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| US08896778B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
It is an object to provide a liquid crystal display device including a thin film transistor with high electric characteristics and high reliability. As for a liquid crystal display device including an inverted staggered thin film transistor of a channel stop type, the inverted staggered thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film over the gate electrode, a microcrystalline semiconductor film including a channel formation region over the gate insulating film, a buffer layer over the microcrystalline semiconductor film, and a channel protective layer which is formed over the buffer layer so as to overlap with the channel formation region of the microcrystalline semiconductor film. |
| US08896776B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
The present invention has a pixel which includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first liquid crystal element, and a second liquid crystal element. A pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a signal line through the first switch. The pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element through the second switch and the first resistor. The pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a Cs line through the third switch and the second resistor. A common electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a common electrode of the second liquid crystal element. |
| US08896774B2 |
Optical film, polarizing plate and image display device
To provide an optical film which may be used as a λ/4 plate and may provide a display device which has specific optical characteristics, may be manufactured with high productivity and has an excellent 3D-display performance. To provide a 3D-display device having a physical properties having excellent antireflective property and light fastness with high productivity. An optical film having at least one optically anisotropic layer, wherein an in-plane retardation. Re at an arbitrary wavelength in a visible light region is 80 nm to 201 nm, an Nz value represented by the following equation is 0.1 to 0.9, and when the in-plane retardations at wavelengths of 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm are referred to as Re450, Re550 and Re650, respectively, Re450/Re550 is 1.18 or less and Re650/Re550 is 0.93 or more. Nz=0.5+Rth/Re (Rth: a retardation in a thickness direction) |
| US08896773B2 |
Array substrate and liquid crystal display panel
The present invention provides an array of FPR 3D liquid crystal display, including a plurality of pixel units and circuit affecting on the pixel unit. The pixel unit is divided into main pixel area and sub pixel area, and the circuit is paid out between pixel units. The present invention also provides an FPR 3D liquid crystal display panel. As such, the present invention can improve opening ratio and penetration ratio of liquid crystal display panel in 3D display mode to increase luminance of liquid crystal display panel. |
| US08896772B2 |
Optical variation device, optical assembly and method for manufacturing such a device
An optical variation device includes a liquid-crystal element having optical properties that control the propagation of light and two substrate plates arranged on either side of the liquid-crystal element. The two substrate plates are covered respectively with first and second control electrodes. Each electrode has a substantially central opening referred to as the optical aperture. The device also has a layer of a material arranged between the electrodes and filling the optical aperture. The material has a surface resistivity of 10 kΩ/square to 10 GΩ/square and at least the first electrode is divided into a plurality of portions forming sub-electrodes suitable for simultaneously receiving different potentials. |
| US08896768B1 |
Mounting systems for digital media players
Mounting systems can attach a digital media player to a television. Mounting systems can include a base, sidewalls, and hooks configured to enter vents of the television. Hooks can include a front portion that protrudes away from the base and into a vent of the television such that the hook attaches the base to the television. |
| US08896763B1 |
Television and method for switching television channels
A method for switching channels is applied in a television. A currently watched channel is set as a favorite channel. A return method for switching back to the favorite channel is set according to user input. A comparison object is set according to the set return method and user input. The television is switched from the favorite channel to a different channel. A time for switching back to the favorite channel is determined to whether or not arrive according to the set comparison object and the currently received content of the favorite channel. The television is switched back to the favorite channel when the time for switching back to the favorite channel arrives. |
| US08896761B2 |
Television receiver and electronic device
According to one embodiment, a television receiver includes: a housing; a circuit board; a flexible printed wiring board comprising a base layer, a conductive layer, and a protective layer. The circuit board is installed in the housing. The flexible printed wiring board is configured to be electrically connected to the circuit board. The base layer includes a first surface and a second surface positioned on an opposite side of the first surface. The conductive layer is provided on at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the base layer. The protective layer is configured to cover the base layer and the conductive layer, and includes an outer edge portion positioned on an outside of a periphery portion of the base layer. |
| US08896759B2 |
Method to increase the accuracy of phase correlation motion estimation in low-bit-precision circumstances
A method and system to improve the performance of phase correlation motion estimation for low-bit-precision implementation are described herein. Phase correlation uses the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) with operations with infinite-precision constants. Since physical implementations use finite-precision arithmetic, there is some loss in precision relative to the ideal infinite-precision case. In low-complexity implementations, it is desirable to use as few bits as possible, and if the precision is too low, the performance of traditional phase correlation suffers. A pre-processing technique is applied to the data prior to taking the FFT, which minimizes the negative effects of finite precision in the FFT and allows high quality results from phase correlation. The pre-processing step is a content-dependent contrast adjustment that maps the range of the input images' pixel values to the range of input values for the FFT. There is no post-processing required after the FFT to compensate for the pre-processing step. |
| US08896758B2 |
Video signal processing circuit, video signal processing method, display device, and electronic apparatus
A video signal processing circuit includes: a control unit that calculates a luminance integrated value on the basis of an input video signal and performs luminance control for the video signal on the basis of the calculated luminance integrated value, wherein the control unit calculates the luminance integrated value at a period shorter than time equivalent to one frame. |
| US08896753B2 |
Control of light emission at different brightnesses corresponding to operation mode
A camera-mounted cellular phone (1) comprises a camera sensor (3) which picks up an image, a switch (2) which is configured to switch and set at least equal to or more than two operation modes each corresponding to an image-pickup distance from the camera sensor (3) to an object, and an LED (4) which emits light together with an image-pickup. At the time of image-pickup, an image-pickup operation is performed by controlling a focal point of the camera sensor (3) in accordance with an operation mode switched and set by the switch (2), and the luminous brightness of the LED (4) is controlled in accordance with the operation mode switched and set. |
| US08896752B2 |
Illumination system for enhancing the appearance of an object and method thereof
A system for enhancing the appearance of an object comprises an illumination device (5) for providing enhancement illumination and a light recording device (1) for recording the reflection by the object of illumination on the object. A reference illumination is mixed (8) with the enhancement illumination. The information in the reflected light is filtered (9) to filter the reflection data (1) due to the reference illumination. These data are used for calculating the enhancement illumination in a processor (3). |
| US08896751B2 |
Digital photographing apparatus and method of controlling the same
A digital photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. A continuous shooting speed of the digital photographing apparatus may be improved by simultaneously performing a shutter operation and a read out operation of image data. A disclosed method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus includes displaying an image signal input through an image pickup device as a live view image, performing a first operation by driving a shutter, reading data from the image pickup device, and performing a second operation by driving the shutter during a time period overlapping the reading of the data. |
| US08896735B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and camera system
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern; and a pixel signal read-out unit including an AD conversion unit performing AD conversion of a pixel signal read out from the pixel unit, wherein each pixel included in the pixel unit includes division pixels divided into regions in which photosensitivity levels or electric charge accumulating amounts are different from one another, wherein the pixel signal reading unit includes a normal read-out mode and a multiple read-out mode, and wherein the AD conversion unit acquires a pixel signal of one pixel by adding the division pixel signals read out in accordance with the read-out mode while performing AD conversion for the division pixel signals. |
| US08896734B2 |
Solid-state image sensor, method of manufacturing the same, and camera
A solid-state image sensor includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type that is arranged to contact a lower face of the first semiconductor region and functions as a charge accumulation region, a third semiconductor region including side faces surrounded by the second semiconductor region, a fourth semiconductor region of the second conductivity type that is arranged apart from the second semiconductor region, and a transfer gate that forms a channel to transfer charges accumulated in the second semiconductor region to the fourth semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region is one of a semiconductor region of the first conductivity type and a semiconductor region of the second conductivity type whose impurity concentration is lower than that in the second semiconductor region. |
| US08896731B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and camera module
According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a pixel interpolation unit. The pixel interpolation unit includes a calculating unit that adds, to a first frequency band component, a second frequency band component in a direction in which the amount of change in the sensitivity level value of an acquired color component is determined to be small. The second frequency band component is in a frequency band higher than the first frequency band component. |
| US08896730B2 |
Method of operating a CMOS imager using color interpolation
An imager has first and second photosensitive sites and an interpolator located in a semiconductor substrate. The first photosensitive site is configured to receive light having a spectral component, and the second photosensitive site is configured to measure the level of the spectral component in light received by the second photosensitive site. The interpolator is configured to estimate the level of the spectral component in the light received by the first photosensitive site based on the measurement by the second photosensitive site. |
| US08896729B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus has an input unit for inputting an image captured by an image sensor, a shading correction amount calculation unit for calculating per pixel a shading correction amount to be applied to the image inputted from the input unit, a γ correction gain calculation unit for calculating a γ correction gain depending on the shading correction amount and pixel values of the image sensor pixels, and a gain correction unit for applying gain correction to the pixel values based on the γ correction gain, wherein shading correction and γ correction are performed simultaneously by the gain correction with the gain correction unit. |
| US08896727B2 |
Image processing apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium having image processing program recorded thereon
An object is to improve noise reduction. Provided are an image-capturing-mode selecting portion (104) that selects one image-capturing mode from a plurality of image-capturing modes; and a noise-reduction processing portion (110) that performs noise-reduction processing for input image signals by employing, in the case in which the image-capturing mode selected by the image-capturing-mode selecting portion (104) is a specific image-capturing mode, an applied noise model in which a noise model employed for a predetermined signal-value region differs from a reference noise model determined on the basis of properties of an image-acquisition element. |
| US08896725B2 |
Image capture device with contemporaneous reference image capture mechanism
A hand-held or otherwise portable or spatial or temporal performance-based image capture device includes one or more lenses, an aperture and a main sensor for capturing an original main image. A secondary sensor and optical system are for capturing a reference image that has temporal and spatial overlap with the original image. The device performs an image processing method including capturing the main image with the main sensor and the reference image with the secondary sensor, and utilizing information from the reference image to enhance the main image. The main and secondary sensors are contained together within a housing. |
| US08896722B2 |
Image data processing apparatus and electronic camera
An image data processing apparatus includes a data size conversion device that changes a data size of an image data at an optional ratio, the image data has a plurality of pixels each of which includes any one of a plurality of color components, and the plurality of color components being arranged in a specific order. The data size conversion device newly calculates a value of color component of each pixel after changing the data size based upon values of color components of a plurality of same color pixels before changing the data size, while maintaining the order of arrangement of the plurality of color components. |
| US08896717B2 |
Methods for deploying video monitoring applications and services across heterogeneous networks
Methods for the deployment of an image servicing platform over a mobile wireless network ate described. A mobile multimedia service controller (MMSC) includes a video gateway that is capable of transcoding among different video formats supported by an imaging service platform. The MMSC can be connected over a network to a download server that provides updates to a transcoder application and a video image application. |
| US08896714B2 |
Image pickup apparatus and image shake correction method
A system controller sets an optical correction ratio, which is a distribution ratio in which a shake angle detected by a gyro sensor is distributed to optical shake correction, in accordance with an optical zoom magnification and controls a prism driver to correct the shake angle multiplied by the optical correction ratio by the optical shake correction, and also controls a read controller to correct the rest of the angle by electronic shake correction. |
| US08896713B2 |
Motion-based video stabilization
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for stabilizing video frames based on information from a motion sensor are described. In general, digital video stabilization techniques are disclosed for generating and applying image-specific transformations to individual frames (images) in a video sequence after, rather than before, the image has been captured. The transformations may be used to counter-balance or compensate for unwanted jitter occurring during video capture due to, for example, a person's hand shaking. |
| US08896712B2 |
Determining and correcting for imaging device motion during an exposure
A system and method for determining and correcting for imaging device motion during an exposure is provided. According to various embodiments of the present invention, multiple sets of image pixels are defined on an image sensor, where each set of pixels is at least partially contained in the output image area of the image sensor. Signals from each set of image pixels are read out once or more during an exposure, motion estimates are computed using signal readouts from one or more sets of image pixels, and signal readouts from one or more sets of the image pixels are processed to form the final output image. |
| US08896711B2 |
Anti-vibration actuator and lens unit and camera furnished with same
The present invention is an anti-vibration actuator (10) for moving an image stabilizing lens (16), having: a fixed portion (12); a movable portion (14) to which an image stabilizing lens is attached; a movable support member (18) for supporting this movable portion so that it is movable within a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the image stabilizing lens; drive coils (20) attached to one of either the fixed portion or the movable portion; drive magnets (22) attached to the other of either the fixed portion or the movable portion so as to respectively face these drive coils; and at least one yoke (26) disposed on the side of the drive coils not facing the drive magnets; whereby magnetic force suppressing cutouts (26a) are provided on the yoke in a position overlapping the drive coils in order to suppress magnetic force received from the drive coils. |
| US08896709B2 |
Method and system for image and metadata management
A method and system for image and metadata management are described in which a server may communicate with multiple cameras from a single photographic session or shoot. The server may receive a digital image from one of the cameras and may attach metadata to the digital image. The digital image may also have embedded metadata as a result of the image capture process in the camera. The attached metadata may comprise session-specific metadata created in connection with the photographic session and stored in the server prior to the digital image being received. The attached metadata may comprise location-specific metadata that may be provided to the server by a photographer through a wireless device. The server may transmit the digital image and its metadata to one or both of a social media outlet and a website. The server may enable an approval and selection process of the digital image for transmission. |
| US08896708B2 |
Systems and methods for determining, storing, and using metadata for video media content
Certain embodiments provide methods and systems that link a video recording device and a processing device to enhance video media content development workflow and enable a variety of features. For example, a video camera may send all or a portion of a recorded video to a separate computer that can determine information to be associated with the recorded video. In some embodiments, the computer extracts information from the recorded video to be embedded or otherwise associated with the recorded video as metadata. In some cases, the computer retrieves information from other sources such as Internet websites for association with the recorded video. In some embodiments, the computer sends the information back to the camera where it is associated with the recorded video stored at the camera. In some embodiments, the computer provides the recorded video and information to other locations and parties, for example, to a director remotely overseeing filming. |
| US08896703B2 |
Superresolution enhancment of peripheral regions in nonlinear lens geometries
A technique of enhancing a scene containing one or more off-center peripheral regions within an initial distorted image captured with a large field of view includes determining and extracting an off-center region of interest (hereinafter “ROI”) within the image. Geometric correction is applied to reconstruct the off-center ROI into a rectangular or otherwise undistorted or less distorted frame of reference as a reconstructed ROI. A quality of reconstructed pixels is determined within the reconstructed ROI. One or more additional initially distorted images is/are acquired, and matching additional ROIs are extracted and reconstructed to combine with reduced quality pixels of the first reconstructed ROI using a super-resolution technique to provide one or more enhanced ROIs. |
| US08896699B2 |
Image synthesis device
Disclosed is an image synthesis device including an area determining unit 3 for selecting a vehicle-mounted camera 1 used for generation of a bird's-eye view image viewed from an arbitrary point of view from vehicle-mounted cameras 1a to 1d mounted at different positions, and for determining an area corresponding to the bird's-eye view image in an image captured by the vehicle-mounted camera 1, and an input video signal control unit 4 for receiving image data about the area determined by the area determining unit 3, the image data being included in image data showing the image captured by the vehicle-mounted camera 1, to store the image data in an input frame buffer 5, in which an image processing device 6 generates a bird's-eye view image from the image data stored in the input frame buffer 5. |
| US08896697B2 |
Video motion compensation and stabilization gimbaled imaging system
A system and method for compensating for image distortions formed by the motion of a computerized camera system mounted on a moving platform. The camera system includes a camera, wherein the camera acquires a plurality of image frames including images of the environment viewed from within the field of view of the camera. The distortion is formed in the acquired image frame, during and in between image acquisitions. During the image acquisition the camera may be maneuvered in space, typically, in the pan and tilt axis. The method includes the steps of providing camera maneuvering signals, providing sensors for detecting other motions of the camera, computing the pre acquisition aggregated motion vector of the camera, thereby determining the pre acquisition image distortion, and compensating for the determined pre acquisition image distortion by an equivalent vector, in a direction opposite to the direction of the pre acquisition aggregated motion vector. |
| US08896691B2 |
Surveillance device and method
A surveillance device is disclosed, comprising an interface and a controller coupled with the interface. The interface is coupled with a communication device to receive an image data transmitted from an image capturing device through the communication device. The controller generates a control signal according to the image data and transmits the control signal to the image capturing device for adjusting one or more transmission parameters and/or image capturing parameters of the image capturing device. |
| US08896690B2 |
Image acquisition system and method for distance determination using an image recording system
A vehicle-based image acquisition system having an image sensor that has a characteristic curve assembled from linear segments. The system includes an arrangement for determining the distance of luminous objects imaged by the image sensor. |
| US08896688B2 |
Determining position in a projection capture system
In one example, a projection capture system includes: a visible light projector to project a pattern on to a surface of a GUI control object placed on or above a work surface; a visible light camera to capture an image of the pattern projected on to the surface of the control object; and a controller operatively connected to the projector and the camera. Programming on the controller determines (1) a lateral position of the pattern relative to a reference position associated with the work surface based on the pattern image captured by the camera and (2) a height of the pattern above the work surface based on the lateral position of the pattern. |
| US08896676B2 |
Method and system for determining transmittance intervals in 3D shutter eyewear based on display panel response time
A 3D video viewing shutter device receives display response time from a 3D video display device for determining shutter open and close times. Response time may correspond to display type, a particular display and/or a change in pixel illumination levels between frames. The shutter device receives response information during device initialization and/or corresponding to changing pixel illumination levels. A sequence of 3D frames may comprise a pattern of left frames, right frames, blank frames and/or frames comprising a combination of left and right frames. Based on display device and/or shutter device response times, the shutter device may extend shutter transmittance time during a frame display interval into a blank frame interval. Transmittance may be enabled during display of blank frames subsequent to left or right frames. The shutter device and display device may communicate via a wireless link for example, via a Bluetooth wireless link utilizing Bluetooth clocks. |
| US08896671B2 |
Apparatus and method for capturing images
An apparatus is provided for capturing images including a base, and image capture adjustment mechanism, a first camera, and a second camera. The base is constructed and arranged to support an alignable array of cameras. The image capture adjustment mechanism is disposed relative to the base for adjusting an image capture line of sight for a camera relative to the base. The first camera is carried by the base, operably coupled with the image capture adjustment mechanism, and has an image capture device. The first camera has a line of sight defining a first field of view adjustable with the image capture adjustment mechanism relative to the base. The second camera is carried by the base and has an image capture device. The second camera has a line of sight defining a second field of view extending beyond a range of the field of view for the first camera in order to produce a field of view that is greater than the field of view provided by the first camera. A method is also provided. |
| US08896670B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and program
An image processing device includes a distance data analysis unit that analyzes subject distance information with the partial region units of captured images having different viewpoints, and a data generation unit that determines whether a recorded image or an output image is set to a two-dimensional image or set to a three-dimensional image depending on the analysis result, and generates the recorded or output image based on the determination result, wherein the data generation unit determines a recall level of stereoscopic vision in three-dimensional display based on the analysis result, and if it is determined that the recall level of stereoscopic vision is low, generates a two-dimensional image as the recorded or output image, and if it is determined that the recall level of stereoscopic vision is high, generates a three-dimensional image as the recorded or output image. |
| US08896668B2 |
Combining data from multiple image sensors
A method of combining data from multiple sensors is disclosed. The method includes receiving lines of image data at an image processor having an input for a single camera. Each line of the image data includes first line data from a first image captured by a first camera and second line data from a second image captured by a second camera. The method also includes generating an output frame having a first section corresponding to line data of the first image and having a second section corresponding to line data of the second image. The first section and the second section are configured to be used to generate a three-dimensional (3D) image format or a 3D video format. |
| US08896666B2 |
Three-dimensional measuring device and board inspection device
A board inspection device includes an irradiation device for irradiating light on a printed circuit board, a CCD camera for imaging the irradiated part of the circuit board. First image processing is performed for a first exposure time such that an inspection target region is free of brightness saturation, and second image processing is performed using a second exposure time corresponding to the insufficiency of the first exposure time relative to a certain exposure time appropriate for measurement of a measurement standard region. Thereafter, image data for three-dimensional measurement is prepared for the inspection target region using the value of image data obtained by the first image processing, and image data for three-dimensional measurement is prepared for the measurement standard region using a value obtained by summing the image data value acquired by the second image processing and the image data value acquired by the first image processing. |
| US08896659B2 |
Integrating preset callback into conference calls
In an example embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus comprising an interface and conferencing logic coupled with the interface. The conferencing logic is operable to receive via the interface data representative of a conference call for a meeting, the data representative of the meeting comprises data representative of a meeting time and data representative of a meeting participant. The conferencing logic is operable to receive via the interface data representative of a callback number and data representative of a callback time from the meeting participant. The conferencing logic is operable to initiate communications with the meeting participant at the callback time at the callback number. The conferencing logic is operable to couple the meeting participant with the conference call upon establishing communications. |
| US08896658B2 |
Interface for voice communications
There is provided an interface viewable on a display for a communications apparatus used during a session for voice communications between at least two parties. The interface includes at least one edge of the display having a row of objects, each object of the row being for representing each of the at least two parties; and a main portion of the display being for showing the object of the party speaking at a particular point in time, with a plurality of the objects being shown when a plurality of the parties are speaking at the particular point in time. Advantageously, the object of the speaking party is shown on the main portion when the speaking party's voice is detected by the speaking party's communications apparatus, a host server receiving information from the speaking party's communications apparatus to aid in displaying the object of the speaking party at the particular point in time. Alternatively, the object of the speaking party may also undergo a change of state, such as, for example, a blinking effect, a single occurrence resizing effect, a transitional blurring effect, a repeated resizing effect, and any combination of the aforementioned. |
| US08896657B2 |
Scene video switch system and scene video switch method
Disclosed are a scene video switch system and a scene video switch method. The system comprises an input unit configured to input an image currently captured by a video capture unit to serve as a current image; a detection unit configured to detect all of interesting elements and latent elements in the current image so as to determine a maximum possible existing area of the interesting elements; a state switch unit configured to carry out, by using a predetermined finite state machine, switching between scene states of the maximum possible existing area according to predetermined different scene states and switching conditions; and a display unit configured to extract, based on a current scene state switched by the state switch unit, an area of concern coinciding with the current scene state from the maximum possible existing area to serve as a scene video for display. |
| US08896655B2 |
System and method for providing depth adaptive video conferencing
A method is provided in one example and includes capturing panoramic image data through a first camera in a camera cluster, and capturing close-up image data through a second camera included as part of a spaced array of cameras. The presence of a user in a field of view of the second camera can be detected. The close-up image data and the panoramic image data can be combined to form a combined image. In more specific embodiments, the detecting includes evaluating a distance between the user and the second camera. The combined image can reflect a removal of a portion of panoramic image data associated with the user in a video conferencing environment. |
| US08896652B2 |
System and method for real-time video communications
Systems and methods for video communication services are presented herein. In particular, systems and methods in which multiple participants can simultaneously create and share video in real-time are presented herein. Other systems and methods are also presented herein. |
| US08896651B2 |
Portable devices as videoconferencing peripherals
A videoconferencing system has a videoconferencing unit that use portable devices as peripherals for the system. The portable devices obtain near-end audio and send the audio to the videoconferencing unit via a wireless connection. In turn, the videoconferencing unit sends the near-end audio from the loudest portable device along with near-end video to the far-end. The portable devices can control the videoconferencing unit and can initially establish the videoconference by connecting with the far-end and then transferring operations to the videoconferencing unit. To deal with acoustic coupling between the unit's loudspeaker and the portable device's microphone, the unit uses an echo canceller that is compensated for differences in the clocks used in the A/D and D/A converters of the loudspeaker and microphone. |
| US08896647B2 |
Method and device for producing colour images by way of a UV laser on pigmented substrates, and products produced as a result
A method is described for producing a character, pattern, symbol and/or image (8) on a substrate (2) by way of pigment particles (1) which are arranged thereon and lose their color effect under the action of a laser (23), wherein different pigment particles (1) with at least three different color effects are arranged on and/or in the substrate (2). The invention is distinguished by the following method steps: (a) production of a color chart (14), in which the individual color effect of individual pigment particles (1) or individual clusters of pigment particles is contained as a function of their spatial coordinate on and/or in the substrate (2); (b) spatially resolved irradiation, which changes the color effect of only individual pigment particles (1) or individual clusters of pigment particles, by way of a laser (23) at a single frequency on the basis of the color chart (14) in order to produce a resulting color effect. Furthermore, the present invention relates to substrates, in particular security documents, produced using a method of this type, and devices for carrying out methods of this type. |
| US08896644B2 |
Recording apparatus
A recording apparatus has a pair of bearings 38 having: two surfaces 38a and 38b which support both edge portions of a conveying roller 40; driven rollers 42 which press the conveying roller 40 in the direction where extension lines of the two surfaces 38a and 38b cross; and further, an intermediate bearing 47 which presses the conveying roller 40 in the direction of a point where the extension lines of the two surfaces 38a and 38b cross. |
| US08896641B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device and method of driving the same
An organic light emitting display device includes: a display panel including red, green, blue, and white (RGBW) subpixels; a first data conversion unit configured to convert red, green, and blue (RGB) data signals into RGBW data signals; an average picture level calculation unit configured to calculate an average picture level (APL) for the RGB data signals; a peak luminance controller configured to control luminance of at least one frame by using the APL and a look-up table; and a data compensation unit configured to perform a compensation operation on at least one of the RGB data signals in response to color coordinates of white (W) data signals among the RGBW data signals output from the first data conversion unit being different from a target value. |
| US08896639B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized active matrix type liquid crystal display device that may achieve large-sized display, high precision, high resolution and multi-gray scales. According to the present invention, gray scale display is performed by combining time ratio gray scale and voltage gray scale in a liquid crystal display device which performs display in OCB mode. In doing so, one frame is divided into subframes corresponding to the number of bit for the time ratio gray scale. Initialize voltage is applied onto the liquid crystal upon display of a subframe. |
| US08896638B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and backlight control method
An initial light control value calculation section calculates the backlight's initial light control value K0 according to brightness of an inputted image signal for each area. A black area measurement section measures a black area S by obtaining ratio of the number of pixels satisfying Y≦Y0 (Y: brightness signal level, Y0: black level threshold) in the screen. A minimum light control value output section determines a minimum light control value Kmin based on comparison between the measured black area S and a black area threshold S0 and outputs a maximum value permissible for the light control value as the value Kmin when the black area S is the threshold value S0 or less. An LED control signal calculation section outputs a control signal to LED light sources based on a light control value K1 as the higher one of K0 and Kmin. |
| US08896635B2 |
Display device
A display device includes first transistors provided for every scanning line and second transistors having a first electrode connected to each scanning line and a second electrode to which a reference potential is inputted. A first electrode of the first transistor is connected to any one of gate lines belonging to a first group. A control electrode of the first transistor is connected to any one of gate lines belonging to a second group. A control electrode of the second transistor is connected to any one of reverse gate lines belonging to a second group. A scanning line drive circuit intermittently outputs, when the scanning line drive circuit outputs a non-selective scanning voltage to any one of the gate lines belonging to the second group, a selective reversal scanning voltage to a reverse gate line corresponding to the gate line in the reverse gate lines belonging to the second group. |
| US08896631B2 |
Hyper parallax transformation matrix based on user eye positions
A method for displaying a 3D image in virtual reality. The method includes defining a hyper parallax transformation matrix based on user eye position, applying the hyper parallax transformation matrix to a scene graph, and displaying hyper parallax of the 3D image. A realistic simulation of parallax of said 3D image is exaggerated. |
| US08896628B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and program
There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data defining a correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is to be displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure at a position in the input image determined based on the environment map and the position information, using the procedure data. |
| US08896626B2 |
Image capturing apparatus, image processing apparatus, control method thereof and program
An image processing apparatus includes: a specific sound detecting section which detects a specific sound generated during motion of a specific motion conducted by a target object included in an image group including a plurality of images which continues in a time-series manner; a synthetic image generating section which generates a synthetic image representing transitions of the specific motion; a determination range setting section which sets, as a determination range, a range in the time axis for determination on the generation of the synthetic image on the basis of a user manipulation; and a control section which controls the synthetic image generating section to generate the synthetic image in a case where the specific sound is detected in the set determination range, and not to generate the synthetic image in a case where the specific sound is not detected in the set determination range. |
| US08896622B2 |
Methods and apparatus for marker-based stylistic rendering
Methods and apparatus for marker-based stylistic rendering may be used to automatically synthesize the stylistic range of various stylistic rendering techniques. An image processing pipeline may automatically generate stylistic images, such as Hedcut stipple images. Using virtual markers to determine locations in the image to which physical markers are to be attached, the tone of an original source image may be automatically reproduced via placement of stipple dots or other physical markers, while at the same time allowing for stylistic refinement of placement and appearance of the physical markers, e.g. along strong features in the source image. |
| US08896614B2 |
Method and apparatus for browsing images
The present invention relates to a method for browsing images and an Image browser. The browsing is performed on a display of an electronic device having an image cache and includes the acts of determining an image, from accessible images not already stored in the image cache, being more likely to be displayed during the browsing than one image already stored in the image cache, storing the determined image in the image cache, shifting images presented on the display in response to a user input and at an image shifting rate of S. Said shifting images includes reading image data from the image cache and present the image on the display. The image browser includes a display, a dynamic Graphic User Interface, GUI, generator arranged to present images in accordance with a specific layout and to shift images at a specific image shifting rate S, an image cache arranged to temporarily store a plurality of images for use by the dynamic GUI generator, an access to a data storage, and an image retriever arranged to retrieve an image from the data storage and place it in the cache in case of the image retriever discovers an image in the data storage that is not present in the image cache and that is more likely to be displayed than one of the images present in the image cache. The image shifting rate S is frequently updated and is proportional to the present number of images in the image cache that are likely kept for browsing. |
| US08896611B2 |
Bi-directional data transmission system and method
A bidirectional data transmission system and the transmitting method thereof are disclosed. A video graphics array interface or an interface including a display data channel is utilized in the bidirectional data transmission to transmit data in bi-direction. |
| US08896605B2 |
Providing an ellipsoid having a characteristic based on local correlation of attributes
Data records are grouped into clusters according to attributes of the data records to be correlated. At least two of the clusters that satisfy a proximity criterion are merged. At least one ellipsoid is created for presentation in a scatter plot visualization based on the grouping and merging, the ellipsoid including pixels representing multiple corresponding data records. The ellipsoid has a characteristic based on a corresponding local correlation of the attributes of the data records represented by the ellipsoid. The characteristic of the ellipsoid is adjusted based on a direction of the local correlation. |
| US08896601B1 |
Projecting geographic data from a spherical surface to two-dimensional cartesian space
