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| US08848257B2 |
Color prediction method, color conversion lookup table generation method, image processing method and image processing apparatus
According to the present invention, even if the coloring material use amount is limited but ambiguities remain and an accurate coloring material use limit is not known, then a virtual coloring material use limit is set artificially, the color measurement values of virtual patches in a region that exceeds the coloring material use limit are inferred by extrapolation and the color measurement values in the region exceeding the coloring material use limit are predicted by interpolation using the inferred color measurement values. Therefore, it is possible to predict colors in relation to any input exceeding the coloring material use limit. |
| US08848255B2 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming system and updating method of multi-dimensional LUT
An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit; a color conversion unit; a storage unit which stores a mixed-color pattern including a gradation of tones of a mixed color and a reference value of each of the tones; and a control unit which forms an image of the mixed-color pattern on the sheet with the image forming unit, compares color values representing color shades for each of the tones between an observed value of the image of the mixed-color pattern formed on the sheet and the reference value of the mixed-color pattern stored in the storage unit, and determines that the multi-dimensional LUT needs to be updated and updates the multi-dimensional LUT if a difference of the color values is determined to be large on the basis of a threshold value. |
| US08848251B2 |
Halftoning printing with a page-wide-array printer
A page-wide-array printer has a print unit including an array of print-heads, wherein a printing direction is defined by a relative movement between the print unit and a print medium during a printing process. The page-wide-array printer receives a continuous tone image and divides the continuous tone image into a series of slices along a printing direction. Halftone image data is generated from each of the slices using error diffusion halftoning. The error diffusion halftoning comprises processing, with regard to error diffusion, each slice pixel-by-pixel following a processing pattern mainly oriented along a main processing direction which is parallel to the printing direction. The page-wide-array printer prints the halftone image data along the printing direction. |
| US08848249B2 |
Creating an image to be printed using halftone blending
A method for creating an image to be printed is provided. A first halftone pattern and a second halftone pattern for respective first and second periodic clustered dot halftone regions of the image are selected. The regions have respective frequencies and one of the frequencies is higher than the other frequency. A transition region is determined. The transition region includes a boundary between the two regions and includes additional portions of the two regions beyond the boundary. The two halftone patterns are blended with each other in the transition region based on a blending ratio of the two halftones where the blending ratio changes as a function of distance between the edges of the transition region. |
| US08848248B2 |
Gradation correction device for generating gradation correction data in accordance with density data obtained by reading control strip, and printing system having the same
Disclosed is a gradation correction device in which the control strip has white or light-colored end patches and has at least one reference point at each of both ends of the control strip, which is defined by two straight lines including a fine line drawn on at least a part of a peripheral edge of each end patch except a border between the end patch and an adjacent patch which is adjacent to the end patch, and in which the gradation correction device detects the reference point at each of the both end portions of the control strip in the read image data, and obtains the density data of each patch by specifying a position of each patch in the control strip in the read image data in accordance with the detected reference point. |
| US08848247B2 |
Image retouching program
Provided is photo retouching software which is easy for photo studio personnel to use. Upon opening photo image(s), special photo retoucher converts photo image data thereof to working color space image data. At such time(s), if working ICC profile(s) is/are set which is/are different from ICC profile(s) previously embedded in such photo image file(s), color perceptual matching is carried out on the photo image data thereof based on such embedded ICC profile(s) and working ICC profile(s) when such photo image file(s) is/are opened. Furthermore, when such photo image(s) is/are displayed at monitor(s), such image data is converted to monitor color space image data through color matching using working ICC profile(s) and monitor ICC profile(s). |
| US08848243B2 |
Image processing apparatus, controlling method of image processing apparatus, and storage medium
A plurality of preview images in case of color printing performed to an area selected by a user and monochrome printing performed to an area not selected by the user are generated based on a plurality of parameters, and then the generated preview images are displayed. Further, preview images in case of color printing performed to a specific area and monochrome printing performed to another area are generated respectively to a plurality of patterns, and then the generated preview images are displayed. |
| US08848242B2 |
System and method to implement sharing of paper documents using virtual currency
The application discloses systems and methods for physically sharing a hard copy of a document. The systems and methods include presenting to a user a graphical user interface having printing options for printing the document, where the graphical user interface has an input for receiving an indication by the user that the user is willing to share the hard copy of the document; presenting to the user options for defining characteristics of the hard copy of the document in response to receiving the indication; and publishing at least one of the defined characteristics within a profile page of the user. |
| US08848240B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium
An object area containing a text or a graphic is extracted from a document image containing the text or the graphic. Then, on the basis of the extracted object area and stored size information, a cropping area is determined that surrounds the object area with given margins. Further, setting of margins is received. Then, on the basis of the object area and the received setting of the margins, the cropping area is determined. Then, the cropping area determined on the basis of the object area and the size information or alternatively the cropping area determined on the basis of the object area and the setting of the margins is cropped from the document image. |
| US08848239B2 |
Decoloring device comprising a mechanism for discharging a decolored sheet, and related sheet conveying method and non-transitory computer readable recording medium
There is provided a decoloring device including a decoloring unit, a first sheet conveying unit, a second sheet conveying unit, a reversing and conveying unit, a manual feed tray, and a manual discharge tray. The reversing and conveying unit is disposed adjacent to an outer wall of the decoloring device in relation to the first sheet conveying unit, and conveys once again the sheet, which is temporarily brought into the second sheet conveying unit after being decolored by the decoloring unit and is switch-back conveyed, to the first sheet conveying unit. The manual feed tray is provided at an outer wall side of the decoloring device adjacent to the reversing and conveying unit. The manual discharge tray is provided at a position of the outer wall side of the decoloring device adjacent to the reversing and conveying unit. |
| US08848237B2 |
Wireless scanning device and method for scanning and transmitting scan data
A wireless scanning device includes a scanning module adapted to scan a subject, a processor coupled to the scanning module, and a wireless communication module coupled to the processor for wireless communication with a user device. The processor is operable to control the scanning module to start scanning the subject according to a scan command from the user device. The scanning module is operable to generate scan data segments during scanning. The processor is further operable, for each scan data segment, to generate and transmit a real-time display data segment for real-time display and a compressed data segment for storage to the user device. |
| US08848236B2 |
Changing the resolution of a printer using a pulse train
A variable resolution print system is provided. The system includes a variable resolution printer coupled to a positional encoder and a configuration module. The position encoder provides a pulse train to a controller in the variable resolution printer, the pulse train representing the movement of a target relative to the printer. A user of the print system enters or sets a desired resolution for printing via the configuration module. The controller calculates the difference between pulses in the pulse train. The controller then determines an adjustment to the calculate difference based on the desired resolution. The adjustment is used to generate a pulse train that actuates one or more print head of the printer. |
| US08848233B2 |
Method for reducing image quality artifacts in three-dimensional printing
A relief print master, such as a flexographic print master or sleeve is created by printing a sequence of intermediate layers on top of each other with an inkjet printing system. The top layer corresponds with the halftoned image that is to be printed by the print master and the lower intermediate layers are supporting layers. The pixels of the intermediate layers that are stacked on top of each other are printed with different nozzles to reduce image quality artifacts. Both a method and a system are described. |
| US08848230B2 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming system
An image forming apparatus includes: an operation unit; an image forming unit; a control unit making the image forming unit perform an image formation; a data acquisition unit obtaining an image formation object data; a data conversion unit converting the image formation object data to an image formation format data; and a plurality of memory regions storing the image formation format data, wherein when the data acquisition unit obtains the image formation object data, the control unit makes the data conversion unit convert the image formation object data to the image formation format data, makes each of the plurality of memory regions store each of the image formation format data, and, when the operation unit receives an image formation instruction, makes the image forming unit perform an image formation, in a predetermined order, of the image formation format data stored in the plurality of memory regions. |
| US08848229B2 |
Information processing device, information processing system, control method, and storage medium
A cooperation server executes printing processing of a document from an MFP through a printing server based on matter information including a printing instruction for the document received from a matter management server. The cooperation server notifies the client PC of the printing order that includes the printing ID and access information used for registering the costs related to the printing after completion of printing, provides a registering screen for costs related to printing by reason of the access from the client PC, and registers the costs registering information received from the client PC on the matter management server. |
| US08848228B2 |
Image forming apparatus supporting peer to peer connection and method of performing image forming operation thereof
A method of performing an image forming operation in an image forming apparatus supporting peer to peer (P2P) connection includes P2P connecting the image forming apparatus to an external wireless device while the image forming apparatus is wirelessly connected to an access point (AP) of an infrastructured network, receiving a discovery packet from the wireless device via a P2P interface, transmitting to the wireless device a response packet including an Internet protocol (IP) address of the P2P interface, receiving from the wireless device an image forming operation performing request having the IP address of the P2P interface as a destination, and performing the requested image forming operation. |
| US08848227B2 |
Job division apparatus
A job division apparatus for dividing a print job including a plurality of print sets which are units to be processed by respective image forming apparatuses and transmitting the print sets to the image forming apparatuses. The job division apparatus includes a judgment unit configured to judge whether the print job is dividable at a planned division position indicating a position at which the print job is planned to be divided, on a basis of the planned division position and a set separation position for the print sets included in the print job, a calculator configured to calculate a division position by moving the planned division position so as to agree with the set separation position upon judgment that the print job is not dividable, and a divider configured to divide the print job on a basis of the division position as calculated. |
| US08848226B2 |
Printing apparatus, printing system, and printing method for managing a print job queue with a timer
The printing apparatus is provided for processing a print job received from an information terminal to accumulate the print job sent from the information terminal in an image storage portion, and includes a timer for measuring elapse of a predetermined time from reception of a print job for each user indentified according to user identification information included in the print job; and a control portion for controlling a print order, during the time measurement, so as to skip printing of a print job received from a corresponding user to print a print job not including the user identification information first, and print print jobs received from the corresponding user in a lump after the elapse of the predetermined time. |
| US08848225B2 |
Image forming apparatus for determining whether images are normally formed in a set of pages based on a comparison result between stored processing results, and image forming system and non-transitory computer readable recording medium
An image forming apparatus for outputting a plurality of sets of output units, the output unit composed of a plurality of pages with a determined order being one set, includes an image forming unit for successively forming images corresponding to the respective pages on sheets, a control unit for performing an arithmetic processing of an image eigenvalue for each output unit, a first storage storing the result of the arithmetic processing performed for one specific set of output unit, and a second storage storing the result of the arithmetic processing performed for the nth set of output unit, wherein the control unit determines whether or not the images are normally formed on the sheets for the nth set of output unit based on a comparison result between the result of the arithmetic processing stored in the first storage and that of the arithmetic processing stored in the second storage. |
| US08848223B2 |
Printing method for maintaining proper page sequence while reducing printer artifacts
A printing method for a print job having at least two pages. After determining a position of rolled media in the printer, print data for either a first page or a second page of the print job can be staged for printing first. This can be performed at a host computer connected to the printer or it can be performed in the printer. |
| US08848221B2 |
Method and system for managing print on demand jobs with remote cache
A method and system for managing print job through a process carried out by an online web-store server. The process includes the steps of receiving a print job order by a web-store server, and checking a remote cache via a network to determine whether a PDF file is stored therein. If the matching PDF file does not exist, then the server generates a new PDF file containing the sequence of articles and transmits the new PDF file to the print server, and saves the new PDF file in the remote cache. If the matching PDF exists, then the stored PDF is retrieved from the remote cache, and the print server uses the retrieved PDF file to print the print job without the web-store server creating the new PDF file or transmitting the new PDF file to the print server. |
| US08848219B2 |
Printing control apparatus, printing control method, and program for reducing the number of times of shifting a printing apparatus to the standby state to reduce power consumption
A printing control apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information about a plurality of print jobs and a plurality of printing devices in a storage device, a detection unit configured to detect the shift of operating status of the plurality of printing devices, a determination unit configured to determine a print job which a printing device prints from the plurality of print jobs based on the information about the plurality of print jobs and the plurality of printing devices stored in the storage device when the shift of the printing device to a standby state is detected by the detection unit, and a print control unit configured to cause the first printing device to print the print job determined by the determination unit. |
| US08848214B2 |
System and method for automatically validating a workflow plan using an automated planner
An improved automated planning method and system includes the use of an automated planner for validating a workflow plan with respect to device capabilities. As such, the present invention provides for an improved method and system for implementing and managing workflow plans utilized in printing environments such as, for example, print shops. A plurality of device capability descriptions can be converted into a data indicative of facts and operators for utilizing in a knowledge-based reasoning system. Next, a workflow plan can be converted into properties indicative of a goal state. The goal state and the data indicative of facts and operators can then be utilized in association with a domain-independent or domain-dependent planner to determine if said workflow plan is valid and executable in order to thereby validate said workflow plan. |
| US08848213B2 |
Object-based network scanning
In accordance with one or more aspects, a user selects one or more capabilities of a repository service and one or more capabilities of a scanner. A scan object including both acquisition parameters based on the selected one or more capabilities of the scanner and post-scan instructions based on the selected one or more capabilities of the repository service is generated and stored for subsequent access by the scanner. At the scanner, multiple scan objects available to a user of the scanner are identified. One or more electronic documents are created by scanning one or more documents using the acquisition parameters in the selected scan object. Both the post-scan instructions in the selected scan object and the one or more electronic documents are sent to a service identified in the scan object, where the post-scan instructions are processed. |
| US08848211B2 |
Maintenance program creation for an image forming apparatus
With a computer-readable non-transitory recording medium that stores a program, the program causes an information processing apparatus to function as an error-code-accepting unit, a data-management unit, an extracting unit, and a creating unit. The error-code-accepting unit accepts an error code. The data-management unit has (i) image data, each of which is associated with a setting, the value of which can be adjusted, (ii) control programs that supplies an output to an image forming apparatus, and (iii) combination information about a combination of the image data and the control program. When the error code is accepted, the extracting unit extracts the image data and the control program. The creating unit creates a maintenance program by using the image data and control program. |
| US08848207B2 |
Computer capable of setting new environment for using new electronic device
A computer allowing a user to use, even when the printing device is changed, a new printing device in a state close to a familiar environment of use is provided. The computer includes a determining unit determining whether an existing environment for using another electronic device used for the same usage as the new electronic device has been set in the computer. The computer further includes a setting unit selectively executing a process for setting an environment for using the new electronic device in the computer using the existing environment as a reference, and a process for setting a default setting for using the new electronic device in the computer, depending on a result of determination. |
| US08848204B2 |
Image forming apparatus that prints an image on a recording medium set for manual feed
An image forming apparatus includes: a manual feed detecting unit that detects if a recording medium is set in a manual medium feeding unit; a print data receiving unit that receives print data; a medium orientation setting unit that receives an instruction for an orientation of the recording medium to be fed from the manual medium feeding unit, and sets the orientation; a printing control unit that controls the printing device to print an image based on the print data and executes a manual feed forcing operation if the manual feed detecting unit has detected the recording medium; and an image generating unit that generates the image based on the print data and determines an orientation of the image based on the orientation of the recording medium. |
| US08848197B2 |
Cavity opto-mechanical sensor array
A mass sensor system including multiple Fabry-Perot microcavities connected in parallel by multiple waveguides. Each of the mass sensors includes a microbridge having a fundamental resonance frequency, and a movable reflective mirror etched into the microbridge; a fixed reflective mirror etched in a substrate, the fixed reflective mirror being fixed to the substrate in a region spaced apart from the movable reflective mirror; and an optical waveguide etched in the substrate that connects the movable mirror and the fixed mirror forming the Fabry-Perot microcavity interferometer. The system includes a tunable continuous-wave laser operative to optically interrogate the Fabry-Perot microcavity of each of the plurality of mass sensors, and a receiver operative to receive sensor signals from each of the plurality of mass sensors, the sensor signals comprising reflective signals and transmitted signals. A continuous-wave laser may generate optical forces that modify the motion, dynamics, or mechanical Q-factor of the microbridge. |
| US08848191B2 |
Photoacoustic sensor with mirror
A photoacoustic sensing device includes a laser tuned to emit light to cause optical absorption by a gas to be detected, a resonant acoustic sensor positioned to receive pressure waves from the gas, wherein the laser is modulated to match a resonant frequency of the resonant acoustic sensor, and a first mirror positioned to receive light from the laser after the light has passed through the gas and to reflect the received light back through the gas to cause additional optical absorption. |
| US08848189B2 |
Method and device for express analysis of acetone traces in gases
A device, system, and method for measuring acetone levels exhaled from a patient and correlating the measured level to a blood glucose concentration. |
| US08848187B2 |
Spectroscopic sensor device and electronic equipment
A spectroscopic sensor that applies lights in a wavelength band containing plural wavelengths to an object and spectroscopically separates reflected lights or transmitted lights from the object using plural light band-pass filters that transmit the respective specific wavelengths and plural photosensor parts to which corresponding transmitted lights are input based on output results of independent photosensors. The spectroscopic sensor may be integrated in a semiconductor device or module by integration using a semiconductor process and downsizing may be realized. |
| US08848185B2 |
Optical system and method for measuring in three-dimensional structures
An optical system is presented for use in measuring in patterned structures having vias. The system is configured and operable to enable measurement of a via profile parameters. The system comprises an illumination channel for propagating illuminated light onto the structure being measured, a detection channel for collecting light returned from the illuminated structure to a detection unit, and a modulating assembly configured and operable for implementing a dark-field detection mode by carrying out at least one of the following: affecting at least one parameter of light propagating along at least one of the illumination and detection channels, and affecting propagation of light along at least the detection channel. |
| US08848184B2 |
Optical position-measuring device
In an optical position-measuring device for recording the relative position of a scanning unit and a measuring standard, the scanning unit includes a light source, first annular scanning graduation, reflector element, beamsplitter element, and detection unit. A beam emitted by the light source impinges on the measuring graduation and is split into at least two partial beams of rays. The partial beams propagate toward the scanning unit, impinge the first scanning graduation on the reflector element, are reflected through the first scanning graduation toward the measuring graduation, impinge the measuring graduation, propagate toward the scanning unit and undergo superposition, and are deflected by the beamsplitter element toward the detection unit. There, a plurality of positionally dependent, phase-shifted scanning signals can be recorded. The first scanning graduation focuses the partial beams from the measuring graduation at the reflector element, thereby recollimating the partial beams to be reflected toward the measuring graduation. |
| US08848182B2 |
Optical device, analyzing apparatus and spectroscopic method
An optical device includes a first projection group in which electrically conductive projections are arranged at a first period along a direction parallel to a virtual plane. When light traveling in a direction inclined with respect to a vertical line directed to the virtual plane is incident on the first projection group, surface plasmon resonance is generated at a first resonance peak wavelength and a second resonance peak wavelength. A first resonance peak wavelength band including the first resonance peak wavelength includes an excitation wavelength in surface-enhanced Raman scattering. A second resonance peak wavelength band including the second resonance peak wavelength includes a Raman scattering wavelength in the surface-enhanced Raman scattering. |
| US08848179B2 |
Apparatus for focus beam analysis of high power lasers
An in-line laser beam waist analyzer system includes an optical prism that picks off a portion of a second surface reflection from either a laser processing focus lens or a protective debris shield for the processing lens and directs that focused light to a pixelated detector. This provides real time monitoring of the focused laser beam while it is processing material by welding, cutting, drilling, scribing or marking, without disrupting the process. |
| US08848177B2 |
Apparatus for focus beam analysis of high power lasers
An in-line laser beam waist analyzer system includes an optical prism that picks off a portion of a second surface reflection from either a laser processing focus lens or a protective debris shield for the processing lens and directs that focused light to a pixelated detector. This provides real time monitoring of the focused laser beam while it is processing material by welding, cutting, drilling, scribing or marking, without disrupting the process. |
| US08848174B2 |
Apparatus and method for coupling an optical beam with an optical fibre
A method and corresponding apparatus for coupling an optical beam into a first end of an optical fiber includes two steps. First, light is coupled into a second end of the optical fiber such that an optical reference beam is output from the first end of the optical fiber. Second, at least one beam parameter of the optical beam is matched with the corresponding beam parameter of the optical reference beam. The second step may be performed using a wavefront sensor. |
| US08848172B2 |
Distance measuring device having homogenizing measurement evaluation
A handheld measuring device for optical distance measurement includes a transmitting device, a receiving device, an evaluation device, and a homogenizing device. The transmitting device is configured to transmit periodically modulated optical measurement radiation toward a target object. The receiving device is configured to detect optical measurement radiation returning from the target object. The evaluation device is configured to receive and evaluate detection signals of the receiving device. The evaluation device comprises a plurality of accumulation devices configured to accumulate detection signals. The evaluation device conducts detection signals during a sampling time window from a plurality of sampling time windows temporally schematically changeably to an assigned accumulation device from the plurality of accumulation devices, such that the accumulation device accumulates the detection signals during the sampling time window. |
| US08848171B2 |
Highly accurate distance measurement device
Highly accurate electro-optical time of flight distance measuring device for determining a distance to a target, including a transmitter for sending out a pulse shaped optical radiation to the target as well as a receiver for an optical signal built for turning the optical signal to an electrical signal, and a filter with a transfer function for filtering the electrical signal whereby the filter is built in such a way that its transfer-function is of at least 4th order, in particular 5th or 7th or higher order, so that aliasing is suppressed. Further a waveform-sampler, as an analog-to-digital-converter, for digitalizing the pulse shape from the filtered electrical signal as time- and value-quantized digital data, and a computation means for a numerical evaluation of the distance according to the pulse shape or a pulse shape representing numerical signature from the digital data. |
| US08848166B2 |
Apparatus and method for maintaining immersion fluid in the gap under the projection lens during wafer exchange in an immersion lithography machine
An immersion exposure apparatus and method expose a substrate with an exposure beam via an optical assembly and via immersion liquid. A first stage on which a substrate is mounted is positioned below the optical assembly so that the immersion liquid is maintained in a space between the optical assembly and the substrate. The first stage is replaced below the optical assembly with a second stage while maintaining the immersion liquid below the optical assembly. The replacing includes arranging a movable member, which is independently movable relative to the first and second stages and away from below the optical assembly, to face the optical assembly so as to substantially maintain the immersion liquid below the optical assembly while the first and second substrate stages are away from below the optical assembly. A control system controls a drive system to move the first and second stages. |
| US08848165B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method
An immersion lithography apparatus is disclosed in which liquid is supplied to a space between a projection system and a substrate, and a plate structure is provided to divide the space into two parts. The plate structure has an aperture to allow transmission of the projection beam, has through holes in it to reduce the damping effect of the presence of the plate and optionally has one or more inlets and outlets to provide various flows around the aperture in the plate. An embodiment of the invention may reduce the transportation of contaminants, stray light, temperature gradients, and/or the effect of bubbles on the imaging quality. |
| US08848163B2 |
Photoresist materials and photolithography processes
A lithography apparatus generates a tunable magnetic field to facilitate processing of photoresist. The lithography apparatus includes a chamber and a substrate stage in the chamber operable to hold a substrate. A magnetic module provides a magnetic field to the substrate on the substrate stage. The magnetic module is configured to provide the magnetic field in a tunable and alternating configuration with respect to its magnitude and frequency. The magnetic field is provided to have a gradient in magnitude along a Z-axis that is perpendicular to the substrate stage to cause magnetically-charged particles disposed over the substrate stage to move up and down along the Z-axis. The lithography apparatus also includes a radiation energy source and an objective lens configured to receive radiation energy from the radiation energy source and direct the radiation energy toward the substrate positioned on the substrate stage. |
| US08848158B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and associated liquid crystal media for use in the same
A reverse mode liquid crystal display device, including: a first substantially transparent substrate having an electrically conductive material associated therewith; a second substrate having an electrically conductive material associated therewith; an insulating layer associated with at least one of the first and second substrates; and a liquid crystal medium contained within a chamber positioned between the first and second substrates which includes a macrocyclic ether and/or a borane; and a nematic, negative dielectric anisotropic liquid crystal mixture. |
| US08848153B2 |
Image display device
An image display device includes a light source, an array substrate having a plurality of sub-pixel areas and corresponding to a plurality of color filters, wherein the array substrate includes: a display region and a peripheral region around the display region; and a liquid crystal layer comprising a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. A light transmittance per unit area in the peripheral region of the array substrate is equal to or less than a light transmittance per unit area in the display region of the array substrate, and a resistivity ratio of the color filter having a highest resistivity to the color filter having a lowest resistivity is less than 10 and greater than 0. |
| US08848149B2 |
Controllable optical device and the forming method thereof
A controllable optical device comprises a first substrate, a first conductive layer, a liquid crystal layer, a semiconductor conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a second substrate. The first conductive layer is formed on the first substrate, the liquid crystal layer is formed on the first conductive layer, the semiconductor conductive layer is formed on the liquid crystal layer, the second conductive layer is formed on the semiconductor layer, and the second substrate is formed on the second conductive layer. |
| US08848146B2 |
Liquid crystal device, electronic device and phase difference compensating plate
An O plate is included which includes a phase difference compensating layer which is an assembly of columns obtained by oblique deposition of an anisotropic refractive index medium with respect to a substrate and has negative biaxial refractive index anisotropy. In the O plate, a front surface phase difference value of the O plate in the normal direction is 5-15 nm, and a ratio of Re(−30)/Re(30) is 2.5-5.5. |
| US08848145B2 |
Method for producing light reflective film, and light reflective film
A light reflective film is produced by (a) forming a hard coat layer having a surface energy of less than 30 mN/m and a pencil hardness of at least 2H on a resin film, (b) applying a curable liquid crystal composition onto the surface of the opposite side, (c) drying the applied curable liquid crystal composition to be in a state of a cholesteric liquid crystal phase, (d) promoting the curing reaction to form a light reflective layer, and (e) repeating at least once the process of from (b) to (d). |
| US08848134B2 |
LED assembly and liquid crystal display device including the same
A light emitting diode (LED) assembly includes a printed circuit board; first and second LED arrays arranged on the printed circuit board and each including a plurality of LEDs, wherein the LEDs in each of the first and second LED array are connected to each other in series, and an output terminal of the first LED array faces an output terminal of the second LED array; a first input line connected to an input terminal of the first LED array; a second input line connected to an input terminal of the second LED array; and one output line connected to the output terminal of the first LED array and the output terminal of the second LED array, wherein the first input line, the second input line and the one output line are disposed at one side of the printed circuit board with respect to the LEDs. |
| US08848133B2 |
Hybrid type liquid crystal display device
The present disclosure relates to a hybrid type liquid crystal display device. The present disclosure suggests a hybrid type liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel having a display area; and a window area defined within the display area, wherein an image disposed at outside of the liquid crystal display panel is shown in front of the liquid crystal panel through the window area. The present disclosure suggests a hybrid type display device in which main video data is represented using the liquid crystal display device, an additional image represented on an external screen is shown through the liquid crystal display device, or the external image can be shown by overlapping with the main video data of the liquid crystal display device, as needed. |
| US08848131B2 |
Lighting device, display device and television receiver
An object of the present invention is to stably fix a light source board without using any screw. A backlight unit 12 according to the present invention includes an LED board 18 including an LED 17 as a light source, a chassis 14 that stores the LED board 18 and has an opening 14b through which light from the LED 17 exits, and a holding member 20 that extends in at least one direction along a plate surface of the LED board 18 and is fixed to the chassis 14 so as to hold the LED board 18 together with the chassis between the holding member 20 and the chassis 14. |
| US08848123B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display module including an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal panel; a first cover covering a rear side of the liquid crystal display module; a second cover covering a front side of the liquid crystal display module and including a transparent conductive layer; and a discharging path connecting the transparent conductive layer to the in-plane switching mode liquid crystal panel, wherein the transparent conductive layer is attached to the liquid crystal display module. |
| US08848120B2 |
Liquid crystal lens panel
Provided is a liquid crystal lens panel. The illustrative liquid crystal lens panel may provide a display device capable of viewing a 3D or 2D image without glasses. |
| US08848114B2 |
Controlling polarization for liquid crystal displays
Certain embodiments of liquid crystal display protection panels and liquid crystal display protection panel integrals have low reflection for outdoor applications. Various embodiments also have the advantage of being able to provide increased contrast and brightness for certain convenient viewing directions for outdoor viewers wearing polarized sunglasses. |
| US08848103B2 |
Content data display device, content data display method and program
It is desired to provide a content data display device having a caption display function which can effectively use the screen of the limited size and achieves a high operability. A content data display device includes: a storage unit configured to store an image data and a content data which includes at least one caption data which respectively corresponds to at least one region on the image data; a display unit configured to display the image data; an input unit configured to select a selected region from the at least one region; and a control unit configured to display a caption data which is one of the at least one caption data and corresponds to the selected region to overlap on the selected region of the image data as a selected caption data. |
| US08848100B2 |
Information processing device, information processing system, and launch program and storage medium storing the same providing photographing functionality
A game device according to the present embodiment includes a camera as image pick-up means. An inner camera is accommodated in an upper housing. In addition, a microphone hole is provided in an inner surface of the upper housing so as to sense external sound through a microphone. |
| US08848094B2 |
Optimal blur matching selection for depth estimation
Autofocusing is performed in response to a capturing object images upon which multiple depth estimation techniques are applied to yield a plurality of iterations. An iteration from one of these depth estimation techniques is selected based on results, such as based on largest absolute value, and checked. If the iteration fails the check, another of the iterations is selected and tested. Once a valid iteration is found, additional focus positions are executed in like manner from which an accurate focus position is determined. |
| US08848092B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus
A solid-state imaging device includes: a light-receiving element; and a multilayer film which is disposed on a side of a light-receiving surface of the light-receiving element and is formed by laminating a plurality of layers made of materials having different refractive indices, in which a defect layer is included in at least one of the laminated layers, wherein in the defect layer, a plurality of kinds of materials having different refractive indices coexist in a surface parallel to the light-receiving surface. |
| US08848083B2 |
Photographing apparatus and file transfer method used in the photographing apparatus
A photographing apparatus and a file transfer method in the photographing apparatus efficiently process files of an external device and image data of the photographing apparatus which have a same name when transferring the image data to the external device, such as a personal computer. The photographing apparatus which captures an image and creates and stores image data of the image includes a display unit that displays the image data, a communication interface that performs data communications with an external device by transmitting data to and receiving data from the external device, and a control unit that controls the communication interface to transfer the image data to the external device and, when the external device includes a file having the same file name as the image data, controls the display unit to display a synthesized image of the image data and an image of the file of the external device. |
| US08848080B2 |
Active pixel sensor with a diagonal active area
An imaging device formed as a CMOS semiconductor integrated circuit having two adjacent pixels in a row connected to a common column line and a processor based system with such an imaging device. By having adjacent pixels of a row share column lines, the CMOS imager circuit eliminates half the column lines of a traditional imager allowing the fabrication of a smaller imager. The imaging device also may be fabricated to have a diagonal active area to facilitate contact of two adjacent pixels with the single column line and allow linear row select lines, reset lines and column lines. |
| US08848079B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and imaging system using buffered counter value of a counter
A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a plurality of readout circuits provided in each column of the plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, configured to read out for each column a signal of the plurality of pixels, a plurality of comparison units configured to compare a signal output from the plurality of readout circuits with a reference signal whose level changes with time, a counter configured to perform a count operation from when the level of the reference signal starts to change, first and second buffers each configured to buffer a count value of the counter, and a plurality of storing units connected to the plurality of comparison units, configured to store a count value of the counter when a magnitude relation between a signal output from the plurality of the readout circuits and the reference signal is inverted. |
