties of the optics. The device may be a game console, and the light source may be a game controller. The roles of the OD and light sources may be interchanged. The rotation of the movable device may be determined using multiple light sources and/or multiple ODs on the movable device. The movable device may calculate its position and transmit it to a console. The light sources may be modulated by time or frequency to distinguish between the light sources. There may be two or more movable devices. There may be two or more consoles.
US08072613B2	System for measuring the inner space of a container and method of performing the same A system and method for measuring the inner space of a container provides for the measurement of the wear of the lining of a container such as a torpedo ladle optionally while the ladle is still hot. The interior lining of the container is scanned by a scanner head from a first position in the container which is at an angle relative to the vertical axis of the container. The scanner head is placed in a second position in the container at an angle relative to the vertical axis of the container and from the second position the scanner head scans the portions of the interior lining of the container which were not scanned during the first position scan. By comparing the scanning measurements of the lining from the first position scan and the second position scan after the container has been loaded and unloaded with an initial reference measurement of the lining the wear of the lining can be measured.
US08072612B2	Method and apparatus for detecting a feature of an input pattern using a plurality of feature detectors, each of which corresponds to a respective specific variation type and outputs a higher value when variation received by the input pattern roughly matches the respective specific variation type A method includes detecting a feature of an input pattern using a plurality of feature detectors, selecting at least one of the feature detectors based on their output values, and calculating a feature quantity of the input pattern based on an output value from at least one selected feature detector.
US08072608B2	Apparatus and method for a combined interferometric and image based geometric determination, particularly in the microsystem technology The apparatus and method according to the invention includes an objective (8) which is capable of operating basically in two different measuring modes. In a first interference mode, a measuring object (9) is interference—optically measured. In a second imaging operating mode on a detector array (12) designed like a camera, an optical image is generated, which is supplied to an image processing routine. The switching over between the two operating modes occurs by switching the illumination devices which are associated with different locations of the beam path of the apparatus—when viewed from the camera, one in front of a beam divider and the other behind the beam divider, which couples a reference light path to the beam path.
US08072607B2	Measuring device for measuring optical properties of transparent substrates A measuring device for measuring optical properties of transparent substrates includes a light transmitter and/or light receiver comprising a hollow cylinder having a highly reflective and diffusely dispersive inner surface. The light transmitter comprises a light source arranged in its interior and a light exit opening at a distance from the light source. The light receiver has a light sensor instead of the light source, at a distance from a light entrance opening. The light source and light sensor are arranged at such a distance from the light exit opening and light entrance opening respectively, given a corresponding direction of propagation of the light, that light emitted by the light source or received by the light sensor and multiply reflected in the hollow cylinder emerges as diffuse light from the light exit opening or is incident on the light sensor.
US08072606B2	Fiber-optic localized plasmon resonance sensing device and system thereof The present invention discloses a fiber-optic localized plasmon resonance (FO-LPR) sensing device and a sensing system thereof, the FO-LPR sensing system includes a light source, a FO-LPR sensing device and a detector, and the light source provides a light beam entered into the FO-LPR sensing device, and the detector generates a detected signal according to an emergent light from the FO-LPR sensing device. The FO-LPR sensing device includes an optical fiber, a noble metal nanoparticle layer and a filter film layer. The filter film layer is having a porous material, and the porous material comes with a pore diameter or a property selected according to a feature of a sample, while an interfering substance in the sample is isolated.
US08072602B2	Combination of reader and incubator A detection arrangement for detecting presence of an analyte in a sample includes a processor, a memory, a display, a color measuring device, and a temperature controller for maintaining a constant temperature or a temperature profile of the sample. A method is also provided for determining the presence or absence of an analyte in a fluid by analysis of image data from an assay that generates an image result on an assay medium.
US08072599B2	Real-time, hybrid amplitude-time division polarimetric imaging camera This disclosure relates to a real-time, hybrid amplitude-time division polarimetric imaging camera used to derive and calculate Stokes parameters of input light.
US08072598B2	Condensation particle counter A condensation particle counter is capable of efficiently measuring the number and size of fine particles. The condensation particle counter includes a saturator, a plurality of condensers and a plurality of optical particle counters. The saturator is designed to generate a saturated gas by saturating a gas in which fine particles are suspended with working fluid. The condensers are connected to a downstream side of the saturator to condense the saturated gas so that liquid droplets can grow around the fine particles. The optical particle counters are connected to downstream sides of the condensers to optically detect the liquid droplets supplied from the condensers. Each of the condensers has a condenser tube for interconnecting the saturator and each of the optical particle counters. The condenser tube is provided with a hydrophilic tube installed inside surface of the condenser tube.
US08072595B1	Time correlation system and method A time correlated single photon counting system having a programmable delay generator triggered by a laser fire event detector. The system may be used for chemical agent detection based on Rayleigh scattering using optical time domain reflectometry techniques. The system may also be used for Raman detection using frequency to time transformations.
US08072594B1	Liquid level sensor A liquid level sensor probe for determining liquid level within a vessel, the liquid level sensor probe comprising at least one light source positioned for emitting radiant energy; at least one photosensor positioned for detecting an amount of radiant energy received from at least one light source wherein a change in the amount of radiant energy as detected by at least one photosensor is indicative of a change in liquid level within the vessel; at least one light shield positioned between at least one light source and at least one photosensor wherein at least one light shield prevents radiant energy from directly hitting at least one photosensor; and encapsulation material.
US08072593B2	Method and apparatus for illuminating material for automated inspection A lighting configuration that is a combination of far dark field lighting and a modified dark stripe lighting is disclosed. The novel combination provides a more robust detection of flaws on, e.g. a moving web of transparent film, than either would provide alone or through a summation of their individual parts.
US08072592B2	Reticle defect inspection apparatus and reticle defect inspection method A reticle defect inspection apparatus that can carry out a defect inspection with high detection sensitivity are provided. The apparatus includes an optical system of transmitted illumination for irradiating one surface of a sample with a first inspection light, an optical system of reflected illumination for irradiating another surface of the sample with a second inspection light, and a detecting optical system that can simultaneously detect a transmitted light obtained by the first inspection light being passed through the sample and a reflected light obtained by the second inspection light being reflected by the sample. And the optical system of transmitted illumination includes a focusing lens driving mechanism for correcting a focal point shift of the transmitted light resulting from thickness of the sample.
US08072590B2	Laser system for pellet-shaped articles A pellet-shaped article inspection unit is structured for use with a conveyer mechanism having a plurality of carrier bars, each carrier bar being structured to convey a plurality of pellet-shaped articles along a predetermined path. The article inspection unit includes a first camera unit positioned adjacent a first side of the conveyer mechanism. The first camera unit is configured to sense a first predetermined characteristic, e.g., laser holes, of the plurality of pellet-shaped articles. A removal mechanism, downstream from the first camera unit, is structured to remove or maintain at least a selected one of the plurality of pellet-shaped articles from at least a selected one of the plurality of carrier bars depending on whether the first predetermined characteristic is sensed by the first camera unit. A laser unit may be provided to create unique holes in the pellet-shaped articles, e.g., those by a larger exposed surface to improve time-release characteristics of the pellet-shaped articles.
US08072588B2	Dental light curing device coupled to a light measuring device The invention relates to a light measuring device 34, in particular for dental light curing devices, for detecting the illumination intensity of a light source 19, which is arranged, in particular, in the light curing device, to which a light guiding device, in particular, having a light exit surface 21 at its outlet, is connected, the light measuring device 34 having at least four measurement fields 38 distributed in two dimensions.
US08072579B2	Measuring method, adjustment method for stage movement characteristics, exposure method, and device manufacturing method Provided is a measuring method including: transferring a measuring mark disposed on an original to a substrate at a plurality of locations; moving a substrate stage for holding the substrate so that the substrate is rotated by 90 degrees about a rotation axis parallel to an optical axis of a projection optical system; then transferring the measuring mark to the substrate at a plurality of locations so that the measuring mark overlaps the transfer region; measuring positional deviations among the transferred measuring marks and a first overlap mark in a region where the transfer regions overlap each other; and calculating at least one of a positional error of a shot on the substrate, a rotational error of the same, and an orthogonality in shot arrangement based on a result of the measurement.
US08072578B2	Position measurement method, position control method, measurement method, loading method, exposure method and exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method A part of a plate of a predetermined shape detachably mounted on a moving body is detected by an alignment system while the position of the moving body is measured by a measurement unit that sets a movement coordinate system of the movement body, and based on the detection results and the measurement results of the measurement unit corresponding to the detection results, position information of an outer periphery edge of the plate is obtained. Therefore, even if there are no alignment marks on the moving body for position measurement, the position of the plate, or in other words, the position of the moving body can be controlled on the movement coordinate system set by the measurement unit, based on the position information of the outer periphery edge of the plate.
US08072572B2	Substrate for a display panel, a display panel having the substrate, a production process of the substrate, and a production process of the display panel A substrate for a display panel in which insulation breakdown of an insulating film can be prevented, a display panel having the substrate, a production process of the substrate and a production process of the display panel. The substrate includes an inspection line 123 for transferring a signal for inspection which includes a first section 1231 including a portion overlapping with and/or intersecting an input line 121 drawn from a data signal line in a display region III between which an insulating film 141 is sandwiched and a second section 1232 which includes a portion other than the portion overlapping with and/or intersecting the input line 121 which are formed to be electrically independent from each other and are arranged to be electrically connected by a conductor 128, wherein a difference between areas of the first section 1231 and the input line 121 is reduced.
US08072570B2	Liquid crystal display panel A liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a pixel array, a plurality of first common electrode lines and at least one second common electrode line. The first common electrode lines receive a common electrode signal through at least one first input node positioned at a first side of the pixel array. The second common electrode line receives the common electrode signal through at least one second input node positioned at a second side of the pixel array. In addition, at least one first common electrode line is electrically connected to the second common electrode lines in the pixel array.
US08072569B2	Fringe field switching liquid crystal display panel A Fringe Field Switching (“FFS”) mode liquid crystal display panel 10A includes an array substrate having first electrodes 14 each provided in a space delimited by a plurality of scan lines 12 and signal lines 17, second electrodes 21 provided on the first electrodes 14 with an insulator therebetween, and a plurality of slits 20A provided to each of the second electrodes 21 in parallel with one another in a direction crossing the signal lines 17; and a color filter substrate having a color filter layer. Each of the slits 20A has an open end 20A′ on one side. The color filter layer has a centerline 30 extending along the signal lines 17 for individual pixels, and the centerline 30 coincides with a display centerline 32 that is shifted toward the open end side of the slits from a centerline 31 of each second electrode as viewed from above. Accordingly, an FFS mode liquid crystal display panel is obtained that causes no color mixtures with this arrangement in which the slits each having an open end on one side are formed in each second electrode.
US08072557B2	Display device having a guide frame for guiding a sliding movement of a backlight unit A display device is disclosed in the present invention. The display device includes a case including an install space inside the case, an opened display area at a front face of the case and a slit at a side of the case, the slit connected to the install space, a display panel attached to the case at the install space to be exposed to the display area, a backlight unit installed at the install space after the display panel through the slit by sliding engagement.
US08072549B2	Repeater apparatus to provide a source apparatus with format information that can be processed by both a sink apparatus and the repeater apparatus and method for controlling the same In a home theater system having a source apparatus, a repeater apparatus and a sink apparatus connected in the recited order, when connected to a sink apparatus, whatever type it is, the repeater apparatus provides the source apparatus with video and audio signal format information that allows correct transmission. A control part 210 of the repeater apparatus 200 reads EDID information from memory 321 of the connected sink apparatus 300, and analyzes video and audio signal formats that can be processed by the sink apparatus 300, and when any format that cannot be handled by the repeater apparatus 200 itself is included, the repeater apparatus deletes information concerning that format to reconstruct the EDID information, and stores the reconstructed information into memory 221 in order to cause the source apparatus 100 to reference the stored information as EDID information of the repeater apparatus itself.
US08072546B2	Method and apparatus for reducing cross-luminance in an image display device A method for reducing cross-luminance in an image display device includes receiving luminance signals of a plurality of frames in a composite video signal, determining a movement condition of a first frame of the plurality of frames according to the luminance signals, performing a filtering operation for the first frame according to the movement condition of the first frame, and outputting a result of the filtering operation.
US08072545B2	Television and image display device in which color saturation can be adjusted The present invention discloses an image display device, comprising: a lookup table specifying a corresponding relationship between color saturation represented by gradation and set values associated with part including the minimum value of the color saturation; a first color saturation setting unit for setting color saturation associated with the set value greater than or equal to a predetermined value based on the lookup table; and a second color saturation setting unit for setting color saturation associated with the set value less than the predetermined value by calculating values which gradually decreased to the minimum value of the color saturation as the set value decreases.
US08072544B2	Video output apparatus and control method thereof There is provided a video output apparatus which inputs a video content that can have at least three different resolutions. A format detector detects an alteration of a resolution of a video content. A scaling processor scales up the video content at a set scale ratio. Upon detection of an alteration of the resolution, the format detector selects one of a plurality of supplemental video pictures, which are prepared in advance in a memory, in accordance with the degree of decrease of the resolution after the alteration to that before the alteration. An image composition unit controls a display unit to display the supplemental video picture together with a video associated with the video content via a video display unit.
US08072540B2	Apparatus and method for low angle interpolation An apparatus of low angle interpolation is disclosed, which includes a low angle calculation circuit, a direction decision circuit, a post-processing circuit, an interpolator and a line buffer. According to a counterclockwise operating matrix and a clockwise operating matrix whose shapes look like triangles, the invention calculates sum of absolute differences (SAD) for each specified angle to correctly detect edges, thereby minimizing jaggies and frequency alias.
US08072532B2	Camera module with switching lenses An exemplary camera module includes a printed circuit board, an image sensor, a spacer and a lens holder. The image sensor and the spacer are both mounted on the printed circuit board. The lens holder is arranged on and is rotatable relative to the spacer. The lens holder includes spaced lens receiving through holes each receiving a lens therein. Each of the lens receiving through holes together with the at least one lens is capable of aligning with the image sensor by rotation of the lens holder.
US08072524B2	Solid-state image-sensing device A solid-state image-sensing device has a MOS transistor (T1) connected to a photodiode PD (PD) and performing photoelectric conversion, and has, as an integrating circuit for amplifying and integrating the photoelectric current obtained by the photoelectric conversion, a MOS transistor T2 and a capacitor C. In the solid-state image-sensing device, integration operation is controlled by a MOS transistor T6 connected to the gate of the MOS transistor T2.
US08072523B2	Redundancy in column parallel or row architectures A column circuitry architecture for an imager includes redundant column or row circuits. The column or row circuitry includes a number of redundant column or row circuits. Each column or row circuit include circuitry for controllably coupling the column or row circuit to one of plural signal lines from an array of pixels. A control mechanism is used to select a configuration of plural column or row circuits in the column or row circuitry. In this manner, some column or row circuits are decoupled from the pixel in favor of other column or row circuits. The decoupled column or row circuits may include defective or noisy circuits.
US08072518B2	Solid-state imaging device, driving control method thereof, and imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging includes a comparing circuit, an inverting circuit, and a masking circuit, and performs column parallel AD conversion processing of analog pixel signals outputted from a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix form. The comparing circuit outputs a difference signal obtained by comparing each of the pixel signals outputted from the pixels with a reference signal having a ramp waveform. The inverting circuit inverts a logic of the difference signal outputted from the comparing circuit. The masking circuit masks an output of an output signal of the inverting circuit to a circuit in a subsequent stage during an input offset canceling period in which the comparing circuit is canceling an input offset between the pixel signal and the reference signal.
US08072512B2	Signal generator and method for generating signals for reducing noise in signals A CMOS image sensor may include an active pixel sensor array and a noise canceller array corresponding to the active pixel sensor array. A method of operating such an CMOS image sensor may involve generating a varying reference signal that mirrors noise external to the active pixel sensor array, outputting the varying reference signal to the noise canceller array, and using the varying reference signal in the noise canceller array to cancel noise both internal to and external to the active pixel sensor array.
US08072509B2	Method and a system for image processing, a device, and an image record The present invention relates to a method for image processing, wherein image data is stored as an image record in digital format. The image record is provided with at least a header part (201), an image data part (202) and an auxiliary data part (203). In the method, at least one defining data record (204) containing auxiliary data is stored in connection with the data record (200), wherein in connection with the processing of the image data, it is selected whether said at least one item of image data is displayed in connection with displaying the image. The invention also relates to a system and a device (1) in which the invention is applied, as well as to an image record (200).
US08072506B2	Method for flicker detection in image signal The present invention provides an effective flicker detection method performing a motion compensation. The present invention includes the steps of: calculating a luminance difference between neighboring pixels; summing up the luminance difference in a specific direction if the difference is greater than a threshold value; performing a motion estimation by using a sum calculated through step (b) to thereby calculate a motion displacement; performing a motion compensation to a current frame data by using the motion displacement; calculating a difference between a previous frame data and the compensated current frame data; and detecting the flicker by using the difference calculated in step (e).
US08072504B2	Method and system for aiding user alignment for capturing partially overlapping digital images A method and system for aiding user alignment of two or more partially overlapping digital images. A first image is captured. A portion of a first image is displayed with a preview of a portion of a second image. The second image is adjusted by movement of an used to capture the first image and generate the preview of the second image). Once satisfactory alignment is achieved, the second image is captured.
US08072503B2	Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products for real-time high dynamic range imaging Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products for real-time high dynamic range (HDR) imaging are provided. A method includes creating a first HDR image file for a subject image captured from a first angle and at a first time increment (T1). The first HDR image file is created by a first image capturing device. The method also includes receiving a second HDR image file for the subject image captured from a second angle at T1, creating a first composite HDR image file by combining elements of the first HDR image file with elements of the second HDR image file, and generating a first three-dimensional HDR image from the composite HDR image file. The second HDR image file is received in real-time, such that the first three-dimensional HDR image reflects the subject at T1.
US08072502B2	Multi-mega pixel resolution with small sensor A camera device includes optics to produce a projected image, where the projected image has a projected image area. The camera device also includes a moveable sensor to move to a number of positions within the projected image area and capture a portion of the projected image, as an image portion, in each of the positions, and processing logic to combine the image portions together into a final image.
US08072501B2	Preservation and/or degradation of a video/audio data stream In one aspect, a method related to data management includes but is not limited to accepting input for a designation of a reference designator and a beginning demarcation designator and/or an ending demarcation designator in a video/audio data stream, wherein the beginning demarcation designator and/or the ending demarcation designator are defined relative to the reference designator; and accepting input for a retention at a first resolution of a first portion of the video/audio data stream, the first portion beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator. In addition, other method, system, and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and/or text forming a part of the present application.
US08072499B2	Image capture device and method An image capture device, including: a motion vector detection unit that detects a motion vector of a plurality of successive images; a determination unit that determines whether the motion vector detected by the motion vector detection unit is of a predetermined amount or more in a fixed direction; and a warning unit that issues a warning when the determination unit determines that the motion vector is of the predetermined amount or more in the fixed direction.
US08072495B2	Automatic image capturing system An automatic image capturing system includes a computer, an image capturing device, a monitor and an automatic image capturing program. The automatic image capturing program is installed in the computer. The image capturing device is used for capturing an image of a target object. The monitor is used for displaying shooting area. If a pre-shot image of the target object is moved to be within the shooting area, the automatic image capturing program will automatically capture the image of the target object.
US08072494B2	Device and method for automatically testing display device A method for automatically testing display device. The method includes steps of: capturing an image; acquiring a horizontal strip of a to-be-tested image which includes at least a portion of each of the color interval column of the image; comparing a standard deviation A of RGB values of pixels in a vertical sample with a standard deviation B of RGB values of pixels an adjacent vertical sample to obtain samples of each color interval from many samples taken; taking pixels from many vertical samples of each color interval to calculate a mean value of the RGB values of each color interval respectively, determining a color corresponding to each of color intervals, and determining an interval sequence of the to-be-tested image and the code sequence of the color intervals; and determining an image format corresponding to the code sequence according to the image format table which records a plurality of image formats corresponding to the interval sequences of the color intervals of the images.
US08072490B2	Prohibited materials vehicle detection A device for inspecting the underside of a vehicle includes a carriage supported by four swivable wheels and a forwardly extending arm with a light source and upwardly extending camera on a forward portion thereof. A second arm extends rearwardly and upwardly from a rear portion of the carriage and includes a video monitor for viewing an image generated by the video camera and a control unit. The device also includes a video transmitter for sending a picture from the camera to a remote location and three 12 volt batteries for powering the device.
US08072489B2	Digital camera module using stacked chip package A chip package (101) and a lens module (103) mounted on the chip package are provided. The chip package includes a substrate (20), a first chip (40), a second chip (70), and a cover (80). The first chip is mounted on the substrate and is electrically connected with the substrate via a first plurality of wires (50a). The second chip is mounted above the first chip and above the wires connected with the first chip and is electrically connected with the substrate via a second plurality of wires (50b). The cover is mounted above the second chip and the wires connected with the second chip.
US08072487B2	Picture processing apparatus, picture recording apparatus, method and program thereof The present invention realizes picture recording in simple configuration such that a user can easily and intuitively identify a minified picture of a multi-view picture from among minified pictures of pictures being taken. A 3-dimensional thumbnail picture is created by performing 3-dimensional CG processing on a multi-view picture thumbnail picture, and a thumbnail picture is created from a normal picture and recorded in association with a primary picture. The 3-dimensional CG thumbnail picture X is given a stereoscopic effect as a result of the 3-dimensional CG graphic processing so that the difference from a normal 2-dimensional thumbnail Y is clear at a glance. Consequently, a viewer can readily recognize the picture X as a minified picture of a multi-view picture without using a special apparatus to realize a graphical approach.
US08072483B2	Endoscope optical system and endoscope Provided is an endoscope optical system including first deflecting means that deflects light incident along an incident optical axis in a direction along a first axis perpendicular to the incident optical axis and emits the light; second deflecting means having two reflecting faces that fold back the light emitted from the first deflecting means along a second axis separated from the first axis by a gap; and third deflecting means that deflects the light folded back by the second deflecting means in a direction perpendicular to the first axis and along a plane including the incident optical axis, wherein the first deflecting means is provided so as to be capable of swiveling about the first axis relative to the second deflecting means, and the two reflecting faces of the second deflecting means are disposed to form an obtuse angle therebetween.
US08072475B2	Recording device, control method for a recording device, and a control program If the recording medium and the thermal head stick together, a recording device, a control method for a recording device, and a control program enable avoiding media transportation problems caused by such adhesion. If the recording medium has a release coat layer or an overcoating layer and the recording medium is left in contact with the thermal head, an operating pattern is set according to the contact conditions for moving the surface of the recording medium a specific distance from the thermal head, and transportation is controlled according to the set operating pattern.
US08072474B2	Cleaning apparatus for roller and printing apparatus using cleaning apparatus A cleaning apparatus for a roller includes a platen roller and a cleaning roller brought into contact with the platen roller to clean a surface of the platen roller, where the cleaning roller is configured such that SP values (dissolution parameter) of the cleaning roller and of all additives added in the cleaning roller have differences of at least 2.0 from an SP value of the platen roller.
US08072473B2	Gray scale voltage generator, method of generating gray scale voltage and transmissive and reflective type liquid crystal display device using the same A gray scale voltage generator and a method of generating a gray scale voltage in a transmissive and reflective type liquid crystal display device are disclosed. A transmissive mode gray scale data are transformed into real reflective mode gray scale data. An integer part is extracted from the real reflective mode gray scale data as a first reflective mode gray scale data. The first reflective mode gray scale data and temporary reflective mode gray scale data are mixed in a predetermined ratio by N-frame period. The temporary reflective mode gray scale data has a sum of one and the first reflective mode gray scale data. Pseudo gray scale data are inserted into the second reflective mode gray scale data. Therefore, superior display quality is provided in both transmissive and reflective mode.
US08072466B2	Medical examination apparatus for acquiring slice images of a subject A medical examination apparatus for acquisition of slice images of an examination subject, such as a magnetic resonance apparatus, has a control device for controlling the image acquisition procedure having at least one associated monitor on which graphic elements serving for adjustment of the image acquisition modalities can be displayed. The graphic elements can be positioned by the user via an input unit with regard to the image simultaneously displayed on the monitor. The control device controls the image acquisition procedure dependent on the position and type of the graphic elements. Some of the displayed graphic elements can be coupled to one another as needed in terms of their positional relationship so that, given a position change of a selected graphic element, all graphic elements coupled therewith can mutually be moved with retention of their positional relationship with one another.
US08072462B2	System, method, and computer program product for preventing display of unwanted content stored in a frame buffer A system, method, and computer program product are provided for preventing display of unwanted content stored in a frame buffer. In use, unwanted content stored in a frame buffer is identified. Furthermore, display of the unwanted content is prevented based on the identification of the unwanted content.
US08072461B2	Multi-thread graphics processing system A graphics processing system comprises at least one memory device storing a plurality of pixel command threads and a plurality of vertex command threads. An arbiter coupled to the at least one memory device is provided that selects a command thread from either the plurality of pixel or vertex command threads based on relative priorities of the plurality of pixel command threads and the plurality of vertex command threads. The selected command thread is provided to a command processing engine capable of processing pixel command threads and vertex command threads.
