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US08817403B2 Magnetic disk drive and method for servo preamble length adjustment applied to the same
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk drive includes a disk and a controller. The disk includes a plurality of zones each having a plurality of tracks. The disk is formatted such that a plurality of servo frames are discretely recorded in each of the plurality of tracks. The plurality of servo frames include servo preamble data of a second length which corresponds to the zone having the track and which is less than or equal to a first length serving as a reference. The controller allows a head to read the servo frames from the disk via a read amplifier.
US08817401B2 Zero gain start and gain acquisition based on adaptive analog-to-digital converter target
Aspects of the disclosure pertain to a system and method for providing zero gain start (ZGS) and gain acquisition based on an adaptive analog-to-digital converter (ADC) target. The adaptive ADC target is used to collect channel characteristics and based on the adaptive ADC target, an adjusted 2T amplitude target value is generated.
US08817397B2 Lens actuator
In a lens actuator according to an exemplary embodiment, wires that connect a holder and a base of a movable unit have diameters of 30 μm or more and less than 70 μm, and the wires have longitudinal elastic moduli of 100 GPa or more and less than 500 GPa. The wire is flexible even if a small amount of currents are passed through a plurality of OIS coils, and the lens actuator suitable to electric power saving can be provided.
US08817395B2 Portable high-power microscope magnification lens structure
A portable high-power microscope magnification lens structure, mainly comprises: a main body, a high-power lens being disposed on a middle part thereof which is passed through, an adhesive portion being disposed on a rear edge of the main body, LED lamps used for light compensating illumination being disposed around the lens on a front side of the main body; and a rear cover, one side thereof being pivotally connected to the main body, the rear cover being foldable to cover a rear side of the main body, and a hollow space for receiving batteries being disposed on the rear cover and connected to the LED lamps through a switch; whereby, the additional unit can be attached to the lens of a cellular phone, tablet or camera, used to shoot and observe high-power microscopically magnified images, used as the teaching assistance for the observation of organisms or physical objects, and used for the microscopic magnification photography of the details of other industrial product structures, and the pictures taken from the above can be transmitted to an Internet system immediately.
US08817394B2 Lens module and manufacturing method thereof
A method of manufacturing a lens module including following is provided. A first lens plate having a plurality of first lens sections, a second lens plate having a plurality of second lens sections and a third lens plate having a plurality of third lens sections are provided. The first lens sections of the first lens plate are separated to form a plurality of first lens units. The second and third lens plates are connected. A relative position between each of the first lens units and one of the second lens sections corresponding to the first lens unit is adjusted. Each of the first lens units and the second lens section corresponding to the first lens unit are connected. The second and third lens sections are separated to form a plurality of second lens units and a plurality of third lens units connected to the second lens units.
US08817389B2 Optical lens assembly for image taking
An optical lens assembly for image taking includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power includes a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region. The second lens element with negative refractive power includes a concave object-side surface at a paraxial region. The third lens element with refractive power includes a concave object-side surface at a paraxial region and a convex image-side surface at a paraxial region. The fourth lens element made of plastic with negative refractive power includes a concave object-side surface at a paraxial region and an image-side surface. At least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is aspheric, and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave at a paraxial region and convex at a peripheral region.
US08817385B2 Photographing optical lens system
A photographing optical lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power is made of plastic material, and has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power is made of plastic material, and has a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. At least one surface of the fourth through fifth lens elements is aspheric, and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element changes from concave at the paraxial region to convex at the peripheral region.
US08817384B2 Zoom lens device
A zoom lens device includes a focusing lens group arranged on an object side, and a variator lens group next thereto, and a temperature sensor. The focusing lens group includes a focusing lens, and a temperature-based correction lens for correcting changes in focal point caused by temperature changes around the focusing lens group. The temperature-based correction lens is moved by a temperature-based correction lens driving mechanism along an optical axis to a position determined by a temperature detected by the temperature sensor, independently of the positions of the focusing lens or variator lens group. Thereby, the zoom lens device is capable of favorably correcting defocus of the lens group caused by an ambient temperature change with a simple correcting mechanism.
US08817373B2 Microcrack free polarization plate
An end face of a polarization plate cut by laser becomes a substantially flat surface having only sloping micro waviness because of having been melted once to be solidified. Since the surface has few stress-concentrated parts that may cause microcracks, this prevents microcracks from easily being produced.
US08817372B2 System and method for modulating and displaying optical effects
A system and method for modulating and displaying optical effects includes a lighting device (BV) and at least one displaying object (DO) located outside the lighting device. The lighting device (BV) includes at least one input polarization unit (POE) for influencing polarization, in particular in a location-dependent manner, and at least one modulation unit (OME) for influencing polarization and/or retardance, in particular in a time-dependent and/or location-dependent manner. The displaying object (DO) includes at least one object retarder unit (POB) for influencing retardance, in particular in a location-dependent and/or time-dependent manner, the at least one object retarder unit being suitable for reversibly or irreversibly impressing a piece of image information, and an output polarization unit (PE). Modulated light (Sout) exiting the lighting device (BV) hits the object retarder unit (POB) in order to interact with the piece of image information, whereby optical effects can be visualized by means of the output polarization unit (PE).
US08817371B1 Polarizing beam splitters
A polarizing beam splitter has a pair of opposed transparent prism substrates with a refractive index n0, and providing at least one input port and at least one output port. The input port accepts light incident over a range of operational angles including a central operational angle. A multilayer thin film structure is sandwiched between the pair of opposed transparent substrates and consists essentially of a plurality of layers l1 . . . lm having respective refractive indices n1 . . . nm, wherein at least three of said refractive indices n1 . . . nm are different, and wherein the refractive index of the substrates n0 lies between the highest refractive index nH and lowest refractive index nL, and wherein nH, nL and n0 define a Brewster angle θ0B: θ 0 ⁢ B = arcsin ( n L ⁢ n H n 0 ⁢ n L 2 + n H 2 ) , and a critical angle θc: θ C = arcsin ⁡ ( n L n 0 ) . The refractive indices n0 and n1 . . . nm are selected such that the central operational angle for a beam incident on the multiple thin film structure lies above the Brewster angle θ0B and such that most or all the operational angles defined by said input port lie above the Brewster angle θ0B. For p-polarized light at least one optical admittance of the layers with refractive indices n1 . . . nm is lower or very close to that of the optical admittance of the substrate for the operational angles such that the thin film polarizing beam-splitter favors the transmittance for p-polarized light incident at that input port such that most of the p-polarized light is transmitted through the multiple thin film structure. For s-polarized light the polarizing beam-splitter acts as a high reflective coating to favor the reflectance for s-polarized light incident at the input port such that most of the s-polarized light is reflected from said multiple thin film structure. The polarizing beam splitter is compact and yet remains functional over a wide range of operational angles.
US08817367B2 Plasma ion assisted deposition of Mo/Si multilayer EUV coatings
The disclosure is directed to multilayer Mo/Si coatings for reflective mirrors used in extreme ultraviolet lithographic systems and to a method of making such mirrors using plasma ion assisted deposition (PIAD) techniques. The coating are deposited on a substrate suitable for EUV lithography, and are Mo/Si coating consisting of 40-100 Mo/Si periods, each period consisting on a Mo layer followed by a Si layer. Each of the individual Mo and Si layers is deposited to a specified or target thickness in the range of 2 nm to 5 nm, and the thicknesses are controlled to ±0.1 nm. A plasma from a plasma source is used to densify and smooth the substrate prior to deposition of the coating, and each layer of the coating is plasma densified and smoothed.
US08817362B2 Modular pattern illumination and light beam multiplexing for selective excitation of microparticles
A modular approach to a pattern illumination system for selective excitation of microparticles is used. A dual-channel pattern module having two single-channel pattern modules are oriented at a non-zero offset angle to each other. In this arrangement, a galvo-scanner based phase-shifting module is shared between the two channels. A set of tilt mirrors are used to direct the beams from the pattern modules onto the target plane. Additional layers of pattern modules can be added to accommodate any desirable number of additional channels. The additional layer(s) may be rotationally off-set from the other layer(s) by an angular amount to simplify the layout of optical components. A remote light source module may be connected to the pattern modules through optical fiber.
US08817359B2 In-band signaling in optical cross-connect switch using frequency modulation
In a multiple-axis free-space-coupled single-mode fiber-optic transmission system, such as an optical cross-connect switch, a method and apparatus are provided for the closed loop attenuation of optical beam power signals employed to align and cause dithering via MEMS mirrors which are manipulated to impose on the optical beam frequency modulation and, in particular, a time-varying set of induced mirror angles that yield a desired time history of optical power level that is modulated according to a digital code in the frequency modulation pattern.
US08817355B2 Electrochromic device
An electrochromic device according to example embodiments may include a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, an electrochromic layer positioned between the first electrode and second electrode and including an electrochromic material, and an electrolyte contacting the electrochromic layer between the first electrode and second electrode and including an electron accepting molecule.
US08817352B2 Optical switching assembly with over-center lock
An optical switching assembly having an optical path therethrough includes an optical element, a base frame, an optical support that supports the optical element and is pivotably mounted to the base frame, and a linkage. The linkage interconnects the base frame and the optical support to effect movement of the optical support between an aligned position where the optical element is in the optical path and a non-aligned position removed from the aligned position. The linkage has two over-center positions that respectively correspond to the aligned position and the non-aligned position. No additional energy is required to hold the linkage in the over-center positions.
US08817349B2 Photographic hologram system
A photographic hologram system is provided. The use of an image slicing process and/or the arrangement of half-cylindrical lens in the optical path of an optical light wave and upstream of the film is effective to reduce the times of multiple exposures of the film. As a consequence, the brightness of the reconstructed image is enhanced.
US08817342B2 Light guide, illumination device, and image reading apparatus
Provided is a light guide, in which: at least one of a reflecting part or a light exit part has a light condensing action in a direction intersecting a predetermined direction; the at least one of the reflecting part or the light exit part includes diffusing parts arranged in the predetermined direction; the diffusing parts include: a first curved surface having a first degree of diffusion in the predetermined direction for a sparse region of light sources; and a second curved surface having a second degree of diffusion, which is lower than the first degree of diffusion, in the predetermined direction for a dense region of the light sources; and each of the first curved surface and the second curved surface has a shape corresponding to a part of a cylinder extending in a direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction in which the light sources are arrayed.
US08817341B2 Image forming apparatus and electric-power control method used in the image forming apparatus
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a detecting unit, a storing unit, a threshold determining unit, and a control unit. The detecting unit detects an ambient brightness level at an arbitrary time zone. The storing unit stores information indicating the brightness level detected by the detecting unit. The threshold determining unit determines a threshold serving as a criterion for switching into a low-power-consumption mode according to the information indicating the brightness level stored in the storing unit. The control unit controls switching into the low-power-consumption mode using the threshold determined by the threshold determining unit.
US08817338B2 Scan mechanism and scan module
A scan mechanism and a scan module are provided. The scan mechanism adapted to be used in a scan module includes a rack and a scan unit. The rack has an engaging surface, a bottom surface and a plurality of teeth disposed on the engaging surface. Each of the teeth comprises a top end, wherein the distance between the centers of any two adjacent top ends is W, the shortest distance from the top end of each tooth to the bottom surface of the rack is D, and W/D is from 0.56 to 0.79. The scan unit includes a gear engaged with the teeth of the rack and adapted to roll along the engaging surface of the rack, wherein the scan unit is slidably disposed on the rack through the gear.
US08817337B2 Transportable image processing apparatus
A limiting member (91) includes a main body (911) and a convexity (912) formed at the upper face of the main body (911). The convexity (912) protrudes like a key toward the front-face side of a case (1). The case (1) has a hole (92) storing the limiting member (91), the hole (92) having an inclined face (921) that is inclined obliquely upward from the rear-face side to the front-face side of the case (1). The hole (92) has a depth larger than the height of the limiting member (91) on the rear-face side, and has substantially the same depth as the front-face side height of the main body (911) on the front-face side. A document cover (4) has a hole (93) including a U-shaped concavity (931) that is open on the rear-face side of the case (1), formed on the front-face side of the case (1). When the limiting member (91) is located on the front-face side of the case (1), the convexity (912) engages with the U-shaped concavity (931).
US08817335B2 Image reading apparatus
An image reading apparatus includes a main body, a rotation unit supported on the main body so as to be rotatable around a rotation axis, an imaging unit that is mounted on the rotation unit at an outward position in a radial direction of the rotation axis and images a medium to be read that is placed on a placement surface located under the rotation unit in the vertical direction, and a light source that irradiates the medium to be read with light. The light source and the imaging unit can be arranged with a relative positional relationship capable of suppressing specular reflected light of light that is emitted from the light source and reflected by the medium to be read from being incident on the imaging unit.
US08817333B2 Display device with optical sensor included and image reading method employing same
Provided is a display device with photosensors that can achieve a scanner function without increasing the memory capacity for images. A display device with photosensors includes a visible light source and an invisible light source. The display device with photosensors further includes: a first photosensor that detects the amount of received light in a pixel region when the invisible light source is on; a second optical sensor that detects the amount of received light in the pixel region when the invisible light source is off; and a third photosensor that detects the amount of received light reflected from an object to be scanned, causing only display pixels respectively nearest to the third photosensors within a prescribed range in the pixel region to be in a display state, and causing other pixels in the prescribed range to be in a non-display state. Data obtained from the third photosensor is stored in a memory (205) including a region (205a) that stores therein first reference data obtained when the invisible light source is on, and a region (205b) that stores therein second reference data obtained when the invisible light source is off.
US08817331B2 Transcoding run length limited datastreams for object level halftoning
Methods and systems for transcoding continuous tone Run Length Limited (RLL) encoded datastreams for including information for identifying halftone screens within the datastream are disclosed. Sequential packets comprising headers and bitmap data are identified within the datastream. Halftone screens associated with bitmap data within the packets are identified and merged into the packets to generate a modified RLL output.
US08817330B2 Method for adjusting quality of a pantograph background pattern
Pantograph background and foreground pairs that perform well in one printer may not perform as well in another. The main problem that occurs is the message is easily seen on the original print. By adjusting the background pattern quality, the pantograph is adjusted for optimal performance for a particular printer. The background pattern is adjusted by first adjusting the pixel density in the background pattern and second, by adding the adjusted cluster background pixel pattern.
US08817327B2 Printing system and correspondence relationship information creation method to match visual characteristics of different printers
A printing system includes a first unit that obtains a rendering command specifying a combination of at least a thickness and a color of a line; a second unit that converts the rendering command into a converted rendering command by converting the combination specified in the rendering command so that an average darkness of a result of printing the line matches a desired average darkness of a result of printing the line using a target printer; a third unit that generates image data including the rendered line based on the converted rendering command; and a printing unit that executes printing based on the image data.
US08817326B2 Image processing apparatus
When a user inputs an image addition instruction from a UI input unit, a job registration unit registers a job corresponding to the instruction in a job list for each type of processing. When undo is input from the UI input unit, a current position pointer prepared for each type of processing returns to the immediately preceding job. When redo is input, the current position pointer moves to the immediately succeeding job. When a processing execution instruction is input, out of jobs registered in the job list, the job indicated by the current position pointer and preceding jobs are executed in a predetermined order.
US08817325B2 Control device, image scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus, and method of controlling image scanning apparatus
A control device including an image enlarging unit that creates enlarged image data of image data by repeatedly using a line in the image data; and a control unit that reads, from a storing unit in which the image data is stored, the image data and outputs, to the image enlarging unit, the image data for each line, the output being performed at time intervals corresponding to the number of times the line is used in accordance with an enlargement ratio of the image data to the enlarged image data.
US08817319B2 System and method for direct rendering of a document to an electronic book device in device-supported format
A multifunction device includes a controller that is configured to process data from a processor capable of executing a printing utility. The controller renders the data into a format readable by an electronic book device having a processor.A document print management system includes the multifunction device, and a port configured to transfer the data to an electronic book device when an electronic book device is in operative communication with the controller via the port. The system also includes an electronic book device in operative communication with the controller via the port. In a method for rendering a document to an electronic book device, the method includes causing a document management device to process data received from a processor capable of executing a printing utility and rendering image data into a format readable by the electronic book device.
US08817314B2 System for distributing and controlling color reproduction at multiple sites
The system provides for controlling color reproduction of input color image data in a network having nodes (or sites). The system distributes the input color image data from one of the nodes to other nodes, and provides data structures in the network. The system has means for providing color calibration data at each node characterizing output colors (colorants) of the rendering device of the node, and means for producing at each node, responsive to the color calibration data of the rendering device of the node, information for transforming the input color image data into output color image data at the rendering device of the node. The rendering device of each node renders a color reproduction responsive to the output color image data, wherein colors displayed in the reproduction at the rendering device of each node appear substantially the same within the output colors attainable by the rendering devices.
US08817312B2 Control point, image forming apparatus, and method of controlling printing
A control point includes a communication interface to search for one or more image forming apparatuses using digital living network alliance (DLNA), a user interface unit through which at least one piece of content is selected for printing using a user interface of the control point, and through which an image forming apparatus is selected from among the searched image forming apparatuses to perform printing, a DLNA stack unit to set a connection policy regarding connection to the selected image forming apparatus, and to selectively control the DLNA connection status to the selected image forming apparatus according to the connection policy, and a controller to control the communication interface to transmit print data corresponding to the selected content-for-printing and the connection policy to the selected image forming apparatus.
US08817306B2 Information processing system and management method
A setting value management service holds first operation setting information that is applied to an image forming apparatus belonging to a first management range managed thereby and second operation setting information which is applied to an image forming apparatus belonging to a second management range. The setting value management service generates third operation setting information, which is applied to the image forming apparatus, when a user who corresponds to the second management range uses the image forming apparatus belonging to the first management range, using the second operation setting information. The setting value management service accepts the operation setting information acquisition request from an image forming apparatus belonging to the first management range, which is used by a user who corresponds to the second management range, and returns the corresponding third operation setting information to the image forming apparatus.
US08817305B2 Communication apparatus having PC-FAX transmission function, and control method and storage medium therefor
A communication apparatus that can leave a transmission history including transmission destination information as well as transmission destination dial information at the time of PC-FAX transmission. A facsimile apparatus, which is a communication apparatus having a PC-FAX transmission function, acquires transmission destination dial information from a facsimile transmission request received from a client terminal, searches an address book database registered in the facsimile apparatus to find an address book including transmission destination dial information coincident with the acquired dial information, and performs facsimile transmission based on the acquired transmission destination dial information. If an address book including transmission destination dial information coincident with the acquired dial information is found by the search, a transmission history is stored that includes dial information and transmission destination information that are registered in the address book found by the search.
US08817303B2 Control device, computer readable medium, and printing system
A control device includes a generating unit, a specifying unit, a calculating unit, a determining unit, and a controller. The generating unit generates, upon receiving a print instruction, which includes attribute information representing an attribute of a printed material to be created, processing information by using the attribute information and a preset rule. The specifying unit specifies activation periods of activation operations of activating the respective processing devices indicated by the processing information. The calculating unit calculates processing periods of processing operations executed to create the printed material by the respective processing devices indicated by the processing information. The determining unit determines starting times of the activation operations executed by the respective processing devices indicated by the processing information. The controller controls the respective processing devices indicated by the processing information so that the processing devices start the respective activation operations at the starting times determined by the determining unit.
US08817301B2 System for maintaining proper page sequence while reducing printer artifacts
A printing system having a printer comprising two printheads, sensors for determining a position of a rolled receiver media in the printer, and rollers for starting a multi-page print job using either one of the printheads based on the position of the rolled receiver media in the printer. A second page of the print job is printed before a first page of the print job in response to the position of the rolled receiver media in the printer.
US08817300B2 Method and apparatus to edit and print documents using a web browser
A print server apparatus includes a receiving unit, an extraction unit, an acquisition unit, and an instruction unit. The receiving unit receives a URL displayed on an edit screen of a document from a client device, wherein the edit screen is provided by a web application on a web application server and is displayed on a web browser to use the displayed edit screen, thereby executing edit processing of the document. The extraction unit extracts identification information used to identify document data corresponding to the document based on the received URL. The acquisition unit acquires the document data identified by the extracted identification information from the web application server that provides the edit screen. The instruction unit instructs a printing apparatus to print the acquired document data.
US08817295B2 Communication system and printer therefor
A communication system includes a first network, a printer connected with the first network, a host device, connected with the first network, which are configured to use the printer as a network printer with a printer driver being installed therein, a second network connected with the first network via a router, and an external server device, connected with the second network, which is configured as a providing source of a first printer driver. The printer includes a downloading unit that downloads the first printer driver from the external server device via the first and second networks, a storing unit that stores the downloaded first printer driver, and a sending unit that sends the stored first printer driver to the host device via the first network. The host device includes a receiving unit that receives the first printer driver from the sending unit.
US08817294B2 Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a main body and a replaceable component. The main body includes a first storage unit storing first authentication informations for authentication with the replaceable component, a data storage unit storing authentication data for choosing the first authentication information. The replaceable component includes a second storage unit storing second authentication informations corresponding to the first authentication information. Authentication data is set to be different among different image forming apparatuses. The main body attempts authentication with the replaceable component using the first authentication information chosen based on the authentication data. When the second authentication information corresponding to the chosen first authentication information is stored, a control unit establishes connection between communication units of the main body and the replaceable component.
US08817293B2 Image forming apparatus to control a power supply, and method thereof
An image forming apparatus for controlling power supply is provided. An image forming apparatus includes at least one cover unit to be mounted in the image forming apparatus, at least one replaceable unit to participate in an image forming operation of the image forming apparatus, a sensing unit to sense whether the at least one cover unit is opened or closed, and a main board unit to cut off the power supply to the at least one replaceable unit for a predetermined period of time when the at least one cover unit is opened or closed. Accordingly, stable operation is enabled.
US08817292B1 Printing systems and methods providing a raster image processing performance preflight option
Disclosed is a printing system having a raster image processing performance preflight option and an associated printing method. When the performance preflight option is selectively enabled, the printing system parses a print job to acquire data object statistics, performs preliminary raster image processing of the print job to generate preliminary raster pages, monitors the preliminary raster image processing to acquire performance statistics, determines (based on the performance statistics) whether or not the print job meets predefined specifications for raster image process timing and generates and displays a summary report. Page-specific selectable reports can be embedded in the summary report to allow a user to selectively view page-specific data object statistics and visual representations of specific preliminary raster pages. Such reports can be used to modify the print job in order to improve raster image processing timing prior to printing.
US08817291B2 Image forming apparatus for selectively powering a user authentication device
An image forming apparatus includes a memory, an image forming device, an authentication device, and a control device. The authentication device performs user authentication. The control device determines whether the stored job requires user authentication. The control device permits the image forming unit to form an image based on the stored job when the job requires user authentication and the authentication device successfully performs user authentication for the job. The control device permits the image forming unit to form an image based on the stored job without user authentication when the job does not require user authentication. The control device selectively supplies power to the authentication device based on whether the stored job requires user authentication.
US08817289B2 Print data processing apparatus and print data processing method
A print data processing apparatus includes a memory which stores print data configured page by page. The print data processing apparatus further includes an unnecessary page detection portion configured to detect an unnecessary page from the print data stored in the memory. The unnecessary page includes ruled line data and does not include character data. Moreover, the print data processing apparatus further includes an unnecessary page deletion portion configured to delete, from the print data stored in the memory, the unnecessary page detected by the unnecessary page detection portion.
US08817286B2 Communication system, method and storage medium
A communication system includes an apparatus transmitting management information about management of consumable supplies and a mobile communication device that receives the management information. The communication device includes a detection part configured to detect a position of the communication device; a memory part configured to store a supplier's name of the consumable supplies and a position of the supplier; a setting part configured to set an area specified by a circle with a radius of predetermined length, which is centered on the position of the supplier stored in the memory part, as a control area; a display part; and a display control part configured to allow the display part to display the management information, the name of the supplier, and/or the position of the supplier when the display control part receives the management information from the apparatus and the position detected by the detection part falls within the control area.
US08817282B2 Image forming apparatus
Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of preventing heat in an in-body copy receiving portion from reaching a bottom face of a scanner portion disposed above the in-body copy receiving portion.An image forming apparatus (100) includes: an in-body copy receiving portion (90); a scanner portion (123); and an air blow portion (200). The in-body copy receiving portion (90) includes a copy receiving tray (91) to stack image-formed sheets thereon, the in-body copy receiving portion being disposed in the image forming apparatus (100). The scanner portion (123) is capable of reading a document, the scanner portion being disposed above the in-body copy receiving portion (90). The air blow portion (200) generates airflow between a maximum sheet loadable position on the copy receiving tray (91) and the scanner portion (123) so as to flow along a bottom face of the scanner portion (123).
US08817281B2 Print setting server, document processing server, print system, and print setting method
According to the present invention, a print setting server connectable with a document processing server is provided, where the print setting server provides a print setting screen that depends on functions of a printer model through the Web, and a detailed print setting screen that depends on a printer is provided to a client. The client can enter print settings through the print setting screen. In this manner, print setting depending on a printer model is realized in a cloud print service.
US08817280B2 Printing device and method of controlling printing device
A printing device includes a plurality of data transfer control units which store image data transferred from an upper level device in a storage unit; a plurality of output control units which are provided correspondingly to the data transfer control units and each of which controls printing of the image data stored by a specified one of the data transfer control units; and a print control unit that, when abnormality has occurred in any of the data transfer control units, transmits a transfer instruction on the image data that is to be transferred originally by the data transfer control unit being at fault, to an alternate data transfer control unit among the data transfer control units in which no abnormality has occurred, and instructs an output control unit corresponding to the data transfer control unit being at fault to print image data stored by the alternate data transfer control unit.
US08817279B2 Image forming apparatus, method for controlling the image forming apparatus, and storage medium
An image forming apparatus having a restriction on an amount of resource usage for use in executing an application includes an installation unit configured to install a composite application including a plurality of application modules as one application, a display unit configured to, if, when the composite application installed by the installation unit is activated, the plurality of application modules included in the composite application cannot be activated due to the restriction on the amount of resource usage, activate a predetermined application module in the plurality of application modules and display a symbol corresponding to the activated predetermined application module on a display unit of the image forming apparatus, and an image forming unit configured to execute image processing using an application module corresponding to the symbol, if the symbol displayed by the display unit is selected to instruct the image processing.
US08817278B2 Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer-readable medium for job settings for device functions
An information processing apparatus includes a storage device, a selection unit, a registration unit and a setting unit. The storage device is configured to store an execution condition that associates setting items which are set for execution of a process with setting values for the setting items. The selection unit selects, from among the setting items, a part of the setting items. The registration unit registers, in the storage device, the part of the setting items selected by the selection unit and setting values for the part of the setting item as an execution condition. When the execution condition stored in the storage device is selected in setting values for setting items to execute a process, the setting unit sets a setting value for a setting item corresponding to the selected execution condition to the setting value stored in the storage device.
US08817275B2 Image forming device, method of forming image, and recording medium storing control program for controlling image forming device
An image forming device includes a scanner for scanning a document image, and a controller for controlling the image forming device. The controller determines whether or not a loss detection image for determining presence or absence of data loss has been superimposed on a first document image scanned by the scanner, and when it is determined that the loss detection image has been superimposed on the first document image, extracts the loss detection image from the first document image and determines presence or absence of data loss in the extracted loss detection image, and notifies a user of presence or absence of data loss based on a result of the determination of presence or absence of data loss in the extracted loss detection image.
US08817272B2 Optical position-measuring device
An optical position-measuring device for detecting the position of two objects movable relative to each other in at least one measuring direction includes a measuring standard which is joined to one of the two objects and possesses an incremental graduation extending in the measuring direction, as well as at least one reference marking at a reference position. The reference marking includes two reference-marking subfields disposed in mirror symmetry with respect to a reference-marking axis of symmetry, each of the subfields being made up of a structure extending in the measuring direction and having a locally changeable graduation period. In addition, the position-measuring device has a scanning unit which is joined to the other of the two objects and to which a scanning device is assigned that is used to generate at least one reference signal at the reference position. The scanning device includes at least one light source emitting divergently in the direction of the measuring standard, as well as a detector system having elements which are disposed along the measuring direction such that, starting from a central detector-system axis of symmetry in the measuring direction, the center-to-center distances between adjacent elements in the same direction change like the graduation periods of the structures in the reference-marking subfields starting from the reference-marking axis of symmetry.
US08817269B2 Fizeau reference arm using a chirped fiber bragg grating
An improved interferometer measurement system is presented. In a preferred embodiment, a chirped fiber Bragg grating is used as a reference surface in a Fizeau interferometer arrangement for optical coherence tomography imaging of the eye. The grating creates a virtual reference surface near the sample and allows for a relatively short reference arm while maintaining close to zero delay interference conditions.
US08817264B2 Method and apparatus for analyzing multiphase fluid flow using a multivariate optical element calculation device
A method is presented for analyzing a multiphase fluid flowing through a tubular. A sample fluid flow of multiphase fluid (a mixture of some combination of gas, liquid and solid) is separated from a primary tubular, such as with a probe which traverses the tubular. At least one property of the multiphase fluid is determined using at least one multivariate optical element (MOE) calculating device. Measured properties include the presence, proportional amount, mass or volumetric flow rate, and other data related to a constituent of the fluid, such as CO2, H2S, water, inorganic and organic gases and liquids, or group of constituents of the fluid, such as SARA, C1-C4 hydrocarbons, etc. The multiphase fluid is preferably mixed prior to analysis. Additional data can be gathered and used to calculate derivative information, such as mass and volumetric flow rates of constituents in the tubular, etc.
US08817263B2 Sample analysis element and detecting device
A plurality of metallic nano-body groups that includes metallic nano-bodies which are dispersed on a dielectric surface at a first pitch smaller than the wavelength of incident light is arranged in one direction at a second pitch that resonates with the incident light. Localized surface plasmon resonance occurs in the metallic nano-body by the action of the incident light. Propagating surface plasmon resonance occurs by the action of the second pitch. The propagating surface plasmon resonance is combined with the localized surface plasmon resonance. A so-called hybrid mode is established.
US08817262B2 Method for determining the doping profile of a partially activated doped semiconductor region
A method is disclosed for determining the inactive doping concentration of a semiconductor region using a PMOR method. In one aspect, the method includes providing two semiconductor regions having substantially the same known as-implanted concentration but known varying junction depths. The method includes determining on one of these semiconductor regions the as-implanted concentration. The semiconductor regions are then partially activated. PMOR measures are then performed on the partially activated semiconductor regions to measure (a) the signed amplitude of the reflected probe signal as function of junction depth and (b) the DC probe reflectivity as function of junction depth. The method includes extracting from these measurements the active doping concentration and then calculating the inactive doping concentration using the determined total as-implanted concentration and active doping concentration. The method may also include extracting thermal diffusivity, refraction index, absorption coefficient, and/or SRHF lifetime from these measurements.
US08817261B2 Surface plasmon four-wave mixing microscopy
Laser pulses are applied to surface plasmon resonant articles such as gold nanoparticles within a microscopy sample to generate a four-wave mixing signal that is detected as the output of the microscopy process.
US08817259B2 Optical sensors for monitoring biopharmaceutical solutions in single-use containers
Disposable, pre-sterilized, and pre-calibrated, pre-validated sensors are provided. The sensor comprises a disposable fluid conduit or reactor bag and a reusable sensor assembly. An optical bench or inset optical component is integrated within the disposable fluid conduit or bioreactor bag, which provides an optical light path through the conduit or bag. These sensors are designed to store sensor-specific information, such as calibration and production information, in a non-volatile memory chip on the disposable fluid conduit or bag and on the reusable sensor assembly. Methods for calibrating the sensor and for determining a target property of an unknown fluid are also disclosed. The devices, systems and methods relating to the sensor are suitable for and can be outfitted for turbidity sensing.
US08817258B2 Dose measurement system and method
Embodiments described herein generally relate to devices, systems and methods for measuring the dose remaining in a drug delivery device that is used for delivering a dose to a patient. In some embodiments, a dose measurement system for measuring the liquid volume in a container includes a plurality of light sources which are disposed and configured to emit electromagnetic radiation toward the container. A plurality of sensors are located in the apparatus that are optically coupleable to the plurality of light sources and are disposed and configured to detect the electromagnetic radiation emitted by at least a portion of the light sources. The apparatus also includes a processing unit configured to receive data representing the portion of the detected electromagnetic radiation from each of the plurality of sensors. The processing unit is further operable to convert the received data into a signature representative of the electromagnetic radiation detected by the plurality of sensors.
US08817252B2 Inspection system and method
A method of inspecting a lateral pipe extending from a manhole, said method comprising: (a) inserting an imaging head into said manhole using a positioning system, said imaging head connected to an elongated member and comprising an imaging device adapted to convert an image to an image signal, a lens optically coupled to said imaging device, and at least one lamp suitable for projecting a light beam, said lamp having a beam that is adjustable to enable said beam to move relative said imaging device; (b) imaging a target located within said lateral pipe; (c) holding said imaging device essentially steady while imaging said target and adjusting said beam to adjust the illumination of said target.