| US08848077B2 |
Imaging apparatus and imaging method
An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device that has a plurality of pairs of a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element, which have different spectral sensitivity characteristics, respectively. A wavelength range where the first photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity and a wavelength range where the second photoelectric conversion element of the pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity fall within wavelength ranges of specific colors of visible light respectively. The plurality of pairs include a plurality of types of pairs having different specific colors. A half-width in a spectral sensitivity characteristic of the second photoelectric conversion element of each pair is wider than a half width in a spectral sensitivity characteristic of the first photoelectric conversion element of the pair. |
| US08848071B2 |
Imaging apparatus that switches between hardware image processor and software image processor
An imaging apparatus capable of capturing a moving image with an imaging device is equipped with a first image-processing device that uses hardware to process images captured by the imaging device and a second image-processing device that processes captured images with software. The imaging apparatus includes an image-processing switching device that selectively operates one of either the first image-processing device or the second image-processing device. The imaging apparatus includes a light-detection device that detects the amount of light received by the imaging device and a sensitivity adjustment device that increases the sensitivity of the imaging device as the amount of light decreases. The image-processing switching device operates the first image-processing device when the sensitivity is lower than a predetermined value and operates the second image-processing device when the sensitivity is higher than the predetermined value. |
| US08848063B2 |
Image processing including image correction
Long and short exposure time pixel information are input to pixel information. A long exposure time image set with the pixel values assuming all of the pixels have been exposed for a long time and a short exposure time image set with the pixel values assuming all of the pixels have been exposed for a short time are generated. A point spread function corresponding to the long exposure time image is computed as a long exposure time image PSF. A corrected image is generated using the short exposure time image, the long exposure time image, and the long exposure time image PSF. The corrected image is generated as a wide dynamic range image utilizing the pixel information for the long and short exposure time image. Utilizing the pixel information for the short exposure time image with little blurring, makes the corrected image a high quality corrected image with little blurring. |
| US08848058B2 |
Method for analyzing the motion of a person during an activity
A method is disclosed for analyzing with a computer (1) the motion of an athlete (3), of a team or a patient during an activity, said method comprising the steps of defining a number of unevenly time-spaced key positions in said motion, said key positions being of particular interest for analyzing the correct execution of said motion by said athlete (3) or team. A video sequence (11) of said motion is acquired with a camera (2) and still pictures (12) are extracted from said video sequence (11). Templates can trigger the automatic extraction of still pictures (12). For extraction purposes, a metadata recorded with a sensor (5) at the same time as the video sequence (11) can be used. Said still pictures (12) correspond to said previously defined key positions. Thereafter said extracted still pictures (12) are displayed simultaneously on a same display (10). |
| US08848055B2 |
Object recognition system, and obstacle recognition system and method for vehicle
Provided is an object recognition system. The object recognition system recognizes an object in an ROI of a source image. The object recognition system includes an image change unit and an ROI detection unit. The image change unit receives the source image, and changes the object into an edge image which is represented as an edge line. The ROI detection unit divides the edge image into a plurality of regions, compares a total sum of edge component values of an edge line included in each of the regions and a predetermined threshold value by regions, and detects a region, in which the total sum of edge component values is greater than the threshold value, as the ROI from among the plurality of regions. |
| US08848054B2 |
Presentation capture with automatically configurable output
A device and method for simultaneously capturing a combination of content video, content audio, presenter video and presenter audio, as well as distributing a combination of content video, content audio, presenter video and presenter audio to a digital sink via an HDMI connection. Video sources are automatically routed to the digital sink depending on the source configuration. |
| US08848048B2 |
Electronic mirroring system
An electronic mirroring system comprises a mirroring unit (12) consisted of a flat panel television (10) attached a touch panel (11), a front video camera (13), a rear video camera (14), and a main unit (21). A front image and a back image are displayed on the flat panel television (10) of the mirroring unit (12) simultaneously. |
| US08848045B2 |
Stereoscopic flat panel display with a continuously lit backlight
This disclosure describes stereoscopic flat panel display systems based on the polarization encoding of sequentially displayed left and right eye images. The systems comprise line-by-line addressed liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, illuminating back light units and polarization control panels (PCPs). Right and left eye images are written sequentially onto the LCD whose polarization is controlled by a substantially synchronously driven PCP. The backlight may be continuously illuminated, or modulated temporally, spatially or both, as can the PCP. |
| US08848044B2 |
Image processing apparatus, method, program and display
This invention is to provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a display in which both of a secret image and a public image can be efficiently displayed with high picture quality without reducing contrast of the public image. One of output images is a secret image which displays an input secret image as one of input images in a partial area of a screen, all the output images including the secret image have a relationship to become, when a luminance value of each pixel thereof is totaled, an input public image as one of the input images; and during a period in which at least the secret image is being outputted, shutter glasses disposed between a display to which the image signals are inputted and user's eyes are set to a light transmission state. |
| US08848041B2 |
Method and apparatus for displaying stereoscopic image
Provided are methods and apparatuses for displaying a stereoscopic image. The method includes alternately generating repeated left-eye images and repeated right-eye images; turning off a backlight unit during a period in which a left-eye image and a right-eye image are mixed and turning on the backlight unit during a period in which only one of the left-eye and right-eye images is displayed; and controlling a left-eye shutter and a right-eye shutter of shutter glasses during a period in which the backlight unit is turned on. |
| US08848040B2 |
3D display system with active shutter plate
A 3D display system uses a lenticular screen or a parallax barrier, along with a shutter plate, as a light directing device to allow a viewer's right eye to see a right image and the left eye to see a left image on a display panel. The right and left images are alternately displayed. The shutter plate has a plurality of right shutter segments and a plurality of left shutter segments arranged in an interleaving manner. When the right image is displayed, the right shutter segments are open and the left shutter segments are closed. When the left image is displayed, the right shutter segments are closed and the left shutter segments are open. But when the 3D display panel is used as a 2D display panel, both the right and left shutter segments are all open so that both the viewer's eyes see the image simultaneously. |
| US08848037B2 |
Data structure, recording medium, playing device and playing method, and program
The present invention relates to a data structure, a recording medium, a playing device and a playing method, and a program, which enable providing of a video format for 3D display, suitable for 3D display of subtitles and menu buttons.Subtitle data for the left eye and subtitle data for the right eye which are used for 3D display of subtitles is recorded in a disc 501 in increments of epochs. The structures of epochs of subtitle data for the left eye and subtitle data for the right eye to be played simultaneously are the same. That is to say, the number of display sets making up an epoch of subtitle data for the left eye, and the number of display sets making up an epoch of subtitle data for the right eye, that are to be played simultaneously, are the same. The present invention can be applied to a disc for 3D display. |
| US08848034B2 |
Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program
There is provided an image processing apparatus for processing at least two still images that are picked up in such a manner that two still images successively picked up have shared portions, the apparatus comprising: a synthesis unit which generates a synthesized image from the at least two still images by synthesizing the shared portions; a capturing unit which captures a plurality of frame images from a plurality of areas in the synthesized image so that a frame image is captured from an area straddling two adjacent still images across the shared portions; and a generation unit which generates a moving image in which the synthesized image is scrolled and displayed, from the plurality of frame images captured by the capturing unit. |
| US08848033B2 |
Regulating method for panoramic imaging, apparatus for the same, and panoramic imaging apparatus
A regulating method for panoramic imaging, a regulating apparatus for the same, and a panoramic imaging apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining the circular viewing angle and the pitch angle of the current zone which is ready for being detected, determining the side length of the rectangular imaging part in the panoramic imaging apparatus, regulating the round panoramic image in the focal plane formed by a panoramic lens according to the side length of the rectangular imaging part and the circular viewing angle and the pitch angle of the current zone which is ready for being detected, in order to make the diameter of the round panoramic image in the focal plane formed by the panoramic lens greater than the length of the shorter side of the rectangular imaging part. |
| US08848031B2 |
Digital microscope system
Disclosed is a digital microscope system capable of controlling two or more microscope units with a controlling unit. The digital microscope system includes (i) two or more microscope units, (ii) a camera interface, (iii) a controlling unit and (iv) a light output device. The microscope unit includes a lens tube, a digital camera, a light terminator and a stand. The camera interface includes two or more camera interface (I/F) channels and a camera interface channel selector. The controlling unit includes a memory, a display device, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a power supply. |
| US08848030B2 |
Method and system for determining a direction between a detection point and an acoustic source
A method including: receiving acoustic signals originating from an acoustic source at a first pair of microphone elements, arranged symmetrically about a detection point; calculating, with a processor device, a cross correlation of signals provided by the first pair of microphone elements, resulting in a first cross correlation signal; receiving the acoustic signals originating from the acoustic source at a second pair of microphone elements, arranged symmetrically about the detection point; calculating, with the processor device, a cross correlation of signals provided by the second pair of microphone elements, resulting in a second cross correlation signal; and calculating, with the processor device, a direction between the detection point and the acoustic source based on a convolution of the first cross correlation signal by the second cross correlation signal. |
| US08848029B2 |
Optimizing room lighting based on image sensor feedback
A mechanism for efficiently and dynamically adjusting lighting conditions in a space through the use of existing video capture devices in the space or video capture devices on computing devices brought into the space is provided. Incident lighting levels, light composition, and similar aspects on the participants, displays, projectors, white boards, walls, and comparable objects may be calibrated and/or optimized based on captured image quality. |
| US08848027B2 |
Video conference call conversation topic sharing system
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to a method for presenting topics of conversation during a call comprising: connecting, by a computer, a first device and a second device over a network; opening, by a computer, an audio channel that facilitates audio communication between a first user of the first device and a second user of the second device; receiving, by a computer, an audio stream over the audio channel; analyzing, by a computer, the audio stream to determine spoken words said by either the first or second users; correlating, by a computer, the determined spoken words to determine a topic of conversation; and displaying, by a computer, the topic of conversation in an information post to a remote terminal connected to the network. |
| US08848025B2 |
Flow-control based switched group video chat and real-time interactive broadcast
Real-time interactive broadcast sessions for client devices include: for each client device in the interactive broadcast session, configuring downstream video and audio ports for the interactive broadcast session between a central controller and the client device; receiving from each client device a selected broadcaster corresponding to a broadcaster flow control signal; in response to receiving the selected broadcaster from each client device, sending video and audio streams of the selected broadcaster to each client device over the interactive broadcast session; receiving a request from a given client device on the interactive broadcast session to interact with the selected broadcaster; configuring upstream and downstream video ports for one-to-one video chat session between the central controller and the given client device; and sending the video and audio streams of the given client device, and the video and audio streams of the selected broadcaster, to each client device over the interactive broadcast session. |
| US08848020B2 |
Auto focus
A method of controlling a user interface to display participants of a call in dependence upon the participants' speech activity in the call, the method including monitoring the speech activity of the participants in the call and determining whether a participant is an active participant or an inactive participant in dependence on the participants' speech activity over a minimum time period of the call. In response to determining whether a participant is an active or inactive participant, an active participant is displayed in a first area of the user interface and an inactive participant is displayed in a second area of the user interface. The first area of the user interface is larger than the second area of the user interface. |
| US08848018B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing video call service
A method for providing a video call service in a videophone apparatus comprising: establishing a peer-to-peer connection between the videophone apparatus and a peer over a wireless connection; generating a local video stream in the videophone apparatus based on a video signal provided by a camera of the videophone apparatus; and rendering the local video stream to provide a first preview video of the video call for a user of the videophone apparatus. The method further comprises receiving at least one frame of a peer video stream; rendering the at least one frame of the peer video stream to provide a second preview video of the video call for the user of the videophone apparatus; and cross-fading the second preview video with the received peer video stream in response to a frame rate of the peer video stream exceeding a threshold value. |
| US08848017B2 |
Method and apparatus for supporting data service for quality of service in portable terminal using two different operating systems
A method and an apparatus for supporting a data service for Quality of Service (QoS) in a portable terminal using two different Operating Systems (OSs) are provided. The apparatus includes a QoS controller server, in an application chip, for sending a QoS control signal to a QoS controller client of a modem chip, the QoS controller client, in the modem chip, for controlling the modem chip based on the control signal received from the QoS controller server of the application chip, and a memory for providing a channel between the application chip and the modem chip. |
| US08848013B2 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus including a plurality of scanned members
An optical scanning device, arranged on one side of at least two to-be-scanned members in a second direction, and the two to-be-scanned members being arranged in a first direction perpendicular to the second, includes: an illuminating system that emits beams including a first beam and a second beam whose polarization directions are different from each other; an optical deflector that deflects the beams; and a scanning optical system that includes a polarization separation element that transmits one of the first and second beams and reflects the other; a first mirror group including reflecting mirrors for guiding the first beam to a to-be-scanned member; and a second mirror group including reflecting mirrors for guiding the second beam to a to-be-scanned member. Last-stage reflecting mirrors in the first and second mirror groups are arranged on one side of the beams deflected by the optical deflector in the second direction. |
| US08848008B2 |
System and method for providing a multi-mode embedded display
An information handling system includes a display panel, a panel connector, and a source device. The display panel displays images at different resolutions. The enables display data signals to be sent to the display panel. The source device determines whether an auxiliary channel is present between the source device and the panel connector, operates in a first embedded display operation mode if the auxiliary channel is present, otherwise determines if an enable signal has been received, and operates in a second embedded display operation mode when the enable signal has been received. The source device also communicates the display data signals to the display panel through the panel connector via a same set of pins of the source device during both the first embedded display operation mode and the second embedded display operation mode. |
| US08848004B2 |
Method of calculating correction value and display device
A method of calculating a correction value used when signal value correction is performed with respect to an image signal supplied to a display panel includes setting a target luminance value, which is not uniform in an overall surface of the display panel, as a target luminance value of one image signal value such that at least a portion of a distribution of target luminance values at each plane position of the display panel becomes a curved distribution, and calculating a correction value at each plane position of the display panel using luminance observed at each plane position of the display panel when one image signal value is given to the overall surface of the display panel and the target luminance value at each plane position of the display panel. |
| US08848003B2 |
Method of chromaticity adjustment of display device
Provided is a method of chromaticity adjustment of a display device including a drive circuit for generating a gray-scale signal corresponding to a video signal input from an external portion and supplying the gray-scale signal to a plurality of pixels, the method including: measuring chromaticity coordinates of an image displayed on the display device; determining whether the measured chromaticity coordinates are chromaticity coordinates within a first region that does not need a chromaticity correction or chromaticity coordinates within a second region that needs the chromaticity correction; determining, if the measured chromaticity coordinates are the chromaticity coordinates within the second region, which of a plurality of correction regions obtained by dividing the second region the chromaticity coordinates fall within; correcting the gray-scale signal corresponding to the video signal by using a chromaticity correcting portion corresponding to the determined one of the plurality of correction regions; and performing corrected image display. |
| US08848002B2 |
Display device and driving method thereof
A display device includes: a plurality of pixels; an image data compensator for outputting compensated image data by controlling peak luminance of image data; and a data driver for transmitting the compensated image data to the plurality of pixels, wherein the image data compensator is configured to control luminance of the image data by using a global image load of an image in its entirety, a plurality of first local image loads of a plurality of the first partitions generated by dividing the image by a first unit area, and a plurality of second local image loads of a plurality of second partitions generated by dividing the image by a second unit area. Power consumption of the display device can be reduced, and image quality is improved by improving peak luminance and contrast of the display image. |
| US08847999B2 |
Display device, method for driving the same, and electronic unit
A display device includes: a display section including a plurality of pixels each having a light emitting element and a pixel circuit; and a drive circuit performing display drive on the plurality of pixels through selecting each of the plurality of pixels to write a first signal voltage and a second signal voltage in this order into the selected pixel, the first and second signal voltages being provided based on a video signal. The drive circuit varies magnitude of each of the first and second signal voltages in accordance with a gray-scale value of the video signal, thereby performing gray-scale interpolation on a light emission luminance level for each of the light emitting elements. |
| US08847997B2 |
Organic light emitting display, method for driving the same, and driver therefor
An organic light emitting display includes pixels, each pixel having a transparent transistor, a timing controller to convert predetermined bits of an externally supplied first data into a certain value to generate a second data, and a data driver configured to receive the second data, to generate a data signal from the second data, and to supply the data signal to data lines coupled to the pixels. |
| US08847993B2 |
Resolution independent effects in a graphics application
Methods and apparatus provide for a Resolution Parameter Modifier. The Resolution Parameter Modifier detects a modification of a document resolution setting from a first resolution to a second resolution. The Resolution Parameter Modifier identifies a resolution dependent parameter(s) associated with a graphical effect(s) applied upon a graphical object(s) in a document, where the graphical object was previously converted from a vector-based object to a raster-based object. The resolution dependent parameter is defined to scale a visual result of the graphical effect with respect to a given document resolution. The Resolution Parameter Modifier updates the resolution dependent parameter in accordance with the second resolution. As the document is rendered at the second resolution, the Resolution Parameter Modifier re-executes the graphical effect on the graphical object in accordance with an updated resolution dependent parameter(s). |
| US08847992B2 |
Navigation in a three dimensional environment using an orientation of a mobile device
This invention relates to navigation in a three dimensional environment using an orientation of a mobile device. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method navigates a virtual camera in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device. The method includes: receiving orientation information of the mobile device; and orienting the virtual camera in the three dimensional environment according to the orientation information. |
| US08847987B2 |
System and method for controlling device
Provided is a system and method for controlling a device using Augmented Reality (AR). A system for controlling a device using Augmented Reality (AR) includes a device server, an AR server, and a portable terminal. The device server registers information about each device. The AR server generates an AR screen displaying type information and service-related information of at least one device searched in response to a request of a portable terminal by using the registered device information, and provides the generated AR screen to the portable terminal. The portable terminal connects with a device selected among devices displayed on the AR screen and performs a specific function with the connected device. |
| US08847985B2 |
Protecting screen information
A method, computer program product, and system for protection screen information is described. A method may comprise determining, via a computing device, if there is a screen protection rule, the screen protection rule based upon, at least in part, at least one of an application rule for protecting a portion of a screen region, and a process rule for protecting the portion of the screen region. The method may further comprise modifying, via the computing device, the portion of the screen region based upon, at least in part, at least one of the application rule, and the process rule. |
| US08847984B2 |
System and method for forming a composite image in a portable computing device having a dual screen display
A system and method for forming a composite image from a secondary image reflected on to the display of a primary image is disclosed. Furthermore, applications for using the composite image in a video gaming context are disclosed. |
| US08847980B2 |
Methods, apparatus and systems for generating searchable electronic records of underground facility locate and/or marking operations
A bare grid is displayed on a display device. At least one digital representation of at least one physical locate mark is added to the displayed grid to generate a marked-up grid. The physical locate mark(s) include(s) non-white paint and/or a non-white flag, and is/are applied during a locate operation performed after generation of and pursuant to a locate request ticket relating to a dig area that is planned to be excavated or disturbed during prospective excavation activities. The locate operation comprises providing at least one visible warning to an excavator performing the prospective excavation activities, using the physical locate mark(s), of a presence or an affirmative absence of at least one underground facility at the dig area specified in the locate request ticket. Information relating to the marked-up grid is electronically stored and/or transmitted so as to generate a searchable electronic record of the locate operation. |
| US08847979B2 |
Peek mode and graphical user interface (GUI) experience
A tablet device determines a spatial relationship between the tablet device and a protective cover. The tablet device operates in accordance with the spatial relationship. |
| US08847978B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program
An apparatus for controlling a display screen including a touch-sensitive panel generating position signals representing a set of positions of a single continuous touch activation between a first time and a second time; and a processor coupled to the panel. The processor configured to: process the signals to detect first and second characteristics of the set; and generate output signals causing a display screen to initiate first and second operations corresponding to the first and second characteristics. |
| US08847968B2 |
Displaying static images
Aspects of this disclosure may describe techniques to display a static image with reduced power consumption. In some examples, a graphics processing unit (GPU) may retrieve the static image from a system memory, scale the static image to a reduced spatial resolution version of the static image, and store the reduced spatial resolution version of the static image in local memory. A display processor may retrieve the reduced spatial resolution version of the static image from local memory. The display processor may rescale the reduced spatial resolution version of the static image, and display the rescaled image on a display for presentation. |
| US08847967B2 |
System and method for providing instant video in an information handling system
Before initializing a memory of an information handling system, a method includes loading an image of a video option ROM code for a graphics interface device to a cache associated with a processor of the information handling system, and executing the video option ROM code to initialize the graphics interface device. The method also includes executing a memory reference code to initialize the memory, and while executing the memory reference code, providing status information from the graphics interface device. |
| US08847966B2 |
Event logging mechanism for a program executing on a graphics card
A method for logging events in a graphics program executable on a GPU is implemented in a computing device and includes receiving the graphics program via the computing device, receiving a selection of a variable on which the graphics program operates, where the variable is stored in a memory of the graphics card during execution of the graphics program, and where the graphics program does not output a value of the variable when the graphics program is executed, and automatically generating a logging instruction executable on the GPU. The logging instruction causes the value of the selected variable to be output via the graphics card when the graphics program is executed. The method further includes automatically generating a log processing instruction executable on the CPU, where the log processing instruction retrieves the selected variable output via the graphics card to obtain the value of the variable at the computing device. |
| US08847960B2 |
Method and system for quantification of tumoral vascularization
A method and system process a test signal in medical domain by:—acquiring an input digital signal F(t) as a function of time t in the form of two-dimensional data, said signal F(t) resulting from the excitation, within a test substrate, of a substance adapted to emit a signal in response to said excitation;—modeling said input digital signal F(t) in function of a pre-established model;—possibly, generating an output digital signal I(t) made up from said modeling; wherein said modeling is based on the following model: (formula I) where the coefficients a0, a1, a2, p, q, A and B are estimated on the basis of said two-dimensional data. The method and system are directed to the tumoral vascularization or tumoral angiogenesis detection in tumors. |
| US08847959B1 |
Computer hardware architecture and data structures for a grid traversal unit to support incoherent ray traversal
A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction. |
| US08847951B1 |
Automatic video and dense image-based geographic information matching and browsing
Methods and systems permit automatic matching of videos with images from dense image-based geographic information systems. In some embodiments, video data including image frames is accessed. The video data may be segmented to determine a first image frame of a segment of the video data. Data representing information from the first image frame may be automatically compared with data representing information from a plurality of image frames of an image-based geographic information data system. Such a comparison may, for example, involve a search for a best match between geometric features, histograms, color data, texture data, etc. of the compared images. Based on the automatic comparing, an association between the video and one or more images of the image-based geographic information data system may be generated. The association may represent a geographic correlation between selected images of the system and the video data. |
| US08847950B2 |
Holographic enterprise network
A solution for implementing a holographic enterprise network is provided. The solution can provide an interface between an operations center and a three dimensional (3D) virtual simulator system capable of rendering holographic images of the operations center. A holographic enterprise interface can translate standard enterprise data associated with the operations center and 3D holographic data. Parallel communications between the holographic enterprise interface and a 3D data processing infrastructure having a holographic bus also can be managed. |
| US08847948B2 |
3D model comparison
Techniques for comparing 3D models are provided. A method for comparing 3D models includes obtaining a first skeleton of a first 3D model, obtaining a second skeleton of a second 3D model, and calculating similarity between the first and the second 3D models based on distance, angle, and inter-position related global constraints of the first and the second skeletons. |
| US08847946B2 |
Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a driving method thereof for improving a working efficiency of the LCD and reducing manufacturing costs. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having liquid crystal cells at crossings of data lines and gate lines, data integrated circuit supplying pixel data via a plurality of data output channels, a gate integrated circuit driving the gate lines, a channel selector for selecting the plurality of data output channels of the data integrated circuits in accordance with a number of the data lines wherein only the selected data output channels contain the pixel data, and a timing controller for controlling the data integrated circuit and the gate integrated circuit. |
| US08847944B2 |
Matching current source/sink apparatus
A current matching control apparatus for matching a plurality of current sources and a plurality of current sinks, the plurality of current sinks having a drive current value controlled by a drive processor in accordance with a reference control current and wherein each output of the plurality of current sinks are connected to a common output node; a feedback circuit having an input connected to the common output node and an output connected to the drive processor, wherein the feedback circuit is arranged to match a voltage at the common output node to a reference voltage by communicating a signal to the drive processor to adjust the reference control current. |
| US08847940B2 |
Display apparatus and method of operating the same
Provided are a display apparatus and a method of operating the display apparatus that generate data signals that compensate for a deviation of a first power supply voltage output from a direct current (DC)-DC converter. |
| US08847939B2 |
Method of driving and a driver for a display device including an electric current driving element
An electric current driving display device includes pixel circuits, a scanning signal output circuit and a display signal output circuit. The pixel circuits include intersecting scanning lines and data lines. Each pixel circuit includes an electro-optical element and a drive element having a control terminal connected to the data line through a switching element. The scanning signal output circuit selects a write-target pixel circuit using the scanning line, and controls the selected pixel circuit outputs, to the data line, a voltage which depends on a threshold voltage of the drive element. The display signal output circuit applies, to the data line, a voltage obtained by adding or subtracting a correction voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage to or from a data voltage corresponding to display data, based on the voltage outputted to the data line. |
| US08847938B2 |
Imaging device, method for controlling the imaging device, and camera using the imaging device
An imaging device that can not only reduce noises including shading but also read out a pixel at high speed, a method for controlling the imaging device, and a camera using the imaging device are provided. In a 3-transistor-driven pixel circuit 11, the drain of a reset transistor 113 is connected to a drive signal line DRNL (n), and the drain of an amplifier transistor 114 is connected to a source voltage VDD. A row drive circuit 12a quickly decreases the voltage level applied to the drive signal line DRNL (n) from a high-level voltage VH to a lowest level voltage VLL, then increases it from the lowest level voltage VLL to a low-level voltage VL, and then gradually returns it to the high-level voltage VH. |
| US08847937B2 |
Liquid crystal display device selecting an inversion-driving system based on priority order of smear and shut-down patterns and driving method thereof
An LCD device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The LCD device and the driving method thereof accurately recognize an input pattern and perform the operation of any one of several inversion systems corresponding to the recognized pattern. Also, the LCD device and the driving method thereof detects the priority order of at least two different patterns and perform the operation of an optimized inversion system, even though at least two different patterns may be input. |
| US08847932B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display
An organic light emitting diode display comprises: a panel including a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a data driver connected to a data line formed on the panel; a gate driver connected to a gate line crossing the data line in an insulated manner and formed on the panel; an input line for receiving a clock signal from the an external source; a first connecting line formed on the first substrate and electrically connected to the input line for supplying the clock signal to the gate driver; a second connecting line formed on the second substrate and electrically connected to the input line; and a third connecting line for electrically connecting the first connecting line to the second connecting line. |
| US08847931B2 |
Driving apparatus and driving method of liquid crystal display
A driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display includes a signal modification unit which modifies a signal based on a data signal input to the liquid crystal display, where the signal modification unit determines whether the data signal corresponds to an image to be displayed with a quality deterioration and outputs at least one of a first signal and a second signal, where the first signal is output when the signal modification unit determines the data signal corresponds to the image to be displayed with the quality deterioration, and where the second signal is output when the signal modification unit determines the data signal does not corresponds to the image to be displayed with the quality deterioration. |
| US08847930B2 |
Electrically conductive touch pen
A combination writing pen and stylus is disclosed. The device has an internal ink cartridge deployable through a hole in the stylus tip. The stylus tip extends from a sleeve that is formed of a conductive elastomeric material. The sleeve extends up a rigid shaft of the device such that it contacts a sufficient ground. The stylus tip may be coated with a protective material that adjusts the coefficient of friction and prevents carbon deposits on the touch screen. A sufficient contact patch is achieved to simulate a human finger so as to overcome false positives from common touch screen logic. This is done by altering tip geometries around an air cavity within the sleeve. |
| US08847929B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer readable medium storing program
An information processing apparatus includes a first display controller that causes a screen to display a first image, a second display controller that causes the screen to display a second image, a trail obtaining unit that obtains a trail, a status obtaining unit that obtains a status of an operation member, a first update unit that updates the first image, an image obtaining unit that obtains a screen image, a first switching controller that performs, if a trail is obtained, control to switch the display on the screen to display of the second image, a second update unit that updates, if a trail is obtained, the second image to an image obtained by drawing a trail image, a second switching controller that performs control to switch the display on the screen to display of the first image, and a unit that causes a memory to store the second image. |
| US08847925B2 |
User input arrangement and related method of manufacture
Arrangement (202) for a user input device, such as a touchscreen or a touchpad, comprising a substrate (206), such as an optically substantially transparent flex film or a multilayer film, said substrate comprising support electronics (212) for providing power, control and/or communications connection to further electronic components (210), a number of emitters and detectors (210) arranged to said substrate into contact with the support electronics, for emitting and detecting light, respectively, and a lightguide (208) provided, such as laminated, onto the substrate such that said emitters and detectors are optically coupled to the lightguide material, the properties of the lightguide including the refractive index of the lightguide material being selected and the emitters and detectors being configured so as to enable, when in use, total internal reflection (TIR) -type propagation of light within the lightguide between the emitters and detectors, and recognition of a touch on the basis of a drop in the TIR performance as determined from the detected light. A related method of manufacture is presented. |
| US08847920B2 |
Time windows for sensor input
An apparatus includes timing circuitry configured to initiate a timing window in response to input sensed by an optical sensor, association circuitry configured to associate the input with additional input sensed by a different optical sensor if the additional input commences during the timing window and filter circuitry configured to filter out additional input sensed by a different optical sensor if the additional input commences after expiration of the timing window and prior to a subsequent initiation of the timing window. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. |
| US08847914B2 |
Touched position detection method for touch panel
A static capacitance type touch panel, a control unit electrically connected with X and Y electrodes for detecting a touch position based on a measured value of a static capacitance between the X and Y electrodes. The control unit includes a predetermined touch threshold for detecting a peak, a near-peak range and a non-near-peak range, a first parameter for determining a value of the near peak range, and a second parameter for determining a value of the non-near-peak range. The first and second parameters are respectively predetermined for reduction of a noise influence from the measured value of the static capacitance between the X electrode and the Y electrode. |
| US08847911B2 |
Circuit to provide signal to sense array
A circuit for generating a voltage is disclosed. The voltage has an amplitude greater than an available power supply. The circuit includes a driver to supply the voltage on an output terminal to an electrode of a touch sense array. The circuit also includes a charge pump array coupled to the driver. The charge pump array includes an array of charge pumps to supply an input voltage to the driver. The circuit also includes a feedback circuit coupled to the charge pump array. The feedback circuit is configured to measure the input voltage and to select different combinations of the array of charge pumps to maintain the voltage on the output terminal. |