US08072453B2	Patterning technology for folded sheet structures The present invention supplies practical procedures, functions or techniques for folding tessellations. Several tessellation crease pattern techniques, and the three-dimensional folded configuration are given. Additionally several new forming processes, including mathematical methods for describing the material flow are disclosed doubly-periodic folding of materials that name the doubly-periodic folded (DPF) surface, including vertices, edges, and facets, at any stage of the folding. This information is necessary for designing tooling and forming equipment, for analyzing strength and deflections of the DPFs under a variety of conditions, for modeling the physical properties of DPF laminations and composite structures, for understanding the acoustic or other wave absorption/diffusion/reflection characteristics, and for analyzing and optimizing the structure of DPFs in any other physical situation. Fundamental methods and procedures for designing and generating DPF materials include ways for defining the tessellation crease patterns, the folding process, and the three-dimensional folded configuration. The ways are mathematically sound in that they can be extended to a theorem/proof format.
US08072452B1	Efficient multi-resolution curve rendering A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for generating a triangulation of a path comprising one or more path segments. In one embodiment, one or more interior triangles in the triangulation may be automatically generated. Each interior triangle may comprise a line segment between a starting point and an ending point of a path segment, leaving a remainder of a first plurality of exterior regions of the path. A first set of one or more exterior triangles in the triangulation may be automatically generated by inscribing a triangle in each exterior regions of the path whose corresponding portion of the one or more path segments does not meet a flatness threshold. Successive sets of exterior triangles may be generated within remaining exterior regions while the flatness threshold is unmet.
US08072450B2	System and method for measuring a three-dimensional object A system for measuring a three-dimensional object is provided. The system measures differences between a 3D model of an object and a point cloud of the object, and highlights the differences on the 3D model using different colors according to difference ranges that the differences fall.
US08072429B2	Multi-axial touch-sensor device with multi-touch resolution An apparatus and a method for resolving locations of two or more substantially simultaneous touches on a touch-sensor device. The method may include detecting presences of two or more substantially simultaneous touches on a touch-sensor device at respective locations on the touch-sensor device, and resolving locations of two or more substantially simultaneous touches on the touch-sensor device. The apparatus may include a first set of sensor elements disposed in a first axis, a second set of sensor elements disposed in a second axis, and a third set of sensor elements disposed in a third axis.
US08072428B2	Apparatus and method for inputting characters in portable terminal A method and apparatus for inputting characters in a portable terminal. The method includes displaying on a display unit an arrangement of characters corresponding to a character input mode from among a plurality of arrangements of characters according to various modes, the characters being respectively mapped to combinations of two keys mode; and displaying a character corresponding to the character input mode from among the characters according to the various modes when one of the combinations of two keys is touched.
US08072426B2	Interactive device capable of improving image processing An interactive device of improving image processing. The interactive device includes a processing module and a control circuit. The processing module includes a substrate, an image sensor for generating a plurality of pixel signals, and an estimation unit for determining a static parameter of at least one image object of the image based on the plurality of pixel signals. A transmission interface is used for serially outputting a control signal based on the static parameter determined by the estimation unit. The interactive device also includes a controller for controlling operation of the interactive device based on the control signal based on the static parameters corresponding to each image object. The image sensor, the estimation unit, and the transmission interface are all formed on the substrate.
US08072422B2	Networked applications including haptic feedback Method and apparatus for providing peer-to-peer force feedback over a computer network. A network force feedback system includes a network, a first computer coupled to the network, and a second computer coupled to the network. The first and second computers each include a visual display and a force feedback interface device. Each computer provides a force feedback signal to its force feedback device based on information received from the other, remote computer and in some cases also based on input from the local force feedback device. Positional information of each force feedback device and/or feel sensation information can be transmitted between the computers over the network. A graphical environment can be displayed to enhance the interaction between users. The present invention therefore permits two computer users to interact using force feedback provided over a network on a peer-to-peer basis.
US08072421B2	System and method for selecting clearly defined picture elements of a display A system and method is provided for selecting clearly defined picture elements of a picture displayed in a video screen display by use of an operating element. The operating element can be rotated about its longitudinal axis. The operating element can be rotated with stop positions and controls a search beam rotatable about a center. The angle of rotation of the search beam changes with each stop position of the operating element and is variably adapted to the position of the picture elements such that the search beam hits exactly one clearly defined picture element in each stop position.
US08072420B2	Input device equipped with illumination mechanism A light guide member and a sensor that constitute a front light mechanism are bonded with a bonded sheet. A double-sided adhesive tape is provided on each surface of the bonded sheet. A repairing material is printed on a surface of the sensor so as to fill concave portions provided between the adjacent X-electrodes. This substantially increases the contact area with the double-sided adhesive tape, and increases the bonding strength between the light guide member and the sensor.
US08072418B2	Tactile feedback mechanism using magnets to provide trigger or release sensations An apparatus for providing tactile feedback to an operator. The apparatus includes first and second magnetic assemblies having first and second magnets, respectively. The apparatus further includes a user input device, such as a trigger, a knob, a release cord, or a joystick, that is connected to at least one of the two assemblies and positions the first magnet proximate to the second magnet such that interaction occurs between the magnetic fields to generate a force that is exerted on the input device. The force may be an opposing, resisting, or attractive force that creates movement of the user input such as resisting a triggering or releasing action in an interactive video game when the poles are of like polarity. The first magnetic assembly may be stationary, and the second magnetic assembly may be connected to the user input device to be positioned relative to the first magnet assembly.
US08072417B2	Stand-alone device, system and method for navigating in a space having at least three dimensions A stand-alone device for navigating in a space having at least three dimensions comprises a housing capable of being manipulated by a user. The housing houses means for generating signals that represent the inclination of the housing according to its pitch axes, rolling axes and yaw axes, and houses at least one isometric device that generates a control signal of a bi-directional displacement according to at least one axis of said space. The invention is used, in particular, for navigating in a virtual space.
US08072415B2	Control signal input system and control signal input method Disclosed herein is an interface which users can intuitively operate. A control signal input system includes a display device which displays a graphical user interface including plural control items for controlling a device, the control items being displayed in a predetermined layout; and an input device having an input unit operable to make a selection from control items displayed on the display device, the input unit having a shape, wherein the shape of the input unit corresponds to the layout of the control items.
US08072414B2	Display method on active matrix display The present invention provides a display method of an active matrix display. First, image data is provided, and the image data is divided into a first image section and a second image section. Next, a first black frame section and a second black frame section are respectively inserted into the first image section and the second image section to form a first frame and a second frame. Then, the first frame and the second frame are displayed in turn so as to display the image data.
US08072412B2	Backlight, backlight drive apparatus, display apparatus A proposed backlight is suitable for a large size liquid crystal display. A backlight 2 for illuminating a liquid crystal panel 3 from the rear, is formed by combining a plurality of backlight units 10, 10, . . . . By providing a transparent acrylic board 4 between the backlight 2 and the liquid crystal panel 3, it becomes possible to prevent brightness unevenness from occurring at a junction section of the backlight units 10, 10, . . . , even when the backlight is formed by combining the plurality of the backlight units 10, 10, . . . .
US08072409B2	LCD with common voltage driving circuits An LCD with power consumption reduction and a method of driving the same. In one embodiment, the LCD has a plurality of pixels spatially arranged in the form of a matrix having N pixel rows, each pixel row defined between two neighboring scanning lines Gn and Gn+1, and having an auxiliary common electrode, and a plurality of common voltage driving circuits, each common voltage driving circuit electrically coupled between the scanning line Gn and the corresponding auxiliary common electrode for providing a two-level lift-up coupling voltage to the auxiliary common electrode.
US08072404B2	Liquid crystal display device The present invention realizes proper driving circuits in a driving-circuit integral type liquid crystal display device which has an increased screen size. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a driving circuit which supplies video signals to video signal lines formed on the liquid crystal display panel. The driving circuit is comprised of a first driving circuit which is formed in a step similar to a step for forming pixels provided to the liquid crystal display panel and a second driving circuit which is connected to the liquid crystal display panel after formation of the liquid crystal display panel. The first driving circuit is constituted of a switching circuit which is capable of distributing an output of the second driving circuit to a plurality of video signal lines.
US08072401B2	Organic light emitting diode display and related pixel circuit A pixel circuit includes a first transistor coupled to a supply voltage end, a second transistor coupled to a ground end, a storage capacitor, a third transistor coupled to a data end, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor coupled to the second transistor and the second end of the storage capacitor, and a light-emitting element coupled to the fourth transistor. The first transistor is used for conducting a supply voltage from the supply voltage end in response to a trigger of an enable signal. The second transistor is used for conducting a ground voltage from the ground end when a scan signal voltage is triggered. The storage capacitor includes a first end and a second end coupled to the first transistor and the second transistor, respectively. The third transistor is used for conducting a data signal voltage when the scan signal voltage is triggered. The fourth transistor is used for generating a conducting current based on the data signal voltage when the scan signal voltage is not triggered. The fifth transistor is used for forming a conducting route between the storage capacitor and the fifth transistor. The light-emitting element is used for generating light based on the conducting current of the fourth transistor.
US08072400B2	Measurement of pixel current in display device During image display, pixel current measurement for brightness irregularity correction is carried out. Display is carried out by sequentially writing pixel data in a horizontal direction to pixel sections that are arranged in a matrix shape. Horizontal power supply lines PVDD are arranged for each horizontal line, and power is supplied from these power supply lines to corresponding pixel sections. When carrying out measurement of pixel current by lighting pixel sections one at a time, a horizontal power supply line PVDD of a horizontal line to which the lit pixel belongs is connected to a power supply PVDDb by a switch, and other horizontal power supply lines PVDD are connected to PVDDa.
US08072395B2	Plasma display apparatus and method of driving A plasma display apparatus includes a data driver and a plasma display panel having a first address electrode and a second address electrode. The data driver is configured to initiate a change in a voltage value of a first data signal supplied to the first address electrode at a first initiation time, and to initiate a change in a voltage value of a second data signal supplied to the second address electrode at a second, different initiation time. Each of the data signals gradually changes from a first data voltage to a second data voltage during a respective first period, maintains at the second data voltage during a respective second period, and gradually changes from the second data voltage to a third data voltage during a respective third period.
US08072394B2	Video display driver with data enable learning Data enable learning is provided for a video display driver in which a data enable signal and pixel clock exclusive of their associated horizontal and vertical synchronization signals for a digital video signal are used to facilitate generating of signals corresponding to the associated horizontal and vertical synchronization signals.
US08072391B2	Antenna structure The antenna structure is applied for a communication system. The antenna structure has a signal emitting/receiving portion, a flex transmitting line disposed under the signal emitting/receiving portion and electrically connected to the signal emitting/receiving portion, and a connecting portion having a first end and a second end. The first end of the connecting portion is electrically connected to the flex transmitting line, and the second end of the connecting portion is connected to an assembling portion. The antenna structure further includes a bendable piece corresponding to the flex transmitting line. The bendable piece can be bent by a force to change positions, directions, or positions and directions of the signal emitting/receiving portion connected with the flex transmitting line. The bendable piece, the flex transmitting line and the signal emitting/receiving portion are covered by a sheath.
US08072388B2	Multi-modal RF diversity antenna A dual-band diversity antenna includes a ground plane and a main antenna system coupled to the ground plane, the main antenna system being a dipole having a primary dipole axis directed along the longitudinal axis of the wireless communication device, and a diversity antenna system coupled to the ground plane, the diversity antenna system being a monopole having an primary axis directed along the longitudinal axis of the wireless communication device.
US08072386B2	Horn antenna, waveguide or apparatus including low index dielectric material A horn antenna includes a conducting horn having an inner wall and a first dielectric layer lining the inner wall of the conducting horn. The first dielectric layer includes a metamaterial having a relative dielectric constant of greater than 0 and less than 1. The horn antenna may further include a dielectric core abutting at least a portion of the first dielectric layer. In one aspect, the dielectric core includes a fluid. A waveguide including a metamaterial is also disclosed.
US08072379B2	GPS power savings using low power sensors A position location system, apparatus, and method are disclosed. A wireless device includes a satellite positioning system (SPS) receiver and position location processor. The SPS receiver detects the availability of positioning signals and the position location processor determines an initial position of the wireless device based upon the positioning signals. A controller generates power saving events when the positioning signals are detected as being available. The controller determines the timing and duration of the power saving events. During a power saving event, the SPS receiver is deactivated and/or processing of the positioning signals is suspended to reduce power consumption of the wireless device. The initial position is updated based upon relative positioning information from one or more sensors during the power saving event. The controller activates the SPS receiver and resumes processing of the positioning signals following the power saving event.
US08072378B2	Navigation system with error-detection on doppler frequencies of satellite signals A navigation system for detecting error on Doppler frequencies of a plurality of satellite signals measured by the navigation system is disclosed herein. The navigation system includes an offset calculator for calculating offsets of the Doppler frequencies of the satellite signals during a predetermined time period and calculating an average value of the offsets. The navigation system further includes an error detecting unit coupled to the offset calculator. The error detecting unit compares the offsets of the Doppler frequencies of the satellite signals with the average value of the offsets and determines whether the satellite signals are unavailable according to corresponding comparison results.
US08072374B2	Automatic dependant surveillance systems and methods A communications system including an automated dependant surveillance-broadcast system and a global positioning system integrated into a single unit. A radio frequency receiver receives analog automated dependent surveillance-broadcast information at a selected transmission frequency and converts that information into digital form. A global positioning system receiver receives global positioning information including timing information. A processing subsystem decodes the digitized automated dependent surveillance-broadcast information in response to the timing information received by the global positioning system receiver.
US08072373B2	Method for accuracy estimation of network based corrections for a satellite-aided positioning system In a method for accuracy estimation of network based corrections for a satellite-aided positioning system, with a network of reference stations code and phase measurements are recorded by the reference stations and transferred to a network processing centre. The measurements are converted to observables and single-differences between a master station and at least one auxiliary station selected for each reference station are calculated. Estimates of single-difference between each reference station and the corresponding master station are generated and slant residuals for each reference station and satellite are calculated by using the difference between calculated single-differences and estimates. Subsequently double-differences are formed by differencing satellite s and the slant residuals of a reference satellite k, leading to zenith residuals calculated by mapping the double-differences to a zenith value. Error values for each reference station are computed by using the zenith residuals and residual dispersive and non-dispersive error values for a potential rover position are estimated by combining residual dispersive and non-dispersive error values of all reference stations. The accuracy of network based corrections is represented graphically by generating a map as a grid of potential rover positions with estimated residual dispersive and non-dispersive error values.
US08072370B2	System and method for generating an alert signal in a detection system A system and method for generating alert signals in a detection system is described. The system compares data extracted from signals received via receive antenna beams with stored scenarios and determines whether to generate an alert signal based upon the results of the compare operation. The comparison of data extracted from received signals with stored scenarios can be accomplished by using one or more latches to process the extracted data from the received signals. In one embodiment, raw detections are pre-processed to generate so-called field of view (FOV) products. The FOV products are then provided to a tracker. In another embodiment, rather than pre-process the raw detections, the raw detections are instead provided directly to a tracker which processes the raw detections to provide products including, but not limited to, relative velocity and other parameters.
US08072365B2	Magnetic crystal for electromagnetic wave absorbing material and electromagnetic wave absorber Disclosed is a magnetic crystal for electromagnetic wave absorbing materials, having a structure of ε-MxFe2-xO3 with 0
US08072359B2	Binary arithmetic coding device An object of the present invention is to provide a binary arithmetic coding device that allows real-time processing with a higher image quality. At a timing at which a ternary data string for a target bit is outputted, an updated coding range width and an updated range width of less probability are outputted. For that reason, while a binary conversion unit (32) and an f value retention processor (33) convert the ternary data string into a binary data string to output a coded bit, a binary arithmetic re-normalization unit (31) is allowed to perform a processing of binary arithmetic coding for the next bit.
US08072354B2	Mobile vehicle navigation method and apparatus thereof A method and device for updating map data of a navigation device. The method includes receiving information relating to an area update of the map data from a data server via a wireless broadcast to the navigation device; and displaying the information in graphical form on a map displayed on a display screen. The method may further include receiving a user input selecting an area on the map corresponding to the area update; wirelessly transmitting the area as an area selection to the data server; wirelessly receiving updated map information corresponding to the selected area from the data server; and loading the received updated map information into the navigation device.
US08072352B2	Cross traffic alert with parking angle trajectory The subject of the present invention is a host vehicle that determines a parking angle while backing out of a parking space and employs this parking angle when using a cross traffic alert system. The parking angle is determined based on the trajectories of the host vehicle and a target vehicle. The parking angle is used to determine areas of interest and areas not of interest within the fields of view of vehicle mounted sensors. The areas of interest are those used to determine if cross traffic alerts need to be issued.
US08072350B2	Vehicle and method for identifying vehicles located in the surroundings of the vehicle Vehicle having a surroundings-sensing system which makes available information on the surroundings to a closed-loop and open-loop control unit of the vehicle, and a closed-loop and/or open-loop control process changes the driving behavior as a function of the acquired information on the surroundings, wherein the vehicle has a registration information system which receives the registration information for vehicles in the surroundings, and in that the registration information system compares the received registration information with the registration information acquired by a surroundings-sensing system and changes the closed-loop and/or open-loop control process as a function of the result of the comparison.
US08072346B2	LED light bar for optical traffic control systems Various approaches for activating a traffic control preemption system. A light bar includes a support structure and a plurality of LED modules individually mounted on the support structure. Each LED module includes a plurality of LED groups, and in at least one of the plurality of LED modules, at least one LED group in the module is an infrared (IR) LED group, and at least one LED group in the module is a visible light LED group. A controller is coupled to each module. The controller is configured to trigger an IR light pulse pattern at a first level of IR radiant power from the at least one IR LED group. The pulse pattern and first level of IR radiant power activate preemption in a traffic control preemption system.
US08072344B2	Method and apparatus for visual silent alarm indicator An apparatus and method thereof wherein a portable computer system or personal digital assistant generates a visual signal in response to an occurrence of a programmed event. For example, the portable computer system can use a light emitting diode to visually signal an alarm at a specified time. The visual signal can be varied in order to indicate the type of event associated with the alarm. In one implementation, the visual signal blinks at a particular rate depending on the type of event. In another implementation, the visual signal blinks a prescribed number of times or according to a particular pattern depending on the type of event. When enabled, the visual signal is generated in lieu of an audible signal, thus providing to the user a silent alarm that does not disturb other people in proximity, such as in a meeting, a theater, or some other gathering.
US08072342B2	Overcurrent protection circuit An overcurrent protection circuit connected between a voltage input and a voltage output of an electronic device to protect against excessive current is disclosed. The overcurrent protection circuit includes first to fifth resistors, a relay comprising a coil and a normally closed switch, a pnp transistor, and a break-over element. When a current between the voltage input and the voltage output is greater or equal to a rated current of the electronic device, the npn transistor is turned on, while the coil is powered on to control the switch to be opened, therefore the voltage output cannot output voltage, which can protect against excessive current damaging the electronic device.
US08072341B2	Detachable battery status alarm and battery detector thereof A detachable battery status alarm has an alarm device and at least one battery detector. The battery detector is directly mounted on the battery and electronically connected to the battery. The alarm device links to the battery detector to obtain the battery status in a physical connection or a wireless connection. Therefore, the alarm device does not physically connect to the battery or batteries to test the battery or batteries.
US08072340B2	Water leakage monitoring system A water leakage monitoring system including a water leakage position estimator which includes a periodic data acquiring unit for fetching predetermined-period flow rate pressure data stored in a monitoring device, and for fetching a signal related to a flow rate change and pressure changes expecting a water leakage reaction time calculating unit for calculating a pressure reaction time lag between two pressure changes, a pressure propagation velocity estimating unit for estimating a pressure propagation velocity using the pressure reaction time lag and a distance between two pressure gauges located in a water distribution block stored in a pipeline network map data, and a flow rate change position estimating unit for receiving a signal related to the flow rate change, and estimating a flow rate change position using pressure propagation velocity and a flow meter and pressure gauge locating positions of the pipeline network map data.
US08072337B2	Method and apparatus for tracking and locating explosives and explosive materials worldwide using micro RF transponders Stolen or lost explosives are detected by fixing micro RF transmitters in the form of RFID tags to the explosive packaging or embedding them in the explosive material itself. Moreover, the subject microradio transponders may be contained in an adhesive binder or slurry. The identity of the explosive, its place of manufacture and ownership is detectable by RFID tag interrogators strategically located along commonly used roads or railways in which the RFID tags scavenge energy from interrogation beams, with the RFID tags indicating the identity of the explosive and its origin.
US08072335B2	Antenna assemblies for remote applications An antenna assembly is provided suitable for use with a remote communications module such as, for example, a keyless entry module, a tire pressure monitoring module, etc. The antenna assembly generally includes a support, a folded metallic antenna element mounted on the support, an amplifier coupled to the folded antenna element, and a transmission line coupled to the amplifier.
US08072333B2	RFID device and method of forming A radio frequency identification (RIFD) inlay includes an electrical connection between a chip and an antenna. The electrical connection includes conductive interposer leads and a capacitive connection. The capacitive connection may involve putting the antenna and the interposer leads into close proximity, with dielectric pads therebetween, to allow capacitive coupling between the antenna and the interposer leads. The dielectric pads may include a non-conductive adhesive and a high dielectric material, such as a titanium oxide. The connections provide a convenient, fast, and effective way to operatively couple antennas and interposers. The RFID inlay may be part of an RFID label or RFID tag.
US08072331B2	Mobile payment device A memory card compatible RFID card includes a smartcard controller that receives power from a host device. The RFID card also includes a small inductive device capable of inductive coupling with an RFID reader. The small inductive device is small enough to fit in the form factor of a memory card. Commands may be sent to the RFID card to keep the RFID card powered.
US08072329B1	Voltage regulators using a resistive chain to bias a native transistor The present disclosure provides examples of a voltage regulator for a Radio Frequency Identification tag circuit. The voltage regulator includes a pair of native transistors. A first native transistor is coupled to a reference voltage and biased to saturation. A resistive element coupled between the gate and the drain of the transistor ensures a sufficient voltage difference between the source and the drain of the first native transistor. The second native transistor, with a gate coupled to the gate of the first native transistor, outputs a regulated voltage.
US08072326B2	Tamperproof RFID component integrated into a multilayer printed circuit board An electronic device comprising an RFID component which can act in an active mode and a passive mode. Preferably the electronic device is a PCB and the RFID component is at least partially located in the PCB. More preferably, the RFID component is located within the PCB. An electronic device comprising an embedded active component is disclosed. A method of exchanging information within an electronic device is disclosed comprising the steps in providing an electronic device which contains an RFID component which connect in a active and a passive mode, and a remote RFID device, and exchanging information between the RFID component and the remote RFID device.
US08072323B2	Power-line carrier communication apparatus The invention provides a power-line carrier communication apparatus including a transmission unit with a signal point mapping device for mapping a plurality of bit streams produced from transmission data, a wavelet inverse transforming device for modulating the respective sub-carriers by wavelet waveforms which are orthogonal to each other for producing temporal waveform series data, and a D/A converter for converting the temporal waveform series data into an analog temporal waveform series signal; and a reception unit with an A/D converter for obtaining sampling-series waveform data from a power-line communication signal, a wavelet transforming device for wavelet-transforming the sampling-series waveform data into signal point data of the respective sub-carriers, and a symbol judging device for judging bit streams mapped by the signal point mapping device by inverse-mapping a plurality of these signal point data, and for synthesizing the judged bit streams with each other as a reception data series.
US08072322B1	Interpreting data from a site A method for interpreting data from a site is described. The method may include various steps. Input data to be interpreted may be acquired. The input data may be sent to an interpreter. Alert criteria may be sent to the interpreter. A determination that indicates whether the alert criteria was satisfied may be received. If the determination indicates that the alert criteria was satisfied, an alert procedure may be performed.
US08072321B2	Tire pressure sensing devices, systems and methods employing an acoustic amplifier A pressure sensing device, such as a tire pressure monitoring unit comprises a pressure sensor for measuring pressure of a fluid, such as air or an inert gas, in an environment external to the device, such as within the cavity of a tire. A hollow resonator, or standing wave tube, is coupled to the pressure sensor. The resonator has a free end exposed to the external environment to the extent that pressure variations in the fluid are propagated through the hollow resonator to the pressure sensor via the free end. The hollow resonator has a resonant frequency substantially matching a target frequency such that resonance is established in the tube at the resonant frequency in response to the presence of an audio signal in the fluid having a frequency that substantially matches the target frequency.
US08072316B2	Table accessory for signaling that service is required An apparatus for providing a silent signal to a waiter/waitress that one of service is required and service is not required. The apparatus comprises a base member having a first predetermined shape and formed of a first predetermined material. A signaling member is engageable with the base member and has a second predetermined shape and is formed of a second predetermined material. There is a connecting member for engaging such signaling member to the base member.
