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| US09036064B2 |
Solid-state imaging device including a photoelectric converting film and camera system using the solid-state imaging device
A solid-state imaging device in the present disclosure includes a semiconductor substrate, pixels, and column signal lines. Each of the pixels includes an amplifying transistor, a selection transistor, a reset transistor, and a photoelectric converting unit. The photoelectric converting unit includes a photoelectric converting film, a transparent electrode, a pixel electrode, and an accumulation diode. The pixel electrode and the accumulation diode are connected to a gate of the amplifying transistor. The amplifying transistor has a source connected to the column signal line and a drain connected to a power source line. The reset transistor has a source connected to the pixel electrode. The selective transistor is provided between the source of the amplifying transistor and the column signal line. A threshold voltage of the amplifying transistor is lower than a voltage of the accumulation diode. |
| US09036062B2 |
Solid-state image pickup device, signal processing method for the same, and image pickup apparatus using the same
A solid-state image pickup device includes: comparators; counters; and a control portion for carrying out control such that in an addition mode, the two comparators and the two counters corresponding to the two pixel columns, respectively, are set as a unit, and pixel signals are added in a horizontal direction within column processing circuitry. A reduction in power consumption is achieved and the frame rate is enhanced. |
| US09036060B2 |
Imaging device, image processing method and program for correction of blooming
Provided is an imaging device including an image sensor for outputting a high-sensitivity pixel signal from a long-time exposure pixel and a low-sensitivity pixel signal from a short-time exposure pixel; and a blooming correction processing unit for receiving the output pixel signal from the image sensor and executing blooming correction for the pixel signal. The blooming correction processing unit executes pixel value correction of the input pixel from the image sensor according to a difference between or a ratio of an input pixel value from the image sensor and an ideal pixel value not affected by blooming. |
| US09036058B2 |
Method and system for reducing chromatic aberration
A method of processing a polychromatic image is disclosed. The method comprises, for each of at least a portion of the picture elements, assigning to the picture element a new color value for each individual color, and storing the new values in a computer readable medium. The new values are assigned by: processing each of a first and a second colors of the picture element, based, at least in part on first and second colors of peripheral picture elements, to respectively provide a first processed color value and a second processed color value; employing optimization for reducing error and for assigning to the picture element a new color value for each of the first and second colors; and assigning to the picture element a new color value for a third color calculated based, at least in part, on the new color values for the first and second colors. |
| US09036057B2 |
Image process apparatus and method for controlling the same
An image processing apparatus generates an image by adding a plurality of different film-tone image effects to an input image. When the plurality of different film-tone image effects is added to an input image, if the effects include image slurring or blinking, an addition order is determined so that such effects can be added after the other effects. |
| US09036050B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and program
There is provided an image processing device including a first flicker component calculation unit that calculates a flicker component of a first exposure image which is a photographed image of a first exposure time, a second flicker component calculation unit that calculates a flicker component of a second exposure image which is a photographed image of a second exposure time different from the first exposure time, a first exposure image flicker correction unit that performs flicker correction on the first exposure image by applying the flicker component of the first exposure image calculated by the first flicker component calculation unit and generates a flicker-corrected first exposure image, and a second exposure image flicker correction unit that performs flicker correction on the second exposure image by applying the flicker component of the second exposure image calculated by the second flicker component calculation unit and generates a flicker-corrected second exposure image. |
| US09036048B2 |
Compound camera sensor and related method of processing digital images
In one embodiment, a light sensor includes four cell arrays, one for each color of the Bayer pattern, and four lenses each focusing the light coming from the scene to be captured on a respective cell array. The lenses are oriented such that at least a second green image, commonly provided by the fourth cell array, is both horizontally and vertically shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from a first (reference) green image. In a second embodiment, the four lenses are oriented such that the red and blue images are respectively shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from the first or reference green image, one horizontally and the other vertically, and the second green image is shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from the reference green image both horizontally and vertically. |
| US09036046B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method with white balance correction
An image processing apparatus determines whether a second light source is present with respect to image data, generates, when it is determined that the second light source is present, first image data based on a first white balance correction value and second image data based on a second white balance correction value, and combines the first image data and the second image data according to a determined combination ratio. |
| US09036044B1 |
Adjusting camera parameters associated with a plurality of images
Systems and methods for adjusting a camera parameter associated with a plurality of two-dimensional images are provided. Matched features can be selected as constraints for bundle adjustment using a graph model constructed based on the matched features. The graph model can have a plurality of nodes including a source node, a sink node, a point node for every matched feature, and a pose pair node associated with each pose pair viewing a matched feature. The graph model can include a plurality of edges interconnecting the plurality of nodes in the graph model. Each of these edges can be assigned a capacity and a cost based on various parameters. A flow can be computed through each of the edges of the graph model using, for instance, a minimum-cost maximum-flow algorithm. Matched features can be selected for bundle adjustment based on the flows of the edges in the graph model. |
| US09036042B2 |
Encoding, decoding, and representing high dynamic range images
Techniques are provided to encode and decode image data comprising a tone mapped (TM) image with HDR reconstruction data in the form of luminance ratios and color residual values. In an example embodiment, luminance ratio values and residual values in color channels of a color space are generated on an individual pixel basis based on a high dynamic range (HDR) image and a derivative tone-mapped (TM) image that comprises one or more color alterations that would not be recoverable from the TM image with a luminance ratio image. The TM image with HDR reconstruction data derived from the luminance ratio values and the color-channel residual values may be outputted in an image file to a downstream device, for example, for decoding, rendering, and/or storing. The image file may be decoded to generate a restored HDR image free of the color alterations. |
| US09036037B1 |
System and method for pattern detection and camera calibration
Detecting a pattern in an image by receiving the image of a pattern and storing the image in a memory, where the pattern is composed of shapes that have geometrical properties that are invariant under near projective transforms. In some embodiments the process detects shapes in the image using the geometrical properties of the shapes, determines the alignment of the various shapes, and, corresponds or matches the shapes in the image with the shapes in the pattern. This pattern detection process may be used for calibration or distortion correction in optical devices. |
| US09036032B2 |
Image pickup device changing the size of a blur kernel according to the exposure time
This image capture device includes an image capturing section 100 which captures two images in mutually different exposure times, and an image processing section 220 which performs restoration processing on the images that have been captured by the image capturing section 100. The image processing section 220 includes a blur kernel determining section which determines a blur kernel that defines the camera-shake-induced motion blur of the image captured; and an image restoration section which generates the restored image. The blur kernel determining section changes the size of the blur kernel according to the exposure time in which the image is captured. |
| US09036026B2 |
Scalable integrated electronic control unit for vehicle
A vehicular scalable integrated control system includes a plurality of cameras, a vehicular scalable integrated control unit, and a display screen for displaying video information to a driver of the vehicle. Visual image data captured by the cameras is processed by an image processor to detect objects in the fields of view of the cameras. The control unit determines a current geographical location of the vehicle and accommodates downloading of applications, which may include a tour guide application, with the tour guide application providing information associated with various geographical locations of a selected tour area. The control unit, responsive to a determination that the current geographical location of the vehicle is at a location identified in the tour guide application for the selected tour area, controls the display screen to display information associated with the identified location of the tour guide application and the current geographical location of the vehicle. |
| US09036024B2 |
Apparatus for optically inspecting electronic circuits
An installation of optical inspection of integrated circuits or the like, comprising: a planar conveyor along a first direction of the objects to be analyzed and a photographic system placed above an area of the conveyor and in a fixed position with respect thereto, the photographic system comprising at least one first set of digital cameras each comprising an orthogonal array of pixels, said cameras being aligned in a second direction different from the first one, the cameras being all oriented so that one of the orthogonal directions of their pixel array forms a first angle with the first direction. |
| US09036021B2 |
Autofocusing method and device for a microscope
A method and device for autofocusing in a microscope (11), wherein two preferably spot-shaped, markers (12) are generated on an object, the spacing (d) of the markers representing an indication of the defocusing of a working plane (9) in the object from the focal plane (10) of the microscope (11). A focus drive (6) displaces the working plane (9) into the focal plane (10) as a function of the marker spacing (d). In order to allow rapid and exact focusing to be performed, a detector (4) acquires an image of the markers (12) generated on the object, an evaluation unit (7a) determines the spacing of the markers (12), and a control unit (7b) adjusts, as a function of the determined marker spacing (d), the speed of the focus drive (6) at which the working plane (9) is displaced into the focal plane (10). |
| US09036018B2 |
Facial expression recognition systems and methods and computer program products thereof
A facial expression recognition system includes a facial database, an image capture unit, an expression recognition data generation unit and an expression recognition unit. The facial database includes a plurality of expression information and expression features of optical flow field, wherein each of the expression features of optical flow field corresponds to one of the expression information. The image capture unit captures a plurality of facial images. The expression recognition data generation unit is coupled to the image capture unit and the facial database for receiving a first facial image and a second facial image from the image capture unit and calculating an expression feature of optical flow field between the first facial image and the second facial image corresponding to each of the expression information. The expression recognition unit is coupled to the expression recognition data generation unit for determining a facial expression corresponding to the first and second facial images according to the calculated expression feature of optical flow field for each of the expression information and the variation features in optical flow in the facial database. |
| US09036016B2 |
Initial camera mode management system
A camera detects devices, such as other cameras, smart devices, and access points, with which the camera may communicate. The camera may alternate between operating as a wireless station and a wireless access point. The camera may connect to and receive credentials from a device for another device to which it is not connected. In one embodiment, the camera is configured to operate as a wireless access point, and is configured to receive credentials from a smart device operating as a wireless station. The camera may then transfer the credentials to additional cameras, each configured to operate as wireless stations. The camera and additional cameras may connect to a smart device directly or indirectly (for instance, through an access point), and the smart device may change the camera mode of the cameras. The initial modes of the cameras may be preserved and restored by the smart device upon disconnection. |
| US09036014B2 |
Dual layer parallax barrier-based 3D display device and method
A dual layer parallax barrier-based 3D display device may include an image panel that displays a left image and a right image so as to alternately display a left-image column and a right-image column, a dual layer parallax barrier that includes a first common electrode, a second common electrode, a plurality of first individual electrodes, a plurality of second individual electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer, and blocks specific portions of the displayed images and a driving unit that drives the electrodes based on the distance between the image panel and the viewer so as to allow the viewer to view the left image and the right image, separately, and simultaneously drives, in a particular state, at least one of the first common electrode and the plurality of first individual electrodes and at least one of the second common electrode and the plurality of second individual electrodes. |
| US09036013B2 |
Segmented dual layer parallax barrier-based 3D display device and method
A segmented dual layer parallax barrier-based 3D display device may includes an image panel that displays a left image and a right image so as to alternately display a left-image column and a right-image column; a dual layer parallax barrier that includes a first common electrode, a second common electrode, a plurality of first individual electrodes, a plurality of second individual electrodes, a plurality of segmented electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer, and blocks specific portions of the displayed images; and a driving unit that drives the electrodes based on the distance between the image panel and the viewer so as to allow the viewer to view the left image and the right image, separately. |
| US09036010B2 |
Transport of stereoscopic image data over a display interface
A digital display interface (40) connects a first audio-visual device (10) to a second audio-visual device (20). Stereoscopic image data is transmitter over the display interface (40). Components of stereoscopic image data are multiplexed and inserted into an image data carrying element. An existing deep color mode can be re-used for this purpose. Signaling information to help identify or decode the stereoscopic image data is carried in auxiliary data carrying elements. Stereoscopic image data can be distributed between image data carrying data elements and auxiliary data carrying data elements. Auxiliary data carrying elements can be transmitted in horizontal or vertical blanking periods, and can comprise HDMI Data Island Packets. Stereoscopic image data can be sent over an auxiliary data channel. The auxiliary data channel can form part of the same cable as is used to carry a primary channel of the display interface, a separate cable, or a wireless link. |
| US09036004B2 |
Three-dimensional image capture device
A 3D image capture device includes: a light transmitting member 2 with polarizing areas and a non-polarizing area; a solid-state image sensor 1 for receiving the light transmitted through the member 2; an imaging section 3 for producing an image on the imaging area 1a of the sensor 1; and an image generating section. The member 2 has n polarizing areas P(1), P(2), . . . and P(n) (where n is an integer and n≧2), each of which transmits only a light ray polarized in a particular direction, and a non-polarizing area P(n+1) that transmits any light ray irrespective of its polarization direction. Those n polarizing areas have mutually different transmission axis directions. The sensor 1 includes a pixel array, divided into pixel blocks each consisting of (n+1) pixels, and a filter array including n polarization filters arranged so as to face n out of the (n+1) pixels and having different transmission axis directions. The image generating section generates images based on the light rays that have entered the n polarizing areas and the non-polarizing area using pixel signals supplied from those pixels. |
| US09036002B2 |
System for making a panoramic image
A system for making a panoramic image includes a digital camera (20) for capturing a first image (30) defining a first overlap region (115) and a second image (40) defining a second overlap region (215). Two points (150, 151) in the first overlap region are identified and a first vector (175) overlap region connecting the two points is defined. Two points (250, 251) in the second overlap region which correspond to the two points in the first overlap region are identified and a second vector (275) of the two points is defined. If the points in the first vector match points in the second vector, determine if the first and second vectors are parallel. If the vectors are not parallel, rotate the second vector image until the second vector is parallel to the first vector. |
| US09035998B2 |
Scalable web real-time communications (WebRTC) media engines, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media
Scalable Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) media engines, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for providing a scalable WebRTC media engine comprises instantiating one or more virtual WebRTC agents, each corresponding to one or more of a plurality of WebRTC clients. The method further comprises establishing a plurality of WebRTC interactive flows, each connecting one of the one or more virtual WebRTC agents with the corresponding one or more of the plurality of WebRTC clients. The method also comprises receiving contents of the plurality of WebRTC interactive flows as input from the one or more virtual WebRTC agents, and synthesizing the contents of the plurality of WebRTC interactive flows. The method additionally comprises directing the synthesized contents as output to one of more of the plurality of WebRTC interactive flows via the corresponding one or more virtual WebRTC agents. |
| US09035996B1 |
Multi-device video communication session
A method of adding a computing device to a multi-device video communication session. A server receives recorded content from a plurality of multi-device video communication sessions and a search request from a computing device. The server identifies a first multi-device video communication session based on the search request. The first multi-device video communication session includes a weighted list of text elements. The server transmits information based on the weighted list of text elements to the computing device, receives a selection from the computing device corresponding to a first text element, and transmits at least a portion of the recorded content from the first multi-device video communication session to the computing device based on the first text element. The server receives an add request for the computing device to be added to the first multi-device video communication session and transmits the add request to the first multi-device video communication session. |
| US09035995B2 |
Method and apparatus for widening viewing angle in video conferencing system
A method and apparatus for widening a viewing angle in a video conferencing system are provided. The apparatus for widening a viewing angle in a video conferencing system includes: generating reference data from images of a video conference participant captured by a camera included in the video conferencing system; generating movement data based on the video conference participant's movements sensed by the camera; extracting a first control parameter by comparing the reference data with the movement data; transmitting the first control parameter to the other end of the conference; receiving a second control parameter generated at the other end of the conference; and controlling the camera by the second control parameter. |
| US09035989B2 |
Image forming apparatus with count portion measuring electric signal
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a charging device; an exposure device configured to expose intermittently for each unit area of the image bearing member charged by the charging device to form a latent image; a developing device configured to develop the latent image with developer; a signal output portion configured to output a first electric signal when the exposure device exposes a print area of the image bearing member, and output a second electric signal, which instructs the exposure device to shorten an exposure time per unit area more than an exposure time of the first electric signal, when the exposure device exposes a non-print area of the image bearing member; and a count portion, to which the first and the second electric signals are input from the signal output portion, configured to measure only the first electric signal without measuring the second electric signal. |
| US09035988B2 |
Light source driving device, light scanning device and image forming apparatus
A light source driving device which drives a plurality of light emitting parts provided in a light source to emit a plurality of light beams based on image information, includes a plurality of driving circuits configured to drive the plurality of light emitting parts. Each of the driving circuits includes a signal generation circuit that generates a modulation signal to control a light emitting intensity of the corresponding light emitting part based on the image information, a detection circuit that detects a light emitting status of the corresponding light emitting part; and a light emitting circuit that outputs a driving signal to the corresponding light emitting part to emit a light beam in accordance with the modulation signal and adjustment data obtained based on the light emitting status of at least one of the plurality of light emitting parts. |
| US09035986B2 |
Method for forming a colour laser image with high reflective yield and document in which a colour laser image is thus produced
A method for forming and a document having a color laser image with high reflective yield, which comprises a sheet of laserable material, sub-pixels in primary colors, the laser beam via carbonization exposing grey levels of the color image, and a substrate. The whole is laminated in various embodiments. The sub-pixels in various embodiments are separated by transparent regions which increase reflectivity and reinforce the white component of the personalised image. Layers of reflective varnish can reinforce reflectivity. |
| US09035985B2 |
Printer apparatus and method for operating printer apparatus
A printer apparatus includes a printer body including an opening part that has a protruding part, a support part including a rotary shaft and rotatably attached to the printer body to rotate about the rotary shaft, a platen unit provided in the support part, and a shaft bearing including a projecting part and rotatably supports the platen roller. The opening part receives the shaft bearing. In a state where the platen unit is installed in the printer body, the projecting part and the protruding part contact each other. In a case of removing the platen unit from the printer body, the shaft bearing and the support part rotate in a same direction. |
| US09035983B2 |
Thermal printer
A thermal printer capable of easily attaching and detaching a thermal head frame having a thermal head mounted thereon. A thermal printer (10) in which a thermal head frame (34) having a thermal head (26) mounted thereon is attachable to and detachable from a printer body (16), includes: the thermal head frame has a protrusion (34a) at one end and a claw portion (36b) at the other end; a pair of thermal head frame mounting portions (40a) and (40b) in the printer body (16) oppose each other at a distance that is smaller than a width of the thermal head frame (34); a hole (42a) in portion (40a) receives the protrusion and a hole (42b) in portion (40b) receives the claw portion; and spring members (44a) and (44b) between the pair of thermal head frame mounting portions (40a) and (40b) urge the thermal head frame to a position setting the holes (42a, 42b). |
| US09035982B2 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using same
Provided is an optical scanning device including a light source, a deflector, a scanning lens, a synchronizing sensor, a sensor lens and a control unit. The deflector causes a scanning line to be written within an effective scanning width of a surface to be scanned. The synchronizing sensor detects a light beam that is outside the range of the effective scanning width on a scanning start side of the scanning line. The control unit controls an emission operation of the light source, and starts the writing of the scanning line at a timing in which a fixed time is added to a timing that the synchronizing sensor has detected the light beam. The sensor lens includes a diffraction grating that bends the light beam in a downstream-side direction of the scanning line, and a bending degree of the light beam by the diffraction grating changes with temperature. |
| US09035980B2 |
Method of using a pixel to display an image
A first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel of a pixel are utilized to display a first white image, then a first brightness of the first sub-pixel and a first brightness of the second sub-pixel are measured. The first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel of the pixel are utilized to display a second white image, then a second brightness of the first sub-pixel and a second brightness of the second sub-pixel are measured. How image data should be displayed is determined according to whether the first brightness of the first sub-pixel is greater than the second brightness of the first sub-pixel, whether the first brightness of the second sub-pixel is greater than the second brightness of the second sub-pixel, and whether a chromaticity coordinate of the image data is within a chromaticity range capable of being displayed by the first, second and third sub-pixels. |
| US09035977B2 |
Display control drive device and display system
A display control drive device sequentially reads display data from a display memory in which the display data is stored, produces three primary color image signals that are applied to pixel locations in a dot-matrix color display device, and transmits the signals through a common external output terminal in a time-sharing manner. The display control drive device produces control signals applied to selection switching elements in the display device and that selectively apply an input image signal to any of three source lines. The display control drive device includes: a unit that determines one horizontal period based on a clock received from outside synchronously with display data; and a signal production circuit that produces and transmits the control signals, applied to the selection switching elements, so that the control signals will have a pulse duration equivalent to a time calculated by trisecting one horizontal period. |
| US09035976B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device for sensing pixel current and pixel current sensing method thereof
The present invention relates to an organic light emitting diode display device capable of sensing driving current of each pixel with a simple configuration to compensate for a luminance deviation between pixels and a pixel current sensing method thereof. The organic light emitting diode display device includes a display panel including 2N (N being a natural number) pixels that share a reference line though which a reference signal is supplied and are respectively connected to 2N data lines through which data signals are applied, and a data driver for driving the 2N pixels sharing the reference line in a time division manner through the data lines, sensing currents of the time-division-driven 2N pixels as voltages through the shared reference line and outputting the sensed currents, in a sensing mode. |
| US09035974B2 |
Display apparatus and control method for saving power thereof
In a method and a device for controlling luminance of a display unit to save power of a display device including the display unit for displaying on a screen, the method includes: calculating a second luminance to which the luminance of the display unit is to be changed considering a first luminance that is a current luminance of the display unit and a constant K determined according to Weber's law; and changing the luminance of the display unit to the second luminance. |
| US09035973B2 |
Display device and display control method
A display device according to the present invention has: a display section; an image storage section that stores, as subjects to be displayed on the display section, a plurality of combinations of images, each of which is configured by a plurality of items associated with hierarchical levels; a display controller that sequentially scroll-displays on the display section the images stored in the image storage section; a touch panel that accepts from an operator designation of a coordinate position within a display area of the display section; and a speed detector that detects a speed change at which the coordinate position designated from the touch panel changes, wherein the display controller reduces the number of items of each of the images scroll-displayed on the display section, as the speed of change detected by the speed detector increases. |
| US09035964B2 |
Method and apparatus for obtaining lighting information and material information in image modeling system
An apparatus and method for obtaining lighting information and material information in an image modeling system are provided. A material constant of a same material region and lighting information of the same material region may be extracted by applying color channel pixel values, depth values, and viewpoint information to a linear system in which a pixel value is defined by a material constant and a combination of a geometry component with a lighting component. |
| US09035963B2 |
Display control apparatus and display control method
A display control apparatus including a first image data input unit to which first image data is input, a second image data input unit to which second image data is input, a user operation reception unit that receives a user operation, an image quality correction unit that performs image quality correction processing of input first image data in response to the user operation and generates and outputs image data for display of the first image data or of corrected first image data, an image quality adjustment unit that performs image quality adjustment processing of the image data output from the image quality correction unit and the second image data using preset parameters, and a control unit that controls the image quality adjustment unit to disable/enable the image quality adjustment processing with the image quality correction unit in on/off state, respectively. |
| US09035961B2 |
Display pipe alternate cache hint
A system and method for efficiently allocating data in a memory hierarchy. A system includes a memory controller for controlling accesses to a memory and a display controller for processing video frame data. The memory controller includes a cache capable of storing data read from the memory. A given video frame may be processed by the display controller and presented on a respective display screen. During processing, control logic within the display controller sends multiple memory access requests to the memory controller with cache hint information. For the frame data, the cache hint information may alternate between (i) indicating to store frame data read in response to respective requests in the memory cache and (ii) indicating to not store the frame data read in response to respective requests in the memory cache. |
| US09035955B2 |
Synchronizing virtual actor's performances to a speaker's voice
A system for generating and displaying holographic visual aids associated with a story to an end user of a head-mounted display device while the end user is reading the story or perceiving the story being read aloud is described. The story may be embodied within a reading object (e.g., a book) in which words of the story may be displayed to the end user. The holographic visual aids may include a predefined character animation that is synchronized to a portion of the story corresponding with the character being animated. A reading pace of a portion of the story may be used to control the playback speed of the predefined character animation in real-time such that the character is perceived to be lip-syncing the story being read aloud. In some cases, an existing book without predetermined AR tags may be augmented with holographic visual aids. |
| US09035946B1 |
Computer hardware architecture and data structures for triangle binning to support incoherent ray traversal
A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction. |
| US09035943B1 |
Multi-view image display apparatus and multi-view image display method thereof
A multi-view image display apparatus is disclosed. The multi-view image display apparatus includes a depth adjuster configured to adjust depth of an input image, a rendering unit configured to perform rendering of a multi-view based on the depth-adjusted image, a display configured to arrange and display the multi-view image according to an arrangement pattern, and a controller configured to control the depth adjuster to shift depth of the input image so that an object satisfying a criterion has a depth value, based on depth information of at least one object included in the input image. |
| US09035942B2 |
Graphic image processing method and apparatus
Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a graphic stream. The method may include determining whether a graphic picture is reproducible as a three-dimensional (3D) image by assigning different depth values according to graphic objects or by assigning the same depth value to the graphic picture, using 3D capability information. |
| US09035938B2 |
Generating cross section for roadway infrastructure models
A method, system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and computer-program product provides the ability to generate a cross section for a roadway infrastructure model. A cutting plane line is drawn on the roadway infrastructure model at an arbitrary location. Portions of the roadway infrastructure model that intersect the cutting plane line are determined. Solids are created at the intersections. A cross section is formed by slicing the one or more solids based on the cutting plane line. The cross section is displayed. |
| US09035937B2 |
Liquid crystal display and method of operating the same
A liquid crystal display (LCD) is disclosed. The LCD has improved display quality and/or power consumption because current leakage in the pixels is effectively reduced. |
| US09035933B2 |
Display apparatus and method for generating gate signal thereof
A display apparatus and a method for generating gate signal thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a timing controller and a display panel. The timing controller is used for providing a plurality of timing signals. The display panel includes a pixel array and a gate drive circuit. The pixel array has a plurality of pixels. The gate drive circuit is electrically connected to the timing controller and the pixel array and including a plurality of shift register circuits. The shift register circuit includes a first shift register and a second shift register. The first shift register is configured for generating a corresponding primary gate signal. The second shift register is configured for generating a corresponding secondary gate signal. The timing controller adjusts overlapping relations of the timing signals according to a frame rate of the display apparatus. |
| US09035932B2 |
Thermally compensated pixels for liquid crystal displays (LCDS)
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for an electronic display with thermally compensated pixels. Such an electronic display may have an array of pixels, at least some of which may be thermally compensated pixels that exhibit reduced thermal color shift over an operational temperature range. These thermally compensated pixels may have compensation electrodes that induce an electric field in the thermally compensated pixel that cause a reduction in color shift. |
| US09035931B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same
A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate having a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, the first substrate including first, second, third and fourth sides; a first common line formed in the non-display area corresponding to the second, third and fourth sides of the first substrate; a second substrate facing and spaced apart from the first substrate; a common electrode formed on an entire surface of the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. |
| US09035924B2 |
Shutter glasses and image display system
A pair of shutter glasses capable of reducing decrease in brightness of displayed images to be visually recognized is provided. A pair of shutter glasses include a pair of light selectors the state of each of which is switched between a light transmitting state in which the light selector transmits light and a light blocking state in which the light selector blocks light. When a full area where light is transmitted or blocked in the light transmitting state or the light blocking state is virtually divided into a plurality of divided areas along a first direction, each of the light selectors switches the state of each of the plurality of divided areas between the light transmitting state and the light blocking state sequentially along the first direction. |
| US09035922B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a driver circuit monolithically integrated in a display panel. The display panel has a plurality of pixel units and signal lines; and a driver circuit including a first circuit element and a second circuit element integrally formed on the display panel and electrically connected to each other, wherein patterning density of the first circuit element and patterning density of the second circuit element would be substantially different from each other if the first and second circuit elements were laid out as concentrated individual circuit elements, but where the driver layout includes at least two spaced apart first circuit element regions over which the first circuit element is distributively formed and the driver layout includes an interposed second circuit element region in which at least part of the second circuit element is formed. |
| US09035917B2 |
ASIC controller for light-based sensor
A controller for a light-based touch screen including a chip package coupled with a light-based touch screen, emitter driver circuitry inside the chip package for selectively activating a plurality of photoemitters that are outside of the chip package, detector driver circuitry inside the chip package for selectively activating a plurality of photo detectors that are outside of the chip package, detector signal processing circuitry for generating detection signals representing measured amounts of light detected on the plurality of photo detectors, a first plurality of signal conducting pins for connecting the plurality of photoemitters outside the chip package to the emitter driver circuitry inside the chip package, a second plurality of signal conducting pins for connecting the plurality of photo detectors outside the chip package to the detector driver circuitry and to the detector signal processing circuitry inside the chip package, controller circuitry inside the chip package for controlling the emitter driver circuitry and the detector driver circuitry, and at least one input/output pin for communicating with a host processor and for outputting the detection signals generated by the detector signal processing circuitry to the host processor, for the host processor to identify one or more locations on the touch screen that are being touched. |
| US09035916B2 |
Optical touch display panel
An optical touch display panel includes a plurality of light-sensing touch units and a position detecting circuit. Each light-sensing touch unit includes a light-sensing component, a storage capacitor, a signal reading component, and a charging component. The light-sensing component senses a light source to generate a sensing signal. The storage capacitor is connected electrically to the light-sensing component for storing the sensing signal. The signal reading component is connected electrically to the storage capacitor for reading a voltage of the storage capacitor to generate a reading signal. The charging signal is connected electrically to the storage capacitor for charging the storage capacitor to reset an electric charge record of the storage capacitor. The position detecting circuit is connected electrically to the light-sensing touch units for detecting a touch point on the optical touch display panel according to a reading signal output by each of the light-sensing touch units. |
| US09035904B2 |
Input method and input apparatus using input pad
When it is sensed that a finger is touched to a movable pad and a detection switch is switched on, time that the finger is touched to the sensing surface (Condition (1)), distance in which the finger is moved on the sensing surface (Condition (2)), speed that the finger is moved on the sensing surface (Condition (3)), and acceleration obtained when the finger is moved on the sensing surface (Condition (4)) are referred thereto. When any one of the conditions is satisfied, it is determined to be a pressing operation which is not intended by an operator. |
| US09035901B2 |
Capacitive touch panel and recognition method and fabrication method thereof
A capacitive touch panel and operating and fabrication methods thereof. The capacitive touch panel has a plurality of transmitter electrodes and a plurality of receiver electrodes. An electric field is formed by the receiver electrodes and the powered one of the transmitter electrodes. The changes, caused by the touch of a user, in the electric field are used in touch recognition. The receiver electrodes are all in a fork shape. For one receiver electrode, the teeth are spaced in a first distance. Note that adjacent teeth from different and adjacent electrodes are spaced apart by another distance. The second distance is greater than the first distance. |
| US09035898B2 |
System and methods for raised touch screens
A touch sensitive display assembly includes a touch screen and a button array. The touch screen is configured to display one or more input keys. The button array includes one or more buttons corresponding to the one or more input keys. The button array is formed by a substrate attached to a button membrane thereby creating a set of button cavities corresponding to the input keys. The button cavities are configured to be inflated and deflated by a pump coupled to a fluid reservoir. The cavities can be inflated/deflated together, in subsets, and/or individually. In some embodiments, the button array is sandwiched between a touch sensing layer and a display of the touch screen. In other embodiments, the button array can be located either above or below the touch screen. |
| US09035896B2 |
Information sharing apparatus and information sharing system