| US08847910B2 |
Application program control interface
A method for controlling an application program, an electronic device thereof, and a recording medium thereof are provided. In the present method, when detecting at least one touch area on a touch screen of the electronic device, all touch points contained within each of the touch areas are obtained. Then, a unique typical coordinate value is determined according to a coordinate value of each of the touch points. Finally, an application program is controlled to execute a function relative to the typical coordinate value. Hence, the application program is controlled to execute the corresponding function by detecting the user operation on the touch screen so as to improve a convenience of operating the electronic device. |
| US08847909B2 |
Touchable mobile remote control without display
A mobile remote control is provided. The mobile remote control includes a touch surface without a display and is adapted to an electronic device with a display. Each touch event on the touch surface is reflected on the display directly relative to the position and nature of the event on the touch surface. The size of the touch surface is small enough so that user's fingers can be around it. The sensitivity of the palm makes it possible for user to know the relatively position of his finger on the touch surface without gazing at ft. |
| US08847906B2 |
Touch device and method for manufacturing the same
A touch device is provided in the present disclosure, wherein the touch device comprises: a protection cover having a sensing area and a peripheral area surrounding the sensing area; a first mask layer disposed in the peripheral area surrounding the sensing area; a second mask layer disposed in the peripheral area surrounding the first mask layer, wherein the area of the second mask layer is bigger than that of the first mask layer; and a sensing electrode layer having a sensing portion located in the sensing area and an extension portion extending from the sensing area to the peripheral area, wherein the extension portion is disposed on the first mask layer. Moreover, a method for manufacturing the touch device described above is also provided in the present disclosure. |
| US08847897B2 |
Touch-operating input device and electronic device equipped with the same
The touch-operating input device is configured so that when the control circuit turns on the main light source corresponding to each of the translucent operation buttons that can be operated, the control circuit, on condition that the translucent operation button corresponding to the main light source that is turned on is operated, turns off the sub-light source corresponding to the translucent operation button that is turned on simultaneously with the main light source. Ease of operation is increased by enabling the operator to distinguish operated translucent operation buttons from translucent operation buttons that have not been operated according to whether or not the main light sources are lit. |
| US08847895B2 |
Touch panel and electronic device including the same
A touch panel which is used as an input device for an electronic device, etc., and an electronic device including the touch panel are provided. A touch panel includes a first substrate, and a second substrate spaced from the first substrate by a distance and having a contact surface. A fluid is filled in a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an input button area is delimited due to movement of the fluid when a driving voltage is applied. If a thickness of the gap between the first substrate and the second substrate is reduced below a threshold thickness value in the input button area, the driving voltage is cut off. |
| US08847893B2 |
Touch screen panel and method of fabricating the same
A touch screen panel for an image display device and a method of fabricating the same. The touch screen panel includes first and second substrates facing each other, the first and second substrates being joined together by a sealant; a plurality of first sensing patterns coupled to one another along a first direction on a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate; a plurality of second sensing patterns coupled to one another along a second direction on a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate; a plurality of first dummy patterns between the first sensing patterns corresponding to the second sensing patterns; a plurality of second dummy patterns between the second sensing patterns corresponding to the first sensing patterns; and an insulating layer between the first and second substrates. |
| US08847891B2 |
Data inputting apparatus and electronic apparatus
A data inputting apparatus includes a plurality of keyswitches, an optical module, a sensing module and a processing module. The keyswitches are disposed on the data inputting apparatus. The optical module is disposed on a first side of the data inputting apparatus and is used for emitting a plurality of lights along a first direction, and the lights are corresponding to the keyswitches respectively. The sensing module is disposed on a second side opposite to the first side and is used for receiving the lights and generating a sensing result. The processing module is coupled to the sensing module. When one of the keyswitches is pressed, one of the lights is blocked by the pressed keyswitch resulting in the sensing module adjusting the sensing result, and the position of the pressed keyswitch is determined by the processing module based on the sensing result. |
| US08847890B2 |
Leveled touchsurface with planar translational responsiveness to vertical travel
Described herein are techniques related to a leveled touchsurface with planar translational responsiveness to vertical travel. Examples of a touchsurface include a key of a keyboard, touchpad of a laptop, or a touchscreen of a smartphone or tablet computer. With the techniques described herein, the touchsurface is constrained to remain in a level orientation while a user presses the touchsurface like a button or key. Also, with the techniques described herein, a planar-translation-effecting mechanism imparts a planar translation to the touchsurface while it travels vertically (e.g., downward) as the user presses the touchsurface. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. |
| US08847889B2 |
Mouse pen and photoelectric control switch thereof
A mouse pen and a photoelectric control switch thereof are provided, the photoelectric control switch includes a control rod in a shell moving between on-position and off-position, an optical coupling sensor comprising a light emitter and light receiver disposed on an extension line of the control rod, and an elastic element for resetting the control rod. The control rod includes a first end near the optical coupling sensor and equipped with a reflection element, and a second end for driving the control rod towards the optical coupling sensor which protrudes an orifice of the shell; at the on-position, light emitting from the light emitter is received by the light receiver after being reflected by the reflection element, while at the off-position, light cannot be received. The photoelectric control switch implements non-contact on/off controlling with the optical coupling sensor and the control rod, responses sensitively, and has longer lifetime. |
| US08847888B2 |
Optical mouse with limited wavelength optics
Various embodiments of optical mice are disclosed that facilitate off-surface detection while also providing high-contrast images of a tracking surface. In one embodiment, an optical mouse comprises a light source configured to emit light having a wavelength in or near a blue region of a visible light spectrum toward a tracking surface, an image sensor, and an optical band pass filter configured to pass the light having the wavelength in or near the blue region of the visible light spectrum emitted by the light source while filtering red and infrared wavelengths. Further, the mouse also comprises a controller configured to receive image data from the image sensor and to identify a tracking feature in the image data. The band pass filter prevents ambient light in the filtered wavelengths from reaching the image sensor, and thereby facilitates off-surface detection, while the blue color of the incident light and band pass filter provides a high-contrast image for motion tracking. |
| US08847884B2 |
Electronic device and method for offering services according to user facial expressions
A method for offering services according to facial expressions is provided. The method has an electronic device storing a service database recording at least one user's information. The method activates an offering service function; captures facial expressions of the user; extracting the features of the facial expressions; compares the extracted features with the features in images of the facial expressions stored in the service database, so as to identify a corresponding feature stored in the service database, and determines the type of expression and the service corresponding thereto from images of the user stored in the service database; and activates and provides the determined service. An electronic device using the method is also provided. |
| US08847883B2 |
Input apparatus, input method, and control system
There is provided an apparatus including an input apparatus including an input apparatus main body with which input manipulation is performed to manipulate a manipulation target object, a first manipulation detection unit that detects a first manipulation on the input apparatus main body, a second manipulation detection unit that detects a second manipulation on the input apparatus main body after the first manipulation is detected, and a first processing unit that performs first processing for manipulation on the manipulation target object or a first response of the input apparatus, based on a movement detection value corresponding to movement of the input apparatus main body according to the first manipulation or a detection value of the first manipulation. |
| US08847879B2 |
Motionbeam interaction techniques for handheld projectors
An image projection system may be configured to project objects which respond to movements and gestures made using a handheld projector, as well as to methods for controlling the projected objects based on such user input. For example, users may interact with and control objects in a projection frame by moving and/or gesturing with the handheld projector. Further, objects or characters projected using the handheld projector may be configured to perceive and react to physical objects in the environment. Similarly, elements of the physical environment may be configured to respond to the presence of the projected objects or characters in a variety of ways. |
| US08847875B2 |
Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof
A liquid crystal display is disclosed with a reduced thickness. According to an embodiment, the liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including upper and lower substrates and divided into an effective display region and a non-display region adjacent to the effective display region; a backlight unit configured to supply light to the effective display region; a backlight driving unit configured to control an operation of the backlight unit; a driving IC configured to control data to be displayed in the effective display region; an illuminance sensor configured to sense light external to the liquid crystal display device; and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) on which the backlight driving unit is disposed, the driving IC and the illuminance sensor being disposed adjacent to each other in the non-display region over the lower substrate. |
| US08847867B2 |
Data driving circuit and data driving method for liquid crystal display
A driving circuit and driving method for liquid crystal display is disclosed. The driving circuit comprises a time sequence controller, a first data driving chip and a second data driving chip connected to the time sequence controller, and a reference voltage buffer connected to the first data driving chip and the second data driving chip respectively. The two data driving chips output a pixel voltage signal of positive polarity and a pixel voltage signal of negative polarity to a liquid crystal display panel respectively. |
| US08847862B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for driving an interferometric modulator
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling the actuation of an analog interferometric modulator. In one aspect, a voltage may be determined from a sense electrode. A distance between one or more of the electrodes may be determined based on the voltage. The sense electrode may be capacitively coupled to another electrode, and may be implemented in a mirror of a movable layer of an interferometric modulator, or may be implemented in a floating fixed layer of an interferometric modulator. |
| US08847860B2 |
Image display device with imaging unit
An image display unit comprises a display area including pixels, and an imaging unit disposed at its rear side behind the display area. Light transmissive sections are located within the display area and correspond to the pixels. The light transmissive sections are configured to separately receive light incident upon the image display unit, and pass the received light to the imaging unit. |
| US08847854B2 |
Non-spectacled stereoscopic display apparatus capable of improving optical characteristics
A non-spectacled stereoscopic display apparatus includes a light guide plate, first and second light sources, a single-face prism sheet, a transmissive display panel, a synchronous drive circuit adapted to synchronize the first and second light sources to display parallax images on the transmissive display panel, a phase difference plate, and an optically-modulating structure adapted to receive light emitted from the phase difference plate. The optically-modulating structure includes first and second transparent substrates, a prism array provided on the first transparent substrate, a first transparent electrode layer, a second transparent electrode layer, a liquid crystal layer, and first and second alignment layers for performing an aligning process upon liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer. The phase difference plate is adapted to rotate a main polarization angle of the single-face prism sheet by a predetermined angle to coincide with an aligning direction of the liquid crystal layer. |
| US08847851B2 |
Head-mounted display
Provided is a head mount display of a type of being attached to eyeglasses. The head mount display (1) includes a case (10) incorporating a display and free-form surface prisms (20). A nose pad (30) is attached to the case (10) of the head mount display (1). The head mount display (1) is used with the case (10) being attached to a bridge (105) of eyeglasses (100). On such an occasion, the nose pad (30) attached to the case (10) functions as the nose pad for the eyeglasses (100). |
| US08847850B1 |
Head mounted display device for displaying augmented reality image capture guide and control method for the same
The present disclosure relates to HMD device that displays an image capture guide as an augmented reality image and a control method for the same. More particularly, detecting a marker positioned within a viewing angle and displaying a capture guide frame as an augmented reality image based on the detected marker, wherein, when the marker is detected at a first position having a first distance from the camera unit, display a first capture guide frame having a first size based on the first position of the marker; and when the marker is detected at a second position having a second distance from the camera unit, display a second capture guide frame having a second size based on the second position of the marker, wherein, when the first distance is greater than the second distance, the first size is greater than the second size. |
| US08847848B2 |
Display apparatus and control method thereof
A display apparatus and a control method of the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel which is partitioned into a plurality of panel areas; a storage unit which stores a video frame comprising a plurality of video areas; an operating unit which controls the display panel so that the video frame is displayed on the display panel; and a data reading unit which reads a portion of a video area and a portion of another video area from among the plurality of video areas stored in the storage unit, and transfers the read portions to the operating unit so that the read portions are displayed on one of the plurality of panel areas of the display panel. |
| US08847846B1 |
Magnetic pseudo-conductor spiral antennas
A variable permeability antenna apparatus includes a first region configured for coupling with a feed of a radio frequency signal and a second region for transmitting the radio frequency signal. The permeability of material at the second region is greater than the permeability of material at the first region. Also, a spiral antenna for transmission or reception of radio frequency signals is disclosed. |
| US08847845B2 |
Holder for a movable sensor
A mount for a movable sensor on a support structure is provided. The sensor is alignable with a sensor target. The mount includes at least two mutually spaced sensor-based bearings, at least two mutually spaced support-structure-based bearings, at least two longitudinally adjustable actuator units arranged between an associated sensor-based bearing and an associated support-structure-based bearing, and a center bearing that is configured to pivotably support the sensor on the support structure about a kinematic center point on at least two spatial axes. |
| US08847844B2 |
Antenna and antenna module
An antenna includes a flexible sheet, a first coil electrode being formed on a first main surface of the flexible sheet and a second coil electrode being formed on a second main surface of the flexible sheet. Another end portion of the first coil electrode and another end portion 32B of the second coil electrode oppose each other with the flexible sheet there between. One end portion of the first coil electrode opposes an electrode pad, which has a smaller area than the one end portion, with a mounting substrate there between. One end portion of the second coil electrode and a central electrode oppose each other with the flexible sheet there between, and the central electrode opposes an electrode pad, which has a smaller area than the central electrode, with the mounting substrate there between. |
| US08847843B2 |
Electronic equipment and arrangement structure for antenna substrate
An electronic equipment comprises: a metal casing defining a first face formed so as to provide an opening, a second face connected to the first face; and a shielding member arranged adjacent to the first face to shield radio waves, wherein the metal casing has a cutout formed in the second face so as to come close to the first face, a part of the shielding member is arranged to be closer to the first face than a first end of the cutout, the first end is further away from the first face than a second end of the cutout on the side of the first face, and wherein an antenna is provided on outer side of a virtual line connecting a corner of the shielding member adjacent to the first face and closest to the second face with the first end of the cut out. |
| US08847840B1 |
Pseudo-conductor antennas
Techniques, devices and systems use pseudo-conductor materials as antennas to receive or radiate electromagnetic energy for communications and other applications. Methods of configuring an antenna can include, in some implementations, selecting a pseudo-conductor material having an electromagnetic constitutive property, wherein the electromagnetic constitutive property comprises a real part of the electromagnetic constitutive property that is greater than a corresponding imaginary part of the electromagnetic constitutive property; and forming the pseudo-conductor material into an antenna shape configured, upon being excited, to radiate emissions that satisfy a predefined antenna performance, such that the pseudo-conductor material formed in the antenna shape weakly guides an electromagnetic wave on the pseudo-conductor material using a leaky mode that is below cutoff to establish a field structure to radiate the emissions from the pseudo-conductor material that satisfy the antenna performance. |
| US08847838B2 |
Broadband antenna feed array
A microwave antenna suitable for monopulse radar applications is operable over a broad frequency band. The antenna uses a horn with two walls. Each wall includes two ridges that extend into an inner region of the horn near the horn's base and then taper into the wall surfaces. The horn is coupled to two ridged waveguide sections with the ridges of the waveguide sections matched to opposed pairs of the horn ridges. The antenna may be coupled to electronics via standard waveguides. In many embodiments, dimensions of the waveguides coupled to the horn are smaller (to provide a small array spacing) than dimensions of the standard waveguides with a tapered waveguide section providing a transition. In one embodiment, the antenna operates with frequencies from 5.25 to 10.5 GHz. |
| US08847834B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating dedicated data channels in backscatter RFID systems using band-pass modulation
An antenna apparatus for backscattering an incoming radio frequency (RF) signal includes an antenna for backscattering the incoming RF signal in accordance with a reflection coefficient characteristic of the antenna. A variable impedance circuit includes an output electrically connected to the antenna. A band-pass delta sigma modulator is coupled to the variable impedance circuit and digitally controls the output of the variable impedance circuit, such that the reflection coefficient of the antenna is adjusted based on the digitally controlled output of the variable impedance circuit. In an RFID network, the apparatus and method reduces the effect of DC offset in the reader device and the effects of the reader device's phase noise, while allowing for complex modulations. |
| US08847833B2 |
Loop resonator apparatus and methods for enhanced field control
A radiating antenna element intended for portable radio devices and methods for designing manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, a loop resonator structure for enhanced field (e.g., electric field) is provided, the resonator having an inductive and a capacitive element forming a resonance in a first frequency band. The loop resonator structure is disposed substantially on the ground plane, thereby altering electrical energy distribution. The location of the resonant element is selected to reduce electric field strength proximate to one or more sensitive components, such as a mobile device earpiece, thereby improve hearing aid compliance. Capacitive tuning of the resonator, and the use of multiple resonator structures on the same device, are further described. |
| US08847831B2 |
Antenna and antenna module
An antenna includes a flexible sheet that includes a first main surface including a first coil electrode located thereon and a second main surface including a second coil electrode located thereon. The first and second coil electrodes are wound in opposite directions when viewed from different directions. A first end of the first coil electrode faces a first end of the second coil electrode through the flexible sheet. Similarly, a second end of the first coil electrode faces a second end of the second coil electrode through the flexible sheet. The first and second coil electrodes define an inductor, the first ends of the first and second coil electrodes define a capacitor, and the second ends of the first and second coil electrodes define a capacitor whereby a resonant antenna is provided. |
| US08847824B2 |
Apparatuses and method for converting electromagnetic radiation to direct current
An energy conversion device may include a first antenna and a second antenna configured to generate an AC current responsive to incident radiation, at least one stripline, and a rectifier coupled with the at least one stripline along a length of the at least one stripline. An energy conversion device may also include an array of nanoantennas configured to generate an AC current in response to receiving incident radiation. Each nanoantenna of the array includes a pair of resonant elements, and a shared rectifier operably coupled to the pair of resonant elements, the shared rectifier configured to convert the AC current to a DC current. The energy conversion device may further include a bus structure operably coupled with the array of nanoantennas and configured to receive the DC current from the array of nanoantennas and transmit the DC current away from the array of nanoantennas. |
| US08847814B2 |
FMCW radar sensor for motor vehicles
An FMCW radar sensor for motor vehicles, having a high frequency part for generating, transmitting and receiving radar signals, a modulation device for controlling the frequency modulation of the transmitted radar signal, at least one analog preprocessing stage for an intermediate frequency signal formed from the received radar signal, at least one analog/digital transducer stage, and a processor for controlling the modulation device and for further processing the digital signals of the analog/digital transducer stage, wherein the modulation device, the preprocessing stage and the analog/digital transducer stage are integrated into a single semiconductor component, which also has a monitoring device and registers for the configuration and monitoring of the components of the semiconductor component as well as an interface to the processor. |
| US08847813B2 |
Unsynchronized radio imaging
An unsynchronized acoustic or radio-frequency (RF) computed tomography (CT) imaging system with matched, but independent, continuous wave (CW) transmitters and receivers configured to radiate acoustic or RF transmissions in a plurality of vector paths through solid geologic material. A computer calculates and displays tomographic images constructed from individual acoustic or RF path signal travel time or attenuation measurements logged from registered locations from the CW transmitters and receivers after their being shuttled amongst a number of different transmitter and receiver perspectives available around said geologic material to generate data necessary for computed tomography. Each of the transmitters and receivers include independent unsynchronized crystal oscillators rated at 10-ppm or better frequency uncertainty to produce and to detect CW radio frequency (RF) transmissions. |
| US08847812B2 |
Time-to-digital conversion stage and time-to-digital converter including the same
In a time-to-digital conversion stage, a time-to-digital conversion circuit outputs an n-bit digital signal, which represents an integer value ranging from −(2n-1−1) to +(2n-1−1), based on a phase difference between a first and a second signals input thereto; a time difference amplifier circuit amplifies the phase difference between the first and the second signals 2n-1 times, and outputs two signals having an amplified phase difference therebetween; a delay adjustment circuit adds a phase difference dependent on the digital signal to the two signals output from the time difference amplifier circuit, and outputs another two signals; an output detection circuit detects that the delay adjustment circuit has output the another two signals, and outputs a detection signal; and a storage circuit latches the digital signal in synchronism with the detection signal. Multi-stage coupling of the time-to-digital conversion stages forms a pipeline time-to-digital converter. |
| US08847807B2 |
Switching scheme for ISI mitigation in data converters
Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a switching scheme for tri-level unit elements with ISI mitigation. A tri-level unit element may include a first and second current source and a plurality of switches arranged to form three circuit branches between the first and the second current source. The first circuit branch may include two switches connected in parallel between the first current source and a first output terminal and two switches connected in parallel between the second current source and the first output terminal. The second circuit branch may include two switches connected in parallel between the first current source and a second output terminal and two switches connected in parallel between the second current source and the second output terminal. The third circuit branch may include switches to couple the first current source and the second current source to a dump node. |
| US08847806B2 |
Digital to analog converter comprising mixer
One example described herein relates to a digital to analog converter (DAC). The DAC includes a digital signal input configured to receive a multi-bit digital input signal, and a plurality of cells arranged in rows and columns. Each cell includes a current source. A row decoder and a column decoder provide respective control signals to respective rows and respective columns to selectively couple a number of the current sources to an output of the DAC. The number of current sources which are coupled to the output by the control signals is dependent on the multi-bit digital input signal. At least one of the control signals is modulated based on a local oscillator signal. |
| US08847804B2 |
Delay compensated continuous time sigma delta analog-to-digital converter
A continuous time sigma delta analog to digital converter is provided. The continuous time sigma delta analog to digital converter may include, but is not limited to, an analog to digital converter having a feedback loop, and a feedback loop controller coupled to the analog to digital converter, the feedback loop controller configured to adjust delay in the feedback loop by controlling a variable delay component in the feedback loop. |
| US08847799B1 |
Methods and systems for storing sequence read data
The present invention generally relates to storing sequence read data. The invention can involve obtaining a plurality of sequence reads from a sample, identifying one or more sets of duplicative sequence reads within the plurality of sequence reads, and storing only one of the sequence reads from each set of duplicative sequence reads in a text file using nucleotide characters. |
| US08847797B1 |
Byte-aligned dictionary-based compression and decompression
A system reads a metadata byte in a compressed data fragment. The metadata byte includes information pertaining to a sequence of instruction sets to decode data in the compressed data fragment. The sequence of instruction sets follows the metadata byte and one or more literal data sets corresponding to the sequence of instruction sets follows the sequence of instruction sets. The system determines a location of the one or more literal data sets in the compressed data fragment using the metadata byte prior to reading the sequence of instruction sets. The system determines the lengths of the one or more literal data sets based on the sequence of instruction sets and copies the one or more literal data sets, as a batch job for the sequence of instruction sets, to an in-memory data store based on the location and using the lengths. |
| US08847795B2 |
Delay-optimized overlap transform, coding/decoding weighting windows
Coding/decoding of a digital signal, consisting of successive blocks of samples, the coding being of the transform with overlap type and comprising, upon analysis, the application of a weighting window to two blocks of M successive samples. In particular, this weighting window is asymmetric and comprises four distinct portions extending successively over the two aforesaid blocks, with: a first portion, increasing over a first interval of samples, a second portion, constant at a value of 1 over a second interval, a third portion, decreasing over a third interval, and a fourth portion, constant at a value of 0 over a fourth interval. |
| US08847792B2 |
Object detection apparatus and object detection program
Provided is an object detection apparatus capable of accurately estimating the movement amount of the position, which moves within an oncoming vehicle, of a reflection point of an electromagnetic wave radiated from a radar apparatus, and using the movement amount for collision possibility determination. The object detection apparatus provided in a vehicle includes: a relative position detection section radiating the electromagnetic wave to an object in front of the vehicle, and receiving a reflection wave from the object, thereby detecting the relative position, to the vehicle, of an electromagnetic wave reflection point on the object reflecting the electromagnetic wave; and a movement amount estimation section capable of, based on the relative position to the vehicle of the electromagnetic wave reflection point, estimating, as continuous values, a movement amount of the electromagnetic wave reflection point on the object from a predetermined timing until the object approaches the vicinity of the vehicle. |
| US08847791B1 |
Systems and methods for determining parking difficulty of segments of a geographic area
Provided are systems and methods for determining the parking difficulty of segments of a geographic area. A system may include portable computers and vehicle navigation systems traversing segments of a geographic area. Location tracks may be received corresponding to the paths of the vehicles. The location tracks may be evaluated to determine if they are from a vehicle searching for parking. Some segments of the searching-for-parking location tracks may be included in a circle event, and the number circle events that include a segment may indicate the difficulty of parking in that segment. The parking difficulty may be expressed as a parking difficulty index and may be transmitted to a computer for view on an interactive map or for use in determining directions to a destination. |
| US08847790B2 |
Apparatus and method for determining parking information
A navigation device and a method of determining parking information are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving, at a server, journey information from a plurality of navigation devices, the journey information indicating one or more journeys made by each navigation device and determining, by the server from the journey information, parking information indicating a geographical location of one or more parking areas. |
| US08847786B2 |
Driving scene transition prediction device and recommended driving operation display device for motor vehicle
A symbolizing execution section symbolizes information regarding driving scenes, and describes an entire driving scene around the location of an own motor vehicle. This makes it possible to only increase the information to be symbolized when the number of traffic participants is increased. This can adopt the increase of the traffic participants. A symbol transition prediction section predicts a transition of the symbolized driving scene by using influence which affects the operation of the traffic participants caused by the operation of the own motor vehicle. This makes it possible to increase prediction accuracy while decreasing a large amount of calculation on predicting the transition of driving scene. |
| US08847779B2 |
Speaker enclosure design for efficiently generating an audible alert signal
Various inventive features are disclosed for efficiently generating regulation-compliant audible alerts, including but not limited to 520 Hz square wave alert/alarm signals, using an audio speaker. One such feature involves the use of a non-linear amplifier in combination with a voltage boost regulator to efficiently drive the audio speaker. Another feature involves speaker enclosure designs that effectively boost the output of the audio speaker, particularly at relatively low frequencies. Some of the disclosed speaker enclosure designs rely on an interference effect and/or a resonance effect to transfer energy from higher-order harmonics downward to the fundamental frequency and lower-order harmonics. These and other features may be used individually or combination in a given alarm-generation device or system to enable regulation-compliant audible alerts to be generated using conventional batteries, such as AA alkaline batteries. |
| US08847774B1 |
Invisible barrier rechargeable battery assembly
An invisible fence rechargeable battery assembly for dramatically reducing homeowner's yearly invisible fence operating costs and reducing disposal of non-rechargeable batteries. The invisible fence rechargeable battery assembly includes a battery holder assembly including a battery holder having an open end and a closed end and also includes a battery pack being removably disposed in the battery holder and including a battery, and also including contacts being in communication with the battery, and a circuit module being in communication with the battery and at least one of the contacts, wherein the battery pack includes battery terminals. |
| US08847771B2 |
Method and apparatus for early detection of dynamic attentive states for providing an inattentive warning
A method and apparatus for determining an inattentive state of an operator of a vehicle and for providing information to the operator of the vehicle by obtaining face images of the operator of the vehicle, obtaining images of an environment of the vehicle, determining one or more areas of interest in the environment of the vehicle based on the images of the environment, obtaining, from a relevance and priority database, relevance and priority values corresponding to the one or more areas of interest, determining a probability of attention of the operator of the vehicle to the one or more areas of interest based on the images of the environment and the relevance and priority values, determining an attention deficiency based on the determined probability of attention and the face images, and providing the information to the operator of the vehicle based on the determined attention deficiency. |
| US08847763B2 |
System and method for providing secure identification solutions
The present invention provides a method and system for verifying and tracking identification information. In an embodiment of the invention, a system for delivering security solutions is provided that includes at least one of the following: a radio frequency (RF) identification device, an identification mechanism (e.g., a card, sticker), and an RF reader. |
| US08847762B2 |
Security system tag magnetic clutch and method
A tag having a magnetic clamp for use in securing an item in order to prevent the unauthorized removal of the item from, for example, a retail store. The magnetic tag includes an attachment element that secures the item to the tag. A clamp having a locking region secures the attachment element such that the item cannot be separated from the tag. A keyed magnetic element on the clamp includes one or more hard magnets, where each hard magnet has either an outward-facing north or south polarity. By applying a magnetic force to the magnets, the locking region moves away from the attachment element thus allowing the item to be removed from the tag. The arrangement of magnets operates as a “key” and only a detacher unit with an identical magnetic pattern can apply the requisite magnetic force to the magnets to disengage the clamp from the attachment element to allow removal of the tag from the item. |
| US08847760B1 |
Tamper-resistant purse
A tamper-resistant purse includes a bag having a front surface, a rear surface, two opposing side edges, a lower surface and an open top in communication with an interior chamber. The open top is selectively enclosed with a foldable flap having a Hall-effect switch that changes states whenever the flap is opened. Extending from the bottom surface of the bag are a plurality of feet each having a pressure-sensitive switch therein. The pressure-sensitive switches and the Hall-effect switch are electrically connected to an alarm circuit including both audible and visual alarms. A strap is connected to a pair of detection switches that engage whenever a predetermined amount of force is applied to the strap. Accordingly, if the purse is moved, snatched or opened, the alarm is activated to alert those nearby of a potential theft. |
| US08847758B2 |
Sensor unit and method for monitoring the state of fasteners
Sensor unit (30) for monitoring the state of fasteners, such as ratchet straps, chains, wires, ropes, bars or similar, which are being used for fastening and/or securing and/or anchoring one or more objects (20), which fasteners preferably includes fastening means (14, 104) and means (15, 100) for tensioning of the fasteners. The sensor unit (30) includes one or more measuring elements (32) for measuring tension force and/or tension and/or pressure and/or bending moment and/or shear force for the fastener and/or fastening means (14, 104) of the fastener and/or anchoring devices (22) for fasteners for monitoring the state of the fasteners. |
| US08847757B2 |
Mobile device having proximity sensor and data output method using the same
A method for outputting data by using a proximity sensor in a mobile device is provided. The method includes emitting light in a proximity sensing mode and detecting light reflected by a gesture, processing a signal of the detected light, comparing the processed signal with a preset value, providing comparison data based on the compared signal with the preset value, and outputting data converted based on a result of analyzing the comparison data. |
| US08847746B2 |
Image processing apparatus and control method thereof
An image display device is provided to receive a image corresponding to a program and identification information regarding the program from a mobile terminal, determine an image processing scheme with respect to the received image based on the identification information, and process the received image based on the determined image processing scheme, thus allowing a user to conveniently and effectively view the image provided from the mobile terminal in a stable environment in a vehicle. The image display device includes: a communication unit configured to receive an image corresponding to a program and identification information corresponding to the program from a mobile terminal; a controller configured to determine an image processing scheme corresponding to the received image based on the received identification information, and process the received image based on the determined image processing scheme; and a display unit configured to display the processed image. |
| US08847745B2 |
Display system for working machine
A display system for a working machine displays basic information at all times and, in case of an abnormality, displays the details of the warning in addition to the basic information to enable an operator to reliably recognize details of the warning. For example, a first warning display function, upon receiving an abnormality information signal relating to a charge warning, displays an appropriate warning icon in a warning icon display region. A simplified basic-information display function, then displays simplified basic-information images and a second warning display function displays, in a free area of the display, a second warning message inclusive of a “Charge warning” message as display details of the warning icon, and of character information relating to a simplified remedial action. The operator can then reliably recognize the “Charge warning” and understand its details as well, by viewing the second warning message in addition to the warning icon. |
| US08847742B2 |
Portable electronic device having a waterproof keypad
A portable electronic device including a waterproof keypad and a keypad assembly for the waterproof keypad are described. In one embodiment, the keypad assembly comprises: an embossed keypad including a top and bottom surface, the embossed keypad including a plurality of embossed keys on the top surface; a capacitive sensor layer located below the bottom surface of the embossed keypad; an actuator located below the capacitive sensor layer and moveable between a first position and a second position; and a driver configured to cause the actuator to move between the first position and the second position in response to the detection of the presence of an object near to or touching an embossed key in the embossed keypad. |
| US08847740B2 |
Alarm suspend system
An alarm suspend system utilizes an alarm trigger responsive to physiological parameters and corresponding limits on those parameters. The parameters are associated with both fast and slow treatment times corresponding to length of time it takes for a person to respond to medical treatment for out-of-limit parameter measurements. Audible and visual alarms respond to the alarm trigger. An alarm silence button is pressed to silence the audible alarm for a predetermined suspend time. The audible alarm is activated after the suspend time has lapsed. Longer suspend times are associated with slow treatment parameters and shorter suspend times are associated with fast treatment parameters. |