US08817251B2 Defect inspection method
A defect inspection method according to the present invention is a defect inspection method for inspecting a defect of a semiconductor wafer, including the steps of: (a) forming a mark on a semiconductor wafer that is an inspection object, the mark corresponding to the size of a device chip that will be obtained from the semiconductor wafer, the mark being formed with respect to a predetermined device chip on the semiconductor wafer; and (b) during a predetermined process included in a semiconductor wafer process or before the semiconductor wafer process, performing a defect inspection on the semiconductor wafer and recognizing defect information based on the mark as a reference.
US08817250B2 Air bearing for substrate inspection device
A tool for investigating a substrate, where the tool has a tool head for investigating the substrate, a chuck for disposing an upper surface of the substrate in proximity to the tool head, and an air bearing disposed on the tool head adjacent the substrate. The air bearing has a pressure source and a vacuum source, where the vacuum source draws the substrate toward the air bearing and the pressure source prevents the substrate from physically contacting the air bearing. The pressure source and the vacuum source work in cooperation to dispose the upper surface of the substrate at a known distance from the tool head. By using the air bearing as part of the tool in this manner, registration of the substrate to the tool head is accomplished relative to the upper surface of the substrate, not the back side of the substrate.
US08817248B2 Simultaneous multi-spot inspection and imaging
A compact and versatile multi-spot inspection imaging system employs an objective for focusing an array of radiation beams to a surface and a second reflective or refractive objective having a large numerical aperture for collecting scattered radiation from the array of illuminated spots. The scattered radiation from each illuminated spot is focused to a corresponding receiver or detector so that information about a scattering may be conveyed to a corresponding detector in a remote detector array for processing. Radiation reflected from the spots is imaged into a first array of receivers or detectors so that each receiver in the first array receives radiation from a corresponding spot in the array of spots; and scattered radiation from the spots is imaged onto a second array of receivers or detectors in a dark field imaging scheme so that each receiver or detector in the second array receives radiation from a corresponding spot.
US08817246B2 Lens test device and method
A lens testing method is disclosed which comprises the following three steps. First, test a lens under test to obtain a testing characteristic value of the lens under test for a first object distance. Second, provide a correction datum. Third, calculate a simulated characteristic value for a second object distance according to the testing characteristic value and the correction datum.
US08817242B2 Sensor device for the spectrally resolved capture of valuable documents and a corresponding method
A sensor device for spectrally resolved capture of optical detection radiation which emanates from a value document transported through a capture area of the sensor device, includes a detection device for spectrally resolved detection of the detection radiation and emission of detection signals which represent at least one property of the detection radiation, at least one reference radiation device which emits optical reference radiation which is coupled into a detection beam path of the detection device and which has a spectrum with a structure which is within the spectral detection range, and which has a radiation source which acts as the transmitter of a light barrier or of a light scanner by means of which barrier or scanner a motion and/or a position of the value document relative to the capture area is capturable, and a control/evaluation device which is configured for receiving detection signals from the detection device, evaluating them and emitting evaluation signals in dependence on the result of the evaluation, and which is further configured for employing detection signals which represent the property of the reference radiation, for checking and/or for adjusting the detection device and/or for making available correction data which are employable in the evaluation of detection signals which represent the at least one property of detection radiation emanating from the value document.
US08817240B2 Interchangeable optics configuration for a chromatic range sensor optical pen
An optical pen for use in a chromatic range sensor (CRS) may be used in a probe system for a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). The optical pen includes a confocal optical path, an interchangeable optics element, an optical pen base member, and a repeatable fast exchange mount. The confocal optical path includes a confocal aperture and a chromatically dispersive optics portion. The interchangeable optics element includes the chromatically dispersive optics portion. The optical pen base member includes an external mounting surface for mounting to an external reference frame. The repeatable fast exchange mount includes a first mating half located on the base member and a second mating half located on the interchangeable optics element. The repeatable fast exchange mount is configured to allow the base member to receive and hold the interchangeable optics element in a fixed relationship relative to the base member and the external reference frame.
US08817238B2 Three dimensional feature location from an excavator
A combination of location measurement apparatuses to measure in three dimensions the location of an excavator with respect to a job site, and to further measure the location of an excavated or a topographical feature with respect to the excavator by range finding from the excavator in proximity of the feature and contemporaneously recording measurement data on a computer.
US08817237B2 Spectral purity filter, lithographic apparatus, and method for manufacturing a spectral purity filter
A method of forming a spectral purity filter having a plurality of apertures configured to transmit extreme ultraviolet radiation and suppress transmission of a second type of radiation, in which trenches are formed in a base material in a pattern corresponding to the walls to be formed between the apertures. The trenches are filled with a grid material to form walls of the grid material, and the base material is selectively removed until the grid material is exposed and forms the spaces between the walls of the grid material for the apertures.
US08817234B2 Optical device and exposure apparatus including the same
An optical device for splitting a single beam to a plurality of beams and an exposure apparatus including the optical device are disclosed. The optical device includes a first DOE lens array including a plurality of first diffractive optical element (DOE) lenses that are two-dimensionally arranged on a first plane and a second lens array including a plurality of second DOE lenses arranged on a second plane parallel to the first plane so as to respectively correspond to the plurality of first DOE lenses. The first DOE lens array splits a first parallel beam into a plurality of second beams by condensing the first parallel beam and the second DOE lens array modifies the plurality of second beams into a plurality of third beams.
US08817233B2 Illumination optical system for projection lithography
An illumination optical system for projection lithography for the illumination of an illumination field has a facet mirror. An optical system, which follows the illumination optical system, has an object field which can be arranged in the illumination field of the illuminate optical system. The facet mirror has a plurality of facets to reflectively guide part bundles of a bundle of illumination light. Reflection faces of the facets are tiltable in each case. In a first illumination tilt position, the tiltable facets guide the part bundle impinging on them along a first object field illumination channel to the illumination field. In a different illumination tilt position, the tiltable facets guide the part bundle impinging on them along a different object field illumination channel to the illumination field. The reflection faces of the tiltable facets are configured so that the part bundle in the at least two illumination tilt positions is reflected with a degree of reflection R coinciding within a tolerance range of +/−10%. The result is an illumination optical system which avoids an undesired influence of the illumination tilt position of the tiltable facets on the illumination light throughput of the illumination optical system.
US08817230B2 Immersion photolithography system and method using microchannel nozzles
A liquid immersion photolithography system includes an exposure system that exposes a substrate with electromagnetic radiation and includes a projection optical system that focuses the electromagnetic radiation on the substrate. A liquid supply system provides liquid flow between the projection optical system and the substrate. Further, the liquid is extracted using a two dimensional array of extraction openings.
US08817227B2 Immersion lithography apparatus
An immersion lithographic apparatus is disclosed that includes a detector to measure a distance between a substrate support structure and/or a substrate and a fluid handling system and/or to detect when an item is present between the fluid handling system and a top surface of the substrate and/or substrate support structure. The detector may use information of an electrical property of the fluid provided by the fluid handling system to measure the distance. The detector may measure variation in resistance and/or in capacitance between an electrode of the fluid handling system and an electrode of the substrate and/or substrate support structure.
US08817224B2 Input device and method for manufacturing the same
An input device is manufactured from a roll of a single-layer flexible transparent base sheet having a first surface and a second surface by forming a transparent electrode pattern and a wiring layer on the first surface. The transparent electrode pattern is disposed in a transparent input region, and the wiring layer extends from an end of the transparent electrode pattern into a decorative region surrounding the transparent input region. A decorative layer pattern is formed on the second surface in the decorative region, while conveying the transparent base sheet through a roll-to-roll processing. The transparent base sheet having the transparent electrode pattern and the decorative layer pattern is divided into individual units. A transparent panel having an operation surface is bonded to the second surface of each of the individual units with an optically clear adhesive layer interposed therebetween.
US08817221B2 Touch-type liquid crystal display apparatus with built-in contact
A touch-type liquid crystal display apparatus with a built-in contact, includes a substrate support structure supporting a first substrate and a second substrate respectively. The substrate support structure includes a pillar-shaped spacer formed on an opposing surface of the second substrate, and a base region formed on an opposing surface of the first substrate and having a front end with which a front end of the pillar-shaped spacer is in contact. A contact point protrusion is also formed on the opposing surface of the second substrate by using the same material as that of the pillar-shaped spacer.
US08817217B2 Display substrate and method for manufacturing the same
A display substrate includes an insulating substrate, a signal line, first and second pixel electrodes, a connection line and an insulating layer. The signal line is disposed on the insulating substrate. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the signal line through a switching element. The second pixel electrode overlaps the first pixel electrode. The connection line contacts an end portion of the signal line and extends to an end portion of the insulating substrate. The insulating layer is disposed between the first and second pixel electrodes and covers the connection line. The connection line is protected by the insulating layer, and the reliability of the display substrate is enhanced.
US08817211B2 Liquid crystal display device
Gate lines are arranged in a first direction. Drain lines are arranged in a second direction. A first electrode has slits formed therein. Aperture regions surrounded by the drain lines and the gate lines include an aperture region including the slits having a first inclined angle and an aperture region including the slits having a second inclined angle, the second inclined angle being different from the first inclined angle. The aperture region including the slits having the first inclined angle and the aperture region including the slits having the second inclined angle are alternately formed in the first direction. Within the aperture regions arranged adjacent to each other in the first direction, a first region and a second region forming a pair by being arranged so as to be opposed to each other via one of the gate lines form one of pixels.
US08817207B2 Liquid crystal display with UV or blue light blocking filter
A liquid crystal display including a first substrate; a light-blocking member disposed on the first substrate; an emission layer disposed on the first substrate; an ultraviolet-light blocking filter disposed on the emission layer; a lower polarizer disposed on the ultraviolet-light blocking filter; a gate line and a data line disposed on the lower polarizer and substantially perpendicular to each other; a thin film transistor electrically connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor; a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US08817203B2 Backlight unit and display device including the same
Provided is a backlight unit including, a bracket on which a light emitting device array is disposed, and a bottom cover on which the bracket is disposed, the bottom cover supporting an optical member, wherein a fixing member to removably fix is provided on the bottom cover, the side and top of the fixing member are flat and the cross-sectional area of a lower part of the fixing member is equal to or less than the cross-sectional area of an upper part of the fixing member.
US08817202B2 Lens sheet and display panel
To suppress malshaping in a lenticular lens sheet formed by using ultraviolet curing resin, which is caused due to an increase in the aspect ratio of cylindrical lenses and anisotropy of curing contraction. Notch sections are provided to the cylindrical lenses for sectioning the cylindrical lenses in a pseudo manner in the major axis direction (extending direction) of the cylindrical lenses so as to suppress the anisotropy of the curing contraction of the resin.
US08817198B2 Boundary artifact suppression in segmented liquid crystal modulators
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and related methods for avoiding liquid crystal molecule twisting through local boundary orientation relevant to the alignment direction of liquid crystal structures. In one embodiment, a segmented polarization control panel may comprise a plurality of segment electrodes corresponding to a plurality of display segments of the sequentially scanning display. The plurality of segment electrodes comprise liquid crystals therein, and are arranged contiguously in a direction of the sequential scan. Electrode boundaries are created between adjacent segment electrodes, where each may be cascaded substantially parallel and perpendicular to a liquid crystal alignment direction of liquid crystals located within the segments. Preventing twisting by the disclosed techniques is particularly attractive in active retarder display systems employing fast striped pi-cell modulators.
US08817197B2 Display device and electronic apparatus
A display device includes: an element substrate having a transistor element formed on a surface thereof; an opposing substrate which is disposed to face the element substrate; and a parallax barrier pattern which is directly formed on the surface of either substrate of the element substrate or the opposing substrate at the side opposite to the transistor element side.
US08817194B2 Interlaced image processing method and apparatus
In an interlaced image processing method for processing fields generated by interlacing and including a plurality of rows of scan signals, the method includes: performing horizontal line detection on a current field so as to determine which of the rows of the scan signals is a horizontal line; according to the horizontal line detection result of the current field and a horizontal line detection result of a previous field, adjusting position of the horizontal line in the current field so as to approach position of a corresponding horizontal line in the previous field; and according to the result of position adjustment, re-sampling the current field. An interlaced image processing apparatus for implementing the method is also disclosed.
US08817193B2 Method and apparatus for hiding caption when displaying video image
A method and apparatus for hiding a caption when displaying a video image. Hiding area information is acquired. According to the hiding area information, a hiding area is acquired. Hiding time period information is acquired. A preconfigured image in the hiding area of a video image is displayed in the hiding time period when the video image is displayed. By applying the technical solution according various embodiments, an external caption and an embedded caption can be hid flexibly.
US08817186B1 Video playing apparatus and video displaying apparatus
A video playing apparatus includes a connecting port, a video outputting unit, a video processing unit, and a switching unit. The connecting port is coupled to a displaying apparatus, and outputs a first video signal or a second video signal. The video outputting unit generates the first video signal. The video processing unit is coupled to the video outputting unit and the connecting port. The video processing unit receives the first video signal, converting the first video signal to the second video signal, and then outputs the second video signal. The switching unit is coupled to the video outputting unit, the video processing unit, and the connecting port. The switching unit switches the output of the first video signal between the connecting port and the video processing unit according to a control signal.
US08817183B2 Method and device for generating and detecting fingerprints for synchronizing audio and video
This invention relates to a device and a method of generating a first and a second fingerprint (102,104) usable for synchronisation of at least two signals (101,103) and corresponding method and device for synchronising two or more signals. A fingerprint pair is generated on the basis of a segment of a first signal e.g. an audio signal and of a segment of a second signal e.g. a video signal at each synchronisation time point. The generated fingerprint pair(s) are stored in a database (203) and communicated or distributed to a synchronisation device (303). During synchronisation, fingerprint(s) of the audio signal and fingerprint(s) of the video signal to be synchronised are generated and matched against fingerprints in the database. When a match is found, the fingerprints also determine the synchronisation time point, which is used to synchronise the two signals. In this way, a simple, reliable and efficient way of synchronising at least two signals is obtained. Further, this is enabled without modifying either the first and second signal (or subsequent signals). The signals may even be distorted or changed to some extent while still enabling synchronisation.
US08817180B2 Digital broadcast receiver and method for processing caption thereof
A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
US08817179B2 Chroma frame conversion for the video codec
Converting a first format frame to one or more second format frames. In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first format frame using n coefficients, where n is the total number of coefficients used for the Y, U and V planes of the first format frame. The method further includes mapping the coefficients of the first format frame to coefficients of one or more second format frames. The one or more second format frames have n coefficients across all of the second format frames matching the n coefficients of the first format frame.
US08817177B2 Method of controlling digital image processing apparatus, digital image processing apparatus applying the method, and communication system including the digital image processing apparatus
Provided are methods of controlling digital image processing apparatus, in which a communication method may be transitioned to burst communication when an amount of data for communication with an external device is great, digital image processing apparatuses to which the methods are applied, and communication systems including the digital image processing apparatuses. In the methods, according to a type or a state of an external device or an operating state of the digital image processing apparatus, when an amount of data to be transmitted is large, burst communication may be performed, and if the amount of data is not as large, single communication may be performed.
US08817176B2 Camera positioning system for eye-to-eye communication
A camera positioning system includes a securing bracket fixed near a screen portion of a display screen, a belt, a shaft member rotatably connected to the securing bracket, and a spring member elastically connected between the shaft member and the securing bracket to provide an elastic force to make the shaft member automatically rotate. The belt is wound around the shaft member with an inner end fixed to the shaft member and an outer end extending out from the securing bracket to pass through the screen portion. A camera is removable secured to the belt.
US08817170B2 Camera body configured to control an output strength of wireless communication
This camera body includes an interchangeable lens detector, a lens information recognition component, a wireless communication component, and an output controller. The interchangeable lens detector detects whether or not the interchangeable lens is mounted to the camera body. The lens information recognition component recognizes lens information related to the interchangeable lens, according to the mounting state of the interchangeable lens. The wireless communication component performs wireless communication with the outside of the camera body. The output controller controls the output strength of the wireless communication component on the basis of the lens information in the information recognition component.
US08817169B2 Motor driven optical apparatus
The optical apparatus including a motor to move an optical element, a position detector configured to detect a position of the optical element, a controller configured to control drive of the motor by using a position detection signal from the position detector, and a memory configured to store a reference movement amount of the optical element corresponding to a moving speed and a moving time period of the optical element moved by the motor. The controller is configured to acquire a correction value for reducing a difference between (a) an actual movement amount of the optical element obtained by using the position detection signal when the optical element is moved by the motor and (b) the reference movement amount, and then to control the drive of the motor by using the correction value.
US08817166B2 Imaging device and imaging apparatus
An imaging device includes: a microlens that focuses subject light; a light receiving element that receives the subject light focused by the microlens to thereby generate a signal for making focus determination through phase-difference detection; and a light blocking portion that is disposed between the microlens and the light receiving element so as to block part of the subject light focused by the microlens, wherein the distance between the light blocking portion and the microlens in an optical axis direction of the microlens is set so as to decrease as an image height increases.
US08817163B2 Foreign substance removal apparatus and optical apparatus including the same
A measuring unit measures an amount of a detected phase difference from an output of a vibration detection signal from a first detection electrode until an output of a vibration detection signal from a second detection electrode. A setting unit sets a second driving phase difference amount based on the detected phase difference amount measured by the measuring unit when the setting unit sets a first driving phase difference amount set in advance. A first voltage applied by a drive unit to the first drive electrode and the second drive electrode when the setting unit sets the first driving phase difference amount, is lower than a second voltage applied by the drive unit to the first drive electrode and the second drive electrode when the setting unit sets the second driving phase difference amount.
US08817157B2 Imaging control device and imaging control method having intelligent auto mode features
A imaging control device includes a scene recognition section which recognizes scenes showing a subject by analyzing obtained image data, a display section which displays the obtained image data, an imaging mode selection section which prepares a plurality of imaging modes where a parameter which adjusts image characteristics according to each scene is set in advance and which automatically selects an imaging mode corresponding to the recognized scene from a plurality of imaging modes, a first operation section which generates a first operation signal which locks the imaging mode at a current imaging mode during the operation of automatically selecting the imaging mode, and a second operation section which generates a second operation signal which adjusts a portion of the parameter in a state where the imaging mode is locked, where an adjustment range using the second operation section is within a range limited by the locked imaging mode.
US08817154B2 Image sensor with fixed potential output transistor
An image sensor pixel includes a photosensitive region and pixel circuitry. The photosensitive region accumulates an image charge in response to light incident upon the image sensor. The pixel circuitry includes a transfer-storage transistor, a charge-storage area, an output transistor, and a floating diffusion region. The transfer-storage transistor is coupled between the photosensitive region and the charge-storage area. The output transistor has a channel coupled between the charge-storage area and the floating diffusion region and has a gate tied to a fixed voltage potential. The transfer-storage transistor causes the image charge to transfer from the photosensitive region to the charge-storage area and to transfer from the charge-storage area to the floating diffusion region.
US08817152B2 Solid-state imaging device, camera, and electronic device
Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device which includes an imaging region including pixels arranged two-dimensionally, each of the pixels including a photoelectric conversion element and a plurality of pixel transistors for reading out signals outputted from the photoelectric conversion element, and wirings formed on stacked layers for driving each of the pixels. A shading part between the pixels is formed by combining first and second wirings selected from the wirings.
US08817146B2 Imaging device including latch circuits with switching devices in between
An imaging device includes a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels, the pixels being arranged in a two-dimensional matrix form, m digital signal output circuits, each of which is arranged for a column of the pixel unit or for every two or more columns, and outputs an n-bit digital signal corresponding to a level of a pixel signal of a pixel of the corresponding column, m latch circuits, each of which is arranged to correspond to the digital signal output circuit, and includes n latch units that hold respective bit signals of the digital signal of the corresponding digital signal output circuit, respectively, and (m−1) switches, each of which is arranged to correspond to the latch unit, and transfers the digital signal held in the corresponding latch unit to the corresponding latch unit in the neighboring latch circuit.
US08817143B2 Solid-state imaging device comprising a holding circuit and driving method thereof
A plurality of pixel circuits arranged in rows and columns, and each of which outputs an electric signal according to an amount of received light; a first column signal line provided for each of the columns, and for sequentially transferring the electric signals from said pixel circuits in a corresponding column; and a holding circuit provided for each of the pixel circuits in each column, and which holds the electric signal transferred through the column signal line in the corresponding column are provided. A holding circuit includes a first capacitor which holds a first electric signal of the corresponding pixel circuit in a reset state; and a second capacitor which holds a second electric signal after the corresponding pixel circuit receives light. A difference circuit calculates a difference between two electric signals held by the first capacitor and the second capacitor in a same holding circuit.
US08817142B2 Image sensor with dual element color filter array and three channel color output
A color image sensor includes a pixel array including CFA overlaying an array of photo-sensors for acquiring color image data. The CFA includes first color filter elements of a first color overlaying a first group of the photo-sensors and second color filter elements of a second color overlaying a second group of the photo-sensors. The first group of photo-sensors generate first color signals of a first color channel and the second group of photo-sensors generate second color signals of a second color channel. The color image sensor further includes a color signal combiner circuit (“CSCC”) coupled to receive the first and second color signals output from the pixel array. The CSCC includes a combiner coupled to combine the first and second colors signals to generate third color signals of a third color channel. An output port is coupled to the CSCC to output the color image data.
US08817141B2 Image processing device and method, recording medium, and imaging device
A method for image processing according to one aspect of the presently disclosed subject matter includes: a step of acquiring an image taken by an imaging device including an image sensor having pixel configuration with repeating cycles of M×N (M, N: integers of 2 or more) pixels; (a) a step of setting a target pixel in the acquired image and extracting K×L (K, L: integers of M
US08817139B2 Image pickup device and signal transmitting device
An image pickup device may include an image capturing unit that includes a solid-state image pickup device having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix form and simultaneously outputting pixel signals of the plurality of pixels adjacent to each other in a row or column direction in sequence while sequentially shifting the pixels that output the pixel signals in the row direction, and that simultaneously outputs image capturing signals respectively corresponding to the simultaneously output pixel signals in sequence from corresponding output terminals, an image processing unit to which the image capturing signals respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixels adjacent to each other in the row or column direction of the pixels arrayed in the solid-state image pickup device are simultaneously input in sequence from corresponding input terminals, and which performs image processing on the input image capturing signals, and a signal transmitting unit.
US08817138B2 Camera viewfinder with continuous variable adjustable colour temperature
A viewfinder of an electronic camera includes a color display monitor that is adapted to display a scene captured by an image sensor arrangement of the camera. The color temperature of the viewfinder is continuously variable adjustable between a minimum and a maximum value. The color temperature adjustment of the viewfinder does not affect the color temperature of a video signal produced by the camera that is recorded or transmitted.
US08817135B2 Correction of cluster defects in imagers
A method and apparatus that allows for the correction of multiple defective pixels in an imager device. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes the steps of selecting a correction kernel for a defective pixel, determining average and difference values for pixel pairs in the correction kernel, and substituting an average value from a pixel pair for the value of the defective pixel.
US08817131B2 Information recording apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and information recording method for controlling recording of location information in generated images
An information recording apparatus includes a content generating unit that generates content, a position information obtaining unit that obtains position information, and a region determining unit that determines whether or not a position specified based on the obtained position information is included in a certain region. The information recording apparatus further includes a position information addition determining unit that determines, based on a determination result obtained by the region determining unit, whether or not to allow the obtained position information to be recorded, and a recording control unit that performs, based on a determination result obtained by the position information addition determining unit, recording control of the obtained position information.
US08817128B2 Real-time adjustment of illumination color temperature for digital imaging applications
An approach is provided to adjust illumination color temperature at a flash unit of a camera. Data that corresponds to the ambient light of a physical environment is collected, such as at a color temperature meter included in the camera. The ambient light has a distribution of color temperatures that cycle over a fixed time period. When a flash request is received, a time is calculated at which the flash unit will flash. One of the color temperatures is identified from the distribution of color temperatures with the identified color temperature being the predicted color of the ambient light that will be present in the physical environment when the flash unit flashes. The color temperature of the flash unit is set to the identified color temperature.
US08817122B2 Image pickup apparatus
An image pickup apparatus includes a face area selecting unit configured to select at least a face area situated at a first object distance and a face area situated at a second object distance, and to select a face area occupying the smallest area in a picked-up image among two or more face areas in a case where the two or more face areas are situated at the first object distance or at the second object distance.
US08817119B2 Camera device, camera system, control device and program
There is provided a camera device includes a first information acquisition portion that acquires first information used to control a first area that is specified within a whole image captured by a camera portion, a second information acquisition portion that acquires second information used to control a second area that is specified within the whole image, a control portion that controls mechanical movement of the camera portion based on the first information, and an image processing portion that acquires an image of the first area from the whole image captured by the camera portion, and that extracts an image of the second area from within the first area based on the second information.
US08817118B2 Imaging systems, moving bodies, and imaging control methods for remote monitoring of a moving target
To provide a new framework that can flexibly take images of a moving target in remote monitoring without the need to arrange a plurality of network cameras, an autonomously movable moving body is used to take an image of a photographic target in accordance with a request from a user terminal, and the photographic image is provided to the user terminal. The moving body includes: a position estimating unit that acquires, from a wireless tag reader, a radio field intensity of wireless communication with a wireless tag held by the photographic target to estimate a position of the photographic target based on the acquired radio field intensity; a movement control unit that controls the movement of the moving body so that the moving body moves to the estimated position as a destination; and an imaging unit that takes an image of the photographic target when the moving body is located near the destination, associates the photographic image with a wireless tag ID designated by the request, and transmits the photographic image to an apparatus outside the moving body.
US08817115B1 Spatial alignment of image data from a multichannel detector using a reference image
A method to perform spatial alignment and spectral compensation for a multi-channel flow imaging system that acquires image data from a single imaging region is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 7,079,708. The spatial corrections disclosed therein are static, and do not vary unless the alignment of optical components in the imaging system or the specific detector are modified. However, when image data is acquired from two different imaging regions that are spaced apart along an axis of motion between the object being imaged and the imaging system, dynamic spatial offsets are induced between image data acquired from a first imaging region and image data acquired from a second, spaced apart imaging region. The dynamic spatial offsets are a function of an error in an estimated velocity of the object as it moves between the imaging regions, and may vary from object to object. Techniques for correcting dynamic spatial offsets are disclosed.
US08817113B2 Image distribution system and methods
A method of distributing digital images includes capturing a first digital image using the first digital camera and converting, using the first digital camera, the first digital image into lossless code. The lossless code is displayed on the display of the first digital camera and is captured using a second digital camera. The lossless code captured from the display of the first digital camera is converted, using the second digital camera, into a copy of the first digital image, and the copy of the first digital image converted from the lossless code is displayed on the display screen of the second digital camera.
US08817112B2 Electronic apparatus, control method and computer readable medium for transmitting thumbnail data to an external apparatus
An electronic apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium shorten the response time of an electronic apparatus such as an electronic camera capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus such as a computer, and improve the usability of the information processing apparatus when the information processing apparatus requests data stored in the storage medium of the electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus, which has a main storage device and an auxiliary storage device, is connected to an external apparatus, and can transmit/receive data to/from the external apparatus. Data to be requested by the external apparatus is loaded in advance from the auxiliary storage device to the main storage device before the external apparatus requests the data after connection to the external apparatus is established.
US08817111B2 System and method of calibrating a display system free of variation in system input resolution
This invention provides a calibration system and method for multi-unit display systems without a need for switching the system input resolution/configuration of the display system while calibrating. This serves to avoid carrying out a re-synchronization step. As such, this system and method allows for increases speed and reduced likelihood of failure. This system and method also corrects the display system by providing an arrangement that employs a minimum of required changes so as to avoid any changes that can consequently affect the output image of the display system. Calibration of the system of display units occurs free of any changes to the input resolution and this resolution is maintained in a manner that resists change unless specifically required. Moreover, this system and method enables a resolution for the overall system that differs from the sum of the input resolutions of the discrete, individual display units in the collection.
US08817102B2 Camera layout determination support device
A device which can support a determination of a camera layout by automatically preparing the camera layout that satisfies a customer request based on the customer request including a surveillance layout. Specifically, a need table that is a data set of a plurality of arrangement candidate cameras satisfying the customer request is prepared from the customer request including the surveillance layout. An arrangement of the plurality of the arrangement candidate cameras on a map is calculated based on the need table using a clustering method and a temporary layout of cameras is prepared. Then, an arrangement layout of the cameras in the surveillance layout is determined based on the temporary layout.
US08817097B2 Apparatus for processing on-screen display and system for reprogramming camera module having the same
There is provided an apparatus for processing an on-screen display (OSD), the apparatus including: a buffer unit receiving first dynamic guideline image information, a color determining unit determining colors for previously divided sections included in the first dynamic guideline image information from the buffering unit, and an image synthesizing unit synthesizing second dynamic guideline image information having the colors for each of the sections, determined by the color determining unit with an image from a camera. With the apparatus for processing an OSD, a user freely sets colors of a warning message, a static guideline, and a dynamic guideline, whereby the warning message, the static guideline, and the dynamic guideline can be displayed on a screen without obscuring a rearview image. In addition, a dynamic guideline can be set as different colors according to sections divided into distances from the rear of a vehicle and an image can be continuously displayed. Further, the camera module can be reprogrammed.
US08817091B2 Apparatus for monitoring a print result in a rotary printing press
Apparatus for monitoring a print result in a rotary printing press, includes a web monitoring system including a matrix camera (20) that is movable in transverse direction over a web printed in the printing press, the matrix camera being adapted to capture an excerpt of the printed image in synchronism with a repeat of the printed image during a print run, an inspection system for a complete inspection of the printed image, the inspection system including a line camera that extends over the entire widths of the web, and an integrated control desk for the web monitoring system and the inspection system.
US08817089B2 Inspection system
An inspection system for flat objects, especially wafers and dies, including: a handling system for loading objects into the inspection system; a sensor assembly for receiving images or measuring values of the object surface or parts of the object surface; a driving assembly for generating a relative movement between the objects and the sensor assembly, where a movement is effected between objects relative to the sensor assembly along a first trajectory; wherein at least one further sensor assembly is provided, and the driving assembly is adapted to generate a further relative movement, where a movement of different objects relative to the sensor assembly can be generated on at least a second trajectory in order to allow at least two objects to be treated simultaneously.
US08817085B2 Control system and method to operate an operating room lamp
A control system to control an operating room lamp to generate light to illuminate a surgical site includes an image signal input to receive an image signal from a video camera to capture an image of a surgical site and a control signal output to emit to the operating room lamp a control signal to control at least either a direction or an intensity or a spectral characteristic of the light or a size or shape of the area illuminated by the light. The control system is configured to recognize a hand area of medical personnel and to generate the control signal depending on the image signal and to emit it to the control signal output.
US08817084B2 Display device
This application relates to a display device and a method for preparing a display device. According to one illustrative display device or method for preparing a display device, for example, a stereoscopic image may be displayed in wide viewing angles without losses of the brightness.
US08817081B2 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program
An apparatus for processing image data may include a receiving unit, which may be configured to receive first image data representing at least one first image. The apparatus may also include an edge data generating unit, which may be configured to generate edge data representing unidirectional edge components of the at least one first image. Additionally, the apparatus may include a display control unit, which may be configured to generate second image data representing at least one of a left-eye image or a right-eye image, based on the first image data and the edge data.
US08817077B2 Endoscope system
An endoscope system includes processors, and settings in the processors are at least partially in common. And a setting content in a processor determined to have a higher priority is transmitted to a processor determined to have a lower priority, based on a predetermined operation, and the processor changes a setting content that is in common with a setting content in the processor among the received setting contents.
US08817075B2 Imaging apparatus capable of generating three-dimensional images, three-dimensional image generating method, and recording medium
An imaging apparatus generates a 3D model using a photographed image of a subject and generates a 3D image based on the 3D model. When a corresponding point corresponding to a point forming the 3D model does not form a 3D model generated using a photographed image photographed at a different photographing position, the imaging apparatus determines that the point is noise, and removes the point determined as noise from the 3D model. The imaging apparatus generates a 3D image based on the 3D model from which the point determined as noise is removed.
US08817074B2 Method of calculating 3D object data within controllable constraints for fast software processing on 32 bit RISC CPUS
Systems and methods are described to allow arbitrary 3D data to be rendered to a 2D viewport on a device with limited processing capabilities. 3D vertex data is received comprising vertices and connections conforming to coordinate processing constraints. A position and orientation of a camera in world co-ordinates is received to render the 3D vertex data from. A processing zone of the plurality of processing zones the position of the camera is in is determined. The vertices of the 3D vertex data assigned to the determined processing zone are transformed based on the position and orientation of the camera for rendering to the viewport.
US08817073B2 System and method of processing 3D stereoscopic image
A 3D stereoscopic image processing system comprises a receiver unit and an image processing unit. The receiver unit is adapted to receive a pair of stereoscopic images. The image processing unit is adapted to compute a first depth map from the pair of stereoscopic images, determine extreme depth values from a window selected in the depth map, determine a filter map based on the extreme depth values, and compute a second depth map by combining the filter map with the first depth map. In other embodiments, a method of processing stereoscopic images is provided, comprising computing a first depth map from a pair of stereoscopic images, generating a filter map associated with the first depth map, and combining the first depth map with the filter map to derive a second depth map.