A novel information sharing apparatus that comprises an information sharing system, connects multiple sites via a network shares each other's handwriting and screens, and eases handwriting sender's psychological burden. In the information sharing system, a handwriting sender generates stroke after a user inputs coordinates, display the stroke in unsteady state, and sends coordinate information to a handwriting receiver. The handwriting receiver generates stroke based on the coordinate information sent from the handwriting sender, displays the stroke, and returns response information for displaying succeeded to the handwriting sender. After receiving the response information from the handwriting receiver, the handwriting sender changes the displayed stroke from unsteady state to steady state. |
| US09035894B2 |
Touch sensing and feedback apparatuses and methods
A touch sensing and feedback apparatus comprises a feedback electrode, a reference electrode electrically insulated from the feedback electrode, a signal generator to generate a sensing driving signal and transmit the sensing driving signal to a sensing electrode, and a signal detector coupled to a detecting electrode to detect the sensing driving signal and generate a touch action signal based on the detected sensing driving signal. The signal generator generates a feedback driving signal and transmits the feedback driving signal to the feedback electrode based on the touch action signal, and generates a reference driving signal and transmits the reference driving signal to the reference electrode based on the touch action signal. The reference driving signal maintains the reference electrode electrically-grounded. |
| US09035891B2 |
Multi-point touch-sensitive sensor user interface using distinct digit identification
For digit identification on a multi-point touch sensitive sensor, an assignment module assigns a digit identity to each digit of at least two digits in contact with a multi-point touch sensitive sensor during a learning phase. The digit identity includes a distinct representation of each digit. A receiving module detects a digit interaction of one or more particular digits of the at least two digits with the multi-point touch-sensitive sensor. A determination module recognizes the assigned digit identity for each particular digit involved in the digit interaction. |
| US09035883B2 |
Systems and methods for modifying virtual keyboards on a user interface
A method and apparatus for modifying virtual keyboards is disclosed. An electronic device displays (705) a first virtual keyboard on a user interface. The electronic device detects (710) a selection of the first virtual keyboard and identifies (715) a user interaction with the first virtual keyboard. The user interaction can be a drag-and-drop resizing, a multiplicative selection of the user interface, or other gestures. After identifying a location associated with the user interaction, the electronic device determines (735, 750, 760) a second virtual keyboard of a different type than the first virtual keyboard based on the location and displays (740, 765) the second virtual keyboard on the user interface. |
| US09035879B2 |
Digital signs
A method for pairing a control device with a digital sign is provided. The method includes receiving control device geometric attributes and digital sign geometric attributes, determining a digital sign identification based on the control device geometric attributes and the digital sign geometric attributes, and transmitting the digital sign identification to the control device. The control device geometric attributes may define geometric attributes of the control device. The digital sign geometric attributes may define geometric attributes of the digital sign that the control device is attempting to control. The digital sign identification may define the digital sign that the control device. |
| US09035876B2 |
Three-dimensional user interface session control
A method, including receiving, by a computer executing a non-tactile three dimensional (3D) user interface, a set of multiple 3D coordinates representing a gesture by a hand positioned within a field of view of a sensing device coupled to the computer, the gesture including a first motion in a first direction along a selected axis in space, followed by a second motion in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, along the selected axis. Upon detecting completion of the gesture, the non-tactile 3D user interface is transitioned from a first state to a second state. |
| US09035875B1 |
Optimizing display orientation
An accelerometer and a magnetometer of a mobile computing device are operable to provide a first input and a second input, respectively, to an orientation module that uses signals to determine a spatial orientation of the mobile computing device. The orientation module receives the first input from the accelerometer and the second input from the magnetometer; determines two or more angles of incidence relative to two or more planes; determines a relative accuracy of the first input and the second input in predicting device orientation at the two or more angles of incidence; assigns weightings to the first input and a second weighting to the second input based on the relative accuracy of the first input and the relative accuracy of the second input; and determines an orientation of the mobile computing device based on the first weighting of the first input and the second weighting of the second input. |
| US09035870B2 |
E-paper display control based on conformation sequence status
A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: obtaining and controlling display of one or more portions of one or more display layers of the electronic paper assembly regarding display of second information in response to the information associated with the one or more sequences of two or more conformations of the one or more portions of the one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. |
| US09035863B2 |
Liquid crystal display data driver capable of column inversion and 3-column inversion driving method
A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels, and a data driver connected to the plurality of data lines, where the data driver supplies data voltage to the plurality of data lines, where the data driver includes a data latch which outputs input image data in response to image data corresponding to the plurality of pixels, wherein the data latch rearranges a sequence of the image data, and a digital-to-analog converting unit which includes a positive digital-to-analog converter which generates a positive data voltage in response to the input image data, and a negative digital-to-analog converter which generates a negative data voltage in response to the input image data. |
| US09035861B2 |
Gate-on voltage generator, driving device and display apparatus comprising the same
A gate-on voltage generator that can enhance display quality at low temperatures, a driving device, and a display apparatus having the same, in which the gate-on voltage generator includes a temperature sensor having an operational amplifier configured to receive a driving voltage and produce a temperature-dependent variable voltage, the level of which varies according to the ambient temperature, and a charge pumping unit shifting the temperature-dependent variable voltage by the voltage level of a pulse signal and generating a gate-on voltage. |
| US09035860B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel including a matrix of pixel regions, and a shutter panel including a matrix of optical shutter regions each of which state is selected from a light-transmitting state and a light-shielding state. In a first display state, the display panel performs display regarding one pixel region as a display element unit, and each of the plurality of optical shutter regions in the shutter panel is brought into a light-transmitting state or a light-shielding state. In a second display state, the display panel performs display regarding at least two pixel regions as the display element unit, and each of the plurality of optical shutter regions in the shutter panel is brought into a light-transmitting state or a light-shielding state. As a result, the range of distance with which 3D images can be displayed can differ between the first display state and the second display state. |
| US09035858B2 |
Pixel with reverse bias power source and organic light emitting device using the same
A pixel and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device including the same are disclosed. The pixel includes an organic light emitting diode and an inverse voltage transistor positioned between an anode of the organic light emitting diode and a reverse bias power source, and configured to transmit the inverse voltage to the organic light emitting diode (OLED). |
| US09035857B2 |
Image display device, control method for an image display device, and adjustment system for an image display device
It is aimed to provide a technology capable of stabilizing light-emitting luminance of an image display device. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, an image display device includes a pixel circuit including a light-emitting element, a recognizing portion which recognizes a predicted value of a parameter on driving of the pixel circuit based on image data, and an obtaining portion which obtains an actually-measured value of the parameter while causing the light-emitting element to emit light in accordance with the image data. This image display device further includes a comparing portion which compares the predicted value and the actually-measured value with each other, and a control portion which controls a power supply voltage applied to the pixel circuit in accordance with a comparison result of the comparing portion. The control portion increases/decreases, in response to a fact that the actually-measured value falls outside a first reference range with the predicted value being as a reference, the power supply voltage so that the actually-measured value is included in a second reference range which is within the first reference range and is narrower than the first reference range, and stops the increase/decrease of the power supply voltage in a case where a relationship in which the actually-measured value is included in the second reference range is satisfied. Note that the control portion may be provided outside the image display device. |
| US09035856B2 |
Organic light emitting display, and image modification method
An organic light emitting display, and an image modification method may include an analog to digital image signal processor configured to output present digital image data, a frame data analysis unit electrically coupled to the image signal processor, the frame data analysis unit configured to receive the present digital image data and a present data summation value, and to output a new data summation value, a light emission time supply unit electrically coupled to the frame data analysis unit and configured to supply a light emission time in accordance with the new data summation value, and a light emission control driver electrically coupled to the light emission time supply unit and configured to output a light emission signal in accordance with the light emission time output from the light emission time supply unit. |
| US09035844B2 |
Telemetry extension cable
The invention of the disclosure is an extension cable to connect via telemetry, an external medical device in a non-sterile zone with a medical device that is within a sterile zone. The telemetry extension cable includes a cable having a length and comprising a conductor, a first RF antenna attached at one end of the cable and a second RF antenna attached at a second end of the cable, at least one of the first or second antennas configured to transmit and receive RF signals to and from an implantable medical device. |
| US09035843B1 |
Ferrite-loaded, Fabry-Perot cavity antenna
The ferrite-loaded, Fabry-Perot Cavity antenna uses a novel superstrate based beam scanning/shaping mechanism by optimally placing three magnetized ferrite cylinders within the cavity. Beam scan in a certain direction required oppositely located ferrite cylinder to be axially biased using externally controlled DC magnetizing field. The FPC utilizes a composite dielectric superstrate to inversely relate the mainlobe-to-sidelobe ratio with scan-angle, which demonstrates larger reduction in side lobe level with increases angle of beam scan. The designed 10 GHz ferrite-loaded FPC antenna has dimensions of 6.4 cm×2 cm×1.6 cm. It achieves a −10 dB impedance bandwidth of 525 MHz, directivity of 11.04 dB and a broadside beam steering range of ±12° for 200 kA/m (0.25 T) changes in the externally applied axial magnetizing field. |
| US09035839B2 |
Multi-feed diversity receive system and method
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to diversity receive systems and methods. An antenna system may comprise a reflector and a plurality of feed antennas configured to receive a wireless signal from a common source with directional diversity. A receive system may comprise such antenna system in combination with a plurality of receivers and/or demodulators, and in combination with a combiner and/or controller. |
| US09035836B2 |
Superimposed multimode antenna for enhanced system filtering
In a typical system a combination of filters (BAW, SAW, etc) and an antenna are configured to achieve frequency filtering effect and efficient transmission and reception of communication signals. Wireless communication systems require specific bandwidth and out-of-band rejection; typically this metric is characterized in frequency roll-off in units of dB/MHz. This number is distributed between the antenna and filter, with the antenna contributing little to date to the filtering effect. Loss and cost penalties are incurred when multi-mode systems are designed which require additional rejection from the filter elements. Described here is a method of designing antennas to reduce the amount of rejection and complexity from the filter system. A superposition of a symmetrical frequency response from the antenna structure coupled with a non-symmetrical frequency response from a counterpoise structure generates increased rejection of out-of-band components. |
| US09035835B2 |
Antenna apparatus for a wireless device
An antenna apparatus for a wireless device includes a continuous metallic component electrically connected to a circuit card assembly through an interconnection, an antenna matching circuit electrically connected to the continuous metallic component, a first electrical connection between the continuous metallic component and the interconnection, and at least one additional electrical connection between the interconnection and the circuit card assembly, the antenna matching circuit and the interconnection causing the continuous metallic component to resonate at an at least one desired frequency. |
| US09035831B2 |
Bi-directional magnetic permeability enhanced metamaterial (MPEM) substrate for antenna miniaturization
A bi-directional antenna includes a plurality of unit cells stacked in two perpendicular planes (Y-X and Z-X planes) to form cube shaped unit cells whereby inductive loops are placed on four faces corresponding to the Y-X and Z-X planes. Each unit cell includes a magnetic permeability enhanced metamaterial. The resulting antenna has the ability to couple magnetic fields oriented in both the X and Y directions with increased permeabilities and can be used to realize a variety of different antenna architectures that do not have their magnetic field confined in a single direction. |
| US09035830B2 |
Antenna arrangement
An apparatus for antenna arrangement isolation is described. The apparatus includes a first antenna element (for example, a CMMB TV antenna) having a first radiator component and a second antenna element (for example, a cellular antenna) having a second radiator component. A first portion of the first radiator component is adjacent to a second portion of the second radiator component. The second radiator component is configured with at least one operational frequency range. The first portion of the first radiator corresponds to at least one minimum electric field region of at least one resonant frequency of the first radiator. The at least one resonant frequency of the first radiator overlaps with the at least one operational frequency range. Methods, Apparatus and Computer readable media for providing the antenna arrangement are also described. |
| US09035825B2 |
Portable biometric monitoring devices having location sensors
Assisted-GPS for a portable biometric monitoring device is provided. The portable biometric monitoring device may obtain updated ephemeris data from an associated secondary device via a short-range, low-power communication protocol. The secondary device may be a computing device such as a smartphone, tablet, or laptop. Various rules may control when the ephemeris data is updated. The ephemeris data may be used in the calculation of the global position of the portable biometric monitoring device. Additionally, the portable biometric monitoring device may communicate downloaded position fixing data to the associated secondary device. The associated secondary device may then calculate the global position from the position fixing data. |
| US09035823B2 |
Method for monitoring the state of a fill level measuring device operating according to the radar principle
A method for monitoring the state of a fill level measuring device (1) operating according to the radar principle and such a fill level measuring device, wherein the fill level measuring device (1) has at least one transceiver unit (2) for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals, and at least one antenna (3) for guiding, radiating and receiving electromagnetic signals. The antenna (3) has at least one interior space (4), and wherein the antenna (3) has a transmission characteristic with regard to the transmission of electromagnetic signals. Electromagnetic signals are emitted or directed at least partially in the direction of a wall section (5) of the interior space (4) of the antenna (3), the received electromagnetic signals are evaluated with respect to the transmission characteristic of the antenna (3), and the result of the evaluation is compared to at least one stored reference value. |
| US09035820B2 |
Measurement device, measurement system, measurement method, and program
Provided is a technique capable of suppressing the deterioration in azimuth resolution and distance resolution in even a modulated and transmitted or received signal or a signal reflected by an object and varied in intensity when acquiring waveform information. A measurement device comprise: a plurality of sensors which receive waves propagating through a space; and a sampling timing calculation means which obtains, on the basis of the relative positions of the sensors and the velocities of the waves, the difference between the arrival times of the waves received by the respective sensors and calculates, for each sensor, sampling timing for acquiring the waveform information relating to the waves, on the basis of the difference between the arrival times. |
| US09035817B2 |
Electromagnetic wave reverberation chamber
An electromagnetic wave reverberation chamber includes: an electromagnetic wave absorbing apparatus installed in an intended space of the electromagnetic wave reverberation chamber for adjusting a reflection characteristic of an inside of the electromagnetic wave reverberation chamber, wherein the electromagnetic wave absorbing apparatus have an electromagnetic bandgap structure including a plurality of unit cells arranged periodically. |
| US09035815B1 |
High-speed and high-resolution signal analysis system
An apparatus relating generally to signal analysis is disclosed. In such an apparatus, a first comparator is coupled to receive a signal input and a first input level. A second comparator is coupled to receive the signal input and a second input level different from the first input level. A time-to-digital converter is coupled at a first port thereof, such as a start port for example, to receive a first output from the first comparator and coupled at a second port thereof, such as a stop port for example, to receive a second output from the second comparator. The time-to-digital converter is coupled to provide digital words representing the signal input. |
| US09035813B2 |
Technique for excess loop delay compensation in delta-sigma modulators
A technique for excess loop delay compensation in delta sigma modulator. The delta sigma modulator includes a loop filter. The loop filter receives an analog input signal and an output of a digital to analog converter. A comparator receives an output of the loop filter and generates a digital output signal. A reference select logic unit receives the digital output signal as a feedback and generates one or more switching signals. One or more switches are coupled to the comparator and each switch receives a pre-computed reference voltage. The one or more switches are activated by the one or more switching signals in response to the digital output signal. |
| US09035810B1 |
System and method for digital-to-analog converter calibration
A system and method are provided for measuring current sources, such as might be useful in the calibration of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The method provides a first plurality of current sources. Each current source is engageable to supply a current representing a corresponding nominal value. The method selectively enables current source combinations of current. In response to measuring the current source combinations, current difference values are found, and the current source nominal values are adjusted using the current difference values. In one aspect, a reference current source is provided having a reference first value, and the current source nominal values are adjusted with respect to the reference first value. The current sources may have corresponding nominal digital values adjusted using measured digital difference values. |
| US09035806B2 |
Keyboard
A keyboard includes a plurality of key tops having areas where light is transmitted; a gear link part provided below the key top and configured to vertically move the key top, a housing part provided below the key top, the housing part being configured to hold the gear link part; a rubber actuator configured to provide a reaction force based on vertical motion of the key top; a membrane sheet provided below the rubber actuator and having a contact, the contact being configured to open and close based on the vertical motion of the key top; a support panel provided below the membrane sheet, the support panel being configured to fix the gear link part with the housing part; a light guide plate provided below the support panel; and a light emitting diode configured to emit the light to a side surface of the light guide plate. |
| US09035805B2 |
System and method for providing a single and dual key press keypad
A system and method for receiving character entries in mobile computer devices uses an improved keypad. The keypad uses a dual key press method in which each key of the keypad includes a unique key definition when it alone is pressed. Each of two adjacent keys of the keypad also include a unique key definition when the two adjacent keys are pressed at substantially the same time. A keypad controller receives inputs from the keys and decodes the single key entries and the dual key entries. The keypad occupies a relatively small keypad area while providing full size keys for the user. The keypad also has a mode key that enables a user to change the alphabet mode of the keypad to a numerical mode. |
| US09035795B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing public transportation service in a communication system
A method and apparatus for providing a public transportation service in a communication system includes transmitting a signal representing an existence of a passenger at a particular stop terminal, and transmitting a signal representing information on a number of vehicles at to the stop terminal for selection by a user. |
| US09035791B2 |
Data collection method and data collection system
A data collection system that collects information indicating a status of a battery mounted on a vehicle from the vehicle after shipment from a factory, includes a battery information collection server that is configured to periodically receive information of the battery and identification information, with which it is possible to identify the vehicle, that are transmitted wirelessly from a computer that is mounted on the vehicle and is configured to acquire and store the information of the battery mounted on the vehicle. The data collection system may further include a battery information analysis section that is configured to display a result of associating the information of the battery received by the battery information collection server with each vehicle using the identification information. |
| US09035790B2 |
Wireless power transfer electric vehicle supply equipment installation and validation tool
A transmit pad inspection device includes a magnetic coupling device, which includes an inductive circuit that is configured to magnetically couple to a primary circuit of a charging device in a transmit pad through an alternating current (AC) magnetic field. The inductive circuit functions as a secondary circuit for a set of magnetically coupled coils. The magnetic coupling device further includes a rectification circuit, and includes a controllable load bank or is configured to be connected to an external controllable load back. The transmit pad inspection device is configured to determine the efficiency of power transfer under various coupling conditions. In addition, the transmit pad inspection device can be configured to measure residual magnetic field and the frequency of the input current, and to determine whether the charging device has been installed properly. |
| US09035786B2 |
LED strobe light with peripheral pattern display
A strobe light includes a base, a mounting post, a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) lights, a control system, and a lens. The mounting post extends vertically from the base. The plurality of LED lights are mounted around a periphery of the mounting post. The control system is coupled to the plurality of LED lights and operable to independently control each LED light to produce at least one of a 360° strobe light pattern and a rotating beacon light pattern. The lens is connected to the base and covers the plurality of LED lights. |
| US09035785B2 |
Graphic for use in determining a characteristic of a consumable
A graphic may include a consumable and having optically encoded information. |
| US09035781B2 |
Apparatus and method for automatically detecting and alerting of gas-out conditions for a gas appliance during operation
A gas appliance monitoring apparatus for automatically detecting and alerting to a “gas-out” condition of a gas appliance during operation, and/or for alerting to the presence of prolonged “gas-on” conditions of an appliance. The apparatus utilizes a highly sensitive low loss and low flow gas flow indicator with multiple flow sensors to monitor the gas flow characteristics of the appliance during use. A gas flow analyzer and alarm timing mechanism analyzes the gas flow characteristics and sounds an alarm at the appliance or wirelessly at a remote location upon detection of either of the above conditions. A biasing attraction magnet is incorporated in the fluid flow indicator to offset either the force of gravity or a return spring in low flow/low pressure applications. The piston is sealed for use in high pressure/low flow applications, and provided with a vent hole for residual gas bleed-off upon a stoppage of gas flow. |
| US09035780B2 |
Apparatus for preventing passive task-related fatigue of driver and method thereof
A device that causes a driver not to feel passive task-related fatigue by performing interaction with the driver at a time when the driver feeling passive task-related fatigue, thereby promoting safe driving. In particular, phrase “the interaction with the driver” refers to a series of operations viewing quiz data or beat sequence data to the driver, receiving a response, and visually, acoustically, and tactilely informing a result according to the response, and a control of each component for the operation. |
| US09035777B2 |
Computational systems and methods for monitoring medication events including use of a camera and data comparison
Computer-based systems and computer-implemented methods are described for monitoring medication events for an individual. Computer-based systems include systems for monitoring medication events relating to an individual, including: circuitry for analyzing data for an identifier of a first medication event for an individual; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one attribute of an individual; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one attribute relating to a medication during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one feature of visual information and at least one feature of non-visual information relating to the individual during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the received data for a time associated with the first medication event; circuitry for determining a compliance likelihood for the first medication event based on the analyses of the received data; and circuitry for indicating the determined compliance likelihood. |
| US09035775B2 |
Wireless physiology monitor
The present invention provides a new non-invasive technique for organ, e.g., heart and lung, monitoring. In at least one embodiment of the invention, a subject is radiated with a non-harmful and relatively low power electromagnetic source diagnostic signal normally associated with a communications protocol such as, but not limited to a version of the IEEE 802.11(x) family of protocols in the 2.4, 3.6, or 5 GHz spectrum bands. After passing through the patient, a return signal is acquired from the patient and compared to the original source signal. The differences between the source and modified signals are then analyzed to monitor the heart, e.g., measure heart rate and detect defects within the heart, and the lung. For example, using Doppler Effect principles, heart rate and motion can be measured from the differences in frequency, phase, and/or wavelength between the source signal and the modified signal reflected back from the heart moving within the patient. |
| US09035774B2 |
Interrogator and system employing the same
An interrogator and system employing the same. In one embodiment, the interrogator includes a receiver configured to receive a return signal from a tag and a sensing module configured to provide a time associated with the return signal. The interrogator also includes a processor configured to employ synthetic aperture radar processing on the return signal in accordance with the time to locate a position of the tag. |
| US09035771B2 |
Theft detection system
A computer-implemented method is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of receiving, at a processing device of a monitoring server, a theft detection signal from a first augmented reality device worn by a first employee of a retail store. The method also includes the step of linking, with the processing device, the first augmented reality device in communication with an electronic computing device operated by a second employee in response to said step of receiving the theft detection signal. The second employee can assist the first employee in assessing whether a theft is occurring. |
| US09035765B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods for adherence monitoring and devices, systems, and methods for monitoring use of consumable dispensers
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for adherence monitoring, and devices, systems, and methods are provided for monitoring use of consumable dispensers. In general, the devices, systems, and methods can facilitate an individual's adherence to a schedule for consuming consumables and can facilitate monitoring and tracking of the individual's adherence to the schedule. The devices, systems, and methods can allow data regarding the individual's historical adherence to the schedule to be accessible via a computer system. In one embodiment, an accessory is provided that can be configured to attach to consumable dispensers. The accessory can be configured to be removably and replaceably coupled to the dispenser. The accessory can be configured to provide a notification to a user indicating that a certain event occurred and/or that a certain action needs to be taken. The accessory can be configured to sense attachment thereof to and removal thereof from the dispenser. |
| US09035764B2 |
Access, monitoring, and control of appliances via a media processing system
A device and method for accessing, monitoring, and controlling home appliances in a media exchange network by establishing a communication link between a communication initiation device and at least one home appliance and communicating at least one command from the communication initiation device to the at least one home appliance via the communication link. The at least one home appliance then generates at least one response to the at least one command. The commands may include turning the home appliance(s) on and off, parameter adjustment commands, access commands, monitoring commands, mode change commands, and programming commands. Appliance responses may include powering on, powering off, changing a mode of operation, sending a status to the communication initiation device, adjusting an operational parameter, and changing a programmed operational step. |
| US09035761B2 |
Car key and car control method
In a method for controlling a car using a car key, a selected function is received from a function menu displayed on an operation interface of a display device of the car key. System data about the car is acquired from a management unit of the car, and devices of the car are controlled using the management unit, according to the selected function. The system data about the car or status of the devices of the car is displayed on the operation interface of the display device. |
| US09035758B2 |
Method and device for driver information
A method and a device for driver information, according to which a warning is produced on the basis of the lane information which indicates crossing of the lane edge. Upon branching of a roadway line, the particular outer lines are used as lane edge markings as the basis for the lane departure warning. |
| US09035754B2 |
Vehicle exterior rearview mirror system having an indicator at a back plate of an exterior rearview mirror assembly
A vehicular exterior rearview mirror system includes an exterior rearview mirror assembly having a mirror reflective element that is fixedly attached at a mirror back plate. The mirror back plate includes an indicator structure that has a passageway that extends from the back plate at an angle relative to the portion of the back plate. At least one baffle is disposed within the passageway and is angled at the angle relative to the portion of the back plate. An indicator is mounted at an end portion of the passageway, and light emitted by the indicator passes through the passageway and through the mirror reflective element via an opening in the back plate. When the indicator is activated, light passing through the passageway and emanating from the mirror reflective element is at least partially shielded from direct view by the driver of the vehicle by the at least one baffle. |
| US09035753B2 |
Operator control device
An operator control device for an on-board electronics system of a motor vehicle or for a mobile communications device, having an operator control unit arranged in a receptacle of a docking station located in the interior of the motor vehicle and an interface between the operator control unit and the docking station for data interchange of information. The operator control unit has an operator control panel which has a plurality of operator control elements which can be manually operated. The receptacle with the operator control unit accommodated therein can be driven so as to move in an alternating rhythm, which is associated with the respectively operated operator control element, by one or more actuators when one of the operator control elements is operated. |
| US09035752B2 |
Force sensing input device under an unbroken exterior portion of a device
User input is accepted by a force sensing resistor (“FSR”) assembly, a force sensing capacitor (“FSC”) or both. The FSR or FSC assemblies may be located within an input device, such as behind a device exterior, display, and so forth. A force applied to the device exterior proximate to the assembly may result in activation of the assembly. The activation may be processed as input and used to determine and then perform a particular action. The particular action may be based at least in part on a particular portion of the assembly which has been activated, a magnitude of applied force, or both. A haptic output may be provided on activation to provide feedback to a user. |
| US09035750B2 |
Method and system for state encoding
A system comprising at least one piece of equipment; a plurality of sensors adapted to measure one or more operating parameters of the equipment; and a signature generator adapted to encode a plurality of data streams from the sensors into an operating signature for the equipment. |
| US09035748B2 |
Systems and methods for collision avoidance in a multiple RFID interrogator environment
A method for collision avoidance in a multi-reader environment comprising a plurality of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) interrogators, the method comprises each of the plurality of interrogators entering a quiet state during which none of the interrogators transmits, each of the plurality of interrogators selecting a transmit time after the quiet period during which each of the interrogator will attempt to transmit, each of the plurality of interrogators monitoring their associated receive path, an interrogator of the plurality of interrogators transmitting an instruction during its selected transmit time indicating the beginning of a session when the interrogator does not detect data on its receive path prior to its select transmit time, the interrogator comparing its receive path to its transmit path when it transmits the instruction, the interrogator returning to the quiet state when the receive path does not match the transmit path, and the interrogator completing the session when the receive path matches the transmit path. |
| US09035744B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring and controlling a medical device using a wireless mobile communication device
A medical device connector is provided for facilitating monitoring and control of a medical device by at least one of a plurality of wireless mobile communication devices. The medical connector includes a memory, a communication subsystem for exchanging messages with at least one of the wireless mobile communication devices. The medical connector further includes a microprocessor for authenticating the wireless mobile communication device, assigning a role to the wireless mobile communication device and transmitting a confirmation to the wireless communication device via the communication subsystem. If the wireless mobile communication device is not authenticated then the microprocessor transmits a request failure to the wireless mobile communication device via the communication subsystem. The connector also includes a data port for monitoring data from the medical device and controlling the medical device in response to control actions received from the wireless mobile communication device. |
| US09035743B2 |
Song selection based upon axial pen pressure
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer readable media, for determining, using a pressure sensor, pressure data comprising a pressure indication and a time indication. A first mood is determined based upon the pressure data and one or more songs are selected based upon the determined first mood. A playlist is modified based upon the selected one or more songs, wherein the modified playlist comprises the selected one or more songs and the modified playlist is played. Song data, based upon the modified playlist, is wirelessly transmitted to a remote device. |
| US09035729B2 |
Gas circuit breaker provided with parallel capacitor
In a gas circuit breaker with a parallel capacitor, an interrupting unit is provided inside a sealed vessel filled with an insulating gas; the interrupting unit includes fixed and movable parts. A high-voltage conductor is coupled to the movable part, and an interrupting-unit side insulating rod for moving the movable part is linked with a mover as part of an electric actuator inside an operation device case. A capacitor is electrically coupled to the interrupting unit in parallel inside the sealed vessel. A movable contact is electrically coupled to the capacitor, and the movable contact is linked with a capacitor-side insulating rod. The interrupting-unit side insulating rod or mover has an engaging part inside the case, the capacitor-side insulating rod has a retaining part located on a side of the engaging part, and the retaining part is linked with the sealed vessel by use of a closing-spring. |
| US09035727B2 |
Frequency-tunable filter
A frequency tunable filter is disclosed. The frequency tunable filter includes a filter unit that can tune a frequency band of a frequency signal being filtered, a communication module that receives a control signal for controlling the tuning of the frequency band, and a control unit that controls the tuning of the frequency band based on the control signals. The disclosed filter can control the tuning of the filter's frequency band wirelessly. |
| US09035722B2 |
Ladder filter, duplexer and module
A ladder filter includes at least one series resonator connected in series between an input terminal and an output terminal, at least one parallel resonator connected in parallel with the at least one series resonator, an additional resonator connected in series between the at least one series resonator and one of the input terminal and the output terminal, and an inductor connected in series to the additional resonator, the additional resonator having a resonance frequency higher than an anti-resonance frequency of the at least one series resonator. |
| US09035719B2 |
Three dimensional branchline coupler using through silicon vias and design structures
A three dimensional (3D) branchline coupler using through silicon vias (TSV), methods of manufacturing the same and design structures are disclosed. The method includes forming a first waveguide structure in a first dielectric material. The method further includes forming a second waveguide structure in a second dielectric material. The method further includes forming through silicon vias through a substrate formed between the first dielectric material and the second dielectric material, which connects the first waveguide structure to the second waveguide structure. |
| US09035716B2 |
High frequency switch
There is provided a high frequency switch having a reduced circuit scale while maintaining satisfactory harmonic characteristics in a transfer path of a high frequency signal. The high frequency switch includes: at least one transmission port; at least one reception port; a common port; transmission side series switches each including a body contact type FET; transmission side shunt switches each including a body contact type FET; reception side series switches each including a body contact type FET; and reception side shunt switches each including at least one floating body type FET. |
| US09035715B2 |
Compact broadband impedance transformer
The present invention is directed to an impedance transformation device for use in a system having a characteristic system impedance, the device being characterized by a predetermined bandwidth having a center frequency. The device housing size is one-eighth wavelength of the center frequency. A first coupler is characterized by an even mode impedance and an odd mode impedance. The bandwidth is a function of the even mode impedance and the odd mode impedance substantially corresponds to the component port impedance. At least one second coupler is disposed in parallel with the first coupler and is characterized by the even mode impedance and the odd mode impedance. |
| US09035714B2 |
Parasitic capacitance compensating transmission line
A transmission line is provided in which a first portion of the transmission line is configured to be connected to a source, and a second portion of the transmission line is configured to be connected to a load. A capacitive element is coupled to the transmission line and is configured to compensate for an impedance difference between the load and at least one of the source or the transmission line, at a frequency within a frequency bandwidth of the load. A difference between an internal capacitance of the first portion of the transmission line and the second portion of the transmission line substantially matches the capacitance of the capacitive element. |
| US09035708B2 |
Low noise voltage controlled oscillator