| US08847739B2 |
Fusing RFID and vision for surface object tracking
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates detecting and identifying objects within surface computing. An interface component can receive at least one surface input, the surface input relates to at least one of an object, a gesture, or a user. A surface detection component can detect a location of the surface input utilizing a computer vision-based sensing technique. A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag can transmit a portion of RFID data, wherein the RFID tag is associated with the surface input. A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) fusion component can utilize the portion of RFID data to identify at least one of a source of the surface input or a portion of data to associate to the surface input. |
| US08847738B2 |
Mobile terminal, information processing method, and computer program
A mobile terminal includes a contactless communication unit configured to conduct contactless communication with an external communication apparatus, a plurality of memory units configured to store information to be transmitted to the communication apparatus, and a controller configured to control communication with the communication apparatus and set a priority order for the plurality of memory units when transmitting information from the plurality of memory units to the communication apparatus. The controller sets the priority order depending on the current time. |
| US08847730B2 |
Vehicular keyless entry system and portable device therefor
A vehicular keyless entry system is formed of an in-vehicle device and a plurality of portable devices. The portable device stores received checkup area identification information in a memory circuit. The portable device transmits a response signal including the stored checkup area information and portable device identification information, when a request signal is received from an in-vehicle device. The in-vehicle device checks up a plurality of portable devices based on the portable device identification information included in the response signal, and determines locations of the plurality of portable devices based on the checkup area identification information included in the response signal. The in-vehicle device performs vehicle door locking control operation based on a determination result. |
| US08847727B2 |
Electronically-controlled water dispensing system
The present invention provides an electronic shower system or other water dispensing system used for personal hygiene that incorporates both electronic access control technology and electronic water flow control means and, optionally, stored value monitoring technology. |
| US08847725B2 |
Temperature-dependent switch with a current transfer member
A temperature-dependent switch comprising a temperature-dependent switching mechanism having a snap-action disc, a housing having a lower part and an upper part which accommodates the switching mechanism, at least two stationary contacts provided on the inner surface of the upper part, each of which is connected to an outer connection, and a current transfer member arranged on the snap-action disc that is moved by said snap-action disc. The snap-action disc presses the current transfer member, in a temperature-dependent manner, against the two stationary contacts which serve as bearing areas for the current transfer member. A third bearing area for the current transfer member is provided on the inner surface. The current transfer member is an approximately round contact plate having on its surface facing the stationary contacts, a contact area closed in a circumferential direction around an axis of symmetry of the switch. |
| US08847722B2 |
Method for making magnetic components with N-phase coupling, and related inductor structures
Methods and structures for constructing a magnetic core of a coupled inductor. The method provides for constructing N-phase coupled inductors as both single and scalable magnetic structures, where N is an integer greater than 1. The method additionally describes how such a construction of the magnetic core may enhance the benefits of using the scalable N-phase coupled inductor. The first and second magnetic cores may be formed into shapes that, when coupled together, may form a single scalable magnetic core. For example, the cores can be fashioned into shapes such as a U, an I, an H, a ring, a rectangle, and a comb, that cooperatively form the single magnetic core. |
| US08847720B2 |
Electromagnetic induction device for generation of electrical power
An electromagnetic induction device having an array of linearly arranged wires spanning between a pair of conductor plates forming a parallel circuit between each of the wires. The wires are arranged forming a plurality of planes, which are stacked into layers. Multiple induction devices are assembled together providing at least one “inductor” and at least one “inductee”. A moving magnetic field comprised of concentric circles is created in and around the at least one inductor when a cyclic current flows in the said wires. A voltage and current is induced by the said moving magnetic field. The field propagates then collapses through the wires of the inductees in a perpendicular manner, inducing therein a cyclic voltage and a current flow. The “inductor” and “inductee” can be shaped and assembled in a variety of form factors, including a linear arrangement, a toroidal arrangement, a stacked arrangement, and the like. |
| US08847719B2 |
Transformer with split primary winding
A transformer includes a core having a first leg, a second leg and a third leg, a split primary winding including first turns about the first leg electrically coupled with second turns about the third leg, and a secondary winding about the second leg. Magnetic flux linking the first turns of the split primary winding and magnetic flux linking the second turns of the primary winding link the secondary winding. |
| US08847718B2 |
Rotary transformer
Described herein are rotary transformers for coupling signals between components that rotate relative to one another. In an exemplary embodiment, a rotary transformer comprises a rotary shaft, a first magnetic core on the rotary shaft, and a first winding wound around the first magnetic core. The rotary transformer farther comprises a hollow second magnetic core, and a second winding wound along the inner wall of the second magnetic core. During operation, the first winding on the rotary shaft rotates within the second winding with the magnetic cores magnetically coupling signals between the two windings. Also, the first and second windings are closely spaced to provide capacitive coupling between the windings that extends the frequency response of the transformer. In one embodiment, the windings comprises substantially flat conductors wound in the shape of the windings. In another embodiment, each of the windings comprises circular loops connected by jogs. |
| US08847711B2 |
RF coaxial transmission line having a two-piece rigid outer conductor for a wellbore and related methods
A rigid radio frequency (RF) coaxial transmission line to be positioned within a wellbore in a subterranean formation may include a series of rigid coaxial sections coupled together in end-to-end relation. Each rigid coaxial section may include an inner conductor, a rigid outer conductor surrounding the inner conductor, and a dielectric therebetween. Each of the rigid outer conductors may include a rigid outer layer having opposing threaded ends defining overlapping mechanical threaded joints with adjacent rigid outer layers. Each of the rigid outer conductors may also include an electrically conductive inner layer coupled to the rigid outer layer and having opposing ends defining electrical joints with adjacent electrically conductive inner layers. |
| US08847708B2 |
MEMS vibrator and oscillator
A MEMS vibrator according to the invention includes: a first electrode fixed to a surface of a substrate; and a second electrode having a beam portion including a second face facing a first face of the first electrode, and a supporting portion supporting the beam portion and fixed to the surface of the substrate. The beam portion has a first portion whose length in a normal direction of the first face of the beam portion monotonically decreases toward a tip of the beam portion. |
| US08847706B2 |
Multiband resonator and multiband-pass filter
An multiband resonator of the present invention includes a dielectric substrate including three or more dielectric layers, a ground conductor, a main-line conductor, a sub-line conductor, a sub open stub, a main open stub, a short-circuit conductor, a main through conductor, and a sub through conductor. The short-circuit conductor electrically connects one end of the main-line conductor to one end of the sub-line conductor and to the ground conductor. The main through conductor electrically connects the other end of the main-line conductor to one end of the main open stub that is aligned with that other end of the main-line conductor. The sub through conductor electrically connects the other end of the sub-line conductor to one end of the sub open stub that is aligned with that other end of the sub-line conductor. |
| US08847703B2 |
Filtering network in HR-Si silicon technology
The invention relates to a filtering network in HR-Si silicon technology defined by at least one cut-off frequency and comprising an input terminal for receiving the signal to be filtered and an output terminal for delivering a filtered signal. The network comprises a first ground line connected by its ends to first and second ground points connected directly to the ground plane, a second ground line connected via its ends to third and fourth ground points directly connected to the ground plane, a plurality of L/C resonant elements connected in parallel and linked via one end to one of the two ground lines and via the other end between them, by means of coupling inductors which thus create transmission zeros. Each ground line forming inductive elements via inductances the network comprises capacitive elements in series with at least some of said inductive elements, the value of the capacitive elements being selected so that the resonant frequency of the inductive and capacitive elements in series corresponds to a frequency lying outside of the bandwidth. |
| US08847701B2 |
Miniaturized DC breaker
A DC blocking device of a small size is disclosed. The disclosed DC blocking device may include: an internal conductor where RF signals are inputted; and an external conductor electrically connected to a ground; wherein the internal conductor has an insertion groove, and an insertion conductor is inserted into the insertion groove without touching the internal conductor and at a designated distance, and the diameter of the external conductor in the portion where the insertion conductor is inserted is set to be different from the diameter of another portion. The disclosed DC blocking device has the advantages of minimizing the spatial constraint when the DC blocking device is mounted on a mobile communication device, and of achieving suitable coupling even if the length of the part where coupling is achieved is reduced in the DC blocking device. |
| US08847700B2 |
Filter, duplexer, communication module, communication device
The filter includes one or more series resonators and one or more parallel resonators. An inductance is connected in series to at least a parallel resonator of the parallel resonators, and a antiresonance frequency of the parallel resonator to which the inductance is connected in series is equal to or higher than that of the series resonators. The duplexer, the communication module and the communication device are provided with the filter. |
| US08847692B2 |
Oscillators and method of operating the same
Oscillators and method of operating the same are provided, the oscillators include a magnetic layer, and a magnetization fixing element configured to fix a magnetization direction of the magnetic layer. The oscillators generate a signal by using precession of a magnetic moment of the magnetic layer. |
| US08847690B2 |
System and method for built in self test for timing module holdover
Aspects of the embodiments include a method for synchronizing a device having an oscillator to a reference signal. A correction signal can be determined based on the reference signal. A mathematical model of the oscillator can be trained based at least upon the correction signal. A predicted correction signal for the trained mathematical model can be determined. A time error using the predicted correction signal can be generated to assess suitability of the trained mathematical model for disciplining drift in the oscillator and synchronizing the device when the reference signal is not available. |
| US08847685B2 |
Push-pull amplifier and differential push-pull amplifier
A push-pull amplifier includes an amplifier input, a push amplifier stage, a pull amplifier stage and an inverting amplifier output. |
| US08847683B2 |
Differential amplifying circuit
A differential amplifying circuit includes: two metal oxide semiconductor transistors to form a differential pair and receive a differential signal; a plurality of capacitance elements coupled in series between drains of the two metal oxide semiconductor transistors; and an inductance circuit coupled between at least one connection node of the plurality of capacitance elements and a bias power terminal. |
| US08847672B2 |
Switching device with resistive divider
Embodiments provide a switching device including one or more field-effect transistors (FETs). In embodiments, a resistive divider comprising a first resistor and a second resistor may be coupled with the FET at a position electrically between a gate terminal of the FET and a body terminal of the FET. |
| US08847671B2 |
Methods and circuits for a low input voltage charge pump
A charge pump comprises, a plurality of branches each having serially-connected T-circuit cells, wherein each of the branches has a first end for receiving an input voltage and a second end for outputting a charge pump voltage, wherein each of the T-circuit cells comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor, wherein the first transistor and the second transistor of each of the T-circuit cells have a common drain, and wherein the gate of the first transistor of a certain one of the T-circuit cells of a certain branch is connected to a first branch and the gate of the second transistor of the certain one of the T-circuit cells of the certain branch is connected to a second branch. |
| US08847669B2 |
Method for controlling temperature of terminal and terminal supporting the same
A method for controlling a temperature of a terminal and a terminal supporting the same are provided. A terminal supporting temperature control includes a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of the terminal, and a controller for performing at least one of a first throttle procedure including driving the controller with a first preset driving frequency when the temperature of the terminal detected by the temperature sensor is a first preset temperature, and driving the controller with a second driving frequency higher than the first driving frequency when the temperature of the terminal is reduced to a second preset temperature lower than the first preset temperature, and a second throttle procedure including driving the controller with the first preset driving frequency for a first time, and driving the controller with the second driving frequency higher than the first driving frequency for a second time after the first time elapses. |
| US08847664B2 |
Gate control circuit, power module and associated method
A gate control circuit including: a gate input arranged to receive an input gate feed signal; a gate output arranged to be connected, during normal operation, to at least one switching module for controlling current through a main circuit, the gate output being connected to the gate input; a power supply; and a switch connected between the power supply and the gate output, the switch being arranged to close as a response to a failure. A corresponding power module and method are also presented. |
| US08847662B2 |
Mixer and associated signal circuit
A mixer for providing a mixed signal by mixing an input signal and an oscillation signal, comprising a follower and a switch. The follower is arranged to conduct a driving contribution from a bias terminal to an output terminal following a signal at an input terminal, wherein the input terminal and the bias terminal are respectively coupled to the input signal and the oscillation signal, and the output terminal is arranged to output the mixed signal. The switch is arranged to selectively conduct the output terminal to a reference level in response to alternating of the oscillation signal. An associated signal circuit is also disclosed. |
| US08847661B2 |
Level shift device
Disclosed is a level shift device. The level shift device to convert an input signal having a low-voltage level into an output signal having a high-voltage level includes a latch-type level shifter and a voltage generator. The latch-type level shifter includes two upper pull-up P channel transistors and two lower P channel transistors to prevent the gate-source voltage breakdown of the two upper pull-up P channel transistors. The two upper pull-up P channel transistors and the two lower P channel transistors form a latch structure. The voltage generator generates a voltage to prevent the gate-source voltage brake down of the two upper pull-up P channel transistors and provides the voltage to the gate electrodes of the two lower P channel transistors. |
| US08847660B2 |
Level shift switch and electronic device with the same
According to one embodiment, in a level shift switch, a first input signal is inputted into a first input-output terminal, a first output signal is outputted from a second input-output terminal, a second input signal is inputted into the second input-output terminal, a second output signal is outputted from the first input-output terminal. The level shift switch includes a transmission circuit, a first MOSFET, a second MOSFET, and a first one-shot pulse generation circuit. |
| US08847659B1 |
Systems and method for level shifters
A level shifter system includes an inverting portion, a non-inverting portion and a cross latch output component. The inverting portion is configured to receive an inverting input, a supply voltage and to generate an intermediary inverting output. The non-inverting portion is configured to receive a non-inverting input, the supply voltage and to generate an intermediary non-inverting output. The cross latch output component is configured to drive the intermediary inverting and non-inverting outputs to inverting and non-inverting outputs, respectively. The inverting and non-inverting outputs are at selected upper and lower levels according to the inverting input and non-inverting inputs, respectively. |
| US08847657B2 |
Low power receiver for implementing a high voltage interface implemented with low voltage devices
An apparatus comprising a first stage and a second stage. The first stage may be configured to generate an intermediate signal having a first voltage in response to an input signal having a second voltage received from a pad. The second stage may be configured to generate a core voltage in response to the first voltage. The voltage received from the pad may operate at a voltage compliant with one or more published interface specifications. |
| US08847656B1 |
Approach for driving multiple MOSFETs in parallel for high power solid state power controller applications
A system that drives multiple MOSFETs in parallel for direct current and alternating current solid state power controller applications may include networks connected to the gates of the MOSFETs to protect the MOSFETs from being damaged during high current interruption. For direct current applications, the system may include a switching protection and damping network and a gate drive balancing network. For alternating current applications, the system may include two switching protection and damping networks and a gate drive balancing network. |
| US08847648B2 |
Voltage pulse train generator, application to the control of an ultrasound piezoelectric injector
A voltage pulse train generator which may find application to control of an ultrasound piezoelectric injector, and including a voltage source providing a DC initial voltage, a DC/DC converter supplied with the initial voltage and configured to charge a capacitor according to an intermediate DC voltage greater than the initial voltage, a DC/AC converter operating by switching, by alternating active phases and inactive phases, which is configured to transform the intermediate voltage from the capacitor into a final voltage pulse train, and a control unit provided for driving the converters. The DC/DC converter is configured to operate to charge the capacitor at a same time as the DC/AC converter, at most during the inactive phases of the switching of the DC/AC converter. |
| US08847646B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit
In a system in which the phases of a data clock signal and a data signal differ between at an input and at an output, a semiconductor integrated circuit performs a simple BER test without using external equipment and, at the same time, performs a jitter evaluation required for a margin evaluation. |
| US08847645B1 |
Semiconductor device and semiconductor system including the same
A semiconductor device includes a sampling unit suitable for sampling a logic value of an input signal based on an edge of an operation clock to output a sampling signal, an edge detection unit suitable for detecting an edge of the input signal based on the sampling signal, and a phase control unit suitable for controlling a phase of the operation clock while periodically changing a value of a clock delay code at each predetermined period and substituting a code value, which is obtained by calculating a value of the clock delay code corresponding to a time point at which an operation of the edge detection unit is completed and a value of a pre-phase code determined based on the sampling signal, for the clock delay code. |
| US08847640B2 |
Trigger signal detection apparatus
A trigger signal detection apparatus includes: a clock gating circuit which is supplied with a trigger signal and a clock signal and outputs the clock signal; a trigger signal processing circuit which outputs a first signal only for a predetermined time when the clock signal is supplied from the clock gating circuit; a counter which operates in response to the trigger signal, thus outputting a count value of the clock signal; and a time set-up circuit which outputs a second signal to the trigger signal processing circuit when count value supplied from the counter reaches a preset value, and the trigger signal processing circuit stops outputting the first signal when the trigger signal processing circuit receives the second signal. |
| US08847638B2 |
High speed divide-by-two circuit
A high frequency divider involves a plurality of differential latches. Each latch includes a pair of cross-coupled P-channel transistors and a variable resistance element. The latch is controlled to have a lower output resistance at high operating frequencies by setting a multi-bit digital control value supplied to the variable resistance element. Controlling the latch to have a reduced output resistance at high frequencies allows the 3 dB bandwidth of the latch to be maintained over a wide operating frequency range. The variable resistance element is disposed between the two differential output nodes of the latch such that appreciable DC bias current does not flow across the variable resistance element. As a consequence, good output signal voltage swing is maintained at high frequencies, and divider current consumption does not increase appreciably at high frequencies as compared to output signal swing degradation and current consumption increases in a conventional differential latch divider. |
| US08847637B1 |
Time-interleaved multi-modulus frequency divider
Described are a multi-modulus frequency divider and event counter that are based on time-interleaved signals generated from a received signal. For the frequency divider, each time-interleaved clock signal generated from a received clock signal is provided to a bit counter and the output signal from each bit counter is provided to a multiplexer. A multiplexer selection module controls over time which one of the output signals from the bit counters is presented at the output of the multiplexer. The transition frequency of the bits in the time-interleaved clock signals allows various circuit components such as the bit counters to be implemented as CMOS components. Thus the frequency divider is more power-efficient than conventional frequency divider circuits operating at high clock frequencies. |
| US08847636B2 |
Implementing voltage feedback gate protection for CMOS output drivers
A method and circuit for implementing protection for complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) output drivers, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. An output driver stage transistor stack includes a plurality of series connected PFETs series connected with a plurality of series connected NFETs connected between upper and lower voltage supply rails. A pair of offset DC voltage levels provides respective gate voltages of an intermediate PFET and an intermediate NFET in the output driver stage transistor stack. A pair of pre-driver circuits receiving voltage level translated logic signals drive respective gate inputs of the upper PFET and the lower NFET in the output driver stage transistor stack. A voltage feedback circuit provides respective gate voltages of the PFET and NFET connected together in the output driver stage transistor stack. |
| US08847635B2 |
Self-calibration of output buffer driving strength
An integrated circuit includes an output buffer and a control circuit. The output buffer has a signal input, a signal output, and a set of control inputs. The output buffer has an output buffer delay, and a driving strength adjustable in response to control signals applied to the set of control inputs. The control circuit is connected to the set of control inputs of the output buffer. The control circuit uses first and second timing signals to generate the control signals, and includes a reference delay circuit that generates the first timing signal with a reference delay, and a delay emulation circuit that generates the second timing signal with an emulation delay that correlates with the output buffer delay. |
| US08847634B1 |
High-speed unity-gain input buffer having improved linearity and stability with a low supply voltage
A high-speed unity-gain input buffer steers the current that flows down a first path to an output node, and down a second path in response to an analog input signal. The current that flows down the second path is mirrored to sink a current out of the output node. |
| US08847633B1 |
Low voltage swing repeater
Described is an integrated circuit (IC) which comprises: a first driver having stacked devices, the first driver operable on a first power supply and a first ground supply, the first driver to receive an input signal with a signal swing according to a second power supply and a second ground supply, the second power supply having a voltage level lower than a voltage level of the first power supply, and the second ground supply having a voltage level higher than a voltage level of the first ground supply; a second driver coupled to the first driver, the second driver operable on the second power supply and the second ground supply; and a pair of by-pass devices coupled to the first and second drivers, the pair of by-pass devices to provide the second power supply and the second ground supply according to an output of the first driver. |
| US08847632B2 |
Semiconductor device
Provided is a semiconductor device with an output circuit in which a variation of a common voltage is suppressed in an idling mode and in a normal mode. The output circuit provided in the semiconductor device includes a first termination resistor and a second termination resistor and a drive circuit which flows current through the termination resistors. The output circuit is configured so as to be able to adjust the value of current which flows through the first termination resistor and the second termination resistor or the value of resistance of the first termination resistor and the second termination resistor. |
| US08847629B2 |
Electronic device and method for low leakage switching
The invention relates to a low leakage switch having an input node for receiving an input voltage and an output node for providing an output voltage. The low leakage switch comprises a main sampling transistor the backgate voltage of which is biased through other transistors, and wherein the control gate of the main sampling transistor is controlled through a second control signal and the control gates of the other transistors are controlled through a first control signal, wherein the electronic device is further configured to activate the other transistor for adjusting the backgate voltage of the main sampling transistor through the first control signal before activating the main sampling transistor for sampling the input voltage on a main sampling capacitor through the second control signal. |
| US08847627B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first transistor group, and a second transistor group. The first transistor group includes a third transistor, a fourth transistor, and four terminals. The second transistor group includes fifth to eighth transistors and four terminals. The first transistor, the third transistor, the sixth transistor, and the eighth transistor are n-channel transistors, and the second transistor, the fourth transistor, the fifth transistor, and the seventh transistor are p-channel transistors. |
| US08847626B1 |
Circuits and methods for providing clock signals
A circuit includes first and second bidirectional clock networks and first and second clock signal generation circuits. A first multiplexer circuit is configurable to provide a first clock signal from a first pin to the first bidirectional clock network. A second multiplexer circuit is configurable to provide the first clock signal from the first bidirectional clock network to the second bidirectional clock network. Third multiplexer circuits are configurable to provide the first clock signal from the second bidirectional clock network to the first and the second clock signal generation circuits. |
| US08847624B1 |
Method and system for operating a circuit
Operation of a programmable circuit is described. A circuit including a plurality of multiplexers may be used to perform at least one operation on a plurality of signals. The at least one operation may be performed by the multiplexers using a select line coupled to or shared by the multiplexers. Each input of the circuit may couple to a respective output of a plurality of logic elements. As such, the circuit may be used to perform at least one operation on signals supplied from a plurality of logic elements, thereby expanding the functionality of at least one logic element coupled to the circuit and/or increasing the number of logic elements and other resources available for implementing user designs or performing other functions. |
| US08847623B2 |
Dynamic impedance control for input/output buffers
A system and method of performing off chip drive (OCD) and on-die termination (ODT) are provided. A common pull-up network composed of transistors and a common pull-down network composed of transistors are employed to implement both of these functions. In drive mode, the pull-up network is configured to produce a calibrated drive impedance when an “on” output is to be generated, and the pull-up network is configured to produce a calibrated drive impedance when an “off” output is to be generated. In termination mode, the pull-up network and the pull-down network are configured to produce a calibrated pull-up resistance and pull-down resistance respectively such that together, they form a split termination. |
| US08847620B2 |
Detection of a missing stator slot wedge in an electrical machine
A missing stator slot wedge in an electrical machine can be detected by analyzing a current spectrum of the machine in a high frequency area. A current spectrum is provided from a current measurement, and values of the current spectrum in the high frequency area used to determine whether a stator slot wedge is missing or not. The conclusion can be based on values of a relative current amplitude IdB or on presence of certain harmonics in the high frequency area. |
| US08847616B2 |
E-field probe integrated with package lid
A measurement apparatus is disclosed. The measurement apparatus includes a lid configured to be removably affixed to a microcircuit case. One or more penetrations through the lid allow insertion of a signal-conducting probe. The probe is removably affixed to the lid at the site of the penetration. The probe includes a central conductive pin. The central conductive pin transmits to a connection outside the case a radio-frequency signal inductively received from a source inside the case. The probe also includes a dielectric region radially surrounding a portion of the central conductive pin, and a grounded outer conductive housing radially surrounding the dielectric region and electrically isolated from the central conductive pin by the dielectric region. |
| US08847612B2 |
Integrated test system for a touch sensor
In one embodiment, a method includes restricting current flow between a node of a touch sensor and each of a drive system of the touch sensor, a sense system of the touch sensor, and a test system of the touch sensor. The method further includes capacitively coupling the drive system to the sense system through the test system. The method further includes using at least the drive system and the test system, inducing a charge on the sense system. The method further includes measuring the induced charge on the sense system. The method further includes making a pass or fail determination for at least a portion of the touch sensor based at least in part on the measured induced charge. |
| US08847611B2 |
Capacitive differential quadrature rotary position sensor
A rotary position sensor is provided that includes a sensing disc having an N-fold rotation symmetry and capacitive sensing pads arranged in an array pattern, where the array pattern has at least 4N-fold rotation symmetry, where N≧2, a scale disc disposed opposite the sensing disc, where the scale disc includes a pattern of conductive pads that have a sinusoidal-shape, where the pattern of sinusoidal-shaped conductive pads produce four sinusoidal capacitance waveforms in quadrature phase with the capacitive sensing pads as the sensing disc and the scale disc are rotated relative to one another to provide angular position information. to provide angular position information. This is achieved by making the overlapping area of the of the capacitive sensing pads change in a sinusoidal fashion with rotation. |
| US08847606B2 |
Method and system for assessing insulation deterioration in live underground power cables
A method for assessing insulation deterioration in a live underground power cable may include, in one embodiment, attaching a coupling device to a live underground power cable and using the coupling device to couple a test signal onto the power cable. The power cable may carry a normal AC power signal at a first frequency, while the test signal may have a second frequency different from the first frequency. The test signal may be detected after it has traveled a distance along the power cable. It may then be analyzed to determine a change in velocity and/or attenuation of the test signal as a function of the normal AC power signal. The severity of water trees in the power cable may be inferred based on the magnitude of the change. |
| US08847605B2 |
Connection diagnostic apparatus for ground fault detector
A connection diagnostic apparatus for a ground fault detector including an oscillator connected via a coupling capacitor to an electric circuit with a first connection line and a second connection line, and a voltage detector for detecting a voltage value between the oscillator and the coupling capacitor is provided with a first relay and a second relay provided in the first connection line and the second connection line, and a programmable controller. The programmable controller determines a connected state of the ground fault detector based on a change amount of a voltage value detected by the voltage detector when the first relay is turned on or off and determines the connected state of the ground fault detector based on a change amount of a voltage value detected by the voltage detector when the second relay is turned on or off. |
| US08847603B2 |
Device and method for detecting a ground fault
An arrangement to detect a ground fault in an AC electric circuit including an electric machine having a neutral point connecting to a neutral point and a terminal side, and a unit transformer connected to the terminal side of the machine, wherein the arrangement includes a signal injection unit, a voltage transformer having a primary winding connected to the terminal side of the electric machine and a secondary winding that is open delta-connected, an instrument transformer having a primary winding connected to the neutral point of the electric machine and a secondary winding, and a ground fault detecting unit. The signal injection unit is configured to inject a signal to the secondary winding of the voltage transformer. The instrument transformer is configured to measure the resultant injected signal at its secondary winding The ground fault detecting unit is configured to detect a ground fault based on the measured signal. |
| US08847602B2 |
Plug-in module for a liquid or gas sensor
A plug-in module for a liquid- or gas-sensor comprised of a sensor module (SM) and a sensor module head (SMH), which can be releasably connected together, and which, when connected, enable data and energy transfer via a galvanically decoupled transfer section, wherein the sensor module head (SMH) includes an energy supply unit for operating the sensor module head (SMH) and the sensor module (SM), as well as a data memory (MEM), in order to store sensor data received from the sensor module (SM). |
| US08847598B2 |
Photonic system and method for optical data transmission in medical imaging systems
A photonic system and method for optical data transmission in medical imaging system are provided. One photonic system includes a plurality of optical modulators having different optical resonance wavelengths and configured to receive electrical signals representative of a set of data from a medical imaging device. The photonic system also includes an optical waveguide interfacing with the plurality of optical modulators and configured to transmit an amplitude modulated beam of light at different frequencies to selectively modulate the plurality of optical modulators to transmit an encoded beam of light. The photonic system further includes receiver opto-electronics in communication with the optical waveguide configured to decode the encoded beam of light and convert the decoded beam of light into the electrical signals representative of the set of data. |
| US08847587B2 |
Field generator patch with distortion cancellation
A magnetic field generator includes a substrate, a main generator coil, at least one field sensor, at least one shim coil, a driver circuit and a correction circuit. The main generator coil, the field sensor, and the shim coil are all disposed on the substrate. The driver circuit is coupled to drive the main generator coil with a driving current at a selected frequency. The correction circuit is coupled to receive a signal at the selected frequency from the at least one field sensor and, in response to deviations in the signal from a predefined baseline, to drive the at least one shim coil with a driving current having an amplitude configured to return the signal to the baseline. |
| US08847580B1 |
Tamperproof magnetic proximity sensor
An apparatus and method of a tamperproof magnetic proximity sensor based on a magnetically shielded magnetic sensor. The proximity sensor is substantially impervious to external magnetic field and is protected by external magnetic sensors for preemptive detection of external magnetic field tamper attempts. |
| US08847579B2 |
Compact paramagnetic oxygen sensor
An apparatus for the measurement of the magnetic susceptibility of a gas mixture comprises: a gas sample chamber (8) adapted to receive the gas mixture; a test body (1) rotatably suspended within the gas sample chamber; magnets (10) within the gas sample chamber; a compact optical system for detecting rotation of the test body (1) including a light source (12), photodetectors (13) arranged to detect a light signal, and a mirror (5) attached to the test body (1). An actuation system is arranged to keep the test body (1) substantially at a null position. The optical system comprises at least one photodetector positioned on each side of the light source. The light source is arranged to emit a light beam towards the test body. The photo detectors are arranged to each detect an edge of a light beam reflected from the mirror. |
| US08847576B1 |
Phase compensation method and apparatus for current transformers
A current transformer includes capacitive phase angle error correction in the secondary circuit boosted by an isolating impedance. Temperature compensation for the phase error correction and amplitude correction is also provided. |
| US08847574B2 |
Electrical isolators
Disclosed is an electrical isolator circuit comprising an input stage comprising first and second inputs, the input stage being configured to receive an input voltage signal; an output stage comprising first and second outputs electrically connected across a load capacitor; and a DC isolator comprising a first capacitor between said first input and said first output and second capacitor between said second input and said second output. The first and second plates of each of the first, second and load capacitors are defined by conductive layers of a printed circuit board and the dielectric of each of the first, second and load capacitors are defined by a non-conducting part of the printed circuit board. |
| US08847573B2 |
AC/DC current transformer
A single-coil, toroid-type current transformer circuit for detecting both AC and DC current. The current transformer circuit may include a current transformer and an oscillator electrically connected to the current transformer. The current transformer circuit may further include an open and short CT detection circuit electrically connected to the oscillator for facilitating determination of the connection and stability state of the current transformer. A processor may be electrically connected to an output of the open and short CT detection circuit for performing a series of operations on signal data generated by the open and short CT detection circuit and manipulating the operation of an electrical power system accordingly. |
| US08847568B2 |
Sample-point adjustment in a switching converter
An apparatus and method of generating a drive signal for a switch in a switching converter having input terminals for applying an input voltage, output terminals for providing an output signal, and at least one inductive storage element coupled to the switch. The method includes sampling the output signal to provide a sampled output signal, and generating a pulsewidth modulated drive signal having a duty cycle that is dependent on the sampled output signal, wherein the output voltage is sampled at sampling times that are dependent on the duty cycle. |
| US08847565B2 |
Shunt regulator for adverse voltage/circuit conditions
Low voltage circuits are protected from high voltage/current conditions, as may be implemented in accordance with one or more example embodiments. An additional/secondary shunt circuit/switch is implemented to shunt additional current as supply voltage steps or otherwise increases. In some implementations, the secondary shunt circuit includes a transistor having its drain coupled to its gate via a large capacitance that operates to maintain the gate voltage at about a constant level. This operates to facilitate the draining of additional current, and maintaining a low bandgap voltage supply level. |
| US08847555B2 |
Fast charging device for an electric vehicle
A device for charging a battery including a rectifier input stage configured to be connected to a power supply network and an inverter output stage configured to be connected to the battery, and a mechanism regulating average current obtained from the input stage about a current value generated from the maximum current supplied by the power supply network and according to a coefficient that is at least equal to a ratio between the maximum voltage rectified by the input stage and the battery voltage. |