A method for projecting geographic data (e.g., latitude and longitude coordinates) from a spherical surface onto a two-dimensional Cartesian space is provided. Such a capability can employ a coordinate testing and transformation method to map the projected geographic data within the two-dimensional Cartesian space so that distances measured on the spherical surface remain relatively consistent with distances measured in the two-dimensional Cartesian space. Further, this capability allows for the use of efficient search algorithms to find projected geographic points within a particular geographic search area. |
| US08896600B2 |
Icon shading based upon light intensity and location
Illustrated is a system and method to use a photometer to receive a light vector, the photometer to determine intensity of the light vector. The system and method also uses a processor to determine a location of a light source that generates the tight vector. Additionally, the system and method uses a touch-sensitive screen to display an icon pixel shaded based upon the intensity of the light vector and the location of the light source. |
| US08896597B2 |
System and method for modifying geometric relationships in a solid model
A system, method, and computer program for modifying a solid model representation that is manipulated in a computer having software instructions for design, comprising: a computer system, wherein the computer system includes a memory, a processor, a user input device, and a display device; a computer generated geometric model stored in the memory in the memory of the computer system; and wherein the computer system receives user input and accesses at least one data file having a plurality of geometric model definitions that define a geometric model; converts the geometric model definitions into a geometric representation of the geometric model; calculates a plurality of geometric conditions between at least one geometry identified by a user and the geometric model to create a set of constraints; and calculates a modified geometric model with a modified geometry according the set of constraints to display to the user; and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions. |
| US08896596B2 |
Image signal processing apparatus, image signal processing method, program, and image signal processing system
An image signal processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a display signal including an image signal containing both two-dimensional and three-dimensional images and a region information in each predetermined unit in the image signal and separates the image signal and the region information from the display signal, a display control unit that generates a first display control information for controlling rendering positions of the first and second regions in the image signal according to the region information and a second display control information for selectively displaying a three-dimensional image in a region corresponding to the rendering position of the second region based on the region information, and a processing unit that generates a display image signal indicating an image where the first and second region are arranged according to the first display control information based on the image signal and the first display control information. |
| US08896593B2 |
Producing three-dimensional graphics
A system includes a computing device for producing a representation of a graphical element on a two dimensional set of image points. A metric value is calculated for each image point in the two dimensional set of image points. The computer device is configured to assign a visual property to image point in the two dimensional set of image points based upon the corresponding metric value. The computing device is also configured to present the assigned visual properties of the two dimensional set of image points as being offset from another two dimensional set of image points to provide a three dimensional appearance of the graphical element. |
| US08896585B2 |
Display device and driving method thereof
A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines to which a plurality of compensation data signals are transmitted, a plurality of light emitting signal lines, and a plurality of pixels respectively connected to the plurality of scan lines, the plurality of data lines, and the plurality of light emitting signal lines, and a data driver generating a data voltage corresponding to a image data signal, and converting the data voltage to the compensation data signal. The data driver includes a compensator generating the compensation data signal in accordance with a feedback voltage. The feedback voltage is determined by a degree of deterioration associated with each pixel, and increases with an increasing deterioration degree of the pixel. |
| US08896578B2 |
Mobile terminal and method of controlling the same
A mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal includes an elongated body having a central axis and being structured to form an outer side having a circumference, an end portion located at one end of the elongated body, a touch screen coupled to the body, a projector positioned at the end portion and being configured to project an image onto a surface, and a camera coupled to the elongated body and being positioned to capture at least a portion of the image projected onto the surface. |
| US08896574B2 |
Optical touch apparatus
The invention provides an optical touch apparatus. The optical touch apparatus includes at least one optical path unit and at least one light sensing unit. The at least one optical path unit is located on a first side of a display unit of the optical touch apparatus and used to receive at least one directional incident light, the at least one directional incident light is focused to form an image in an imaging region through at least one refraction in the at least one optical path unit. The at least one light sensing unit is located at a relative position of the at least one optical path unit, and used to generate a sensing result according to the image in the imaging region. |
| US08896573B1 |
Line spacing in mesh designs for touch sensors
An apparatus includes a touch sensor that includes a mesh of multiple first and second lines of conductive material extending across a display, where the display includes multiple pixels. The first lines are substantially parallel to each other, and the second lines are substantially parallel to each other. Each of the pixels has a first pixel pitch (PPx) along a first axis and a second pixel pitch (PPy) along a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis. The first pixel pitch is equal to a distance between corresponding features of two adjacent pixels along the first axis, and the second pixel pitch is equal to a distance between corresponding features of two adjacent pixels along the second axis. The first and second lines extend across the display at first and second angles, respectively, relative to the first axis. |
| US08896569B2 |
Electrostatic capacity type touch screen panel
A touch screen panel is disclosed. The touch screen panel includes a substrate; a plurality of first electrode serials arranged on the substrate; a plurality of second electrode serials arranged to cross over the first electrode serials; and an insulation layer formed at the intersections of the first and second electrode serials and to electrically insulate the first and second electrode serials, wherein each of the first electrode serials comprises a plurality of first electrode patterns and second connection patterns for connecting neighboring first electrode patterns, each of the second electrode serials comprises a plurality of second electrode patterns and first connection patterns for connecting neighboring second electrode patterns, and each of the first electrode patterns comprises a lower layer formed on the substrate and an upper layer formed on the lower layer, and the second connection pattern connects neighboring first electrode pattern upper layers. |
| US08896563B2 |
Electronic device with wrap around display
A consumer electronic product includes at least a transparent housing and a flexible display assembly enclosed within the transparent housing. In the described embodiment, the flexible display assembly is configured to present visual content at any portion of the transparent housing. |
| US08896556B2 |
Time-based touch interface
A user device with a touch-sensitive display presents a user interface with multiple content options and detects, on the touch-sensitive display, a touch indicating selection of one of the multiple content options. The user device monitors a duration of the touch. The user device presents a first set of selectable options, associated with the one of the multiple content options, in response to determining that the duration of the touch exceeds the first time threshold, and presents a second set of selectable options, associated with the one of the multiple content options, in response to determining that the duration of the touch exceeds the second time threshold. |
| US08896554B2 |
Data retrieval apparatus and data retrieval method
According to an aspect, a data retrieval apparatus includes a display unit, a detector, and a control unit. The display unit displays a group including a plurality of data on a display screen. Each of data is associated with a relevance ratio to search criteria. The detector detects movement of the group on the display screen. The control unit calculates a rate according to a degree of the movement of the group detected by the detector, and extracts the data from the group based on a comparison between the calculated rate and the relevance ratio. |
| US08896553B1 |
Hybrid sensor module
A hybrid sensor module and methods of operating the same are provided. In one embodiment, the hybrid sensor module includes: (i) a touch sensor configured to sense motion of an object in proximity to a surface of the touch sensor; (ii) an optical navigation sensor (ONS) configured to illuminate the object through the surface of the touch sensor and to sense motion of the object based on light returned from the object; and (iii) a controller electrically coupled to the touch sensor and the ONS to process the sensed motion of the object and to generate an output signal in response to the sensed motion, wherein the controller is configured to dynamically adjust a tracking resolution of the hybrid sensor module based on a characteristic of the sensed motion. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US08896551B2 |
System and method for improving recognition of a touch keyboard of an electronic device
A system and a method for improving recognition of a touch keyboard in an electronic device include setting a fuzzy set corresponding to each virtual key of the touch keyboard displayed on a touch panel. The improving method further includes receiving coordinates of a touch point on the touch panel, confirming a touched virtual key corresponding to the touched coordinates and executing a function of the touched virtual key. The improving method further confirming one or more adjacent virtual keys of the touched virtual key, and revising a fuzzy set of the received virtual key or a fuzzy set of an adjacent virtual key, if a backspace virtual key and the adjacent virtual key have been touched in turn after the touched virtual key. |
| US08896546B2 |
High integrity touch screen system
A high integrity touch screen system includes, but is not limited to, a display screen, a first sensor array to detect a touch on the display screen and to generate a first set of touch position coordinates, a first processor connected to the first sensor array and configured to receive the first set of touch position coordinates, a second sensor array to detect the touch on the display screen and to generate a second set of touch position coordinates and a second processor connected to the second sensor array and configured to receive the second set of touch position coordinates. The first processor and the second processor cooperate to compare the first set of touch position coordinates with the second set of touch position coordinates and to invalidate the touch when the first set of touch position coordinates and the second set of touch position coordinates do not substantially coincide. |
| US08896540B2 |
Character input device and character input method
According to an aspect, a character input device includes a display unit, an input detecting unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a screen having a character entry area and a virtual keyboard. The virtual keyboard includes a plurality of keys each of which corresponds to a character. The input detecting unit detects a touch by an operator. The control unit detects a key selection operation and an input determination operation through the input detecting unit. Upon detecting the key selection operation for the first key, the control unit displays the first key in the character entry area as a character to be input. Upon detecting the input determination operation, the control unit displays the first character in the character entry area as an input character. |
| US08896536B2 |
Methods and systems for contactlessly controlling electronic devices according to signals from a digital camera and a sensor module
An embodiment of a method for contactlessly controlling an electronic apparatus, performed by a processor of the electronic apparatus. A camera module of the electronic apparatus is turned on to capture a series of images upon detecting that an object is in close proximity to the electronic apparatus. A contactless control procedure is performed while the camera module thereof is in use. The control operation comprises determining a control operation according to the captured images; performing the control operation to an electronic device of the electronic apparatus upon obtaining an instruction based on analyzing the captured images; and turning off the camera module responsive to not obtaining an instruction within a predetermined time period. |
| US08896534B2 |
Spatially-correlated multi-display human-machine interface
A human-machine interface involves plural spatially-coherent visual presentation surfaces at least some of which are movable by a person. Plural windows or portholes into a virtual space, at least some of which are handheld and movable, are provided by using handheld and other display devices. Aspects of multi-dimensional spatiality of the moveable window (e.g., relative to another window) are determined and used to generate images. As one example, the moveable window can present a first person perspective “porthole” view into the virtual space, this porthole view changing based on aspects of the moveable window's spatiality in multi-dimensional space relative to a stationary window. A display can present an image of a virtual space, and an additional, moveable display can present an additional image of the same virtual space. |
| US08896528B2 |
Control device, input device, control system, handheld device, and control method
A control device includes: a receiver for receiving first information regarding the movement of a casing, and second information regarding whether to reflect the first information on the movement of coordinate values; a storage unit for storing a whole-screen region including a real-screen region, and a virtual-screen region set around the real-screen region; a generator for generating the coordinate values within the whole-screen region based on the first information; a switcher for switching a first state in which the coordinate values are movable, and a second state in which the coordinate values are immovable, based on the second information; a determining unit for determining which of the real-screen region or the virtual-screen region the coordinate values belong to; and a coordinate-value control unit for controlling the coordinate values so as to move the coordinate values within the virtual-screen region to the position of predetermined coordinate values within the real-screen region. |
| US08896524B2 |
Context-dependent haptic confirmation system
A haptic confirmation system is provided that produces a confirmation haptic effect in response to a user interaction with a user interface element, where the confirmation haptic effect is based on context metadata. The context metadata is mapped to one or more haptic parameters. A haptic signal is generated based on the one or more haptic parameters. The haptic signal is sent to an actuator configured to receive the haptic signal. The actuator utilized the haptic signal to generate the confirmation haptic effect. |
| US08896517B2 |
Integrated backlight driving chip and LED backlight device
An integrated backlight driving chip for driving a light-emitting diode backlight module includes a scaler circuit and a backlight driving circuit. The scaler circuit includes a digital control unit for generating a digital control signal, and a variable reference voltage generation unit for generating a reference voltage. The backlight driving circuit is coupled to the digital control unit, the variable reference voltage generation unit, and the LED backlight module, for generating a backlight driving signal according to the digital control signal and the reference voltage so as to drive the LED backlight module. |
| US08896514B2 |
Display device for varying different scan ratios for displaying moving and still images and a driving method thereof
A display device including a display panel displaying a still image and a moving image and a signal controller controlling signals to drive the display panel, wherein the signal controller includes a frame memory storing image data of the still image and providing the image data to the display panel, and the display panel is driven with a first scan ratio when displaying the moving image and is driven with a second scan ratio that is lower than the first scan ratio when displaying the still image. |
| US08896513B2 |
Gamma bus amplifier offset cancellation
The present disclosure generally relates to gamma bus wiring techniques that saves space in a display such as a liquid crystal display. In certain embodiments, a voltage offset associated with gamma bus amplifiers configured to provide analog voltage levels to a pixel may reduce at least some of the visual performance characteristics of the attached display when it transitions between different voltage values provided by different gamma bus amplifiers. The voltage offsets associated with the gamma bus amplifiers may be distributed between multiplexers that are coupled to gamma bus amplifiers by interlacing the wires routed from a resistor string to the multiplexers. |
| US08896512B2 |
Display device for active storage pixel inversion and method of driving the same
A pixel circuit for a display includes a pixel storage node for storing and presenting a pixel voltage to a pixel display element, a cell storage node for storing the data on the pixel storage node, and a first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor each including a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode of the first storage capacitor is operatively coupled to the pixel storage node and the first electrode of the second storage capacitor operatively coupled to the cell storage node. The second electrode of the first and second storage capacitors is operatively coupled to a respective different one of first and second independent voltage signal lines. The pixel circuit further includes a pixel write circuit configured to write the pixel voltage to the pixel storage node during a data write cycle, and to provide respective voltage signals to the first and second independent voltage signal lines, each of the respective voltage signals being changed during the data write cycle in order to increase or reduce the pixel voltage. |
| US08896509B2 |
Liquid crystal display device including data converting part and method of driving the same
A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a pixel having red, green, blue and white sub-pixels; a mode selector selecting one from an RGB mode and an RGBW mode as a driving mode; an RGBW mode signal generating part performing a color correction on RGB input data corresponding to the pixel and converting the RGB input data into RGBW data in the RGBW mode; and an output controlling part outputting RGBW output data by performing a gamma conversion on the RGBW data in the RGBW mode and outputting the RGB input data and a W data for turning off the W sub-pixel as the RGBW output data in the RGB mode. |
| US08896505B2 |
Display with pixel arrangement
A display, including a substrate having a display area including first and second non-overlapping pixel groups and a gutter located between the first and second pixel groups, the gutter having a dimension in a first direction separating the first and second pixel groups, and each pixel group includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel having three or more differently colored sub-pixels; and wherein the pixel centers of the pixels in each pixel group are arranged in a regular two-dimensional array having one dimension parallel to the first direction, and wherein the pixels within a pixel group are separated by an inter-pixel separation in the first direction; and one or more electrical elements arranged within the gutter, each subpixel being connected to one of the one or more electrical elements, wherein the gutter dimension is greater than the inter-pixel separation, so that artifacts in a displayed image are reduced. |
| US08896504B2 |
Organic light emitting display and method of driving the same
An organic light emitting display capable of reducing power consumption in a standby mode to increase the use time of a battery and a method of driving the same. The organic light emitting display includes a pixel unit for displaying an image by utilizing a plurality of frames and in accordance with data signals and scan signals; a data driver for outputting the data signals; a scan driver for outputting the scan signals; and a controller for controlling the data driver and the scan driver so that, in at least one frame of the plurality of frames, the scan signals are not transmitted to the pixel unit. |
| US08896503B2 |
Image display apparatus and method for driving the same
The present invention sets power supply drive signals DS[1] and DS[2] at a power supply voltage Vcc in a timesharing for odd lines and their subsequent even lines and sets a write signal WS to correspond to the time division setting, thereby sharing a scan line of the write signal WS between the odd lines and the subsequent even lines. |
| US08896500B2 |
Head-mounted display device and control method for the head-mounted display device
A head-mounted display device that is mounted on the head of an observer and forms a virtual image before the eyes of the observer includes: a display device that forms an image, which is the source of image light, from image data; a light source that emits the image light representing the formed image; a light guide unit that forms a virtual image from the emitted image light; and a display control unit that turns off the light source and changes the head-mounted display device to a suspension mode when a suspension request is received from the outside. |
| US08896496B2 |
Configurable antenna element
A configurable antenna element comprises a conductor encased in a foam substrate with a pressure sensitive adhesive applied to a surface of the foam substrate for application of the configurable antenna to a surface. |
| US08896495B2 |
Method for direct connection of MMIC amplifiers to balanced antenna aperture
A MMIC amplifier is directly connected to the balanced feed points at the aperture of an antenna to eliminate the distance between electronics coupled to the antenna and the antenna itself, such that interfaces, components and connection lines which introduce losses and parasitic effects that degrade system performance are eliminated due the direct connection. Expanding the aperture of the antenna to accommodate the direct connection of a MMIC amplifier to balanced feed points of an antenna has been found to have no deleterious effects on antenna performance. Moreover, when coupling the MMIC amplifier to an unbalanced coaxial line, any associated ripple is minimized due to the direct connection. |
| US08896494B2 |
Hanging type monopole wideband antenna
A present invention relates to a monopole wideband antenna, that is a wall mounted handing type antenna capable of providing easy frequency adjustment and operating at broad frequency band range. Moreover, the monopole wideband antenna of the invention can be applied in various electronic devices, and is advantageous in its low cost and small size since it can be fabricated directly using a means of print formation upon a circuitboard. |
| US08896489B2 |
Antenna
An apparatus including an antenna; a first antenna carrier forming a first support substrate for a first portion of the antenna; and a different second antenna carrier forming a second support substrate for a second portion of the antenna. The first and second antenna carriers are coupled to each other. The antenna extends across a joint between the first and second antenna carriers. |
| US08896485B2 |
System and method for automatically generating and updating real time navigation waypoint
Method and system to guide people around urban environments indoor and outdoor, provide real time accurate update of way points information to the user navigation system and or to his cellular phone via FM-RDS according to the user location, The information will display on the existing cellular phone or Bluetooth device and interface to existing GPS navigation system. |
| US08896484B2 |
Dynamic radiation pattern antenna system
The present invention relates to a dynamic radiation pattern diversity antenna system comprising a transmission line, a plurality of varactor diodes, and a radiation pattern control unit. The transmission line defines a plurality of unit cells. Each varactor diode is electrically connected to a corresponding unit cell. The radiation pattern control unit is electrically connected to each of the plurality of varactor diodes, and controls the electrical actuation thereof. Upon electrical actuation of the varactor diodes, each unit cell radiates at an angle corresponding to a voltage applied to the corresponding varactor diode. |
| US08896477B2 |
Time-to-digital converter
An edge detector includes flip-flops receiving phase signals of a ring oscillator, a resetter canceling the reset states of the flip-flops at the edge timing of an input signal, and a logical operator performing a logical operation on output signals of the flip-flops. A phase state detector detects a phase state of the ring oscillator occurring at the edge timing of the input signal based on the output signals of the flip-flops. A time-to-digital converter converts an edge interval between the input signal and an output signal of the logical operator into a digital value. A latch latches a value of a counter counting the number of cycles of an output signal of the ring oscillator, at the edge timing of the input signal. An operator calculates a digital value of a received signal from output signals of the latch, the phase state detector, and the time-to-digital converter. |
| US08896475B2 |
Continuous-time oversampling pipeline analog-to-digital converter
A converter may include multiple converter stages connected in series. Each converter stage may receive a clock signal and an analog input signal, and may generate an analog output signal and a digital output signal. Each converter stages may include an encoder generating the digital output signal, a decoder generating a reconstructed signal, a delaying converter generating a delayed signal, and an amplifier generating a residue signal, wherein the delayed signal may be a continuous current signal. |
| US08896468B2 |
Control method for a road toll system
Control devices and methods for a road toll system that is based on vehicle-based on-board units, using recording vehicles, control vehicles and a violation server, wherein the recording vehicle reads out a toll parameter from the on-board unit of a passing vehicle via a DSRC radio interface, compares it to a shape parameter of the vehicle detected by a sensor, and based thereon, in case of inconsistency, generates a violation data record and transmits it to the violation server, wherein the control vehicle registers the position or surroundings thereof in the violation server, and the violation server makes available to a control vehicle such violation data records, the locations of the violations of which are within the surroundings of a position of the control vehicle, wherein the control vehicle issues an alert message when it detects a violating vehicle in the surroundings, and wherein, during the transmission of a violation data record from the recording vehicle to the violation server and/or from the violation server to the control vehicle, the violation data record is divided into a TCP part and a UDP part. |
| US08896466B2 |
Method of displaying an image on a screen of an aircraft
In one aspect of the method for displaying an image on a screen of a cockpit of an aircraft, control means: control a first display on the screen of an image comprising a background; and then control a second display so that, in at least one zone of the image that is determined independently of the background, the background presents a non-zero second mean luminance that is less than a first mean luminance that it presented during the first display. In another aspect, the control means control the display on the screen of an image comprising a background in such a manner, that at least in a zone of the image that is determined independently of the background, the background presents non-zero mean luminance that is less than mean luminance of the remainder of the background. |
| US08896463B2 |
Fixed network for an automatic utility meter reading system
A fixed network for automatically reading a utility meter system has been developed. The network includes multiple meter interface units (MIUs) that each collect data from a designated utility meter. The collected data is transmitted to a primary data collector. The network includes multiple data collectors and each MIU identifies its own primary data collector based on signal quality between the collector and the MIU. The network includes a central host computer that is used to receive the collected data from the primary data collectors. |
| US08896458B2 |
Method and apparatus for converting a displacement of a magnetic object into a directly perceptible signal, instrument incorporating this apparatus
This method of converting a displacement of a magnetic object into a signal directly perceptible by a human being, comprises: —the acquisition (32) of a temporal succession of measurements of a magnetic field modified by the displacements of the object during a sliding time window of predetermined duration, —the construction (34) on the basis of this acquired temporal succession of measurements of several signals each representing a characteristic of the measured magnetic field dependent on a corresponding characteristic of the displacement of the object, and —the adjustment (50) of several parameters of the directly perceptible signal as a function of the signals so as to render these characteristics directly perceptible. |
| US08896456B2 |
Seat location system
A method and apparatus for indicating a seat location. An indicator is activated for a seat in a passenger cabin when a passenger leaves the seat. The indicator indicates a location of the seat when activated. |
| US08896451B2 |
Beetle sensing device and method of use
Improved beam-interruption type pest detection devices adaptable to mounting on known pest traps utilizing a focused reflective optical sensor providing reduced clogging risk, increased sensitivity, increased sensing consistency and reduced energy consumption, and which can be electronically networked providing improved pest detection, analysis, and management. |
| US08896448B2 |
Method and apparatus for mapping radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to network addresses
An approach is provided for mapping a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag to a network routable address. |
| US08896444B1 |
System and method for casino table operation
A system includes a gaming table, at least one light sensor, an electronic system, and a central computer. The gaming table includes a tabletop covered by a fabric. The at least one light sensor is positioned in proximity to a player position at the gaming table. In addition, the at least one light sensor is positioned beneath the fabric to detect light intensity through the fabric. The electronic system is communicably coupled to the at least one light sensor. Furthermore, the electronic system is operable to detect changes in light intensity at the at least one light sensor. The central computer is communicably coupled to the electronic system. Additionally, the central computer is operable to perform at least one operation based on a status of the at least one light sensor. |
| US08896443B2 |
Devices and methods for detecting environmental circumstances and responding with designated communication actions
Provided are a wireless communication device and a communication device control method that include a set of templates corresponding to a plurality of potential environmental circumstances. The templates may be stored in a database in the computer readable memory of the communication device. At predetermined intervals, a suite of environmental sensors integral to the communication device may periodically sample the user's environment. The user's environmental circumstances may be derived or inferred by an analysis module based on the output of the suite of environmental sensors and then may be compared to the templates to determine a matching template. An action script is then executed based at least partially on the matching template which may include the contacting of a responding party. |
| US08896440B2 |
Event-triggered dynamic landmark creation system and method
An event-triggered dynamic landmark creation system includes a management system and tracking devices attached to mobile objects. Each tracking device is configured to wirelessly transmit information pertaining to current time, identification and location of tracking devices, and status of mobile objects. The management system is configured to wirelessly communicate with each tracking device and is operable: to receive information transmitted from each tracking device; in response to occurrence of an initial event respecting status of a first mobile object, to create a non-physical dynamic landmark about the first mobile object relative to location of a first tracking device attached thereto; and in response to occurrence of successive subsequent events respecting location of a second tracking device attached to a second mobile object, to record a visit of the second mobile object within the dynamic landmark about the location of the first mobile. |
| US08896438B2 |
Mobile surveillance
In some embodiments, a technique for logging an item encountered by a mobile device comprises automatically detecting an item in an uncontrolled environment, extracting an identity associated with the item, logging an encounter, wherein the encounter includes the identity, and deleting the encounter after a predetermined period of time has elapsed, wherein the encounter is not marked as relevant. |
| US08896435B2 |
Systems and methods for automated monitoring with flexible operator control
A monitoring service is described that allows flexible response through operators taken from a group of chosen individuals. When an alarm state is triggered the chosen individuals may act collaboratively as operators to manage alarm conditions for a particular user. |
| US08896432B2 |
Cooperative event data record system and method
A cooperative event data record system includes an in-car system working cooperatively with a communication system. The in-car system has a communication module, a cooperative event record processing unit and an impact determination module. The cooperative event record processing unit connects to the communication module, the impact determination module and an event data record unit. The impact determination module transmits a signal to the cooperative event record processing unit. The communication module transmits a request from the cooperative event record processing unit to a communication module element of the communication system, and receives a response from the communication module element. According to the response, the cooperative event record processing unit stores at least a video data to the event data record unit, or retrieves video data from the event data record unit. |
| US08896426B1 |
Graphical user interface for programming universal remote control devices
A universal remote control (URC) is programmed to control a particular type and make of electronic consumer device using a graphical user interface. A plurality of images is displayed on the user interface. Each image of the plurality of images is a digital photograph of an electronic consumer device or a remote control device usable to control the corresponding electronic consumer device. A user selects the digital photograph of the particular type and make of electronic consumer device or its corresponding remote control device. Codeset information associated with the selected device is transmitted to the URC such that the URC is programmed to control the selected device. If the codeset information is a codeset identifier, then it is displayed on the user interface. The user enters the codeset identifier into the URC such that the URC is programmed to control the selected device. |
| US08896424B2 |
Dosing system and method for the dosing of a medium
A dosing system and a method for dosing a medium, having a dosing control unit (4), at least one exchangeable container (2) containing a medium to be dosed, and a dosing valve (3, 3′) that can be connected to the container (2), wherein at least one part of the dosing valve (3, 3′) that comes into contact with the medium is designed as an exchangeable system component (7, 10) and has a machine-readable code for identification purposes, wherein at least one container (2), as an exchangeable system component (2), has a machine-readable code for identification purposes, wherein the exchangeable parts (2, 7, 10, 19) that come into contact with the medium are designed as disposable parts, and wherein the dosing control unit (4) is connected with a communication unit (5) to read the codes, and wherein the communication unit (5) has a unique read connection (22) to each exchangeable system component (2, 7, 10, 19) or its code. |
| US08896423B2 |
Physiological sensor system with automatic authentication and validation by means of a Radio Frequency Identification protocol with an integrated RFID interrogator system
This invention relates to a physiological sensor which acquires pre-programmed data from an electrode or an electrode array using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The source of the sensor may be authenticated by means of a wireless interface between an RFID transponder affixed to the electrode array, and an RFID interrogator embedded in the patient interface cable. The criteria for use are then verified to ensure that they are met by the electrode array before beginning signal acquisition. If the criteria are not met, a message is provided to the user via the monitor. |
| US08896420B2 |
RFID tag, operating method of RFID tag and operating method between RFID tag and RFID reader
An RFID tag including a transmitting/receiving unit, a memory and a control unit. A first identification code, a second identification code, a password, and a set of data are stored in the memory. If the set of data is under protection, the set of data is accessible only when a verification procedure corresponding to the password is successfully performed. If the transmitting/receiving unit receives a request for accessing the second identification code, the control unit shall check whether the request includes the first identification code. As long as the checking result of the control unit is yes, even if the set of data is under protection and the verification procedure fails or the verification procedure is not successfully performed, the control unit shall still transmit the second identification code via the transmitting/receiving unit. |
| US08896416B1 |
Utilizing a mobile device to operate an electronic locking mechanism
One or more media is provided for performing a method of operating an electronic locking mechanism. Initially, a request from a requesting mobile device is received at a computing device via a sensing device. The request includes an identifier utilized in an initial validation sequence having the following steps: identifying a device identity according to the identifier, transmitting the device identity with a request that a message be communicated to a target mobile device, and determining validation data. Upon receiving the request, a communications network identifies the target mobile device, based on the device identity, and communicates a message with validation data therein. The mobile device conveys authentication information to the computing device, where the authentication information is based on the validation data. The computing device compares the authentication information against the determined validation data to determine whether the targeted mobile device is authorized to operate the electronic locking mechanism. |
| US08896414B2 |
Updating scenes in remote controllers of a home control system
The invention relates to synchronizing settings in a home control system such as settings for lighting scenes in a lighting system with a plurality of light units. A basic idea of the invention is to synchronize settings such as lighting scene settings in a home control system with a network of devices such as light units and multiple control devices for controlling the network devices. An embodiment of the invention provides a device (Sync) for synchronizing settings in a home control system comprising a memory (12) for storing settings of one or more of devices (L1-L9) of the home control system, a communication unit (14) for receiving signals (16) from and transmitting signals (18) to control devices (RC3-RC 4) of the home control system, and a processor (10) for synchronizing stored settings in the home control system upon receipt of a signal (16) from a control device (RC3, RC4) of the home control system by transmitting a synchronization signal (18). Thus, all control devices may have access to all settings. Particularly, a user may control all settings with one control devices and does not have to remember which settings are stored in which control device. |
| US08896413B2 |
System and method for interactive appliance control
A controlling device interacts dynamically with a plurality of appliances using state information known to a master appliance. The master appliance conveys to the controlling device the state information and the controlling device uses the state information to dynamically configure itself to command functional operations of one or more of the plurality of appliances. The master appliance also causes a graphical representation of the current configuration of the controlling device to be displayed on a display device that is associated with the master appliance. |
| US08896408B2 |
Composite resistors
A composite resistor includes a thin film resistor element having a first temperature coefficient of resistance and a metal resistor element having a second temperature coefficient of resistance. A portion of the metal resistor element overlaps a portion of the thin film resistor element such that the portion of the metal resistor element is in thermal communication with the portion of the thin film resistor element to compensate for a resistance drift arising during operation of the composite resistor. |
| US08896401B1 |
Calibration and tuning using compact multi frequency-range impedance tuners
A calibration and impedance synthesis method applies to automatic multi frequency-range electro-mechanical impedance tuner which cover frequencies from a low megahertz to a high gigahertz range; this is possible by cascading a high frequency tuner module with one or two low frequency tuner modules; the low frequency module(s) are made using either “variable phase shifter-capacitor” or “multi-capacitor-transmission line tuner” structures. The high frequency module is a single, double or triple probe slide screw tuner, with the individual probes covering adjacent frequency bands. Calibration is measuring S-parameters of each tuner module on a VNA, cascading in memory and saving in cal-files. Tuning employs search routines in calibration data base targeting the closest calibrated point versus a user defined impedance. |
| US08896399B2 |
Acoustic wave device and module including a dielectric film with an inclined upper surface
An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a dielectric film formed on the substrate; opposing comb-shaped electrodes located between the substrate and the dielectric film, each of the opposing comb-shaped electrodes including an electrode finger, wherein at least one of the substrate and the dielectric film is a piezoelectric substance, an upper surface of the dielectric film, which is located above a gap between a tip of an electrode finger of one of the opposing comb-shaped electrodes and the other of the opposing comb-shaped electrodes, is inclined against an upper surface of the substrate in an extension direction of the electrode finger, and an inclination angle of the upper surface of the dielectric film against the upper surface of the substrate is equal to or larger than 30° and equal to or smaller than 50°. |