US08817067B1 Interface for applying a photogrammetry algorithm to panoramic photographic images
Embodiments relate to selecting textures for a panoramic photographic image in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes a method for inputting a panoramic photographic image that uses a photogrammetry algorithm to adjust a plurality of camera parameters for the panoramic photographic image. In the method, a street-level panoramic photographic image is selected by a user from a street-level panoramic image display site. An area of the street-level panoramic image is also identified by the user. A photographic image at the area of the street-level panoramic image is captured. Camera parameters representing a camera that took the photographic image is determined. A position on the photographic image is mapped to a position on a three-dimensional model. The camera parameters are adjusted so that the three-dimensional model is rendered onto the photographic image from a perspective specified by the adjusted camera parameters.
US08817062B2 On-screen caller ID with video playback and storage capability
Novel tools and techniques to enable video enhancements identifying the calling party of an incoming telephone call. In an aspect of some such tools, a video message from the calling party is sent to the receiving party through a communication channel in the provider network. Upon receiving an incoming telephone call at the provider network, the video message can be associated with the incoming telephone call, and routed to a set-top unit (also referred to herein as a “set-top box”) associated with the receiving party. The set-top unit might communicate with a visual display screen (e.g., a television), and/or cause the visual display screen to show the video message for the receiving party as an indication of the incoming telephone call and identification of the calling party.
US08817059B2 Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus having a multi-beam light source with a controller for controlling the multi-beam light source
An optical scanning apparatus, including: a deflector including deflection surfaces and configured to deflect, by the deflection surfaces, light beams respectively emitted from light emitting portions for scanning in a main scanning direction; an imaging optical system configured to guide the light beams deflected for scanning by the deflection surfaces to a surface to be scanned; a light source including the light emitting portions arranged so as to be separated from each other in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction and an optical axis direction of the imaging optical system; and a controller configured to control the light source in such a manner that a difference between scanning start timings of the light beams at two adjacent deflection surfaces among the deflection surfaces is different from a difference between scanning start timings of the light beams at other two adjacent deflection surfaces among the deflection surfaces.
US08817055B2 Data transfer circuit and flat display device
The present invention is a data transfer circuit applicable to a liquid crystal display apparatus with a drive circuit formed integrally, for example, on an insulation substrate, and configured such that only an inverted output of a latch result of a first latch section (41) or only a non-inverted output thereof is data-transferred to a second latch section (42) and, at least during a period of data transfer to the second latch section (42), a power supply voltage of the first latch section (41) is raised.
US08817053B2 Methods and systems for opening a file
Methods, systems, and machine readable tangible storage media that can provide for smooth and seamless opening of a file from, for example, a preview are described. A preview of a file can be generated by a non-native viewer or reader application and in response to a command to open a file in a native application, the preview can continue to be displayed while the native application launches such that a user will perceive no interruption in display of the content. The non-native application can pass a display state (e.g. a page number or scroll position) to the native application such that the native application continues to show a user's current position or view port into the file.
US08817048B2 Selective rotation of a user interface
This is directed to rotating an entire user interface of a portable electronic device. In particular, this is directed to defining a UI orientation mode in which a user can direct the device to rotate a UI. When the UI orientation mode is enabled, the electronic device can detect particular inputs, for example based on the outputs of motion sensing components such as an accelerometer and a magnetometer, to determine how to rotate the UI. Once the UI has been rotated to a desired orientation, a user can lock the UI orientation and exit the UI orientation mode.
US08817045B2 Interactivity via mobile image recognition
Systems and methods of interacting with a virtual space, in which a mobile device is used to electronically capture image data of a real-world object, the image data is used to identify information related to the real-world object, and the information is used to interact with software to control at least one of: (a) an aspect of an electronic game; and (b) a second device local to the mobile device. Contemplated systems and methods can be used to gaming, in which the image data can be used to identify a name of the real-world object, to classify the real-world object, identify the real-world object as a player in the game, to identify the real-world object as a goal object or as having some other value in the game, to use the image data to identify the real-world object as a goal object in the game.
US08817043B2 System and method for selective viewing of a hidden presentation within a displayed presentation
There is provided a system and method for selective viewing of a hidden image within a displayed image. There is provided a method for providing a composite presentation, comprising displaying a plurality of elemental presentations including a first presentation and a second presentation to provide the composite presentation, wherein the displaying of the second presentation makes at least a first portion of the first presentation become unrecognizable to a human eye viewing the composite presentation without a use of a visual aid. This rendering of the first presentation as unrecognizable to the human eye may be accomplished through filtering techniques such as one or more of optical polarization, shuttering, depth of field alteration, light intensity alteration, light angle alteration, anaglyph filters, and other filtering techniques.
US08817039B2 Image processing device and image processing method
Provided is an image processing device which enables image display that takes full advantage of a color reproduction performance of a panel without providing a viewer with a feeling of strangeness. An image processing device includes: a color gamut conversion processor configured to convert inputted data into RGB data according to a liquid crystal panel; a weighting factor calculator configured to calculate a weighting factor; a first post-color-gamut-conversion data weighting processor configured to perform weighting processing to the RGB data; an inputted data weighting processor configured to perform weighting processing to the inputted data; and an output adder configured to add data after the weighting processing to generate RGB data to be supplied to the liquid crystal panel. The weighting factor calculator obtains the weighting factor based on a positional relation among a chromaticity coordinate on an xy chromaticity diagram, a color reproduction range for the inputted data, and a boundary line defined so as to include memory colors.
US08817038B2 Display apparatus and method for driving the same
A display apparatus, which adjusts a luminance value of an image, and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a first image conversion unit that converts first image data into a plurality of second image data each including a luminance value, a luminance analysis unit that determines quantities of luminance values of the second image data, and determines a distribution of the luminance values, and a luminance adjustment unit that adjusts the respective luminance values of the second image data based on the quantities.
US08817037B2 Reconstructing three dimensional oil paintings
Techniques for generating three dimensional image data with brushstroke effects from a two dimensional image is disclosed. One or more three dimensional brushstroke patterns from at least one brushstroke are generated. A two dimensional image is partitioned into one or more color regions. For each color region, each three dimensional brushstroke pattern is transformed to obtain a brushstroke effect. Each transformed three dimensional brushstroke pattern is then applied to each color region to generate a three dimensional image data having the brushstroke effect.
US08817034B2 Graphics rendering device, graphics rendering method, graphics rendering program, recording medium with graphics rendering program stored thereon, integrated circuit for graphics rendering
Provided is a graphics rendering device that includes a frame data generation unit, access pattern setting unit, and frame data writing unit. The frame data generation unit generates, from part of stencil data, a part of frame data composed of a piece of second pixel information corresponding to a predetermined number of pixels in accordance with a first access pattern and an anti-alias pattern used in generating pieces of second pixel information. The access pattern setting unit sets, in accordance with the first access pattern and the anti-alias pattern, a second access pattern indicating pieces of second pixel information accessible by a single access to the frame buffer. The frame data writing unit writes in the frame buffer, when the frame data generation unit has generated a number of pieces of second pixel information indicated by the second access pattern, a part of the frame data corresponding to the number of pieces of second pixel information in accordance with the second access pattern.
US08817033B2 Method and apparatus for performing adaptive memory bank addressing
A display system comprises a mapping memory comprising a plurality of memory banks configured to store a plurality of image tiles corresponding to an image, and an image mapping component configured to assign each of the plurality of tiles to one of the plurality of memory banks according to a first mapping or a second mapping, wherein the image mapping component determines whether to use the first or second mapping based on a bank interleaving metric of the first and second mappings.
US08817031B2 Distributed stream output in a parallel processing unit
A technique for performing stream output operations in a parallel processing system is disclosed. A stream synchronization unit is provided that enables the parallel processing unit to track batches of vertices being processed in a graphics processing pipeline. A plurality of stream output units is also provided, where each stream output unit writes vertex attribute data to one or more stream output buffers for a portion of the batches of vertices. A messaging protocol is implemented between the stream synchronization unit and the plurality of stream output units that ensures that each of the stream output units writes vertex attribute data for the particular batch of vertices distributed to that particular stream output unit in the same order in the stream output buffers as the order in which the batch of vertices was received from a device driver by the parallel processing unit.
US08817025B1 Efficiently implementing and displaying independent 3-dimensional interactive viewports of a virtual world on multiple client devices
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to efficiently circumventing the limitations of client side rendering of virtual worlds. In a particular implementation, a proposed system renders each client viewport remotely, removing the burden of rendering a 3D scene from the local client device. 3D viewports, rather than being rasterized on the local client, are instead generated on a remote render device which then transmits a visual representation of the viewport to the client device in a format (including, but not limited to a video stream) which the client can use to display the scene without requiring complex 3D rasterization. This process eliminates the need for the client to have any specialized 3D rendering software or hardware, or to install or download any persistent render assets on the local system. The hardware requirements for the client are therefore roughly equivalent to those needed to play a continuous video stream.
US08817021B1 System for writing, interpreting, and translating three-dimensional (3D) scenes
Methods and systems for writing, interpreting, and translating three-dimensional (3D) scenes are provided. An example method may involve accessing data associated with a three-dimensional (3D) scene that includes one or more objects of the 3D scene and one or more rendering effects for the one or more objects. Requests for assets and instructions associated with rendering the one or more objects based on the data associated with the 3D scene may be determined and sent to a server. Additionally, the method may include receiving from the server assets and instructions that facilitate rendering the one or more objects based on the one or more rendering effects. According to the method, the one or more objects of the 3D scene may be rendered based on the received instructions and the received assets.
US08817015B2 Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for depth-based rendering of focused plenoptic camera data
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for rendering focused plenoptic camera data. A depth-based rendering technique is described that estimates depth at each microimage and then applies that depth to determine a position in the input flat from which to read a value to be assigned to a given point in the output image. The techniques may be implemented according to parallel processing technology that renders multiple points of the output image in parallel. In at least some embodiments, the parallel processing technology is graphical processing unit (GPU) technology.
US08817014B2 Image display of a tubular structure
Described herein is a technology for facilitating visualization of a tubular structure. Digitized image data of the tubular structure is received and processed to determine a centerline. A first transformation operation is performed on a first set of coordinates representing the tubular structure to generate a transformed tubular structure with a straight centerline. A second transformation operation is then performed locally on a second set of coordinates representing at least one fold of the transformed tubular structure to generate a transformed fold, which is perpendicular to the centerline.
US08817013B2 Method for processing a spatial image
The invention relates to a method for processing a spatial image assembled from partial images or a time sequence of such images by processing the image data in individual processing modules according to an execution sequence and depending on adjustable processing parameters, wherein each module performs processing steps and the sequence is determined by a selectable linking of the. Further, each module is able to exchange data with the modules to which it is linked. If parameters are changed for two modules linked to each other in the execution sequence, (a) an upstream module transmits to a downstream module which areas of the image data present at the upstream module are affected by the change, (b) the downstream module transmits to the upstream module which image data it requires to perform the processing steps thereof. The upstream module recalculates only said image data, and transmits them to the downstream module.
US08817012B2 Light emitting period setting method, driving method for display panel, driving method for backlight, light emitting period setting apparatus, semiconductor device, display panel and electronic apparatus
Disclosed herein is a light emitting period setting method for a display panel wherein the peak luminance level is varied through control of a total light emitting period length which is the sum total of period lengths of light emitting periods arranged in a one-field period, including a step of setting period lengths of N light emitting periods, which are arranged in a one-field period, in response to the total light emitting period length such that the period lengths of the light emitting periods continue to keep a fixed ratio thereamong, N being equal to or higher than 3.
US08817011B2 Drive device having amplifier unit for applying gradation reference voltage
A drive device drives a display panel through alternately applying a positive polarity gradation voltage and a negative polarity gradation voltage to the display panel. The drive device includes an amplifier unit for amplifying a voltage applied to an input to obtain an amplified gradation voltage, and a voltage generation unit for generating the positive polarity gradation voltage and the negative polarity gradation voltage according to the amplified gradation voltage. The amplifier unit selects one of the positive polarity gradation voltage and the negative polarity gradation voltage immediately before the amplifier unit switches a gradation reference voltage. The selected gradation voltage has a polarity the same as that of the gradation reference voltage to be applied to the input line after the amplifier unit switches the gradation reference voltage.
US08817008B2 Pixel and organic light emitting display device using the same
A pixel of a display with reduced leakage current is disclosed. The pixel includes: an organic light emitting diode; a first transistor for controlling an amount of current flowing from a first power source to a second power source via the organic light emitting diode; a storage capacitor coupled between the first power source and a gate electrode of the first transistor; a plurality of third transistors coupled between the gate electrode and a second electrode of the first transistor; and a plurality of fourth transistors coupled between the gate electrode of the first transistor and an initialization power source. The third and fourth transistors are configured to reduce a leakage current from the storage capacitor to improve the image quality of the display.
US08817006B2 Adapter
A display adapter includes first and second conversion circuits, a switch unit, and a video graphics array (VGA) interface. The first conversion circuit includes a digital to analog (D/A) converter and a coupler. The second conversion circuit includes an analog to digital (A/D) converter and a decoupler. When the switch unit connects the first conversion circuit to the VGA interface, the D/A converter converts a digital signals representing VGA data into a first analog form data for coupling with a first alternating current (AC) voltage. When the switch unit connects the second conversion circuit to the VGA interface, the decoupler decouples and separates a second analog form data into the second analog form data. The A/D converter converts the second analog form data into digital signals representing VGA data, and outputs the digital signals representing VGA data to the VGA interface for use by another VGA display device.
US08817000B1 Computer-implemented keyboard power management system
A method for displaying power sustainability data for a battery includes providing a processor and a memory device coupled to the processor and receiving power sustainability data at a plurality of times. The power sustainability data includes a remaining battery capacity and a light exposure level. The method also includes storing the plurality of times and data values associated with the power sustainability data in the memory device. Additionally, the method includes obtaining most recently received data values for remaining battery capacity and light exposure level and displaying the most recently received data values for remaining battery capacity and light exposure levels.
US08816997B2 Image display device
Provided is an image display device for displaying an image by causing a light emitting element to emit light, the light emitting element being disposed in each of a plurality of pixel areas which are defined by dividing a display area into a grid pattern, the image display device including a pixel circuit for controlling light emission of the light emitting element disposed in each of the plurality of pixel areas, the pixel circuit being formed in an area having a portion that protrudes from the pixel area of the pixel circuit toward an adjacent pixel area and a portion where an adjacent pixel area protrudes into the pixel area.
US08816996B2 Barrier panel device for 3D image reproduction, and method of driving same
Provide is a method of driving a barrier panel device. Segment driving voltages are controlled to be applied to a plurality of segments of a first electrode of a barrier panel based on a display direction of an image signal displayed on an image display panel of an apparatus for reproducing a 3D image. An odd barrier driving voltage is controlled to be commonly applied to odd numbered barriers of a plurality of barriers of a second electrode of the barrier panel. An even barrier driving voltage is controlled to be commonly applied to even numbered barriers of the plurality of barriers. The segment driving voltage, the odd barrier driving voltages, and the even barrier driving voltages are synchronized.
US08816995B2 Indexing and holographic display system for manual control interference
Manual control interface including: a movable part, a photo-detector, a movable holographic element including a first series of holograms forming coding motifs of the selection position of the movable part, characterized by the fact that the movable holographic element includes a second series of holograms forming figurative motifs representing the functions of the apparatus, the position of the movable holographic element relative to the support determining the figurative motif which is illuminated by a suitable light beam, so as to project the figurative motif corresponding to the selected function towards a display zone visible to the user.
US08816993B2 Stylus and touch input system
A touch input system including a stylus and a display device is provided. The stylus includes a battery module, a touch portion, a transducer module and a RF transmitting module. When a contact pressure is acted on the touch portion, the touch portion is electrically connected to the battery module by the contact pressure and emits a light signal. The display region receives and reacts to the light signal, and the contact pressure is transformed into an electrical signal by the transducer module. The RF transmitting module is electrically connected to the transducer module and transmitting the electrical signal. The display device includes a display region and a RF receiving module.
US08816992B2 Display device and information processing apparatus
A display device having at least a display circuit for displaying an image, and a light receiving sensor for detecting a light disposed is provided. When a light receiving circuit region including the light receiving sensor is made a dark portion, and a region other than the light receiving circuit region is made a light portion, the display circuit and the light receiving sensor are disposed so that a spatial frequency of a repetitive pattern of the light portions and the dark portions becomes equal to or higher than 10 cpd.
US08816989B2 User interface navigation utilizing pressure-sensitive touch
An approach is provided to direct data to different applications based upon the amount of pressure applied by a user of a pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. In this approach, a touch input is received at a location of the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. The various applications currently being displayed at the location are identified along with the physical pressure level (amount of pressure applied) at the location on the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. One of the applications running on the device is selected based on the amount of pressure applied and the touch-based input provided by the user is directed to the selected application.
US08816980B2 Mobile electronic device
A system and method for operating a portable electronic device are disclosed. A detected object is detected when the object is in contact with the device to provide detection results. Whether the device is performing a predetermined function to provide a first determination result and whether the object is in contact with the device based on the detection results to provide a second determination result are then determined. One of a first function and a second function comprising the first function based on the first determination result and the second determination result is then selected. The first function is selected if it is determined that the device is performing the predetermined function and that the object is in contact with mobile terminal. The second function is selected if it is determined that the device is performing the predetermined function and that the object is not in contact with the device.
US08816975B2 Information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes a touch panel for displaying predetermined information and accepting a touch operation input; and a control section for controlling operation of the information processing apparatus itself having the touch panel installed therein. The control section includes a processing occurrence detection means for detecting occurrence of a predetermined processing executed by the control section; and a panel control means for nullifying a touch operation input against the touch panel when the occurrence of the predetermined processing is detected by the processing occurrence detection means. The panel control means cancels nullification of the touch operation input against the touch panel after an elapse of a preset time from the occurrence of the predetermined processing, and sets, in association with the occurred predetermined processing, a touch operation input acceptable range allowing the touch panel to accept the touch operation input with respect to the predetermined processing.
US08816970B2 Touch panel, touch display panel, and touch sensing method
A touch panel including first electrode bands, second electrode bands, and a transparent dielectric material is provided. The first electrode bands are disposed on a first substrate and extended in a first direction, wherein each of the first electrodes has a plurality of first slits in the form of enclosed configuration. The second electrode bands are disposed on a second substrate, facing to the first electrode bands, and extended in a second direction interlacing the first direction. Each second electrode band is partially exposed by the first slits. The transparent dielectric material is disposed between the first electrode bands and the second electrode bands to provide a changeable gap.
US08816966B2 Touchscreen japanese character selection through sliding input
Systems, methods, and computer media for selecting characters through touchscreen input are provided. A user selection of a first character, such as a Japanese kana character, displayed on a touchscreen is received. A plurality of additional characters syllabically related to the first character are identified. A presentation order of the plurality of additional characters is identified. In response to receiving the user selection of the first character, at least a first and a second additional character from the plurality of syllabically related additional characters are displayed. The first additional character is displayed adjacent to the first character, and the second additional character is displayed adjacent to the first additional character. The displayed first and second additional characters are selectable by a user touch input.
US08816963B2 Optical navigation module and mobile electronic appliance using optical navigation module
An optical navigation module includes a light source, a light transmission window having a navigation surface, a first light shield configured for blocking the ambient light and absorbing the scattered light, a sensor configured for detecting light from the light transmission window and a second light shield located between the light source and the sensor and configured for blocking the direct light from the light source to the sensor. The light transmission window includes at least one refraction surface. The refraction surface is in the light path from the light source to the sensor.
US08816962B2 Multi-axis input apparatus
The inventive technology, in its various embodiments, relates to improved multi-axis input devices such as joysticks, and associated multi-axis optical displacement measurement means. Certain embodiments of the input devices may comprise elements movable with respect to each other in at least, e.g., three degrees of freedom and comprise ionically conductive elements that are utilized to generate a position signal in, e.g., at least three, or at least six degrees of freedom. Various ergonomic configurations of six axis joystick embodiments which may be facilitated by the compact design of the transducer means are disclosed. Certain embodiments of the input device technology may provide feedback (e.g., relative to force applied to an item whose position is controlled by an operator) to the operator. Means for dynamically adjusting coordinate transformations for construction machinery control are also disclosed.
US08816961B2 Pointing device for use on an interactive surface
A pointing device (10, 50, 70, 90) is provided for use on an interactive surface (21). The pointing device (10, 50, 70, 90) comprises a grip portion (11, 51, 71, 91) and a shapeable part (12, 52, 72, 92). The grip portion can be manipulated into different positions by a user. The shapeable part (12, 52, 72, 92) has a contact surface for making contact with the interactive surface (21). The grip portion (11, 51, 71, 91) is coupled to the shapeable part (12, 52, 72, 92) in such a way that the manipulation of the grip portion (11, 51, 71, 91) causes a footprint (30, 60, 80, 100) of the contact surface on the interactive surface (21) to take a shape corresponding to the respective different positions of the grip portion (11, 51, 71, 91).
US08816959B2 Method and apparatus for obtaining and/or analyzing anatomical images
A method for monitoring a target in a medical display in a medical imaging apparatus includes receiving echo signals from an area of interest of a patient, extracting raw data from the received echo signals, processing the extracted raw data to display a dual mode image on the medical display, and setting a location and displaying a first marker/cursor in a first image of the dual mode image. In addition, the method further includes determining a corresponding location of the marker/cursor in a second image of the dual mode image, and displaying a second marker/cursor in the second image of the dual mode image at the corresponding location simultaneously with the displaying of the first marker/cursor in the first image.
US08816958B2 System and method of mode-switching for a computing device
A first device such as a portable computing device can be configured to act as a text-entry device (in a text-entry mode) and a cursor control device (in a cursor control mode) for a second device. The first device can include a touch-sensitive display capable of receiving text inputs and cursor inputs for controlling the display of a second device which is communicatively coupled to the first device. The first device can be configured such that selection of certain items displayed by the second device can cause the first device to switch from a text-entry mode to a cursor control mode. The first device can be configured such that rotation of the device between a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation causes the device to switch between modes. The first device can be configured such that sideways movement of the device causes the device to switch between modes.
US08816956B2 Mouse-based user interface device employing user-removable modules
The functionality of a conventional mouse is extended to provide an extended number of simultaneously adjustable user interface parameters employing one or more user-removable modules. In an embodiment, a user interface for controlling an external device, such as a computer, includes a first user interface sensor configured with a housing. This first sensor generates a first plurality of signals responsive to movement of the housing relative to two orthogonal axes. A compartment is configured with the housing and is sized to receive the user-removable module. This user-removable module contains a second user interface sensor, which generates a second plurality of signals responsive to user manipulation. Output is provided responsive to signals generated by the first and second user interface sensors. In another embodiment, the housing of an extended functionality mouse itself serves as a module removable from a compartment provided in another physical device.
US08816953B2 Liquid crystal display and scanning back light driving method thereof
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and method of the driving the same is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an LCD device includes a liquid crystal display panel; a plurality of backlight sources configured to provide light to the liquid crystal display panel; a scanning backlight controller configured to generate a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal for controlling a turn-on time and a turn-off time of the light sources and a current control signal for controlling a driving current of the backlight light sources; and a plurality of light source drivers configured to turn on and off the backlight sources in response to the PWM signal and control the driving current of the backlight sources in response to the current control signal.
US08816952B2 Apparatus and method for driving lamp of liquid crystal display device
An apparatus for driving a lamp of a liquid crystal display device includes a control signal generator generating a switching control signal, a waveform modulator modulating at least an amplitude of the switching control signal to generate a modulated switching control signal, and an AC waveform generator converting a supply voltage based on the modulated switching control signal to generate an AC waveform for driving the lamp, the AC waveform including at least two different peak-to-peak amplitudes within a time period.
US08816950B2 Timing controller and display apparatus having the same
In a timing controller and a display apparatus, the timing controller generates an internal enable signal based on an external enable signal and processes image data using the internal enable signal. The timing controller determines a width of each of the plurality of pulses of the external enable signal and subtracts a predetermined reference value from the count value to generate a control signal faster than an effective period of the external enable signal. The control signal is applied to a driver which drives a display panel on which an image is displayed. In an exemplary embodiment, the control signal serves as a vertical start signal which starts an operation of a gate driver applying a gate signal to the display panel, thus preventing or effectively eliminating a delay of the image data applied to the display panel.
US08816949B2 Shift register circuit and image display comprising the same
In a shift register circuit, a defective operation while an output signal is not outputted and a drive capability lowering while the output signal is outputted are prevented. A unit shift register comprises a first transistor for supplying a clock signal inputted to a first clock terminal to an output terminal, and the first transistor is driven by a drive circuit. A second transistor is connected between the gate of the first transistor and the output terminal and has a gate connected to the first clock terminal. The second transistor connects the gate of the first transistor to the output terminal based on the clock signal when the gate of the first transistor is at L (Low) level.
US08816946B2 Method and system for programming, calibrating and driving a light emitting device display
A method and system for programming, calibrating and driving a light emitting device display is provided. The system may include extracting a time dependent parameter of a pixel for calibration.
US08816943B2 Display device with compensation for variations in pixel transistors mobility
In order to efficiently execute threshold value compensation for a driving transistor, a coupling capacitor has one end connected to a data line. Another end of the coupling capacitor is connected to a selection transistor and one end of a reset transistor. A control terminal of a driving transistor is connected to the other end of the selection transistor, and an organic EL element is connected to this driving transistor via a light emission control transistor. A data voltage, corresponding to a gradation signal supplied to the data line, is written to a storage capacitor via the coupling capacitor, and with the selection transistor and the light emission control transistor in an off state and the reset transistor turned on, a compensation voltage corresponding to a degree of mobility of the driving transistor is written to the coupling capacitor.
US08816940B2 Modulating thickness of colored fluid in color display
An embodiment is a display unit. The display unit includes a substrate layer, a layer of colored fluid on the substrate layer, and a transparent actuator element on the layer of the colored fluid. The layer of colored fluid has a thickness and a color. The transparent actuator element modulates the thickness of the colored fluid upon activated by a force such that the colored fluid is changed from a first state to a second state or vice versa. The modulated thickness provides a variable optical density of the colored fluid.
US08816939B2 Monocular display apparatus
An apparatus for viewing of an image of a scene, including a monocular device worn by a viewer which includes a first display for displaying a first two-dimensional image of the scene with a first perspective to one eye of the viewer. a second display for displaying a second two-dimensional image of the scene with a second perspective to the other eye of the viewer, wherein the first perspective of the scene is different from the second perspective of the scene so that the viewer perceives a three dimensional image of the scene, while another viewer of the second display, that is not wearing a monocular device, views the two-dimensional image of the scene.
US08816938B2 Large-scale display device
A large-scale display device having a plurality of display units which each include a plurality of elongated plasma tubes each filled with a discharge gas, and at least one pair of display electrodes disposed outside the plasma tubes, voltage applying means which applies a drive voltage to the display electrodes to cause electric discharge in the plasma tubes for display.Vertically adjoining ones of the display units respectively have adjoining portions which are offset thicknesswise from each other for prevention of contact between the plasma tubes of the vertically adjoining display units. The voltage applying means is disposed away from the adjoining portions of the vertically adjoining display units.
US08816937B2 Multiprojection display system and screen forming method
Provided is a multiprojection display system that includes a plurality of cameras configured to capture images of predetermined vertex regions including vertexes of projected images projected from two-dimensional scanning projectors onto a screen, an image-capturing timing control unit configured to control the cameras to capture images of the screen for a predetermine period including a display. start row of one frame of the projected image or a predetermined period including a display end row, and a vertex position detection unit configured to detect vertexes of the respective projected images from data relating to the plurality of images captured by the cameras, and to output data relating to image edges indicating positions of the vertexes. A projector control unit adjusts, when the vertex of the projected image shifts from a present reference position, a scanning range of the two-dimensional scanning projector so that the vertex can be matched with the reference position.
US08816936B2 Antenna and printed-circuit board using waveguide structure
An antenna or a printed-circuit board is formed using a plurality of unit structures which are repetitively aligned in a one-dimensional manner or in a two-dimensional manner. The unit structure includes a conductive plane and a conductive patch which are disposed in parallel with each other, a power-supply unit applying a high frequency signal between the conductive plane and the conductive patch, and at least one shunt which is aligned in the conductive patch and which is constituted of a transmission line having an open end aligned in a plane above or below the conductive patch and a conductive via electrically connecting the transmission line to the conductive plane. Alternately, the transmission line is aligned in a plane above or below the conductive plane so that the transmission line is electrically connected to the conductive patch via the conductive via.
US08816931B2 Method of loop antenna and improved loop antenna thereof
An improved method of loop antenna and improved loop antenna thereof are provided, the method is used to generate an antenna resonant frequency for a conformed specific communication by modifying a resonant wavelength of a basic loop antenna. The improved method of loop antenna includes the following steps: connecting a first antenna radiator to a resonant point of the basic loop antenna electrically, and using an additional length from the connected first antenna radiator additional length to increase the resonant wavelength of the basic loop antenna, in order to generate an antenna resonant frequency conformed to the specific communication system.
US08816929B2 Antenna array package and method for building large arrays
Array packages and methods for forming large-scale antenna arrays. One method includes aligning two or more array packages. The two or more array packages each include one or more bottom dielectric layers, an array of antennas arranged in a plane above the one or more bottom dielectric layers, a ground plane layer above the one or more bottom dielectric layers, and a conductive surface on at least a part of an outside surface of the array package and orthogonal to the plane of the array of antennas. The conductive surface is electrically connected to the ground plane layer.
US08816928B2 Multiband antenna
A multiband antenna includes a feeding end, a ground end, and a main body. The main body includes a first radiating path, a second radiating path, a main radiating portion and a transmitting portion. The main radiating portion connected to the feeding end by the first and second radiating paths. The transmitting portion is connected to the main radiating portion and the ground end. The first and second radiating paths, the main radiating portion and the transmitting portion are coplanar.
US08816927B2 Antenna unit, and electronic apparatus including the same
A GPS antenna is provided with a reflective conductor portion. Thereby, an electromagnetic wave radiated from an antenna conductor portion in a predetermined direction can be grounded electrically, and thus radiation of the electromagnetic wave in a direction (arbitrary direction) opposite to the predetermined direction can be enhanced. As a result, the directivity of the electromagnetic wave in the arbitrary direction can be enhanced to improve the positioning accuracy.
US08816925B2 Multiband whip antenna
A multi-band whip antenna having a 30 MHz to 2 GHz bandwidth and an L-band dipole has its coverage extended up to 6 GHz by eliminating nulls and reducing VSWR problems that are cured through the utilization of a sleeve over the feedpoint of the L-band antenna. Chokes in the form of sleeves are provided at either end of the L-band dipole to shorten the L-band antenna for preventing reverse polarity currents at the L-band antenna feedpoint, with the antenna further including the use of double shielded meanderlines to provide improved performance between 410-512 MHz and in which a capacitance sleeve is added at the bottom of the L-band antenna to effectively elongate the antenna below the L-band to permit operation below 700 MHz.
US08816920B2 Mobile electronic device
A mobile electronic device comprises an RFID antenna section that sends and receives signals on a first useful frequency band, a main antenna section that sends and receives signals on a second useful frequency band, which is a higher frequency band than the first useful frequency band, an adjustment section that adjusts a resonance frequency of the RFID antenna section, and a control section that identifies a reactance value of the RFID antenna section based on the receiving sensitivity with respect to signals on the first useful frequency band and adjusts the resonance frequency of the RFID antenna section based on the identified reactance value by an adjustment section such that a high-order resonance frequency of the RFID antenna section is spaced apart from the second useful frequency band.
US08816916B2 Radome and device for attaching said radome to an aircraft
The invention relates to a radome (1) for an aircraft, and more specifically to a device for connecting said radome to the structure of said aircraft. The radome that is the subject of the invention comprises a plurality of locking units able to bring together the opposing surfaces of the aircraft's fuselage (10) and the radome (1), each unit comprising: locking means (20) able to exercise a traction force on the surface of the fuselage, substantially normal to the surface, via attachment means; centering means able to withstand the shear forces substantially tangential to the opposing surfaces of the fuselage and radome; the locking means (20) are placed such that they are located inside the cone of resulting forces on the centering means so as to minimize the bending stresses generated by the assembly in the radome (1).
US08816915B2 Method for RF testing utilizing a test fixture
One embodiment provides a system, method, and test fixture for performing RF testing of an electronic device. An RF antenna is received in a base plate. One or more guides are positioned on the base plate for securing the electronic device above the RF antenna. The electronic device is secured on the base plate to perform the RF testing utilizing the one or more guides.
US08816914B2 Communication device and antenna structure therein
A communication device including a multilayer circuit board and an antenna structure therein is provided. The multilayer circuit board has at least a first plane, a second plane, and a third plane. A ground plane is disposed on one of the planes, and the ground plane is in proximity to a clearance region of the multilayer circuit board. An antenna structure is disposed in the clearance region. The antenna structure includes a first metal portion and a second metal portion. The first metal portion is coupled to a signal source through a feeding portion. The second metal portion includes at least a first line segment and a second line segment. The first line segment and the second line segment are disposed respectively on any two planes of the multilayer circuit board. The first metal line and the second metal line forms a loop structure through two conductive vias.