| US08847550B2 |
Control device and method and power supply device
A control device includes a controller causing a plurality of cell blocks each configured of one or plurality of secondary battery cells and connected in series to be charged with a cell balance, and the controller includes a detector detecting a voltage of each of the cell blocks, an updater sequentially updating a maximum voltage of the detected voltage of each of the cell blocks, and a discharger discharging a cell block among the plurality of cell blocks, the cell block with a voltage range between the detected voltage and the updated maximum voltage within a discharge target voltage range defined in advance. |
| US08847548B2 |
Wireless energy transfer for implantable devices
Wireless energy transfer methods and designs for implantable electronics and devices include, in at least one aspect, a source resonator external to a patient, a device resonator coupled to an implantable device and being internal to the patient, a temperature sensor, and a tunable component coupled to the device resonator, wherein the tunable component is adjusted to detune a resonant frequency in response to measurement from the temperature sensor, and wherein a strength of the oscillating magnetic fields generated by the source resonator is adjusted to increase power output to maintain a level of power captured by the device resonator, thereby compensating for reduced efficiency resulting from detuning of the device resonator via the tunable component. |
| US08847547B2 |
Wireless charging system and method
A wireless charging system can optimize charging efficiency regardless of a location of a mobile terminal. The wireless charging system wirelessly charges a mobile terminal using electromagnetic induction between a first coil included in a charging pad and a second coil included in the mobile terminal. The charging pad can detect a location of the mobile terminal on the charging pad. The charging pad can move the first coil to correspond to the detected location of the mobile terminal; and supply power to the first coil and charging a battery. |
| US08847531B2 |
Sample and hold time stamp for sensing zero crossing of back electromotive force in 3-phase brushless DC motors
A microcontroller determines the position of the rotor of a brushless, direct-current motor by determining the time of zero crossing of back electromotive force (EMF) emanating from the non-driven phase winding. The zero crossing point is determined by interpolating voltage differentials that are time stamped. Each voltage differential is the difference between the phase voltage of the phase winding and the motor neutral point voltage. The time of zero crossing is determined without using a comparator and without interrupting the processor at each zero crossing point. The processor interpolates the time of zero crossing independently of when the zero crossing point occurs. A hold signal conductor is connected both to a sample and hold circuit and to the load input lead of a time stamp register. The microcontroller simultaneously captures a phase voltage in the sample and hold circuit and a timer count in the time stamp register. |
| US08847530B2 |
Sensor-less driving method of permanent magnet AC motor
A permanent-magnet AC motor comprises a motor and a controller coupled to the motor. The motor includes a winding. The controller includes a drive model configured to provide a drive current. Waveform of the drive current is spatially symmetrical. The winding has a waiting zone having electrical angle of 30° and a driving zone having electrical angle of 150° in each half electrical cycle when the motor is in operation. The driving zone is equally divided into five driving sub-zones. |
| US08847526B2 |
Methods and systems for automatic rotation direction determination of electronically commutated motor
A method for determining a direction of rotation for an electronically commutated motor (ECM) is described. The motor is configured to rotate a blower and the method comprises rotating the blower using the ECM and determining if the resulting blower rotation is indicative of the desired direction of rotation for the blower. |
| US08847525B2 |
Motor control device and control method of the same
To provide a motor control device which can apply an electric brake to a motor when power supply is stopped, and achieve a miniaturization and a cost reduction. A first switch 11 through a sixth switch 16 connects respective coils L1, L2 and L3 included in a motor to an electric power source 20. The capacitor C accumulates the power supplied from the electric power source 20. A seventh switch 17 connects the capacitor C to a fourth switch 14 through the sixth switch 16, when the power supply from the electric power source 20 is stopped. The operation of the seventh switch 17 causes the fourth switch 14 through the sixth switch 16 to operate by the power accumulated in the capacitor C, and respective coils L1 to L3 are short-circuited to apply the brake to the motor. |
| US08847524B2 |
Dissipation of the braking energy of electrically powered mining equipment by liquid-cooled braking resistors
Braking current generated by an electrical motor on mining equipment during a retard interval is switched through one or more grid resistors that are liquid cooled. Under low ambient temperatures, a heating current can be switched through the grid resistors when the electrical motor is not operating in a retard interval. An integrated cooling system can be used to cool grid resistors and power modules. Heat dissipated by the grid resistors and the power modules can be circulated through auxiliary heating loops to heat portions of the mining equipment under low ambient temperatures. Multiple liquid-cooled power modules, liquid-cooled grid resistors, auxiliary heating loops, control modules, radiators, and pumps can be coupled by a liquid distribution system with various combinations of parallel and serial branches. Temperature, pressure, and flow rate in each branch can be independently controlled. Operation of the integrated cooling system can be controlled by a computational system. |
| US08847523B2 |
Electronic drive having an electro-mechanical brake
An electronic drive includes an electro-mechanical brake associated with a direct-current motor. A first valve or diode connects one of the terminals of the direct-current motor with the first electrical terminal of the brake in a forward direction. A second valve or diode connects the other terminal of the direct-current motor with the first electrical terminal of the brake. A second electrical terminal of the brake is at least indirectly connected with a reference voltage. |
| US08847522B2 |
Reluctance motor with improved stator structure
In a motor, a stationary member is provided with a number M (M is a positive integer) of first poles within 360 electrical degrees at spaces therebetween. A plurality of windings are at least partly wound in the spaces, respectively. A movable member is movably arranged relative to the stationary member and provided with a number K (K is a positive integer) of second poles. The number K of second poles is different from the number M of first poles. A unidirectional current supply unit supplies a unidirectional current to at least one of the windings so as to create an attractive force between at least one of the first poles and a corresponding at least one of the second poles to thereby move the movable member relative to the stationary member. |
| US08847521B2 |
Electric-vehicle control apparatus
According to one embodiment, four VVVF main circuit inverters for supplying electric power to drive a permanent-magnet synchronous motor are packaged into one unit. The four VVVF main circuit inverters are configured as a 4-in-1 inverter unit which shares a cooling mechanism for radiating heat generated due to power supply operation for the permanent-magnet synchronous motors to outside. A 2-in-1 semiconductor device package in which two semiconductor elements to convert electric power are packaged into one unit to be able to drive a permanent-magnet synchronous motor is contained in the 4-in-1 inverter unit. Thereby, individual control of inverters and reducing the size of the entire apparatus can be achieved for the electric-vehicle control apparatus. |
| US08847520B2 |
Thermally self-stabilizing LED module
An improved LED module that is thermally self-stabilizing, and that is able to be retrofitted into an existing flashlight is provided. In one embodiment, the LED module includes a light emitting diode, an amplifying circuit and a microchip. The amplifying circuit includes a temperature sensing device to sense heat from the light emitting diode. The output of the amplifying circuit is input to the microchip which output to a switching device that regulates energy that is delivered to the light emitting diode. The switching device may be part of a boosting circuit, a bucking circuit or an inverting circuit. |
| US08847517B2 |
TRIAC dimming systems for solid-state loads
A system includes a transformer. The transformer includes a first coil and a second coil. The first coil is configured to receive a first voltage based on an output of a switching circuit. The second coil is configured to generate a first current based on the first voltage to power a solid-state load. The system also includes a third coil. The third coil is configured to generate a second voltage based on the first voltage. |
| US08847516B2 |
Lighting devices including current shunting responsive to LED nodes and related methods
A solid state lighting device may include a power supply and a light emitting device electrically coupled between the power supply and a reference node, with the light emitting device defining a node. A control element may be provided in a current shunting path electrically coupled in parallel with the light emitting device between the power supply and the reference node, with the control element being configured to control a voltage drop across the current shunting path responsive to an electrical signal from the node of the light emitting device. Related methods are also discussed. |
| US08847514B1 |
Programmable lighting with multi-day variations of wavelength and intensity, optimized by crowdsourcing using an online social community network
A programmable luminaire has arrays of LED's producing different wavelengths of light. A light map specifies how wavelengths of light reaching a plant or other organism are changed throughout a virtual day and over different growth phases of a plant's life. A host interface has a GUI light-map editor allowing a user to edit individual wavelengths in a light map that can be uploaded and shared with other users on a crowdsourcing web site. A large on-line community optimizes the light maps for a specific species of plants or animals. The wisdom of crowds converges until the best wavelengths, intensity and duration are arrived at through ranking, resulting in maximum desired output. Light maps are voted on by users and ranked based on votes, links to other light maps, and yield results. The LED's may be dimmed at intervals during the day for shading and sun fleck. |
| US08847509B2 |
Light-emitting diode driving apparatus including charging/discharging capacitor
A charging diode 6 is connected to the capacitor 3 and the anode of a first LED 11, and limits the direction of the charging current. A discharging diode 7 is connected to the capacitor 3 and the cathode of the first LED 11, and limits the direction of the discharging current. A charging path CP is provided which includes the capacitor 3, the charging diode 6, and the charger 5. The capacitor 3 is charged through the charging path CP. A discharging path DP is provided which includes the capacitor 3, the discharging diode 7 and a discharger 4. The capacitor 3 is discharged through the discharging path DP. A transient path TP is provided which does not include the capacitor 3 but includes the first LED 11, the charger 5 and the discharger 4. |
| US08847508B2 |
Multi-function lighting system
A multi-function lighting system is provided. A design of multiplex configuration of a multi-diode lighting module and a design of optical time domain modulation of an electric controlling system are applied to a lighting system which senses environmental conditions to automatically or artificially change a color, a light intensity and a color-temperature of a light to influence people's feelings and moods. At the same time, the environmental sensing device further feedbacks an information of humidity or temperature so that parameter of optimum light environment can be set accordingly. The multi-diode lighting module is applied to the design of the lighting system, such that the lighting system can be manufactured in a customization way to meet varied requirements in the landscaping and optical designs, not only reducing the cost and increasing mass production rate but also providing multi-functions including landscaping lighting, ergonomic lighting, plant lighting and air purifying. |
| US08847500B2 |
LED driver and driving method
An LED driver includes a power converter to convert an input voltage to a regulated voltage, a current source to be connected with an LED string in series between the power converter and a bias node, and a switching circuit to apply a bias voltage to the bias node to set the total voltage drop of the LED string and the current source. By controlling the total voltage drop of the LED string and the current source, the LED driver will automatically select a boost mode or a buck mode for operation, thereby improving the efficiency thereof. |
| US08847498B2 |
Resonant damping circuit for triac dimmable
A driver circuit for driving an LED includes a rectifier circuit to receive AC voltage and to convert the AC voltage to DC voltage. The driver circuit further includes a filter circuit for filtering the DC voltage. The driver circuit further includes a detection circuit for determining a change in the filtered DC voltage over a predetermined time interval. The driver circuit further includes a dampening circuit for dampening the filtered DC voltage responsive to the detection circuit determining that the change in filtered DC voltage over the predetermined time interval exceeds a predetermined threshold. |
| US08847495B2 |
Movable grounding arrangements in a plasma processing chamber and methods therefor
A plasma processing systems having at least one plasma processing chamber, comprising a movable grounding component, an RF contact component configured to receive RF energy from an RF source when the RF source provides the RF energy to the RF contact component, and a ground contact component coupled to ground. The plasma processing system further includes an actuator operatively coupled to the movable grounding component for disposing the movable grounding component in a first position and a second position. The first position represents a position whereby the movable grounding component is not in contact with at least one of the RF contact component and the ground contact component. The second position represents a position whereby the movable grounding component is in contact with both the RF contact component and the ground contact component. |
| US08847494B2 |
Ignition system for plasma jet ignition plug
An ignition system for a plasma jet ignition plug that enables a reduction in production cost and provides excellent ignition performance through improvement of plasma formation efficiency. The ignition system includes a plasma jet ignition plug having a center electrode, a ground electrode, and a cavity surrounding at least a portion of a gap formed between the center electrode and the ground electrode to form a discharge space, and a voltage application section for applying voltage across the gap. The ignition system further includes a capacitance section having a capacitance and provided in parallel with the plasma jet ignition plug between the plasma jet ignition plug and the voltage application section. |
| US08847493B2 |
Electrical module and method for illuminating a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp on a vehicle
The invention is directed to an electrical module and a method for illuminating a HID lamp on a vehicle, and in particular an off-road recreational vehicle. The electrical module and the method involve a capacitor and a voltage delay mechanism. The capacitor may be charged during the operation of the vehicle or when the operator wishes to illuminate the HID lamp. The voltage delay mechanism comprises a charge-actuated switch and a breakdown voltage means for preventing the supply of current to the HID lamp until the capacitor is charged to a voltage sufficient to illuminate the HID lamp. The voltage delay mechanism also comprises a power-actuated latch relay for maintaining the charge-actuated switch in a position that bypasses the breakdown voltage device, so that the HID lamp remains illuminated even after the voltage has decreased to the operating requirements of the HID lamp. |
| US08847486B2 |
Resin material and light emitting device package that includes the resin material
A light emitting device package is disclosed. The light emitting device package includes a light emitting device, a body that includes first and second lead frames electrically connected to the light emitting device and has a cavity disposed on the first and second lead frames, and a resin material that fills the cavity and includes a main material having a vinyl group (—CH═CH2) and a sub-material having a plurality of silane groups (Si—H). In the resin material, the vinyl groups and the silane groups are cross-linked to each other by curing. According to an FT-IR signal, an optical density (absorbance) of silane groups (Si—H) not reacted with the vinyl groups (—CH═CH2) may be in the range of 0.0002 to 0.01 (arb. unit). |
| US08847484B2 |
Mother substrate for flat panel display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
A mother substrate for forming flat panel display apparatuses and a method of manufacturing the same, the mother substrate including a substrate; a plurality of display units on the substrate, the display units being for forming a plurality of flat panel display apparatuses; a sealing substrate facing the display units; sealing members between the substrate and the sealing substrate, the sealing members surrounding each of the display units; a plurality of wiring units between the substrate and the sealing substrate, the wiring units overlapping the sealing members; a connecting unit including a conductive material, the connecting unit connecting adjacent wiring units in one direction and having a width that is greater than a width of each of the wiring units; and inlets connected to the plurality of wiring units and an external power source, the inlets being for applying a voltage to the plurality of wiring units. |
| US08847483B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
As a result of miniaturization of a pixel region associated with an improvement in definition and an increase in a substrate size associated with an increase in area, defects due to precision, bending, and the like of a mask used at the time of evaporation have become issues. A partition including portions with different thicknesses over a pixel electrode (also referred to as a first electrode) in a display region and in the vicinity of a pixel electrode layer is formed, without increasing the number of steps, by using a photomask or a reticle provided with an auxiliary pattern having a light intensity reduction function made of a diffraction grating pattern or a semi-transmissive film. |
| US08847482B2 |
Display device and method for manufacturing display device
To provide a display device with higher image quality and reliability or a large-sized display device with a large screen at low cost with high productivity. A function layer (such as a coloring layer or a pixel electrode layer) used in the display device is formed by discharging a liquid function-layer-forming material to an opening formed with a layer including a first organic compound which has a C—N bond or a C—O bond in the main chain as a base and a layer including a second organic compound as a partition. The fluorine density exhibiting liquid repellency to the liquid function-layer-forming material, which is attached to a surface of the layers including organic compounds, is controlled, whereby a liquid repellent region and a lyophilic region can be selectively formed. |
| US08847480B2 |
Lighting device
To reduce the thickness of a lighting device which uses an electroluminescent material and to simplify the structure of a lighting device which uses an electroluminescent material, in the lighting device of the present invention: a terminal electrically connecting a light-emitting element included in the lighting device to the outside is formed over the same surface of a substrate as the light-emitting element; and the terminal is formed at the center of the substrate while the light-emitting element is stacked. In addition, the lighting device has a structure in which the light-emitting element is not easily deteriorated. |
| US08847477B2 |
Light-emitting circuit and luminaire
According to one embodiment, a light-emitting circuit including a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting portions, and a luminous intensity distribution control member is provided. A plurality of the light-emitting portions are arranged apart from each other on the substrate. A plurality of the light-emitting portions each have a plurality of light-emitting elements and a color mixing unit. A plurality of the light-emitting elements radiate light. The color mixing unit combines the lights sealing a plurality of the light-emitting elements and radiated from a plurality of the light-emitting elements. The luminous intensity distribution control member includes a plurality of lenses provided corresponding to a plurality of the light-emitting portions, respectively, provided so that respective lights radiated from a plurality of the light-emitting portions enter a plurality of the lenses respectively, and configured to control the luminous intensity distribution of the light-emitting portions. |
| US08847472B1 |
Laminate support structure for an LED in a liquid-filled bulb
A method of making a light-emitting diode (LED) bulb and an LED bulb comprising a base, a shell connected to the base forming an enclosed volume. A thermally conductive liquid is held within the enclosed volume. A laminate support structure connected to the base and a plurality of flange portions formed in the laminate support structure. A plurality of LEDs are attached to the plurality of flange portions and arranged in a radial array. |
| US08847468B2 |
Piezoelectric generator
A piezoelectric generator includes a fixing part; a cantilever formed at a front edge of the fixing part; a weight part formed at a front end of the cantilever; a centroid adjustment part by which a position of a centroid of the weight part is adjusted; and a piezoelectric generating cell formed on top of the cantilever. |
| US08847463B2 |
Carbon brush for transmitting high currents
The embodiments of the invention relate to a carbon brush for transmitting high currents, having a connecting element for connecting an electrical track and a consumable contact element with a contact surface that is designed to lie flush against a commutator device, wherein the connecting element and the contact element are combined in a layer transition zone aligned perpendicularly to the direction of wear of the carbon brush and form a one-piece molded body, wherein the connecting element and the contact element have different compositions, such that a carbon component of the contact element is greater than the carbon component of the connecting element and the contact element has a metal component differing from that of the connecting element. |
| US08847462B2 |
Rotor and process for producing the same
The invention relates to a rotor that exhibits a rotor shaft, by which a rotor axis is defined, and also a core stack that is arranged around the rotor shaft along a longitudinal portion of the rotor axis. Along the longitudinal portion the rotor shaft exhibits a first surface region, the shape of which describes a circular cylinder, and also a second surface region which is constituted by structural elements that with respect to the rotor axis rise radially outwardly above the first surface region. For the purpose of producing the rotor, the core stack can be pushed over the rotor shaft and in the process can be pushed against the structural elements) in such a manner that it is deformed and by this means a positive connection between the rotor shaft and the core stack is generated. In this way, in particularly simple manner in terms of production engineering a reliable and torsion-proof connection between the core stack and the rotor shaft can be formed. |
| US08847461B2 |
Split stator core having specific dimensions and motor including same
A stator core includes three split cores, each of the split cores including a core-back portion including an inner surface facing a rotor, a tooth base portion protruding radially inwards from the inner surface of the core-back portion and a pair of tooth overhang portions protruding from both sides of a tip end of the tooth base portion in a circumferential direction. The inner surface of the core-back portion including a pair of orthogonal surface regions extending from both sides of a base end of the tooth base portion in a direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the tooth base portion, the orthogonal surface regions extending radially outwards beyond projection positions of tip ends of the tooth overhang portions when the tooth overhang portions are projected on an imaginary plane including the orthogonal surface regions in parallel or substantially in parallel to the tooth base portion. |
| US08847459B2 |
Coil for slotless electric motors having compact radial heads
An axial self-supported coil for a slotless rotating electric motor. The axial self-supported coil includes one coil body formed by winded electrical conductors, with a head at each end, the electrical conductors in the coil body being substantially coplanar with the motor rotation axis, each coil head having an axial thickness, the axial self-supported coil having a conductor filling factor, characterized in that at least one of the electrical conductors is a multi-stranded conductor, in that a deformation arrangement of the multi-stranded conductor increases the conductor filling factor and in that a bending arrangement of the multi-stranded conductor reduces the axial thickness of each coil head. |
| US08847457B2 |
Rotary electric machine and method of manufacturing same
A rotary electric machine includes a plurality of lead end holding grooves defined in insulators at an outer circumferential surface of a stator core, for guiding respective ends of coil leads therein. The lead end holding grooves are defined by ledges of the insulators. The ledges have respective lands which are convex in widthwise directions of the lead end holding groove. |
| US08847451B2 |
Combination radial/axial electromagnetic actuator with an improved axial frequency response
A first bias magnetic flux may be communicated between a first axial pole and a first axial facing surface of the body. A second bias magnetic flux may be communicated between a second axial pole and a second axial facing surface of the body. A time-varying axial control magnetic flux may be communicated through the first and second axial facing surfaces of the body, and may be generated in a magnetic circuit including the body, the first and second axial poles, and an axial magnetic backiron. The first and second axial poles may include axial pole laminated inserts composed of electrically isolated steel laminations stacked along the body axis. The axial magnetic backiron may include laminated inserts composed of electrically isolated steel laminations stacked in the direction tangential to the body axis. The axial pole laminated inserts may be magnetically coupled to the axial magnetic backiron laminated inserts. |
| US08847447B2 |
Motor assembly, drive device for hybrid vehicle, and method of manufacturing the same
A drive device for a hybrid vehicle, the drive device includes: an input shaft and an output shaft, which are supported by a case to be rotatable around a rotation-axis; a motor, which includes a rotor integrally coupled with the output shaft and a stator fixed to the case; an input-side rotation member and an output-side rotation member, which have an annular shape; a rotation angle sensor, which detects a rotation angle of the rotor, wherein the rotation angle sensor includes: a rotating sensor member coupled with the output-side rotation member; and a fixed sensor member fixed to the case to detect an angle between the rotating sensor member and the fixed sensor member; a protrusion, which protrudes in a radial direction; a groove to receive the protrusion to be inserted; and a restriction portion, which restricts relative rotation between the rotating sensor member and the output-side rotation member. |
| US08847437B2 |
Solid electrolytic capacitor element, method for manufacturing same, and jig for manufacturing same
Provided is a jig for manufacturing electrolytic capacitor elements wherein the jig is for forming dielectric layers on the surfaces of anode bodies by anodic oxidation or for forming semiconductor layers on the dielectric layers formed on the surfaces of the anode bodies. The jig for manufacturing the electrolytic capacitor elements comprises (i) a plurality of power supply circuits which are provided on an insulating substrate and to each of which a voltage-limiting value and a current-limiting value can be set, (ii) connection terminals for the anode bodies which are electrically connected to the respective outputs of the power supply circuits, and (iii) a terminal for setting the voltage-limiting values to the power supply circuits and a terminal for setting the current-limiting values to the power supply circuits; in the jig, a proper current can be set corresponding to the progress of the anodic oxidation and electrolytic polymerization. A method for manufacturing the electrolytic capacitor elements using the jig. |
| US08847436B2 |
System for inductively powering an electrical device and associated methods
An inductive coupling system for delivering power from an induction assembly attached to a first side of a structure to a load assembly positioned on a second side of a structure. The induction assembly may couple with the load assembly so as to removably attach the load assembly to the second side of the structure. Furthermore, a triggering device in the load assembly may initiate the inductive coupling between the induction and load assemblies. |
| US08847433B2 |
Apparatus for providing power to a multipole in a mass spectrometer
An apparatus for providing power to a multipole in a mass spectrometer is provided. The apparatus comprises a first resonant LC circuit; at least one inductor for forming a second resonant LC circuit with the multipole, the second resonant LC circuit connected in cascade with the first resonant LC circuit, when the at least one inductor is connected to the multipole; an RF power source for providing an RF signal; and a step-up transformer connected in parallel to the RF power source on a primary side and the first resonant LC circuit on a secondary side, the step-up transformer providing voltage gain for the RF signal thereby reducing the loaded Q of the resonant LC circuits. |
| US08847431B2 |
Semiconductor device including a pair of shield lines
A semiconductor device includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a first wire, and a pair of shield lines. The first circuit includes a voltage generating circuit generating a predetermined voltage and produces the predetermined voltage at an output end thereof. The first wire connects the output end of the first circuit to an input end of the second circuit. The pair of shield lines is disposed so as to sandwich the first wire therebetween. One of the shield lines is supplied with a power supply potential for driving at least one of the voltage generating circuit and the second circuit. Another of the shield lines is supplied with a ground potential for driving at least one of the voltage generating circuit and the second circuit. |
| US08847430B2 |
Power flow control in a meshed HVDC power transmission network
A meshed HVDC power transmission network comprises at least three HVDC converter stations interconnected in a first closed path by at least three transmission lines. A first DC power flow control device is series connected to a first of the at least three transmission lines. That first DC power flow control device takes its power from the first transmission line and balances the DC current distribution in the first closed path. |
| US08847429B2 |
Independent field device for automation purposes with intrinsic safety barrier
An autarkic field device or an autarkic radio adapter for a field device, of automation technology fed with limited energy via an energy supply unit associated, or associable, with the field device or the radio adapter. Between the energy supply unit and an internal voltage source, whose voltage exceeds, or at times can exceed, the voltage of the energy supply unit, a barrier of at least one diode group having at least two diodes connected in parallel is arranged, which blocks flow of electrical current from the internal voltage source to the energy supply unit or to the connection terminals of the field device or of the radio adapter for the energy supply unit. |
| US08847418B2 |
Tidal power plant and method for operating said tidal power plant
The invention relates to a flow power plant, comprising a water turbine having torsionally rigid rotor blades, a drive train connected to the water turbine, which at least indirectly drives an electric generator and is characterized in that at inflow speeds v for which the flow power plant is designed, the water turbine is configured to be non-auto-restarting for tip speed ratios λ below a predetermined auto-restart tip speed ratio λs where λs≧1. |
| US08847415B1 |
Liquid compression molding encapsulants
Thermosetting resin compositions useful for liquid compression molding encapsulation of a silicon wafer are provided. The so-encapsulated silicon wafers offer improved resistance to warpage, compared to unencapsulated wafers or wafers encapsulated with known encapsulation materials. |
| US08847413B2 |
Integrated circuit package system with leads having multiple sides exposed
An integrated circuit package system includes forming an integrated circuit stack having a bottom non-active side and a top non-active side; connecting an internal interconnect between a lead, having a top side and a bottom side, and the integrated circuit stack; and forming an encapsulation, having both a non-elevated portion and an elevated portion, around the integrated circuit stack and the internal interconnect with the top side exposed at the non-elevated portion, and with the bottom side, the bottom non-active side, and the top non-active side exposed. |
| US08847410B2 |
Semiconductor chip with bonding wire and method for making the same
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, a die pad including an obverse surface on which the semiconductor chip is bonded, a lead spaced apart from the die pad, a bonding wire electrically connecting the semiconductor chip and the lead to each other, and a resin package that seals the semiconductor chip and the bonding wire. The bonding wire includes a first bond portion press-bonded to the semiconductor chip by ball bonding, a second bond portion press bonded to the lead by stitch bonding, a landing portion extending from the second bond portion toward the die pad and formed in contact with an obverse surface of the lead, and a loop extending obliquely upward from the landing portion toward the semiconductor chip. |
| US08847404B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor device comprising an inter-die connection on the basis of functional molecules
In a stacked chip configuration, the “inter chip” connection is established on the basis of functional molecules, thereby providing a fast and space-efficient communication between the different semiconductor chips. |
| US08847403B2 |
Semiconductor device including two groove-shaped patterns
The semiconductor device has insulating films 40, 42 formed over a substrate 10; an interconnection 58 buried in at least a surface side of the insulating films 40, 42; insulating films 60, 62 formed on the insulating film 42 and including a hole-shaped via-hole 60 and a groove-shaped via-hole 66a having a pattern bent at a right angle; and buried conductors 70, 72a buried in the hole-shaped via-hole 60 and the groove-shaped via-hole 66a. A groove-shaped via-hole 66a is formed to have a width which is smaller than a width of the hole-shaped via-hole 66. Defective filling of the buried conductor and the cracking of the inter-layer insulating film can be prevented. Steps on the conductor plug can be reduced. Accordingly, defective contact with the upper interconnection layer and the problems taking place in forming films can be prevented. |
| US08847401B2 |
Semiconductor structure incorporating a contact sidewall spacer with a self-aligned airgap and a method of forming the semiconductor structure
Disclosed is a semiconductor structure incorporating a contact sidewall spacer with a self-aligned airgap and a method of forming the semiconductor structure. The structure comprises a semiconductor device (e.g., a two-terminal device, such as a PN junction diode or Schottky diode, or a three-terminal device, such as a field effect transistor (FET), a bipolar junction transistor (BJT), etc.) and a dielectric layer that covers the semiconductor device. A contact extends vertically through the dielectric layer to a terminal of the semiconductor device (e.g., in the case of a FET, to a source/drain region of the FET). A contact sidewall spacer is positioned on the contact sidewall and incorporates an airgap. Since air has a lower dielectric constant than other typically used dielectric spacer or interlayer dielectric materials, the contact size can be increased for reduced parasitic resistance while minimizing corresponding increases in parasitic capacitance or the probability of shorts. |
| US08847397B2 |
High work function, manufacturable top electrode
Provided are MIM DRAM capacitors and methods of forming thereof. A MIM DRAM capacitor may include an electrode layer formed from a high work function material (e.g., greater than about 5.0 eV). This layer may be used to reduce the leakage current through the capacitor. The capacitor may also include another electrode layer having a high conductivity base portion and a conductive metal oxide portion. The conductive metal oxide portion serves to promote the growth of the high k phase of the dielectric layer. |
| US08847395B2 |
Microelectronic device having metal interconnection levels connected by programmable vias
A microelectronic device, including: a substrate and a plurality of metal interconnection levels stacked on the substrate; a first metal line of a given metal interconnection level; a second metal line of another metal interconnection level located above the given metal interconnection level, the first and second lines are interconnected via at least one semiconductor connection element extending in a direction forming a nonzero angle with the first metal lines and the second metal line; and a gate electrode capable of controlling conduction of the semiconductor connection element. |
| US08847380B2 |
Staged via formation from both sides of chip
A method of fabricating a semiconductor assembly can include providing a semiconductor element having a front surface, a rear surface, and a plurality of conductive pads, forming at least one hole extending at least through a respective one of the conductive pads by processing applied to the respective conductive pad from above the front surface, forming an opening extending from the rear surface at least partially through a thickness of the semiconductor element, such that the at least one hole and the opening meet at a location between the front and rear surfaces, and forming at least one conductive element exposed at the rear surface for electrical connection to an external device, the at least one conductive element extending within the at least one hole and at least into the opening, the conductive element being electrically connected with the respective conductive pad. |
| US08847377B2 |
Stacked wafer level package having a reduced size
A stacked wafer level package includes a first semiconductor chip having a first bonding pad and a second semiconductor chip having a second bonding pad. Both bonding pads of the semiconductor chips face the same direction. The second semiconductor chip is disposed in parallel to the first semiconductor chip. A third semiconductor chip is disposed over the first and second semiconductor chips acting as a supporting substrate. The third semiconductor chip has a third bonding pad that is exposed between the first and the second semiconductor chips upon attachment. Finally, a redistribution structure is electrically connected to the first, second, and third bonding pads. |
| US08847375B2 |
Microelectromechanical systems embedded in a substrate
An integrated circuit package includes a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device embedded in a packaging substrate. The MEMS device is located on a die embedded in the packaging substrate and covered by a hermetic seal. Low-stress material in the packaging substrate surrounds the MEMS device. Additionally, interconnects may be used as standoffs to reduce stress on the MEMS device. The MEMS device is embedded a distance into the packaging substrate leaving for example, 30-80 microns, between the hermetic seal of the MEMS device and the support surface of the packaging substrate. Embedding the MEMS device results in lower stress on the MEMS device. |
| US08847372B1 |
Exposed die overmolded flip chip package and fabrication method
An exposed die overmolded flip chip package includes a substrate. A die is flip chip mounted to an upper surface of the substrate. The package further includes a mold cap filling a space between an active surface of the die and the upper surface of the substrate. The mold cap includes a principal surface, sidewalls extending from the upper surface of the substrate to the principal surface, an annular surface coplanar with the inactive surface of the die and extending outward from a peripheral edge of the inactive surface of the die, and protruding surfaces extending between the principal surface and the annular surface. The mold cap does not cover the inactive surface of the die such that heat transfer from the die to the ambient environment is maximized and the package thickness is minimized. |
| US08847370B2 |
Exposed die package that helps protect the exposed die from damage
In one aspect of the present invention, an integrated circuit package with an exposed die and a protective housing will be described. The housing extends beyond the exposed back surface of the die to help protect it from damage. The integrated circuit package includes a lead frame and an integrated circuit die. The integrated circuit die is electrically and physically attached to the lead frame. The housing encapsulates the lead frame and the die. The housing also includes a recessed region at the bottom of the package where the back surface of the die is exposed. There is a protruding protective structure at the bottom of the package that helps to protect the die and prevent its exposed back surface from coming in contact with an external object. |
| US08847369B2 |
Packaging structures and methods for semiconductor devices
Packaging structures and methods for semiconductor devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a substrate for packaging a semiconductor device includes a core substrate, an insulating material disposed over the core substrate, and conductive lines disposed in the insulating material. Contact pads are disposed over the insulating material and the conductive lines. The contact pads are disposed in an integrated circuit mounting region of the core substrate. A solder mask define (SMD) material is disposed over the insulating material. Portions of the contact pads are exposed through openings in the SMD material. A stress-relief structure (SRS) is disposed in the SMD material proximate the contact pads. The SRS is disposed entirely in the integrated circuit mounting region of the core substrate. |
| US08847360B2 |
Systems and methods for enabling ESD protection on 3-D stacked devices