| US08896397B2 |
Surface acoustic wave device and method of adjusting LC component of surface acoustic wave device
A surface acoustic wave device comprises a piezoelectric substrate (1), at least one inter-digital transducers (IDT) (2) provided on the piezoelectric substrate, at least one elongated electrode pad (4) electrically connected to the IDT, and at least one stud bump (5) disposed on the electrode pad such that an LC component of the surface acoustic wave device has a predetermined value. |
| US08896390B2 |
Circuit of inductance/capacitance (LC) voltage-control oscillator
A circuit of inductance/capacitance (LC) voltage control oscillator (VCO) includes an LC VCO unit, a peak detector and a processing unit. The LC VCO unit receives a current control signal and outputs an oscillating voltage signal. The peak detector receives the oscillating voltage signal to obtain an averaged voltage value. The processing unit receives the averaged voltage value to accordingly output the current control signal and feedback to the LC VCO unit. The processing unit also detects whether or not the averaged voltage value has reached to a saturation state and a corresponding critical current. After the current control signal reaches to the critical current, the current control signal is set within a variance range near the critical current. |
| US08896383B2 |
Enhanced pulse frequency modulation (PFM) control mode for switching regulators
A variable supply rail generator is described. The variable supply rail generator includes a regulator configured to use an estimated load current for a power amplifier to optimize efficiency. The variable supply rail generator also includes a power amplifier controller. The power amplifier controller provides the estimated load current to the regulator. |
| US08896380B2 |
High frequency amplifier
A high frequency amplifier is characterized wherein a power amplification element and at least one of temperature compensation elements are adjacently provided on a first semiconductor layer, a first wiring pattern connected to the power amplification element, a second wiring pattern connected to the temperature compensation element, and a ground electrode are provided on at least one of second semiconductor layers existing in layers different from the first semiconductor layer, and the ground electrode is formed on the second semiconductor layer corresponding to a region that substantially projects a crevice part on which the temperature compensation element and the power amplification element are provided, on the same plane as the first semiconductor element. |
| US08896377B1 |
Apparatus for common mode suppression
An apparatus is provided that includes first and second ICs configured to communicate using a plurality of differential signal lines. The apparatus includes a common mode suppression circuit having a plurality of common mode voltage adjustment circuits, each configured to provide a low impedance path for common mode signals and a high impedance path for differential AC signaling, thereby suppressing the effect of common mode transients between the voltage domains. The plurality of common mode voltage adjustment circuits each have components that are impedance matched up to an impedance-tolerance specification. The common mode suppression circuit also includes an AC coupling circuit configured to be less dependent on impedance mismatch, beyond the impedance-tolerance specification, by cross coupling the impedance differentials from each of the differential signal lines through the AC coupling circuit and to one of the common mode voltage adjustment circuits. |
| US08896375B2 |
Efficiency improved envelope amplifier using dual switching amplifiers
Provided is a hybrid envelope amplifier having improved efficiency, and more particularly, to an envelope amplifier using a dual switching amplifier and having improved efficiency in which power consumption is reduced by controlling a switching current of a switching region according to a magnitude of an envelope input signal, thereby improving efficiency compared to a conventional hybrid envelope amplifier. The envelope amplifier using a dual switching amplifier and having improved efficiency comprises a linear amplifier and a switching amplifier, wherein the switching amplifier includes two or more switching stages that are selectively operated according to a magnitude of an input signal. |
| US08896373B2 |
Wideband Doherty amplifier network
The present invention is directed to an amplifier system that includes a main amplifier configured to amplify and a peak amplifier that operates only in a high power mode. An impedance matching network is coupled to at least the peak power amplifier. An impedance transformation device is coupled to at least a portion of the impedance matching network. The impedance transformation device is configured as a balun in the high power mode. The balun includes a first input and second input coupled to the main amplifier and the peak amplifier respectively. The impedance transformation device is configured as an unbalanced line impedance transformer in the low power mode because the predetermined output impedance substantially grounds the second input. The Doherty device is characterized by an impedance transformation ratio of at least 4:1 and a relative bandwidth greater than or equal to 40%. |
| US08896371B2 |
Reconfigurable high-order integrated circuit filters
Voltage and current mode reconfigurable nth-order filters (RNOFs), fabricated in a 0.18 μm CMOS process, utilize an inverse-follow-the-leader-feedback (IFLF) signal path with summed outputs, resulting in a follow-the-leader-feedback-summed-outputs (FLF-SO) filter topology. The FLF-SO filter uses multi-output current amplifiers (CAs). Inverse-follow-the-leader-feedback-summed-outputs (IFLF-SO) and inverse-follow-the-leader-feedback-distributed-outputs (IFLF-DI) structures are realized by employing 3n+4 transconductance amplifiers (TCAs) for voltage mode processing and two TCAs for current mode signals. A plurality of programmable current division networks (CDNs) tune a digitally controlled current follower (DCCF). A multi-output Digitally Controlled Current Amplifier (MDCCA) controls gain by providing independent filter coefficient control. Forward path output gains are set to unity. Alternatively, a multi-output digitally controlled CCII block (MDCCCII) uses CCII in the first stage. Such filters provide independent tuning of both numerator as well as denominator coefficients and are reconfigurable without the need of switches due to CDNs setting undesired output current to zero. |
| US08896368B2 |
Method for modulating the impedance of an antenna circuit
An electromagnetic transponder includes an antenna circuit, a load, and a charge pump transistor having a current path coupled between the antenna circuit and the load. During operation, a retromodulated signal is transmitted at a first level by biasing the charge pump transistor during a first time period such that an impedance of the antenna circuit has a first impedance value and current flows from the antenna circuit to the load. A retromodulated signal at a second level is transmitted by biasing the charge pump transistor during a second time period such that the impedance of the antenna circuit has a second impedance value different than the first impedance value and current flows from the antenna circuit to the load. The retromodulated signals are transmitted at the first and second levels in a sequence determined to transmit information from the electromagnetic transponder. |
| US08896366B2 |
Internal voltage generation circuit of semiconductor device and method for operating the same
A semiconductor device includes a power supply voltage level/slope detection unit configured to detect a level of a power supply voltage and a slope of a power supply voltage curve, and output a power supply voltage level/slope detection signal, a pumping voltage detection unit configured to detect a level of a pumping voltage based on a reference pumping level to output a pumping detection signal, an oscillation signal generation unit configured to generate an oscillation signal in response to the pumping detection signal and the power supply voltage level/slope detection signal, and a pumping unit configured to generate the pumping voltage by performing a charge pumping operation in response to the oscillation signal. |
| US08896365B2 |
Semiconductor switch having reverse voltage application circuit and power supply device including the same
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor switch includes a main element including a switching element and an antiparallel diode, and a reverse voltage application circuit. The reverse voltage application circuit includes an auxiliary electric-power supply, a high-speed free wheeling diode, an auxiliary element, and a capacitor. The high-speed free wheeling diode comprises a plurality of diodes connected in series. |
| US08896364B2 |
Reliability in semiconductor device control
A gate control device for a semiconductor device includes at least one power supply module, at least one optical communication interface for receiving optical signals from two valve control units and converting them to electric signals for supply to a corresponding power supply module, where in normal operations mode one valve control unit is an active valve control unit and the other is a standby valve control unit, where the optical signal of an active unit energizes the gate control device and provides semiconductor device controlling data, a semiconductor device control module and a reliability control module that performs selection of active valve control unit. |
| US08896357B2 |
Integrated processor and CDR circuit
A system may include a clock and data recovery circuit that includes one or more analog components. The system may also include a digital control circuit configured to control the clock and data recovery circuit. The digital control circuit and the clock and data recovery circuit may be formed on a single substrate. |
| US08896356B1 |
Ramp control with programmable parameters
A ramp output control device includes a driver configured to receive at least two inputs from a microcontroller. The driver includes a time duration register configured to store a current clock count until a preset time duration is reached. The driver also includes a ramp output register configured to store a current output value at an output of the device. The driver also includes a calculation block configured to determine whether to increase the current output value at the output based on the at least two inputs. |
| US08896353B2 |
Method and apparatus for constant output impedance, variable pre-emphasis drive
A population of drivers is provided in parallel to a driver output and a population of pre-emphasis path drivers is provided in parallel to the driver output. The population of drivers is updated and the population of pre-emphasis path drivers is updated in an inverse relation to the updating of the population of pre-emphasis path drivers. Optionally, the population of drivers has an initial value of n and the population of pre-emphasis path drivers has an initial value of m, and the sum of n and m is P. Optionally, the updated population of n is n′ and the updated population of m is m′, and n′ is approximately equal to P−m′. |
| US08896350B2 |
Sampling circuit and sampling method
A sampling circuit and a sampling method are provided, where the sampling circuit includes a first delay chain, a second delay chain, and a half-speed binary-phase detector. The first delay chain is used to delay an input signal according to an up signal and a down signal, so as to generate a first delay signal; and the second delay chain is used to delay the first delay signal according to a preset delay value, so as to generate a second delay signal. The half-speed binary-phase detector is used to sample a data signal according to edge trigger of the first delay signal and that of the second delay signal, and generate an output signal, an up signal, and a down signal according to a sampling result of the data signal. |
| US08896346B1 |
Self-modifying FPGA for anti-tamper applications
A self-modifying FPGA system includes an FPGA and a configuration memory coupled to the FPGA for providing the FPGA with configuration data including SAFE configuration data and dormant configuration data. The SAFE configuration data is initially loaded to the FPGA and the FPGA is configured to a safe operating mode. Upon a determination to proceed to a next step of self modification, dormant configuration data contained in the configuration memory is loaded into the FPGA and the FPGA is configured to a secure operating mode. |
| US08896341B2 |
Integrated circuit device, calibration module, and method therefor
An integrated circuit device comprising at least one calibration module for calibrating an impedance of at least one on-die interconnect line driver in order to adaptively match an impedance between the at least one on-die interconnect line driver and at least one on-die interconnect line conjugated thereto. The at least one calibration module is arranged to receive an indication of an output signal of the at least one line driver, compare the received indication of an output signal to a reference signal and detect a presence or an absence of a voltage overshoot of the output signal of the at least one line driver, and upon detection of a presence or an absence of a voltage overshoot of the output signal of the at least one line driver, cause the adjustment of power supply of the at least one line driver, to be decreased or increased correspondingly. |
| US08896339B2 |
Method for testing semiconductor wafer
A semiconductor wafer includes semiconductor chips divided by a dicing line, one of the semiconductor chips including terminals of an identical potential; a wiring located on the dicing line, and electrically connecting the terminals to each other; and a pad electrically connected through the wiring to the terminals, wherein the pad is located entirely on the semiconductor chip and is not present on the dicing line. |
| US08896336B2 |
Testing techniques for through-device vias
Techniques for testing an electronic device with through-device vias can include using a probe card assembly with probes for contacting connection structures of the electronic device including ends of through-device vias of the electronic device. A pair of the probes can be electrically connected in the probe card assembly and can thus contact and form a direct return loop from one through-device via to another through-device via of a pair of the through-device vias with which the pair of probes is in contact. The electronic device can include test circuitry for driving a test signal onto the one of the through-device vias and a receiver for detecting the test signal on the other of the through-device vias. |
| US08896334B2 |
System for measuring soft starter current and method of making same
A system for measuring soft starter current includes a current monitoring system including a controller and a current transfer device that includes a first thyristor and a first conductor coupled to the first thyristor and configured to convey a first current flowing through the first thyristor, wherein the first current includes current flowing through the first thyristor when the first thyristor is in an off state. The system also includes a first current sensor configured to sense the first current and a first current measurement circuit coupled to the first current sensor and coupleable to the controller and configured to output a first output value to the controller representative of the first current flowing through the first thyristor. The controller is configured to determine an impending inoperability of the first thyristor based on the first current and alert a user if the first current indicates the impending inoperability. |
| US08896333B2 |
Automatic test equipment control device
A shutdown apparatus and method for use in conjunction with automatic test equipment (ATE) is provided. A unit under test (UUT) is inserted into an ATE receiver that couples the UUT to at least one electronic device during test and extracted from the ATE receiver after test. The shutdown apparatus comprises an electro-mechanical interface that inserts the UUT into the receiver prior to test and extracts the UUT from the receiver after test A shutdown module is coupled to the electronic device and to the electro-mechanical interface and connects the electronic device to the receiver after insertion of the UUT into the receiver and disconnects the electronic device from the receiver prior to extraction of the UUT from the receiver. |
| US08896327B2 |
Current mirror self-capacitance measurement
In one embodiment, a method includes applying a first current to a capacitance of a touch sensor. The application of the first current to the capacitance for a first amount of time modifies the voltage at the capacitance from the reference voltage level to a first pre-determined voltage level. The method also includes applying a second current to an integration capacitor. The second current is proportional to the first current. The application of the second current to the integration capacitor for the first amount of time modifies the voltage at the integration capacitor from the reference voltage level to a first charging voltage level. The method also includes determining whether a touch input to the touch sensor has occurred based on the first charging voltage level. |
| US08896326B2 |
Occupant detection and classification system
An occupant detection system includes a controller, a sensing electrode, and a shield electrode, the electrodes disposed in a vehicle seat. The controller is electrically coupled to the sensing electrode and shield electrode by a sensing circuit. The controller is configured to send an input signal to the sensing electrode, the shield electrode, or both and measures current, impedance, or capacitance values to determine the presence of an object on the seat, to classify the object, or both. |
| US08896311B2 |
Measurement device and measurement method
A measuring instrument and a measurement method which measures, using magnetic resonance, images such as a functional image, a morphologic image of an object to be measured eliminate the influences of the moving speed of the object to be measured during moving, thereby obtaining a precise measured image. The instrument comprises: the first and second external magnetic field generation devices which generate magnetic fields for exciting the magnetic resonance of a mouse (M) as a living body to be measured; a turntable which rotates and moves the mouse (M) as an object to be measured, thereby moving the mouse (M) in the magnetic fields of the first and second external magnetic field generation devices; an OMRI measurement processing unit and an MRI measurement processing unit which obtain measured image signals within the mouse (M) by phase encoding while applying a gradient magnetic field in the moving direction (y) of the mouse (M) without stopping during the movement by the turntable; and a measured signal correction unit which corrects the measured image signal (S (k., ky)), thereby obtaining a corrected image signal (S′ (k., ky)) wherein influence of movement in y-direction is corrected. |
| US08896308B2 |
Self-shielded gradient coil
Gradient coil assemblies for horizontal magnetic resonance imaging systems (MRIs) and methods of their manufacture. Some embodiments may be used with open MRIs and can be used with an instrument placed in the gap of the MRI. In general, concentrations of conductors or radially oriented conductors may be moved away from the gap of the MRI so as to reduce eddy currents that may be induced in any instrument placed within the gap. Systems for directly cooling primary gradient and shield coils may be utilized and various coil supporting structures may be used to assist in coil alignment or to facilitate use of an instrument in the MRI gap. |
| US08896305B2 |
Permanent or variable alternating magnetic field circulation sensor, and current sensor implementing such a sensor
A permanent or variable magnetic field circulation sensor including apparatus for magnetic excitation further including at least one elongated excitation coil extending around an elongated supple magnetic core and including a supple magnetic material with low relative magnetic permeability having a supple or flexible matrix in which magnetic particles are dispersed, an excitation current generation unit coupled to the excitation coil to generate an excitation magnetic field in the core over substantially the entire length of the coil, apparatus for measurement including: at least one magnetic measuring transducer magnetically coupled to the apparatus for magnetic excitation, a measuring unit connected to the magnetic measuring transducer and suitable for providing a measurement of magnetic field circulation in the core. |
| US08896303B2 |
Low offset vertical Hall device and current spinning method
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a vertical Hall-effect device. The device includes at least two supply terminals arranged to supply electrical energy to the first Hall-effect region; and at least one Hall signal terminal arranged to provide a first Hall signal from the first Hall-effect region. The first Hall signal is indicative of a magnetic field which is parallel to the surface of the semiconductor substrate and which acts on the first Hall-effect region. One or more of the at least two supply terminals or one or more of the at least one Hall signal terminal comprises a force contact and a sense contact. |
| US08896301B2 |
Portable electronic device adapted to compensate for gyroscope bias
According to one aspect, there is provided a method for compensating for gyroscope bias on a portable electronic device having a gyroscope, and at least one of an accelerometer and a magnetometer. The method includes determining a first attitude matrix and a second attitude matrix using data from the accelerometer and the magnetometer, determining a difference between the first attitude matrix and the second attitude matrix, estimating a rotational velocity based on the difference between the first attitude matrix and the second attitude matrix, and compensating for an output from the gyroscope to generate a compensated output that compensates for the gyroscope bias using the estimated rotational velocity. |
| US08896298B2 |
Rotation detection device and manufacturing method for the same
A rotation detector component detects a rotational state of a rotor and sends a rotational detection signal. A signal transmission component is electrically connected with a lead frame of the rotation detector component to transmit the rotational detection signal to an external device. A body portion holds the rotation detector component and a part of the signal transmission component. The body portion is integrally molded of a first resin to cover a joint portion between the lead frame and the signal transmission component, the rotation detector component, and a part of the signal transmission component. The rotation detector component has corners including at least two exposed corners, which are exposed from the body portion. |
| US08896296B2 |
Relative angle sensing device with a hinged cable harness component
A hinged electric cable harness component is provided for use with a relative angle sensing device that has a sensor that is contained in a housing that includes a communication hole. The hinged electric cable harness component includes an electric cable holding member that is fitted with the communication hole of the housing and holds an electric cable. The hinged electric cable harness component also includes an outer component that is arranged at a position outside the electric cable holding member in the communication hole of the housing, and that has, at inside thereof, a penetration hole through which the electric cable passes. The outer component has a pair of opening and closing components that is joined by a hinge and opens and closes the penetration hole by relative rotation. |
| US08896295B2 |
Magnetic field sensor having multiple sensing elements and a programmable misalignment adjustment device for misalignment detection and correction in current sensing and other applications
A sensor with multiple magnetic field sensing elements for use in current sensing and other applications is presented. The sensor includes an arrangement of two or more magnetic field sensing elements to sense magnetic field associated with a target. The sensor further includes circuitry to generate a sensor output signal based on sensing of at least one of the magnetic field sensing elements of the arrangement. Also included is a programmable misalignment adjustment block to control the circuitry to generate the output signal with compensation for misalignment between the sensor and the target. The programmable misalignment adjustment block can be programmed to select measurement of one of the two or more magnetic field sensing elements, or alternatively, a mathematical combination of measurements of the two or more magnetic field sensing elements, for generating the sensor output signal when a test of the sensor indicates a misalignment. |
| US08896289B2 |
Circuit and method of signal detection
A circuit includes an input stage, a comparison stage, and a calibration stage. The input stage is configured to receive a first input signal, to generate a first reference signal, and to generate a second reference signal. The comparison stage is configured to generate a first comparison output signal in response to the first reference signal and a third reference signal and to generate a second comparison output signal in response to the second reference signal and a fourth reference signal. The calibration stage is configured to generate a detection signal responsive to the presence of the first comparison output signal and the second comparison output signal having a signal frequency within a predetermined frequency band. |
| US08896287B2 |
Cable identification using a unique signal carried on an external conductor
A cable identification system is provided. The cable identification system includes a cable having a plurality of conductors with an electrical connector secured to at least one end. All but one of the conductors are enclosed in a shield conductor. The remaining additional conductor is positioned external to the outer surface of the shield conductor. The electrical connector is adapted to connect the plurality of conductors to a mating connector. The cable identification system further includes a signal generator adapted to connect the electrical connector to the mating connector. The signal generator is configured to generate and transmit a unique signal over the additional conductor in the cable. The cable identification system further includes a portable device configured to detect the unique signal when positioned adjacent the cable at any point along the cable. |
| US08896284B2 |
DC-DC converter using internal ripple with the DCM function
A DC-DC converter, having an input voltage and an output voltage, includes an inductor and a switch switching the input voltage to an input side of the inductor, where a feedback path controlling initiation of closing the switch includes capacitive coupling of the voltage at the input side of the inductor. |
| US08896283B2 |
Synchronous switching power converter with zero current detection, and method thereof
The synchronous switching power converter comprises an inductor; a down bridge transistor; and a zero current detection circuit comprising a zero current comparator for receiving a fixed comparing level at a negative input end for comparison to change state of a comparing result; a delay unit, for delaying the comparing result to change state of a turn off signal according to a compensation voltage, to turn off the down bridge transistor when determining current on the inductor is zero; a transient state adjusting circuit for indicating a transient period when detecting state of the turn off signal is changed; and an integrator for integrating the compensation voltage by analog manner to adjust value of the compensation voltage and providing to the delay unit within the transient period; wherein the zero current comparator determines the integrator to integrate positively or negatively within the transient period. |
| US08896277B2 |
Voltage regulator
Provided is a voltage regulator including a soft-start circuit having a small area and capable of suppressing an inrush current by causing a reference voltage circuit to rise gently with time. In the soft-start circuit, a capacitor is connected to an output of a reference voltage circuit driven by a constant current of a constant current circuit, and hence the soft-start circuit can raise a reference voltage gently to prevent an inrush current with a small area. After the end of a soft-start period, the constant current circuit is disconnected, and the reference voltage circuit is driven by a power source. Thus, the operation becomes stable. |
| US08896276B1 |
Boost-buck DC-DC converter
A DC-DC converter, capable of operation in either a boost or buck mode, includes a voltage source connected to an input switch through an inductive element such that a closed loop is formed. The DC-DC converter includes a switching network that receives one or more clock signals from an external clock source. The switching network has a first terminal connected to the inductive element, a second terminal connected to a first capacitor, and a third terminal connected to a second capacitor, wherein the switching network enables charging of the first capacitor and the second capacitor based on one or more clock signals such that the first capacitor and the second capacitor are charged alternately. The DC-DC converter includes a filter connected to a fourth terminal of the switching network, wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor discharge alternately based on the one or more clock signals through the filter. |
| US08896273B2 |
Battery apparatus for controlling plural batteries and control method of plural batteries
Lower order control devices control plural battery cells configuring plural battery modules. An input terminal of the low order control device in the highest potential, an output terminal of the low order control device in the lowest potential, and a high order control device are connected by isolating units, photocouplers. Diodes which prevent a discharge current of the battery cells in the battery modules are disposed between the output terminal of the low order control device and the battery cells in the battery module on the low potential side. Terminals related to input/output of a signal are electrically connected without isolating among the plural low order control devices. |
| US08896268B2 |
Charge/discharge control circuit and battery assembly
There is provided a charge/discharge control circuit and a battery assembly including an accurate overcurrent protecting circuit with low consumption current characteristics. The charge/discharge control circuit comprises a current protecting circuit including: a reference voltage circuit having a reference transistor for detecting overcurrent flowing through a control transistor to turn it on, and a constant current circuit; and a comparison circuit for comparing voltage on the reference voltage circuit with voltage generated by overcurrent flowing through the control transistor, wherein when no overcurrent flows, the electric current flowing through the reference voltage circuit is interrupted to reduce power consumption. |
| US08896267B2 |
Charging control device, vehicle including the same and charging control method
A charging schedule creation unit creates a charging schedule of a power storage device by an external power supply. A charging control unit executes charging control of the power storage device in accordance with the charging schedule. A condition determination unit turns on a charging continuation flag to be output to the charging control unit when a predetermined charging continuation permitting condition holds in the case where charging is not completed in accordance with the charging schedule. When the charging continuation flag is on, the charging control unit executes charging control such that charging is continued even after a charging end timing in accordance with the charging schedule. |
| US08896262B2 |
Transportable electricity generation unit and method for generating electricity using said unit
This invention relates to a transportable electricity generation unit (30) suitable to supply electric power to an external load (51). Said electricity generation unit (30) comprises: a photovoltaic generation unit (1) and/or an aerogenerator generating a first electric power (P1), a water electrolyzer (4) connected to said photovoltaic generation unit (1) and/or aerogenerator, said electrolyzer being capable of producing hydrogen by electrolysis of water; a tank (3) to store the hydrogen deriving from said electrolysis of water; a fuel cell unit (2) fed with the hydrogen produced by said electrolyzer (4) or stored in said tank (3), said fuel cell (2) generating a second electric power (P2), a battery accumulator unit (5); an electronic power control device (8) comprising means for controlling the flow of said first electric power (P1) and said second and third electric power (P2, P3) to said external load (51), controlling the flow of said first electric power (P1) to said water electrolyzer (4), and for controlling production and storage of hydrogen. |
| US08896253B2 |
Control circuit for fan
A control circuit for a fan includes a fan controller, a switch controller, and a frequency detector. When a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal output pin of the fan controller outputs PWM signals, the frequency detector outputs a high level signal, connecting an input pin of the switch controller to an output pin of the switch controller. The fan receives the PWM signal. When the PWM signal output pin of the fan controller does not output PWM signals, the frequency detector outputs a low level signal, such that the output pin of the switch controller does not output any signal. In this state, the fan receives a high level signal through a resistor and a power supply, enabling the fan to continue operating. |
| US08896251B2 |
Self-diagnostics within power electronics
This disclosure relates to diagnosing a power electronic device by itself and extending the diagnostics to an electric machine coupled with the power electronic device and deployed at an operational site. The power electronic device can power and control the electric machine. The diagnostics can include testing the status of the power electronic device, and monitoring hardware changes in the electric machine. The diagnostics can be performed within the power electronic device on demand, periodically, or both. In some instances, the self-diagnostics can evaluate whether components are defective or wired incorrectly, characterized by wrong inductance, and/or resistance, for example. In some implementations, the power electronic device includes a digital signal processing unit for the self-diagnostics and a data record system for recording and troubleshooting errors related to load performance and/or parameters. |
| US08896250B2 |
Methods to avoid a single point of failure
A method to avoid a single point of failure in a system that includes at least two monitoring devices, at least two power supplies and a switching device coupled between the monitoring devices and the power supplies. The method includes performing a test that can determine if two monitoring devices are receiving power from the power supply, generating an error code and varying a position of one or more switches in a switching device based on the error code. |
| US08896241B2 |
Controlled motion system
A controlled motion system having a plurality of movers controlled as they travel along both smart and simple sections of a track. The controlled motion system comprises a control system for controlling the speed of a mover as it travels along a simple section, and permits the pitch or distance between movers to increase or decrease as they travel along a simple section. In a preferred embodiment the controlled motion system includes at least one coupling feature having a driving feature on a simple section for engaging and operably driving a driven feature on each mover such that positive control of each mover is maintained throughout its transition from a smart section to a simple section. |
| US08896232B2 |
Wireless lighting control system
A lighting device includes a DC/DC power converter, a controller/processor electrically connected to the DC/DC power converter, a light emitting diode (LED) current control circuit communicably coupled to the controller/processor and electrically connected to the DC/DC power converter, and two or more LEDs comprising at least a first color LED and a second color LED electrically connected to the LED current control circuit. The LED current control circuit provides an on/off signal having a cycle time to each LED in response to one or more control signals received from the controller/processor such that the two or more LEDs produce a blended light having a specified color based on how long each LED is turned ON and/or OFF during the cycle time. |
| US08896231B2 |
Systems and methods of applying bleed circuits in LED lamps
A bleed circuit is applied to a transformer based on a bleed-on time and a bleed-off time determined by monitoring an output voltage waveform of the transformer. |
| US08896228B2 |
Light emitting diode circuits for general lighting
Improved circuits minimize, or eliminate, energy losses in the supply of energy to control LEDs. Diodes and a capacitor reduce or eliminate LED blinking, and create smooth and continuous, infinitely variable dimming. The components are added to supply power to each LED during the half of the AC cycle where it would normally be turned off. A first added diode allows an added capacitor to charge during the half cycle that the original diode is turned on, but does not allow the other half cycle to discharge the added capacitor. When the added capacitor is charged enough to turn on the original diode, it stays on throughout the AC cycle. The same relationship exists between the second added diode, the added capacitor and the second original diode. Zener diodes protect the LEDs from voltage surges/spikes by shunting current around LEDs when the voltage exceeds the Zener diode's breakdown voltage. |
| US08896227B2 |
Directly driven high efficiency LED circuit
A system for directly driving light emitting diodes (LEDs). A string of LEDs is coupled across an input voltage and includes a plurality of separate groups of LEDs. Each of a plurality of switches is coupled in parallel with an associated one of the groups of LEDs for controlling current flow through the associated group of LEDs in response to a control signal from a controller circuit. A switch protection circuit is associated with at least one of the switches. The switch protection circuit is configured to place the switch into a conducting state in the event of failure of an LED in the associated group of LEDs. |
| US08896223B2 |
Light emitting diode driving device
A LED driving device comprises a rectification circuit, a holding current circuit and a driving circuit to drive and linearly regulates an illumination brightness of at least one LED by utilizing level variation of current magnitude. The rectification circuit rectifies and outputs a rectified voltage to the holding current circuit and the driving circuit by filtering impulses via a filter after receiving an alternating current voltage. The driving circuit outputs a driving current filtered by a filter capacitor to the LED, and the driving current is sensed by a sensing resistor to allow the holding current circuit outputting a holding current to the rectification circuit such that the whole circuit power can be improved to reduce problems of noise interference and twinkling. |
| US08896222B2 |
Power supply device and luminaire
According to one embodiment, a power supply device includes a rectifying circuit configured to rectify an alternating-current power supply and a power-supply-voltage converting section. The power-supply-voltage converting section includes a plurality of power-supply-voltage converting circuits provided between the rectifying circuit and a plurality of output sections to which loads are respectively connected. Switching elements configured to convert a power supply voltage rectified by the rectifying circuit and supply the power supply voltage to the loads are provided in the plurality of power-supply-voltage converting circuits. The switching elements of the plurality of power-supply-voltage converting circuits are set to at least two different switching frequencies and turned on and off with the respective switching frequencies fixed. |
| US08896221B2 |
Lighting device for semiconductor light emitting element and illumination apparatus including same
A lighting device for a semiconductor light emitting element includes a series circuit of two switching elements which are alternately turned on, the series circuit being connected to a direct current (DC) input power source and a reactance circuit connected between a connection node of the two switching elements and one end of the DC input power source through a capacitor, an output of the reactance circuit being supplied to the semiconductor light emitting element through a rectifier circuit. A dimming operation of the semiconductor light emitting element is performed by varying a ratio of ON periods of the two switching elements. |
| US08896218B2 |
Wireless lighting control system
A lighting device includes a DC/DC power converter, a controller/processor electrically connected to the DC/DC power converter, a light emitting diode (LED) current control circuit communicably coupled to the controller/processor and electrically connected to the DC/DC power converter, and two or more LEDs comprising at least a first color LED and a second color LED electrically connected to the LED current control circuit. The LED current control circuit provides an on/off signal having a cycle time to each LED in response to one or more control signals received from the controller/processor such that the two or more LEDs produce a blended light having a specified color based on how long each LED is turned ON and/or OFF during the cycle time. |
| US08896208B2 |
Light assembly
The present invention includes one embodiment containing an LED lighting assembly containing: a troffer; a bulbless and/or tubeless sub-housing; one or more solid state lighting units contained within the troffer and actuated by alternating current power; a night light contained within the bulbless sub-housing and operably communicating with the solid state lighting units, the night light actuated in the absence of light from the solid state lighting units; one or more light emitting diodes contained within the night light; and a battery source for powering the night light in the event of power interruption.In yet another embodiment of the invention, a replaceable lighting unit contains: a bulbless and/or tubeless sub-housing. One or more light emitting diodes are contained within the sub-housing. A battery source may be contained within the sub-housing, and the battery source may be configured to selectively power the light emitting diodes with direct current energy. |
| US08896205B1 |
Quartz light
A quartz light includes a lamp base having two grooves, and a light capsule located above the lamp base and having a projection disposed in a compartment of the light capsule, a metal electrode engaged in the compartment of the light capsule and engaged over the projection for forming two downwardly dependent limbs, two molybdenum foils engaged in the compartment of the light capsule and electrically connected to the limbs of the metal electrode, and two lead wires electrically coupled to the molybdenum foils and each having an external end portion extended out of the light capsule and engaged through the grooves of the lamp base and extended out of the lamp base, and secured to the lamp base by heat sealing the lamp base onto the lead wires. |
| US08896202B2 |
Display device
A display device is disclosed. The display device comprises a flexible display screen and a body supporting the flexible display screen. The body comprises a first body comprising a sloping surface on a cross-section, a second body, and a third body comprising a sloping surface on a cross-section. The body comprises a first bending portion provided between the first body and the second body, and the sloping surface of the first body is attached to the second body by the rotation of the first body. |