US08816906B2 Chip packages including through-silicon via dice with vertically inegrated phased-array antennas and low-frequency and power delivery substrates
An apparatus includes a die with through-silicon vias and radio frequency integrated circuit capabilities and it is vertically integrated with a phased-array antenna substrate. The through-silicon via and a radio frequency integrated circuit is coupled to a plurality of antenna elements disposed on the phased-array antenna substrate where each of the plurality of antenna elements is coupled to the through-silicon vias and radio frequency integrated circuit through a plurality of through-silicon vias. A process of assembling the through-silicon vias and radio frequency integrated circuit to the phased-array antenna substrate includes testing the apparatus.
US08816905B2 Satellite-based positioning system improvement
A method, device and system for determining a receiver location using weak signal satellite transmissions. The invention involves a sequence of exchanges between an aiding source and a receiver that serve to provide aiding information to the receiver so that the receiver's location may be determined in the presence of weak satellite transmissions. With the aiding information, the novel receiver detects, acquires and tracks weak satellite signals and computes position solutions from calculated pseudo ranges despite the inability to extract time synchronization date from the weak satellite signals. The invention includes as features, methods and apparatus for the calibration of a local oscillator, the cancellation of cross correlations, a Doppler location scheme, an ensemble averaging scheme, the calculation of almanac aiding from a table of orbit coefficients, absolute time determination, and a modified search engine.
US08816901B2 Calibration to improve weather radar positioning determination
A method of calibrating antenna-position detection associated with a radar system, the radar system including a first gimbal and a first angle sensor configured to detect an angular position of the first gimbal, includes mounting a second angle sensor to the first gimbal configured to detect an angular position of the first gimbal. The first gimbal is rotated through each angular position of a set of the angular positions. A first set of data is generated with the first angle sensor that characterizes a detected angular position of the first gimbal. A second set of data is generated with the second angle sensor that characterizes a detected angular position of the first gimbal. A third data set is determined comprising differences, between the first and second data sets, in detected angular position at each first-gimbal angular position. The third data set is stored in a memory device.
US08816893B1 Adaptive multiple conversion ramp analog-to-digital converter
An example ramp analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for generating at least one bit of a digital signal includes a modified ramp signal generator, a comparator, and a control circuit. The modified ramp signal generator receives a ramp signal and generates a modified ramp signal in response thereto. The comparator compares an analog input with the modified ramp signal. The control circuit controls the modified ramp signal generator, such that the analog input is converted a variable M number of times for each period of the ramp signal. The number M is dependent on a magnitude of the analog input. In one example, the number M is greater for analog inputs of a lower magnitude, such that the analog inputs of the lower magnitude are converted more times than analog inputs of a higher magnitude.
US08816885B2 Data interface alignment
In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a de-serializer to convert serial data into two parallel data streams, and a control unit to provide a first update signal and a second update signal based on a bit count of the serial data. The apparatus may further include a target component having an input bus, the input bus including a first portion and a second portion. The apparatus may further include a first output unit to provide the first set of parallel data to the first portion of the input bus, and a second output unit to provide the second set of parallel data to the second portion of the input bus.
US08816877B2 Road gantry
The invention relates to a road gantry comprising a horizontal beam (2), the upper surface (21) of which constitutes a passageway for service personnel to cross, the gantry being characterized in that it comprises arms (25) for bearing apparatuses (30) for monitoring road traffic, electronic toll collection, or signaling, wherein said arms are pivotably attached to the horizontal beam so as to be able to move from a first position, in which the arms extend towards the road, into a second position for stowage on said passageway, and vice versa. The passageway may comprise protection guardrails (22, 23) in which openings (24) are formed, said openings being shut by door panels (24) arranged so as to enable the passage of said arms (25) from said first position to said second position and vice versa. The invention also relates to a barrier-free electronic toll collection station including at least one such gantry.
US08816874B2 Danger presentation device, danger presentation system, danger presentation method and program
A danger presentation device includes a worker position acquisition unit configured to acquire a worker position which is a position of a worker; a worker view range determination unit configured to determine a view range of the worker depending on the worker position acquired by the worker position acquisition unit; a position/posture determination unit configured to determine a position/posture which contains at least one of a position of a robot and a posture of the robot at a specific time in which at least a part of the robot which operates in accordance with a motion planning is included in the view range; and an image generation unit configured to generate image data for illustrating the position/posture determined by the position/posture determination unit.
US08816872B2 System and method for monitoring, controlling, and improving productivity and safety conditions of automated machinery
Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring the productivity, operability, and safety conditions of factory machinery and particularly unitizers. The system monitors factory machines such as a unitizer in a corrugated box factory, using one or more sensors to determine whether and how efficiently the machinery is operating, to determine if any conditions of the machinery require immediate attention, and to determine if a safety violation has occurred with respect to the machinery. The system appropriately notifies a factory manager of issues that arise. In addition, the system aggregates data about past performance and safety violations and generates reports about the aggregated data to help factory managers maximize productivity of the monitored machinery. The disclosed system is particularly advantageous in that it enables improvement of the productivity of the factory as a whole.
US08816866B2 Sonic detection of flow state change for measurement stations
A method for audibly detecting a fluid flow state change in a flow meter pipeline. The flow state change may be identified as an upset in the normal flow state. The upset may be corrected to improve the accuracy of the flow meter. A system includes acoustic sensors mounted in the flow meter pipeline, and a computer to collect audible data from the acoustic sensors and compare the audible data to a baseline to detect an upset in the normal fluid flow state.
US08816857B2 RFID system
The present invention provides an automated system for asset tracking and management and utilizes near field Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology. RFID tags are attached to the assets, and RFID antennas (and corresponding readers) are strategically located in close proximity to read the tags. As applied to a rack or cabinet, near-field antennas are mounted along one of the mounting posts at each rack unit location such that when a piece of equipment (rack mounted or rail mounted) is installed at a particular rack unit space, the tag will be read and registered in an RFID management system. A magnetic field shaping arrangement ensures that crosstalk between adjacent rack positions is prevented. Ferrite elements are used to control the magnetic field.
US08816853B1 Self-shunting security device for detecting the absence or presence of a removable auxiliary alarm assembly
A self-shunting security system for detecting the absence or presence of a removable auxiliary alarm assembly for preventing theft of one or more products operatively connected to said system. A port is operatively attached to circuitry and is adapted to receive the removable auxiliary alarm assembly. A shunting assembly is also operatively attached to the circuitry and is disposed in relation to the port for detecting the absence or presence of the removable auxiliary alarm assembly within the port. The port and shunting assembly are in parallel electrical configuration. The shunting assembly automatically forms a first closed circuit when the removable auxiliary alarm assembly is not inserted into the port. Insertion of the removable auxiliary alarm assembly into the port opens the first closed circuit and forms a second closed circuit so that tampering with or removing the removable auxiliary alarm assembly opens the second closed circuit creating a moment in time where the second closed circuit and first closed circuit will both be open to activate a warning indicator.
US08816850B2 Tracking and monitoring system for opencast mines
The tracking and monitoring system for opencast mines of the present invention enables continuously tracking and monitoring vehicles and moveable equipment in opencast mines using ZigBee-enabled active RFID devices forming a dynamic wireless network among them and other static and mobile ZigBee devices placed at strategic locations. The present invention provides a tracking and monitoring system for opencast mines comprises in combination of ZigBee-compliant devices (programmable to operate as end devices, routers and coordinators by hardware specific embedded software) and wireless sensor network software having various application modules for opencast mines. Use of the system of the present invention would help in maintaining computerized record and analysing the performance of costly shovels and dumpers deployed in opencast mines. This would help in optimising the placement of dumpers with each shovel depending on the change in working and dumping places. This would also help in maintaining computerise attendance of dumper operators and other personnel working in an opencast mine. This would further help in providing warning to the signal man and dumper operator, while dumper approaching close proximity to the signal man. This would help in establishing two-way message communication among the personnel engaged in an opencast mine. This would ultimately help in improving production, productivity and safety in opencast mine.
US08816847B2 Communication system with partial power source
The system of the present invention includes a conductive element, an electronic component, and a partial power source in the form of dissimilar materials. Upon contact with a conducting fluid, a voltage potential is created and the power source is completed, which activates the system. The electronic component controls the conductance between the dissimilar materials to produce a unique current signature. The system can be used in a variety of different applications, including as components of ingestible identifiers, such as may be found in ingestible event markers, e.g., pharma-informatics enabled pharmaceutical compositions.
US08816845B2 Method and system for generating an alert based on car seat use detection
An approach for providing notifications to caregivers based on the detected presence of a child in a car seat is described. Physical presence of an object within a car seat is detected. A determination is made that a proximity threshold between a mobile device and the car seat is satisfied based on the presence information, range information associated with the mobile device, or a combination thereof. A notification message is generated in response to the detected physical presence of the object to indicate the presence of the object in the car seat based on the determination. Initiation of the transmission of the notification message to a mobile device within a predetermined proximity of the car seat is performed.
US08816842B2 GPS enabled relay controller
A GPS enabled relay controller that interfaces with an electronic device, such as a street light, barricade light, refrigerator, and other similar applications for turning off power to an electronic device for energy savings. The relay controller invokes quantification of refractive photon diffusion to switch between on and off an electronic device based upon refracted photons diffused at the surface of the earth at a particular location and based upon sampling at the Earth's surface from before civil twilight start until after sunrise and from before sunset until after civil twilight end.
US08816841B2 Warning system
The present invention relates to a warning system mounted on a vehicle comprising detection means for detecting an object, and signalling means connected to said detection means, wherein said detection means are arranged to remotely detect an object in the vicinity of the vehicle and that said detection means is connected to said signalling means to automatically emit a signal that is detectable from at least one other side of the vehicle than the one where said object is present, and wherein said detection means (4) are arranged to avoid detecting objects lower than 0.5 m, preferably lower than 0.25 m from the ground.
US08816835B2 Immobilizer circuit
An immobilizer device is configured for communicating with a base station. The immobilizer device includes an antenna circuit including three orthogonally-oriented antennas configured to receive a signal from a field generated by a base station. A power circuit is configured to draw power via the field on each of the antennas, and a communications circuit is configured to communicate with the base station via any of the antennas. The strength of the signals received via the antennas is evaluated and used to select one of the antennas for use in data communications and, if appropriate, as a power supply.
US08816829B2 Household appliance control system
Household appliance control system, comprising at least one appliance switch, at least one device supplying functional commands, at least one device supplying power and at least one household appliance, wherein the aforementioned devices are at least partially arranged in a building power supply network, and wherein these devices at least partially communicate among each other via said building power supply network, by impressing information independently to their respective zero-crossing either on an alternating voltage or on an alternating current, whereby said information can be read out again from both of the voltage and current, and whereby said information exclusively consists of real power instead of using high frequency modulation or even an additional line for data transmission purpose.
US08816825B2 Transponder
Proposed is a transponder for receiving a wireless electromagnetic interrogation signal and for transmitting a wireless electromagnetic response signal with a first coil acting as an antenna for generating a first wired electrical receive signal from the interrogation signal, and with at least one further coil acting as an antenna for generating a further wired electrical receive signal from the interrogation signal, wherein an axis of the first coil and an axis of the further coil are aligned differently in the space, wherein in each case one full-wave rectifier for rectifying the respective receive signal is assigned to the coils, wherein a summing element for summing up the rectified receive signals generated by the full-wave rectifiers is provided in order to generate in this manner a pulsating sum signal, the frequency of which corresponds to twice the frequency of the interrogation signal.
US08816817B2 Authentication apparatus
An apparatus for authenticating a user includes a detector for determining a state or a position of a bodily part placed by the user for biometric authentication, a unit capable of obtaining biometric data from a different portion of the bodily part, a plurality of biometric authentication engines capable of authenticating the user by using one of a plurality of authentication algorithms by comparing the biometric data with reference data, respectively, and a controller for selecting one of the different portions of the bodily part so as to select associated biometric data, and determining one of the biometric authentication engines for authenticating the user on the basis of the state or the position of the bodily part placed.
US08816816B2 Methods and apparatus for securing a portable device
An apparatus for securing a portable device is described. The portable device includes a housing having a mating feature adapted to mate with a corresponding mating feature of the cradle. The cradle includes a locking mechanism that is capable of locking the portable device to the cradle. A transceiver is positioned in the housing. The transceiver is capable of communicating with a remote server containing data of a registered user. A radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader is positioned in the housing. The RFID reader controls the locking mechanism such that the locking mechanism releases the portable device from the cradle when a RFID tag storing the data of the registered user is positioned proximate to the RFID reader.
US08816811B2 Low profile inductors for high density circuit boards
An inductor includes a core formed of a magnetic material and a foil winding wound at least partially around or through at least a portion of the core. A first end of the winding extends away from the core to form an extended output tongue configured and arranged to supplement or serve as a substitute for a printed circuit board foil trace. A second end of the winding forms a solder tab. At least a portion of the extended output tongue and the solder tab are formed at a same height relative to a bottom surface of the core. Another inductor includes a core formed of a magnetic material, a winding wound at least partially around or through at least a portion of the core, and a ground return conductor attached to the core. The core does not form a magnetic path loop around the ground return conductor.
US08816805B2 Magnetic structure production
Magnetic structure production may relate, by way of example but not limitation, to methods, systems, etc. for producing magnetic structures by printing magnetic pixels (aka maxels) into a magnetizable material. Disclosed herein is production of magnetic structures having, for example: maxels of varying shapes, maxels with different positioning, individual maxels with different properties, maxel patterns having different magnetic field characteristics, combinations thereof, and so forth. In certain example implementations disclosed herein, a second maxel may be printed such that it partially overwrites a first maxel to produce a magnetic structure having overlapping maxels. In certain example implementations disclosed herein, a magnetic printer may include a print head comprising multiple parts and having various properties. In certain example implementations disclosed herein, various techniques for using a magnetic printer may be employed to produce different magnetic structures. Furthermore, description of additional magnet-related technology and example implementations thereof is included herein.
US08816801B2 Contact mechanism and electromagnetic contactor using the same
A contact mechanism where a shape of at least one of a fixed contactor including a pair of fixed contact portions and a movable contactor including a pair of movable contact portions capable of contacting with and separating from the pair of fixed contact portions is set to a shape that generates a Lorentz force resisting electromagnetic repulsion in a contactor opening direction generated between the fixed contact portions and the movable contact portions when a current is applied, has the fixed contactor and the movable contactor being inserted in a current path. Magnetic bodies are disposed on at least one of the fixed contactor and the movable contactor for suppressing a force driving arcs, which are generated between the pair of fixed contact portions and the pair of movable contact portions, to the fixed contactor on the opposite side.
US08816797B2 Multilayer resonator and multilayer filter
A multilayer filter includes a plurality of mutually coupled resonant circuits provided within a multilayer body. Capacitor internal electrodes, inductor internal electrodes, and inductor via electrodes, ground via electrodes, and input-output via electrodes are arranged within the multilayer body. The ground via electrodes and the input-output via electrodes are provided on a dielectric layer on a mounting surface, or a second dielectric layer on a first dielectric layer provided on the mounting surface. The capacitor internal electrodes arranged towards the side of the mounting surface do not overlap the input-output electrodes when viewed in plan view. With this configuration, degradation in frequency characteristics of a resonant circuit is effectively prevented by controlling one of an inductive component and a capacitive component of the resonant circuit.
US08816795B2 EMC filter circuit
An EMC filter circuit (1) has an essentially rigid busbar (3) for carrying an electric power to which is superposed a noise component in a conductive housing (2), which connected to ground. The filter (1) has two main elements inductors (4) increasing an impedance of the bus bar and capacitors (5) connected between the busbar (3) and the conductive housing (2). The capacitors (5) are inserted and tightly held solderless in position between the conductive housing (2) and the electric conductor (3). One advantage comes from the fact, that flat connection elements are arranged on both sides of the capacitors (5), which allow an easy manufacturing process.
US08816791B2 Systems and methods of a rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition
Systems and methods for a filtering wave energy using a rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition are discussed herein. An exemplary system comprises a rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition and a filter card. The rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition may include a front section and a back section opposite the front section, the rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition defining a circular hole extending from the front section of the rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition through the back section, the rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition further having a first arcuate region on the face of the transition, the first arcuate region defining a first cavity extending from the circular hole through the first arcuate region, the rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition also having a second arcuate region defining a second cavity opposite the first cavity, the second cavity extending from the circular hole through the second arcuate region. The filter card may be configured to be placed across the circular hole of the rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition.
US08816790B2 Self-biased amplitude-controlled oscillator with constant harmonic content
Oscillators are described that have a highly stable output frequency versus the variation of supply voltage and different operating conditions such as temperature. The concepts are broadly applicable to various types of oscillators. The highly stable output is achieved with the use of self biasing loops. The circuits associated with providing constant harmonic output current can be used with the concept of a phi-null oscillator to further stabilize the output frequency.
US08816789B2 Oscillator and input-output device and method of controlling the same
A semiconductor device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention is capable of being selectively switched between an oscillation circuit and a signal input-output circuit, and includes first and second external connecting terminals that are connectable to an oscillation device; an inverting amplifier an input side of which is electrically connected to the first external connecting terminal through a coupling capacitor and an output side of which is electrically connected to the second external connecting terminal; a feedback resistor connected to the input side and the output side of the inverting amplifier; a bias stabilization circuit that stabilizes a bias applied to the coupling capacitor; a first signal input-output portion connected to the first external connecting terminal; and a second signal input-output portion connected to the second external connecting terminal.
US08816788B2 Frequency generator with frequency jitter
A frequency generator with frequency jitter is disclosed. The frequency generator comprises a capacitor, a comparing unit, a charging and discharging unit, a delay unit, and a charging and discharging switch unit. The comparing unit is coupled to the capacitor and generates a charging and discharging control signal according to a voltage of the capacitor. The charging and discharging unit is coupled to the capacitor. The delay unit is coupled to the comparing unit and receives a delay signal. The delay unit delays the charging and discharging control signal according to the delay signal to generate a charging and discharging delay signal. The charging and discharging switch unit is coupled to the charging and discharging unit and the delay unit, and charges or discharges the capacitor according to the charging and discharging delay signal.
US08816785B2 Oscillator
An oscillator which oscillates electromagnetic waves includes a negative differential resistance element, a resonator configured to prescribe oscillation frequencies of the electromagnetic waves, a voltage modulation unit configured to modulate the negative differential resistance element, a stabilizing circuit configured to suppress parasitic oscillation, and a bias circuit, including a power supply and a line, used to control an operating point voltage of the negative differential resistance element. The voltage modulation unit is connected to the bias circuit through the stabilizing circuit.
US08816782B2 Phase locked loop circuit having a voltage controlled oscillator with improved bandwidth
A voltage controlled oscillator includes a plurality of serially connected composite gain stages. A composite gain stage includes a transconductance stage and a transimpedance stage. The transconductance stage has first and second current paths from a first power supply voltage terminal to a second power supply voltage terminal. A first variable resistance is coupled between the first and second current paths. The transimpedance stage has a first inverter and a second inverter. The first inverter has an input terminal coupled to the output of the first current path and an output terminal. The second inverter has an input terminal coupled to the output of the second current path, and an output terminal. A second variable resistance is coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal of the first inverter, and a third variable resistance is coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal of the second inverter.
US08816780B2 Apparatus and method for calibrating timing mismatch of edge rotator operating on multiple phases of oscillator
An exemplary calibration apparatus for calibrating timing mismatch of an edge rotator operating on multiple phases of an oscillator includes a capturing block arranged to capture phase error samples, and a calibrating block arranged to adjust timing of said edge rotator according to said phase error samples. An exemplary calibration method for calibrating timing mismatch of an edge rotator operating on multiple phases of an oscillator includes the following steps: capturing phase error samples, and adjusting timing of said edge rotator according to said phase error samples.
US08816779B2 Device for an atomic clock
A device for an atomic clock, including: a laser source (102) generating a laser beam; a quarter-wave plate (105) modifying the linear polarization of the laser beam into a circular polarization and vice versa; a gas cell (106) placed on the laser beam having a circular polarization; a mirror (107) sending the laser beam back toward the gas cell; a first photodetector (108a); means (103, 101a, 107) for diverting the reflected beam of the laser source (102), and a second photodetector (109) placed behind the mirror (107), the mirror being semitransparent and allowing a portion of the laser beam to pass therethrough, the second photodetector (109) being used for controlling the optical frequency of the laser and/or for controlling the temperature of the cell (106).
US08816778B2 Clock frequency adjusting method and circuit
A method for adjusting an oscillator clock frequency, comprising: providing a first oscillator, applying a first setpoint value to the first oscillator, determining a first oscillator frequency value within a first time frame, providing a second oscillator, applying a second setpoint value to the second oscillator, determining a second oscillator frequency value within a second time frame, determining a new frequency setpoint value from the first and second frequency values, the first and second setpoint values, and a desired frequency value, and applying the new frequency setpoint value to one of the first and second oscillators.
US08816777B2 Microwave synthesizer
A microwave synthesizer is disclosed that may generate low phase noise and high frequency resolution microwave signals The microwave synthesizer may include a coarse-tuning loop, the coarse-tuning loop may be adopted to generate a first signal with coarsely adjustable frequency. The coarse-tuning loop may have a first voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). An output loop, the output loop may be adopted to generate a second signal with finely adjustable frequency. The output loop may have a second VCO. A frequency mixer may be configured to couple the coarse-tuning loop and the output loop. A frequency mixer may be adopted to subtract the first and second signals. A reference frequency source may be coupled to the coarse-tuning loop and the output loop to provide reference signal for the microwave synthesizer.
US08816775B2 Quiescent current determination using in-package voltage measurements
Apparatus, systems, and fabrication methods are provided for biasing amplifier arrangements inside device packages to a target quiescent current. In one embodiment, an amplifier device has an output interface and includes an amplifier arrangement having an amplifier output and impedance matching circuitry coupled between the amplifier output and the output interface. A method for biasing the amplifier arrangement involves measuring or otherwise obtaining a voltage between the amplifier output and the output interface, determining an estimated quiescent current through the amplifier arrangement based on that voltage, and adjusting a bias voltage provided to the input of the amplifier arrangement based on a difference between the estimated quiescent current. In exemplary embodiments, the bias voltage is adjusted until the estimated quiescent current is substantially equal to a target quiescent current.
US08816774B2 Power amplifier system
Disclosed herein is a power amplifier system including: a power amplifier; a power controlling unit providing driving voltage and driving current corresponding to a preset reference voltage to the power amplifier; a current controlling unit performing a control so that control current corresponding to applied control voltage flows; a bias controlling unit detecting current and voltage corresponding to the driving current of the power controlling unit and controlling bias current of the power amplifier according to the detected voltage; and a current adjusting unit detecting bias voltage corresponding to the bias current of the power amplifier and adjusting the driving current of the power controlling unit according to the detected bias voltage. Even though applied control voltage increases, current applied to the power amplifier is appropriately adjusted, thereby making it possible to improve characteristics of the power amplifier.
US08816771B2 Signal amplifying circuit with reduced output signal noise by introducing coupling effect and related method thereof
A signal amplifying circuit includes: an input stage circuit, arranged to receive an input signal; a first inductive device coupled between the input stage circuit and a first reference voltage; an output stage circuit arranged to generate an output signal according to the input signal; and a second inductive device coupled between the output stage circuit and a second reference voltage, wherein at least a part of a winding of the first inductive element is cross-coupled to at least a part of a winding of the second inductive element.
US08816770B2 Low-voltage constant-gm rail-to-rail CMOS input stage with improved gain
The present invention concerns an apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate an output signal in response to a differential input signal, a first power supply and a ground. The output signal may have a rail-to-rail voltage with a magnitude between the first power supply and the ground. The first circuit may also be configured to source an intermediate differential signal in response to the differential input signal, the first power supply and ground. The second circuit may be configured to sink the differential intermediate signal in response to the differential input signal, the first power supply, ground and a second power supply. The second circuit may flatten the transconductance of the first circuit relative to a common mode voltage of the differential input signal.
US08816769B2 Differential stacked output stage for power amplifiers
A power amplifier system includes a transistor stack and an upper portion. The upper portion includes an LC tank. The LC tank is configured to generate selected harmonics to mitigate voltage stress and facilitate amplifier efficiency. The transistor stack includes serial connected input transistors and upper transistors. The input transistors are configured to receive an input signal and the upper transistors are configured to provide an amplifier output signal. The LC tank is configured to provide the selected harmonics to at least gates of the upper transistors.
US08816768B2 Power module for envelope tracking
A power module for envelope tracking includes a linear amplifier and a DC-to-DC (Direct Current to Direct Current) converter. The linear amplifier has a positive input terminal for receiving a first control signal, a negative input terminal, and an output terminal for outputting a first adaptive supply voltage, wherein the output terminal is fed back to the negative input terminal. The DC-to-DC converter receives a second control signal, and supplies a second adaptive supply voltage to the linear amplifier according to the second control signal. The first control signal is related to the second control signal.
US08816763B2 Integrator input error correction circuit and circuit method
A circuit includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier, wherein first amplifier is configured to receive an input current at a first input of the first amplifier, and an output of the first op-mp is configured to drive a first input of the second amplifier. The circuit further includes a pull-up current source selectively coupled to the first input of the second amplifier, and a pull-down current source selectively coupled to the first input of the second amplifier. If the absolute value of the input current is larger than a predefined threshold current: i) the pull-up current source is configured to drive current into the first input of the second amplifier for a first polarity of the input current, and ii) the pull-down current source is configured to sink current from the first input of the second amplifier for a second polarity of the input current.
US08816762B2 Area-optimized analog filter with bandwidth control by a quantized scaling function
A programmable active frequency-selective circuit includes a first capacitor having a fixed value and a second capacitor coupled in parallel to the first capacitor and having a plurality of switchable capacitors connected in parallel to each other. The programmable active frequency-selective circuit further includes a plurality of switches each being associated with one of the switchable capacitors, and a control port coupled to the switches. The capacitors may be varied to account for processing variations that occur during manufacturing of the programmable active frequency-selective circuit. The capacitors values may also be varied to change the bandwidth and/or gain of the programmable active frequency-selective circuit.
US08816760B2 Capacitor amplifying circuit and operating method thereof
A capacitor amplifying circuit and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The capacitor amplifying circuit includes a first current source, a second current source, a current mirror unit, and an output capacitor. There is a proportion relationship between a first current of the first current source and a second current of the second current source. The current mirror unit is coupled between the first current source and the second current source. The current mirror unit includes N stages of current mirror circuit in series, wherein N is larger than or equal to 1. Each of the N stages of current mirror circuit has a proportional constant respectively. Two terminals of the output capacitor are coupled to the current mirror unit and a ground terminal respectively. The equivalent capacitance magnification of the output capacitor is related to the proportional constants based on the proportion relationship.
US08816754B1 Body bias circuits and methods
An integrated circuit can include an operational section comprising a first body bias circuit coupled to drive first body regions to a first bias voltage in response to at least first bias values; a second body bias circuit coupled to drive second body regions to a second bias voltage in response to at least second bias values; a plurality of monitoring sections formed in a same substrate as the operational section, each configured to output a monitor value reflecting a different process variation effect on circuit performance.
US08816751B2 Inductive load power switching circuits
Power switching circuits including an inductive load and a switching device are described. The switches devices can be either low-side or high-side switches. Some of the switches are transistors that are able to block voltages or prevent substantial current from flowing through the transistor when voltage is applied across the transistor.
US08816749B2 Level shifter device
A level shifter includes a first terminal configured to receive a first supply voltage, a second terminal configured to receive a second supply voltage, an input terminal configured to receive an input signal and an output terminal. The level shifter is configured to shift the input signal from the level of the first supply voltage to the level of the second supply voltage in outputting the output signal. The level shifter includes a storage circuit for storing the output signal value and configured, when the first supply voltage is no longer available, to force the output terminal to assume the last output voltage value stored by the storage circuit when the first supply voltage was available and before the first supply voltage was not available.
US08816746B2 Integrated circuit with multi-functional parameter setting and multi-functional parameter setting method thereof
An integrated circuit with multi-functional parameter setting and a multi-functional parameter setting method of the integrated circuit are provided. The multi-functional parameter setting method includes following steps: providing the integrated circuit which includes a switch unit and a multi-functional pin that is coupled to an external setting unit, sensing a programmable reference voltage of the external setting unit through one operation of the switch unit and executing a first function setting according to the programmable reference voltage, and sensing a programmable reference current of the external setting unit through another operation of the switch unit and executing a second function setting according to the programmable reference current.
US08816744B2 Adaptive clock signal generator with noise immunity capability
An adaptive clock signal generator with noise immunity capability is disclosed, including a gain amplifier for processing an analog oscillation signal to generate an amplified signal; an adjustable Schmitt trigger, coupled with the gain amplifier, for generating a triggered signal according to the amplified signal; an output buffer, coupled with the adjustable Schmitt trigger, for generating a clock signal according to the triggered signal; and a noise detector coupled with the adjustable Schmitt trigger. The noise detector detects noise components of an input signal and enlarges the hysteresis window of the adjustable Schmitt trigger as the level of detected noise increases.
US08816743B1 Clock structure with calibration circuitry
An integrated circuit includes a clock circuit that may be used to provide clock signals to multiple input-output circuits. The integrated circuit may also include different clock structures. As an example, one of the clock structures may have multiple clock paths of substantially equal lengths while another clock structure may have a fly-by clock path. The multiple clock paths may be used to convey a subset of the clock signals to the input-output circuits. Similarly, the fly-by clock path may be used to transmit a second subset of the clock signals to the input-output circuits.
US08816739B2 Semiconductor device
There is provided a semiconductor device having: a latch circuit (103, 104) having a plurality of data holding nodes; a first capacitance element (C) connected to the first data holding node (A) included in the plurality of data holding nodes; and a first switch element (SW2) provided between the first data holding node (A) and the first capacitance element (C).
US08816738B2 Controlling slew rate performance across different output driver impedances
Embodiments are provided including one directed to an output driver system, having an adjustable pre-driver configured to maintain a generally constant slew rate of an output driver across a plurality of output driver impedances. Other embodiments provide a method of operating a memory device, including determining an output driver strength of an output driver and configuring the pre-driver based on the determined output driver strength.
US08816735B1 Phase-locked loop circuit
A phase-locked loop circuit, a phase converter module thereof and a phase-locked controlling method are disclosed herein. The phase converter module is suitable for a phase-locked loop circuit including a digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO) for generating an oscillator output signal and a divider for converting the oscillator output signal into N-phased oscillator output signals. The phase converter module includes a phase finder and a time-to-digital converter. The phase finder is configured for sampling the oscillator output signal with the N-phased oscillator output signals to calculate an estimated value of a fractional phase part. One oscillation period of the digitally-controlled oscillator is divided into N sub-periods. The time-to-digital converter is configured for sampling one of the N-phased oscillator output signals with a reference-frequency signal to calculate a precise value of the fractional phase part within one sub-period.
US08816734B2 Clock generation circuit and semiconductor apparatus including the same
A clock generation circuit includes a delay line, a delay modeling block, a phase detection block, a multi-update signal generation block, and a delay line. The delay line delays an input clock and generates a delayed clock. The delay modeling block delays the delayed clock by a modeled delay value and generates a feedback clock. The phase detection block compares phases of the input clock and the feedback clock and generates phase information, and quantizes a phase difference between the input clock and the feedback clock and generates phase codes. The multi-update signal generation block generates a multi-update signal in response to the phase codes. The delay line control block changes a delay amount of the delay line in response to the multi-update signal and the phase information.
US08816731B2 Phase-locked loops that share a loop filter
An integrated circuit includes a first die and a second die. The first die comprising a first phase-locked loop (PLL) and the second die comprising a second PLL. The integrated circuit includes a shared loop filter, wherein the first PLL in the first die is combined with the shared loop filter to form a first PLL feedback loop, the second PLL in the second die is combined with the shared loop filter to form a second PLL feedback loop and the shared loop filter is configured to provide configurable bandwidths to each of the first PLL feedback loop and the second PLL feedback loop.
US08816727B2 Driver circuit
A line driver circuit for a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) transmitter is disclosed. The line driver circuit includes a pre-driver circuit having a pair of pre-driver differential inputs and a pair of pre-driver differential outputs. A driver circuit having a pair of driver differential inputs and a pair of driver differential outputs is also included. Each of the pair of pre-driver differential outputs is coupled to a respective one of the pair of driver differential inputs. Each of the pair of driver differential outputs is coupled to a respective one of a pair of output terminals. The pre-driver further includes a pair of pre-driver cascode transistors. Each of the pre-driver cascode transistors is arranged between one of the pre-driver differential outputs and a respective one of the output terminals and wherein the driver circuit and the pre-driver circuit are operable to receive a current supplied by a HDMI receiver coupled to the pair of output terminals.