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device is fabricated in a vertical space between active layers of stacked semiconductor dies thereby utilizing space that would otherwise be used only for communication purposes. The vertical surface area of the through silicon vias (TSVs) is used for absorbing large voltages resulting from ESD events. In one embodiment, an ESD diode is created in a vertical TSV between active layers of the semiconductor dies of a stacked device. This ESD diode can be shared by circuitry on both semiconductor dies of the stack thereby saving space and reducing die area required by ESD protection circuitry. |
| US08847354B2 |
Metal-insulator-metal capacitors with high capacitance density
Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors and methods for fabricating MIM capacitors. The MIM capacitor includes an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer with apertures each bounded by a plurality of sidewalls and each extending from the top surface of the ILD layer into the first interlayer dielectric layer. A layer stack, which is disposed on the sidewalls of the apertures and the top surface of the ILD layer, includes a bottom conductive electrode, a top conductive electrode, and a capacitor dielectric between the bottom and top conductive electrodes. |
| US08847353B2 |
Semiconductor device and data processing system using the same
Capacitance blocks (first block and second block) respectively formed on two different adjacent common pad electrodes are electrically connected in series through an upper electrode. A distance between two adjacent capacitance blocks connected in series through an upper electrode film for the upper electrode corresponds to a distance between opposing lower electrodes disposed in an outermost perimeter of each capacitance block, and is two or less times than a total film thickness of the upper electrode film embedded between the two adjacent capacitance blocks. |
| US08847350B2 |
Metal-via fuse
The embodiments of methods and structures disclosed herein provide mechanisms of forming and programming a metal-via fuse. The metal-via fuse and a programming transistor form a one-time programmable (OTP) memory cell. The metal-via fuse has a high resistance and can be programmed with a low programming voltage, which expands the programming window. |
| US08847349B2 |
Integrated circuit package with printed circuit layer
An integrated circuit (IC) package including an IC die and a conductive ink printed circuit layer electrically connected to the IC die. |
| US08847342B2 |
Magnetic device and method of manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing a magnetic device includes forming a stack structure, the stack structure including a magnetic layer, and etching the stack structure by using an etching gas, the etching gas including at least 80% by volume of H2 gas. |
| US08847332B2 |
Laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device having halo or pocket implant region
A high voltage semiconductor device is provided. The device includes a semiconductor substrate having a high voltage well with a first conductivity type therein. A gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor substrate of the high voltage well. A source doped region and a drain doped region are in the high voltage well on both sides of the gate structure, respectively. A lightly doped region with the first conductivity type is between the source and drain doped regions and relatively near to the source doped region. The disclosure also presents a method for fabricating a high voltage semiconductor device. |
| US08847329B2 |
Cross-coupled transistor circuit defined having diffusion regions of common node on opposing sides of same gate electrode track with at least two non-inner positioned gate contacts
A first gate level feature forms gate electrodes of a first transistor of a first transistor type and a first transistor of a second transistor type. A second gate level feature forms a gate electrode of a second transistor of the first transistor type. A third gate level feature forms a gate electrode of a second transistor of the second transistor type. The gate electrodes of the second transistors of the first and second transistor types are positioned on opposite sides of a gate electrode track along which the gate electrodes of the first transistors of the first and second transistor types are positioned. The gate electrodes of the second transistors of the first and second transistor types are electrically connected to each other through an electrical connection that includes two conductive contacting structures at a location not over an inner non-diffusion region. |
| US08847328B1 |
Module and assembly with dual DC-links for three-level NPC applications
A power semiconductor module has four power terminals. An IGBT has a collector connected to the first power terminal and an emitter coupled to the third power terminal. An anti-parallel diode is coupled in parallel with the IGBT. A DC-link is connected between the second and fourth power terminals. The DC-link may involve two diodes and two IGBTs, where the IGBTs are connected in a common collector configuration. The first and second power terminals are disposed in a first line along one side of the module, and the third and fourth power terminals are disposed in a second line along the opposite side of the module. Two identical instances of the module can be interconnected together to form a three-level NPC phase leg having low stray inductances, where the phase leg has two parallel DC-links. |
| US08847327B2 |
Layout data creation device for creating layout data of pillar-type transistor
A layout data creation device includes a transistor adjustment unit. The transistor adjustment unit divides a pillar-type transistor including a plurality of unit pillar-type transistors into the unit pillar-type transistors groups. The unit pillar-type transistors can be placed in a placement area. The number of the unit pillar-type transistors in each group is an integer. The transistor adjustment unit generates sub-pillar-type transistors that are placed in the placement area. |
| US08847323B2 |
finFET devices
A finFET structure and method of manufacture such structure is provided with lowered Ceff and enhanced stress. The finFET structure includes a plurality of finFET structures and a stress material forming part of a gate stack and in a space between adjacent ones of the plurality of finFET structures. |
| US08847319B2 |
Dummy structure for multiple gate dielectric interface and methods
Dummy structures between a high voltage (HV) region and a low voltage (LV) region of a substrate are disclosed, along with methods of forming the dummy structures. An embodiment is a structure comprising a HV gate dielectric over a HV region of a substrate, a LV gate dielectric over a LV region of the substrate, and a dummy structure over a top surface of the HV gate dielectric. A thickness of the LV gate dielectric is less than a thickness of the HV gate dielectric. The dummy structure is on a sidewall of the HV gate dielectric. |
| US08847317B2 |
Isolated epitaxial modulation device
An isolated epitaxial modulation device comprises a substrate; a barrier structure formed on the substrate; an isolated epitaxial region formed above the substrate and electrically isolated from the substrate by the barrier structure; a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device located in the isolated epitaxial region; and a modulation network formed on the substrate and electrically coupled to the semiconductor device. The device also comprises a bond pad and a ground pad. The isolated epitaxial region is electrically coupled to at least one of the bond pad and the ground pad. The semiconductor device and the epitaxial modulation network are configured to modulate an input voltage. |
| US08847313B2 |
Transparent electronics based on transfer printed carbon nanotubes on rigid and flexible substrates
Methods and devices for transparent electronics are disclosed. According to an embodiment, transparent electronics are provided based on transfer printed carbon nanotubes that can be disposed on both rigid and flexible substrates. Methods are provided to enable highly aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to be used in transparent electronics for achieving high carrier mobility while using low-temperature processing. According to one method, highly aligned nanotubes can be grown on a first substrate. Then, the aligned nanotubes can be transferred to a rigid or flexible substrate having pre-patterned gate electrodes. Source and drain electrodes can be formed on the transferred nanotubes. The subject devices can be integrated to provide logic gates and analog circuitry for a variety of applications. |
| US08847312B2 |
LDMOS device and method for improved SOA
A lateral-diffused-metal-oxide-semiconductor device having improved safe-operating-area is provided. The LDMOS device includes spaced-apart source and drain, separated by a first insulated gate structure, and spaced-apart source and body contact The spaced-apart source and BC are part of the emitter-base circuit of a parasitic bipolar transistor that can turn on prematurely, thereby degrading the SOA of prior art four-terminal LDMOS devices. Rather than separating the source and BC with a shallow-trench-isolation region as in the prior art, the semiconductor surface in the gap between the spaced-apart source and BC has there-over a second insulated gate structure, with its gate conductor electrically tied to the BC. When biased, the second insulated gate structure couples the source and BC lowering the parasitic resistance in the emitter-base circuit, thereby delaying turn-on of the parasitic transistor and improving the SOA of such 4-T LDMOS devices. |
| US08847309B2 |
Semiconductor device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a base region of a second conductivity type, a drift region of a first conductivity type, an insulating layer, a drain region of the first conductivity type, a gate oxide film, a gate electrode, a first main electrode, and a second main electrode. The base region includes a source region of the first conductivity type. The drift region is adjacent to the base region. The insulating layer is provided from a surface to inside of the drift region. The drain region is provided in the surface of the drift region and opposed to the source region across the base region and the insulating layer. The gate oxide film is provided on a surface of the base region. The gate electrode is provided on the gate oxide film. The first main electrode is connected to the source region. The second main electrode is connected to the drain region. As viewed in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the base region, the source region and at least a part of the drain region extend generally parallel in a line shape, and a length of a portion of the drift region sandwiched between the insulating layer and the base region is shorter in the generally parallel extending direction than in a direction generally perpendicular to the generally parallel extending direction. |
| US08847304B1 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of insulating layers formed alternately with each other, at least one channel layer passing through the plurality of conductive layers and the plurality of insulating layers, and at least one first charge blocking layer surrounding the at least one channel layer, wherein a plurality of first regions, interposed between the at least one channel layer and the plurality of conductive layers, and a plurality of second regions, interposed between the at least one channel layer and the plurality of insulating layers, are alternately defined on the at least one first charge blocking layer, and each of the plurality of first regions has a greater thickness than each of the plurality of second regions. |
| US08847301B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A first connection portion and a second connection portion connect a first control gate to a second control gate, and are separated from each other. The first control gate includes a first disconnection portion between the first connection portion and a source diffusion layer closest to the first connection portion. The second control gate includes a second disconnection portion between the second connection portion and the source diffusion layer closest to the second connection portion. A first word gate and a second word gate are not disconnected in portions overlapping the first disconnection portion and the second disconnection portion. |
| US08847300B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device including a conductive layer, a diffusion barrier layer formed over the conductive layer, including a refractory metal compound, and acquired after a surface treatment, and a metal silicide layer formed over the diffusion barrier layer. The adhesion between a diffusion barrier layer and a metal silicide layer may be improved by increasing the surface energy of the diffusion barrier layer through a surface treatment. Therefore, although the metal silicide layer is fused in a high-temperature process, it is possible to prevent a void from being caused at the interface between the diffusion barrier layer and the metal silicide layer. Moreover, it is possible to increase the adhesion between a conductive layer and the diffusion barrier layer by increasing the surface energy of the conductive layer through the surface treatment. |
| US08847298B2 |
Pillars for vertical transistors
In order to form a more stable silicon pillar which can be used for the formation of vertical transistors in DRAM cells, a multi-step masking process is used. In a preferred embodiment, an oxide layer and a nitride layer are used as masks to define trenches, pillars, and active areas in a substrate. Preferably, two substrate etch processes use the masks to form three levels of bulk silicon. |
| US08847297B2 |
Image sensor having moisture absorption barrier layer, fabricating method thereof, and device comprising the image sensor
Image sensor, fabricating method thereof, and device comprising the image sensor are provided, which comprises a substrate in which a photoelectric transformation device is formed, an interconnection structure formed on the substrate and including multiple intermetal dielectric layers and multiple metal interconnections placed in the multiple intermetal dielectric layers, the interconnection structure defining a cavity aligned corresponding to the photoelectric transformation device, a moisture absorption barrier layer conformally formed on a top of the interconnection structure and in the cavity; and a light guide unit formed on the moisture absorption barrier layer and including light transmittance material filling the cavity, wherein the moisture absorption barrier layer is formed with a uniform thickness on both sides and a bottom of the cavity and on a top surface of the multiple intermetal dielectric layer. |
| US08847294B2 |
Substrate including oxide thin film transistor, method for fabricating the same, and driving circuit for liquid crystal display device using the same
There are provided a substrate including an oxide TFT having improved initial threshold voltage degradation characteristics included in a driving circuit of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, a method for fabricating the same, and a driving circuit for an LCD device using the same. The substrate including an oxide thin film transistor (TFT) includes: a base substrate divided into a pixel region and a driving circuit region; and a plurality of TFTs formed on the base substrate, wherein an initial threshold voltage of at least one of the plurality of TFTs formed in the driving circuit region is positive-shifted to have a predetermined level. |
| US08847293B2 |
Gate structure for semiconductor device
A semiconductor device and method of fabricating thereof is described that includes a substrate having a fin with a top surface and a first and second lateral sidewall. A hard mask layer may be formed on the top surface of the fin (e.g., providing a dual-gate device). A gate dielectric layer and work function metal layer are formed on the first and second lateral sidewalls of the fin. A silicide layer is formed on the work function metal layer on the first and the second lateral sidewalls of the fin. The silicide layer may be a fully-silicided layer and may provide a stress to the channel region of the device disposed in the fin. |
| US08847290B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a rectifying element; an electrode pad electrically connected to the rectifying element; and a resistance and a depletion transistor arranged between the rectifying element and the electrode pad, and electrically connected to each other. The semiconductor device has a configuration in which the rectifying element, the resistance, the depletion transistor, and the electrode pad are serially connected. The semiconductor device is configured to generate a gate potential of the depletion transistor based on a difference in potential across the resistance and to produce a depletion layer in a channel of the depletion transistor based on the gate potential. As a result, a semiconductor device having reasonably large current at low voltage and small current at high voltage can be obtained. |
| US08847288B2 |
Spin transistors and memory
A spin transistor according to an embodiment includes: a semiconductor layer including a p+-region and an n+-region located at a distance from each other, and an i-region located between the p+-region and the n+-region; a first electrode located on the p+-region, the first electrode including a first ferromagnetic layer; a second electrode located on the n+-region, the second electrode including a second ferromagnetic layer; and a gate located on at least the i-region. |
| US08847287B1 |
Janus complementary MEMS transistors and circuits
A method of fabricating an electromechanical device includes the following steps. A first and a second back gate are formed over a substrate. An etch stop layer is formed covering the first and second back gates. Electrodes are formed over the first and second back gates, wherein the electrodes include one or more gate, source, and drain electrodes, wherein gaps are present between the source and drain electrodes. One or more Janus components are placed the gaps, each of which includes a first portion having an electrically conductive material and a second portion having an electrically insulating material, and wherein i) the first or second portion of the Janus components placed in a first one of the gaps has a fixed positive surface charge and ii) the first or second portion of the Janus components placed in a second one of the gaps has a fixed negative surface charge. |
| US08847284B2 |
Integrated circuit with standard cells
A die includes a plurality of rows of standard cells. Each of all standard cells in the plurality of rows of standard cells includes a transistor and a source edge, wherein a source region of the transistor is adjacent to the source edge. No drain region of any transistor in the each of all standard cells is adjacent to the source region. |
| US08847281B2 |
High mobility strained channels for fin-based transistors
Techniques are disclosed for incorporating high mobility strained channels into fin-based transistors (e.g., FinFETs such as double-gate, trigate, etc), wherein a stress material is cladded onto the channel area of the fin. In one example embodiment, silicon germanium (SiGe) is cladded onto silicon fins to provide a desired stress, although other fin and cladding materials can be used. The techniques are compatible with typical process flows, and the cladding deposition can occur at a plurality of locations within the process flow. In some cases, the built-in stress from the cladding layer may be enhanced with a source/drain stressor that compresses both the fin and cladding layers in the channel. In some cases, an optional capping layer can be provided to improve the gate dielectric/semiconductor interface. In one such embodiment, silicon is provided over a SiGe cladding layer to improve the gate dielectric/semiconductor interface. |
| US08847279B2 |
Defect reduction using aspect ratio trapping
Lattice-mismatched epitaxial films formed proximate non-crystalline sidewalls. Embodiments of the invention include formation of facets that direct dislocations in the films to the sidewalls. |
| US08847268B2 |
Light emitting device and light emitting device package
Disclosed are a light emitting device and a light emitting device package. The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer on the active layer, an adhesive layer contacting a top surface of the first conductive semiconductor layer, a first electrode contacting a top surface of the first conductive semiconductor and a top surface of the adhesive layer, and a second electrode contacting the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein the adhesive layer contacting the first electrode is spaced apart from the second electrode. |
| US08847265B2 |
Light-emitting device having dielectric reflector and method of manufacturing the same
A light-emitting device includes a first conductive semiconductor layer formed on a substrate, a mask layer formed on the first conductive semiconductor layer and having a plurality of holes, a plurality of vertical light-emitting structures vertically grown on the first conductive semiconductor layer through the plurality of holes, a current diffusion layer surrounding the plurality of vertical light-emitting structures on the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a dielectric reflector filling a space between the plurality of vertical light-emitting structures on the current diffusion layer. |
| US08847262B2 |
Sapphire substrate having triangular projections with bottom sides formed of outwardly curved lines
A sapphire substrate having a principal surface for growing a nitride semiconductor to form a nitride semiconductor light emitting device comprises a plurality of projections on the principal surface. Each of the projections has a bottom that has a substantially polygonal shape. Each side of the bottom of the projections has a depression in its center. Vertexes of the bottoms of the respective projections extend in a direction that is within a range of ±10 degrees of a direction that is rotated counter-clockwise by 30 degrees from a crystal axis “a” of the sapphire substrate. |
| US08847260B2 |
Semiconductor structure
A semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second semiconductor layer, a metallic plasma generating layer, and a first optical symmetric layer stacked in series. The first semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the second semiconductor layer constitute a source layer. A refractive index difference between the source layer and the first optical symmetric layer is less than or equal to 0.3. |
| US08847258B2 |
Organic electroluminescent devices
The invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device (1) comprising a substrate (2), at least one electroluminescent layer stack on top of the substrate (2) with at least a substrate electrode (3), a counter electrode (5) and at least one organic electroluminescent layer (4) arranged between substrate electrode (2) and counter electrode (5), and a short prevention layer (6) covering the counter electrode (5) establishing a double layer (DL) with a tensile stress (TS) induced by the short prevention layer (5), and an electrically isolating layer (8) at least partly covering the short prevention layer (6), wherein the electrically isolating layer (8) is suitable to partially dissolve the organic layer (4) in the vicinity of a defect (7) within the electroluminescent layer stack and the tensile stress (TS) induced by the short prevention layer (6) is suitable to roll up (10) the double layer (DL) adjacent to the defect (7) after deposition of the electrically isolating layer (8). The invention further relates to a method to manufacture such OLED devices (1) and the use of a short prevention layer (6) to prevent shorts in such OLED devices (1). |
| US08847255B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting device
A semiconductor light emitting device (A) includes an elongated substrate (1) formed with a through-hole (11), a first, a second and a third semiconductor light emitting elements (3R, 3G, 3B) mounted on the main surface of the substrate (1), and an electrode (2R) electrically connected to the first semiconductor light emitting element (3R) and extending to the reverse surface of the substrate (1) via the through-hole (11). The first semiconductor light emitting element (3R) and the through-hole (11) are positioned between the second semiconductor light emitting element (3G) and the third semiconductor light emitting element (3B) in the longitudinal direction of the substrate (1). The second semiconductor light emitting element (3G) is arranged closer to one end of the substrate (1), whereas the third semiconductor light emitting element (3B) is arranged closer to the other end of the substrate (1). |
| US08847248B2 |
Light-emitting device and the manufacturing method thereof
A light-emitting device includes: a carrier; a light-emitting structure formed on the carrier, wherein the light-emitting structure has a first surface facing the carrier, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and an active layer between the first surface and the second surface; a plurality of first trenches extended from the first surface and passing through the active layer so a plurality of light-emitting units is defined; and a plurality of second trenches extended from the second surface and passing through the active layer of each of the plurality of light-emitting units. |
| US08847246B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display
An organic light emitting diode display is disclosed. The organic light emitting diode display includes a base substrate including a display area and a non-display area around the display area, a plurality of pixels formed over the display area of the base substrate, the plurality of pixels including a common electrode, a common power line formed over the base substrate and electrically connected to a circuit of each of the plurality of pixels, an encapsulation substrate bonded to the base substrate by a sealing member surrounding the plurality of pixels, the encapsulation substrate including an inner surface facing the base substrate, a first conductive layer formed over the inner surface and electrically connecting the common power line to a first potential, and a second conductive layer formed over the inner surface and spaced apart from the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer electrically connecting the common electrode to a second potential. |
| US08847245B2 |
Imaging device including light-emitting element and light receiving element
Objects are to provide a small imaging device that can take an image of a thick book without distortion of an image of a gutter and to improve the portability of an imaging device by downsizing the imaging device. The imaging device has imaging planes on both surfaces. All elements included in the imaging device are preferably provided over one substrate. In other words, the imaging device has a first imaging plane and a second imaging plane facing opposite to the first imaging plane. |
| US08847244B2 |
Photocoupler
A photpcoupler includes: a light emitting element; a first photodiode array; a second photodiode array; a third photo diode array; an enhancement-mode MOSFET; a first depletion-mode MOSFET; and a second depletion mode MOSFET. The light emitting element converts the input electrical signal into the optical signal. A drain current of the enhancement-mode MOSFET is supplied to the external load when the optical signal is ON. A drain current of the first depletion-mode MOSFET is supplied to the external load when the optical signal is OFF and a voltage passing through the second depletion-mode MOSFET switched to the ON state is supplied to the gate of the first depletion-mode MOSFET. And the drain current of the first depletion-mode MOSFET is larger than a drain current of the first depletion-mode MOSFET when a gate voltage of the first depletion-mode MOSFET is zero. |
| US08847242B2 |
Multi-element LED lamp
A light emitting diode device (e.g., LED package) may include at least two light emitting devices that can be switched independently of one another and thus may be useful in vehicular lighting applications, for example low and high beam headlights. A LED device may include a first LED die and at least one additional LED die disposed at different positions within a common reflector cup or relative to a common lens. Multiple LED sub-assemblies may be mounted to a common lead frame along non-coincident principal axes. Methods for varying intensity or color from multi-LED lamps are further provided. |
| US08847239B2 |
AC LED device and method for fabricating the same
An LED device includes a substrate including a first and second light emitting modules, and first and second opposite sides. The first light emitting module includes a first conductive electrode located adjacent to the first side, a second conductive electrode located adjacent to the second side, and a first plurality of light emitting micro diodes electrically connected in the form of a plurality of serially connected bridge rectifiers between the first conductive electrode and the second conductive electrode. The second light emitting module includes a third conductive electrode located adjacent to the first side, a fourth conductive electrode adjacent to the second side, and a second plurality of light emitting micro diodes electrically connected in the form of a plurality of serially connected bridge rectifiers between the third conductive electrode and the fourth conductive electrode. The first, second, third, and fourth conductive electrodes are physically separated from each other. |
| US08847236B2 |
Semiconductor substrate and semiconductor substrate manufacturing method
A semiconductor substrate includes: a silicon substrate; a monocrystalline silicon carbide film formed on a surface of the silicon substrate; and a stress relieving film formed on the surface of the silicon substrate opposite from the side on which the monocrystalline silicon carbide film is formed, and that relieves stress in the silicon substrate by applying compressional stress to the silicon substrate surface on which the stress relieving film is formed, wherein a plurality of spaces is present in the monocrystalline silicon carbide film in portions on the side of the silicon substrate and along the interface between the monocrystalline silicon carbide film and the silicon substrate. |
| US08847234B2 |
Thin film transistor, method fabricating thereof, liquid crystal display device and method for fabricating the same
A thin-film transistor array substrate and a fabrication method thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention are disclosed to form an interlayer insulating layer, thereby reducing a failure occurred during the process subsequent to a gate electrode. The thin-film transistor disclosed according to the present invention may include a substrate, a gate electrode formed on the substrate, a planarized insulating layer formed at a lateral surface portion of the gate electrode and at an upper portion of the substrate, a gate insulating layer formed on the planarized insulating layer containing an upper portion of the gate electrode, an active layer formed at an upper portion of the planarized insulating layer located at an upper side of the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the active layer and separated from each other based on a channel region. |
| US08847220B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor can have stable electric characteristics and high reliability. A transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer containing indium, titanium, and zinc is used as a channel formation region and a semiconductor device including the transistor are provided. As a buffer layer in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, a metal oxide layer containing an oxide of one or more elements selected from titanium, aluminum, gallium, zirconium, hafnium, and a rare earth element can be used. |
| US08847218B2 |
Organic electroluminescent element
An organic electroluminescence device includes a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer interposed therebetween. The organic compound layer includes a plurality of emitting layers including a first emitting layer and a second emitting layer, in which at least one of the first and second emitting layers contains a phosphorescent dopant material, and a space layer between the first and second emitting layers. The space layer contains a compound satisfying a relationship of the following numerical formula (1) in terms of a difference ΔST between singlet energy EgS and an energy gap Eg77K at 77K, [Numerical Formula 1] ΔST=EgS−Eg77K≦0.5 (eV) (1). |
| US08847213B2 |
Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, a display disposed on the substrate, an opposite substrate disposed to face the substrate with the display therebetween, a seal disposed between the substrate and the opposite substrate to couple the substrate to the opposite substrate and arranged around an outer circumference of the display such that the display is located inside the seal, and a support disposed between the substrate and the opposite substrate and arranged around a corner of the seal so that the corner of the seal is located inside the support. |
| US08847212B2 |
OLED device
An OLED device comprises an anode, a hole transport layer, a luminance layer, an electron transport layer and a cathode. Molecules of film materials of forming the carrier transport layer all stand upright on the electrodes. A long axis of the molecule is perpendicular to the electrodes. There forms vertical conjugated planes between the molecules of each molecule layer in the film. These conjugated planes are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the electrodes. Therefore, the carrier transportation of the OLED device of the present invention mainly relies on the conjugated bonds in the molecules, but not the transition between the molecules, thereby efficiently improving the carrier mobility, reducing the working pressure and the power consumption of the OLED device, and improving the performance of the OLED device. |
| US08847208B2 |
Photoelectric conversion device and imaging device having decreased dark current
Provided is a photoelectric conversion device comprising a transparent electrically conductive film, a photoelectric conversion film, and an electrically conductive film, wherein the photoelectric conversion film contains a compound represented by the following formula (i): wherein each of R2 to R9 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that each of at least two out of R3, R4, R7 and R8 independently represents an aryl group, a heterocyclic group or —N(Ra)(Rb), each of Ra and Rb independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and at least either Ra or Rb represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; and R1 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group. |
| US08847205B2 |
Spacer for a gate electrode having tensile stress and a method of forming the same
By reducing a deposition rate and maintaining a low bias power in a plasma atmosphere, a spacer layer, for example a silicon nitride layer, may be deposited that exhibits tensile stress. The amount of tensile stress is controllable within a wide range, thereby providing the potential for forming sidewall spacer elements that modify the charge carrier mobility and thus the conductivity of the channel region of a field effect transistor. |
| US08847204B2 |
Germanium electroluminescence device and fabrication method of the same
This invention provides a germanium electroluminescence device and a fabricating method of the same for using germanium of an indirect bandgap semiconductor without modifying a bandgap as a light-emitting layer which emits a 1550 nm-wavelength light and enabling to use not only as infrared LEDs itself but also as light sources for optical communication systems. |
| US08847203B2 |
Group III nitride epitaxial laminate substrate
A Group III nitride epitaxial laminate substrate comprising a substrate, a buffer and a main laminate in this order, wherein the buffer includes an initial growth layer, a first superlattice laminate and a second superlattice laminate in this order, the first superlattice laminate includes five to 20 sets of first AlN layers and second GaN layers, the first AlN layers and the second GaN layers being alternately stacked, and each one set of the first AlN layer and the second GaN layer has a thickness of less than 44 nm, the second superlattice laminate includes a plurality of sets of first layers made of an AlN material or an AlGaN material and second layers made of an AlGaN material having a different band gap from the first layers, the first and second layers being alternately stacked. |
| US08847199B2 |
Nanorod light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same
A nanorod light emitting device includes at least one nitride semiconductor layer, a mask layer, multiple light emitting nanorods, nanoclusters, a filling layer disposed on the nanoclusters, a first electrode and connection parts. The mask layer is disposed on the nitride semiconductor layer and has through holes. The light emitting nanorods are disposed in and extend vertically from the through holes. The nanoclusters are spaced apart from each other. Each of the nanoclusters has a conductor and covers a group of light emitting nanorods, among the multiple light emitting nanorods, with the conductor. The first electrode is disposed on the filling layer and has a grid pattern. The connection parts connect the conductor and the first electrode. |
| US08847197B2 |
Semiconductor nanoparticle-based materials
In various embodiment, a primary particle includes a primary matrix material containing a population of semiconductor nanoparticles, with each primary particle further comprising an additive to enhance the physical, chemical and/or photo-stability of the semiconductor nanoparticles. A method of preparing such particles is described. Composite materials and light-emitting devices incorporating such primary particles are also described. |
| US08847195B2 |
Structures for resistance random access memory and methods of forming the same
Memory cells and methods of forming the same and devices including the same. The memory cells have first and second electrodes. An amorphous semiconductor material capable of electronic switching and having a first band gap is between the first and second electrodes. A material is in contact with the semiconductor material and having a second band gap, the second band gap greater than the first band gap. |
| US08847192B2 |
Resistive switching devices having alloyed electrodes and methods of formation thereof
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a resistive switching device comprises a bottom electrode, a switching layer disposed over the bottom electrode, and a top electrode disposed over the switching layer. The top electrode comprises an alloy of a memory metal and an alloying element. The top electrode provides a source of the memory metal. The memory metal is configured to change a state of the switching layer. |
| US08847191B1 |
Programmable impedance memory elements, methods of manufacture, and memory devices containing the same
A memory device can include a plurality of memory elements, each including first electrode having a surrounding first electrode side surface in a lateral direction; a memory material surrounding the first electrode side surface in the lateral direction, the memory material being programmable between at least two different impedance states in response to electric fields; and a second electrode formed around the memory material in the lateral direction. |
| US08847188B2 |
Switching device and memory device including the same
A switching device includes a first electrode, a bipolar tunneling layer, and a second electrode. The bipolar tunneling layer is formed on the first electrode and includes a plurality of dielectric layers having different dielectric constants. The second electrode is formed on the bipolar tunneling layer. |
| US08847187B2 |
Method of forming anneal-resistant embedded resistor for non-volatile memory application
Embodiments of the invention include a nonvolatile memory device that contains nonvolatile resistive random access memory device with improved device performance and lifetime. In some embodiments, nonvolatile resistive random access memory device includes a diode, a metal silicon nitride embedded resistor, and a resistive switching layer disposed between a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. In some embodiments, the method of forming a resistive random access memory device includes forming a diode, forming a metal silicon nitride embedded resistor, forming a first electrode layer, forming a second electrode layer, and forming a resistive switching layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. |
| US08847186B2 |
Self-selecting PCM device not requiring a dedicated selector transistor
A Zinc Oxide (ZnO) layer deposited using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) over a phase-change material forms a self-selected storage device. The diode formed at the ZnO/GST interface shows both rectification and storage capabilities within the PCM architecture. |
| US08847185B2 |
Phase-locked web position signal using web fiducials
Approaches for enhancing web position determination involve phase locking a web movement encoder signal to a sensed web fiducial signal. Fiducials disposed along a longitudinal axis of a substrate are sensed and corresponding sensor signals are generated. An estimated web position is provided by one or more encoder signals. The phase difference between the sensor signals and the encoder signals is calculated and the web position error is determined based on the phase difference. The web position error signal can be fed back to adjust the encoder signals which improves the accuracy of the web position determination. |
| US08847184B2 |
Composite film for board level EMI shielding
An EMI shielding composite film for use in printed circuit boards has at least two layers, a top layer electrically conductive in all directions (isotropic), and a bottom layer electrically conductive only in the Z (thickness) direction (anisotropic) after thermo-compression. The bottom layer is in contact with the grounding pads of the circuitry of the electronic device to be shielded. The conductive top layer functions similarly to metallic boxes to prevent the electromagnetic radiation from both entering the boxes and escaping into the environment. The bottom layer interconnects the top conductive layer to the grounding pads on the PCB after thermo-compression so that electromagnetic waves collected by the top layer are directed and released to PCB grounding pads through the bottom layer. |
| US08847176B1 |
System for detecting fluorescing substances on non-fluorescing material using the human eye
An apparatus for detecting a fluorescing substance on a test material includes a light source configured to direct light energy toward the test material, and one or more display features configured to display fluorescing light from the test material. When light from the light source contacts the fluorescing material, display features allows the fluorescing material to project a fluorescing glow into an ambient environment near the apparatus. |
| US08847175B2 |
Method for locating an optical marker in a diffusing medium
A method for locating at least one optical marker in a diffusing medium, the marker having at least one optical property different from the diffusing medium, wherein: a) a pulsed radiation interacts with the medium and the at least one optical marker, producing an optical signal, and at least one acquisition of data of the optical signal is performed, each acquisition including one or more time components of interest, due to the at least one marker, and a spurious component, due to the medium other than the at least one marker, b) a multidimensional array X is formed from the optical signal data of the at least one of the acquisitions, c) the array X is processed by factorization into a product of only two non-negative multidimensional arrays A and S, and d) at least one of the time components is extracted from the arrays A and S. |
| US08847169B2 |
Quantum-limited highly linear CMOS detector for computer tomography
The invention provides a CMOS CT detector design with high linearity, quantum-limited noise, good scalability, high fill factor with a single CMOS chip utilizing synchronous partial quantization. The CMOS CT detector includes a pixel array, digital column buses, analog column buses, column processing circuits, a shift register, a control signal generation circuit, and a reference generation circuit, and implements a synchronous partial quantization scheme with reset, integration and analog readout phases. Each pixel of the pixel array further includes a photodiode; an integration capacitor; an OPAMP; a reset switch; a comparator; a 1-bit dynamic random-access-memory (DRAM) cell; a circuit block for enabling subtraction of a substantially fixed amount of charge from the integrated photocharge if the integrated photovoltage increases beyond the reference voltage; an integration node; an analog buffer; and a switch coupled between the output of the DRAM cell and the digital column bus. The inclusion of a level-shifter and a current front-end improves the linearity of the detector. |