| US08896193B2 |
Spark plug
A spark plug including a ceramic insulator having an axial hole, a center electrode inserted into the axial hole, a metallic shell provided around the insulator, a ground electrode fixed to the metallic shell, and a tip joined to a distal end portion of the ground electrode and forming a spark discharge gap between the tip and a forward end portion of the center electrode. The ground electrode includes an outer layer and an inner layer provided inside the outer layer and formed of a metal containing copper as a main component. The tip is joined to the ground electrode by a fusion portion containing a metal forming the tip and a metal forming the outer layer. The fusion portion is in contact with the inner layer and contains copper. The spark plug efficiently conducts heat from the tip to the inner layer to improve corrosion resistance of the tip. |
| US08896189B2 |
Stator for electric rotating machine and method of manufacturing the same
A stator for an electric rotating machine includes a hollow cylindrical stator core, a stator coil, an outer cylinder, and at least one restraint. The stator core is comprised of a plurality of stator core segments that are arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator core to adjoin one another in the circumferential direction. The stator coil is mounted on the stator core. The outer cylinder is fitted on the radially outer surfaces of the stator core segments so as to fasten the stator core segments together. The restraint is arranged on an axial side of the stator core and retained by the outer cylinder so as to restrain axial deformation of the stator core segments due to the fastening force of the outer cylinder. |
| US08896188B2 |
Resonator electrodes and related methods and apparatus
Resonator structures and electrodes are described, as well as methods for manufacturing the same. Resonator electrodes may be formed using two or more photolithographic steps and masks, with different masks being used to define different features of the electrodes. The masks may create self-aligned electrodes, which can be aligned with one or more anchors of the resonator. |
| US08896186B2 |
Apparatus for providing haptic feedback
Disclosed is an apparatus used in an electronic device for providing haptic feedback. The apparatus includes a holder having a pair fastening holes, a piezoelectric vibrator having a first though holes, a terminal with a second though hole mounted on the piezoelectric vibrator and electrically connected to the piezoelectric vibrator, and a pair of fixing portions fixing the terminal and the piezoelectric vibrator on the holder though the second though hole of the terminal, a first though holes of the piezoelectric vibrator and the fastening holes of the holder. The fixing portions fix the terminal and piezoelectric vibrator on the holder, which makes the assembling process much easier. |
| US08896184B2 |
Piezoelectric MEMS microphone
A piezoelectric MEMS microphone comprising a multi-layer sensor that includes at least one piezoelectric layer between two electrode layers, with the sensor being dimensioned such that it provides a near maximized ratio of output energy to sensor area, as determined by an optimization parameter that accounts for input pressure, bandwidth, and characteristics of the piezoelectric and electrode materials. The sensor can be formed from single or stacked cantilevered beams separated from each other by a small gap, or can be a stress-relieved diaphragm that is formed by deposition onto a silicon substrate, with the diaphragm then being stress relieved by substantial detachment of the diaphragm from the substrate, and then followed by reattachment of the now stress relieved diaphragm. |
| US08896183B2 |
Ultrasonic vibration device
In an inner bottom surface of a case, a substantially oblong recess having a long axis and a short axis forms a vibration area. A piezoelectric element is bonded to the center of the recess. On the opposite sides of the vibration area, vibration suppression areas thicker than the vibration area are disposed. A side portion of the case is formed to be thin over the entire circumference thereof. A reinforcing member higher in rigidity than the case is bonded to upper portions of the vibration suppression areas. The reinforcing member has a bottom surface substantially equal to the shape of the vibration suppression areas, and has a predetermined height. A gap between the reinforcing member and an inner side surface of the case is also filled with a filling member. |
| US08896177B2 |
Interior permanent magnet motor and manufacturing method for the same
An interior permanent magnet motor in provided which is made up of a permanent magnet, and a rotor core of which an insertion aperture for the permanent magnet to be inserted thereinto is formed in the rotor core. Additionally, the interior permanent magnet motor includes a first end plate which is connected to the rotor core and of which a first seating portion for the permanent magnet is disposed thereto is formed in the first seating portion and a second end plate which is connected to the rotor core and of which a second seating portion for the permanent magnet is disposed thereto is formed in the second end plate. |
| US08896174B2 |
Active magnetic bearing
An active magnetic bearing includes a bearing housing, a bearing stator, a bearing armature, a position detector, a jacket, and a stress buffering member. The bearing stator is accommodated in the bearing housing to support rotation of a rotor by using a magnetic force. The bearing armature is disposed to be spaced apart from the bearing stator by an interval and fixed to the rotor. The position detector is installed in the bearing housing to detect a position of the rotor. The jacket is interposed between the bearing stator and the bearing armature to seal a space between the bearing stator and the bearing housing. The stress buffering member connected to opposite ends of the jacket and the bearing housing, to buffer a stress generated due to differences between thermal exposition coefficients and temperatures of the bearing housing and the jacket. |
| US08896173B2 |
Spindle motor having reception part in rotor hub
There is provided a spindle motor including: upper and lower thrust parts fixedly installed on a shaft; a reception part formed in the rotor hub to thereby receive an end portion of the upper thrust part and form an oil interface together with the upper thrust part; and a clamp fixing part inserted into the reception part while having a clearance with the upper thrust part, and guiding a position of a clamp for fixing the recording medium. |
| US08896172B2 |
Substrate support structure
[Object] An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate support structure which can prevent a crush rib from damaging components other than a substrate and brings excellent workability.[Means to solve] In a substrate support structure, a box-shaped resinous case 2 provided with a holding space section 23 is separated into a first case 21 and a second case 22, and a substrate 3 is housed in the holding space section 23. A first crush rib 41 and a second crush rib 42 are provided in the second case 22, and press and fix the substrate 3 to first case 21 by reaction force that is generated by being pressed against the substrate 3 and crushed when the both cases 21, 22 are joined together. A first guide 51 is provided in the first case 21, and guides the first crush rib 41 to the substrate 3 mounted in the first case 21 when the both cases 21, 22 are joined together. A second guide 52 is provided in the first case 21, and guides the second crush rib 42 to the substrate 3 when the both cases 21, 22 are joined together. |
| US08896171B2 |
Motor drive apparatus having a simplified assembling structure
In an ECU attached to a motor assembly, inverter FETs, which generate outputs for driving a motor, are electrically connected to a substrate. A plurality of screw holes is formed in a heat sink thereby to fix the substrate. A resin member is provided between the heat sink and the substrate and has a plurality of motor terminals and a resin mold, which integrally fix the motor terminals by molding the motor terminals. The motor terminal has an embedded part, a L-shaped substrate-side exposed part and a motor-side exposed side including a curbed part. The resin member and the substrate are tightened together and fixed to the heat sink. |
| US08896169B2 |
Methods and apparatus for mounting a motor controller on a stator assembly
A method for fabricating a motor is described that includes attaching a circuit board of a motor control assembly to a first side of a mounting adapter, and attaching a second side of the mounting adapter to a stator assembly. |
| US08896166B2 |
Electric drive unit
An electric drive unit includes an electric motor, which has a stator and a rotor, a gearbox, an electric circuit and a housing. The housing forms a motor compartment in which the electric motor is arranged and a gearbox chamber in which at least a part of the gearbox is arranged. The electric drive unit also includes a lubricating circuit in which a lubricating fluid is conveyed in order to lubricate and cool the gearbox and the rotor of the electric motor, the lubricating fluid circulating between the motor compartment and the gearbox chamber. The drive unit further includes a cooling circuit in which a cooling fluid is conveyed in order to cool the electric circuit and also the stator of the electric motor. The cooling fluid of the cooling circuit is connected to the lubricating fluid of the lubricating circuit in such a manner as to be able to exchange heat. |
| US08896161B2 |
Electronic device using solar cell
An electronic device comprises a solar cell a main body which includes a display unit, a battery, and a processing unit and a power controller which connects the solar cell and the main body and controls the electronic device so that power generated from the solar cell is stored in the battery or used in the main body depending on a state of the main body. |
| US08896160B2 |
Apparatus and method of controlling switch units, and battery pack and battery management apparatus comprising said apparatus
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of controlling switch units between a battery pack and a load, and a battery pack and a battery management system comprising the same. The apparatus comprises a memory for storing the turn-off number and order of first and second switch units connecting the battery pack with the load according to current ranges; and a control unit for equalizing the turn-off order of the first switch unit and the second switch unit with reference to the turn-off number and order in a current range corresponding to a magnitude level of discharge current of a battery. Accordingly, the present invention reduces the frequency of breakdown or malfunction of the switch units and increases the using period of the switch units. |
| US08896158B2 |
Variable capacitance circuit
A variable capacitance circuit includes: a prescribed node, to which an alternate current signal with a reference potential as a center voltage is applied; a first capacitor connected to the prescribed node; a second capacitor connected between the first capacitor and the reference potential; a third capacitor and a transistor for controlling capacitance, provide between a first node between the second capacitor and the first capacitor, and the reference potential; and a bias circuit which applies a first bias voltage to a second node between the third capacitor and the transistor. |
| US08896157B2 |
Power supply and power supplying system with remote power management function
The power supply includes a first power connector, a power conversion circuit, a control unit and a detection circuit. The first power connector includes a plurality of power terminals and a first detecting terminal. The power conversion circuit is coupled to the power terminals of the first power connector for converting an input voltage into an output voltage. The control unit is coupled to the power conversion circuit for controlling an operation of the power conversion circuit. The detection circuit is coupled to the control unit and the first detecting terminal of the first power connector for detecting if the first detecting terminal is connected or disconnected with a predetermined voltage terminal and correspondingly generating a power transmission status signal to the control unit. When the detection circuit detects the first detecting terminal is disconnected with the predetermined voltage terminal, the power transmission status signal is under a disabled status and the control unit controls the power conversion circuit not to generate or output the output voltage to the load according to the power transmission status signal. |
| US08896156B2 |
Automatic power supply selection for dual mode component
This disclosure is directed to techniques for automatically controlling a dual mode component of a device to operate according to a first mode or a second mode. According to these techniques, a device or circuit may include a first power supply input terminal and a dual mode component that includes a second power supply input terminal. The device or circuit further includes an automatic power supply selection module configured to compare a voltage level at the first power supply input terminal to a predetermined threshold, and based on the comparison, supply one of a first mode voltage level or a second mode voltage level to the second power supply input terminal. The first mode voltage level may cause the dual mode component to operate in a first mode, while the second mode voltage level may cause the dual mode component to operate in a second mode different than the first mode. |
| US08896153B2 |
Electric power supplying system
An electric power supplying system includes at least two systems each including a bus line which is formed by at least two conductors and on which an information signal representing information is superimposed on electric power, a power supply server which is connected to the bus line and which supplies the electric power, and a client connected to the bus line to receive the supply of the electric power from the power supply server. The two systems are connected to each other by connecting the bus lines using conductors. The conductors include a connector having at least two electrodes that connect with each of the conductors. The connector has a structure in which, when the connector is connected to the bus line, one of the electrodes is connected to the bus line before the other of the electrodes. |
| US08896152B2 |
Systems and methods for operating an uninterruptible power supply
An uninterruptible power supply includes a first input to receive input power from an input power source, an output to provide output power, a switch, a first logic power supply coupled to the switch, a back-up power source, a charger, a main logic power supply and power converter circuitry. The switch is configured to close when a characteristic of the input power is within a selected range. The first logic power supply is coupled to the switch and configured to receive input power from the input power source when the switch is closed. The first logic power supply has a first DC output. The back-up power source has a second DC output and is coupled to the first DC output at a common node. The charger has a third DC output and is coupled to the common node. The main logic power supply is coupled to the common node and is configured to receive at least one of the first DC output, the second DC output and the third DC output. The power converter circuitry is coupled to the backup power source and the first input and is configured to provides the output power derived from at least one of power at the first input and power from the backup power source. |
| US08896150B1 |
Multi-socket power adapter
The multi-socket power adapter includes a main housing unit and an extension unit mounted inside the main housing unit. The main housing unit includes a recess for the extension unit. A ribbon cable wound on a spool is housed inside the extension unit. The ribbon cable protrudes through the extension unit into the main housing unit to establish an electrical connection, which allows the extension unit to be used as a conventional extension cord. The extension unit includes a plurality of power plug sockets and a power switch for each plug socket so that power to each socket can be controlled. The main housing unit also includes a power switch and a power consumption monitor. |
| US08896139B2 |
Meta-mass vibration energy harvester
A meta-material vibration energy harvester includes a housing element encapsulating a multiplicity of oscillators capable of harvesting a significant percentage of the total mechanical energy diffusely distributed throughout the vibrating structure, the harvester design resulting in a rapid transfer of mechanical energy entering it via the housing element from the element to the oscillators wherein the energy remains trapped while accumulating over an extended time, the percentage of energy transfer primarily depending on the ratios of the sum of the oscillator masses to the sum of the housing mass and of the measure of the mass of the vibrating structure and of the width of the band spanned by the oscillators to its center frequency, both the relevant measure of the vibrating structure mass and the values of the mass and frequency ratios that maximize the percentage of internal energy transfer depending on the harvesting scenario. |
| US08896134B2 |
Film for back surface of flip-chip semiconductor
The film for back surface of flip-chip semiconductor according to the present invention is a film for back surface of flip-chip semiconductor to be formed on a back surface of a semiconductor element having been flip-chip connected onto an adherend, wherein a tensile storage elastic modulus at 23° C. after thermal curing is 10 GPa or more and not more than 50 GPa. According to the film for back surface of flip-chip semiconductor of the present invention, since it is formed on the back surface of a semiconductor element having been flip-chip connected onto an adherend, it fulfills a function to protect the semiconductor element. In addition, since the film for back surface of flip-chip semiconductor according to the present invention has a tensile storage elastic modulus at 23° C. after thermal curing of 10 GPa or more, a warp of the semiconductor element generated at the time of flip-chip connection of a semiconductor element onto an adherend can be effectively suppressed or prevented. |
| US08896126B2 |
Packaging DRAM and SOC in an IC package
An integrated circuit package includes a first memory die having a first set of connections, a second memory die arranged adjacent to the first memory die, the second memory die having a second set of connections, a first substrate having a first opening and a second opening, the first substrate having a third set of connections to connect to the first set of connections of the first memory die via the first opening and a fourth set of connections to connect to the second set of connections of the second memory die via the second opening, and a second substrate having a first integrated circuit disposed thereon. The first substrate is connected to the second substrate with the first integrated circuit disposed between the first substrate and second substrate. |
| US08896122B2 |
Semiconductor devices having gates including oxidized nickel
Schottky barrier semiconductor devices are provided including a wide bandgap semiconductor layer and a gate on the wide bandgap semiconductor layer. The gate includes a metal layer on the wide bandgap semiconductor layer including a nickel oxide (NiO) layer. Related methods of fabricating devices are also provided herein. |
| US08896117B2 |
Semiconductor device bonded by an anisotropic conductive film
A semiconductor device bonded by an anisotropic conductive film, the anisotropic conductive film including a conductive adhesive layer and an insulating adhesive layer stacked thereon, an amount of reactive monomers in the conductive adhesive layer being higher than an amount of reactive monomers in the insulating adhesive layer. |
| US08896111B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip disposed on a circuit board, an adhesive layer fixing the first semiconductor chip to the circuit board, and a second semiconductor chip having an outer shape smaller than that of the first semiconductor chip. At least a part of the second semiconductor chip is embedded in the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer has a thickness in a range of 95 to 150 μm. The adhesive layer includes a cured product of a thermosetting resin whose thermal time viscosity at a time that the second semiconductor chip is embedded is in a range of 500 to 5000 Pa·s. |
| US08896110B2 |
Paste thermal interface materials
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for paste thermal interface materials (TIMs) and their use in integrated circuit (IC) packages. In some embodiments, an IC package includes an IC component, a heat spreader, and a paste TIM disposed between the die and the heat spreader. The paste TIM may include particles of a metal material distributed through a matrix material, and may have a bond line thickness, after curing, of between approximately 20 microns and approximately 100 microns. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US08896108B2 |
Semiconductor device with parasitic bipolar transistor
The invention enhances resistance to a surge in a semiconductor device having a semiconductor die mounted on a lead frame. An N type embedded layer, an epitaxial layer and a P type semiconductor layer are disposed on the front surface of a P type semiconductor substrate forming an IC die. A metal thin film is disposed on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a conductive paste containing silver particles and so on is disposed between the metal thin film and a metal island. When a surge is applied to a pad electrode disposed on the front surface of the semiconductor layer, the surge current flowing from the semiconductor layer into the semiconductor substrate runs toward the metal island through the metal thin film. |
| US08896106B2 |
Semiconductor packages having multiple lead frames and methods of formation thereof
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a semiconductor package includes a first lead frame having a first die paddle, and a second lead frame, which has a second die paddle and a plurality of leads. The second die paddle is disposed over the first die paddle. A semiconductor chip is disposed over the second die paddle. The semiconductor chip has a plurality of contact regions on a first side facing the second lead frame. The plurality of contact regions is coupled to the plurality of leads. |
| US08896105B2 |
Microelectronic devices and methods for manufacturing microelectronic devices
Microelectronic devices and methods for manufacturing microelectronic devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes constructing a radiation sensitive component in and/or on a microelectronic device, placing a curable component in and/or on the microelectronic device, and forming a barrier in and/or on the microelectronic device to at least partially inhibit irradiation of the radiation sensitive component. The radiation sensitive component can be doped silicon, chalcogenide, polymeric random access memory, or any other component that is altered when irradiated with one or more specific frequencies of radiation. The curable component can be an adhesive, an underfill layer, an encapsulant, a stand-off, or any other feature constructed of a material that requires curing by irradiation. |
| US08896098B2 |
Power storage device and method for manufacturing the same
To provide a power storage device with improved cycle characteristics and a method for manufacturing the power storage device, a power storage device is provided with a conductive layer in contact with a surface of an active material layer including a silicon layer after an oxide film, such as a natural oxide film, which is formed on the surface of the active material layer is removed. The conductive layer is thus provided in contact with the surface of the active material layer including a silicon layer, whereby the conductivity of the electrode surface of the power storage device is improved; therefore, cycle characteristics of the power storage device can be improved. |
| US08896097B2 |
Method of manufacturing capacitor, capacitor and method of forming dielectric film for use in capacitor
Provided are a method of manufacturing a capacitor capable of achieving a high dielectric constant property and a low leakage current, a capacitor, and a method of forming a dielectric film used in the capacitor. The capacitor is fabricated by forming a lower electrode layer on a substrate; forming a first TiO2 film having an interface control function on the lower electrode layer; forming a ZrO2-based film on the first TiO2 film; performing an annealing process for crystallizing ZrO2 in the ZrO2-based film, after forming the ZrO2-based film; forming a second TiO2 film which serves as a capacity film on the ZrO2-based film; and forming an upper electrode layer on the second TiO2 film. |
| US08896096B2 |
Process-compatible decoupling capacitor and method for making the same
Provided is decoupling capacitor device. The decoupling capacitor device includes a first dielectric layer portion that is deposited in a deposition process that also deposits a second dielectric layer portion for a non-volatile memory cell. Both portions are patterned using a single mask. A system-on-chip (SOC) device is also provided, the SOC include an RRAM cell and a decoupling capacitor situated in a single inter-metal dielectric layer. Also a method for forming a process-compatible decoupling capacitor is provided. The method includes patterning a top electrode layer, an insulating layer, and a bottom electrode layer to form a non-volatile memory element and a decoupling capacitor. |
| US08896093B2 |
Circuit configuration and manufacturing processes for vertical transient voltage suppressor (TVS) and EMI filter
A vertical TVS (VTVS) circuit includes a semiconductor substrate for supporting the VTVS device thereon having a heavily doped layer extending to the bottom of substrate. Deep trenches are provided for isolation between multi-channel VTVS. Trench gates are also provided for increasing the capacitance of VTVS with integrated EMI filter. |
| US08896090B2 |
Electrical fuses and methods of making electrical fuses
A fuse, a method of making the fuse and a circuit containing the fuse. The fuse includes an electrically conductive and conformal liner on sidewalls and the bottom of a trench; a copper layer on the conformal liner, a first thickness of the copper layer over the bottom of the trench in a lower portion of the trench greater than a second thickness of the copper layer over the sidewalls of the trench in an abutting upper portion of the trench; and a dielectric material on the copper layer in the trench, the dielectric material filling remaining space in the upper portion of said trench. |
| US08896087B2 |
Shallow trench isolation area having buried capacitor
A semiconductor chip includes a substrate including a surface, an active transistor region and a substrate contact region formed on the substrate, a shallow trench isolation (STI) area formed in the surface and disposed at least partially between the active transistor region and the substrate contact region, and at least one capacitor at least partially buried in the STI area. |
| US08896085B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting element manufacturing method, lamp, electronic equipment, and mechanical apparatus
A semiconductor light-emitting element manufacturing method including: a first step in which a first n-type semiconductor layer is laminated onto a substrate in a first organometallic chemical vapor deposition apparatus; and a second step in which a regrowth layer, a second n-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer are sequentially laminated onto the aforementioned first n-type semiconductor layer in a second organometallic chemical vapor deposition apparatus. |
| US08896082B1 |
Solar cell systems and integration with CMOS circuitry
An integrated circuit-solar cell device comprising a well region of a first dopant type, a solar cell including: (i) a first region disposed in or on the well region, wherein the first region is of the first dopant type, and (ii) a second region disposed outside the well region, wherein the second region is of a second dopant type. The device further includes an integrated circuit including: (i) a first transistor of a first type disposed in or on the well region, and (ii) a second transistor of a second type disposed in or on the first major surface of the substrate and outside the well region. Power management circuitry selectively and electrically couples the solar cell to the battery when the integrated circuit is in an inactive mode. |
| US08896076B2 |
Photoelectric conversion element, photoelectric conversion system, and method for production of photoelectric conversion element
A photoelectric conversion element of an embodiment is a photoelectric conversion element which performs photoelectric conversion by receiving illumination light having n light emission peaks having a peak energy Ap (eV) (where 1≦p≦n and 2≦n) of 1.59≦Ap≦3.26 and a full width at half maximum Fp (eV) (where 1≦p≦n and 2≦n), wherein the photoelectric conversion element includes m photoelectric conversion layers having a band gap energy Bq (eV) (where 1≦q≦m and 2≦m≦n), and the m photoelectric conversion layers each satisfy the relationship of Ap−Fp |
| US08896068B2 |
Semiconductor device including source/drain regions and a gate electrode, and having contact portions
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of: (a) forming a gate electrode on a substrate, forming source/drain regions and a channel forming region in the substrate, and forming on the source/drain regions a first interlayer insulating layer equal in height to the gate electrode; (b) forming in the first interlayer insulating layer groove-shaped first contact portions connected to the source/drain regions; (c) forming a second interlayer insulating layer on a whole surface; (d) forming hole-shaped second contact portions in portions of the second interlayer insulating layer on the first contact portion; and (e) forming on the second interlayer insulating layer wires connected to the second contact portions. |
| US08896062B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for forming the same
The invention provides a semiconductor device, including: a semiconductor base, on an insulation layer; source/drain regions abutting opposite first sides of the semiconductor base; and gates at opposite second sides of the semiconductor base, wherein the semiconductor base includes a cavity, and the insulation layer is exposed by the cavity. The invention also provides a method for forming a semiconductor device, including: forming a semiconductor bottom on an insulation layer; forming source/drain regions, the source/drain regions abutting opposite first sides of the semiconductor bottom; forming gates on opposite second sides of the semiconductor bottom; and removing a part of the semiconductor bottom to form a cavity in the semiconductor bottom, the cavity exposing the insulation layer. With the technical solutions provided by the invention, short-channel effects can be alleviated, and the resistance of the source/drain regions and parasitic capacitance can be reduced. |
| US08896060B2 |
Trench power MOSFET
A device includes a semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a trench extending into the semiconductor region, and a conductive field plate in the trench. A first dielectric layer separates a bottom and sidewalls of the field plate from the semiconductor region. A main gate is disposed in the trench and overlapping the field plate. A second dielectric layer is disposed between and separating the main gate and the field plate from each other. A Doped Drain (DD) region of the first conductivity type is under the second dielectric layer, wherein an edge portion of the main gate overlaps the DD region. A body region includes a first portion at a same level as a portion of the main gate, and a second portion at a same level as, and contacting, the DD region, wherein the body region is of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type. |
| US08896059B1 |
Semiconductor device including multi-layered gate, electronic device including the same, and method for forming the same
A semiconductor device including a multi-layered gate, is formed as a stacked structure of a plurality of layers having different work functions. |
| US08896058B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for producing same
It is an object to improve the breakdown voltage characteristics of a vertical semiconductor device having an opening and including a channel formed of two-dimensional electron gas in the opening. The vertical semiconductor device includes a GaN-based stacked layer 15 having an opening 28 and the GaN-based stacked layer 15 includes n-type GaN-based drift layer 4/p-type GaN-based barrier layer 6/n-type GaN-based contact layer 7. The vertical semiconductor device includes a regrown layer 27 located so as to cover the opening, the regrown layer 27 including an electron drift layer 22 and an electron supply layer 26, a source electrode S, and a gate electrode G located on the regrown layer. The gate electrode G covers a portion having a length corresponding to the thickness of the p-type GaN-based barrier layer and is terminated at a position on the wall surface, the position being away from the bottom portion of the opening. |
| US08896051B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a lower layer connection object, a stacked body, an insulating film, and a via. The stacked body has a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of electrode layers alternately stacked on the lower layer connection object. The stacked body has a staircase structure unit. The via connects uppermost electrode layer at each step of the staircase structure unit and the lower layer connection object through the via hole. The via has an upper part provided on and in contact with a top face of the uppermost electrode layer, and a penetrating part provided to be thinner than the upper part inside the insulating film in the via hole. The penetrating part connects the upper part and the lower layer connection object. |
| US08896045B2 |
Integrated circuit including sidewall spacer
A memory cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a layer of phase change material extending from a first contact with the first electrode to a second contact with the second electrode, and a sidewall spacer contacting the second electrode and a sidewall of the layer of phase change material adjacent to the second contact. |
| US08896044B1 |
Organic light emitting diode display
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is provided. The OLED displayer includes a capacitor electrode disposed on a substrate. An insulation layer is disposed on the capacitor electrode. A first active layer is disposed on the insulation layer. The first active layer includes a first doped area, a second doped area, and a first channel area disposed between the first doped area and the second doped area. A first gate electrode is disposed on the first channel area of the first active layer. An organic light emitting diode is disposed on the substrate. The organic light emitting diode is electrically coupled to the second doped area of the first active layer. A driving power source line is disposed on the substrate and electrically coupled to the first doped area of the first active layer and to the capacitor. |
| US08896040B2 |
Magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) having a plurality of concentrically aligned magnetic tunnel junction layers and concentrically aligned upper electrodes over a lower electrode
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory device includes forming a magnetic tunnel junction layer on a lower electrode, forming a spacer having an annular shape on the magnetic tunnel junction layer, forming upper electrodes on both sidewall surfaces of the annular shaped spacer, removing the spacer, and etching the magnetic tunnel junction layer by using the upper electrodes as an etch mask. |
| US08896039B2 |
Solid-state imaging device, method for manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus
A method for manufacturing a solid-state imaging device includes: forming pixels that receive incident light in a pixel array area of a substrate; forming pad electrodes in a peripheral area located around the pixel array area of the substrate; forming a carbon-based inorganic film on an upper surface of each of the pad electrodes including a connection surface electrically connected to an external component; forming a coated film that covers upper surfaces of the carbon-based inorganic films; and forming an opening above the connection surface of each of the pad electrodes to expose the connection surface. |
| US08896038B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and method of manufacturing the same
A solid-state imaging device with a semiconductor substrate; a pixel formation region in the substrate and including a pixel made of a photoelectric conversion element; and an element isolation portion in the substrate and including an element isolation insulating layer and an impurity element isolation region. The element isolation insulating layer is positioned in a surface of the substrate. The impurity element isolation region is positioned under the element isolation insulating layer and within the substrate. The impurity element isolation region has at least a portion with a width that is narrower than that of the element isolation insulating layer. The photoelectric conversion element extends to a position under the element isolation insulating layer of the element isolation portion. |
| US08896036B2 |
Solid-state imaging device, production method of the same, and imaging apparatus
A solid-state imaging device in which a pixel circuit formed on the first surface side of a semiconductor substrate is shared by a plurality of light reception regions and second surface side of the semiconductor substrate is the light incident side of the light reception regions. The second surface side regions of the light reception regions are arranged at approximately even intervals and the first surface side regions of the light reception regions e are arranged at uneven intervals. Respective second surface side regions and first surface side regions are joined in the semiconductor substrate so that the light reception regions extend from the second surface side to the first surface side of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US08896035B2 |
Field effect transistor having phase transition material incorporated into one or more components for reduced leakage current
Disclosed is a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) having phase transition material incorporated into one or more components and an associated method. The MOSFET can comprise an asymmetric gate electrode having a phase transition material section (e.g., a chromium or titanium-doped vanadium dioxide (VO2) section) above the drain-side of the channel region. Additionally or alternatively, the MOSFET can comprise source and drain contact landing pads comprising different phase transition materials (e.g., un-doped VO2 and chromium or titanium-doped VO2, respectively). In any case, the phase transition material(s) are pre-selected so as to be insulative when the MOSFET is in the OFF state and the voltage difference between the drain region and the source region (VDS) is high in order to minimize leakage current and so as to be conductive when the MOSFET is in the ON state and VDS is high in order to maintain drive current. |
| US08896030B2 |
Integrated circuits with selective gate electrode recess
Integrated circuits including MOSFETs with selectively recessed gate electrodes. Transistors having recessed gate electrodes with reduced capacitive coupling area to adjacent source and drain contact metallization are provided alongside transistors with gate electrodes that are non-recessed and have greater z-height. In embodiments, analog circuits employ transistors with gate electrodes of a given z-height while logic gates employ transistors with recessed gate electrodes of lesser z-height. In embodiments, subsets of substantially planar gate electrodes are selectively etched back to differentiate a height of the gate electrode based on a given transistor's application within a circuit. |
| US08896027B2 |
Nitride semiconductor diode
Disclosed is a high performance nitride semiconductor having a reverse leak current characteristic with two-dimensional electron gas as a conductive layer. A desired impurity is diffused into or a nitride semiconductor to which a desired impurity is added is re-grown on the bottom surface and the side face portion of a recessed portion formed by dry etching using chlorine gas on the upper surface of a nitride semiconductor stacked film to increase resistance of the side face portion of the nitride semiconductor stacked film contacting an anode electrode, reducing the reverse leak current. |
| US08896024B1 |
Electrostatic discharge protection structure and electrostatic discharge protection circuit
Provided is an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure including a first and a second well region adjacent to each other, a first and a second doped region disposed in the first well region, a fourth and a fifth doped region disposed in the second well region, and a third doped region disposed in the first region and extending into the second well region. The second doped region is disposed between the first and the third doped regions, forming a diode with the first doped region, forming, together with the first well region and the second well region, a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT) electrically connecting to the diode, and having no contact window disposed thereon. The fourth doped region is disposed between the third and the fifth doped regions, forming a second BJT with the second well region and the first well region. |
| US08896019B2 |
Thin-film encapsulation, optoelectronic semiconductor body comprising a thin-film encapsulation and method for producing a thin-film encapsulation
A thin-film encapsulation for an optoelectronic semiconductor body includes a PVD layer deposited by a PVD method, and a CVD layer deposited by a CVD method, wherein the CVD layer is applied directly on the PVD layer, and the CVD layer is etched back such that the CVD layer only fills weak points in the PVD layer. |
| US08896017B2 |
Vertical structure LEDs
A vertical structure light-emitting device includes a conductive support, a light-emitting semiconductor structure disposed on the conductive support structure, the semiconductor structure having a first semiconductor surface, a side semiconductor surface and a second semiconductor surface, a first electrode electrically connected to the first-type semiconductor layer, a second electrode electrically connected to the second-type semiconductor layer, wherein the second electrode has a first electrode surface, a side electrode surface and a second electrode surface, wherein the first electrode surface, relative to the second electrode surface, is proximate to the semiconductor structure; and wherein the second electrode surface is opposite to the first electrode surface, and a passivation layer disposed on the side semiconductor surface and the second semiconductor surface. |
| US08896014B2 |
Light-emitting element, manufacturing method thereof, and lighting device
A light-emitting element includes a conductive layer functioning as a first electrode, an electroluminescent layer, and a conductive layer functioning as a second electrode, and further includes an insulating material filling a defect portion in the electroluminescent layer so that the defect portion is sealed. In the light-emitting element, the conductive layer functioning as a second electrode overlaps with the conductive layer functioning as a first electrode with the electroluminescent layer and the insulating material interposed therebetween and is in contact with a top surface of the electroluminescent layer. |
| US08896012B2 |
Light emitting diode
A light-emitting diode includes a substrate, a first semiconductor layer above the substrate, an active layer above the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer above the active layer, wherein the active layer is between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer a trench penetrating through the second semiconductor layer and the active layer to expose the first semiconductor layer a first electrode disposed at a bottom of the trench, wherein the first electrode includes at least one first finger, an insulating layer covering the first electrode, and a second electrode including at least one second finger on the insulating layer, wherein the second finger overlaps with the first finger and the second finger has a width smaller than that of the trench. |