An enhanced negative resistance voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit is provided, in which a parallel connection of a capacitor and a resistor configured to provide frequency-dependent transconductance is present across source nodes of a first pair of field effect transistors in which gate nodes and drain nodes are cross-coupled. The source nodes of the first pair of field effect transistors are electrically shorted to drain nodes of a second pair of field effect transistors of which the gate nodes are electrically shorted to the gate nodes of the first pair of field effect transistors. The parallel connection of the capacitor and the resistor includes a parallel connection of a capacitor and a resistor such that the net transconductance of the first pair of field effect transistors is less at low frequencies where thermal noise and flicker noise are dominant part of the phase noise than at the operational frequency range. |
| US09035707B2 |
Method for varying oscillation frequency of high frequency oscillator
The switching element is provided in a state of being electromagnetically coupled to the cavity resonator of the high frequency oscillator; the bias voltage applying terminal is connected to one electrode of the switching element; another electrode of the switching element is electrically connected to the cavity resonator (the anode shell in FIG. 1); the metal plate having a size enough for reflecting an electric wave to be transmitted before and after the switching element in a high-frequency manner is provided at any one end of the switching element; and by applying a bias voltage to the switching element and varying that, a reactance of the switching element is changed and a resonance frequency of the cavity resonator is varied. By this method, an oscillation frequency can be varied greatly relative to a small change in a bias voltage. |
| US09035704B2 |
High impedance microwave electronics
High impedance, high frequency nanoscale device electronics configured to interface with low impedance loads include an impedance transforming stage constructed of multiple nanoscale devices, such as carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. In an embodiment of the present invention, an impedance transforming output stage of a multistage amplifier is configured to drive a 50 ohm transmission line with unity voltage gain using multiple carbon nanotube field-effect transistors in parallel. In a further embodiment, a receiver provided for an electronically steered receive array is a monolithic, lumped-element system formed from nanoscale devices and configured to interface with the external electrical systems via a single transmission line. |
| US09035701B2 |
Thermally coupled current limiter
This disclosure relates generally to radio frequency (RF) amplification devices and methods of limiting an RF signal current. Embodiments of the RF amplification device include an RF amplification circuit and a feedback circuit. The RF amplification circuit is configured to amplify an RF input signal so as to generate an amplified RF signal that provides an RF signal current with a current magnitude. The feedback circuit is used to limit the RF signal current. In particular, a thermal sense element in the feedback circuit is configured to generate a sense current, and thermal conduction from the RF amplification circuit sets a sense current level of the sense current as being indicative of the current magnitude of the RF signal current. To limit the RF signal current, the feedback circuit decreases the current magnitude of the RF signal current in response to the sense current level reaching a trigger current level. |
| US09035698B2 |
Gain calibration of a high speed amplifier
Embodiments include systems and methods for accurately controlling gain of a high-speed variable-gain amplifier (VGA) without adversely impacting bandwidth performance. Embodiments include a VGA with a variable resistor, for which resistance is a function of a control level. A gain calibration system controls the control level by using a gain control feedback subsystem to sample outputs of a duplicate VGA, which includes a duplicate variable resistor. The sampled duplicate outputs are compared to a target gain generated by a reference generator. The control level can be fed back to control the gain of the duplicate VGA until the target gain is reached. The control level can also be fed to the actual VGA to control its gain. By performing gain control on the duplicate VGA without interfering with the output signal path of the actual VGA, the actual VGA's gain can be accurately controlled without impacting its bandwidth. |
| US09035696B2 |
Amplifier
An amplifier includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a TIA, and a compensation circuit. The TIA includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first current source connected to the first input terminal and an emitter of the first transistor, a second current source connected to the second input terminal and an emitter of the second transistor, a first load resistor connected to a collector of the first transistor, and a second load resistor connected to a collector of the second transistor. A bias voltage is supplied to bases of the first and second transistors, the compensation circuit adjusts a first load current and a second load current based on voltage signals, and the TIA outputs the voltage signals based on collector voltages of the first and second transistors. |
| US09035694B2 |
Circuit for generating reference voltage
Provided is a circuit for generating a reference voltage. The circuit includes a band gap circuit generating a first current having a size that increases in proportion to an absolute temperature and a second current having a size that decreases in proportion to the absolute temperature, and outputting a reference voltage based on the first current and the second current; a mirroring circuit mirroring a sum of the first current and the second current and outputting a mirroring voltage that is in proportion to the sum of the first current and the second current; and a start-up circuit receiving the mirroring voltage from the mirroring circuit and providing a driving current for generating the first current or the second current to the band gap circuit until a time when the first current starts to be generated in the band gap circuit. |
| US09035691B2 |
Gate control circuit for MOS switch
A gate drive circuit is disclosed that charges the gate of a switching transistor to a voltage that is high enough to turn the switching transistor fully on and then prevent the charge from flowing back into the gate drive circuit. The gate drive circuit works with a ground rectifier switch by providing a fully differential connection of the switching transistor and its capacitor and resistor in parallel with the antenna. |
| US09035689B2 |
Thermal controller for semiconductor switching power devices
A thermal controller for driving a gate control unit of a gate-driven semiconductor switching device, the thermal controller comprising a junction temperature estimation module for generating an estimated junction temperature for the switching device, a gate voltage control module for modifying a gate voltage of the switching device, a switching frequency control module for modifying a switching frequency of the switching device, and a duty cycle control module for modifying the duty cycle of the switching device. In use, the thermal controller is adapted to activate one of the gate voltage control module, switching frequency control module and duty cycle control module dependent upon the estimated junction temperature in order to maintain the actual junction temperature below a pre-determined limit. |
| US09035688B2 |
Single input level shifter
Provided is a single input level shifter. The single input level shifter includes: an input unit applying a power voltage to a first node in response to an input signal and applying the input signal to a second node in response to a reference signal; a bootstrapping unit applying the power voltage to the second node according to a voltage level of the first node; and an output unit applying the input signal to an output terminal in response to the reference signal and applying the power voltage to the output terminal according to the voltage level of the first node, wherein the bootstrapping unit includes a capacitor between the first and second nodes, and when the input signal is shifted from a first voltage level to a second voltage level, the bootstrapping unit raises the voltage level of the first node to a level higher than the power voltage. |
| US09035684B2 |
Delay locked loop and method of generating clock
Provided is a delay locked loop (DLL) including a ring oscillator (RO) including a delay line to delay a reference clock signal and generate a delayed clock signal, wherein the RO circulates, through the delay line, a feedback clock signal corresponding to the delayed clock signal to synchronize N cycles of the feedback clock signal with a cycle of the reference clock signal (where N is an integer number equal to or larger than 2); and a first frequency divider dividing the frequency of the delayed clock signal by 1/N (where N is an integer number equal to or larger than 2) to generate an output clock signal. |
| US09035683B2 |
Circuit for controlling variation in frequency of clock signal
Disclosed herein is a circuit for controlling a variation in the frequency of a clock signal for blocking an unwanted variation in the frequency of the clock signal. When a frequency variation out of a set range is generated in a reference clock signal in the state in which the phases of the reference clock signal and a feedback clock signal have been locked, a control voltage for generating the feedback clock signal remains constant so that an abrupt variation generated in the frequency of the feedback clock signal is blocked. |
| US09035673B2 |
Method of in-process intralayer yield detection, interlayer shunt detection and correction
A system and method for in-process yield evaluation and correction in an array type of device are provided. The system and method include measuring electrical resistance between individual GATE lines, DATA lines, a DATA bus I/O pad, and a GATE bus I/O pad; and analyzing the measured electrical resistance to identify at least one of the following: GATE line open defects, GATE line bridge defects, DATA line open defects, DATA line bridge defects, and interlayer shunt defects. |
| US09035668B2 |
Touch testing system and touch testing method thereof
A touch testing system for a capacitive touch device and a method thereof are provided. The system includes a test fixture, at least one magnetization component, at least one magnetic induction component and a driving unit. The fixture is disposed on the touch device and has at least one chute on a position corresponding to the touching area. The magnetization component is disposed on the fixture and enabled by a driving signal to produce a magnetic force. The magnetic induction component is slidably disposed in the chute and inducts the magnetic force to slide along the chute, such that the sensing unit produces a touch testing information. The driving unit is coupled to the magnetization component and the sensing unit, provides the driving signal to enable the magnetization component and receives the touch testing information to feed back a testing result on the capacitive touch device accordingly. |
| US09035665B2 |
Determining layer thickness
A technique comprising: producing a plurality of devices according to a common production process; and determining the thickness of a layer of one of said plurality of devices using an indicator of a first electrical property dependent on the area of overlap between a first element of the device and a second element of the device partially underlying said first element via said layer, wherein the method further comprises: additionally using an indicator of a second electrical property dependent on the area of overlap between said first element of the device and a third element of the device also partially underlying said first element via said layer, wherein (a) the difference between (i) a measured indicator of said first electrical property, and (ii) a measured indicator of said second electrical property provides a more reliable indicator of the thickness of said layer than (b) an indicator of said first electrical property. |
| US09035661B2 |
Conductivity sensor assembly
A flow-through conductivity sensor assembly comprises a housing (4) having a flow passage with an inlet end and an outlet end. The cross section of at least a section of the flow passage extension between the inlet and outlet ends is divided into a conductivity measuring channel (2) and a parallel by-pass channel (3) of larger cross-sectional area than the measuring channel (2). |
| US09035659B2 |
Apparatus and method for measuring the dissipation factor of an insulator
An apparatus (1) for measuring the loss factor of an insulator (2) for medium or high voltages, equipped with a tap adapter (3) forming a point for picking up an electrical signal (4), comprises a reference capacitor (9) having a first electrode (10), which can be connected to the tap adapter (3), and a second electrode (11); a first voltage detection module (12) operatively connected to the first electrode (10) of the reference capacitor (9) for detecting a signal representative of the voltage applied to the reference capacitor (9); a generator module connected to the first electrode (10) of the reference capacitor (9) in order to inject a direct electric current into the insulator. |
| US09035658B2 |
Method for detecting a breakdown in a switching current source and corresponding power source
A method of detecting a fault of a switching electricity source having a control stage responsive to a setpoint signal to deliver a control signal that is modulated with a predetermined duty ratio (α) to a power stage that is to deliver electricity to a load. The method includes the steps of: determining at least one nominal value (αmin, αmax) for the duty ratio for normal operation, and at least one fault threshold (αSC, αOC) as a function of the nominal value; determining at least one instantaneous value (α) of the duty ratio of the signal issued by the control stage; and comparing the instantaneous value with the fault threshold. A detection circuit implementing the method is also provided. |
| US09035657B2 |
Electromagnetic logging between a cased borehole and surface
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for conducting an electromagnetic borehole-to-surface survey of a formation surrounding a borehole. Such methods include deploying a dipole transmitter into the borehole to a depth of investigation, deploying an array of electromagnetic receivers outside of the wellbore, and measuring a response of the formation at the array of electromagnetic receivers deployed outside of the wellbore, for example at the surface. From the response of the formation a property of the formation can be determined based on the response of the formation measured at the array of electromagnetic receivers. For the scenario of a cased well, a local reference receiver may be added at a location proximate the borehole to measure the effective magnetic moment of the transmitter inside the casing, and normalize the formation response in order for a more accurate determination of a formation characteristic, such as resistivity. These receivers can also be used for other types of surveys. |
| US09035654B2 |
Mechanically flexible magnetic resonance coil with opening conductor structures
The present embodiments relate to a local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system, the local coil including an antenna element that includes a releasable connection to form an opening. |
| US09035653B2 |
Sampling pattern for iterative magnetic resonance image reconstruction
In a method to generate magnetic resonance (MR) images of an examination subject, MR signals are detected simultaneously with multiple coils, each coil having its own coil characteristic. In the detection of the MR signals, raw data space is incompletely filled with MR signals; with raw data space being undersampled in a central raw data region with a coherent acquisition pattern that is composed of a spatially repeating set of raw data points; and raw data space outside of the central raw data region is sampled with an incoherent acquisition pattern. The MR image is reconstructed from the detected MR signals, step-by-step in an iterative reconstruction procedure using a reconstruction matrix A, starting from an initial estimate; wherein the reconstruction matrix has continuing information about the coil characteristics with which the MR signals were detected. |
| US09035644B2 |
Stimulus responsive nanoparticles
Disclosed are various embodiments of methods and systems related to stimulus responsive nanoparticles. In one embodiment includes a stimulus responsive nanoparticle system, the system includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a plurality of elongated electro-responsive nanoparticles dispersed between the first and second electrodes, the plurality of electro-responsive nanorods configured to respond to an electric field established between the first and second electrodes. |
| US09035641B1 |
Startup circuit
A startup circuit to ensure a bandgap reference circuit reliably starts up or recovers from a noise disturbance is provided. The startup circuit incorporates a pull down resistor to detect the bandgap reference circuit being in a disabled state. The startup circuit creates a positive feedback loop to force the bandgap reference circuit out of a disabled state. Consequently, whenever the power supply for the bandgap reference circuit sags or if bandgap output collapses, the output of the bandgap circuit reliably ramps back up to the expected level. |
| US09035639B2 |
Voltage-to-current sensing circuit and related DC-DC converter
The present disclosure is directed to a voltage-to-current sensing circuit having a bias terminal configured to receive a reference voltage, an offset terminal configured to receive an offset current, and an operational amplifier configured to output a low voltage signal. The device includes a first amplifier having first and second high voltage inputs configured to receive a first voltage difference across a sense component on a high voltage line and to generate a first current, a second amplifier having first and second low voltage inputs configured to receive a second voltage difference between the bias terminal and the offset terminal and to generate a second current, a summing circuit configured to provide an intermediate voltage corresponding to a sum of the first and the second currents, and a low-voltage transistor coupled to an output of the amplifier and controlled by the intermediate voltage to generate the output current. |
| US09035637B1 |
Systems and methods for controlling power converters
A power conversion system has a power converter configured to receive an input voltage signal, convert the input voltage to an output voltage signal, and provide the output voltage signal to a load and a closed loop compensator configured to receive the output voltage signal and a reference voltage signal, the closed loop compensator configured to transmit an error signal indicative of a difference between the output voltage signal and the reference voltage signal. The power conversion system further has a pulse with modulator configured to receive the error signal and modulate a control signal with the error signal to control the output voltage signal, the pulse width modulator configured to transmit the control signal to the power converter and logic configured to receive the error signal and control the closed loop compensator based upon the error signal. A controller observes the error signal characterstics such as peak-to-peak values, frequency and phase and adjust the closed loop controller variables and other power converter system variables in order to improve the dynamic performance and improve stability. |
| US09035636B2 |
Digital peak detector with follower mode
Circuits and processes for detecting a peak value of an input signal are disclosed. In one example, a peak detector circuit may sample a line sense signal, determine the peak value of the line sense signal during a search window, and output a peak detection signal representative of the determined peak value. In a first mode, the peak detector circuit may cause the peak detection signal to be representative of the determined peak value from an immediately preceding search window. In a second mode, the peak detector circuit may cause the peak detection signal to follow the sampled line sense signal. The peak detector circuit may operate in the second mode in response to the sample of the line sense signal being greater than a peak value of the line sense signal from an immediately preceding search window by more than a threshold amount. |
| US09035633B1 |
Switching power converter control
A method of operating a switching power converter may include determining an average value of a measured parameter for substantially each switching cycle, and adjusting a control parameter during substantially each switching cycle in response to a corresponding one of the average values. In one embodiment, the control parameter comprises a switch duty cycle, and the measured parameter comprises an output current. Determining the average value of the measured parameter may include obtaining a first sample of the measured parameter during a switching cycle, and calculating the average value of the measured parameter during the switching cycle in response to the first sample. |
| US09035631B2 |
LDO (low drop out) having phase margin compensation means and phase margin compensation method using the LDO
The phase margin compensation method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: outputting reference voltage (Vout2); outputting a first reference voltage (Vout1) actually supplied to the target circuit; comparing the reference voltage (Vout2) with the first reference voltage (Vout1) by the comparator; counting any section of an output signal (pulse signal) from the comparator by a predetermined frequency by the duty cycle calculator; and controlling a phase margin of a frequency of output voltage supplied to the target circuit by controlling buffer current based on the duty cycle ratios and the output bit information fed back from the duty cycle calculator. |
| US09035628B2 |
Multi-channel power supply and current balancing control method thereof
The multi-channel power supply comprises a first channel, a second channel, a current sensing module, a current average control circuit, and a modulator. The first channel and the second channel respectively transform an input voltage into an output voltage according to a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal and a second PWM signal. The current sensing module respectively sense a first channel current and a second channel current to output a first sensing current and a second sensing current. The current average control circuit generates a first error current and a second error current according to the first sensing current and the second sensing current and an average current thereof. The modulator generates the first PWM signal and the second PWM signal according to the first error current, the second error current and the output voltage. |
| US09035627B2 |
Switched mode power supply employing first and second feedback signals and a method of operating thereof
A switched mode power supply includes a first switch, a second switch, an inductor, an output capacitor, and a driving circuit for driving the first switch and the second switch. The driving circuit is electrically coupled to a node between the first and second switches. |
| US09035620B2 |
Battery protecting circuit, battery protecting device, and battery pack
A disclosed battery protecting circuit includes a battery protecting IC powered by a voltage of a secondary battery; another battery protecting IC powered by a voltage of another secondary battery connected to the secondary battery in series; and a constant voltage output unit which receives a maximum voltage obtained by adding voltages of the secondary battery and the other secondary battery in series and outputs a constant voltage upon receipt of a control signal from an output terminal of the battery protecting IC or the other battery protecting IC. |
| US09035616B2 |
State based full and empty control for rechargeable batteries
State based full and empty control for rechargeable batteries that will assure a uniform battery empty condition, even in the presence of a load on the battery. A fuel gauge provides a prediction of the open circuit voltage of the battery, and when the predicted open circuit voltage of the battery reaches the predetermined open circuit voltage of an empty battery, the load is terminated, after which the battery will relax back to the predetermined open circuit voltage of an empty battery. A similar technique is disclosed for battery charging, allowing faster battery charging without overcharging. Preferably an RC battery model is used as the fuel gauge to provide the prediction, but as an alternative, a coulomb counter may be used to provide the prediction, with error correction between successive charge discharge cycles. |
| US09035615B2 |
Energy management system
An energy management system has an integration control portion that performs control to charge a storage battery with a power of such an amount that a power consumption including a power supplied by a supply portion is equal to or smaller than a target value indicated by power consumption target information recorded in a recording portion when a power consumption detected by a detection portion is smaller than the target value, and to supply a building with a power with which the storage battery is charged such that the power consumption including the power supplied by the supply portion coincides in amount with a power equal to or smaller than the target value indicated by the power consumption target information recorded in the recording portion when the power consumption detected by the detection portion is larger than the target value. |
| US09035613B2 |
Parallel circuit of accumulator lines
A circuit for connecting a first accumulator line to a second accumulator line from an accumulator is described. The accumulator is provided for charging and discharging electrical energy via the accumulator lines. Each accumulator line has a positive pole and a negative pole for charging and discharging electrical energy. The circuit has at least one first switch which is provided for disconnecting and connecting two similar poles of the two accumulator lines. |
| US09035611B2 |
Battery system for vehicle
A battery system for a vehicle is provided with discharge circuits (R1, 129A through 129D, 128A through 128D) that discharge battery cells (BC1 through BC4) via measurement lines of those battery cells (BC1 through BC4). A control circuit transmits to an integrated circuit (3A) a first discharge command that causes discharge of the odd numbered battery cells (BC1 and BC3) of a cell group (GB1), a first transmission command that causes transmission to the control circuit of the terminal voltages of only the odd numbered battery cells (BC1 and BC3) measured during execution of the first discharge command, a second discharge command that causes discharge of the even numbered battery cells (BC2 and BC4) of the cell group (GB1), and a second transmission command that causes transmission to the control circuit of the terminal voltages of only the even numbered battery cells (BC2 and BC4) measured during execution of the second discharge command; and, based on the these various terminal voltages transmitted from the integrated circuit (3A), the control circuit diagnoses abnormalities in the system that includes the battery cells, the measurement lines, and the discharge circuits. |
| US09035605B2 |
Non-contact charging module, electronic apparatus, and non-contact charging apparatus
This non-contact charging module can be suitably used by suppressing a change of an L value of a coil that is provided in the non-contact charging module, and achieves size reduction, even in the cases where a magnet that is provided in the other non-contact charging module is used or not used. The module is characterized in that: the module is provided with a primary side coil (21a) wherein a conducting line is wound in a substantially rectangular shape, and a magnetic sheet (51) that is provided with a surface on which the primary side coil (21a) is placed; and that a substantially rectangular-shaped hollow portion of the primary side coil (21a) has the short side thereof shorter than the diameter of a circular magnet (30a), and the long side thereof longer than the diameter of the circular magnet (30a). |
| US09035603B2 |
Wireless charging circuit, wireless charging system and semiconductor device
To satisfy the NFC communication standard in wireless charging with a shared antenna, used for NFC communication.A power supply unit includes a voltage step-down circuit 331, a charge control circuit 332, and a communication controller power supply circuit 333. The voltage step-down circuit includes a switching regulator 200, and a selection circuit 206 and 208 which can select an output path PT1 of the switching regulator and a bypass path PT2 of the switching regulator. The voltage step-down circuit includes a selection control circuit 207. The selection control circuit supplies voltage to the communication controller power supply circuit via the bypass path at the time of activating the communication controller. Since the output voltage of the series regulator stabilizes in a shorter time than the switching regulator, it becomes possible to keep the time from when RF power rises to when initial communication becomes possible, within standards. |
| US09035602B2 |
Wireless battery charger for mobile devices and method thereof
A wireless direct contact charger includes (a) a voltage supply; (b) a first plate electrode and a second plate electrode; (c) a polarity detection circuit that detects; and (d) a switching circuit. When the first electrode or the second electrode of the portable device is placed on the first plate electrode or the second plate electrode, the polarity detection circuit detects the polarity of the portable device charging terminals (i.e, whether the first electrode of the portable device is in contact with the first plate electrode, the second electrode of the portable device is in contact with the first plate electrode or any other suitable orientations). Based on the detected polarity, the switching circuit connects the first plate electrode and the second plate electrode to the voltage supply to provide an output voltage to the portable device for charging its battery. |
| US09035599B2 |
Charge control circuit, charge circuit, and mobile electronic device
A charge control circuit includes a comparator circuit to compare a secondary-battery voltage with a comparison voltage corresponding to an input-power-supply voltage, a transistor to supply an input current to an inductor, a first control circuit to control the transistor, and a second control circuit to control second and third transistors to increase and decrease an inductor current, respectively, so that a boost DC-DC converter performs a boost operation. When the secondary-battery voltage is equal to or higher than the comparison voltage, the first and second control circuits turn on the transistor and perform switching of the second and third transistors complementarily, respectively. When the secondary-battery voltage is lower than the comparison voltage, the first control circuit controls the transistor so that the input current takes a predetermined value, and the second control circuit turns on and off the third and second transistors, respectively. |
| US09035597B2 |
Charger assembly with heat transfer duct
A charger assembly is provided with a housing having a cavity with an opening. A cover is fastened to the housing for covering the opening. A heat transfer duct is mounted to the cover with an inlet end and an outlet end each extending through the cover. A plurality of heat sinks is mounted to the cover in contact with the heat transfer duct. A plurality of circuit board assemblies are each mounted to the cover in contact with the plurality of heat sinks. |
| US09035594B2 |
Boost converter control apparatus
A boost converter control apparatus for controlling a motor drive system which is provided with a boost converter disposed between an electric power converter and a direct current power supply, the boost converter boosting a direct current voltage of the direct current power supply and supplying it to the electric power converter, is provided with: an operating device provided with a proportional element, an integral element and a derivative element, the derivative element being configured as a bandpass filter, the operating device calculating a PID controlled variable corresponding to an electric current command value of the boost converter for maintaining an output voltage of the boost converter at a command value of an inter-terminal voltage VH of a smoothing condenser; and a controlling device which is configured to control the output voltage of the boost converter on the basis of the calculated PID controlled variable. |
| US09035590B2 |
Motor driving apparatus and method
There are provided a motor driving apparatus and method, the motor driving apparatus including: a filter controlling unit detecting a frequency of a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal and generating a control signal; a first filtering unit filtering a back electromotive force (BEMF) signal according to the control signal; a second filtering unit filtering a reference signal according to the control signal; and a comparing unit comparing output of the first and second filtering units and generating a motor rotor detection signal. |
| US09035589B2 |
Method and processing unit for determining the position of the armature of a synchronous machine relative to the stator of the synchronous machine
A method for determining a position of an armature of a synchronous machine relative to a stator of the synchronous machine includes the steps of applying to the synchronous machine a plurality of test current vectors, with each test current vector having identical current magnitude and a different angle in relation to an armature-related d,q coordinate system, during application of the test current vectors to the synchronous machine, determining values of a physical response quantity of the armature proportional to the q component of the test current vectors, determining a first harmonic of the determined values of the physical response quantity as a function of the angle, and determining the position of the armature relative to the stator as a zero crossing of the first harmonic where a first derivative of the first harmonic is positive. |
| US09035588B2 |
Brushless motor driving apparatus and brushless motor driving method
A brushless motor driving apparatus that rotates and drives a brushless motor, which has a plurality of coils, by switching energization modes corresponding to phases of the brushless motor, sequentially switches the energization modes based on a non-energized phase voltage and a voltage threshold. Also, the brushless motor driving apparatus regulates an upper threshold for energization amount based on the voltage threshold and a change in the non-energized phase voltage at timing of switching the energization mode. |
| US09035579B2 |
Actuation systems comprising an active-material actuator
An actuator system for use in selectively engaging an input to an output. The actuator system includes an input sub-system having an input component configured to connect to an input element which is in turn connected to a work source. The actuator system also includes an output sub-system being connectable to the input sub-system for receiving work from the work source via the input sub-system. The actuator system further includes an actuator sub-system having an active material and an actuating component. The actuator sub-system is configured so that the active material, when activated, causes the actuating component to move from a first state to a second state to disengage the input and output sub-systems. |
| US09035578B2 |
System for coupling at least one DC source to a controllable energy store and associated operating method
The invention relates to a system for coupling at least one DC source (9) to a controllable energy store (2), which is used for controlling and supplying electrical energy to an n-phase electric machine (1), where n≧1. In this case, the controllable energy store (2) has n parallel energy supply branches (3-1, 3-2, 3-3), which are connectable firstly to a reference rail (T−) and secondly to in each case one phase (U, V, W) of the electric machine (1). An intermediate circuit (10) is connectable on the output side via a controllable coupling circuit (12) to the energy supply branches (3-1, 3-2, 3-3) of the controllable energy store (2) and on the input side to the at least one DC source (9). An associated operating method provides for a current flow from the at least one DC source (9) into the energy supply branches (3-1, 3-2, 3-3) of the controllable energy store (2) or the phases (U, V, W) of the electric machine (1) to be controlled with the aid of the controllable coupling circuit (12). |
| US09035573B2 |
Power supply device
A power supply device containing a first board, a second board, an enclosure into which the first board and the second board are installed, a power supply unit which supplies power to an external load, a control circuit unit for controlling output current and/or output voltage from the power supply unit to the external load, the control circuit unit being embedded on the first board, a memory which stores control information, the memory being utilized in the control circuit unit for controlling the output current and/or the output voltage from the power supply unit, and an interface unit which is capable of receiving the control information from an external device and transmitting the control information to the memory, the interface unit being embedded on the second board which is physically separated from the first board. |
| US09035564B1 |
High-frequency discharge ignition apparatus
A high-frequency discharge ignition apparatus includes: a spark discharge path generation apparatus 101 for generating predetermined high voltage and supplying the generated predetermined high voltage to an ignition plug, thereby forming a path for spark discharge in a gap; a resonance apparatus 105 composed of an inductor 117 and a capacitor 116; a current supply apparatus 103 for supplying AC current to the path for spark discharge formed in the gap, via the resonance apparatus; a current level detection apparatus 115 for detecting the level of the AC current supplied from the current supply apparatus or a level corresponding to the level of the AC current, and outputting a value corresponding to the detected level; and a control apparatus 104 for controlling output of the AC current supplied from the current supply apparatus, in accordance with the output of the current level detection apparatus. |
| US09035563B2 |
System and method for programming a configurable load control device
A system for configuring at least one output parameter of a lighting load power supply, the lighting load power supply having a programmable controller for regulating the output parameter to a target value and having a memory for storing a variable for setting the target value of the output parameter, the power supply having a communication port for receiving data for setting the target value, the system comprising a computer executing software allowing a user to select a target value of an output parameter of the lighting load power supply and having a first port providing data related to the selected output parameter; and a programming device having a second port in communication with the first port of said computer and for providing data relating to said selected output parameter in a form usable by said lighting load power supply to said communication port of said lighting load power supply for programming said programmable controller to set the output parameter to the selected target value. |
| US09035558B2 |
Light emitting bio-mimicry method
A system and method are provided for mimicking a bioluminescent signal from an animal or an insect, such as a firefly. A first version includes a controller, an electrical energy battery, a solar energy collector and a light emitting device. The solar energy collector receives sunlight and converts the sunlight to electrical energy that is stored in the battery. The electrical energy battery provides electrical energy to the light emitting device under management by the controller, and may comprise two or more battery cells or circuits. A time sequence for energizing the light emitting device may be applied to cause the light emitting device to mimic a bioluminescent lighting pattern generally exhibited by a selected species of insect or animal. A light emitting diode may be used with a voltage source and a voltmeter to detect the approximate intensity of light of an ambient environment surrounding the device. |
| US09035557B2 |
Converting controller
A converting controller comprises a power pin, a ground pin, at least one input pin, at least one output pin, at least one set pin and a failure generating circuit. The power pin is adapted to be coupled with a power source to receive electric power for operation, and the ground pin is adapted to be grounded. The input pin is adapted to receive a corresponding input signal and the output pin is used to output a corresponding output signal. The set pin is adapted to set a corresponding operating parameter of the converting controller. The failure generating circuit is coupled with and uses one of the input pin and the set pin as a protection output pin. The failure generating circuit modulates the level of the protection output pin to be a protection logic level when the converting controller is under a protection state. |
| US09035554B2 |
Adjustable three-stage light emitting diode bulb
A three-stage power adjustable Light Emitting Diode bulb includes a first resistance and a second resistance which is electrically connected to the first resistance in parallel. The first resistance and the second resistance are connected to a rectifier. Multiple Light Emitting Diode units and a limiting resistance are connected between the positive and negative poles of the rectifier. The Light Emitting Diode units each have multiple Light Emitting Diodes. The electric energy consumption of the Light Emitting Diode bulb is reduced and the life of use of the Light Emitting Diode bulb is prolonged. The resistance value of the first and second resistance can be adjusted to have different luminous powers. |
| US09035553B2 |
Hybrid plasma reactor
A hybrid plasma reactor includes a reactor body having a plasma discharge space, a gas inlet, and a gas outlet; a hybrid plasma source including an inductive antenna inductively coupled to plasma formed in the plasma discharge space and a primary winding coil transformer coupled to the plasma and wound in a magnetic core; and an alternating switching power supply for supplying plasma generation power to the inductive antenna and the primary winding coil. The hybrid plasma reactor induces a plasma discharge using the inductively coupled plasma source and the transformer coupled plasma source, so that it has a wide operational area from a low pressure area to a high pressure area. |
| US09035549B2 |
Light emitting device package and light emitting module
A light emitting device package is disclosed. The light emitting device package includes a package body, at least one light emitting diode disposed on the package body, a molding layer surrounding the light emitting diode, and a phosphor layer provided on the package body, wherein the phosphor layer extends upward from surface of the package body. |
| US09035547B2 |
Marking having electroluminescent lighting effect, method for the production thereof
An electroluminescent arrangement is described. This electroluminescent arrangement comprises the following functional layers: (a) rear electrode as layer A; (b) dielectric layer as layer B; (c) electroluminescent layer as layer C; and (d) cover electrode as layer D. |
| US09035545B2 |
Organic light emitting device comprising encapsulating structure
Provided is an organic light emitting diode including an organic light-emitting part including a first electrode, an organic material layer having a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode, and an encapsulating layer included on an entire top surface of the organic light-emitting part. Here, the encapsulating layer has a structure in which at least two of a water barrier film, a glass cap, a metal foil and a conductive film are stacked. Accordingly, the diode may have excellent water and oxygen barrier effects, and deterioration of the diode or running failure may be prevented. |
| US09035544B2 |
Display panel and system for displaying images utilizing the same
An embodiment of the invention provides a display panel, which includes a substrate having a pixel region and a peripheral region, a conducting layer overlying the substrate in the peripheral region, a first insulating layer overlying the conducting layer in the peripheral region, wherein a ratio between an area of the first insulating layer and an area of the conducting layer in the peripheral region is between about 0.27 and 0.99, a lower electrode layer overlying the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer overlying the lower electrode layer, and an upper electrode layer overlying the second insulating layer. |
| US09035540B2 |