US08072315B2	Method and apparatus for universally decoding commands of a remote controller A universal decoding device and associated method is provided. The universal decoding device includes a counter unit for counting signal cycles and a logic unit for identifying coded data or commands according to counted signal cycles. The logic unit includes a register, an boundary logic unit, a key identification unit, a code bank, a multiplexer, and a FIFO memory. The universal decoding device is capable of operating in a full decoding mode, a raw data decoding mode, and a software decoding mode. In the full decoding mode, the FIFO stores remote control commands corresponding to the counted signal cycles through the multiplexer. In the raw data decoding mode, the FIFO stores raw data corresponding to the counted signal cycles through the multiplexer. In the software decoding mode, the FIFO stores the counted signal cycles provided by the counter unit through the multiplexer.
US08072311B2	Radio frequency identification tag location estimation and tracking system and method Systems and methods for locating one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are provided. A phase difference of received information signals of illuminated RFID tags is utilized to locate the RFID tags. One or more exciters transmit interrogation signals to illuminate the RFID tags in which the exciters may have a plurality of antenna selectively configured to transmit through two or more antennas and to receive on one antenna. Multiple reads of the same RFID tag can also be performed to generate a probability model of the location of the RFID tag. An enhanced particle filter is applied to probability model to determine the exact location of the RFID.
US08072310B1	System for detecting and measuring parameters of passive transponders A detection and paramedic measuring system using a transponder composed of passive components and pulse inductive interrogation is disclosed. A methodology based on measuring the quality factor of the transponder is employed to detect a specific species of transponder or measure a parameter that alters the transponders quality factor.
US08072309B2	Systems and methods of remotely controlling a materials handling vehicle A supplemental control system for a materials handling vehicle comprises a wearable control device, and a corresponding receiver on the materials handling vehicle. The wearable control device is donned by an operator interacting with the materials handling vehicle, and comprises a wireless transmitter and a travel control communicably coupled to the wireless transmitter. Actuation of the travel control causes the wireless transmitter to transmit a first type signal designating a request to advance the vehicle in a first direction. The receiver is supported by the vehicle for receiving transmissions from the wireless transmitter. A traction control of the vehicle is responsive to a receipt of the first type signal by the receiver to cause the vehicle to advance.
US08072305B2	DC/DC converter Primary and secondary coils are provided in the first through section and a coil group is also provided in the second through section. Hence, the surface area over which the coil group extends within a plane which is perpendicular to the through sections is greater than in the case where all of the coils are provided in a single through section. The surface area which is not covered by the magnetic body cores of the platelike members increases. In cases where the surface area of the members is large, the heat radiation characteristic is enhanced. Hence, the cooling efficiency of the transformer improves. In cases where there is a plurality of coil groups which are magnetically coupled to one another in particular, because it is difficult to move the heat produced in the plurality of coil groups through heat conduction, heat transfer, or heat radiation, a heat radiation structure of this kind is effective.
US08072304B2	Noncontact power-transmission coil, portable terminal and terminal charging device, planar coil magnetic layer formation device, and magnetic layer formation method A noncontact power-transmission coil is provided. The noncontact power-transmission coil includes a planar coil and a magnetic layer. The planar coil is formed by winding a linear conductor in a spiral shape substantially in a single plane. The magnetic layer is formed by applying a liquid-form magnetic solution in which magnetic particles are mixed with a binder solvent, so as to cover one planar portion of the planar coil and a side-face portion of the planar coil.
US08072302B2	Inchworm actuator based on shape memory alloy composite diaphragm Linear actuators (also known as inchworm actuators) including a magnetically actuatable member with a plurality of wings or blades made from a shape memory alloy (SMA) are described. The linear actuators include a bar and an actuator assembly, configured to achieve a linear displacement of the actuator assembly relative to the bar. The actuator assembly includes a housing, a magnetic trigger including an electromagnet and a permanent magnet, and the magnetically actuatable SMA member. Significantly, the wings/blades of the magnetically actuatable SMA member are coupled to the housing. Activation of the magnetic trigger causes the magnetically actuatable SMA member to move toward the magnetic trigger. The motion of the magnetically actuatable SMA can be converted to a linear displacement. The magnetically actuatable SMA can be implemented using a SMA exhibiting both ferromagnetic and SMA properties, or by a ferromagnetic mass coupled with a SMA (i.e., a ferromagnetic SMA composite).
US08072298B2	Radio frequency filter A radio frequency filter comprising: housing body having input/output connectors and containing space which is divided into spaces by means of diaphragm; at least one resonator rod arranged in the housing; housing cover coupled to the housing body; wherein the housing body and the housing cover are coupled to each other by laser welding. The radio frequency filter according to the present invention can reduce PIMD due to reduce Contact Nonlinearity, and inhibit to erode away because the laser welding method dissolve different metallic materials each other and take a convalent bond, and reduce its manufacturing process time and cost because it is unnecessary drilling a hole and fastening a screw to fasten the housing and the housing cover each other and can simplify its manufacturing process and raise productivity because only irradiate laser beam on irradiated area of the housing cover.
US08072297B2	Apparatus and method for improving channel filter selectivity and performance using voltage variable impedance elements A controllable filter arrangement with a voltage controlled device that subjects a signal to a predetermined impedance as part of the filtering process when the voltage controlled device is in an active state. In an inactive state, the voltage controlled device may subject the signal to an impedance that prevents all frequencies of the signal from passing. This configuration may advantageously increase frequency selectivity and reduce insertion loss, size, cost, and tuning complexity when compared with conventional filter designs.
US08072296B2	Delay element with a perturber displaceable between first and second microstrip circuits A differential delay element for use, e.g., in selectively delaying RF signals in telecommunication systems includes a first microstrip circuit and a second microstrip circuit arranged side-by-side in a facing relationship. The first microstrip circuit defines a first delayed travel path for a first signal from a first input port to a first output port and the second microstrip circuit defines a second delayed travel path for a second signal from a second input port to a second output port. A perturber is arranged between the first and second microstrip circuits, displaceable toward and away from the first and second microstrip circuits, so that when the distance of the perturber to one of the microstrip circuits increases, the distance of the perturber to the other of the microstrip circuits decreases and viceversa. The position of the perturber between the first and second microstrip circuits defines the differential delay, namely the difference (Δτ=τ1−τ2) between the times (τ1,τ2) experienced by the two signals in travelling their travel paths through the delay device.
US08072294B2	Filter having switch function and band pass filter The filter has a switch function of selectively transmitting a transmission signal through one of first and second branch waveguides branching from a primary waveguide. The filter includes resonators disposed in the first and second branch waveguides. The resonator includes a space formed inside a metal cover, a central conductor disposed inside the space, and a short-circuiting plate. The central conductor has one end grounded to an outer conductor. The short-circuiting plate allows the neighborhood of an open end of the central conductor to be selectively conducted to the outer conductor. The filter performs a selection from the first and second branch waveguides by switching electrical conductivity in a region between the neighborhood of the open end of the central conductor and the outer conductor.
US08072293B2	Surface acoustic wave filter, antenna duplexer and method for manufacturing them A surface acoustic wave filter comprised of a plurality of surface acoustic wave resonators having different resonance frequencies, the filter comprising a substrate made of lithium niobate, comb electrodes (1201 and 1202) formed on the substrate, and a thin dielectric film covering the comb electrodes (1201 and 1202), wherein the surface acoustic wave resonator having a lower resonance frequency is formed to have a metallization ratio larger than a metallization ratio of the surface acoustic wave resonator having a higher resonance frequency, thereby providing the surface acoustic wave filter and an antenna duplexer featuring superior characteristics with insignificant ripples while suppressing spurious responses of the surface acoustic wave resonators.
US08072292B2	High-frequency module A high-frequency module includes a balanced demultiplexer including a pair of balanced signal terminals and that has at least one of high differential isolation and high differential attenuation. A distance between an antenna terminal and a second balanced signal terminal provided on a mounting surface of a circuit board is greater than the antenna terminal and a first balanced signal terminal. On a back surface of the circuit board, a distance between a first back surface side electrode pad to which the antenna terminal is connected and a fourth back surface side electrode pad to which the second balanced signal terminal is connected is less than a distance between the first back surface side electrode pad to which the antenna terminal is connected and a third back surface side electrode pad to which the first balanced signal terminal is connected.
US08072289B2	Composite right/left (CRLH) couplers High-frequency couplers and coupling techniques are described utilizing artificial composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH-TL). Three specific forms of couplers are described; (1) a coupled-line backward coupler is described with arbitrary tight/loose coupling and broad bandwidth; (2) a compact enhanced-bandwidth hybrid ring coupler is described with increased bandwidth and decreased size; and (3) a dual-band branch-line coupler that is not limited to a harmonic relation between the bands. These variations are preferably implemented in a microstrip fabrication process and may use lumped-element components. The couplers and coupling techniques are directed at increasing the utility while decreasing the size of high-frequency couplers, and are suitable for use with separate coupler or couplers integrated within integrated devices.
US08072288B2	Directional coupler A directional coupler capable of improving a directionality of a directional coupler body including four terminals. The directional coupler includes a directional coupler body including the four terminals of an input port, an output port, a coupling port, and an isolation port; and a combiner for combining powers of an output signal of the coupling port and an output signal of the isolation port of the directional coupler body; and a directionality improving circuit for amplifying or attenuating at least one of the output signal of the coupling port and the output signal of the isolation port before outputting the same, and the combiner combines powers of the output signals amplified or attenuated by the directionality improving circuit.
US08072283B2	Signal modulation for switched mode power amplifiers In a device (10) for modulating Cartesian base band signals (I, Q) a first and second mapping unit (12, 14) each map signal samples of a corresponding Cartesian signal (I, Q) to intermediary signal sections having only two non-zero levels provided symmetrically around zero for forming two intermediary signals (S1, S2). A first and second processing unit (16, 18) each map each intermediary sections of an intermediary signal (S1, S2) to segments of a corresponding pulse train (S3, S4) through providing a positive pulse in one half of a segment if the corresponding signal section has a positive signal level and a positive pulse in another half of the segment if the corresponding signal section has a negative signal level. A delay unit (20) delays the pulses of one train in relation to the other and a combining unit (22) combines the trains for provision to a power amplifier (24).
US08072278B2	System and method for reducing power consumption of an oscillator An apparatus for generating an oscillating signal including a negative-resistance circuit, a crystal, and a component to modify a series resonance of the crystal to decrease power consumption of the negative-resistance circuit in generating the oscillating signal. The component may include a positive-reactance circuit, one or more inductive elements, or pair of inductive elements coupled to the crystal. The apparatus may further include a frequency-tuning component for adjusting a frequency of the oscillating signal, such as a variable capacitor coupled to the crystal. The negative-resistance circuit may include a digital inverter circuit, an inverting analog amplifier, or a self-regulating circuit. The apparatus may further include a quiescent current source to supply a steady-state current to the negative-resistance circuit, and a start up current source to supply a boost current to the negative-resistance circuit only during start up to expedite the oscillating signal in reaching a defined steady-state condition.
US08072274B2	Oscillation circuit A differential oscillation circuit according to the present invention is a differential oscillation circuit including a feedback loop circuit. The differential oscillation circuit includes: delay, circuits, cascade-connected one after another on the feedback loop circuit, each delay circuit configured to delay paired differential input signals which the delay circuit receives, and to output the delayed differential signals as paired differential output signals; and an oscillation activation detector circuit configured to detect whether the oscillation circuit is in an oscillation activation state or in a stable state, and to output a detection signal indicating a result of the detection. Furthermore, on the basis of the detection signal outputted from the oscillation activation detector circuit, each of the delay circuits controls output current values of the differential output signals. This circuit configuration enables the speeding up of the oscillation frequency of the circuit.
US08072273B2	System employing synchronized crystal oscillator-based clock, to be used in either discrete or integrated applications A synchronized clock system, for use with an electronic system having several system nodes requiring a synchronized clock signal. The clock system may be formed in either discrete form or in integrated form, or in any combination, and includes a first synch bus and a second synch bus, isolated from the first synch bus, and at least one pair and preferably several pairs of SXO modules connected to the busses in alternating fashion. Each of the system nodes is connected at a different one of any number of arbitrarily selected connection points anywhere along the first bus. The points along the busses at which the SXO modules are connected are spaced roughly equidistantly apart. The system nodes are connected to the bus by means of signal conditioning circuits, which may include correction circuits, an amplifier, a frequency multiplier, a logic translator and a fan buffer.
US08072269B2	Amplifier Briefly, one or more embodiments of an amplifier, including example applications, are described.
US08072261B2	Power amplifier A power amplifier based on EER technology or ET technology extracts an amplitude-modulated component from a modulated signal as an input signal which includes the amplitude-modulated component and a phase-modulated component, and decomposes the amplitude-modulated component into two control signals whose product is proportional to the amplitude-modulated component. One of the control signals is amplified by a highly efficient amplifier, and thereafter is used to amplitude-modulate an output from an RF amplifier. The other control signal is converted by a pulse modulator into a rectangular-wave signal, which is then mixed with the phase-modulated component or the modulated signal and input to the RF amplifier.
US08072260B1	Configurable clock network for programmable logic device In a programmable logic device having high-speed serial interface channels, a clock distribution network for providing one or more high-speed clocks to dynamic phase alignment circuitry of those high-speed serial interfaces includes at least one bus that is segmentable (e.g. using tristatable buffers). This allows the bus to be divided into different portions that can be connected to different clock sources when the high-speed serial interfaces are running at different speeds. In one embodiment, the segmenting elements (e.g., the aforementioned buffers) are located between selected channels (e.g., every fourth channel), limiting the size of the different segments. In another embodiment, segmenting elements are located between each channel, allowing complete user freedom in selecting the sizes of the segments. Thus, instead of providing a bus for every clock source, multiple clocks can be made available to different channels by segmenting a single bus.
US08072258B2	Booster circuit In a booster circuit which is operated with a two-phase clock and in which a plurality of (M≧4) lines of boosting cells constitute a unit, a boosting cell in the K-th line (1≦K≦M) is controlled, depending on the voltage of the input terminal of a boosting cell in the KA-th line (KA=(K−1) when (K−1)>0, and KA=M when (K−1)=0). As a result, a charge transfer transistor can transition from the conductive state to the non-conductive state before a clock input to the boosting cell in the K-th line transitions from low to high and then boosting operation is performed. As a result, the backflow of charge via the charge transfer transistor can be reduced or prevented.
US08072257B2	Charge pump-type voltage booster circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit device A booster circuit includes first and second transistors, a first capacitor, a first drive circuit, a second capacitor, a first controller, and a second controller. The first and second transistors are connected in series between a first voltage and a second voltage. One end of the first capacitor is connected to a connection node between the first transistor and the second transistor. The first drive circuit boosts the voltage at the other end of the first capacitor. The second capacitor is connected between the second voltage and a reference voltage. The first controller controls conduction/non-conduction of the first transistor. The second controller inputs any of the first voltage and the second voltage to the second transistor, and thereby controls conduction/non-conduction of the second transistor. The boost circuit is supplied with the reference voltage, a supply voltage, and a boost clock signal, and generates the second voltage by boosting the supply voltage.
US08072254B2	Delay cell and phase locked loop using the same A phase locked loop that generates an internal clock by controlling a delay time of a delay cell according to conditions of PVT, thereby improving a jitter characteristic of the internal clock. The delay cell includes a first current controller for controlling first and second currents in response to a control voltage, and a second current controller for controlling the first and second currents in response to frequency range selection signals. The phase locked loop includes a phase comparator for comparing a reference clock with a feedback clock, a control voltage generator for generating a control voltage corresponding to an output of the phase comparator, and a voltage controlled oscillator for generating an internal clock having a frequency in response to the control voltage and one or more frequency range control signals, wherein the feedback clock is generated using the internal clock.
US08072253B2	Clock adjusting circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit device Disclosed is a clock adjusting circuit comprising a phase shifter that receives a clock signal and variably shifts, based on a control signal, respective timing phases of a rising edge and a falling edge of the clock signal; and a control circuit that supplies the control signal to the phase shifter circuit before each edge is output; wherein the clock signal, in which at least one of a period, a duty ratio, jitter and skew/delay of the input clock signal is changed over an arbitrary number of clock cycles, is output.
US08072252B2	Compound logic flip-flop having a plurality of input stages A compound logic flip-flop. The flip-flop includes a plurality of input stages, wherein each of the input stages is coupled to receive at least one input signal and a clock signal. Each of the plurality of input (i.e. ‘master’) stages is configured to perform a corresponding input logic function during a first phase of a clock cycle and to store a result of the corresponding input logic function. The flip-flop further includes an output (i.e. ‘slave’) stage coupled to receive the clock signal and the results of the input logic functions from each of the plurality of input stages. The output stage is configured, during a second phase of the clock cycle, to logically combine the results of the input logic functions by performing an output logic function and provide an output signal based on a result of the output logic function.
US08072251B2	Latch circuit and electronic device A latch circuit includes: four or more gates; three input terminals and one or two output terminals which are connected to at least one of the four or more gates; a feedback circuit in which respective input terminals of the four or more gates are connected to output terminals of at least another two of the four gates; and a data inverting gate which, when all data input into the three input terminals is the same, outputs inverted data of the data from the output terminals, and when all the data input into the three input terminals is not the same, retains previous data.
US08072250B2	Reset signal distribution Methods, circuits and systems may operate to generate a reset signal at an input reset block and synchronously distribute the reset signal, via a number of pipelined reset blocks, to multiple ports of a core circuit. The reset signal may be transmitted successively to each of the pipelined reset blocks to provide delayed reset signals having delay times. The delay times may be based on locations of the pipelined reset blocks in the reset circuit. On or more of the delayed reset signals may be programmably coupled to one or more ports of the core circuit. Additional methods, circuits, and systems are disclosed.
US08072248B2	Method and apparatus for improving accuracy of signals delay A delay module, a delay method, a clock detection apparatus, and a digital locked loop (DLL) are disclosed. The delay module includes a first delay unit, a second delay unit and an inverter. Each of the first delay unit and the second delay unit include two logic gates adapted to invert a phase: a logic gate for gating and a logic gate for delaying. These two logic gates are electrically connected. The input port of the logic gate for gating of the first delay unit is electrically connected to the output port of the inverter; the output port of the logic gate for delaying of the first delay unit is electrically connected to the input port of the logic gate for delaying of the second delay unit; the input port of the inverter is electrically connected to the input port of the logic gate for gating of the second delay unit; the input port of the inverter is adapted to input a clock signal to be delayed, and the logic gate for delaying of the second delay unit is adapted to output a delayed clock signal. With the present invention, a more accurate delay step value may be achieved.
US08072246B2	Switching power supply device, semiconductor integrated circuit device and power supply device A switching power supply device performs a stable operation with fast response for a semiconductor integrated circuit device. A capacitor is provided between the output side of an inductor and a ground potential. A first power MOSFET supplies an electric current from an input voltage to the input side of the inductor. A second power MOSFET turned on when the first power MOSFET is off allows the input side of the inductor to be of a predetermined potential. A first feedback signal corresponding to an output voltage obtained from the output side of the inductor and a second feedback signal corresponding to an electric current flowed to the first power MOSFET are used to form a PWM signal. The first power MOSFET has plural cells of a vertical type MOS-construction.
US08072241B2	Semiconductor device having diode-built-in IGBT and semiconductor device having diode-built-in DMOS A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a diode-built-in insulated-gate bipolar transistor having an insulated-gate bipolar transistor and a diode, which are disposed in the substrate, wherein the insulated-gate bipolar transistor includes a gate, and is driven with a driving signal input into the gate; and a feedback unit for detecting current passing through the diode. The driving signal is input from an external unit into the feedback unit. The feedback unit passes the driving signal to the gate of the insulated-gate bipolar transistor when the feedback unit detects no current through the diode, and the feedback unit stops passing the driving signal to the gate of the insulated-gate bipolar transistor when the feedback unit detects the current through the diode.
US08072239B2	Element controller for a resilient integrated circuit architecture The exemplary embodiments provide a resilient integrated circuit. An exemplary IC comprises a plurality of composite circuit elements, a state machine element (SME), and a plurality of communication elements. Each composite circuit element comprises an element controller, an element interface and a selected circuit element which may vary by element type, and which may be configurable. The state machine element assigns various functions based on element type, such as assigning a first configuration to a first element type, assigning a second configuration to a second element type, and providing a first data link for the corresponding assignments. The element controller controls the execution of data operations by the circuit element. Function assignment, routing, fault detection, and re-assignment and data re-routing can occur in real time for a wide variety of programs and algorithms, providing for the IC to continue the same functioning despite defects which may arise during operation.
US08072236B2	Download sequencing techniques for circuit configuration data Methods, systems, and devices are described for the implementation of a novel architecture to support download sequencing techniques for circuit configuration data. Sets of configuration data from nonvolatile memory may be sequentially transferred to volatile memory to support reconfigurable circuit elements, for example, for use in a clock generator. Different programmable circuit elements may use configuration data, but have different ramp-up times before stable operation. With early download sequence positioning of configuration data, and corresponding immediacy in initiation of operation, certain clock elements are able to commence initiation of operation while remaining clock elements are provided with configuration data from a latter portion of the download sequence.
US08072233B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring via's in a semiconductor fab A method for monitoring a semiconductor fabrication process creates a wafer of semiconductor chips. Each chip has a one or more diodes. Each diode is addressable as part of an array, corresponds to a physical location of the chip, and is connected in series to a stack. The stack is composed of one ore more vertical interconnects and metal contacts. The diode and associated stack of vertical interconnects is addressed, and the current through each of the stacks of vertical interconnects in an array is measured.
US08072232B2	Test apparatus that tests a device under test having a test function for sequentially outputting signals Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test having a test function for sequentially outputting, from a single test terminal, signals that would be output from a plurality of terminals, the test apparatus comprising: a test section that supplies the device under test with a test signal and receives signals that are sequentially output from the test terminal in response to the test signal; an identifying section that identifies a correspondence between each signal sequentially received by the test section and a signal that would be output from one of the terminals of the device under test; and a counting section that counts a number of signals judged to be unacceptable from among the signals sequentially received by the test section for each terminal of the device under test, based on the correspondence identified by the identifying section.
US08072231B2	Testing method of wafer with thin-film magnetic heads and manufacturing method of thin-film magnetic head A testing method of a wafer provided with a plurality of thin-film magnetic heads is provided. Each of the plurality of thin-film magnetic heads includes a main pole layer, a first test pad formed on the wafer and electrically connected with an extended top end section of the main pole layer and a second test pad formed on the wafer and electrically connected with a back end section of the main pole layer. The testing method includes a step of measuring an electrical resistance between the first test pad and the second test pad, a step of judging whether the measured electrical resistance is within a set range, and a step of discriminating that the thin-film magnetic head is a non-defective product when the measured electrical resistance is within the set range.
US08072223B1	Monitoring circuit for determining if an electric element has failed before the electric element is powered A circuit for monitoring the functionality of an electrical element. A primary power supply provides direct current to the electrical element at a current sufficient for the electrical element to operate. A Schottky diode is disposed between the primary power supply and the electrical element, wherein the electrical element draws its operational current through the Schottky diode when in operation. A reverse bias power supply is provided. An opto-isolator is disposed between the reverse bias power supply and the electrical element. The electrical element draws a secondary current from the reverse bias power supply through the opto-isolator. The opto-isolator creates an output signal that is indicative of the secondary current. The output signal is used to control a remote failure indicator. When the electrical element fails, the current flowing through the opto-isolator stops. This triggers the failure indicator and informs a user as to the failed status.
US08072222B2	Signal generator for electromagnetic surveying that produces a signal having an analog continuous waveform To perform an electromagnetic (EM) surveying of a subterranean structure, a signal generator produces a signal having an analog continuous waveform without steps in the waveform. Producing the signal is in response to an indication specifying a characteristic of the signal. An antenna is responsive to the signal having the analog continuous waveform to emit an EM field to produce the EM surveying of the subterranean structure.
US08072220B2	Positioning, detection and communication system and method A positioning, communication, and detection system designed to provide a three dimensional location of an object, navigation tools, and bidirectional surface-to-subsurface communications, and methods of using the system. The system can include one or multiple transmitters comprising electromagnetic beacons, software defined radio receivers with an associated processing unit and data acquisition system, and magnetic antennas. The system may use theoretical calculations, scale model testing, signal processing, and sensor data.
US08072216B2	Shear wave generation system for medical imaging A system is configured to produce a stress on a subject while performing a magnetic resonance elastography scan in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The system includes an active driver operable to produce an energy configured for a magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) process. A passive actuator is configured to be positioned in the MRI system and to be coupled to the subject. The system includes a tube coupling the active driver to the passive actuator to deliver the energy produced by the active driver to the passive actuator, and a strap coupled to the passive actuator. The strap is configured to be disposed around the subject. The strap includes a substantially inelastic material configured to convert the energy delivered to the passive actuator from the tube into shear waves with the subject for use in the MRE process.
US08072214B2	Method for magnetic resonance imaging using sequential excitation and refocusing A method of magnetic resonance imaging based on rapid acquisition by sequential excitation and refocusing is provided. The method comprises turning on a first time-encoding gradient and applying an excitation pulse in the presence of the first time-encoding gradient. The excitation pulse excites magnetization sequentially along one spatial axis. Thereafter, a first refocusing pulse is applied. A second time-encoding gradient is turned on followed by a second refocusing pulse. A third time-encoding gradient is turned on and a signal is acquired in the presence of the third time-encoding gradient. The third time-encoding gradient sums to zero with the first time-encoding gradient and the second time-encoding gradient for sequential points in space.