| US08896011B2 |
Light emitting diode
AC LED according to the present invention comprises a substrate, and at least one serial array having a plurality of light emitting cells connected in series on the substrate. Each of the light emitting cells comprises a lower semiconductor layer consisting of a first conductive compound semiconductor layer formed on top of the substrate, an upper semiconductor layer consisting of a second conductive compound semiconductor layer formed on top of the lower semiconductor layer, an active layer interposed between the lower and upper semiconductor layers, a lower electrode formed on the lower semiconductor layer exposed at a first corner of the substrate, an upper electrode layer formed on the upper semiconductor layer, and an upper electrode pad formed on the upper electrode layer exposed at a second corner of the substrate. The upper electrode pad and the lower electrode are respectively disposed at the corners diagonally opposite to each other, and the respective light emitting cells are arranged so that the upper electrode pad and the lower electrode of one of the light emitting cells are symmetric with respect to those of adjacent another of the light emitting cells. |
| US08896009B2 |
Light emitting diode with two alternative mounting sides for mounting on circuit board
An exemplary light-emitting diode (LED) includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode sandwiching the substrate therebetween, an LED chip electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, a reflector located on the first electrode and the second electrode and surrounding the LED chip, and a first retaining wall mounted on an edge of the first electrode and a second retaining wall mounted on an edge of the second electrode. The first retaining wall and the second retaining wall are made of conductive material. The first retaining wall and the second retaining wall are at a same side of the LED. Outer surfaces of the first retaining wall and the second retaining wall are exposed out of the reflector. |
| US08896004B2 |
White LED, backlight using the same, and liquid crystal display device
Disclosed are a white LED, which has color reproducibility comparable with that of a cold-cathode tube and improved brightness, and a backlight and a liquid crystal display device comprising the white LED. The white LED comprises at least one light emitting element selected from ultraviolet light emitting diodes, purple light emitting diodes, ultraviolet light emitting lasers, and purple light emitting lasers, and a phosphor layer. The phosphor layer comprises a green phosphor satisfying formula 1, a blue phosphor satisfying formula 2 or 3, and a red phosphor satisfying formula 4 or 5: a trivalent cerium- and terbium-activated rare earth boride phosphor represented by formula 1: M1-x-yCexTbyBO3 wherein M represents at least one element selected from Sc (scandium), Y (yttrium), La (lanthanum), Gd (gadolinium), and Lu (lutetium); and x and y are respective numbers of 0.03 |
| US08895999B2 |
Organic light-emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display device is disclosed. The method includes: uniformly forming an active layer on an entire surface of a substrate on which an organic light-emitting diode, a thin film transistor (TFT), and a capacitor are to be formed; performing a first mask process on the active layer to form a pixel electrode of the organic light-emitting diode, a gate electrode of the TFT, and an upper electrode of the capacitor; performing a second mask process to form an insulating layer having openings that expose the pixel electrode, the upper electrode, and the active layer in a region of the TFT; performing a third mask process to form a source-drain electrode that contacts an exposed portion of the active layer; and performing a fourth mask process to form a pixel-defining layer (PDL) that exposes the pixel electrode and covers the TFT and the capacitor. |
| US08895998B2 |
Ceramic-based light emitting diode (LED) devices, components and methods
Devices, components and methods containing one or more light emitter devices, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) or LED chips, are disclosed. In one aspect, a light emitter device component can include a ceramic body having a top surface, one or more light emitter devices mounted directly or indirectly on the top surface, and one or more electrical components mounted on the top surface and electrically coupled to the one or more light emitter devices, wherein the one or more electrical components can be spaced from the ceramic body by one or more non-metallic layers. Components disclosed herein can result in improved light extraction and thermal management. |
| US08895997B2 |
Carbon nanotube light emitting device, light source, and photo coupler
A plurality of electrodes, and carbon nanotubes disposed between the electrodes, at least part of the carbon nanotubes including a metal carbon nanotube are provided. The metal carbon nanotube generates heat upon passing of current to the electrodes and emits light by blackbody radiation, so that the emitted light has a wide emission wavelength region and can be modulated at high speed. This makes it possible to implement a continuum spectrum light source that can be modulated at high speed, which is suitable for use in information communication, electrical and electronic fields. |
| US08895995B2 |
Lateral silicon-on-insulator bipolar junction transistor radiation dosimeter
A radiation dosimeter includes a semiconductor substrate and a buried insulator layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The buried insulator layer has a plurality of charge traps. A semiconductor layer is disposed on the buried insulator layer. The semiconductor layer has an emitter, an intrinsic base, and a collector laterally arranged with respect to one another. In response to radiation exposure by the radiation dosimeter, positive charges are trapped in the plurality of charge traps in the buried insulator layer, the amount of positive charge trapped being used to determine the amount of radiation exposure. A method for radiation dosimetry includes providing a radiation dosimeter, where the radiation dosimeter includes a lateral silicon-on-insulator bipolar junction transistor having a buried insulator layer; exposing the radiation dosimeter to ionizing radiation; determining a change in one of the collector current and current gain of the radiation dosimeter; and determining an amount of the radiation dose based on the change in one of the collector current and current gain. |
| US08895993B2 |
Low gate-leakage structure and method for gallium nitride enhancement mode transistor
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a gallium nitride (GaN) layer on a substrate; an aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) layer disposed on the GaN layer; and a gate stack disposed on the AlGaN layer. The gate stack includes a III-V compound n-type doped layer; a III-V compound p-type doped layer adjacent the III-V compound n-type doped layer; and a metal layer formed over the III-V compound p-type doped layer and the III-V compound n-type doped layer. |
| US08895990B2 |
Light-emitting device and electronic apparatus having a power line with a notch portion
A light-emitting device includes a drive transistor for controlling the quantity of current supplied to a light-emitting element, a capacitor element electrically connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor, and an electrical continuity portion for electrically connecting the drive transistor and the light-emitting element, these elements being disposed on a substrate. The electrical continuity portion is disposed on the side opposite to the capacitor element with the drive transistor disposed therebetween. |
| US08895989B2 |
Thin-film semiconductor device for display apparatus, method for manufacturing thin-film semiconductor device for display apparatus, EL display panel, and EL display apparatus
A thin-film semiconductor device for a display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a gate electrode above a substrate; a gate insulating film above the gate electrode; a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating film; a first electrode above the semiconductor layer; a second electrode in a same layer as the first electrode; an interlayer insulating film covering the first electrode and the second electrode; a gate line above the interlayer insulating film; and a power supply line in a same layer as the gate line and adjacent to the gate line. Furthermore, the gate electrode and the gate line are electrically connected via a first conductive portion, and the second electrode and the power supply line are electrically connected via a second conductive portion. |
| US08895988B2 |
Electrostatic discharge device and organic electro-luminescence display device having the same
An electrostatic discharge device and an organic electro-luminescence display device having the same are provided. The organic electro-luminescence display device includes an electrostatic discharge device including a metal pattern having an island shape on a substrate, an insulating layer on the metal pattern, a semiconductor pattern on the insulating layer, the semiconductor pattern corresponding to the metal pattern, a first electrode overlapping one end of the semiconductor pattern, and a second electrode overlapping the other end of the semiconductor pattern, and spaced from the first electrode, thereby preventing a current leakage, a signal distortion and a signal cross-talk to improve the reliability. |
| US08895974B2 |
Organic el display device and method for manufacturing the same
In an organic EL display device (100), an insulating layer (113) includes a first insulating film (113a) and a second insulating film (113b) provided thereabove, a plurality of upper electrodes (115c) are each provided to cover a corresponding one of a plurality of organic EL layers (115b), and a reflection film (114) is provided between the first insulating film (113a) and the second insulating film (113b), corresponding to a region N other than the a light emission region. The reflection film (114) reflects toward a sealing substrate (120) a portion of light generated in each organic EL layer (115b) which is diffused into the region N other than the light emission region so that the portion of the light is transmitted through a separation wall portion (116) and the sealing substrate (120) to be viewed as an image on the sealing substrate. |
| US08895970B2 |
Organic light-emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The organic light-emitting display device includes: an active layer that is formed by patterning a semiconductor layer formed by laser crystallization; a gate electrode that is disposed to correspond to a channel area of the active layer; a first insulating layer that is disposed between the active layer and the gate electrode; a second insulating layer that is disposed on the gate electrode; and first test patterns that are formed on the second insulating layer and contact source and drain regions of the active layer and the gate electrode, respectively. |
| US08895969B2 |
White organic light emitting device and display device using the same
A white organic light emitting device, with improved color shift characteristics and improved efficiency according to viewing angle changes by controlling conditions for designing an optical path in organic material layers between a cathode and an anode or adjusting interior or exterior thicknesses of the organic material layers, has a structure including a first electrode and layers between the first electrode and a second electrode satisfies an optical path condition represented by the following equation n a d a λ + ∑ j n j w d j w λ = 1.85 ∼ 2.15 with respect to emissions of the first and second stacks, where λ is an emission peak wavelength of the first stack or the second stack, na and da are a refractive index and a thickness of a transparent electrode selected from the first and second electrode, and nw and dw are a refractive index and a thickness of any one of the layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively. |
| US08895967B2 |
Organic electroluminescent display device
An organic electroluminescent display device is disclosed which includes: a lower substrate including a first substrate defined into red, green and blue sub-pixel regions, first and second switching elements formed in the red and green sub-pixel regions, first and second anodes each connected to the first and second switching elements, and a first organic light emission layer entirely formed on the first substrate provided with the first and second anodes; and an upper substrate including a second substrate, red and green color filter layers formed on the second substrate corresponding to the red and green sub-pixel regions, a third switching element formed on the second substrate corresponding to the blue sub-pixel region, a third anode connected to the third switching element, and a second organic light emission layer entirely formed on the second substrate provided with the red and green color filter layers and the third anode. |
| US08895966B2 |
Material for organic electroluminescence element, and organic electroluminescence element using same
Provided is a material for an organic electroluminescence device, which further has a bulky carbazolyl group at each of the 3-position and 6-position of its central carbazole skeleton, and which has a dibenzofuran skeleton or a dibenzothiophene skeleton at the N atom of the central carbazole skeleton through a linking group as required. Also provided is an organic electroluminescence device, including one or more organic thin film layers including a light emitting layer between a cathode and an anode, in which at least one layer of the organic thin film layers contains the material for an organic electroluminescence device. |
| US08895965B2 |
Photoelectric conversion element, production method for a photoelectric conversion element, solid-state image sensor, production method for a solid-state image sensor, electronic apparatus, photoconductor, production method for a photoconductor and multilayer transparent photoelectric conversion element
Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including a photoconductor containing a complex of a conductive polymer and/or polymer semiconductor and a protein containing at least one dye having a long-lived excited state. |
| US08895964B2 |
Organic EL element and production method thereof
A technology having resistance to moisture and oxygen, and in which the occurrence and expansion of non-light-generating portions, such as dark spots, are suppressed is provided. An organic EL element in which an organic functional layer including at least one or more light-emitting layers is arranged between a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the organic functional layer includes a bipolar charge generation layer which generates electrons and holes, and one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a hole-receiving electrode. |
| US08895949B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device using a varistor as a current limiter element
Embodiments of the invention include a method of forming a nonvolatile memory device that contains a resistive switching memory element that has improved device switching performance and lifetime, due to the addition of a current limiting component disposed therein. The electrical properties of the current limiting component are configured to lower the current flow through the variable resistance layer during the logic state programming steps by adding a fixed series resistance in the resistive switching memory element of the nonvolatile memory device. In some embodiments, the current limiting component comprises a varistor that is a current limiting material disposed within a resistive switching memory element in a nonvolatile resistive switching memory device. Typically, resistive switching memory elements may be formed as part of a high-capacity nonvolatile memory integrated circuit, which can be used in various electronic devices, such as digital cameras, mobile telephones, handheld computers, and music players. |
| US08895943B2 |
Lithography system and method of processing substrates in such a lithography system
The invention relates to a lithography system comprising a plurality of lithography system units. Each lithography system unit comprises a lithography apparatus arranged in a vacuum chamber for patterning a substrate; a load lock system for transferring substrates into and out of the vacuum chamber; and a door for enabling entry into the vacuum chamber for servicing purposes. The load lock system and the door of each lithography system unit are provided at the same side and face a free area at a side of the lithography system, in particular the service area. |
| US08895939B2 |
Hard-surface disinfection system
UV hard-surface disinfection system that is able to disinfect the hard surfaces in a room, while minimizing missed areas due to shadows by providing multiple UV light towers that can be placed in several areas of a room such that shadowed areas are eliminated and that can be transported by a cart that is low to the ground such that the towers may be loaded and unloaded easily by a single operator. The system is able to be controlled remotely, such that during activation of the system, no operator is present, and to automatically cut power to all towers in the event that a person enters the room. |
| US08895938B2 |
Footwear sanitizing and deodorizing system exposing light-activated photocatalytic oxidation coating
Introducing ultraviolet (UV) light to activate a photocatalytic oxidation coating applied to interior portions of footwear alters the environment inside a shoe or other footwear to destroy microorganisms or inhibit their growth. Visible light can also be used to prevent further microorganism growth. Introducing forced air flow through the footwear removes dampness in and thereby deodorizes the footwear. A preferred embodiment comprises an adjustable shoe tree equipped with a UV germicidal light source and electronic safeguards that prevent appreciable leakage of UV radiation outside the shoe. |
| US08895936B2 |
Pixel array and image sensor including the same
A pixel array and an image sensor including the pixel array having improved sensitivity and can drive pixels with high resolution, according to embodiments. In embodiments, a pixel array may include a plurality of pixels having a pixel area and a logic area. The pixel array may include at least one of: (1) A photoelectric conversion unit in the pixel area of each of the pixels. (2) A pixel-area transistor disposed at a side of the photoelectric conversion unit in the pixel area. (3) A metal-0 layer on the pixel-area transistor. (4) A metal-1 layer on and/or over the metal-0 layer. (5) A light reception unit on and/or over the metal-1 layer, with the metal-1 layer being the top metal layer in the pixel area. |
| US08895935B2 |
High efficiency secondary and back scattered electron detector
An assembly for a charged particle detection unit is described. The assembly comprises a scintillator disc, a partially coated light guide a thin metal tube for allowing the primary charged particle beam to pass through and a photomultiplier tube (PMT). The shape of scintillator disc and light guide are redesigned to improved the light signal transmission thereafter enhance the light collection efficiency. A light guide with a conicoidal surface over an embedded scintillator improved the light collection efficiency of 34% over a conventional design. |
| US08895927B2 |
Detection device, sensor device and electronic apparatus
A detection device includes a plurality of pyroelectric elements and a detection circuit. The pyroelectric elements includes a first pyroelectric element through an n-th pyroelectric element serially provided between a detection node and a first power supply node with n being an integer equal to or greater than 2. Each of the first pyroelectric element through the n-th pyroelectric element has a direction of polarization that is set to the same direction. The detection circuit is connected to the detection node. |
| US08895925B2 |
Electromagnetic interference protection structure
A detector structure having a sensor for detecting energy impinging on the structure in the infrared and/or optical frequency band; an electronics section disposed behind the sensor for processing electrical signal produced by the sensor in response to the sensor detecting the infrared and/or optical energy; and an electrically conductive layer for inhibiting electromagnetic energy outside of the visible and infrared portions of the spectrum, such electrically conductive layer being disposed between impinging energy and the electronics section, such layer having a transmissivity greater than 90 percent in the visible and infrared portions of the spectrum and being reflective and/or dissipative to portions of the impinging energy outside of the visible and infrared portions of the spectrum. In one embodiment an electrically conductive layer having a substantially constant absorptivity to electromagnetic energy within the visible and infrared portions of the spectrum. In one embodiment, the layer is graphene. |
| US08895912B2 |
Phantom for contrast imaging calibration
An imaging phantom for contrast imaging calibration. The phantom includes a body defining at least one cavity having a directional configuration corresponding to at least one pre-determined direction of motion of the phantom. The phantom also includes at least one imaging capsule configured to match and be contained in the at least one cavity. The imaging capsule comprises a material having an imaging contrast different from that of the body. |
| US08895911B2 |
Optical encoder with misalignment detection and adjustment method associated therewith
An optical encoder includes a scale having diffraction gratings formed at predetermined pitches in a measurement axis direction, a detection head relatively movable with respect to the scale, the detection head including a light source portion configured to irradiate the scale with light, and a plurality of receiver portions configured to receive light reflected by or transmitted through the diffraction gratings of the scale, at different phases, and a signal processing device configured to perform signal processing to light reception signals output from the receiver portions of the detection head, to produce quadrature differential signals. The signal processing device is configured to calculate alignment adjustment monitor signals corresponding to a Lissajous radius of the quadrature differential signals in order to detect misalignment of the detection head with respect to the scale. |
| US08895903B2 |
Methods and apparatus for controlling the supply of power to a radiant heater of a cooking appliance
Methods and apparatus for controlling the supply of power to a radiant heater of a cooking hob. According to one implementation a method is provided that includes the use of a control circuit that is configured to deliver power to the radiant heater via first and second electrical paths. One control method includes supplying a first level of power to the radiant heater through a closed disconnection switch situated in the first electrical path while sensing a temperature of the cooking hob. Upon detecting that the temperature has reached or exceeded a predetermined temperature, the control circuit terminates the supply of power to the radiant heater through the first electrical path by opening the disconnection switch and for at least a period of time initiating the supply of a second level of power to the radiant heater through the second electrical path, the second level of power being less than the first level of power and sufficiently low to cause the radiant heater to cool. |
| US08895893B2 |
Process chamber and method for processing a material by a directed beam of electromagnetic radiation, in particular for a laser sintering device
A process chamber for a processing of a material by means of a directed beam of electromagnetic radiation is provided, which comprises an optical element (9) for coupling the beam (7) into the process chamber (10), wherein the optical element has a surface (9a) facing the inside of the process chamber, a wall section (12) surrounding the optical element (9), a first inlet (16) for a gas that is arranged at one side of the optical element (9) and designed such that an escaping first gas flow (18) strokes substantially tangentially over the surface (9a) of the optical element (9), a second inlet (23) for a gas, which is designed and arranged such that an escaping second gas flow (25) flows at a distance to the surface (9a) in substantially the same direction as the first gas flow (18). |
| US08895892B2 |
Non-contact glass shearing device and method for scribing or cutting a moving glass sheet
A non-contact glass shearing device and a method are described herein that vertically scribes or cuts a downward moving glass sheet to remove outer edges (beads) from the downward moving glass sheet. In addition, the non-contact glass shearing device and method can horizontally scribe or cut the downward moving glass sheet (without the outer edges) so that it can be separated into distinct glass sheets. |
| US08895885B2 |
Wire electrode for spark-erosion cutting
The invention relates to a wire electrode for spark-erosion cutting. The wire electrode comprises a core made of more than 50% by weight pure crystalline aluminum and/or one or more crystalline aluminum alloys, and comprises a coating layer encompassing the core and comprising copper, zinc, and/or a copper-zinc alloy. The proportion of the surface area of the core relative to the total cross-sectional area of the wire electrode is in the range from 60% to 95% along the entire length of the wire electrode. |
| US08895884B2 |
Tank type vacuum circuit breaker
A tank type vacuum circuit breaker uses a columnar or cylindrical insulation rod at a connection portion between an operating mechanism unit and a vacuum valve. The insulation rod is connected to the operating mechanism unit and the vacuum valve by rod-shaped pins. To prevent the insulation rod itself from falling, connection is made by shifting phases of the pins 90 degrees, respectively, each pin being connected to the operating mechanism unit and the vacuum valve. Accordingly, the falling of the insulation rod, the use of an insulation support tube and an insulation support for ensuring mechanical strength, are avoided. Further fastening of those supports by bolts or the like is not needed. Increases in the number of components, the size of the shape of assembly members around the insulation rod, and weight due to such increases, are prevented. |
| US08895870B2 |
Printed circuit board and method of manufacturing the same
A plurality of wiring traces and a plurality of lead wires for plating are formed on a base insulating layer. Each wiring trace and each lead wire for plating are integrally formed with each other. An electrode pad is provided at an end of each wiring trace, and the lead wire for plating is provided to extend from each electrode pad toward the opposite side to the wiring trace. A width of each lead wire for plating is set larger than a width of each wiring trace. |
| US08895869B2 |
Mounting structure of electronic component
Electrode protective films 13a and 13b are formed on the surface of the metal layer using imidazole preflux, as terminal electrodes 35a and 35b of an electronic component. The terminal electrodes of an electronic component on which the protective films are formed are fixed by electroconductive adhesives 33a and 33b supplied to mounting lands 40a and 40b. Thereby an electronic component mounting structure without change in resistance caused by electroconductive adhesives is provided. |
| US08895866B2 |
Printed circuit board structure
A printed circuit board structure includes a plurality of circuit layer plates stacked together in which each of the stacked circuit layer plates includes an epoxy resin plate body and a fabric structure completely encapsulated in the epoxy resin plate body, and each circuit layer plate stacked between two circuit layer plates is further provided with filler particles distributed in its epoxy resin plate body, and the two opposite and outermost circuit layer plates thereof have metal soldering pads on the outer surfaces of the epoxy resin plate body thereof, and the two opposite and outermost circuit layer plates do not have the filler particles in its epoxy resin plate body thereof. |
| US08895865B2 |
Conductive connections allowing XYZ translation
The embodiments relates generally to the use of conductive connections for electrically grounding a series of conductive substrates. More specifically the embodiments teach configurations of conductive connections that do not overly constrain relative motion between the connected conductive substrates. Conductive pressure sensitive adhesive is used to attach opposing ends of the conductive connectors to the conductive substrates. A substrate portion of the conductive connectors is scored by a cutting device such as a die cutter to reduce rigidity of the substrate portion. |
| US08895862B2 |
Substrate structure
A substrate structure for carrying plural heat generating elements is provided. The substrate structure includes a board, a patterned metal layer and plural heat dissipating channels. The board has an upper surface. The patterned metal layer is disposed on the board and includes a first electrode, a second electrode, plural first pads and plural second pads. The first pads and the second pads are alternatively disposed on the upper surface in parallel. Parts of the first (second) pads are electrically connected to the first (second) electrode. The other parts of first pads and the other parts of second pads are electrically connected to each other. Each first pad and the adjacent second pad define a device bonding area. The heat generating elements are respectively disposed in the device bonding areas. There are multiple trenches between the two adjacent device bonding areas. The heat dissipating channels are disposed in the trenches. |
| US08895857B2 |
Flame-retardant composition and insulated wire, and method for producing flame-retardant composition
A flame-retardant composition that is more excellent in heat resistance than a conventional flame-retardant composition. The flame-retardant composition contains silane-crosslinked polyolefin, polyolefin, a metallic hydrate, a phenolic antioxidant, a sulfurous antioxidant, a metallic oxide, and a copper inhibitor. The sulfurous antioxidant is preferably a benzimidazole compound, and the metallic oxide is preferably a zinc oxide. The silane-crosslinked polyolefin is preferably polyethylene having a density of 0.880 to 0.910 g/cm3 that is silane-crosslinked. The polyolefin is preferably polyethylene having a density of 0.880 to 0.910 g/cm3, or an olefin elastomer having a melting point of 140° C. or more. |
| US08895856B2 |
Compression connector and assembly for composite cables and methods for making and using same
A compression connector and assembly include an elongated, interiorly hollow tube, and at least one tubular sleeve, the tube including a first material exhibiting a first axial extrusion rate and the sleeve including a second material exhibiting a second axial extrusion rate, wherein the sleeve wall thickness is selected such that, when inserted into the tube and subjected to mechanical compression in a direction substantially orthogonal to the tube's exterior surface, deforms so that the first and second materials extrude axially at substantially the same rate. In some exemplary embodiments, the sleeve wall thickness may be selected to be thin, or the sleeve may include a multiplicity of axially spaced-apart corrugations formed in at least one exterior or interior surface. The assembly may include stranded composite wires, optionally with a tape covering only a portion of the composite wires. A method of making the compression connector is also described. |
| US08895851B2 |
Shielding of high voltage cables
A magnetically shielded cable arrangement, comprising at least two AC cables (201-203) comprising a spaced portion extending between two close portions of parallel cables, such spaced portion sequentially including a diverging portion, a widely spaced portion and a converging portion, and an EMF shielding system (1) laid over said at least two AC cables (201-203), said EMF shielding system (1) comprising a conductor (2, 3, 11, 12) having two branches (2, 3) forming a median portion (4, 5) and end portions (7-10), the median portion width being equal to or larger than the AC cables distance in the widely spaced portion and the width at the extremities of the end portions (7-10) being larger than the AC cables distance in the close portions and smaller than the AC cables distance in the widely spaced portion, said conductor (2, 3, 11, 12) comprising an inner electrical path (2a, 3a) and an outer electrical path (2e, 3e) connected together (11, 12) at relevant longitudinal ends. |
| US08895845B2 |
Photovoltaic device
Methods and apparatus are provided for converting electromagnetic radiation, such as solar energy, into electric energy with increased efficiency when compared to conventional solar cells. A photovoltaic (PV) unit, according to embodiments of the invention, may have a very thin absorber layer produced by epitaxial lift-off (ELO), all electrical contacts positioned on the back side of the PV device to avoid shadowing, and/or front side and back side light trapping employing a diffuser and a reflector to increase absorption of the photons impinging on the front side of the PV unit. Several PV units may be combined into PV banks, and an array of PV banks may be connected to form a PV module with thin strips of metal or conductive polymer applied at low temperature. Such innovations may allow for greater efficiency and flexibility in PV devices when compared to conventional solar cells. |
| US08895842B2 |
High quality TCO-silicon interface contact structure for high efficiency thin film silicon solar cells
A method and apparatus for forming solar cells is provided. In one embodiment, a photovoltaic device includes a first TCO layer disposed on a substrate, a second TCO layer disposed on the first TCO layer, and a p-type silicon containing layer formed on the second TCO layer. In another embodiment, a method of forming a photovoltaic device includes forming a first TCO layer on a substrate, forming a second TCO layer on the first TCO layer, and forming a first p-i-n junction on the second TCO layer. |
| US08895841B2 |
Carbon nanotube based silicon photovoltaic device
A photovoltaic device includes a silicon substrate, an intrinsic layer, a carbon nanotube structure and a first electrode. The silicon substrate has a front surface and a rear surface. The intrinsic layer is disposed on the front surface of the silicon substrate. The carbon nanotube structure is disposed on the intrinsic layer. The first electrode is disposed on the rear surface of the silicon substrate. |
| US08895838B1 |
Multijunction solar cell employing extended heterojunction and step graded antireflection structures and methods for constructing the same
Material and antireflection structure designs and methods of manufacturing are provided that produce efficient photovoltaic power conversion from single- and multijunction devices. Materials of different energy gap are combined in the depletion region of at least one of the semiconductor junctions. Higher energy gap layers are positioned to reduce the diode dark current and enhance the operating voltage by suppressing both carrier injections across the junction and recombination rates within the junction. Step-graded antireflection structures are placed above the active region of the device in order to increase the photocurrent. |
| US08895834B1 |
Solar tracker assembly
An assembly is disclosed for adjusting the position of a solar array or device to enable it to maintain a desired solar energy reception throughout each day's operation of the assembly. Solar panels are mounted on a first axle and a second axle, and the axles are mutually orthogonal. The assembly also includes a first motor for rotating the array and the panels relative to the first axle in a direction providing azimuth angle position adjustment and a second motor for rotating the array and the panels and the second axle in a direction providing elevation angle position adjustment. The motors are electrically connected to and powered by their respective solar panels. Divider circuits control the current fed into the motors to control the rotational movement in order to control the azimuth and elevation orientation of the panels and also control the orientation of the array so that it continually faces the sun throughout the diurnal operation of the assembly and so that it maintains the desired degree of solar energy reception throughout the day. The orientation of one of the panels enables it to reposition the assembly for operation at each successive sunrise. |
| US08895831B2 |
Method for synthesizing tone signal and tone signal generating system
An electronic piano includes a tone signal synthesizing system implemented by software, keys and key sensors monitoring the keys and reporting the key positions to the tone signal synthesizing system, and the tone signal synthesizing system includes damper model calculating modules for determining resistance against vibrations of wires of an a piano, a hammer model calculating module for determining force exerted on the wires, string model calculating modules for determining force exerted on an instrument body of the piano by the wires on the basis of the resistance and force exerted on the wires, an instrument body model calculating module for determining displacements of instrument body on the basis of the force exerted on the instrument body and an air model calculating module for determining a sound pressure at an observation point from the displacement of instrument body. |
| US08895830B1 |
Interactive game based on user generated music content
Systems and methods are provided herein relating to interactive gaming within a media sharing service. Game data, such as sets of notes extracted from the audio track of user generated videos or from audio samples, can be generated based on videos containing musical content or from audio content. A device can use the game data to facilitate an interactive game during playback of the user generated videos or audio samples. Players can press buttons, for example, corresponding to notes as the video with musical content is played within the game interface. Players can be scored for accuracy, and can play with other players in a multiplayer environment. In this sense, user generated video content or audio content can be transformed and used within a gaming interface to increase interaction and engagement between users in a media sharing service. |
| US08895829B2 |
Music playing movement display device, method and recording medium
A music playing movement display device includes CPU displaying a music playing movement image on a display unit based on music playing information, movement information, and structural data stored in RAM. the CPU determines whether to perform display of a music playing technique based on a music playing technique flag of the music playing information stored in the RAM, and, when determining to perform the display of the music playing technique, allows to change a display mode of the image corresponding to the music playing technique, compared to a display mode of a image corresponding to that of a case of not displaying the music playing technique. |
| US08895827B1 |
Percussion instrument dampening pad
A percussion instrument dampening pad (PIDP) that is designed to be attached to the vibrating surface of a drumhead, a drum, a cymbal or the like. The PIDP functions by reducing unwanted vibrations and overtones that occur when the drumhead or cymbal is struck. The PIDP is comprised of at least one composite upper section, a first vibration absorbent layer preferably comprised of polyurethane puron foam, and a second vibration absorbent layer preferably comprised of butyl rubber that is in contact with the vibrating surface of the drumhead, drum or the cymbal. The composite upper section is further comprised of a metallized layer, a fabric layer and an adhesive layer. The PIDP also includes indicia and a removable liner that is removed prior to attaching the exposed butyl rubber to the surface of a drumhead or the like. |
| US08895825B2 |
Methods and devices for muting a harmonica
The present invention provides methods and devices for attenuating sound emanating from a harmonica when played while practicing or performing by a player. The methods and devices include a sound blocking and reflecting means and, optionally, a sound absorbing means. |
| US08895824B2 |
Reverse bridge tension configuration for a stringed instrument
A reverse bridge tension configuration for a stringed instrument allows the stringed instrument to offset some of the tension felt by the bridge. For a typical stringed instrument such as a guitar, the tensioned strings are bound between the bridge and the headstock. However, the reverse bridge tension configuration loops the tensioned strings on a path that goes around the back of the instrument, through the body of the instrument, and back to the bridge. A reverse bridge is positioned on the corner of the soundboard and the back end so that the tensioned strings can loop around the back end without causing pressure damage to the outer surface of the instrument. Once the tensioned strings travel around the reverse bridge and into the body, channels are positioned within the body in order to guide the tensioned strings back to the bridge. |
| US08895819B1 |
Maize inbred PH1KTF
A novel maize variety designated PH1KTF and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1KTF with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1KTF through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1KTF or a locus conversion of PH1KTF with another maize variety. |
| US08895818B2 |
Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits
This disclosure describes screening a population of transgenic plants derived from plant cells transformed with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins with homeobox domains to identify plant cells of specific transgenic events that are useful for imparting enhanced traits to transgenic crop plants. Traits include enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, increased yield, enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced tolerance to cold stress and/or improved seed compositions. Also disclosed are transgenic seeds for growing a transgenic plant having the recombinant DNA in its genome and exhibiting the screened enhance trait. Also disclosed are methods for generating seed and plants based on the transgenic events. |
| US08895816B2 |
Pepper hybrid PX 09966947
The invention provides seed and plants of pepper hybrid PX 09966947 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid PX 09966947 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. |
| US08895815B1 |
Soybean variety XB38AT13
A novel soybean variety, designated XB38AT13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB38AT13, cells from soybean variety XB38AT13, plants of soybean XB38AT13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB38AT13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB38AT13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB38AT13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB38AT13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB38AT13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB38AT13 are further provided. |
| US08895807B2 |
RabG3b gene and protein thereof for regulating late stage xylem development, method for promoting plant biomass and transgenic plant comprising the same
There are provided a method for promoting plant biomass by overexpression of a gene coding a small GTP binding protein RabG3b or mutants thereof, a vector including the gene, a transgenic plant comprising the expression vector and a method for preparing the transgenic plant. |
| US08895799B2 |
Absorber forming crossbridge upon absorbing
Provided are an absorbent and an absorptive article containing the absorbent which has excellent water absorbability and leakage prevention ability, and has an intent to achieve reductions in the weight and thickness of an absorptive article.The absorbent comprises a polysaccharide that causes a gelation reaction in the presence of a polyvalent metal ion and a source of the polyvalent ion, in which the polyvalent ion is supplied simultaneously with or after dissolution and swelling of the polysaccharide. The absorptive article containing the absorbent can achieve excellent water absorbability and leakage prevention ability and thus reductions in the weight and thickness as the absorptive article. |