| US08847168B2 |
Large-scale X-ray detectors and methods of manufacturing the same
Large-scale X-ray detectors and methods of manufacturing the same are provided, the large-scale X-ray detectors include a photoconductor layer configured to generate electrical charges according to an incident X-ray using an entire area of the photoconductor layer, a common electrode on an upper surface of the photoconductor layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes, configured to convert the electrical charges into electrical signals, on a lower surface of the photoconductor layer and divided into a plurality of groups, and a plurality of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) each corresponding to one of the groups. Each ASIC is configured to process the electrical signals conveyed via the pixel electrodes in the corresponding group. The ASICs process the electrical signals so that seamless image information is collectively generated by the ASICs with respect to the entire area of the photoconductor layer. |
| US08847166B2 |
Imaging device using gamma rays, image signal processor, and image processing method for gamma ray measurement data
To simultaneously image a plurality types of tracer molecules for a Compton image and a PET image. Provided is an imaging device comprising: a first Compton camera (10) for receiving one gamma ray emitted from an imaging target (900) administered by first probe having positron emitting nuclei and second probe having gamma ray emission nuclei; and a second Compton camera (20) which is arranged opposite to the first Compton camera (10) and receives another gamma ray emitted from the imaging target (900). The imaging device is also provided with: an imaging processor for distinguishing and reconstructing a PET image and a Compton image in accordance with the combination of the Compton cameras which detected the gamma rays; and a display for displaying the PET image and the Compton image in association respectively with the first and the second probes. |
| US08847162B2 |
Infrared detector comprising a package integrating at least one diffraction grating
The infrared detector includes a sensitive retina capable of detecting a radiation in the wavelength range between 8 and 14 micrometers; and a package containing the sensitive retina and including a window located opposite to the retina, said window comprising a substrate at least partially transparent in the wavelength range between 2 and 14 micrometers; and a set of optical filters formed on the window to attenuate an incident radiation on the retina in a wavelength range between 2 and 8 micrometers, and respectively an optical filter formed on a first surface of the window and attenuating the incident radiation in a first interval of the wavelength range between 2 and 8 micrometers, and a periodic diffraction grating formed on a second surface of the window and attenuating the incident radiation in a second interval of the wavelength range between 2 and 8 micrometers, different from the first interval. |
| US08847158B2 |
Device and method for measuring surface charge distribution
A surface charge measuring distribution method includes the steps of irradiating a sample with a charged particle beam and charging a sample surface in a spot-like manner, irradiating the charged sample with the charged particle beam to measure a potential at a potential saddle point formed above the sample, selecting one of preset multiple structure models and a tentative space charge distribution associated with the selected structure model, calculating a space potential at the potential saddle point by electromagnetic field analysis using the selected structure model and tentative space charge distribution, comparing the calculated space potential and measured value to determine the tentative space charge distribution as a space charge distribution of the sample when an error between the space potential and the measured value is within a predetermined range, and calculating a surface charge distribution of the sample by electromagnetic field analysis based on the determined space charge distribution. |
| US08847154B2 |
Ion transfer tube for a mass spectrometer system
An ion transfer tube for a mass spectrometer comprises a core member and a first jacket tube member at least partially enclosing the core member and providing one or more channels therethrough. A method of forming an ion transfer tube, comprises: providing a first jacket tube member having a length and an internal bore, the internal bore passing along the length and defining an interior surface of circular cross section; removing at least one portion of the first jacket tube member adjacent to the interior surface so as to form at least one groove, channel, slot, recess or embayment of or in the interior surface; and providing a core member within the bore of the jacket tube member such that remnant portions of the interior surface of circular cross section mate against portions of an exterior surface of the core member. |
| US08847146B2 |
Image sensor package structure with casing including a vent without sealing and in communication with package material
The present invention discloses an image sensor package structure. The image sensor package structure includes a substrate, a chip, a transparent lid, a first casing and a package material. The transparent lid covers a sensitization area of the chip and it also adheres to the chip which is deposed on the substrate. The first casing, which adheres to the transparent lid, forms an opening so that light can pass through the opening and the transparent lid to enter into the sensitization area. The package material covers around the chip and the transparent lid and fills between the substrate and the first casing. Because of the arrangement of adhesive layers placed between the first casing and the transparent lid and between the transparent lid and the chip, the blockage area from moisture is elongated. Therefore, the reliability of the image sensor package structure can be enhanced. |
| US08847144B2 |
Enhanced optical reflective encoder
An optical encoder and optical encoding system are disclosed. Specifically, an encoder having a light detector elevated relative to a light source is described. The relative height difference between the light source and the light detector enables the optical encoder to minimize noise at the light detector without requiring a separate light baffle between the light source and light detector. Methods of manufacturing and operating such an encoder are also described. |
| US08847142B2 |
Method and device for concentrating, collimating, and directing light
An optical system for light energy concentration may comprise a light concentrator to convert incident light to converging light, a light collimating element to receive the converging light and to reduce an angle of convergence of the converging light, and a light directing element to direct the reduced-angle converging light to a light guide to transmit the directed light. |
| US08847139B2 |
Methods, sub-systems and systems that reduce a mismatch error associated with an analog circuit
Circuits, methods, sub-systems and systems including adaptive analog subtraction for light sensing are described herein. In an embodiment, an analog circuit including a current mirror is configured to replicate a first current to produce a replicated version of the first current, and to subtract the replicated version of the first current from a second current to produce a third current. A mismatch correction circuit is configured to produce an adjustment signal, indicative of a mismatch error associated with the analog circuit, based on a digital version of the third current. This adjustment signal is used to reduce the mismatch error associated with the analog circuit. |
| US08847136B2 |
Conversion gain modulation using charge sharing pixel
An image sensor including an array of pixel elements is operated according to two operation modes to modulate the conversion gain of the pixel to operate the image sensor based on the impinging light conditions. More specifically, an image sensor pixel element is operated in a high conversion gain mode for low light conditions and in a low conversion gain mode for bright light conditions. The low conversion gain mode implements charge sharing between the floating diffusion and the photodiode. The low conversion gain mode further implements partial reset where the photodiode and the floating diffusion are reset to the same potential and to a potential slightly less than the pinning voltage of the photodiode. |
| US08847129B2 |
Convection heating unit and heating cooker having the same
A heating cooker including a cooker body having a cooking chamber and a convection heating unit. The convection heating unit includes a convection heater to generate heat, a convection fan to forcibly move the heat generated from the convection heater into the cooking chamber, a convection motor to drive the convection fan, and a convection housing to receive the convection heater and the convection fan. The convection heater and the convection fan are linearly arranged within the convection housing, to allow air introduced into the convection housing to move from the convection fan to the convection heater. This configuration is effective to restrict the transfer of heat from the convection heater to the convection motor. |
| US08847125B2 |
Local resistance heating device with a controlled atmosphere
A local resistance heating device, with a controlled atmosphere, includes two end members and a mid member. The two end members are respectively connected with an anode pole and a cathode pole. Each end member has an air channel. The air channel of one of the end members is adapted to connect with an output terminal of a gas supplier, and the air channel of the other one of the end members is adapted to connect with a sucking terminal of the gas supplier. The mid member is arranged between the two end members. The two end members and the mid member jointly define a heating room communicating with the air channels of the two end members. |
| US08847121B2 |
Smart layered heater surfaces
A heater system and related methods of heating a surface are provided by the present disclosure that includes, in one form, a substrate defining a heating surface and a layered heater formed on the heating surface. A plurality of nodes are disposed along the heating surface and are in electrical contact with a resistive heating layer of the layered heater, along with a plurality of lead wires connected to the plurality of nodes. In one form, a multiplexer is in communication with the plurality of nodes through the plurality of lead wires, and a controller is in communication with the multiplexer, wherein the multiplexer sequences and transmits resistances from the plurality of nodes to the controller, and the controller controls an amount of power provided to each of the plurality of nodes based on the differences in resistances between the nodes. |
| US08847118B2 |
Energization control apparatus for glow plug
An energization control apparatus for a glow plug (21) includes temperature maintaining energization means (34), and intermediate temperature raising means 35 for resuming energization of the glow plug 1 during operation of an engine EN after energization by the temperature maintaining energization means (34). The intermediate temperature raising means (35) includes resistance acquisition means (32); difference calculation means (36) for calculating a difference between the resistance of the glow plug (1) and a target resistance; intermediate value setting means (37); and intermediate value update means (38) for gradually increasing an intermediate target resistance such that the intermediate target resistance finally coincides with the target resistance. The voltage applied to the glow plug (1) is controlled such that the resistance of the glow plug (1) coincides with the intermediate target resistance. |
| US08847115B2 |
Configurable welding interface for automated welding applications
A welding power source including an embedded web server provides access to an operator at a remote web browser. From the remote web browser, the user is provided access to weld functions, and can selectively choose between weld functions that can be displayed and controlled from the remote web browser. The weld functions that can be accessed include control functions, which allow an operator to activate welding functions such as a jog or purge function; a command function, which allows an operator to provide a command level for a voltage, wire feed speed, or other parameter; and a display function, which provides access for an operator to display welding command and actual feedback values. The operator can also selectively view diagnostic data, including weld state data, error data, and operational voltage and current levels within the power source, such as motor voltage and input voltage levels. After an operator selects parameters to be displayed or controlled from the browser, the selected functions can be stored and recalled as a web page. |
| US08847113B2 |
Laser processing systems and methods for beam dithering and skiving
A laser processing system includes a first positioning system for imparting first relative movement of a beam path along a beam trajectory with respect to a workpiece, a processor for determining a second relative movement of the beam path along a plurality of dither rows, a second positioning system for imparting the second relative movement, and a laser source for emitting laser beam pulses. The system may compensate for changes in processing velocity to maintain dither rows at a predetermined angle. For example, the dither rows may remain perpendicular to the beam trajectory regardless of processing velocity. The processing velocity may be adjusted to process for an integral number of dither rows to complete a trench. A number of dither points in each row may be selected based on a width of the trench. Fluence may be normalized by adjusting for changes to processing velocity and trench width. |
| US08847111B2 |
Compact laser etching device, system and method
A system, method, and device for etching an indicia onto a substrate includes a compact laser etching device having a delivery head, an emitter housing, a RF cable, and a communication cable. The delivery head has a beam steering mechanism and a hood assembly positioned between the beam steering mechanism and the substrate. The emitter housing has a laser for generating a laser beam, and a fold mirror positioned in an optical path of the laser beam for redirecting the laser beam into the beam steering mechanism. A remote RF electronics package drives the laser. Control electronics cause the beam steering mechanism to steer the laser beam into a pattern of the indicia. The delivery head may further include a plurality of suction cups for holding the compact laser etching device in engagement with the substrate. |
| US08847109B2 |
Method and device for machining a workpiece
In a method for machining a workpiece, a laser beam (5) is guided across the workpiece surface by means of a beam guide (2, 51), wherein the laser beam guide comprises a first guide (2) effecting a laser beam guide at a first path speed. The laser beam guide comprises a second guide (51) simultaneously operating with the first guide, which effects a laser beam guide at a second path speed, which is higher than the first path speed. |
| US08847107B2 |
Laser welding device for roll forming system and control method thereof
A roll forming system which roll-forms a shaped beam by a roll forming unit including a plurality of roll formers is disclosed. A laser welding device for the roll forming system may include: front and rear guide means disposed apart from each other at the rear of the roll forming unit, and guiding movement of the shaped beam; laser welding means mounted above and between the front and rear guide means, reciprocatedly rotating a mirror by controlling a mirror motor so as to irradiate a laser beam to a welding position of the shaped beam, and thereby forming a welding bead having a predetermined welding pattern; forming speed detecting means detecting a forming speed of the shaped beam and transmitting a signal corresponding thereto to a controller; a camera disposed at the rear of the laser welding means, photographing a welding portion of the shaped beam, and transmitting an image signal corresponding thereto to the controller. |
| US08847101B2 |
Device and method for generating a plasma flow
The invention relates to a device generating a plasma flow comprising an electrically conductive housing, tubular in shape, forming a central channel traversed by a vortex gas, a central electrode arranged coaxially in said channel and an electric power source intended to apply an electric voltage V between the electrode and the housing, characterized in that the mean diameter of the channel formed by the housing decreases progressively from an area situated substantially at the level of the free end of the electrode as far as an end area of said housing, said end area being configured in such a way that the minimum electric voltage Vcmin(0) to be applied in order to develop an electric arc between said electrode and said end area is strictly greater than said voltage V. |
| US08847097B2 |
Vacuum interrupter
A vacuum interrupter includes a housing having two insulating material areas disposed and constructed symmetrically with respect to a center plane. Each of the two insulating material housing areas includes a plurality of insulating material housing parts. The interrupter has a compact construction and high dielectric strength. The insulating material housing part of each insulating material housing area located farthest away from the center plane has a length that is greater than the length of the other insulating material housing parts. |
| US08847096B2 |
Single direct current arc chute, and bi-directional direct current electrical switching apparatus employing the same
A direct current arc chute includes a ferromagnetic base having first and second ends; first and second ferromagnetic side members disposed from the respective first and second ends; a third ferromagnetic member disposed from the base intermediate the side members and having an end portion opposite the base; and first and second magnets on the respective first and second members have a magnetic polarity facing the third member. A first arc chamber is between the first and third members; and a second arc chamber is between the second and third members. The first magnet and first member extend away from the first end and beyond the end portion, and toward the second magnet and second member after the end portion. The second magnet and second member extend away from the second end and beyond the end portion, and toward the first magnet and first member after the end portion. |
| US08847094B2 |
Method for separating mineral impurities from calcium carbonate-containing rocks by X-ray sorting
The present invention relates to a method for separating mineral impurities from calcium carbonate-containing rocks by comminuting the calcium carbonate-containing rocks to a particle size in the range of from 1 mm to 250 mm, separating the calcium carbonate particles by means of a dual energy X-ray transmission sorting device. |
| US08847093B2 |
Touch sensing device and manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure relates to a touch sensing device comprising a plurality of sensing electrode units and an insulating pattern layer. The insulating pattern layer covers the plurality of sensing electrode units and has a plurality of openings that are not corresponding to plurality of sensing electrode units. The present disclosure also discloses a method for manufacturing the touch sensing device. |
| US08847091B2 |
Switch structure for a power tool
The present application provides an improved switch structure for a power tool, having an outer cover, a transfer switch arranged in the outer cover, and a first button and a second button arranged on the outer cover and respectively acting on a first end and a second end of a seesaw of the transfer switch. It may also have a retaining device to keep the first button and the second button respectively jointed with the first end and the second end of the seesaw. Utilizing this arrangement of the retaining device, the button and the electric transfer switch are kept in a jointed state so that the switch does not have a loose feeling to a user which can negatively affect operation. |
| US08847088B2 |
Cover mounted handle operating mechanism with integrated interlock assembly for a busplug enclosure
A busplug enclosure includes a body member includes a plurality of wall members that collectively define an interior chamber having an opening. The body member includes a line portion and a load portion. A cover assembly is mounted to the body member across the opening. The cover assembly includes a first cover member spanning the load portion and a second cover member spanning the line portion. A handle operating mechanism is mounted to the cover assembly. The handle operating mechanism includes a handle member configured to rotate about an axis extending through the cover assembly, a cam member and a slider member. The handle member is operatively coupled to the cam member and the slider member and configured and disposed to move between a first position and a second position. |
| US08847085B2 |
Power device
A power device suited for being assembled in a chassis and connected with a plug is provided. The power device includes a housing, and a receptacle, a spring clamp, a position limiting element disposed on the housing. The plug is removably connected to the receptacle. The spring clamp has a moving end. The position limiting element is located between the spring clamp and the receptacle. The position limiting element and the moving end of the spring clamp are linked together to move between a first position and a second position relative to the housing. When the plug connects to the receptacle, the position limiting element is interfered with the plug and the spring clamp simultaneously so that the spring clamp is constrained at the first position. |
| US08847077B2 |
High voltage bushing with support for the conductor
A high voltage gas isolated bushing including a tubular shell with an end flange at each end of the shell creating an enclosed volume, a conductor suspended in the enclosed volume, having two ends, one end fixed to one end flange at a first fixation point and the other end fixed to the other end flange at a second fixation point. At least one of the end flanges is provided with a support body extending into the enclosed volume in the longitudinal direction of the bushing, and the body is arranged to support the conductor on at least one support point at a distance from the fixation point on the flange. |
| US08847074B2 |
Carbon nanotube-based coaxial electrical cables and wiring harness
A cable having a conducting member made from a nanostructure-based material, and a shielding layer made of nanostructure-based material. The shielding layer can be circumferentially situated about the conducting member so as to enhance conductivity along the conducting member. A coupling mechanism may be situated between the shielding layer and the conducting member so as to secure the shielding layer in its position on the conducting member. A method of making the cable is also disclosed. |
| US08847072B2 |
Transmission cable for use in radio-frequency magnetic or electrical fields
A transmission cable including a transmission line, at least two electrically conductive line segments separated by a non-conductive gap, a bridging unit including at least one electrically conductive bridge segment capable of bridging the non-conductive gap, and a switching unit arranged to move the bridging unit and/or the transmission line to electrically connect the two line segments by closing the non-conductive gap using the bridge segment or to electrically disconnect the two line segments by opening the non-conductive gap. |
| US08847071B2 |
Universal box system
A universal electrical box which includes a body having at least one opening for receiving an electrical device. The device can also include at least one mounting bracket coupled to the body, and at least one frame configured to be coupled to the at least one body. In addition there is at least one duplex electrical mounting plate configured to couple to the at least one frame. In this case, the duplex electrical mounting plate is configured to receive a duplex electrical device. In addition, there is at least one sealing gasket configured to be coupled to the body between the at least one frame and the body. This design allows for a universal configuration which allows for multiple different types of electrical devices to be coupled to the enclosure. |
| US08847068B2 |
Compositions, methods, and systems comprising poly(thiophenes)
The present invention generally relates to compositions comprising at least one poly(thiophene) and an n-type material. The compositions can be used in a variety of applications, for example, in photovoltaic cells. |
| US08847065B2 |
Modified surface
The present invention relates to modified surfaces. The surfaces comprise an inorganic material on which a phosphinic acid derivative is adsorbed. The phosphinic acid thus turns out to be a new anchoring group useful for surface derivatization. The invention has many applications for photoelectric conversion devices, batteries, capacitors, electrochromic displays, chemical sensors, biological sensors, light emitting diodes, electrodes, semiconductors, separation membranes, selective adsorbents, adsorbents for HPLC, catalysts, implants, nanoparticles, antiadhesives, and anticorrosion coatings, for example. |
| US08847063B2 |
Encapsulation of solar cells
The present invention comprises a solar cell module and a method of encapsulating the module. The solar cell module comprises a rigid or flexible superstrate and/or substrate having one or more solar cells, and an encapsulent which is a cured liquid silicone encapsulant. The encapsulant composition preferably comprises a liquid diorganopolysiloxane having at least two Si-alkenyl groups per molecule, a silicone resin containing at least two alkenyl groups; a cross-linking agent in the form of a polyorganosiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule, in an amount such that the ratio of the number of moles of silicon-bonded hydrogen to the total number of moles of silicon-bonded alkenyl groups is from 0.1:1 to 5:1; and a hydrosilylation catalyst, preferably a platinum based catalyst. The continuous solar cell module encapsulation process comprising the steps of uniformly applying by spraying, coating or dispensing a predetermined volume of a liquid silicone encapsulant onto a solar cell module and curing said encapsulant thermally or by infrared radiation. The preferred method of applying the liquid silicone encapsulant on to the solar cell modules is by means of a curtain coater. |
| US08847061B2 |
Method of making solar collector assemblies with optical concentrator encapsulant
Disclosed is a method of making solar collector assemblies for photovoltaic conversion. The method comprises providing a mold for receiving encapsulant, the mold having serially arranged, alternating peaks and valleys. A respective PV solar cell is placed into each of a series of the valleys such that the light-receiving surfaces of the PV solar cells face upwards. Uncured encapsulant is delivered into the mold and onto the light-receiving surfaces, and from the light-receiving surfaces to a level at least as high as the peaks so as to form, above the light-receiving surfaces, optical concentrators for concentrating light received by the optical concentrators and directing the light to the light-receiving surfaces. The encapsulant is then cured. |
| US08847060B2 |
Solar module structures and assembly methods for pyramidal three-dimensional thin-film solar cells
Solar module structures and methods for assembling solar module structures. The solar module structures comprise pyramidal three-dimensional thin-film solar cells arranged in solar module structures. The pyramidal three-dimensional thin-film solar cell comprises a pyramidal three-dimensional thin-film solar cell substrate with emitter junction regions and doped base regions. The three-dimensional thin-film solar cell further includes emitter metallization regions and base metallization regions. The three-dimensional thin-film solar cell substrate comprises a plurality of pyramid-shaped unit cells. The solar module structures may be used in solar glass applications, building façade applications, rooftop installation applications as well as for centralized solar electricity generation. |
| US08847059B2 |
Process for generating electrical energy in a semiconductor device and the corresponding device
Electrical energy is generated in a device that includes an integrated circuit which produces thermal flux when operated. A substrate supports the integrated circuit. A structure is formed in the substrate, that structure having a semiconductor p-n junction thermally coupled to the integrated circuit. Responsive to the thermal flux produced by the integrated circuit, the structure generates electrical energy. The generated electrical energy may be stored for use by the integrated circuit. |
| US08847057B2 |
Auditory board
A planar surfaced electrical musical instrument is provided which is configured to support both feet of a user standing upon it during use. Supported by the device, the standing user may generate sound, such as drums, through a contact of one or both feet with the planar upper surface which is in operative contact with electronic signal generating components which generate an electronic signal correlating to vibrations emanating from the contact point of the user's foot with the planar surface. |
| US08847056B2 |
Vocal processing with accompaniment music input
Systems, including methods and apparatus, for generating audio effects based on accompaniment audio produced by live or pre-recorded accompaniment instruments, in combination with melody audio produced by a singer. Audible broadcast of the accompaniment audio may be delayed by a predetermined time, such as the time required to determine chord information contained in the accompaniment signal. As a result, audio effects that require the chord information may be substantially synchronized with the audible broadcast of the accompaniment audio. The present teachings may be especially suitable for use in karaoke systems, to correct and add sound effects to a singer's voice that sings along with a pre-recorded accompaniment track. |
| US08847055B2 |
Method and apparatus for exploring chord progressions within a diatonic major key
A method for obtaining a chord progression based upon a diatonic major key may include the steps of casting a dodecahedron to determine the diatonic major key, casting a octahedron to determine a chord based upon the diatonic major key and casting a cube to determine a playing strategy for the chord. |
| US08847049B2 |
Vibration plate for music box and preparation method thereof
The present invention is an music box vibration plate and the preparation method thereof, which comprises of a plurality of vibration piece disposed in parallel and having a thin flat sound generation pin with different length and generating sound as it is hit by the protrusion of the cylindrical drum or the disc and a fixing portions formed at the base end of the sound generation pin and having an enlarged thickness with the shape of plate, and a plurality of spacers disposed between each fixing portions of the vibration pieces to separate the vibration pieces, and a clamping member to clamp the fixing portions and the spacers. |
| US08847048B2 |
Plants and seeds of corn variety CV754653
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV754653. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV754653, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV754653 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV754653 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV754653. |
| US08847046B2 |
Plants and seeds of corn variety CV242715
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV242715. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV242715, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV242715 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV242715 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV242715. |
| US08847039B2 |
Variety corn line NPCJ7895
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated NPCJ7895, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line NPCJ7895 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line NPCJ7895, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line NPCJ7895, and plants produced according to these methods. |
| US08847038B2 |
Variety corn line NPID6897
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated NPID6897, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line NPID6897 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line NPID6897, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line NPID6897, and plants produced according to these methods. |
| US08847035B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH418043
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH418043. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH418043, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH418043 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH418043. |
| US08847033B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH165116
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH165116. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH165116, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH165116 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH165116. |
| US08847032B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH443000
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH443000. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH443000, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH443000 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH443000. |
| US08847029B2 |
Pepper hybrid PS11447353
The invention provides seed and plants of pepper hybrid PS11447353 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid PS11447353 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants. |
| US08847028B2 |
Cotton variety FM 9058F
The cotton variety FM 9058F is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 9058F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of FM 9058F and to plants of FM 9058F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from FM 9058F. |
| US08847026B2 |
Soybean variety A1026436
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1026436. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1026436. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1026436 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1026436 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US08847019B2 |
Capulin lettuce variety
A new lettuce variety designated ‘Capulin’ is described. ‘Capulin’ is a leaf lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity. |
| US08847012B2 |
Genes that increase plant oil and method for using the same
This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity. |
| US08847009B2 |
Plant transformation without selection
The invention provides methods for identifying regenerated transformed plants and differentiated transformed plant parts, obtained without subjecting plant cells to selective conditions prior to regenerating the cells to obtain differentiated tissues. In particular embodiments, the plant cells are corn plant cells. Methods for growing and handling plants, including identifying plants that demonstrate specific traits of interest are also provided. |
| US08847008B2 |
Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and methods of using same for increasing plant utility
Provided are isolated polypeptides comprising the amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NO:68, 51-66, 69-100, 379-656, 707-715, 720-723, 742-754, 764-771 or 772 with the proviso that the amino acid sequence is not as set forth by SEQ ID NO: 765 or 771, isolated polynucleotides comprising the nucleic acid sequence at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NOs:18, 1-16, 19-50, 101-378, 657-672, 674-706, 716-719, 724-741 and 755-763 with the proviso that the nucleic acid sequence is not as set forth by SEQ ID NO:756 or 762, and isolated polynucleotides selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:779-792 and methods of using same for increasing oil content, yield, growth rate, biomass, vigor, abiotic stress tolerance and/or nitrogen use efficiency of a plant. |
| US08846999B2 |
Method for treating a nitric aqueous liquid effluent by calcination and vitrification
A method for treating a nitric aqueous liquid effluent containing nitrates of metals or metalloids, comprising a step for calcination of the effluent in order to convert the nitrates of metals or metalloids into oxides of said metals or metalloids, at least one compound selected from the nitrates of metals or metalloids and the other compounds of the effluent leading upon calcination to a tacky oxide, and a dilution adjuvant comprising at least one nitrate of metal or metalloid leading upon calcination to a non-tacky oxide being added to the effluent prior to the calcination step in order to give a mixture of effluent and of dilution adjuvant. |
| US08846996B2 |
Supported oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst
The present invention provides a process for the manufacture of an efficient and robust catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of paraffins to olefins, preferably lower C2-4 paraffins. The present invention provides a process for the preparation of an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst of C2-4 paraffins to olefins comprising comminuting: from 10 to 99 weight % of a mixed oxide catalyst of the formula VxMoyNbzTemMenOp, wherein Me is a metal selected from the group consisting of Ta, Ti, W, Hf, Zr, Sb and mixtures thereof; with from 90 to 1 weight % of an inert matrix selected from oxides of titanium, zirconia, aluminum, magnesium, yttria, lantana, silica and their mixed compositions or a carbon matrix to produce particles having a size from 1 to 100 microns and forming the resulting particles into pellets having a size from 0.1 to 2 mm. |
| US08846995B2 |
Method for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
A method for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of 6 to 8 carbon number from a feedstock oil having a 10 volume % distillation temperature of at least 140° C. and a 90 volume % distillation temperature of not more than 380° C., the method including: a cracking and reforming reaction step of obtaining a product containing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of 6 to 8 carbon number from the feedstock oil, a refining and collection step of refining and collecting monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of 6 to 8 carbon number that have been separated from the product, a hydrogenation reaction step of hydrogenating a heavy fraction of 9 or more carbon number separated from the product, and a recycling step of returning the heavy fraction hydrogenation reaction product obtained in the hydrogenation reaction step to the cracking and reforming reaction step. |
| US08846994B2 |
Method for producing low-odor n-butane
The invention relates to a method for producing low-odor n-butane by catalytic hydrogenation of a feed mixture. The aim of the invention is to provide such a method, wherein the feed material, in addition to n-butane, n-butene and up to 1 mass % formic acid and/or up to 1 mass % pentanals and/or up to 0.5 mass % pentanols, also comprises carbon monoxide. The aim is achieved by treating the feed mixture in the temperature range of 15 to 120° C. with an aqueous solution of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal hydroxide in the concentration range of 0.5 to 30 mass % and subsequently subjecting the feed mixture to the catalytic hydrogenation. |
| US08846992B2 |
Process for converting biomass to hydrocarbons and oxygenates
A process for converting biomass to hydrocarbons and oxygenates that may include providing a biomass feedstock and de-oxygenating the biomass feedstock to form a solid-intermediate. The process may further include liquefaction of the solid intermediate, which may be carried out either by rapid heating followed by condensation or by liquefying by applying high pressure. The liquefaction of the solid intermediate may produce a mixture of hydrocarbons and oxygenates, which is generally termed as biocrude. Further, the biocrude is processed by one or more refining means for production of hydrocarbons that can be used as fuel. |
| US08846989B2 |
Method of producing alcohols
A method of making alcohols involves forming of alcohol esters from liquid alkane halides and a solution of metallic salts of organic acids to produce gaseous alcohol esters for reaction with magnesium or metal hydroxides to form the alcohol and the metal salt of the organic acids. In an improvement method liquid phase alcohol esters instead of gaseous alcohol esters are produced from liquid alkane halides and a solution of metal salts of organic acids whose alkane esters are less soluble in water than that of the alkane halide and treating of the alcohol ester formed with magnesium or metal hydroxides to form the alcohol and the metal salt of the organic acids. |
| US08846986B2 |
Water separation from crude alcohol product
Recovery of alcohol, in particular ethanol, from a crude product obtained from the hydrogenation of acetic acid using various combinations of membranes and/or distillation columns. |
| US08846976B2 |
Ferric organic compounds, uses thereof and methods of making same
The present invention discloses a novel form of ferric organic compounds, including a form of ferric citrate, which are soluble over a wider range of pH, and which have a large active surface area. The ferric organic compounds of the present invention can be delivered effectively by oral route with better delivery to treat patients suffering from hyperphosphatemia, metabolic acidosis and other disorders responsive to ferric organic compound therapy. |
| US08846975B2 |
Process for preparing dicarboxylic acids
A process for preparing dicarboxylic acids is described. More particularly a process is described for preparing adipic acid (1,6-hexanedioic acid), by the action of nitric acid, starting from cyclic ketones or alcohols which are the corresponding compounds from the standpoint of the number of carbon atoms, in the presence of one or more oxides of nitrogen at a molar concentration in the reaction mixture of greater than 2.5 mmol per kg of reaction mixture. |
| US08846974B2 |
Molybdenum-containing acidic catalysts to convert cellulosic biomass to glycolic acid
Embodiments of the present invention include methods and compositions related to catabolic conversion of cellulosic biomass to glycolic acid using molybdenum-containing acidic catalysts. The invention includes the use of heteropoly and isopoly acids and salts as the molybdenum-containing multi-functional catalysts for biomass conversion. In embodiments of the invention, the reactions employ successive hydrolysis, retro-aldol fragmentation, and selective oxidation in a noble metal-free system. |
| US08846965B2 |
Toner for electrophotography and metal-containing compound
Disclosed is a toner for electrophotography, which has good hue, good light resistance and good electrostatic charge, and is capable of providing images that are free from white spots. The toner for electrophotography exhibits a good performance. Specifically disclosed is a toner for electrophotography, which is characterized by containing at least one metal-containing compound that is represented by general formula (1). (In the formula, R1 represents an alkyl group; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a sulfinyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an acyl group, a halogen atom or a cyano group; and R3 represents a group that has 9 or more carbon atoms and an aromatic hydrocarbon structure.) |
| US08846964B2 |
Synthetic method for phosphaplatin compounds
This application discloses novel methods and processes for preparation and purification of phosphaplatin compounds. The improvements of the synthetic methods and purification processes include, but are not limited to, efficient and reproducible large-scale preparation of these useful pharmaceutical agents in high quality and good yield. |
| US08846962B2 |