US08816723B1 Buffer circuit
A buffer circuit includes a first current mirror circuit, a second current mirror circuit, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first current mirror circuit passes a first mirror current through a second node, corresponding to a first current passed through a first node, and is activated based on a first activating signal. The second current mirror circuit is connected to the first node and the second node, passes a second mirror current through the second node, corresponding to a second current passed through the first node, and is activated based on a second activating signal. The first transistor has a gate to which a reference voltage is applied and has a drain connected to the first node. The second transistor has a gate to which an input voltage is applied and has a drain connected to the second node.
US08816721B2 Systems and methods for output control
The present disclosure provides an output control circuit including a signal feedback circuit and an enable control circuit, wherein the signal feedback circuit is configured to compare an output voltage with a set output voltage threshold and to output a disable signal to an enable control circuit when the output voltage arrives at the set output voltage threshold, and wherein the enable control circuit is configured to stop an operation of a translation circuit, upon reception of the disable signal from the signal feedback circuit.
US08816715B2 MOS test structure, method for forming MOS test structure and method for performing wafer acceptance test
A MOS test structure is disclosed. A scribe line region is disposed on a substrate which has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. An epitaxial layer is disposed on the first side, the doping well is disposed on the epitaxial layer and the doping region is disposed on the doping well. A trench gate of a first depth is disposed in the doping region, in the doping well and in the scribe line region. A conductive material fills the test via which has a second depth and an isolation covering the inner wall of the test via and is disposed in the doping region, in the doping well, in the epitaxial layer and in the scribe line region, to electrically connect to the epitaxial layer so that the test via is capable of testing the epitaxial layer and the substrate together.
US08816712B2 Inspection device
An object of the invention is to provide an inspection device which has a function of preventing electric discharge so that an absorbed current is detected more efficiently.In the invention, absorbed current detectors are mounted in a vacuum specimen chamber and capacitance of a signal wire from each probe to corresponding one of the absorbed current detectors is reduced to the order of pF so that even an absorbed current signal with a high frequency of tens of kHz or higher can be detected. Moreover, signal selectors are operated by a signal selection controller so that signal lines of a semiconductor parameters analyzer are electrically connected to the probes brought into contact with a sample. Accordingly, electrical characteristics of the sample can be measured without limitation of signal paths connected to the probes to transmission of an absorbed current. In addition, a resistance for slow leakage of electric charge is provided in each probe stage or a sample stage.
US08816711B2 Electrical probe assembly
An electrical probe assembly includes a flexible circuit. A plurality of electrically conductive regions is on a first side of the flexible circuit. The flexible circuit is arranged about an axis formed by rolling the flexible circuit such that the electrically conductive regions form a plurality of isolated electrically conductive bands.
US08816705B2 Method and device for monitoring a zone of metal
Method and device for monitoring a zone of a metal structure in terms of its electrical resistance in order to detect possible defects in the structure, by periodically passing current through the zone in different directions while measuring and recording voltage drops in a number of selected unit areas (aij) within the zone, and by combining, for each unit area (aij), at least two measured values recorded during at least two measurements made with current passing in different directions, and by comparing values obtained by at least one similarly obtained value made earlier.
US08816704B1 Automatically balanced sensing device and method for multiple capacitive sensors
A method includes generating a correction value for a capacitive sensor based on a difference between a capacitance of the capacitive sensor and a capacitance of at least one other capacitive sensor when an input to the capacitive sensor and the at least one other capacitive sensor is absent. The method further includes generating a compensated capacitance value for the capacitive sensor based on applying the correction value to a difference between the capacitance of the capacitive sensor when the input is absent and another capacitance of the capacitive sensor.
US08816703B2 Linear capacitance-to-voltage converter using a single amplifier for accelerometer front ends with cancellation of spurious forces contributed by sensor circuitry
Capacitive transducer systems are disclosed that reduce nonlinearities due to feedthrough capacitances or residual electrostatic forces. The systems can include a core with a first input coupled to a first variable capacitor, a second input coupled to a second variable capacitor, and a core output coupled to a common node; an amplifier with input switchably coupled to common node and an output; a feedback path switchably coupling amplifier output to common node; and a main clock with first and second phases, that controls switches coupling system components. When clock is in first phase, first core input is coupled to reference voltage, second core input is coupled to negative reference voltage, and common node is coupled to amplifier output. When clock is in second phase, core inputs are grounded, and common node is coupled to amplifier input. The system can have single amplifier. Neutralization capacitor can cancel feedthrough and parasitic capacitances.
US08816693B2 Electrostatic discharge test method and test system
An ESD test method for testing an object is disclosed. The object is activated and controlled to separate from a horizontal plane by a pre-determined distance. A first discharge voltage is provided to an external metal portion of the object. A first error is determined to have or have not occurred during the operation of the object each time after the first discharge voltage is provided to the external metal portion. The object is processed to eliminate the first error and then the first discharge voltage is provided to the external metal portion when the first error occurs during the operation of the object. The first error is induced by a hardware structure of the object. The object is moved to contact with the horizontal plane and a specific action is executed when the first error has not occurred during the operation of the object.
US08816691B2 Trailer connection checking device and method
Disclosed herein is a trailer light checking system for a vehicle for checking an electrical connection between the vehicle and a trailer comprising a plurality of exterior vehicle lights, the exterior vehicle lights including a left turn indicator light, a right turn indicator light and a brake indicator light, and further comprises a terminal connection configured to electrically connect each of the plurality of exterior vehicle lights to a respective trailer light. The trailer light checking system also comprises a vehicle controller having a trailer connection checking mode configured to check the terminal connection by simulating manual operation of each of the plurality of exterior vehicle lights according to a timed sequence, such that a respective trailer light will actuate in combination with the simulated manual operation of each of the plurality of exterior vehicle lights if the terminal connection and the respective trailer light are functioning correctly.
US08816688B2 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging condition acquisition unit and an imaging unit. The imaging condition acquisition unit acquires at least one of optimum amplitude and optimum phase of a radio frequency transmission signal so as to reduce a deviation of data in at least one region of interest set in an object. The imaging unit acquires image data by imaging according to an imaging condition including at least one of optimum amplitude and optimum phase.
US08816687B2 Top plate for magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, frame for top plate set of magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus
According to one embodiment, a top plate for a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a placing plate and a supporting part. The placing plate is configured to place an object. The supporting part is provided to the placing plate at a position higher than a position of the placing plate. Further, a frame for a top plate set of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first supporting part and a second supporting part. The first supporting part is configured to support a top plate at a first supporting position. The second supporting part is configured to support the top plate at a second supporting position higher than the first supporting position. Further, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes the top plate, a bed and an imaging unit.
US08816686B2 PET-MRI convergence system
A positron emission tomography (PET)-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) convergence system. In one aspect, the invention may be a PET-MRI convergence system including: a cylindrical magnet bore which includes an outer wall and an inner wall; a gradient magnet which is disposed adjacent to the inner wall of the magnet bore; a MRI RF coil which is disposed adjacent to the inner wall of the gradient magnet, emits an RF pulse signal and detects MRI data corresponding to the RF pulse signal; and a PET detector which is spaced apart from the MRI RF coil and is disposed adjacent to the inner wall of the gradient magnet, and detects PET data.
US08816684B2 Noise canceling in-situ NMR detection
Technologies applicable to noise canceling in-situ NMR detection and imaging are disclosed. An example noise canceling in-situ NMR detection apparatus may comprise one or more of a static magnetic field generator, an alternating magnetic field generator, an in-situ NMR detection device, an auxiliary noise detection device, and a computer.
US08816678B2 Rotation sensor
A magnetism detection elements are arranged in an arrangement direction substantially perpendicular to a tooth trace of a gear when viewed from a magnetism generation unit and send a signal according to a magnetic flux flowing between the gear and the magnetism generation unit. A detection unit detects rotation of the gear according to the signal. A case accommodates the magnetism detection elements. A movement restriction unit is equipped to the case and located on the side of the gear at a place between the magnetism detection elements to restrict a magnetic foreign matter, which adheres to the case, from moving in the arrangement direction of the magnetism detection elements.
US08816675B2 Variable reluctance resolver having correlation between a limited number of stator slots and a number of rotor convex positions
A VR resolver comprises a resolver stator and a resolver rotor. Teeth whose number is equal to the product of an integer P of 2 or more and 4 are arranged in an annular shape from the inner circumferential side to the inner side in the diameter direction of the resolver stator. In the resolver rotor, convex portions whose number is equal to the product of an odd number m of 3 or more and the integer P are radially projected. All the stator slots are provided with excitation coils which generate a magnetic field by the application of a voltage. Moreover, all the stator slots are provided with either a first coil or a second coil which outputs electric signals of different waveforms based on the magnetic field.
US08816673B1 Frequency extension module for microwave and millimeter wave spectrum analyzers
In accordance with an embodiment, an apparatus for analyzing signals comprises a spectrum analyzer and a frequency extension module. The spectrum analyzer includes an IF switch which switches between an internal IF signal and an external IF signal, and a LO coupler which is configured to output a portion of one or more LO signals. The frequency extension module is configured to receive the one or more LO signals from the spectrum analyzer and send an IF signal to the spectrum analyzer. A diplexer band switch is used to direct the low band signals to the spectrum analyzer and to direct the high band signals to the frequency extension module where they are downconverted to the external IF which is output to the IF switch.
US08816672B1 Systems and methods for accounting for residual passive intermodulation in passive intermodulation measuring instruments
A system for measuring passive intermodulation (PIM) comprises a port connectable with a load and a PIM source, a test signal source providing a test signal having components of two or more frequencies, and a receiver including a phase-coherent detector to receive a reflected signal obtained at the port in response to the provided test signal. The phase-coherent detector has an output that provides a signal indicative of PIM. A reference signal source connected with the phase-coherent detector provides a reference signal derived from the test signal. A signal combiner having a first input connected with the output of the phase-coherent detector, a second input connectable with storing a measurement of residual PIM generated by the apparatus, and removes the residual PIM from the signal indicative of PIM and provides measured PIM of the PIM source at the output.
US08816670B2 Electronic circuit having band-gap reference circuit and start-up circuit, and method of starting-up band-gap reference circuit
An electronic circuit includes a band-gap reference circuit and a start-up circuit. The band-gap reference circuit includes an operational amplifier which has an output and first and second inputs. The band-gap reference circuit is configured to generate a predetermined reference voltage at the output of the operational amplifier after a start-up phase of the band-gap reference circuit. The start-up circuit includes at least one switch arranged to connect at least one current source to at least one of the inputs of the operational amplifier during the start-up phase, and to disconnect the at least one current source from the at least one of the inputs of the operational amplifier after the start-up phase.
US08816669B2 Short circuit monitor for current set resistor
Various apparatuses and methods for supplying an electrical current are disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments provide an apparatus including a current regulation switch connected in a current path between a power input and a current output. A current regulator is connected to the current regulation switch. The current regulator includes a current set terminal, and the current through the current regulation switch is proportional to the current through current set terminal. An impedance monitor is connected to the current set terminal.
US08816668B2 Semiconductor circuit for outputting reference voltages
A semiconductor circuit includes a control signal generation circuit configured to generate control signals in response to a voltage characteristic determination signal and a reference voltage generation circuit configured to output a main reference voltage, having one of a first characteristic of being proportional to temperature, a second characteristic of being constant irrespective of temperature, and a third characteristic of being inversely proportional to temperature, in response to the control signals.
US08816667B2 Maximum power point tracking method
A maximum power point tracking method is provided. The method includes temporarily determining a next voltage command using voltage and power measured at current and previous time points. When an increase or decrease in voltage command is continued predetermined times or more, it is decided that the next voltage command temporarily determined to be increased is decreased or that the next voltage command temporarily determined to be decreased is increased. The output voltage of a solar cell is regulated based on the decided next voltage command.
US08816666B2 Semiconductor switching device drive circuit using a limited drive voltage
One of first and second switching devices turns on to flow a current along a current path between a potential reference output terminal of a drive-target switching device and a control terminal of the drive-target switching device to turn on the drive-target switching device. Thereby, a voltage changes between the control terminal of the drive-target switching device and the potential reference output terminal of the drive-target switching device to turn off the one of the first and second switching devices being turned on. Thereby, a potential of the control terminal of the drive-target switching device is clamped.
US08816665B2 Reference voltage stabilization apparatus and method
A reference voltage stabilization apparatus is disclosed, having an input node for receiving a reference voltage, an output node for coupling with a load, a voltage buffer coupled between the input node and the output node, a charge storage device coupled with the output node, and a charging/discharging circuit coupled with the charge storage device for charging or discharging the charge storage device. The voltage buffer and the charged/discharged charge storage device are coupled with the load so that the voltage at the load equals the reference voltage after a period of time.
US08816662B2 DC-DC converter, semiconductor device and display device
An object is to reduce power consumption of a semiconductor device including a DC-DC converter circuit. The semiconductor device includes a DC-DC converter circuit and a microprocessor. The DC-DC converter circuit includes a conversion circuit including an inductor and a transistor, and a control circuit including a comparison circuit and a logic circuit. A hysteresis comparator is used as the comparison circuit. In the control circuit, the comparison circuit compares an output signal of the conversion circuit with a first reference potential or a second reference potential, and the logic circuit performs arithmetic operation between an output signal of the comparison circuit and a clock signal of the microprocessor. In the conversion circuit, the transistor controls current flowing through the inductor in accordance with an output signal of the logic circuit, and the output signal of the conversion circuit is generated in accordance with the current flowing through the inductor.
US08816661B2 Hybrid analog/digital power supply circuit including analog summer circuit to produce an error voltage
According to example configurations as described herein, a power supply system includes a unique circuit including an analog summer circuit, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital controller. An output voltage feedback control loop of the power supply system feeds back the output voltage to the analog summer circuit. The analog summer circuit generates an analog error voltage signal based on: i) the output voltage received from the output voltage feedback loop, ii) an analog reference voltage signal, and iii) an analog reference voltage adjustment signal. The analog reference voltage adjustment signal varies depending on a magnitude of current provided by the output voltage to the dynamic load. Accordingly, the analog summer circuit can be configured to support adaptive voltage positioning. The analog-to-digital converter converts the analog error voltage signal into a digital error voltage signal. A controller generates output voltage control signal(s) based on the digital error voltage signal.
US08816655B2 Voltage regulator having soft starting function and method of controlling the same
A voltage regulator apparatus includes a first power transistor and a second power transistor connected in parallel to each other between a first power source and a second power source, and a control unit for turning on the first power transistor and the second power transistor. An aspect ratio of the first power transistor is smaller than an aspect ratio of the second power transistor. The control unit turns on the second power transistor in a predetermined period of time after the first power transistor is turned on.
US08816651B1 Engine-generator with load bank and control system
A load bank comprises one or more load resistors connected to an engine-generator and a control system for maintaining a minimum generator load when necessary for optimal operation. The control system operates the load bank to mitigate harmful effects of generator neglect and maintains loading for efficient DPF regeneration while allowing the generator to quickly dump the load bank when real load increases.
US08816649B2 Systems and methods for charging using a permitted charging current
Included herein is a DC power plant, a DC power system, a method charging a remote battery system and a battery charging controller. In one embodiment, the DC power plant includes: (1) a rectifier system including an AC power input and a DC power output, the rectifier system configured to receive an AC input voltage at the AC power input and produce a DC output voltage at the DC power output and (2) a controller configured to determine a permitted charging current for a remote battery system coupled to the rectifier system and dynamically adjust the DC output voltage to provide the permitted charging current for the remote battery system.
US08816647B2 Battery heating circuits and methods using resonance components in series based on current limiting and voltage inversion with bi-directionality
According to some embodiments of the present invention, a battery heating circuit includes a switch unit, a switching control module, a damping component, an energy storage circuit, and an energy superposition unit, wherein: the energy storage circuit is connected with the battery and includes a current storage component and a charge storage component; the damping component, the switch unit, the current storage component, and the charge storage component are connected in series; the switching control module is connected with the switch unit, and configured to control ON/OFF of the switch unit, so as to control the energy flowing between the battery and the energy storage circuit.
US08816646B2 Secondary battery controller and method for controlling secondary battery, and electronic apparatus
A secondary battery controller and a method for controlling a secondary battery that can increase the continuous operating time of an apparatus. The secondary battery controller includes a plurality of temperature detectors that detect temperatures of a plurality of secondary batteries; a switching device that connects an output of any one of the plurality of secondary batteries to a load; and a control portion that selects which secondary battery to use from the plurality of secondary batteries and controls the switching device to switch between the secondary batteries based on temperature information of each of the plurality of secondary batteries.
US08816645B2 Integrated battery unit with cooling and protection expedients for electric vehicles
Methods of and apparatus for removing heat generated by cells of a battery pack. The method and apparatus may employ one or more fan modules disposed between or next to cells of the battery pack, or one or more fans directly mounted to the battery pack or battery pack case housing the cells. Further, a motor controller isolation system operates to electricity isolate the motor controller of the electric vehicle when the battery pack is being charged. The motor controller isolation system may be integrated with the integrated battery pack and thermal and ventilation system. The integrated system, or “integrated battery unit (IBU),” is preferably manufactured in a manner that requires no, modifications to the electric vehicle in which the IBU is installed.
US08816639B2 Charge balancing topology
A rechargeable battery assembly provides load balancing for individual battery cells making up a battery assembly. The battery assembly includes a plurality of series-connected battery cell assemblies. Each battery cell assembly includes a battery cell and a charge bypass load connected in parallel with the battery cell. A cell supervisory circuits (CSCs) and battery interface unit (BUI) interface between the battery cell assembly and a battery charge/discharge circuit to provide load balancing by comparing the voltages monitored with respect to each battery cell assembly to an end of charge voltage (EOCV) threshold and in response to the monitored voltage equaling the EOCV threshold issues a charge bypass command to the CSC to activate the charge bypass load.
US08816635B2 Charging system using sodium level control in individual sealed anode tubes
An electrochemical cell includes an anode connectable to a current tap and a charging medium in electrical contact with the anode. A switching device is configured to stop a charging operation of the electrochemical cell upon activation by the charging medium.
US08816634B2 Battery heating circuits and methods using resonance components in series
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a battery heating circuit, comprising a switch unit 1, a switching control module 100, a damping component R1, and an energy storage circuit, wherein: the energy storage circuit is connected with the battery and comprises a current storage component L1 and a charge storage component C1; the damping component R1, the switch unit 1, the current storage component L1 and the charge storage component C1 are connected in series; the switching control module 100 is connected with the switch unit 1 and is configured to control ON/OFF of the switch unit 1, so as to control the energy flowing between the battery and the energy storage circuit. For example, the heating circuit can improve the charge/discharge performance of the battery, improve safety when the battery is heated, and effectively protect the battery.
US08816633B1 Energy harvesting circuit
The advantageous embodiments comprise an apparatus to manage a current. An alternating current is received from an energy harvesting device configured to generate the alternating current. The alternating current received from the energy harvesting device is converted to a direct current. A voltage of the alternating current is increased. The direct current is adjusted to a desired current.
US08816630B2 Electric power steering system
An electric power steering system calculates a motor resistance Rm using a resistance map, and calculates an estimated inducted voltage based on a motor current and a motor voltage. If the estimated induced voltage is determined as being equal to or smaller than a determination value that is set in accordance with the current level, the electric power steering system calculates a motor resistance (estimated motor resistance Rma) and updates the resistance map based on the estimated motor resistance Rma.
US08816626B2 Motor drive control device and operating method thereof
Motor Drive Control Device configured to properly start up various types of motors under operating conditions where motor operations are performed in a wide range of temperature and power supply voltage, includes output drive controllers that supply PWM drive output signals to an output pre-driver in such a manner as to minimize the error between a current instruction signal and a current detection digital signal. In response to a detected induced voltage generated from a voltage detector upon startup of a motor, an initial acceleration controller supplies initial acceleration output signals specifying a conducting phase for initial acceleration of the motor to the output drive controllers. The initial acceleration controller, the output drive controllers, and an output driver make a conducting phase change and perform a PWM drive to provide the initial acceleration of the motor.
US08816623B2 Motor controlling apparatus and method of the same
Disclosed herein is a motor control apparatus and a method thereof. The operation efficiency of a compressor may be maintained by using a sensorless algorithm, sampling a current applied to a motor more than twice within a period of the triangular carrier wave for performing pulse width modulation to calculate a reference voltage, driving the motor according to the calculated reference voltage to improve control resolution, and performing a high-speed operation while reducing a volume of the compressor, without adding a separate hardware when controlling the operation of the motor provided in the compressor at a high speed.
US08816621B2 PWM output apparatus and motor driving apparatus
A PWM output apparatus includes a calculating circuit configured to calculate an output width of a PWM output signal of a first signal and a second signal, which have phases different from each other, based on a command value of a PWM output. A comparing circuit compares the output width and a reference period which is set longer than a predetermined dead time period. A PWM output signal generating circuit outputs the PWM output signal to a dead time inserting block as a corrected PWM output signal, when a set/clear signal generating circuit outputs the set signal, and carries out a correction of setting the first signal of the PWM output signal to be inactive to output to the dead time inserting block as the corrected PWM output signal, when the set/clear circuit outputs the clear signal. The dead time inserting block corrects the corrected PWM output signal.
US08816620B2 Matrix integrated sequential magnetic attraction electric machine
The invention discloses a reciprocal radial field electric machine based on the soft magnetic attraction principle, characterized by a plurality of active elements organized as a bi-dimensional cylindrical machine matrix and fed sequentially by an external power converter in order to derive a motoring or generation effect. The machine is comprised of a fixed stator matrix featuring salient poles and electrical coils, and a mobile rotor matrix featuring salient poles. The machine works on the principle of time integration of the discrete actions performed by its active elements. The bi-dimensional matrix organization of the active elements and the algorithms of their activation in both motoring and generation modes are key features for the functional cohesion of the machine. The design of this machine is based on a unique digital modeling method developed by the inventors, using exclusively the matrix calculus adapted to cylindrical matrices.
US08816618B2 Rotary machine control apparatus
A current sensor detects a bus current flowing to an inverter. An estimation section uses actual currents id and id outputted from a d-q conversion section as initial values, estimates currents flowing in a motor/generator and calculates estimated currents ide and iqe. A UVW conversion section converts the estimated current ide and iqe to three phase currents. A selection section inputs, as currents flowing in each phase of the motor/generator, three out of outputs of the UVW conversion section and the bus current. The bus current is used as the current of one phase, if a voltage vector representing an operation state of the inverter is an effective voltage vector.
US08816616B2 Method of controlling a three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor for reducing acoustic noise
A method of controlling a synchronous motor that may include windings and a power driving stage coupled to the windings, may include using a feedback loop including using a feedback circuit coupled to the windings to generate current feedback components, using current controllers for generating respective voltage signals, and using an anti-transform circuit for generating control signals for the power driving stage. Using the feedback loop may include generating additional compensation signals for compensating the control signals, and adding the additional compensation signals from the current controllers by one of generating the additional compensation signals as quadrature and direct voltage compensation signals and adding them to the voltage signals to generate compensated quadrature and direct signals, and supplying the compensated quadrature and direct signals to the power driving stage by providing the compensated quadrature and direct signals to the anti-transform circuit.
US08816614B2 Diagnosis of over-current conditions in bipolar motor controllers
A circuit for controlling a load current through a coil is connected to an output port of a transistor H-bridge that includes two low side transistors and two high side transistors. A current sense circuit is coupled to the H-bridge and configured to provide a representation of the load current provided by the output port. A current regulator is configured to generate a modulated signal dependent on the representation of the load current and a current set-point. The modulated signal has a duty-cycle. A gate control logic drives the individual transistors of the H-bridge on and off in accordance with the modulated signal. A direction signal provides the load current to the coil. The direction signal determines the direction of the load current. An over current detection circuit is coupled to each individual transistor and is configured to signal an over-current by providing an active over-current failure signal when a transistor current through the respective transistor exceeds a respective maximum value.
US08816613B2 Reconfigurable battery
A reconfigurable battery has at least one bank of statically joined series connected battery cells, each cell including a positive and a negative pole. The poles connect through switches to respective output connections. Activating a set of processor controlled switches reconfigures at least some of the battery cells into a configuration to provide a voltage across the output connections. The output battery voltage may vary intermediately between zero volts and the maximum voltage produced by the series connected battery cells.An alternative configuration of switches divides groups of series connected battery cells into separate battery banks that permit other battery cell configurations. Duty cycle modulation of the switches allows intermediate control of output voltage with reduced switching transients. Reconfigurable battery cells used in combination with an electric motor permit selectable speed control and battery regeneration schemes matched to motor output.
US08816610B2 Configurable light timer and a method of implementing a configurable light timer
A user interface of a configurable light timer is described. The user interface comprises an input portion for receiving timing characterization data, the input portion adapted to receive a portable memory device storing the timing characterization data; a control circuit coupled to detect the portable memory device inserted into the configurable light timer; and an internal memory; wherein the timing characterization data is automatically downloaded to the internal memory after the portable memory device is detected in the configurable light timer. A method of implementing a configurable light timer is also disclosed.
US08816606B2 Lips backlight control architecture with low cost dead time transfer
A driving circuitry arranged to pass a dead time over an isolation transformer, the driving circuitry constituted of: a three-state driver arranged to output a first signal, the first signal selectively at one of two complementary voltage levels and a high impedance state; a first capacitor, a first end of the first capacitor coupled to receive the first signal; and a first isolation transformer, a first end of a first winding of the first isolation transformer coupled to a second end of the first capacitor.
US08816604B2 Dimming control method and apparatus for LED light source
A light emitting diode (LED) light source, LED driver circuitry and methods for controlling the brightness of an LED light source are presented. In some embodiments, an LED driver control circuit receives a dimming command signal to dim the LED light source, modulates a continuous direct current (DC) level to dim the LED light source, and determines that a predetermined threshold level has been reached. At this time, the process includes initiating a fixed pulse width generator (PWG) control signal having a fixed duty cycle, automatically adjusting the LED current amplitude to its nominal current level, and decreasing the current amplitude while the fixed PWG control signal is active to achieve commanded lower dimming of the LED light source.
US08816600B2 Method of power and temperature control for high brightness light emitting diodes
Various embodiments relate to a method for driving a light emitting diode (LED) flash including: measuring a junction temperature of the LED by applying a test current to the LED and measuring the LED forward voltage; determining the drive current based upon the measured junction temperature and measured data characteristics of the LED; and applying the drive current to the LED for a specified length of time.
US08816599B2 Examination light apparatus with touch-less control
An examination light apparatus including a touch-less control component that enables a user to control the apparatus without requiring physical contact between the user and the apparatus. The apparatus employs an LED control component that is configured to adapt its electrical interface to a variable quantity of light emitting diodes in order to interface with each of a plurality of lamp heads that each can include a unique arrangement and quantity of light emitting diodes. The light emitting diodes (LEDs) provide a high level of light quality, quantity and intensity (luminosity) while requiring low power consumption and low space and weight requirements and are employed without requiring a cooling fan. Uniform mechanical and electrical interfaces between the control component and other portions of the examination lamp provide for efficient and simple manufacturing of various examination light configurations.
US08816598B2 Circuit and method for driving a luminous means
A circuit for driving a luminous means is provided. The circuit may include a driver circuit having an input and an output, wherein the output of the driver circuit is connected to the luminous means; and a detector circuit, on the basis of which, depending on an input signal of the driver circuit, a capacitor can be connected to the output of the driver circuit or to the input of the driver circuit.
US08816597B2 LED driving circuit
An LED driving circuit includes a dimming circuit that controls a conducting angle of an alternating current supplied from a power supply to phase-control a current to be supplied to an LED, a rectifier circuit that rectifies an alternating-current voltage output from the dimming circuit, a smoothing circuit that smoothes a direct current voltage output from the rectifier circuit, a switching device that is connected with the LED in series; a constant current control circuit that outputs a high frequency pulse signal to the switching device to control the switching device, and a bleeder circuit that is provided between an output terminal of the rectifier circuit and a ground and that has a bleeder resistance and a bleeder switch connected in series. The high frequency pulse signal is input to the bleeder switch so that a bleeder current having a high frequency pulse form flows in the bleeder resistance.
US08816593B2 Method and apparatus selectively determining universal voltage input for solid state light fixtures
A device for detecting a dimmer phase angle set by operation of a dimmer for a solid state lighting load includes a processor having a digital input, a first diode connected between the digital input and a voltage source and a second diode connected between the digital input and ground. The device further includes a first capacitor connected between the digital input and a detection node, a second capacitor connected between the detection node and ground, and a resistance connected between the detection node and a rectified voltage node, which receives a rectified voltage from the dimmer. The processor is configured to sample digital pulses at the digital input based on the rectified voltage and to identify the dimmer phase angle based on lengths of the sampled digital pulses.
US08816590B2 Lighting device with adjustable color temperature
A lighting device with adjustable color temperature includes a power, a driver, and a plurality of branches. The power is electrically connected to the driver for supplying power to the driver. Each of the branches includes a light source and an adjustor connected in series. The adjustor controls the color temperature of the light source in a corresponding branch by adjusting the voltage through the corresponding branch.
US08816587B2 Illuminant device with enhanced heat dissipation ability
An illuminant device designed to activate a light source selectively in a plurality of lighting modes. The illuminant device includes a plurality of circuit boards having thermal conductivity and a plurality of lighting circuits each of which is operable to activate the light source in a selected one of the lighting modes. The lighting circuits are mounted on the circuit boards so that when the light source is being activated, the circuit boards will be different in temperature thereof from each other due to heat generated in at least one of the lighting circuits which is activating the light source. The illuminant device also includes a connector which couples the lighting boards together to transfer the heat therebetween, thereby enhancing the dissipation of the heat.
US08816570B1 Dual cantilever beam relaxor-based piezoelectric single crystal accelerometer
A dual cantilever beam relaxor-based piezoelectric single crystal accelerometer is provided. A flexural sensing structure is provided that employs at least two piezoelectric cantilever beams having their longitudinal axes disposed in a substantially parallel arrangement with each beam containing at least one relaxor-based single crystal transduction element having its polarization axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the beam. One end is mounted to a rigid base and the other end can be mounted to a seismic proof-mass or can be free, wherein the base is subjected to dynamic excitation from either mechanical or acoustical origin. The flexible sensing structure can optionally be encapsulated in a viscoelastic material having a mechanical compliance and loss that is substantially greater than that of the flexible sensing structure.
US08816567B2 Piezoelectric laterally vibrating resonator structure geometries for spurious frequency suppression
This disclosure provides implementations of electromechanical systems resonator structures, devices, apparatus, systems, and related processes. In one aspect, a resonator structure includes a first conductive layer of electrodes and a second conductive layer of electrodes. A piezoelectric layer including a piezoelectric material is disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. One or more trenches can be formed in the piezoelectric layer on one or both sides in space regions between the electrodes. In some implementations, a process for forming the resonator structure includes removing an exposed portion of the piezoelectric layer to define a trench, for instance, by partial etching or performing an isotropic release etch using a XeF2 gas or SF6 plasma. In some other implementations, a portion of a sacrificial layer is removed to define a trench in the piezoelectric layer.
US08816565B2 Two-dimensional comb-drive actuator and manufacturing method thereof
A two-dimensional comb-drive actuator and manufacturing method thereof are described. The two-dimensional comb-drive actuator includes a supporting base, a frame and a movable body. The supporting base has first comb electrodes and the frame has internal comb electrodes and external comb electrodes. The external comb electrodes of the frame are interdigitated to the first comb electrodes of the supporting base. The movable body has second comb electrodes which are interdigitated to the internal comb electrodes of the frame. The thicknesses of the second comb electrodes of the movable body are unequal to the internal comb electrodes of the frame and the external comb electrodes of the frame are unequal to the first comb electrodes of the supporting base. The two-dimensional comb-drive actuator utilizes a conducting layer for the above-mentioned comb electrodes in order to increase the rotation angle and operation frequency thereof.
US08816562B2 Stator for electric rotating machine and method for manufacturing the same
A stator for an electric rotating machine includes a stator core that has slots, a stator coil, and an impregnant applied to the inner surface of the stator core. The stator core has a plurality of teeth that divide the slots. Teeth having chamfered surfaces between a projected tip surface and each side surface of the teeth and teeth without chamfered surfaces are intermingled. At least one bent corner part formed at an end of the projected tip surface of the teeth is formed in an arcuate surface. A relationship (R1>R2) is satisfied, where R1 represents a curvature radius of arcuate surfaces formed in the curved corner part where the projected tip surface and the chamfered surface abut and R2 represents a curvature radius of the arcuate surfaces formed in the curved corner part where the projected tip surface and the side surface abut.
US08816557B2 Dynamoelectric device
A device, including a rotor, a stator, a coil wound around the stator, wherein the stator has a coil support structure having at least one side edge arranged along a line which is not parallel to a line extending from an axis of the rotor through a center of the coil.
US08816554B2 Motor
A clutch mechanism moving together with an actuator allows coupling or decoupling an inner rotor to or from a power shaft, thereby controlling a rotation angle. This structure allows a polarity of a magnetic pole of the inner rotor to be the same as that of an opposing magnetic pole of an outer rotor when the motor is driven at a low rpm, so that magnetic fluxes inter-linking with windings can be increased, which results in greater torque. When the motor is driven at a high rpm, the structure allows the polarity of the magnetic pole of the inner rotor to be different from that of the opposing magnetic pole of the outer rotor, so that an amount of leakage flux is increased, and the magnetic fluxes inter-linking with the winding are decreased. As a result, an induction voltage is lowered and a high rpm range is widened.