Electron multiplier detector formed from a highly doped nanodiamond layer
A system for detecting electromagnetic radiation or an ion flow, including an input device for receiving the electronic radiation or the ion flow and emitting primary electrons in response, a multiplier of electrons in transmission, for receiving the primary electrons and emitting secondary electrons in response, and an output device for receiving the secondary electrons and emitting an output signal in response. The electron multiplier includes at least one nanocrystalline diamond layer doped with boron in a concentration of higher than 5·1019 cm−3. |
| US09035538B2 |
Piezoelectric vibrating piece and piezoelectric device
A piezoelectric vibrating piece includes an excitation unit in a rectangular shape, a framing portion, a connecting portion, and a protrusion. The excitation unit includes a pair of excitation electrodes on the pair of principal surfaces, a first side that extends in a first direction, and a second side that extends in a second direction. The second side is longer than the first side. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The connecting portion connects the first side of the excitation unit to the framing portion. The connecting portion is thinner than the framing portion. The protrusion protrudes in the thickness direction in at least one of the connecting portion and a region between the connecting portion and the excitation electrode. The length of the protrusion in the first direction is equal to or longer than a length of the connecting portion in the first direction. |
| US09035537B2 |
Cost effective broadband transducer assembly and method of use
A transducer assembly for transmitting broadband sonar beams and receiving broadband sonar returned echoes with a low-cost transducer element mounted into a low-cost acoustic structure. By using a transducer element which is sufficiently thin, broadband can be achieved at a significant cost savings over existing methods and devices. Since the transducer element is sufficiently thin, a large portion of the signal energy is coupled transversely into the acoustic structure, resulting in a heavy acoustic load on the transducer element which in turn results in broadband operation. Broadband operation may be enhanced by at least partially enclosing the sufficiently thin transducer element within an aperture and/or a cap. |
| US09035536B2 |
Piezoelectric thin-film resonator and method for manufacturing the same
A piezoelectric thin-film resonator includes: a lower electrode provided on a substrate; a piezoelectric film that is provided on the lower electrode and includes at least two layers; an upper electrode that is provided on the piezoelectric film and has a region sandwiching the piezoelectric film with the lower electrode and facing the lower electrode; and an insulating film that is provided in a region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other and between each of the at least two layers, wherein an upper face of the insulating film is flatter than a lower face of the insulating film. |
| US09035535B2 |
Acoustic wave device and multilayered substrate
An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a functional element that is located on the substrate and excites acoustic waves; a side wall portion that is made of a metal and is located on the substrate so as to surround the functional element; a metal plate that is located above the functional element and the side wall portion, and seals the functional element so that a space is formed above the functional element; and a terminal that is located on the substrate and further out than the side wall portion, and is electrically connected to the functional element. |
| US09035533B2 |
Paste and polymer transducer including coating film formed from same as electrolyte film or electrode films
Paste which is prepared by any solid concentration and is excellent in terms of handleability, applicability, and storage stability; an electrolyte film or electrode film which is an even and highly flexible coating film formed in a desired thickness from the paste through a few repetitions of an application/drying step; and a polymer transducer which can be industrially and economically produced and shows excellent performance. The paste comprises: a solid polyelectrolyte (A) consisting of a block copolymer containing; a polymer block (a-1) which is represented by chemical formula (1) and a polymer block (a-2) which has substantially no ionic group and is rubbery at room temperature; an organic solvent (B) having a boiling point at 150° C. or higher; and non-dissociable particles (C) which are insoluble in the organic solvent (B) and have a major-axis length of 1-100 μm and an aspect ratio of 5 or less. The polymer transducer comprises an electrolyte film and a pair of electrode films between which the electrolyte film is sandwiched, wherein the electrolyte film or the pair of electrode films has been formed by drying and solidifying the paste into a film shape. |
| US09035530B2 |
Energy converting device having an eccentric rotor
An energy converting device having an eccentric rotor includes a fixed portion and an eccentric rotor. This fixed portion has a central axis, an outer frame, and several fixed coil portions. The eccentric rotor has a bearing, a rotatory shaft, an eccentric arm, an eccentric shaft portion, a supporting plate, an inner annular magnetic portion, and an outer annular magnetic portion. The inner magnetic portion and the outer magnetic portion are concentric and aligned with the eccentric shaft portion. The eccentric shaft portion is offset from the rotary shaft. When the rotary shaft of the eccentric rotor rotates, these fixed coil portions cut through the inner magnetic portion and the outer magnetic portion repeatedly, so magnetic flux passing through the coils alternates accordingly to generate electromotive force. Conversely, it can be used as an electric motor. In addition, it can be integrated with a cycloidal speed reducer to form a motor with speed reduction and torque augmentation capability. The integrated cycloidal motor is compact, does not need a shaft coupler to transmit power from a motor to the reducer, and therefore may operate more smoothly. |
| US09035529B2 |
Commutator having a plurality of commutator segments and method for making the same
A commutator has a plurality of commutator segments fixed to an insulating support member. The commutator segments are formed by cold or hot forming a copper billet cut from a length of copper wire. Each billet has a volume approximately equal to the volume of one commutator segment. Each commutator segment has a main body and an anchor integrally formed with the main body. The commutator segments are spaced about a circle and then an insulating support member is molded to the commutator segments to fix the commutator segments to the support member. |
| US09035527B2 |
Motor
A motor has a plurality of permanent magnet pieces aligned is such a manner as to surround an armature core and a magnetic-flux guide ring disposed between the permanent magnet pieces and the armature core for introducing a magnetic flux from the permanent magnet pieces to the armature core. The magnetic-flux guide ring has a confronting portion confronting each of the magnet pieces, an aperture formed in the confronting portion, and a connecting portion connecting adjacent two confronting portions. The aperture is formed in such a manner as to confront a boundary of adjacent magnet pieces. |
| US09035526B2 |
Compressed motor winding
In one possible implementation, a method for forming a motor winding is provided which includes compressing a Litz wire to form a compacted Litz wire and forming the winding with the compacted Litz wire. In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided that has a high density multi-conductor wire bundle comprises of compacted Litz wire. |
| US09035523B2 |
Coil for an electric machine and method for producing a coil
The invention relates to a coil (1), in particular for an electric machine, in particular a transformator or an electromechanical converter, in particular an electric motor, for guiding an electric current for producing a magnetic field. Said coil consists of individual windings (2) that are essentially embodied as a flat body thus obtaining a tightly packed structure when the windings (2) are superimposed, and respectively, each winding (2) comprises at least one circulating conductor path with the exception of at least one electric interruption on one side. Said conductor path of a winding (2) comprises, on one point, an electroconductive connection with a conductor path of an adjacent winding (2). The windings (2) are incidentally, essentially electrically isolated to each other. |
| US09035521B2 |
Rotor of a motor
Provided is a rotor core of a motor, the rotor core, the rotor core including a thin disk-shaped rotor core member, a shaft hole penetratively formed at a center of the rotor core member, a shaft press-fitted into the shaft hole, a plurality of magnet insertion holes penetratively formed at a position near to a periphery of the rotor core member for inserted coupling by a magnet, and a magnet fixing unit formed by stacking the rotor core members each at a predetermined height, and press-fitting the shaft into the shaft hole, wherein the rotor core members are stacked at a predetermined height, and the shaft is inserted into the shaft hole. |
| US09035516B2 |
Hydrodynamic bearing assembly and motor including the same
There are provided a hydrodynamic bearing assembly and a motor including the same. The hydrodynamic bearing assembly includes a sleeve rotatably supporting a shaft and including a first circulation hole formed therein, the first circulation hole penetrating between an inner peripheral surface thereof and an outer peripheral surface thereof; a sleeve housing into which the sleeve is inserted; and a second circulation hole formed between the outer peripheral surface of the sleeve and an inner peripheral surface of the sleeve housing to be in communication with the first circulation hole, wherein an upper portion of the second circulation hole has a larger diameter than a lower portion thereof in an axial direction. |
| US09035515B2 |
Strength-reinforced spindle motor
A spindle motor includes a bearing assembly, a base plate, a stator, a rotation shaft, a rotor, an adhesive member arranged at a space formed by the bearing assembly and a burring unit and a strength reinforcement member including a body fixed to a bottom surface of the base plate. |
| US09035510B2 |
Motor with torsional isolation means
An electro-mechanical energy conversion device is provided having an armature with a central cavity. The armature is rotatably mounted in a frame. A torsion bar is positioned within the armature with one end connected to the armature and the other end connected with an energy source or consuming device. |
| US09035504B2 |
Brushless direct-current motor having currentless stoppage
The invention relates to a brushless direct-current motor (1), comprising a stator (2), a rotor cup (30) that revolves around the stator (2) and has a plurality of permanent-magnet poles (N, S), and a detent torque plate (4) that is connected to the stator (2) and has several pole shoes (41) for generating a detent torque that brings the revolving rotor cup (30) into a detent position. The pole shoes (41) are each arranged in the detent position between two adjacent poles (N, S) of the revolving rotor cup (30) to form a magnetic short circuit. The detent torque plate (4) is arranged substantially outside of the magnetic rotating field produced by the stator (2) during operation, whereby the production of the detent torque is decoupled from the electrical behavior of the brushless direct-current motor (1) and the power of the brushless direct-current motor (1) is not substantially influenced by the presence of the detent torque plate (4). |
| US09035501B2 |
System and method for providing simple feedback signals indicating if more or less power is required during inductive power transmission
An inductive power outlet for providing power to an electric load via an inductive power receiver includes at least one primary inductive coil wired to a power supply via a driver configured to provide a driving voltage across the primary inductive coil such that a secondary voltage is induced in a secondary inductive coil associated with the inductive power receiver. The driver may include a controller configured to receive feedback control signals from the inductive power receiver indicating if more or less power is required. The controller may be further configured to adjust the driving voltage according to the control signals. |
| US09035497B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing an electrical energy system
Embodiments of the subject invention relate to a method and apparatus for providing an electrical energy system. A specific embodiment can incorporate at least one energy harvesting module (H-module), at least one energy storage module (S-module), and at least one power electronic circuit module (C-module). The various modules can be integrated into a standard battery configuration. Specific embodiments pertain to a reconfigurable energy system with modules that can be disconnected and reconnected into different shapes and configurations. |
| US09035493B2 |
Power-fluctuation reducing apparatus for power generation system
According to one embodiment, there is provided a power-fluctuation reducing apparatus in a power generation system to control a converter connected to the power generation system and connected to secondary batteries. The power-fluctuation reducing apparatus includes adjusting direct current voltages output from the secondary batteries, respectively, detecting the directing current voltages output from the secondary batteries, respectively, controlling to adjust the direct current voltages output from the secondary batteries to make the direct current voltages uniform, based on the detected direct current voltages, and controlling the converter to reduce power fluctuations in the power generation system. |
| US09035490B2 |
Method of dynamically managing electrical power between an electrical power source and an electrical load
Electrical power is dynamically managed among one or more power sources and one or more loads. A plurality of monitor nodes is connected to an input terminal connected to each source, and to an output terminal connected to each load. A plurality of electrical power storage cells is connected among the input and output terminals, each cell being capable of storing power from at least one of the sources and being capable of discharging stored power to at least one of the loads. A plurality of controllable switches is connected to the cells. A programmed controller dynamically monitors operating conditions at the monitor nodes during operation of each source and each load, and selectively dynamically controls the switches to interconnect the cells in different circuit topologies in response to the monitored operating conditions. |
| US09035488B2 |
Electric steering wheel lock device
An electric steering wheel lock device includes a control circuit that starts and stops supplying power to a motor that actuates a lock mechanism to lock and unlock a movable member of a vehicle steering mechanism. The control circuit changes contact states of first and second relays to switch a supplying direction of the power. A drive restriction unit stops and starts supplying power to a drive circuit for the motor. The control circuit changes contact states of the first and second relays when the drive restriction unit stops supplying power to the drive circuit. |
| US09035487B2 |
Power controller
A power controller for a vehicle includes a power converter module, a three-phase terminal, and a three-phase terminal base. The three-phase terminal includes a first flat portion, a second flat portion, and a curved portion. The first flat portion is connected to a contact surface of a three-phase output terminal to be in contact with the contact surface. The second flat portion is connected to a fixed surface of the three-phase terminal base to be in contact with the fixed surface. The three-phase terminal has a shape such that a predetermined gap is provided between the first flat portion and the contact surface of the three-phase output terminal when the first flat portion is released from the contact surface of the three-phase output terminal while the second flat portion is being in contact with the fixed surface of the three-phase terminal base. |
| US09035486B2 |
System adapted for one or more electrically propellable vehicles (detector arrangement)
A detector arrangement related to a contact device in a system for driving an electrically propellable vehicle along a roadway. The system comprises a plurality of road sections subdividing the roadway, each one connected to one or more electric stations for charging a set of batteries of the vehicle and/or supplying the necessary power and energy for driving the vehicle forward.The contact device comprises displaceable current collectors disposed underneath the vehicle, which are moveable up and down and sideways. The current collectors are coordinated with control equipment to bring the current collector into mechanical and electrical contact with conducting rails arranged in a track in the roadway. The detector arrangement comprises one or more coils and is adapted to sense the variation of a magnetic field generated by additional electrical conductors disposed in the track. |
| US09035473B2 |
Circuit device and method of manufacturing the same
Provided are a thin circuit device with show-through of thin metal wires prevented and a method of manufacturing the circuit device. A circuit device mainly includes: a substrate including a first substrate and second substrates; pads formed respectively on upper surfaces of the second substrates; a semiconductor element fixed on an upper surface of the first substrate; thin metal wires each connecting the semiconductor elements and a corresponding one of the pads; and a sealing resin with which the semiconductor element and the thin metal wires are covered, and which thereby seals the circuit device with the semiconductor element and the thin metal wires disposed therein. Furthermore, filler particles located in the uppermost portion of the sealing resin are covered with a resin material constituting the sealing resin. |
| US09035472B2 |
Semiconductor device
In a semiconductor device, a conductor pattern is disposed in a position overlapped by a semiconductor chip in a thickness direction over the mounting surface (lower surface) of a wiring board. A solder resist film (insulating layer) covering the lower surface of the wiring board has apertures formed such that multiple portions of the conductor pattern are exposed. The conductor pattern has conductor apertures. The outlines of the apertures and the conductor apertures overlap with each other, in a plan view, respectively. |
| US09035471B2 |
Routing layer for mitigating stress in a semiconductor die
A routing layer for a semiconductor die is disclosed. The routing layer includes traces interconnecting integrated circuit bond-pads to UBMs. The routing layer is formed on a layer of dielectric material. The routing layer includes conductive traces arranged underneath the UBMs as to absorb stress from solder bumps attached to the UMBs. Traces beneath the UBMs protect parts of the underlying dielectric material proximate the solder bumps, from the stress. |
| US09035469B2 |
Semiconductor device that controls a negative resistive oscillation and obtains a high amplification output
A semiconductor device has a field effect transistor (FET), a mounting member, an output matching circuit board, a relay board, and first and second bonding wire. The FET includes plural cell regions arranged dispersedly and plural drain terminal electrodes connected to each cell region. The output matching circuit board is provided between an output conductive part and the FET, and has a first insulating substrate and a conductive part. A relay board is provided between the output matching circuit board and the FET. The relay board includes a second insulating substrate having a permittivity lower than a permittivity of the second insulating substrate of the output matching circuit board, and which has a relay conductive part on an upper surface of the second insulating substrate. |
| US09035461B2 |
Packaged semiconductor devices and packaging methods
Packaged semiconductor devices and packaging methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a packaged semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit die and through-vias disposed in a molding compound. A first redistribution layer (RDL) is disposed over a first side of the through-vias, the integrated circuit die, and the molding compound. A second RDL is disposed over a second side of the through-vias, the integrated circuit die, and the molding compound. Contact pads are disposed over the second RDL. An insulating material of the second RDL includes a recess around a perimeter of one of the contact pads. |
| US09035460B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
To provide a technique adopting a TSV technique, capable of improving manufacturing yield and reliability of semiconductor devices. By partitioning a connection pad-forming region into a plurality of regions and by forming, respectively, connection pads 17 having a relatively small planar area, spaced apart from an adjacent connection pad 17 in each of partitioned regions, dishing generated in the connection pad 17 is lightened. In addition, by not forming a through hole 23 for forming a through electrode 27 in an interlayer insulating film 9 covering a semiconductor element, intrusion of H2O, a metal ion such as Na+ or K+, etc. into an element-forming region from the through hole, via the interlayer insulating film is prevented. |
| US09035449B2 |
Package member assembly, method for manufacturing the package member assembly, package member, and method for manufacturing piezoelectric resonator device using the package member
[Solving means] In a package member assembly, a plurality of package members are integrally formed. The package member assembly includes a plurality of bottomed holes provided on a front main face and a back main face of a wafer made of glass, and external terminals connected to side-face conductors attached to inner wall faces of the bottomed holes on the back main face. |
| US09035446B2 |
Power module
Provided is a power module. The power module includes a power semiconductor chip. The power module further includes a case that accommodates the power semiconductor chip. A silicone gel seals the power semiconductor chip within the case. The silicone gel including a heat-resistant silicone gel containing 20 to 100 mass ppm of a metal complex comprising a metal selected from a group consisting of iron and platinum. |
| US09035445B2 |
Seal ring structure with a metal pad
A method includes providing a substrate having a seal ring region and a circuit region, forming a seal ring structure over the seal ring region, forming a first frontside passivation layer above the seal ring structure, etching a frontside aperture in the first frontside passivation layer adjacent to an exterior portion of the seal ring structure, forming a frontside metal pad in the frontside aperture to couple the frontside metal pad to the exterior portion of the seal ring structure, forming a first backside passivation layer below the seal ring structure, etching a backside aperture in the first backside passivation layer adjacent to the exterior portion of the seal ring structure, and forming a backside metal pad in the backside aperture to couple the backside metal pad to the exterior portion of the seal ring structure. Semiconductor devices fabricated by such a method are also provided. |
| US09035442B2 |
Semiconductor module
A semiconductor module having a second semiconductor package 200 mounted on a first semiconductor package 100, wherein the first semiconductor package 100 includes: pads 15 formed on the top surface of the first semiconductor package 100; external connection terminals 2 formed on the underside of the first semiconductor package 100, and vias 18 electrically connecting the pads 15 and the connection terminals 2. In a radiographic plane viewed in a vertical direction relative to one surface of a second substrate 25 of the second semiconductor package 200, the via 18 overlaps one of the pad 15 and the connection terminal 2, the pad 15 and the connection terminal 2 overlap each other, and the pad 15 has the center position outside the connection terminal 2. |
| US09035439B2 |
Apparatus, system and method for use in mounting electronic elements
The present embodiments provide surface mount devices and/or systems. In some embodiments, the surface mount devices comprise a casing having a recess formed extending at least partially into said casing; and first and second leads each of which is at least partially encased by said casing and each of which has a portion exposed through said recess, wherein at least one of said first and second leads has one or more size reduction features in its said exposed portion that reduces the surface area to provide an increased surface bonding area to said casing around said lead. |
| US09035431B2 |
Dense finFET SRAM
A method for fabricating the device includes patterning a first structure and a second structure on a semiconductor device. A first angled ion implantation is applied to the second structure such that the first structure is protected and a second angled ion implantation is applied to the first structure such that the second structure is protected, wherein exposed portions of the first and second structures have an altered rate of oxidation. Oxidation is performed to form thicker or thinner oxide portions on the exposed portions of the first and second structures relative to unexposed portions of the first and second structures. Oxide portions are removed to an underlying layer of the first and second structures. The first and second structures are removed. Spacers are formed about a periphery of remaining oxide portions. The remaining oxide portions are removed. A layer below the spacers is patterned to form integrated circuit features. |
| US09035415B2 |
Vertical semiconductor device comprising a resurf structure
A technology for a vertical semiconductor device having a RESURF structure, which is capable of preventing the drop of the withstand voltage when the adhesion of external electric charges occurs is provided. The vertical semiconductor device disclosed in the present specification has a cell region and a non-cell region disposed outside the cell region. This vertical semiconductor device has a diffusion layer disposed in at least part of the non-cell region. When the vertical semiconductor device is viewed in a plane, the diffusion layer has an impurity surface density higher than that satisfying a RESURF condition at an end part close to the cell region, and an impurity surface density lower than that satisfying the RESURF condition at an end part far from the cell region. When the vertical semiconductor device is viewed in a plane, a region in the diffusion layer that has the impurity surface density higher than that satisfying the RESURF condition has a greater mean gradient of the impurity surface density than a region in the diffusion layer that has the impurity surface density lower than that satisfying the RESURF condition. |
| US09035412B2 |
Thin active layer fishbone photodiode with a shallow N+ layer and method of manufacturing the same
The present invention is directed toward a detector structure, detector arrays, and a method of detecting incident radiation. The present invention comprises a photodiode array and method of manufacturing a photodiode array that provides for reduced radiation damage susceptibility, decreased affects of crosstalk, reduced dark current (current leakage) and increased flexibility in application. |
| US09035407B2 |
Receiver module and device
Provided is a receiver module, including: a semiconductor light receiving element including an electrode; and a sub-mount including: an electrical wiring joined to the electrode with solder; and a trap region arranged around a joining surface of the electrical wiring, the trap region retaining solder by solder wetting. |
| US09035400B2 |
Micro electro mechanical systems device
Disclosed herein is a micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) device including: a mass body; a first fixed part provided at an outer side of the mass body; and a first flexible part having one end connected to a distal end of the mass body and the other end connected to the first fixed part, wherein the mass body is rotatably connected to the first flexible part. |
| US09035399B2 |
Structure for facilitating the simultaneous silicidation of a polysilicon gate and source/drain of a semiconductor device
A method of simultaneously siliciding a polysilicon gate and source/drain of a semiconductor device, and related device. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising forming a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate (the gate stack comprising a first polysilicon layer, a first nitride layer, and a second polysilicon layer), forming a second nitride layer over an active region in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the gate stack, performing a chemical mechanical polishing that stops on the first nitride layer and on the second nitride layer, removing the first nitride layer and the second nitride layer, and performing a simultaneous silicidation of the first polysilicon layer and the active region. |
| US09035395B2 |
Semiconductor devices comprising getter layers and methods of making and using the same
Semiconductor devices comprising a getter material are described. The getter material can be located in or over the active region of the device and/or in or over a termination region of the device. The getter material can be a conductive or an insulating material. The getter material can be present as a continuous or discontinuous film. The device can be a SiC semiconductor device such as a SiC vertical MOSFET. Methods of making the devices are also described. |
| US09035393B2 |
Method and apparatus for forming an integrated circuit with a metalized resistor in a standard cell configuration
An integrated circuit includes a layer of a semiconductor device including a standard cell configuration having a fixed gate electrode pitch between gate electrode lines and a resistor formed of metal between the fixed gate electrode pitch of the standard cell configuration. In one embodiment, the integrated circuit can be charged device model (CDM) electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit for a cross domain standard cell having the resistor formed of metal. A method of manufacturing integrated circuits includes forming a plurality of gate electrode lines separated by a gate electrode pitch to form a core standard cell device, applying at least a first layer of metal within the gate electrode pitch to form a portion of a resistor, and applying at least a second layer of metal to couple to the first layer of metal to form another portion of the resistor. |
| US09035392B2 |
Semiconductor device
A pMIS region is provided between a boundary extending in a first direction and passing through each of a plurality of standard cells and a first peripheral edge. An nMIS region is provided between the boundary and a second peripheral edge. A power supply wiring and a grounding wiring extend along the first and second peripheral edges, respectively. A plurality of pMIS wirings and a plurality of nMIS wirings are arranged on a plurality of first virtual lines and a plurality of second virtual lines, respectively, extending in the first direction and arranged with a single pitch in a second direction. The first virtual line that is the closest to the boundary and the second virtual line that is the closest to the boundary have therebetween a spacing larger than the single pitch. |
| US09035391B2 |
Fin field effect transistors having a nitride containing spacer to reduce lateral growth of epitaxially deposited semiconductor materials
A fin field effect transistor including a plurality of fin structures on a substrate, and a shared gate structure on a channel portion of the plurality of fin structures. The fin field effect transistor further includes an epitaxial semiconductor material having a first portion between adjacent fin structures in the plurality of fin structures and a second portion present on outermost sidewalls of end fin structures of the plurality of fin structures. The epitaxial semiconductor material provides a source region and at drain region to each fin structure of the plurality of fin structures. A nitride containing spacer is present on the outermost sidewalls of the second portion of the epitaxial semiconductor material. |
| US09035387B2 |
Multi-gate device
Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for improving multi-gate device performance are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| US09035385B2 |
Method for fabricating thin-film semiconductor device and thin-film semiconductor device
A thin-film semiconductor device having two thin-film transistors, wherein each of the two thin-film transistors includes: a gate electrode; a gate insulating film; a semiconductor layer; a channel protection layer; an intrinsic semiconductor layer; a contact layer in contact with a portion of sides of the channel region; a source electrode on the contact layer; and a drain electrode opposite to the source electrode on the contact layer, wherein the contact layer of one of the two thin-film transistors has a conductivity type different from a conductivity type of the contact layer of the other of the two thin-film transistors. |
| US09035381B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same
An aspect of the present embodiment, there is provided a semiconductor device includes a high-voltage element, the high-voltage element including a substrate, a first semiconductor region with a first conductive type on the substrate, an insulating isolation film on the substrate, a second semiconductor region with a second conductive type, the second semiconductor region being provided between the first semiconductor region and the insulating isolation film, a drain region with the second conductive type provided on a surface of the second semiconductor region, an impurity concentration of the drain region being higher than an impurity concentration of the second semiconductor region, a source region with the second conductive type provided on a surface of the first semiconductor, the source region being separated from the drain region, a floating drain region with the second conductive type provided on the surface of the first semiconductor region between the second semiconductor region and the source region, a first gate electrode above the first semiconductor region between the drain region and the floating drain region, a second gate electrode above the first semiconductor region between the source region and the floating drain region, a gate insulator provided between the first gate electrode and the surface of the first semiconductor region, the first gate electrode and the surface of the second semiconductor region, and the second gate electrode and the surface of the first semiconductor region, a portion of the second semiconductor region being placed under the first gate electrode through the gate insulator to be overlapped with the first gate electrode, a drain electrode on the drain region, and a source electrode on the source region. |
| US09035377B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device of an embodiment has a first conductive type first semiconductor layer, a second conductive type second semiconductor layer provided in the first semiconductor layer having a first lateral surface and a first bottom portion contacting the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer has a first void portion inside. A second conductive type impurity concentration decreases from the first lateral surface toward the first void portion. And the device has a second conductive type third semiconductor layer provided in the first semiconductor layer such that the first semiconductor layer is sandwiched between the third semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The third semiconductor layer has a second lateral surface and a second bottom portion contacting the first semiconductor layer. The third semiconductor layer has a second void portion inside. A second conductive type impurity concentration decreases from the second lateral surface toward the second void portion. |
| US09035376B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device is disclosed in which the tradeoff relationship between the Eoff and the turning OFF dV/dt is improved at a low cost using a trench embedding method. The method comprises a step of forming a parallel pn layer that is a superjunction structure using a trench embedding method and a step of ion implantation into an upper part of an n type semiconductor layer, i.e., an n type column, forming a high concentration n type semiconductor region. This method improves the trade-off relationship between the Eoff and the turning OFF dV/dt as compared with a high concentration n type semiconductor region formed of an epitaxial layer. This method achieves shorter process time and lower cost in manufacturing because it eliminates the redundant repeating of steps performed in the conventional method of forming a superjunction structure through multi-stage epitaxial growth. |
| US09035375B2 |
Field-effect device and manufacturing method thereof
Embodiments relate to a field-effect device that includes a body region, a first source/drain region of a first conductivity type, a second source/drain region, and a pocket implant region adjacent to the first source/drain region, the pocket implant region being of a second conductivity type, wherein the second conductivity type is different from the first conductivity type. The body region physically contacts the pocket implant region. |
| US09035372B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device, fabrication method thereof and memory system comprising the same
A nonvolatile memory device includes (i) a semiconductor substrate, (ii) a channel formed over the substrate and extending in a first direction, (iii) a first NAND string arranged over a lower portion of a sidewall of the channel, (iv) a second NAND string arranged over an upper portion of the sidewall of the channel, and (v) an erasing conductive layer provided between the first and the second NAND strings and coupled to the sidewall of the channel. |
| US09035371B2 |
Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell region provided with a plurality of memory cells, and a peripheral region provided around the memory cell region. The device includes: a foundation layer provided in the memory cell region and in the peripheral region, the foundation layer including a plurality of wiring layers and a plurality of device elements; and a stacked body provided on the foundation layer, the stacked body including a plurality of electrode layers and a plurality of intermediate layers alternately stacked. The peripheral region includes an interlayer insulating film provided on the stacked body; and an electrode pad provided on the interlayer insulating film and electrically connected to one of the plurality of wiring layers. |
| US09035364B2 |
Active device and fabricating method thereof
An active device and a fabricating method thereof are provided. The active device includes a buffer layer, a channel, a gate, a gate insulation layer, a source and a drain. The buffer layer is disposed on a substrate and has a positioning region. A thickness of a portion of the buffer layer in the positioning region is greater than a thickness of a portion of the buffer layer outside the positioning region. The channel is disposed on the buffer layer and in the positioning region. The gate is disposed above the channel. The gate insulation layer is disposed between the channel and the gate. The source and the drain are disposed above the channel and electrically connected to the channel. |
| US09035363B2 |
JFET ESD protection circuit for low voltage applications
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a first region having a first conductivity type (410) is formed at a face of a substrate. A gate having a second conductivity type (406) is formed in the substrate beside the first region. A channel having the first conductivity type is formed below the first region adjacent the gate. A second region having the first conductivity type (404) is formed at the face of the substrate beside the gate. A third region having the first conductivity type (430) is formed below the channel and has a greater impurity concentration than the channel. |
| US09035360B2 |
Semiconductor device and SiP device using the same
A semiconductor device includes a logic circuit and an active element circuit. The logic circuit is provided with semiconductor elements formed in a semiconductor substrate. The active element circuit is provided with transistors formed using semiconductor layers formed over a diffusion insulating film formed above a semiconductor substrate. The active element circuit is controlled by the logic circuit. |
| US09035358B2 |
Semiconductor element
A semiconductor element includes a collector contact layer of a high concentration N-type semiconductor layer. An N-type collector layer, a base layer, being a high concentration P-type semiconductor layer with a top surface, laminated on the collector layer, and an N-type emitter layer laminated on a part of the top surface, are laminated on the collector contact layer. A base-collector layer junction is located on a bonded surface, between the base layer and the collector layer. An inactive portion is located outside an outside end of a base electrode on the top surface, in a plan view. The inactive portion is formed by implanting ions of one of helium and argon into the first and second semiconductor layers. The inactive portion extends from the top surface to a position below the base-collector layer junction. |
| US09035352B2 |
Twin-well lateral silicon controlled rectifier
A LSCR includes a substrate having a semiconductor surface which is p-doped. A first nwell and a second nwell spaced apart from one another are in the semiconductor surface by a lateral spacing distance. A first n+ diffusion region and a first p+ diffusion region are in the first nwell. A second n+ diffusion region is in the second nwell. A second p+ diffusion is between the first nwell and second nwell which provides a contact to the semiconductor surface. Dielectric isolation is between the first n+ diffusion region and first p+ diffusion region, along a periphery between the first nwell and the semiconductor surface, and along a periphery between the second nwell and the semiconductor surface. A resistor provides coupling between the second n+ diffusion region and second p+ diffusion. |
| US09035350B2 |
Systems, circuits, devices, and methods with bidirectional bipolar transistors
Methods, systems, circuits, and devices for power-packet-switching power converters using bidirectional bipolar transistors (BTRANs) for switching. Four-terminal three-layer BTRANs provide substantially identical operation in either direction with forward voltages of less than a diode drop. BTRANs are fully symmetric merged double-base bidirectional bipolar opposite-faced devices which operate under conditions of high non-equilibrium carrier concentration, and which can have surprising synergies when used as bidirectional switches for power-packet-switching power converters. BTRANs are driven into a state of high carrier concentration, making the on-state voltage drop very low. |
| US09035335B2 |
Light emitting module
A light emitting module including a substrate, a plurality of first light emitting diode (LED) chips and a plurality of second LED chips is provided. The substrate has a cross-shaped central region and a peripheral region surrounding the cross-shaped central region. The first LED chips are disposed on the substrate and at least located in the cross-shaped central region. The second LED chips are disposed on the substrate and at least located in the peripheral region. A size of each second LED chip is smaller than a size of each first LED chip. The number of the first LED chips located in the peripheral region is smaller than that in the cross-shaped central region. The number of the second LED chips located in the cross-shaped central region is smaller than that in the peripheral region. |
| US09035332B2 |
Semiconductor light emitting element array
A semiconductor light emitting element array contains: a support substrate; a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements disposed on said support substrate, a pair of adjacent semiconductor light emitting elements being separated by street, each of the semiconductor light emitting elements including; a first electrode formed on the support substrate, a semiconductor lamination formed on the first electrode and including a stack of a first semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type, an active layer formed on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer formed on the active layer, and having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and a second electrode selectively formed on the second semiconductor layer of the semiconductor lamination; and connection member having electrical insulating property and optically propagating property, disposed to cover at least part of the street between a pair of adjacent semiconductor laminations. |