Continuous process for the production of derivatives of saturated carboxylic acids
There is described a continuous process for the oxidative cleavage of derivatives of unsaturated carboxylic acids for the production of saturated carboxylic acids and their derivatives comprising the steps of: a) feeding to a first reactor at least a derivative of an unsaturated carboxylic acid, an oxidizing compound and a catalyst capable of catalyzing the oxidation reaction of the olefinic double bond to obtain an intermediate compound containing vicinal diols, and of b) feeding to a second reactor said intermediate compound, a compound containing oxygen and a catalyst capable of catalyzing the oxidation reaction of the vicinal diols to carboxylic groups, to obtain saturated monocarboxylic acids (i) and derivatives of saturated carboxylic acids with more than one acid function (ii); c) separating the saturated monocarboxylic acids (i) from the derivatives of carboxylic acids having more than one acid function (ii). |
| US08846957B2 |
Glycol compound having dioxane structure and method for producing the same
Disclosed is a glycol compound which is useful as a raw material and an intermediate for synthetic resins, additives for synthetic resins, medicines, cosmetics, food additives, surfactants and the like, further disclosed is a method for producing the compound.The above glycol compound is represented by the following Formula (1): wherein A represents a divalent linkage group comprising a condensed aromatic ring selected from the group consisting of naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene and pyrene; R represents an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms or a halogen atom; n represents an integer of 0 to 4; and when n represents an integer of 2 to 4, plural R may be the same or different from each other. |
| US08846955B2 |
Second-order nonlinear optical compound and nonlinear optical element comprising the same
Problem to Be Solved: to provide a chromophore having a far superior nonlinear optical activity to conventional chromophores and to provide a nonlinear optical element comprising said chromophore.Solution: a chromophore comprising a donor structure D, a π-conjugated bridge structure B, and an acceptor structure A, the donor structure D comprising an aryl group substituted with a substituted oxy group; and a nonlinear optical element comprising said chromophore. |
| US08846954B2 |
Crystallisation and purification of glycopyrronium bromide
A method for the production of crystalline glycopyrronium bromide, comprises the reaction of glycopyrronium base with methyl bromide in a solvent, in which the solvent is selected such that the diastereoisomeric ratio of the product favors the R,S and S,R diastereoisomers over the R,R, and S,S diastereoisomers, and separating the desired diastereoisomers by one or more controlled crystallization steps. This method gives a product having a particle size of narrow distribution. |
| US08846953B2 |
Processes for the preparation of 3-(pyrrol-2-yl)methylene)-2-pyrrolones using 2-silyloxy-pyrroles
The present invention provides for synthetic processes for the making of substituted 3-((pyrrol-2-yl)methylene)-2-pyrrolones, including sunitinib. The present invention also provides for a process of crystallizing substantially pure sunitinib L-malate. |
| US08846952B2 |
Detection or quantification of desirable target molecules, novel dyes, composite dyes, and oligonucleotides or polynucleotides comprising such dyes
The present invention provides dyes, reactive dyes and labeled reagents that may be used in the detection or quantification of desirable target molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. Dyes are provided that may be used free in solution where the binding of the dye to the target molecule provides signal generation. Dyes are also provided that comprise reactive groups that may be used to attach the dyes to probes that will bind to desirable target molecules. The novel dyes of the present invention have been modified by the addition of charged and polar groups to provide beneficial properties. |
| US08846950B2 |
Trianionic pincer ligands, a CR(III)/CR(V) catalytic system and its use for catalytic aerobic oxidation of organic substrates
An embodiment of the invention is a novel Cr(V)OCO3− trianionic pincer ligand complex. Another embodiment of the invention is a catalytic method for oxidation of a substrate aerobically in the presence of a source of oxygen, where the novel Cr(V)OCO3− trianionic pincer ligand complex acts as the catalyst. The substrate can be a phosphine, amine, sulfide, alkene, alkane or a second metal complex. Another embodiment of the invention is directed to NCN pincer ligands that can form trianionic pincer ligand complexes. |
| US08846947B2 |
Benzimidazoles and related analogs as sirtuin modulators
Provided herein are sirtuin-modulating compounds of formula (II). The sirtuin-modulating compounds may be used for increasing the lifespan of a cell, and treating and/or preventing a wide variety of diseases and disorders including, for example, diseases or disorders relating to aging or stress, diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular disease, blood clotting disorders, inflammation, cancer, and/or flushing as well as diseases or disorders that would benefit from increased mitochondrial activity. Also provided are compositions comprising a sirtuin-modulating compound in combination with another therapeutic agent. |
| US08846944B2 |
Regeneration of 2,2′-cyclopropylidene-bis (oxazolines)
The present invention provides a method for regeneration of chiral 2,2′-cyclopropylidene-bis(oxazolines), such as (3&R,3′aR,8aS,8′aS)-2,2′-cyclopropylidenebis-[3a,8a]-dihydro-8H-indeno-[1,2-d]-oxazole and (45,4′5,5R,5′R)-2,2′-cyclopropylidenebis-4,5-diphenyldihydro-4,5-oxazole, used as a part of complex catalysts for e.g. stereoselective addition reactions, from the reaction mixtures, by selective sorption of 2,2′-cyclopropylidene-bis(oxazolines) on a sorbent, such as silica gel, isolation of the sorbent from reaction mixture, desorption of 2,2′-cyclopropylidene-bis(oxazolines) from the sorbent with suitable organic solvent and final recovery of 2,2′-cyclopropylidene-bis(oxazolines) from the organic solvent used for desorption process. Catalytic quality of recovered compounds does not differ from those in freshly prepared catalysts. |
| US08846942B2 |
Luminescent solar concentrator comprising disubstituted benzothiadiazole compounds
Luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) includes at least one disubstituted benzothiadiazole compound having general formula (I): |
| US08846936B2 |
Sulfonyl compounds which modulate the CB2 receptor
Compounds of formula (I) and formula (II) are disclosed. Compounds according to the invention bind to and are agonists, antagonists or inverse agonists of the CB2 receptor, and are useful for treating inflammation. Those compounds which are agonists are additionally useful for treating pain. |
| US08846935B2 |
Indazoles
Herein are disclosed indazoles of formula (I) where the various groups are defined herein, and which are useful for treating cancer. |
| US08846934B2 |
Substituted oxazolidinones and their use
The invention relates to novel substituted oxazolidinones, to processes for their preparation, to their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of thromboembolic disorders. |
| US08846931B2 |
Bipyridyl derivatives
The present invention relates to novel bipyridyl derivatives of formula (I) and to the use of such compounds in which the inhibition, regulation and/or modulation of signal transduction by ATP consuming proteins like kinases plays a role, particularly to inhibitors of TGF-beta receptor kinases, and to the use of such compounds for the treatment of kinase-induced diseases, in particular for the treatment of tumors. |
| US08846924B2 |
Sulfonamide derivatives of polycyclic dyes used for analytical applications
The invention concerns the production of quinoline compounds containing sulfonic acid groups, the said quinoline compounds and their conversion into dyes containing sulfonic acid groups. The dyes according to the invention are used especially to label analytes, for example to label biomolecules. |
| US08846920B2 |
Metal complexes
The present invention describes new types of metal complexes. Such compounds can be used as functional materials in a series of different types of applications which can be classified within the electronics industry in the widest sense.The inventive compounds are described by the formulae (1) and (4). |
| US08846917B2 |
Compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR kinase
The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR protein kinase. The invention also relates to pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of this invention; methods of treating of various diseases, disorders, and conditions using the compounds of this invention; processes for preparing the compounds of this invention; intermediates for the preparation of the compounds of this invention; and methods of using the compounds in in vitro applications, such as the study of kinases in biological and pathological phenomena; the study of intracellular signal transduction pathways mediated by such kinases; and the comparative evaluation of new kinase inhibitors.The compounds of this invention have formula I: wherein the variables are as defined herein. |
| US08846916B2 |
Sitagliptin synthesis
The present invention relates to novel processes for the preparation of enantiomerically enriched β-amino acid derivatives such as β-amino esters useful for the synthesis of enantiomerically enriched biologically active molecules such as sitagliptin. The key step involves the resolution of the racemate with mandelic acid. |
| US08846915B2 |
Process for the manufacture of rosuvastatin calcium using crystalline rosuvastatin ethyl ester
The present invention relates to an improved process to prepare Rosuvastatin calcium of Formula (I), with good quality. Further, the present invention also relates to a crystalline polymorphic form of Rosuvastatin ethyl ester. |
| US08846912B2 |
Tartrate salts of quinazoline based EGFR inhibitors containing a zinc binding moiety
The present invention relates to tartrate salts of quinazoline containing zinc-binding moiety based derivatives of Formula II, below: These compounds are inhibitors of epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase (EGFR-TK) and may further act as HDAC inhibitors. The invention further relates to the use of these tartrate salts in the treatment of EGFR-TK related diseases and disorders such as cancer. |
| US08846910B2 |
Matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors
The present invention relates to β-hydroxy and amino-substituted carboxylic acids, which act as matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors, particularly diastereomerically pure β-hydroxy carboxylic acids, corresponding processes for their synthesis, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of the present invention. Compounds of the present invention are useful in the treatment of various inflammatory, autoimmune, and allergic diseases, such as methods of treating asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, COPD, rhinitis, osteoarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, pulmonary fibrosis, wound healing disorders, pulmonary inflammation, acute respiratory distress syndrome, perodontitis, multiple sclerosis, gingivitis, atherosclerosis, neointimal proliferation, which leads to restenosis and ischemic heart failure, stroke, renal diseases, tumor metastasis, and other inflammatory disorders characterized by the over-expression and over-activation of a matrix metalloproteinase. |
| US08846907B2 |
Spiro-condensed indoline derivatives as pesticides
The use of a compound of formula I wherein Y is a single bond, C═O, C═S or S(O)m where m is 0, 1 or 2; R1, R2, R3, R4, R8 and Ra are specified organic groups and p is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; q is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; provided that when p is 2 then q is not 2; p+q is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; or salts or N-oxides thereof or compositions containing them and their using incontrolling insects, acarines, nematodes or molluscs. Novel compounds are also provided. |
| US08846906B2 |
5HT2C receptor modulators
The present invention relates to novel compounds of Formula (I): which act as 5HT2C receptor modulators. These compounds are useful in pharmaceutical compositions whose use includes the treatment of obesity. |
| US08846901B2 |
Sulfoalkyl ether cyclodextrin compositions and methods of preparation thereof
A particulate SAE-CD composition is provided. The SAE-CD composition has an advantageous combination of physical properties not found in known solid forms of SAE-CD. In particular, the SAE-CD composition possesses an advantageous physicochemical and morphological property profile such that it can be tailored to particular uses. The SAE-CD composition of the invention has improved flow and dissolution performance as compared to known compositions of SAE-CD. |
| US08846896B2 |
Methods of preparing substituted nucleotide analogs
Disclosed herein are methods of preparing a phosphorothioate nucleotide analog, which are useful in treating diseases and/or conditions such as viral infections. |
| US08846886B2 |
Lepidopteran insect N-acetylglucosaminidase genes and their use in glycoengineering
A transgenic insect cell line for production of elevated levels of recombinant glycoproteins comprising mammalian-like N-glycans is provided. Also disclosed are nucleic acid sequences encoding β-N-acetylglucosaminidases. |
| US08846883B2 |
Oligonucleotide ligation
Oligonucleotide chemistry is central to the advancement of core technologies such as DNA sequencing, forensic and genetic analysis and has impacted greatly on the discipline of molecular biology. Oligonucleotides and their analogues are essential tools in these areas. They are often produced by automated solid-phase phosphoramidite synthesis but it is difficult to synthesize long DNA and RNA sequences by this method. Methods are proposed for ligating oligonucleotides together, in particular the use of an azide-alkyne coupling reaction to ligate the backbones of oligonucleotides together to form longer oligonucleotides that can be synthesized using current phosphoramidite synthesis methods. |
| US08846881B2 |
Modular nucleotide compositions and uses therefor
Nucleic acid compositions, methods of making and using such compositions that comprise modular functional groups that can be configured to provide desired functionality to different nucleotide types, through a swappable and preferably non-covalent linkage component. Such compositions are useful in a variety of applications including nucleic acid analyses. |
| US08846873B2 |
Antibodies directed to GPNMB and uses thereof
The present invention provides fully human monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind to GPNMB, and uses thereof. Nucleotide sequences encoding, and amino acid sequences comprising, heavy and light chain immunoglobulin molecules, particularly sequences corresponding to contiguous heavy and light chain sequences spanning the framework regions and/or complementarity determining regions (CDRs) are provided. The present invention also provides immunoconjugates comprising anti-GPNMB antibodies and methods of using such immunoconjugates. The present invention further provides bi-specific antibodies comprising an anti-GPNMB antibody component and an anti-CD3 component, and methods of using such bispecific antibodies. |
| US08846871B2 |
Anti-Notch1 NRR antibodies
The invention provides anti-Notch1 NRR antibodies, and compositions comprising and methods of using these antibodies. |
| US08846870B2 |
Anti-HS6ST2 antibodies and uses thereof
The present invention provides antibodies that bind to HS6ST2 proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies as active ingredients, methods for diagnosing cancer using the antibodies, HS6ST2 proteins conjugated to cytotoxic agents and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the HS6ST2 proteins as active ingredients. |
| US08846868B2 |
Anti-AREG/HB-EGF antibodies and treatment
Described are cross-specific antibody molecules with binding specificity for both AREG and HBEGF. The antibody molecules may be used in methods of treatment of cancer and diseases associated with angiogenesis. |
| US08846866B2 |
Aldehyde tags, uses thereof in site-specific protein modification
The invention features compositions and methods for site-specific modification of proteins by incorporation of an aldehyde tag. Enzymatic modification at a sulfatase motif of the aldehyde tag through action of a formylglycine generating enzyme (FGE) generates a formylglycine (FGly) residue. The aldehyde moiety of FGly residue can be exploited as a chemical handle for site-specific attachment of a moiety of interest to a polypeptide. |
| US08846863B2 |
Heat stable protein ingredients
The subject invention pertains to methods of making crosslinked protein-carbohydrate conjugates (CPCCs) and uncrosslinked protein-carbohydrate conjugates (PCCs) that are heat, pH and salt stable. Methods of stabilizing CPCCs and PCCs are also provided. The PCCs and CPCCs formed according to the methods disclosed herein are useful in the food industry and for loading with substances of interest. |
| US08846860B2 |
Methods of decorating hydroxyapatite biomaterials with modular biologically active molecules
A modular peptide design strategy wherein the modular peptide has two functional units separated by a spacer portion is disclosed. More particularly, the design strategy combines a hydroxyapatite-binding portion and a biomolecule-derived portion. The modular peptides have improved non-covalent binding to the surface of the HA-based materials, and are capable of initiating osteogenesis, angiogenesis, and/or osteogenic differentiation. |
| US08846850B2 |
Amphiphilic macromolecules for nucleic acid delivery
The invention provides amphiphilic macromolecules that are useful for delivering nucleic acids to cells and that are useful as delivery agents for gene therapy. |
| US08846847B2 |
Macromolecular antioxidants based on sterically hindered phenols and phosphites
A sterically hindered phenol and phosphite based compound represented the following formula: and its use as an antioxidant in a wide range of materials including, but not limited to, food, plastics, elastomers, composites and petroleum based products is disclosed herein. |
| US08846837B2 |
Neodymium-catalyzed polybutadienes
The invention relates to a high-molecular-weight, linear, neodymium-catalysed polybutadiene having a high proportion, >95%, of cis-1,4 units having a low proportion, <1%, of 1,2-vinyl content, and also having a small molar-mass-polydispersity index (MPI), characterized in that Mooney viscosity (ML1+4 100° C.) of the polybutadiene is from 70 to 90 and The molar-mass-polydispersity index of the polybutadiene is smaller than 10. |
| US08846834B2 |
Chromium catalysts for olefin polymerization
Mineral oil is added to a supported chromium catalyst in amounts which maintain a free flowing particulate material. Chromium catalysts so treated, provide polyethylene in a gas phase ethylene polymerization process with reduced reactor fouling or static. |
| US08846831B2 |
Process for supplying catalyst to a polymerization reactor
The present invention relates to a method for feeding metallocene catalyst slurry to an olefin polymerization loop reactor (1) using a positive displacement device (5) positive displacement device comprising a first chamber and a second chamber, each chamber having an inlet and an outlet and each chamber comprising an ball arranged between the walls of said chamber, wherein said chambers are connected to each other by a pump chamber operably connected to a pump, wherein, the difference between the diameter of said ball and the diameter of said chamber is comprised between 5 to 200 times the average particle size (d50) of said catalyst. |
| US08846829B2 |
Catalyst feed control during catalyst transition periods
Techniques are provided for operating a reactor during a catalyst transition period. The instantaneous reaction rate during a catalyst transition period can be determined using real-time measured process variables, and material balance calculations to provide an instantaneous reaction rate in approximately real time. According to certain embodiments, a material balance can be performed on the reactor system using a continuous ideal stirred tank reactor to determine the fractions of each type of catalyst that are present in the reactor, as well as the overall weight percent of catalyst in the reactor. A controller can then calculate the overall instantaneous reaction rate based on the respective catalyst fractions and the overall weight percent of catalyst in the reactor. The catalyst feed rate can then be adjusted based on the determined instantaneous reaction rate to maintain the instantaneous reaction rate within desired limits during a catalyst transition period. |
| US08846825B2 |
Mixtures of biodegradable polyesters with at least one polymer of natural origin
The present invention relates to mixtures comprising of biodegradable polyesters comprising at least one polymer of natural origin and at least two aliphatic-aromatic polyesters of the diacid-diol type of which at least one with a high content of long chain aliphatic diacids of renewable origin showing excellent mechanical properties, sufficiently high melting temperatures, adequate crystallization rates, improved biodegradability properties as well as stability of physical properties over time. |
| US08846823B2 |
Water absorbing agent and production method thereof
A water absorbing agent and a method for producing the water absorbing agent are disclosed. Water absorbent resin particles having an internal cross-linked structure obtained by polymerizing a water-soluble unsaturated monomer, organic acid, and water-soluble multivalent metal salt are mixed, so that it is possible to provide a water absorbing agent which suppresses permeation of metal components into the water absorbent resin particles and enables the metal components to evenly adhere to an entire surface of the water absorbent resin in a dot manner. |
| US08846820B2 |
Activated silane compound, rubber composition using the same and tire
The present invention relates to an activated silane compound obtained by reacting a hydrocarbyloxysilane compound with an organic metal compound in an organic solvent, and enhancing interaction of silica with carbon black and improving the fracture characteristic, the abrasion resistance and the low heating property provide an activated silane compound which can be reduced in a blending amount, a rubber composition prepared by blending it as a silane coupling agent and a pneumatic tire prepared by using the above rubber composition, which is excellent in a durability, a low heating property and the like. |
| US08846817B2 |
Ionic polymers, method of manufacture, and uses thereof
An ionic polymer of formula VI wherein each b=0 or 1; X is hydrogen, 1/z of a metal ion of charge z, a protonated nitrogen base, or a tetrasubstituted organic ammonium compound; the molar ratio of q:r:s:t=(100-0.1):(0-99.9):(0-50):(0-30); R1, R2 and R3 are hydrogen or C1-4 alkyl; R4, R5, R6 and R7 are hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl or F, wherein F is a functional group that imparts a property to polymer VI, at least one and no more than two of R4, R5, R6 and R7 are F and F is the same or different; G is a single bond or a C1-30 hydrocarbyl group; and for each instance of t when t is not zero, c=0-5 and d=0-5, provided that c+d=1-5, and wherein q, r and s as present in c are independent of any other value of q, r and s. |
| US08846816B2 |
Process and apparatus for the preparation of crosslinkable rubber mixtures
The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for the preparation of a crosslinkable rubber mixture for vehicle tires, lines, drive belts and other industrial rubber articles, which can be carried out at least semicontinuously.The present invention is based on the discovery that the experiments known from the prior art to carry out the batchwise process usually used at least partly continuously have failed in particular because of the problem that the crosslinking agents have to be mixed rapidly and homogeneously with the base mixture, also referred to as rubber base mixture, without the mixture consisting of the base mixture and the crosslinking agents heating up too strongly. According to the invention, attention was therefore focussed on reliably mixing the base mixture homogeneously with the crosslinking agents and minimizing the mixing time.A first measure for achieving the desired aim consists in first mixing the crosslinking agents with one another before they are mixed with the base mixture.The mixture of crosslinking agents is in particular first packed in a container which is used for feeding the crosslinking agents into a base mixture. |
| US08846813B2 |
Optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet
The present invention provides an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet excellent in anti-foaming release property in which whitening due to humidification hardly occurs. The invention relates to an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed from a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including: an acrylic polymer (A) which has a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 to 3,000,000 and is formed from a component including, as essential monomer components, a monomer having a nitrogen atom in a molecule thereof and a monomer having a hydroxyl group in a molecule thereof; and an acrylic polymer (B) having a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 to 30,000. |
| US08846809B2 |
Urethane adhesive composition
A urethane adhesive composition includes a first liquid and a second liquid, the first liquid containing a prepolymer obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate and a high-molecular-weight polyol (I), and at least one filler selected from talc and calcium carbonate, and containing 20 parts by mass or more of talc, 0 to 40 parts by mass of calcium carbonate, and 10 parts by mass or more of zeolite based on 100 parts by mass of the polyisocyanate, the high-molecular-weight polyol (I), and the prepolymer in total, the second liquid containing a high-molecular-weight polyol (II) and a low-molecular-weight polyol, the ratio of the number of moles of hydroxyl groups derived from the low-molecular-weight polyol to the total number of moles of hydroxyl groups derived from the high-molecular-weight polyol (I) and the high-molecular-weight polyol (II) being four or more. |
| US08846807B2 |
Solvent composition for silicone compound
Disclosed is a solvent composition for silicone compounds, containing 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene, or a solvent composition for silicone compounds, containing (A) 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene and (B) a compound made up of at least one selected from the group consisting of 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoro-1-methoxyethane, 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluorobutane, and 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoro-1-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)ethane. This solvent composition has characteristics of nonflammability and low toxicity, and handling is extremely easy. Coating properties of the silicone compound become good by mixing this solvent composition and the silicone compound. |
| US08846806B2 |
Treated fillers, compositions containing same, and articles prepared therefrom
The present invention is directed to a process for producing treated filler including (a) treating a slurry of untreated filler which has not been previously dried, with a treating composition including an organosilane material of specified structure (I); and (b) drying the treated filler slurry. The present invention also is directed to treated filler prepared by the process, as well as rubber compounding compositions and tires including the treated filler. |
| US08846800B2 |
Reinforced polyamide moulding materials
The present invention relates to reinforced polyamide molding materials which can be prepared from a polyamide blend and, for example, by compounding with cut fibers or continuous filaments on twin-screw extruders and have mechanical properties which are usually not compatible with one another, namely a combination of exceptionally high rigidity and strength and at the same time good toughness. Furthermore, a high heat distortion temperature (HDT) is achieved according to the invention.The thermoplastic polyamide molding materials according to the invention are suitable for the production of moldings or other semifinished products or finished articles, which can be produced, for example, by extrusion, injection molding, direct methods or direct compounding, in which the compounded polyamide molding material is processed directly by injection molding, or other deformation techniques. |
| US08846798B2 |
Post-treatment solution for digital inkjet printing
A post-treatment solution for digital inkjet printing includes a thermoplastic material having a melting temperature ranging from about 40° C. to about 250° C., a binder, and a liquid carrier. The thermoplastic material and the binder are present in a weight ratio ranging from 100:1 to 1:1. A print medium, printing method, and printing system are also disclosed herein. |
| US08846796B2 |
Method of producing a modified smectite or smectite-containing substance capable of taking up and releasing water in a reversible manner
A method for producing a modified smectite or smectite-containing substance including treating a non-activated smectite or substance with a water soluble activating agent and polymer in a two stage process, the first stage including adding 0-3.0% of the activating agent and 0.05-1.0% of the polymer, by weight, and in a second stage adding 0-5.0% of the activating agent 0.3-5% of the polymer, by weight, to the mixture of the first stage, wherein at least a part of the polymer is added as a dry solid and the water in the first stage is at least 20% by weight and at most 50% by weight in the second stage. |
| US08846792B2 |
Construction comprising tie layer
A layered structure suitable for use in a pneumatic tire as an innerliner is prepared by directly bonding a fluid permeation prevention film and an adhesive tie layer. Prior to the bonding, the fluid permeation prevention layer is treated to remove any residual plasticizers or oils on the surface of the film. The tie layer comprises 100 weight % of at least one halogenated isobutylene containing elastomer and about 1 to about 20 parts per hundred (phr) of at least one tackifier. The fluid permeation prevention film comprises an elastomeric component dispersed in a vulcanized or partially vulcanized state, as a discontinuous phase, in a matrix of the thermoplastic resin component. The two layers of the layered structure may be separately extruded and then adhered to each other or adhered to each other during a calendaring operation wherein the adhesive tie layer composition is coated onto the treated film. |
| US08846790B2 |
Resin composition, and prepreg and printed circuit board prepared using the same
A resin composition is provided. The resin composition comprises an epoxy resin, a hardener, and a modifier, wherein the modifier is a polymer solution obtainable from the following steps: (a) dissolving an N,O-heterocyclic compound of Formula I or Formula II into a first solvent to form a first reaction solution: (b) heating the first reaction solution to a first temperature to carry out a ring-opening polymerization to provide a solution of ring-opening polymerized product; and (c) cooling the solution of ring-opening polymerized product to a second temperature to substantially terminate the ring-opening polymerization to obtain the polymer solution, wherein, the first solvent is unreactive to the N,O-heterocyclic compound; the first temperature is higher than the softening temperature of the N,O-heterocyclic compound and lower than the boiling point of the first solvent; and the second temperature is lower than the first temperature. |
| US08846789B2 |
Phosphonate based compound and flame retardant styrenic resin composition including the same
The present invention provides a phosphonate based compound (B) and a flame resistant thermoplastic resin composition including a thermoplastic resin (A) and the phosphonate based compound (B). |
| US08846785B2 |
Manufacturing method of core-shell-type ceria-polymer hybrid nanoparticles and dispersion sols of them
The invention provides a method for manufacturing spherical, monodispersed core-shell type ceria-polymer hybrid nanoparticles including, a mixing step in which a cerium salt and a polymer are mixed together in a high-boiling-point organic solvent to obtain a mixture, and a heating and reflux step in which this mixture is heated and refluxed at a temperature of 110° C. or more to thereby generate a boiling phenomenon in the heating and reflux step, and rapidly cooling the mixture after the heating and reflux step to precipitate cerium oxide, and a liquid dispersion thereof. |
| US08846783B2 |
Pigment granules
Pigment granules comprise one or more flake-form effect pigments, polymer particles or polymer particle mixtures, adhesion promoters, antioxidants and optionally additives. A process for the preparation of pigment granules comprises mixing one or more flake-form effect pigments, one or more polymer particles, at least one adhesion promoter, at least one antioxidant and optionally one or more additives with one another simultaneously or successively. The pigment granules may be used for the pigmentation of powder coatings, plastics and for the preparation of masterbatches. The pigment granules may be employed as a mixture with plastic powders or as a mixture with plastic granules for use in masterbatch applications. |
| US08846782B2 |
Ink for inkjet computer-to-plate and preparation method of the same
An ink for inkjet computer-to-plate and a preparation method of the same are provided. Calculated in mass percentage based on the total mass of the ink, the ink comprises 10%˜30% of cross-linkable resin, 10%˜35% of solvent with a low boiling point, 5%˜30% of poor solvent with a high boiling point and 5%˜75% of bulk solvent. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing the above components and agitating at room temperature; after the cross-linkable resin is dissolved, ball milling and filtrating to remove insoluble substance and/or impurities in the liquid obtained by the ball milling. The ink can be formed into an image by printing on the treated surface of aluminum plate using ink-jet printer, and after heat cured, it can form an image with a high resolution and be used to print directly on machine, thus reducing post treatment process and obtaining the plate of ink-jetting direct plate-making. |
| US08846781B2 |
Use of oils with high concentrations of polyunsaturated fatty acids in plastics and surface coatings
Oil compositions having a high concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acids are described for use in various applications including use as drying oils, in ink compositions and coating compositions. Oil compositions wherein the double bonds of the fatty acids are substantially epoxidized are described and used as plasticizers and thermal stabilizers for various halogenated polymer compositions. |
| US08846779B2 |
Energy ray-curable ink composition
The present invention provides an energy ray-curable ink composition excellent in the continuous discharge property, and excellent in curability and adherability. The present invention relates to an energy ray-curable ink composition which contains a coloring agent, contains only a monofunctional monomer having an acrylic equivalent of 300 or less, and having one ethylenic double bond in one molecule, and a polyfunctional monomer having an acrylic equivalent of 150 or less, and having two or more ethylenic double bonds in one molecule as a polymerizable compound, contains an α-aminoalkylphenone compound and a thioxanthone compound as a photopolymerization initiator, and contains a silicone compound having a polydimethylsiloxane structure as a surface conditioner. |
| US08846775B2 |
Processes for producing polyurethane foams containing alkoxysilane functional polymers and uses therefor
Processes comprising: (a) providing a composition comprising at least one silane-terminated polyurethane preploymer prepared by a process comprising: reacting (A) at least one polyether having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 2000 to 8000 g/mol, and comprising 10 to 30 wt % ethylene oxide units based on all alkylene oxide units in the polyether; with (B) at least one isocyanate and alkoxysilane group-containing compound of the formula (I): wherein each of X, Y, and Z independently represents a C1-C8 alkyl or a C1-C8 alkoxy residue, with the proviso that at least one of X, Y, and Z represents a C1-C8 alkoxy group; and wherein R is an at least bifunctional, organic residue; (b) foaming the composition, and (c) curing the foamed composition in the presence of water; and uses of polyurethane foams prepared thereby. |
| US08846774B2 |
Resin composition for polyolefin resin foam, polyolefin resin foam and foamed sealing material
The present invention relates to a resin composition for a polyolefin resin foam, including: a polyolefin (A) having a melt flow rate (MFR) at a temperature of 230° C. of 0.2 to 0.7 g/10 min and a melt tension at break measured at a temperature of 190° C. of 30 cN or more; and a polyolefin (B) having a melt flow rate (MFR) at a temperature of 230° C. of 1.5 to 10 g/10 min and a melt tension at break measured at a temperature of 190° C. of 10 cN or more, in which the polyolefin (B) is contained in an amount of from 15 to 75 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the polyolefin (A). |
| US08846773B2 |
Method for manufacturing anion exchange resin, anion exchange resin, method for manufacturing cation exchange resin, cation exchange resin, mixed bed resin, and method for manufacturing ultrapure water for washing electronic component material
This invention relates to a method for manufacturing a cation exchange resin, wherein the method includes the steps of: copolymerizing a monovinyl aromatic monomer and a cross-linkable aromatic monomer to obtain a cross-linked copolymer; specifying a content of a leachable compound represented by formula (I) to be 400 μg or less relative to 1 g of the cross-linked copolymer, wherein Z represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and l represents a natural number; and then sulfonating the cross-linked copolymer to form a sulfonylated cross-linked copolymer. |
| US08846771B2 |
Compositions and methods of delivery of pharmacological agents
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutical agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, which carrier comprises a protein, for example, human serum albumin and/or deferoxamine. He human serum albumin is present in an amount effective to reduce one or more side effects associated with administration of the pharmaceutical composition. The inventor also provides methods for reducing on or more side effects of administration of the pharmaceutical composition, and methods for enhancing transport and binding of a pharmaceutical agent to a cell. |
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Controlled release aural pressure modulator compositions and methods for the treatment of OTIC disorders
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of otic diseases or conditions with aural pressure modulating agent compositions and formulations administered locally to an individual afflicted with an otic disease or condition, through direct application of these compositions and formulations onto or via perfusion into the targeted auris structure(s). |
| US08846766B2 |
Abuse-deterrent methadone for the safe treatment of drug abuse and pain relief
Provided is a drug substance and a method of treating an ailment comprising administering an oral dose of a drug product comprising the drug substance wherein the drug substance comprises an organic acid addition salt of methadone. The organic acid addition salt is selected from the group consisting of pamoate and xinafoate wherein the drug substance is bioavailable under gastrointestinal administration but is not bioavailable under administration at a mucosal membrane other than gastrointestinal or release from a depot injectable product. |
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Methods of modulating cell proliferation and cyst formation in polycystic kidney and liver diseases
The present invention provides a method for preferentially reducing the proliferation of cystic epithelial cells in the kidney or bile duct in a mammal in need thereof by administering a 20-HETE synthesizing enzyme inhibitor or a 20-HETE antagonist to the mammal in an amount sufficient to preferentially reduce the proliferation of cystic epithelial cells over normal epithelial cells such as tubule epithelial cells in the kidney or bile duct. The present invention also provides a method for preventing or treating autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD), ARPKD associated congenital hepatic fibrosis, ARPKD associated Caroli's disease, or cholangiocarcinoma in a mammal in need thereof by administering a 20-HETE synthesizing enzyme inhibitor or a 20-HETE antagonist to the mammal in an amount sufficient to prevent or treat the disease. |
| US08846763B2 |
High purity 2-[4-(3- or 2-fluorobenzyloxy)benzylamino] propanamides and methods of use thereof
A process for obtaining therapeutically active 2-[4-(3- and 2-(fluorobenzyloxy)benzylamino]propanamides, and their salts with pharmaceutically acceptable acids with high purity degree, in particular, with a content of dibenzyl derivatives impurities lower than 0.03%, preferably lower than 0.01% by weight. The process is carried out by submitting the Schiff bases intermediates 2-[4-(3- and 2-fluorobenzyloxy)benzylideneamino]propanamides to a reduction reaction with a reducing agent selected from sodium borohydride and potassium borohydride in an appropriate amount of an organic solvent selected from C1-C5 lower alkanols, allowing the formation and presence during a substantial position of the reduction reaction course of a suspension of the Schiff base into the saturated solution of the Schiff base into the same organic solvent. |
| US08846761B2 |
Method for treating pancreatitis
Gemcabene, a carboxyalkylether, is effective in the treatment and prevention of pancreatitis in subjects. The compound can be administered in an effective dose as the free acid, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or an ester or pro-drug that is hydrolyzed or otherwise metabolized in situ to gemcabene as the free acid or salt thereof. |
| US08846760B2 |
Dihydronaphthalene and naphthalene derivatives as N-formyl peptide receptor like-1 (FPRL-1) receptor modulators
The present invention relates to novel dihydronaphthalene and naphthalene derivatives, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as pharmaceuticals as modulators of the N-formyl peptide receptor like-1 (FPRL-1) receptor. |
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Low-caloric high-protein nutritional composition for the stimulation of muscle protein synthesis
The present invention relates to the use of a low-caloric high-protein nutritional composition for use in the prevention or treatment of a disease or condition in a mammal, which involves muscle decline, as well as to specific low-caloric high-protein nutritional compositions for stimulating muscle protein synthesis in a mammal. In particular, the invention relates to the use of a nutritional composition comprising per 100 kcal: (i) at least about 12 g of proteinaceous matter which comprises at least about 80 weight % of whey protein, relative to the total proteinaceous matter, and which comprises at least about 11 weight % of leucine, relative to the total proteinaceous matter, of which at least about 20 weight % is in a free form, relative to the total leucine, (ii) a source of fat and a source of digestible carbohydrates, for the prevention or treatment of a disease or condition which involves muscle decline in a mammal, especially an elderly mammal, wherein the nutritional composition is administered as 1 to 2 servings daily, each serving comprising between 80 and 200 kcal. |
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Methods of decreasing glycosylated hemoglobin in patients with dyslipidemia
Methods for treating abnormal glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in a patient in need thereof, wherein the provided methods comprise administering to a patient in need a therapeutically effective amount of an Interleukin-1β modulator. Also, the invention provides compositions comprising at least one lipid modifying agent and an IL-1β modulator. |