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US07674338B2	Heated substrate support and method of fabricating same A method and apparatus for forming a substrate support is provided herein. In one embodiment, the substrate support includes a body having a support surface and at least one groove. A heater element surrounded with a malleable heat sink is disposed in the groove. The heat sink may be comprised of one or more parts. A cap is disposed in the groove above the heat sink and has an upper surface disposed substantially flush with the support surface.
US07674327B2	Flexographic ink compositions Flexographic ink vehicles, ink additives and printing ink compositions are disclosed. The compositions include at least two naturally occurring polymers in the form of naturally occurring rosins or resins, in particular esters of rosins or resins or salts thereof. In an exemplary embodiment the compositions include a maleic modified rosin and a fumaric modified rosin, in particular esters and ester salts thereof.
US07674319B2	PSA pressure measurement and control system A pressure swing adsorption system including a plurality of vessels having one or more layers of adsorbent material therein, a feed gas channel, a waste channel, and a product channel. The system also includes at least one parallel channel connected to each of the vessels via a respective conduit with a valve. At least one pressure measuring device i configured to measure a pressure within the parallel channel. And, a controller is provided that is configured to monitor the at least one pressure measured by the at least one pressure measuring device during a PSA cycle performed within the PSA system, in order to determine the performance of the cycle and monitor proper operation of the system.
US07674318B2	Method of melting a mixture of scrap metal using scrap rubber A process for melting scrap metal for producing steel which includes the steps of combining a quantity of scrap metal containing steel and at least about 0.25 percent by weight of scrap rubber in an electric arc furnace. Energy is then applied to the quantity of steel and scrap rubber in the furnace to start the combustion of the scrap rubber to add additional heat for melting the scrap metal containing steel.
US07674313B2	Controlled release fertilizer and system and method In a method for fertilizing plants, a water source is attached to a fertilizer distribution device including a controlled release fertilizer, the water source is activated, and a controlled release fertilizer enriched solution of water is distributed from the fertilizer distribution device upon a plant or the ground. The fertilizer distribution device includes the supply of controlled release fertilizer, an inlet configured to attach to a water source and an outlet configured to release a flow of fertilizer enriched water from the fertilizer distribution device. The supply of controlled release fertilizer includes a set of granules. The granules have a plurality of different solubility rates.
US07674309B2	Honeycomb filter defect detecting method and apparatus A apparatus and method for detecting defects in a honeycomb body. In operation, the particulates emerge at an outlet end face of the honeycomb body through defects, if any, in the honeycomb walls and/or plugs and passes though a permeable member, such as a screen, where they are illuminated. The permeable member is disposed adjacent to and preferably in contact with the outlet end. Use of the permeable member improves the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) such that defects may be more readily detected. The permeable member preferably includes an anti-reflective surface.
US07674308B2	Filter elements; air cleaner; assembly; and methods A filter cartridge, a safety element and fluid cleaner assembly are described. The fluid cleaner assembly generally includes a housing having a cover and a primary fluid cleaner section. The filter cartridge generally comprises z-filter media, arranged in a straight through configuration. Preferred cartridges include a seal gasket positioned to extend continuously around at outer perimeter of the straight through flow construction. The fluid cleaner assembly can have a precleaner positioned therein. Preferred features are described. Methods of assembly and use are also provided.
US07674304B2	Drift eliminator with formed beveled tip A drift eliminator is formed from alternating curved spacers and corrugated spacer members to define tube-like passageways for the flow of air through an evaporative cooling apparatus. The formation of the corrugated blade member with beveled side walls places the back walls of the channels in a different plane than the front walls, with the lower edge of the front walls of the channels being positioned in a common plane along with the lower edge of the blade members. The angled side walls impede the formation of a film of water across the inlet opening into the channel, which requires an increase in horsepower for the fan to push air through the drift eliminator. Mechanical fastening devices molded into the respective members connects the corrugated spacer members and the blade members. A method of forming the corrugated spacer members to provide the angled side walls is also provided.
US07674299B2	Direct dye composition comprising a cationic surfactant, a bioheteropolysaccharide, an amphoteric surfactant and direct dye The present disclosure relates to a composition for dyeing keratin fibers, comprising at least one direct dye, at least one bioheteropolysaccharide, at least one cationic surfactant and at least one amphoteric or non-ionic surfactant. Such a composition makes it possible to obtain compositions that allow intense and relatively nonselective shades to be obtained, leaving the hair with good cosmetic properties.
US07674281B2	Apparatus and methods for providing a flow of a heat transfer fluid in a microenvironment A microenvironment system for use with a heat transfer fluid includes a microenvironment structure and a fluid handling apparatus. The microenvironment structure defines a flow passage to receive a flow of the heat transfer fluid therethrough. The fluid handling apparatus is adapted to provide a flow of the heat transfer fluid through the flow passage. The fluid handling apparatus includes a gas driven pump and a supply of a phase change material (PCM). The gas driven pump is operable to force the flow of the heat transfer fluid through the flow passage. The supply of the PCM is convertible from a solid and/or liquid phase to a gas phase to provide a pressurized drive gas. The fluid handling apparatus is configured to drive the gas driven pump using the pressurized drive gas from the supply of the PCM.
US07674276B2	Rotational securing of a suture A suture fixation apparatus having a first body portion having a bone engaging feature to fixedly engage a bony tissue and a second body portion defining an eyelet for receipt of a suture. The second body portion is rotatable with respect to the first body portion. Rotating the second body portion causes the suture to form a twist to frictionally secure the suture.
US07674274B2	Method and apparatus for attaching connective tissues to bone using a cortical bone anchoring device A bone anchor device for attaching connective tissue to bone comprises a disk adapted for insertion into a portion of bone to which the connective tissue is to be attached. The disk is movable between a bent orientation for presenting a smaller cross-section and an expanded orientation for presenting a larger cross-section. The bent orientation is utilized for inserting the disk through a small hole into a region of cancellous bone beneath the cortical bone layer, after which the disk is actuated to its expanded orientation so that it will be permanently anchored in the cancellous bone, as it will be too large to return proximally through the hole in the cortical bone layer. Two embodiments are disclosed. In a first embodiment, the disk is initially formed in the expanded orientation, of spring steel. In a second embodiment, the disk is initially formed in the bent orientation, and spring steel is not required.
US07674272B2	Bearing system to support a rotatable operating head in an intracorporeal device A bearing system useful in an intracorporeal device connects an operating head, a rotatable drive shaft and a catheter. The bearing system includes a static member in fixed communication with the distal end of the catheter, an interior shaft that is in rotatable communication with the drive shaft and the operating head, and at least one connecting structure. The static member has at least one opening through which the connecting structure moveably rests against a seat of the interior shaft. The position of the connecting structure within the seat enables the bearing to accept a rotational load of the rotating drive shaft and/or thrust load in the direction of the longitudinal length of the catheter. The connecting structure further retains the internal shaft and static member of the bearing system. A clearance space between the internal shaft and the catheter may permit the interior shaft to tilt relative to the catheter and flexibly orient the operating head at different angles about longitudinal axis of the catheter.
US07674261B2	Electrosurgical instrument with enhanced capability An electrosurgical instrument for use by a surgeon that provides additional features and benefits compared with known designs. The operating mode as well as other operating parameters, especially power level, can be preset by the surgeon before commencing the procedure. Five operating modes are available using a three-button fingerswitch handpiece and a 3-way footswitch, including three unipolar modes and two bipolar modes over a full range of power levels including a new turbo mode for treating heavy bleeders.
US07674258B2	Electrophysiology electrode having multiple power connections and electrophysiology devices including the same An electrophysiology electrode having multiple power connections and electrophysiology devices including the same.
US07674253B2	Catheter for conducting a procedure within a lumen, duct or organ of a living being In an embodiment, the invention provides a catheter suitable for use in performing a procedure within a vessel, lumen or organ of a living having a distal end which is steerable, such as upon the application of compression. The catheter may be of the over the wire type, or alternatively may be a rapid exchange catheter. The catheter may provide for a rotating element which may be used to open a clogged vessel, or alternatively to provide information about adjacent tissues, such as may be generated by imaging or guiding arrangements using tissue detection systems known in the art, e.g., ultrasound, optical coherence reflectometry, etc. For rapid exchange catheters having a rotating element, there is provided an offset drive assembly to allow the rotary force to be directed from alongside the guidewire to a location coaxial to and over the guidewire.
US07674249B2	Gels with predetermined conductivity used in electroporation of tissue Gel compositions with adjusted conductivity are disclosed which compositions are used for directing reversible electroporation and irreversible electroporation of cells and tissue. The gel compositions are also used in a similar manner in order to carry out thermotherapy on cells and tissues.
US07674245B2	Method and apparatus for an adjustable shape guide catheter A catheter assembly includes an outer catheter member having a distal flexible end. An inner catheter member is movably disposed within the outer catheter member. Optionally, a handle assembly is coupled with the outer catheter member and the inner catheter member, where the handle assembly is adapted to slide the inner catheter member relative to the outer catheter member.
US07674241B2	Safe medical-drug injector and collapsible plunger combination thereof A safe medical-drug injector with a collapsable plunger combination thereof is proposed. The injector includes a hub connected with a needle, a hollow barrel, and a collapsable plunger combination including a hollow cannula and a retractable plunger that is telescoped with the hollow cannula. At least a stress adjustable notch is formed at the core of the retractable plunger or in an upper edge of the hollow cannula, and at least one raised portion is formed on an outer lateral side of the retractable plunger near the stress adjustable notch to be correspondingly embedded with at least a depression formed on an inner lateral side of the hollow cannula. The engagement between the raised portion and the depression is released to make the retractable plunger drawn back to the hollow cannula when a following press is applied on the hollow cannula after the safe medical-drug injector completes an injection.
US07674239B2	Flexible introducer sheath An introducer apparatus and a method for forming an introducer apparatus. The apparatus comprises an inner liner having a passageway extending longitudinally therethrough. A coil in a stressed, radially expanded condition is positioned longitudinally around said inner tube. A polymeric outer tube is positioned longitudinally around the coil and the inner liner, and is bonded to the inner liner through the spaces between the turns of the coil. The polymeric outer tube is formed in a manner such that it maintains the coil in its stressed radially expanded condition. In a preferred embodiment, the inner liner and outer tube comprise a polyimide.
US07674237B2	Method and apparatus for blood withdrawal and infusion using a pressure controller A method and apparatus for controlling blood withdrawal and infusion flow rate with the use of a pressure controller. The pressure controller uses pressure targets based upon occlusion limits that are calculated as a function of flow. The controller has the ability to switch from controlling withdrawal pressure to controlling infusion pressure based upon the detection of an occlusion. The controller distinguishes between partial and total occlusions of the withdrawal vein providing blood access. Depending on the nature of occlusion, the controller limits or temporarily reverses blood flow and, thus, prevents withdrawal vessel collapse or reverses blood flow to quickly infuse blood into the vessel without participation from operator.
US07674236B2	Device and method for detecting complications during an extracorporeal blood treatment A device and method for detecting complications during an extracorporeal blood treatment are provided. During the dialysis treatment, the dialysance or clearance may be continuously determined at successive points in time based on a measured change in a physical or chemical characteristic quantity of the dialysis liquid, for example, the ion concentration of the dialysis liquid. In the event a significant change in the dialysance or clearance is established, the determination of the recirculation may be effected based on a measured change in a physical or chemical characteristic quantity of the blood. When both a significant change in the determined dialysance as well as in the recirculation occurs, a complication may be assumed with regard to a bad vessel access. Alternatively, a complication may be assumed with regard to the dialyzer. The present invention may allow the continuous monitoring during the dialysis treatment to ensue solely on the basis of the change in the measured dialysate-side characteristic quantities.
US07674233B2	Method and apparatus for focussing ultrasonic energy The apparatus comprises an ultrasonic vibration generator (1) and a lens (2) affixed thereto adapted to focus the ultrasonic vibration at a predetermined zone. It may be used to destroy certain types of cancerous cell which lie close beneath the surface, such as skin cancers and other melanomas. Other cosmetic skin treatments may also be carried out, such as restructuring collagen molecules in order to tighten and restructure skin tissue, depilation and to destroy dyed tissue and thereby aid removal of unwanted tattoos.
US07674232B2	Method and apparatus for penetrating tissue These and other objects of the present invention are achieved in a body fluid sampling system for use on a tissue site that includes a drive force generator and a penetrating member operatively coupled to the force generator. The force generator moves the member along a path out of a housing with a penetrating member exit, into the tissue site, stops in the tissue site, and withdraws out of the tissue site. The drive force generator is configured to be controlled to follow a predetermined velocity trajectory into the tissue and out of the tissue. A tissue stabilizing member is associated with the device and at least partially surrounds an impact location of the penetrating member on the tissue site.
US07674224B2	Method for incorporating brain wave entrainment into sound production A method for incorporating brain wave entrainment into an audio composition by selectively modulating musical elements within the composition. The invention provides a way to specify and modulate individual frequency components in an audio composition, according to the desired brain wave state, allowing brain wave entrainment to be easily and subtly incorporated into an audio composition by disguising the modulations as natural instrumental qualities such as vibrato or reverberation.
US07674223B2	Door latching mechanism for infant care apparatus An infant care apparatus having a door latching mechanism that provides a positive latching of a door to the hood of the apparatus. The mechanism has a door latching assembly that is affixed to the door and which is latched to a floating catch housing that is affixed to the hood in a manner that the floating catch housing is vertically movable with respect to the hood. When the door is moved into its closed, latched position, the door latching assembly vertically aligns the floating catch housing so that a movable latch member is correctly oriented with respect to latch openings in the floating catch housing so that the movable catch member can enter the latch openings sufficiently to assure a positive, secure latch therebetween.
US07674221B2	Apparatus for separating discrete volumes of a composite liquid with balancing elements An apparatus for separating at least two discrete volumes of a composite liquid into at least a first component and a second component comprises a centrifuge, with a rotor having a rotation axis comprising at least two separation cells, each for containing a separation bag containing a volume of composite liquid; and first balancing elements for balancing the rotor when the respective weights of the at least two separation bags in the at least two separation cells are different.
US07674220B2	Method and apparatus for applying hot-melt adhesive to zipper flanges and applying zipper to packages The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for the attachment of a zipper to a reclosable package or bag, particular packages or bags of relatively larger sizes. Pinch rollers separate the flanges of the zipper so that the interior walls of the flanges are pointing upward, then hot-melt adhesive is sprayed downwardly onto the flanges. The zipper is then guided over the edge of the horizontally-oriented package or bag by a tube with a longitudinal slot. The package or bag, with the zipper attached, is engaged between a driven-belt apparatus with a nip formed between opposed belts, thereby applying consistent and even pressure to the zipper flanges and assuring that the hot-melt adhesive forms a bond which is consistent, reliable and strong.
US07674219B2	Device and method for producing container blanks A device for producing container blanks from a material web having a plurality of tools supported by a rotary tool holder. The tool holder is on rotation arranged to move each tool along a working path along which each tool is engageable with the material web for joining of opposite wall portions of the material web along connecting portions, and a return path along which each tool is disengageable from the material web. Each tool is arranged to be moved together with the material web when the tool is moved along the working path and the tool holder acts as a deflector for the material web when this moves together with the respective tools along the working path. The present invention also relates to a corresponding method for producing container blanks.
US07674213B1	Exercising assist method and apparatus An exercising assist method and apparatus for includes a pair of foot engaging members each having a structure to be removably coupled to a foot of a person. A pair of wheel assemblies is provided and each of the foot engaging members has one of the wheel assemblies attached thereto. The wheel assemblies engage a wall surface when the foot of the person is pointed toward the wall surface. The wheel assemblies assist the person in performing exercises.
US07674206B2	Compact physical rehabilitation device and method A physical rehabilitation device is disclosed including an endless belt for standing or walking thereon, which is pivotally attached to a maneuverable base. A motive force is supported by the maneuverable base and adapted to drive the endless belt at a slow constant speed, and being adjustable in small increments.
US07674205B2	Elliptical exercise machine with adjustable foot motion An elliptical exercise machine with adjustable foot motion is provided. The elliptical exercise machine, which is adjustable to yield different elliptical paths selectable by a user, comprises a frame, a drive assembly situated on the frame, first and second link arms, the first end of each link arm being rotatably connected to the drive assembly, first and second reciprocating foot supports, the first end of each foot support being pivotally interconnected to the frame, and first and second brackets, wherein the first bracket adjustably connects the first link arm to the first foot support, and wherein the second bracket adjustably connects the second link arm to the second foot support.
US07674200B2	Power train of automatic transmission A power train for eight forward and one reverse speeds may include input shaft, output gear, transmission case, speed shift unit, output unit, four clutches and two brakes. The speed shift unit includes a first operational member fixedly connected to the input shaft, a second operational member selectively coupled to the input shaft; a third operational member fixedly connected to the transmission case; a fourth operational member selectively coupled to the sixth operation member; and a fifth operational member selectively coupled to the fourth operational member. The output unit includes a sixth operational member fixedly connected to the fifth operational member, a seventh operational member selectively coupled to the input shaft and the transmission case, an eighth operational member selectively coupled to the input shaft, and a ninth operational member connecting the output gear. The four clutches and two brakes control pertinent operation members to change the rotational speed.
US07674199B2	Rigidizable chain Projectile ramming apparatus includes a rammer pawl for engaging the base of a projectile with a rigidizable chain attached to the rammer pawl for providing reciprocating movement thereto. The rigidizable chaining includes a plurality of rows of links having adjacent links pivotally attached to one another. A perimeter of each link enables fixed engagement of adjacent links on each row upon coordinated pivoting of adjacent links in each row and, further, for enabling release of the fixed engagement upon reverse coordinated pivoting of adjacent links. A drive is provided for reciprocally moving the chain and for pivoting adjacent links in order to rigidize the chain as the chain is moved in a forward direction; and unlocking, or unrigidizing, adjacent links as the chain is moved in a reverse direction. The chain is moved at a generally constant velocity enabled by the link perimeter.
US07674194B2	Baseball swing training aid A baseball swing training aid includes a housing and a lid for retaining a batting tee in a first or storage configuration and in a second or use configuration. In the first configuration, the batting tee is stowable on an underside of the lid such that the tee does not interfere with the lid's attachment to the housing. In the second configuration, the batting tee base attaches to a slot formed in the lid to extend the tee upwardly for baseball swing training. Accordingly, the tee is easily changeable between the first and second configurations for fast setup, storage or transportation.
US07674192B2	Multi-piece solid golf ball The present invention provides a multi-piece solid golf ball having a core obtained by molding under heat a specific rubber composition and having a cover of at least three layers which is composed of a thermoplastic resin material and encases the core. By optimizing the deflection of the core under a specific load, optimizing the hardness at the center of the core and the hardnesses of the innermost cover layer, outermost cover layer and intermediate cover layer, setting the combined thickness of the cover layers to at least a specific value, and forming the innermost cover layer of a highly neutralized ionomer resin composition, the spin rate of the ball on shots taken with a driver can be significantly reduced, enabling the distance traveled by the ball to be increased. Moreover, the ball has a good feel on shots with a driver.
US07674190B2	Golf club head A golf club head (20) having optimized inertial properties and center of gravity is disclosed. The golf club head (20) preferably has a volume between 300 cubic centimeters and 500 cubic centimeters. The golf club head (20) has a center of gravity located less than 1.7 inches from an exterior surface of a front wall (30). The positioning of the center of gravity of the golf club head (20) and the optimized inertial properties provide the golf club with greater ball spin robustness and better performance.
US07674181B2	Game processing Game processing apparatus comprising: an indication generator operable to generate an indication of a sequence of target actions to be executed by a user; a detector operable to detect user actions executed by said user; comparison logic operable to compare said target actions with said user actions to determine whether said target actions have been successfully completed by said user actions; and scoring logic operable, when in a non-scoring mode, to detect a first pattern of target actions that have been successfully completed with respect to target actions that have not been successfully completed, as determined by said comparison logic, said scoring logic entering a scoring mode upon detection of said first pattern, said scoring logic operable, when in said scoring mode, to detect a second pattern of target actions that have been successfully completed with respect to target actions that have not been successfully completed, as determined by said comparison logic, said scoring logic entering said non-scoring mode upon detection of said second pattern, said scoring logic operable to generate a score for said user when said scoring logic is in said scoring mode, said score being dependent upon said determination by said comparison logic.
US07674177B2	Gaming machine metering and accounting system The present invention is an intelligent metering system for currency-activated devices having an electromechanical meter. The intelligent metering system includes an inductive pickup winding associated with the electromechanical meter. An amplifier is coupled to the inductive pickup winding to boost a signal detected from the inductive pickup winding when electromechanical meter is actuated. A pulse detector, coupled to the amplifier, detects pulses, false triggerings and filters out EMF spikes. A microprocessor is coupled to the pulse detector for counting the pulses detected by the pulse detector and for storing meter data related to the counted pulses in a memory device. An interface is coupled to the microprocessor for transmitting the meter data from the memory device.
US07674174B2	Gaming device having one or more payline awards calculated as a function of the total wager A gaming device which includes a variety of methods to calculate one or more line pay awards as a function of the total amount wagered upon the game. In one embodiment, the gaming device multiplies the award for the most valuable symbol combination appearing on any payline by the total amount wagered upon the game.
US07674170B2	Method of lottery wagering on a real world phased competition A method for lottery wagering on actual events. The method according to the present invention includes selecting a subset of wagering data DW from a set of pre-qualifying data DPQ prior to conclusion of a pre-qualifying event of a phased competition consisting of a pre-qualifying event and a final event. The method further includes assembling pre-qualifying data DPQ for preliminary participants after conclusion of a pre-qualifying event and assembling concluding data DC for final participants after conclusion of the final event. Winners are selected from the final participants after the final event based on the concluding data. Winning lottery data DL is determined from a correlation between the winners' and their respective pre-qualifying data.
US07674158B2	Combined grinder and water blaster for stripe removal system A self-propelled mobile marking removal system which comprises a mobile vehicle assembly including a chassis, a high pressure liquid pump in fluid connection with a liquid reservoir contained within said chassis, said high pressure liquid pump is further in fluid connection with a blast head, said blast head having at least one high pressure nozzle for delivering liquid at high pressure to a marked surface, a waste removal hose fluidly coupled with said blast head and a sump for collection of liquid and debris, said blast head positionable along a left or a right side of said chassis, a mechanical abrasion means, said mechanical abrasion means positionable along a left or a right side of said chassis in front of said blast head, said mechanical abrasion means is constructed and arranged to substantially remove marking material protruding above said marked surface and said blast head constructed and arranged to substantially remove any marking material extending below said marked surface. As a result of this arrangement the self-propelled vehicle can travel at speeds up to approximately 25 MPH.
US07674153B2	Animal training device An animal training device (10) having a housing (11), a sound-producing member, an actuator (15), and a whistle (21, 23). The sound-producing member is mounted within a central cavity (12) formed in the housing (11), and the actuator (15) is provided in an opening (14) in one face (13) of the housing (11). The actuator (15) is arranged to transfer to the sound-producing member a manual force applied to the actuator (15), thereby to produce a first audible signal. The whistle (21, 23) includes a resonance chamber (23) formed integrally in the other face (22) of the housing (11), and a mouthpiece (21) in communication with the resonance chamber (23). The whistle (21, 23) is adapted to produce a second audible signal upon a user blowing into the mouthpiece (21).
US07674152B2	Enhanced balloon weight system The present invention provides a balloon weight system for an inflatable balloon having, singularly or in any combination, an electronic music producing device, a line distance adjusting device, to produce a descending and/or ascending of the balloon, and a fragrance distribution device.
US07674147B2	Generator set exhaust processing system and method A generator set (genset) for use in a marine environment is disclosed. The genset includes an alternator, an engine dedicated to driving the alternator, and an exhaust port connected to the engine to receive exhaust generated during operation of the engine to drive the alternator. An inner tubular structure is provided that is configured to receive exhaust gases from the exhaust port and communicate the exhaust gases therethrough. The exhaust processing device also includes an exhaust processing element mounted within the inner tubular structure to process the exhaust gases and an outer tubular structure mounted around the inner tubular structure to form an intermediate space therebetween. The exhaust processing device further includes at least one orifice through which to deliver a flow of water to the intermediate space to maintain the outer tubular structure at a temperature below a temperature of the exhaust processing element.
US07674145B2	Boat having prioritized controls An outboard motor control system can have a first PTT switch and a second PTT switch in a first steering station and in a second steering station respectively, and a third PTT switch in a location outside of a boat hull. Operation instruction given by each PTT switch can be input to a first microcomputer of a first ECU. The first microcomputer can determine if the inputted operation instruction is to be sent to the outboard motor, based on which PTT switch the operation instruction came from, whether the main switch is ON or OFF, and which steering station has precedence in boat control.
US07674137B2	Plug According to one embodiment, a plug includes four terminals arranged around a core shaft at substantially equal intervals, a housing that supports proximal ends of the four terminals, and a cylindrical cover fixed to the housing such as to surround the four terminals. The four terminals include two power terminals and two ground terminals, and at least the two power terminals have insulating coating layers respectively at their distal end portions.
US07674131B2	High density mount for a co-axial connector The present disclosure relates to a connector having a main body portion and a housing portion. The housing mounts over the connector main body. The housing is adapted for securing the connector to another element such as a piece of telecommunications equipment.
US07674130B2	Electric connector for routing a line through a housing wall An electric connector for passing a line through a housing wall has a rectangular housing made of an insulating material, at least one connection element and a securing element used to secure the connector to the rectangular wall opening of the housing wall. The securing element includes at least one fixing element and an elastic clamping element which is arranged in an essentially perpendicular manner in relation to the fixing element, such that the clamping element interacts against an inner edge of the narrow side of the wall opening when the connector is in the mounted state.
US07674122B2	Adjustable feed through bushing base with lifting means This invention relates to providing a means to removeably mount a feed through/grounding bushing commonly used to bond together, ground and/or park power distribution cables. Many pieces of power distribution equipment have U brackets for removable attachment of accessories and temporary placed maintenance equipment. The present invention addresses holding the bushing at an angle relative to the U bracket and surrounding surface and adjustability of the bushing height relative to the U bracket for strain relief and adjusting for improved work room. Also addressed is the advantage of cable identification by numbering the wells so that a lineman may readily select the cables even after the bushing may have been set aside for equipment replacement. This is especially useful on but not limited to this invention since the U bracket mounting means is moveable and would not always provide positive identification of one end of a multi well bushing. Also provided is a means to receive a lifting means to assist in lifting and positioning the assembly especially for higher kilovolt applications. Further provided is the method of grounding the lines of a multi phase system on a common bushing in order that a lineman can rely that the entire phase system is grounded and is gives rapid visual confirmation.
US07674117B2	Strain-resistant electrical connection A strain-resistant electrical connection and a method of making the same is provided. A wire or other conductive lead is connected to a circuit in a manner that makes the connection more resistant to mechanical stresses such as movement or rotation of the lead relative to the circuit. A material is configured around the lead and near the point of connection to the circuit so as to create a region of decreasing flexibility or graduated stiffness near the point of connection. In certain embodiments, the lead may also be coiled or otherwise shaped to provide additional ability to withstand mechanical stresses.
US07674114B2	Board-to-board connector A thin board-to-board connector with high density in which there is no connection between three-dimensional complex metal springs. The board-to-board connector includes a connector having a bump for electrical connection having an umbrella shape on a board and connected to a circuit board and a connector having an elastic electrically conductive section having a through hole made in a conductive pattern on an elastic insulating board and connected to a circuit board electrically connected to the elastic conductive section. When a bump is inserted into the through hole, the elastic conductive section is electrically connected to the bump, and the side surface of the through hole is pressed against to the bump and elastically deformed and dented. Consequently, the bump is press-fit into the through hole. With this, the bump can be inserted into the elastic conductive section and engaged with it, and thereby electrical and mechanical connection between circuit boards can be simultaneously achieved in a two-dimensional manner, realizing a low-height connector.
US07674111B2	Light emitting diode module for lighting Provided is an LED module for lighting, which includes a printed circuit board (PCB); at least one or more LED elements mounted on the PCB; and a waterproof agent surrounding terminals between the PCB and the LED elements, which are exposed on mounting surface of the LED elements.
US07674108B2	Device for blowing thermoplastic containers A device for blowing, with the aid of a pressurized fluid, containers from thermoplastic blanks closed in a blow mold including a nozzle whose end is functionally and sealingly connected to the neck of the blank and includes several solenoid valves for selectively connecting the nozzle to the source of a moderately pressurized pre-blowing fluid, to the source of a highly-pressurized blowing fluid and to an exhaust for discharging the pre-blowing/blowing fluid, respectively. The inventive device also includes a body which is mechanically associated with the nozzle, incorporates at least one reception area for receiving a solenoid valve and is selectively connectable to the nozzle.