| US09035331B2 |
System for thermal control of red LED(s) chips
A light emitting diode assembly includes a first light emitting diode disposed on a first substrate and a second light emitting diode disposed on a second substrate that is disposed substantially adjacent to the first substrate. The second light emitting diode has a higher rate of performance degradation over time due to temperature than the first light emitting diode. A heat sink is thermally coupled to the first substrate and an electrical cooling circuit is thermally coupled to the second substrate. The electrical cooling circuit is configured to reduce a temperature of the second substrate when the electrical cooling circuit is electrically energized. |
| US09035328B2 |
Light-emitting diode component
An LED component includes, according to a first embodiment, a monolithic substrate, an array of LED chips disposed on a surface of the substrate, and an optical lens overlying the LED chips and having a lens base attached to the substrate, where the LED chips are positioned to provide a peak emission shifted from a perpendicular centerline of the lens base. The LED component includes, according to a second embodiment, a monolithic substrate, an array of LED chips disposed on a surface of the substrate, and an array of optical lenses, each optical lens overlying at least one of the LED chips and having a lens base attached to the substrate, where at least one of the LED chips is positioned to provide a peak emission shifted from a perpendicular centerline of the respective lens base. |
| US09035327B2 |
Hybrid combination of substrate and carrier mounted light emitting devices
A multi-chip light emitting device (LED) uses a low-cost carrier structure that facilitates the use of substrates that are optimized to support the devices that require a substrate. Depending upon the type of LED elements used, some of the LED elements may be mounted on the carrier structure, rather than on the more expensive ceramic substrate. In like manner, other devices, such as sensors and control elements, may be mounted on the carrier structure as well. Because the carrier and substrate structures are formed independent of the encapsulation and other after-formation processes, these structures can be tested prior to encapsulation, thereby avoiding the cost of these processes being applied to inoperative structures. |
| US09035325B2 |
Light emitting device package and lighting system
A light emitting device (LED) package includes a submount and a light emitting chip. The submount has a chip region and a supporting region over which the chip is mounted, and an encapsulating material and fluorescent material are formed over the chip. The coverage area of encapsulating and fluorescent materials is substantially coextensive with the chip or chip region, and a first area between an edge of the chip region and an edge of the supporting region is greater than a second area between the edge of the chip region and the chip. |
| US09035320B2 |
Semiconductor device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, a first electrode, a first electrode and a conducting section. The substrate includes a conductive region and has a first surface. The first semiconductor region is provided on the first surface side of the substrate and includes AlXGa1-XN (0≦X≦1). The second semiconductor region is provided on a side opposite to the substrate of the first semiconductor region and includes AlYGa1-YN (0≦Y≦1, X≦Y). The first electrode is provided on a side opposite to the first semiconductor region of the second semiconductor region and ohmically connects to the second semiconductor region. The conducting section electrically connects between the first electrode and the conductive region. |
| US09035316B2 |
Device comprising EL element electrically connected to P-channel transistor
A multi-layered gate electrode of a crystalline TFT is constructed as a clad structure formed by deposition of a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode and a third gate electrode, to thereby to enhance the thermal resistance of the gate electrode. Additionally, an n-channel TFT is formed by selective doping to form a low-concentration impunty region which adjoins a channel forming region, and a sub-region overlapped by the gate electrode and a sub-region not overlapped by the gate electrode, to also mitigate a high electric field near the drain of the TFT and to simultaneously prevent the OFF current of the TFT from increasing. |
| US09035315B2 |
Semiconductor device, display device, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A purpose of the present invention is to reduce the driving voltage of a semiconductor device that includes an n-type TFT and a p-type TFT. Disclosed is a semiconductor device in which an n-channel type first thin film transistor (100) and a p-channel type second thin film transistor (200) are provided on the plane of a substrate (1). A first semiconductor layer (11) of the first thin film transistor (100) has a main portion, which is sandwiched between the upper surface and the lower surface of the first semiconductor layer (11), and an slanted portion, which is sandwiched by the side face and the lower surface of the first semiconductor layer (11). A second semiconductor layer (20) has a main portion, which is sandwiched between the upper surface and the lower surface of the second semiconductor layer (20), and a slanted portion, which is sandwiched between the side face and the lower surface of the second semiconductor layer (20). The inclination angle of the side face of the second semiconductor layer (20) relative to the plane of the substrate (1) is larger than the inclination angle of the side face of the first semiconductor layer (11) relative to the plane of the substrate (1). |
| US09035312B2 |
TFT array substrate and fabrication method thereof
A TFT array substrate is provided. The TFT array substrate includes a gate electrode connected to a gate line; a source electrode connected to a data line, the data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region; a drain electrode facing the source electrode with a channel interposed therebetween; a semiconductor layer forming the channel between the source electrode and the drain electrode; a channel passivation layer formed on the channel to protect the semiconductor layer; a pixel electrode disposed in the pixel region to contact with the drain electrode; a storage capacitor including the pixel electrode extending over the gate line to form a storage area on a gate insulating layer on which a semiconductor layer pattern and a metal layer pattern are stacked; a gate pad extending from the gate line; and a data pad connected to the data line. |
| US09035307B2 |
Microphone component
A 2-chip MEMS microphone component includes: at least one first MEMS microphone structural component having at least one first microphone structure formed in the front side of the structural component; an ASIC structural component having evaluation electronics for the microphone signal of the MEMS microphone structural component; and a housing having a sound opening. The MEMS microphone structural component is mounted within the housing and above the sound opening in such a way that the rear side of the microphone structure is acted on by the sound pressure. The ASIC structural component also includes a second MEMS microphone structure whose microphone signal is fed to the evaluation electronics. |
| US09035303B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same
This semiconductor device (100A) includes: a gate electrode (3) formed on a substrate (2); a gate insulating layer (4) formed on the gate electrode; an oxide layer (50) which is formed on the gate insulating layer and which includes a semiconductor region (51) and a conductor region (55); source and drain electrodes (6s, 6d) electrically connected to the semiconductor region; a protective layer (11) formed on the source and drain electrodes; and a transparent electrode (9) formed on the protective layer. At least part of the transparent electrode overlaps with the conductor region with the protective layer interposed between them. The upper surface of the conductor region contacts with a reducing insulating layer (61) with the property of reducing an oxide semiconductor included in the oxide layer. The reducing insulating layer is out of contact with the channel region of the semiconductor region. |
| US09035302B2 |
Active matrix including stressed capacitor insulation
This active-matrix substrate (100A) includes: a substrate (11); a TFT (10A) which is supported on the substrate and which includes a semiconductor layer (14), a gate electrode (12g), a source electrode (16S) and a drain electrode (16D); first and second transparent conductive layers (22, 24), at least one of which is electrically connected to the drain electrode of the TFT and has tensile stress; and a stack of inorganic insulating layers (23S1) which has been formed between the first and second transparent conductive layers. The stack includes a first inorganic insulating layer (23a1) with tensile stress and second and third inorganic insulating layers (23b1, 23c1) which have been formed so as to sandwich the first inorganic insulating layer between them and which have compressive stress. The stack as a whole has tensile stress. |
| US09035301B2 |
Imaging device
An imaging device that is highly stable to irradiation with radial rays such as X-rays and can inhibit a decrease in electrical characteristics is provided. The imaging device takes an image with radial rays such as X-rays and includes pixel circuits arranged in a matrix and a scintillator overlapping the pixel circuits. The pixel circuits each includes a switching transistor with an extremely small off-state current and a light-receiving element which is configured to convert the radial rays to electrical charges. A gate insulating film of the switching transistor has a stacked structure including a silicon nitride film with a thickness of 100 nm to 400 nm and a silicon oxide film or a silicon oxynitride film with a thickness of 5 nm to 20 nm. |
| US09035300B2 |
Array substrate comprising a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode
An array substrate includes a thin film transistor on a substrate, a color pattern on the substrate, a light blocking pattern on the thin film transistor, an organic insulation layer covering the color pattern and the light blocking pattern, a pixel electrode on the organic insulation layer, and a low-reflective pattern on the pixel electrode. An opening portion is defined in the light blocking pattern and exposes the thin film transistor. A contact hole is defined in the organic insulation layer and corresponding to the opening portion. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the thin film transistor through the contact hole. The low-reflective pattern corresponds to the opening portion. |
| US09035295B2 |
Thin film transistor having an oxide semiconductor thin film formed on a multi-source drain electrode
A semiconductor device (100A) according to the present invention includes an oxide semiconductor layer (31a), first and second source electrodes (52a1 and 52a2), and first and second drain electrodes (53a1 and 53a2). The second source electrode (52a2) is formed to be in contact with a top surface of the first source electrode and inner to the first source electrode (52a1). The second drain electrode (53a2) is formed to be in contact with a top surface of the first drain electrode (53a1) and inner to the first drain electrode (53a1). The oxide semiconductor layer (31a) is formed to be in contact with the top surface of the first source electrode (52a1) and the top surface of the first drain electrode (53a1). |
| US09035291B2 |
Organic light emitting diode device and manufacturing method thereof
An organic light emitting diode device can have an enhanced thin film encapsulation layer for preventing moisture from permeating from the outside. The thin film encapsulation layer can have a multilayered structure in which one or more inorganic layers and one or more organic layers are alternately laminated. A barrier can be formed outside of a portion of the substrate on which the organic light emitting diode is formed. The organic layers of the thin film encapsulation layer can be formed inside an area defined by the barrier. |
| US09035290B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes: a substrate including a plurality of organic light emitting elements; an adhesive member on at least a portion of an upper surface of the substrate; a flexible circuit board adhered to the upper surface of the adhesive member and having a portion bent to be mounted to a lower surface of the substrate; and a light blocking member at the upper surface of the substrate, wherein the light blocking member is laterally offset from the adhesive member. |
| US09035289B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device
A nonvolatile memory device includes a first conductive unit, a second conductive unit, and a storage layer. The first conductive unit has a first work function. The second conductive unit has a second work function smaller than the first work function. The storage layer is provided between the first conductive unit and the second conductive unit. The storage layer is made using a source material including an aromatic diamine molecule and an aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydride molecule. An ionization potential of the aromatic diamine molecule is greater than the first work function. An electron affinity of the aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydride molecule is less than the second work function. |
| US09035287B2 |
Polymeric materials for use in metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors
Disclosed are polysulfone-based materials that can be used as active and/or passive components in various electronic, optical, and optoelectronic devices, particularly, metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors. For example, various metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors can include a dielectric layer and/or a passivation layer prepared from such polysulfone-based materials and exhibit good device performance. |
| US09035286B2 |
Multi-color light emitting diode and method for making same
A color light-emitting diode using a blue light component to produce red light and green light is disclosed. A blue-light emitting material is provided between a cathode layer and an anode layer for emitting the blue light component. A light re-emitting layer has a first material in a first diode section arranged to produce a red light component in response to the blue light component, and a second material in a second diode section arranged to produce a green light component in response to the blue light component. A transparent material in a third diode section allows part of the blue light component to transmit through. The anode layer is partitioned into three electrode portions separately located in the three diode sections, so that the red, green and blue light components in the diode sections can be separately controlled. |
| US09035285B2 |
Display device and organic light emitting diode display
A display device includes a substrate, a display unit formed on the substrate, a sealing substrate bonded to the substrate by a bonding layer surrounding the display unit, the sealing substrate comprising a complex member and an insulating member, wherein the complex member has a resin matrix and a plurality of carbon fibers and the insulator is connected to an edge of the complex member and comprises a penetration hole, a metal layer disposed at one side of the sealing substrate wherein the one side faces the substrate, and a conductive connection unit filling in the penetration hole and contacting the metal layer. The complex member and the insulator may be coupled by tongue and groovecoupling along a thickness direction of the sealing substrate where the protrusion-groove coupling structure is top-to-bottom symmetric and the insulator may have a thickness identical to that of the complex member. |
| US09035284B2 |
Microlens for organic EL element, organic EL element using the same, and manufacturing methods thereof
A microlens for an organic EL element includes a cured resin layer having concavities and convexities formed on a surface thereof, wherein when a Fourier-transformed image is obtained by performing two-dimensional fast Fourier transform processing on a concavity and convexity analysis image obtained by analyzing a shape of the concavities and convexities by use of an atomic force microscope, the Fourier-transformed image shows a circular or annular pattern substantially centered at an origin at which an absolute value of wave number is 0 μm−1, and the circular or annular pattern is present within a region where an absolute value of wave number is within a range of 1 μm−1 or less. The microlens is disposed on a light-emitting surface of the organic EL element. |
| US09035279B2 |
Micro device with stabilization post
A method and structure for stabilizing an array of micro devices is disclosed. A stabilization layer includes an array of stabilization cavities and array of stabilization posts. Each stabilization cavity includes sidewalls surrounding a stabilization post. The array of micro devices is on the array of stabilization posts. Each micro device in the array of micro devices includes a bottom surface that is wider than a corresponding stabilization post directly underneath the bottom surface. |
| US09035278B2 |
Coalesced nanowire structures with interstitial voids and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device, such as an LED, includes a plurality of first conductivity type semiconductor nanowire cores located over a support, a continuous second conductivity type semiconductor layer extending over and around the cores, a plurality of interstitial voids located in the second conductivity type semiconductor layer and extending between the cores, and first electrode layer that contacts the second conductivity type semiconductor layer. |
| US09035273B2 |
Resistive switching memory device
A resistive switching memory device is provided with first to third electrodes. The first electrode forms a Schottky barrier which can develop a rectifying property and resistance change characteristics at an interface between the first electrode and an oxide semiconductor. The third electrode is made of a material which provides an ohmic contact with the oxide semiconductor. A control voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes, and a driving voltage is applied between the first and third electrodes. |
| US09035272B2 |
Nanoparticle-based memristor structure
A memristor structure has two electrodes sandwiching an insulating region, and includes a nanoparticle providing a conducting path between the two electrodes, wherein either the insulating region comprises an inorganic material and nanoparticle comprises a solid nanoparticle or a core/shell nanoparticle or the insulating region comprises an inorganic or organic material and the nanoparticle comprises a core/shell nanoparticle. |
| US09035261B2 |
Reflector having adaptive reflectivity for radiation detection
Systems, devices, processes, and algorithms for adapting and/or adjusting a reflectivity of a reflector in a radiation detector. The reflectivity can be changed by a reflectivity control signal that is generated based on an estimated count rate of events so as to adjust a probability of a photosensor detecting light resulting from the event via, for example, a scintillation event. By adjusting the probability, an energy resolution of the radiation detector can be optimized. The reflectivity of a reflector can be changed by changing a state of a thin film, a liquid crystal layer, or a suspended magnetic particle layer. |
| US09035260B2 |
Radiation measuring system based on optimal measurement geometry and radiation measuring method using the same
A radiation measuring system includes a whole-body counter having upper and lower radiation detectors that are located in front of a measurement space, which has an inlet passage and is located in a housing, and that detects respective internal radiations of a measurement target and first and second internal radiations of a body region corresponding to one of a thyroid gland, a lung, a whole body, or a hypogastrium, and a processor controlling determination of an internal radioactive contamination location of the measurement target, based on a ratio of the first and second internal radiations, applying the optimal measurement mode corresponding to the ratio of the first and second internal radiations, and detecting the first and second internal radiations of a body region corresponding to the internal radioactive contamination location. |
| US09035259B2 |
Level measurement system
An instrument adapted for the determination of fluid levels within a vessel by the comparison of the density of the fluid along the length of the instrument, said instrument comprising: (i) at least one generally linear source array comprising a plurality of sources of penetrating radiation, shielding and collimation means and a source supporting structure for supporting the sources and shielding and collimation means in a linear array (ii) at least one generally linear detector array comprising a plurality of radiation detectors, supported on a detector support structure, capable of detecting radiation emitted by the sources, and (iii) means to position the source and a respective detector array such that (a) radiation emitted from each of the sources is capable of following a linear path from the source, through the vessel and material to at least a respective one of the detectors forming a part of the respective detector array, and (b) the linear axis of the source array and the linear axis of its respective detector array are substantially parallel to each other (iv) means for analyzing the detector output signals to determine the density of the medium traversed by the beams of radiation in passing from a source to a detector characterized in that the detector support structure and/or its associated electrical circuits and connectors is formed from a plurality of modular portions, each modular portion being adapted to be joined to an adjacent portion to provide a detector array of the required length. |
| US09035258B2 |
Tomography apparatus and electromagnetic pulse transmitting apparatus
To provide an electromagnetic pulse transmitting apparatus and a tomography apparatus capable of shortening an electromagnetic pulse. The apparatus performs processing such that two electromagnetic pulse portions emitted to an object have an electric field intensity of mutually opposite polarity and the time difference between pulse peaks of the two electromagnetic pulse portions is a time difference within a time of a pulse width. |
| US09035257B2 |
Human body sensing device and image forming apparatus having the same
A human body sensing device comprises: an infrared sensor which detects a human body; a rotatable group of lenses having a plurality of lenses arranged around the sensor, the lenses being configured to: generate unit sensing zones defined by a sensing distance extending radially outwardly from the group and a small width extending in a rotation direction of the group; and form a plurality of alternating layers of a regional sensing zone including one or more than one of the unit sensing zones and a non-sensing zone not including any of the unit sensing zones, in a rotation direction of the group; a rotary drive which rotates the group; a rotation position sensor which detects a rotation position of the group; and a recognizer which recognizes the location and/or movement of a human body based on the output level indicated by the infrared sensor and the rotation position. |
| US09035252B2 |
Detection circuit, sensor device, and electronic apparatus
A detection circuit includes a pyroelectric element; a first P-type transistor provided between an output node and a low-potential-side power node of the detection circuit, a detection signal being inputted from the pyroelectric element to a gate of the first P-type transistor; and a second P-type transistor provided between a high-potential-side power node and the output node, a gate of the second P-type transistor being set to a reference voltage. |
| US09035244B2 |
Automatic gain control with defocusing lens
A method and apparatus for performing mass spectrometry using an electron source, an ion trap, and a voltage-controlled lens located between the electron source and the ion trap. A controller applies a voltage to the lens. Features of the resulting output spectrum can be analyzed to determine whether to adjust the lens voltage. |
| US09035240B2 |
Ion transfer device
There is provided a transfer device (30) that transfers ionized substances in a first direction. The transfer device (30) includes a drift tube (50) and the drift tube (50) includes electrode plates (71) and (72) constructing an outer wall and a plurality of ring electrodes (60, 61, 62) disposed inside the tube. The ring electrodes (60) forms a first AC electric field for linear driving that causes the ionized substances to travel in the first direction that is the axial direction. The electrode plates (71) and (72) form an asymmetric second AC electric field that deflects the direction of travel of the ionized substances. |
| US09035236B2 |
Detecting high atomic number materials with cosmic ray muon tomography
A method is proposed herein to detect high atomic number materials, such as Special Nuclear Materials, within a container based on muon tomography. The container is modeled as a plurality of volume elements. Information related to an initial trajectory and a final trajectory of each muon passing through the container is received. Additionally, a set of initial outer prong vectors and a set of final outer prong vectors are created. Then, a plurality of vector combinations are created from a selected initial vector and a selected final vector. A metric is determined and associated with each vector combination. A subset of the plurality of vector combinations is associated with each volume element and an estimated scattering density is determined and assigned to the volume element. Based on the estimated scattering density assigned to the volume elements, a three dimensional image of the container may be generated. |
| US09035231B2 |
System and method for monitoring load-related parameters of a wind turbine rotor blade
In one aspect, a system for monitoring load-related parameters of a rotor blade of a wind turbine is disclosed. The system may generally include a plurality of reflective targets positioned within the rotor blade. Each reflective target may include a unique visual identifier. In addition, the system may include a light source configured to illuminate the reflective targets and a sensor configured to detect light reflected from the reflective targets. |
| US09035230B2 |
Optical element and image sensor
An optical element includes a refractive index pattern that is periodically formed by a plurality of media having refractive indices different from each other. The highest diffraction order for a light beam of a first wavelength region that enters the optical element is greater than the highest diffraction order for a light beam of a second wavelength region that is longer than the first wavelength region, and the light beams of the first wavelength region and the second wavelength region are emitted so that each of the light beams of the first wavelength region and the second wavelength region is periodically localized. |
| US09035228B2 |
Light sensor and driving method of photo transistor thereof
A light sensor including a photo transistor is provided. A gate of the photo transistor receives a gate driving signal. The photo transistor senses a light source based on the gate driving signal to generate a light current signal. The photo transistor includes a metal-oxide active layer. The gate driving signal has a first voltage level during a trap period and has a second voltage level during a read period. The first voltage level is higher than the second voltage level. The gate driving signal of the photo transistor introduces a mechanism to rapidly eliminate excess carriers. Accordingly, the photo transistor has a rapid response while maintaining good light responsibility. Furthermore, a method for driving the foregoing photo transistor is also provided. |
| US09035227B2 |
Solid-state imaging device with column circuitry includung a latch part comprising a plurality of logic gates and switch circuitry
In this solid-state imaging device, an output signal of any one of a plurality of delay units that output signals of logic states in accordance with a level of a pixel signal is input to an input terminal of a latch circuit that latches a logic state of the output signal. A NAND circuit and an INV circuit stop until a control signal output timing at which a control signal in accordance with the level of the pixel signal is output, and operate after the control signal output timing. A switch circuit outputs the output signal of the one of the plurality of delay units through a signal line from an output terminal until the control signal output timing, and switches a connection at a latch timing after a predetermined time elapses from the control signal output timing such that the NAND circuit and the INV circuit latch the logic state of the output signal of the one of the plurality of delay units. |
| US09035226B1 |
Control system with regenerative heat system
An exoatmospheric vehicle uses a control system that includes a thrust system to provide thrust to control flight of the vehicle. A regenerative heat system is used to preheat portions of the thrust system, prior to their use in control of the vehicle. The heat for preheating may be generated by consumption of a fuel of the vehicle, such as a monopropellant fuel. The fuel may be used to power a pump (among other possibilities), to pressurize the fuel for use by thrusters of the thrust system. The preheated portions of the thrust system may include one or more catalytic beds of the thrust system, which may be preheated using exhaust gasses from the pump. The preheating may reduce the response time of the thrusters that have their catalytic beds preheated. Other thrusters of the thrust system may not be preheated at all before operation. |
| US09035221B2 |
Tandem gas metal arc welding system
A gas metal arc welding system that includes first and second welding torch assemblies arranged to operate in tandem. The first welding torch assembly further includes a rotable torch body; a contact tip connected to one end of the rotatable torch body, wherein the contact tip further includes an angled passage formed therethrough; a consumable wire electrode passing through the rotating torch body and exiting the contact tip through the offset exit hole; and a source of shielding gas. The second welding torch assembly further includes a non-rotatable torch body; a contact tip connected to one end of the non-rotatable torch body; a consumable wire electrode passing through the non-rotatable torch body and exiting through the contact tip; and a source of shielding gas. |
| US09035218B2 |
Method for short-arc welding and welding device for short-arc welding
The invention relates to a method for disconnecting a short circuit (30) during short-arc welding, wherein when a short circuit (30) occurs, a time frame (32) is started, in which a defined current profile is performed to disconnect the short circuit within the time frame (32), and the current is increased if the time frame (32) is exceeded, and a corresponding welding device (1). In order to improve the welding quality, after the specifiable time frame (32) expires during a short circuit (30), said current profile for disconnecting the short circuit (30) is detected and at least one value or parameter in the disconnection of the short circuit (30) is stored or saved, wherein at least one value or parameter in the time frame (32) of the following short circuit (30) is adapted according to the stored value or parameter. |
| US09035215B2 |
Laser irradiation apparatus
A laser irradiation apparatus for irradiating a laser beam to a semiconductor layer including a plurality of pixel areas, the apparatus includes a laser generator generating the laser beam, and an optical switching unit time-dividing the laser beam generated from the laser generator and transmitting a plurality of time-divided laser beams to a plurality of optical systems. The apparatus includes a first optical system of the plurality of optical systems that receives a first time-divided laser beam and irradiates a first laser slit beam along a first irradiation direction, and a second optical system of the plurality of optical systems that receives a second time-divided laser beam and irradiates a second laser slit beam along a second irradiation direction that is parallel with the first irradiation direction. The first laser slit beam and the second laser slit beam crystallize partial areas at a same location in the respective pixel areas. |
| US09035214B2 |
Method for connecting leader line
Disclosed is a method for connecting a core wire of a wire rod covered with an insulating coating and pulled out from a coil component with a substrate by irradiating a laser beam, the method comprising the steps of: (a) forming a bond part between the wire rod and the substrate, the bond part being made of a material having a high optical absorptance for laser beam; and (b) irradiating a laser beam on an area to be connected under a state that at least one of the wire rod and the substrate is being pulled toward the other. |
| US09035213B2 |
Method for welding workpieces made of highly heat-resistant superalloys, including a particular mass feed rate of the welding filler material
A welding method for welding workpieces made of highly heat-resistant superalloys is provided. The method includes generating a heat input zone on the workpiece surface by means of a heat source, feeding welding filler material into the heat input zone by means of a feeding device, and generating a relative motion between the heat source and the feeding device on one hand and the workpiece surface on the other hand by means of a conveying device. Furthermore, according to the welding method, the mass feed rate is ≦350 mg/min. |
| US09035212B2 |
Switch having two sets of contact elements
An exemplary medium or high voltage switch has a first set of contact elements and a second set of contact elements. Each contact element includes an insulating carrier carrying conducting elements. In the closed state of the switch, the conducting elements align to form one or more current paths between terminals of the switch along an axial direction. For opening the switch, the contact elements are mutually displaced by means of one or two drives along a direction perpendicular to the axial direction. The switching arrangement is arranged in a fluid-tight housing in a gas of elevated pressure or in a liquid. The switch has a high voltage withstand capability and fast switching times. |
| US09035211B2 |
Gas blast interrupter
A gas-insulated circuit interrupter is disclosed, the interrupter having an improved design for quenching electrical arcs. The interrupter includes a first contact and a second contact configured to alternatively connect to and disconnect from the first contact. One or both of the contacts are at least partially contained in an arcing chamber. The arcing chamber includes the point at which the contacts connect during current-carrying operation of the interrupter. The arcing chamber is at least partially surrounded by a heating chamber for accommodating a quenching gas. A channel connects the heating chamber and the arcing chamber and is positioned to direct the quenching gas toward the first contact and the second contact arcing area. One or more valves direct gas from the arcing chamber to the heating chamber when the interrupter is operated to interrupt a current. |
| US09035209B2 |
Movable contact and contact structure including the same
The invention provides a movable contact movable on a fixed contact or a resistor. The movable contact includes first and second sliders. The first and second sliders are arranged in such a manner as to slide along different sliding tracks from each other on the fixed contact or the resistor in accordance with movement of the movable contact. |
| US09035205B2 |
Multi-directional tilt switch
A multi-directional tilt switch includes a housing inner surface defining a chamber, a housing outer surface opposite to the housing inner surface, a plurality of slots extending through the housing inner and outer surfaces, and a plurality of conductive terminals each including an insert portion inserted in a corresponding slot, a contact portion extending into the chamber, and a first connecting surface exposed from the housing outer surface. A conductive body is accommodated movably in the chamber between a first position, where the conductive body bridges two contact portions, and a second position, where the conductive body does not bridge any two contact portions. |
| US09035204B2 |
Switch assembly with sequentially actuated power and neutral switching
A switch assembly and method of switching a load between a first power source and a second power source that maintains a desired sequencing of the making and breaking of both the neutral and power connections in response to a single user input. The switch assembly includes an actuator that is movable between a first position and a second position and a first movable element and a second movable element that are operably coupled to one another and the actuator. A positive switch contact arrangement is coupled with the first movable element and a neutral switch contact arrangement is coupled with the second movable element. The positive switch contact arrangement and the neutral switch contact arrangement comprise geometrically different constructions so that moving the actuator between the first position and the second position avoids an open neutral condition. |
| US09035203B2 |
Electrical interface interlock system
A high voltage (HV) interface housing is provided that includes an assembly of levers within the housing that detect whether or not the HV lines are coupled to the interface housing. If the HV lines are not in place, the lever assembly prevents the interface cover from being fully installed onto the interface housing, thereby preventing the HV interlock loop switch from being closed. As a result, when the HV cables are not in place, the HV interlock loop switch prevents power from being applied to the HV circuit. If, however, the HV lines are properly positioned within the interface housing, the levers of the lever assembly automatically retract, thus allowing the interface cover to be fully installed onto the interface housing. In this state, the interface cover closes the HV interlock loop switch, thus closing the HV interlock loop and allowing power to be applied to the HV circuit. |
| US09035198B2 |
Transparent conductive substrate and method for manufacturing same
The present invention provides a transparent conductive substrate comprising: a transparent substrate, and a conductive pattern provided on the transparent substrate, wherein the conductive pattern comprises line breakage portions performing electric breakage, and a pattern of a broken line formed when the line breakage portions are connected comprises an irregular pattern shape. The present invention can minimize a moiré phenomenon and a diffraction phenomenon by external light by performing line breakage of a regular or irregular conductive pattern by using the irregular pattern. |
| US09035197B2 |
Circuit boards with vias exhibiting reduced via capacitance
The present invention relates to circuit boards and, more specifically, circuit boards with vias (i.e. via holes) exhibiting reduced via capacitance. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a circuit board comprising a first electrically conductive trace, a second electrically conductive trace, a via hole including electrically conductive material thereon, and a coupling element that electrically connects the first trace to the second trace. The coupling element comprises a segment of the via hole that bridges the first trace and the second trace, wherein the via hole segment is a remainder of the via hole after removal of a portion of the via hole. |
| US09035194B2 |
Circuit board with integrated passive devices
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a circuit board having integrated passive devices such as inductors, capacitors, resistors and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a circuit board having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and a passive device integral to the circuit board, the passive device having an input terminal configured to couple with electrical power of a die, an output terminal electrically coupled with the input terminal, and electrical routing features disposed between the first surface and the second surface of the circuit board and coupled with the input terminal and the output terminal to route the electrical power between the input terminal and the output terminal, wherein the input terminal includes a surface configured to receive a solder ball connection of a package assembly including the die. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US09035190B2 |
Flexible circuit board and display device
The present invention has an object of obtaining excellent anti-noise performance and a high level of flexibility in a flexible circuit board. A flexible circuit board 13 according to the present invention has a flexible insulating base material 21, a plurality of wiring patterns 22 formed at prescribed intervals on one surface 21a of the insulating base material 21, and a conductive layer 23 formed on the other surface 21b of the insulating base material 21. The conductive layer 23 is disposed so as to overlap first wiring patterns 22A, which is a select set among the plurality of wiring patterns 22, and does not overlap all of the wiring patterns 22. |
| US09035189B2 |
Circuit board with flexible region and method for production thereof
A circuit board comprising a circuit carrier, a cover layer composed of a nonconductive material, comprising an organic substance, arranged on the circuit carrier, a first metallization layer at least partly arranged on the cover layer, wherein the first metallization layer has a flexible region. |
| US09035179B2 |
Fuse box
A locking portion (13) is provided to lock an open/close cover (15) to a fuse unit (5) or a cover main body (9) assembled to the fuse unit (5) in a state where the open/close cover (15) is closed. The open/close cover (15) is openably and closably connected to the cover main body (9), and includes first and second side walls (17, 19) respectively on both end sides in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to an opening/closing direction and extending in the opening/closing direction. The locking portion (13) includes a locking protrusion (21) provided in the first side wall (17) deformable in the orthogonal direction, and a mating locking protrusion (23) provided in the fuse unit (5) or the cover main body (9) and facing the first side wall (17). |
| US09035175B2 |
Multi-gang adjustable electrical box
An electrical box assembly includes an electrical box having a removable partition plate that can be positioned between the ends of the electrical box or at the end of the electrical box when two or more of the electrical boxes are ganged together. The electrical box can include a mounting bracket having a body portion attached to a wall of the box for supporting the box during use. A support member is coupled to the mounting bracket and is extendable to a length to contact the opposing wall. The mounting and the support member are independently adjustable with respect to the box. |
| US09035170B2 |
Light power generation device
[Problem] To provide a photovoltaic device capable of generating power whether day or night, without affecting the appearance of a structure or reducing lighting or other functions, and able to inhibit rises in room temperature by converting thermal radiation into electrical energy.[Means to Solve Problems] Provide a photoelectric conversion element 3 with a photovoltaic device 1 on structural members 2a-2d facing the outside of a house or other structure. Power generated by the photoelectric conversion element 3 is extracted via a power extraction unit 4. The power conversion element 3 includes a semiconductor layer 11, conductive layer 20, a metal nanostructure 30 having multiple periodic structures 33, a first electrode 41 and a second electrode 42. The first and second electrodes 41, 42 are separated in the direction of the surface of the photoelectric conversion element 1 with the terminals 71, 81 of the power extraction unit 4 respectively connected. |
| US09035168B2 |
Support for solar energy collectors
A solar energy collection system can include support devices made with bearings formed from sheet material. These bearings can be optionally formed so as to provide tool-less connections to their associated bearing housings. The bearings can be formed with an open configuration allowing a shaft to be inserted into an open bite of the bearing. Optionally, the bearing can be made from an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene plastic material. Additionally, two open-type bearing assemblies can be mounted axially offset and opposed to one another. |