US08816553B2 Hobby servo blocks for use with hobby servo motors
Hobby servo blocks are provided. In certain circumstances, servo blocks may increase a servo's load-bearing capabilities by helping to isolate the lateral load from the servo spline and case. The extreme versatility of servo blocks allow users to create complex, extremely rigid, structures with ease using standard servos. The robust framework acts as a servo exoskeleton, greatly enhancing the mechanical loads the servo can withstand. Additionally, servo blocks may include a hub pattern that is repeated throughout the framework to allow endless attachment options.
US08816552B2 Electric motor with integrated electrical components in the B flange
The different electrical components and cables arranged in the B flange of an electric motor can be installed only with difficulties and are complicated and time-consuming due to the restricted space conditions in the B flange. In order to improve this, it is proposed to recess the B flange's 3 front side 10 facing away from the electric motor 1 at least in sections with respect to an imaginary surface normal to the longitudinal axis 15 of the electric motor 1 in the direction toward the motor housing 2, and to shape the B flange cover's 9 front face resting against the B flange 3 in a mirror-inverted manner to thereby improve the accessibility to the inside of the B flange 3.
US08816550B2 Bus bar and EPS motor having the same
Disclosed is a bus bar of an EPS motor configured to improve a terminal structure of a bus bar to enable an easy assembly between a stator and the bus bar, whereby assemblage and operational reliability can be enhanced, the bus bar that is connected to a stator coil of the EPS motor, the bus bar including: an insulator made of insulation materials that forms a body of the bus bar; a lower terminal protrusively formed at a lower side of a periphery of the insulator, and connected to the stator coil; and an upper terminal protrusively formed at an upper side of the periphery of the insulator, and connected to the stator coil, whereby the terminals of the bus bar are divided to an upper terminal and a lower terminal to enhance assemblage and operational reliability by further obtaining a broader mutually discrete gap.
US08816548B2 Drive unit with controller case including lever
A drive unit includes a motor disposed in a motor case, a controller, disposed in a controller case, and a lever. The lever includes a supported portion that is fitted on a support of the controller case in a rotatable manner, a first action point at a first distance from the supported portion, and a second action point at a second distance from the supported portion. When the lever rotates from a close state toward an open state according to an application of a first force to the first action point, the second action point abuts on a specific part on the motor case, thereby generating a second force from the second action point to the specific part in a parallel direction of the axis of the motor case, with its reaction force reversely applied from the supported portion to the support as a third force.
US08816547B2 Electric machine with cooling arrangement
An electric machine is provided. The electric machine includes a stator, a rotor and a closed cooling channel through which a gaseous cooling medium circulates. The stator includes a stator lamination at least partially encasing several stator windings. The closed cooling channel is disposed in circumferential direction of the stator lamination. The stator lamination is at least partially formed as fins.
US08816546B2 Electromagnetic rotary machines having modular active-coil portions and modules for such machines
Electromagnetic rotary machines, such as electrical power generators and electric motors, that have one or more active portions modularized into a set of modules. Each of the modules is secured to a support frame via a sliding-interlock system that allows that module to be slidingly engaged with the support frame. In some embodiments, each module can include an integrated coolant conduit that carries a coolant to cool the active portion during operation. The modules can each be self-contained in the respect that essentially all that needs to be done to form the active portion and corresponding portion of the cooling system is to install the modules and make any remaining electrical and coolant conduit connections.
US08816545B2 Electric tools
Embodiments of the present invention may include an electric tool comprising an outer rotor type electric motor as a driving source and a stator supporting member made from metal. The motor preferably includes a stator and a rotator. The stator is preferably supported by the stator supporting member. The rotator is preferably located at an outer periphery of the stator.
US08816543B2 Flexible magnet directional stiffening methods
Magnets and methods of their manufacture are disclosed for use in flywheel assemblies, such that the magnets comprise oriented fibers, such as, for example, axially-oriented fibers in a flexible rotor magnet composition to predictably allow the magnet to expand dimensionally upon rotation only in a predetermined and predictable fashion while maintaining critical contact with a rotor surface.
US08816541B1 Electricity generating apparatus
An electricity generating apparatus utilizing a pendulum held by a support. The pendulum includes a first portion which rotates on the support and a second portion which travels in a arcuate path. The second end portion of the pendulum includes a magnetic which interacts with a switchable coil to urge the pendulum into a swinging motion. At least one coil is mounted adjacent to the pendulum and interacts with a permanent magnet which is fixed to an element which extends from the pendulum arm. The swinging motion forces the permanent magnet through the coil to generate a electrical power.
US08816536B2 Apparatus and method for wirelessly powered dispensing
A system includes a dispenser and a transmitter. The dispenser is configured to support and dispense product. The dispenser includes: a housing; an antenna disposed and configured to receive electromagnetic energy that originates from the transmitter; a power supply disposed within the housing and configured to convert the electromagnetic energy received at the antenna into DC (direct current) power; a dispenser mechanism configured and disposed to dispense the product from the dispenser on command; a controller disposed in operable communication with the power supply and the dispenser mechanism; and, an actuator disposed in operable communication with the controller. Upon actuation of the actuator, and upon presence of the DC power, the controller is responsive to facilitate action by the dispenser mechanism to dispense the product. The transmitter is configured to transmit electromagnetic energy and is disposed in operable communication with the dispenser.
US08816531B2 Systems, methods, and apparatus for integrated volt/VAR control in power distribution networks
Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling voltage and reactive power in a distribution network. One method includes estimating at least one present state associated with a distribution network; allocating one or more load zones in the distribution network; predicting load profiles of each zone for a predetermined time period; determining capacitor bank switching schedules for a predetermined time period based at least in part on the at least one present state and the predicted load profiles; and switching capacitor banks according to the capacitor bank switching schedules.
US08816524B2 Power supply system
This invention relates to a power supply system comprising at least two drive units (3) having two power inputs and at least one power generator (G) providing electric power at a chosen system frequency and voltage. The system comprising a transformer unit (LLC) having a first and a second connection points (1,2), at least one of which being connected to a power generator (G), wherein the two inputs of each drive unit is connected to the first and the second connection point (1,2) of the transformer unit (LLC), and the transformer unit being adapted to provide a chosen phase shift between said inputs at the chosen system frequency and voltage.
US08816521B2 System for stabilizing power output by low-inertia turbine generator
A system includes a gas turbine engine and a flywheel coupled to the gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine includes at least one compressor stage, at least one combustor, and at least one turbine stage. The flywheel is configured to store a rotational energy from the gas turbine engine, and the rotational energy stored by the flywheel is configured to resist changes in a rotational speed.
US08816516B2 Apparatus for generating energy using mechanical energy and gravitational energy
An apparatus for generating energy using mechanical energy and gravitational energy comprises a generator, a plurality of free wheels, a first pulling mechanism, a second pulling mechanism, and a battery. The generator and the plurality of free wheels are connected by a turbine shaft. The first pulling mechanism and the second pulling mechanism are connected to the plurality of free wheels. Each plurality of free wheels comprises a rod which oscillate forward and backward turning the plurality of free wheels. Since the turbine shaft is connected with the plurality of free wheels and the generator, the generator rotates simultaneously with the plurality of free wheels. As a result, the generator produced energy which is converted into electricity.
US08816515B2 Semiconductor module having sliding case and manufacturing method thereof
There is provided a semiconductor module capable of being easily manufactured and a manufacturing method thereof, the semiconductor module including a module substrate on which at least one electronic element is mounted, at least one external connection terminal fastened to the module substrate, and a case formed by coupling a first case and a second case, wherein the first case and the second case accommodate the module substrate at both ends of the module substrate and are coupled to each other.
US08816512B2 Light emitting device module
Disclosed is a light emitting device module including a package body, a first lead frame and a second lead frame provided on the package body, a light emitting device electrically connected to the first lead frame and the second lead frame, a first pad and a second pad respectively formed on the lower surfaces of the first lead frame and the second lead frame, and a third pad formed on the lower surface of the package body, wherein at least one of the first pad, the second pad and the third pad includes a plurality of sub-pads.
US08816509B2 Semiconductor package including underfill layers
A semiconductor package includes first and second semiconductor elements electrically interconnected by a connection structure. The first and second semiconductor elements are joined by a protection structure that includes an adhesive layer surrounded by a retention layer.
US08816506B2 Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
In a semiconductor device in which a plurality of semiconductor chips are stacked, performance is enhanced without deteriorating productivity. The semiconductor device has a plurality of elements, an interlayer insulating film, a pad, and a bump electrode electrically connected with the pad sequentially formed on a main surface of a silicon substrate and has a back-surface electrode formed on a back surface of the silicon substrate and electrically connected with the bump electrode. The bump electrode has a protruding portion penetrating through the pad and protruding toward the silicon substrate side. The back-surface electrode is formed so as to reach the protruding portion of the bump electrode from the back surface side of the silicon substrate toward the main surface side and to cover the inside of a back-surface electrode hole portion which does not reach the pad, so that the back-surface electrode is electrically connected with the bump electrode.
US08816503B2 Semiconductor device with buried electrode
A semiconductor device with a buried electrode is manufactured by forming a cavity within a semiconductor substrate, forming an active device region in an epitaxial layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate and forming the buried electrode below the active device region in the cavity. The buried electrode is formed from an electrically conductive material different than the material of the semiconductor substrate.
US08816491B2 Stacked integrated chips and methods of fabrication thereof
Structure and methods of forming stacked semiconductor chips are described. In one embodiment, a method of forming a semiconductor chip includes forming an opening for a through substrate via from a top surface of a first substrate. The sidewalls of the opening are lined with an insulating liner and the opened filled with a conductive fill material. The first substrate is etched from an opposite bottom surface to form a protrusion, the protrusion being covered with the insulating liner. A resist layer is deposited around the protrusion to expose a portion of the insulating liner. The exposed insulating liner is etched to form a sidewall spacer along the protrusion.
US08816489B2 Integrated circuit structures, semiconductor structures, and semiconductor die
Methods for fabricating integrated circuit devices on an acceptor substrate devoid of circuitry are disclosed. Integrated circuit devices are formed by sequentially disposing one or more levels of semiconductor material on an acceptor substrate, and fabricating circuitry on each level of semiconductor material before disposition of a next-higher level. After encapsulation of the circuitry, the acceptor substrate is removed and semiconductor dice are singulated. Integrated circuit devices formed by the methods are also disclosed.
US08816485B2 Methods and materials useful for chip stacking, chip and wafer bonding
Materials, and methods that use such materials, that are useful for forming chip stacks, chip and wafer bonding and wafer thinning are disclosed. Such methods and materials provide strong bonds while also being readily removed with little or no residues.
US08816482B2 Flip-chip leadframe semiconductor package
A flip-chip leadframe semiconductor package designed to improve mold flow around the leadframe and semiconductor die. An embodiment of the semiconductor package includes a leadframe, a semiconductor die attached to the leadframe, and an encapsulant covering the leadframe and semiconductor die, wherein a portion of the leadframe that is attached to the semiconductor die is below a portion of the leadframe that enters the encapsulant.
US08816476B2 Through silicon via processing techniques for lateral double-diffused MOSFETS
The present invention features a field effect transistor forming on a semiconductor substrate having formed thereon gate, source and drain regions, with said gate region having a lateral gate channel. A plurality of spaced-apart trenches each having an electrically conductive plug formed therein in electrical communication with said gate, source and drain regions, with said trenches extend from a back surface of said semiconductor substrate to a controlled depth. A trench contact shorts the source region and a body region. A source contact is in electrical communication with said source region and a drain contact in electrical communication with said drain region, with said source and drain contacts being disposed on opposite sides of said gate channel.
US08816475B2 Semiconductor devices including capacitors and methods of manufacturing the same
Semiconductor devices having capacitors are provided. The semiconductor device includes spiral storage nodes disposed on a semiconductor substrate to vertically extend along spiral lines, a dielectric layer on the spiral storage nodes, and a plate node formed on the dielectric layer of the spiral storage nodes.
US08816473B2 Planar polysilicon regions for precision resistors and electrical fuses and method of fabrication
A semiconductor structure providing a precision resistive element and method of fabrication is disclosed. Polysilicon is embedded in a silicon substrate. The polysilicon may be doped to control the resistance. Embodiments may include resistors, eFuses, and silicon-on-insulator structures. Some embodiments may include non-rectangular cross sections.
US08816471B2 Electrical signal isolation and linearity in SOI structures
Disclosed are a structure for electrical signal isolation between adjacent devices situated in a top semiconductor layer of the structure and an associated method for the structure's fabrication. The structure includes a trench extending through the top semiconductor layer and into a base oxide layer below the top semiconductor layer. A handle wafer is situated below the base oxide layer and a void is disposed in the handle wafer below the trench. A bottom opening of the trench connects the main body of the trench with the void forming a continuous cavity including the main body, the bottom opening of the trench, and the void such that the void improves electrical signal isolation between the adjacent devices situated in the top semiconductor layer. Unetched portions of the handle wafer are then available to provide mechanical support to the top semiconductor layer.
US08816466B2 Protective element for electronic circuits
A protective element for electronics has at least one Schottky diode and at least one Zener diode which are located between a power supply and the electronics, the anode of the Schottky diode being connected to the power supply and the cathode of the Schottky diode being connected to the electronics, and the cathode and the anode of the Zener diode are connected to ground. The Schottky diode is a trench MOS barrier junction diode or trench MOS barrier Schottky (TMBS) diode or a trench junction barrier Schottky (TJBS) diode and includes an integrated semiconductor arrangement, which has at least one trench MOS barrier Schottky diode and a p-doped substrate, which is used as the anode of the Zener diode.
US08816465B1 Energy conversion and storage device and mobile electronic device containing same
An energy conversion and storage device includes an energy storage component (530, 601) including a first electrode (611) having a first plurality of channels (612) formed in a first region (615) of a first material (617), a second electrode (621) adjacent to but electrically isolated from the first electrode and having a second plurality of channels (622) formed in a first region (625) of a second material (627), and an electrolyte (650) within the first and second pluralities of channels. The first electrode forms a first interface (619) with the electrolyte and the second electrode forms a second interface (629) with the electrolyte. The energy conversion and storage device further includes a photovoltaic component (520, 602) formed in a second region of the first material.
US08816460B2 Image sensor
An apparatus includes a three dimensional array of light receptors disposed within a substrate having a light receiving surface, where light receptors disposed closer to the light receiving surface are responsive to light having shorter wavelengths than light receptors disposed further from the light receiving surface, and where each light receptor is configured to output a binary value and to change state between an off-state and an on-state by the absorption of at least one photon.
US08816459B2 Image sensor having wave guide and method for manufacturing the same
An image sensor having a wave guide includes a semiconductor substrate formed with a photodiode and a peripheral circuit region; an anti-reflective layer formed on the semiconductor substrate; an insulation layer formed on the anti-reflective layer; a wiring layer formed on the insulation layer and connected to the semiconductor substrate; at least one interlayer dielectric stacked on the wiring layer; and a wave guide connected to the insulation layer by passing through the interlayer dielectric and the wiring layer which are formed over the photodiode.
US08816458B2 Photoelectric conversion device
A photoelectric conversion device comprises a photoelectric conversion layer; a plurality of structures made of a dielectric substance; and a medium layer for transmitting light interposed between the photoelectric conversion layer and the structures or between the structures, or both, wherein the plurality of structures and the medium layer satisfy ndie>nmed and Dave×nmed/λmax<0.3, wherein λmax is a maximal sensitivity wavelength at which the sensitivity of the photoelectric conversion layer to light energy is maximal, nmed is a refractive index of the medium layer at the wavelength λmax, ndie is a refractive index of the structures at the wavelength λmax, and Dave is an average of shortest distances between an light exposure surface of the photoelectric conversion layer and the structures.
US08816453B2 MEMS component and a semiconductor component in a common housing having at least one access opening
A component includes at least one MEMS component and at least one additional semiconductor component in a common housing having at least one access opening. On the front side of the MEMS component, at least one diaphragm structure is provided, which spans a cavity on the backside of the MEMS component. The housing includes a carrier, on which the MEMS component is mounted. The MEMS component is mounted, using its front side, on the carrier, so that there is a standoff between the diaphragm structure and the carrier surface. The at least one additional semiconductor component is connected to the backside of the MEMS component, so that the MEMS component and the semiconductor component form a chip stack.
US08816451B2 MEMS structure and manufacturing method thereof
In a MEMS structure, a first trench which penetrates the first layer, the second layer and the third layer is formed, and a second trench which penetrates the fifth layer, the forth layer and the third layer is formed. The first trench forms a first part of an outline of the movable portion in a view along the stacked direction. The second trench forms a second part of the outline of the movable portion in the view along the stacked direction. At least a part of the first trench overlaps with the first extending portion in the view along the stacked direction.
US08816448B2 Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, an interface layer formed on the semiconductor substrate including at least 1×1020 atoms/cm3 of S (Sulfur), a metal-semiconductor compound layer formed on the interface layer, the metal-semiconductor compound layer including at least 1×1020 atoms/cm3 of S in the its whole depth, and a metal electrode formed on the metal-semiconductor compound layer.
US08816446B2 Formation of metal gate electrode using rare earth alloy incorporated into mid gap metal
Semiconductor devices and fabrication methods are provided, in which metal transistor gates are provided for MOS transistors. A rare earth-rare earth alloy incorporated metal nitride layer is formed above a gate dielectric. This process provides adjustment of the gate electrode work function, thereby tuning the threshold voltage of the resulting NMOS transistors.
US08816434B2 Laterally double diffused metal oxide semiconductor transistors having a reduced surface field structures
An LDMOS transistor includes a substrate of semiconductor material, an insulator layer overlying the substrate, a semiconductor layer overlying the insulator layer, a RESURF region, and a gate. The semiconductor layer includes a first conductivity type well region, a second conductivity type source region in contact with the first conductivity type well region, a second conductivity type drain region. The RESURF region includes at least one first conductivity type material portion, and at least one portion of the at least one first conductivity type material portion electrically coupled to the first conductivity type well region. A semiconductor material having a second conductivity type is located below the RESURF region. The second conductivity type semiconductor material is also located over a part of the RESURF region. The gate is located over the first conductivity type well region and over the RESURF region.
US08816431B2 Shielded gate MOSFET device with a funnel-shaped trench
A MOSFET device has a funnel-shaped trench etched in a semiconductor substrate. The funnel-shaped trench has flared rim extending from a wider cross section trench mouth at the surface of the semiconductor substrate to a narrower cross section trench body portion which terminates in an epilayer portion of the semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode is disposed in the trench on the flared rim. Source and gate regions of the device abut upper and lower portions of the flared rim, respectively. A drain region of the device, which abuts the narrower cross section trench body portion, is self-aligned with a lower edge of a gate electrode.
US08816429B2 Charge balance semiconductor devices with increased mobility structures
Charge balanced semiconductor devices with increased mobility structures and methods for making and using such devices are described. The semiconductor devices contain a substrate heavily doped with a dopant of a first conductivity type, a strained region containing a strain dopant in an upper portion of the substrate, an epitaxial layer being lightly doped with a dopant of a first or second conductivity type on the strained region, a trench formed in the epitaxial layer with the trench containing a MOSFET structure having a drift region overlapping the strained region, a source layer contacting an upper surface of the epitaxial layer and an upper surface of the MOSFET structure, and a drain contacting a bottom portion of the substrate. Since the drift region of the MOSFET structure is formed from the strained region in the substrate, the mobility of the drift region is improved and allows higher current capacity for the trench MOSFET devices. Other embodiments are described.
US08816426B2 Semiconductor storage device and manufacturing method thereof
In a non-volatile memory, writing/erasing is performed by changing a total charge amount by injecting electrons and holes into a silicon nitride film, which serves as a charge accumulation layer. The gate electrode of a memory cell has a laminated structure made of a plurality of polysilicon films with different impurity concentrations. In a two-layered structure the gate electrode has a p-type polysilicon film with a low impurity concentration and a p+-type polysilicon film with a high impurity concentration deposited thereon. Holes are injected into the charge accumulation layer from the gate electrode.
US08816425B2 Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A transistor in which the state of an interface between an oxide semiconductor layer and an insulating film in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer is favorable and a method for manufacturing the transistor are provided. Nitrogen is added to the vicinity of the interface between the oxide semiconductor layer and the insulating film (gate insulating layer) in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer so that the state of the interface of the oxide semiconductor layer becomes favorable. Specifically, the oxide semiconductor layer has a concentration gradient of nitrogen, and a region containing much nitrogen is provided at the interface with the gate insulating layer. A region having high crystallinity can be formed in the vicinity of the interface with the oxide semiconductor layer by addition of nitrogen, whereby the interface state can be stable.
US08816424B2 Nonvolatile memory device
A non-volatile memory includes a channel layer to extend from a substrate in a vertical direction; a plurality of interlayer dielectric layers and a plurality of gate electrodes to be alternately stacked along the channel layer; and a memory layer to be interposed between the channel layer and each of the gate electrodes, wherein the memory layer comprises a tunnel dielectric layer to contact the channel layer, a first charge trap layer to contact the tunnel dielectric layer and formed of an insulating material, a charge storage layer to contact the first charge trap layer and formed of a semiconducting material or a conductive material, a second charge trap layer to contact the charge storage layer and formed of an insulating material, and a charge blocking layer to contact the second charge trap layer.
US08816423B2 Semiconducting multi-layer structure and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconducting multi-layer structure comprising a plurality of first conductive layers, a plurality of first insulating layers and a second conductive layer is disclosed. The first conductive layers are separately disposed. Each of the first conductive layers has an upper surface, a bottom surface opposite to the upper surface and a lateral surface. The first insulating layers surround the peripherals of the first conductive layers. Each of the first insulating layers covers at least a part of the upper surface of each of the first conductive layers, at least a part of the bottom surface of each of the first conductive layers and the two lateral surface of each of the first conductive layers. The second conductive layer covers the first conductive layers and the first insulating layers.
US08816419B2 Semiconductor device
Provided is a semiconductor device having a high switching speed. A semiconductor device is provided with an n-type epitaxial layer having a plurality of trenches arranged at prescribed intervals; an embedded electrode formed on an inner surface of the trench through a silicon oxide film to embed each trench; and a metal layer, which is capacitively coupled with the embedded electrode by being arranged above the embedded electrode through a silicon oxide film. In the semiconductor device, a region between the adjacent trenches operates as a channel (current path). A current flowing in the channel is interrupted by covering the region with a depletion layer formed at the periphery of the trenches, and the current is permitted to flow through the channel by eliminating the depletion layer at the periphery of the trenches.
US08816416B2 Solid-state imaging device with channel stop region with multiple impurity regions in depth direction to reduce leakage of electrical charges and method for manufacturing the same
Channel stop sections formed by multiple times of impurity ion implanting processes. Four-layer impurity regions are formed across the depth of a semiconductor substrate (across the depth of the bulk), so that a P-type impurity region is formed deep in the semiconductor substrate; thus, incorrect movement of electric charges is prevented. Other four-layer impurity regions of another channel stop section are decreased in width step by step across the depth of the substrate, so that the reduction of a charge storage region of a light receiving section due to the dispersion of P-type impurity in the channel stop section is prevented in the depth of the substrate.
US08816414B2 Module structure with partial pierced substrate
The present invention provides a module structure comprising a substrate with a partial pierced region. A main chip has a sensing area. At least one component is included, wherein the main chip, the at least one component and the substrate are located at the same level. A holder is disposed on the substrate. A transparent material is disposed on the holder, substantially aligning to the sensing area. A lens holder is disposed on the holder, and a lens is configured on the lens holder, substantially aligning to the transparent material and the sensing area.
US08816413B2 Semiconductor imaging device with which semiconductor elements of pixel area and other areas has same characteristics
Photoelectric conversion elements are arranged in a pixel area. A circuit area is arranged around the pixel area. An interconnect including copper is arranged in the pixel area and circuit area. A cap layer is arranged on the interconnect. Wherein the cap layer except a part on the interconnect is removed from the pixel area and circuit area.
US08816408B2 Compound semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A compound semiconductor device includes a compound semiconductor laminated structure; a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode formed over the compound semiconductor laminated structure; a first protective film formed over the compound semiconductor laminated structure between the source electrode and the gate electrode and including silicon; and a second protective film formed over the compound semiconductor laminated structure between the drain electrode and the gate electrode and including more silicon than the first protective film.
US08816403B2 Efficient semiconductor device cell layout utilizing underlying local connective features
Provided are semiconductor device cells, methods for forming the semiconductor device cells and a layout style for the semiconductor device cells. The device cells may be repetitive cells used throughout an integrated circuit. The layout style utilizes an area at the polysilicon level that is void of polysilicon and which can accommodate conductive leads therein or thereover. The conductive leads are formed of material typically used for contacts or vias and are disposed beneath the first metal interconnect level which couples device cells to one another. The subjacent local conductive leads may form subjacent signal lines allowing for additional power mesh lines to be included within the limited number of metal tracks that can be accommodated within a device cell and in accordance with metal track design spacing rules.
US08816401B2 Heterojunction bipolar transistor
Structures and methods of making a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) device that include: an n-type collector region disposed within a crystalline silicon layer; a p-type intrinsic base comprising a boron-doped silicon germanium crystal that is disposed on a top surface of an underlying crystalline Si layer, which is bounded by shallow trench isolators (STIs), and that forms angled facets on interfaces of the underlying crystalline Si layer with the shallow trench isolators (STIs); a Ge-rich, crystalline silicon germanium layer that is disposed on the angled facets and not on a top surface of the p-type intrinsic base; and an n-type crystalline emitter disposed on a top surface and not on the angled lateral facets of the p-type intrinsic base.
US08816399B2 Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: an electron transit layer formed on a substrate and of a group III nitride-based compound semiconductor; an electron supply layer formed on the electron transit layer and of a group III nitride-based compound semiconductor having a higher band gap energy than the transit layer; a field plate layer formed on the supply layer, formed of a non-p-type group III nitride-based compound semiconductor, and having a lower band gap energy than the supply layer; a first electrode forming an ohmic contact with a two-dimensional electron gas layer in the transit layer at an interface thereof with the supply layer; and a second electrode forming a Schottky contact with the electron gas layer. The second electrode forms an ohmic contact, at a side wall of the field plate layer, with two-dimensional hole gas in the field plate layer at an interface thereof with the supply layer.
US08816397B2 Ring-shaped transistors providing reduced self-heating
A ring-shaped transistor includes a set of gates. Each gate of the set is disposed between a corresponding source and a corresponding drain. The set of gates are arranged such that all of the set of gates cannot be aligned with fewer than three imaginary straight lines drawn through the gates, with one of the imaginary straight lines passing only once though each of the set of gates.
US08816396B2 E-mode high electron mobility transistor and method of manufacturing the same
According to an example embodiment, a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a substrate, a buffer layer on the substrate, a channel layer on the buffer layer, and a barrier structure on the channel layer. The buffer layer includes a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). A polarization of the barrier structure varies in a region corresponding to a gate electrode. The HEMT further includes and the gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode on the barrier structure.
US08816394B2 Field effect transistor with narrow bandgap source and drain regions and method of fabrication
A transistor having a narrow bandgap semiconductor source/drain region is described. The transistor includes a gate electrode formed on a gate dielectric layer formed on a silicon layer. A pair of source/drain regions are formed on opposite sides of the gate electrode wherein said pair of source/drain regions comprise a narrow bandgap semiconductor film formed in the silicon layer on opposite sides of the gate electrode.
US08816393B2 Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device has a shield plate electrode connected to a source terminal electrode near a drain electrode. The source terminal electrode is arranged between an active region AA and a drain terminal electrode, and a shield plate electrode is connected to the source terminal electrode.
US08816392B2 Semiconductor device having gate structures to reduce the short channel effects
A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate on an insulating layer; and a second gate that is located on the insulating layer and is embedded at least partially in the semiconductor substrate. A method for forming a semiconductor device comprises: forming a semiconductor substrate on an insulating layer; forming a void within the semiconductor substrate, with the insulating layer being exposed by the void; and forming a second gate, with the void being filled with at least one part of the second gate. It facilitates the reduction of the short channel effects, resistances of the source and drain regions, and parasitic capacitances.
US08816387B2 Light emitting diode
A light emitting diode includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second semiconductor layer and a third semiconductor stacked in that order; a first electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer; a second electrode electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer. The light emitting diode further includes a carbon nanotube layer. The carbon nanotube layer is enclosed in the interior of the first semiconductor layer. The carbon nanotube layer includes a number of carbon nanotubes.
US08816374B2 Light emitting diode with graphene layer
A light emitting diode includes a substrate, graphene layer, a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a reflection layer. The first semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the second semiconductor layer are stacked on the substrate in sequence. The first electrode is electrically connected with the second semiconductor layer and the second electrode electrically is connected with the second part of the carbon nanotube layer. The graphene layer is located on at least one of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The reflection layer covers the second semiconductor layer.
US08816371B2 Coated color-converting particles and associated devices, systems, and methods
Coated color-converting particles and associated devices, systems, and methods are disclosed herein. A coating of the coated color-converting particles can include, for example, a parylene, such as a fluorinated parylene. In particular embodiments, the coating can be configured to protect a color-converting material of a particle core of the coated color-converting particles from detrimental reactions. For example, the coating can prevent, slow, or otherwise inhibit detrimental reactions between the color-converting material and a matrix material or between the color-converting material and an environmental constituent that can diffuse through a matrix. In particular embodiments, the coated color-converting particles can be incorporated into a matrix to form a composite. The composite can be used, for example, with a radiation transducer. Methods associated with the coated color-converting particles can include, for example, separating coated color-converting particles having acceptable coatings from coated color-converting particles having unacceptable coatings using relative buoyancy.
US08816369B2 LED packages with mushroom shaped lenses and methods of manufacturing LED light-emitting devices
Methods of fabricating a light-emitting device are provided. A light-emitting device can be formed from bonding a lens including a plug and a cap to an LED package including a socket configured to receive the plug. The lens can be fabricated using an injection mold formed from a well secured to the LED package and injecting a material into the injection mold to cure into a shape of the lens. The lens can also be fabricated using a blank about the shape of the lens and machining the blank to produce the plug and the cap of the lens. The lens can be bonded to the LED package using a convex bead of adhesive deposited on the surface of the LED package and spreading the adhesive between the lens and the LED package.
US08816366B2 Nitride semiconductor device
An object of the present invention is to provide a nitride semiconductor device which shifts a luminescence wavelength toward a longer wavelength side without decreasing luminescence efficiency, and the nitride semiconductor device according to an implementation of the present invention includes: a GaN layer having a (0001) plane and a plane other than the (0001) plane; and an InGaN layer which contacts the GaN layer and includes indium, and the InGaN layer has a higher indium composition ratio in a portion that contacts the plane other than the (0001) plane than in a portion that contacts the (0001) plane.
US08816363B2 Method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting element, organic light-emitting element, display panel, and display device
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting element. A first layer is formed above a substrate, and exhibits hole injection properties. A bank material layer is formed above the first layer using a bank material. Banks are formed by patterning the bank material layer, and forming a resin film on a surface of the first layer by attaching a portion of the bank material layer to the first layer, the banks defining apertures corresponding to light-emitters, the resin material being the same as the bank material. A functional layer is formed by applying ink to the apertures that contacts the resin film. The ink contains an organic material. The functional layer includes an organic light-emitting layer. A second layer is formed above the functional layer and exhibits electron injection properties. The hole injection properties of the first layer are then degraded by applying electrical power to an element structure.
US08816361B1 Structure combining solar cell and light emitting element
Disclosed is a structure combining a solar cell and a light-emitting element. The structure includes a light-emitting device having a substrate and a light-emitting structure disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of cones formed on a second surface opposite to the first surface. The structure also includes a first conductive layer, disposed on the second surface, a power convention layer disposed on the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer disposed on the power conversion layer, and a patterned transparent layer disposed on the second conductive layer. The patterned transparent layer includes a surface consisting of a plurality of cones and disposed on a side opposite to the second conductive layer.
US08816355B2 Semiconductor device
For suggesting a structure capable of achieving both a low start-up voltage and high breakdown voltage, a SiC vertical diode includes a cathode electrode, an n++ cathode layer, an n− drift layer on the n++ cathode layer, a pair of p+ regions, an n+ channel region formed between the n− drift layer and the p+ region and sandwiched between the pair of p+ regions, n++ anode regions and an anode electrode formed on the n++ anode regions and the p+ regions.
US08816353B2 Optoelectronic semiconductor chip and method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip
In at least one embodiment of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip (1), the latter comprises a semiconductor layer sequence (2) comprising at least one active layer (3) designed for generating an electromagnetic radiation. Furthermore, the optoelectronic semiconductor chip (1) has coupling-out structures (4), which are fitted at least indirectly on a radiation passage area (20) of the semiconductor layer sequence (2). In this case, a material of the coupling-out structures (4) is different than a material of the semiconductor layer sequence (2). The refractive indices of the materials of the coupling-out structures (4) and of the semiconductor layer sequence (2) deviate from one another by at most 30%. Furthermore, facets (40) of the coupling-out structures (4) have a total area amounting to at least 30% of an area content of the radiation passage area (20).