US08072211B2	Multi-channel magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy A magnetic resonance (MR) system comprising multiple radio-frequency (RP) coils (303) configured to apply an MR pulse sequence (100) including at least a preparation segment (PRP) and an acquisition segment (ACQ), wherein the preparation segment (PRP) and the acquisition segment (ACQ) each comprise one or more excitation pulses, is disclosed herein. The MR system further comprises a first control unit (308) configured to apply the one or more excitation pulses of the preparation segment (PRP) by activating the multiple radio-frequency coils in a first excitation pattern, and a second control unit configured to apply the one or more excitation pulses of the acquisition segment (ACQ) by activating the multiple radio-frequency coils in a second excitation pattern, thereby providing dynamic rf shimming.
US08072209B2	Position sensor with variable direction of magnetization and method of production A magnetic sensor of rotary, linear, or curvilinear displacement using at least one permanent magnet and at least one magnetosensitive element, which can move with respect to one another. The magnet exhibits a direction of magnetization that varies continuously along the direction of displacement, with the exclusion of a diametral magnetization in the case of a rotary sensor.
US08072206B2	Spectrum analyzer system and spectrum analyze method Provided is a spectrum analysis system that measures a signal component at each frequency of an input signal, comprising a sampling section that samples the input signal at prescribed bandwidths to digitize the input signal, and outputs a resulting digital output signal; a converting section that converts the digital output signal from the sampling section into the signal component at each frequency of a unit bandwidth; and an output section that (i) outputs the digital output signal output by the sampling section when a frequency span, which is a frequency range in which the measurement result of the signal component at each frequency of the input signal is output, is greater than or equal to a predetermined reference bandwidth and (ii) outputs the signal component at each frequency converted by the converting section when the frequency span is less than the predetermined reference bandwidth.
US08072204B1	Control system optimization via digital diode emulation The operation of a voltage regulator (or point-of-load regulator) may be optimized, by performing diode emulation using the low-side output transistor (LS FET). The voltage regulator may be monitored for a specified trigger event, which may include an averaged value of the load current dropping below a threshold value, and upon recognizing the trigger event, one or more of a number of possible diode emulation algorithms may be enabled. In one algorithm, the duty-cycle of the LS FET control signal may be set to a specified value, then adjusted until the duty-cycle of the high-side output transistor (HS FET) control signal settles and steady state is reached. The duty-cycle of the LS FET control signal may then be adjusted, and the duty-cycle of the HS FET control signal monitored, until the monitoring indicates that the duty-cycle of the HS FET control signal has reached a minimum value, thereby optimizing operation of the voltage regulator with respect to power loss. The averaged current may be based on actual load current measurements, or it may be calculated. In the latter case, discontinuous operation of the regulator may be determined based on the duty-cycle of the HS FET control signal deviating from its highest value.
US08072199B2	Control circuit for step-down DC-DC converter, step-down DC-DC converter and control method thereof To provide a control circuit of a step-down DC-DC converter, a step-down DC-DC converter and a control method thereof which can prevent overshoot and production of a through current flowing to a main switching transistor and a synchronous rectifier transistor by adopting a simple circuit configuration. The control circuit of the step-down DC-DC converter in which a main switching transistor M0 is constituted of a NMOS transistor has a MOS transistor M2 connected between a gate of the main switching transistor M0 and a ground potential and is operable to become conductive in response to an OFF command from the main switching transistor M0.
US08072197B2	Power-managed socket The present invention relates to a power-managed socket adapted for connecting to an electrical device and thus providing the electrical device with power. The power-managed socket comprises: a detection circuit capable of detecting and outputting a characteristic value of the electrical device connected to the power-managed socket, the characteristic value being a voltage value or a current value; an identification database capable of storing parameters corresponding to at least one specific electrical product; a micro control unit capable of converting the characteristic value received from the detection circuit after the characteristic value is analog-to-digital converted into an electric signal while comparing the electric signal with signals stored in the identification database to determine whether the electrical device connected to the power-managed socket is the specific electric product; and a power circuit capable of providing the detection circuit, the identification database and the micro control unit with power.
US08072191B2	Shorted rotating diode detection and protection An electric generator with a rotating diode fault detection device built in that operates by comparing a voltage buildup across the exciter DC supply with a preset threshold value and determining if a fault condition is present based on the comparison.
US08072189B2	Charge and discharge control circuit and battery device Provided are a charge and discharge control circuit capable of reducing a circuit size, and a battery device. In a charger reverse connection detection circuit (116), a comparison circuit or the like is not used, and two NMOS transistors are used, whereby circuit sizes of the reverse connection detection circuit (116) and a charge and discharge control circuit (110) are reduced. Accordingly, a consumption current is reduced, and a manufacturing cost is also reduced.
US08072180B1	Synchronous sampling of PWM waveforms A device for filtering a carrier frequency of a PWM waveform. The device includes a low-pass filter for converting the PWM waveform into an analog signal. The device further includes a sampling analog-to-digital converter receiving the analog signal from the low-pass filter and the device also includes a controller for causing the non-integrating analog to digital converter to sample the PWM waveform at the pulse frequency rate thereby rejecting the carrier frequency. As already stated the PWM waveform includes a pulse which has a leading edge, a top portion, and a trailing edge. In one embodiment, the controller causes the A/D converter to sample during the top of the pulse. Preferably, the controller causes the A/D converter to sample at substantially the center of the pulse.
US08072179B2	Electronic starter device for an electric motor, in particular for a compressor of a refrigerating circuit of an electric household appliance An electronic starter device for an electric motor including a first terminal connected in use to a mains voltage source selectively activatable by means of control means to feed respective starter and run windings of the electric motor; switch means arranged in series between the voltage source and the starter winding to selectively feed the starter winding; generating means of a first low voltage potential (V1) directly connected to the feeding terminal; timer means including at least one capacitor and means for selectively charging the capacitor by means of at least one first resistor; first driving means for activating the switch means; and second driving means for activating the first driving means, the latter being arranged logically in a cascade with respect to the second driving means, which are activated by means of the timer means.
US08072176B2	Displacement sensing method and motor control apparatus A displacement sensing method of the present invention includes the steps of superimposing a predetermined signal on a torque command to supply a drive torque to a motor, measuring an amplitude spectrum ratio between the drive torque in superimposing the predetermined signal on the torque command and a motor angle measured by a displacement sensor, generating correction data for evening out the amplitude spectrum ratio, and correcting the measured motor angle so that the motor angle measured by the displacement sensor is equal to an actual motor angle using the correction data.
US08072173B2	Servo motor monitoring apparatus Disclosed a servo motor monitoring apparatus including: a magnetic pole position calculating member to extract a magnetic pole position signal of the servo motor from a motor drive line connected to the servo motor; a present position signal inputting member to receive an input of a present position signal from the position detecting member attached to the servo motor; and a monitoring member to compare operations of the servo motor based on two types of signals of the magnetic pole position signal and the present position signal of the servo motor, and to output a stop instruction signal for cutting off a power supply to the servo motor when detecting disagreement.
US08072171B2	Motor control A method of controlling a current of a three-phase electric motor with a three-phase controller. The firing angles are adjusted so as to leave a range of firing angles in which DC components appear.
US08072165B2	Apparatus for estimating rotor position of brushless motors and system and method for controlling start-up of brushless motors An apparatus for estimating rotor position for brushless motors capable of accurately estimating rotor position even though power source voltage fluctuates is provided. First, the power source voltage is detected, and voltage is supplied only for a certain period of time and a current response is detected. The current detection value is multiplied by the ratio of a reference voltage to the power source voltage detected to correct the current detection value. Specifically, the peak current detection value is corrected upwardly or downwardly in each direction. A voltage supplying direction in which the current detection value is maximized is searched for to estimate the rotor position and a brushless motor is started.
US08072162B2	Bi-direction constant current device An LED lamp includes a bi-direction constant current device coupled between a power supply and a LED load to provide stable positive and negative currents to the LED load. The bi-direction constant current device includes a pair of current sources face-to-face or back-to-back connected in series between the power supply and the LED load, and two protective elements shunt to the pair of current sources, respectively.
US08072160B2	Low power non-isolated driver The present invention mainly discloses low power non-isolated driver that can be used for LED lighting and other non-isolated power supply appliance, in which the input side is connected to an AC or DC input, a PWM control circuit is connected to the buck converter switch, a capacitor filters the output voltage ripple and an output voltage/current control circuit provides feedback signal to the PWM control circuit. The present invention has such features of less component number, low total cost, high reliability, and better line/load regulation.
US08072155B2	Electrodeless discharge lamp device and lighting fixture using the same An electrodeless discharge lamp device comprises an induction coil, a pair of cores 1a, 1b, and thermal conductor 2. The cores 1a, 1b are configured to generate a high-frequency electromagnetic field for exciting a discharge gas with receiving a high frequency electric power. Each of the cores is arranged to give an overall circumference around which the induction coil is wound. The thermal conductor is formed into an approximately cylindrical shape and inserted into the space so as to be thermally coupled with the cores for radiating heat generated at the cores. The core has its inside face at least center portion of which is spaced radially from the thermal conductor by a predetermined distance.
US08072151B2	Inverter circuit An inverter circuit (20) includes a transformer (T2) including a primary winding and a secondary winding including a high voltage terminal, a first copper foil (P21), a power stage circuit (21) electrically connected to the primary winding, a detection circuit (22) including a second copper foil (P22) and an impedance (Z2), a protection circuit (23) outputting a protection signal, and a pulse width modulation controller (24) controlling output of the power stage circuit according to the protection signal. The second copper foil and the first copper foil are separated. An equivalent capacitor is formed between the second copper foil and the first copper foil, detecting voltage output from the high voltage terminal. The impedance is electrically connected between the second copper foil and ground, dividing a voltage detected by the equivalent capacitor.
US08072149B2	Unbalanced ion source A dual unbalanced indirectly heated cathode (IHC) ion chamber is disclosed. The cathodes have different surface areas, thereby affecting the amount of heat radiated by each. In the preferred embodiment, one cathode is of the size and dimension typically used for IHC ionization, as traditionally used for hot mode operation. The second cathode, preferably located on the opposite wall of the chamber, is of a smaller size. This smaller cathode is still indirectly heated by a filament, but due to its smaller size, radiates less heat into the source chamber, allowing the ion source to operate in cold mode, thereby preserving the molecular structure of the target molecules. In both modes, the unused cathode is preferably biased so as to be at the same potential as the IHC, thus allowing it to act as a repeller.
US08072140B2	Metal halide fill for an electric high pressure discharge lamp and associated lamp A metal-halogenide filling for forming an ionisable filling comprises at least one inert gas, mercury and at least one halogen, the filling including at least the components Rb-halogenide and Mn-halogenide. This filling can in particular be contained in the discharge container of a metal-halogenide lamp.
US08072135B2	Organic EL device and display An organic EL device and display are provided. An organic EL device which has light emission components in three colors of red, green and blue in a good balance suited to use for a full-color display and which is capable of highly efficient and stable light emission for a long time. In the organic EL device including an organic layer having light emitting layers sandwiched between an anode and a cathode, the light emitting layers include a red light emitting layer, a green light emitting layer, and a blue light emitting layer laminated in this order from the side of the anode. The red light emitting layer contains a hole transporting light emitting material and has a hole transporting property. In addition, the green light emitting layer has a positive and negative charge transporting property. Furthermore, the blue light emitting layer has an electron transporting property, and includes a positive and negative charge transporting blue light emitting layer and an electron transporting blue light emitting layer laminated in this order from the side of the anode.
US08072134B2	Light-emitting devices Light-emitting devices, and related components, systems and methods are disclosed.
US08072130B2	LED lamp An LED lamp includes a connecting member and an LED module. The connecting member is adapted for electrically connecting with a power source. The LED module is clasped by and electrically connects to the connecting member.
US08072129B2	Lamp having switching arrangement A lamp includes at least one luminous source (14, 6, 8), in particular a low-pressure discharge lamp, for producing main illumination and having at least one alternative luminous element (22), in particular a light-emitting diode arrangement having at least one LED, for producing alternative illumination, which are arranged on a cap (12) , and having electronics, wherein a switching arrangement, which can be actuated manually, for operating the lamp in the main illumination mode, the alternative illumination mode or in both illumination modes at the same time is provided in the cap.
US08072128B2	Filament lamp To provide the structure of a filament lamp having a plurality of independent power supply pathways, the structure being capable of preventing the power supply pathways from electrically shorting to each other, a filament lamp formed of a straight-tube shaped luminous part having multiple filaments (F1, F2, F3) divided in the axial direction, and sealing parts (20) on each of opposite ends of the luminous part (10) in which are embedded metal foils (31, 32, 33) corresponding to the number of filaments in an aligned manner, and leads for supplying electricity independently to each filament, the luminous part (10) having a first housing space (11) for housing the filaments and a second housing space (12) for housing the leads (51, 52, 53), the housing spaces be connected and extending in the axial direction.
US08072126B2	Field electron emission source having carbon nanotubes and method for manufacturing the same An exemplary method for manufacturing a field electron emission source includes: providing a substrate (102); depositing a cathode layer (104) on a surface of the substrate; providing a carbon nanotube paste, coating the carbon nanotube paste on the cathode layer; calcining the carbon nanotube paste to form a carbon nanotube composite layer (110); and, irradiating the carbon nanotube composite layer with a laser beam of a certain power density, thereby achieving a field electron emission source.
US08072121B2	Electroactive polymer transducers biased for optimal output Electroactive polymer transducers are disclosed. They are biased in a manner that provides for increased force and/or stroke output, thereby offering improved work potential and power output capacity. The biasing may offer additional or alternate functional advantage in terms of matching transducer performance with a given application such as a normally-closed valve. The improved biasing (including increased output biasing) may utilize negative spring rate biasing and/or a combination of negative or zero-rate biasing with positive rate biasing to achieve the desired ends.
US08072120B2	Multiple degrees of freedom motion system A multiple degrees of freedom motion system comprising an arrangement of rigid stages, flexure constraint modules, actuators, and sensors. These components of the motion system are arranged and connected in a systematic fashion to provide a high degree of decoupling between the motion axes, suitable placement of ground-mounted actuators to actuate each motion axis, and suitable placement of sensors to allow end-point measurement along each motion axis. This arrangement of rigid stages, flexure constraint modules, actuators and sensors enables large motion range and high motion quality in the motion system, while using standard and commonly available components.
US08072119B2	Piezoelectric component A piezoelectric component with a body in which electrically connected transducer elements are realized is disclosed. The transducer elements are separated from each other by an essentially field-free neutral region of the body. A first transducer element has electrically connected first electrodes, and a second transducer element has electrically connected second electrodes. In addition, at least one third electrode, which is arranged in the first and second transducer element is provided. At least three of the first and third electrodes are arranged in an alternating sequence. At least three of the second and third electrodes are arranged in an alternating sequence. The neutral area is perpendicular to the planes in which the electrodes are arranged.
US08072117B2	Thermal-mechanical signal processing A source signal is converted into a time-variant temperature field with transduction into mechanical motion. In one embodiment, the conversion of a source signal into the time-variant temperature field is provided by utilizing a micro-fabricated fast response, bolometer-type radio frequency power meter. A resonant-type micromechanical thermal actuator may be utilized for temperature read-out and demodulation.
US08072116B2	Brush holder A brush holder (10) for a motor and having a plate-shaped base body (11) having an opening (13) for passing the motor rotor (30) therethrough, at least one brush receptacle (14) in which a carbon brush (15) is displaceably received, and an electronics can (12) projecting from the plate-shaped base body (11), closed at its side (21) adjacent to an axis (A) defined by the base body opening (13), and having an inner chamber (22) in which at least a portion of components of control electronics is received.
US08072115B2	Foil coil structures and methods for winding the same for axial-based electrodynamic machines Disclosed are foil coil structures and methods for winding the same for stators in electrodynamic machines, as well as electrodynamic machines that implement such coil structures. In one embodiment, a foil coil structure is configured for implementation with a field pole member having pole faces that confront, for example, conical magnets.
US08072104B2	Cooling of a magnetic bearing A rotary machine, which can be a turbine or a rotary compressor, is provided. The rotary machine includes a stationary housing and a rotating shaft supported in the housing by a magnetic bearing, whereby the magnetic bearing includes a laminated bearing journal with a shaft-mounted rotating lamination and a corresponding housing-mounted stationary lamination surrounding the rotating lamination, whereby both laminations extend axially to the shaft within a bearing portion, limited on one side by the end of the shaft. In addition, an axial duct extends axially through the shaft from the end to at least one substantially radial duct connecting the axial duct with an orifice in the shaft surface adjacent the other side of the bearing portion, and whereby a stationary tube is inserted in the axial duct supplying it with fluid. This arrangement provides sufficient cooling for a laminated bearing journal of the rotary machine.
US08072101B2	Base for a heat-dissipating fan motor A base for a heat-dissipating fan motor includes a plate member made of metal, a coupling barrel made of plastic, and an outer case made of plastic. The plate member is formed with at least one positioning leg and at least one air inlet hole. The plate member has a motor-confronting side, and the positioning leg extends inclinedly and protrudes from the motor-confronting side. The coupling barrel is adapted for coupling with the heat-dissipating fan motor, and has a closed-barrel end that has the positioning leg embedded therein, and an open-barrel end opposite to the closed barrel end. The outer case is connected to the plate member, cooperates with the coupling barrel to form a motor-receiving space, and is formed with an air outlet hole.
US08072099B2	Voice coil motor for driving lens group A voice coil motor includes a base, a shell, first and second magnetic members, a lens retainer, a coil of wire mounted on the retainer, first and second elastic members. The base includes a bottom and posts extending upwards from the bottom. The shell includes a top and sidewalls cooperatively defining a receiving space therein. The shell is mounted on the base with the posts being received in the receiving space. The first magnetic members are positioned on the bottom of the base, the second magnetic members are positioned on the top of the shell, and each two adjacent of the posts have one of the first magnetic members and one of the second magnetic members located therebetween. The first resilient member and a second resilient member each include fixing portions fixed to the posts, and a spring portion connected to retainer between the first and second magnetic members.
US08072096B2	Integrated circuit with multiple independent power supply zones An integrated circuit comprising multiple independent power supply zones at substantially the same voltage level and a method for utilizing such power supply zones. An integrated circuit may comprise a first module and may, for example, comprise a second module. A first power supply bus may communicate first electrical power to the first module, where the first electrical power is characterized by a first set of power characteristics comprising a first voltage level. A second power supply bus may communicate second power to the second module, where the second power is characterized by a second set of power characteristics comprising a second voltage level that is substantially similar to the first voltage level. The second set of power characteristics may, for example, be substantially different than the first set of power characteristics. The second power supply bus may also, for example, communicate the second electrical power to the first module.
US08072094B2	Active output compensation circuit An active output compensation circuit is adopted for use on a power supply which receives input power and regulates to become a plurality of different output power. The power supply has a transformer to transform the input power. The transformer has a secondary side connecting to a plurality of output regulation units to deliver the output power. The active output compensation circuit includes a voltage difference judgment unit electrically connected to the output regulation units and a plurality of compensation channel switches. The compensation channel switches bridge two output regulation units and the voltage difference judgment unit. The voltage difference judgment unit judges the voltage difference of two output power and determines whether to output an ON signal. The compensation channel switches are driven by the ON signal and set ON so that one output power can compensate another output power.
US08072093B2	Intelligent power system An intelligent power system includes one or more common power sources and one or more subsystem components interconnected with the common power sources. Each common power source includes an unregulated bus, a plurality of power source regulated buses, each regulated bus originating at a common power source and terminating at a respective one of k load subsystems, a power source, first, second, third and fourth groups of switches, a regulator having a plurality of outputs and an energy storage element. The regulator is configured to provide a time-shared mode of operation to provide power sequentially to one or more of the k load subsystems, such that the time intervals when the regulator is connected to any one of the k load subsystems do not overlap, and where the regulator is configured to switch in supplemental power from the energy storage, if necessary, to ensure that an average power delivered by the regulator does not exceed the average power consumed by all of the k load subsystems.
US08072090B2	Process and system for generating consumable energy A method of powering a multi-level structure is provided, which includes disposing a climate control system in the building. The system has a cooling tower, a fluid cooled chiller, a return line connecting an output of the chiller to an input of the cooling tower, and a condenser pump for pumping fluid therebetween. The system further includes a supply line connecting an output of the cooling tower to an input of the chiller, fluid being gravity fed from the cooling tower to the chiller. A turbine generator is disposed in the return line, the turbine generator being powered by fluid flowing through the return line. The method provides for transferring power generated from the turbine generator to a power supply for the structure.
US08072089B2	Fluid energy apparatus and method A preferred embodiment includes a system for power generation through movement of fluid having a variety of configurations and implementations. One preferred embodiment includes a system for power generation through movement of fluid includes a power generating cell with a generally cylindrical housing a ring for rotating disposed in said housing, one or more impellers fixedly coupled to said ring, and a generator operably coupled to said ring for receiving energy from the one or more impellers in which fluid is disposed about one or more impellers for creating energy.
US08072088B2	Fluid power generator for extracting energy from a fluid flow The invention provides a device for extracting energy from a fluid flow. The device has an air compression chamber and an array of valves, operable to open and close to regulate flow of the fluid through associated valve apertures. The valves are operable to close progressively as the fluid flow is incident thereon, thereby focusing flow of the liquid towards the air compression chamber and compressing air therein. The valves also open on a return flow of liquid from the compression chamber.
US08072087B2	Wave power converter A wave power converter for implementation at an offshore location where it will be exposed to passing waves and swell, comprises a buoyancy element (1) placed within a reaction structure (3) so as to move at least vertically relative to the reaction structure (3), with a force transfer mechanism (2) that connects the buoyancy element (1) to the reaction structure (3) and transfers at least vertical relative motions between the buoyancy element (1) and the reaction structure (3) to a linear energy converting arrangement (8) in the reaction structure (3). Said mechanism (2) is articulated and configured to transfer compression, tension and shear reactions, but essentially no movements, between the buoyancy element (1) and the reaction structure (3) and at the same time allow limited rotational movements between the buoyancy element (1) and the reaction structure (3) about at least two orthogonal axes (X, Y).
US08072086B2	Electrical energy storage and retrieval system A system and method to efficiently store and convert erratic wind and solar electrical energy production to a source of reliable standard AC electrical power by means of an electric motor operatively engaged to power a pump. The pump in a sealed communication with a reservoir cavity evacuates air from the cavity to store the generated energy as potential energy in the form of a pressure differential with ambient atmosphere. Regulated air inflow into the evacuated cavity is employed to drive a generator or alternator to produce electric power which is synchronized with grid demand and communicated to the grid.
US08072084B2	Integrated circuit, circuit system, and method of manufacturing An integrated circuit, a circuit system and method of manufacturing such is disclosed. One embodiment provides a circuit chip including a first contact field on a chip surface; and an insulating layer on the chip surface. The insulating layer includes a flexible material. A contact pillar is coupled to the first contact field and extends from the chip surface through the insulating layer. The contact pillar includes a conductive material.
US08072083B1	Stacked electronic component package having film-on-wire spacer A film-on-wire spacer covers an entire upper surface of a lower electronic component. Accordingly, an upper electronic component is supported above bond pads and lower bond wires of the lower electronic component. This decreases the stress on the upper electronic component, e.g., during wirebonding, and thus decreases the chance of cracking the upper electronic component. Further, the lower bond wires are enclosed in and protected by the film-on-wire spacer. Further, the film-on-wire spacer is thin resulting in a minimum height of the stacked electronic component package.
US08072081B2	Microelectromechanical system package A microelectromechanical system package includes a chip carrier, a first microelectromechanical system chip, a silicon cover, a layer of metal, a plurality of first bonding wires and a sealant. The first microelectromechanical system chip is positioned on the chip carrier and has an active surface, and an active area on the active surface. The layer of metal is formed on the upper surface of the cover. The first bonding wires electrically connect the active surface of the first microelectromechanical system chip to the chip carrier. The sealant is formed on the chip carrier to encapsulate the first microelectromechanical system chip and the first bonding wires.
US08072080B2	Connection structure, electro-optical device, and method for production of electro-optical device The invention provides a connection structure including: a first electro-conductive film that is formed on a substrate; an insulation film that is formed on the first electro-conductive film, an end surface of the insulation film facing in a direction in which an end surface of the first electro-conductive film faces; and a second electro-conductive film that extends from the upper surface of the insulation film to reach the end surface of the first electro-conductive film across the end surface of the insulation film, the second electro-conductive film being electrically connected to the first electro-conductive film via the end surface of the first electro-conductive film.
US08072076B2	Bond pad structures and integrated circuit chip having the same Bonding pad structures and integrated circuits having the same are provided. An exemplary embodiment of a bond pad structure comprises a bond pad layer. A passivation layer partially covers the bond pad layer from edges thereof and exposes a bonding surface, wherein the passivation layer is formed with a recess on at least one edge of the bonding surface to thereby define a probe needle contact area for probe needle testing and a wire bonding area for wire bonding on the bonding surface, and the probe needle contact area and the wire bonding area have a non-overlapping relationship.