| US09035164B2 |
Keyboard musical instrument
A keyboard musical instrument, including: a key; a board; a first member formed of a material different from a material of the board; a first acoustic transducer configured to vibrate the board in accordance with a drive signal supplied thereto; and a second acoustic transducer configured to vibrate the first member in accordance with a drive signal supplied thereto. |
| US09035163B1 |
System and method for targeting content based on identified audio and multimedia
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that recognize audio queries and select related information to return in response to recognition of the audio queries. The technology disclosed facilitates easy designation of aggregate user experience categories and custom audio references to be recognized. It facilitates linking and return of selected information in response to recognition of audio queries that match the designated aggregate user experience categories or custom audio references to be recognized. |
| US09035161B2 |
Capo
A capo for use with a stringed instrument that includes a first arm 11 configured to, in use, extend laterally across a finger board and strings. A second arm is configured to, in use, abut against the back of a neck of the instrument to, in cooperation with the first arm, provide a clamping force over the strings. The first arm includes an adjustable tensioning means, e.g. a truss rod 14 or band, acting in a lengthwise direction, such that a contacting face can adapt to the curvature of the finger board. Adjustment is effected by a knob 15 or like device which tensions the truss rod or cable. |
| US09035160B2 |
Electronic music controller using inertial navigation
A percussion controller comprises an instrumented striker including devices for obtaining inertial measurements and a wireless transmitter, a sensor-enabled striking surface that receives an impact from the instrumented striker, and a data processing system that receives the inertial measurements and predicts at least one of the force or location of impact of the instrumented striker on the sensor-enabled striking surface before impact actually occurs. |
| US09035155B2 |
Variety corn line KDL6289
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated KDL6289, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line KDL6289 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line KDL6289, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line KDL6289, and plants produced according to these methods. |
| US09035154B2 |
Variety corn line KLI6131
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated KLI6131, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line KLI6131 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line KLI6131, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line KLI6131, and plants produced according to these methods. |
| US09035150B1 |
Maize inbred PH1KHH
A novel maize variety designated PH1KHH and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1KHH with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1KHH 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 PH1KHH or a locus conversion of PH1KHH with another maize variety. |
| US09035149B1 |
Maize inbred PH1K8P
A novel maize variety designated PH1K8P and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1K8P with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1K8P 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 PH1K8P or a locus conversion of PH1K8P with another maize variety. |
| US09035142B2 |
Cotton variety FM 2011GT
The cotton variety FM 2011GT is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 2011GT with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of FM 2011GT and to plants of FM 2011GT reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from FM 2011GT. |
| US09035140B2 |
Soybean variety A1036101
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1036101. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1036101. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1036101 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1036101 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US09035138B2 |
Soybean variety 01045772
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01045772. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01045772. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01045772 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01045772 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US09035136B1 |
Soybean variety XBP42006
A novel soybean variety, designated XBP42006 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP42006, cells from soybean variety XBP42006, plants of soybean XBP42006, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP42006. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP42006 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XBP42006, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP42006, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XBP42006. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP42006 are further provided. |
| US09035135B2 |
Cotton variety ST 4145LLB2
The cotton variety ST 4145LLB2 is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 4145LLB2 with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 4145LLB2 and to plants of ST 4145LLB2 reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 4145LLB2. |
| US09035134B2 |
Plants and seeds of canola variety SCV816796
In an embodiment, the invention relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of canola variety SCV816796 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing canola variety SCV816796 with itself or with another canola variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic canola plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to canola varieties or breeding lines and plant parts derived from canola variety SCV816796, to methods for producing other canola varieties, lines or plant parts derived from canola variety SCV816796 and to the canola plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid canola seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the variety SCV816796 with another canola variety. |
| US09035124B2 |
Fluid management device with fluid transport element for use within a body
A fluid management device for use in a mammalian body has at least one fluid transport element capable of interfacing with a mammalian body element to provide a substantially uninterrupted fluid conduit. The fluid conduit provides a fluid path between at least one fluid transport element and the storage element. A distal portion of the at least one fluid transport element is capable of extending away from the fluid storage element, and the at least one fluid transport element has a Wing Stiffness of less than about 10 gf. |
| US09035123B2 |
Absorbent article having a lotioned topsheet
The absorbent article of the invention has a liquid impervious backsheet and a liquid pervious topsheet joined to the backsheet. The topsheet has an inner surface oriented toward the interior of the absorbent article and an outer surface oriented toward the skin and hair of the wearer when the absorbent article is being worn and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. At least a portion of the topsheet outer surface comprises an effective amount of a lotion coating which is semi-solid or solid at 20 degrees C., the lotion coating comprising:(i) from about 10 to about 95% of a substantially water free emollient having a plastic or fluid consistency at 20 degrees C. wherein the emollient contains 5% or less water, the emollient comprising a member selected from the group consisting of petroleum-based emollients. fatty acid ester emollients, alkyl ethoxylate emollients, and mixtures thereof;(ii) from about 5 to about 90% of an agent capable of immobilizing the emollient on the outer surface of the topsheet, the immobilizing agent being miscible with the emollient, the immobilizing agent having a melting point of at least about 35 degrees C. wherein the immobilizing agent is selected from the group consisting of polyhydroxy fatty acid esters, polyhydroxy fatty acid amides, C14-C22 fatty alcohols, C14-C22 fatty acids, C14-C22 fatty alcohol ethoxylates with a degree of ethoxylation of 4 or less, and mixtures thereof. |
| US09035122B2 |
Wound dressing inhibiting lateral diffusion of absorbed exudate
A wound dressing including a hydrophilic layer and a hydrophobic layer is described. The hydrophilic layer absorbs exudate from a wound and the hydrophobic layer absorbs the exudate from the hydrophilic layer and traps the exudate. Because the hydrophilic layer is used adjacent to the wound, the exudate is readily absorbed thereby reducing the risk of maceration and infection of the wound tissue by the exudate. The hydrophobic layer receives the absorbed exudate from the hydrophilic layer and traps the exudate through an interaction that in turn prevents lateral diffusion of the exudate through the bandage to healthy portions of the skin. The hydrophilic and hydrophobic layers are fabricated from polymer fibers that can be spun to include components that facilitate wound healing, such as poly(hexamethylene biguanide) and/or hyaluronic acid. |
| US09035117B2 |
Continuous process for conversion of lignin to useful compounds
This specification discloses an operational continuous process to convert lignin as found in ligno-cellulosic biomass before or after converting at least some of the carbohydrates. The continuous process has been demonstrated to create a slurry comprised of lignin, raise the slurry comprised of lignin to ultra-high pressure, deoxygenate the lignin in a lignin conversion reactor over a catalyst which is not a fixed bed without producing char. The conversion products of the carbohydrates or lignin can be further processed into polyester intermediates for use in polyester preforms and bottles. |
| US09035113B2 |
High energy distillate fuel composition and method of making the same
The disclosure describes a high energy density jet fuel composition, having a smoke point about 18 mm as determined by ASTM D1322 and a thermal stability of no more than 25 mm Hg as determined by ASTM D 3241, and a method for making a jet fuel composition, wherein the net heat of combustion is determined by the aromatics content, cycloparaffins content, and normal plus or iso paraffins content in the jet fuel composition. |
| US09035112B2 |
Process for producing 2-chloro-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene
Disclosed is a process for producing 2-chloro-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (1224), including a first step of separating 2,3-dichloro-1,1,1,3-tetrafluoropropane (234da) into erythro form and threo form, and a second step of bringing the separated erythro form or threo form in contact with a base to obtain 2-chloro-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (1224). The first step is a step of separating 234da by distillation to achieve a separation into a fraction containing mainly erythro form and a fraction containing mainly threo form. In the second step, 1224 cis form is obtained from the erythro form, and 1224 trans form is obtained from the threo form. By this process, it is possible to selectively and efficiently produce cis form or trans form of 2-chloro-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (1224). |
| US09035103B2 |
Optical resolution methods for bicyclic compounds using asymmetric catalysts
An optically active bicyclic compound is efficiently produced by optical resolution using an optically active amine. |
| US09035101B2 |
Method for preparing 3-trifluoromethyl chalcones
Disclosed is a method for preparing a compound of Formula 1 wherein Q and Z are as defined in the disclosure comprising distilling water from a mixture comprising a compound of Formula 2, a compound of Formula 3, a base comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of alkaline earth metal hydroxides of Formula 4 wherein M is Ca, Sr or Ba, alkali metal carbonates of Formula 4a wherein M1 is Li, Na or K, 1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]non-5-ene and 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene, and an aprotic solvent capable of forming a low-boiling azeotrope with water. Also disclosed is a method for preparing a compound of Formula 2 comprising (1) forming a reaction mixture comprising a Grignard reagent derived from contacting a compound of Formula 5 wherein X is Cl, Br or I with magnesium metal or an alkylmagnesium halide in the presence of an ethereal solvent, and then (2) contacting the reaction mixture with a compound of Formula 6 wherein Y is OR11 or NR12R13, and R11, R12 and R13 are as defined in the disclosure. Further disclosed is a method for preparing a compound of Formula 7 wherein Q and Z are as defined in the disclosure, using a compound of Formula 1 characterized by preparing the compound of Formula 1 by the method disclosed above or using a compound of Formula 1 prepared by the method disclosed above. |
| US09035090B2 |
Process and apparatus for slurry separation of aromatic carboxylic acid
In a process for removing aromatic carboxylic acid from a slurry thereof in solvent, the slurry is split into sub streams and each of said sub streams is supplied to a respective rotary pressure filter such that the sub stream pass through the filters in parallel. Gas is passed through the rotary pressure filters in series in an open-loop arrangement. |
| US09035089B2 |
Modified carbon material and process of making and using the same
A method of making modified carbon materials for use in fabricating fuel cell components. The modified carbon may comprise pendant fluorocarbon groups bonded covalently bonded thereto. In one embodiment, a mixture is formed and comprises carbon material suitable for use in a fuel cell component, an organic solvent, a compound having the general formula I—R wherein R is a fluorocarbon, and a reductant. |
| US09035088B2 |
Method for producing mono-aminofunctionalized dialkylphosphinic acids and esters and salts thereof by means of acrylnitriles and use thereof
The invention relates to a method for producing mono-aminofunctionalized dialkylphosphinic acids and esters and salts thereof by means of acrylnitriles, characterized in that a) a phosphinic acid source (I) is reacted with olefins (IV) to yield an alkylphosphonic acid, salt or ester (II) thereof in the presence of a catalyst A, b) the thus obtained alkylphosphonic acid, salt or ester (II) thereof is reacted with an acrylnitrile of formula (V) to yield a mono-functionalized dialkylphosphinic acid derivative (VI) in the presence of a catalyst B, and c) the thus obtained mono-functionalized dialkylphosphinic acid derivative (VI) is reacted to yield a mono-aminofunctionalized dialkylphosphinic acid derivative (III) in the presence of a catalyst C or a reduction agent, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 are the same or different and stand independently of each other, among other things, for H, C1-C18 alkyl, C6-C18 aryl, C6-C18 aralkyl, C6-C18 alkylaryl and X stands for H, C1-C18 alkyl, C6-C18 aryl, C6-C18 aralkyl, C6-C18 alkylaryl, Mg, Ca, Al, Sb, Sn, Ge, Ti, Fe, Zr, Zn, Ce, Bi, Sr, Mn, Cu, Ni, Li, Na, K and/or a protonized nitrogen base, and Y stands for a mineral acid, a carboxylic acid, a Lewis acid or an organic acid, n=an integer or fractional number of 0 to 4 and the catalysts A and C are formed by transition metals, transition metal compounds and/or catalyst systems composed of a transition metal and/or a transition metal compound and at least one ligand, and catalyst B is formed by compounds forming peroxides, peroxo compounds, azo compounds, alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, alkali hydrides, alkaline earth hydrides and/or alkali alcoholates and alkaline earth alcoholates. |
| US09035086B2 |
Modified layered double hydroxide (LDH) and a process for preparation thereof for C—C bond forming reactions
The present invention relates to a covalently organo-modified LDH (LDH/APTES) was found to be an efficient and reusable heterogeneous catalyst for C—C bond forming reactions (i.e. Aldol condensation, Knoevenagel condensation, Henry reaction, Michael addition). More particularly, this catalyst shows consistent activity for several cycles in C—C bond forming reaction. These catalysts were successfully characterized by XRD, FT-IR, 29Si CP MAS NMR. |
| US09035083B2 |
Synthesis of H-phosphonate intermediates and their use in preparing the herbicide glyphosate
The esterfication of hypophosphorous acid is followed by reaction with another molecule of alcohol under the action of a nickel catalyst to provide a green method for the preparation of H-phosphonate diesters. This method avoids the need for any stoichiometric chlorine unlike those based on phosphorous trichloride. |
| US09035080B2 |
Process for recovering homogeneous metal hydride catalysts
The present invention relates to a process for recovery of homogeneous metal hydride catalyst from a reactor stream as catalyst suitable for recycle to a reactor comprising the steps of: removing a stream from a reactor, said stream comprising the homogeneous metal hydride catalyst; contacting the stream with a solid acidic absorbent under process conditions which allow at least some of the metal to become bound to the absorbent; subjecting the metal bound to the absorbent, under process conditions which allow desorption of the metal, to a fluid stripping medium comprising hydrogen and solvent; and recovering the active metal hydride catalyst. |
| US09035078B2 |
Preparation of nitrile compounds
The invention relates to novel nitrile compounds according to formula I and II: (I) Formula I wherein: X=—CH3 or —C≡N, (II) Formula II wherein: X=—CH3 or —C≡N, each Y is independently chosen from —OH or RC(0)0-, each R is independently chosen from a C1-21 alkyl group. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of nitrile compounds according to formula I and II and to uses of the nitrile compounds. |
| US09035075B1 |
Catalyst for organic reaction and method of use thereof
A catalyst for an organic reaction and a method of using a catalyst in an organic reaction are provided. The catalyst for an addition or condensation reaction includes a graphene oxide including an oxygen functional group, and the catalyst is configured to promote the addition or condensation reaction by bonding the oxygen functional group with an alkali metal ion or alkali earth metal ion during the addition or condensation reaction. |
| US09035073B2 |
3-phenyl-3-methoxy-pyrrolidine derivatives useful as modulators of cortical catecholaminergic neurotransmission
The present invention relates to novel 3-phenyl-3-methoxy-pyrrolidine derivatives, useful for modulating extracellular levels of catecholamines, dopamine and norepinephrine, in cerebral cortical areas of the mammalian brain, and more specifically for the treatment of central nervous system disorders. In other aspects the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the 3-phenyl-3-methoxy-pyrrolidine derivatives of the invention and to the use of these compounds for therapeutic applications. |
| US09035069B2 |
Azole derivative, method for producing same, intermediate compound, and agricultural or horticultural chemical agent and industrial material protecting agent
Provided is an azole derivative superior in disease-controlling activity contained as an active ingredient in agricultural or horticultural chemical agents.The azole derivative according to the present invention is represented by the following General Formula (I): (in Formula (I), R1 represents an unsubstituted or substituted C1-C6-alkyl group; R2 represents a carbonyl group-containing functional group, wherein the carbon atom in the carbonyl group is bound to the carbon atom in the cyclopentane ring substituted with R1 and to a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, R3, OR3, or NR3R4; R3 and R4 each represent a C1-C6-alkyl group, a C2-C6-alkenyl group, or a C2-C6-alkynyl group; Y represents a halogen atom, a C1-C4-alkyl group, a C1-C4-haloalkyl group, a C1-C4-alkoxy group, a C1-C4-haloalkoxy group, a phenyl group, a cyano group, or a nitro group; m is 0 to 5; and A represents a nitrogen atom or a methine group). |
| US09035067B2 |
N-(1,2,5-Oxadiazol-3-yl)-, N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)bicycloarylcarboxamides and their use as herbicides
N-(1,2,5-Oxadiazol-3-yl)-, N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)bicycloarylcarboxamides of the general formula (I) are described as herbicides. In this formula (I), R3, R4 and R5 are each radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. Q is a heterocycle. X and Y are each oxygen and sulfur. |
| US09035066B2 |
Method of using 4,5,6,7-tetrahydroimidazo[4,5-C]pyridine compounds
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, geometrical isomers, tautomers, optical isomers or N-oxides, which are inhibitors of SSAO activity. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and to the use of these compounds for the treatment of medical conditions wherein inhibition of SSAO activity is beneficial, such as inflammatory diseases and immune disorders. |
| US09035063B2 |
Compounds as rearranged during transfection (RET) inhibitors
This invention relates to novel compounds which are inhibitors of the Rearranged during Transfection (RET) kinase, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, to processes for their preparation, and to their use in therapy, alone or in combination, for the normalization of gastrointestinal sensitivity, motility and/or secretion and/or abdominal disorders or diseases and/or treatment related to diseases related to RET dysfunction or where modulation of RET activity may have therapeutic benefit including but not limited to all classifications of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) including diarrhea-predominant, constipation-predominant or alternating stool pattern, functional bloating, functional constipation, functional diarrhea, unspecified functional bowel disorder, functional abdominal pain syndrome, chronic idiopathic constipation, functional esophageal disorders, functional gastroduodenal disorders, functional anorectal pain, inflammatory bowel disease, proliferative diseases such as non-small cell lung cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, colorectal cancer, medullary thyroid cancer, follicular thyroid cancer, anaplastic thyroid cancer, papillary thyroid cancer, brain tumors, peritoneal cavity cancer, solid tumors, other lung cancer, head and neck cancer, gliomas, neuroblastomas, Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome and kidney tumors, breast cancer, fallopian tube cancer, ovarian cancer, transitional cell cancer, prostate cancer, cancer of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction, biliary cancer, adenocarcinoma, and any malignancy with increased RET kinase activity. |
| US09035059B2 |
Nitrogen-containing condensed heterocyclic compound
There are provided compounds represented by the following general formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts of thereof, which have a superior monoacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 inhibitory action: wherein Ring A represents a partially saturated heteroaryl group, an aryl group or a heteroaryl group, RB represents a C4-18 alkyl group, a C3-8 cycloalkyl group, a partially saturated aryl group, an aryl group, or the following formula (II): wherein V represents the formula —CR11R12—, —CO—, —CO—O—, or —CO—NH—, W represents a single bond or a C1-3 alkylene group, and Ring B represents a C3-8 cycloalkyl group, a C3-8 cycloalkenyl group, a partially saturated heteroaryl group, a saturated heterocyclyl group, an aryl group, or a heteroaryl group, Y represents a nitrogen atom or the formula N+(RF), RF represents a C1-4 alkyl group, and m and n, which may be the same or different, each represent an integer of 0 or 1. |
| US09035056B2 |
Pyrido[4,3-b]indole and pyrido[3,4-b]indole derivatives and methods of use
This disclosure is directed to pyrido[4,3-b]indole and pyrido[3,4-b]indole derivatives. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds are also provided, as are methods of using the compounds in a variety of therapeutic applications, including the treatment of a cognitive disorder, psychotic disorder, neurotransmitter-mediated disorder and/or a neuronal disorder. The compounds may bind to and antagonize receptor α2B, α1B or α2A. The compounds may find use in therapy, e.g., to (i) reduce blood pressure and/or (ii) promote renal blood flow and/or (iii) decrease or inhibit sodium reabsorption, or to regulate blood glucose level, increase insulin secretion and treat diseases or conditions that are, or are expected to be, responsive to an increase in insulin production. The compounds may also be used to treat diseases or conditions that are expected to be responsive to a decrease in blood pressure. Use of the compounds to treat cardiovascular, renal disorders or type 2 diabetes is particularly described. |
| US09035053B2 |
Processes for making compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR kinase
The present invention relates to processes and intermediates for preparing compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR kinase, such as aminopyrazine-isoxazole derivatives and related molecules. The present invention also relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of ATR protein kinase. The invention relates to pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of this invention; methods of treating of various diseases, disorders, and conditions using the compounds of this invention; processes for preparing the compounds of this invention; intermediates for the preparation of the compounds of this invention; and solid forms of the compounds of this invention.The compounds of this invention have formula I or II: wherein the variables are as defined herein. |
| US09035045B2 |
Process for manufacturing partially cross-linked alginate solution
Described is a microfluidic process for manufacturing partially cross-linked alginate solution, wherein the alginate solution is a homogenous liquid which exhibits an elastic response (G′) which is equal to or greater than its viscous response (G″). In particular, the process may comprise microfluidic mixing of sodium alginate and calcium gluconate solutions to provide an injectable partially cross-linked alginate solution. |
| US09035044B2 |
L-proline and citric acid co-crystals of (2S, 3R, 4R, 5S,6R)-2-(3-((5-(4-fluorophenyl)thiopen-2-yl)methyl)4-methylphenyl)-6-(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydro-2H-pyran-3,4,5-triol
The present invention is directed to L-proline and citric acid co-crystals of (2S,3R,4R,5S,6R)-2-(3-((5-(4-fluorophenyl)thiophen-2-yl)methyl)-4-methylphenyl)-6-(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydro-2H-pyran-3,4,5-triol, pharmaceutical compositions containing said co-crystals and their use in the treatment glucose-related disorders such as Type 2 diabetes mellitus and Syndrome X. |
| US09035041B2 |
Process for triphosphate oligonucleotide synthesis
This invention relates to a process for preparing an oligonucleotide 5′-triphosphate. The process comprises the steps of: (a) synthesizing an oligonucleotide having a 5′ hydroxyl moiety; (b) reacting the 5′ hydroxyl moiety with a reagent of formula I: to convert the 5′ hydroxyl moiety to a 5′-H-phosphonate, wherein R1 and R2 are each independently selected from the group consisting of haloalkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, heterocycle, and substituted heterocycle, acyl, phosphoryl, substituted alkyl acyl, substituted heteroalkyl acyl, substituted aryl acyl or substituted heteroaryl acyl, substituted alkyl phosphoryl, substituted heteroalkyl acyl, substituted aryl phosphoryl, and substituted heteroaryl phosphoryl; (c) activating the H-phosphonate of step (b) by reacting the H-phosphonate with a silylating agent, a halogenated oxidizing agent, a nitrogen-containing heteroaryl, or a combination thereof, to form an activated H-phosphonate; and (d) treating the oligonucleotide having an activated H-phosphonate from step (c) with a poly(alkylammonium)pyrophosphate. |
| US09035040B2 |
Antisense oligonucleotides for inducing exon skipping and methods of use thereof
An antisense molecule capable of binding to a selected target site to induce exon skipping in the dystrophin gene, as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 to 202. |
| US09035038B2 |
SDF-1 binding nucleic acids
The present invention is related to an L nucleic acid that binds to an SDF-1. |
| US09035034B2 |
Functional ligands to target molecules
The present invention relates functional ligands to target molecules, particularly to functional nucleic acids and modifications thereof, and to methods for simultaneously generating, for example, numerous different functional biomolecules, particularly to methods for generating numerous different functional nucleic acids against multiple target molecules simultaneously. The present invention further relates to functional ligands which bind with affinity to target molecules. The present invention further relates to methods for generating, for example, functional biomolecules, particularly to functional nucleic acids, that bind with functional activity to another biomolecule, such as a receptor molecule. More than one or multiple targets as used herein may generally include different types of targets, and/or may also include a multitude of a singular type of targets at different conditions, such as, for example, temperature, pH, chemical environment, and/or any other appropriate conditions. |
| US09035033B2 |
Tumor and infectious disease therapeutic compositions
A pharmaceutical composition comprising lectins is anti-tumorigenic and anti-viral, bacterial or protozoan. The composition, termed BiOmune is also useful for imaging, diagnosis and therapy of cancer. |
| US09035025B2 |
Molecularly imprinted surfaces using surface-bound peptides
A method of producing a molecularly-imprinted material comprises synthesizing a peptide, oligosaccharide or oligonucleotide on a disposable surface modified support to produce a support surface-attached peptide, oligosaccharide or oligonucleotide, providing a selected monomer mixture, contacting the monomer mixture with the support surface-attached peptide, oligosaccharide or oligonucleotide, initiating polymerisation or at least one crosslinking reaction, dissolving or degrading the support surface-attached peptide, oligosaccharide or oligonucleotide and support, and obtaining molecularly imprinted material. |
| US09035024B2 |
Compounds that inhibit Hsp90 protein-protein interactions with IAP proteins
Disclosed herein are compounds that inhibit Hsp90 interactions with IAP proteins, such as Survivin, XIAP, cIAP1, or cIAP2, and methods for identifying and using such compounds. |
| US09035022B2 |
Cyclic CRF antagonist peptides
Cyclic CRF antagonist peptides having improved properties of “drugability”. The peptides are 33 residues in length with a lactam bond between the residues in position 22 and 25; however, they may be N-terminally shortened by up to 3 residues. |
| US09035021B2 |
Somatostatin analogues
The invention provides cyclo[{4-(NH2—C2H4—NH—CO—O—)Pro}-Phg-DTrp-Lys-Tyr(4-Benzyl)-Phe], optionally in protected form, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or complex thereof, which has interesting pharmaceutical properties. |
| US09035014B2 |
Process for preparing condensation resins
The present invention relates to a new process for preparing condensation resins, constructed formally from urea, formaldehyde, and CH-acidic aldehydes. |
| US09035011B2 |
Modified alkoxylation products having at least one non-terminal alkoxysilyl group and a plurality of urethane groups, and their use
Alkoxylation products, their preparation, compositions comprising these alkoxylation products, and the use thereof as or for producing adhesives and sealants. |
| US09035008B2 |
Curable-on-demand polysiloxane coating composition
A curable composition comprises (a) at least one polyorganosiloxane, fluorinated polyorganosiloxane, or combination thereof comprising reactive silane functionality comprising at least two hydroxysilyl moieties; (b) at least one polyorganosiloxane, fluorinated polyorganosiloxane, or combination thereof comprising reactive silane functionality comprising at least two hydrosilyl moieties; and (c) at least one photoactivatable composition comprising at least one organoborate salt selected from tetraarylborate, triarylorganoborate, diaryldiorganoborate, and aryltriorganoborate salts (and combinations thereof) of at least one base selected from amidines, guanidines, phosphazenes, proazaphosphatranes, and combinations thereof; wherein at least one of the components (a) and (b) has an average reactive silane functionality of at least three. |
| US09035006B2 |
Olefin block copolymer and sheet-shaped molded body
The present description relates to an olefin block copolymer preferably useful to form nonslip pads due to excellences in elasticity and heat resistance, and a sheet-shaped molded body comprising the olefin block copolymer The olefin block copolymer includes a plurality of blocks or segments, each of which includes an ethylene or propylene repeating unit and an α-olefin repeating unit at different weight fractions. The olefin block copolymer satisfies a defined relationship when a load of 5 to 10 kg is applied to a sheet-shaped molded body of the block copolymer for 12 hours or longer at a temperature of 60° C. or higher, and then removed. |
| US09035005B2 |
Functionalized elastomer
The present invention is directed to a copolymer comprising: a polymeric backbone chain derived from a monomer comprising at least one conjugated diolefin monomer and optionally at least one vinyl aromatic monomer; and a polymeric side-chain bonded exclusively to a terminal end of the backbone chain, the side-chain comprising a polymer derived from a monomer having a hydrogen bond donor moiety and a hydrogen bond acceptor moiety. |
| US09035002B2 |
Process of free-radical polymerization or crosslinking in the presence of a selected organic peroxide prepared by an ex situ process
The invention relates to free-radical polymerization and free-radical cross-linking and more particularly provides a process of free-radical polymerization or cross-linking wherein at least one polymerizable monomer or at least one compound to be cross-linked is contacted in the presence of at least one selected organic peroxides, characterized in that the organic peroxide is prepared continuously by an ex situ process with the aid of a closed plate exchanger. In the process according to the invention, it's possible to introduce the above selected organic peroxide continuously during the polymerization or cross-linking reaction. |
| US09035001B2 |
Diene polymer and production method thereof
The present invention provides a diene polymer in which a polar functional group is introduced into an end by radical polymerization, and its production method; a polymer emulsion and a rubber composition each containing the diene polymer; and a pneumatic tire containing the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a diene polymer, which is obtained by radical polymerization of at least one radical polymerizable monomer in the presence of at least one polar functional group-containing thiol compound, and has a polar functional group at at least one end: The polar functional group-containing thiol compound is preferably represented by formula (1): X—R1—SH (1) wherein X represents an ester group, a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, an amino group, or an alkoxysilyl group, and R1 represents an alkylene or arylene group which may have a substituent. |
| US09035000B2 |
Polyolefin production using an improved catalyst system
Polyolefin production using an improved catalyst system and, in particular, a method for production of a polyolefin is disclosed. One or more monomers are contacted with a catalyst system. The catalyst system includes titanium tetrachloride as a catalyst precursor and magnesium ethylate as a support for the catalyst precursor. The catalyst system also includes a hydrocarbyl aluminum cocatalyst represented by the formula R3Al, where R is an alkyl radical having 1 to 14 carbon atoms, and where the molar ratio of the hydrocarbyl aluminum cocatalyst to the titanium tetrachloride catalyst precursor ranges from 50:1 to 400:1. The catalyst system also includes a halogenated hydrocarbon as a promoter, where the molar ratio of the halogenated hydrocarbon promoter to the titanium tetrachloride catalyst precursor ranges from 0.001:1 to 300:1. |
| US09034997B2 |
Fluorine and epoxy group-containing copolymer, and method for producing same
Provided is a fluorine- and epoxy group-containing copolymer with excellent workability at room temperature, high water-repellency, and excellent characteristics as a water vapor barrier. Also provided is an efficient method for producing said copolymer. The fluorine and epoxy group-containing copolymer is characterized by containing at least a monomer unit represented by general formula (1): {Therein, R1-R10 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom, R11 is a hydrogen atom, methyl group, or phenyl group, and R5 or R6 can be linked with R7 or R8 to form a ring.} and a monomer unit represented by general formula (2): {Therein, R12 and R13 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; R14 represents a hydrogen atom, fluorine atom, methyl group or trifluoromethyl group, and R15 represents a flourine atom or perfluoro group having at most 12 carbon atoms}. |
| US09034995B2 |
System and process for recovering gas emissions generated in producing olefin polymers
The present disclosure provides a system for recovering emissions generated from an olefin polymerization process, comprising: a devolatilizer for receiving a fresh sweep gas and emissions generated from the olefin polymerization process and outputting a first fluid and a polyolefin resin; a compression refrigeration unit including a compression device and a first heat exchange device, for receiving said first fluid and outputting a first gas-liquid mixture; a first gas-liquid separation device for separating the first gas-liquid mixture and outputting a first recovery product and a first gas phase composition; a first gas separation device for receiving the first gas phase composition, removing small molecular substances therefrom, and outputting a composition rich in small molecular gases and a second gas phase composition rich in hydrocarbons; and a second gas separation device having a second heat exchange device, a second gas-liquid separation device, and a first gas expansion device. |
| US09034993B2 |
Room temperature-curable polyorganosiloxane composition
A room temperature-curable polyorganosiloxane composition is a two component-type room temperature-curable polyorganosiloxane composition including (A) a base composition and (B) a cross-linking agent composition. The component (A) contains (a1) polyorganosiloxane having a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group at a molecular end and (a2) an inorganic filler. The component (B) includes (b1) an organosilicon compound having three or more hydrolyzable groups in one molecule, (b2) polyorganosiloxane having an alkoxy group at a molecular end and represented by the following general formula and, and (b3) a curing catalyst. In the two component-type room temperature-curable polyorganosiloxane composition, it is possible to appropriately adjust a compounding ratio of the base component and the cross-linking component according to the use of an automatic mixer/discharger or the like without deteriorating properties such as deep-part curability, curing uniformity, and storage stability. |
| US09034988B2 |
Resin composition containing copolymerized polyester resin
A resin composition includes a copolymerized polyester resin, which exhibits excellent flexibility at room temperature, improvement in problems of brittleness, and excellent adhesiveness and moist-heat durability. The invention relates to a resin composition containing a copolymerized polyester resin which contains, as an acid component, an aromatic dicarboxylic acid and a dimer acid and, as a glycol component 1,4-butane diol and polybutadiene glycols, with the content of the dimer acid being 10 to 50 mol % in the acid component, the content of the 1,4-butane diol being 50 mol % or greater in the glycol component, and the content of the polybutadiene glycols being 0.5 to 20 mol % in the glycol component. |
| US09034987B2 |
Adhesive for polarizer plate and method for manufacturing the same
Disclosed is an adhesive for a polarizing plate that comprises a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin with an acetoacetyl group and an amine-based metal compound crosslinking agent, and a method of manufacturing the same. |
| US09034981B2 |
Aqueous polyurethane dispersion
Disclosed is an aqueous polyurethane dispersion obtained by dispersing in water a reaction product obtained by reacting a reaction mixture comprising at least one organic, aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic di, tri or poryisocyanate, at least one isocyanate reactive polycarbonate diol, triol or polyol, at least one compound comprising at least one isocyanate reactive group and at least one free radically polymerizable unsaturated group, and at least one compound comprising at least one isocyanate reactive group and at least one at least dispersing active group, and optionally at least one compound comprising at least two isocyanate reactive groups and having a molecular weight of less than 1000 g/mol. |
| US09034978B2 |
Methods of preparing metal quantum clusters in molecular confinement
Methods for the synthesis of metal quantum clusters within the framework of a porous gel matrix are described. For example, Ag25(glutathione)18 quantum clusters are synthesized in a cross-linked polyacrylamide gel matrix. The methods can be performed on large-scale and yields monodispersed metal quantum clusters. |
| US09034974B2 |
Polyamide moulding materials containing copolyamides for producing transparent moulding parts with low distorsion in climatic testing
Polyamide molding materials for transparent molding parts. The materials comprise transparent copolyamides that contain: (A) 40 to 100 wt % of at least one transparent copolyamide with a glass transition temperature (Tg) of at least 80° C. and not more than 150° C., composed of at least two diamines that are different from each other, wherein the at least two diamines are a mixture of (a) 50 to 90 mol % bis-(4-amino-3-methylcyclohexyl)methane (MACM) and/or bis-(4-amino-3-ethylcyclohexyl)methane (EACM) and/or bis-(4-amino-3,5-dimethylcyclohexyl)methane (TMACM) and b) 10 to 50 mol % aliphatic diamine having 9 to 14 carbon atoms, in particular decandiamine, particularly preferably at least 20 mol % decandiamine, each relative to the total amount of diamines, and of one or more aliphatic dicarboxylic acids, having 6 to 36 carbon atoms, (B) 0 to 60 wt % of at least one further polymer, (C) 0 to 10 wt % of additives, the sum of the components (A), (B) and (C) totaling 100% by weight. |
| US09034971B2 |
Composite sheet and display substrate using same
A composite sheet of the present invention comprises an oxetane-epoxy-based compound, represented by chemical formula 1, as a binder. |
| US09034959B2 |
Polycarbonate resin composition and article including same
A polycarbonate resin composition includes: (D) about 1 to about 10 parts by weight of a silicon-based resin; (E) about 1 to about 10 parts by weight of a core-shell graft copolymer; and (F) about 1 to about 20 parts by weight of a flame retardant, with respect to about 100 parts by weight of a base resin including: (A) about 70 to about 90 wt % of a polycarbonate resin; (B) about 9 to about 25 wt % of a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer; and (C) about 1 to about 10 wt % of an aromatic vinyl-based graft copolymer. The polycarbonate resin composition can have improved releaseability and external appearance, and excellent impact strength and coloring. |
| US09034956B2 |
Stabilizer composition for polymers
The present invention relates to a composition, which comprises (a) a compound of formula (A-1) (b) a compound of formulae (B-1), (B-11), (B-111) or (B-IV) wherein Z1 is linear C12-alkyl or linear C18-alkyl, and (c) a compound, which is a further sterically hindered phenolic antioxidant. The composition is used for stabilization of an organic polymer against degradation by heat, light and/or oxidation. The organic polymer is for example a styrene-butadiene copolymer, a styrene-isoprene copolymers or polybutadiene. |
| US09034955B2 |
High molecular weight nonpolar benzotriazoles
The present invention relates to the use of certain benzotriazole derivatives of the general formula (I) where B is an optionally substituted 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-2H-benzotriazole group, n is an integer from the range from 3 to 20 and A is an n-valent organic radical, as UV absorber or stabilizer in inanimate organic materials. Furthermore, the invention relates to methods of stabilizing inanimate organic materials, in particular plastics, against the effect of light using specific benzotriazole derivatives. Further subject matters of the invention are certain benzotriazole derivatives and inanimate organic materials comprising certain benzotriazole derivatives. |