US07674107B2	Building container for a device and method for a layerwise manufacturing of a three-dimensional object A building container (25) for a device (1) for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by a layer wise solidification of a building material in powder form at positions in the respective layers that correspond to the object is provided. A support device (26) is provided that is arranged in the building container (25) such that it is vertically movable, wherein the support device (26) has an upper side that forms a building platform (78), on which the three-dimensional object is generated layer wise. Between a circumferential outer edge of the building platform (78) and a circumferential inside wall (79) of the building container (25) a gap (80) is formed and a seal (81) is provided that is provided circumferentially at the building platform (78) and closes the gap (80). The seal is made from a ring of a flat flexible material having an outer diameter, which in a flat state is larger than the inner diameter of the inside wall (79). A guide plate (82) is provided that maintains the seal (81) in the region of the gap (80) in an angulated shape.
US07674096B2	Portable, rotary vane vacuum pump with removable oil reservoir cartridge A portable, rotary vane vacuum pump with a rotor eccentrically mounted within the bore of a housing to substantially abut the bore at a side location. The abutting, side location is between the inlet and outlet passages of the bore in the direction of rotor rotation. A pocket is then created just above the contact area between the rotor and bore which collects and maintains a pool of lubricating oil. The pool enhances the seal at the contact area below it enabling the pump to draw a deep vacuum with just a single stage. The portable pump also includes a removable, oil reservoir cartridge mounted to the main body of the pump. Other features include a visual indicator in the cartridge to monitor the condition of the circulating oil, a step up gearing arrangement for the cooling fan, and a step down gearing arrangement for the vane pump.
US07674095B2	Variable displacement vane pump with variable target regulator A variable displacement vane-type fluid pump is provided which permits improved regulation of the pump discharge such that the pump can meet the various requirements of lubrication for internal combustion engines at all speeds with minimized use of power. Of course, the vane pump may also be utilized in a wide range of power transmission and other fluid distribution applications. The vane pump of the invention may also use both hydrostatic and mechanical actuators to control the position of its containment ring or eccentric ring and hence, regulate the output of the pump. According to yet another aspect of the present invention, to prevent inlet flow restriction or cavitation, a valve may be provided to permit some of the pump outlet or discharge flow to bleed into the pump inlet to provide needed velocity energy to the fluid flow into the pump inlet. A system for lubrication of an engine using a fixed displacement pump for providing an engine speed input for controlling a second main variable displacement type oil pump and maintaining a target oil pressure in the oil pressure circuit. A solenoid valve is used for venting output of the fixed displacement pump to create a second target oil pressure characteristic or curve when desired.
US07674085B2	Arrangement and a method to attach a tool to a loader An arrangement for a loader makes it possible to attach a tool to the loader. The arrangement comprises a locking arrangement for determining the position of the tool and locking it to the arrangement in this position, and a safety arrangement that ensures that the locking arrangement takes up its locking position only when a tool is correctly arranged at the attachment arrangement. The arrangement includes a part that functions independently of the locking arrangement and that can retain the locking arrangement in an open position that does not perform the locking function, and a releasing part that releases the locking arrangement from the retaining part.
US07674078B1	Hole saw having efficient slug removal A hole saw having efficient slug removal includes a saw cup, a shank portion, a spade bit, a compression spring and a contact disc. A plurality of cutting teeth are formed on an open end of the saw cup and the shank portion is attached to the other end of the saw cup with any suitable fastening process. The spade bit includes a cutting bit and a shank. A shank opening is formed through the shank portion to receive the shank of the spade bit. Preferably, a set screw or the like is used to retain the spade bit in the shank opening. The shank of the spade bit is inserted through the contact disc and then the compression spring, before insertion into the shank opening. A hole slug is ejected from the saw cup, when the hole saw is removed from a hole.
US07674076B2	Feeder apparatus for controlled supply of feedstock A feeder apparatus supplies a powder feedstock to a high or low pressure processing operation. The apparatus includes a metering plate defining an annular channel having a channel width. A measuring mechanism dispenses a measured volume of the feedstock into the annular channel. The measuring mechanism includes a pay-out device defining an outlet significantly smaller than the channel width. The measuring mechanism further includes a maximum fill level defining a maximum pressure head in the feedstock less than a retaining pressure defined by the internal friction of the feedstock. The restraining pressure prevents the feedstock from spreading outwardly in the annular channel and contacting sidewalls of the annular channel under the pressure head of the feedstock. The apparatus further includes a pick-up device for removing the feedstock from the annular channel. The pick-up device includes an inlet having a rectangular shape extending across the annular channel.
US07674072B2	Connection between a lateral and main pipe and method for making same Apparatus and method for connecting a lateral pipe to a main pipe are provided by a tool having a first end within the main pipe and a second end outside the lateral pipe so as to apply pressure to the below-ground connection of the main and lateral pipes from an above-ground location. The entire operation may be done without a person having to enter into an access opening in the ground to connect the lateral pipe to the main pipe. A laser is used to determine the depth of the access hole relative to the surface of the ground and the main sewer pipe.
US07674065B2	Device for locking the final positions of moving switch points A device for locking end positions of switch parts, having two parts, relatively axially displaceable and positively coupled in at least one direction, including a tube and a rod guided within the tube, at least partially arranged in an outer tube. Locking members cooperate with the parts and outer tube and are displaceable into a locking position in the outer tube's recess. Locking members include ring segments chamfered on insides forming first abutment surfaces converging obliquely toward rod axis. First abutment surfaces cooperate with oblique counter abutment surfaces in a rod recess for holding the rod and the tube coupled during the rod's first displacement path and for urging segments outwardly to emerge from rod recess, and to slide onto the rod's outer surface adjacent rod recess and to immerse into locking position in the outer tube's recess upon rod movement relative to the tube over a second displacement path.
US07674047B2	Anti-wiggle optical receptacle A casing includes a solid sleeve and a split sleeve in combination to provide a connection between a fiber stub and a ferrule containing an optical fiber. The arrangement prevents wiggle of the ferrule, and also does so without the tight tolerances that would otherwise be required in solid sleeve systems.
US07674045B2	Cage for inclined ball bearings The invention relates to a cage for inclined ball bearings with adjacent ball pockets arranged on the circumferential side around a rotational axis of the cage, comprising ribs between lateral walls. Each rib extends in the axial direction from one of the lands and connects two of the lateral walls together on the circumferential side.
US07674042B2	Drink receptacle, in particular drinking bag, composed of flexible composite material The invention relates to a drink receptacle (1), especially in the form of a drinking bag, having a wall (2) composed of a flexible composite material (3), the composite material (3) being water-impervious and gas-impervious and being at least essentially impervious to chemical and biological toxins, in particular warfare agents, or at least retarding their passage, and comprising an outer backing layer (4) and a film-like inner layer (5), wherein the backing layer (4) is textile-like and the inner layer (5) is laminated onto the backing layer (4), in particular at least essentially coextensively. The drink receptacle (1) of the invention combines good NBC protective or resistance properties with high mechanical stability, in particular puncture resistance, and also with a greater ease of manufacture.
US07674033B2	Dynamic mixer The invention relates to a dynamic mixer for mixing at least two paste components of different volume proportions. Said mixer comprises a housing with at least two inlet openings and at least one outlet opening, a mixer element being rotatably mounted in a mixing chamber of said housing. The housing has at least one delay chamber comprising a limiting wall that blocks the paste stream in the direction of flow and at least one opening that opens into the mixing chamber, said opening(s) being set back in relation to the limiting wall. The mixer is particularly suitable for mixing paste components with a relatively high viscosity of, for example, greater than 800 Pas.
US07674021B2	Apparatus for reducing flashback produced by an anti-collision light A lighting assembly apparatus for wingtip position lights and an anti-collision light (ACL). The lighting assembly apparatus reduces light flashback caused by the ACL by including one or more internal baffles located inside of a lens. A lens retainer receives the lens. The lens retainer includes a base section and internal baffles. The one or more internal baffles include a crossbeam baffle that is attached between upper and lower surfaces of the lens retainer. The crossbeam baffle reduces light flashback caused by the ACL and complies with ACL/regulatory requirements. The internal baffle includes a stepped edge that also reduces light flashback caused by the ACL and complies with ACL requirements.
US07674019B2	Free-form lenses for rectangular illumination zones A light source emits light into a solid angle exceeding pi steradians with a known intensity distribution. An illumination lens has a first surface that receives at least 90% of the light of the known intensity distribution and has a shape that transforms the known intensity distribution into an intermediate intensity distribution within the transparent material of the lens. A second surface receives the intermediate intensity distribution and is shaped to transform the intermediate intensity distribution into a final intensity distribution that produces a prescribed illumination distribution upon a rectangular target zone. At least one of the shapes of the first and second surfaces is non-rotationally symmetric and is approximated by a super-ellipsoid.
US07674012B1	LED lighting device capable of uniformly dissipating heat An LED lighting device with a heat dissipating structure is disclosed. The lighting device includes a lamp base coupled with a top cover to form an accommodating space for accommodating a first heat dissipating module and a second heat dissipating module. The first heat dissipating module includes a first heat-conducting plate, a first heat pipe and a first heat dissipater. An LED lighting module is connected with the first heat-conducting plate, in which an evaporator section of the first heat pipe is disposed thereon. The first heat dissipater is arranged on a condenser section of the first heat pipe, and the second heat dissipating module includes a second heat-conducting plate and a second heat pipe. The second heat-conducting plate paralleling to the first heat-conducting plate is connected with the LED lighting module. An evaporator section of the second heat pipe is disposed on the second heat-conducting plate, and whose condenser section is connected with an inner surface of the top cover. Whereby, the heat generated from the LED lighting module can be dissipated uniformly and rapidly.
US07674003B2	Flashlight having plural switches and a controller An electrical switch comprises first and second switch elements including respective first and second electrically conductive flexible domes for selectively making electrical connections. The second switch element is disposed adjacent the first switch element with an electrical conductor therebetween. An actuator is movable for exerting force on the second switch element via a spring, and for exerting force on the first switch element via the spring and the second switch element. The second flexible dome may have an actuating force that is less than the actuating force of said first flexible dome.
US07674000B2	Backlight for a display device with improved filtering and method for constructing the same A light source and a method for constructing a light source for a display device are provided. A first member having first and second sides and an opening therethrough is provided. A seal is positioned on the first side of the first member and on at least one side of the opening, the seal having a first thickness. A second member is positioned on the first side of the first member such that the seal is between the first and second members. A light emitting diode (LED) operable to emit light is positioned at least one of partially between the first and second members and partially within the opening. The first member is secured relative to the second member causing a force to be applied to the seal such that the thickness of the seal is reduced to a second thickness and substantially no light can propagate between the seal and the first and second members.
US07673993B2	Projection system using reflective polarizers A projection system comprising a first imaging component, at least a second imaging component, and a color combiner. The first and second imaging components each comprise an imager and a reflective polarizer that is configured to at least partially separate a light beam from the imager into a first portion and second portion, where the first portion and the second portion have substantially orthogonal polarization states. The first portions of the light beams are directed in the same direction above or below a plane defined by the second portions of the light beams. The color combiner is configured to combine the second portions of the light beams, where the second portions of the light beams have substantially orthogonal polarization states prior to entering the color combiner.
US07673992B2	Device and method for determining the amertopia of an optical system A device and method for determining the defective vision of an optical system include a controllable optical element. The objective and subjective determination of the correction values are more greatly combined in that a measuring and controlling device forms a control loop with the controllable optical element, and the optical characteristics of the controllable element can be changed manually.
US07673985B2	Ink-jet recording apparatus provided with platen and movable support section for supporting recording paper An ink-jet recording apparatus is provided, which makes it possible to perform borderless recording at a high speed. A platen 42 has a groove 116 which covers an entire ink discharge area of a recording head. A plurality of movable ribs 104 are provided in the groove 116. The movable ribs 104 are allowed to slide from first positions to second positions in synchronization with the transport of a recording paper 146. The first positions are positioned between mutually adjoining first fixed ribs 102, and the second positions are positioned between mutually adjoining second fixed ribs 103. The movable ribs 104 protrude upwardly from an upper surface 109 of the platen 42. The movable ribs 104 reliably support the recording paper fed to the position over the groove 116.
US07673984B2	Image forming apparatus having a removable output unit An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that discharges droplets of recording liquid to form an image on a recording medium, a body including the image forming section, and a conveyor section that conveys the recording medium having thereon the image formed in the image forming section. An output unit is removably attached to the body and includes at least the conveyor section. The output unit may further include a face-down output path, a straight output path, a straight output tray, and the like.
US07673972B2	Micro-fluid ejection devices, methods for making micro-fluid ejection heads, and micro-fluid ejection head having high resistance thin film heaters Micro-fluid ejection devices, methods for making micro-fluid ejection heads, and micro-fluid ejection heads, including a micro-fluid ejection head. One such micro-fluid ejection head has relatively high resistance thin film heaters adjacent to a substrate. The thin film material comprises silicon, metal, and carbon (SiMC wherein M is a metal). Each thin film heater has a sheet resistance ranging from about 100 to about 600 ohms per square and a thickness ranging from about 100 to about 800 Angstroms.
US07673968B2	Printing device locking mechanism for consumable enclosures A user inserts one or more consumable enclosures into one or more corresponding slots of a printing device. The user engages a locking mechanism of the printing device into a corresponding feature of each consumable enclosure. The printing device detects user engagement of the locking mechanism. In response to the user performing a consumable enclosure-related action, the printing device substantially impedes user access to the locking mechanism and the consumable enclosures until the user has entered an unlock code.
US07673967B2	Modular printer assembly with a loading mechanism Provided is a modular printer assembly which includes a housing having upper and lower covers, a first side wall and a second, opposed side wall, as well as a loading mechanism which includes a drive assembly with a traversing mechanism engaged with the drive assembly, and a pair of endless belts and roller assemblies operatively engaged with the traversing mechanism, so that actuation of the drive assembly displaces the traversing mechanism to push, or pull, the belt and roller mechanisms farther apart, or closer together, respectively. The printer assembly also includes a print engine having two opposed arcuate printheads each with a radius of curvature which approximates a radius of inlet rollers with each roller at least partially received in said curvature of each respective printhead, the print engine configured to print ink followed by a fixative onto the media operatively fed between the printhead.
US07673966B2	Printhead assembly with printhead IC tiles A printhead assembly for a pagewidth printer arrangement includes a channel shaped member. A number of printhead tiles are located in the channel shaped member. Each tile has a printhead integrated circuit (IC) carrier member for receiving a printhead IC and an ink ducting member that mates with the carrier member and defines ink ducts for supplying the printhead IC with ink via the carrier member.
US07673964B2	Removing member and image forming apparatus A removing member for use in an image forming apparatus removes foreign materials from a nozzle face of a discharge head provided in the image forming apparatus. The removing member includes a base material, and fine particles disposed to the base material.
US07673957B2	Method for determining an optimal non-nucleating heater pulse for use with an ink jet printhead A method for use with an ink jet printhead having a plurality of nozzles, each of the plurality of nozzles having associated therewith a respective heating element, includes printing with the plurality of nozzles a test pattern while varying an energy of a respective heater pulse used to energize each respective heating element at each of a plurality of printhead carrier positions; scanning the test pattern with a reflectance sensor to generate reflectance data associated with the energy of the respective heater pulse used to energize each respective heating element at each of the plurality of printhead carrier positions; and determining an optimal non-nucleating heater pulse for use with the ink jet printhead based on the reflectance data.
US07673954B2	Image forming apparatus The image forming apparatus in which image is formed on a recording medium by ejecting droplets onto the recording medium comprises: a plurality of ejection ports through which the droplets are ejected; a line head in which the ejection ports are aligned along a length corresponding to an entire width of the recording medium; a head recovery device which performs a head recovery processing to recover from a defect of the ejection ports in the line head; a head retracting device which moves the line head to a retracted position for performing the head recovery processing; and an auxiliary head which is movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording medium, wherein the auxiliary head records the image onto the recording medium while the head recovery processing is performed to the line head in the retracted position.
US07673953B2	Liquid ejection apparatus for suppressing a decrease in speed of liquid droplets which are discharged from adjacent nozzles during the same discharge period A liquid ejecting apparatus including a pressure generating unit capable of changing a pressure of liquid contained in the pressure chamber, a liquid ejecting head capable of discharging liquid droplets from a nozzle opening by actuating the pressure generating unit, a passage extending from a common liquid chamber through a pressure chamber to the nozzle opening and a driving signal generating unit that repeatedly generates a plurality of driving signals causing the liquid droplets to be discharged by actuating the pressure generating unit. In order to prevent the vibration resulting from a first driving pulse sent to a first pressure generating unit from interfering with the discharge in an adjacent pressure chamber, a second driving signal including a second discharge pulse, is generated at a period of time after to the first discharge pulse corresponding to a characteristic vibration period of the liquid contained in the pressure chamber.
US07673944B2	Backrest frame for a rear seat of a vehicle and a method for producing the frame Rear backrest frame for a rear backrest component of a vehicle seat, with at least one main plate, one left and one right lateral hat-shaped section extending vertically, one upper and one lower hat-shaped section extending in a transverse direction, and the hat-shaped sections are welded to the front surface of the main plate. The rear backrest frame has cushion channels on its lateral edges and its upper and lower edges, for attachment of a cushion and/or cover. In order to enable a secure mounting of the backrest cushion and/or cover and a cost-effective, flexible production with a wide range of possible variants, it is provided that the hat-shaped sections are rectilinear in configuration, the lateral hat-shaped sections are welded to the hat-shaped sections that extend in a transverse direction, and the lateral cushion channels are formed on the lateral hat-shaped sections. Further, a corresponding production process is provided.
US07673935B2	Temperature controlled vehicular seat A vehicular seat including: a seat back; a temperature regulation unit which regulates temperature of an air blown from a surface of the seat back and has a heat exchanger; and an exhaust passage which exhaust waste air discharged from the heat exchanger toward the outside of the seat, wherein: the heat exchanger and the exhaust passage are disposed inside the seat back; the exhaust passage has an exhaust portion which opens toward the outside of the seat back; and the exhaust portion is provided on a side of the seat back so as to be oriented downward, the side facing a side wall of the vehicle.
US07673926B2	Tarping system for open top containers A relatively lightweight tarping system for use with trailers or other open top containers includes first and second spaced frame members and an elongated flexible member such as a cable or chain connected to and extending therebetween. A tarpaulin may be mounted thereon so that the frame members, flexible member and tarpaulin are pivotable between a covered position atop the open top container and an uncovered position. A four-bar linkage is preferably used in combination with a rotational drive mechanism to provide various advantages in rotating the tarpaulin assembly between the covered and uncovered positions. A width adjustment mechanism is provided to provide usage with trailers or other open top containers of different widths. An improved seal is provided between the tarpaulin and container.
US07673925B2	Drive motor assembly for a vehicle sunshade assembly A drive motor assembly for a vehicle sunshade assembly includes a motor and a stabilizing unit. The motor has a housing, and an axle extending through the housing and having two ends respectively protruding outwardly of the housing. The stabilizing unit is connected to and provides an urging force to one of the ends of the axle in an axial direction thereof toward the housing.
US07673923B2	Hinged windshield assembly and method for manufacturing same A hinge assembly for a vehicle windshield comprises a first holder, a second holder, and a hinge member. The first holder includes a first body and a first receptacle with a first opening and a first closed end, wherein a first axis is defined between the first closed end and the first opening, the first axis being normal to a first plane defined by the first opening. The second holder includes a second body and a second receptacle with a second opening and a second closed end, wherein a second axis is defined between the second closed end and the second opening, the second axis being normal to a second plane defined by the second opening. The hinge member is attached to the first and second holder and has first and second ends and defines a third axis. When the hinge member is in a relaxed condition, the first and second axes form oblique angles relative to the third axis. In this configuration, the hinge member is under less strain in the both of the open and closed positions than is the case with prior hinges.
US07673915B1	Coil handling assembly An improved coil handling assembly and method of manufacture comprising a cylindrical support member having end covers and one or more stabilizing members. The assembly is capable of accepting a fork lift fork whereby a material coil or roll may be lifted or moved. The assembly further comprises adjustable front and rear coil stabilizers which are moveable and removable whereby a plurality of coil or roll sizes may be contained, stored, transported, or utilized on a processing line. Unlike prior art coil handling equipment, the present art provides a quick, convenient, and safe apparatus and method for working with or utilizing coiled materials.
US07673914B2	Automatic alert device for suction cup An automatic alert device is provided for a suction cup, including a pump and a suction cup positionable on an object to be handled. The pump is operable to drive air out of the suction cup thereby inducing suction force on the object to be handled. When the suction cup gradually loses the suction force, a plunger of the pump gets moved out of the pump. When the outward movement of the plunger reaches a preset extent, the alert device that includes a warning light and an audio alert is activated to cause the warning light and the audio alert to give off warnings of light and sound respectively. Thus, an operator can be immediately notified of the situation of losing suction force for taking remedial operation to get the suction force back to the desired level.
US07673912B2	Extendable cargo retriever A truck cargo-moving tool combines an elongated extendable arm having at least two telescopically connected rigid coaxial tubes and a substantially rigid head having two faces, at least one substantially flat edge, a blunt heel, and an arcuate toe curved toward the axis of the extendable arm. The extendable arm is attached generally perpendicular to the head proximal the heel in order to form a tool useful for moving items resting on a long horizontal surface. There is at least one locking mechanism attached or built into the extendable arm for securing the coaxial tubes at a desired operating arm length.
US07673906B2	Seat belt pretensioner A pretensioning apparatus for seat belt webbing is located in the vicinity of a belt anchor end of a three-point vehicle safety restraint seat belt. The pretensioning apparatus has a fixed member in the form of a tubular member that may be anchored to a vehicle seat at the belt anchor side of the vehicle. A movable member in the form of a piston is connected to the webbing in the region of the belt anchor end. A means is provided for moving the movable member relative to the fixed member in a generally horizontal direction, to move the seat belt webbing in a pretensioning direction in response to a signal from a crash sensor. A webbing guide is fixed to the seat to provide an effective anchorage point spaced from the belt anchor end of the webbing under pretensioning conditions.
US07673897B2	Head-protecting airbag apparatus The head-protecting airbag apparatus of the present invention includes an airbag and a guide bracket. The guide bracket includes two guide walls and a joint wall, thereby has a generally U-shaped cross section, and accommodates the folded airbag between the two guide walls. The guide bracket is located above a pillar portion while being covered by an airbag cover, and serves to guide the inflating airbag toward vehicle's inner side and prevent the airbag from entering vehicle's outer side of the pillar garnish. The dimension of a clearance between the two guide walls is set such that: a gap arises between the housed airbag and at least one of the guide walls, thereby the airbag is allowed to inflate in the gap in the initial stage of airbag inflation; and that the deployment direction of the airbag is controlled by the guide walls, toward vehicle's inner side. In the head-protecting airbag apparatus of the present invention, the airbag housed in the upper periphery of windows smoothly protrudes inward of vehicle without providing any gas-leakage preventing means such as a reinforcing patch.
US07673890B2	Joint structure for independent suspension A joint structure for an independent system designed to improve the maintenance performance of a rear wheel suspension. Rear wheel axles extend leftward and rearward from a final case supported by the rear portion of a body frame to independently suspend respective left and right rear wheels. The respective rear wheel axles are coupled to left-hand and right-hand joints on the left and right sides, respectively, of the final case. A driven sprocket engaging with a chain is attached to the left-hand joint and a separate holder is detachably attached to the front of the final case. A joint-part shaft of the right-hand joint is supported by the final case via a bearing and also a brake disk is attached thereto. A male-shaped joint-part shaft integrally extending from the left-hand joint is fitted into the female-shaped joint-part shaft for integrally rotatable coupling.
US07673880B2	Die retrieval game The present invention relates to a game wherein the objective is to retrieve a special die from a specific location and return with it to the starting point on the playing surface. The game is designed to maximize feelings of competition and suspense among those playing by providing both the incentive and the means for players to interfere with the progress of other players. The player having the special die has the advantage of being able to roll the special die in addition to the regular die. The special die returns to its original location when the player in possession of it is caught by another player. Some playing surface locations hinder movement by requiring specific die rolls before movement off of the location is permitted. Other locations promote movement by allowing additional rolls of the dice. All players have a chance to win the game until the very end.
US07673872B2	Sheet feeding unit and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet feeding unit and an image forming apparatus having the same. The image forming apparatus includes a body and the sheet feeding unit to supply sheets into the body. The sheet feeding unit includes a sheet feeding cassette coupled to the body, a sheet lifting plate positioned in the sheet feeding cassette to stack sheets thereon, a pick-up device to feed the sheets piece by piece from the sheet feeding plate, and an adjustment unit to vary a sheet feeding force by which the sheets are fed from the sheet lifting plate. Accordingly, the sheets can be smoothly fed into the body without skewing through adjustment of a sheet feeding force of the pick-up device.
US07673862B2	Sheet processor and image-forming apparatus A sheet processor includes a holding unit for holding a folded batch of sheets, a pressing member for pressing against a folded portion of the batch of sheets, a nipping member for nipping portions of the batch adjacent to the folded portion so as to nip the batch of sheets from opposite directions, and a casing for supporting the pressing member and the nipping member.
US07673861B2	Vise with quick release feature A method and apparatus for clamping a workpiece in a vise. The apparatus generally includes a stationary jaw with a first gripping surface and a moveable jaw with a second gripping surface connected and operated by a spindle. The spindle moves the stationary jaw and the moveable jaw toward and away for each other when rotated. The vise includes an actuation rod configured to engage and disengage a semi-nut from the spindle thereby engaging and disengaging the moveable jaw from the fixed jaw in order to allow an operator to quickly move the moveable jaw by hand.
US07673860B2	Combination vise and clamp A clamp including a plurality of clamping assemblies, a first of the clamping assemblies including two opposing clamping jaws that have first-shaped clamping surfaces, the clamping jaws being movably mounted on support structure for movement towards and away from each other; and a second of the clamping assemblies including two opposing clamping jaws that have second-shaped clamping surfaces which are shaped differently than the first-shaped clamping surfaces and which are movably mounted on support structure for movement towards and away from each other.
US07673859B2	Twist locking connection for steam humidifier A twist locking connector for a steam humidifier. The steam humidifier includes a tank for heating water to generate steam and a steam tube receiver structure in fluid communication with the tank. The steam tube receiver structure has an opening configured to receive a steam tube, where the opening has a plurality of ramp structures about the opening on a side facing the tank. The steam humidifier also includes a steam tube for transmitting steam from the tank to a duct, the steam tube having a plurality of locking tabs adjacent to an end and a flange adjacent to, but separated by a distance from, the locking tabs. The steam tube is assembled to the steam tube receiver by inserting the steam tube through the opening in the steam tube receiver structure and rotating the steam tube to cause the locking tabs to engage with the ramp structures.
US07673858B2	Low pressure steam humidifier A humidifier for direct low pressure injection of steam into a duct. A source of steam is provided, and a steam tube is in fluid communication with the source of steam. A distal end segment of the steam tube is inclined with respect to the horizontal when the system is mounted to a duct to cause condensation within the steam tube to drain back to the source of steam under the force of gravity. The distal end of the steam tube includes an opening having a lip on an inside surface of the opening, where the lip directs condensation formed at the opening to flow back into the steam tube and back to the source of steam.
US07673852B2	Fence mounting device A fence post sleeve designed to allow the quick and easy erection of a temporary fencing structure without the use of installation tools. The fence post sleeve is a generally tubular structure having at least two barrier fence clips and a longitudinal slit. The fence post sleeve is designed to cooperate with a number of common fence posts. The barrier fence clips releasably secure flexible barrier fencing to the fence post sleeve, and thus the fence post. The fence post sleeve is particularly useful in the installation of construction fencing and other forms of temporary barrier fencing.
US07673839B2	Parallel four-bar mechanism A parallel four-bar mechanism is disclosed, having the second and third bars being parallel to each other and having their opposite ends hinged to the first and fourth bars respectively. A stopping block is provided with a stopping slot, and a movable stopping pin is configured to be engageable with the stopping slot. When an actuating member drives the stopping pin to disengage from the stopping slot, the second and third bars are able to translation relative to each other; and when the actuating member drives the stopping pin into the stopping slot, the second and third bars are locked with each other, with the second and third bars being not able to translation relative to each other, and thus the whole parallel four-bar mechanism is locked in a preset angular position.
US07673837B2	Wall mounted display apparatus A display apparatus includes a display main body that displays an image. The display apparatus includes a base plate mounted to an installation surface, a main body bracket that supports the display main body, and a hinge bracket that couples the main body bracket to the base plate so that a side of the main body bracket rotates between a flat position near the installation surface and a rotated position distant from the installation surface. The display apparatus enhances accessibility to a rear side of the display apparatus while it is mounted on the installation surface.
US07673824B2	Drink maker A drink maker for processing foodstuff and dispensing the processed foodstuff therefrom. A base encloses a motor and a jar including a first recirculation surface is removably mountable to the base. A processing cup including a second recirculation surface is removably mountable to the jar and the jar and processing cup comprise a container in an assembled configuration. A recirculation chamber is defined by the first and second recirculation surfaces. The base includes an arcuate-shaped mounting wall extending from its top surface and the jar includes a skirt having a first wall and a second wall positioned radially outwardly from the first wall. The first and second walls define a mounting gap and the mounting wall is positioned in the mounting gap in the assembled configuration.