| US08895798B2 |
Method for altering an operation of an alkylation unit
One exemplary embodiment can be a method for altering an operation of an alkylation unit during a process upset. The method may include blocking an outlet of a settler to a separation zone, and recycling at least a portion of a hydrocarbon stream to the separation zone to prevent an uncontrolled pressure rise in one or more distillation columns during shutdown of an alkylation reactor. |
| US08895794B2 |
Process for producing high quality gasoline blending components in two modes
We provide a process for producing high quality gasoline blending components, comprising: a) operating an alkylation reactor in an alkylate mode wherein a gasoline blending component is made having a RON of 90 or higher; and b) operating the alkylation reactor in a distillate mode wherein a second gasoline blending component and a distillate product is made, and wherein the second gasoline blending component has a RON of 85 or higher. Also, we provide an alkylation process unit, comprising: a control system connected to an alkylation reactor, that enables the alkylation reactor to operate in both an alkylate mode that produces a gasoline blending component having a RON of 90 or higher and in a distillate mode that produces a second gasoline blending component having a RON of 85 or higher. |
| US08895791B2 |
Method of regenerating ruthenium catalysts suitable for hydrogenation
The present invention relates to a method of regenerating a ruthenium catalyst suitable for hydrogenation, which comprises flushing the catalyst with inert gas in a regeneration step until the original activity or part of the original activity has been attained. The method is particularly useful for ruthenium catalysts which are used for the hydrogenation of aromatics. |
| US08895786B2 |
Processes for increasing alcohol production
A process for reducing ethyl acetate and/or diethyl acetal concentration of a crude ethanol product by hydrolysis is disclosed. A portion of the water is initially separated from the crude ethanol product in a first column residue. Ethyl acetate in the first column distillate is hydrolyzed to form additional ethanol and acetic acid. Product ethanol is recovered in a second distillation column preferably in a side stream and acetic acid is removed in the second column residue. |
| US08895782B2 |
Alkynyl phenyl derivative compounds for treating ophthalmic diseases and disorders
Provided are alkynyl phenyl derivative compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of treating ophthalmic diseases and disorders, such as age-related macular degeneration and Stargardt's Disease, using said compounds and compositions. |
| US08895780B2 |
Process for preparing N-H or N-alkyl 2-propynamide
Disclosed is a method for the synthesis of N—H or N-alkyl 2-propynamides useful as intermediate in the manufacture of pharmaceutically active ingredients. |
| US08895774B2 |
Process for producing isocyanates using diaryl carbonate
An object of the present invention is to provide a process that enables isocyanate to be produced stably over a long period of time and at high yield without encountering problems of the prior art during production of isocyanate without using phosgene. The present invention provides an isocyanate production process including the steps of: obtaining a reaction mixture containing an aryl carbamate having an aryl group originating in a diaryl carbonate, an aromatic hydroxy compound originating in a diaryl carbonate, and a diaryl carbonate, by reacting a diaryl carbonate and an amine compound in the presence of a reaction solvent in the form of an aromatic hydroxy compound; transferring the reaction mixture to a thermal decomposition reaction vessel; and obtaining isocyanate by applying the aryl carbamate to a thermal decomposition reaction, wherein the reaction vessel in which the reaction between the diaryl carbonate and the amine compound is carried out and the thermal decomposition reaction vessel for the aryl carbamate are different. |
| US08895772B2 |
Process for preparing bicalutamide
The present invention provide processes for the preparation of N-[4-Cyano-3-(trifluoro methyl)phenyl]-3-[(4-fluorophenyl)sulphonyl]-2-hydroxy-2-methyl propanamide (I).The present application also provides a method of purification of N-[4-Cyano-3-(trifluoro methyl)phenyl]-3-[(4-fluorophenyl)sulphonyl]-2-hydroxy-2-methyl propanamide (I) using ethyl acetate solvent resulting in the product, substantially free from process related impurities A, B, C and D. The crystalline product of the process according to the present invention having an XRDP pattern as per FIG. 1, is useful as an active pharmaceutical and has anti-androgenic activity. |
| US08895768B2 |
Cyclopara (hetero) arylene compound and method for producing same
Provided are a cyclopara(hetero)arylene compound and a method for producing the same. More specifically, provided is a cycloparaphenylene compound represented by Formula (I): wherein Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, and Ar4 are the same or different, and represent an optionally substituted divalent aromatic group or an optionally substituted divalent heteroaromatic group, and n1, n2, n3, and n4 are the same or different, and represent an integer of 1 or more. |
| US08895760B2 |
Process for the preparation of L-lactide of high chemical yield and optical purity
A process for the synthesis of 100% optically pure L(+)-lactide catalyzed by zinc and tin metal catalysts of less than 150 micron particle size is disclosed. The L-lactide obtained was further purified to obtain lactide of 100% optical purity and acid impurities less than 10 meq/kg. |
| US08895758B2 |
Forms of [R-(R*,R*)]-2-(4-fluorophenyl)-β, δ-Dihydroxy-5-(1-methylethyl)-3-phenyl-4-[(phenylamino)carbonyl]-1H-pyrrole-1-heptanoic acid calcium salt (2:1)
Novel forms of [R—(R*,R*)]-2-(4-fluorophenyl)-β,δ-dihydroxy-5-(1-methylethyl)-3-phenyl-4-[(phenylamino)carbonyl]-1H-pyrrole-1-heptanoic acid hemi calcium salt designated Form XX, Form XXI, Form XXII, Form XXIII, Form XXIV, Form XXV, Form XXVI, Form XXVII, Form XXVIII, Form XXIX, and Form XXX, characterized by their X-ray powder diffraction, solid-state NMR, and/or Raman spectroscopy are described, as well as methods for the preparation and pharmaceutical composition of the same, which are useful as agents for treating hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, osteoporosis, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and Alzheimer's disease. |
| US08895757B2 |
Process for the preparation of pyrazole carboxylic acid amides
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of 3-difluoromethyl-1-methyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid (9-dichloromethylene-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,4-methano-naphthalen-5-yl)-amide by acylating the oxime oxygen of the compound of formula (VIII), in the presence of a solvent and an acylating agent of formula (XI) R1C(X)—CI (XI); wherein X is oxygen or sulfur; R1 is chloro if X is oxygen or sulfur; or R1 is C1-C6alkoxy, CH3—C(═CH2)—O—, phenoxy or trichloromethoxy if X is oxygen; and a) if R1 is chloro and the compound of formula (XI) was added to the compound of formula (VIII); reacting the so obtained product of formula (XIIa) wherein X is oxygen or sulfur; with the compound of formula (IX) b) if R1 is chloro and the compound of formula (VIII) was added to the compound of formula (XI); or R1 is C1-C6alkoxy, CH3—C(═CH2)—O—, phenoxy or trichloromethoxy if X is oxygen; reacting the so obtained product of formula (XII) wherein X is oxygen or sulfur; R1 is chloro if X is oxygen or sulfur; or R1 is C1-C6alkoxy, CH3—C(═CH2)—O—, phenoxy or trichloromethoxy if X is oxygen; with the compound of formula (IX). |
| US08895755B2 |
Intermediates for preparing dual-acting benzyl triazole antihypertensive agents having angiotensin II type I receptor antagonist activity and neprilysin-inhibition activity
The invention is directed to intermediates for preparing compounds having the formula: wherein: Ar, X, R3 ,and R5-7 are as defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. These compounds have AT1 receptor antagonist activity and neprilysin inhibition activity. |
| US08895754B2 |
Process to make UV radiation absorbing 2-phenyl-1,2,3,-benzotriazoles
The invention relates to an improved process for the manufacture of novel benzotriazoles as well to novel benzotriazoles obtained by the novel process. This novel economical process provides products in high purity and yields. |
| US08895749B2 |
4-(4-pyridinyl)-benzamides and their use as rock activity modulators
The present invention relates to novel 4-(4-pyridyl)-benzamides of the formula (I). The compounds I possess valuable therapeutic properties and are suitable, in particular, for treating diseases that respond to modulation of Rho kinases (ROCKs). R1 and R2 are, independently of each other, hydrogen, hydroxy, cyano, C1-C8-alkyl, C1-C8-haloalkyl, C1-C8-alkoxy or C1-C8-haloalkoxy; R3, R4, R5 and R6 are, independently of each other, hydrogen, hydroxy, halogen, cyano, C1-C8-alkyl, C1-C8-haloalkyl, C1-C8-alkoxy, C1-C8-haloalkoxy, amino, C1-C8-alkylamino or di-(C1-C8-alkyl)-amino; R7 is hydrogen, C1-C8-alkyl, C1-C8-haloalkyl, aryl or aryl-C1-C8-alkyl; R8 is a group of the formula —X—W, where X is a single bond, C1-C4-alkylene or C1-C4-alkylene-O—, where the alkylene group in the three last-mentioned radicals may be linear or branched and may be partly or fully halogenated and/or may be substituted by a hydroxyl group and/or may be interrupted by an oxygen atom; and W is a cyclic radical selected from phenyl and a 5- or 6-membered saturated, partly unsaturated or aromatic heterocyclic ring which contains as ring members 1, 2 or 3 heteroatoms selected from O, S and N and optionally 1 or 2 carbonyl groups; R9 is a group of the formula —Y—Z, where Z is hydrogen, halogen, OR11, NR12R13, S(O)m—R14, phenyl which may carry 1, 2, 3 or 4 substituents R15 or a 5- or 6-membered saturated, partly unsaturated or aromatic heterocyclic ring; and Y is linear or branched C1C4-alkylene which may be partly or fully halogenated and/or may be substituted by a hydroxyl group and/or a phenyl ring; or, in case Z is phenyl or the 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring as defined above, Y can also be a single bond. |
| US08895748B2 |
Synthesis for thiazolidinedione compounds
The present invention provides novel methods for synthesizing PPARγ sparing compounds, e.g., thiazolidinediones, that are useful for preventing and/or treating metabolic disorders such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and inflammatory diseases. |
| US08895747B2 |
Method and substances for preparation of N-substituted pyridinium compounds
Methods for the synthesis of N-substituted pyridinium compounds by using an N-heteroaryl substituted pyridinium salt (Zincke salt) and reacting it with a nucleophilic amine are provided. Novel purine-substituted pyridyl compounds, which may be useful reagents in the above reaction, are also disclosed. |
| US08895735B2 |
Preparation process of (6R)-tetrahydrobiopterin hydrochloride
A preparation process of (6R)-tetrahydrobiopterin hydrochloride is provided, which comprises hydrogenating L-biopterin in the presence of a catalyst of Pt group metal in the basic substrate containing solvent, potassium hydroxide and potassium dihydrogen phosphate to obtain (6R)-tetrahydrobiopterin hydrochloride, wherein the pH value of the basic substrate is controlled by potassium hydroxide and potassium dihydrogen phosphate in the range of about 10 to about 13. |
| US08895732B2 |
Process for the separation of enantiomers of 3,6-dihydro-1,3,5-triazine derivatives
Method for the chromatographic separation of compounds of the formula (I), in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, and acid-addition salts thereof, characterized in that the separation is carried out on a chiral ion-exchanger material. |
| US08895731B2 |
Triazine derivatives
The invention relates to novel intermediates for the preparation of substituted triazines used in particular in the cosmetic, detergent, coating, plastics and textile industries. The invention also relates to the processes for preparation of said intermediates and for the conversion of the latter into final products. |
| US08895727B2 |
Method for preparation of fluorine-18-labeled flumazenil using diaryliodonium salt precursor
Disclosed is the synthesis of [18F]flumazenil that is useful in imaging epileptic lesions by PET (positron emission tomography). A method for preparing [18F]flumazenil by reacting a diaryliodonium salt precursor with the positron-emitting radionuclide fluorine-18. [18F]flumazenil can be prepared from the diaryliodonium salt precursor in the presence of kryptofix2.2.2./potassium carbonate(K2.2.2./K2CO3) and TEMPO in dimethylformamide (DMF) at a high yield. |
| US08895725B2 |
Use of 9, 10-anthraquinone compounds
Use of 9,10-anthraquinone compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutical salts thereof or plant extracts containing said compounds in the preparation of anti-HCV medicaments is disclosed, in which Y1 are Y2 are independently hydrogen, hydroxyl or groups of formula (II); and R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently hydrogen, hydroxyl, carboxyl, cyano group, nitro group, groups of formula (III) or groups selected from those substituted or unsubstituted groups: amino, C1-C6 aliphatic hydrocarbon, C3-C7 cyclic aliphatic hydrocarbon, C1-C6 alkoxy, C2-C7 carbalkoxy, C1-C4 acyloxy, C6-C20 aryl, or 5 to 7 members heterocyclic or benzoheterocyclic thereof; or R5 and R6 form the group of formula (IV). The compounds of present invention are cheap, safe and effective because that they mostly come from traditional Chinese medicines and have better anti-HCV effects and lighter side effects. |
| US08895721B2 |
RNA interference mediating small RNA molecules
Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) induces sequence-specific post-transcriptional gene silencing in many organisms by a process known as RNA interference (RNAi). Using a Drosophila in vitro system, we demonstrate that 19-23 nt short RNA fragments are the sequence-specific mediators of RNAi. The short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are generated by an RNase III-like processing reaction from long dsRNA. Chemically synthesized siRNA duplexes with overhanging 3′ ends mediate efficient target RNA cleavage in the lysate, and the cleavage site is located near the center of the region spanned by the guiding siRNA. Furthermore, we provide evidence that the direction of dsRNA processing determines whether sense or antisense target RNA can be cleaved by the produced siRNP complex. |
| US08895719B2 |
Markers for pre-cancer and cancer cells and the method to interfere with cell proliferation therein
A novel family of human mitochondrial RNAs, referred to as chimeric RNAs, which are differentially expressed in normal, pre-cancer and cancer cells, are described. Oligonucleotides targeted to the chimeric RNAs are provided. The described oligonucleotides or their analogs can be used for cancer diagnostics and cancer therapy as well as for research. In one embodiment of this invention, these oligonucleotides hybridize with the sense or with the antisense mitochondrial chimeric RNAs, and the result of the hybridization is useful to differentiate between normal proliferating cells, pre-cancer cells and cancer cells. In another embodiment of the invention, the compositions comprise oligonucleotides that hybridize with the human chimeric RNAs resulting in cancer cell and pre-cancer cell death, while there is no effect in normal cells, constituting therefore, a novel approach for cancer therapy. |
| US08895718B2 |
RNA interference mediating small RNA molecules
Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) induces sequence-specific post-transcriptional gene silencing in many organisms by a process known as RNA interference (RNAi). Using a Drosophila in vitro system, we demonstrate that 19-23 nt short RNA fragments are the sequence-specific mediators of RNAi. The short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are generated by an RNase III-like processing reaction from long dsRNA. Chemically synthesized siRNA duplexes with overhanging 3′ ends mediate efficient target RNA cleavage in the lysate, and the cleavage site is located near the center of the region spanned by the guiding siRNA. Furthermore, we provide evidence that the direction of dsRNA processing determines whether sense or antisense target RNA can be cleaved by the produced siRNP complex. |
| US08895717B2 |
Delivery of siRNA by neutral lipid compositions
The present invention relates to the fields of molecular biology and drug delivery. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides methods for the delivery of a siNA (e.g., a siRNA) to a cell via a neutral (non-charged) liposome. These methods may be used to treat a disease, such as cancer. |
| US08895714B2 |
Biological products
There is disclosed antibody molecules containing at least one CDR derived from a mouse monoclonal antibody having specificity for human CD22. There is also disclosed a CDR grafted antibody wherein at least one of the CDRs is a modified CDR. Further disclosed are DNA sequences encoding the claims of the antibody molecules, vectors, transformed host cells and uses of the antibody molecules in the treatment of diseases mediated by cells expressing CD22. |
| US08895713B2 |
Clostridial neurotoxins with altered persistency
The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising: (a) a HC-domain or fragment thereof of the neurotoxic component of a clostridial toxin; and (b) a first LC domain or fragment thereof of the neurotoxic component of a clostridial toxin; and (c) at least one further LC domain or fragment thereof of the neurotoxic component of a clostridial toxin wherein the first and the at least one further LC domain may be the same or different from each other, and wherein each of said fragments of said first and of said at least one further LC domain still exhibits proteolytic activity. |
| US08895708B2 |
Pasteurisation process for microbial cells and microbial oil
A protocol for pasteurizing microbial cells is disclosed. The protocol has three stages, a first heating stage, a second plateau stage at which the cells are held at a (maximum and) constant temperature, and a third cooling stage. The heating and cooling stages are rapid, with the temperature of the cells passing through 40 to 80° C. in no more than 30 minutes in the heating stage. The heating rate is at least 0.5° C./minute and during cooling is at least −0.5° C./minute. The plateau maximum temperature is from 70 to 85° C. By plotting the pasteurization protocol on a time (t, minutes) versus temperature (T, ° C.) graph, a trapezium is obtained having an area less than 13,000° C. minute. This results in a smaller energy input and a better quality oil results having a peroxide value (POV) of less than 1.5 and an anisidine value (AnV) of less than 1.0. |
| US08895705B2 |
Antibodies against a proliferating inducing ligand (APRIL) and methods of use thereof
The present invention relates to a binding compound which binds to human APRIL. More specifically the invention provides, compositions of anti-APRIL specific antibodies and methods to use such antibodies in modulating the biological activity APRIL, particularly in inflammatory diseases, inhibition of cell proliferation and cancer. |
| US08895704B2 |
High affinity antibodies that neutralize Staphylococcus enterotoxin B
Provided herein are antibodies that specifically bind and neutralize Staphylococcus enterotoxin B. In addition, nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, and cells that express such antibodies are provided. Also provided are methods for treating diseases mediated by, and for neutralizing Staphylococcus enterotoxin B. |
| US08895703B2 |
CA125 gene and its use for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions
The CA125 gene has been cloned and multiple repeat sequences as well as the carboxy terminus have been identified. The CA125 molecule comprises three major domains: an extracellular amino terminal domain (Domain 1); a large multiple repeat domain (Domain 2); and a carboxy terminal domain (Domain 3) which includes a transmembrane anchor with a short cytoplasmic domain. An amino terminal extension is present. The molecular structure is dominated by a repeat domain comprising 156 amino acid repeat units. More than 60 repeat units have been identified, sequenced, and contiguously placed in the CA125 domain structure. The repeat units encompass an interactive disulfide bridged C-enclosure and the site of OC125 and M11 binding. The repeat sequences demonstrated 70-85% homology to each other. Expression of the repeats was demonstrated in E. coli. The CA125 molecule is anchored at its carboxy terminal through a transmembrane domain and a short cytoplasmic tail. |
| US08895699B2 |
Stabilized compounds having secondary structure motifs
The present invention provides novel stabilized crosslinked compounds having secondary structure motifs, libraries of these novel compounds, and methods for the synthesis of these compounds libraries thereof. The synthesis of these novel stabilized compounds involves (1) synthesizing a peptide from a selected number of natural or non-natural amino acids, wherein the peptide comprises at least two moieties capable of undergoing reaction to promote carbon-carbon bond formation; and (2) contacting the peptide with a reagent to generate at least one crosslinker and to effect stabilization of a secondary structure motif. The present invention, in a preferred embodiment, provides stabilized p53 donor helical peptides. Additionally, the present invention provides methods for disrupting the p53/MDM2 binding interaction comprising (1) providing a crosslinked stabilized a-helical structure; and (2) contacting the crosslinked stabilized a-helical structure with MDM2. |
| US08895698B2 |
Binding partners of antibodies specific for dendritic cell antigens
The present invention relates to the field of diagnostics, therapeutics and immunological reagents. More particularly, the present invention provides binding partners of antibodies specific for dendritic cell (DC) antigens. The present invention further provides diagnostic and/or therapeutic agent based on the binding partners or antibodies specific for the binding partners. |
| US08895692B2 |
Fused ring compound and method for producing same, polymer, organic thin film containing those, and organic thin film device and organic thin film transistor comprising such organic thin film
It is an object of the present invention to provide a fused ring compound which can exhibit sufficient charge transport properties and which has excellent solubility in a solvent. The fused ring compound according to the present invention is represented by the following general formula (1), wherein R11 and R12 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an alkylamino group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an optionally substituted aryl group having 6 to 60 carbon atoms, an optionally substituted heterocyclic group having 4 to 60 carbon atoms, or a cyano group, provided that at least one of R11 and R12 is not a hydrogen atom; R13 and R14 each independently represent a monovalent group, and n and m each independently denote an integer of 0 to 2; and Y11 and Y12 are each independently a divalent group comprising a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, a selenium atom or a tellurium atom. |
| US08895689B2 |
Production of polymers from waste cooking oil
An alkyd resin formed by reacting waste cooking oil, one or more aromatic polycarboxylic acids, aliphatic polycarboxylic acids, or esterified polymerization products, and one or more polyols. |
| US08895688B2 |
Halogen-free flame retarding materials based on bisphenol triazole resins and polymers
The invention provides halogen-free, bisphenol triazole resins and polymers having exceptional flame retarding properties, related compositions and methods of making and use thereof. |
| US08895678B2 |
Cross-linkable silicone composition and cross-linked product thereof
A cross-linkable silicone composition comprising at least the following components: (A) an organopolysiloxane represented by an average unit formula and containing phenyl and alkenyl groups; (B) an organopolysiloxane represented by a general formula and containing phenyl and alkenyl groups; (C) an organopolysiloxane having in one molecule at least one phenyl group and two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms; and (D) a hydrosilylation catalyst, can be cross-linked by a hydrosilylation reaction and forms a solid body which has high hardness at room temperature and becomes significantly soft or a liquefied at high temperature. |
| US08895674B2 |
Method for providing a side-chain dendrimer vesicle
A method disclosed for making a side-chain dendrimer vesicle. The method includes the steps of: At first, there is provided a random copolymer with a narrow distribution of molecular weights by active polymerization and chemical modification. Then, chemical modification is executed to graft various generations of dendrimers to the random copolymer to provide a side-chain dendritic random copolymer with various generations. Two steps of emulsification are taken to induce macromolecular self-assembling of the side-chain dendritic random copolymer solution to form the macromolecular vesicle. The side-chain dendrimer includes C10˜C18 hydrophobic alkyl chains. |
| US08895660B2 |
Poly(butylene-co-adipate terephthalate), method of manufacture, and uses thereof
A method for preparing poly(butylene terephthalate-co-adipate)copolymer includes reacting (i) poly(butylene terephthalate-co-adipate)oligomers, wherein the oligomers comprise at least one polymer residue derived from a polyethylene terephthalate component and a quencher, with (ii) a chain extender under conditions sufficient to form the poly(butylene terephthalate-co-adipate)copolymer. |
| US08895659B2 |
Polypropylene homopolymers with high heat deflection temperature, high stiffness and flowability
The invention relates to a polypropylene composition showing a high melt flow rate and simultaneously high stiffness and a process for the production thereof. The invention further relates to a material comprising the inventive polypropylene. |
| US08895655B2 |
Automotive lamp extension molding
[Problem to be Solved] The present invention has an object to provide an automotive lamp extension molding comprising a resin composition having a low specific gravity, being excellent in the balance of heat resistance and fluidity, and being excellent in gloss and brightness feeling of the surface of the molded article. [Solution] The automotive lamp extension molding according to the present invention comprises a resin composition comprising 50 to 95 mass % of a polyphenylene ether (A), and having a specific gravity in the range of 1.00 to 1.12. The reduced viscosity (measured at 30° C. using a chloroform solvent) of the (A) component is preferably 0.25 to 0.45 dl/g, and more preferably 0.25 to 0.38 dl/g. |
| US08895649B2 |
Flame retardant polycarbonate compositions, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same
Disclosed herein is a flame retardant composition comprising 10 to 90 weight percent of a linear polycarbonate; 5 to 50 weight percent of a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer; where the polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer comprises 10 weight percent or more of polysiloxane and where the molecular weight of the polysiloxane is 30,000 grams per mole or greater; and 1 to 20 weight percent of a phosphazene compound; where all weight percents are based on the total weight of the composition. |
| US08895648B2 |
Phosphorus-containing flame retardants
A flame-retardant resin composition comprises a base resin (A), such as a polyester, polyamide or polycarbonate resin, and an organophosphorus compound (B) having at least one of the following formulas (I), (II) and (III): where A is selected from O, S, SO2, a single bond, alkyl, and —CH2—P1; P1 is a phosphorus-containing group of the formula: R1 and R2 are the same or different and each is selected from H, O-alkyl, O-aryl, alkyl, aryl, and OM; R3 is H or alkyl; M=Na, K, Zn, Al, Ca; a is an integer from 0 to 4, provided that a is at least 1 unit for each polymer chain; n is an integer from 1 to 100,000 and m is an integer from 0 to 100,000. |
| US08895644B2 |
Resin composition and lighting fixture components made of the same
Disclosed is a resin composition including a thermoplastic resin (A), carbon fibers (B), graphite particles (C), an absorbent (D) selected from the group consisting of calcium hydroxide, zeolite, and hydrotalcite, and an antioxidant (E) or a combination of an antioxidant (E) and a compound (F) selected from a compound group consisting of compounds represented by CnHn+2 (OH)n wherein n represents an integer of 4 or greater, alkoxy forms derived from compounds represented by the following formula (2), trehalose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, melicitose, stachyose, curdlan, glycogen, glucose, and fructose. A lighting fixture component made of this resin composition is also disclosed. |
| US08895643B2 |
Cold-pressed mats of lignocellulosic material having improved cold tack and a process for their production
Cold-pressed mats of lignocellulosic material having a Push Off Test extension equal to at least 85% of that of a mat made with a urea-formaldehyde resin are produced from a lignocellulosic material and binder system. These mats are produced at ambient temperature by separately adding each component of the binder system to the lignocellulosic material, blending the lignocellulosic material and binder system to coat the lignocellulosic material with the binder system, forming the coated lignocellulosic material into the desired form and applying pressure to the formed lignocellulosic material to obtain the desired thickness. The binder system includes: (i) at least one polyfunctional isocyanate and (ii) at least one aqueous dispersion of an adhesive or tackifier. |
| US08895639B2 |
Ink set, ink jet recording apparatus, and recorded article
An ink set is provided which includes a first ink containing a first pigment, water, and a glycol ether having an HLB value, measured by Davies method, in the range of 4.2 to 8.0, and a second ink substantially not containing the glycol ether. The second ink contains a second pigment and water. |
| US08895636B2 |
Producing rigid polyurethane foams and rigid polyisocyanurate foams
Rigid polyurethane foams or rigid polyisocyanurate foams with low brittleness are produced by the reaction of polyisocyanate polyetherester polyols based on aromatic dicarboxylic acids obtained by esterification of a dicarboxylic acid composition containing aromatic dicarboxylic acids and aliphatic dicarboxylic acids, fatty acids, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diols having 2 to 18 carbon atoms or alkoxylates thereof, and a polyether polyol having a functionality of not less than 2. |
| US08895635B2 |
Blowing agent compositions of hydrochlorofluoroolefins
The present invention relates to foam products made with blowing agent compositions comprising at least one hydrochlorofluoroolefin (HCFO) used in the preparation of Namable thermoplastic compositions. The HCFOs of the present invention include, but are not limited to, 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HCFO-1233zd), particularly the trans-isomer, 2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HCFO-1233xf), dichloro-fluorinated propenes, and mixtures thereof. The blowing agent compositions of the present invention are used with coblowing agents including carbon dioxide, atmospheric gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), hydrofluoroolefins (HFO), alkanes, hydrofluoroethers (HFE), and mixtures thereof. Preferred HFCs used as coblowing agents in the present invention include, but are not limited too, 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a), 1,1-difluoroethane (HFC-152a), 1,1,1-trifluoroethane (HFC-143a), pentafluorethane (HFC-125), difluoromethane (HFC-32). The blowing agent compositions are useful in the production of low density insulating foams with improved k-factor. |
| US08895634B2 |
Process for the production of expanded plastic materials, in particular PVC-based polymeric foams and a formulation of a polymeric blend for effecting said process
A perfected process for the production of expanded plastic materials, comprising a hot molding phase of a starting polymeric blend inside a mold, wherein the heating of said blend is effected by making the same a heat source, by triggering an exothermic reaction in its interior. With respect to the known art in the field, the process of the invention allows an improvement in the heating of the polymeric mass inside the mold, reducing the times necessary for effecting it and homogenizing the thermal values inside this mass. |
| US08895633B2 |
Cross-linked polyaminocarboxylates for the removal of metal ions from aqueous solutions
The cross-linked polyaminocarboxylates for the removal of metal ions from aqueous solutions of the present invention are cross-linked anionic polyelectrolytes CAPE 6 and CAPE 9, containing pH-responsive amino acid residues. The cross-linked anionic polyelectrolytes have been synthesized via cycloco-polymerization and ter-polymerization of a diallylammonioethanoate monomer (90 mol %) and a cross-linker, 1,1,4,4-tetraallylpiperazinium dichloride (10 mol %) in the absence of SO2 (CAPE 6) and in the presence of SO2 (CAPE 9), respectively. For the sorbents CAPE 6 and CAPE 9, the efficiency of Cu2+ removal at an initial metal concentration of 200 ppb was found to be 77.5% and 99.4%, respectively. Treatment of real wastewater samples spiked with Cu2+ ions showed the excellent ability of the cross-linked anionic polyelectrolytes to adsorb metal ions. |
| US08895631B1 |
Nanofilaments of catalytic materials for chemical process improvements
A Fischer-Tropsch process including the steps of providing a reactor having a substrate element with a surface and a plurality of elongated micro-structures of catalyst material attached to the substrate surface The catalyst material includes at least one of cobalt, iron, or ruthenium and the micro-structures have a width of less than about 1 um and a length at least five times the width. A carbon compound and hydrogen are injected into the reactor such that at least a portion of the carbon compound and hydrogen contact the catalyst material. The carbon compound and hydrogen are reacted with the catalyst at a temperature between about 150° F. and about 400° F. |
| US08895626B1 |
Small molecule xanthine oxidase inhibitors and methods of use
Small molecule xanthine oxidase inhibitors are provided, as well as methods for their use in treating gout or hyperuricemia. |
| US08895623B2 |
Intrathecal or epidural administration of 3-[(1S,25)-3-(dimethylamino)-1-ethyl-2-methylpropyl]phenol
The present invention relates to a method of providing pain management in a subject wherein the administration of the composition does not result in any non-central nervous system mediated systemic effect in the subject. In particular, the present invention relates to a method of administering 3-[(1S,2S)-3-(dimethylamino)-1-ethyl-2-methyl-propyl]-phenol in a space that is void of thrombocytes. |
| US08895620B2 |
Pest controlling composition and method for controlling pest
The present invention provides a composition having an excellent controlling activity on a pest. The composition comprising a compound represented by Formula (1) and one or more 1-(2,6-dichloro-α,α,α-trifluoroparatolyl)pyrazole compound(s) selected from Group (A) shows an excellent controlling activity on a pest. Group (A): a group consisting of acetoprole, ethiprole, fipronil, vaniliprole, pyriprole and pyrafluprole. |
| US08895619B2 |
Use of 1,3-diphenylprop-2-en-1-one derivatives for treating liver disorders
The invention provides 1,3-diphenylprop-2-en-1-one derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same for treating liver disorders, in particular those requiring the reduction of plasma level of biochemical markers such as amino-transferases. The 1,3-diphenylprop-2-en-1-one derivatives of General Formula (I) have hepatoprotective properties and can be used in methods for treating liver disorders involving the pathological disruption, inflammation, degeneration, and/or proliferation of liver cells, such as liver fibrosis or fatty liver disease. |
| US08895615B1 |
Composition and method for treating neurological disease
Disclosed are compositions comprising amantadine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and one or more excipients, wherein at least one of the excipients modifies release of amantadine. Methods of administering the same are also provided. |
| US08895613B2 |
Fluorosubstituted-(3R,4R,5S)-5-guanidino 4-acetamido-3-(pentan-3-yloxy)cyclohex-1-enecarboxylic acid compound, ester and use thereof
The present invention relates to novel neuraminidase activity inhibitors and use thereof for prophylaxis and treatment of influenza infection, that is to fluorosubstituted4-acetamido-5-guanidino-3-(pentan-3-yloxy)cyclohex-1-enecarboxylic acids and their esters of the general formula 1, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and/or hydrates thereof, wherein R is hydrogen, an optionally substituted C1-C5alkyl, C2-C5alkenyl or C2-C5alkynyl; Rf is CH2F or CHF2. A pharmaceutical composition is provided, a method for its preparation, as well as a method for prophylaxis and treatment of viral diseases. |
| US08895608B2 |
Sulfonamide anti-viral compounds
Disclosed herein are compounds and related compositions for the treatment of viral infection, including RNA viral infection, and compounds that can modulate the RIG-I pathway in vertebrate cells, including compounds that can activate the RIG-I pathway. |
| US08895605B2 |
Pyrrolidine-substituted flavones as radio-sensitizers for use in the treatment of cancer
The present invention relates to a combination for the treatment of cancer wherein the combination exhibits a synergistic effect. The combination comprises radiation and at least one cyclin dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor selected from the compounds of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a solvate thereof. The present invention also relates to a method for the treatment of cancer, which method comprises administering to a patient in need of such a treatment, a therapeutically effective amount of the combination. The present invention also relates to the use of a CDK inhibitor selected from the compounds of formula I as a radiosensitizer that enhances the efficacy of radiotherapy for the treatment of cancer, particularly head and neck cancer. |
| US08895600B2 |
Non peptidic 14-3-3 inhibitors and the use thereof
The present invention refers to compounds with inhibitory activity against 14-3-3 proteins and their use in the treatment of tumors, in particular chronic myeloid leukemia. The invention also provides methods for the identification of 14-3-3 protein inhibitors. |
| US08895595B2 |
Microbicidal composition
Synergistic microbicidal compositions containing N-methyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one. |
| US08895594B2 |
Microbicidal composition
Synergistic microbicidal compositions containing N-methyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one. |
| US08895590B2 |
Epothilone compounds, preparation method and use thereof
Epothilone compounds represented by formula (I), their preparation methods and their use for preparing medicines are disclosed. The epothilone compounds are prepared by bioconversion and chemosynthesis or chemical modifications using epothilones or their derivatives as starting materials. Said epothilone compounds can be used to treat proliferative diseases. |
| US08895584B2 |
Inhibitors of c-fms kinase
The invention is directed to compounds of Formula I: wherein Z, X, J, R2 and W are set forth in the specification, as well as solvates, hydrates, tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that inhibit protein tyrosine kinases, especially c-fms kinase. Methods of treating autoimmune diseases; and diseases with an inflammatory component; treating metastasis from ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, hairy cell leukemia; and treating pain, including skeletal pain caused by tumor metastasis or osteoarthritis, or visceral, inflammatory, and neurogenic pain; as well as osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and other diseases in which bone resorption mediates morbidity including rheumatoid arthritis, and other forms of inflammatory arthritis, osteoarthritis, prosthesis failure, osteolytic sarcoma, myeloma, and tumor metastasis to bone with the compounds of Formula I, are also provided. |
| US08895583B2 |
Soluble guanylate cyclase activators
This inventions relates to compounds having the structure Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which are soluble guanylate cyclase activators. The compounds are useful for treatment or prevention of cardiovascular diseases, endothelial dysfunction, diastolic dysfunction, atherosclerosis, hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, angina pectoris, thromboses, restenosis, myocardial infarction, strokes, cardiac insufficiency, pulmonary hypertonia, erectile dysfunction, asthma bronchiale, chronic kidney insufficiency, diabetes, or cirrhosis of the liver. |
| US08895578B2 |
Carboxamide, sulfonamide and amine compounds and methods for using the same
Disclosed are carboxamide, sulfonamide and amine compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use. One embodiment is a compound having the structure in which R1, R2, R4, D, E, J, T, p, q and x are as described herein. In certain embodiments, a compound disclosed herein activates the AMPK pathway, and can be used to treat metabolism-related disorders and conditions. |
| US08895576B2 |
Methods of use of cyclopamine analogs
The invention provides methods for treating various conditions using derivatives of cyclopamine having the following formula: |
| US08895575B2 |
1 H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine derivatives
1H-Pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine compounds are inhibitors of cell proliferation/cell vitality and can be employed for the treatment of tumours. |
| US08895574B2 |
Benzyloxypyrimidine derivative, agricultural/ horticultural insecticide comprising derivative and method for using same
A benzyloxypyrimidine derivative represented by the formula (I) wherein R1 is an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a haloalkyl group, a haloalkenyl group, a haloalkynyl group, an alkoxyalkyl group and the like; R2 and R3 are each a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group and the like; X is an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a haloalkyl group, a haloalkenyl group, a haloalkynyl group, a trialkylsilyl group and the like; A is a oxygen atom and the like, and m is an integer of 0-5, or a salt thereof, and an agrohorticultural insecticide containing the compound as an active ingredient and a method of use thereof. |
| US08895562B2 |
Piperazin-1-yl-trifluoromethyl-substituted-pyridines as fast dissociating dopamine 2 receptor antagonists
The present invention relates to piperazin-1-yl-trifluoromethyl-substituted-pyridines that are fast dissociating dopamine 2 receptor antagonists, processes for preparing these compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds as an active ingredient. The compounds find utility as medicines for treating or preventing central nervous system disorders, for example schizophrenia, by exerting an antipsychotic effect without motor side effects. |
| US08895560B2 |
Opioid antagonists
Certain quinolizidine and octahydropyridopyrazine compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of their use, inter alia, as opioid receptor antagonists are disclosed. |
| US08895556B2 |
Compounds and method for treatment of cancer
The invention relates to a compound of Formula I: and/or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, tautomer, optical isomer, E-isomer, Z-isomer, or combination thereof, wherein the remaining substituents are described herein; and a composition comprising the thiosemicarbazone and/or the semicarbazone. The invention also relates to a method of administration of a thiocarbazone and/or a semicarbazone; and use thereof to treat a cancer. |
| US08895551B2 |
Acrylamide compounds and the use thereof
The invention relates to acrylamide compounds of Formula I mentioned below. The invention is also directed to the use compounds of Formula I to treat or prevent a disorder responsive to the blockade of calcium channels, and particularly N-type calcium channels. Compounds of the present invention are especially useful for treating pain. |
| US08895550B2 |
Triazolopyridine compounds as PIM kinase inhibitors
Provided herein are methods of treating diseases mediated by PIM-1 and/or PIM-2 and/or PIM-3 kinases by administering to a mammal in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula I: in which B, R1, R1a, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R10 and R11 have the meanings given in the specification. |