| US09034954B2 |
Multifunctional biocomposite additive compositions and methods
Biocomposite compositions and compositions, which include dried distillers solubles, and which can be used in making biocomposite compositions are described. Methods for preparing the compositions are also described. |
| US09034947B2 |
Solventless stretchable ink composition
An ink composition suitable for ink jet printing, including printing on deformable substrates. In embodiments, the stretchable ink composition is based on a solventless monomer-based ink formulation comprising a mixture of acrylic ester oligomer and monomers of acrylic ester and aromatic acrylate. |
| US09034946B2 |
Direct-to-metal and exterior durable non-skid coating
A non-skid coating described herein attempts to overcome the deficiencies of the conventional coatings with improved external durability and color retention, a reduced level of VOCs, and direct-to-metal (DTM) adhesion using organo-siloxane chemistry. The non-skid coating has a first component having an amino-functional siloxane resin; a second component having a non-aromatic epoxy resin; a spherical filler for lowering viscosity; a pigment; a coarse aggregate; and a thixotropic agent. The amino-functional siloxane resin can be an amino-functional methyl phenyl polysiloxane, diphenyl polysiloxane or silsesquioxane-based resin. The non-aromatic epoxy resin can be cycloaliphatic or aliphatic. The first component is about 5% to 20% weight of the coating, and the second component is about 80% to 95% weight of the coating. |
| US09034940B2 |
Ultraviolet-curable ink jet ink composition
Provided is an ultraviolet-curable ink jet ink composition with excellent curability and storage stability, the composition containing a monomer A represented by Formula (I): CH2═CR1—COOR2—O—CH═CH—R3 (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 represents a C2-C20 divalent organic residue, and R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C11 monovalent organic residue); a (meth)acrylated amine compound; a hindered amine compound other than the (meth)acrylated amine compound; and a photopolymerization initiator. |
| US09034939B2 |
Primer for ink-jet recording
The present invention relates to a primer ink comprising a polymerizable compound and a polymerization initiator, wherein the polymerizable compound comprises a monofunctional monomer having an aromatic hydrocarbon-based ring structure in a molecule and an aliphatic hydrocarbon-based monofunctional monomer, wherein a total mass of the monofunctional monomer having an aromatic hydrocarbon-based ring structure in a molecule and an aliphatic hydrocarbon-based monofunctional monomer is 80% by mass or more based on the total mass of all polymerizable compounds which the primer ink comprises, and wherein a surface tension of is 25 mN/m to 31 mN/m and a viscosity is 50 mPa·s or less. |
| US09034938B2 |
Photoreactive polymer
A description is given of a photoreactive polymer preparable by radical polymerization using at least one photoreactive monomer, where the photoreactive monomer has at least one radically polymerizable C—C double bond, at least one hydrophilic group selected from an ethylene glycol group and polyethylene glycol groups having at least 2 ethylene glycol units, and at least one photoreactive group, the photoreactive group being a photoenolizable carbonyl group. |
| US09034933B2 |
Expanded particle of polyethylene-based resin and in-mold expansion molded article of polyethylene-based resin
A polyethylene resin expanded particle has an expansion ratio of not less than 10 times and not more than 50 times, and in a DSC curve obtained by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), the polyethylene resin expanded particle (i) shows two melting peaks, the two melting peaks being a low-temperature side melting peak and a high-temperature side melting peak, and (ii) further has a shoulder in a region not less than 100° C. and not more than the low-temperature side melting peak temperature, the shoulder having a shoulder ratio which is not less than 0.2% and not more than 3%. This makes it possible to obtain a polyethylene resin expanded particle for producing a polyethylene resin in-mold expansion molded article in which especially an end (edge part) of the polyethylene resin in-mold expansion molded article is excellent in fusion bond level and appearance and which has neither a wrinkle nor a void on a surface thereof, is excellent in surface property (has a beautiful surface), and has a high expansion ratio. |
| US09034925B2 |
L-ornithine phenyl acetate and methods of making thereof
Disclosed herein are forms of L-ornithine phenyl acetate and methods of making the same. A crystalline form may, in some embodiments, be Forms I, II, III and V, or mixtures thereof. The crystalline forms may be formulated for treating subjects with liver disorders, such as hepatic encephalopathy. Accordingly, some embodiments include formulations and methods of administering L-ornithine phenyl acetate. |
| US09034922B2 |
Composition for maintaining function of platelets
A composition for maintaining a function of platelets, the composition comprising, as an active ingredient, a compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof: wherein X represents a phenylene group; Y represents any one of a hydrogen atom and —(CH2)mR1; wherein m represents an integer of any one of 0 to 4; and R1 is any one of —NR5COR2, —NR5SO2R2, and —NR3R4; wherein R2 represents any one of a C1 to C6 alkyl group, an aryl group, a C1 to C6 alkoxy group, and the like; R3 and R4 represent a C1 to C6 alkyl group or the like; and R5 represents any one of a hydrogen atom, a C1 to C6 alkyl group, and the like; and Z represents any one of a hydrogen atom and a C1 to C6 alkyl group. |
| US09034920B2 |
Fluorescent polymeric materials containing lipid soluble rhodamine dyes
Fluorescent polymeric materials are disclosed comprising a polymer and one or more lipid soluble rhodamine dyes with the following core structure: The materials are especially useful in the preparation of multicolored microparticles, especially multicolored polystyrene microparticles, for use in the multiplexed analysis of a plurality of analytes in a single sample. When excited by a light source, the materials give off a unique emission based on the nature, concentration and ratio of the dyes therein. Methods of preparing and using the fluorescent polymeric materials are also disclosed. |
| US09034918B2 |
Composition including at least one trans-cinnamaldehyde and the use thereof in the treatment of bacterial infections, specifically in the treatment of nosocomial infections
The present invention relates to a composition, in particular an antibacterial drug, including trans-cinnamaldehyde, a pharmaceutical composition including trans-cinnamaldehyde for treatment or prevention, in particular, of a nosocomial infection, specifically caused by a bacteria resistant to anti-bacterial drugs, the use of trans-cinnamaldehyde as an anti-bacterial agent and a method for preparing a surface including the application of a composition according to the invention. |
| US09034909B2 |
Use of organic compound for the treatment of Noonan Syndrome
The use of a MEK inhibitor compound of Formula (I), as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of Noonan Syndrome, a method of treating a warm-blooded animal, especially a human, having Noonan Syndrome, comprising administering to said animal a therapeutically effective amount of a MEK inhibitor compound of Formula (I), as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and to a pharmaceutical composition and a commercial package comprising a compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a package insert or other labeling including directions for treating Noonan Syndrome. |
| US09034905B2 |
Synergistic microbicidal combinations
Antimicrobial compositions based on the synergistic combination of 2-methyl-3-isothiazolone and selected commercial microbicides where the compositions are substantially free of halogenated 3-isothiazolone, are disclosed. Particularly preferred are combinations of 2-methyl-3-isothiazolone together with benzoic acid, citric acid, sorbic acid, 1,2-dibromo-2,4-dicyanobutane, 1,3-dimethylol-5,5-dimethylhydantoin, phenoxyethanol, benzyl alcohol, zinc pyrithione or climbazole, that provide enhanced microbicidal efficacy at a combined active ingredient level lower than that of the combined individual 3-isothiazolone and commercial microbicide effective use levels. |
| US09034904B2 |
Forms of dexlansoprazole and processes for the preparation thereof
Provided is dexlansoprazole propylene glycolate hydrate. Polymorphic forms thereof are also provided. The dexlansoprazole propylene glycolate hydrate maybe such that the propylene glycol component is present in approximately equal proportions of (R) absolute configuration and (S) absolute configuration, or present in predominantly (R) absolute configuration, or predominantly (S) absolute configuration. Salts of dexlansoprazole are also provided. In particular, crystalline dexlansoprazole isopropylammonium salt and crystalline MTBE solvate of dexlansoprazole t-butylammonium salt are provided. Pharmaceutical formulations comprising dexlansoprazole propylene glycolate hydrate are also provided. Furthermore, processes for preparation of dexlansoprazole propylene glycolate hydrate are provided. |
| US09034900B2 |
Bromodomain inhibitors
The present invention relates to substituted heterocyclic derivative compounds, compositions comprising said compounds, and the use of said compounds and compositions for epigenetic regulation by inhibition of bromodomain-mediated recognition of acetyl lysine regions of proteins, such as histones. Said compositions and methods are useful for the treatment of cancer and neoplastic disease. |
| US09034898B2 |
FGF receptor (FGFR) agonist dimeric compounds, process for the preparation thereof and therapeutic use thereof
The invention relates to novel heterocyclic compounds which are pyrazolopyridine derivatives that induce fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) dimerization, having the general formula: M1-L-M2 in which M1 or M2, which may be identical or different, each represent, independently of one another, a monomer unit M and L represents a linker group which links M1 and M2 covalently with the monomer unit which follows: Process for the preparation thereof and therapeutic use thereof. |
| US09034893B2 |
Process for reducing contaminating michael acceptor levels in oxycodone and other compositions
The present invention relates to processes for removal of Michael acceptors from certain compositions wherein the composition is treated with a thiol-containing compound under conditions sufficient to remove Michael acceptors and the resulting thiol-Michael adducts. Certain embodiments of the present invention enable quantification and/or removal of Michael acceptors and/or Michael acceptor precursors. |
| US09034892B2 |
Forms of rifaximin and uses thereof
The present invention relates to Rifaximin polymorphic, salt, hydrate, and amorphous forms, to their use in medicinal preparations and to therapeutic methods using them. |
| US09034889B2 |
Compositions for oral administration of zoledronic acid or related compounds for treating low back pain
Oral dosage forms of bisphosphonate compounds, such as zoledronic acid, can be used to treat or alleviate pain or related conditions. The oral bioavailabilty of zoledronic acid can be enhanced by administering the zoledronic acid in the disodium salt form. |
| US09034885B2 |
EGFR modulators and uses thereof
The present invention relates to certain pyrrolopyrimidine derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for the treatment of tumors and related diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase (such as EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, but not limited to) pathways. |
| US09034880B2 |
Tetracyclic compounds
This disclosure relates to new tetracyclic compounds that may be used to modulate a histamine receptor in an individual. The compounds in one embodiment are tetracyclic [4,3-b]indoles. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds are also provided, as are methods of using the compounds in a variety of therapeutic applications, including the treatment of a cognitive disorder, psychotic disorder, neurotransmitter-mediated disorder and/or a neuronal disorder. |
| US09034871B2 |
Compounds for Alzheimer's disease
The invention provides novel compounds useful for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The compounds have a substituents chosen from -L-C(═O)OH, -L-CH═CHC(═O)OH, -L-C(═O)NH2, -L-C(═O)NH(C1-3 alkyl), -L-C(═O)N(C1-3 alkyl)2, -L-S(═O)2(C1-3alkyl), -L-S(═O)2NH2, -L-S(═O)2N(C1-3 alkyl)2, -L-S(═O)2NH(C1-3 alkyl), -L-C(═O)NHOH, -L-C(═O)CH2NH2, -L-C(═O)CH2OH, -L-C(═O)CH2SH, -L-C(═O)NHCN, -L-NHC(═O)ORo, -L-C(═O)NHRo, -L-NH(C═O)NHRo, -L-C(═O)N(Ro)2, -L-NH(C═O)N(Ro)2, -L-sulfo, -L-(2,6 difluorophenol), -L-phosphono, and -L-tetrazolyl, where L is a linker. |
| US09034870B2 |
Azaindenoisoquinoline topoisomerase I inhibitors
The invention described herein pertains to substituted azaindenoisoquinoline compounds, in particular 7-, 8-, 9-, and 10-azaindenoisoquinoline compounds, which are inhibitors of topoisomerase I, processes and intermediates for their syntheses, pharmaceutical compositions of the compounds, and methods of using them in the treatment of cancer. |
| US09034868B2 |
Inhibitors of the shiga toxins trafficking through the retrograde pathway
The present invention relates to the use of compounds of general formula (I) and (II) for the preparation of a drug for preventing and/or treating disorders caused by Shiga toxins and related toxins. |
| US09034866B2 |
Tricyclic compounds and methods of use therefor
The invention relates to novel compounds of Formula I: wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, R2, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8 and subscripts m and n each has the meaning as described herein. Compounds of Formula I and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are useful in the treatment of disease and disorders in which undesired or over-activation of NF-kB signaling is observed. |
| US09034861B2 |
MEK inhibitors useful in the treatment of diseases
The invention pertains to compound of Formula (I) wherein X, Y, Z, R1, R2, R3, R4, A and A′ are as described hereinabove. Formula (I) and (II) compounds can be used in pharmaceutical compositions, useful for the treatment of diseases. |
| US09034857B2 |
Methods for reducing superoxide anions in eukaryotic organisms
Provided are methods and compositions for reducing superoxide anions such that a prophylactic or therapeutic effect against conditions associated with excess oxidative stress achieved. The compositions and methods provide for reducing inflammation and for enhancing lifespan of eukaryotic organisms. A screen for identifying compounds that can be used in these methods is also provided. |
| US09034856B2 |
17-(1′propenyl)-17-3′-oxidoestra-4-en-3-one derivative, use thereof, and medicament containing said derivative
The invention relates to 17-(1′-propenyl)-17-3′-oxidoestra-4-en-3-one derivatives with the general chemical formula I, where the residues Z, R4, R6a, R6b, R7, R15, R16a, R16b and R18 have the meanings stated in Claim 1, and their solvates, hydrates and salts, including all stereoisomers of these compounds. The invention further relates to the use of these derivatives for the production of a medicinal product for oral contraception and for the treatment of pre-, peri- and postmenopausal complaints and medicinal products that contain said derivatives, and in particular application in the aforementioned indications. The derivatives according to the invention have a progestational and in preferred cases additionally an antimineralocorticoid and neutral to slightly androgenic action. |
| US09034854B2 |
Pharmaceutical composition comprising estetrol derivatives for use in cancer therapy
The present invention relates to a method of treating or preventing estrogen-sensitive tumors in a mammal, said method comprising the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of an estrogenic component to said mammal, wherein the estrogenic component is selected from the group consisting of:substances represented by the following formula in which formula R1, R2, R3, R4 independently are a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group with 1-5 carbon atoms; precursors capable of liberating a substance according to the aforementioned formula when used in the present method; and mixtures of one or more of the aforementioned substances and/or precursors. The estrogenic component according to the invention does not have undesirable proliferative effects on breast and/or endometrial tissue and displays sufficient estrogenicity to prevent that its administration will lead to hypoestrogenism and/or climacteric complaints. |
| US09034851B2 |
Substituted pyrimidines
The present invention relates to substituted pyrimidines useful as HIF prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors to treat anemia and like conditions. |
| US09034846B2 |
Use of cyclodextrin for treatment and prevention of bronchial inflammatory diseases
The invention provides the use of a cyclodextrin compound for the manufacturing of a medicament for the treatment or prevention of bronchial inflammatory diseases, particularly for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). |
| US09034841B2 |
Modulation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) expression
Disclosed herein are antisense compounds and methods for decreasing HBV mRNA, DNA and protein expression. Such methods, compounds, and compositions are useful to treat, prevent, or ameliorate HBV-related diseases, disorders or conditions. |
| US09034839B2 |
miRNA modulators of thermogenesis
Provided are novel methods and compositions for the modulation of thermogenesis. Such methods are particularly advantageous in that they allow for the reduction of body fat in a subject without the subject having to adjust their caloric intake through dieting, modify their physical activity or undergo bariatric surgery. Accordingly, the methods of the invention are particularly useful for treating or preventing obesity. Also provided are methods of screening for novel agents that modulate the activity of thermogenic regulators. |
| US09034833B1 |
Anti-aging composition containing high levels of a jasmonic acid derivative
A water-releasing anti-aging composition in the form of an emulsion and process for preparing the anti-aging composition are provided. The anti-aging composition includes an aqueous phase and an oil phase. The aqueous phase includes at least one electrolytic jasmonic acid derivative at a concentration by weight of about 2% to about 20%, based upon weight of the composition. The oil phase includes dimethicone at a concentration by weight of about 1% to about 25%, and an emulsifying crosslinked siloxane elastomer at a concentration by weight of about 0.1% to about 20%, both based upon weight of the composition. The anti-aging composition has a phase ratio of the aqueous phase to the oil phase of about 3.0 to about 12.0. The anti-aging composition converts from an emulsion to a plurality of droplets upon application of shear. |
| US09034832B2 |
Solid compositions
The present invention features solid compositions comprising a selected HCV inhibitor in an amorphous form. In one embodiment, the selected HCV inhibitor is formulated in an amorphous solid dispersion which comprises a pharmaceutically acceptable hydrophilic polymer and preferably a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant. |
| US09034831B2 |
Pharmaceutical composition for a hepatitis C viral protease inhibitor
Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition of a hepatitis C viral protease inhibitor which is suitable for oral administration via a liquid- or semi-solid-filled capsule and methods of using this composition for inhibiting the replication of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and for the treatment of an HCV infection. The liquid- or semi-solid pharmaceutical composition of the present invention comprises a compound of formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, together with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable lipids and hydrophilic surfactants. |
| US09034830B2 |
Methods and compositions for sustained delivery of drugs
The present disclosure relates to methods and compositions for the topical sustained delivery of therapeutic agents. Topical application of compositions containing a muscle fasciculating agent result in the sustained release of any therapeutic agent contained within the composition. More particularly, topical application of such compositions to the outer surface of the eyelid of a patient results in increased absorption and sustained release of the therapeutic agent into the eyes or systemically. |
| US09034829B1 |
pH-sensitive polymer-drug conjugates for targeted delivery of therapeutics
Polymeric delivery systems for boronic acid-containing therapeutics, related compounds and methods of use, for a pH-sensitive chemoselective approach to delivery of such a therapeutic. |
| US09034828B2 |
Syndecan peptides and polypeptides as inhibitors of cancer
The invention provides for peptides from syndecan 4 and methods of use therefor. These peptides can inhibit α6β4 integrin interaction with EGFR, thereby preventing tumor cell growth and tissue invasion. |
| US09034814B2 |
CXCR4 antagonists for wound healing and re-epithelialization
The present invention provides novel uses for CXCR4 antagonists, including specifically peptides of the T-140 family, in the treatment of skin burns and other injuries. The invention further provides methods for increasing epithelialization in a subject in need thereof, and for preventing or inhibiting fibrosis and excessive scar formation, using peptide inhibitors of the T-140 family as well as other CXCR4 antagonists. |
| US09034806B2 |
Viscoelastic surfactant rheology modification
Methods for treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore where shear recovery time of viscoelastic surfactant treatment fluids is shorten by adding an effective amount of an fiber based rheology enhancer. The rheology enhancer also increases fluid viscosity. Further, the rheology enhancer also improves proppant settling. Some examples of surfactants are betaines and quaternary amines, and an example of fiber based rheology enhancer is polylactic acid fiber. The fluids are useful in oilfield treatments, as well as methods of preparing viscoelastic surfactant based fluids. |
| US09034798B2 |
Capture compounds, collections thereof and methods for analyzing the proteome and complex compositions
Capture compounds and collections thereof and methods using the compounds for the analysis of biomolecules are provided. In particular, collections, compounds and methods are provided for analyzing complex protein mixtures, such as the proteome. The compounds are multifunctional reagents that provide for the separation and isolation of complex protein mixtures. Automated systems for performing the methods also are provided. |
| US09034789B2 |
Adsorption carbon, and adsorbent
Provided are an adsorptive carbon which can effectively adsorb vivotoxins such as advanced glycation end products (AGEs), and an adsorbent containing the adsorptive carbon as an active ingredient. The adsorptive carbon according to the present invention has a total pore volume of 0.10 to 1.0 mL/g, an average pore diameter of 1.0 to 2.0 nm, and an absorbance of an infrared absorption band at 1650-1800 cm−1 of no less than 0.005. |
| US09034784B2 |
Catalyst composition for the copolymerization of propylene
The present invention relates to a process for the production of propylene polymers in the presence of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst comprising a titanium compound having at least one titanium-halogen bond, and a blend of a diether compound and a succinate compound as internal electron donor, all supported on a magnesium halide in active form, an organoaluminium compound and an optional external donor. |
| US09034782B2 |
Catalyst compositions for conversion of vegetable oils to hydrocarbon products in the diesel boiling range and process of preparation thereof
The present invention relates to a catalyst composition for conversion of vegetable oils to hydrocarbon products in the diesel boiling range, comprising a porous support; Group III A or VA element in the range of 1-10 wt %; Group VI B elements in the range of 1 to 20 wt %; Group VIII B elements in range of 0.01 to 10 wt %. The present invention further provides the process for preparing the catalyst composition for conversion of vegetable oils to hydrocarbon products in the diesel boiling range. The present invention also provides the process for conversion of vegetable oils to hydrocarbon products in the diesel boiling range using the catalyst composition or discarded refinery spent hydro-treating catalyst. |
| US09034779B2 |
Optical glass
Provided is an optical glass that has desired optical properties, superior resistance to devitrification, and superior mass productivity. An optical glass is made of a SiO2—Nb2O5—TiO2-based glass having a refractive index (nd) of 1.75 to 1.95 and an Abbe's number (νd) of 15 to 35 and has an operation temperature range (ΔT=(temperature at 100.5 poise)−(liquidus temperature)) of 20° C. or more. The optical glass preferably contains, in percent by mass, 15% to 45% SiO2, 15% to 40% (but excluding 40%) Nb2O5 and 1% to 30% TiO2 as glass components. |
| US09034775B2 |
Carbon reinforced concrete
A structure may include a plurality of first fiber bundles, a plurality of second fiber bundles, and a plurality of connecting threads. The first fiber bundles may extend substantially parallel to each other. The second fiber bundles may extend substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to the first fiber bundles. The connecting threads may engage the first fiber bundles and the second fiber bundles such that at least one of the connecting threads is continuously wrapped around each of the first fiber bundles in a helical pattern. The at least one of the connecting threads may extend across a width of each of the second fiber bundles, and may thereby secure the second fiber bundles to each of the first fiber bundles. The first and second fiber bundles may be embedded in a construction material and adapted to reinforce the construction material. |
| US09034771B1 |
Cooling pedestal for dicing tape thermal management during plasma dicing
Methods of and apparatuses for dicing semiconductor wafers, each wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits, are described. In an example, a plasma etch chamber includes a plasma source disposed in an upper region of the plasma etch chamber. The plasma etch chamber also includes a cathode assembly disposed below the plasma source. The cathode assembly includes a cooling RF-powered chuck for supporting an inner portion of a backside of a substrate carrier. The cathode assembly also includes a cooling RF-isolated support surrounding but isolated from the RF-powered chuck. The RF-isolated support is for supporting an outer portion of the backside of the substrate carrier. |
| US09034760B2 |
Methods of forming tensile tungsten films and compressive tungsten films
Methods, apparatus, and systems for depositing tensile or compressive tungsten films are described. In one aspect, a method includes providing a substrate to a chamber. The substrate has a field region and a feature recessed from the field region. Then, the substrate is exposed to an organometallic tungsten precursor. The organometallic tungsten precursor not adsorbed onto the substrate is removed from the chamber. The substrate is treated with a first treatment including a heat treatment or a plasma treatment to form a tungsten layer on the substrate. After treating the substrate, residual gasses are removed from the chamber. The tungsten layer on the substrate is treated with a second treatment including a heat treatment or a plasma treatment. |
| US09034756B2 |
Integrated circuit interconnects and methods of making same
A copper alloy layer is blanket deposited over a low k dielectric layer and in via openings within the low k dielectric layer. The blanket deposited layer is then anisotropically etch to form horizontal interconnects. The interconnects are annealed to form a metal oxide barrier lining. A second low k dielectric layer is then depositing over the horizontal interconnects. Air gaps can be formed between adjacent interconnects to lower parasitic capacitance therebetween. |
| US09034754B2 |
Method of forming a micro device transfer head with silicon electrode
A micro device transfer head array and method of forming a micro device transfer array from an SOI substrate are described. In an embodiment, the micro device transfer head array includes a base substrate and a patterned silicon layer over the base substrate. The patterned silicon layer may include a silicon interconnect and an array of silicon electrodes electrically connected with the silicon interconnect. Each silicon electrode includes a mesa structure protruding above the silicon interconnect. A dielectric layer covers a top surface of each mesa structure. |
| US09034747B2 |
Semiconductor device with metal gates and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes a gate insulation layer formed over a substrate and having a high dielectric constant, a gate electrode formed over the gate insulation layer and a work function control layer formed between the substrate and the gate insulation layer and inducing a work function shift of the gate electrode. |
| US09034744B2 |
Replacement gate approach for high-k metal gate stacks by avoiding a polishing process for exposing the placeholder material
In a replacement gate approach, the exposure of the placeholder material of the gate electrode structures may be accomplished on the basis of an etch process, thereby avoiding the introduction of process-related non-uniformities, which are typically associated with a complex polishing process for exposing the top surface of the placeholder material. In some illustrative embodiments, the placeholder material may be exposed by an etch process based on a sacrificial mask material. |
| US09034743B2 |
Method for implant productivity enhancement
A method of processing a workpiece is disclosed, where the ion chamber is first coated with the desired dopant species and another species. Following this conditioning process, a feedgas, which comprises fluorine and the desired dopant, is introduced to the chamber and ionized. Ions are then extracted from the chamber and accelerated toward the workpiece, where they are implanted without being first mass analyzed. The other species used during the conditioning process may be a Group 3, 4 or 5 element. The desired dopant species may be boron. |
| US09034740B2 |
Method for manufacturing a porous insulation film and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising a porous insulation film
The deposition rate of a porous insulation film is increased, and the film strength of the porous insulation film is improved. Two or more organic siloxane raw materials each having a cyclic SiO structure as a main skeleton thereof, and having mutually different structures, are vaporized, and transported with a carrier gas to a reactor (chamber), and an oxidant gas including an oxygen atom is added thereto. Thus, a porous insulation film is formed by a plasma CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) method or a plasma polymerization method in the reactor (chamber). In the step, the ratio of the flow rate of the added oxidant gas to the flow rate of the carrier gas is more than 0 and 0.08 or less. |
| US09034738B2 |
Method for growing a nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting diode, which includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a plurality of protruded portions on one main surface thereof wherein the protruded portion is made of a material different in type from that of the substrate and growing a first nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor layer on each recess portion of the substrate through a state of making a triangle in section wherein a bottom surface of the recess portion becomes a base of the triangle; laterally growing a second nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor layer on the substrate from the first nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor layer; and successively growing, on the second nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor layer, a third nitride-based III-V Group compound semiconductor layer of a first conduction type, an active layer, and a fourth nitride-based III-V compound semiconductor layer of a second conduction type. |
| US09034735B2 |
Laser processing method for workpiece
During the performance of a laser processing step of applying a laser beam to a wafer to form modified layers inside the wafer respectively along division lines, a predetermined one of the modified layers already formed is imaged by a camera from the back side of the wafer with predetermined timing, and a positional deviation of the predetermined modified layer from the corresponding division line is detected to calculate a correction value. Then, the correction value is added to data on applied position of the laser beam to thereby make the applied position of the laser beam coincide with each division line. Accordingly, a positional deviation of the modified layer to be formed after this correction from each division line can be suppressed. |
| US09034734B2 |
Systems and methods for plasma etching compound semiconductor (CS) dies and passively aligning the dies
Methods are provided for using masking techniques and plasma etching techniques to dice a compound semiconductor wafer into dies. Using these methods allows compound semiconductor die to be obtained that have smooth side walls, a variety of shapes and dimensions, and a variety of side wall profiles. In addition, by using these techniques to perform the dicing operations, the locations of features of the die relative to the side walls are ascertainable with certainty such that one or more of the side walls can be used as a passive alignment feature to precisely align one or more of the die with an external device. |
| US09034732B2 |
Semiconductor-on-insulator with back side support layer
Embodiments of the present invention provide for the provisioning of efficient support to semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) structures. Embodiments of the present invention may additionally provide for SOI structures with improved heat dissipation performance while preserving the beneficial electrical device characteristics that accompany SOI architectures. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit is disclosed. The integrated circuit comprises a silicon-on-insulator die from a silicon-on-insulator wafer. The silicon on insulator die comprises an active layer, an insulator layer, a substrate, and a strengthening layer. The substrate consists of an excavated substrate region, and a support region, the support region is in contact with the insulator layer. The support region and the strengthening layer are configured to act in combination to provide a majority of a required stabilizing force to the silicon-on-insulator die when it is singulated from the silicon-on-insulator wafer. |
| US09034731B2 |
Integrated, integrated circuit singulation system
An integrated, integrated circuit singulation system is provided including scribing a substrate using mechanical cutting or a plurality of passes of laser cutting, and dicing the substrate using mechanical cutting or laser cutting. |
| US09034730B2 |
Recessed semiconductor substrates and associated techniques
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, comprising providing a semiconductor substrate having (i) a first surface and (ii) a second surface that is disposed opposite to the first surface, forming one or more vias in the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, the one or more vias initially passing through only a portion of the semiconductor substrate without reaching the second surface, forming a dielectric film on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a redistribution layer on the dielectric film, the redistribution layer being electrically coupled to the one or more vias, coupling one or more dies to the redistribution layer, forming a molding compound to encapsulate at least a portion of the one or more dies, and recessing the second surface of the semiconductor substrate to expose the one or more vias. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US09034720B2 |
Litho scanner alignment signal improvement
A method and a device are provided for diffracting incident light from a lithographic scanner in an IC process flow. Embodiments include forming a diffraction grating in a first layer on a semiconductor substrate; and forming a plurality of lithographic alignment marks in a second layer, overlying the first layer, wherein the diffraction grating has a width and a length greater than or equal to a width and length, respectively, of the plurality of lithographic alignment marks. |
| US09034719B2 |
Methods of forming variable resistive memory devices
A method of forming a variable resistive memory device includes forming a conductive pattern that alternates with a first insulation pattern along a first direction on a substrate that is parallel with a surface of the substrate, forming a preliminary sacrificial pattern on the conductive pattern that contacts a sidewall of the first insulation pattern, etching the conductive pattern using the preliminary sacrificial pattern as an etch masks to form a preliminary bottom electrode pattern, patterning the preliminary sacrificial pattern and the preliminary bottom electrode pattern to form a sacrificial pattern and a bottom electrode pattern that each include at least two portions which are separated from each other along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and replacing the sacrificial pattern with a variable resistive pattern. |
| US09034718B2 |
Film forming method for forming boron-added silicon nitride film
Provided is a semiconductor device capable of preventing destruction of an electrode having a pillar shape and densely arranged. The semiconductor device having a field-effect transistor and a capacitor having a pillar shape, the semiconductor device includes: a first electrode having a pillar shape and electrically connected to an impurity diffusion region of the field-effect transistor; a dielectric film formed at least on a side of the first electrode; a second electrode formed on the dielectric film; and a support film extending in a direction crossing a length direction of the first electrode having the pillar shape, and formed by a boron-added silicon nitride film connected to the first electrode by penetrating through at least a part of the second electrode. |
| US09034717B2 |
Semiconductor-on-insulator structure and method of fabricating the same
Methods for forming a layer of semiconductor material and a semiconductor-on-insulator structure are provided. A substrate including one or more devices or features formed therein is provided. A seed layer is bonded to the substrate, where the seed layer includes a crystalline semiconductor structure. A first portion of the seed layer that is adjacent to an interface between the seed layer and the substrate is amorphized. A second portion of the seed layer that is not adjacent to the interface is not amorphized and maintains the crystalline semiconductor structure. Dopant implantation is performed to form an N-type conductivity region or a P-type conductivity region in the first portion of the seed layer. A solid-phase epitaxial growth process is performed to crystallize the first portion of the seed layer. The SPE growth process uses the crystalline semiconductor structure of the second portion of the seed layer as a crystal template. |
| US09034714B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a dummy gate insulation film formed on a substrate, the dummy gate insulation film including a first material and providing a spacer formed at least one side of the gate insulation film, the spacer including the first material, removing the first material included in the dummy gate insulation film by a first process, removing the dummy gate insulation film from which the first material has been removed by a second process different from the first process, and sequentially forming a gate insulation film and a gate electrode structure on the substrate. |
| US09034712B2 |
Stress enhanced LDMOS transistor to minimize on-resistance and maintain high breakdown voltage
A lateral diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (LDMOS transistor) employs a stress layer that enhances carrier mobility (i.e., on-current) while also maintaining a high breakdown voltage for the device. High breakdown voltage is maintained, because an increase in doping concentration of the drift region is minimized. A well region and a drift region are formed in the substrate adjacent to one another. A first shallow trench isolation (STI) region is formed on and adjacent to the well region, and a second STI region is formed on and adjacent to the drift region. A stress layer is deposited over the LDMOS transistor and in the second STI region, which propagates compressive or tensile stress into the drift region, depending on the polarity of the stress layer. A portion of the stress layer can be removed over the gate to change the polarity of stress in the inversion region below the gate. |
| US09034708B2 |
Semiconductor device fabrication method and semiconductor device
There is provided a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the method including: forming a first semiconductor region at a front surface of a substrate, the first semiconductor region including an active element that regulates current flowing in a thickness direction of the substrate; grinding a rear surface of the substrate; after the grinding, performing a first etching that etches the rear surface of the substrate with a chemical solution including phosphorus; after the first etching, performing a second etching that etches the rear surface with an etching method with a lower etching rate than the first etching; and after the second etching, forming a second semiconductor region through which the current is to flow, by implanting impurities from the rear surface of the substrate. |
| US09034706B2 |
FinFETs with regrown source/drain and methods for forming the same
A method includes etching a semiconductor substrate to form a recess in the semiconductor substrate, and reacting a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate to generate a reacted layer. The surface layer of the semiconductor substrate is in the recess. The reacted layer is then removed. An epitaxy is performed to grow a semiconductor material in the recess. |
| US09034704B2 |
6T SRAM architecture for gate-all-around nanowire devices
A memory device includes a first plurality of semiconductor nanowires tethered between landing pads and suspended over a substrate. A first gate electrode surrounds each of the first plurality of semiconductor nanowires, making them gate-all-around (GAA) semiconductor nanowires. First, second, and third field effect transistors (FETs) are formed by the first plurality of semiconductor nanowires. The memory device also includes a second plurality of semiconductor nanowires tethered between landing pads and suspended over the substrate. A second gate electrode surrounds each of the second plurality of semiconductor nanowires, making them GAA semiconductor nanowires. Fourth, fifth, and sixth FETs are formed by the second plurality of semiconductor nanowires. The first gate electrode is aligned with and cross-coupled to a landing pad of the second plurality of semiconductor nanowires, and the second gate electrode is aligned with and cross-coupled to a landing pad of the first plurality of semiconductor nanowires. |
| US09034703B2 |
Self aligned contact with improved robustness
A method of forming a semiconductor device including providing a functional gate structure on a channel portion of a semiconductor substrate. A gate sidewall spacer is adjacent to the functional gate structure and an interlevel dielectric layer is present adjacent to the gate sidewall spacer. The upper surface of the gate conductor is recessed relative to the interlevel dielectric layer. A multi-layered cap is formed a recessed surface of the gate structure, wherein at least one layer of the multi-layered cap includes a high-k dielectric material and is present on a sidewall of the gate sidewall spacer at an upper surface of the functional gate structure. Via openings are etched through the interlevel dielectric layer selectively to at least the high-k dielectric material of the multi-layered cap, wherein at least the high-k dielectric material protects a sidewall of the gate conductor. |
| US09034698B2 |
Semiconductor device manufacturing method
A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes exciting a processing gas containing a HBr gas and a Cl2 gas within a processing chamber that accommodates a target object including a substrate, regions made of silicon, which are protruded from the substrate and arranged to form a gap, a metal layer formed to cover the regions, a polycrystalline silicon layer formed on the metal layer, and an organic mask formed on the polycrystalline silicon layer. The Cl2 gas is supplied at a flow rate of about 5% or more to about 10% or less with respect to a flow rate of the HBr gas in the processing gas. |