US07673820B2	Subminiature thermoelectric fragrance dispenser A dispenser for dispensing a liquid includes a chamber holding a supply of liquid, an annular conduit substantially filled with liquid from the chamber, and a thermoelectric transducer near one end of the annular conduit. Upon application of electrical current to the thermoelectric transducer, the transducer operates to cause boiling of a quantity of liquid in the annular conduit. Expansion of a resulting bubble forces liquid out the end of the annular conduit. The dispenser may include battery powered electronic control circuit that includes a supercapacitor. The liquid may be dispensed in periodic bursts. In one application, the dispenser is especially suited to automatically and unobtrusively dispense a fragrance, perfume, or other personal care liquid worn by a person. In some applications, the dispenser may be worn on or under an article of clothing, or attached to an article of jewelry.
US07673805B2	Mini card adapter A mini card adapter for removably holding and fixing a mini card in a secure manner is provided. The mini card adapter holds a mini card having the same thickness as the standard card and outline dimensions smaller than those of the standard card. The mini card comprises a reference wall having the same thickness as the standard card and a bulging section formed on the top surface of the reference wall. In the reference wall, a card pocket for is formed for loading therein the mini card. The land section is formed in a region corresponding to the emboss section of the standard card, and a part of the land section bulges over the card pocket. As a result, an eaves wall for supporting one side of the mini card is formed. The eaves wall has a boss which fits in a hole formed in the mini card. A receiving nail for receiving the periphery of the mini card in corporation with the eaves wall is provided on the peripheral lower surface of the card pocket.
US07673804B1	Handle for portable data terminal A portable device having a body, a battery, a display, a data acquisition device, a handle, a trigger supported by the handle, and a first power port supported by the handle.
US07673797B2	Personalization of self-checkout security A method is provided for personalizing security conditions for each customer using a self-service checkout terminal to conduct a transaction on the terminal. A trust level is assigned to each customer based on a selection of factors, which may include personal information provided by the customer, factors independent of the customer, such as information specific to the particular merchant, and the customer's history in using the checkout terminal or other facilities of the merchant. The manner in which the transaction progresses for the customer is determined as a function of the customer's trust level. In one example, the weight tolerance applied to products weighed by the customer may be widened or narrowed in relation to the customer's trust level.
US07673794B2	Personal information verification program, method and apparatus A personal information verification system using an intermediary server and a settlement institution server, where personal information with an electronic signature, showing a desired purchase and a first version of item hash information are received from a person terminal. Then, the intermediary server generates a second version of item hash information by hiding the purchase item and adding an electronic signature, and transmits the second version of the item hash information to the settlement institution server. The settlement institution server sends a payment bill to a seller, generates the third version of the item hash information, and transmits the third version of the item hash information together with the amended personal information. The intermediary server generates a fourth version of the item hash information and transmits the personal information and the first to fourth versions of the item hash information to the seller terminal.
US07673788B2	Package opening device The package opening device is an adhesive strip adapted for mounting on a cover of a package, the adhesive strip having a gripping member allowing the user to pull on the gripping member to tear at least a portion of the cover of the package. The package opening device includes a base strip having a proximal portion, a distal portion, an upper surface, and a lower surface. An adhesive layer at least partially covers the distal portion of the lower surface of the base strip, and the uncovered proximal portion forms the gripping member. Further, a release liner may be provided for covering the adhesive layer prior to application to the cover of the package. Alternatively, a plurality of adhesive strips may be provided, with the plurality of adhesive strips being joined together by a line, with user-generated tension in the line creating the tearing force.
US07673786B2	Welding shield for coupling heaters Systems for coupling end portions of two elongated heater portions and methods of using such systems to treat a subsurface formation are described herein. A system may include a holding system configured to hold end portions of the two elongated heater portions so that the end portions are abutted together or located near each other; a shield for enclosing the end portions, and one or more inert gas inlets configured to provide at least one inert gas to flush the system with inert gas during welding of the end portions. The shield may be configured to inhibit oxidation during welding that joins the end portions together. The shield may include a hinged door that, when closed, is configured to at least partially isolate the interior of the shield from the atmosphere. The hinged door, when open, is configured to allow access to the interior of the shield.
US07673777B2	Backpack frame system The present invention involves the provision of a backpack frame assembly and associated load carrying devices. The backpack frame includes a plurality of stays having flexible joints therebetween. A membrane is secured to certain of the stays and helps resist flexing of joints between adjacent stay end portions. Load carrying devices may be provided and are releasably mounted to the frame assembly.
US07673776B2	Carrier assembly for percussion instruments Drum hardware and drum secured thereon are preferably supported on a vest type carrier or a T-bar carrier having a plurality of separate parts removable from each other and formed of a rigid plastic, light metal such as magnesium, aluminum or titanium. The removable hardware includes a removable back support member. The instrument carrier includes an articulating hinge that allows for positive, negative or neutral horizontal positioning of the instruments. The articulating hinge assembly further allows the carrier to be folded for easier transportation and storage in a smaller area.
US07673771B2	Apparatus for dispensing medications A medication dispenser provides automation to the steps of locating and acquiring unit-based doses of certain medications to be administered to a patient. The dispenser includes a frame and one or more cartridges that may be mounted onto the frame. A set of slots sized for holding unit-based doses of medication extend through a body portion of the cartridge. A movement device is also positioned relative to the frame and is configured to induce movement of selected unit-based medication doses out of associated slots in the cartridge, so that the dispensed doses may be retrieved.
US07673764B2	Container with narrow rib A substantially smooth container sidewall containing a narrow vertical rib, the rib having a width that is less than about 35% of the diameter of the sidewall, a container including the substantially smooth sidewall, and method of making both the sidewall and the container are the subject of the present invention.
US07673762B2	Modular system of closet inside part or dressing room complement of combinable and adjustable design easily assembled and packed by the user Modular system for closet inside part or dressing room complement of combinable and adjustable design, mass manufactured with adjustable sizes, with combinable module systems to optimize the available space, standardized according to modern standards for popular or residential housing developments, characterized because it is easy to assemble, shows a strong resistance to impacts or overloads, with or without lateral edge reinforcements in the following combinable standard sizes 1.22, 1.83, 1.43, 2.44 and 3.05 m.
US07673757B2	Adsorbent filter media for removal of biological contaminants in process liquids Adsorbent filter media particularly suited for removal of biological contaminants in process liquids. A porous fixed bed of adsorbent material is formed, using only a granular adsorbent and a water-insoluble thermoplastic binder. The resulting composite filter allows for a higher amount of adsorbent with smaller adsorbent particles than conventional depth filters. Elimination of cellulose fiber, as well as the elimination of the thermoset binder, results in reduced contamination of the process liquid.
US07673752B2	Drug card A drug card having a tamper proof serrated pull tab on the back. The pull tab is partially removed from the back of the drug card to provide access to a plurality of individually sealed doses of medicine. A single dose of medicine is removed from the plurality of individually sealed doses of medicine, after which the remaining individually sealed doses of medicine are placed back in the card and the card resealed. The integrity of the drug card is thereby maintained while presenting a brand name of the product to the consumer at all times.
US07673746B2	Recycling container for the collection and temporary storage of mercury contaminated wastes in dental facilities The present invention is directed to a container for the collection and temporary storage of amalgams and other mercury wastes. The container can include a hollow body with air-tight lid, and one or more mercury sorbents contained in a filter bag. The filter bag covers the inside surface of the hollow body and has holes that allow air exchange between the air in the hollow body and the sorbents. As air exchange occurs, mercury vapors released from dental wastes binds to the mercury binding materials. A self-closing door was made on the lid, which automatically closes after each waste disposal.
US07673743B2	Material handling apparatus A conveyor conveys sheets and deposits the sheets at a location to be stacked. The conveyor includes a sensor for determining the presence of a sheet before the sheet arrives at the location. A controller is coupled to the sensor and responsive to sensor inputs for controlling a movable support for projecting into a projected orientation to receive the sheets as the sheets exit the conveyor. The movable support moves to a retracted orientation to assist a stack to be withdrawn therefrom. Apparatus for manipulating pallets includes a conveyor, a mechanism for tilting the conveyor between a generally horizontal orientation and an orientation in which a first end of the conveyor is elevated above a second end of the conveyor, a first shifting mechanism to shift the conveyor horizontally along a first axis, a second shifting mechanism for shifting the conveyor horizontally along a second axis generally perpendicular to the first axis, and an elevator mechanism for raising and lowering the conveyor along a third axis generally perpendicular to the first and second axes. Apparatus for dispensing a pallet includes vertically spaced magazines, conveyors, and an elevator. The conveyors and elevator are selectively operable to deliver a pallet from the magazine in which that pallet is located to a common location.
US07673737B2	Roller conveyor A roller conveyor in an as such known manner includes a plurality of driven rollers disposed in two parallel tracks. With each driven roller a drive motor is associated. From a first voltage source a first set of the driven rollers is supplied, wherein a second voltage source is provided, from which a further set of the driven rollers is supplied. This arrangement offers a high degree of redundancy in the event of the failure of individual components of the roller drive, thereby guaranteeing an emergency operation in such a situation.
US07673729B2	Layout structure of clutch lever shaft To provide a layout structure of a clutch lever shaft capable of realizing compact layouts of a whole power unit in which a starter centrifugal clutch and a transmission manual multi-plate clutch are provided, and of a whole vehicle on which the power unit is mounted. A centrifugal clutch shaft and a manual multi-plate clutch shaft are disposed in parallel. The clutch lever shaft of the manual multi-plate clutch is disposed orthogonally and substantially vertically upward in relation to a pressing direction of a friction plate in a vicinity of an end portion of a lifter pin. The clutch lever shaft is disposed between the centrifugal clutch and the manual multi-plate clutch when viewed from a top of the power unit.
US07673721B2	Electrically actuated aircraft brakes Method and apparatus for monitoring electrically-actuated aircraft brakes includes measuring the break heat pack thickness to determine wear of the brake discs and adjusting the measurement so as to give ongoing compensation for temperature variations and hence expansion of the heat pack.
US07673715B2	Geared motor for electric wheelchair A geared motor for driving an electric wheelchair, which can realize features such as light weight, compact size, low noise, and low vibration at the same time, as well as high performance at low cost. In a driving device of an electric wheelchair for driving a wheel shaft by the power of a motor, the motor is disposed in such a manner that a motor shaft thereof is orthogonal to the wheel shaft. A hypoid speed reduction mechanism having a hypoid pinion and a hypoid gear intervenes between the motor shaft and the wheel shaft.
US07673711B1	Tracked vehicle The present invention relates generally to recreational vehicles. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods and apparatus for traversing challenging terrain with a recreational vehicle. A vehicle in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises a first drive track that is supported by a first rear suspension and a second drive track of vehicle is supported by a second rear suspension. The first drive track and the second drive track may be operatively coupled to an engine by a drive train for propelling the vehicle.
US07673710B2	Traveling robot A traveling robot includes a body frame having a front wheel; a rear wheel which is disposed on a rear side of the front wheel along a traveling direction; a rear frame which supports the rear wheel and is supported by the body frame so as to move vertically; a driving wheel which is disposed between the front wheel and the rear wheel in the traveling direction; a driving frame which supports the driving wheel and is coupled to the body frame by a hinge whose axis is parallel to an axis of the driving wheel; and a linkage member which is coupled to the driving frame to be contacted with or separated from the rear frame as the driving frame is rotated relative to the body frame.
US07673709B2	Earth-boring bit with shear cutting elements An earth-boring bit has a bit body and at least one cone for rotation relative to the bit body. The cone has a gage surface and a nose area separated by a central area. A nose insert is located in the nose area. The nose insert has a barrel located within a hole in the nose area and an outer end protruding from the cone, the outer end has a perimeter that is a plane perpendicular to a barrel axis of the nose insert.
US07673705B2	Compartmentalized MWD tool with isolated pressure compensator The present invention relates to a measurement-while-drilling (MWD) tool having a pressure compensation system and reservoir segregated from fluid integration with actuator mechanism lubricants. The MWD tool can also be serviced on the rig floor without the need to drain, reseal and charge the compensation system.
US07673688B1	Casing wiping dart with filtering layer A dart may include a foam body, a filtering material at least partially covering the foam body, and a mandrel. The foam body may surround the mandrel.
US07673680B2	Method for signalling a downhole device in a flowing well A method and apparatus for controlling the operation of a flowing or producing well utilising: a downhole located pressure monitoring device which is operative to monitor a characteristic pressure profile of the flowing well, and to respond when a significant deviation to the pressure profile is introduced into the well as a control signal to the monitoring device; and an actuator which is initiated into operation to control any required operation of the well when the monitoring device responds to the control signal.
US07673676B2	Electric submersible pumping system with gas vent A technique is provided for pumping fluids from a wellbore. An electric submersible pumping system is deployed in a wellbore on a tubing. Free gas can potentially accumulate around the electric submersible pumping system, but a gas vent is positioned to remove free gas.
US07673671B2	Air conditioner To provide an air conditioner capable of reducing an input power and a rotational speed of a fan motor necessary for obtaining a predetermined flow rate from an indoor unit. An air conditioner includes an indoor unit 8 having at least one inlet 6 and one outlet 8; a cross-flow fan 1 connected to a fan motor; a front heat exchanger 2; and a back heat exchanger 3, wherein an installation angle α of the front heat exchanger 2 positioned above the rotational center of the cross-flow fan 1 relative to the horizon is 65°≦α≦90°, a point of the back heat exchanger 3 closest to the front heat exchanger 2 is located adjacent to the front heat exchanger 2 from the rotational center of the cross-flow fan 1, and an outlet angle β2 of a blade of the cross-flow fan 1 is 22°≦β2≦28°.
US07673668B2	Spherical casting sand Molding sand having a high spherical degree and a low hygroscopicity produced from powder containing Al2O3 and SiO2, as main components by a flame fusion method, from which a mold having an excellent strength and a smooth surface is produced.
US07673663B2	Pneumatic tire with tread having non-linear rib A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with a nonlinear rib having an amplitude having a center in the tire axial direction. In a normally loaded condition of the tire, the tread portion has an outside tread edge and an inside tread edge when the camber angle of the tire is 0 degrees. In the normally loaded condition, when the a camber angle of 4 degrees is given to the tire to inline towards the outside tread edge, a foot print shape of the tire has a maximum circumferential length at an axial position MC which is off the tire equator towards the outside tread edge. The nonlinear rib is positioned off the tire equator towards the outside tread edge such that the axial position MC lies within the amplitude of the nonlinear rib, and one of the edges of the nonlinear rib on the outside tread edge side is chamfered.
US07673662B2	Planer/sander wood machine A guide for a machine tool or tool drive (7) means for moving a surfacing tool over the substantial surface of a work piece (1), said guide comprising a guide means adapted for positioning over said work piece, said guide means including two horizontal spaced apart guide rails (2) and a gantry (3) adapted for linear travel in an X-axis along said guide rails wherein said gantry includes a gantry rail (4) adapted to bridge said spaced apart guide rails, a pair of gantry arms (5) fitted to either end of said gantry rail each gantry arm having a gantry foot for co-operating with said guide rail wherein said tool drive (7) is fitted to said gantry by a gantry mount adapted for lateral movement along the length of said gantry Y-axis, said mount including a vertical Z-axis height adjustment face plate (9) for mounting said tool drive wherein the fitting of said gantry rail to said guide rails is adjustable about said X-axis and the fitting of said tool drive to said gantry mount is adjustable about said Y-axis such that the cutting face of a tool fitted to said drive can be adjusted to correspond to the surface on planar face of said work piece without the need to clamp said work piece to said guide.
US07673634B2	Method of treating or preventing osteolysis in a patient by UVB light irradiation Irradiating osteolytic regions with UVB light.
US07673630B2	Respiratory protection mask for a compressed air breathing apparatus A respirator for a compressed air breathing apparatus including a lung machine controlled by a control membrane and an expiratory valve with an air outlet. The air outlet of the expiratory valve and the control membrane of the lung machine are covered by a common lid spaced from the expiratory valve and control membrane, with there being at least one air discharge opening on the lid that forms a purging space around the control membrane through which air from the air outlet passes so as to move against the control membrane and to the at least one discharge opening.
US07673626B1	Archery bow having a shooting force greater than drawing force A bow having a string trained around a string track of a cam wherein the configuration of the string track is variable with respect to the axis of the cam. In one configuration, the string track yields a mechanical advantage when the bowstring is pulled from an at rest position to a drawn position. When the bowstring is released from the drawn position, the string track assumes another configuration. The different configurations that the string track assumes results in the draw force, that is the force required to pull the string from the at rest position to the drawn position, being less than the shooting force, which is the force imparted to an arrow by the string when the string is released from the drawn position.
US07673623B2	Ignition coil device An ignition coil device mounted on the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine. The ignition coil includes: a cylindrical pipe inserted into a plug hole while a first clearance is formed between the cylindrical pipe and the plug hole; a coil tower arranged over the cylindrical pipe; a seal member arranged below the coil tower for sealing the plug hole; and a cover arranged between the seal member and the coil tower. The seal member is formed with an air bleeding hole extending from the first clearance to a side of the coil tower. The air bleeding hole includes a protruding opening. A circumferential wall portion is positioned on the outer circumference side of the protruding opening while a second clearance is formed between the cover and a periphery of the protruding opening.
US07673621B2	Learn correction feature for virtual flex fuel sensor A system for estimating fuel concentration comprises an ethanol estimating module that generates an ethanol estimate based on baseline closed loop corrections (CLC). A fuel system module controls fuel to an engine and generates a fuel system error. The ethanol estimating module selectively adjusts the baseline CLC and the ethanol estimate based on the fuel system error. A method for estimating fuel concentration comprises generating an ethanol estimate based on baseline closed loop corrections (CLC); controlling fuel to an engine and generating a fuel system error; and selectively adjusting said baseline CLC and said ethanol estimate based on said fuel system error.
US07673612B2	Engine control apparatus and engine control method A target engine torque after an environmental correction is calculated by interpolating it between an environmentally corrected maximum engine torque and an environmentally corrected minimum engine torque such that a ratio of a nominal target engine torque between a nominal maximum engine torque and a nominal minimum engine torque under a predetermined environmental condition becomes essentially equal to a ratio of the target engine torque between the environmentally corrected maximum engine torque and the environmentally corrected minimum engine torque. The environmentally corrected maximum engine torque is obtained by multiplying the nominal maximum engine torque and a correction coefficient according to the environmental condition together.
US07673605B2	Rocker arm and method of manufacturing same A rocker arm that is rockably attached to a cylinder head actuates a valve by a guide groove that is formed at an end thereof engaging with an upper end of a valve stem, and a roller that is mounted in a roller housing portion of the arm main unit contacting against a cam and rocking. The guide groove is formed by press working ends of the arm main unit in the thickness direction of the plate material to form a pair of walls, and thereafter applying sandwiching pressure in the lateral direction to the walls to increase the height thereof.
US07673597B2	Hydraulic fluid passage with particle gettering magnet Combination of a housing having a fluid passage and one or more solenoid actuated fluid control valves communicated to the fluid passage wherein a permanent magnet is disposed in fluid passage upstream of the fluid control valves to magnetically capture or getter ferrous particles in fluid prior to entry into the fluid control valve.
US07673596B2	Six-cycle internal combustion engine Described is a six-cycle internal combustion engine. Four of the cycles are the standard “Otto” cycles, namely intake, compression, power and exhaust plus two additional cycles, a primary intake cycle and a transfer cycle. The two additional cycles act as a supercharger to provide compressed air to the intake port of the “Otto” cycle. The benefit is reduced fuel consumption due to 1 power stroke per every 3rd crankshaft revolution and the ability to vary the intake pressure and create a more favorable torque curve at low to mid RPM.
US07673593B2	Engine cooling system The invention concerns an engine cooling system that comprises a cooling circuit (8) and an evaporative cooling arrangement (9). The cooling circuit (8) has a cooling capacity provided by exchanging the heat generated by the engine with ambient air. The evaporative cooling arrangement (9) has a cooling capacity provided by dissipating the heat generated by the engine, by vaporization of a vaporizing coolant in a boiler. The cooling capacity of the evaporative cooling arrangement (9) is such that with the cooling capacity of the cooling circuit (8), the global capacity of the cooling system can match, at least peak, cooling demands. As the cooling capacity of the cooling system is divided between the capacity of the cooling circuit and the capacity of the evaporative cooling arrangement, the capacity of the cooling circuit can be reduced in comparison to a conventional cooling circuit which has to match alone peak cooling demands.
US07673591B2	Nucleate boiling cooling system and method A cooling system for a liquid cooled internal combustion engine having coolant passages and a heat exchanger selected to operate the engine cooling system in the region of nucleate boiling. A sensor detect the presence of nucleate boiling and a pump and pressure relief valve responsive to the sensor maintain the coolant system pressure at a level marinating optimum nucleate boiling to increase heat flux from the engine and reduce overall size of the system.
US07673589B2	Engine-driven work machine An engine-driven work machine is provided in which elastic support members (11, 11) are disposed between a lower part of a work unit (U) having an engine (3) and a frame (2) having the work unit (U) mounted thereon, the elastic support members (11, 11) being disposed beneath a crankshaft (17) of the engine on either side of a vertical plane (V) passing through the axis of the crankshaft (17), and restricting means (122) is provided between the work unit (U) and the frame (2), the restricting means (122) restricting the amplitude of swing of the work unit (U) around the crankshaft (17) to within a predetermined angle, and the restricting means (122) being disposed between upper parts of the work unit (U) and the frame (2). Even when the work unit receives a large external force in the lateral direction, swing of the work unit can thereby be restricted to within the predetermined angle.
US07673584B2	Vertical pet excrement collection device A vertical pet excrement collection device. The device is an absorbent fabric collecting sheet mounted on a frame and maintained in a substantially vertical orientation to catch pet excrement emitted that would not land on or be absorbed by a horizontal collection device. In one embodiment, the device is incorporated with and connected to an existing horizontal collection device such as a litterbox. In a second embodiment the collection device is a frame on which an absorbent sheet is mounted, the frame having an interconnected horizontal frame and vertical frame defining a horizontal pad and a vertical pad. Simple and quick removal and replacement of the absorbent material is provided so that a solid sheet may be easily replaced.
US07673577B2	Enhanced side-by-side mooring construction The invention relates to a floating offshore structure anchored to the sea bed. The floating offshore structure comprises a hull having longitudinal sides and transverse sides, bow and stern anchoring points for mooring a tanker vessel alongside the offshore structure, a deck at a predetermined height above sea level, hydrocarbon storage and/or processing devices being placed on the deck, a spacer member attached to the structure and projecting transversely from the sides for contacting a tanker vessel moored alongside the structure. The anchoring points of the structure comprise of quick release members, wherein the bow and/or stern anchoring points of the structure are situated on a deck which projects transversely from the hull of the structure substantially at the heights of anchoring points of the tanker vessel.
US07673573B2	Manufacturing system and manufacturing method for sheet-like structure To provide a manufacturing system and a method for manufacturing sheet-like structures. The manufacturing system of sheet-like structures comprises a loosened portion forming apparatus which forms plural loosened portions, which are substantially U-shaped on a cord member, an arranging apparatus which inserts each of the plural loosened portions into each of the plural openings formed on a belt-like member and form plural linear portions in substantial linear form which connect each of the plural loosened portions respectively, a sewing apparatus which sews a belt-like member and each of the plural linear portions together with a thread member, and a belt-like member cutting apparatus which cuts a belt-like member in prescribed forms.
US07673569B2	Method of and system for managing rack operation, method of and system for managing multistage rack, article conveyance and storage device, and computer product When a first article is to be delivered to a customer and a second article is to be collected from the customer, first rack components required for delivery of the first article and second rack components not required for delivery of the first article, yet required for collecting the second article, are specified. Delivery procedure and collection procedure of the articles using the specified first rack components and second rack components are instructed to a worksite. Accordingly, delivery and collection of the articles can be carried out by making efficient use of the rack components commonly used for the first article and the second article.
US07673567B2	Turbofan powered locomotive and monorail A track and linkage device for a locomotive designed to run on a track and powered by a turbofan engine comprises a track defining a channel having an open upper end and a plurality of ball bearings in the channel such that at least a portion of the ball bearings project through the open upper end of the channel. The ball bearings are at least partially coated with a material for reducing friction. A connector is associated with locomotive and has a slide surface thereon which slides on the ball bearings in the track. The slide surface includes a material on at least a portion of thereof for reducing friction when moving over the ball bearings.
US07673559B2	Device and method for selecting and brewing the contents of a capsule to prepare a beverage A device for preparing drinks that incorporate a capsule selection function connected to a system for brewing the contents of the capsules to enable brewing to take place under optimal conditions. The device includes a storage system comprising capsules arranged in several sets, a mechanism for capturing a capsule individually from a set and releasing the capsule into a brewing system. The capture mechanism is able to move between the storage system and the brewing system and is designed in such a way as to adopt at least two positions, a first or reception position in which the capsule is held and is able to be transferred by the capture means and a second or release position in which the capture means can be opened to release the capsule from the capture mechanism. The device provides advantages in the handling of the capsule after its selection, in particular, its transfer, the brewing of its contents, and, optionally, the ejection of the spent capsule in a reliable, rapid and automated manner. In addition, the invention provides more reliable usage with no problems of pouring and draining the liquid extract.
US07673556B2	Coffee maker and method of use A coffee maker is provided that is structured to control the temperature of water entering the brewing area, releasably secure a coffee pot in the coffee maker, detect the presence or absence of a coffee pot or mug in the coffee maker, provide a seal between the brewing basket and coffee maker to prevent excess steam from escaping and provide a water supply pressure detection system. A structure for preventing water leaking from an in-wall coffee maker from entering a wall cavity is also provided. A system and method of filtering sediment from water supplied to a coffee maker or other appliance is also provided.
US07673555B2	Machine for brewing a beverage such as coffee and related method An embodiment of a machine for brewing a beverage such as coffee includes a chamber and a piston assembly disposed in the chamber. The chamber is operable to receive a liquid such as water and a flavor base such as ground coffee, and to allow the beverage to brew from a mixture of the liquid and the base. The piston assembly is operable to filter a solid such as spent coffee grounds from the brewed beverage by moving in a first direction, and to force the filtered beverage out of the chamber by moving in a second direction. By modifying or automating some or all steps of the French press brewing technique, such a machine may control one or more of the brewing parameters with a level of precision that yields brewed coffee having a uniform taste from cup to cup. Furthermore, such a machine may brew the coffee with a speed that renders the machine suitable for use by establishments that serve significant amounts of coffee.
US07673548B2	Cutting workstation rip fence and miter gauge A cutting workstation which includes a miter gauge. The miter gauge consists of a clamping means whereby the gauge may be fixed to any location upon the length of cutting station work surface. The miter gauge arm is hinged to clamping means by a plate which may be rotated and then fixed at any angle. The arm is extendable and at its distal end exhibits a T shaped plate and fence which itself may be rotated to any angle. The ability to fix the miter gauge at any position along the cutting station work surface along with two means of adjusting angles allows the fence to guide the work piece at virtually any angle.
US07673545B1	Tissue slicing device A tissue slicing device is comprised of parallel circular blades coaxially connected to a rotary shaft. The blades are separated by gaps. A guide member is supported by a hinge adjacent the blades. An adjustment screw is positioned behind the guide member to control the distance between the guide member and the blades. The device includes a tissue carrier which is comprised of a base member and parallel plates extending from a top side of the base member. The plates are spaced to correspond with the gaps between the blades. Holes in the plates are aligned to define a tissue chamber for receiving a tissue sample. When the tissue carrier is positioned on the guide member and the blades rotated to drive the tissue carrier along the guide member, the tissue chamber is driven into the blades so the tissue sample is simultaneously cut into a plurality of slices.
US07673525B2	Sensor system for pipe and flow condition monitoring of a pipeline configured for flowing hydrocarbon mixtures Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for reliable and accurate flow assurance and pipeline monitoring. More specifically but not by way of limitation, systems and methods of the present invention provide for using Doppler profiles through a pipeline section to monitor and/or measure depositing on and corrosion of a pipeline configured for flowing one or more hydrocarbons. In other embodiments of the present invention, thermal probe sensors may be used to monitor the depositing on and corrosion of the section of the pipeline. And in still further embodiments, combinations of Doppler sensors, thermal sensors and/or acoustic impedance sensors are provided with outputs from one or more of the sensors used to control one or more of the sensors or to provide for determination of flow assurance or pipeline monitoring.
US07673523B2	Tubular insert for a magnetic inductive flow meter There is described a tubular insert for a magnetic inductive flowmeter, a production method for such a tubular insert and a flowmeter. The tubular insert essentially comprises an electrically-insulating material, in particular, rubber, reinforced with a metal mesh, at least in a measuring section. The tubular metal mesh comprises one or more mesh sections, pre-prepared from sheet mesh by stamping, bending and welding butt edges running essentially parallel to the tube axis such as to form an essentially tubular metal mesh. The tubular metal grid is embedded in the electrically-insulating material passing therethrough and the electrically-insulating material essentially covers the inner and out surfaces of the tubular material. A robust, tubular insert is thus achieved, with a corresponding cheap production cost.