US08816350B2 Array substrate, liquid crystal panel, liquid crystal display device, and television receiver
An array substrate disclosed herein includes: scanning signal lines (16i and 16j); data signal lines (15x, 15y, 15X, and 15Y) to each of which a data signal is supplied; a first pixel region column; and a second pixel region column adjacent to the first pixel region column, each of the first and second pixel region columns including pixel regions, wherein: two data signal lines corresponding to the first pixel region column are provided, two data signal lines corresponding to the second pixel region column are provided, a gap between two adjacent data signal lines (15y and 15X) is provided, one of the two adjacent data signal lines being corresponding to the first pixel region column, and the other of the two adjacent data signal lines being corresponding to the second pixel region column; and a gap line 41 is provided within the gap, a Vcom signal being supplied to the gap line 41. This improves display quality of a liquid crystal display device in which each pixel column corresponds to a plurality of data signal lines.
US08816349B2 Semiconductor device comprising oxide semiconductor layer
By using a conductive layer including Cu as a long lead wiring, increase in wiring resistance is suppressed. Further, the conductive layer including Cu is provided in such a manner that it does not overlap with the oxide semiconductor layer in which a channel region of a TFT is formed, and is surrounded by insulating layers including silicon nitride, whereby diffusion of Cu can be prevented; thus, a highly reliable semiconductor device can be manufactured. Specifically, a display device which is one embodiment of a semiconductor device can have high display quality and operate stably even when the size or definition thereof is increased.
US08816348B2 Shielded gate MOSFET-Schottky rectifier-diode integrated circuits with trenched contact structures
A trench shielded gate MOSFET device with embedded Schottky rectifier, Gate-Drain and Gate-Source clamp diodes on single chip is formed to achieve device shrinkage, lower cost and improved performance. The present semiconductor device achieve low Vf and reverse leakage current for embedded Schottky rectifier, having over-voltage protection and avalanche protection between gate and source and between gate and drain.
US08816346B2 TFT array substrate and manufacturing method thereof
A TFT array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, where the TFT array substrate includes a substrate; a gate line and a gate electrode integrated therewith, which are covered by a gate insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, and a ohmic contact layer sequentially. An insulating layer is formed on the resulting substrate and on both sides of the gate line and the gate electrode, the gate insulating layer, the semiconductor layer, and the ohmic contact layer. A trench is then formed in the ohmic contact layer to divide the ohmic contact layer over the semiconductor layer. A data line and first and second source/drain electrodes are then formed on the insulating layer and the ohmic contact layer.
US08816342B2 Semiconductor device
A device comprises a semiconductor chip including an edge elongated in a first direction. A plurality of first pads is formed on the semiconductor chip. The first pads are substantially equal in length in the first direction to each other. A second pad is formed on the semiconductor chip. The second pad is greater in length in the first direction than the first pads. The first pads and the second pad are arranged in a line elongated in the second direction, that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction, without an intervention of any one of the first pads between the second pad and the edge.
US08816339B2 Organic EL display panel, and method for producing same
An organic EL display panel includes a substrate; an interlayer insulating layer on the substrate; first electrodes on the interlayer insulating layer to correspond to element formation regions in rows and columns; banks extending in columns to partition the regions in rows; organic light-emitting layers above the first electrodes, and each containing organic light-emitting material having light-emitting color differing between each two adjacent regions in rows; and second electrodes above the light-emitting layers, and being opposite in polarity to the first electrodes, wherein the interlayer insulating layer has first opening corresponding to interval between each two adjacent first electrodes in rows, the banks each have integrally formed buried part and main part, the buried part fills the interval and the first opening, and the main part is protrusion of the buried part and has recess on top thereof along with shapes of the interval and the first opening.
US08816337B2 Display apparatus and image pickup apparatus
A first light-emitting layer of a first organic electroluminescent element is disposed in common to a second organic electroluminescent element, a second light-emitting layer of the second organic electroluminescent element is disposed in contact with the first light-emitting layer and in the cathode side, and the first light-emitting layer contains a host material and an assist dopant material to transport holes to the second light-emitting layer.
US08816328B2 Patterning contacts in carbon nanotube devices
A method to fabricate a carbon nanotube (CNT)-based transistor includes providing a substrate having a CNT disposed over a surface; forming a protective electrically insulating layer over the CNT and forming a first multi-layer resist stack (MLRS) over the protective electrically insulating layer. The first MLRS includes a bottom layer, an intermediate layer and a top layer of resist. The method further includes patterning and selectively removing a portion of the first MLRS to define an opening for a gate stack while leaving the bottom layer; selectively removing a portion of the protective electrically insulating layer within the opening to expose a first portion of the CNT; forming the gate stack within the opening and upon the exposed first portion of the carbon nanotube, followed by formation of source and drain contacts also in accordance with the inventive method so as to expose second and third portions of the CNT.
US08816319B1 Method of strain engineering and related optical device using a gallium and nitrogen containing active region
An optical device has a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate including a surface region and a strain control region, the strain control region being configured to maintain a quantum well region within a predetermined strain state. The device also has a plurality of quantum well regions overlying the strain control region.
US08816317B2 Non-volatile resistive switching memories formed using anodization
Non-volatile resistive-switching memories formed using anodization are described. A method for forming a resistive-switching memory element using anodization includes forming a metal containing layer, anodizing the metal containing layer at least partially to form a resistive switching metal oxide, and forming a first electrode over the resistive switching metal oxide. In some examples, an unanodized portion of the metal containing layer may be a second electrode of the memory element.
US08816311B2 Fine particle measuring apparatus
A fine particle measuring apparatus is provided. The fine particle measuring apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect light emitted from a fine particle and a processing unit having a memory device storing instructions which when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to calculate a corrected intensity value of the detected light and generate spectrum data based on the corrected intensity value.
US08816308B2 RI manufacturing apparatus
An RI manufacturing apparatus includes: an accelerator which accelerates charged particles; a target which is irradiated with the charged particle accelerated by the accelerator, thereby manufacturing a radioactive isotope; a built-in shield that may be a wall body which surrounds the accelerator and the target to shield radiation; and a target shield that may be a wall body which is disposed between the built-in shield and the accelerator and surrounds the target to shield the radiation.
US08816301B2 Lamp and reflector arrangements for apparatuses with multiple germicidal lamps
Germicidal lamp apparatuses are provided with lamps disposed between upper and lower bases of a support structure. In some embodiments, a longitudinal axis of a lamp is at an acute angle greater than 0° relative to a region of the lower base between the lamp and another lamp. In addition, the longitudinal axis of the other lamp is at either a right angle or an obtuse angle relative to said region. Other embodiments of apparatuses include a reflector system disposed between the upper and lower bases which is common to the lamps and which includes a reflector with slanted peripheral edge. Other germicidal lamp apparatuses are provided which include a reflector with multiple sections each contoured to manipulate directionality of light emitted from a subset of lamps. In such cases, the apparatuses are configured to move the reflector and/or collectively move the lamps during illumination of the lamps.
US08816299B1 Workpiece support structure with four degree of freedom air bearing for high vacuum systems
A workpiece adjustment assembly is disclosed. The assembly can include a shaft, a spherical bearing, and a wafer support. A spherical housing receives the spherical bearing and allows the bearing to rotate therein. The housing and bearing may form an air bearing. A seal may be formed in the housing to prevent gas from the air bearing and the ambient atmosphere from migrating to a process chamber side of the housing. A set of spherical air pads may be positioned on an ambient side of the bearing to press the bearing against the housing when the process chamber is not under vacuum conditions. The seal can include a set of differentially pumped grooves. The spherical bearing enables the wafer manipulation end, and a wafer attached thereto, to be moved with four degrees of freedom. The arrangement facilitates isocentric scanning of a workpiece. Methods for using the assembly are also disclosed.
US08816297B2 Microfabricated high-bandpass foucault aperture for electron microscopy
A variant of the Foucault (knife-edge) aperture is disclosed that is designed to provide single-sideband (SSB) contrast at low spatial frequencies but retain conventional double-sideband (DSB) contrast at high spatial frequencies in transmission electron microscopy. The aperture includes a plate with an inner open area, a support extending from the plate at an edge of the open area, a half-circle feature mounted on the support and located at the center of the aperture open area. The radius of the half-circle portion of reciprocal space that is blocked by the aperture can be varied to suit the needs of electron microscopy investigation. The aperture is fabricated from conductive material which is preferably non-oxidizing, such as gold, for example.
US08816296B2 Noble-gas-excimer detectors of slow neutrons
The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for use in highly sensitive and efficient neutron detection, that includes using trigger reactions to initiate far-ultraviolet (FUV) optical emissions. In some embodiments of the present invention, a method for the detection of slow neutrons includes absorption of a slow neutron with a high neutron capture-cross-section nucleus, decay of the compound nucleus into energetic particles, creation of excimers from the energetic particles reacting with a background gas to form excimers, radiative decay of excimers resulting in emission of FUV radiation, and detection of the FUV radiation using an optical detector.
US08816295B2 Adhesive detection system for mailpiece creation system
A system and method for detecting adhesive used to produce an envelope in a mailpiece creation system. The system includes a source of ElectroMagnetic (EM) energy in at least the short UV range to illuminate a surface of the substrate material anticipated to have an adhesive deposited thereon in select regions, an EM energy detection device operative to detect energy reflected from the surface of the substrate material in the visible light range and produce a response indicative of the optical absorbance of EM energy in the short UV range; and a processor operative to analyze the response of the EM energy detection device to determine whether light energy in the visible range is below a threshold level to indicate the presence of adhesive deposited on the substrate material.
US08816294B2 Photo diode for detecting X-ray and manufacturing method thereof
An x-ray detection photo diode is disclosed. The disclosed x-ray detection photo diode includes: a substrate; a first electrode formed on the substrate; a photoconductor layer formed on the first electrode in a narrower area than that of the first electrode; and a second electrode formed on the photoconductor layer. In this manner, the x-ray detection photo diode enables the electrode structure to be changed. As such, a leakage current generated in edges of the x-ray detection photo diode can be minimized.
US08816293B2 Curved scintillation crystal array
Partially and completely curved and spherical scintillation arrays are described. These arrays can provide improved imaging of a variety of subjects and objects.
US08816288B2 Radiation detector
In the radiation detector, a capacitor is connected between a connecting wire which is connected with a preamplifier (amplifier) and another connecting wire. Specifically, the capacitor is connected between the connecting wire and another connecting wire which has the lowest electric resistance with respect to a signal wire among connecting wires connected with a radiation detecting element. This prevents electric current produced by static electricity from flowing to the signal wire and prevents the signal wire or the preamplifier from being damaged by static electricity. A circuit element for a countermeasure against static electricity is not provided at the signal wire, and therefore input capacitance of the preamplifier is kept low. Accordingly, the radiation detector is improved by a sufficient countermeasure against static electricity while input capacitance of the preamplifier is kept low.
US08816283B2 Device for detecting an electromagnetic radiation
The electromagnetic radiation detection device includes, on a same substrate: at least one active detector of the electromagnetic radiation provided with a first element sensitive to said radiation, at least one reference detector including a second element sensitive to said electromagnetic radiation, and a lid provided with first reflective means reflecting the incident electromagnetic radiation, said lid covering without contact the second sensitive element and defining with the substrate a cavity having the reference detector housed therein. The lid is designed to improve the sensitivity of the detection device.
US08816281B2 Ion energy analyzer and methods of manufacturing the same
A process by which an ion energy analyzer is manufactured includes processing a first substrate to form an entrance grid having a first channel and a first plurality of openings extending therethrough. A second substrate is processed to form a selection grid having a second channel therein and a second plurality of openings extending therethrough. A third substrate is processed to form an ion collector having a third channel therein. The entrance grid is operably coupled to, and electrically isolated from, the selection grid, which is, in turn, operably coupled to, and electrically isolated from, the ion collector.
US08816276B2 Electron beam writing apparatus and electron beam writing method
An electron beam writing apparatus comprising a XY stage that a sample is placed on, an electron optical column, an electron gun emitting an electron beam disposed in the optical column, an electrostatic lens provided with electrodes aligned in an axial direction of the electron beam disposed in the optical column, wherein a shield plate is disposed between the XY stage and the electron optical column to block reflected electrons or secondary electrons generated by irradiation to the sample with the electron beam. The electrostatic lens is disposed immediately above the shield plate to change a focal position of the electron beam. A voltage supply device applies a negative voltage constantly to the electrostatic lens.
US08816272B1 High pressure mass spectrometry systems and methods
Mass spectrometers and methods for measuring information about samples using mass spectrometry are disclosed.
US08816260B2 Flight-control system for canard-controlled flight vehicles and methods for adaptively limiting acceleration
Embodiments of a flight-control system and methods of reducing the probability of a roll-control reversal in a canard-controlled flight vehicle are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the flight-control system may monitor angular velocities of the flight vehicle to detect the onset of instability and adaptively control an acceleration limit of the flight vehicle based on the detected instability to reduce the probability of a roll-control reversal. The onset of instability may be detected by persistently high angular velocities. The acceleration limit may be further adaptively controlled based on an approach of a vehicle trim limit.
US08816258B2 Segmented susceptor for temperature uniformity correction and optimization in an inductive heating system
An inductively coupled heating system having a segmented susceptor is disclosed. The segmented susceptor includes two or more segments, each segment having a side edge that is mateable with a side edge of another segment. The two mated side edges form an interface, increasing eddy currents near the interface. An inductively coupled heating system having a susceptor with multiple doped regions is also disclosed.
US08816252B2 Methods and apparatus for localized heating and deformation of glass sheets
Methods and apparatus provide for: an electrically conductive heating element having a length extending in a lateral direction between first and second ends, and one or more output surfaces operating to direct heat therefrom in a direction transverse to the lateral direction; and a carrying structure operable to support a glass sheet such that a major surface of the glass sheet is oriented towards the heat emanating from the one or more output surfaces of the heating element, where the electrically conductive heating element includes at least one heat flux variation feature operating to produce differing magnitudes of heat to emanate from at least two of the output surfaces of the heating element.
US08816250B2 Pulsed arc welding method
A pulsed arc welding method using carbon dioxide gas alone or a mixed gas made mainly of carbon dioxide gas as a shield gas, provides a pulse current of alternately repeating first and second pulses as a weld current. The first pulse and the second pulse have a pulse waveform of a different pulse peak current level and a different pulse width, respectively, and the following conditions are satisfied: peak current of the first pulse (Ip1)=300 to 700 A; peak period (Tp1)=0.3 to 5.0 ms; base current Ib1=30 to 200 A, base period (Tb1)=0.3 to 10 ms; peak current of the second pulse (Ip2)=200 to 600 A; peak period (Tp2)=1.0 to 15 ms; base current (Ib2)=30 to 200 A; and base period (Tb2)=3.0 to 20 ms.
US08816249B2 Apparatuses for fabricating patterns using laser diode
An apparatus for fabricating patterns using a laser diode is presented. The apparatus includes at least one laser diode, at least one lens and a mask having at least one pin hole, wherein light emitted from the laser diode is emitted through the lens and the pin hole to be focused on a first material layer.
US08816246B2 Method and apparatus for drilling using a series of laser pulses
A series of laser pulses, each pulse characterized by one or more predetermined pulse characteristics including wavelength, pulse energy, inter-pulse time interval, pulse width or pulse shape, is provided to drill a hole in a material. Drilling the hole in the material is achieved by placing the series of laser pulse spots at the location wherein the hole is to be drilled. One or more characteristics of one or more laser pulses in the series is changed in order to optimize the drilling process for the hole. The ability to change the characteristics of one or more laser pulses in the series of pulses to optimize the drilling process results in holes with desired attributes and a high drilling rate.
US08816244B2 Inverted stent cutting process
A stent manufacturing device and methods for making intravascular stents and other medical devices. The stent manufacturing device may include a base, a laser or other cutting device coupled to the base, a horizontal motor coupled to the base, and a rotary motor coupled to the horizontal motor. A workpiece can be attached to the cutting device, for example adjacent the rotary motor, and the workpiece can be cut with the cutting device.
US08816237B2 Interrupting chamber for high-voltage circuit breaker with improved arc blow-out
The invention relates to an interrupting chamber for a high-voltage circuit breaker of preferably greater than at least 52 kV adapted to break all currents of value less than or equal to the short-circuit interrupting capacity of the circuit breaker, including asymmetric currents comprising an arc contact, an insulating arc blow-out nozzle having a through hole adapted to be blanked off by a valve, an insulating component which forms two channels, one of which is located between the insulating component and the arc contact, and wherein the hole is in communication with the channel.
US08816223B2 Fry station with integral portion weight sensing system and method
A food portion preparation station has an integral portion weight sensing system configured for portion control. A fry ribbon with integral portion weight sensing includes a weight sensor and software to weigh individual orders of comestibles such as french fries in selected portion sizes and as the operator is adding comestibles to the container, an instant indication is provided on a display showing the operator that a full order or portion is delivered while avoiding unnecessary loss in excessive portions, thereby preserving the restaurant owner's profit margin. Comestibles are taken from a holding area and placed into a container having a selected portion size corresponding to an assigned weight. The fry ribbon structure incorporates the weight sensor and each weighed portion is moved laterally along the queue defined by ribbon area for retrieval and service to a customer.
US08816220B2 Enclosure cooling apparatus
An enclosure that includes a box structure that includes a plurality of sides defining a sealed chamber for containing a heat producing component. At least one of the sides of the box structure includes a panel. The panel includes two outer sheets and an inner layer of material sandwiched between the two outer sheets. The two outer sheets and the inner layer of material collectively define a plurality of fluid flow channels extending from a first end of the two outer sheets to a second end of the two outer sheets. Heat generated by the heat producing component is transferred to at least one of the outer sheets which transfers the heat to fluid flowing through the fluid flow channels. The panel can be the main load bearing path of the box structure.
US08816219B2 Metal strip assembly for EMI shield case, EMI shield case including the same, and fabrication method of the case
Provided is a metal strip for an electromagnetic interference shield case. The metal strip is uniform in width and thickness. A metal clip that is integrated with at least one pair of face-to-face elastic parts and is appropriate for soldering is fitted on an end of the metal strip along a width direction of the metal strip. The metal strip is bent and cut so as to have a shape corresponding to a ground pattern disposed on a printed circuit board, and then, a bottom surface of the metal clip is soldered to the ground pattern or a solder member disposed on the ground pattern.
US08816218B2 Multilayer electronic structures with vias having different dimensions
A multilayer composite electronic structure comprising at least two feature layers extending in an X-Y plane and separated by a via layer comprising a dielectric material that is sandwiched between two adjacent feature layers, the via layer comprising via posts that couple adjacent feature layers in a Z direction perpendicular to the X-Y plane, wherein a first via has different dimensions in the X-Y plane from a second via in the via layer.
US08816214B2 Disk with an electrical connection element
A pane with an electrical connection element is described, including a substrate made of glass with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, an electrically conductive structure with a layer thickness of 5 μm to 40 μm on a region of the substrate, a connection element with a second coefficient of thermal expansion, and a layer of a solder material that connects the connection element electrically to subregions of the electrically conductive structure.
US08816209B2 Submersible motor electric wire
A submersible motor electric wire includes a conductor including a copper wire and an enamel coating formed on the periphery of the copper wire, and an insulating sheath layer formed outside the conductor. The insulating sheath layer includes a silane graft polymer as a main constituent. The silane graft polymer is formed by a graft-polymerization that an unsaturated silane compound and an organic peroxide are added to polyethylene, and is cross-linked contacting with water in the presence of a siloxane condensation catalyst. Alternatively, the insulating sheath layer includes a composition including polyethylene as a main constituent, and the composition is cross-linked by being irradiated with an ionizing radiation.
US08816206B2 Electric power cable, an off-shore installation provided therewith, and use thereof
An electric power cable including at least one electric conductor. An electric insulation surround the conductor and includes a polymer. A tubular protective sheath surrounds the electric insulation and acts as a water barrier that prevents water intrusion into the electric insulation. The protective sheath includes a metal as a main constituent. The cable includes at least one density-raising element of a material of higher density than the material of the protective sheath, in order to increase the density of the cable such that too large motions thereof are prevented when the latter is installed in open sea.
US08816205B2 Conductive elastomer and method of applying a conductive coating to a cable
A cable is provided, the cable includes: a conductor configured to propagate a signal; an elastomeric layer surrounding the center conductor; and a conductive topcoat layer surrounding and bonded to the elastomeric layer. The conductive topcoat layer includes a suspension of conductive particles. The conductive topcoat layer is formed by curing a topcoat and conductive paste mixture applied to the elastomeric layer.
US08816202B2 Shape-holding electrical cord
A shape-holding electrical cord including a bendable, pliable, nonconductive, insulating sheath surrounding at least one shape-holding wire, said shape-holding wire disposed between a first end and a second end, and a conducting wire disposed therebetween, the conducting wire insulated from each shape-holding wire, wherein the first end is connected to a male plug and the second end is connected to a power strip and alternately a female plug, whereby the shape-holding electrical cord is bendable to conform to a desired placement path between an extant power outlet and an extant electronic appliance having a plug to which the shape-holding electrical cord is interconnectable.
US08816201B1 Apparatus and method for collapsible and expandable electrical device cover
An electrical device cover includes a base with a wall structure having at least two pairs of opposing walls located perpendicular to each other and an opening in a back side large enough to receive an electrical device. An exterior surface of at least a first wall has at least one rail running perpendicular to a plane in which the back side of the base resides and the base of a detachable hinge component is slidably coupled to the at least one rail. The detachable hinge component has at least one hinge member that is parallel to the base of the hinge component and a lid with at least one hinge tab in which the at least one hinge member seats such that the lid is pivotally coupled to the hinge component.
US08816200B1 Provisions to close the sixth side of an electrical box
A base for an electrical outlet having a front surface and a back surface, at least one opening extending there through, the at least one opening having a size large enough to receive a socket face, at least one mounting screw aperture opening extending through the base, the mounting screw aperture having a first portion sized large enough to receive a mounting screw head, and at least a second portion extending into the first portion and through the base, the second portion sized large enough to allow a mounting screw shaft to extend through the base but small enough to disallow the mounting screw head from passing through the base, at least one keyhole cover removably secured within the first portion, and wherein the base is configured with the second portion of the mounting screw aperture accessible after the base is installed on the electrical outlet.
US08816189B2 Integrated solar module
Integrated solar modules are provided. In one example, a corner cap for coupling to a solar module is described. The solar module has a solar panel and a frame circumscribing the solar panel. The corner cap includes a first wall and a second wall. The first wall and the second wall define a corner angle substantially the same as an angle defined by a corner of the solar module. The corner cap includes a flange extending from the corner cap. The flange is configured for coupling the corner cap to a solar module.
US08816178B2 System of removing overtones and rings in a drum set
A system of removing undesirable overtones and rings in an acoustic drum includes a drum, a tuning port, and an attachment mechanism. The tuning port is attached to the drum by the attachment mechanism, and three different attachment mechanisms are used within the system to attach the tuning port. A plurality of dimples is positioned on the inner surface of the tuning port, and the tuning port includes a first, second, and third alternative embodiments. The first alternative embodiment, which has a flared end and a cylindrical end, can be attached with a drum shell of the drum by the first and second attachment mechanisms. The second alternative embodiment, which has two flared ends, can be attached with the drum shell by the first and second attachment mechanisms. The third alternative embodiment, which has two flared ends, can be attached with the drum shell by the third attachment mechanism.
US08816173B1 Maize inbred PH1DBM
A novel maize variety designated PH1DBM and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1DBM with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1DBM 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 PH1DBM or a locus conversion of PH1DBM with another maize variety.
US08816172B1 Maize inbred PH1KGT
A novel maize variety designated PH1KGT and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1KGT with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1KGT 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 PH1KGT or a locus conversion of PH1KGT with another maize variety.
US08816170B2 Pepper hybrid E 490264
A pepper hybrid designated E 490264 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of pepper hybrid E 490264, to the plants of pepper hybrid E 490264, and to methods for producing a hybrid plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the pepper hybrid E 490264 with itself or another pepper plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a pepper plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other pepper lines, cultivars or hybrids derived from the pepper hybrid E 490264.
US08816169B1 Soybean cultivar S120106
A soybean cultivar designated S120106 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S120106, to the plants of soybean cultivar S120106, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S120106, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S120106. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S120106. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S120106, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S120106 with another soybean cultivar.
US08816168B1 Soybean cultivar S120108
A soybean cultivar designated S120108 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S120108, to the plants of soybean cultivar S120108, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S120108, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S120108. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S120108. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S120108, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S120108 with another soybean cultivar.
US08816167B1 Soybean variety XB73B13
A novel soybean variety, designated XB73B13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB73B13, cells from soybean variety XB73B13, plants of soybean XB73B13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB73B13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB73B13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB73B13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB73B13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB73B13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB73B13 are further provided.
US08816165B2 Soybean variety A1026866
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1026866. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1026866. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1026866 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1026866 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08816156B2 Transgenic Brassica event MON 88302 and methods of use thereof
The invention provides plants comprising transgenic event MON 88302 that exhibit tolerance to glyphosate herbicide. The invention also provides seeds, plant parts, cells, commodity products, and methods related to the event. The invention also provides DNA molecules that are unique to the event and were created by the insertion of transgenic DNA into the genome of a Brassica napus plant.
US08816155B2 Onions of variety i37853B, i37554A, i37554B, and progeny thereof with high storage ability, high soluble solids content and/or low pungency
Long-day onion plants of variety I37853B, I37554A, or I37554B variety capable of producing onion bulbs comprising ‘high soluble solids’ combined with a ‘sweet taste’ as a result of low pungency, are provided. Such onions can be stored for long periods without a loss in quality and without an increase in pungency.
US08816154B2 Transgenic aloe plants for production of proteins and related methods
The present inventions provide transgenic aloe plants and recombinant constructs for transforming aloe plants, aspects of which, may be applied to other monocots. The recombinant constructs may include one or more DNA sequences encoding mammalian proteins and at least one promoter capable of directing the expression of recombinant proteins in an aloe plant. The present inventions also provide methods for constructing and reproducing a transgenic aloe plant. The present inventions include methods for transfection of an aloe plant with several genes of interest simultaneously. The aloe plant production methods of the inventions may provide the potential to inexpensively and more safely mass-produce some biologically active compounds including biopharmaceuticals for disease therapy, diagnosis and prevention, and is more accessible to the less affluent countries. The aloe plant production methods may also produce proteins for cosmetics.
US08816148B2 Carbon dioxide fractionalization process
A process comprising receiving a hydrocarbon feed stream comprising carbon dioxide, separating the hydrocarbon feed stream into a light hydrocarbon stream and a heavy hydrocarbon stream, separating the light hydrocarbon stream into a carbon dioxide-rich stream and a carbon dioxide-lean stream, and feeding the carbon dioxide-lean stream into a hydrocarbon sweetening process, thereby increasing the processing capacity of the hydrocarbon sweetening process compared to the processing capacity of the hydrocarbon sweetening process when fed the hydrocarbon feed stream. Included is an apparatus comprising a first separation unit that receives a hydrocarbon feed stream containing carbon dioxide and produces a heavy hydrocarbon stream and a light hydrocarbon stream, and a second separation unit that receives the light hydrocarbon stream and produces a carbon dioxide-rich stream and a carbon dioxide-lean stream, wherein the apparatus is configured to feed the carbon dioxide-lean stream to a physical solvent, membrane, or carbon dioxide recovery process.
US08816144B2 Direct production of fractionated and upgraded hydrocarbon fuels from biomass
Multistage processing of biomass to produce at least two separate fungible fuel streams, one dominated by gasoline boiling-point range liquids and the other by diesel boiling-point range liquids. The processing involves hydrotreating the biomass to produce a hydrotreatment product including a deoxygenated hydrocarbon product of gasoline and diesel boiling materials, followed by separating each of the gasoline and diesel boiling materials from the hydrotreatment product and each other.
US08816142B2 Fuel and base oil blendstocks from a single feedstock
A method comprising the steps of providing a fatty acyl mixture comprising: (i) a C10-C16 acyl carbon atom chain content of at least 30 wt. % wherein at least 80% of the C10-C16 acyl carbon atom chains are saturated; and (ii) a C18-C22 acyl carbon atom chain content of at least 20 wt. % wherein at least 50% of the acyl C18-C22 carbon atom chains contain at least one olefin; oligomerizing at least some of the mixture to yield a second mixture comprising C36+ oligomers; hydrotreating the second mixture to yield a quantity of diesel fuel blendstock and C36+ alkanes; and separating at least some of the diesel fuel blendstock from the C36+ alkanes.
US08816141B2 Reducing hydrogen consumption in hydrotreating of biocomponent feeds
Processes are provided for deoxygenation of a biocomponent feedstock with reduced hydrogen consumption. The biocomponent feedstock can be processed under relatively low hydrogen partial pressures and at a relatively low treat gas ratio compared to the hydrogen need of the feedstock. The relatively low pressure, relatively low treat gas ratio hydroprocessing can result in reduced production of water and carbon monoxide and in increased production of carbon dioxide compared to relatively higher pressure process conditions.
US08816134B2 Method for making dimethyl ether by reactive-distillation
Disclosed is a method for making dimethyl ether by reactive distillation. The method provides a reactive distillation tower with a top, a bottom, and rectification, reaction and stripping zones defined therein. The top of the reactive distillation tower is retained at 25° C. to 40° C. while the bottom of the reactive distillation tower is retained at 84.6° C. to 170° C. Each of the rectification, reaction and stripping zones includes several sieving trays. The reaction zone of the reactive distillation tower is filled with catalyst. The pressure in the reactive distillation tower is lower than 8.0 bars. Methanol is introduced into the reactive distillation tower so that the methanol travels from the reaction zone toward the bottom for contact with the catalyst to provide a top stream and a bottom stream. The top stream includes dimethyl ether. The bottom stream includes water and a remaining portion of the methanol. Finally, the dimethyl ether is collected in the top of the reactive distillation tower. The purity of the collected dimethyl ether is higher than 99%.
US08816132B2 Process of producing polyglycerol from crude glycerol
The present invention relates to a process for accelerated preparation of polyglycerol from crude glycerol using microwave irradiation as the heat element in the presence of soap as the catalyst. The process includes the steps of (a) heating the crude glycerol that contain soap to an elevated temperature for a certain reaction time by using a microwave technology, (b) acidifying the crude polyglycerol with mineral acid at a specific temperature and centrifuging acidified crude product obtained from step (b) at a specific temperature for a certain duration of time.
US08816129B2 PTP1B inhibitors, synthesis thereof and application thereof in preparation of medicaments for treating type 2 diabetes mellitus
The present invention relates to chemical total synthesis methods of six novel protein tyrosine phosphatase-1B (PTP1B) inhibitors and application of the inhibitors in the preparation of medicaments for treating type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The PTP1B inhibitors use one or more of the six compounds represented by the structural formulae 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, as active components. The compounds can enhance the sensitivity of an insulin receptor by inhibiting the activity of PTP1B, thereby having a favorable therapeutic effect on insulin-resistant T2DM.
US08816128B2 Insecticide for agricultural or horticultural use and method of use thereof
Aniline derivatives represented by formula (8): The aniline derivatives can be used as insecticides and/or intermediates in production of insecticides.
US08816119B2 Arylamide derivatives having antiandrogenic properties
The invention relates to novel arylamide derivatives having formula (I) and stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, where R1-R11, R′, R″, z and X are as defined in the claims. The arylamide derivatives of formula (I) have antiandrogenic properties. The invention also relates to compounds of formula (I) for use as a medicament and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and to their preparation.
US08816110B2 Polyunsaturated fatty acid monoglycerides, derivatives, and uses thereof
There are provided various polyunsaturated fatty acid monoglycerides and derivatives thereof. These compounds can be useful as cancer chemopreventive agents, cancer treating agent, inhibiting tumor growth or cell proliferation, reducing tumor growth or as radioenhencers for radiotherapy of cancer.
US08816109B2 Process for preparation of hexadecyl cis-9-tetradecenoate and hexadecyl cis-10-tetradecenoate
Hexadecyl cis-9-tetradecenoate commonly known as Cetyl myristoleate (CMO) is being used for the treatment of osteoarthritis and other joint inflammatory diseases, cis-9-Tetradecenoic acid (cis-9-myristoleic acid) is the main precursor for the preparation of CMO. As there are limited natural plant sources for cis-9-tetradecenoic acid, the present invention aimed at the synthesis of cis-9-tetradecenoic acid methyl ester from oleic acid methyl ester. As oleic acid is not available in pure form, this has to be isolated from oleic acid-rich oils like olive oil. cis-10-Tetradecenoic acid methyl ester, an isomer of cis-9-tetradecenoic acid was also prepared from undecenoic acid methyl ester, a derivative of castor oil. Undecenoic acid is easily available commercially in pure form. Hexadecyl cis-9-tetradecenoate and hexadecyl c/s-10-tetradecenoate were prepared by enzymatic transesterification of cis-9-tetradecenoic acid methyl ester and cis-10-tetradecenoic acid methyl ester with 1-hexadecanol (cetyl alcohol) respectively. Both the isomers of cetyl myristoleate were evaluated for anti arthritis, blocking inflammation and reduction of adjuvant-induced arthritis in rats.