| US08895548B2 |
Pharmaceutical composition for treating alzheimer's disease
A pharmaceutical composition for treating Alzheimer's disease containing a compound represented by the general formula (I): wherein ring A is an optionally substituted carbocyclic group or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group; E is lower alkylene, etc.; X is S, O, or NR1; R1 is a hydrogen atom or lower alkyl; R2, R2b, R3a, R3b, R4a and R4b are each independently a hydrogen atom, halogen, hydroxy, etc.; n and m are each independently an integer of 0 to 3; n+m is an integer of 1 to 3; and R5 is a hydrogen atom, optionally substituted lower alkyl, etc.; its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or a solvate thereof as an active ingredient. |
| US08895546B2 |
Administration of benzodiazepine compositions
The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more benzodiazepine drugs for nasal administration, methods for producing and for using such compositions. |
| US08895543B2 |
Vinca derivatives
The present invention relates to derivatives of vinca alkaloids. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds as well as processes of preparation and treatment of various conditions are also disclosed. |
| US08895542B2 |
Medicinal fusidic acid cream made using sodium fusidate and incorporating a biopolymer and a process to make it
Disclosed is a medicinal cream that includes flisidic acid which is made in situ under an oxygen-free environment using sodium fusidate. The fusidic acid is made by dissolving the sodium fusidate in a co-solvent under inert gas purging and under vacuum, and converting the sodium fusidate to fusidic acid in situ by adding an acid under stirring, The disclosed medicinal cream also includes a biopolymer and a cream base comprising at least one of each of a primary and secondary emulsifier, a waxy material, and water. |
| US08895537B2 |
Compositions and methods for treating cardiovascular diseases
The present specification discloses pharmaceutical compositions, methods of preparing such pharmaceutical compositions, and methods and uses of treating a cardiovascular disease in an individual using such pharmaceutical compositions. |
| US08895534B2 |
Boron containing small molecules
Novel monosubstituted and disubstutituted oxaboroles and pharmaceutical compositions containing such oxaboroles are provided, which are useful for treating bacterial infections, as well as combinations of these oxaboroles with at least one additional therapeutically effective agent. |
| US08895532B2 |
Use of hyaluronic acid for the preparation of compositions intended for improving in particular the protective function of the skin, the eye and the mucous membranes
The present invention relates to the use of hyaluronic acid for the preparation of compositions intended for improving the protective function of the skin, the eye and the mucous membranes, in particular of the upper and lower airways and the intestinal mucosa. |
| US08895530B2 |
Method of reducing intraocular pressure in humans
Provided herein is a method of reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) in humans using N6-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA), CPA derivatives or prodrugs or enhanced cornea permeability formulations of CPA. In one embodiment, the invention is directed to CPA derivatives or prodrugs that are permeable to the cornea. In another embodiment, the invention is directed to uses of certain compounds in human subjects for reducing and/or controlling elevated or abnormally fluctuating IOPs in the treatment of glaucoma or ocular hypertension (OHT). |
| US08895524B2 |
Viral microRNA
The present invention relates, in general, to micro RN As and, in particular, to viral microRNAs expressed by Herpes Simplex Vims 1 (HSV-1) or Herpes Simplex Virus 2 (HSV-2), to agents that inhibit such microRNAs and to methods of treatment based on the use of such agents. |
| US08895515B2 |
Cosmetic composition for skin cell regeneration mimicking extracellular matrix
The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition which mimics the extracellular matrix to stimulate the regeneration of skin cells, and more particularly to a cosmetic composition which contains active ingredients consisting of low-molecular-weight materials, which easily permeate through the skin, at a composition ratio similar to that in the extracellular matrix. The cosmetic composition stimulates the repair of the skin to maintain homeostasis and is effective for the regeneration of skin cells. |
| US08895513B2 |
Personal care compositions with acidified pectins
Personal care compositions are provided that include acidified pectins at a concentration of about 2 to about 5% by weight. The acidified pectin includes a low ester pectin with a degree of esterification of about 30 to about 50 and a pH of about 2 to about 4. Desirably, the personal care composition is characterized as a viscous, fluid gel. Also provided are methods for preparing personal care compositions and methods for the use of personal care formulations. |
| US08895510B2 |
Pan-selectin inhibitor with enhanced pharmacokinetic activity
Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for treatment of diseases or complications associated therewith, in which a selectin plays a role. More specifically, particular glycomimetics and uses thereof are described. For example, use of particular glycomimetics for treating sickle cell disease or a cancer involving a selectin, or complications associated with either, is described. |
| US08895509B2 |
MIR-200 family induces mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET) in ovarian cancer cells
The present invention provides a method of treating an ovarian cancer, the method comprising delivering one or more miR-200 family members to a mammalian subject in need thereof in an amount effective to treat the ovarian cancer. Also provided are methods of preventing metastasis of an ovarian cancer, the method comprising delivering one or more miR-200 family members to a mammalian subject in need thereof in an amount effective to prevent metastasis. Further provided are methods of sensitizing an ovarian cancer to a cytotoxic therapy, the method comprising delivering one or more miR-200 family members to a mammalian subject in need thereof in an amount effective to sensitize the ovarian cancer to the cytotoxic therapy. The invention also contemplates methods of reducing epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in an ovarian cancer or cancer cell as well as methods of inducing mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET). |
| US08895508B2 |
Methods for corneal endothelial proliferation using bFGF sustained-release gelatin hydrogel particles
The present invention aims to provide a corneal endothelium cell proliferation accelerator and a therapeutic agent for a disease relating to corneal endothelium damage, which are administered into the anterior chamber. bFGF is released in a sustained manner by forming bFGF sustained-release gelatin hydrogel particles wherein bFGF is carried on gelatin hydrogel. Therefore, the proliferation of corneal endothelium cells can be accelerated persistently by administration of a preparation containing the bFGF sustained-release gelatin hydrogel particles into the anterior chamber, and diseases relating to corneal endothelium damage can be treated. |
| US08895507B2 |
Modulation of synaptogenesis
Soluble proteins, e.g. Hevin, can trigger synapse formation; and other soluble proteins, e.g. SPARC antagonize this activity. Such proteins are synthesized in vitro and in vivo by astrocytes. Methods are provided for protecting or treating an individual suffering from adverse effects of deficits in synaptogenesis, or from undesirably active synaptogenesis. |
| US08895503B2 |
Pharmaceutical composition for transnasal administration of peptide hormones or cytokines
A method for nasal administration of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a hydrophilic bioactive substance and any one of (a) to (c): (a) a peptide having the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:1; (b) a peptide having the same amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1 except that one or several amino acids are deleted, substituted and/or added, the peptide having nasal mucosal permeability; (c) a peptide having an amino acid sequence represented by the reverse sequence of (a) or (b), the peptide having nasal mucosal permeability, with the proviso that a C-terminal amidated peptide is excluded. A hydrophilic bioactive substance having a low transmucosal absorption capability which has conventionally been able to be administered by only injection can be nasally administered. Such a pharmaceutical composition is useful for improvement of the pain and the inconvenience of patients caused by administration by injection. |
| US08895502B2 |
β2-glycoprotein I peptide inhibitors
Therapeutic peptides (and peptoids) for preventing or inhibiting tissue damage associated with ischemia and/or reperfusion are provided, along with peptides (and peptoids) for preventing or inhibiting cancerous tissue growth. The peptides are derived from β2-glycoprotein I. Pharmaceutical and veterinary compositions comprising the peptides are also provided. Methods of using the peptides to prevent or inhibit tissue damage associated with ischemia and/or reperfusion and/or to prevent or inhibit tissue damage or the growth of cancerous tissue are also provided. |
| US08895500B2 |
Modified human tumor necrosis factor receptor-I polypeptide or fragment thereof, and method for preparing same
The present invention relates to a modified human tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 polypeptide which is capable of binding to a tumor necrosis factor in vivo or ex vivo, or to a fragment thereof. The modified human tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 polypeptide or the fragment thereof according to the present invention exhibit improved binding affinity to the tumor necrosis factor. |
| US08895495B2 |
Functional fragrance precursor
The present invention relates to a class of fragrance precursor compounds comprising one or more of the compounds derived from the reaction of X—OH and an aldehyde or ketone, the fragrance precursor compounds being of the formula X—O—C(R)(R*)(OR**) wherein R is a C6-24 alkyl group, a C6-24 aralkyl group or a C6-24 alkaryl group; R* is H or a C6-24 alkyl group, a C6-24 aralkyl group or a C6-24 alkaryl group; R** is H or X; X—O representing a moiety derived from X—OH, and wherein X—OH is a compound selected from the group consisting of surfactants, fabric softeners, softener precursor ester amines, softener precursor amido amines, hair conditioners, skin conditions, saccharides and polymers. In a second aspect it relates to a method of preparing such precusors. Further the invention relates to compositions, comprising the precursor of the invention. |
| US08895493B2 |
Stable non-aqueous liquid compositions comprising a cationic polymer in particulate form
The need for a stable, compact composition providing improved fabric care benefit, that is also convenient to use, can be met by incorporating a cationic cellulose polymer into a non-aqueous composition, using a non-aqueous dispersant. Such compositions have good physical stability, with little or no clumping of the cationic polymer in particulate form. |
| US08895490B2 |
Food grade compressor lubricant
The invention relates to an improved food-grade-lubricant useful as hydraulic oil, circulating oil, drip oil, general purpose oil, grease base oil, cable oil, chain oil, spindle oil, gear oil, and compressor oil for equipment in the food service industry. Specifically, it relates to a composition comprising at least one polyalphaolefin base fluid, at least one food grade polyolester base fluid, and at least one food grade performance additive. |
| US08895485B2 |
Methods and compositions comprising cement kiln dust having an altered particle size
Methods and compositions are disclosed that comprise cement kiln dust having a mean particle size that has been altered. An embodiment discloses a method of preparing cement kiln dust comprising: providing cement kiln dust having an original particle size; and altering the mean particle size of the cement kiln dust from the original size by grinding, separating, or a combination thereof. Another embodiment discloses a well treatment fluid comprising: cement kiln dust having a mean particle size that has been altered from its original size by grinding, separating, or a combination thereof; and water. |
| US08895482B2 |
Constraining pyrite activity in shale
Degeneration of shale caused by oxygen in aqueous drilling, fracturing and completion fluids is minimized by introducing imidazolines modified so that they will be attracted efficiently to pyrites in the shale, thereby forming a protective coating on the pyrites. Inhibiting oxidation of the pyrites sharply reduces physical degradation of the shale in the presence of drilling, fracturing and completion fluids carrying oxygen. The imidazoline is an ionic salt or a beatine. |
| US08895481B2 |
Viscoelastic surfactant acid treatment
A method of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore involves introducing an acid treatment fluid through the wellbore into the formation. The treatment fluid is formed from a zwitterionic viscoelastic surfactant, an acid in an amount to provide the treatment fluid with an initial pH of ≦0 and a rheology enhancer. The treatment fluid has a high viscosity at the initial pH and a lower viscosity when the pH of the treatment fluid is raised to an intermediate pH of from greater than 0 to about 5. |
| US08895477B2 |
Method for preparing a gelling and viscosifying agent for drilling mud and the product thereof
A method for preparing lignin graft copolymer comprising: reacting lignocellulosic materials with an acrylic compound by bulk condensation under nitrogen atmosphere in the presence of a non-oxidizing strong organic acid as catalyst; separating the reaction mixture to obtain a solid phase mainly containing lignocellulosic materials and a liquid phase containing lignin graft copolymer and unreacted acrylic compound; and removing solvent from the liquid phase to obtain the lignin graft copolymer. |
| US08895472B2 |
Agent for reducing nicotine and harmful components in tobacco leaves for use in field cultivation of tobacco
One aspect of the invention provides an agent for reducing nicotine and harmful components in tobacco leaves for use in the field cultivation of tobacco. In one embodiment, the agent contains (in a weight percentage): salicylic acid 0.005-0.16%, naphthaleneacetic acid 0-0.003%, indoleacetic acid 0-0.015%, and clean water added to 100%. The composition can significantly reduce nicotine and harmful components in tobacco leaves by applying it to tobacco plant in top pruning period of tobacco. The combination of salicylic acid, naphthaleneacetic acid and indoleacetic acid provides synergic effect for reducing nicotine. The nicotine-reducing agent also can result in a yield increase and improve the aroma of tobacco. |
| US08895471B2 |
Chiral3-(benzylsulfinyl)-5,5-dimethyl-4,5-dihydroisoxazole derivatives and 5,5-dimethyl-3-[(1h-pyrazol-4-ylmethyl)sulfinyl]-4,5-dihyddroisoxazole derivatives, method for the production thereof, and use of same as herbicides and plant growth regulators
The invention relates to 3-(benzylsulfinyl)-5,5-dimethyl-4,5-dihydroisoxazole derivatives and 5,5-dimethyl-3-[(1H-pyrazol-4-ylmethyl)sulfinyl]-4,5-dihydroisoxazole derivatives of the formula (I) and their salts processes for their preparation and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators, in particular as herbicides for the selective control of harmful plants in crops of useful plants. |
| US08895470B2 |
Herbicidal compositions comprising 4-amino-3-chloro-5-fluoro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-methoxyphenyl) pyridine-2-carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof and glyphosate or glufosinate
Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions containing and method for controlling undesirable vegetation utilizing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) glufosinate-ammonium, glyphosate dimethylammonium, glyphosate isopropylammonium, glyphosate trimesium, glufosinate or glyphosate, or an agriculturally acceptable derivative thereof. The methods and compositions herein provide control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, vegetables, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, plantation crops, aquatics, industrial vegetation management (IVM) or rights of way (ROW). |
| US08895468B2 |
Chromia alumina catalysts for alkane dehydrogenation
Provided are methods of making dehydrogenation catalyst supports containing bayerite and silica. Silica-stabilized alumina powder, prepared by spray drying of bayerite powder, precipitating silica in a bayerite slurry with an acid, or impregnation or co-extrusion of bayerite with sodium silicate solution was found to be a superior catalyst support precursor. Catalysts prepared with these silica containing support materials have higher hydrothermal stability than current CATOFIN® catalysts. Also provided is a dehydrogenation catalyst comprising Cr2O3, an alkali metal oxide, SiO2 and Al2O3, and methods of using said catalyst to make an olefin and/or dehydrogenate a dehydrogenatable hydrocarbon. |
| US08895467B2 |
Ag/MnyOx/C catalyst, preparation and application thereof
An Ag/MnyOx/C catalyst is disclosed, wherein MnyOx is one of Mn3O4 and MnO, or the mixture of Mn3O4 and MnO, or the mixture of Mn3O4 and MnO2 with the mass content of MnO2 in the mixture of Mn3O4 and MnO2 being 0.01-99.9%. The catalyst is obtained by pyrolyzing AgMnO4 at a high temperature. The preparation method comprises two steps: (1) preparing AgMnO4 crystal as the precursor; (2) preparing the Ag/MnyOx/C catalyst. The catalyst has advantages such as high oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalytic activity in an alkaline environment, good stability, abundant availability and low cost of raw materials, safety, non-toxicity and pollution-free, environmental friendliness, and adaptive capacity for massive production. The catalyst can be used as oxygen reduction catalyst in metal air fuel cell, alkali anion exchange membrane fuel cell and other alkaline environments. |
| US08895465B2 |
Activator compositions, their preparation, and their use in catalysis
This invention provides activator precursor compositions and activator compositions. The activator precursor compositions are formed from a support material, an organoaluminum compound, and polyfunctional compounds having at least two aromatic groups in which at least two of said aromatic groups each has at least one polar moiety thereon. The activator compositions are formed from a support material, an organoaluminum compound, an aluminoxane, and a polyfunctional compound having at least two aromatic groups in which at least two of said aromatic groups each has at least one polar moiety thereon. Also provided are catalyst compositions, processes for forming catalyst compositions, and polymerization processes utilizing the catalyst compositions of this invention. |
| US08895463B2 |
Glass substrate for Cu-In-Ga-Se solar cell and solar cell using same
A glass substrate for a CIGS solar cell, having high cell efficiency and high glass transition temperature is provided. The glass substrate for a vapor-deposited CIGS film solar cell has a glass transition temperature of at least 580° C. and an average thermal expansion coefficient of from 70×10−7 to 100×10−7/° C., wherein the ratio of the average total amount of Ca, Sr and Ba within from 10 to 40 nm in depth from the surface of the glass substrate to the total amount of Ca, Sr and Ba at 5,000 nm in depth from the surface of the glass substrate is at most 0.35, and the ratio of the average Na amount within from 10 to 40 nm in depth from the surface of the glass substrate after heat treatment to such average Na amount before the heat treatment is at least 1.5. |
| US08895462B2 |
Alkali-free glass and preparation thereof
The present invention provides the composition of an alkali-free glass composition containing no alkali metal oxide and the preparation thereof. The alkali-free glass comprising substantially no alkali metal oxide according to the present invention comprises 46 to 57 wt % of SiO2; 3.5 to 7.5 wt % of B2O3; 21 to 29 wt % of Al2O3; 3 to 14 wt % of MgO; 11 to 16 wt % of CaO; and 1 to 5 wt % of SrO, based on the total weight of oxides present therein. |
| US08895459B2 |
Bicomponent fiber
The present invention relates to a new bicomponent fiber, a nonwoven fabric comprising said new bicomponent fiber and sanitary articles made therefrom. The bicomponent fiber contains a polyethylene-based resin forming at least part of the surface of the fiber longitudinally continuously and is characterized by a Co-monomer Distribution Constant greater than about 45, a recrystallization temperature between 85° C. and 110° C., a tan delta value at 0.1 rad/sec from about 15 to 50, and a complex viscosity at 0.1 rad/second of 1400 Pa·sec or less. The nonwoven fabric comprising the new bicomponent fiber according to the instant invention are not only excellent in softness, but also high in strength, and can be produced in commercial volumes at lower costs due to higher thoughputs and requiring less energy. |
| US08895458B2 |
Abrasive cloth and method for producing nanofiber structure
An abrasive cloth which comprises an article in a sheet form having, in at least a part thereof, nanofibers comprising a thermoplastic polymer and having a number average single fiber fineness of 1×10−8 to 2×10−4 dtex wherein the sum of single fiber fineness percentages (which is defined in the specification) of a single fiber fineness of 1×10−8 to 2×10−4 dtex is the range of 60% or more, and exhibits a stress at 10% elongation in a longitudinal direction of 5 to 200 N/cm-width; and a method for preparing a nanofiber structure, which comprises providing a nanofiber dispersion having a dispersant and, dispersed therein, nanofibers comprising a thermoplastic polymer and having a number average diameter of 1 to 500 nm, attaching the dispersion to a support, and then removing said dispersant. The above abrasive cloth is excellent in texturing characteristics, and the above method allows the preparation of a nanofiber structure wherein nanofibers form a composite with the support. |
| US08895451B2 |
Method for etching micro-electrical films using a laser beam
A method for etching with a laser beam having a predetermined wavelength an area of a layer of a first material, said area being deposited at the surface of at least two second materials, includes: depositing a layer of a third material on the layer of the first material, the first and the third materials having a chemical affinity on application of the laser beam greater than the chemical affinity during said application between the first material and each of said at least two second materials; and applying the laser beam to an area of a free surface of the layer of third material vertically above the area of the layer of first material with a fluence of said laser beam causing the separation of said area. |
| US08895448B2 |
Single crystal silicon membrane with a suspension layer, method for fabricating the same, and a micro-heater
To form a single crystal silicon membrane with a suspension layer, a single crystal silicon substrate with crystal orientation <111> is prepared. A doped layer is formed on the top surface of the single crystal silicon substrate. Multiple main etching windows are formed through the doped layer. A cavity is formed through the single crystal silicon substrate by anisotropic etching. The doped layer is above the cavity to form a suspension layer. If two electrode layers are formed on the two ends of the suspension layer, a micro-heater is constructed. The main etching windows extend in parallel to a crystal plane {111}. By both the single crystal structure and different impurity concentrations of the single crystal silicon substrate, the single crystal silicon substrate has a higher etch selectivity. When a large-area cavity is formed, the thickness of the suspension layer is still controllable. |
| US08895443B2 |
N-metal film deposition with initiation layer
Provided are methods of depositing N-Metals onto a substrate. Some methods comprise providing an initiation layer of TaM or TiM layer on a substrate, wherein M is selected from aluminum, carbon, noble metals, gallium, silicon, germanium and combinations thereof; and exposing the substrate having the TaM or TiM layer to a treatment process comprising soaking the surface of the substrate with a reducing agent to provided a treated initiation layer. |
| US08895437B2 |
Method for forming staircase word lines in a 3D non-volatile memory having vertical bit lines
A 3D nonvolatile memory has memory elements arranged in a three-dimensional pattern defined by rectangular coordinates having x, y and z-directions and with a plurality of parallel planes stacked in the z-direction over a semiconductor substrate. It has vertical local bit lines and a plurality of staircase word lines. Each staircase word line has a series of alternating segments and risers elongated respectively in the x-direction and z-direction traversing across the plurality of planes in the z-direction with a segment in each plane. Methods of forming a slab of multi-plane memory with staircase word lines include processes with one masking and with two maskings for forming each plane. |
| US08895428B2 |
Manufacture method of thin film transistor array substrate
Disclosed is a manufacture method of the thin film transistor array, comprising depositing a first transparent conductive layer and a first metal layer to perform patterning for forming a common electrode, a gate electrode and a transparent electrode array; depositing an insulating layer, an active layer, an ohmic contact layer and a second metal layer to perform patterning for forming a source and a drain; depositing a second transparent conductive layer to perform patterning for forming a source contact layer, a drain contact layer and a pixel electrode array connected to the drain contact layer. The present invention simplifies the manufacture process, saves the cost and time for the manufacture. |
| US08895425B2 |
Method of forming channel layer of electric device and method of manufacturing electric device using the same
A method of forming a channel layer of an electric device according to an embodiment is provided. First, a conductive substrate including an insulating layer on the substrate is provided. The conductive substrate and a metal to be plated are used as respective electrodes to carry out electroplating within an electrolyte solution. In this case, electrons provided by a tunneling current passing through the insulating layer from the conductive substrate are bonded with ions of the metal within the electrolyte solution to form a metal channel layer on the insulating layer. |
| US08895424B2 |
Process for forming schottky rectifier with PtNi silicide schottky barrier
A process for forming a Schottky barrier to silicon to a barrier height selected at a value between 640 meV and 840 meV employs the deposition of a platinum or nickel film atop the silicon surface followed by the deposition of the other of a platinum or nickel film atop the first film. The two films are then exposed to anneal steps at suitable temperatures to cause their interdiffusion and an ultimate formation of Ni2Si and Pt2Si contacts to the silicon surface. The final silicide has a barrier height between that of the Pt and Ni, and will depend on the initial thicknesses of the Pt and Ni films and annealing temperature and time. Oxygen is injected into the system to form an SiO2 passivation layer to improve the self aligned process. |
| US08895422B2 |
Production of an integrated circuit including electrical contact on SiC
Production of an integrated circuit including an electrical contact on SiC is disclosed. One embodiment provides for production of an electrical contact on an SiC substrate, in which a conductive contact is produced on a boundary surface of the SiC substrate by irradiation and absorption of a laser pulse on an SiC substrate. |
| US08895421B2 |
III-N device structures and methods
A III-N device is described with a III-N layer, an electrode thereon, a passivation layer adjacent the III-N layer and electrode, a thick insulating layer adjacent the passivation layer and electrode, a high thermal conductivity carrier capable of transferring substantial heat away from the III-N device, and a bonding layer between the thick insulating layer and the carrier. The bonding layer attaches the thick insulating layer to the carrier. The thick insulating layer can have a precisely controlled thickness and be thermally conductive. |
| US08895420B2 |
Method of fabricating a device with a concentration gradient and the corresponding device
A semiconductive device is fabricated by forming, within a semiconductive substrate, at least one continuous region formed of a material having a non-uniform composition in a direction substantially perpendicular to the thickness of the substrate. |
| US08895419B2 |
Nitride semiconductor light-emitting element and method for fabricating the same
This nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting element includes: a nitride-based semiconductor multilayer structure including a p-type semiconductor region, the nitride-based semiconductor multilayer structure having a growing plane which is an m-plane; and an electrode which is arranged on an AldGaeN layer. The AldGaeN layer is formed of a GaN-based semiconductor. The electrode includes Ag as the principal component and also includes Ge and at least one of Mg and Zn. |
| US08895417B2 |
Reducing contact resistance for field-effect transistor devices
A method and an apparatus for doping at least one of a graphene and a nanotube thin-film transistor field-effect transistor device to decrease contact resistance with a metal electrode. The method includes selectively applying a dopant to a metal contact region of at least one of a graphene and a nanotube field-effect transistor device to decrease the contact resistance of the field-effect transistor device. |
| US08895411B2 |
Method for creating semiconductor junctions with reduced contact resistance
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to creating semiconductor junctions with reduced contact resistance. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of forming a composition of material, the method comprising: providing at least two populations of semiconducting materials; layering the at least two populations of semiconducting materials to form at least two layers; and consolidating the at least two populations of semiconducting materials, wherein the consolidating creates an electrical connection between the at least two layers. |
| US08895409B2 |
Semiconductor wafer plating bus and method for forming
A semiconductor wafer includes a die, an edge seal, a bond pad, a plating bus, and trace. The die is adjacent to a saw street. The edge seal is along a perimeter of the die and includes a conductive layer formed in a last interconnect layer of the die. The bond pad is formed as part of metal deposition layer above the last interconnect layer or part of the last interconnect layer. The plating bus is within the saw street. The trace is connected to the bond pad and to the plating bus (1) over the edge seal, insulated from the edge seal, and formed in the metal deposition layer or (2) through the edge seal and insulated from the edge seal. |
| US08895408B2 |
Semiconductor device
A method of layout of pattern includes the following processes. A graphic data of a first wiring in a first area of a semiconductor wafer is extracted. The first area is a semiconductor chip forming area. The first area is surrounded by a scribed area of the semiconductor wafer. The first area includes a second area. The second area is bounded with the scribed area. The second area has a second distance from a boundary between the semiconductor chip forming area and the scribed area to an boundary between the first area and the second area. A first dummy pattern in the first area is laid out. The first dummy pattern has at least a first distance from the first wiring. A second dummy pattern in the second area is laid out. The second dummy pattern has at least the first distance from the first wiring. The second dummy pattern has at least a third distance from the first dummy pattern. |
| US08895407B2 |
Manufacturing method of SOI substrate and manufacturing method of semiconductor device
A manufacturing method of an SOI substrate which possesses a base substrate having low heat resistance and a very thin semiconductor layer having high planarity is demonstrated. The method includes: implanting hydrogen ions into a semiconductor substrate to form an ion implantation layer; bonding the semiconductor substrate and a base substrate such as a glass substrate, placing a bonding layer therebetween; heating the substrates bonded to each other to separate the semiconductor substrate from the base substrate, leaving a thin semiconductor layer over the base substrate; irradiating the surface of the thin semiconductor layer with laser light to improve the planarity and recover the crystallinity of the thin semiconductor layer; and thinning the thin semiconductor layer. This method allows the formation of an SOI substrate which has a single-crystalline semiconductor layer with a thickness of 100 nm or less over a base substrate. |
| US08895406B2 |
Release strategies for making transferable semiconductor structures, devices and device components
Provided are methods for making a device or device component by providing a multilayer structure having a plurality of functional layers and a plurality of release layers and releasing the functional layers from the multilayer structure by separating one or more of the release layers to generate a plurality of transferable structures. The transferable structures are printed onto a device substrate or device component supported by a device substrate. The methods and systems provide means for making high-quality and low-cost photovoltaic devices, transferable semiconductor structures, (opto-)electronic devices and device components. |
| US08895404B2 |
Method of back-side patterning
A method of back-side patterning of a silicon wafer is disclosed, which includes: depositing a protective layer on a front side of a silicon wafer; forming one or more deep trenches through the protective layer and extending into the silicon wafer by a depth greater than a target thickness of the silicon wafer; flipping over the silicon wafer and bonding the front side of the silicon wafer with a carrier wafer; polishing a back side of the silicon wafer; performing alignment by using the one or more deep trench alignment marks and performing back-side patterning process on the back side of the silicon wafer; and de-bonding the silicon wafer with the carrier wafer. |
| US08895403B2 |
Transistor, method for fabricating the transistor, and semiconductor device comprising the transistor
A transistor, a method for fabricating a transistor, and a semiconductor device comprising the transistor are disclosed in the present invention. The method for fabricating a transistor may comprise: providing a substrate and forming a first insulating layer on the substrate; defining a first device area on the first insulating layer; forming a spacer surrounding the first device area on the first insulating layer; defining a second device area on the first insulating layer, wherein the second device area is isolated from the first device area by the spacer; and forming transistor structures in the first and second device area, respectively. The method for fabricating a transistor of the present invention greatly reduces the space required for isolation, significantly decreases the process complexity, and greatly reduces fabricating cost. |
| US08895402B2 |
Fin-type memory
Memory devices and methods for forming a device are disclosed. A substrate prepared with a lower electrode level with bottom electrodes is provided. Fin stack layers are formed on the lower electrode level. Spacers are formed on top of the fin stack layers. The spacers have a width which is less than a lithographic resolution. The fin stack layers are patterned using the spacers as a mask to form fin stacks. The fin stacks contact the bottom electrodes. An interlevel dielectric (ILD) layer is formed on the substrate. The ILD layer fills spaces around the fin stacks. An upper electrode level is formed on the ILD layer. The upper electrode level has top electrodes in contact with the fin stacks. The electrodes and fin stacks form fin-type memory cells. |
| US08895400B2 |
Methods of fabricating semiconductor devices having buried word line interconnects
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a cell region and a peripheral circuit region defined therein. A buried word line is disposed in the substrate in the cell region and has a top surface lower than top surfaces of cell active regions in the cell region. A gate line is disposed on the substrate in the peripheral circuit region. A word line interconnect is disposed in the substrate in the peripheral circuit region, the word line interconnect including a first portion contacting the buried word line and having a top surface lower than a top surfaces of the cell active regions and a second portion that is overlapped by and in contact with the gate line. |
| US08895399B2 |
Integrated circuit and method of forming sealed trench junction termination
An integrated circuit having a substrate with a first conductivity type of semiconductor material. A buried layer is formed in the substrate. The buried layer has a second conductivity type of semiconductor material. A first semiconductor layer is formed over the buried layer. The first semiconductor layer has the second conductivity type of semiconductor material. A trench is formed through the first semiconductor layer and buried layer and extends into the substrate. The trench is lined with an insulating layer and filled with an insulating material. A second semiconductor layer is formed in the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer has the first conductivity type of semiconductor material. A third semiconductor layer is formed in the second semiconductor layer. The third semiconductor layer has the second conductivity type of semiconductor material. The first, second, and third semiconductor layers form the collector, base, and emitter of a bipolar transistor. |
| US08895392B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate having a trench formed therein. A migration assist layer is formed in the trench and on the substrate. A buried layer in formed in the trench by migrating material from the migration assist layer and the semiconductor substrate. |
| US08895391B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor memory device
The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory device, the method including: forming isolation layers in trenches dividing active regions of a substrate; depositing a tunnel insulating layer and a charge storing layer on an entire structure including the isolation layers; forming mask patterns on the charge storing layer to cover the active regions and to expose the isolation layers; and etching the charge storing layer by using the mask patterns as an etch barrier, thereby forming charge storing layer patterns on the active regions. |
| US08895389B2 |
Semiconductor structures and fabrication method thereof
A method is provided for fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of first doped regions and second doped regions; and forming a first dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate. The method also includes forming a first gate dielectric layer and a second gate dielectric layer; and forming a first metal gate and a second metal gate on the first gate dielectric layer and the second gate dielectric layer, respectively. Further, the method includes forming a third dielectric layer on the second metal gate; and forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer. Further, the method also includes forming at least one opening exposing at least one first metal gate and one first doped region; and forming a contact layer contacting with the first metal gate and the first doped region to be used as a share contact structure. |
| US08895386B2 |
Method of forming semiconductor structure
A method of forming a semiconductor structure is provided. A substrate having a cell area and a periphery area is provided. An oxide material layer and a first conductive material layer are sequentially formed on the substrate in the cell and periphery areas. A patterning step is performed to form first and second stacked structures on the substrate respectively in the cell and periphery areas. First and second spacers are formed respectively on sidewalls of the first and second stacked structures. At least two first doped regions are formed in the substrate beside the first stacked structure, and two second doped regions are formed in the substrate beside the second stacked structure. A dielectric layer and a second conductive layer are formed at least on the first stacked structure. The first stacked structure, the dielectric layer, and the second conductive layer in the cell area constitute a charge storage structure. |
| US08895385B2 |
Methods of forming semiconductor structures
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a through-substrate-via (TSV) structure in a substrate. The method includes forming a first etch stop layer over the TSV structure. The method further includes forming a first dielectric layer in contact with the first etch stop layer. The method still further includes forming a second etch stop layer in contact with the first dielectric layer. The method also includes forming a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure in contact with the second etch stop layer. The method further includes forming a first conductive structure through the first etch stop layer and the first dielectric layer, wherein the first conductive structure is electrically coupled with the TSV structure and the TSV structure is substantially wider than the first conductive structure. |
| US08895381B1 |
Method of co-integration of strained-Si and relaxed Si or strained SiGe FETs on insulator with planar and non-planar architectures
A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes providing a substrate including a biaxial strained semiconductor layer that is present directly on a dielectric layer, and patterning the biaxial strained semiconductor layer to provide a first conductivity region of a laterally relaxed semiconductor portion and a second conductivity region of a biaxial strained semiconductor portion, wherein the laterally relaxed semiconductor portion is present over an undercut region in the dielectric layer.A hydrogen anneal is applied to the first and second conductivity region, wherein the laterally relaxed semiconductor portion is relaxed to an unstrained state. A first semiconductor device is formed in first conductivity region and a second semiconductor device is formed in the second conductivity region. |
| US08895376B2 |
Thin film transistor, method for manufacturing same, display device, and method for manufacturing same
A thin film transistor includes: an insulating layer; a gate electrode provided on the insulating layer; a gate insulating film provided on the gate electrode; a semiconductor layer provided on the gate insulating film, the semiconductor layer being formed of oxide; source and drain electrodes provided on the semiconductor layer; and a channel protecting layer provided between the source and drain electrodes and the semiconductor layer. The source electrode is opposed to one end of the gate electrode. The drain electrode is opposed to another end of the gate electrode. The another end is opposite to the one end. The drain electrode is apart from the source electrode. The channel protecting layer covers at least a part of a side face of a part of the semiconductor layer. The part of the semiconductor layer is not covered with the source and drain electrodes above the gate electrode. |
| US08895374B2 |
Semiconductor field-effect transistor structure and method for manufacturing the same
The present application discloses a semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (FET) structure and a method for manufacturing the same, wherein the method comprises: forming a semiconductor substrate comprising an SOI structure having a body-contact hole; forming a fin on the SOI structure of the semiconductor substrate; forming a gate stack structure on top and side faces of the fin; forming source/drain structures in the fin on both sides of the gate stack structure; and performing metallization. The present invention makes use of traditional quasi-planar based top-down processes, thus the manufacturing process thereof becomes simple to implement; the present invention exhibits good compatibility with CMOS planar process and can be easily integrated; the present invention also is favorable for suppressing short channel effects desirably, and boosts MOSFETs to develop towards a trend of downscaling size. |