US07673521B2	Embedded nanotube array sensor and method of making a nanotube polymer composite A method of producing polymer/nanotube composites where the density and position of the nanotubes (11) within the composite ca be controlled. Carbon nanotubes (11) are grown from organometallic micropatterns. These periodic nanotube arrays are then incorporated into a polymer matrix (7) by deposing a curable polymer film on the as-grown tubes. This controlled method of producing free-standing nanotube/polymer composite films may be used to form nanosensor (3) which provide information regarding a physical condition of a material (20), such as an airplane chassis or wing, in contact with the nanosensor (3).
US07673514B2	Acceleration sensor having single and multi-layer substrates An acceleration sensor in accordance with an aspect of the present invention comprises a first substrate, a multilayer second substrate and a sensor portion. The multilayer second substrate is opposed to the first substrate. The multilayer second substrate is provided with an electrode drawing opening. Further, the multilayer second substrate consists of a plurality of layers. The sensor portion (a movable mass body and a fixed electrode) is provided in a sealed cavity portion which is formed between the first substrate and the multilayer second substrate which are opposed to each other.
US07673506B2	Apparatus and method for actuating a pressure delivery system of a fluid sampler An apparatus for actuating a pressure delivery system of a fluid sampler. The apparatus includes a housing (302) having a longitudinal passageway and defining first and second chambers (338, 348). A piston (346) is disposed within the longitudinal passageway between the first and second chambers (338, 348). A valving assembly (356) is disposed within the longitudinal passageway. The valving assembly (356) is operable to selectively prevent communication of pressure from a pressure source of the fluid sampler to the second chamber (348). The valving assembly (356) is actuated responsive to an increase in pressure in the first chamber (338) which longitudinally displaces the piston (346) toward the valving assembly (356) until at least a portion of the piston (346) contacts the valving assembly (356), thereby releasing pressure from the pressure source into the second chamber (348) and longitudinally displacing the piston (346) away from the valving assembly (356).
US07673501B2	Moisture detection A method of retro-fitting a moisture detection fitting in the wall of a building in accordance with the following steps: forming a space which proceeds into the wall; and inserting the moisture detection fitting into the space such that a probe of the fitting: 1) presses into timber framing within the wall, or 2) stops short of timber framing within the wall but contacts a moisture absorbent filler forming part of the fitting and wherein the filler can absorb moisture from the timber framing. The moisture detection fitting being fitted substantially permanently such that when it is in use a moisture detection device can be detachably connected to the fitting outside the wall and use the probes, and if appropriate the filler, to measure a moisture content of the timber framing.
US07673488B2	Wire winding apparatus and method for producing magnetic excitation coil A fixing apparatus of the present invention for an electronic induction heating system includes a heat roller and a magnetic excitation coil that generates Joule heat within the heat roller. The fixing apparatus includes a coil positioner that positions the magnetic excitation coil around a portion of a periphery of the heat roller, a fixing roller that fixes toner image on a recording medium, and a belt that contacts a portion of a periphery of the heat roller and the fixing roller to conduct the generated heat from the heat roller to the fixing roller. The coil positioner further has a surface of first curvature substantially identical to a curvature of a periphery of the heat roller at an opposition area, the opposition area being opposite to a contact area where the heat roller makes contact with the belt. The coil positioner is spaced from the belt by a predetermined distance. The coil positioner further has a first extension extending from a first end of the opposition area of the coil positioner and a second extension extending from a second end of the opposition area of the coil positioner. The first extension and the second extension are spaced from the belt distances larger than the predetermined distance.
US07673486B2	Peening chamber for surface peening, in particular for ultrasonic shot peening of gas turbine components The invention relates to a peening chamber for surface peening, in particular for ultrasonic shot peening of gas turbine components (10), which, at least with a component region (20) comprising the surface to be treated, are to be arranged within a chamber wall (12), which spatially defines the peening chamber, wherein at least one wall region (26, 36, 48) of the chamber wall (12) is designed to be adjustable in order to vary the geometry of the peening chamber.
US07673484B1	Key lock assembly A key lock assembly includes a core, formed with a keyway to accept a key, mounted to a fixture for rotation along a break point formed between the core and the fixture. A block assembly and rows of pin assemblies are mounted to the fixture and the core and are each formed with a break point. In a locked position of the key lock assembly the block assembly and the pin assemblies interact between the core and the fixture preventing the core from rotating relative to the fixture. In an unlocked position of the key lock assembly the key is inserted into the keyway interacting with the block assembly and the pin assemblies registering the break points of the block and pin assemblies with the break point formed between the core and the fixture allowing the core to rotate relative to the fixture.
US07673471B2	Refrigeration appliance with externally accessible dispenser A refrigeration appliance is provided which includes a cabinet with a first openable door providing access to a first refrigeration compartment and a second openable door providing access to a second refrigeration compartment. The second openable door has a portion thereof positioned below a portion of the first openable door. A rail separates the first refrigeration compartment and the second refrigeration compartment. A water dispenser is contained in the rail, as well as electronic controls for the refrigeration appliance. The dispenser is arranged to be stationary relative to the refrigeration appliance while the doors are open or closed. The rail may be removed and replaced, and with the water and electronic controls located in the rail, repairs are performed more efficiently and flexibility in manufacturing is enhanced. A drip tray is formed in an exterior side of the second openable door below the dispenser. When the door is opened, the drip tray moves away from the dispenser, permitting the dispenser to be used with larger receptacles than can be accommodated with the drip tray under the dispenser.
US07673468B2	High efficiency evaporatively cooled condenser A heat exchanger having a plurality of tubes that define refrigerant passages extending vertically from a lower end to an upper end. A bottom header is in fluid communication with the passage at the lower end of the tube, and a top header is in fluid communication with the passage at the upper end of the tube. A plurality of plates extends rearwardly from the tubes to a distal edge. Adjacent plates extending from adjacent tubes are closed off at the distal edges by a connector, and adjacent plates extending from the same tube have a rear opening between the distal edges for receiving air into the assembly. A plurality of orifices is disposed along the plates to allow air from the rear opening to flow downstream between the tubes. A water tank and wicking material are provided for wetting the plates.
US07673466B2	Auxiliary power device for refrigerated trucks An auxiliary power device for attachment to an existing refrigeration unit of a refrigerated trailer to serve as a power source to a truck cab, thereby allow operation of electrical devices in said cab without idling of the truck's engine. The auxiliary power device comprises a housing attached beneath the existing refrigeration unit, an electric generator enclosed within the housing, and a pulley assembly mounted in the housing and connected by drive shaft to the generator. The pulley assembly is connected via drive belt to the diesel motor in the existing refrigeration unit. When the generator is activated a first relay governs the speed of the diesel motor in the refrigeration unit, which turns the generator to generate power, and a second relay prevents drainage of the refrigeration unit battery. The power from the generator is routed through a breaker panel mounted in the cab of the truck for distributing and regulating power from the battery and/or generator into the truck cab. Thus, the driver can power electric devices in the cab from the auxiliary power generation device without idling the truck's main engine, thereby reducing fuel consumption, harmful emissions, and prolonging engine life.
US07673461B2	Structural turbine engine casing A structural turbine engine casing is disclosed. The casing includes a central hub, at least one intermediate shroud, and an external ring, which are concentric, the external ring and the intermediate shroud being connected via links, the intermediate shroud and the central hub being connected by a series of radially fastened hollow arms. The series of arms includes at least one main arm and at least one secondary arm, each main arm being arranged in the continuation of a link and having a mass which is greater than that of a secondary arm arranged at a distance from the links.
US07673459B2	System and method for providing air to a compressor of an aircraft auxiliary gas turbine engine A system for providing air to a compressor of an auxiliary gas turbine engine of an aircraft. A system turbine has an inlet adapted to receive compressed air from the aircraft. A system compressor is mechanically coupled to the system turbine and has an inlet adapted to receive atmospheric air. The outlets of the system turbine and the system compressor are fluidly connectable to the inlet of the compressor of the auxiliary gas turbine engine. A method includes providing compressed air from an aircraft to an inlet of a system turbine mechanically coupled to a system compressor. The method includes providing atmospheric air to an inlet of the system compressor. The method includes providing the inlet of the compressor of an auxiliary gas turbine engine with air from an outlet of the system turbine and with air from an outlet of the system compressor.
US07673458B2	Turbofan engine nozzle assembly and method for operating the same A method for operating a turbofan engine assembly including a core gas turbine engine is provided. The method includes varying an operating speed of the turbofan engine assembly from a first operating speed to a second operating speed. The method also includes selectively positioning a first arcuate portion and a second arcuate portion of a split cowl assembly to vary a throat area of a fan nozzle duct defined downstream from the core gas turbine engine to facilitate improving engine efficiency at the second operating speed. The split cowl assembly is downstream from the core gas turbine engine and inside the fan nozzle duct. A turbofan engine assembly and nozzle assembly are also provided.
US07673457B2	Turbine engine combustion chamber with tangential slots A turbine engine annular combustion chamber, including longitudinal walls connected by a transverse chamber bottom and a single-piece cowling, the chamber bottom and the cowling each including an inner flange and an outer flange each with a plurality of holes made in it for the passage of fixing systems for fixing the cowling on the chamber bottom. Each fixing system has associated with it at least one tangential slot formed on the corresponding flange of the chamber bottom and/or on the corresponding flange of the cowling, each slot being formed in the immediate vicinity of the corresponding fixing system.
US07673455B2	Gas turbine combustor and fuel supply method for same A gas turbine combustor includes a liquid fuel nozzle for jetting out liquid fuel; a pre-mixture chamber wall provided with the liquid fuel nozzle at a center thereof, having a hollow conical shape gradually spreading in the direction in which the fuel is jetted out, and defining a pre-mixture chamber therein; a plurality of air inlet holes bored through the pre-mixture chamber wall and introducing the combustion air to the pre-mixture chamber such that angles at which the combustion air is introduced to the pre-mixture chamber through the air inlet holes are deflected at least toward the circumferential direction of the pre-mixture chamber wall; and a plurality of gaseous fuel nozzles disposed around the pre-mixture chamber wall in an opposing relation respectively to the plurality of air inlet holes and jetting out gaseous fuel substantially coaxially with axes of the air inlet holes.
US07673445B2	Mechanical apparatus having a catalytic NOx storage and conversion device A mechanical apparatus including a combustion engine, a conduit for transporting an exhaust stream away from the engine, a first catalytic NOx storage and conversion region disposed along the conduit, and a second catalytic NOx storage and conversion region disposed along the conduit at a location downstream from the first catalytic NOx storage and conversion region is disclosed. Each of the first catalytic NOx storage and conversion region and the second catalytic NOx storage and conversion region includes at least one catalytic metal configured to convert NOx to NO2 when the engine is supplied a lean air/fuel mixture, and at least one NOx adsorbing compound configured to adsorb NO2 for storage when the engine is supplied a lean air/fuel mixture, and wherein the one of the first and the second catalytic NOx storage and conversion regions has a lower concentration of catalytic metal than the other of the first and second catalytic NOx storage and conversion regions.
US07673442B2	Turbofan engine cowl assembly A method for operating a turbofan engine assembly is provided. The turbofan engine assembly includes a core cowl which circumscribes the core gas turbine engine, a nacelle positioned radially outward from the core cowl, a fan nozzle duct having an area defined between the core cowl and a portion of the nacelle, a first cowl and a second cowl that define a portion of the nacelle wherein the second cowl is repositionable with respect to the first cowl, and a thrust reverser assembly wherein the second cowl surrounds the thrust reverser assembly. The method includes varying an operating speed of the fan assembly from a first operating speed to a second operating speed. The method further includes selectively positioning the second cowl between a first operational position and a second operational position to vary the area of the fan nozzle duct to facilitate improving engine efficiency at the second operating speed. The method further includes selectively positioning the second cowl between the second operational position and a third operational position to vary an amount of air flowing through the fan nozzle duct and the thrust reverser assembly, wherein the second operational position substantially prevents airflow from flowing through the thrust reverser assembly to improve the efficiency of the turbofan engine, and wherein the third operational position directs airflow through the thrust reverser assembly.
US07673430B1	Recessed wall-wash staggered mounting system The invention comprises a housing for recessed lights within a ceiling. The invention further comprises a system comprising several housings placed adjacent to each other and an associated method for placing the housings within the ceiling. The system has a series of housings with mounting extension and recessed indentations in which the mounting extensions fit so that two or more housings can be positioned adjacent to each other. The housings rest on a support bar and can be fixed into place by clips or fasteners.
US07673423B2	Cladding apparatus, method and system There is provided cladding apparatus comprising a body portion (108) having an inner surface (110) and an outer surface (112) extending longitudinally between a leading edge (114) and a trailing edge (116) and transversely between opposed side edges (118). The leading edge (114) is provided with a formation (124) which inter-engages with complementary formation (126) provided on an adjacent body portion thereby permitting the body portions to inter-engage when laid in a longitudinal sequence. The body portion (108) is provided with a pair of longitudinally extending elongate mounting portions (128) on the inner surface (110) thereof. A longitudinal mounting batten (144) is attached to the fascia panel (106) adjacent to the exposed edge of the tiles (104), and into which the elongate mounting portions (128) may slide. A roof batten (132) is laid on the tiles and has on its lower face a plurality of steps which compensate for the overlapping nature of the tiles to provide a level upper face (140) when laid on the tiles (104), the upper face (140) forming a labyrinth with the inner surface (110) to assist in excluding weather in use.
US07673419B2	Rear window slider assembly The present specification provides a rear window assembly for a vehicle having a window frame, at least one fixed window panel whose perimeter edge defines a portion of an opening, a movable window panel capable of opening or closing the opening and that is allowed to slidably move past the surface of the fixed window panel, a seal member present on the perimeter surface of at least one of the window panels, and a closure track integrally formed in at least one edge of the window frame. The closure track may force the movable window panel and the fixed window panel closer together, thereby, placing the seal member under compression.
US07673417B2	Method for self-orienting a planting pot on a tray Planting pots and a multi-compartment tray are provided, the pots and tray having a self-orienting configuration for urging the pots into proper alignment when same are placed within compartments of the tray. The pots include angled recesses disposed radially about the bottom portion of the pots. The compartments of the tray include angled protrusions disposed radially about the bottom portion of the compartment. The angled recesses of the pot engage with the angled protrusions of the compartment when the pot is placed in the compartment to urge the pot into proper alignment. A plurality of slots are included along an upper portion of each pot for allowing optional identification tags to be inserted thereinto. The identification tags, in addition to logos, artwork, or other indicia, if included, are positioned by the self-orienting configuration of the pots and tray to face in a desired direction.
US07673415B2	Apparatus and method for regulation of carbon dioxide content in atmosphere An apparatus to promote plant growth in vast desert areas is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a blocking plate pivotally jointed to at least two support posts. The blocking plate is operated by an electrical motor to turn wheels secured to a rotary rod to extend or pull back cables connecting the blocking plate and the wheels in order to swing the blocking plate between an approximately horizontal position and one or two approximately vertical positions in order to protect the plants underneath and promote plant growth. The apparatus can include a solar cell layer in the blocking plate, or attach a wind turbine at the top of one of the support posts to generate electrical energy from the extreme desert sunlight and windstorm. Further, rain gutters can be formed onto the blocking plate to collect and distribute rainwater.
US07673411B1	Systems and methods for electrode drag compensation A method is performed by an electronic weapon system. The electronic weapon system is aimed in a first direction toward a target. The method includes, deploying an electrode of the system in a second direction different from the first direction, to compensate for drag of a tether wire deployed with the electrode. For example, a tether wire deployed from a tether wire store located adjacent to a cavity from which the electrode is propelled may exert a drag force causing inaccuracies of the propelled electrode. Compensation is accomplished, for example, by virtue of shaping the cavity. Compensation improves accuracy of the electrode striking the target.
US07673393B1	Line block A line block having a body; a first leg extending substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the body; a first leg quoin line groove extending from a front surface of the first leg; a first leg wall line groove extending from a bottom surface of the first leg; a second leg spaced apart from the first leg, wherein the second leg extends substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the body, wherein a corner pole receiving groove is defined between at least a portion of the body, the first leg, and the second leg; a second leg quoin line groove extending from a front surface of the body and a front surface of the second leg, along a portion of an inner wall surface of the second leg; and a second leg wall line groove extending from a right side surface of the second leg.
US07673391B2	Multi-tasking utility tool A utility tool comprising a body having a first and a second end position on opposite ends of the body; a removable device; as well as a first tool and a second tool configured to be selectively coupled to each other or one of either the first end and second end of the body.
US07673387B2	Manufacture of a layer including a component A method for manufacturing a circuit-board layer on a base surface (2), which base surface (2) includes conductor patterns (19). The circuit-board layer being manufactured comprises a conductor-pattern layer (14), an insulating layer (1), and at least one component (6) inside the insulating-material layer (1). According to the invention, the component (6) is attached to the conductor layer (4), the conductor layer (4) is aligned relative to the base surface (2) attached with the aid of an insulating material (1) to the base surface (2). An insulating-material layer (1) is thus formed between the conductor layer (4) and the base surface (2), on which the said at least one component (6) is located. Electrical contacts are formed between the contact areas (7) of the component (6) and the conductor layer (4), in such a way that contact openings (17) are opened at the positions of the contact areas (7) of the component (6) and conductive material is made in the contact openings (17). The conductor layer (4) is patterned to form a conductor-pattern layer (14), and at least one via (20) is made between the conductor-pattern layer (14) and the conductor patterns (19) of the base surface (2).
US07673385B2	Laminated structure method A laminated structure having an electrode hard to peel off and a method of manufacturing the laminated structure. The laminated structure has: a backing substrate; a lower electrode including an adhesive layer containing a metal oxide and a conductive layer formed on the backing substrate with the adhesive layer therebetween; a dielectric layer disposed on the lower electrode; and an upper electrode disposed on the dielectric layer. Further, the method includes the steps of: (a) disposing a lower electrode by forming a conductive layer on a backing substrate with an adhesive layer containing a metal oxide therebetween; (b) disposing a dielectric layer by spraying powder of a dielectric material to the lower electrode for deposition; (c) heat-treating the dielectric layer; and (d) forming an upper electrode on the dielectric layer before or after step (c).
US07673384B2	Nut runner and hexabot robot A six degree of freedom servo driven robot having a seventh axis servo motor for rotating servo driven nut runners affixed to swing arms about a radius. The robot offering flexibility within high production manufacturing and automotive assembly processes by realizing translational movement of servo driven nut runners about seven degrees of translation for fastening component parts of a work product within a work envelope.
US07673381B2	Method of manufacturing head suspension A method of manufacturing a head suspension includes forming a rigid part chain product where the rigid parts are provided continuously, including forming a plate-like framework for formation of the rigid part including formation margins for formation of the rails and forming a deformable part along a longitudinal curve of each formation margin and forming the rails by bending the formation margins to rise, forming a resilient member chain product where the resilient members are provided continuously, forming the flexures, forming the bases, and a stacking and coupling step stacking and coupling the rigid part chain product, the resilient member chain product, the bases, and the flexures, to form a stacked set, and cutting and separating respective head suspensions from the stacked set.
US07673377B2	Fastener insertion apparatus and method A rivet is inserted into a workpiece by an apparatus that includes an internal roller screw linear actuator in which rotational movement of an internally threaded cylinder is converted into linear movement of a fastener insertion actuator assembly. The cylinder is driven in rotation by a servo-controlled motor. The angular velocity of the cylinder required to deliver the required energy to effect fastener insertion is calculated and the motor is first controlled to accelerate the cylinder up to the calculated angular velocity, the actuator assembly simultaneously being moved by the cylinder towards the workpiece. The motor is then controlled to maintain the angular velocity of the cylinder at not less than the calculated magnitude at least until insertion of the fastener. The cylinder stores kinetic energy by virtue of its inertia. Using this inertia to insert fasteners eliminates the need for position or force feedback control. The process allows for a rapid cycle time and the apparatus is compact.
US07673376B2	Device for fabricating a toothing at a three-dimensional body produced by forming and fine blanking A device for fabricating a toothing at an inner facing edge of a three-dimensional pot-shaped body produced by forming and fine blanking exclusively implemented by cutting and/or shaving with a fine blanking die and/or a shaving device. The device includes a base plate and a pressure pad between which the pot-shaped body is receivable. A pilot die is received within a hollow space of a die and is biased in an advancement direction of the die such that a portion of the pilot die protrudes from the hollow space and contacts the base of said pot-shaped body before the die when the die is advanced in the working direction. A groove is thereby created between said curved edge of the pot-shaped body and the pilot die for leading a fine blanking burr or shaving chips into the recess of the pot-shaped body. Further advancement of the die fixing and pressing the burr or the chips into the recess.
US07673365B1	Adjustable tool for finishing concrete surfaces A tool assembly includes a handle section including operably connected linear sections. A proximal section has a handle portion and a distal section has a fixed longitudinal length protruding away from the proximal section. A float is included having planar top and bottom surfaces. The assembly also includes mechanisms for pivotally connecting the float to the handle section, for pivotally attaching the proximal section to the distal section, and for rotatably connecting the proximal section to the distal section. A mechanism is also included for telescopically adjusting a length of the proximal section. A carrying case is included for housing the float and the handle section therein, and is provided with an articulated lid attached thereto. The pivotally connecting mechanism, the pivotally attaching mechanism, the rotatably connecting mechanism, and the telescopically adjusting mechanism are independently and simultaneously operable.
US07673363B2	Adhesive roller An adhesive roller for detritus removal having an elongated strip where the strip has both a backing layer and an adhesive layer overlying and covering a first side of the backing layer. The strip also has a first end, a second end and two spaced apart sides. The strip is wound from its first end and to its second end into a tubular cylindrical roller with the adhesive layer facing outwardly. An adhesive release coating also overlies at least a portion of a second side of the backing layer. The adhesive release coating may be either applied as a liquid coating, or may be a solid substrate. This adhesive release coating facilitates removal of individual sheets from the roller. Alternatively, a portion of the backing layer is crimped to form alternating peaks and valleys along at least a portion of the backing layer. These alternating peaks and valleys limit the amount of areal contact between the backing layer and the next inner adhesive layer of the roller to facilitate removal of individual sheets from the roller.
US07673357B1	Bottle opening and portable data storage apparatus An apparatus for opening bottles and storing data has an enclosure formed from a pair of semi-enclosed casings that includes a gripping member having a pair of tabs for grasping and removing caps from bottles. The enclosure provides a protective shell for a portable data storage device that may be pivoted outwardly from within the enclosure when the device is in use. The data storage device includes a universal serial bus plug and can be used with any electronic device having a universal serial bus port, such as a desktop computer, notebook computer, communications device, and the like. The apparatus may be carried separately or can be attached to another carrying device or hung on a hook.
US07673356B1	Head and neck support apparatus A flexible tubular frame, comprising an upper section and a lower section, supports a person's neck and head for hygienic, therapeutic, or cosmetic purposes. The upper section has a depressed portion shaped for supporting a person's neck when the person lies within the open ends of the base frame and the upper frame.
US07673350B2	Universal safety cap A safety cap comprising a plurality of rigid plates, a foam insert, and an outer covering. The rigid plates are embedded within the foam insert, and the foam insert comprises foam joints. A safety cap comprising a plurality of cushions, a rigid shell, and an outer covering. The cushions are attached to the inside of the rigid shell, and they comprise a plurality of nozzles. A safety cap in which rigid plates and cushions are embedded within a foam insert. The cushions are positioned on the inner surface of the rigid plates and may contain air, foam, fluid or a combination thereof. The outer covering is preferably made of fabric, and the cap preferably comprises an adjustable strap. The cap optionally includes ventilation holes, ear cutouts, eye cutouts, a ponytail cutout, an eye protector and/or a face protector.
US07673349B2	Headwear with integrated spectacles A cap in combination with spectacles that are removably coupled to the underside of the cap's visor. The spectacles are pivotally movable from a first deployed position, where the lenses are disposed in front of a user's face to a second stowed position, where the spectacles underlie the visor. The pivoting mechanism is axially biased to provide constant pressure to hold the spectacles in substantially any position.
US07673348B2	User wearable wire control system A user wearable wire control system and associated processes that can be utilized to control a dangling wire along a user's body. The user wearable wire control system includes a first layer and second layer that are configured to form a sleeve with a hollow portion disposed therein. The sleeve is adapted to encase a least a portion of a wire. The sleeve includes a first aperture at a first end portion configured to allow at least a portion of the wire to enter the sleeve and a second aperture at a second end portion configured to allow at least a portion of the wire to exit the sleeve. As such, a wire that would otherwise dangle loosely along the body of a user may be at least partially encased in the sleeve and may reduce the danger and/or inconvenience of a dangling wire.
US07676845B2	System and method of selectively scanning a file on a computing device for malware In accordance with this invention, a system, method, and computer-readable medium that selectively scans files stored on a computing device for malware is provided. One or more files may be sent from a trusted source to a computing device that implements the present invention. The integrity of the files that originate from a trusted source is validated using a signature-based hashing function. Any modifications made to files stored on the computing device are tracked by a component of the operating system. In instances when the file is not modified after being validated, an aspect of the present invention prevents the file from being scanned for malware when a scanning event is directed to the file. As a result, the performance of the computing device is improved as static files from trusted sources are not repeatedly scanned for malware.
US07676842B2	System and method for detecting malicious code A method of detecting malicious code in computer readable code includes performing an initial determination to determine whether a first portion of the computer readable code may potentially have malicious code and if it is determined that the computer readable code potentially has malicious code, performing another determination to determine whether a second portion not including the first portion of the computer readable code has malicious code.
US07676834B2	System and method for blocking unauthorized network log in using stolen password To limit access to thieves of passwords, at initial registration with a Web server, a user is given a password and user name, and a cookie including a login key and machine ID is downloaded to the user. For subsequent log ins, the user inputs the user name and password and if they are correct, the server checks the cookie on the user computer to determine whether the login key and machine ID matches the record stored in the server before granting access. If access is successful a new login key is sent in a new cookie to be used in the next subsequent login so that the login key changes every login. If the cookie check is unsuccessful, the server refuses access until a user validation process has been completed.
US07676832B2	Personalized service providing system and profile information classifying and processing method thereof The present invention relates to a personalized service providing system and a profile information classifying and processing method thereof. The system, linked to a plurality of subscriber stations to provide a personalized service to a subscriber station, classifies and processes profile information for the service. In the profile information classifying and processing method, a) subscriber profile information is generated, b) the subscriber profile information is classified into static profile information and dynamic profile information, and c) the dynamic profile information is selected from the subscriber station to manage the selected dynamic profile information and the static profile information is selected from the system to manage the selected static profile information. The the static and dynamic profile information is classified into public and private profile information to manage the classified static and dynamic profile information.
US07676817B1	Media drive system having a plurality of queuing positions A media drive system includes a housing and a drive unit at least partially disposed within the housing. A media handler arrangement defines a plurality of queuing positions for media objects, and a receiving area within the housing receives storage units defining at least one other queuing position. The drive system reduces latency through the use of the queuing positions to speed transfer and access to media objects.
US07676812B2	Large scale event notification system A scalable event notification system is provided. The event notification system manages the set of topics available for notification via a topic manager network. The event notification system transmits event notifications to event consumers via a subscription manager network. The configuration and operation of the subscription manager network may to reconfigured in response to changing load and fault conditions to facilitate the timely delivery of event notifications. The notification to subscribers also includes mechanisms to provide individual privacy and non-tampering of notifications. Notification may dynamically be delivered to alternative locations and localized to accommodate different natural languages.
US07676807B2	Method and system for cascaded processing a plurality of data objects Systems and methods are provided for cascaded processing a plurality of data objects. Each data object may be assigned to a folder among a plurality of folders, wherein a main process distributes the plurality of folders to a corresponding number of parallel processes of a first tier of processes. Each parallel process may select the data objects to be processed for the respective folder, split the selected data objects into packages of appropriate size, respectively, and distribute the packages similar to a cascade to a corresponding number of further parallel sub-processes of a second tier of processes, whereupon each package is processed.
US07676798B2	Mechanism for obtaining and applying constraints to constructs within an interactive environment The present mechanism obtains constraints within an interactive environment, associates these constraints with constructs, and then applies these constraints to the constructs when encountering the constructs. The constraints may be saved in metadata associated with the respective construct. The constraints may specify a data type for the construct, a predicate directive, a documentation directive, a parsing directive, a data generation directive, a data validation directive, or an object processing and encoding directive. The constraints are extendable to support other directives. The mechanism allows interactive users to easily specify constraints interactively.
US07676796B2	Device, system and method for maintaining a pre-defined number of free registers within an instrumented program A method, device and system for maintaining a pre-defined number of free registers at any location of an instrumented program such that at each point during execution of a segment of the instrumented program, the segment has access to the pre-defined number of free registers.