US08072074B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same A technique for enhancing the performance of a memory- and logic-equipped semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate (1), an insulating layer (19) on the semiconductor substrate (1), a plurality of contact plugs (16, 66) in the insulating layer (19), and an insulating layer (30) where capacitors (82), a plurality of contact plugs (25, 75), barrier metal layers (27, 87) and copper interconnections (29, 88) are formed. Source/drain regions (9) in the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate (1) are electrically connected to the copper interconnections (29). One of adjacent source/drain regions (59) in the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate (1) is electrically connected to the copper interconnection (88), while the other is electrically connected to the capacitor (82).
US08072073B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same A highly reliable semiconductor device in which connection reliability is assured at very small vias comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a first wiring structure placed on the semiconductor substrate and having one or more first wiring layers, one or more insulating layers and a first via; a second wiring structure placed on the first wiring structure and having one or more second wiring layers, one or more second insulating layers, a second via and a third via; and an external terminal provided on the second wiring structure. The second via, which is connected to the second wiring layer of the second wiring structure and to the external terminal, has a connection interface disposed at an end of the via that is on the side of the external terminal.
US08072072B2	Integrated circuit including different types of gate stacks, corresponding intermediate integrated circuit structure and corresponding integrated circuit The present invention provides a manufacturing method for an integrated circuit and a corresponding integrated circuit. The integrated circuit comprises a plurality of first devices, each first device including a charge storage layer and a control electrode comprising a plurality of layers; and a plurality of second devices coupled to at least one of the plurality of first devices, each second device including a control electrode comprising at least one layer different from said plurality of layers.
US08072068B2	Semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor chip; a sealing resin layer formed on the semiconductor chip; and a post electrode formed in a through-hole penetrating through the sealing resin layer in a thickness direction, and having a hemispheric top surface.
US08072060B2	Semiconductor fingerprint apparatus with flat touch surface In a fingerprint apparatus, fingerprint sensing members disposed on a silicon substrate detect skin textures of a finger placed thereon to generate electric signals. A set of integrated circuits formed on the substrate processes the electric signals. First bonding pads are disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the set of integrated circuits. A first insulating layer is disposed below the first bonding pads. Metal plugs penetrating through the substrate are respectively electrically connected to the first bonding pads. A second insulating layer is formed on the substrate and between the metal plugs and the substrate. Second bonding pads are formed on a rear side of the second insulating layer, and are respectively electrically connected to the first bonding pads through the metal plugs. The protection layer is disposed on the substrate and covers the sensing members to form a flat touch surface to be touched by the finger.
US08072058B2	Semiconductor package having a plurality input/output members A semiconductor package has a first substrate having a plurality of electrically conductive patterns formed thereon. A first semiconductor die is coupled to the plurality of conductive patterns. A second semiconductor die is coupled to the first semiconductor die by a die attach material. A third semiconductor die is coupled to the second semiconductor die by a die attach material. A second substrate having a plurality of electrically conductive patterns formed thereon is coupled to the third semiconductor die. A plurality of contacts is coupled to a bottom surface of the first substrate. A connector jack is coupled to the second substrate. A plurality of leads is coupled to the second semiconductor die by conductive wires.
US08072054B2	Lead frame A lead frame includes a plurality of leads electrically connected to a semiconductor chip and a lead lock including a base layer disposed over the plurality of the leads and formed of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to that of inner leads. An adhesive layer is disposed between the base layer and the plurality of leads to fix the plurality of leads and adhere the base layer to the leads. At least one line electrically connects the semiconductor chip to the base layer of the lead lock. Since regions for bus bars are replaced by the lead lock and are removed, the lead frame can be miniaturized and has superior thermal stability and dimension stability.
US08072052B2	Trench substrate Disclosed herein are a trench substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The trench substrate includes a base substrate, an insulating layer formed on one side or both sides of the base substrate and including trenches formed in a circuit region and a dummy region positioned at a peripheral edge of the trench substrate, and a circuit layer formed in the trenches of the circuit region through a plating process and including a circuit pattern and vias. Thanks to formation of the trenches in the dummy region and the cutting region, deviation in thickness of a plating layer formed on the insulating layer in a plating process is improved upon.
US08072051B2	Folded lands and vias for multichip semiconductor packages Semiconductor packages and methods for making and using the same are described. The semiconductor packages contain a lead frame that has been folded to create folded leads that form a customized array of land pads and vias. The lead frame contains both longer folded lead and shorter folded leads. The longer leads can be folded so that an upper part of the longer leads form vias, the lower part forms part of a land pad array, and a substantially flat part that is connected to a first die containing an IC. The shorter leads can be folded so that a lower part forms part of a land pad array and the short leads are connected to a second die containing in IC. The folded leads can be routed according to the requirements of each specific IC die to which they are connected and therefore can support multiple dies in the semiconductor package. Other embodiments are also described.
US08072050B1	Semiconductor device with increased I/O leadframe including passive device In accordance with the present invention, there are provided multiple embodiments of a semiconductor package, each embodiment including a uniquely configured leadframe sized and configured to maximize the available number of exposed leads in the semiconductor package. More particularly, each embodiment of the semiconductor package of the present invention includes a generally planar die pad and a plurality of leads. Some of these leads include exposed bottom surface portions or lands which are provided in at least one row or ring which at least partially circumvents the die pad, with other leads including portions which protrude from respective side surfaces of a package body of the semiconductor package. A passive device may be electrically connected to and extend between the die pad and one of the leads, and/or may be electrically connected to and extend between and adjacent pair of the leads.
US08072049B2	Polysilicon drift fuse A polysilicon resistor fuse has an elongated bow-tie body that is wider at the opposite ends relative to a narrow central portion. The opposite ends of the body of the fuse have high concentrations of N-type dopants to make them low resistance contacts. The upper portion of the central body has a graded concentration of N-type dopants that decreases in a direction from the top surface toward the middle of the body between the opposite surfaces. The lower central portion of the body is lightly doped with P-type dopants. The central N-type region is a resistive region.
US08072047B2	Integrated circuit package system with shield and tie bar An integrated circuit package system includes: providing a tie bar and a lead adjacent thereto; connecting an integrated circuit and the lead; mounting a shield over the integrated circuit with the shield connected to the tie bar; and encapsulating the integrated circuit and the shield. An integrated circuit package system also includes: forming a lead and a support structure with substantially the same material as the lead and elevated above the lead; connecting an integrated circuit and the lead; mounting a shield over the integrated circuit with the shield on the support structure; and encapsulating the integrated circuit and the shield.
US08072046B2	Through-electrode, circuit board having a through-electrode, semiconductor package having a through-electrode, and stacked semiconductor package having the semiconductor chip or package having a through-electrode A stacked semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor package having a first semiconductor chip having a first pad and a through-hole passing through a the portion corresponding to the pad; a second semiconductor package disposed over the first semiconductor package, and including a second semiconductor chip having a second pad disposed at a portion corresponding to the first pad and blocking the through-hole; and a through-electrode disposed within the through-hole, and having a pillar shaped core supported by the second pad, a through-electrode unit disposed over a surface of the core and electrically connected with the second pad, a first metal layer interposed between the core and the through electrode unit, and a second metal layer interposed between an inner surface of the first semiconductor chip formed by the through-hole and the through-electrode unit.
US08072045B2	Extendable connector and network Extendable connectors are facilitated. According to an example embodiment, an integrated electrical circuit uses a connector that has first and second connected ends. The connector is unbundled from an initial state in which the first and second connected ends are separated by a first proximate distance and applied in an extended state in which the first and second connected ends are separated by a second distance that is greater than the first proximate distance.
US08072042B1	Integrated inductor and method for manufacturing an integrated inductor A method for integrating an inductor into a semiconductor substrate is provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface and forming at least a first trench and at least two openings in the semiconductor substrate. The first trench and the openings extend from the first surface into the semiconductor substrate, and the first trench has a ring-like shape. A portion of the first trench is arranged between the two openings. The method further includes depositing a magnetically soft material into the first trench to form a ring-like closed magnetisable core structure, depositing a conductive material into the openings to form vias, and forming an electrical cross-connection between the vias.
US08072039B2	Energy conversion film and quantum dot film comprising quantum dot compound, energy conversion layer including the quantum dot film, and solar cell including the energy conversion layer An energy conversion film and a quantum dot film which contain a quantum dot compound, an energy conversion layer including the quantum dot film, and a solar cell including the energy conversion layer. The films act as cut-off filters blocking light of a particular energy level using the light absorption and emission effects of quantum dots and can convert high energy light to low energy light. The efficiency of a solar cell may be improved by providing the cell with a film that converts light above the spectrum-responsive region to light in the cell's spectrum-responsive region. The absorption wavelength region of the films can be broadened by providing the quantum dot compound in a variety of average particle sizes, for example, by providing a mixture of a first quantum dot compound having a first average particle size and a first quantum dot compound having a second average particle size.
US08072038B2	Image sensor An image sensor having greatly improved physical and electrical bonding forces between a photodiode and a substrate, and a manufacturing method thereof. The image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate and readout circuitry, a dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate, a metal line in the dielectric layer, electrically connected with the readout circuitry, an image sensing device including first and second impurity regions on the dielectric layer, a via hole through the dielectric layer and the image sensing device, a hard mask in the via hole, and a lower electrode in the via hole to connect the first impurity region with the metal line.
US08072033B2	Semiconductor device having elongated electrostatic protection element along long side of semiconductor chip An electrostatic protection element is disposed commonly to a plurality of output circuits along a long side of an output circuit region. More preferably, the electrostatic protection element should be disposed between a Pch region and an Nch region of an output circuit.
US08072028B2	Method and device including transistor component having a field electrode A transistor component and method of forming a transistor component. One embodiment provides a semiconductor arrangement including a semiconductor body having a at least one first trench, a first field electrode arranged in the lower trench section of the at least one first trench and being insulated from the semiconductor body by a field electrode dielectric. A dielectric layer is formed on the first field electrode in the at least one first trench, including depositing a dielectric material on a first side of the semiconductor body and on the field plate at a higher deposition rate than on sidewalls of the at least one first trench.
US08072027B2	3D channel architecture for semiconductor devices Semiconductor devices and methods for making such devices that contain a 3D channel architecture are described. The 3D channel architecture is formed using a dual trench structure containing with a plurality of lower trenches extending in an x and y directional channels and separated by a mesa and an upper trench extending in a y direction and located in an upper portion of the substrate proximate a source region. Thus, smaller pillar trenches are formed within the main line-shaped trench. Such an architecture generates additional channel regions which are aligned substantially perpendicular to the conventional line-shaped channels. The channel regions, both conventional and perpendicular, are electrically connected by their corner and top regions to produce higher current flow in all three dimensions. With such a configuration, higher channel density, a stronger inversion layer, and a more uniform threshold distribution can be obtained for the semiconductor device. Other embodiments are described.
US08072025B2	Non-volatile semiconductor storage device and method of manufacturing the same A first lamination part includes: a charge accumulation layer provided on the respective sidewalls of laminated first conductive layers and accumulating charges; and a first semiconductor layer provided in contact with the fourth insulation layer and formed to extend to the lamination direction. A second lamination part includes a second semiconductor layer provided in contact with the first semiconductor layer. A third lamination part includes: a plurality of first contact layers formed in contact with the respective second lamination part, extending to a first direction perpendicular to the lamination direction, and in line with each other along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a plurality of contact plug layers formed in contact with any one of the first contact layers and extending to the lamination direction. The contact plug layers are arranged at different positions relative to each other in the first direction.
US08072024B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing same A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device with a substrate. A plurality of dielectric films and electrode films are alternately stacked on the substrate and have a through hole penetrating in the stacking direction. A semiconductor pillar is formed inside the through hole. A charge storage layer is provided at least between the semiconductor pillar and the electrode film. At least part of a side surface of a portion of the through hole located in the electrode film is sloped relative to the stacking direction.
US08072021B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device A memory cell includes a floating gate electrode, a first inter-electrode insulating film and a control gate electrode. A peripheral transistor includes a lower electrode, a second inter-electrode insulating film and an upper electrode. The lower electrode and the upper electrode are electrically connected via an opening provided on the second inter-electrode insulating film. The first and second inter-electrode insulating films include a high-permittivity material, the first inter-electrode insulating film has a first structure, and the second inter-electrode insulating film has a second structure different from the first structure.
US08072020B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device A first select transistor is connected to one end of a plurality of memory cell transistors that are serially connected. A second select transistor is connected to the other end of the serially connected memory cell transistors. A first impurity diffusion region is formed in a semiconductor substrate and constitutes a first main electrode of the first select transistor. A second impurity diffusion region is formed in the semiconductor substrate and constitutes a second main electrode of the second select transistor. A depth of the first impurity diffusion region is greater than a depth of the second impurity diffusion region.
US08072009B2	Gas sensor having a field-effect transistor A gas sensor having a field-effect transistor for detecting gases or gas mixtures is provided. The gas sensor includes a substrate having a source, drain and gate region, a gas-sensitive layer being applied on the gate region. A porous adhesive agent is provided for the adhesion of the gas-sensitive layer in the gate region.
US08072007B2	Backside-illuminated imaging device A backside-illuminated imaging device is provided and includes: a plurality of charge accumulating areas in the semiconductor substrate which accumulate the electric charges; and a plurality of filters above a backside surface of the semiconductor substrate corresponding to the respective charge accumulating areas. The plurality of filters includes different color filters which transmit different color components of the light from one another and luminance filters each having a spectral characteristic correlated with a luminance component of the light, the plurality of charge accumulating areas includes first charge accumulating areas corresponding to the respective color filters, and second charge accumulating areas corresponding to the respective luminance filters, and the second charge accumulating areas includes a third charge accumulating area having a size larger than those of the first accumulating areas.
US08072004B2	Power and ground routing of integrated circuit devices with improved IR drop and chip performance An integrated circuit chip includes a semiconductor substrate having thereon a plurality of inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layers and a plurality of first conductive layers embedded in respective the plurality of IMD layers, wherein the first conductive layers comprise copper; a first passivation layer overlying the plurality of IMD layers and the plurality of first conductive layers; a plurality of first power/ground mesh wiring lines, formed in a second conductive layer overlying the first passivation layer, for distributing power signal or ground signal, wherein the second conductive layer comprise aluminum; and a second passivation layer covering the second conductive layer and the first passivation layer.
US08071997B2	LED with light transmissive heat sink An more efficient or higher luminance LED assembly may be formed from a high power LED chip having a first surface, and a second surface, the first surface being mounted to a substrate; the second surface being in intimate thermal contact with a light transmissive heat sink having a thermal conductivity greater than 30 watts per meter-Kelvin. The LED chip is otherwise in electrical contact with at least a first electrical connection and a second electrical connection for powering the LED chip. Providing light transmissive heat sink can double the heat conduction from the LED dies thereby increasing life, or efficiency or luminance or a balance of the three.
US08071989B2	Multi-chip package with a plurality of chip pads arranged in an array A circuit structure of a package carrier including a plurality of chip pads, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode and a fourth electrode is provided. These chip pads are arranged in an M×N array. A first bonding pad, a second bonding pad, a third bonding pad and a fourth bonding pad are disposed clockwise in the peripheral area of each chip pad in sequence. The orientations of each of the first, second, third, and fourth bonding pads of the (S−1)th row rotated by 90 degrees are equal to the orientations of each of the first, second, third and fourth bonding pads of the Sth row, respectively. The first electrode is connected with each first bonding pad. The second electrode is connected with each second bonding pad. The third electrode is connected with each third bonding pad. The fourth electrode is connected with each fourth bonding pad.
US08071987B2	Housing for an optoelectronic component, optoelectronic component, and method for producing a housing for an optoelectronic component A housing for an optoelectronic component is disclosed, having a plastic base body that has a front side with an assembly region for at least one radiation emitting or radiation detecting body, wherein the plastic base body is formed from at least one first plastic component and at least one second plastic component. The second plastic component is disposed on the front side of the plastic base body, and is formed from a material that differs from the first plastic component in at least one optical property, and forms an optically functional region of the plastic base body. Further, a method for producing a housing for an optoelectronic component and a light emitting diode component is disclosed.
US08071982B2	Light emitting device and electronic equipment A display device capable of keeping the luminance constant irrespective of temperature change is provided as well as a method of driving the display device. A current mirror circuit composed of transistors is placed in each pixel. A first transistor and a second transistor of the current mirror circuit are connected such that the drain current of the first transistor is kept in proportion to the drain current of the second transistor irrespective of the load resistance value. The drain current of the first transistor is controlled by a driving circuit in accordance with a video signal and the drain current of the second transistor is caused to flow into an OLED, thereby controlling the OLED drive current and the luminance of the OLED.
US08071981B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same The invention primarily provides gate electrodes and gate wirings permitting large-sized screens for active matrix-type display devices, wherein, in order to achieve this object, the construction of the invention is a semiconductor device having, on the same substrate, a pixel TFT provided in a display region and a driver circuit TFT provided around the display region, wherein the gate electrodes of the pixel TFT and the driver circuit TFT are formed from a first conductive layer, the gate electrodes are in electrical contact through connectors with gate wirings formed from a second conductive layer, and the connectors are provided outside the channel-forming regions of the pixel TFT and the driver circuit TFT.
US08071980B2	Radiation detector A radiation detector that includes a charge conversion layer, a substrate, an electrode layer, an intermediary layer and wiring is provided. The substrate includes a lower electrode portion that collects charge generated by the charge conversion layer. The electrode layer includes an upper electrode portion and an extended electrode portion. The upper electrode portion is laminated on the charge conversion layer. The extended electrode portion extends from the upper electrode portion down a side face of the charge conversion layer to a region on the substrate at which the charge conversion layer is not present. The intermediary layer is formed from between the charge conversion layer and the upper electrode portion to between the extended electrode portion and the substrate. The wiring is electrically connected with the extended electrode portion at the region on the substrate at which the charge conversion layer is not present.
US08071979B2	Display device A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a substrate, a display area on the substrate, the display area including a plurality of subpixels, a pad area on the substrate, the pad area including a pad electrode, a conductive adhesive layer on the pad electrode, and a driver on the conductive adhesive layer, the driver being attached to the pad electrode using the conductive adhesive layer. One surface of the conductive adhesive layer includes one surface of the driver. A vertical distance ranging from a shorter side of one surface of the driver to a shorter side of one surface of the conductive adhesive layer lies substantially in a range between 0.2 mm and 4 mm.
US08071978B2	Organic electroluminescent device comprising power supply line on same layer as gate line An organic electroluminescent device includes first and second substrates spaced apart from and facing each other, an organic electroluminescent diode on an inner surface of the second substrate, a gate line formed on an inner surface of the first substrate in a first direction, a data line formed in a second direction crossing the first direction, a power supply line spaced apart from the data line and formed in the second direction, a switching thin film transistor at a crossing portion of the gate and data lines, a driving thin film transistor at a crossing portion of the switching thin film transistor and the power supply line, a connecting electrode connected to the driving thin film transistor, and an electrical connecting pattern corresponding to the connecting electrode and for electrically connecting the connecting electrode to the organic electroluminescent diode.
US08071976B2	Organic field-effect transistor and circuit The invention relates to an organic field-effect transistor, in particular an organic thin film field-effect transistor comprising a gate electrode, a drain electrode and a source electrode, a dielectric layer which is formed in contact with the gate electrode, an active layer made from an organic material which is in contact with the drain electrode and the source electrode and which is configured electrically undoped, a dopant material layer which contains a dopant material that is an electrical dopant for the organic material of the active layer, and a border surface region in which a planar contact is formed between the active layer and the dopant material layer, wherein mobility of similar electrical charge carriers, namely electrons or holes, in the dopant material layer is no more than half as great as in the active layer.
US08071972B2	Silicon based nanoscale crossbar memory The present application describes a crossbar memory array. The memory array includes a first array of parallel nanowires of a first material and a second array of parallel nanowires of a second material. The first and the second array are oriented at an angle with each other. The array further includes a plurality of nanostructures of non-crystalline silicon disposed between a nanowire of the first material and a nanowire of the second material at each intersection of the two arrays. The nanostructures form a resistive memory cell together with the nanowires of the first and second materials.
US08071971B2	Semiconductor device including air gap Embodiments relate to a semiconductor device, and more particularly, to a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof that can reduce RC delay within the semiconductor device. Embodiments provide a semiconductor device including: a first interlayer dielectric layer formed over the a semiconductor substrate, a first metal wire and a second metal wire formed over the first interlayer dielectric layer, a second interlayer dielectric layer formed over the first and second metal wires, and a phase change material layer formed between the first and second metal wires.
US08071969B2	Semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing same A semiconductor memory device includes a word line interconnect layer having a plurality of word lines extending in a word line direction and a bit line interconnect layer having a plurality of bit lines extending in a bit line direction alternately stacked on a silicon substrate. A variable resistance film is disposed between the word line and the bit line. A first pin diode extending in the word line direction is provided between the word line and the variable resistance film, and a second pin diode extending in the bit line direction is provided between the bit line and the variable resistance film. A region of an upper surface of the pin diode other than an immediately underlying region of the variable resistance film is located lower than the immediately underlying region.
US08071968B2	Phase change memory device and method for manufacturing the same A phase change memory device and a method of manufacturing the same are presented. The phase change memory device includes a silicon substrate, a first insulation layer, cell switching elements, heaters, a gate, a second insulation layer, a barrier layer, a phase change layer and top electrodes. The first insulation layer has first holes. The cell switching elements are in the first holes. The heaters are on the cell switching elements. The gate is higher than the cell switching elements. The second insulation layer having second holes which expose the heaters, and exposes a hard mask layer of the gate. The barrier layer is on sidewalls of the second holes and on the second insulation layer. The phase change layer is formed in and over the second holes in which the barrier layer is formed. The top electrodes are formed on the phase change layer.
US08071963B2	Debris mitigation system and lithographic apparatus A debris mitigation system for trapping contaminant material coming from a debris-generating radiation source. The system includes a contamination barrier constructed and arranged to rotate about an axis, and a magnet structure constructed and arranged to provide a magnetic field for deflecting charged debris from the radiation source. The magnet structure is constructed and arranged to provide a magnetic field through the contamination barrier. The magnetic field, when passing through the contamination barrier, is oriented along planes generally coinciding with the axis of rotation of the contamination barrier.
US08071962B1	Compensator for multiple surface imaging A system and method for imaging biological samples on multiple surfaces of a support structure are disclosed. The support structure may be a flow cell through which a reagent fluid is allowed to flow and interact with the biological samples. Excitation radiation from at least one radiation source may be used to excite the biological samples on multiple surfaces. In this manner, fluorescent emission radiation may be generated from the biological samples and subsequently captured and detected by detection optics and at least one detector. The detected fluorescent emission radiation may then be used to generate image data. This imaging of multiple surfaces may be accomplished either sequentially or simultaneously. In addition, the techniques of the present invention may be used with any type of imaging system. For instance, both epifluorescent and total internal reflection methods may benefit from the techniques of the present invention.
US08071960B2	Method and apparatus for producing samples for transmission electron microscopy In the case of a method for producing samples for transmission electron microscopy, a sample is prepared from a substrate of a sample material. To this end, the sample material is irradiated by means of a laser beam along an irradiation trajectory in order to produce a weak path in the sample material. The irradiation is controlled such that the weak path crosses a further weak path, which is likewise preferably produced by laser irradiation, running in the sample material, at an acute angle in a crossing region. The substrate is broken along the weak paths. A sample is thereby produced which has a wedge-shaped sample section bounded by fracture surfaces and has in the region of a wedge tip at least one electron-transparent region.
US08071959B2	Rubidium generator for cardiac perfusion imaging and method of making and maintaining same An 82Sr/82Rb generator column is made using a fluid impervious cylindrical container having a cover for closing the container in a fluid tight seal, and further having an inlet for connection of a conduit for delivering a fluid into the container and an outlet for connection of a conduit for conducting the fluid from the container. An ion exchange material fills the container, the ion exchange material being compacted within the container to a density that permits the ion exchange material to be eluted at a rate of at least 5 ml/min at a fluid pressure of 1.5 pounds per square inch (10 kPa). The generator column can be repeatedly recharged with 82Sr. The generator column is compatible with either three-dimensional or two-dimensional positron emission tomography systems.
US08071957B1	Soft chemical ionization source A soft chemical ionization source can be small, require low power, reliably produce different ions depending on the operating conditions and configuration, and produce ions that ionize many sample chemicals in different phases in air, or solutions, or on surfaces. In one embodiment, an ionization source is comprised of a housing having a center post extending therefrom, a plurality of needles extending from the housing, and a counterelectrode extending around the housing. The plurality of needles and the counterelectrode are each coupled to an electrical supply. The center post and the plurality of needles extend through the counterelectrode. A voltage applied to the plurality of needles and the counterelectrode forms a gas discharge. By changing the dimensional or electrical characteristics of the ionization source elements, singularly, or relative to other sources in an array, the types, ratios among, and quantities of reagent ions can be changed and controlled.
US08071955B2	Magnetic deflector for an electron column The present invention relates, in general, to a deflector for microcolumns for generating electron beams, and, more particularly, to a deflector capable of scanning or shifting electron beams or functioning as a stigmator using a magnetic field. The deflector (100) according to the present invention includes one or more deflector electrodes. Each of the deflector electrodes includes a core (12) made of a conductor or a semiconductor, and a coil (11) wound around the core (12).