US08816101B2 Paraconic acids as pigmentation activators
The invention relates to a mixture comprising protolichesterinic acid or a salt thereof or a diastereoisomer thereof or a derivative thereof, and lichesterinic acid or a salt thereof or an enantiomer thereof or a derivative thereof, for use for stimulating pigmentation of the skin and/or of its appendages.The invention also relates to derivatives of lichesterinic acid of formula (A).
US08816100B2 Compound, method of producing the compound, organic semiconductor material and organic semiconductor device
There are provided a novel compound having a good field mobility, a method of producing of the compound, an organic semiconductor material containing the novel compound, and an organic semiconductor device. The novel compound which is represented by the following general formula (1), (2), (3) or (4) (where Z represents a sulfur atom or a selenium atom, and R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or a phenyl group in general formulae) has a structure having two benzene rings of naphthalene bonded with a thiophene ring and a selenophene ring, respectively. These compounds have a conjugate system in molecules due to an interaction between π orbitals, and show a strong molecular interaction through a sulfur atom or a selenium atom contained in a thiophene ring or a selenophene ring in each molecule, thereby having a good field mobility.
US08816096B2 Process for preparing substituted N-phenylhydroxylamines
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of 2-[[[1-(4-chlorophenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-yl]oxy]methyl]phenyl]-hydroxylamine from the correspondingly substituted nitrobenzene compound.
US08816086B2 Process for preparing cannabinoid receptor ligands
A process for the preparation of compounds of formula (I) or a salt thereof wherein X1, X2, X3, X4, Rx, u, R2, R1g, z, and A1 are as defined in the specification is disclosed.
US08816079B2 Amide derivative and use thereof as medicine
Provided are a novel low-molecular-weight compound that suppresses production of induction type MMPs, particularly MMP-9, rather than production of hemostatic type MMP-2, as well as a prophylactic/therapeutic drug for autoimmune diseases or osteoarthritis. An amide derivative represented by the following formula (I) wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.
US08816074B2 2′-fluoro-6′-methylene carbocyclic nucleosides and methods of treating viral infections
The present invention relates to 2′-Fluoro-6′-methylene carbocyclic nucleosides, pharmaceutical compositions containing these nucleosides and their use in the treatment or prophylaxis of a number of viral infections and secondary disease states and conditions thereof, especially including Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and secondary disease states and conditions thereof (cirrhosis and liver cancer), Heptatitis C virus (HCV), Herpes Simplex virus I and II (HSV-1 and HSV-2), cytomegalovirus (CMV), Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) and Epstein Barr virus (EBV) and secondary cancers which occur thereof (lymphoma, nasopharyngeal cancer, including drug resistant (especially including lamivudine and/or adefovir resistant) and other mutant forms of these viruses.
US08816072B2 Process for the preparation of crystalline aprepitant having form I content
The present invention provides a process for preparation of crystalline aprepitant having not more than 15% by weight of Form I content which comprises, a) dissolving aprepitant in a suitable solvent to obtain a solution, b) cooling the solution to 10-15° C., c) optionally seeding the solution with aprepitant Form I crystals, d) adding an anti-solvent to the solution, and e) isolating crystalline aprepitant having not more than 15% by weight of Form I content.
US08816071B2 Tocotrienol derivatives and associated methods
Compositions of matter including (R)-2,5,6,8-tetramethyl-8-((3E,7E)-4,8,12-trimethyltrideca-3,7,11-trienyl)-1,2,3,8,9,10-hexahydrochromeno[5,6-e][1,3]oxazine and (R)-2,6,8-trimethyl-8-((3E,7E)-4,8,12-trimethyltrideca-3,7,11-trienyl)-1,2,3,8,9,10-hexahydrochromeno[5,6-e][1,3]oxazine are disclosed herein. Further disclosed are methods of preparation of such compounds and the use of such compounds as anticancer agents.
US08816069B2 Method for producing amide compound
The present invention relates to a method for producing a high purity, high quality amide compound, particularly, lactam. A first embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that an amount of each of a halide, an aldehyde compound, an alcohol compound and a nitrile compound contained in a solution recycled into an oxime-forming step is controlled to an amount of 0.4 mol % or less based on the ketone as a starting material. A second embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of a ketone, an oxime and an amide compound are purified by hydrogenation and/or crystallization for eliminating impurities containing a double bond. A third embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that a content of impurities having a cyclic bridge structure is controlled by using a cycloalkanone purified by recrystallization.
US08816057B2 T1R taste receptors and genes encoding same
Newly identified mammalian taste-cell-specific G protein-coupled receptors, and the genes and cDNA encoding said receptors are described. Specifically, T1R G protein-coupled receptors active in taste signaling, and the genes and cDNA encoding the same, are described, along with methods for isolating such genes and for isolating and expressing such receptors. Methods for representing taste perception of a particular tastant in a mammal are also described, as are methods for generating novel molecules or combinations of molecules that elicit a predetermined taste perception in a mammal, and methods for simulating one or more tastes. Further, methods for stimulating or blocking taste perception in a mammal are also disclosed.
US08816056B2 Modulation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3)expression
Disclosed herein are antisense compounds and methods for decreasing STAT3 mRNA and protein expression. Such methods, compounds, and compositions are useful to treat, prevent, or ameliorate hyperproliferative diseases.
US08816054B2 Compositions and methods for enhancing coagulation Factor VIII function
Factor VIII variants and methods of use thereof are disclosed.
US08816052B2 Mutant apoprotein of photoprotein with low calcium sensitivity
Calcium-binding photoproteins showing the luminescence pattern with a slow decay of are desired. The invention provides a mutant apoprotein comprising an amino acid sequence wherein the 23rd to 34th amino acids in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 are substituted with an amino acid represented by formula I below: Xaa23-Xaa24-Xaa25-Xaa26-Xaa27-Xaa28-Xaa29-Xaa30-Xaa31-Xaa32-Xaa33-Xaa 34; having a function to bind to the peroxide of coelenterazine or the peroxide of a coelenterazine analogue to form a photoprotein capable of emitting light under the action of calcium ions; and, having a half decay time of the luminescence emitted by binding of the photoprotein to calcium ions being not less than 2 seconds.
US08816051B2 Conjugated biological molecules and their preparation
Novel biologically active compounds of the general formula (I) in which one of X and X′ represents a polymer, and the other represents a hydrogen atom; each Q independently represents a linking group; W represents an electron-withdrawing moiety or a moiety preparable by reduction of an electron-withdrawing moiety; or, if X′ represents a polymer, X-Q-W— together may represent an electron withdrawing group; and in addition, if X represents a polymer, X′ and electron withdrawing group W together with the interjacent atoms may form a ring; each of Z1 and Z2 independently represents a group derived from a biological molecule, each of which is linked to A and B via a nucleophilic moiety; or Z1 and Z2 together represent a single group derived from a biological molecule which is linked to A and B via two nucleophilic moieties; A is a C1-5 alkylene or alkenylene chain; and B is a bond or a C1-4 alkylene or alkenylene chain; are formed by conjugating a suitable polymer to a suitable biologically active molecule via nucleophilic groups in said molecule, preferably via a disulphide bridge.
US08816050B2 Method of preparing glycopeptides
A method is provided for the synthesis of glycopeptides using a sugar assisted ligation strategy, wherein an N-terminal peptide portion in the form of a thioester is coopled with a C-terminal peptide portion bearing a carbohydrate moiety comprising a thiol group.
US08816049B2 Lipid peptide and hydrogel
There is provided a lipid peptide that is capable of forming a hydrogel with an extremely small amount thereof over a liquid property range from acidic to alkaline, and a hydrogel having high environmental suitability, biocompatibility and biodegradability. A lipid peptide represented by Formula (1): where R1 represents an aliphatic group having 9 to 23 carbon atoms; R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atom(s) which optionally has a branched chain having 1 to 3 carbon atom(s), a phenylmethyl group, a phenylethyl group or a —(CH2)n—X group, and at least one of R2, R3, R4 and R5 represents a —(CH2)n—X group; n represents the number of 1 to 4; X represents a guanidino group, a —CONH2 group or a 5-membered ring, a 6-membered ring or a fused heterocyclic ring composed of a 5-membered ring and a 6-membered ring which optionally have 1 to 3 nitrogen atom(s); and m represents 1 or 2, and a hydrogel comprising the lipid peptide.
US08816047B2 Compositions and methods of using proislet peptides and analogs thereof
Embodiments relate to proislet peptides, preferably HIP, that exhibit increased stability and efficacy, and methods of using the same to treating a pathology associated with impaired pancreatic function, including type 1 and type 2 diabetes and symptoms thereof.
US08816042B2 Polyamide composites having flexible spacers
Provided are polyamide nanocomposites incorporating carbon nanotubes and other filler species. Also provided are related methods.
US08816041B2 Polyester polymerization catalyst and method for producing polyester using the same
Provided are a polyester polymerization catalyst with which the generation of foreign materials caused by the catalyst or mold pollution at the time of molding are reduced and polyesters having remarkably superior thermal stability and color tone can be obtained.Provided is a polyester polymerization catalyst produced by the reaction of a titanium compound and a mannitol in a molar ratio of titanium atom to mannitol of from 1:1 to 1:3. A method for producing a polyester employs the polyester polymerization catalyst.
US08816039B2 Copolycarbonate
The present invention provides a copolycarbonate that has a low photoelastic constant and has fewer foamed cells and that is in particular suitable for use in optical fields.The present invention is a copolycarbonate containing 10 to 90 mol % of a unit (A) derived from spiroglycol and 90 to 10 mol % of a unit (B) derived from aromatic phenol and having terminals satisfying the following expressions (i) and (ii), 0.0001<(a)/(d)<0.1  (i) 0.02<(b)/(d)<0.8  (ii) wherein (a) is an amount of a terminal group derived from spiroglycol, (b) is an amount of a terminal group derived from aromatic phenol, and (d) is a total terminal group amount.
US08816029B2 Compositions and articles comprising polymerizable ionic liquid mixture, and methods of curing
Presently described are curable compositions comprising a mixture of at least one (e.g. free-radically) polymerizable ionic liquid and at least one other ethylenically unsaturated monomer, oligomer, or polymer. The polymerizable ionic liquid is characterized as having an air to nitrogen curing exotherm ratio of at least 0.70. Also described are articles and methods of making articles from such curable compositions. A monofunctional polymerizable ionic liquid is also described comprising a non-polymerizable substituted imidazolium cationic group and a polymerizable sulfonate anion.
US08816020B2 Method to produce polyurea and polyurethane by using liquid plant oil based polyol
A method of producing liquid polymeric polyols from epoxidized plant oils by ring-opening polymerization in an organic solvent in the presence of a catalyst to yield the desired polyols at room temperature. The properties of the polymeric polyols depend on the type of plant oil used as starting material. Typically, polymeric content of the purified plant oil based polyols ranges from 65% to 90%. The hydroxyl value and the acid value ranges from 30 to 90 mg KOH/g sample and 1 to 14 mg KOH/g sample respectively. The average molecular weight Mn ranges from 800 Da to 16000 Da. The liquid plant oil based polymeric polyols are reacted with excess diisocyanate to produce isocyanate terminated prepolymer. Subsequently, the prepared prepolymer is reacted with diol or diamine to polyurethane and polyurea respectively.
US08816017B2 Process for producing polyamic acid solution and polyamic acid solution
Disclosed is a process for producing a polyamic acid solution by reacting a diamine component consisting essentially of 20 mol % to 80 mol % of p-phenylenediamine and 80 mol % to 20 mol % of diaminodiphenyl ether with a tetracarboxylic acid component consisting essentially of 10 mol % to 60 mol % of 2,3,3′,4′-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride and 90 mol % to 40 mol % of 3,3′,4,4′-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride in a solvent, comprising: a first step in which a diamine component is reacted with a molar excess of a tetracarboxylic acid component in a solvent containing more than ⅓ mole of water per mole of the tetracarboxylic acid component, whereby preparing a polyamic acid solution; and a second step in which a diamine component, or a diamine component and a tetracarboxylic acid component are added to the polyamic acid solution obtained in the first step so that the molar amount of the diamine component is substantially equal to the molar amount of the tetracarboxylic acid component, and then the diamine component and the tetracarboxylic acid component are reacted.
US08816016B2 Reduced corrosion curable composition
A curable composition, useful as a thermosetting binder, having an emulsion (co)polymer, a polyol, and a water soluble polyacid or salt thereof.
US08816014B2 Method for producing modified conjugated diene-based polymer, modified conjugated diene-based polymer, and modified conjugated diene-based polymer composition
There are provided a modified conjugated diene-based polymer having a good balance between the hysteresis loss properties and the wet skid resistance, practically sufficient abrasion resistance and fracture strength, and high processability when formed into a vulcanized product, and a modified conjugated diene-based polymer composition. A method for producing a modified conjugated diene-based polymer, comprising: a polymerization step of polymerizing a conjugated diene compound or copolymerizing a conjugated diene compound with an aromatic vinyl compound using an alkali metal compound or an alkaline earth metal compound as a polymerization initiator to obtain a conjugated diene-based polymer having a reactive end, and a modifying step of reacting a compound having a specific structure with the reactive end of the conjugated diene-based polymer.
US08816013B2 Curable fluoroelastomer composition
Fluoroelastomer compositions comprising fluoroelastomers having copolymerized units of a nitrile-containing cure site monomer are cured with certain carbazates. The carbazate is of the general formula R1OC(O)NHNHR2, wherein R1 is 9-fluorenylmethyl, benzyl, aryl, or a heterocycle; R2 is H, alkyl, aryl, heterocycle, CO2R3 or CH2R4; R3 is alkyl, aryl, benzyl or a heterocycle; and R4 is a fluoroalkyl group.
US08816012B2 Curable acrylate based printing medium
An acrylate-based curable printing medium is disclosed. Acrylates, in the form of monomers, dimers, trimers and oligomers, as well as resins, form an interpenetrating polymer network by crosslinking, which is effected by heat, and optionally peroxide curing agents. Formulations can be tailored to achieve desired properties of the cured polymer including film hardness, burnout properties, and adhesion to glass. Such properties are adjusted by manipulating the relative proportions of the acrylic monomers, oligomers and resins that are used as a ceramic medium or vehicle.
US08816011B2 Process for preparing AB diblock copolymers with a broadly distributed A block
The invention relates to a controlled polymerization process for preparing (meth)acrylate-based AB diblock copolymers with a B block which has a narrow monomodal molecular weight distribution, and an A block which has a broad monomodal molecular weight distribution, and to the use thereof, for example, as a binder in adhesives or sealants.
US08816006B2 Compositions of ethylene/α-olefin multi-block interpolymer suitable for films
Compositions suitable for film comprise at least one ethylene/α-olefin interpolymer, wherein the ethylene/α-olefin interpolymer may have, for example, a Mw/Mn from about 1.7 to about 3.5, at least one melting point, Tm, in degrees Celsius, and a density, d, in grams/cubic centimeter, wherein the numerical values of Tm and d correspond to the relationship: Tm>−2002.9+4538.5(d)−2422.2(d)2.
US08816004B2 Oxazolinyl-containing polymers and grafted compounds prepared from the oxazolinyl-containing polymers
Oxazolinyl-containing compounds having a single oxazolinyl group plus a first polymeric group are described. Grafted compounds are also described that are the product of a reaction of an oxazolinyl-containing compound with a second compound that has one or more acidic groups to form a grafted compound. In some embodiments, the second compound is a polymeric material having at least one acidic group and the reaction product is a grafted copolymer. Blended compositions of the grafted copolymer with a polyamide are also described.
US08815996B2 Surface segregating additives for enhanced chemical agent resistant topcoats
A topcoat having a polyfunctional scaffold in the form of a hyperbranched polymer (HBP) with a buoy group coupled to the HBP. The HBP can also have a “delivered” group and/or an anchor group coupled thereto. The buoy group can be a fluorinated chain end, one or more fluorinated and aliphatic chain ends and/or one or more wholly aliphatic chain ends. The “delivered” group can contain at least one of an ionic species, a fluorescent tag, a bioreactive site, a catalyst and the like, and the anchor group an epoxy, a (meth)acrylate or an isocyanate. The water-disbursable topcoat can also include a solubilizing group such as 2-butanone or 4-methyl-2-pentanone coupled to the HBP.
US08815992B2 Tetracarboxylic ester plasticizers
Tetraesters of a C4-C5 aliphatic tetracarboxylic acid and OXO-alcohols and plasticized compositions containing said tetraesters are provided.
US08815989B2 Resin composition for coating material
The invention aims to provide a resin composition having favorable stain resistance and storage stability even in the form of a one-pack coating material. Provided is a resin composition for a coating material, including: (I) a synthetic resin emulsion; (II) a silicon compound represented by the formula (1): (R1O)4-aSiR2a  (1) wherein R1s are the same or different and each represent an alkyl group having 1-10 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6-10 carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group having 7-10 carbon atoms; R2s are the same or different and each represent an alkyl group having 1-10 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6-10 carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group having 7-10 carbon atoms; and a represents an integer from 0 to 2; and/or a partial hydrolysis condensation product thereof and/or a modified product thereof; and (III) a photosensitizer.
US08815985B2 Curable composition
An object of the present invention is to provide a curable composition which is made mainly of a polymer having one or more reactive silicon groups, has good curability even when filler is used while a non-organotin catalyst is used, and is further high in industrial practicability. The object is solved by a curable composition, comprising, as constituents, a polymer (A) having one or more reactive silicon groups on average per molecule thereof, the reactive silicon group(s) being (each) a group which can be crosslinked by forming a siloxane bond, a Lewis acid and/or derivative thereof (B), an amine compound (C), a compound (D) having a reactive silicon group, and filler (E), and obtained by mixing the constituents with each other.
US08815983B2 Dispersion, method for producing same, and use thereof
A dispersion comprising hard material particles and at least one organic binder and/or at least one plasticizer. The hard material particles comprise an inner core comprising a fused tungsten carbide and an outer shell comprising tungsten carbide.
US08815981B2 Hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposites
The present invention relates to a dispersion of hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposite molecules comprising discrete inorganic silica nanoparticles that are covalently bonded to organic polymers, wherein the dispersion has a high solid content (>30% wt.) and high silica content (>35% wt.) with low coagulum (about 100-400 ppm or about 0.05% wt or less). The hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposite is prepared by (1) hydrolyzing silane monomers at acidic conditions; (2) surface treating inorganic silica nanoparticles with silane monomers; (3) stabilizing the surface-treated inorganic silica nanoparticles with an amine stabilizer; and (4) reacting organic monomers with surface-treated inorganic silica nanoparticles.
US08815979B2 Amphoteric polyurethane dispersants and their use in inkjet inks
The disclosure provides an aqueous dispersion and ink jet inks comprising a colorant and an amphoteric polyurethane dispersant, wherein the amphoteric polyurethane dispersant comprises a reaction product of at least one basic amine urethane monomer, at least one acidic urethane monomer, and at least one urethane monomer comprising two or more isocyanates having improved bleed control, and optical density/chroma.
US08815977B2 Process for producing conjugated diene-based polymer, conjugated diene-based polymer, and conjugated diene-based polymer composition
The present invention provides a process for producing a conjugated diene-based polymer, comprising polymerizing a monomer component containing a conjugated diene compound and a silicon-containing vinyl compound using a polymerization initiator represented by the following formula (1) wherein, R11 represents a hydrocarbylene group having 6 to 100 carbon atoms, R12 and R13 represent a hydrocarbyl group optionally having a substituent, or a trihydrocarbylsilyl group, or R12 and R13 are bonded to represent a hydrocarbylene group optionally having, as a hetero atom, at least one kind atom selected from the atomic group consisting of a silicon atom, a nitrogen atom and an oxygen atom.
US08815974B2 Dental adhesive composition
[Problems] To provide a liquid dental adhesive composition which contains a phosphoric acid-type compound having a hydrogenphosphoric diester group as an acidic group-containing polymerizable monomer and, further, contains polyvalent metal ions, effectively preventing not only the gelation but also the formation of precipitates (cloudiness) during the storage.[Means for Solution] A dental adhesive composition which is acidic and contains an acidic group-containing polymerizable monomer (A), polyvalent metal ions (B), water (C), a water-soluble organic solvent (D) and fluoride ions (E), wherein at least 35% by mole of the acidic group-containing polymerizable monomer (A) is a phosphoric acid-type compound having a hydrogenphosphoric diester group, and the contents of the fluoride ions (E) and the polyvalent metal ions (B) are so set that a valence number ratio (RF) defined by the following formula (1): RF=VF/TVP  (1) wherein VF is a valence number of the fluoride ions (E) contained in the composition, and TVP is a total valence number of the polyvalent metal ions (B) contained in the composition, satisfies a range of 0.2 to 2.0.
US08815972B2 Ionic silicone hydrogels having improved hydrolytic stability
The present invention relates to ionic silicone hydrogel polymers displaying improved thermal stability. More specifically, the present invention relates to a polymer formed from reactive components comprising at least one silicone component and at least one ionic component comprising at least one anionic group. The polymers of the present invention display good thermal stability and desirable protein uptake.
US08815969B2 Plant oil-based UV-curable coating
A novel UV-curable coating includes acrylated soybean oil, a hyperbranched acrylate, an optional adhesion promoter, and an optional renewable reactive diluent.
US08815968B2 Polyurethane foam
A method of making a polyurethane foam from a mixture of isocyanate modified polyol and foam-forming ingredients, wherein the isocyanate modified polyol is made by reacting at least one polyol with at least one multifunctional isocyanate, wherein the isocyanate modified polyol is a non-foamed polyol polymer having available OH groups, wherein the foam forming ingredients comprise at least a multifunctional isocyanate and a foaming agent, preferably water, and characterized in that (i) the at least one polyol from which the isocyanate modified polyol is made comprises at least one lipid-based polyol which has undergone reaction with the isocyanate in the presence of a PU gelation catalyst, and/or (ii) the isocyanate modified polyol is mixed with a lipid-based polyol prior to, or at the same time as, foaming.
US08815964B2 Devulcanization of rubber and other elastomers
A process for forming a vulcanized elastomer composition. An alternating electric field is applied to a first composition comprising vulcanized crosslinked elastomer particles while the composition is compressed to thereby devulcanize the crosslinked elastomer particles and form a second composition comprising devulcanized elastomer particles A crosslinking agent is added to the second composition comprising the devulcanized elastomer particles. The second composition having the crosslinking agent is then vulcanized to form the vulcanized elastomer composition.
US08815958B2 Water-in-oil type emulsion skin cosmetic
A skin cosmetic in which the emulsion stability can be ensured by adding a volatile hydrocarbon oil to a water-in-oil-type emulsion composition containing a non-volatile silicone oil, and which has an excellent non-oily sensation upon application. Specifically disclosed is a water-in-oil-type emulsion skin cosmetic which is characterized by comprising (A) 3 to 25% mass of a volatile hydrocarbon oil, (B) 0.1 to 15% by mass of a non-volatile silicone oil, (C) 0.1 to 1% by mass of a polyethylene glycol mono- or di-isostearate having 4 to 12 oxyethylene groups, (D) 0.1 to 5% by mass of a polyoxyethylene-polydimethylsiloxyethyl-dimethicone copolymer, and (E) an organically-modified clay mineral.
US08815955B2 Method of treating ocular disorders
A method wherein subjects having or at risk for having hyperopia, presbyopia or astigmatism are administered a composition having an effective amount of ocular antioxidants, including specifically macular pigments, to prevent, treat, or delay the onset of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
US08815951B2 Inhibitors of epoxide hydrolases for the treatment of inflammation
The invention provides compounds that inhibit epoxide hydrolase in therapeutic applications for treating hypertension. A preferred class of compounds for practicing the invention have the structure shown by Formula 1 wherein Z is oxygen or sulfur, W is carbon phosphorous or sulfur, X and Y is each independently nitrogen, oxygen, or sulfur, and X can further be carbon, at least one of R1-R4 is hydrogen, R2 is hydrogen when X is nitrogen but is not present when X is sulfur or oxygen, R4 is hydrogen when Y is nitrogen but is not present when Y is sulfur or oxygen, R1 and R3 is each independently C1-C20 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, acyl, or heterocyclic.
US08815947B2 Methods of treating metabolic disorders
A method of increasing the insulin sensitivity of insulin resistant cells includes administering to the cells an amount of all-trans-retinoic acid effective to activate transcription factor perosixome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) β/δ of the cells.
US08815945B2 Use of bis [thiohydrazide amide] compounds such as elesclomol for treating cancers
Improved cancer treatments with bis[thiohydrazide amide] compounds such as elesclomol, in particular for identifying patient populations that would benefit from such treatments.
US08815942B2 Combination therapy and uses thereof for treatment and prevention of parasitic infection and disease
The invention relates to compounds, methods, uses, compositions, combinations, kits and packages for the prevention and/or treatment of parasite infection (e.g., Plasmodium parasites) and/or disease (e.g., malaria) based on uses of (a) cystamine, cysteamine, and analogs, derivatives, prodrugs, precursors thereof; an agent capable of inducing their production; and/or salts thereof, and (b) artemisinin and functional derivative, analog, conjugate, metabolite, prodrug or precursor thereof, and/or salts thereof.
US08815940B2 Coumarin-chalcones as anticancer agents
The present invention relates to certain coumarin/chalcone compounds or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention particularly relates to the coumarin/chalcone compounds as anticancer agents useful for the treatment of cancer. The present invention also relates to the process of preparation of the said compounds.
US08815939B2 Substituted sulfamide derivatives
The present invention is directed to novel substituted sulfamide derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing said derivatives and the use of said derivatives form in the treatment of anxiety and related disorders; bipolar depression and mania; depression; epilepsy and related disorders; epileptogenesis; glucose related disorders; lipid related disorders; migraine; obesity; pain; substance abuse and as neuroprotective agents. The present invention is further directed to a process for the preparation of the novel substituted sulfamide derivatives.
US08815938B2 Double compartment skincare products comprising avermectin/milbemycin compounds
Double compartment skincare products confine a first compartment containing an anhydrous composition including an active ingredient, and a second compartment, wherein the active ingredient is selected from among compounds of the avermectin family and compounds of the milbemycin family, and are useful as medicaments for the treatment and/or prevention of dermatological conditions/afflictions.
US08815932B2 Induction of alpha helix conformations in proteins and peptides
Substituted tricyclic diproline analogues of the formula (I): wherein the variables are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods for the production thereof, the use thereof for the induction of an alpha-helix conformation in peptides and/or proteins, pharmaceuticals containing said compounds, methods for the production of a peptide library containing said compounds, and peptide libraries containing said compounds.
US08815930B2 Compounds that inhibit TRPV1 and uses thereof
Compounds of formula (I) wherein R3, R7, R9 and L are defined in the description are TRPV1 antagonists that exhibit low inhibitory activity against CYP3A4. Compositions comprising such compounds and methods for treating conditions and disorders using such compounds and compositions are also disclosed.
US08815928B2 Hepatitis C virus inhibitors
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or prodrugs thereof: which inhibit RNA-containing virus, particularly the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Consequently, the compounds of the present invention interfere with the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HCV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HCV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention. The present invention relates to novel antiviral compounds represented herein above, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral (particularly HCV) infection in a subject in need of such therapy with the compounds.
US08815926B2 Substituted pyrrolo[3,4-D]imidazoles for the treatment of MDM2/4 mediated diseases
The invention relates to compounds of formula (I): as described herein, pharmaceutical preparations comprising such compounds, uses and methods of use for such compounds in the treatment of a disorder or a disease mediated by the activity of MDM2 and/or MDM4, and combinations comprising such compounds.
US08815924B2 Heterocyclic carbonyl compounds
Novel heterocyclic compounds of the formula (I), in which R1, D, W, T and T′ have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, are SGK inhibitors and can be used for the treatment of SGK-induced diseases and conditions, such as diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome (dyslipidaemia), systemic and pulmonary hypertonia, cardiovascular diseases and kidney diseases, generally in fibroses and inflammatory processes of any type.
US08815923B2 Therapeutic compounds
Disclosed herein is a compound having a structure compositions, methods, and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed.
US08815922B2 Pesticidal compositions and processes related thereto
This document discloses molecules having the following formulas (“Formula One” & “Formula Two” and “Formula Three”) The Ar1, Het, Ar2, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are further described herein.
US08815918B2 Imidazo [2, 1-B] [1, 3, 4] thiadiazole derivatives
There is provided compounds of formula (I): wherein R1, R2 and R3 have meanings given in the description, and pharmaceutically-acceptable esters, amides, solvates or salts thereof, which compounds are useful in the treatment of diseases in which inhibition of a protein or lipid kinase (e.g. PI3-K, particularly class I PI3K) is desired and/or required, and particularly in the treatment of cancer.
US08815917B2 DP2 antagonist and uses thereof
Described herein is the DP2 antagonist [2′-(3-benzyl-1-ethyl-ureidomethyl)-6-methoxy-4′-trifluoromethyl-biphenyl-3-yl]-acetic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also described are methods of preparing the DP2 antagonist, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also described herein are pharmaceutical compositions suitable for administration to a mammal that include the DP2 antagonist, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of using such pharmaceutical compositions for treating respiratory diseases or conditions, allergic diseases or conditions, inflammatory diseases or conditions, as well as other prostaglandin D2-dependent or prostaglandin D2-mediated diseases or conditions.
US08815911B2 Alfentanil composition for the treatment of acute pain
There is provided pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of pain e.g. short-term pain, which compositions comprise a mixture comprising: (a) microparticles of alfentanil, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which microparticles are presented on the surfaces of larger carrier particles; (b) a water-soluble weak base; and (c) a compound which is a weak acid, which acid is presented in intimate mixture with the microparticles of alfentanil or salt thereof. The composition may further comprise a disintegrant. The acid is preferably citric acid.
US08815905B2 Propionic acids, propionic acid esters, and related compounds
The invention relates to propionic acids, propionic acid esters, and related compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and methods of using these compounds for the treatment of various diseases or conditions, including but not limited to diseases and/or conditions of Central Nervous System (CNS).
US08815902B2 Tetrahydroquinoline amide M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators
The present invention is directed to tetrahydroquinoline amide compounds of formula (I) (Formula should be inserted here) which are M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the M1 receptor is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, pain or sleep disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and to the use of the compounds and compositions in the treatment of diseases mediated by the M1 receptor.
US08815900B2 Compounds and compositions for reducing lipid levels
Compositions comprising extracts or isolated or purified compounds from plants of the genus Corydalis provide prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hepatic steatosis, and metabolic syndrome. Corydalis compounds and their derivatives of natural and synthetic origins lower total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, and triglycerides and increase hepatic LDL receptor expression and activate AMP-activated protein kinase. Specific stereoisomers of Corydalis compounds with lipid lowering activity include 14R-(+)-corypalmine, 14R,13S-(+)-corydaline, 14R-(+)-tetrahydropalmatin, (+)-corlumidin, d-(+)-bicuculline, and (+)-egenine.
US08815899B1 Nutritional activation of telomerase in vitro and in vivo with increased safety
A nutritional composition and method is provided in which telomerase expression can be safely activated in living cells. The nutritional composition can induce TERT mRNA or h-TERT mRNA and telomerase in vitro and in vivo while at the same time inhibiting potential side effects, helping to prevent certain types of cancer, and slowing the growth of any cancer cells that may exist in vivo. The method entails exposing cells to L-carnosine concentrations in the range of 51-100 mM or to a combination of L-carnosine and L-fucose in which the concentration of L-carnosine is 30-100 mM and the concentration of L-fucose is in the range from 0.1 micromolar to 100 mM.
US08815898B2 6,7-disubstituted-sioquinoline derivatives and their use
The present invention relates compounds of general formula (I) and stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof; wherein R′ and R1-R5 are as defined in the claims. The invention also relates to said compounds for use as a medicament and particularly in the treatment of drug addiction and CNS related diseases.
US08815897B2 1H-pyrazolo[3,4-B]pyridines and therapeutic uses thereof
Provided herein are compounds according to Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and compositions comprising the same, for use in various methods, including treating cancers such as colon, ovarian, pancreatic, breast, liver, prostate and hematologic cancers:
US08815895B2 Mediators of hedgehog signaling pathways, compositions and uses related hereto
The present invention makes available methods and reagents for inhibiting aberrant growth states resulting from hedgehog gain-of-function, ptc loss-of-function or smoothened gain-of-function comprising contacting the cell with a hedgehog antagonist of formula (I) in a sufficient amount to aberrant growth state, e.g., to agonize a normal ptc pathway or antagonize smoothened or hedgehog activity.
US08815893B2 Hetarylaminonaphthyridines
Novel hetarylaminonaphthyridine derivatives of formula (I) wherein X, R1, R2, R3, R4, W1, W2, W3, W5 and W6 have the meaning according to claim 1, are inhibitors of ATP consuming proteins, and can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of tumors.