US07676790B1	Plasma processing system component analysis software and methods and systems for creating the same A method for generating plasma processing system component analysis software is provided. The method includes defining component specifications for a plurality of components. Each of the plurality of components implements at least one of a user-interface function, a logic operation function, an input function, and an output function for analyzing a plasma processing system component. Defining includes selecting the plurality of components from a component panel of a visual integrated design editor architecture (VIDEA), thereby causing the plurality of components to be disposed in a layout format in the VIDEA. Defining also includes specifying properties of each of the plurality of components by performing at least one of selecting from predefined properties and defining parameters for the properties. The method also includes saving the plurality of components after the defining in a mark-up language configured to be executable by a browser without requiring prior compiling.
US07676783B2	Apparatus for performing computational transformations as applied to in-memory processing of stateful, transaction oriented systems An apparatus for performing in-memory computation for stateful, transaction-oriented applications is provided. The apparatus includes a multi-level array of storage cells. The storage cells are configurable for a read access from one of a plurality of access data paths. The plurality of access data paths are also configurable for a write access from one of the plurality of access data paths. The multi-level array is capable of being configurable into logical partitions with arbitrary starting addresses. The apparatus further includes a compute element in communication with the multi-level array over the plurality of access data paths, the compute element configured to issue a plurality of memory accesses to the multi-level array through the plurality of access data paths. Methods for programming a multi-level array of storage cells and for processor design are also provided.
US07676780B2	Techniques for super fast buffer insertion A method of determining buffer insertion locations in an integrated circuit design establishes candidate locations for inserting buffers into a net, and selects buffer insertion locations from among the candidates based on slew constraints. The selection of buffer insertion locations preferably optimizes slack and buffer cost while keeping slew from any buffered node to any sink less than a required slew rate. The slew analysis computes an output slew SL(v) of a given buffer b inserted at a node v as SL(v)=RS(b)·C(v)+KS(b), where C(v) is the downstream capacitance at v, RS(b) is the slew resistance of buffer b, and KS(b) is the intrinsic slew of buffer b. The delay through a given buffer may also be computed based on signal polarity. However, the invention still preferably uses worst-case slew resistance and intrinsic slew in considering the slew constraints. If the selection of the buffer insertion locations results in no locations being selected due to slew violations, the present invention may advantageously find a partial solution by relaxing the slew constraint.
US07676771B2	Method of optimizing an electrical cabling In this optimization procedure for the cabling, the characteristics of the cables used to connect a power source to a receiving charge are defined in function of the predetermined and environmental constraints. In the cases where a line realizing the link between the power source and the receiving charge is comprised of several distinct cables connected through cutouts, the section of cables is dimensioned for each cable in the line, independently of the other cables, and is then optimized while taking the overall constraints of the line into account.
US07676763B2	Method and system for providing an outwardly expandable radial menu An outwardly expandable radial menu, such as a plus-shaped menu, may be launched in a user interface screen and may include a center option and up to four other options arranged to the left, right, upward, and downward relative to the center option. The position of each of the options may be associated with certain option categories. A traditional selectable menu, such as drop down menu, may be appended to the plus-shaped menu. A determination may be made regarding whether a portion of the plus-shaped menu will exceed a display boundary of the user interface screen. A placeholder may be displayed in place of the portion that is determined to exceed the display boundary. In response to user navigation to the placeholder, the plus-shaped menu may be shifted so that the portion replaced by the placeholder may be displayed.
US07676761B2	Window grouping A framework is provided for obtaining window information. The window information can be applied to different assignment models to assign windows to different groups. A group may correspond to a task being performed by a user. The window information can be semantic or temporal information captured as window events and properties of windows whose events are captured. Temporal information can be information about switches between windows. Semantic information can be window titles. Temporal information, semantic information, or both, can be used to assign windows to groups.
US07676756B2	Mapping tool graphical user interface A graphical user interface and method for creating a mapping between a source object and a destination or target object are provided. The user interface includes a source screen region which displays a graphical representation of a source object, a target screen region which displays a graphical representation of a target object, and a mapping screen region which allows a user to create a mapping between the graphical representation of the source object and the graphical representation of the target object using graphical mapping indicia. The methodology includes displaying a graphical representation of a source object in a source screen region, displaying a graphical representation of a target object in a target screen region, creating a mapping between the graphical representation of the source object and the graphical representation of the target object in a mapping screen region using graphical mapping indicia, and displaying the mapping in the mapping screen region. The source and target objects may be schemas, spreadsheets, documents, databases, or other information sources, and the graphical mapping indicia may include link indicia and/or function objects linking nodes in the target object with nodes in the source object. The mapping may be compiled into code used by a runtime engine to translate source documents into target documents.
US07676755B2	Apparatus and method for linking objects created in a rapid application development environment A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to invoke a rapid application development graphical user interface to define fields associated with a set of objects. The creation of new objects derived from the set of objects is facilitated using the rapid application development graphical user interface to select existing fields of the set of objects and define new object fields. Tabs are associated with the new objects. A set of tabs is selected to create a new application.
US07676750B2	Method of printing, scanning, and faxing using device location A method of printing includes providing a computer server linked to a plurality of printers, initiating a print job on a user computer device, querying the computer server for one or more available printers; transmitting identification information and location information of each printer from the computer server to the user computer device; displaying the information in the form of a list to the user computer device; selecting by a user one of the printers in the list; transmitting the selection to the computer server; transmitting configuration information for the selected printer to the user computer device; configuring the print data by with the configuration information; and transmitting the configured print data from the user computer device to the selected printer for printing.
US07676749B2	Login management technique The invention is to provide a technique for improving the usage efficiency of user licenses in an environment in which the simultaneous connection number of users is limited. This invention comprises: determining a predetermined allowable time based on a task selected by a user and an attribute of the user; and forcibly making the user log off in a case where it is detected that data relating to the selected task is not inputted or received for a time exceeding the predetermined allowable time. Thus, the time until the logoff is forcibly performed is automatically and suitably set according to, for example, the task conducted by the user or a department to which the user belongs.
US07676748B1	System graphics for security shield A method for providing a secure lockout from executing application programs is provided. An opaque graphical component obscures graphical components for all executing software (applications) programs on a display apparatus and prevents events from reaching the executing application programs.
US07676745B2	Document segmentation based on visual gaps A document may be segmented based on a visual model of the document. The visual model is determined according to an amount of visual white space or gaps that are in the document. In one implementation, the visual model is used to identify a hierarchical structure of the document, which may then be used to segment the document.
US07676743B2	Applying type fitting across grouped text frames in a page layout application Methods are disclosed for type-fitting text in multiple text frames of a page layout application. The text frames are associated with a group, and permissible variances of parameters of type fitting attributes are assigned to the group using a graphical user interface. In one embodiment, to type-fit the text, a best-individual-fit setting for the text of each text frame is first individually assessed to determine parameters of the attributes that would result in the text substantially fitting within its associated text frame. Thereafter, one best-group-fit setting for all frames in the group is determined by sorting through the best-individual-fit settings for each of the frames to determine which frame's best-individual-fit parameters results in the highest degree of text shrinkage or the least degree of text expansion. In accordance with this embodiment, the frames, when fitted, will be uniformly scaled in accordance with a scaling factor.
US07676741B2	Structural context for fixed layout markup documents Techniques relating to structural context for fixed layout markup documents are described. In one instance, a process defines content and associated positional information of a document with a set of content markup. The process also specifies a structural configuration for the document relative to at least some of the content markup, such that the structural configuration is separate from the content markup.
US07676734B2	Decoding apparatus and method and information processing apparatus and method A decoding apparatus, decoding the LDPC code using a message passing algorithm, sets a message as a log likelihood ratio having, as a base, a real number “a” which is a power of 2, and includes a check node processing calculating unit for receiving a message from a bit node to calculate a message from a check node. The check node processing calculating unit includes a converter for converting an absolute value x of the message to output f (x) and a converting unit supplied as an input y with a sum of the absolute values x of the message from the totality of the bit nodes less one, converted by the converter, subdividing the input y in preset domains and for converting the number in the domain into g (y), and expresses the boundary values of the domains of the input y and f (x) by a power of 2.
US07676720B2	Method and system for program based redundancy A system that includes: (ii) at least one input port adapted to receive multiple addressable packets that include media content that belong to multiple media streams and to at least one duplicating media stream; (ii) at least one processor adapted to process the multiple addressable packets to determine media stream layer errors to control, and to participate in a replacement of addressable packets that include media content that belong to a defective media stream by addressable packets that belong to a corresponding duplicate stream. A method for providing a video stream over a network, the method includes: (i) receiving a first multi purpose communication protocol stream that includes multiple media streams and receiving at least one duplicate media stream; (ii) detecting a error in a media stream program; and replacing the defective media stream by a duplicate media stream.
US07676715B2	Integrated circuit with continuous testing of repetitive functional blocks A method of continuous testing of repetitive functional blocks provided on an integrated circuit (IC) which includes selecting one of the repetitive functional blocks at a time for testing, substituting a test repetitive functional block for a selected repetitive functional block, and testing the selected repetitive functional block during normal functional mode of the IC. An IC which includes repetitive functional blocks for performing corresponding functional block operations during normal functional mode of the IC, and a test system which performs continuous testing of each repetitive functional block while the functional block operations are performed during normal functional mode of the IC. One block may be tested during normal operation for each IC reset event without transferring or copying state information. Multiple blocks may be tested one at a time during normal operation by transferring state information between a selected block and a test block.
US07676708B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit with full-speed data transition scheme for DDR SDRAM at internally doubled clock testing application The present invention provides a circuit and a method for the full speed testing of semiconductor memory chips. The invention provides a full-speed data transition scheme for double data rate (DDR) synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM). For high speed or double speed stress testing of DDR SDRAM, the internal clock is double the speed of the external clock. During high speed test, this causes the data to be written or presented to the data path two times. This invention provides a circuit and method for creating a full-speed data transition scheme to overcome this double speed testing problem.
US07676705B2	User interface messaging system and method permitting deferral of message resolution A user interface messaging system and method that allows a user to defer resolution of the substance of a message, such as a user-initiated error, and adds the message to a queue. The messaging system may remind the user to resolve the substance of the messages in the queue. After a message has been added to the queue, the message layer may be closed, allowing the user to continue using the application.
US07676704B2	Resource management for scalable file system recovery A system and method for storing data. In one embodiment, a file system stores data including associated metadata. In response to detecting that a file system error has occurred, the file system identifies a container including data in which the error occurred and performs a consistency check of the data included in the container. If a bidirectional link exists between the container and another container and if an error is found in the bidirectional link, the file system performs a consistency check of data included in the other container and determines if another bidirectional link exists between the other container and a third container. If another bidirectional link exists between the other container and a third container and if an error is found in the other bidirectional link, the file system performs a consistency check of data included in the third container.
US07676698B2	Apparatus and method for coupling a plurality of test access ports to external test and debug facility An interface unit is provided for selectively testing a plurality of processor/cores. The interface unit includes an interface test access port (TAP) unit operable to receive test commands, and a logic unit coupled to the interface TAP unit and operable to generate control signals based on the received test commands to selectively generate a configuration of TAP units comprised in the plurality of processor/cores to receive test signals.
US07676692B2	Database automated disaster recovery A method of automated disaster site recovery of a DB2 subsystem is presented. The method reads parameters contained in a user modifiable control dataset of recovery parameters for objects, systems, and applications to be recovered. The method also reads a DB2 system catalog containing recovery requirements. The method then creates recovery jobs based on the control dataset parameters and DB2 system catalog requirements. Control cards are created that will automatically submit the recovery jobs to a CA7 scheduling system via a batch terminal interface such that dependent recovery jobs will not be submitted until their pre-requisite recovery jobs have completed. An installation verification job is created that selects a row from each table being recovered and ensures that the recovery was successful. The control dataset can be updated with new application, object, and system recovery parameters on an as needed basis without affecting the recovery job creation process.
US07676691B2	Systems and methods for providing nonlinear journaling In one embodiment, systems and methods are provided for nonlinear journaling. In one embodiment, groups of data designated for storage in a data storage unit are journaled into persistent storage. In one embodiment, the journal data is recorded nonlinearly. In one embodiment, a linked data structure records data and data descriptors in persistent storage.
US07676689B1	Browsing and selecting items in recovery storage groups to perform recovery onto production server A method and system for restoring data on a production server by recovering individual data objects from a recovery storage group to a database residing on the production server. In one example method, a recovery interface accesses a recovery storage group containing a recovered database. The recovered database has been recovered from a backup storage location and contains a copy of a database residing on the production server. The method then identifies each data object residing in the recovery storage group and displays each of the data objects on a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to select and individual data objects for recovery from the recovered database. The selected data objects are restored to the appropriate location on the production server.
US07676686B2	Delay locked loop circuit and synchronous memory device including the same A delay locked loop (DLL) circuit for a synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) enables a more stable operation when the semiconductor operates in a power-down mode for low power. The present invention can prevent a phase update operation from being interrupted when the DLL circuit enters a power-down mode. For the above purpose, an off operation of a clock buffer is delayed until a clock signal notifying a final period of the phase update is activated.
US07676685B2	Method for improving the data transfer in semi synchronous clock domains integrated circuits at any possible m/n clock ratio A method for data transfer between two semi-synchronous clock domains in a System on Chip (SoC) includes first and second integrated processors or circuits respectively operating at first and second clock frequencies. The SoC includes a phase for detecting, for each frequency ratio between the first and second clock frequencies, a maximum rate of the data transfer, with the rate being a function of all the possible input and output delays supported by the SoC. This is dependent on the parameters of the SoC. There is also a phase for programming a generic frequency converter between the first and second integrated processors for the data transfer, and a phase for scheduling the data transfer between the semi-synchronous clock domains.
US07676678B2	Method for signing a data package and signing apparatus A method for signing a data package uses a signing apparatus, the signing apparatus having a binary identification code comprises the step of providing a set of node keys and a check value for the data package and the step of determining a signature block having a plurality of signature fields. In addition, the method comprises the step of providing the binary identification code of the signing apparatus and the signature block in order to sign the data package.
US07676672B2	Administrative security systems and methods In an implementation of administrative security systems and methods, access to administrative functions is controlled according to access privileges. A security process can be executed with administrative privilege to initiate an administrative function, and a user process can be executed with non-administrative privilege such that access to the administrative function is restricted. The user process can request initiation of the administrative function via the security process with parameters that include an identification of the administrative function and input arguments to the administrative function.
US07676668B2	System and method for monitoring configuration changes in a document processing device The subject application is directed to a method and system for notifying an administrator when a user of a document processing device requests a change in the configuration of the device. A user accesses the device via a user interface, requesting alteration of the device configuration. The user then provides identification information and an authentication server determines whether the identified user is authorized to make the configuration change. Access is denied to unverified or unauthorized users attempting to change the configuration of the device. When the user is verified, but not authorized to make the requested change, the authentication server rejects the request and notifies the administrator of the attempt. When the user is both verified and authorized to make a change, the device configuration is altered, conforming to the requested configuration, and a notice is transmitted to the administrator containing information about the change in configuration.
US07676667B2	Boot control apparatus and method In one preferred embodiment, a boot control apparatus of an MCU includes a register, a reset signal generating circuit, and a controlling circuit. The register includes a first pin to receive a reset signal output from the reset signal generating circuit, and a second pin to receive a signal output from the controlling circuit. The controlling circuit includes a signal detecting circuit, and a delay circuit for delaying a signal output from the signal detecting circuit. The register is capable of sending a command to the MCU to allow the MCU to execute a warm boot if the first pin receives a reset signal and the second pin is at a low level, and sending another command to the MCU to allow the MCU to execute a cold boot if the first pin receives a reset signal and the second pin is at a high level.
US07676661B1	Method and system for function acceleration using custom instructions A fast linked multiprocessor network including a plurality of processing modules implemented on a field programmable gate array and a plurality of configurable uni-directional links coupled among at least two of the plurality processing modules provide a streaming communication channel between at least two of the plurality of processing modules. Such configuration provides a function accelerator that can feed at least one processor with data values using one custom instruction to put data values on at least one uni-directional serial link and that can extract data values from at least one processor using one custom instruction to get data values from the at least one uni-directional serial link.
US07676660B2	System, method, and computer program product for conditionally suspending issuing instructions of a thread A microprocessor core includes a plurality of inputs that indicate whether a corresponding plurality of independently occurring events has occurred. The inputs are non-memory address inputs. The core also includes a yield instruction in its instruction set architecture, comprising a user-visible output operand and an explicit input operand. The input operand specifies one or more of the independently occurring events. The yield instruction instructs the microprocessor core to suspend issuing for execution instructions of a program thread until at least one of the independently occurring events specified by the input operand has occurred. The program thread contains the yield instruction. The yield instruction further instructs the microprocessor core to return a value in the output operand indicating which of the independently occurring events occurred to cause the microprocessor core to resume issuing the instructions of the program thread.
US07676654B2	Extended register space apparatus and methods for processors Methods and apparatus for accessing an extended register space associated with a processor are disclosed. In an example method, an instruction indicating a tag value is received. It is then determined whether information is stored in a first group of registers or a second group of registers based on a comparison of the tag value and an identifier value indicative of the second group of registers. The information is then accessed in the second group of registers in response to the tag value matching the identifier value.
US07676653B2	Compact instruction set encoding The invention provides a decode unit for decoding instructions in a processor. The decode unit comprises opcode decoding logic, operand decoding logic, and a sixteen-bit input. The opcode decoding logic is operable to determine an opcode using five bits of the input and the operand decoding logic is operable to determine three four-bit operand elements from the remaining eleven bits of the input, the three operand elements each having one of twelve possible binary values. The operand decoding logic is operable to decode an encoded group of the eleven bits to determine a first part of each of the three operand elements, and to read verbatim a verbatim group of the eleven bits to determine a second part of each of the three operand elements.
US07676641B2	Storage system with multiple copy targeting and disk failure protection An apparatus is disclosed in which a storage controller cooperable with a host and a plurality of controlled storage is provided to localize an impact of a failure to a target disk in an affected segment. The storage controller includes a host write component to write a data object to a source image storage; a first copy component responsive to a first metadata state to control copying of the data object to a first target storage; a second copy component responsive to a second metadata state to perform either: copying the data object to a second target or causing the first copy component to copy the second target to the first target; and a third copy component to control cascaded copying of the data object to a third target storage. Either the second or the third copy component controls cascaded copying of a delimited data image subsequence responsive to a metadata state indicating currency of a data grain in either the second or the third target.
US07676638B2	Combined pessimistic and optimistic concurrency control Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve implementation of concurrency control modes in a transactional memory system. A transactional memory word is provided for each piece of data. The transactional memory word includes a version number, a reader indicator, and an exclusive writer indicator. The transactional memory word is analyzed to determine if the particular concurrency control mode is proper. Using the transactional memory word to help with concurrency control allows multiple combinations of operations to be performed against the same memory location simultaneously and/or from different transactions. For example, a pessimistic read operation and an optimistic read operation can be performed against the same memory location.
US07676635B2	Recoverable cache preload in clustered computer system based upon monitored preload state of cache An apparatus, program product and method monitor the state of a cache during a cache preload operation in a clustered computer system such that the monitored state can be used after a failover to potentially avoid the need to restart the cache preload operation from the beginning. In particular, by monitoring the state of the cache during a cache preload operation, any data that has been preloaded into a cache prior to a failure may be retained after a failover occurs, thus enabling the cache preload operation to continue from the point at which it was interrupted as a result of the failure.
US07676634B1	Selective trace cache invalidation for self-modifying code via memory aging Selective trace cache invalidation for self-modifying code via memory aging advantageously retains some of the entries in a trace cache even during self-modifying code events. Instructions underlying trace cache entries are monitored for modification in groups, enabling advantageously reduced hardware. Associated with each trace cache entry are translation ages that are determined when the entry is built by sampling current ages of memory blocks underlying the entry. When the entry is accessed and micro-operations therein processed, the translation ages of the accessed entry are compared with the current ages of the memory blocks underlying the accessed entry. If any of the age comparisons fail, then the micro-operations are aborted and the entry is invalidated. When any portion of a memory block is modified, the current age of the modified memory block is incremented. If one of the current ages overflows, then the entire trace cache is flushed.
US07676632B2	Partial cache way locking Systems and methods are disclosed for locking code in cache. A processor comprises a cache and a cache controller. The cache is configured to store a temporary copy of code residing in main memory. Also, the cache is divided into a number of cache ways, where each cache way is further divided into a number of cache way portions. The cache controller is configured to utilize a first signal and a second signal. The first signal designates one of the cache ways as a partial cache way and the second signal defines which ones of the cache way portions of the partial cache way are to be locked.
US07676630B2	Method and apparatus for using a determined file access pattern to perform caching in a file system A system that caches a file within a computer system. During operation, the system monitors accesses to the file, wherein the file is located on a storage device. Next, the system analyzes the monitored accesses to determine an access pattern for the file. The system then uses the determined access pattern to adjust a caching policy for the file.
US07676628B1	Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing access to shared storage by computing grids and clusters with large numbers of nodes Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing access to shared storage by a plurality of nodes are disclosed. According to one method, at a node of a plurality of nodes sharing access to a disk array, an application input/output (I/O) operation and whether sufficient space in the disk array has been mapped at the node for the I/O operation are detected. In response to detecting that sufficient space in the disk array has not been mapped at the node for the I/O operation, a map for the I/O operation including physical disk access information is requested and obtained from a server. The physical disk access information included within the map for the application I/O operation obtained from the server is used to perform the I/O operation by accessing the disk array without intervention by the server.
US07676627B2	Single segment data object management A single segment data structure and method for storing data objects employing a single segment data object having a header and a data record. The header includes a segment length field describing the length of memory reserved for the data record and the data record contains at least one data instance object. Each of the data instance objects has a data instance header and data field. The header includes a data instance state field and a data instance length field. The data instance length field contains data representing the length of the data instance data field allowing for variable length “in place” updating. The data instance state field contains data representing an object state of the instance data. Only one of the data instance objects of the data record of the single segment data object has a valid object state. The state field facilitates a power loss recovery process.
US07676626B2	Non-volatile memory system storing data in single-level cell or multi-level cell according to data characteristics Provided is a system storing data received from an application or file system in a non-volatile memory system of single-level cells and multi-level cells in accordance with one or more data characteristics. The non-volatile memory system includes a non-volatile memory cell array having a plurality of multi-level cells forming a MLC area and a plurality of single-level cells forming a SLC area, and an interface unit analyzing a characteristic of the write data and generating a corresponding data characteristic signal. A flash transition layer receives the data characteristic signal, and determines whether the write data should be stored in the MLC area or the SLC area based on whether or not the write data will be accessed by the file, or whether the address associated with the write data is frequently updated or not.
US07676620B2	Portable computer systems with thermal enhancements and multiple power modes of operation A portable computer adapted for electrical connection to a docking station having multiple power modes of operation is described. The portable computer has one or more CPU chips which have at least two power modes of operation, a low power mode and a high power mode. When the portable computer is operated as a stand-alone computer, it operates in the low power mode. When the portable computer is operated while electrically connected to the docking station, it operates in a high power mode. The docking station has greater cooling capacity than the portable computer alone to provide enhanced cooling of the high power mode of operation.
US07676611B2	Method and system for processing out of orders frames A method and system for processing out of order frames received by a host bus adapter is provided. The method includes, determining if a current frame is out of order; determining if a frame is within a range of transfer for an Exchange; and creating (or appending if not the first out-of-order frame) an out of order list if the current frame is a first out of order frame. The method also includes, determining if an entry in an out of order list has a relative offset value of zero; determining if at least one entry has a relative offset value equal to a total transfer length of an Exchange; and determining if every non-zero starting relative offset has a matching entry. The method also scans an out of order list and combines a last entry with an entry whose starting point matches the end point of the last entry.
US07676608B1	System for extending Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) partitioning to input/output (I/O) devices The present invention is a system for providing Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) partitioning. The system includes a memory, a bus controller communicatively coupled to the memory via a memory bus, and a MILS controller communicatively coupled to the bus controller via a host-side bus, the MILS controller configured for monitoring and controlling system transactions. The system further includes a plurality of input/output (I/O) devices communicatively coupled to the MILS controller via a plurality of corresponding device-side buses. The system further includes a MILS separation kernel configured for mapping regions of the memory to a plurality of user partitions. Each I/O device included in the plurality of I/O devices is allocated to a partition included in the plurality of partitions and is isolated from MILS separation kernel space. The MILS separation kernel is configured for guaranteeing isolation of the partitions of the memory. The system further includes a processor connected to the bus controller via a processor front-side bus. The MILS controller is configured for extending MILS partitioning to the plurality of I/O devices.
US07676605B1	Methods and apparatus for bridging a bus controller A method for coordinating descriptor lists updates between a host computer and a client computer, where the host and the client each maintain respective descriptor lists of bus controller commands. The client computer has a bus controller that changes its descriptor list. The host computer receives from the client computer update commands that, when executed, change the host's descriptor lists in substantially the same manner in which the bus controller changes the descriptor lists on the host computer.
US07676604B2	Task context direct indexing in a protocol engine A method and apparatus for managing task context are provided. Upon initialization, a protocol engine provides context resources available for processing tasks to a task issuer. Based on available context resources, the task issuer creates and manages a free list of available task context indices and assigns an index to a task prior to storing task context in a context memory accessible to both the task issuer and the protocol engine and issuing the task to the protocol engine.
US07676592B2	10/100 Mbs network device A scheme by which a network device may be made to locate data signals from a plurality of potential data sources in the context of a network environment having devices that employ autonegotiation over an autonegotiation period. The scheme involves switching an input port on the network device between the various potential data sources on a one-by-one basis. If an idle signal indicating no ensuing autonegotiation period is detected, the switching action is terminated and the input port assignment is maintained for as long as the link is detected. Thereafter, the device returns to the switching state. If an idle signal indicating an ensuing autonegotiation period is detected, the switching action is stopped for a period equal to or longer than the autonegotiation period. Thereafter, if an idle signal is detected, the input port assignment is maintained for as long as the link is detected.
US07676590B2	Background transcoding A system and methods are described for transcoding media content in the background on a source computer device prior to such time as a target media playback device is connected to the source computer for synchronization of the media content. The system and methods anticipate which media content to background-transcode based on user input rules and media status data that are maintained in a transcode database. Pre-transcoding media content provides advantages that include a significant reduction in the time needed to synchronize media content between a source computer and a target media playback device, and an efficient use of CPU power for transcoding media content at times when the CPU might otherwise stand idle.
US07676589B2	Automatic generation of portlets for visualizing data by exploiting object relationships A method of automatically creating portlets for a portal system can include identifying a location of structured data described by a data model specification and automatically determining, from the data model specification, relationships between a plurality of objects within the structured data. The method further can include automatically generating a plurality of portlets, wherein each portlet is configured to query the structured data according to the relationships specified within the data model specification. One or more communication links between at least two of the portlets can be automatically created according to the relationships specified within the data model specification.
US07676588B2	Programmable network protocol handler architecture An architecture that achieves high speed performance in a network protocol handler combines parallelism and pipelining in multiple programmable processors, along with specialized front-end logic at the network interface that handles time critical protocol operations. The multiple processors are interconnected via a high-speed interconnect, using a multi-token counter protocol for data transmission between processors and between processors and memory. Each processor's memory is globally accessible by other processors, and memory synchronization operations are used to obviate the need for “spin-locks”. Each processor has multiple threads, each capable of fully executing programs. Threads within a processor are assigned the processing of various protocol functions in a parallel/pipelined fashion. Data frame processing is done by one or more of the threads to identify related frames. Related frames are dispatched to the same thread so as to minimize the overhead associated with memory accesses and general protocol processing.
US07676583B2	System for providing continuity between session clients and method therefor An online communication system (10) includes a plurality of remote session clients (12) and one or more online servers (14). The online communication system (10) provides continuity of an online session (80) between a server (14) and one of the remote session clients (12). A first session client (18) participates in the online session (80), including receiving and accumulating a plurality of session information (182) for the online session (80). The first session client (18) initiates a transfer of the session information (182) to a second session client (20) to enable the second session client (20) to seamlessly continue the online session (80) in place of the first session client (18) after the transfer of the session information (182).
US07676581B2	Web application resource management A resource manager for a network application, such as an application defined in a Web-browser, is provided. The manager requests resources, the resource type and a priority defined for the resource in the application. The manager is provided in a computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions causing a computer to implement certain steps. These may include the steps of: interpreting resource requests from the Web browser based on resources required by a page; and issuing resource requests based on a user specified priority. The steps of interpreting and issuing may occur for all requests to a given domain.
US07676580B2	Message delivery with configurable assurances and features between two endpoints A single programming model is provided for accessing a plurality of distinct message transports while developing one or more applications for message delivery between two endpoints. The programming model allows for independently configurable assurances and features for transporting the messages. The configurable assurances may be selected from at least once delivery, at most once message delivery, in order message delivery, and message time to live. The independently chosen features may include a session state storage, an extension of time to live, and transacted message buffering.
US07676571B2	System for monitoring cable interface connections in a network A system monitors cable interface connections in a network. An individual cable interface connection includes a connection between a cable and an associated device in the network. The system includes a plurality of individual interface controllers. The plurality of individual interface controllers monitor one or more cable interface connections in a network. This plurality of interface controllers include a first interface controller for automatically acquiring device type identification data from a second interface controller which is monitoring a connection between a cable and an associated device in the network. The device type identification data is acquired via the cable and the first and second cable interface connections at the end of the cable. The device type identification data supports identification of the device associated with the second cable interface connection. The first interface controller supports communication between individual interface controllers in the network on a first communication link. The system further includes a second communication link, different from the first communication link, being conveyed via the plurality of cable interface connections in the network.