US08071954B2	Hybrid phase plate The invention relates to a hybrid phase plate for use in a TEM. The phase plate according to the invention resembles a Boersch phase plate in which a Zernike phase plate is mounted. As a result the phase plate according to the invention resembles a Boersch phase plate for electrons scattered to such an extent that they pass outside the central structure (15) and resembles a Zernike phase plate for scattered electrons passing through the bore of the central structure. Comparing the phase plate of the invention with a Zernike phase plate is has the advantage that for electrons that are scattered over a large angle, no electrons are absorbed or scattered by a foil, resulting in a better high resolution performance of the TEM. Comparing the phase plate of the invention with a Boersch phase plate the demands for miniaturization of the central structure are less severe.
US08071948B2	Aircraft having an integrated radiation detection system and method therefor A radiation detection aircraft has at least one component member of the aircraft having scintillator material. A signal converter is coupled to the at least one component member. An accumulator is coupled to the signal converter.
US08071945B2	Infrared retina Exemplary embodiments provide an infrared (IR) retinal system and method for making and using the IR retinal system. The IR retinal system can include adaptive sensor elements, whose properties including, e.g., spectral response, signal-to-noise ratio, polarization, or amplitude can be tailored at pixel level by changing the applied bias voltage across the detector. “Color” imagery can be obtained from the IR retinal system by using a single focal plane array. The IR sensor elements can be spectrally, spatially and temporally adaptive using quantum-confined transitions in nanoscale quantum dots. The IR sensor elements can be used as building blocks of an infrared retina, similar to cones of human retina, and can be designed to work in the long-wave infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from about 8 μm to about 12 μm as well as the mid-wave portion ranging from about 3 μm to about 5 μm.
US08071943B2	Mask inspection apparatus and image creation method Provided is a mask inspection apparatus including: emitting unit for emitting electron beams onto a sample; electron detecting unit for detecting the quantity of electrons produced, by the emission of the electron beams, from the sample with patterns formed thereon; image processing unit for generating image data for the patterns on the basis of the electron quantity; and controlling unit for controlling the emitting unit, the electron detecting unit, and the image processing unit. The controlling unit calculates, from the size of a designated observation area of the sample, a division number of divisional images that are synthesized to form a joint image that covers the entire designated observation area. The controlling unit determines divisional areas so that adjacent divisional areas partially overlap each other. The controlling unit acquires SEM images for the respective divisional areas. The controlling unit synthesizes the SEM images of the divisional areas on the basis of coordinate data for the divisional areas and on the basis of edge information for patterns included in the overlapping regions, and thereby creates an SEM image of a wide field of view that covers the observation area.
US08071936B2	Optical sensing device An optical sensing device comprising a shell, at least one light emitting member, at least one optical sensing member and a shading member is disclosed. The shell is formed with a black-body condition space therein, and the light emitting member projects a light beam into the black-body condition space. The optical sensing member is located within the shell and neighboring to the black-body condition space. The shading member is movably arranged within the black-body condition space. At least one end surface of the shading member is contacted with the shell and formed with at least one recess. When the shading member moves to at least one shading region within the black-body condition space, the optical sensing member is shaded by the shading member; and when the shading member moves apart the shading region, the optical sensing member senses the light beam to accordingly send out a sensing signal.
US08071935B2	Optical detector with an overmolded faraday shield Embodiments described herein may include devices and methods of manufacturing devices for sensing and monitoring physiological parameters of a patient. Specifically, certain embodiments disclose the use of conductive and nonconductive overmold materials to protect the device, increase reliability, increase comfort, and increase accuracy of the parameters measured.
US08071934B2	Method and system for detecting single-shot pulse contrast based on fiber array A system for detecting single-shot pulse contrast includes a correlator generating a correlation signal, a spectral filter filtering light signals having wavelengths different from the correlation signal, a fiber array comprising a plurality of fibers with different lengths for transmitting the correlation signal in parallel forming parallel correlation signals, and a fiber bundle bounding the fibers at the end thereof for converging the parallel correlation signals, wherein due to different lengths of the fibers, the parallel correlation signals are converted into serial correlation signals at end of the fibers, a plurality of fiber attenuators spliced into at least one of the fibers respectively for attenuating the parallel correlation signals, a detector for detecting the serial correlation signals to produce analog signals, an A/D convertor converting the analog signals to digital signals, and a computer for processing the digital signals for retrieving the single-shot pulse contrast.
US08071933B2	Photochromic optically keyed dispenser A removable and replaceable keying component which is required for operation of a mechanism and which component includes a waveguide having a photochromic portion. A method of controlling operation of a mechanism, preferably a dispenser, having a removable component having the steps of measuring electromagnetic radiation passing through a waveguide carrying at least in part on the removable component and permitting operation of the mechanism only when the measured electromagnetic radiation corresponds with one or more pre-selected parameters. Preferably, the method involves directing emitted electromagnetic radiation with pre-selected input parameters selected from a plurality of input parameters.
US08071925B2	Steam bowl A bowl assembly (10) for steaming food as in a microwave oven, includes a bowl (12), a platform (14) that lies in the bowl for supporting food, and a lid (16) and lidding film (13) that close the bowl. The platform includes a plate (22) and one or more upstanding handles (46) that allow a person to lift or tilt the plate with food thereon even while the plate is hot. The bowl has a bottom wall (26) with a convexly curved upper surface (80), and with a middle that forms a recess (72) that receives a downwardly-protruding latch (70) of the plate to latch the plate to the bowl. The plate has a plurality of depressions that form liquid guiding channels (40) with holes (42) for draining liquids. The periphery of the plate is supported on an interrupted up-step (60) at the periphery of the bowl bottom wall, with gaps (18) left between the up-steps though which liquids can drain.
US08071923B2	Device for microwave heating of a food product A container 10 for use in a microwave oven for heating a food product includes a base 20 that is substantially rectangularly shaped and includes a lower ledge 22, and a sump 30. First sides 24, and ends 26, extend upwardly from the base. An upper ledge 28, annular to a periphery formed at a top of the first sides and ends extend outwardly therefrom. Second sides 32 extend upwardly from a periphery of the upper ledge substantially perpendicular to a planar surface defined by the base. Outwardly extending flange 40 is formed annular to and along a periphery of the second sides.
US08071917B2	Cooking oven for foods with variable speed electric fan and device for regulating the speed with heat recovery A cooking oven for foods is described, comprising a cooking chamber, a variable speed electric fan arranged for generating forced ventilation of the air inside the chamber, a regulating system for regulating the speed of the motor of the electric fan including at least one resistive electric element in the electrical supply circuit of the motor, in order to obtain the variation of the speed of the fan as a result of the electrical supply of the resistive element, wherein the resistive element is provided inside the cooking chamber of the oven, so that the heat generated by the resistive element is recovered and maintained within the cooking chamber in the thermal balance of the chamber, during the cooking of the foods.
US08071916B2	Wafer heating apparatus and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A wafer heating apparatus which is capable of quickly cooling by improving the cooling rate of the heater section is provided.The wafer heating apparatus comprises a plate-shaped member having two opposing principal surfaces with one of the principal surfaces serving as a mounting surface to mount a wafer thereon and the other principal surface having a band-shaped resistive heating member formed thereon, power feeder terminals connected to the resistive heating member for supplying electric power to the resistive heating member, a casing provided to cover the power feeder terminals on the other surface of the plate-shaped member and a nozzle of which tip faces the other surface of the plate-shaped member for cooling the plate-shaped member, wherein the position of the tip of the nozzle as projected onto the other surface of the plate-shaped member is located between the bands of the resistive heating member.
US08071913B2	Heating device A heating device includes an electrode embedded near the heating surface of the ceramic base substantially in parallel to the heating surface. In the rear surface of the ceramic base, a terminal hole extending toward the electrode is formed. Between the bottom surface of the terminal hole and electrode, a conductive ceramic member is embedded and connected to the electrode. The conductive ceramic member has a thermal expansion coefficient equal to that of the ceramic base. The electrode and terminal are electrically connected through the conductive ceramic member.
US08071911B2	Method and apparatus for machining using a beam and a beam trap A combustor component with cooling apertures has the apertures formed by laser drilling. The machining apparatus comprises a beam generator for generating a beam for directing at the combustor component and a beam trap. The component is translated relative to the beam and the beam is directed to the beam trap and is dissipated within the beam trap.
US08071910B2	Laser processing apparatus A laser processing apparatus is provided with a first laser oscillator for laser CVD and a second laser oscillator for laser repair in a laser oscillation section. Either one of the first or second laser beam is irradiated by switching the first and second laser oscillators by a laser oscillator switch portion of a main body section. An optical path forming member is disposed such that the first or second laser beam, whichever is irradiated, will take the same optical path and reach a sample, after passing a common slit, to perform laser processing on the sample. Further, an objective lens is configured to be switched to an objective lens having a magnification corresponding to a wavelength of the laser beam irradiated from the laser oscillation section by an objective lens switch section of an objective lens section.
US08071909B2	Three-dimensional laser beam machining apparatus for long workpiece There is provided a three-dimensional laser beam machining apparatus for a long workpiece, which includes an automatic loading device for a large variety of materials that feeds materials to a three-dimensional laser beam machine. The automatic loading device 100 for a large variety of materials has a bundle type material loading device 120. A bundle type material W1 is a round pipe or a polygonal pipe, and the posture thereof around the axis line is aligned automatically when the material is conveyed by a roller conveyor 140. The front material stopped by a stopper 150 is sent out to an inclined conveyor 180 over the stopper 150 by means of a swing arm 170. The bundle type material as well as a versatile type material, the posture of which around the axis line is not aligned automatically, are set on a receiving member 210 of a common conveyor 200 and sent to the three-dimensional laser beam machine by the operator.
US08071907B2	Button attachment method for saw torque sensor A method for joining dissimilar materials of sensor button for measuring torque is illustrated. The dissimilar materials can be welded together by laser welding. The parts can be cleaned and held together firmly by a fixture and welded with established machine parameters. The method of micro-crack free weld joint can give a robust joint for the life time of the automotive which mandate for the function of torque sensor to facilitate the positive strain transfer from the parent material.
US08071903B2	Trigger switch A trigger switch has an insulative enclosure, a movable contact element, and a sliding control device slidably mounted to the insulative enclosure. The insulative enclosure includes a case and a cover. The case has plural terminal subassemblies made of conductive metal members disposed therein. The case has an opening over which the cover is mounted. A fixed contact is mounted on one of the terminal subassemblies in the case. The movable contact element has a movable contact mounted at one end of the movable contact element and located opposite to the fixed contact. The movable contact element is swingably supported on another terminal subassembly. A trigger is mounted at one end of the sliding control device. An auxiliary brush is interposed in the movable contact element. A support member is provided with an opening portion in which the auxiliary brush is engaged such that the brush is swingably supported.
US08071902B2	Push-button switch and electronic apparatus having the same To prevent the local heating of an electronic apparatus chassis, there is provided a push button switch (10), which comprises a substrate (11) having a first contacting part (11a) and a second contacting part (11b) operable to be brought into electrical conduction with the first contacting part (11a), and a flexible electrically insulating sheet (13) covering the substrate (11) and having a click portion (13a) on the inside of which the first and second contacting parts are disposed to be brought into and out of electrical conduction therebetween in response to depression of the click portion. The electrically insulating sheet (13) includes a heat conducting layer (14) extending along the substrate (11).
US08071899B2	Electronic device with key assembly An electronic device includes an enclosure accommodating a plurality of electronic elements therein, a circuit board positioned in the enclosure and spaced from the panel, and a key assembly positioned between the panel and the circuit board. The enclosure includes a panel defining an opening. The circuit board includes a plurality of switches. The key assembly includes a plurality of key bodies protruding out from the opening of the panel and movable relative to the panel, and a supporting frame attached to the panel for supporting and fixing the plurality of key bodies. The switches are positioned under the plurality of key bodies. Movement of a portion each of the plurality of key bodies along a first direction allows movement of another portion of each of the key bodies along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to open or close a corresponding switch.
US08071893B2	Methods and apparatus for shielding circuitry from interference This is directed to methods and apparatus for shielding a circuitry region of an electronic device from interference (e.g., EMI). A conductive dam may be formed about a periphery of the circuitry region. A non-conductive or electrically insulating fill may then be applied to the circuitry region within the dam. Next, a conductive cover may be applied above the fill. The cover may be electrically coupled to the dam. The dam may include two or more layers of conductive material stacked on top of one another. In some embodiments, the conductive cover may be pad printed or screen printed above the fill. In other embodiments, the conductive cover may be a conductive tablet that is melted above the fill.
US08071887B2	Printed circuit board and method for manufacturing same A printed circuit board includes a substrate having a surface, a circuit layer having a plurality of electrical traces formed on the surface, and an electrically conductive metal layer formed on the circuit layer. The circuit layer is comprised of a composite of carbon nano-tubes and metallic nano-particles.
US08071886B2	Wired circuit board having a semiconductive grounding layer and producing method thereof A wired circuit board includes a metal supporting board, an insulating layer formed on the metal supporting board, a conductive pattern formed on the insulating layer and having a plurality of wires, and a semiconductive layer formed on a surface of the insulating layer exposed from the conductive pattern so as to be in contact with the conductive pattern. The insulating layer is formed with a groove exposing the metal supporting board between at least two adjacent wires, and the semiconductive layer is in contact with the metal supporting board in the groove.
US08071883B2	Flex-rigid wiring board including flexible substrate and non-flexible substrate and method of manufacturing the same A flex-rigid wiring board includes a flexible board including a flexible substrate and a conductor pattern formed over the flexible substrate, a non-flexible substrate disposed adjacent to the flexible board, an insulating layer covering the flexible board and the non-flexible substrate and exposing one or more portions of the flexible board, a conductor pattern formed on the insulating layer, and a plating layer connecting the conductor pattern of the flexible board and the conductor pattern on the insulating layer.
US08071878B2	Sealing system and seal component for a display assembly of a portable device A display assembly for a portable terminal inhibits the penetration of foreign matter from an exterior environment into the interior of the portable terminal. The display assembly includes a display for mounting in an open-faced compartment enclosed by a bottom/top cover plate. A resilient seal component of the display assembly is positioned between the display and the compartment, the seal component including a body including a base portion connected to a top portion by side portions for defining an interior channel for engaging the sides of the display, once received therein. A top portion of the seal component is adapted for overlapping a portion of the top surface of the display and the base portion for overlapping at least a portion of the bottom surface of the display.
US08071876B2	Method for grounding a high voltage electrode The invention relates to an arrangement with a high voltage electrode (1) and a process vessel (2) assigned to the high voltage electrode (1), wherein the high voltage electrode (1) and the process vessel (2) can be positioned relative to each other in such a manner that the high voltage electrode (1) with its operational electrode end (5) in an operating position is immersed in the process vessel (2) and in a non-operating position is located outside the process vessel (2). Furthermore, the arrangement includes a grounding device (3), which is designed in such a manner that upon a positioning in the non-operating position it automatically is brought into contact with the operational electrode end (5) for grounding the high voltage electrode (1).
US08071875B2	Manufacture of thin solar cells based on ink printing technology Semiconductor ink is disclosed for use in printing thin film solar cell absorber layer. The semiconductor ink is particularly useful in fabricating multi junction tandem solar cell wherein a high bandgap absorber layer as the top cell and a lower band gap absorber layer as the bottom cell. The ink contains ingredients of IB-IIIA-VIA compound with micron-sized semiconductor as the main building “bricks” and nano-sized semiconductor as the binder to fulfill the formation of smooth semiconductive film with micron-sized crystal grain size. Thus formed ink can be used in direct printing for the fabrication of low cost high performance solar cells.
US08071874B2	Photovoltaic cells incorporating rigid substrates The invention, in one aspect, provides a photovoltaic cell including a charge carrier material and a photosensitized interconnected nanoparticle material including nanoparticles linked by a polymeric linking agent, both disposed between first and second rigid, significantly light-transmitting substrates. In one embodiment, the charge carrier material and the photosensitized interconnected nanoparticle material are disposed between a first and second flexible, significantly light-transmitting substrate that are themselves disposed between the first and second rigid, significantly light-transmitting substrates.
US08071867B1	Inbred maize variety PHAJT A novel maize variety designated PHAJT and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHAJT with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHAJT 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 PHAJT or a trait conversion of PHAJT with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHAJT, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHAJT and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US08071861B2	Soybean cultivar 90210442 A soybean cultivar designated 90210442 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 90210442, to the plants of soybean 90210442, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 90210442, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 90210442 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety 90210442, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 90210442, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 90210442 with another soybean cultivar.
US08071860B2	Soybean cultivar S090246 A soybean cultivar designated S090246 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090246, to the plants of soybean S090246, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S090246, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S090246 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety S090246, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090246, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S090246 with another soybean cultivar.
US08071859B2	Soybean cultivar 93022415 A soybean cultivar designated 93022415 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 93022415, to the plants of soybean 93022415, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 93022415, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 93022415 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety 93022415, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 93022415, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 93022415 with another soybean cultivar.
US08071858B2	Soybean cultivar S080192 A soybean cultivar designated S080192 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S080192, to the plants of soybean S080192, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S080192, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S080192 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety S080192, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S080192, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S080192 with another soybean cultivar.
US08071856B2	Soybean cultivar 88220415 A soybean cultivar designated 88220415 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 88220415, to the plants of soybean 88220415, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 88220415, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 88220415 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety 88220415, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 88220415, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 88220415 with another soybean cultivar.
US08071854B2	Soybean cultivar XB15R09 A soybean cultivar designated XB15R09 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar XB15R09, to the plants of soybean XB15R09, to plant parts of soybean cultivar XB15R09, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar XB15R09 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety XB15R09, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar XB15R09, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar XB15R09 with another soybean cultivar.
US08071851B2	Soybean variety XB31AG09 According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB31AG09. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB31AG09, to the plants of soybean XB31AG09 to plant parts of soybean variety XB31AG09 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB31AG09 with another soybean plant, using XB31AG09 as either the male or the female parent.
US08071844B1	Cultivated momordica species and extract thereof A plant grown from seeds derived from a new interhybrid of three plants of the Momordica genus has been cultivated. The new plant hybrid has a faster growth rate than the parent species. Parts of the new interhybrid plant which, when ingested by an individual, have blood glucose and/or insulin regulating properties. Foods and/or beverages containing parts or extracts of the new interhybrid plant and which to promote weight control or loss and/or blood glucose regulation are also disclosed.
US08071843B2	Method for increasing stress-resistance to a plant The present invention enables production of a plant resistant to environmental stresses including drought stress. The invention increases stress resistance to a plant by increasing raffinose content in the plant.
US08071842B2	Method of constructing novel higher plant and method of promoting the growth of higher plant The present invention provides a method of producing a higher plant having cytochrome c6 in the thylakoid space of chloroplast, which is characterized in that it comprises introducing a gene encoding a fused protein formed by adding a signal peptide consisting of 50 to 80 amino acid residues to a cytochrome c6 protein into the genome of a higher plant.
US08071841B2	Or gene and its use in manipulating carotenoid content and composition in plants and other organisms The cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis) Or gene is a semi-dominant, single-locus mutation. It induces the accumulation of high levels of beta-carotene in various tissues that are normally devoid of carotenoids, turning them orange. Using a map-based cloning strategy, we identified a single gene representing Or and successfully verified its identity by functional complementation in the wild type cauliflower. The Or gene encodes a plastid membrane protein containing the DnaJ zinc figure domain. A likely gain-of-function mutation from a 4.3-kb retrotransposon insertion in the Or allele confers the orange phenotype in the mutant. Southern blot analysis revealed that Or is a single-copy sequence in the cauliflower genome. High level of expression of the Or gene and the protein was found in very young leaves, curds, and flowers at comparable abundance between wild type and the Or mutant. Or likely functions in regulating the differentiation of some non-photosynthetic plastids into chromoplasts, which provide the deposition “sink” for carotenoid accumulation. Successful demonstration of Or in conferring carotenoid accumulation in potato tubers indicates its potential use to improve the nutritional value in staple crops.
US08071839B2	Transgenic mouse comprising a polynucleotide encoding human or humanized C5aR and methods of production and use The present invention relates to transgenic non-human mammals comprising a polynucleotide encoding a human or humanized C5aR. The invention also relates to use of the transgenic non-human mammals in methods of screening for agonists, inverse agonists and antagonists of human C5aR and for testing efficacy of C5aR agonists, inverse agonists and antagonists in various animal models of disease.
US08071838B2	Targeted and regional cellular ablation in zebrafish A system including: (i) a methodology for targeted cellular ablation in zebrafish; (ii) a methodology for regional cellular ablation in zebrafish. These methodologies are used to identify genetic components that regulate cellular regeneration and to identify drug compounds that influence cellular regeneration for the purpose of developing therapies for degenerative conditions. Transgenic zebrafish disclosed herein contain transgenic constructs composed of: (i) cell and/or tissue-type specific regulatory elements (e.g. promoter and/or enhancer regions) which delimit expression of operably linked gene product(s) to discrete cellular populations; (ii) a gene product that promotes cellular ablation composed of a pro-drug conversion system capable of converting nontoxic pro-drugs into cytotoxic drugs, which is expressed alone or in connection with; (iii) a reporter gene product that allows selective detection of cells expressing the reporter—both prior to (initial cells) and following cellular ablation (regenerated cells). Here we describe genetic delivery of a pro-drug converting system in order to enable targeted cellular ablation in zebrafish, Transgenic zebrafish of this invention provide a high-throughput system for genetic dissection of the process of cellular regeneration and, compound screening for the discovery of drugs capable of promoting cellular regeneration.
US08071836B2	Process for toluene and methane coupling in a microreactor A process for making ethylbenzene and/or styrene by reacting toluene with methane in one or more microreactors is disclosed. In one embodiment a method of revamping an existing styrene production facility by adding one or more microreactors capable of reacting toluene with methane to produce a product stream comprising ethylbenzene and/or styrene is disclosed.
US08071835B2	Process to produce polyolefins using metallocene catalysts The invention is directed to a process for producing polyolefins by one or more homogeneous or colloidal polymerization catalyst wherein residual catalyst is removed by using a solid sorbent.
US08071833B2	Production of olefins A process (or steam cracking a hydrocarbon feedstock containing olefins to provide increased light olefins in the steam cracked effluent, the process comprising passing a first hydrocarbon feedstock containing one or more olefins through a reactor containing a crystalline silicate to produce an intermediate effluent with an olefin content of lower molecular weight than that of the feedstock, fractionating the intermediate effluent to provide a lower carbon fraction and a higher carbon fraction, and passing the higher carbon fraction, as a second hydrocarbon feedstock, through a stream cracker to produce a steam cracked effluent.
US08071829B2	Alkylation process A process is disclosed for the alkylation of aromatics by charging a hydrocarbon feed containing aromatic hydrocarbons and olefinic hydrocarbons to a distillation column for separation into at least one fraction; removing an aromatics/olefin stream containing at least a portion of the aromatic hydrocarbons and at least a portion of the olefinic hydrocarbons; charging the aromatics/olefin stream to an alkylation reactor, operated at a temperature in the range of from about 80° C. to about 220° C., for alkylation of at least a portion of the aromatic hydrocarbons with the olefinic hydrocarbons; recycling at least a portion of the resulting reactor effluent to the distillation column; and removing a product stream containing alkylated aromatics from the distillation column.
US08071827B2	Process for the manufacture of 1,2-dichloroethane Process for the manufacture of 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE) starting from a stream of ethane which is subjected to a catalytic oxydehydrogenation (ODH) producing a gas mixture containing ethylene, then dried and subjected to an absorption to be separated into a fraction enriched with the compounds that are lighter than ethylene containing some of the ethylene conveyed to a chlorination reactor in which most of the ethylene is converted to DCE, and into a fraction F1. Fraction F1 is then subjected to a desorption to be separated into a fraction enriched with ethylene conveyed to an oxychlorination reactor in which most of the ethylene is converted into DCE, and into a fraction F3.
US08071817B2	Preparation of purified hydroquinone and forming of same Purified hydroquinone is prepared and formed from raw compounds essentially containing hydroquinone associated with very small quantities of impurities including resorcinol and pyrogallol, and includes a distillation purification step in which the resorcinol and pyrogallol are eliminated, directly followed by a step in which the purified hydroquinone is formed.
US08071813B2	Methods of using ionic liquids having a fluoride anion as solvents A method in one embodiment includes contacting a strongly hydrogen bonded organic material with an ionic liquid having a fluoride anion for solubilizing the strongly hydrogen bonded organic material; and maintaining the ionic liquid at a temperature of about 90° C. or less during the contacting. A method in another embodiment includes contacting a strongly hydrogen bonded organic material with an ionic liquid having an acetate or formate anion for solubilizing the strongly hydrogen bonded organic material; and maintaining the ionic liquid at a temperature of less than about 90° C. during the contacting.
US08071809B2	Accelerants for the modification of non-natural amino acids and non-natural amino acid polypeptides Disclosed herein are accelerants for the formation of oxime-containing compounds from the reaction of a carbonyl-containing compound and a hydroxylamine-containing compound. The oxime-containing compound, the carbonyl-containing compound and the hydroxylamine-containing compound can each be a non-natural amino acid or a non-natural amino acid polypeptide. Also disclosed is the use of such accelerants to form oxime-containing compounds, the resulting oxime-containing compounds, and reaction mixtures containing such accelerants.