| US08895370B2 |
Vertical conduction power electronic device and corresponding realization method
A vertical conduction power device includes respective gate, source and drain areas formed in an epitaxial layer on a semiconductor substrate. The respective gate, source and drain metallizations are formed by a first metallization level. The gate, source and drain terminals are formed by a second metallization level. The device is configured as a set of modular areas extending parallel to each other. Each modular area has a rectangular elongate source area perimetrically surrounded by a gate area, and a drain area defined by first and second regions. The first regions of the drain extend parallel to one another and separate adjacent modular areas. The second regions of the drain area extend parallel to one another and contact ends of the first regions of the drain area. |
| US08895365B2 |
Techniques and configurations for surface treatment of an integrated circuit substrate
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations for surface treatment of an integrated circuit (IC) substrate. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an integrated circuit substrate, an interconnect structure disposed on the integrated circuit substrate, the interconnect structure being configured to route electrical signals to or from the integrated circuit substrate and comprising a metal surface, and a protective layer disposed on the metal surface of the interconnect structure, the protective layer comprising a first functional group bonded with the metal surface and a second functional group bonded with the first functional group, wherein the second functional group is hydrophobic to inhibit contamination of the metal surface by hydrophilic materials and further inhibits oxidation of the metal surface. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US08895363B2 |
Die preparation for wafer-level chip scale package (WLCSP)
Consistent with an example embodiment, there is a method for assembling a wafer level chip scale processed (WLCSP) device from a wafer substrate, the method comprises grinding the back-side of the wafer substrate to a prescribed thickness. A plurality of trenches is sawed along a plurality of device die boundaries on a back-side surface of the wafer, the trenches having a bevel profile. The plurality of trenches is etched until the bevel profile of the plurality of trenches is rounded. |
| US08895360B2 |
Integrated semiconductor device and wafer level method of fabricating the same
The present disclosure provides one embodiment of a stacked semiconductor device. The stacked semiconductor device includes a first substrate; a first bond pad over the first substrate; a second substrate including a second electrical device fabricated thereon; a second bond pad over the second electrical device over the second substrate, the second bond pad electrically connecting to the second electrical device; a second insulation layer over the second bond pad having a top surface, the second insulation layer being bonded toward the first bond pad of the first substrate; and a through-substrate-via (“TSV”) extending from a surface opposite to the first bond pad through the first substrate and through the top surface of the second insulation layer to the second bond pad. |
| US08895359B2 |
Semiconductor device, flip-chip mounting method and flip-chip mounting apparatus
A semiconductor chip (1) is flip-chip mounted on a circuit board (4) with an underfill resin (6) interposed between the semiconductor chip (1) and the circuit board (4) and a container covering the semiconductor chip (1) is bonded on the circuit board (4). At this point, the semiconductor chip (1) positioned with the underfill resin (6) interposed between the circuit board (4) and the semiconductor chip (1) is pressed and heated by a pressure-bonding tool (8); meanwhile, the surface of the underfill resin (6) protruding around the semiconductor chip (1) is pressed by the pressure-bonding tool (8) through a film (13) on which a surface unevenness is formed in a periodically repeating pattern, so that a surface unevenness (16a) is formed. The inner surface of the container covering the semiconductor chip (1) is bonded to the surface unevenness (16a) on the surface of the underfill resin. |
| US08895358B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of forming cavity in PCB containing encapsulant or dummy die having CTE similar to CTE of large array WLCSP
A semiconductor device has a PCB with a cavity formed in a first surface of the PCB. A stress compensating structure, such as an encapsulant or dummy die, is disposed in the cavity. An insulating layer is formed over the PCB and stress compensating structure. A portion of the insulating layer is removed to expose the stress compensating structure. A conductive layer is formed over the stress compensating structure. A solder masking layer is formed over the conductive layer with openings to the conductive layer. A semiconductor package is mounted over the cavity. The semiconductor package is a large array WLCSP. Bumps electrically connect the semiconductor package and conductive layer. The semiconductor package is electrically connected to the conductive layer. The CTE of the stress compensating structure is selected substantially similar to or matching the CTE of the semiconductor package to reduce stress between the semiconductor package and PCB. |
| US08895357B2 |
Integrated circuit and method of manufacturing the same
Presented is an integrated circuit packaged at the wafer level wafer (also referred to as a wafer level chip scale package, WLCSP), and a method of manufacturing the same. The WLCSP comprises a die having an electrically conductive redistribution layer, RDL, formed above the upper surface of the die, the RDL defining a signal routing circuit. The method comprises the steps of: depositing the electrically conductive RDL so as to form an electrically conductive ring surrounding the signal routing circuit; and coating the side and lower surfaces of the die with an electrically conductive shielding material. |
| US08895356B2 |
Chemical vapor deposition apparatus and method of forming semiconductor epitaxial thin film using the same
A chemical vapor deposition apparatus includes: a reaction chamber including an inner tube having a predetermined volume of an inner space, and an outer tube tightly sealing the inner tube; a wafer holder disposed within the inner tube and on which a plurality of wafers are stacked at predetermined intervals; and a gas supply unit including at least one gas line supplying an external reaction gas to the reaction chamber, and a plurality of spray nozzles communicating with the gas line to spray the reaction gas to the wafers, whereby semiconductor epitaxial thin films are grown on the surfaces of the wafers, wherein the semiconductor epitaxial thin film grown on the surface of the wafer includes a light emitting structure in which a first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer are sequentially formed. |
| US08895352B2 |
Method to improve nucleation of materials on graphene and carbon nanotubes
Techniques for forming a thin coating of a material on a carbon-based material are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming a thin coating on a surface of a carbon-based material is provided. The method includes the following steps. An ultra thin silicon nucleation layer is deposited to a thickness of from about two angstroms to about 10 angstroms on at least a portion of the surface of the carbon-based material to facilitate nucleation of the coating on the surface of the carbon-based material. The thin coating is deposited to a thickness of from about two angstroms to about 100 angstroms over the ultra thin silicon layer to form the thin coating on the surface of the carbon-based material. |
| US08895341B2 |
Method of manufacturing radiation detector
A method of manufacturing a radiation detector, comprising: a charge blocking layer generating step of generating a charge blocking layer on a substrate; a CdTe-layer generating step of generating a CdTe layer so as to cover the charge blocking layer on the substrate, the CdTe layer undergoing heterojunction to the charge blocking layer and being composed of a chlorine-doped polycrystalline film; and a heat treatment step of performing a heat treatment on the substrate having the CdTe layer formed thereon. |
| US08895338B2 |
Method of fabricating MEMS, NEMS, photonic, micro- and nano-fabricated devices and systems
An improved method for the fabrication of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS), Photonics, Nanotechnology, 3-Dimensional Integration, Micro- and Nano-Fabricated Devices and Systems for both rapid prototyping development and manufacturing is disclosed. The method includes providing a plurality of different standardized and repeatable process modules usable in fabricating the devices and systems, defining a process sequence for fabricating a predefined one of the devices or systems, and identifying a series of the process modules that are usable in performing the defined process sequence and thus in fabricating the predefined device or system. |
| US08895335B1 |
Impurity-induced disorder in III-nitride materials and devices
A method for impurity-induced disordering in III-nitride materials comprises growing a III-nitride heterostructure at a growth temperature and doping the heterostructure layers with a dopant during or after the growth of the heterostructure and post-growth annealing of the heterostructure. The post-growth annealing temperature can be sufficiently high to induce disorder of the heterostructure layer interfaces. |
| US08895334B2 |
Thin film transistor array substrate and method for manufacturing the same and electronic device
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a thin film transistor array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same and an electronic device. The method for manufacturing the thin film transistor array substrate comprises: a first patterning process, in which a pattern of an active layer which is formed by a semiconductor layer and patterns of a source electrode and a drain electrode, which are separated from each other and are formed by a first metal layer, are formed on a transparent substrate; a second patterning process, in which a pattern of an insulating layer is formed on the transparent substrate subjected to the first patterning process, the pattern of the insulating layer comprising a contact via hole exposing the source electrode; and a third patterning process, in which a pattern of a pixel electrode, which is formed by a transparent conductive layer, and a pattern of a gate electrode, which is formed by a second metal layer, are formed on the transparent substrate subjected to the second patterning process, the pixel electrode being connected to the source electrode through the contact via hole. |
| US08895331B2 |
Semiconductor light emitting diode having high efficiency and method of manufacturing the same
Provided is a semiconductor light emitting diode having a textured structure formed on a substrate. In a method of manufacturing the semiconductor light emitting diode, a metal layer is formed on the substrate, and a metal oxide layer having holes is formed by anodizing the metal layer. The metal oxide layer itself can be used as a textured structure pattern, or the textured structure pattern can be formed by forming holes in the substrate or a material layer under the metal oxide layer corresponding to the holes of the metal oxide layer. The manufacture of the semiconductor light emitting diode is completed by sequentially forming a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the textured structure pattern. |
| US08895329B2 |
Patterned substrate for light emitting diode and light emitting diode employing the same
Disclosed herein are a patterned substrate for a light emitting diode and a light emitting diode employing the patterned substrate. The substrate has top and bottom surfaces. Protrusion patterns are arranged on the top surface of the substrate. Furthermore, recessed regions surround the protrusion patterns. The recessed regions have irregular bottoms. Thus, the protrusion patterns and the recessed regions can prevent light emitted from a light emitting diode from being lost due to the total reflection to thereby improve light extraction efficiency. |
| US08895328B2 |
Fabrication method of light-emitting device
A fabrication method of a light-emitting device comprises providing a growth substrate; forming a protective layer on a first surface of the growth substrate; and forming a first semiconductor layer on a second surface of the growth substrate opposite to the first surface, wherein the coefficient of thermal expansion of the growth substrate is smaller than that of the protective layer and the first semiconductor layer. |
| US08895325B2 |
System and method for aligning substrates for multiple implants
A system and method are disclosed for aligning substrates during successive process steps, such as ion implantation steps, is disclosed. Implanted regions are created on a substrate. After implantation, an image is obtained of the implanted regions, and a fiducial is provided on the substrate in known relation to at least one of the implanted regions. A thermal anneal process is performed on the substrate such that the implanted regions are no longer visible but the fiducial remains visible. The position of the fiducial may be used in downstream process steps to properly align pattern masks over the implanted regions. The fiducial also may be applied to the substrate before any ion implanting of the substrate is performed. The position of the fiducial with respect to an edge or a corner of the substrate may be used for aligning during downstream process steps. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US08895324B2 |
Method of determining an amount of impurities that a contaminating material contributes to high purity silicon
A method of determining an amount of impurities that a contaminating material contributes to high purity silicon including the step of partially encasing a sample of high purity silicon in the contaminating material. The sample encased in the contaminating material is heated within a furnace. A change in impurity content of the high purity silicon is determined after the step of heating, compared to an impurity content of the high purity silicon prior to the step of heating. A furnace for heat treating high purity silicon including a housing that defines a heating chamber. The housing is at least partially formed from low contaminant material that contributes less than 400 parts per trillion of impurities to the high purity silicon during heating at annealing temperatures for a sufficient period time to anneal the high purity silicon, and the furnace contributes an average of less than 400 parts per trillion of impurities to the high purity silicon under the same heating conditions. |
| US08895321B2 |
Integrated affinity microcolumns and affinity capillary electrophoresis
Device and method for detecting the presence of known or unknown toxic agents in a fluid sample. Targets in the sample are bound to releasable receptors immobilized in a reaction region of a micro- or nano-fluidic device. The receptors are selected based on their affinity for classes of known toxic agents. The receptors are freed and the bound and unbound receptors separated based on differential electrokinetic mobilities while they travel to a detection device. |
| US08895319B2 |
Nanohybrid nitrogen monoxide detecting sensor and a production method therefor
The present invention provides a nanohybrid type nitrogen monoxide detecting sensor and a production method therefor in which the nanohybrid type nitrogen monoxide detecting sensor includes a fluorescent semiconducting quantum dot and a transition metal compound. Employing a nanohybrid structure including semiconducting quantum dot nano-particles combined with a molecule recognizer selectively forming a bonding to nitrogen monoxide, the nitrogen monoxide detecting sensor is enabled to detect an infinitesimal amount of nitrogen monoxide by bringing about photoluminescence upon detection of nitrogen monoxide. |
| US08895315B2 |
Displaying status of a blood glucose measure being transferred wirelessly from a handheld glucose meter
Persons with diabetes often carry a handheld glucose meter as well as a portable computing device, such as a mobile phone. Given the close proximity of these two devices, the portable computing device can serve as a data collector for the glucose measures taken by the glucose meter. Improved techniques are set forth for transferring glucose measures automatically and seamlessly to the patient's portable computing device, including displaying a value for the glucose measure along with an identifier for the portable computing device on a display of the glucose meter during the data exchange with the portable computing device. |
| US08895312B2 |
Nanofluidic platform for single mitochondria analysis
A microfluidic device for mitochondria analysis includes an inlet coupled to a first access channel, an outlet coupled to a second access channel, and a plurality of trapping channels fluidically coupled at one end to the first access channel and fluidically coupled at an opposing end to the second access channel, each trapping channel has a cross-sectional dimension about 2 μm in one direction and a cross-sectional dimension between about 0.45 and about 0.75 μm in a second direction. |
| US08895311B1 |
Methods and systems for control of general purpose microfluidic devices
The present invention provides control methods, control systems, and control software for microfluidic devices that operate by moving discrete micro-droplets through a sequence of determined configurations. Such microfluidic devices are preferably constructed in a hierarchical and modular fashion which is reflected in the preferred structure of the provided methods and systems. In particular, the methods are structured into low-level device component control functions, middle-level actuator control functions, and high-level micro-droplet control functions. Advantageously, a microfluidic device may thereby be instructed to perform an intended reaction or analysis by invoking micro-droplet control function that perform intuitive tasks like measuring, mixing, heating, and so forth. The systems are preferably programmable and capable of accommodating microfluidic devices controlled by low voltages and constructed in standardized configurations. Advantageously, a single control system can thereby control numerous different reactions in numerous different microfluidic devices simply by loading different easily understood micro-droplet programs. |
| US08895307B2 |
Ketol-acid reductoisomerase using NADH
Methods for the evolution of NADPH binding ketol-acid reductoisomerase enzymes to acquire NADH binding functionality are provided. Specific mutant ketol-acid reductoisomerase enzymes isolated from Pseudomonas that have undergone co-factor switching to bind NADH are described. |
| US08895306B2 |
Oxadiazoline ligands for modulating the expression of exogenous genes via an ecdysone receptor complex
The present invention relates to methods to use non-steroidal ligands in nuclear receptor-based inducible gene expression system to modulate exogenous gene expression in which an ecdysone receptor complex comprising: a DNA binding domain; a ligand binding domain; a transactivation domain; and a ligand is contacted with a DNA construct comprising: the exogenous gene and a response element; wherein the exogenous gene is under the control of the response element and binding of the DNA binding domain to the response element in the presence of the ligand results in activation or suppression of the gene. |
| US08895299B2 |
Method for expansion of stem cells
A method of increasing the growth of stem cells by mixing the stem cells with a growth medium that has been conditioned by an incubation with placental tissue. The method increases the expansion of the stem cell population. |
| US08895298B2 |
Microfluidic device for cell separation and uses thereof
The invention features methods for separating cells from a sample (e.g., separating fetal red blood cells from maternal blood). The method begins with the introduction of a sample including cells into one or more microfluidic channels. In one embodiment, the device includes at least two processing steps. For example, a mixture of cells is introduced into a microfluidic channel that selectively allows the passage of a desired type of cell, and the population of cells enriched in the desired type is then introduced into a second microfluidic channel that allows the passage of the desired cell to produce a population of cells further enriched in the desired type. The selection of cells is based on a property of the cells in the mixture, for example, size, shape, deformability, surface characteristics (e.g., cell surface receptors or antigens and membrane permeability), or intracellular properties (e.g., expression of a particular enzyme). |
| US08895297B2 |
Micro-device and methods for disrupting cells
A micro-device for disrupting cells includes a first chamber in which the cells are disrupted, a second chamber which is pressurized and depressurized, a flexible membrane which separates the first chamber and the second chamber and is vibrated by pressuring and depressurizing the second chamber, and a micro-unit confined in the first chamber, where the micro-unit disrupts the cells in the first chamber. |
| US08895296B2 |
Analyzer
An object of the present invention relates to providing a nucleic acid analyzer capable of testing a plurality of test items in parallel, and of obtaining high efficiency of specimen processing even if the test item or a measuring object is changed. The present invention relates to an analyzer including a carousel rotatable about a rotation axis, a plurality of reaction containers held along a circumferential edge of the carousel, and at least one detector having a light source for irradiating the reaction container with excitation light and a detection element for detecting fluorescence from a reaction liquid in the reaction container. The detector is removable. By attaching a desired detector, it is possible to perform fluorescence measurement in response to the test item. According to the present invention, it is possible to test a plurality of test items in parallel, and even if the test item or the measuring object is changed, the high efficiency of specimen processing can be obtained. |
| US08895294B2 |
Methods, devices, kits and compositions for detecting roundworm, whipworm, and hookworm
Methods, devices, kits and compositions for detecting the presence or absence of one or more helminthic coproantigens in a sample are disclosed herein. The methods, devices, kits and compositions of the present invention may be used to confirm the presence or absence of roundworm, whipworm and/or hookworm in a fecal sample from a mammal and may also be able to distinguish between one or more helminth infections. Confirmation of the presence or absence of roundworm, whipworm and/or hookworm in the mammal may be made, for example, for the purpose of selecting an optimal course of treating the mammal and/or for the purpose of determining whether the mammal has been rid of the infection after treatment has been initiated. |
| US08895290B2 |
Method for digesting a biomass comprising lignin together with cellulose and/or hemicellulose
The invention relates to a method for digesting a biomass comprising, lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose, comprising the steps of: (a) contacting the biomass with a first solvent for dissolving the cellulose and/or the hemicellulose, (b) contacting the dissolved cellulose and/or hemicellulose with a precipitant for forming a precipitate comprising cellulose and/or hemicellulose and residual lignin, wherein the precipitant is selected from the group consisting of alkanes, ethers, and esters; and (c) contacting the precipitate with a second solvent for removing residual lignin from the precipitate. The invention further relates to an apparatus for performing such a method. |
| US08895289B2 |
Method and device for photochemical process
Photochemical process and device adapted to breed, produce, or hydrocultivate microorganisms. The process includes conveying a reaction medium in a reactor in a meander-shaped way that includes moving the reaction medium along a direction that perpendicularly or inclined at an angle to an imaginary horizontal plane, wherein, during the conveying, the reaction medium moves in the reactor at least once along a first direction defined as one of a top down direction and a direction of gravity, moves in the reactor at least once along a second direction defined as one of a bottom up direction and against the direction of gravity, and moves in the reactor one of freely under atmospheric pressure and while exposed to the atmosphere. The process also includes introducing into and removing from the reactor the reaction medium in a continuous manner. |
| US08895286B2 |
Attenuated pestiviruses
This invention relates to attenuated pestiviruses characterized in that their enzymatic activity residing in glycoprotein ERNS is inactivated, as well as methods of preparing, using and detecting these pestiviruses. |
| US08895283B2 |
Nucleic acid modifying enzymes
This invention provides for an improved generation of novel nucleic acid modifying enzymes. The improvement is the fusion of a sequence-non-specific nucleic-acid-binding domain to the enzyme in a manner that enhances the ability of the enzyme to bind and catalytically modify the nucleic acid. |
| US08895282B2 |
Use of a substance for manufacturing of a medicament for treatment of common cold
A method for treatment and/or prevention of common cold caused by rhinovirus, wherein a patient in need is treated with a medicament including a hydrogen peroxide producing enzyme. |
| US08895281B2 |
Method for preparing a site-specific physiologically active polypeptide conjugate
The present invention provides a method for preparing a site-specific physiologically active polypeptide conjugate in a high yield by treating a physiologically active polypeptide with a non-peptidyl polymer in the presence of an alcohol at a specific pH, which can be desirably employed in the development of long acting formulations of various peptide drugs having high in-vivo activity and markedly prolonged in-blood half-life. |
| US08895278B2 |
Production of volatile dienes by enzymatic dehydration of light alkenols
Described is a method for generating conjugated dienes through a biological process. More specifically, the application describes a method for producing conjugated dienes (for example butadiene, isoprene or dimethylbutadiene) from light alkenols via enzymatic dehydration, in particular by making use of an alkenol dehydratase. |
| US08895277B2 |
Legume isoprene synthase for production of isoprene
The present invention provides methods and compositions of polypeptides having isoprene synthase activity with improved performance characteristics. In particular, the present invention provides legume isoprene synthases for increased isoprene production in recombinant host cells. |
| US08895276B2 |
Microorganism variants having hydrocarbon producing ability and method for producing hydrocarbon using the same
The present invention relates to a microorganism variant having the ability to produce hydrocarbons, including alkane, and a method of producing hydrocarbons, including alkane, using the same, and more particularly, to a microorganism variant obtained by introducing a gene encoding an enzyme converting fatty acyl-acp to free fatty acid, a gene encoding an enzyme converting free fatty acid to fatty acyl-CoA, a gene encoding an enzyme converting fatty acyl-CoA to fatty aldehyde and a gene encoding an enzyme converting fatty aldehyde to alkane into a microorganism improved so as to be suitable for the production of hydrocarbons, including alkane, and a method of producing hydrocarbons, including alkane, using the same. The microorganism variant of the present invention has high potential to be used to improve strains by additional metabolic flux engineering, and thus is useful for the industrial production of hydrocarbons, including alkane. |
| US08895274B2 |
Processes for the conversion of biomass to oxygenated organic compound, apparatus therefor and compositions produced thereby
Processes are disclosed for the conversion of biomass to oxygenated organic compound using a simplified syngas cleanup operation that is cost effective and protects the fermentation operation. The processes of this invention treat the crude syngas from the gasifier by non-catalytic partial oxidation. The partial oxidation reduces the hydrocarbon content of the syngas such as methane, ethylene and acetylene to provide advantageous gas feeds for anaerobic fermentations to produce oxygenated organic compounds such as ethanol, propanol and butanol. Additionally, the partial oxidation facilitates any additional cleanup of the syngas as may be required for the anaerobic fermentation. Producer gases and partial oxidation processes are also disclosed. |
| US08895272B2 |
Methods for the economical production of biofuel from biomass
Methods for producing a biofuel are provided. Also provided are biocatalysts that convert a feedstock to a biofuel. |
| US08895270B2 |
Method for producing β-Phenylalanine
Disclosed is a method for producing a β-amino acid comprising a step of synthesizing a β-amino acid from an α-amino acid in the presence of an amino acid aminomutase. In this method, a β-amino acid is precipitated as a solid in the reaction solution. |
| US08895268B2 |
Preservation of information related to genomic DNA methylation
The present invention relates to compositions, methods and systems for analyzing the methylation state of nucleic acids. Some embodiments relate to a compositions, methods and systems for analyzing the methylation state of DNA with a gene array. |
| US08895265B2 |
Multistage fractionation process for recalcitrant C5 oligosaccharides
Methods are disclosed for increasing the level of C5 monosaccharides produced from lignocellulosic biomass using a multistage fractionation process to handle recalcitrant C5 oligosaccharides without producing unwanted degradation products. Methods for reducing C5 monosaccharides degradation products produced from lignocellulosic biomass are also disclosed. In addition, compositions and products produced by the methods are disclosed. |
| US08895263B2 |
Methods for suppressing toll-like receptor activity
Agents interfering with translocation of Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3), methods of making and using the foregoing are disclosed. |
| US08895262B1 |
Staining method for identification of flatworms
The staining method for identification of flatworms includes placing a sample flatworm specimen on a microscope slide, mounting the flatworm specimen on the slide with a small amount of lactophenol cotton blue (LPCB) stain, waiting two to three minutes for the stain to be absorbed by flatworm tissues, covering the specimen with a cover slip, and examining the stained specimen with a microscope to identify the species-distinctive organs of the flatworm. For permanent mounting, the cover slip may be sealed to the microscope slide by nail polish. The method is effective for trematodes (flukes) and cestodes (tapeworms). Before examination, the specimen may be preserved by obtaining the flatworm from a carrier or host, washing the flatworm in saline and preserving the flatworm in alcohol, e.g. 70% alcohol. |
| US08895260B2 |
Screening assay for ribosomal antibiotics
The present invention is directed to a method for identifying ribosomal antimicrobial substances being selective for microbial but not for mitochondrial and/or cytosolic ribosomes. Specifically, said method is directed to an assay that compares the interaction of a candidate ribosomal antimicrobial substance (i) in a bacterial strain with microbial ribosomes, and (ii) in a bacterial strain with chimeric mitochondrial bacterial ribosomes, and/or (iii) in a bacterial strain with chimeric cytosolic bacterial ribosomes. In a further aspect the present invention also relates to the use of bacterial strains with microbial ribosomes, and bacterial strains with chimeric mitochondrial bacterial ribosomes, and/or bacterial strains with chimeric cytosolic bacterial ribosomes for identifying ribosomal antimicrobial substance being selective for microbial but not for mitochondrial and/or cytosolic ribosomes. Furthermore, one or more of the above bacterial strains (i) to (iii) may be substituted by a functionally equivalent cell-free biological system. |
| US08895254B2 |
Biomarkers for ankylosing spondylitis
There is described herein methods and peptides for detecting autoantibodies to NOG and/or SOST in a patient sample in order to diagnose of prognosticate Ankylosing Spondylitis in the patient. |
| US08895251B2 |
Method for detecting human BPLP protein or a maturation product thereof
The invention relates to an in vitro method for prognosis, diagnosis or determination of the evolution of a condition involving an altered production of Basic Proline-rich Lacrimal Protein (BPLP) or of any of its maturation products, by detecting, or quantifying in a biological sample of a test subject, a BPLP protein or a maturation product thereof, and comparing the production of BPLP protein or maturation product with the production of the same in a biological sample of a control subject. |
| US08895245B2 |
Inhibitors of human EZH2 and methods of use thereof
The invention relates to inhibition of wild-type and certain mutant forms of human histone methyltransferase EZH2, the catalytic subunit of the PRC2 complex which catalyzes the mono- through tri-methylation of lysine 27 on histone H3 (H3-K27). In one embodiment the inhibition is selective for the mutant form of the EZH2, such that trimethylation of H3-K27, which is associated with certain cancers, is inhibited. The methods can be used to treat cancers including follicular lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Also provided are methods for identifying small molecule selective inhibitors of the mutant forms of EZH2 and also methods for determining responsiveness to an EZH2 inhibitor in a subject. |
| US08895243B2 |
Method of assessing cancerous conditions and reagent for detecting gene product to be used in the method
A reagent for detecting gene product, the reagent comprising a probe or chemical modulation that specifically binds to an alternative splicing junction of a gene product of human PTCH1 gene, the expression of the gene product from gene products of the human PTCH1 gene being varied due to the unusual alternative splicing, for use for measuring the abundance of the gene product contained in a human sample. |
| US08895242B2 |
Single molecule nucleic acid nanoparticles
The present technology relates to a nanoparticle platform based on the unique and varied properties of DNA. Circular DNA can be replicated using a strand displacing polymerase to generate long linear concatamers of controllable length that spontaneously fold into a ball conformation due to internal base-pairing. These balls of DNA are discreet particles that can be made in variable sizes on a nanometer size scale in a scalable manner. The particles can be used in a variety of manners, discussed herein, including specific targeting, drug delivery to cancer cells, and diagnostics. Nanoparticles may also serve as multifunctional platforms for the integration of many currently used cancer therapeutic techniques. |
| US08895240B2 |
Method, kit and system for collecting and processing samples for DNA and RNA detection
This invention relates to a method, kit and system for collecting and processing of samples to release and treat DNA and RNA for gene sequence detection. The method described here in provides for rapid and convenient release, and recovery of DNA and RNA from tissues and cellular materials. |
| US08895232B2 |
Mask material conversion
The dimensions of mask patterns, such as pitch-multiplied spacers, are controlled by controlled growth of features in the patterns after they are formed. A pattern of mandrels is formed overlying a semiconductor substrate. Spacers are then formed on sidewalls of the mandrels by depositing a blanket layer of material over the mandrels and preferentially removing spacer material from horizontal surfaces. The mandrels are selectively removed, leaving behind a pattern of freestanding spacers. The spacers comprise a material, such as polysilicon and amorphous silicon, known to increase in size upon being oxidized. The spacers are oxidized and grown to a desired width. The spacers can then be used as a mask to pattern underlying layers and the substrate. Advantageously, because the spacers are grown by oxidation, thinner blanket layers can be deposited over the mandrels, allowing the deposition of more conformal blanket layers and widening the process window for spacer formation. |
| US08895228B2 |
Method for thermal treatment of relief surface for a relief printing form
The present invention pertains to a method for preparing a printing form from a photosensitive element by thermal treatment, wherein a gas jet emitting from a nozzle assembly impinges the exterior surface of the element to smooth or polish and mitigate marks and deformations that can be generated during development. Impingement with a heated gas jet provides surface polishing from rapid and specific convective heat flux to the exterior surface of the printing plate. |
| US08895227B2 |
Developing solution for photoresist on substrate including conductive polymer, and method for forming pattern
A developing solution is disclosed with which it is possible to develop a photoresist disposed on a substrate including a conductive polymer. Also disclosed is a method for forming a resist pattern using the developing solution. The developing solution contains one or more acids and/or salts thereof, the acids being selected from inorganic acids, amino acids having an isoelectric point less than 7, and carboxylic acids having two or more carboxy groups. Use of this developing solution hence inhibits the phenomenon in which a substrate including a conductive polymer suffers an increase in surface resistivity due to a developing solution, and makes it possible to obtain a fine resist pattern. |
| US08895223B2 |
Radiation-sensitive resin composition
The radiation-sensitive resin composition includes a compound represented by a following formula (1), and a resin. The resin has an acid-dissociable group, is insoluble or hardly soluble in an alkali, and turns to be soluble in an alkali when the acid-dissociable group is dissociated. R represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or the like, R2 to R5 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, or the like, and R6 represents a halogen atom or the like. |
| US08895222B2 |
Actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition and resist film and pattern forming method using the composition
Provided is an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition including (P) a resin which contains (A) a repeating unit having an ionic structure moiety capable of producing an acid anion on the side chain upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, wherein a cation moiety of the ionic structure moiety has an acid-decomposable group or an alkali-decomposable group. |
| US08895220B2 |
Emulsion aggregation toner formulation
An emulsion aggregation toner formulation for electrophotography and a method for preparation thereof. The emulsion aggregation toner formulation includes a polyester resin emulsion formed using an extruded polyester binder resin having a broad molecular weight distribution. The extruded polyester binder resin is formed using a plurality of polyester binder resins. Further, the emulsion aggregation toner formulation comprises at least one colorant dispersion and a wax dispersion. |
| US08895217B2 |
Electrostatic image forming toner and developer
An electrostatic image forming toner including: toner base particles each containing at least a colorant, a binder resin, and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a non-crystalline polyester resin A and a crystalline polyester resin B, wherein a ratio of B/(A+B)×100 is 10 or more but less than 50 where (A+B) is a total mass of the non-crystalline polyester resin A and the crystalline polyester resin B and “B” is a mass of the crystalline polyester resin B, and wherein the toner base particles have a TMA compression deformation amount (TMA %) of 10% or less which is measured at 50° C. and a relative humidity of 90%. |
| US08895216B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer, and a surface protective layer that contains fluororesin particles and a fluorinated alkyl group-containing copolymer; a charging unit that charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor; an electrostatic latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image; a developing unit that accommodates a developer, and develops the electrostatic latent image with the developer to form a toner image; a transfer unit that transfers the toner image to a recording medium; and a cleaning unit that removes the remained developer, wherein when the electrophotographic photoreceptor is rotated 50,000 times by repeating the formation of an image having image sections and non-image sections and having an image density of 7%, and then the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor is analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the zinc coating ratio is in the range of from 50% to 100%. |
| US08895211B2 |
Semiconductor device resolution enhancement by etching multiple sides of a mask
A mask is disclosed which includes a plurality of first phase shift regions disposed on a first side of the mask, and a plurality of second phase shift regions disposed on a second side of the mask. The first phase shift regions and second phase shift regions may be alternating phase shift regions in which phase shift of the first phase shift regions is out of phase, for instance by 180 degrees, from phase shift of the second phase shift regions. A method for forming the mask, and a semiconductor device fabrication method using the mask is also disclosed. |
| US08895209B2 |
Mask for use in photolithography, manufacturing method thereof and manufacturing method of devices by using the mask
Provided are a photomask, including: a substrate; an opaque pattern formed on the substrate and made of a material which does not penetrate light; a first dielectric layer formed on the substrate and the opaque pattern; and a negative refractive-index meta material layer formed on the first dielectric layer, in which a dispersion mode used in the photomask uses a Quasi bound mode, a manufacturing method of the photomask, and a manufacturing method of a substrate using the photomask. |
| US08895207B2 |
Materials and their use for the electrocatalytic evolution or uptake of H2
Novel materials comprising a solid support, linker arms and metal-organic complexes, and their use for the electrocatalytic production and oxidation of H2. Such materials can be used for the production of electrodes in the field of electronics, and notably electrodes for fuel cells, electrolysers and photoelectrocatalytical (PEC) devices. |
| US08895206B2 |
Porous platinum-based catalysts for oxygen reduction
A porous metal that comprises platinum and has a specific surface area that is greater than 5 m2/g and less than 75 m2/g. A fuel cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and an electrolyte arranged between the first and the second electrodes. At least one of the first and second electrodes is coated with a porous metal catalyst for oxygen reduction, and the porous metal catalyst comprises platinum and has a specific surface area that is greater than 5 m2/g and less than 75 m2/g. A method of producing a porous metal according to an embodiment of the current invention includes producing an alloy consisting essentially of platinum and nickel according to the formula PtxNi1-x, where x is at least 0.01 and less than 0.3; and dealloying the alloy in a substantially pH neutral solution to reduce an amount of nickel in the alloy to produce the porous metal. |
| US08895204B2 |
Water reactive hydrogen fuel cell power system
A water reactive hydrogen fueled power system includes devices and methods to combine reactant fuel materials and aqueous solutions to generate hydrogen. The generated hydrogen is converted in a fuel cell to provide electricity. The water reactive hydrogen fueled power system includes a fuel cell, a water feed tray, and a fuel cartridge to generate power for portable power electronics. The removable fuel cartridge is encompassed by the water feed tray and fuel cell. The water feed tray is refillable with water by a user. The water is then transferred from the water feed tray into the fuel cartridge to generate hydrogen for the fuel cell which then produces power for the user. |