US07676563B2	Task-oriented management of server configuration settings Task-oriented management is provided for managing server configuration settings. The server configuration settings are logically grouped into a set of tasks. User interface elements are mapped to each task in the set of tasks. The task represented by a user interface element is also mapped to one or more of the server configuration settings. The task list is displayed that includes each of the mapped tasks. When a task is selected, a user interface page module is displayed. Using the user interface page module, the server configuration settings that correspond to the task are modified as the task is completed when the user selects corresponding actions as the user is guided through the task.
US07676552B2	Automatic provisioning of services based on a high level description and an infrastructure description The present invention is directed to provisioning and managing computing services in a computing utility system. It receives as an input an infrastructure independent description of a set of requirements on the new desired state of a computing service. It uses a knowledge plane to represent the infrastructure. The method generates a Concrete Model that describes a resource structure that refines the input and is implementable over the infrastructure. It then generates and possibly executes provisioning actions to create an identical resource structure on the infrastructure. The method can be used to create new computing services, to destroy existing computing services, to modify the resource combinations allocated to a computing service, or the configuration of these resources. Provisioning actions can be executed immediately, or saved and executed later, and possibly many times. Provisioning actions may be regenerated using the method whenever infrastructure characteristics, or the service requirements change.
US07676546B2	Control and management of electronic messaging A method for controlling a message from a sender. A referee can evaluate a credential associated with a message to determine it's desirability to the intended recipient, and take an action based upon the results of the determination. A sender that includes a trusted component can send a credential with the message, and the message can be controlled without a referee.
US07676545B2	Method and apparatus for composing, browsing, replying, forwarding e-mail Method for composing, browsing, replying, forwarding e-mail's in an e-mail system and an e-mail client that can reduce e-mail traffic by not sending the original e-mail content in replying or forwarding e-mail's. In accordance with this invention, each e-mail has a Global-ID and each reply e-mail has a Reply-to-ID which corresponds to the Global-ID of the original e-mail, thereby the content of the original e-mail is not contained in the reply e-mail. During browsing e-mail's, the original e-mail is retrieved from repositories which stores sent and received e-mail's, and is incorporated into the browsed e-mail.
US07676529B2	System and method for efficient rectangular to polar signal conversion using cordic algorithm A system and method is provided for converting an input signal from a sequence of rectangular coordinate pairs to a sequence of polar coordinate pairs. The input signal includes a sequence of input vectors each including a pair of rectangular coordinates. A plurality of N input registers is configured to store an input vector of the input signal. The system includes a plurality of N CORDIC algorithm instances, each in communication with a corresponding one of the N input registers. Each CORDIC algorithm instance is configured to receive the input vector stored in the corresponding input register and to convert the received input vector to a corresponding output vector including a pair of polar coordinates. A recombiner is configured to receive the N output vectors and to recombine at least the N output vectors in sequence to form an output signal.
US07676526B1	System, method and computer program product for multi-level file-sharing by concurrent users A method of accessing a shareable computer file includes receiving a request to access the shareable computer file, retrieving a file ID from a stub file corresponding to the shareable computer file, retrieving a file name from a database corresponding to the file ID, accessing the shareable computer file if a user has not modified the shareable computer file, and accessing a modified copy of the shareable file stored in the stub file if the user has modified the shareable computer file. A database is generated in operating system space or accessed using the operating system, and includes file IDs and their corresponding file names for shareable computer files. The stub file is generated locally to correspond to the shareable computer file, and includes a modified copy of the shareable computer file if the shareable computer file has been modified, and a link to the shareable computer file if the shareable computer file has not been modified. If the shareable computer file has not been modified, a read-only operation retrieves any of file contents, file position and file size from the shareable computer file. File attributes relating to the shareable computer file can be retrieved from the stub file. The database is provided by the operating system for use by a Virtual Private Server.
US07676520B2	Calculating importance of documents factoring historical importance A method and system for determining temporal importance of documents having links between documents based on a temporal analysis of the links is provided. A temporal ranking system collects link information or snapshots indicating the links between documents at various snapshot times. The temporal ranking system calculates a current temporal importance of a document by factoring in the current importance of the document derived from the current snapshot (i.e., with the latest snapshot time) and the historical importance of the document derived from the past snapshots. To calculate the current temporal importance of a web page, the temporal ranking system aggregates the importance of the web page for each snapshot.
US07676515B2	Systems and methods for recruiter rating Methods and systems of providing a rating of a recruiter are disclosed herein. A plurality of job listings to be posed is received from a recruiter. One or more modifications of at least one of the plurality of job listings are received within a period of time. A modification rate indicative of a rate at which a recruiter modifies job listings is calculated. The modification rate can be calculated by dividing the number of the one or more modifications by the number of the plurality of job listings posted by the recruiter. A recruiter profile can be tagged with a high modification indicator if the calculated modification rate is higher than a predetermined modification threshold.
US07676503B2	Hybrid computer restore using network service A backup file is generated to capture the current state of a computer. The computer state may be restored to the computer in a hybrid manner at a later time by accessing some files and/or data included in the backup file and downloading other files contained in a list in the backup file. By listing some files rather than including the actual files in the backup file, the backup file may be generated faster and require less processing and memory resources. When the computer state is restored, secondary files and computer state data contained in the backup file are installed to the computer. A list of primary files in the backup file is accessed, each primary file is retrieved from one or more remote publishers over a network, and the retrieved primary files are installed.
US07676486B1	Method and system for migration of legacy data into a content management system Systems and methods are described which facilitate the integration of data into a content management system. Legacy data is inspected, and content types are generated based on a data model. From these content types, content type objects may be generated. The data may then be examined to acquire a key set, and a content instance object generated for each datum found which matches a content type. This content instance object can then be associated with the datum using one or more key values, saved, and subsequently used to manage the data. These methods and systems allow data to be migrated to a content management system without any modification to the existing data repository or its associated structures.
US07676480B2	Method and device for handling metadata The handling of metadata being provided in different formats shall be simplified. Therefore, it is suggested to provide metadata in a first metadata structure having a first format and providing a second metadata structure having a first format and providing a second metadata structure having a second format, wherein link data are deposited in the second metadata structure. The link data point to metadata in the first metadata structure. Thus, it is possible to trealize synchronous and automatic editing of metadata and its mirror metadata.
US07676477B1	Utilities for deriving values and information from within an interlocking trees data store A method for accessing a KStore including at least one K path having at least one subcomponent node and at least one root node includes providing a utility routine and accessing the KStore using the utility routine. The accessing may include traversing the at least one K path. The at least one K path includes a further node and bidirectional links between the at least one subcomponent node and the further node. The method includes traversing between the at least one subcomponent node and the further node by way of the bidirectional links. The further node can be a beginning of thought node, an end of thought node, root node, or a subcomponent node. A location may be determined within the KStore. The K Store may be queried. Searches for information within the KStore may be performed. The KStore may be traversed to constrain and focus the KStore. The KStore may be updated.
US07676475B2	System and method for efficient meta-data driven instrumentation A method for gathering management information about an asset that includes receiving a first request for the management information about the asset, wherein the first request complies with the information model format, identifying a data acquisition (DAQ) definition for the DAQ definition complies with the DAQ format, triggering a protocol handler according to the DAQ definition, receiving the management information from the protocol handler about the asset, and updating a cache entry with the management information.
US07676452B2	Method and apparatus for search optimization based on generation of context focused queries Disclosed is a method and apparatus for operating a search system for searching a search space containing domains each representing a collection of related documents. The method includes establishing a domain characterization model (DCM) that includes a DCM index containing keywords and, for each keyword, an identification of a domain where the keyword is found. In response to an original search query, the method forms one or a plurality of enhanced search queries in accordance with the DCM for searching a plurality of domains. Each enhanced search query is formed for searching a particular targeted domain and contains the original search query and at least one keyword associated with the particular domain. The search results are clustered and are displayed so as to be organized by the domains that were searched. The top search results returned in response to each enhanced search query belong to one of the targeted domains.
US07676446B2	System and method for making decisions Systems and methods are disclosed to assist in making decisions. The systems and methods consider situations where the user is determining which of several alternatives is the best choice. The criteria to evaluate the decisions are input into a grid, and the user rates the different alternatives against the different criteria. Given several alternative choices or options, it provides the probability each alternative is the right selection. In one embodiment, the system implements a Bayesian approach. The systems and methods may estimate the chance some important consideration was missed thereby reducing the chance of being surprised or blindsided. The system and method may also examine the inputs to a decision analysis in order to detect entries that might reflect bias, assumptions or unusual reasoning, thereby increasing the chance of obtaining the correct answer. The systems and methods may also identify the factors that were predictive. The systems and methods do not accept information as valid and correct; rather, they allow cross-checking and verification, and further employ sub-systems and sub-methods to reduce mistakes. Systems and methods so disclosed may be employed in financial analyses, intelligence analysis, etc.
US07676445B2	Apparatus, system and method for developing failure prediction software An apparatus, system, and method are provided for developing failure prediction software for a storage system. The present invention allows a user to edit and revise a failure prediction algorithm that includes fuzzy logic rules. The failure prediction algorithm is generated in a human readable format and uses terms and operators familiar to experts in the field of storage systems. In addition, the present invention generates the machine-readable code necessary to implement or test a draft failure prediction algorithm. If the results of the failure prediction algorithm are unsatisfactory, the user may revise the failure prediction algorithm and re-run the tests until the results correspond to expected results. In addition, the present invention includes a performance monitor, processor, and determination module. The performance monitor gathers performance data for a storage system. The processor executes the failure prediction algorithm on the performance data to produce a result. The determination module selectively forecasts failure of one or more components of the storage system in response to the result.
US07676434B2	Payer direct hub A system and methods for processing payment requests submitted by a payer through a single user interface. The system obtains a merchant identification and a processing platform associated with each payee. The system receives at least one payment request from the payer. Payment instructions are generated based on each payment request received from the payer. The system routes each of the payment instructions to an acquirer processor for authorization to be processed as a credit card transaction.
US07676430B2	System and method for installing a remote credit card authorization on a system with a TCPA complaint chipset The Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) Specification is implemented to allow a credit card company to remotely install a credit card private key into a TCPA module to create a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). More specifically, when a credit worthy user applies for a credit card, the user will send the credit card company a public portion of a “non-migratable storage key,” which is accredited a TPM endorsed by a Certification Authority. The credit card company will create its own public/private key pair according to the TCPA Specification, to create a TCPA header, and wrap the full structure by encrypting it with the public portion of the TCPA non-migratable storage key. The credit card company then sends by email the encrypted bundle with a certificate for it, and sends a corresponding pass phrase by regular mail.
US07676424B2	Auction for financially settled contracts Various embodiments show a system for conducting an auction for a plurality of financially settled contracts: The system may comprise at least one processor. The at least one processor may be programmed to receive a plurality of first participant bids from a first participant and a plurality of second participant bids from a second participant. The at least one processor may also be programmed to match a batch of bids to create a plurality of awarded bids. The contracts may include, for example, an oil contract, a coal contract, a natural gas contract, an electricity contract, a weather contract, a weather-related events contract, a commodities contract, location specific service contracts (e.g., passenger contract and/or freight contracts).
US07676420B1	Electronic settlement of petroleum and gas distributions In one embodiment, a system can include a centralized storage module, for example a database, that stores data relating to petroleum, natural gas and other related products taken from several different sources and entities. The entity storing and maintaining this data can be an entity independent from the operators, producers and/or other working interests. This system can use automated techniques to reconcile distributions to all entities associated with a well due to the removal of a mineral, for example, petroleum, natural gas and/or other related products, from that well, on a periodic basis. These automated techniques include, for example, reconciling all agreements associated with the well, reconciling the amount of mineral removed at the well, reconciling the spot market price associated with the well at the time of removal, automating approval by the removing entity, automating payment and the like.
US07676418B1	Credit portfolio benchmarking system and method A portfolio benchmarking system comprises a repository of trade data, a repository of consumer data, a build computer, and a benchmarking query application. The repository of trade data comprises a plurality of data items regarding trade lines. The repository of consumer data comprises a plurality of data items regarding consumers, wherein at least some information in the consumer data is not in the trade data and at least some information in the trade data is not in the consumer data. The build computer periodically generates at least one data file comprising a plurality of data items, each data item combining information from the trade data and the consumer data, such that searches can be performed on the combined data without joining trade data and consumer data at query run time. The benchmarking query application executes queries on the data file generated by the build computer.
US07676395B2	On-us cash withdrawal at a point-of-sale Various embodiments of systems, methods, computer programs, merchant terminals, etc. for providing an on-us cash withdrawal service at a point-of-sale are provided. One embodiment comprises a method for providing a cash withdrawal service at a point-of-sale. One such method comprises: issuing an association-branded financial card to a cardholder, the association-branded financial card comprising an association account number corresponding to a credit card association and a proprietary account number corresponding to an issuer of the association-branded financial card; at a merchant terminal, reading the proprietary account number from the association-branded financial card and receiving a cash withdrawal amount; providing the proprietary account number and the cash withdrawal amount to a switch associated with the issuer; at the switch, determining the association account number based on the proprietary account number; and authorizing the cash withdrawal amount by submitting an authorization request to a issuing host, the authorization request including the association account number and the cash withdrawal amount.
US07676392B2	Electronic toll management Identifying a vehicle in a toll system includes accessing a set of toll transaction entries. Each entry in the set designates a toll transaction between a vehicle and the toll system and includes a transaction descriptor and a transaction time stamp. A series of toll transaction pictures is accessed. The series includes a plurality of pictures, each of which is associated with a picture time stamp. A toll transaction entry is identified from the set as a violation transaction entry based on the transaction descriptor. A toll transaction picture is selected from the series. The transaction time stamp of the violation transaction is compared, using a processing device, with the picture time stamp of the selected toll transaction picture. The selected toll transaction picture is identified as a violation picture corresponding to the violation transaction entry based on a result of the comparison.
US07676383B2	Method and article of manufacture for performing clinical trial budget analysis An electronic method is provided of analyzing budgets for clinical trials. A clinical trial budget is entered into a processor. The budget includes activities and associated activity costs. The activities are classified into a set of standardized service categories. The processor then electronically allocates the associated activity costs with the respective standardized service category so that budget costs can be objectively analyzed. The budget further includes assumption specifications. The processor further calculates per unit costs of the assumption specifications. The activities and the associated activity costs are then equalized against reference assumption specifications using at least the per unit costs via calculations performed in the processor.
US07676378B2	Method and apparatus for performing economic analysis of a radiological image archiving system An electronic system is featured to enable a radiological image archiving system supplier to provide a customer with economic data regarding a supplier's radiological image archiving system. The system is operable to direct a query page to the customer via an electronic communication system. The query page provides the customer with at least one question. The at least one question is designed so that the answer(s) to the at least one question enables the system to establish expected cost reductions resulting from the use of the supplier's radiological image archiving system over the use of the customer's existing archival system. The answer(s) also may be used to enable the system to establish a recommended radiological image archiving system for the customer. The answer(s) also may be used to establish a payback period for the recommended radiological image archiving system based on the expected cost reductions resulting from the use of the supplier's radiological image archiving system and the cost of the recommended system.
US07676371B2	Oral modification of an ASR lexicon of an ASR engine Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for providing oral modification of an ASR lexicon of an ASR engine that include receiving, in the ASR engine from a user through a multimodal application, speech for recognition, where the ASR engine includes an ASR lexicon of words capable of recognition by the ASR engine, and the ASR lexicon does not contain at least one word of the speech for recognition; indicating by the ASR engine through the multimodal application to the user that the ASR lexicon does not contain the word; receiving by the ASR engine from the user through the multimodal application an oral instruction to add the word to the ASR lexicon, where the oral instruction is accompanied by an oral spelling of the word from the user; and executing the instruction by the ASR engine.
US07676366B2	Adaptation of symbols A speaker adaptation system and method for speech models of symbols displays a multi-word symbol to be spoken as a symbol. The supervised adaptation system and method has unsupervised adaptation for multi-word symbols, limited to the set of words associated with each multi-word symbol.
US07676358B2	System and method for the recognition of organic chemical names in text documents This invention provides a method, a system and a computer program for recognizing technical terms. In the preferred embodiment the technical terms are chemical names, and in a most preferred embodiment the technical terms are organic chemical names. A computer program product stores in a computer readable form a set of computer program instructions for directing at least one computer to process a text document. The set of computer program instructions include instructions for assigning corresponding associated parts of speech to words found in the document. The instructions for assigning include instructions to apply a plurality of regular expressions, rules and a plurality of dictionaries to recognize organic chemical name fragments, to combine recognized organic chemical name fragments into a complete organic chemical name, and to assign the complete organic chemical name with one part of speech. The regular expressions include a plurality of patterns, individual ones of which are comprised of at least one of characters, numbers and punctuation. For example, the punctuation can comprise at least one of parenthesis, square bracket, hyphen, colon and semi-colon, and the characters can comprise at least one of upper case C, O, R, N and H, and further comprise strings of at least one of lower case xy, ene, ine, yl, ane and oic.
US07676357B2	Enhanced Chinese character/Pin Yin/English translator A method for the rapid, dynamic conversion of Pin Yin words is disclosed. The present invention comprises a web-based computer program. The user identifies an input which may be a hybrid or unaccented Pin Yin word. The character is translated dynamically into an accented Pin Yin word, a Simplified Chinese character or a Traditional Chinese character. The translated character is then displayed. The translation is done in the web page without a round trip to the server.
US07676354B2	Method of and system for simulating a light-emitting device A system for simulating a characteristic of a light-emitting device includes a transport calculating module for calculating a concentration of carriers in the light-emitting device. The system includes an optical calculating module for calculating data sets including a total emission power factor of excitons set and a light extraction efficiency data. A diffusion calculating module uses the exciton formation rate and the total emission power factor to calculate a concentration of excitons and a total deactivation rate of the excitons. A device characteristics calculating module uses the light extraction efficiency data set and a radiative deactivation rate calculated from the total deactivation rate to calculate a device characteristic of the light-emitting device.
US07676352B1	System and method for efficient computation of simulated thermodynamic property and phase equilibrium characteristics using comprehensive local property models A method of estimating a thermophysical property of a fluid using a local model is disclosed herein. The method includes generating, for use within the local model, a series expansion of thermodynamic equations relating to the thermophysical property and one or more derivatives involving the thermophysical property. The method further includes evaluating, based upon a set of specified values of parameters of the fluid, a first order term of the series expansion and a second order term of the series expansion. The values of the first order term and the second order term are then compared. A value of the thermophysical property is then automatically updated when the values of the first order term and the second order term are found to differ by more than a predefined amount.
US07676351B2	Statistical analysis of coupled circuit-electromagnetic systems A method and system for combining the process variations in circuits and distributed interconnect-based electromagnetic (EM) objects in order to capture a statistical behavior of overall circuit performance parameters. In an exemplary approach, a coupled circuit-EM system is decoupled at the points where the EM objects connect to the circuit portion, and circuit ports are defined at those points. The sources of variation are identified and used to determine Y-parameters for the ports with EM elements and for all EM elements based on the SPICE-like and EM full-wave simulations. A response surface is generated for each variable and is used to extract circuit and EM parameters by generating many random vectors representing combinations of the random variables. These Y-parameters are merged to produce a probability density function (PDF) of one or more performance metrics for the electronic device or system.
US07676345B2	Method and system of determining the absolute velocity of a vehicle A method of determining the velocity (ν) of a vehicle is provided. The vehicle has at least one pair of a front and a rear wheel which are spaced by a wheel spacing (B). Front and rear wheel speed signals (ω) are determined which are indicative of the time dependent behavior of the front and rear wheel speeds, respectively. The front and rear wheel speed signals (ω) are correlated in order to determine a specific correlation feature indicative of the time delay (τ) between the front wheel and rear wheel speed signals. The velocity (ν) of the vehicle is determined based on the correlation feature and the wheel spacing (B).
US07676340B2	Geomagnetic sensor and geomagnetic sensor correction method, temperature sensor and temperature sensor correction method, geomagnetism detection device With regard to a temperature sensor, a control logic circuit conducts control of the temperature sensor. During preparation of the temperature sensor, the control logic circuit reads the result of measurement of the property pertaining to the ambient temperature from the temperature sensor circuit, obtains the initial value and correction value from the result, and stores the pertinent values in the fuse memory. At times of operation of the temperature sensor, the control logic circuit reads the initial value and correction value from the fuse memory, and corrects the measurement values of the temperature sensor circuit using the pertinent values.
US07676327B2	Method for optimal wave field separation A technique for decomposing a recorded wave field represented in a set of multicomponent, marine seismic data centers around a computer-implemented method including: estimating the statistics of the noise terms in each one of a predetermined group of seismic measurements in a seismic data set acquired in a marine survey; modeling the physical propagation of a recorded wave field represented in the seismic data set from the estimated statistics; and estimating a directional component of the recorded wave field from the physical propagation model that minimizes error relative to the seismic measurements.
US07676325B2	Road landscape map producing apparatus, method and program A road landscape map producing apparatus loaded on a movable body for producing a road landscape map including road landscape information showing a surrounding landscape with road landscape classification items obtained by classifying the photographic images of the surrounding landscape into items such as “streetscape”, “forest” and “open road” by way of image processing and based on a geographic position at which the surrounding image is photographed.
US07676324B2	Alerting a vehicle operator to traffic movement Methods, systems and computer program products for alerting a vehicle operator to traffic movement. The methods include identifying a zone around a host vehicle and identifying a target vehicle in the zone. The speed and location of the target vehicle are monitored. An alert is generated in the host vehicle if the target vehicle is moving outside of the zone at a speed higher than a minimum speed and the host vehicle is stationary.
US07676315B2	Vehicle response during vehicle acceleration conditions A vehicle control method for transitioning through transmission lash regions is described using a variety of information, such as, for example, gear ratio, clutch slippage, etc. Further, different adjustment of spark and throttle angle is used to provide a rapid torque response while still reducing effects of the lash. Finally, transitions taking into account both slipping and non-slipping transmissions are described.
US07676314B2	Motion control apparatus for a vehicle When the absolute value of the steering angle equals or is greater than a prescribed angle, a vehicle motion control apparatus sets a control gear ratio so that when an estimated vehicle-body speed is equal to or greater than a prescribed value, the control gear ratio becomes a value equal to or greater than a certain value and which increases with estimated vehicle-body speed as the absolute value of the steering angle increases. When the estimated vehicle-body speed is less than the prescribed value, the control gear ratio becomes a value not greater than the certain value and which decreases with estimated vehicle-body speed as the absolute value of the steering angle increases. The apparatus then calculates a target yaw rate making use of the control gear ratio, and controls a braking force applied to each wheel so that the actual yaw rate coincides with the target yaw rate.
US07676312B2	Actuator controller and a method for controlling such an actuator controller An actuator controller includes an actuator body to be driven in a predetermined driven range, an actuator driving unit; and a controller body for controlling the driven position of the actuator body. The controller body includes an instructing signal outputting zone configured to outputting a position instructing signal for instructing the driven position of the actuator body according to a bid, excluding arbitrary two bits among the predetermined bit counts, an normal direction forcedly driving signal for instructing a normal direction forcedly driving to drive the actuator body in a predetermined direction with the one of the arbitrary two bits, and a reverse direction forcedly driving signal for instructing a reverse direction forcedly driving to drive the actuator body in a direction reverse to the predetermined direction with the other arbitrary bit.
US07676309B2	Motor-driven power steering apparatus A motor-driven power steering apparatus is provided with a self-aligning torque computing means for computing a self-aligning torque based on of a steering angle and a vehicle speed, a friction torque computing means for computing a friction torque in accordance with a steering angle change from a steering angular velocity, an apparent steering torque computing means for computing an apparent steering torque from the friction torque and a steering torque, and a steering torque feedback control means for driving and controlling an assist motor in such a manner that a difference between the self-aligning torque and the apparent steering torque becomes 0.
US07676303B2	System and method for converting an aircraft from a flight condition lying outside a permissible flight condition range to a flight condition lying within the permissible flight condition range A system and method for converting an aircraft from a flight condition lying outside a permissible flight condition range to a flight condition lying within the permissible flight condition range, that can be assigned to a sensor system and a control device of the aircraft. The system includes a control override module for taking over or returning the control authority over the aircraft based on a control take-over signal and for feeding control set points if the control takeover signal is set; a maneuver selection module; a threshold value generator for calculating the flight range limit on the basis of measured variables of the sensor system; a decision module; a command generator that is functionally connected on the one hand to the decision module and the maneuver selection module and on the other hand to the control override module and, when the control takeover signal is set, calculates the control set points based on the maneuver information and transmits them to the control override module.
US07676300B2	Building management system and operating method thereof including protocol conversion A building management system controller of a local operating network controls a multi-air conditioner system having a different communications network protocol. The building management system includes a controller for centrally controlling subsystems in the building including an air conditioner system, and is connected to the local operating network and a gateway that converts data between the local operating network and a network of the multi-air conditioner.
US07676295B2	Processing information management in a plasma processing tool A computer-implemented method for managing substrate processing data. Substrate process data is acquired while a substrate is processed in a plasma-processing chamber of a cluster tool. The method includes receiving meta-data that identifies at least one of an identification of the substrate and a process. The method further includes receiving from transducers process data streams, each of the process data streams pertaining to a process parameter being monitored. Individual data items in each of the process data streams are being collected in accordance to one of a first methodology and a second methodology. The first methodology represents data collection that is periodic in time. The second methodology represents data collection that happens when predefined events occur. The method also includes storing individual data items associated with process data streams in a single file. The single file stores only data pertaining to a single recipe used to process the substrate.
US07676292B2	Patterns employed for module design Systems and methods are provided that facilitate construction of automation applications for utilization in an industrial automation environment. A design template component can provide a design template to yield a modular, hierarchical framework for an application. Further, a design pattern table can include a library of design patterns, where the design patterns can be organized according to respective classifications. Moreover, a design pattern component can integrate a selected design pattern from the design pattern table with the design template to construct the application.
US07676286B2	Fail-silent node architecture A system including a node, wherein the node includes two separate controllers, each of which is configured to output data to a bus, or receive data from a bus, or output data to and receive data from a bus. At least one controller is configured to monitor the output of the other controller and is configured such that if the at least one controller determines that the other controller is providing improper data or signals, at least part of the output data of the other controller is nullified, overridden or superseded by an output from the at least one controller.
US07676277B2	Data receiving apparatus and control method thereof A data receiving apparatus and control method are provided. The apparatus includes a determining part determining whether a clock signal and a data signal are respectively in a high state and/or in a low state based on a predetermined value of a standard level, when the clock signal and the data signal are received from an external apparatus; and a controller determining a data communicating state corresponding to the high state and/or the low state of the clock signal and the data signal determined in the determining part.
US07676273B2	Stimulation templates for programming a stimulation lead with complex electrode array geometry The disclosure is directed to programming implantable stimulators to deliver stimulation energy via one or more implantable leads having complex electrode array geometries. A user interface of a programmer allows a user to define stimulation therapy by interacting with one or more representations of the lead that delivers the therapy. The disclosure also contemplates selecting stimulation parameters to satisfy a user defined stimulation field by selecting one or more volumetric stimulation templates that best fit the stimulation field. The user interface may display the stimulation templates in relation to different perspectives of a lead and the stimulation field. Use of stimulation templates may simplify the determination of stimulation parameters in response to any of a variety of types of user definition of a stimulation field.
US07676267B2	Capture verification using an evoked response reference A method and system for verifying capture in the heart involves the use of pacing artifact templates. One or more pacing artifact templates characterizing a post pace artifact signal associated with a particular pace voltage or range of voltages are provided. A pacing artifact template is canceled from a cardiac signal sensed following a pacing pulse. Capture is detected by comparing the pacing artifact canceled cardiac signal to an evoked response reference. Fusion/pseudofusion detection involves determining a correlation between a captured response template and a sensed cardiac signal.
US07676257B2	Method and apparatus for segmenting structure in CT angiography A technique is provided for automatically generating a bone mask in CTA angiography. In accordance with the technique, an image data set may be pre-processed to accomplish a variety of function, such as removal of image data associated with the table, partitioning the volume into regionally consistent sub-volumes, computing structures edges based on gradients, and/or calculating seed points for subsequent region growing. The pre-processed data may then be automatically segmented for bone and vascular structure. The automatic vascular segmentation may be accomplished using constrained region growing in which the constraints are dynamically updated based upon local statistics of the image data. The vascular structure may be subtracted from the bone structure to generate a bone mask. The bone mask may in turn be subtracted from the image data set to generate a bone-free CTA volume for reconstruction of volume renderings.