US08071808B2	Processes for preparing a substituted gamma-amino acid The present invention is related to processes suitable for industrial synthesis of pregabalin from (R)-(−)-3-(carbamoylmethyl)-5-methylhexanoic using sodium hypochlorite as described herein. In addition, the present invention is related to pregabalin which is substantially free of impurities and pharmaceutical compositions comprising pregabalin.
US08071807B2	Antagonists of prostaglandin D2 receptors Described herein are compounds that are antagonists of PGD2 receptors. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions that include the compounds described herein, and methods of using such antagonists of PGD2 receptors, alone or in combination with other compounds, for treating respiratory, cardiovascular, and other PGD2-dependent or PGD2-mediated conditions or diseases.
US08071805B2	Process for producing 2-hydroxy-4-(methlthio)butyrate compounds and intermediates thereof A process for producing a 2-hydroxy-4-(methylthio)butyrate compound represented by the formula (2): wherein A is a hydrogen atom or a group represented by R—CH2—, wherein R is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, which comprises the step of: reacting 4-(methylthio)-2-oxo-1-butanol with oxygen and a compound represented by the formula (1): A-OH (1) wherein A is as defined above, in the presence of a copper compound.
US08071802B2	Process for preparing dialkyl oxide metallocenes or diaryl oxide metallocenes Process for preparing bridged, stereorigid, stereomerically pure dialkoxide metallocenes, diaryl oxide metallocenes and diphenoxide metallocenes of formula Q(Cp)(Cp′)M(OR3)2 in which Cp and Cp′ are independently cyclopentadienyl, indenyl or fluorenyl; Q is a bridge between Cp and Cp′; M is a group 4 transition metal, especially Zr, Hf or Ti; R3 is C1-C10 alkyl, optionally substituted by aryl groups, or optionally substituted C6-C10 aryl, characterized in that, a bridged, stereorigid metallocene dihalide Q(Cp)(Cp′)M(X)2, in the form of a rac/meso mixture, is reacted with an alkylating reagent R4-M-(X)n wherein R4 is C1-C10 alkyl or C6-C10 aryl; M is an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal; X is halogen; n is the oxidation number of M reduced by 1; and the resulting reaction mixture or isolated dialkylmetallocene is reacted with an alcohol, an aryl alcohol or a phenol of the general formula HO—R3.
US08071800B2	Borohydride metallocene complex of a lanthanide, catalytic system including said complex, polymerization method using same and ethylene/butadiene copolymer obtained using said method A borohydride metallocene complex of a lanthanide, its process of preparation, a catalytic system incorporating it, a process for the copolymerization of olefins employing this catalytic system and an ethylene/butadiene copolymer obtained by this process, the butadiene units of which comprise 1,2-cyclohexane or 1,2- and 1,4-cyclohexane links. This complex corresponds to one or other of the following formulae A and B: where, in the formula A, two ligand molecules Cp1 and Cp2, each composed of a fluorenyl group, are connected to the lanthanide Ln, such as Nd, and where, in the formula B, a ligand molecule, composed of two fluorenyl groups Cp1 and Cp2 which are connected to one another via a bridge P of formula MR1R2, where M is an element from group IVa, such as Si, and where R1 and R2, which are identical or different, represent an alkyl group comprising from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, is connected to the lanthanide Ln, where L represents an alkali metal, such as Li, where N represents a molecule of a complexing solvent, such as THF, where x is an integral or non-integral number greater than 0 and where p is an integer equal to or greater than 1.
US08071794B2	Long wavelength thiol-reactive fluorophores Reactive fluorescent dyes compositions and methods of using same are disclosed. Squaraine nucleus, Nile Red nucleus, benzodioxazole nucleus, coumarin nucleus or aza coumarin nucleus dyes are disclosed having thiol-reactive groups. Squaraine nucleus, Nile Red nucleus, benzodioxazole nucleus, coumarin nucleus or aza coumarin nucleus dyes are disclosed that exhibit a fluorescence emission of at least about 575 nm. Biosensors are disclosed having a binding protein and a squaraine nucleus, Nile Red nucleus, benzodioxazole nucleus, coumarin nucleus or aza coumarin nucleus.
US08071793B2	Macrolide compound Disclosed are: a novel dinoflagellate alga; and a macrolide compound which can be used as a novel anticancer agent. Specifically disclosed is a macrolide compound produced by a dinoflagellate Amphidinium sp. Strain HYA002 or HYA0024. The macrolide compound has excellent proliferation-inhibiting effect against a human tumor cell and therefore can be used as a novel anticancer agent.
US08071792B2	High-purity vinylene carbonate and a method of purifying vinylene carbonate The present invention relates to the technical purification of vinylene carbonate (VC) by means of a simple thermal treatment with organic compounds which possess amidic nitrogen-hydrogen bonds, followed by a distillation and a melt crystallization. In this way VC of ultra-high purity is obtained. The high-purity vinylene carbonate can be stored and transported without stabilizer.
US08071791B2	Method for the preparation of (S)-N-methyl-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-3-(2-thienyl)propylamine hydrochloride (duloxetine) A method of preparation of (S)-N-methyl-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-3-(2-mienyl)propylamine of Formula (I) and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, comprising a) reaction of (RS)-N,N-dimethyl-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-3-(2-thienyl)propylamine with optically active D-tartaric acid or an acid salt derived from D-tartaric acid forming a mixture of diastereoisomeric salts of N,N-dimethyl-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-3-(2-thienyl)propylamine and D-tartaric acid (2:1), b) isolation of the salt (S)-N,N-dimethyl-3-(naphthyloxy) -3-(2-thienyl)propylamine/D-tartrate (2:1) from the mixture of diastereoisomeric salts in an organic solvent, water or a mixture thereof and release of (S)-N,N-dimethyl-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-3-(2-thienyl)propylamine by action of an inorganic or organic base, c) demethylation of (S)-N,N-dimethyl-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-3-(2-thienyl)propylamine by action of an alkylchloroformate of formula ClCOOR (R=C1-C5 alkyl, or C6-C12 aryl or alkylraryl), especially phenyl, ethyl or methyl chloroformate, and d) hydrolytic release of the duloxetine base of formula I and optionally conversion of the base to a salt with the respective acid, or salt of a weak base.
US08071783B2	N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed synthesis of N-phenylisoxazolidin-5-one derivative and synthesis of β-amino acid ester derivative A process for preparing a N-phenylisoxazolidin-5-one derivative is provided. The process for preparing the N-phenylisoxazolidin-5-one derivative comprises reacting an α,β-unsaturated aldehyde with nitrosobenzene in the presence of a N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalyst. A process for preparing an N-alkoxyphenyl protected β-amino acid ester derivative is further provided. The process for preparing the N-alkoxyphenyl protected β-amino acid ester derivative comprises reacting an α,β-unsaturated aldehyde with nitrosobenzene in the presence of a N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalyst to form a N-phenylisoxazolidin-5-one derivative, and then treating the N-phenylisoxazolidin-5-one derivative with an alcohol in the presence of an acid catalyst. A process for preparing an N-alkoxyphenyl protected β-amino acid ester derivative, comprising treating a N-phenylisoxazolidin-5-one derivative with an alcohol in the presence of an acid catalyst, is also provided.
US08071780B2	2-Hydroxymethyl-3,4,5-trihydroxy-1-benzilpiperidine derivatives as inhibitors of glucosylceramide The present invention provides novel piperidine derivatives of formula (I), wherein R represents a substituted benzyl group, which are useful as inhibitors of glucosylceramide synthase (GCS). The compounds of the Invention are useful for treating various glycolipid storage diseases, such as Gaucher's disease, Sandhoff's disease, Tay-Schs disease, Fabry disease, and GM1 gangliosidosis; glycolipid accumulation disorders, such as Niemann-Pick disease, mucopolysaccharidoses, mucolipidosis type IV and α-mannosidosis; various cancers that involve abnormal glycolipid synthesis; and various infectious diseases that involve cell surface glycolipids as receptors for the infectious organisms or for their toxins; as well as a variety of other disorders involving glycolipid synthesis, including neuronal disorders, inflammatory diseases, obesity, and the like.
US08071772B2	Spirolactam bicyclic CGRP receptor antagonists Compounds of formula I: (wherein variables A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, B, E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, G1, G2, J and K are as described herein) which are antagonists of CGRP receptors and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the CGRP is involved, such as migraine. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which CGRP is involved.
US08071770B2	Spirohydantoin aryl CGRP receptor antagonists Compounds of formula I: (wherein variables A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, B, E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, G1, G2 and R6 are as described herein) which are antagonists of CGRP receptors and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the CGRP is involved, such as migraine. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which CGRP is involved.
US08071768B2	Alkylquinoline and alkylquinazoline kinase modulators The invention is directed to alkylquinoline and alkylquinazoline compounds of Formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, B, Z, G, Q and X are as defined herein, the use of such compounds as protein tyrosine kinase modulators, particularly inhibitors of FLT3 and/or c-kit and/or TrkB, the use of such compounds to reduce or inhibit kinase activity of FLT3 and/or c-kit and/or TrkB in a cell or a subject, and the use of such compounds for preventing or treating in a subject a cell proliferative disorder and/or disorders related to FLT3 and/or c-kit and/or TrkB. The present invention is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the present invention and to methods for treating conditions such as cancers and other cell proliferative disorders.
US08071767B2	Process for preparation of 9-hydroxy-3-(2-chloroethyl)-2-methyl-4H-pyrido[1,2-A]pyrimidin-4-one hydrochloride Described herein is an improved, commercially viable and industrially advantageous process for the preparation of paliperidone intermediate 9-hydroxy-3-(2-chloroethyl)-2-methyl-4h-pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidin-4-one and its hydrochloride salt. The process provides the paliperidone intermediate in higher yield and reduced reaction time compared to the previously disclosed processes, thereby providing for production of paliperidone and its pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts in high purity and in high yield.
US08071766B2	HSP90 inhibitors The invention relates to HSP90 inhibiting compounds consisting of the formula: wherein the variables are as defined herein. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds; methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds; and methods of using said compounds.
US08071762B2	Fused compounds that inhibit vanilloid receptor subtype 1 (VR1) receptor The present invention discloses novel compounds of general formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof (in which X1-X5, R5-R8b, Z1-Z2 and Ar1 are defined herein), a method for inhibiting the VR1 receptor in mammals using these compounds, a method for controlling pain in mammals, and pharmaceutical compositions including those compounds and a process for making those compounds.
US08071761B2	Substrates for beta-lactamase and uses thereof Substrates for β-lactamase of the general formula I in which one of X and Y is a fluorescent donor moiety and the other is a quencher (which may or may not re-emit); R′ is selected from the group consisting of H, lower (i.e., alkyl of 1 to about 5 carbon atoms) and (CH2)nOH, in which n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 5; R″ is selected from the group consisting of H, physiologically acceptable metal and ammonium cations, —CHR2OCO(CH2)nCH3, —CHR2OCOC (CH3)3, acylthiomethyl, acyloxy-alpha-benzyl, delta-butyrolactonyl, methoxycarbonyloxymethyl, phenyl, methylsulphinylmethyl, beta-morpholinoethyl, dialkylaminoethyl, acyloxyalkyl, dialkylaminocarbonyloxymethyl and aliphatic, in which R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and lower alkyl; A is selected from the group consisting of S, O, SO, SO2 and CH2; and Z′ and Z″ are linkers for the fluorescent donor and quencher moieties. Methods of assaying β-lactamase activity and monitoring expression in systems using β-lactamase as a reporter gene also are disclosed.
US08071760B2	Boron-containing porphyrin compounds and their uses Boron-containing porphyrin compounds are disclosed that may be used for boron neutron capture therapy of tumors, radiotherapy of tumors, and photodynamic therapy of tumors.
US08071756B2	Polysaccharide pseudo-sponge A photocrosslinked polysaccharide pseudo-sponge exhibiting a low swelling property and a high degradation ability in vivo while retaining a suitable strength. The polysaccharide pseudo-sponge is produced by a crosslinking reaction of a photoreactive polysaccharide obtained by introducing a photoroactive group into a polysaccharide, and exhibits a low swelling property and a blue dextran-low dyaffinity.
US08071755B2	Nucleotide analogs The invention provides for nucleotide analogs and methods of using the same, e.g., for sequencing nucleic acids.
US08071752B2	Multi-targeting short interfering RNAs The present invention relates to novel short interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules that are multi-targeted. More specifically, the present invention relates to siRNA molecules that target two or more sequences. In one embodiment, multi-targeting siRNA molecules are designed to incorporate features of siRNA molecules and features of micro-RNA (miRNA) molecules. In another embodiment, multi-targeting siRNA molecules are designed so that each strand is directed to separate targets.
US08071749B2	Constitutive expression cassettes for regulation of plant expression The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with constitutive expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At5g17920, At3g03780, At2g01100, At2g34770, At5g61560, At4g00830, At3g10220, At4g38520, At3g11110, At2g47170, At1g64090, At5g60690, At1g76350, At1g76580, At1g31930, At5g18230, At1g20970, or At4g35620. The expression cassettes according to the present invention may be employed for expression of a protein, or expression of an antisense RNA, sense or double-stranded RNA. Preferably, expression of the nucleic acid sequence confers to the plant an agronomically valuable trait. Vectors comprising such an expression cassette, and transgenic host cell or non-human organism comprising the expression cassette or the vector are also enclosed. Also enclosed is a method for identifying and/or isolating a sequence with constitutive transcription regulating activity.
US08071747B2	Fusion proteins of mycobacterium tuberculosis The present invention relates to compositions and fusion proteins containing at least two Mycobacterium sp. antigens, and nucleic acids encoding such compositions and fusion proteins. The compositions of the invention increase serological sensitivity of sera from individuals infected with tuberculosis, and methods for their use in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis infection.
US08071745B2	Polynucleotides encoding rod-derived cone viability factor (rdcvf) and methods of using the same Disclosed are methods and compositions for early diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of retinal dystrophy, age-related macular degeneration, Bardet-Biedel syndrome, Bassen-kornzweig syndrome, best disease, choroidema, gyrate atrophy, congenital amourosis, refsun syndrome, stargardt disease and Usher syndrome. In particular, the invention relates to a protein, termed “Rdcvf1,” that is differentially transcribed and expressed in subjects suffering from retinal dystrophies and the like, such as retinal dystrophy and age-related macular degeneration compared with non-sufferers, antibodies which recognize this protein, and methods for diagnosing such conditions.
US08071741B2	Stable recombinant adenosine deaminase A mutein recombinant adenosine deaminase having any oxidizable cysteine residue replaced by a non-oxidizable amino acid residue is disclosed. Stabilized recombinant adenosine deaminase, polymer conjugates and methods of treatment using the same are also disclosed.
US08071740B2	Promoters exhibiting endothelial cell specificity and methods of using same for regulation of angiogenesis Isolated polynucleotide sequences exhibiting endothelial cell specific promoter activity, novel cis regulatory elements and methods of use thereof enabling treatment of diseases characterized by aberrant neovascularization or cell growth are disclosed.
US08071734B2	Nucleic acid-based detection The invention relates to compositions, systems, and methods for simultaneously detecting the presence and quantity of one or more different compounds in a sample using aptamer beacons. Aptamer beacons are oligonucleotides that have a binding region that can bind to a non-nucleotide target molecule, such as a protein, a steroid, or an inorganic molecule. New aptamer beacons having binding regions configured to bind to different target molecules can be used in solution-based and solid, array-based systems. The aptamer beacons can be attached to solid supports, e.g., at different predetermined points in two-dimensional arrays. The invention includes devices, methods, and computer software for carrying out the methods.
US08071731B2	Humanised anti-MAG antibody or functional fragment thereof The present invention relates to altered antibodies to myelin associated glycoprotein (MAG), pharmaceutical formulations containing them and to the use of such antibodies in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of neurological diseases/disorders.
US08071723B2	Stable D-dimer liquid preparation The invention is in the field of coagulation diagnosis and relates to a liquid, buffer-based D-dimer composition, which additionally contains fibrinogen and which is suitable as a standard material for control or calibration purposes for D-dimer test procedures.
US08071722B2	Silk biomaterials and methods of use thereof The present invention provides an all-aqueous process and composition for production of silk biomaterials, e.g., fibers, films, foams and mats. In the process, at least one biocompatible polymer, such as poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) (a well-documented biocompatible material), was blended with the silk protein prior to processing e.g., electrospinning. We discovered that this step avoids problems associated with conformational transitions of fibroin during solubilization and reprocessing from aqueous solution which lead to embrittled materials. Moreover, the process avoids the use of organic solvents that can pose problems when the processed biomaterials are exposed to cells in vitro or in vivo.
US08071721B2	Antigens and antibodies associated to pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma The present invention provides novel human protein antigens and related antibodies that have been identified as being specifically expressed in association to human Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA). In particular, novel phosphorylated isoforms of alpha-enolase have been identified in transformed cell lines of pancreatic origin and antibodies binding such isoforms are specifically present in the sera of PDA patients. These proteins and antibodies can be useful for the diagnosis and the treatment of PDA and other cancers having common molecular features.
US08071719B2	Heteromeric taste receptors Heteromeric taste receptors are provided. These receptors comprise a first polypeptide which comprises extracellular and transmembrane domains wherein the transmembrane domains are at least 95% identical to the transmembrane domains of specific T1R1 polypeptides, and the extracellular domains are at least 95% identical to the corresponding extracellular domains of the specific T1R1 polypeptide or a different GPCR; and a second polypeptide which comprises extracellular and transmembrane domains wherein the transmembrane domains are at least 95% identical to the transmembrane domains of specific T1R3 polypeptides, and the extracellular domains are at least 95% identical to the corresponding extracellular domains of the specific T1R3 polypeptide or that of a different GPCR.
US08071714B2	Method for separating and purifying crystallisable organic compounds The invention relates to a process for separating and/or purifying organic compounds susceptible to crystallization by means of crystallizing and dissolving comprising the following steps: a) depositing the composition in the head of a separation and/or crystallization column; b) crystallizing by means of a cooling gradient; c) pumping the solvent at optimal flow rate Fc; d) entraining the components while they are not crystallized to the end of the column; e) stopping the pumping of the solvent until reaching the lowest temperature of the interval established by the cooling gradient; f) heating the column; g) beginning new pumping by means of applying flow rate Fe; h) collecting the eluates; and i) detecting by means of detectors.
US08071708B2	Click-reaction crosslinkable multicomponent silicone compositions Multicomponent silicone compositions which can be crosslinked via the click reaction and which, after mixing of the individual components, harden to give an elastomeric material contain: at least one compound (A) or (B), at least one compound (B) or (C), and at least one Cu catalyst (D), where (A) is an organic compound or an organosilicon compound which possesses at least two moieties having terminal aliphatic carbon-carbon triple bonds having terminally bonded hydrogen; (B) is an organic compound or an organosilicon compound which possesses at least two moieties having terminal aliphatic carbon-carbon triple bonds having terminally bonded hydrogen and simultaneously at least two moieties having carbon-bonded azide groups; (C) is an organic compound or an organosilicon compound which possesses at least two moieties having carbon-bonded azide groups.
US08071707B2	Addition-curable silicone composition and cured product thereof An addition-curable silicone composition is provided. The composition includes (A) a resin structure organopolysiloxane and (B) a platinum group metal-based catalyst. The component (A) has silicon-bonded alkenyl groups and hydrosilyl groups, and includes a structure in which R22SiO units, wherein R2 is a methyl group, etc., are connected together in a continuous repeating sequence, and the number of units in the continuous repeating sequence is within a range from 5 to 300. The composition can be prepared in a solid or semisolid form, and hence is suitable conventional molding apparatus such as a transfer molding apparatus, and upon curing, forms a hard resin cured product that exhibits excellent flexibility and minimal surface tack.
US08071703B2	Silicone-containing prepolymers with dangling hydrophilic polymer chains The invention provide a new class of silicone-containing prepolymers containing dangling hydrophilic polymer chains. This class of silicone-containing prepolymer is capable of being actinically crosslinked to form a silicone hydrogel material with a hydrophilic surface without post curing surface treatment. The present invention is also related to silicone hydrogel contact lenses made from this class of silicone-containing prepolymers and to methods for making the silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
US08071701B2	Polydentate heteroatom ligand containing metal complexes, catalysts and methods of making and using the same Metal complexes comprising certain polydentate heteroatom containing ligands, catalysts, and coordination polymerization processes employing the same are suitably employed to prepare polymers having desirable physical properties.
US08071700B2	Borohydride metallocene complex of a lanthanide, catalytic system including said complex, polymerization method using same and ethylene/butadiene copolymer obtained using said method A borohydride metallocene complex of a lanthanide, its process of preparation, a catalytic system incorporating a borohydride metallocene complex and a process for the copolymerization of olefins employing this catalytic system. Such a complex corresponds to one or other of the following formulae A and B: where, in the formula A, two ligands Cp1 and Cp2, each composed of a cyclopentadienyl group, are connected to the lanthanide Ln, such as Nd, and where, in the formula B, a ligand molecule, composed of two cyclopentadienyl groups Cp1 and Cp2 which are connected to one another via a bridge P of formula MR1R2, where M is an element from group IVa, such as Si, and where R1 and R2, which are identical or different, represent an alkyl group comprising from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, is connected to the lanthanide Ln, where L represents an alkali metal, such as Li, where N represents a molecule of a complexing solvent, such as THF, where x is an integral or non-integral number greater than 0, where p is an integer equal to or greater than 1 and where y is an integer which is equal to or greater than 0.
US08071696B2	Amphiphilic block copolymers The invention relates to novel crosslinkable copolymers of formula wherein the variables are as defined in the claims. The copolymers of the invention are especially useful for the manufacture of biomedical moldings, for example ophthalmic moldings such as in particular contact lenses.
US08071686B2	Polyolefin compositions having low hardness and low gloss A polyolefin composition comprising, in percent by weight: A) 10-25% of a propylene homopolymer or copolymer with up to 8% of comonomer(s); B) 75-90% of a copolymer of ethylene and (i) propylene or (ii) CH2═CHR alpha-olefins, where R is a 2-8 carbon alkyl radical, or (iii) a combination thereof, optionally with minor amounts of a diene, containing from 54 to 65% of ethylene; wherein the weight ratio B/XS of the content B of copolymer component (B) to the fraction XS soluble in xylene at room temperature, both referred to the total weight of (A)+(B), is of 1.50 or less.
US08071685B2	Method of recycling paints as a component of an immiscible polymer blend An immiscible polymer blend including a first polymer component including a paint polymer phase and a second polymer component immiscible with the first polymer component and selected from polyolefins and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA). A method of recycling paint by blending a first polymer component including a paint polymer phase with a second polymer component immiscible with the first polymer component and selected from polyolefins and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) is also presented.
US08071676B2	Modified polymer and composition containing the same A primary modified polymer composed of (1) a hydrogenated polymer obtained by hydrogenating at least one non-hydrogenated polymer selected from the group consisting of polymers comprising conjugated diene monomer units and copolymers comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units and (2) groups of a primary modifier having a functional group which are bonded to the polymer (1), which has a specific vinyl aromatic monomer unit content, a specific vinyl aromatic polymer block content, a specific weight-average molecular weight, and a specific degree of hydrogenation of the double bonds of conjugated diene monomer units; a secondary modified polymer obtained by reacting a primary modified polymer composed of (β) a base polymer and (γ) groups of a primary modifier having a functional group which are bonded to the polymer (β) with a secondary modifier; and compositions comprising the primary or secondary modified polymer and at least one other component.
US08071674B2	Compositions having HASE rheology modifiers A monomer compound that contains at least one polymerizable functional group per molecule, and at least one bicycloheptyl-, bicycloheptenyl-, or branched (C5-C42)alkyl-polyether radical per molecule, wherein the bicycloheptyl- or bicycloheptenyl-polyether radical may optionally be substituted on one or more of the ring carbon atoms by one or two (C1-C6)alkyl groups per ring carbon atom is useful in making polymers, particularly pH responsive polymers.
US08071671B2	Tread compositions with improved dynamic storage modulus A process for forming a tire component, the process comprising the steps of introducing a vulcanizable polymer, a curative, a first carbon black characterized by an iodine adsorption number, per ASTM D1510, that is greater than 60 g/kg, and a second carbon black characterized by an iodine adsorption number, per ASTM D1510, that is less than 60 g/kg to form a vulcanizable composition, fabricating a tire component from the vulcanizable composition, and curing the tire component.
US08071669B2	Use of silicon oxide compounds as free-flow agents in the production of solid polyvinyl acetate resins Polyvinyl acetate polymers produced by mass polymerization or suspension polymerization are stabilized against blocking by addition of minor amounts of a silicon oxide compound during the pelletization process of mass polymerized polymers and prior to or during fluidized bed drying in the case of suspension polymerized polymers. The free flowing polymers are suitable for use as chewing gum bases, and for other uses.
US08071666B2	Stabilized fumed silica suspensions for reinforcement of reactive resins Suspensions having good flow properties are produced by including a particulate thickener containing chemically or physically bound polymer.