| US09034697B2 |
Apparatus and methods for quad flat no lead packaging
A method for fabricating a semiconductor package is disclosed that includes providing a supply of lead elements, mounting a plurality of the lead elements on a lead frame until a predetermined number of lead elements are placed on the lead frame, and connecting other components on the lead frame to the lead elements. |
| US09034696B2 |
Microelectronic assemblies having reinforcing collars on connectors extending through encapsulation
A microelectronic assembly or package can include first and second support elements and a microelectronic element between inwardly facing surfaces of the support elements. First connectors and second connectors such as solder balls, metal posts, stud bumps, or the like face inwardly from the respective support elements and are aligned with and electrically coupled with one another in columns. Dielectric reinforcing collars are provided on outer surfaces of the first connectors, second connectors or both, and an encapsulation separates pairs of coupled connectors from one another and may fill spaces between support elements. |
| US09034694B1 |
Embedded die ball grid array package
A method of assembling a semiconductor package includes attaching a semiconductor die to a frame having a strip or panel form. The semiconductor die has at least one stud bump. The die and the stud bump are covered with a first encapsulation material, and then at least a portion of the stud bump is exposed. At least one die conductive member is formed on the first encapsulation material and electrically coupled to the stud bump. The die conductive member is covered with a second encapsulation material, and then at least a portion of the die conductive member is exposed. At least one grid array conductive member is formed on the second encapsulation material and electrically coupled to the die conductive member. Finally, at least one solder ball is attached to the at least one grid array conductive member. |
| US09034693B2 |
Integrated circuit package with open substrate and method of manufacturing thereof
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit package includes: forming a substrate including: forming a core layer, and forming vias in the core layer; forming a conductive layer having a predetermined thickness on the core layer and having substantially twice the predetermined thickness in the vias; and forming connections between an integrated circuit die and the conductive layer. |
| US09034690B2 |
Methods for forming back-channel-etch devices with copper-based electrodes
Embodiments described herein provide methods for forming indium-gallium-zinc oxide (IGZO) devices. A substrate is provided. An IGZO layer is formed above the substrate. A copper-containing layer is formed above the IGZO layer. A wet etch process is performed on the copper-containing layer to form a source region and a drain region above the IGZO layer. The performing of the wet etch process on the copper-containing layer includes exposing the copper-containing layer to an etching solution including a peroxide compound and one of citric acid, formic acid, malonic acid, lactic acid, etidronic acid, phosphonic acid, or a combination thereof. |
| US09034689B2 |
Non-volatile storage with metal oxide switching element and methods for fabricating the same
Non-volatile storage elements having a reversible resistivity-switching element and techniques for fabricating the same are disclosed herein. The reversible resistivity-switching element may be formed by depositing an oxygen diffusion resistant material (e.g., heavily doped Si, W, WN) over the top electrode. A trap passivation material (e.g., fluorine, nitrogen, hydrogen, deuterium) may be incorporated into one or more of the bottom electrode, a metal oxide region, or the top electrode of the reversible resistivity-switching element. One embodiment includes a reversible resistivity-switching element having a bi-layer capping layer between the metal oxide and the top electrode. Fabricating the device may include depositing (un-reacted) titanium and depositing titanium oxide in situ without air break. One embodiment includes incorporating titanium into the metal oxide of the reversible resistivity-switching element. The titanium might be implanted into the metal oxide while depositing the metal oxide, or after deposition of the metal oxide. |
| US09034687B2 |
Method of manufacturing graphene nanomesh and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
Particles having a property of absorbing carbon at a particular temperature or higher are deposited on a graphene. The particles are heated to a temperature equal to the particular temperature or higher to make the particles absorb carbon from portions of the graphene under the particles. The particles are removed. Consequently, a graphene nanomesh is obtained. |
| US09034684B2 |
Texturing surface of light-absorbing substrate
Etched substrates, and particularly, light-absorbing etched substrates, and methods for making such substrates are described. |
| US09034678B2 |
BioMEMS and planar light circuit with integrated package
A BioMEMS microelectromechanical apparatus and for fabricating the same is disclosed. A substrate is provided with at least one signal conduit formed on the substrate. A sacrificial layer of sacrificial material may be deposited on the signal conduit and optionally patterned to remove sacrificial material from outside the packaging covered area. A bonding layer may be deposited on at least a portion of the signal conduit and on the sacrificial layer when included. The bonding layer may be planarized and patterned to form one or more cap bonding pads and define a packaging covered area. A cap may be bonded on the cap bonding pad to define a capped area and so that the signal conduit extends from outside the capped area to inside the capped area. Additionally, a test material such as a fluid may be provided within the capped area. |
| US09034677B2 |
MEMS device and method of formation thereof
The present disclosure provides a method including providing a first substrate; and forming a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device on a first surface of the first substrate. A bond pad is formed on at least one bonding site on the first surface of the first substrate. The bonding site is recessed from the first surface. Thus, a top surface of the bond pad may lie below the plane of the top surface of the substrate. A device with recessed connective element(s) (e.g., bond pad) is also described. In further embodiments, a protective layer is formed on the recessed connective element during dicing of a substrate. |
| US09034675B2 |
Light-emitting device and method for manufacturing light-emitting device
Techniques are provided for manufacturing a light-emitting device having high internal quantum efficiency, consuming less power, having high luminance, and having high reliability. The techniques include forming a conductive light-transmitting oxide layer comprising a conductive light-transmitting oxide material and silicon oxide, forming a barrier layer in which density of the silicon oxide is higher than that in the conductive light-transmitting oxide layer over the conductive light-transmitting oxide layer, forming an anode having the conductive light-transmitting oxide layer and the barrier layer, heating the anode under a vacuum atmosphere, forming an electroluminescent layer over the heated anode, and forming a cathode over the electroluminescent layer. According to the techniques, the barrier layer is formed between the electroluminescent layer and the conductive light-transmitting oxide layer. |
| US09034674B2 |
Method and apparatus for coupling light-emitting elements with light-converting material
Light-emitting elements such as LEDs are associated with light-converting material such as phosphor and/or other material. A donor substrate comprising the light-converting and/or other material is suitably placed relative to a target substrate associated with the light-emitting elements. A laser or other energy source is then used to transfer the light-converting and/or other material in a pattern via writing or masking from the donor substrate to the target substrate in accordance with the pattern. Addressability and targetability of the transfer process facilitates precise patterning of the target substrate. |
| US09034671B2 |
Light-emitting device and method for manufacturing same
Disclosed is a light-emitting device comprising a light-emitting element (10) composed of a gallium nitride compound semiconductor having an emission peak wavelength of not less than 430 nm; a molded body (40) provided with a recessed portion having a bottom surface on which the light-emitting element (10) is mounted and a lateral surface; and a sealing member (50) containing an epoxy resin including a triazine derivative epoxy resin, or a silicon-containing resin. The molded body (40) is obtained by using a cured product of a thermosetting epoxy resin composition essentially containing an epoxy resin including a triazine derivative epoxy resin, and has a reflectance of not less than 70% at the wavelengths of not less than 430 nm. |
| US09034669B2 |
Methods of depositing nanomaterial and methods of making a device
Methods for depositing material and nanomaterial onto a substrate are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making devices including nanomaterials, and a system useful for depositing materials and nanomaterials. |
| US09034668B2 |
Device and method for forming on a nanowire made of a semiconductor an alloy of this semiconductor with a metal or a metalloid
Device for forming, on a nanowire made of a semiconductor, an alloy of this semiconductor with a metal or metalloid by bringing this nanowire into contact with electrically conductive metal or metalloid probes and Joule heating the nanowire at the points of contact with the probes so as to form an alloy such as a silicide. Application to the production of controlled-channel-length metal-silicide transistors. |
| US09034665B2 |
Tool configuration and method for extreme ultra-violet (EUV) patterning with a deformable reflective surface
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a tool configuration and method for EUV patterning with a deformable reflective surface comprising a mirror or reticle. A radiation source provides EUV radiation which is reflected off the deformable reflective surface to transfer a reticle pattern to a semiconductor workpiece. A metrology tool measures a residual vector formed between a first shape of the semiconductor workpiece and a second shape of the reticle pattern. And, a topology of the deformable reflective surface is changed based upon the residual vector to minimize a total magnitude of the residual vector. |
| US09034661B2 |
Method for producing molecule immobilizing substrate, and molecule immobilizing substrate
There is disclosed a method for producing a molecule immobilizing substrate, comprising at least the steps of: forming, on a substrate, a monomolecular film including hydroxyl groups, cyano groups, or oxiranyl groups, which are oriented toward an outmost surface of the monomolecular film; and chemically modifying the hydroxyl groups, cyano groups, or oxiranyl groups of the monomolecular film to transform them into carboxyl groups, to thereby form, on the substrate, the monomolecular film including the carboxyl groups, which are oriented toward an outmost surface of the monomolecular film. There can be provided: a method for producing a molecule immobilizing substrate which is free of occurrence of an immobilized-molecule peeling problem in the case of conducting an assay by immobilizing molecules on the substrate. |
| US09034659B2 |
Biosensors
A chemiresistive biosensor for detecting an analyte can include a high specific surface area substrate conformally coated with a conductive polymer, and a binding reagent immobilized on the conductive polymer, wherein the binding reagent has a specific affinity for the analyte. The conductive polymer can be deposited on a substrate by oCVD. |
| US09034655B2 |
Highly water-soluble, cationic luminescent labels
Luminescent labels based on aromatic and heterocyclic compounds, including reactive intermediates used to synthesize these compounds, and methods of synthesizing and using these reporter compounds. These labels combine high photostabilities, large Stokes' shifts and contain a pyrimidinium moiety as a water-soluble group. These luminescent compounds relate generally to the following structure: The methods relate generally to the synthesis and/or use of reporter compounds for fluorescence lifetime or fluorescence polarization based applications. |
| US09034654B2 |
Method for analyzing the liquefied petroleum gas and device thereof
A method for analyzing the liquefied petroleum gas includes the following steps. Provide a sample of the liquefied petroleum gas, and one main component group of the liquefied petroleum gas includes at least one sub component group. Analyze the sample of the liquefied petroleum gas so as to obtain a first measured THC corresponding to the main component group and a second measured THC corresponding to the sub component group. Obtain a regressed THC according to the second measured THC and a predetermined relationship of THC. Obtain a result of THC according to the first measured THC, the regressed THC, and a predetermined range of THC. The predetermined range of THC corresponds to the main component group. The device for analyzing the liquefied petroleum gas includes an inlet, a multiposition valve, a first column, a second column, an analyzing apparatus, and a computing unit. |
| US09034653B2 |
Mass spectrometry of steroidal compounds in multiplexed patient samples
The invention relates to the quantitative measurement of steroidal compounds by mass spectrometry. In a particular aspect, the invention relates to methods for quantitative measurement of steroidal compounds from multiple samples by mass spectrometry. |
| US09034649B2 |
Protein production method
This invention relates to a method for producing a protein of interest, comprising introducing a protein expression vector which comprises a gene fragment a gene fragment comprising a DNA encoding a protein of interest and a selectable marker gene and transposon sequences at both terminals of the gene fragment, into a suspension mammalian cell; integrating the gene fragment inserted between a pair of the transposon sequences, into a chromosome of the mammalian cell to obtain a mammalian cell capable of expressing the protein of interest; and suspension-culturing the mammalian cell; and a suspension mammalian cell capable of expressing the protein of interest. |
| US09034648B2 |
Artificial tissue construct and method for producing the same
An object of the present invention is to provide an artificial tissue construct that has means for transporting nutrients, oxygen, waste products, or the like and is viable in vivo. The present invention relates to a tissue construct formed in vitro, which comprises a vascular layer, a basal membrane layer, and a tissue-forming cell layer. |
| US09034646B2 |
Virally-inactivated growth factors-containing platelet lysate depleted of PDGF and VEGF and preparation method thereof
The invention concerns human platelet extracts rich in growth factors (PGF) for wound healing and stem cell expansion. Accordingly the subject invention relates to a virally-inactivated growth factors-containing platelet lysate depleted of PDGF and VEGF, which is preferably enriched in TGF, IGF and EGF-rich. The present invention further concerns a method for obtaining a platelet lysate comprising the steps of contacting a starting platelet concentrate with a solvent and/or a detergent, incubating the starting platelet concentrate with the solvent and/or detergent for a period of at least 5 minutes to 6 hours, at a pH maintained in a range from about 6.0 to about 9.0, and at a temperature within the range of from 2° C. to 50° C., optionally removing the solvent and/or the detergent by oil extraction and obtaining an aqueous protein phase, and incubating the solvent and/or detergent-treated platelet concentrate or the aqueous protein phase with charcoal. |
| US09034645B2 |
Methods of identifying inhibitors of gene silencing in mammalian cells
Disclosed herein are methods of identifying inhibitors of gene silencing or re-silencing, which can include repressing expression of a selectable marker gene in mammalian cells, treating the cells with at least one test compound, growing the cells under selective conditions, and quantifying the relative number of cells that live, wherein a change in the relative number of cells as compared to cells that were not treated with the test compound, identifies the compound as an inhibitor of gene silencing or re-silencing. Also disclosed herein are transgenic mice and isolated cell lines that are useful in the disclosed methods and kits for use in performing the disclosed methods. |
| US09034643B2 |
Connective tissue growth factor antibodies
The present invention relates to antibodies that bind to CTGF. The antibodies are particularly directed to regions of CTGF involved in biological activities associated with fibrosis. The invention also relates to methods of using the antibodies to treat disorders associated with CTGF including localized and systemic fibrotic disorders including those of the lung, liver, heart, skin, and kidney. |
| US09034620B2 |
System for the treatment of biomass to facilitate the production of ethanol
A method for treating biomass to be supplied to a fermentation system for the production of a fermentation product is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of pre-treating the biomass into pre-treated biomass; separating the pre-treated biomass into a first component comprising glucan and a second component comprising sugars; providing a combined component comprising at least a portion of the first component and at least a portion of the second component; and treating the combined component of the pre-treated biomass into a treated component comprising glucose by application of an enzyme formulation. A system for treating biomass to be supplied to a fermentation system for the production of a fermentation product is also disclosed. The system comprises an apparatus configured to pre-treat the biomass; a separator configured to separate the pre-treated biomass; and a vessel configured to contain a combined component. |
| US09034613B2 |
Process for the preparation of (3R)-hydroxybutyl (3R)-hydroxybutyrate by enzymatic enantioselective reduction employing Lactobacillus brevis alcohol dehydrogenase
A process for producing a compound which is (3R)-hydroxybutyl (3R)-hydroxybutyrate of formula (I) which process comprises submitting, to enantioselective reduction, a compound of the following formula (II), (III) or (IV). |
| US09034611B2 |
Increasing NADPH availability for methionine production
The present invention is related to a microorganism for the production of methionine, wherein said microorganism is modified to enhance the transhydrogenase activity of PntAB. In a preferred aspect of the invention, the activity of the transhydrogenase UdhA is attenuated in said microorganisms. The invention also related to a method for producing methionine by fermentation. |
| US09034604B2 |
Composition comprising an oligonucleotide mixture for the detection of contaminations in cell cultures
The present invention relates to a method for determining contaminations in a cell culture sample comprising the steps of: a) contacting a sample of a cell culture suspected to comprise contaminations with a composition comprising oligonucleotides under conditions which allow for amplification of polynucleotides, wherein said oligonucleotides comprise oligonucleotides of at least three different groups of oligonucleotides, and b) determining the contaminations based on the amplified polynucleotides obtained by using the oligonucleotide groups of step (a). Moreover, the invention relates to a composition comprising an oligonucleotide mixture. Further encompassed by the present invention is a composition comprising a probe oligonucleotide mixture. Finally, the present invention also relates to kits comprising said oligonucleotide mixtures. |
| US09034603B2 |
Dried composition for hot-start PCR with long-term stability
The present invention relates to a dried composition for hot-start PCR, more precisely a dried composition for hot-start PCR with improved stability and long-term storagability which is characteristically prepared by the steps of preparing a reaction mixture by mixing an aqueous solution containing reaction buffer, MgCl2, 4 types of dNTPs, DNA polymerase with pyrophosphate and pyrophosphatase in a reaction tube; and drying the reaction mixture prepared above, a preparation method of the same and a method for amplifying nucleic acid using the same. The dried composition for hot-start PCR is added with pyrophosphate and pyrophosphatase together before drying, so that it can have improved stability and long-term storagability as well as convenience in use, compared with the conventional compositions for hot-start PCR. Therefore, this composition can be effectively used for hot-start PCR, multiplex PCR or real-time quantitative PCR. |
| US09034600B2 |
DNA encoding antibody molecules which bind IL-17A and IL-17F
The invention relates to antibody molecules having specificity for antigenic determinants of both IL-17A and IL-17F, therapeutic uses of the antibody molecules and methods for producing said antibody molecules. |
| US09034597B2 |
Detection and quantification of hydroxymethylated nucleotides in a polynucleotide preparation
Methods and compositions are described for detecting hydroxymethylated nucleotides (hmNs) in a polynucleotide preparation with a view to mapping the location of hmNs in a genome, quantifying the occurrence of hmNs at selected loci and correlating the occurrence of hmNs with gene expression and phenotypic traits. Embodiments describe the use of modifying enzymes together with site-specific endonucleases to detect the hmNs. |
| US09034595B2 |
Integrated bioprocessing for fuel production
Systems and methods are provided for enhancing the integration of processes for recovering products from algae-derived biomass. The enhanced process integration allows for increased use of input streams and other reagents that are derived from renewable sources. This increases the overall renewable character of the products extracted from the algae-derived biomass. The process integration can include exchange of input streams or energy between an algae processing system and a system for processing non-algal biomass. One example of improving process integration is using oxygenates that are generated in a renewable manner as a reagent for enhancing the algae processing system. |
| US09034591B2 |
Immunoassay for quantification of an unstable antigen selected from BNP and proBNP
The present invention relates to an immunoassay for detection of BNP, proBNP and fragments thereof. Essentially the assay comprises: a) contacting the antigen with a first antibody specific to a fragment corresponding to amino acids 11-22 of BNP, or to a part of this peptide comprising at least three amino acids of said sequence, to obtain a first order immune complex. b) contacting the first order immune complex obtained at step (a) with a second antibody recognizing said first order immune complex, to obtain a second order immune complex, wherein said antibody is unable to recognize free BNP, proBNP or free first antibody; c) Detecting the second order immune complex. |
| US09034588B2 |
Monoclonal antibody therapy for pancreas cancer
The present invention relates to the use of binding equivalents of monoclonal antibody 31.1, including chimerized and/or humanized versions thereof, antibody fragments as well as competitively binding and co-specific antibodies and antibody fragments, in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. |
| US09034584B2 |
Metabolic maturation in stem cell-derived tissue cells
The present invention concerns methods and compositions for promoting a conversion in stem cells or cells derived therefrom from glycolysis to aerobic respiration and its associated pathways, including oxidative phosphorylation, the TCA cycle, fatty acid oxidation, and pyruvate decarboxylation, for example. In specific embodiments, certain media is employed to improve metabolic maturation of particular stem cell-derived cells, including human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells, for example. Particular media comprises media without glucose or optionally without pyruvate, with fatty acids, with L-carnitine, with taurine, creatine, non-essential amino acids, L-glutamine, and with anti-oxidants or free-radical scavengers, for example. |
| US09034583B2 |
Rapid enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection and identification of pathogens and determination of antimicrobial susceptibility
The present invention provides a rapid, highly sensitive and specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), referred to as N-Assay, a device, and a kit, for detection and identification of microorganisms in a sample, in thirty minutes or less, with little or no interference from non-target microorganisms. The present invention also provides for simultaneous determination of antimicrobial susceptibility of microorganism in the N-Assay. |
| US09034578B2 |
Nucleic acid sample preparation
The present invention includes methods, devices and systems for isolating a nucleic acid from a fluid comprising cells. In various aspects, the methods, devices and systems may allow for a rapid procedure that requires a minimal amount of material and/or results in high purity nucleic acid isolated from complex fluids such as blood or environmental samples. |
| US09034576B2 |
Systems and methods for measuring translation of target proteins in cells
The present invention relates to systems and methods for measuring the rate of translation of a target protein in cells, which are based on the detection of translation of one or more predetermined codon pairs during synthesis of the target protein. The detection is provided by a FRET signal emitted from labeled tRNA molecules which are juxtaposed during synthesis of the protein. |
| US09034568B2 |
Liquid deposition photolithography
Systems and methods for liquid deposition photolithography are described. In particular, some embodiments relate to systems and methods for using photolithography to control the 2D structure of a thin layer of material (e.g., photopolymer) using various masks, projection optics and materials. In one or more embodiments, this thin layer can be manipulated by micro-fluidic techniques such that it can be formed, patterned and post-processed in a liquid environment, vastly simplifying the creation of multi-layer structures. Multiple layers are rapidly built up to create thick structures of possibly multiple materials that are currently challenging to fabricate by existing methods. |
| US09034563B2 |
Micro-truss structures having in-plane structural members
An enhanced self-writing method for generating in-plane (horizontally-oriented) polymer lightguides that includes disposing one or more light deflecting structures in or on the upper surface of a uncured layer that deflect incident collimated light beams in a transverse direction (i.e., parallel to the uncured layer top layer surface), whereby the deflected collimated light beam polymerizes a corresponding elongated portion of the uncured material in a self-propagating manner to form in-plane polymer lightguides. When used in the fabrication of micro-truss structures, the in-plane polymer lightguides are linked to diagonal polymer lightguides to form superior truss configurations, such as that of the ideal octet-truss structure. Non-polymerized portions of the uncured layer are removed to expose the micro-truss structure for further processing. |
| US09034560B2 |
Negative resist composition and pattern forming method using the same
A negative resist composition, includes: (A) an alkali-soluble polymer containing a specific repeating unit as defined in the specification; (B) a crosslinking agent capable of crosslinking with the alkali soluble polymer (A) under an action of an acid; (C) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation; (D) a specific quaternary ammonium salt as defined in the specification; and (E) an organic carboxylic acid, and a pattern forming method uses the composition. |
| US09034559B2 |
Pattern-forming method, and radiation-sensitive composition
A pattern-forming method includes providing a resist film on a substrate using a radiation-sensitive composition. The resist film is exposed. The exposed resist film is developed using a developer solution. The developer solution includes no less than 80% by mass of an organic solvent. The radiation-sensitive composition includes at least two components including a first polymer and a radiation-sensitive acid generator. The first polymer includes a structural unit having an acid-labile group. One or more components of the radiation-sensitive composition have a group represented by a formula (1). A− represents —N−—SO2—RD, —COO−, —O− or —SO3−. —SO3− does not directly bond to a carbon atom having a fluorine atom. RD represents a linear or branched monovalent hydrocarbon group, or the like. X+ represents an onium cation. —A−X+ (1) |
| US09034557B2 |
Chemically amplified positive photoresist composition
A photoresist composition. The composition has the following: (a) one or more resin binders that include one or more acid sensitive groups and that are substantially free of phenolic groups protected by acetal or ketal groups; (b) one or more photo acid generators, that, upon exposure to a source of high energy, decompose and generate a photoacid strong enough to remove the one or more acid sensitive groups; (c) one or more ionic non-photosensitive additives including an iminium salt; and (d) one or more solvents. There is also a process for patterning relief structures on a substrate employing the photoresist composition. |
| US09034551B2 |
Two-component developer
Provided is a two-component developer containing: a magnetic carrier obtained by coating a magnetic core with a resin; and toner, in which: the magnetic core contains at least a ferrite component and at least one kind of an oxide selected from the group consisting of SiO2 and Al2O3; the content of the oxide is 4.0 mass % or more and 40.0 mass % or less with respect to the magnetic core; the magnetic core has a specific resistance of 5.0×104 Ω·cm or more and 5.0×108 Ω·cm or less at the time of the application of 1,000 V/cm; the magnetic carrier has an intensity of magnetization in 79.6 kA/m of 40.0 Am2/kg or more and 65.0 Am2/kg or less, and a residual magnetization after the application of an external magnetic field of 79.6 kA/m of 3.0 Am2/kg or less; and the toner has a weight-average particle diameter (D4) of 3.0 μm or more and 10.0 μm or less and an average circularity of 0.940 or more and 0.990 or less. |
| US09034546B1 |
Super low melt toner having crystalline imides
A toner includes a polymeric resin, optionally a colorant, and a small molecule crystalline imide having a molecular weight less than 1,000 g/mol. The polymeric resin may be an amorphous resin and a mixture of the amorphous resin and the crystalline imide may be characterized by a reduction in glass transition temperature from that of the resin and by the lack of a melting point for the crystalline imide as determined by differential scanning calorimetry, the enthalpy of fusion for the crystalline imide in the mixture being measured to be less than 10% of the enthalpy of fusion of the crystalline imide in pure form. Furthermore, the toner may be configured to have a crease fix minimum fusing temperature (MFT) less than or equal to the crease fix MFT of a benchmark ultra-low-melt emulsion aggregation toner. Suitable crystalline imides may include N-alkyl and N-aryl imides, such as N-benzylphthalimide. |
| US09034541B2 |
Color filter substrate manufacturing method, display device manufacturing method, color filter substrate, and display device
The present invention provides a color filter substrate manufacturing method which can prevent the occurrence of color mixing between adjacent pixels despite of the use of an inkjet method, and which are unlikely to cause flicker when used for displays such as televisions. The prevent invention is a color filter substrate manufacturing method including: a first inkjet step of applying inks simultaneously to at least two of a plurality of regions separated by a grid-shaped partition; and a second inkjet step of applying an ink to at least one of regions to which the inks are not applied in the first inkjet step, wherein at least one of inks applied in the first inkjet step is a first ink that is applied to a first target region without applying inks to regions vertically and horizontally adjacent to the first target region, and at least one of the other inks applied in the first inkjet step is a second ink that is applied to a second target region while another ink is applied to one of regions vertically and horizontally adjacent to the second target region. |
| US09034536B2 |
Fuel cell having voltage monitor terminal with exposed portion
A fuel cell includes an electrolyte electrode assembly, an inner seal member, an outer seal member, a metal separator, and a cell voltage monitor terminal. The electrolyte electrode assembly includes an electrolyte, a pair of electrodes, and a resin frame member. The inner seal member extends around an electrode surface. The outer seal member extends around an outer periphery of the inner seal member. The inner seal member and the outer seal member are disposed on the resin frame member. The cell voltage monitor terminal is embedded in the resin frame member. The cell voltage monitor terminal includes an exposed portion provided between the inner seal member and the outer seal member. The exposed portion is in contact with the metal separator adjacent to the exposed portion. |
| US09034531B2 |
Controller for fuel cell operation
The current invention is a fuel cell controller that includes a first control loop, where the first control loop is disposed to adjust a fuel cell current to regulate a hydrogen output pressure from the fuel cell to a pressure target valve, and further includes a second control loop disposed to adjust a hydrogen flow rate from a hydrogen generator to match a DC/DC power output to a power target value. |
| US09034529B2 |
Method for operation of a fuel cell system in a vehicle
A method of operating a fuel cell system in a vehicle that is switchable to a temporary stop mode and restarted from the stop mode. When, in certain driving situations, it is required to switch to the stop mode, it is then checked whether the operating conditions of the fuel cell system allow a switch to the stop mode. If the switch is allowed it takes place. When a restart of the fuel cell system is required on the basis of the vehicle the settings of the stop mode are cancelled again. The switch to the stop mode involves, with further existing electric contacting of the fuel cell, the air mass flow conveyed by the air conveying device being switched off or reduced to a predefined value and the pressure of the combustion gas supplied being reduced to a predefined value. |
| US09034528B2 |
Membrane humidifier for fuel cell
Disclosed is a membrane humidifier for a fuel cell, which uniformly humidifies entire hollow fiber membranes from an outer side to a central portion of an interior of the membrane humidifier to improve the distribution of wet air and dry air, thereby improving a humidification performance. The membrane humidifier for the fuel cell includes a hollow upper case including first wet air inlet apertures and first wet air outlet apertures and a membrane module assembly including a plurality of unit membrane modules received lengthwise within the upper case along the flow direction of dry air. |
| US09034525B2 |
Ionically-conductive amorphous lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide
Amorphous lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide (LLZO) is formed as an ionically-conductive electrolyte medium. The LLZO comprises by percentage of total number of atoms from about 0.1% to about 50% lithium, from about 0.1% to about 25% lanthanum, from about 0.1% to about 25% zirconium, from about 30% to about 70% oxygen and from 0.0% to about 25% carbon. At least one layer of amorphous LLZO may be formed through a sol-gel process wherein quantities of lanthanum methoxyethoxide, lithium butoxide and zirconium butoxide are dissolved in an alcohol-based solvent to form a mixture which is dispensed into a substantially planar configuration, transitioned through a gel phase, dried and cured to a substantially dry phase. |
| US09034524B2 |
Solid electrolyte for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including same
A solid electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a compound represented by Li1+xTi2−xAlxMy(PO4)3-y, and a glass-based oxide selected from LiPO3, Li2O—B2O3, and combinations thereof. A rechargeable lithium battery includes the solid electrolyte. |
| US09034512B2 |
Gasket for electrochemical cell and electrochemical cell
Provided is a gasket for an electrochemical cell, which has good sealing performance and is capable of improving productivity of the gasket, and an electrochemical cell. A gasket (4) for an electrochemical cell, which is made of a resin and has an annular shape including an outer wall and an inner wall, includes a plurality of annular salient portions (4a) formed on an inner side surface of the outer wall. |
| US09034510B2 |
Battery pack and method of securing a plurality of battery modules in the battery pack
A battery pack is provided. The battery pack has a base plate and a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from the base plate. The peripheral side wall has first and second side portions disposed at first and second ends, respectively, of the base plate. The battery pack further includes a plurality of battery modules disposed on the base plate between the first and second ends of the base plate along a longitudinal axis of the base plate. The battery pack further includes a first mounting bracket coupled to the first side portion of the peripheral side wall. The battery pack further includes a second mounting bracket having a plate portion, an extension portion extending outwardly from the plate portion, and an elastomeric member disposed on the extension portion. |
| US09034509B2 |
Polyolefin microporous membrane and method of producing the same, separator for non-aqueous secondary battery and non-aqueous secondary battery
The present invention provides a polyolefin microporous membrane in which a degree of crystallinity is from 60 to 85%, and a tie molecular volume fraction is from 0.7 to 1.7%. |
| US09034506B2 |
Battery with voltage-generating cells and an I-shaped or H-shaped intermediate element arranged therebetween
A battery having a plurality of voltage-generating cells which are arranged in particular adjacent to one another. The battery has a plurality of fastening/bearing points which are spaced apart from one another and on which the battery is fastened or bears. At least a first portion of the cells have a first mass, and optionally further include parts of the battery with an additional mass, and which come to rest between the fastening/bearing points. The first portion of the cells absorbs at least a substantial part of the bending/shear load arising in the battery between the fastening/bearing points. In addition, an I-shaped or H-shaped intermediate element is arranged between at least two voltage-generating cells. |
| US09034499B2 |
Battery comprising multiple insulating covers
According to one embodiment, a battery includes an electrode group, a tab, a conductive nipping member, a case, a lid and a lead. The conductive nipping member includes first and second nipping sections. The first and second nipping sections divide the tab into two bundles in which portions of the tab are laminated onto each other in a thickness direction of the electrode group. The lead includes a connecting section connected electrically to a terminal, and current collecting sections which are two sections branched from the connecting section and sandwiching the nipping member. |
| US09034496B2 |
Battery unit
A battery unit has battery cells having electrode terminals, bus bars having voltage potential detection terminals, a control board having a voltage detection circuit and a discharge duct. In the battery cell, the electrode terminals of the battery cells are electrically connected to the voltage potential detection terminals of the bus bars. The voltage potential detection terminals of the bus bars are electrically connected to the voltage detection circuit formed on the control board through metal conductive members or lines. The voltage detection circuit detects a voltage potential of each of the battery cells through the metal conductive members. The metal conductive members are not dedicated components, and integrated with the discharge duct by insert molding. |
| US09034494B2 |
Secondary battery protecting circuit and hybrid power source equipment
Disclosed herein is a secondary battery protecting circuit connected in parallel with a nonaqueous secondary battery, the secondary battery protecting circuit including: a first voltage detecting circuit; a second voltage detecting circuit; a switch section; and a heat radiating section. |
| US09034492B1 |
Systems and methods for controlling damping of magnetic media for heat assisted magnetic recording
Systems and methods for controlling the damping of magnetic media for heat assisted magnetic recording are provided. One such system includes a heat sink layer, a growth layer on the heat sink layer, a magnetic recording layer on the growth layer, where the growth layer is configured to facilitate a growth of a preselected crystalline structure of the magnetic recording layer, and a capping magnetic recording layer on the magnetic recording layer, the capping recording layer including a first material configured to increase a damping constant of the capping recording layer to a first preselected level. |
| US09034491B2 |
Low resistance area magnetic stack
A magnetic element may generally be configured at least with a magnetic stack having a multilayer barrier structure disposed between first and second ferromagnetic layers. The multilayer barrier structure can have a binary compound layer disposed between first and second alloy layers with the binary compound having a metal element and a second element where at least one alloy layer has the metal element and a third element dissimilar from the second element. |
| US09034490B2 |
Multilayer material, method for making same and use as electrode
A multilayer material including a solid substrate and at least two superimposed solid layers containing particles of an electrochemically active material, the first solid layer adhering to the solid substrate and the second solid layer adhering to the first solid layer. The multilayer material has a constant thickness of upper layer not less than 95% and a depth of penetration of the second layer into the first layer which is less than 10% of the thickness of the first layer, and enables as electrode constituent, generators having a low risk of overload degradation to be prepared. |
| US09034489B2 |
Hydrophilic coatings, articles, coating compositions and methods
A coating composition which imparts antifog, antireflective, easy-cleaning, and/or antistatic properties to substrates coated therewith. The coating compositions utilize nanoparticles funtionalized with amine groups and/or protected amine groups, and amine-reactive groups. |
| US09034477B2 |
Coating composition, a film containing the same, and a method for forming a sealable film
A coating composition comprising: an aqueous dispersion comprising: the melt-kneading product of (A) a base polymer which comprises one or more thermoplastic polymers, (B) a stabilizing agent which comprises at least one component selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid grafted ethylene-based polymers and maleic anhydride grafted polyolefins; (C) a neutralizing agent; and (D) water; wherein the aqueous dispersion has a volume average particle size of less than about 5 μm is provided. |
| US09034474B2 |
Fixing belt and fixing device
A fixing belt includes a cylindrical base composed of a metal and a polyimide resin layer formed on the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical base, in which the polyimide resin layer has an imidization rate of 70% to 93%, and comprises a polyimide resin containing a specific constitutional unit. |
| US09034467B2 |
Reticle chuck cleaner
According to one embodiment, a reticle chuck cleaner for cleaning a reticle chuck of an EUV exposure apparatus includes a substrate having a shape to be carried to the reticle chuck of the EUV exposure apparatus, and an adhesive formed on one of the main surfaces of the substrate. |
| US09034463B2 |
BNA crystal
An object of the present invention is to produce a non-conventional high-quality BNA single crystal. Another object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing the above-described high-quality BNA single crystal. Specifically, the present invention provides a BNA crystal characterized by having a half-value width of diffraction peak X-ray intensity of 100 seconds or less in a rocking curve measurement by X-ray diffraction method. |