US07676251B2	Wireless communication system, electronic price tag system, wireless communication apparatus, communication terminal apparatus, and wireless communication method A wireless communication system is provided for establishing wireless communication between a wireless communication apparatus and a battery-driven communication terminal apparatus in which system the power consumption rate of the communication terminal apparatus can be reduced. The wireless communication system includes a trigger signal transmission line for transmitting a trigger signal from the wireless communication apparatus to the communication terminal apparatus, and a data communication line for establishing data communication between the wireless communication apparatus and the communication terminal apparatus. The data communication between the wireless communication apparatus and the communication terminal apparatus is established in response to the trigger signal that is transmitted by the trigger signal transmission line.
US07676247B2	Baseband processor and a method of transmitting commands to a radio-frequency subsystem and radio telecommunication apparatus incorporating the baseband processor The baseband processor (18) comprises: a storage unit (72) storing: a descriptor table comprising for each descriptor: a pointer field designed to point to a definition of an operation, an absolute operation time field indicating at which time from the beginning of a frame processing the corresponding operation should be carried out, an operation definition table comprising for each operation a definition of the operation, each definition having a sequence of events, each event of the definition table being associated with a relative event time field indicating at which time from the beginning of the operation the corresponding event should be executed, and a calculator (70) to automatically compute a list of events from the description and operation tables.
US07676244B2	Multi-mode-multi-band wireless transceiver Disclosed is a multi-mode/multi-band wireless transceiver. The multi-mode/multi-band wireless transceiver includes a tunable duplexer including transmission and reception channel filters of which transmission and reception channel filtering frequencies respectively are controlled by an external element; and a control portion for controlling the transmission and reception channel filtering frequencies to correspond to transmission and reception channels of a current service band. Thus, a use of a RF SAW filter is unnecessary, while it is possible to support the multi-mode/multi-band using a tunable duplexer. Therefore, the number of parts and volume of the transceiver can be reduced, and it is possible to weaken a specification of an RF system.
US07676242B2	Compact and durable thin smartphone The subject innovation and/or methods relate to a compact durable communication device that can include a plurality of improvements to provide durability and thinness. The devices can be a clamshell smartphone, a messenger device, a thin smartphone, and/or any other suitable mobile communication device. The improvements can include a magnesium plate, an opening for an electrical component associated with the plate, internal antenna placement, an extended backlight for a dual display, and/or a mono hinge to provide connectivity.
US07676239B1	System and method for providing a power controller with flat amplitude and phase response A method for operating a power controller in a wireless communication device is provided that includes generating a power controller output signal using an open loop polar modulation scheme. The power controller output signal is operable to control the power delivered to a high-band power amplifier and a low-band power amplifier. A band state is determined for the wireless communication device. The power controller output signal is provided to the high-band power amplifier when the band state is a high-band state and to the low-band power amplifier when the band state is a low-band state.
US07676235B2	Method and system for transmitting and receiving SMS messages with remapped response codes A method and system are disclosed in which a Mobile Terminated SMS (Short Message Service) wireless message generated by a Computer Application containing an embedded response menu can be sent to a Mobile Handset and in which a Mobile Originated response from the Mobile Handset can be uniquely re-associated with the original Mobile Terminated message is described. Given that SMS provides no inherent association between Mobile Terminated and Mobile Originated messages, the method and system provide a scheme in which the original Computer Application menu response options are remapped to unique values prior to delivery to the Mobile Handset. When the response is received from the Mobile Handset, the method can uniquely re-associate and reverse map the response code back to the original Mobile Terminated message and original menu response options.
US07676225B2	Area entertainment system including digital radio service and associated methods An area entertainment system includes a headend unit, and electronic boxes spaced throughout the area. The headend unit includes a digital satellite radio receiver. A local area network (LAN) connects the digital satellite radio receiver for providing digital satellite radio signals to the electronic boxes. The entertainment system further includes user control units connected to the electronic boxes, with each user control unit permitting user selection of the digital satellite radio signals.
US07676224B1	Enhanced communication service for predicting and handling communication interruption A method and apparatus for anticipating communication interruption. If, during an established call between two communication devices, a telecommunication device determines that a communication link to one of the devices will be interrupted, either temporarily or permanently, the device predicts the interruption in the communication link. The device may send a message, as pre-determined by at least one of the communication device, to the communication device of the predicted or pending call drop or interruption. After the interruption the previously established call is resumed. If a reconnection attempt is appropriate, then the device will attempt to reconnect to the dropped device. If a reconnection attempt is not appropriate, or if the reconnection attempt is unsuccessful, the non-dropped communication device is connected, as predetermined by either of the communication devices, to an appropriate connection, such as, to a voice mail. If the reconnection attempt is successful, the call between the two communication devices is re-established.
US07676220B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic voice response messages A computing device implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product to generate dynamic voice response messages in a mobile computing device. In response to receiving an incoming call from a caller, the process displays a list of response messages in a set of response messages. In response to receiving a selection of a response message from the list of response messages, the process sends the selected response message to the caller.
US07676214B2	Method and system for increasing the standby battery life of a mobile device A method and system for increasing the standby battery life of a GSM mobile device. The method increases the standby battery life of a GSM mobile device by reducing monitoring of the serving cell's paging messages using a deterministic and adaptive procedure with zero impact on call performance, where the procedure reduces the frequency of reception of valid paging messages, intended for the device in the Paging Channel, by lengthening paging-read interval.
US07676212B1	Signal mixer having a single-ended input and a differential output A mixer comprises a differential input circuit that is configured to receive an input signal. The mixer comprises a tank circuit including a tuning capacitor arranged in parallel with an inductor. A resonant frequency of the inductor and tuning capacitor is substantially centered around a predetermined frequency of the input signal. The mixer comprises a mixer circuit that communicates with the differential input circuit and that is configured to receive first and second current signals and a second input signal. The mixer circuit is configured as a Gilbert cell double-balanced switching mixer for generating a differential mixer output signal as a product of the first and second current signals and the second input signal.
US07676207B2	System and method for digital autonomous automatic gain control (AGC) for DVB-H receivers Digital autonomous AGC for a DVB-H receiver comprises detecting a plurality of RF signals entering a LNA in the DVB-H receiver; detecting a RF transmitter blocker signal occurring at the LNA; and differentiating between a desired RF signal and an undesired RF transmitter blocker signal by varying a differential gain of current through the LNA. A RF servo loop is used for detecting the RF transmitter blocker signal. Logic circuitry of the RF servo loop is integrated with a baseband AGC loop to step control the differential gain of current through the LNA. A RF wideband detector is used for detecting the plurality of RF signals entering the LNA; and sending a voltage output corresponding to voltage levels of the RF signals to a plurality of comparators, wherein each of the plurality of comparators are set at a different programmable voltage threshold level compared with one another.
US07676206B2	Low noise, low distortion radio receiver front-end A radio receiver front-end includes a tunable antenna interface and a low noise amplifying section. The tunable antenna interface is operably coupled to receive a wide bandwidth signal from an antenna, wherein the wide bandwidth signal includes a plurality of channel signals, and wherein the tunable antenna interface is tuned to pass a selected one of the plurality of channel signals substantially unattenuated and to attenuate remaining ones of the plurality of channel signals to produce a filtered wide bandwidth signal. The low noise amplifying section is operably coupled to amplify the filtered wide bandwidth signal to produce a filtered and amplified wide bandwidth signal.
US07676204B2	Radio receiver having ignition noise detector and method therefor An AM receiver including an AM demodulator for demodulating an AM signal received by an antenna coupled to the AM demodulator is provided. The AM receiver further includes a bandpass filter for receiving the demodulated signal and generating a bandpass filtered signal. The AM receiver further includes a moving average filter for receiving the bandpass filtered signal and generating a moving averaged signal and a highpass filter for receiving the moving averaged signal and generating a highpass filtered signal. The AM receiver further includes an averaging filter for receiving the highpass filtered signal and generating an averaged signal and a summer for receiving the averaged signal and the highpass filtered signal and generating a difference signal. The AM receiver further includes a comparator for generating a noise blanking signal based on a comparison of the difference signal with a threshold.
US07676203B2	Method and apparatus for dynamically tuning radio stations with user-defined play lists A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for dynamic radio station tuning in a data processing system. A play list is identified. The play list is a user-defined list and includes an identification of a number of songs. Music information is obtained from a plurality of radio stations. This music information is compared to the play list to generate a schedule. Dynamic tuning to a radio station within the plurality of radio stations is performed using the schedule to present songs from the number of songs to a listener.
US07676195B2	System and method for communicating messages in a mesh network A gateway node that communicates with a plurality of satellite nodes positioned on one or more logical layers is disclosed. Satellite nodes on the first logical layer operate as repeaters for nodes not on the first logical layer. The gateway node and each satellite node communicate outbound messages during a synchronized outbound communication time. Satellite nodes execute a receiving communication time that overlaps with a transmitting communication time for a satellite node on a logical layer that is one layer closer to the gateway node during the outbound communication time. The satellite nodes also communicate messages to the gateway node during a synchronized inbound communication time. Each satellite node executes a transmitting communication time that overlaps with a receiving communication time for a satellite node on a logical layer that is one layer closer to the gateway node during the inbound communication time so that messages are communicated to the gateway node.
US07676191B2	Method of duplex printing on sheet media A first and second printing engine are disposed with an intermediate transport belt in U-shaped arrangement. The method employs printing sheets serially on one side in the first engine inverting the sheet and transporting the sheets through about 180° change in direction without rotation. The commonality of the leading edge is thus maintained before and after inverting. The sheet is then fed to the second engine for duplex printing on the second side of the sheet. The second engine may have a media sheet input rotation for simplex printing serially with the duplex printing.
US07676189B2	Image reading apparatus having improved cover device An image reading apparatus having an improved cover device. The image reading apparatus includes a main body having an upper surface on which a manuscript can be placed, a cover installed at an upper portion of the main body to cover the manuscript when scanning, and a pressing plate movably installed in the direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the cover at an inner portion of the cover so as to press the manuscript. In addition, an elastic member is additionally inserted between the pressing plate and the cover.
US07676184B2	Developing apparatus A developing apparatus is disclosed that includes a developer carrier for carrying a developer used for developing a latent image, a developer supplying chamber having a developer supplying member for supplying the developer to the developer carrier by rotation, a developer storing chamber positioned above the developer supplying chamber for storing the developer and supplying the developer to the developer supplying chamber, and a partitioning member positioned between the developer supplying chamber and the developer storing chamber. The partitioning member has an opening through which the developer is supplied from the developer storing chamber to the developer supplying chamber. The developing apparatus includes a conveying member positioned above the partitioning member for conveying the developer in a substantially horizontal direction. The conveying member has an opening facing part situated directly above the opening for conveying the developer with less force than the other parts of the conveying member.
US07676177B2	Brick-based system for scheduling functions in a printing apparatus In a printing apparatus having a rotatable imaging member and means for performing a selected one of a plurality of operations on a portion of the rotatable imaging member, a set of metaphorical bricks are used to schedule operations. For an operation of a first type, a first brick is scheduled, the first brick defining a time duration associated with the operation, and defining a first portion having a first height and a second portion having a second height. For an operation of a second type, a second brick is scheduled, the second brick defining at least one height and a time duration associated with the operation. A combined height of bricks scheduled over time is monitored.
US07676174B2	Tandem photosensitive-member unit having grip part An image-forming device includes a main body and a tandem photosensitive-member unit. The tandem photosensitive-member unit includes a unit frame, a plurality of photosensitive members, a front-side grip part, and a rear-side grip. The unit frame is configured to be slidably installed to and removed from the main body in a predetermined direction. The unit frame has a leading side and a trailing side with respect to the predetermined direction. The plurality of photosensitive members is provided corresponding to a plurality of colors and is supported by the unit frame. The front-side grip part is provided at the leading side of the unit frame. The rear-side grip part is provided at the trailing side of the unit frame.
US07676169B2	Multipath toner patch sensor for use in an image forming device A toner patch sensor for use in an image forming device may be operated in different modes according to the color of the patch being sensed. The toner patch sensor may include a detector and a source adapted to transmit light that is reflected off a toner patch and towards the detector. The detected light may be specular and/or diffuse. A controller may selectively change the amount of one or both of the specular and diffuse light received by the detector. The source may include separate emitters for the specular and diffuse light, with the controller selectably turning off one of the emitters or selectably adjusting a ratio of illumination power between the emitters. Alternatively, the source may include a single emitter and an optical element to split light between specular light and diffuse light. Diffuse light may be blocked when sensing black toner patches.
US07676165B2	Image forming apparatus and control method therefor This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of adjusting the image sync signal output timing in the subscanning direction and the speed of a primary transfer process so as to obtain a proper throughput of a printer engine when successively forming images, and a control method therefor. To accomplish this, when the speed of an intermediate transfer member is to change upon changing the print speed, a toner image to be secondarily transferred after changing the speed is primarily transferred at an intermediate transfer member speed before the change. After the speed of the intermediate transfer member is switched, the image primarily transferred before changing the speed is secondarily transferred. Primary transfer, which has conventionally been performed after changing the print speed, can be executed before changing the print speed.
US07676163B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming method In an image forming apparatus of the present invention, a developing unit for magenta contains magenta-type toner for pseudo full-color image forming whose chromaticity point is shifted closer to yellow hue on a chromaticity diagram, in comparison with genuine-magenta toner for full-color image forming, and likewise, a developing unit for cyan contains cyan-type toner for the pseudo full-color image forming whose chromaticity point is shifted closer to yellow hue on the chromaticity diagram, in comparison with genuine-cyan toner for the full-color image forming.
US07676162B2	Phase monitor used in optical receiver Branches are grouped into a group 1 including first and second branches, and a group 2 including third and fourth branches. The signal after being passed through a dual pin photodiode in one branch included in the group 1 and being at the earlier stage of a CDR circuit is obtained. Also, from the later stage of the CDR circuit in the other branch in the group 1 is obtained. The obtained signals are passed through low pass filters, and an average value over a plurality of symbols is obtained. The signal from the earlier stage of the CDR circuit is multiplied by the signal from the later stage, and they are averaged. The obtained value reflects the phase difference of the two delay interferometers in the group 1. The group 2 is monitored by using the same method.
US07676161B2	Modulation E-field based control of a non-linear transmitter In a method of synthesizing an optical signal, a multi-bit digital representation of a desired optical E-field is generated. The multi-bit digital representation has a resolution of N1-bits, where N1 is an integer greater than 2. At least two analog drive signals are synthesized based on the multi-bit digital representation. Each analog drive signal exhibits excursions between 2M discrete states (i.e. has a resolution of M-bits), where M is an integer greater than 2. An electrical-to-optical (E/O) converter is driven using the analog drive signals to generate an output optical E-field at an output of the E/O converter. An error is detected between the output optical E-field and the desired complex E-field waveform, and at least one parameter adjusted so as to minimize the detected error.
US07676157B2	Method and apparatus for providing gain equalization to an optical signal in an optical communication system An optical switch includes at least one input port for receiving a plurality of channel wavelengths of an optical signal and a plurality of output ports. A plurality of wavelength selective elements are also provided, which each select a channel wavelength from among the plurality of channel wavelengths received at the input port. A plurality of optical elements are respectively associated with the plurality of wavelength selective elements. Each of the optical elements direct one of the selected channel wavelengths, which are selected by the associated wavelength selective element, to any one of the output ports independently of all other channel wavelengths and with a selectively variable degree of attenuation. The switch also includes a controller for adjusting a configuration of the optical elements to provide the channel wavelengths with the selectively variable degree of attenuation.
US07676154B2	Method and system for configuring a connection-oriented packet network over a wavelength division multiplexed optical network A network planning tool and method for configuring a connection-oriented packet network over a WDM optical network without an optical control layer, such as a SONET/SDH layer. The optical network includes a plurality of optical fibers interconnected through nodes and the connection-oriented packet network, such an Ethernet network, MPLS network, or pseudowire network, includes two or more terminal devices. The method and tool function by building an association between the components of the physical layer, such as the optical fiber, and their geographic location or path. The connection-oriented packet network is configured by building multi-link trunks (MLTs) between terminal devices, where the MLTs are built by aggregating lightpaths that traverse distinctive geographic paths. The MLTs are planned and configured through aggregating lightpaths that traverse incongruent sets of photonic elements. A predetermined target for resiliency to physical failure events may determine the degree of congruence allowed between the sets of photonic elements associated with lightpaths in the same MLT.
US07676152B2	Optical power monitor for PON telecommunication In an optical telecommunication system in which an intensity of an arriving optical signal is different for each packet, detected is an optical intensity for each packet with little error. For this purpose, contrived is to detect an average optical intensity across header parts for each packet by focusing on the fact that the header part comprising the preamble and delimiter of a packet is in a bit pattern which includes approximately the same numbers of “0” and “1”.
US07676150B2	Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method and image pickup program An image pickup apparatus having a photographing condition setting section which sets photographing conditions of a subject, a photographing condition determination section which determines whether the image data in the storage section meet the photographing conditions set by the photographing condition setting section, and a photographing control section which deletes from the storage section image data determined by the photographing condition determination section not to meet the photographing conditions, and records into the recording section image data determined by the photographing condition determination section to meet the photographing conditions. In addition, the image data conversion section re-executes conversion of the picked-up image signals into image data and output of the image data.
US07676146B2	Camera using multiple lenses and image sensors to provide improved focusing capability An electronic camera includes: (a) a first imaging stage comprising a first image sensor; a first lens for forming a first image on the first image sensor; and a first lens focus adjuster for adjusting focus of the first lens responsive to a first focus detection signal; and (b) a second imaging stage comprising a second image sensor; a second lens for forming a second image on the second image sensor; and a second lens focus adjuster for adjusting focus of the second lens responsive to a second focus detection signal. A processing stage (a) selects the sensor output from the first imaging stage and uses the sensor output from the second imaging stage to generate the first focus detection signal, (b) selects the sensor output from the second imaging stage and uses the sensor output from the first imaging stage to generate the second focus detection signal.
US07676138B2	Television program pause for interactive sessions A television receiving system displays an advertisement for a future television program. If the future television program is identified as recordable, the system also displays an option to set a reminder for the advertised program and/or an option to record the advertised program on a video recorder. If a viewer of the advertisement selects the reminder option, then a reminder is programmed in the system. If the viewer selects the record option, then the system automatically programs the video recorder to record the advertised program. If the viewer has established an interactive session during a television advertisement, and has not completed the interactive session when the advertisement ends, then the current television program is paused until the interactive session is completed.
US07676137B2	Optical sight An optical sight is provided and may include a housing, at least one optic supported by the housing, and a fiber supported by the housing and selectively supplying light to the at least one optic. A sleeve may be supported by the housing and may include an opening that selectively exposes the fiber to vary an amount of light supplied to the at least one optic and a cover extending over the opening and movable with the sleeve relative to the fiber.
US07676132B1	Bend radius control A bend radius control device for routing and maintaining at least a minimum bend radius of a cable. The bend radius control device includes an arcuate member having a channel and at least one holding portion. The holding portion is configured to hold the bend radius device to one or more cables inserted therein, while the channel is configured to support the one or more cables. A grommet may be used to with the holding portions to aid the holding portion in holding one or more cables inserted in the bend radius control device. The arcuate member has a bend radius that is greater than or equal to the minimum bend radius of one or more cables inserted therein. The bend radius control device is similar in size to a number of cables inserted therein and may be used in a space saving environment.
US07676130B2	Optical fiber coating compositions The invention includes a composition for an optical fiber coating. An inventive composition includes a non-thiol functional adhesion promoter and less than about 0.5 pph of a strength additive containing a thiol functional group. The invention further includes an optical fiber coated with the inventive composition. A second inventive composition includes a photo-polymerizable composition which contains an adhesion promoter and a non-silicon containing strength additive containing at least about one thiol functional group. A third inventive composition includes a photo-polymerizable composition which has a silane containing adhesion promoter and a strength additive containing at least about one halide functional group. The invention also includes an optical fiber coated with the inventive coating and methods of making an optical fiber including the inventive coating.
US07676122B2	Apparatus, system and method for particle manipulation using waveguides A system and method are provided for manipulating particles using waveguides. An optical beam propagated by optical waveguides deflects particles for sorting or subsequent analysis. The present invention is well-suited for the sorting, manipulation and analysis of biological cells. Novel waveguide manufacturing method and materials, as well as monolithic integration and packaging of optofluidic devices are also provided.
US07676120B2	Optical phase shift device and antenna system utilizing same A phase shift device of an optical fiber signal includes an actuator for changing the signal phase in at least one fiber portion by inducing the phase change by thermo-optical effect. An antenna system incorporating phase shift devices using the thermo-optical effect find particular utility in automotive and telecommunications fields.
US07676108B2	Method and apparatus for initiating subsequent exposures based on determination of motion blurring artifacts A digital image acquisition system includes a portable apparatus for capturing digital images and a digital processing component for detecting, analyzing, invoking subsequent image captures and informing the photographer regarding motion blur, and for reducing camera motion blur in an image captured by the apparatus. The digital processing component operates by comparing the image with at least one other image, for example a preview image, of nominally the same scene taken outside the exposure period of the main image. In one embodiment the digital processing component identifies at least one feature in a single preview image which is relatively less blurred than the corresponding feature in the main image, calculates a point spread function (PSF) in respect of such feature, and initiates a subsequent capture if determined that the motion blur exceeds a certain threshold. In another embodiment the digital processing determines the degree of blur by analyzing the motion blur in the captured image itself, and initiates a subsequent capture if determined that the motion blur exceeds a certain threshold. Such real time analysis may use the auto focusing mechanism to qualitatively determine the PSF.
US07676100B2	Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded frame information includes: information related to a difference image between an image of a current frame and a prediction image of the current frame, the prediction image being synthesized by performing motion compensation, information related to motion vectors estimated in performing the motion compensation, and rounding method information specifying either a positive rounding method or a negative rounding method for interpolating intensity values of pixels in performing the motion compensation when the input image is coded as a P frame, wherein no rounding method information is included in the coded frame information when the input image is coded as an I frame.
US07676099B2	Method of down-sampling data values The present invention relates to a method of down-sampling data values. A first set of data values comprise a central data value and peripheral values of original data spatially surrounding the central data value. The central and peripheral values are compared to determine whether any differences exceed a threshold. Whenever a difference does exceed a threshold, a clipped value based upon the central data value replaces the corresponding peripheral value, thereby producing a second set of data values.
US07676084B2	Apparatus for processing dead pixel The present invention is related to a method and an apparatus for processing a dead pixel, more specifically to a method and an apparatus thereof for detecting and compensating a dead pixel that can maintain a good image quality by reducing image distortion and deterioration. With the present invention, the distortion of an image, caused by erroneously classifying a normal pixel of an inputted image as a dead pixel, is significantly reduced, thereby improving the quality of a processed image. Moreover, based on the characteristics of the inputted image, the algorithm and accuracy of detecting a dead pixel can be adjusted.
US07676074B2	Systems and methods for filtering data in a medical imaging system A method for filtering a measurement of density of an object is described. The method includes filtering the measurement of the density and preserving a local average of the measurement and additional measurements when performing the filtering.
US07676068B2	Biometric authentication A biometric authentication system, including a database of digital images of biometrics of known people, a camera for capturing a digital image of a biometric of an unknown person, a two-dimensional gradient filter coupled with said database and said camera for deriving a spatial gradient of a digital image, and a match processor coupled with the two-dimensional gradient filter for processing two spatial gradients and determining the extent to which the unknown biometric corresponds with a known biometric. A method and a computer-readable storage medium are also described and claimed.
US07676065B2	Method and apparatus for automatic identification of objects in an image A method and system for processing image data to identify objects in an image. The method and system operate using various resolutions of the image to identify the objects. Information obtained while processing the image at one resolution is employed when processing the image at another resolution.
US07676064B2	Sensor scan planner Sensor scan planner methods and systems are described. In an embodiment, a sensor scan schedule can be generated by a sensor scan schedule generator to optimize the scan schedules of multiple sensors based on optimal capabilities of each sensor and autonomous target recognition algorithm processing. A search manager can then assign an evaluation criteria value to the generated sensor scan schedule based on sensor scan schedule evaluation criteria, and compare the evaluation criteria value to other evaluation criteria values corresponding to respective previously generated sensor scan schedules to determine an optimal sensor scan schedule. The search manager can then determine whether to generate additional sensor scan schedules and assign additional evaluation criteria values for comparison to determine the optimal sensor scan schedule.
US07676057B2	Information processing device There is provided an information processing device which comprises a transparency adjustment unit to adjust transparency of a watermark image which is to be added to a main image to prepare data of a first image having first transparency and data of a second image having second transparency, wherein each of the first and second images corresponds to the watermark image and the first transparency of the first image is higher than the second transparency of the second image. The information processing device further comprises an overlap processing unit to generate data of an overlap image of the main image, the first image and the second image such that the second image, the main image and the first image overlap with each other in bottom-to-top order.
US07676043B1	Audio bandwidth expansion Bandwidth expansion for audio signals by frequency band translations plus adaptive gains to create higher frequencies; use of a common channel for both stereo channels limits computational complexity. Adaptive cut-off frequency determination by power spectrum curve analysis, and bass expansion by both fundamental frequency illusion and equalization.
US07676032B2	Method and system for determining maximum transactions within a communications network A call-transaction forecasting tool taking the form of a computer-implemented method and medium in some embodiments is provided for retrieving, aggregating, sorting, and determining one or more maximum transactions within a communications network. The tool automates the process of manually extracting and analyzing call transactions pertaining to call-duration, call volume, traffic usage, bandwidth usage, processing usage and memory usage in order to properly forecast and predict future network growth and capacity within a providers network. The computer-implemented method includes retrieving transaction data files from a switch or server, merging the files in a commonly shared data structure, identifying one or more maximum transaction counts based upon an associated period of time, and displaying the maximum counts and associated period of time.
US07676031B2	Method and apparatus for selectively terminating current in a digital subscriber line (DSL) modem A method and apparatus for selectively terminating sealing current in an asymmetric digital subscriber line modem is provided. The technique comprises providing a mechanism (e.g., a resistor or suitable current sink) to a DSL modem (e.g. an ADSL modem or any XDSL modem used where POTS is underlying service). The mechanism is operable to be dynamically switched on and off and to operate under low current conditions. The system allows for provision of DSL (e.g., ADSL or XDSL where POTS is the underlying current) in the absence of plain old telephone service (POTS) and for improved performance.
US07676030B2	System and method for personal identification number distribution and delivery A system and method for obtaining a personal identification number (PIN) from a client terminal is disclosed herein. The method includes storing, at the client terminal, PINs for plural prepaid services. The method also includes receiving, at the client terminal, a request for a PIN associated with a desired prepaid service corresponding to one of the plural prepaid services. A PIN request is then sent, from the client terminal, to a server when less than a predefined number of PINs associated with the desired prepaid service are stored at the client terminal. In response, one or more PINs associated with the desired prepaid service are received at the client terminal. The method further includes dispensing at least one PIN corresponding to the desired prepaid service from the client terminal.
US07676019B2	Compression arrangement The present invention relates to a compression arrangement for use in an x-ray imaging apparatus, the arrangement comprising a compression paddle and an actuator for displacing said compression paddle in a distance, said paddle having an extension direction substantially transverse to an object insertion direction. The actuator is operatively arranged to incline said paddle along said extension direction.
US07676012B1	Spread spectrum controllable delay clock buffer with zero cycle slip A controllable delay clock buffer that provides spread spectrum modulation of the output signals with zero cycle slip includes a PLL having a PLL loop filter that comprises an RC network. A clock signal is input to the PLL, and a SS modulation frequency is injected into the capacitor of the PLL loop filter. The SS signal is provided by a secondary charge pump that produces a programmable waveform such as a square wave or a stair case square wave current signal. The programmable waveform is integrated by the loop filter capacitor to form a corresponding triangular or trigonal waveform which varies the input to the VCO of the PLL to define a frequency modulation profile that has a corresponding triangular or trigonal envelope. The bandpass profile of the SS modulation signal is at a higher frequency range than the lowpass profile of the PLL, so that the SS waveform profile is not distorted or cancelled by the PLL.
US07676009B2	Method and circuit for equalizing and compensating IQ imbalance simultaneously The present invention provides a method and circuit for equalizing and compensating IQ imbalance at the same time. The method includes: down-converting an RF signal to generate a baseband signal, and driving an adaptive equalizer to process the baseband signal for achieving equalization and IQ imbalance compensation simultaneously.
US07676006B2	Method and system for estimating the doppler spread in radio mobile telecommunication systems and computer program product therefor The Doppler spread associated to a transmission channel with a gain represented by a random process, is estimated by transmitting on the channel a digital signal (DPCCHI,Q), which comprises at least one pilot signal, which in turn comprises fields of known symbols, and estimating, on the basis of the pilot signal(DPCCHI,Q), the channel so as to generate a signal indicating the aforesaid gain. There is then detected the zero-crossing rate (η) of the aforesaid signal during a given time interval, and there is also estimated the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) associated to the channel. The bandwidth ({circumflex over (f)}D) of the aforesaid random process is estimated according to a reference quantity (ID(2)), which comprises: a first term ({circumflex over (η)}2π2), representing an estimate ({circumflex over (η)}) of said zero-crossing rate (η); and a second term ( I N ( 2 ) - η ^ 2 ⁢ π 2 ⁢ I N ( 0 ) 2 ⁢ SNR ) , which includes said signal-to-noise ratio of the channel.