US08071664B2	Compositions containing certain metallocenes and their uses Compositions comprising (1) a refractory and/or a binder, and (2) bis-cyclopentadienyl iron cyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl, derivatives thereof, and mixtures thereof.
US08071663B2	Medically acceptable formulation of a diisocyanate terminated macromer for use as an internal adhesive or sealant The present invention is directed to a medically acceptable formulation comprising a diisocyanate terminated macromer or mixture thereof, and bio-absorbable desiccant comprising a hygroscopic and/or hydrophilic or combination thereof. The present invention is also directed to methods of use for such formulations for medical procedures.
US08071660B2	Surface modified biomedical devices A method for making a surface modified biomedical device is disclosed, the method comprising contacting a surface of a biomedical device with a copolymer which is the reaction product of one or more polymerizable polyhydric alcohols and one or more polymerizable fluorine-containing monomers.
US08071658B2	Prepolymers with dangling polysiloxane-containing polymer chains The invention provide a new class of silicone-containing prepolymers containing dangling polysiloxane-containing polymer chains. This class of silicone-containing prepolymer is capable of being actinically crosslinked to form a silicone hydrogel material with a relatively high oxygen permeability, a reduced elastic modulus, and a relatively high ion permeability. The present invention is also related to silicone hydrogel contact lenses made from this class of silicone-containing prepolymers and to methods for making the silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
US08071657B2	Organic, open cell foam materials, their carbonized derivatives, and methods for producing same Organic, small pore area materials (“SPMs”) are provided comprising open cell foams in unlimited sizes and shapes. These SPMs exhibit minimal shrinkage and cracking. Processes for preparing SPMs are also provided that do not require supercritical extraction. These processes comprise sol-gel polymerization of a hydroxylated aromatic in the presence of at least one suitable electrophilic linking agent and at least one suitable solvent capable of strengthening the sol-gel. Also disclosed are the carbonized derivatives of the organic SPMs.
US08071656B2	Nylon extraction from commingled materials The present invention provides energetically and economically efficient methods for separating polyamide polymer(s) from commingled materials. The methods generally involve precipitating a polyamide polymer dissolved in a solvent (e.g., formic acid) using dimethyl ether (DME) as an antisolvent. The methods comprise dissolving the polyamide polymer in a solvent that (i) selectively dissolves the polyamide polymer relative to the other materials and (ii) has a higher solubility for DME relative to the polyamide polymer; and then contacting the mixture of the solvent with the dissolved polyamide polymer with DME, thereby precipitating the polyamide polymer.
US08071654B2	Inhibitors of thromboxane formation and action Methods and compositions employing as active ingredient hepoxilins and hepoxilin analog useful for inhibiting thromboxane formation and antagonizing thromboxane activity. Methods and compositions employing these compounds provide treatment for a number of disease conditions.
US08071648B2	Topical nepafenac formulations Topical suspension compositions of nepafenac are disclosed. The compositions are especially suitable for topical ophthalmic administration.
US08071647B2	Method for treatment of adhesion of the intestines Method for suppressing adhesion of the intestines or therapeutic treatment of adhesion of the intestines comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of 4-[(5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphthalenyl)carbamoyl]benzoic acid. There is also provided a medicament for suppressing adhesion of the intestines and/or therapeutic treatment of bowel diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease, which comprises as an active ingredient a retinoid such as, for example, 4-[(5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphthalenyl)carbamoyl]benzoic acid.
US08071646B2	Omega 3 fatty acid formulations The present invention provides highly purified omega-3 fatty acid formulations. Certain formulations provided herein contain greater than 85% omega-3 fatty acids by weight. Certain other formulations provided herein contain EPA and DHA in a ratio of from about 4.01:1 to about 5:1. The invention also provides methods of using the dosage forms to treat a variety of cardiovascular, autoimmune, inflammatory, and central nervous system disorders by administering a formulation of the invention to a patient in need thereof.
US08071643B2	Pleuromutilin derivatives for the treatment of diseases mediated by microbes A pleuromutilin derivative compound of general formula (I)
US08071641B2	Treating or preventing diabetes with cannabidiol Use of a cannabidiol for the manufacture of a medicament identified for the treatment or prevention of diabetes and/or insulitis.
US08071640B2	Urea oligomers, their preparation process and pharmaceutical compositions containing them A method for treating a cytotoxic disease by administrating compounds having a general formula X-(A)n-Y, wherein: n varies between 6 and 20; X denotes a hydrogen atom, an RaCO, RaOCO, RaNHCO or RaSO2 group, Ra being an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, aralkyl, heteroaryl group, the groups being substituted or not, on condition that X is different from H when n is equal to 6; A denotes either a group having formula (I) or (II), wherein Ri is a hydrogen atom, an amino acid side chain, an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, aralkyl or heteroaryl group, said groups being substituted or not, i being an integer of between 1 and n; Y is an NRbRc, Rb and Rc group having the same meaning as given earlier for Ra.
US08071639B2	Soft anticholinergic zwitterions Soft anticholinergic zwitterions of the formulas: wherein R1 and R2 are both phenyl or one of R1 and R2 is phenyl and the other is cyclopentyl; and wherein each asterisk marks a chiral center; said compound having the R, S or RS stereoisomeric configuration at each chiral center unless specified otherwise, or being a mixture thereof.
US08071638B2	Solid states of atorvastatin potassium Atorvastatin potassium crystalline Forms A, B, E, F, and G are provided. Also provided are methods of preparing atorvastatin potassium crystalline Forms A, B, E, F, and G. Atorvastatin potassium crystalline Forms A, B, E, F, and G may be used to prepare pharmaceutical compositions useful for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia or hyperlipidemia.
US08071637B2	Dithiolopyrrolones compounds and their therapeutic applications The present invention provides dithiolopyrrolone compounds of the general formula I, and their salts, wherein A is sulfur or carbon, and R1, R2, and R3 are selected from groups defined herein, and wherein when A is sulfur, then B is oxygen, and n=1 or 2, and when A is carbon, then B is oxygen or sulfur, and n=1. The compounds are useful for the prevention and treatment of microbial infections such as HIV infection, and for the treatment of blood disorders, such as neutropenia. In particular, the compounds are useful for the manufacture of medicaments for increasing white blood cells.
US08071635B2	4-(substituted cycloalkylmethyl) imidazole-2-thiones, 4-(substituted cycloalkenylmethyl) imidazole-2-thiones, 4-(substituted cycloalkylmethyl) imidazol-2-ones and 4-(substituted cycloalkenylmethyl) imidazole-2-ones and related compounds Compounds of Formula 1 where X is S and the variables have the meaning defined in the specification are specific or selective to alpha2B and/or alpha2C adrenergic receptors in preference over alpha2A adrenergic receptors, and as such have no or only minimal cardiovascular and/or sedatory activity. These compounds of Formula 1 are useful as medicaments in mammals, including humans, for treatment of diseases and or alleviations of conditions which are responsive to treatment by agonists of alpha2B adrenergic receptors. Compounds of Formula 1 where X is O also have the advantageous property that they have no or only minimal cardiovascular and/or sedatory activity and are useful for treating pain and other conditions with no or only minimal cardiovascular and/or sedatory activity.
US08071633B2	Pharmaceutical composition for treating spinocerebellar ataxia This invention provide to a pharmaceutical composition for treating spinocerebellar ataxia (or atrophy, degeneration) or multiple system atrophy, or for improving ataxia or equilibrium disturbance comprising a compound of the formula (I): wherein R is methyl, cyano or carbamoyl, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or a solvate thereof as an active ingredient.
US08071631B2	Small molecule inhibitors of kynurenine-3-monooxygenase The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I below and their tautomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, compositions and methods of uses thereof:
US08071630B2	Treatment of effect of chemicals with their ultradilute stereoisomers A method of treating an effect of a chemical agent, which agent is characterized by one or more chiral centres, by administering a dilution or an ultra-high dilution or potentised preparation of a stereoisomer of said chemical agent.
US08071619B2	Injectable liquid formulation of paracetamol The invention relates to a novel injectable liquid formulation of paracetamol, comprising an aqueous solvent, a buffer agent with a pKa between 4.5 and 6.5, an isotonic agent and the dimer of paracetamol of formula (I), a method for preparation of said formulation and the use of said dimer for the stabilisation of a liquid paracetamol pharmaceutical formulation.
US08071615B2	Carbonylamino-derivatives as novel inhibitors of histone deacetylase This invention comprises the novel compounds of formula (I) wherein n, m, t, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, L, Q, X, Y and have defined meanings, having histone deacetylase inhibiting enzymatic activity; their preparation, compositions containing them and their use as a medicine.
US08071614B2	Bicyclic heterocyclic compounds as protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors The invention relates to new bicyclic heterocyclic derivative compounds of formula (I): wherein R1, q, A, B, X1, X2, X3, X4, X5 and R2 are as defined herein, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds and to the use of said compounds in the treatment of diseases, e.g. cancer.
US08071613B2	Anti-constipation composition An object of the present invention is to provide an anti-constipation composition containing a halogenated-bi-cyclic compound as an active ingredient in a ratio of bi-cyclic/mono-cyclic structure of at least 1:1. The halogenated-bi-cyclic compound is represented by Formula (I): where X1 and X2 are preferably both fluorine atoms. The composition can be used to treat constipation without substantive side-effects, such as stomachache.
US08071610B2	Compositions and methods for enhancing brain function Compositions and methods are provided that enhance cognition in a human to which the composition is orally administered. Remarkably, clinical studies have proven that contemplated compositions achieve the desired effects using a minimal number of active ingredients at or near threshold active dosages, wherein such compositions almost exclusively comprise huperzine A, vinpocetine, and acetyl-L-carnitine at typically less than 1600 mg per daily dosage.
US08071608B2	Therapeutic agents (2S)-2-[1-(2-Chloro-6-cyano-phenyl)pyrazolo[4,5-e]pyrimidin-4-yl]oxy-3-[(1R)-2-hydroxy-1-methyl-ethoxy]-N-(5-methylpyrazin-2-yl)propanamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is useful in the treatment or prevention of a disease or medical condition mediated through glucokinase (GLK or GK), leading to a decreased glucose threshold for insulin secretion.
US08071602B2	Piperidine and piperazine derivatives Compounds of general formula (I) in which R1, m, X, n, Y and R3 have any of the meanings given in the specification, have affinity for sigma receptors and are useful in the treatment of disorders of the central nervous system.
US08071598B2	3,9-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane derivatives and their use as monoamine neurotransmitter re-uptake inhibitors 3,9-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane derivatives, useful as monoamine neurotransmitter re-uptake inhibitors. Also, use of these compounds in a method for therapy and in pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. The 3,9-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane derivatives have the formula wherein Ra and Rb are as described in the application. Also disclosed are stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds.
US08071597B2	Pyrazine compounds and uses as PI3K inhibitors The present invention is related to pyrazine derivatives of Formula (I) in particular for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of autoimmune disorders and/or inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, bacterial or viral infections, kidney diseases, platelet aggregation, cancer, transplantation, graft rejection or lung injuries.
US08071595B2	1,2-disubstituted heterocyclic compounds 1,2-disubstituted heterocyclic compounds which are inhibitors of phosphodiesterase 10 are described. Also described are processes, pharmaceutical compositions, pharmaceutical preparations and pharmaceutical use of the compounds in the treatment of mammals, including human(s) for central nervous system (CNS) disorders and other disorders which may affect CNS function. Among the disorders which may be treated are neurological, neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders including, but not limited to, those associated with cognitive deficits or schizophrenic symptoms.
US08071594B2	Substituted diketopiperazines and their use as oxytocin antagonists Compounds of formula (1) wherein R1 is 2-indanyl, R2 is 1-methylpropyl, R3 is 2-methyl-1,3-oxazol-4-yl and R4 and R5 together with the notrogen atom to which they are attached represents morpholino, process for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in medicine.
US08071591B2	7-cycloalkylaminoquinolones as GSK-3 inhibitors Provided herein are aminoquinolones of formula I and compositions containing the compounds, wherein formula I is The compounds and compositions provided herein are useful in the amelioration or treatment of GSK-3 inhibitors mediated diseases.
US08071590B2	9-substituted-5-carboxy-oxadiazino-quinolone derivatives, their preparation and their application as anti-bacterials A subject of the invention is the compounds of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R′3, R4, R′4, R5, R6 and R7 are as described in the application, in the form of enantiomers or mixtures, as well as their salts with acids and bases, their preparation and their application as anti-bacterials, in both human and veterinary medicine.
US08071587B2	(Dihydro)imidazoiso[5,1-A]quinolines The invention relates to imidazoiso[5,1-a]quinoline and 5,6-dihydro-imidazoiso[5,1-a]quinoline derivatives according to general Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds can be used for the treatment of infertility.
US08071584B2	Indole carboxamides as IKK2 inhibitors The invention is directed to novel indole carboxamide derivatives. Specifically, the invention is directed to compounds according to formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and m are as defined herein. The compounds of the invention are inhibitors of IKK2 and can be useful in the treatment of disorders associated with inappropriate IKK2 (also known as IKKβ) activity, such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, rhinitis, and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Accordingly, the invention is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the invention. The invention is still further directed to methods of inhibiting IKK2 activity and treatment of disorders associated therewith using a compound of the invention or a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of the invention.
US08071583B2	Pyrrolo[3,2-D] pyrimidines as DPP-IV inhibitors for the treatment of diabetes mellitus The present invention relates to substituted pyrrolo[3,2-d]pyrimidines of formula (I), wherein R1 and R2 are defined as in claim 1, including the tautomers, stereoisomers, mixtures and salts thereof, which have valuable pharmacological properties, particularly an inhibitory effect on the activity of the enzyme dipeptidylpeptidase-IV (DPP-IV).
US08071580B2	Medium-chain length fatty alcohols as stimulators of hematopoiesis Medium-chain length fatty alcohols such as octanol, decanol, dodecanol, or analogues thereof can be used as a stimulator of hematopoiesis, hematopoietic stem cell proliferation, and/or proliferation of one or more of the progenitors of red or white blood cells (e.g., erythrocyte, leukocyte, neutrophil, granulocyte, megakaryocyte, or any combination thereof). It also relates to the treatment of myelosuppression; in particular, this includes the treatment of anemia and/or neutropenia associated with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. Moreover, anemia arising from chronic renal failure or treatment of HIV-infected patients with AZT (zidovudine), or other inhibitors of reverse transcriptase, can be treated. Furthermore, neutropenia arising from infections, hematologic diseases, or nutritional deficiencies can be treated. It also relates to reducing drug toxicity and enhancing drug efficiency.
US08071578B2	Tazarotene and corticosteroid treatment for psoriasis The present invention provides a method for treating proliferative skin diseases comprising the administration of an effective amount of tazarotene and an effective amount of a corticosteroid. This invention is especially useful for treating psoriasis.
US08071576B2	Method of preventing or treating benign gynaecological disorders The present invention relates to a method of preventing or treating benign estrogen sensitive gynecological disorders in a female mammal, wherein the method comprises the administration to said female mammal of a combination of progestogen and androgen in an amount that is therapeutically effective to prevent or reduce the symptoms of these disorders. The present method is particularly suitable for preventing or treating disorders selected from the group consisting of endrometriosis, adenomyosis, uterine fibroids, dysmenorrhoea, menorrhagia and metrorrhagia. Another aspect of the invention relates to a pharmaceutical kit comprising a plurality of oral dosage units which comprise a progestogen in an amount equivalent to 3-500 μg levonorgestrel and either 5 to 250 mg dehydroepiandrosterone or 1 to 50 mg testosterone undecanoate.
US08071573B2	Bisphosphonate compounds and methods for bone resorption diseases, cancer, bone pain, immune disorders, and infectious diseases Bisphosphonate compounds and related methods of making and using are disclosed, including pyridinium-1-yl, quinolinium-1-yl, and related compounds. The activity of compounds is disclosed in the context of functional assays such as Leishmania major farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPPS) inhibition, Dictyostelium discoideum growth inhibition, human gamma delta T cell activation, and bone resorption. The applicability of bisphosphonate compounds in the context of parasitic infections, for example against trypanosomes, is disclosed. Further potential applications of the invention are disclosed regarding the treatment of one or more conditions such as bone resorption disorders, cancer, bone pain, infectious diseases, and in immunotherapy.
US08071570B2	Mixtures of polysaccharides derived from heparin, their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing them The present invention relates to mixtures of polysaccharides derived from heparin having a mean molecular weight of 1500 to 3000 Daltons and an anti-Xa/anti-IIa ratio greater than 30, their method of preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
US08071569B2	Oxidized heparin fractions and their use in inhibiting angiogenesis The present invention relates to a heparin fraction comprising constituents having molecular weights of from about 2,000 to about 4,000 daltons, wherein from about 1% to about 100% of hydroxyl residues of the constituents are oxidized. The present invention also relates to methods of inhibiting angiogenesis and treating an angiogenesis-mediated disorder in a subject by administering a heparin fraction comprising constituents having molecular weights of from about 2,000 to about 30,000 daltons, wherein from about 1% to about 100% of hydroxyl residues of the constituents are oxidized. Another aspect of the present invention relates to compositions including the heparin fractions of the present invention.
US08071564B2	Regulation of angiogenesis with zinc finger proteins Provided herein are a variety of methods and compositions for regulating angiogenesis, such methods and compositions being useful in a variety of applications where modulation of vascular formation is useful, including, but not limited to, treatments for ischemia and wound healing. Certain of the methods and compositions accomplish this by using various zinc finger proteins that bind to particular target sites in one or more VEGF genes. Nucleic acids encoding the zinc finger proteins are also disclosed. Methods for modulating the expression of one or more VEGF genes with the zinc finger proteins and nucleic acids are also disclosed. Such methods can also be utilized in a variety of therapeutic applications that involve the regulation of endothelial cell growth. Pharmaceutical compositions including the zinc finger proteins or nucleic acids encoding them are also provided.
US08071560B2	Materials and methods for reducing inflammation by inhibition of the atrial natriuretic peptide receptor This invention pertains to inhibitors of atrial natriuretic peptide receptor A (NPRA) function, such as small interfering RNA (siRNA), useful for reducing the inflammation associated with many human diseases, such as asthma, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, and cancers (such as melanoma, lung cancer, and/or ovarian cancer) by interfering with NPRA gene expression or otherwise reducing NPRA function within a subject; and methods for treating a subject suffering from, or at risk of developing, an inflammatory disease, respiratory allergy (such as allergic rhinitis and asthma), viral infection, and/or cancer by administering such NPRA inhibitors to the subject.
US08071559B2	Compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis and treatment The application relates to methods and compositions for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of tumors and cancers in mammals, for example, humans, utilizing the mir17-92 cluster. The application further relates to screening methods to identify compounds and reagents useful in cancer diagnosis, prevention, and therapy.
US08071557B2	Treatment of pulmonary hypertension with carbonic anhydrase inhibitors This disclosure relates generally to methods and pharmaceutical compositions useful in treating pulmonary hypertension. In one embodiment, for example, the disclosure provides a method for treating pulmonary hypertension comprising administering a therapeutically effective dose of a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor to a patient in need of treatment. The disclosure finds utility in the fields of medicine and pharmacology.
US08071553B2	Method and peptide for regulating cellular activity Method and peptide for regulating cellular activity includes a panel of synthesized peptides that have biological effects on inhibiting or enhancing cellular activity. Selected peptides can be used as therapy to reduce and/or inhibit, or initiate and/or enhance, an inflammatory response in a subject.
US08071547B2	Compositions of alpha-fetoprotein and inducers of apoptosis for the treatment of cancer The invention relates to novel compositions comprising alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and methods for preventing, treating or inhibiting a malignant neoplasm expressing an alpha-fetoprotein receptor (AFPR) with or without multidrug resistance. Compositions comprising a non-covalent complex of an exogenous AFP, and at least one apoptosis-inducing agent selected from the group comprising mitochondrial membrane permeabilizing agents, mitochondrial pore opening inducing agents, ionophores, caspase 9 activators, caspase 3 activators and retinoids, are provided, wherein the at least one apoptosis-inducing agent reversibly binds to the exogenous AFP. The invention also provides for a process for butanol extraction of porcine alpha-fetoprotein obtained from blood and amniotic fluid extracted during early embryogenesis.
US08071545B2	Therapies and compositions for controlling the stress mechanism and for stabilizing hemostasis in an organism A method for treating skin malignancies, malignant tumors, metastatic malignancies and abnormal skin growths in an organism by treating the organism to inhibit the stress mechanism via different pathways and synergistically reduce the production of thrombin in the organism by maintaining antinociception anesthesia throughout the treatment process to control psychic and somatic stress and to reduce the activity levels of Factor VIII, administering medications to the organism that reduce the activity of Factor VII, administering anti-thrombin medications to the organism, or administering to the organism medications that reduce the activity levels of Factor X and Factor Xa.
US08071544B2	Crystallized recombinant human growth factor formulations Formulations containing complexed human growth hormone crystals are described. Also described are needleless injection systems for crystalline proteins.
US08071540B2	Virus derived antimicrobial peptides Described herein are peptides having antimicrobial activity (antimicrobial peptides). The antimicrobial peptides, designated LBU, WLBU and WR, are analogs of the Lentivirus Lytic Peptide 1 (LLP1) amino acid sequence. The antimicrobial peptides are monomers or multimers of peptides referred to as the Lytic Base Unit (LBU) peptides, derived from the LLP1 analogs and also having antimicrobial activity. Also described herein are using the peptides in a variety of contexts, including the treatment or prevention of infectious diseases. Methods of killing fungi, such as Candida and Cryptococcus species, and bacteria, such as B. anthracis, are provided herein. Methods of neutralizing enveloped viruses, such as poxvirus, herpesvirus, rhabdovirus, hepadnavirus, baculovirus, orthomyxovirus, paramyxovirus, retrovirus, togavirus, bunyavirus and flavivirus, including influenza virus and HIV-1 also are provided herein. Solid phase substrates and peptide-cargo complexes comprising the peptides also are provided.
US08071539B2	Albumin fusion proteins The present invention encompasses albumin fusion proteins. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the albumin fusion proteins of the invention are also encompassed by the invention, as are vectors containing these nucleic acids, host cells transformed with these nucleic acids vectors, and methods of making the albumin fusion proteins of the invention and using these nucleic acids, vectors, and/or host cells. Additionally the present invention encompasses pharmaceutical compositions comprising albumin fusion proteins and methods of treating, preventing, or ameliorating diseases, disorders or conditions using albumin fusion proteins of the invention.
US08071536B2	Mutant DNA polymerases with improved pyrophosphorolysis activated polymerization (PAP) ability Disclosed are mutant DNA polymerases having improved extension rates relative to a corresponding, unmodified polymerase. The mutant polymerases are useful in a variety of disclosed primer extension methods. Also disclosed are related compositions, including recombinant nucleic acids, vectors, and host cells, which are useful, e.g., for production of the mutant DNA polymerases.
US08071531B2	Flavor and fragrance composition A flavor and fragrance composition with a cooling sensation effect comprising 1-(2-hydroxy-4-methylcyclohexyl)ethanone represented by the formula (1). The flavor and fragrance composition is added to a beverage or food product, a fragrance or cosmetic product, a daily utensil product, an oral composition, or a pharmaceutical product in the range of 0.0001 to 20% by weight to the total weight of the flavor and fragrance composition added.
US08071530B2	Organoleptic compounds and their use in perfume compositions The present invention a method of improving, enhancing or modifying a fragrance formulation through the addition of an olfactory acceptable amount of the following compound: wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a straight, branched or cyclic hydrocarbon moiety consisting of less than 10, preferably less than 4, most preferably less than 2 carbon atoms.
US08071528B2	Cleaning compositions with water insoluble conversion agents and methods of making and using them The present invention relates to cleaning compositions comprising conversion agents and methods of using them. The conversion agents of the present invention comprise water insoluble compounds such as metal oxides, metal hydroxides, and combinations thereof. The compositions can be substantially free of a builder, e.g., a chelating agent, sequestrant, and/or threshold agent, while still achieving effective soil removal.
US08071525B2	Aqueous disinfectants and sterilants including transition metals The present invention is drawn to disinfectant or sterilant compositions, which are human safe, e.g., food grade or food safe. In one embodiment, an aqueous disinfectant or sterilant composition can comprise an aqueous vehicle, including water, from 0.001 wt % to 50 wt % of a peracid, and from 0.001 wt % to 25 wt % of a peroxide. Additionally, from 0.001 ppm to 50,000 ppm by weight of a transition metal based on the aqueous vehicle content can also be present. The composition can be substantially free of aldehydes. Alternatively or additionally, the transition metal can be in the form of a colloidal transition metal.
US08071524B2	Biodegradable wipe utilizing bio-based lubricant comprising refined soybean oil The present invention generally relates to a biodegradable lubricating wipe, such as wet wipes. The wet wipes typically being fibrous sheet materials, pre-moistened with a solution for improved lubrication and/or protection of an area. In one embodiment the solution is comprised of a bio-based lubricant, a bio-based solvent and water. In one embodiment, the solution is comprised of mineral spirits and refined soybean oil. In another embodiment the solution is comprised of soy methyl ester and refined soybean oil. In yet another embodiment, the fibrous sheet material of the invention is biodegradable and the solution portion breaks down into a vaporizing component and a biodegradable carrier portion.

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