US07675997B2	Dynamic DC offset removal apparatus and dynamic DC offset removal method A dynamic DC offset removal apparatus and a dynamic DC offset removal method capable of accurately estimating a change position of a dynamic DC offset and a DC offset value before the change and a DC offset value after the change, thereby carrying out equalization processing on a reception signal whose dynamic DC offsets are removed, and improving a bit error rate characteristic. In receiver 100 having a dynamic DC offset removal apparatus, dynamic DC offset detection section 109 calculates a DC offset value before the change and a DC offset value after the change, and DC offset change timing from the maximum value and minimum value calculated at maximum value search section 104 and minimum value search section 105 and the first-half mean value, second-half mean value and overall mean value calculated at first-half mean value calculation section 107, second-half mean value calculation section 108 and overall mean value calculation section 106, and compensation DC offset switching section 111 of DC offset removal section 110 switches between the DC offset value before the change and DC offset value after the change based on the DC offset change timing and removes dynamic DC offsets from the reception signal.
US07675996B2	Television receiver suitable for multi-standard operation and method therefor A receiver (1100) includes a direct digital frequency synthesizer (130), a mixer (105), and a clock source (1110, 1130). The direct digital frequency synthesizer has an input terminal for receiving a first clock signal at a first frequency, and an output terminal for providing a digital local oscillator signal synchronously with the first clock signal. The mixer (105) has a first input terminal for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal, a second input terminal coupled to the output terminal of the direct digital frequency synthesizer (130), and an output terminal for providing an IF signal having a spectrum centered about a selectable one of a plurality of center frequencies. The clock source (1110, 1130) has an output terminal for providing the first clock signal without using a harmonic frequency that overlaps the spectrum for the plurality of center frequencies.
US07675984B1	Low complexity, iterative approach to active interference cancellation Generating a notch in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) frequency spectrum includes determining a first active interference cancellation (AIC) tone, comparing the first AIC tone with an amplitude limit, in the event that the first AIC tone exceeds the amplitude limit, constraining the first AIC tone, and determining a second AIC tone based at least in part on the first AIC tone. An Active Interference Cancellation (AIC) tone generator includes an interface configured to receive a plurality of tones, a processing component coupled to the interface, configured to determine a first AIC tone, compare the first AIC tone with an amplitude limit, and in the event that the first AIC tone exceeds the amplitude limit, constrain the first AIC tone, and determine a second AIC tone based at least in part on the first AIC tone.
US07675979B1	Methods, algorithms, software, circuits, architectures, and systems for improved communications over cyclostationary channels Methods, software, receivers and systems for communicating information over a cyclostationary channel. The method generally includes interleaving sections of a control sequence with bits of the information. The software and receivers are generally configured to implement one or more aspects of the methods disclosed herein, and the systems generally include those that embody the inventive receivers disclosed herein. The present invention is particularly useful in powerline channels, where certain parameters (such as noise) have time-dependent or periodic variations in value. By distributing the control sequence, the incidence of carrier recovery is reduced, the likelihood of successful packet or frame transmissions is increased, and data may be more reliably communicated.
US07675977B2	Method and apparatus for processing audio signal Apparatus and methods for processing a signal are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. A data structure for processing a signal includes a payload part having at least one of data coding information including pilot coding information per a frame and entropy coding information. The data structure includes data coding information having information for a data coding scheme and entropy coding information having information for an entropy coding scheme and a second data part having a reference value corresponding to a plurality of data, and a difference value generated using the reference value and the data.
US07675974B2	Video encoder and portable radio terminal device using the video encoder A motion compensation predictor comprises a reference picture selection unit, a center-of-search-setting unit, a search-range-setting unit, a motion vector search unit and a motion compensation unit. The motion compensation unit repeatedly performs, for a target block in a motion picture signal, selection of a reference picture signal, setting of the center of search, setting of a search range, and a search for a motion vector, thereby acquiring an optimal motion vector. The unit then performs motion compensation on reference picture signals sequentially selected, using the optimal motion vector, to generate a predicted picture signal. The motion-vector-search unit sets the search range on a reference picture indicated by a currently selected reference picture signal, based on information related to a motion vector detected in the search range set on a reference picture indicated by a preceding reference picture signal.
US07675973B2	Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination, generating a predictive error signal representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal, and encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination.
US07675956B2	Vertical cavity surface emitting laser and method for manufacturing the same A Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser capable of being easily and inexpensively manufactured and stabilizing the polarization direction of laser light in one direction is provided. The VCSEL includes a semiconductor lamination structure including a first multilayer film reflector, an active layer having a light emitting region, and a second multilayer film reflectors, in this order over a substrate from the substrate side. The semiconductor lamination structure has a pair of grooves provided with a region opposed to the light emitting region in between, and one or a plurality of first oxidation layers including a first non-oxidation region provided at least in a region opposed to the light emitting region and a first oxidation region provided on each side face of the pair of grooves.
US07675948B2	Performance analysis of a circuit switched mobile telecommunications network In a circuit switched mobile telecommunications network a performance analysis is provided. In accordance with the invention a method is implemented, which can be carried out both OFF-LINE and ON-LINE, wherein transport channels carrying the circuit switched traffic of a service are found, then bit-streams of the circuit switched traffic are demultiplexed. A traffic database is built and a set of Key Performance Indicators and usage measures characterizing the service are defined and calculated. A passive traffic monitor is also disclosed, which is attached to a standardized interface of the circuit switched mobile telecommunications network consisting of mobile terminals, radio access network and core network. The passive traffic monitor comprises a trace analyzer connected to a signaling analyzer, to a user plane protocol analyzer and to a traffic database writer. The traffic database writer generating a traffic database is linked to the signaling analyzer, to the trace analyzer and to the user plane analyzer.
US07675933B2	System and method for enabling radio operations on a wireless computing device Embodiments of the invention provide for a wireless computing device that comprises a set of one or more radio components to transmit and receive wireless communications on the device. Additionally, the wireless computing device includes processing and memory resources that individually or in combination provide multiple wireless applications, a radio object, and an arbitration component. The multiple wireless applications are each capable of generating a user-interface for enabling user-input in connection with wireless activities performed with that wireless application. The radio object interfaces the multiple applications with the set of one or more radio components. The arbitration component is configured to arbitrate at least one of (i) requests made by each of the wireless applications to the radio object for access to one or more of the radio components in the set, or (ii) responses from the radio object to requests made by each of the wireless applications.
US07675931B1	Methods and apparatus for controlling multiple master/slave connections Techniques and mechanisms provide various representations and/or the ability to control component interconnections in an electronic design. For example, virtual representations, which may be combined with physical representations, of actual hardware connections between components of an electronic design are provided. A virtual port is generally mapped to a hidden physical port, which corresponds to an actual hardware port of a particular component. The virtual port may be mapped to multiple hidden physical ports or mapped to a single hidden physical port shared by another virtual port. The mapping may also take into account various constraints (e.g., functionalities supported by the components selected for connection; burst data transfers; prefetchable memory reads; etc.) to allow for efficient control and/or presentation of interconnection information. Based on the mappings, components can be automatically connected. As such, the creation and understanding of an electronic design is made easier and clearer to the user.
US07675926B2	Hierarchical QoS behavioral model A hierarchical traffic management system and method (i.e., a QoS behavioral model) are disclosed herein. The system includes a classifier operable to identify and classify incoming traffic streams and a queuing system. The queuing system includes a plurality of queues and is operable to apply scheduling policies to the traffic streams. The queues of the queuing system each include enqueue attributes configured to control a depth of the queue and dequeue attributes configured to control scheduling of the queue. The dequeue attributes include minimum bandwidth, maximum bandwidth, excess bandwidth, and priority, wherein each of the queues has one or more of the dequeue attributes defined.
US07675925B2	Method and apparatus for providing a packet buffer random access memory The present invention generally provides a packet buffer random access memory (PBRAM) device including a memory array, a plurality of input ports, and a plurality of serial registers associated with the input ports. The plurality of input ports permit multiple devices to concurrently access the memory in a non-blocking manner. The serial registers enable receiving data from the input ports and concurrently packet data to the memory array. The memory performs all management of network data queues so that all port requests can be satisfied within the real-time constraints of network packet switching.
US07675921B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and system This invention provides a technique for safely and readily managing a network device. To achieve this object, an authentication server (105) performs an authentication process by using a set of a login ID and password transmitted from a manager server apparatus (103), and transmits the authentication result to a multi-functional peripheral (102). The authentication server (105) also specifies a VLAN name corresponding to this set, and transmits the VLAN name to a DHCP server (106). The DHCP server (106) determines connection setting information corresponding to the VLAN name, and transmits the determined connection setting information to the multi-functional peripheral (102). The multi-functional peripheral (102) connects to VLAN 2 by using the obtained connection setting information.
US07675915B2	Packet processing system architecture and method A packet processing system architecture and method are provided. According to a first aspect of the invention, packet parser functions are distributed throughout a packet processing system comprising a packet classification system and a packet modification system. According to a second aspect of the invention, an egress mirroring function is provided to the system. According to a third aspect of the invention, a multi-dimensional quality of service indicator for a packet is provided. According to a fourth aspect of the invention, a cascaded combination of multiple, replicated packet processing systems is used to process a packet. A fifth aspect of the invention involves any combination of one or more of the foregoing.
US07675912B1	Method and apparatus for border gateway protocol (BGP) auto discovery A method is disclosed for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) service auto discovery. A first message is received from a first BGP host. The first message comprises first information that indicates that the first BGP host provides reachability information associated with one or more route types. The first information is stored. The first information is sent in a second message to a second BGP host, where the first BGP host and the second BGP host are not conducting a BGP peering session.
US07675911B2	Method and system for acknowledgements in wireless communications A packet communication process for a wireless system that includes a sender and a receiver, is provided. The packet communication process dispenses with the need to send multiple block acknowledgments, one per Traffic Identifier (TID), from the receiver to the sender. This involves aggregating multiple MPDUs having a plurality of different TIDs; for each TID, generating a BAR to request an acknowledgment for one or more MPDUs with that TID from the receiver; transmitting the aggregated MPDUs and the BARs from the sender to the receiver over a wireless channel; receiving the aggregated MPDUs and the BARs at the receiver; in response to the BARs, generating a single block acknowledgement that includes an acknowledgment for each MPDU with a different TID; and transmitting the single block acknowledgement to the sender.
US07675908B2	Parallel channel architecture A high data rate switch is disclosed. The switch may include fiber optic channels where a plurality of switching elements necessarily operate at a significantly lower data rate providing routing of variable or fixed size data packets from a plurality of source ports to a plurality of destination ports via a single serial link. This is may be provided by storing the high rate data temporarily in memory in each of the source ports and then downloading it at a lower rate in a complete data packet to a designated switching element, almost immediately distributing the next data packet that has been received by the source port to a next switching element. The switching element configuration provides automatic redundancy and a minimum amount of frame overhead while sustaining throughput at the high data rate.
US07675905B2	Methods, systems, and computer program products for selectively performing global title translation based on message type Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for selectively performing global title translation based on message type at an SS7 network node. A message is received indicating route-on-global-title. A message type of the received message is determined. Global title translation is selectively performed based on the determined message type.
US07675899B2	Packet-aware transport architecture for enhanced data volume Packet-aware transport architecture and techniques for implementing same that enhance data volume by scaling effectively to rapid data growth are disclosed. For example, a technique for determining a route for a demand in a circuit-switched network comprises the following steps/operations. The demand to be routed in the circuit-switched network is obtained. The circuit-switched networks implements a packet ring (PR) model such that one or more demands are routable on one or more virtual data rings in the circuit-switched network. An Ethernet-Over-SONET (EOS) communication channel in the circuit-switched network suitable for accommodating the demand is specified. The EOS communication channel or one of the one or more virtual data rings is then identified as the new route for the demand.
US07675894B2	Method for sending channel quality information in a multi-carrier radio communication system, corresponding user terminal and base station The present invention relates to a method for gaining channel quality information at a base station of a multi-carrier radio communication system having a plurality of orthogonal frequency sub-carriers.According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of: measuring a Channel Frequency Response at a user terminal of said multi-carrier radio communication channel; extracting samples of said Channel Frequency Response represented in the frequency domain at a predefined oversampling factor; sending said samples on a signaling channel from said user terminal to said base station; performing a windowing operation on the received samples in the time domain; determining a channel quality information for each of said sub-carriers on a representation in the frequency domain of said received samples after windowing operation.
US07675891B2	Multimedia reception in communication networks Functionalities for a user equipment (UE) in a communication system in order to be able to receive broadcast information, such as TV and other multimedia, with good quality are described. In particular, methods and apparatus that schedule system measurement procedures such that the risk of interrupting the broadcast reception is minimized are described.
US07675885B2	Methods and apparatus for CDMA2000/GPRS roaming IIF architectures and corresponding call flows are provided for CDMA2000/GPRS roaming scenarios such as GPRS foreign mode with Mobile IPv4, GPRS foreign mode with Simple IPv4 or IPv6, CDMA2000 packet data foreign mode with Mobile IPv4, and CDMA2000 packet data foreign mode with Simple IPv4 or IPv6.
US07675884B2	Apparatus and method for communication scheduling in a wireless sensor network An apparatus and method are provided for communication scheduling. The apparatus includes a control unit for determining whether a reference node and a plurality of child nodes of the reference node have completed communication scheduling, which is required for performing communication between the reference node and the child nodes during a time period, based on the reference node; and a scheduling unit for performing the communication scheduling between the reference node and a parent node of the reference node by selecting a communication time, when the communication scheduling between the reference node and the child nodes have been completed.
US07675864B2	Automated packet switch carrier health monitoring process A system, method and computer program product are provided for determining the status of a packet-switched network by a computing device monitoring components that comprise the packet-switched network including a call-server, one or more gate-keepers, a TDM voice gateway, and one or more packet-switched routers. The computing device is configured to document failure location information associated with the packet-switched network and provide the failure information to a technical support organization.
US07675860B2	Method and apparatus for determining a preferred backup tunnel to protect point-to-multipoint label switch paths A method, apparatus and computer program product for determining a preferred backup path to protect a point-to-multipoint label switching path is presented. A point-to-multipoint backup path is computed for each node located upstream from a branching node, the backup path originating at the node and including a set of nodes downstream from said branching node. A cost metric associated with each backup path is determined, as is a distance metric associated with each backup path. From the cost and distance metrics associated with each backup path a preferred backup path is selected using a distributed algorithm.
US07675851B2	System and method for synchronizing a back-up device in a communications environment An apparatus for communicating data is provided that includes a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station and comprising a compression module that is operable to receive a plurality of bits associated with a communications flow, to inspect the bits, to determine whether one or more samples included in the flow should be suppressed, and to compress the samples. The cell site element is coupled to a back-up device that is operable to assume responsibility for active flows in a case where a primary device fails. Data is exchanged between the primary device and the back-up device, the data guiding the back-up device in how to process the active flows.
US07675846B2	Method and system for using the synchronization channel to obtain measurements in a cellular communications system A method and apparatus that utilizes the synchronization channel (SCH) by the user equipment (UE) to obtain time synchronization information and to perform cell search. In order to perform the SCH detection, only a correlation between the known SCH signal and the received sequence is needed, hence the FFT is not involved in the synchronization step. Typically the SCH and pilot symbols are transmitted with a constant power which is the same for all base stations. Hence, based on the serving cell (SC) SCH and pilot symbols, the power relation between these signals is estimated and the ratio applied when performing time synchronization to other cells (i.e. correlation the received sequence with the SCH from that particular NC) to estimate the pilot signal strength for the NB cell.
US07675844B2	Synchronization for OFDM signals A method of acquiring, at a receiver, fine timing synchronization for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal as transported over a channel, includes determining an impulse response of the channel; dynamically creating a window function corresponding to the impulse response; and selecting a multiplicity of samples of the OFDM signal in accordance with the window function, where the multiplicity of samples are time aligned with an OFDM demodulator. A corresponding synchronizer includes a correlator for cross correlating a received preamble with a known preamble to provide an impulse response corresponding to the channel; a window generator configured to dynamically create a window function corresponding to the impulse response; and a selector configured to select a multiplicity of samples of the OFDM signal in accordance with the window function, where the multiplicity of samples are time aligned with a Fast Fourier Transform window associated with an OFDM demodulator.
US07675843B2	Multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing A multipoint-to-point, orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a system includes: a host unit including a demodulator that simultaneously demodulates upstream information modulated on a plurality of tones within an OFDM waveform, and a plurality of remote units for transmission of upstream information, each remote unit including a modem, the remote units modulating a plurality of tones with upstream information so that when received at the host unit the tones are orthogonal within the OFDM waveform.
US07675842B2	Adaptive coding and modulation using linked list data structures A process is described to build physical layer frames with a modcode adapted to the signal quality of a destination terminal. Data packets assigned to the same modcode may be sent in the same frame, although packets associated with higher modcodes may be used to complete a frame before switching to the applicable higher modcode for construction of subsequent frames. After an interval, the order of progression is restarted with an out of order packet above a threshold age. Flow control filtering mechanisms and a variable reliability margin may be used to adapt dynamically to the current data traffic conditions.
US07675841B2	Apparatus and method for generating a preamble sequence in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for generating a preamble sequence in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system including a reference base station and a plurality of non-reference base stations and employing m sub-carriers in a frequency domain. A reference preamble sequence having a length equal to n is generated and mapped on a one-to-one basis with n sub-carriers of the m sub-carriers. A final preamble sequence equivalent to the reference preamble sequence is generated when the base station is a reference base station, or a phase of the reference preamble sequence is shifted by a predetermined phase in order to generate a phase-shifted final preamble sequence when the base station is a non-reference base station, thereby minimizing interference between neighbor base stations.
US07675838B2	Optical recording medium A multilayer optical recording medium comprises four recording layers including an L0 layer, an L1 layer, an L2 layer, and L3 layer laminated between a substrate and an optically transparent cover layer and optically transparent spacer layers each provided between the recording layers. The L2 layer has the negative dependence of the reflectance on the incident angle of a laser light beam for reproduction. Crosstalk can be effectively reduced by the relation between the configuration of the respective recording layers and the crosstalk.
US07675834B2	Optical pickup for three different types of optical discs and recording and/or reproducing apparatus using same An optical pickup including a light source unit having a first radiating unit for radiating a light beam of a first wavelength, a second radiating unit for radiating a light beam of a second wavelength and a third radiating unit for radiating a light beam of a third wavelenght, a collimator lens having different focal lengths dependent on the first to third wavelengths, and an objective lens for condensing light beams, radiated from the first to third radiating units, on an information recording surface of an optical disc, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing the optical pickup, are disclosed. The optical pickup and the recording and/or reproducing apparatus are used for recording and/or reproducing the information for plural sorts of the information recording medium of different formats. Certain components of the optical pickup are used in common for the different light beams to reduce the size of the device as well as to correct the spherical aberration.
US07675829B2	Method and apparatus for overwriting data on recording-medium and the recording medium In an embodiment of the method of over-writing a recording medium, if data for writing on the recording medium is to be written on a recorded portion of a user data area of the recording medium, an unrecorded portion of the recording medium is selected as a replacement portion for recording the data and the data is recorded in the replacement portion.
US07675828B2	Recording medium having data structure for managing at least a data area of the recording medium and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The data structure on the recording medium includes a temporary defect management area storing a data block. The data block includes a space bit map and a temporary definition structure. The space bit map indicates recordation status of the data area, and the temporary definition structure provides a pointer to the space bit map.
US07675827B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program An information processing apparatus that transmits transmission data to another first information processing apparatus through an access point includes: a detection unit configured to detect the access point; a reproduction unit configured to reproduce the transmission data from a recording medium in which the transmission data is recorded; a transmission unit configured to transmit to the another first information processing apparatus the transmission data reproduced by the reproduction unit when the access point is detected by the detection unit; and a power control unit configured to control supply of power to the reproduction unit. The power control unit controls the supply of power such that power is supplied to the reproduction unit when the access point is detected by the detection unit and power is not supplied to the reproduction unit in other cases.
US07675824B2	Optical disc apparatus One of the objects of the invention is to provide an optical disc apparatus capable of focusing on a signal surface regardless of appearance of a fake signal. The optical disc apparatus includes: an optical pickup for outputting a signal on the basis of reflection light of the optical disc, the optical pickup including an objective lens; a driving section for moving the objective lens of the optical pickup relative to an optical disc surface; and a focus controlling section for carrying out a focus detecting operation by detecting a reflection signal on a signal surface of the optical disc from the output signal of the optical pickup within a predetermined range of distance between the objective lens and the optical disc surface while the objective lens is being moved relative to the optical disc surface by means of the driving section.
US07675822B2	Clock device, clock system, and time measuring method A clock device is held by a moving body, and receives a modulated wave from two electromagnetic fields generated by an antenna formed in a predetermined shape and disposed on a path. The clock device demodulates the modulated wave and acquires unique identification information. The clock device determines a non-detection period after the identification information is acquired. The clock device acquires a reference time corresponding to a middle of the non-detection period, and specifies the acquired reference time as a pass time when the moving body has passed through a point where the antenna is disposed.
US07675818B2	Method for tomographic inversion by matrix transformation Method for reducing instability and increasing computational efficiency in tomographic inversion for velocity model building. A system of tomographic equations is developed for a uniform grid. A non-uniform parameterization is found for which a linear mapping exists between the space of the uniform grid and the space of the non-uniform grid. The matrix that relates velocity to the tomographic data in the non-uniform representation is then given by the matrix product of the corresponding matrix in the uniform grid representation and the mapping matrix. Inversion can then be performed for the non-uniform parameterization on a smaller, more stable matrix.
US07675803B2	Memory circuit system having semiconductor devices and a memory A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor chips and a memory device. The semiconductor chips are provided in a package. Each of the semiconductor chips includes a memory cell array having memory cells which stores data, an output buffer which outputs data read from the memory cell array to an exterior of the semiconductor chip and a control circuit which controls driving power of the output buffer. The memory device stores the number of semiconductor chips provided in the package. The control circuit controls the driving power according to the number of semiconductor chips stored in the memory device.
US07675801B2	Semiconductor memory device and refresh method for the same A refresh method for a semiconductor memory device features high noise resistance, lower power consumption, and lower cost. All word lines of one or more memory cell blocks that have not been selected in a self refresh mode are controlled to have a floating potential substantially at ground level. Even when a word line and a bit line are short-circuited, this control prevents destruction of memory cell information, which may be caused by noise, and also prevents generation of leakage current. A fuse, etc., for preventing generation of leakage current is unnecessary, so that lower cost is realized.
US07675795B2	Semiconductor device, wireless chip, IC card, IC tag, transponder, bill, securities, passport, electronic apparatus, bag, and garment The invention provides an ID chip to which data can be written only once in order to maintain high security as a non-contact type ID chip to which signals are inputted wirelessly from an antenna. A non-contact type ID chip includes a nonvolatile FeRAM in the chip. Data representative of whether data is written or not to the FeRAM is written when writing identification data, thereby data cannot be written additionally to the FeRAM of the ID chip once the data has been written.
US07675793B2	Semiconductor memory device and driving method for the device This disclosure concerns a semiconductor memory device comprising: memory cells including floating bodies storing data; word lines connected to gates of the memory cells; a bit line pair connected to the memory cells and transmitting data stored in the memory cells; a sense node pair connected to the bit line pair and transmitting data stored in the memory cells; transfer gates connected between the bit line pair and the sense node pair; latch circuits latching a high-level potential in one sense node of the sense node pair, and latching a first low-level potential in the other sense node of the sense node pair; and a level shifter applying a second low-level potential lower than the first low-level potential to one bit line of the bit line pair according to the electric potentials latched in the sense node pair at the time of writing data or writing back data.
US07675792B2	Generating reference currents compensated for process variation in non-volatile memories In a current reference generator device, a voltage reference generator stage generates a reference voltage (Vref) and an active element output stage receives the reference voltage (Vref) and outputs a reference current (Iref) as a function of the reference voltage (Vref). A control stage is operatively coupled to the voltage reference generator stage and to the active element output stage and controls a first trimmable parameter (m) associated to the voltage reference generator stage and a second trimmable parameter associated to the active element output stage, so as to compensate for changes in a value of the reference current (Iref) due to manufacturing process deviations.
US07675791B2	Synchronous memory device A synchronous memory device, which includes a read command buffer, a replica circuit, and a latency circuit. The read command buffer provides a read signal in response to a read command. The replica circuit provides a transfer signal whose time difference with respect to the feedback clock signal is substantially identical to a period that it takes a read command buffer to provide the read signal. The latency circuit receives the read signal, and provides a latency signal having a difference of a predetermined time corresponding to CAS latency with respect to the read signal in response to the transfer signal.
US07675768B1	Low power carbon nanotube memory Low power carbon nanotube memory is realized such that a first dynamic circuit serves as a local sense amp for reading a memory cell through a lightly loaded local bit line, a second dynamic circuit serves as a segment sense amp for reading the local sense amp, a first tri-state inverter serves as an inverting amplifier of a global sense amp, and a second tri-state inverter serves as a bypass circuit for bypassing output from previous memory block. When reading, a voltage difference in the local bit line is converted to a time difference for differentiating high data and low data by the sense amps for realizing low power with dynamic operation. In particular, amplify transistor of the sense amps is composed of relatively long channel transistor for reducing turn-off current. And buffered data path is used for achieving fast data transfer. Additionally, alternative circuits and memory cell structures are described.
US07675763B2	Semiconductor power converter apparatus Even when one of IGBTs fails in a semiconductor power converter apparatus in which a plurality of semiconductor elements are connected in parallel, the remaining IGBT(s) is prevented from failing with a simple circuit configuration. The semiconductor power converter apparatus includes: a semiconductor power conversion circuit in which a first IGBT having a temperature sensing unit and a second IGBT having a current sensing unit are connected in parallel, for causing the first and second semiconductor elements to perform switching operations; an overheat protection circuit for performing overheat protection for the first and second IGBTs based on temperature information obtained from the temperature sensing unit of the first IGBT; and an overcurrent protection circuit for performing overcurrent protection for the first and second IGBTs based on current information obtained from the current sensing unit of the second IGBT.
US07675755B2	LED module An LED module comprises: an LED element having an electrode for flip chip mounting; a wiring board having at least two metal layers and an electrically insulating layer including a polymer resin and being interposed between each two of the metal layers; and a metal film layer of the LED element for conducting heat from the LED element. A first metal layer of the at least two metal layers has a power supply metal pattern and a heat transfer metal pattern that are formed electrically insulated from each other. The power supply metal pattern and the electrode are connected to each other; the heat transfer metal pattern and the metal film layer are connected through an electrically insulating portion interposed therebetween; and the heat transfer metal pattern and the metal layers other than the first metal layer are coupled to each other through a heat transfer portion.
US07675751B2	Frame-type computer cooling device A frame-type computer cooling device for installation in a host computer is provided. The host computer has a heat-generating source and a slot compartment. The slot compartment communicates with the inside of the host computer and the outside of the host computer. The frame-type computer cooling device includes a frame and a cooling circulation device. The frame is insertedly disposed in the slot compartment and includes a receiving recess. The cooling circulation device includes an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, and an expansion valve connected to one another by a pipeline filled with a coolant. The compressor, the condenser, and the expansion valve are received in the receiving recess. The evaporator adjoins the heat-generating source. Accordingly, the cooling circulation device is easy to install, and heat dissipation of the heat-generating source is swift and efficient.
US07675744B2	Air distribution system compatible with disparate data storage systems A data storage library includes a drive enclosure bay which can be adapted to work with multiple air-flow configuration requirements. This is accomplished by creating air-flow ports in the top and bottom of the drive enclosure bay, by forming drive tray slots and printed circuit board ports in associated drive trays, by creating frame ports and PCB notches in associated interface cards, and replacing traditional connectors with slimmer but longer connectors that provide additional standoff and improved air-flow.
US07675738B2	Gas insulated switchgear A gas insulated switchgear has: circuit breakers, circuit breaker vessels, first disconnector and maintenance earthning switches connected to first bus bars connected to circuit breaker vessels and also to main bus bars, second disconnector and maintenance earthning switches connected to second bus bars connected to the circuit breaker vessels, circuit breaker operating mechanisms, first and second disconnector and maintenance earthning switch operating mechanisms, and first and second disconnector and maintenance earthning switch operation links for linking the disconnector and maintenance earthning switches and the operating mechanisms for three phases. The second disconnector and maintenance earthning switch operation links are arranged so as to pass through inter-phases of the first bus bars and the operating panels of the circuit breaker operating mechanism and the first and second disconnector and maintenance earthning switch operating mechanisms of each phase are arranged on a common flat plane.
US07675728B2	Fire safe arrester isolator A housing encapsulating first and second terminals of a surge arrester disconnector becomes structurally weakened before activation of a disconnect device in the disconnector when the disconnector is exposed to heat, thereby preventing the disconnector from producing a projectile with a force sufficient to classify the disconnector as a hazardous material under Department of Transportation regulations.
US07675727B2	Protection circuit for power management semiconductor devices and power converter having the protection circuit A collector voltage of a power management semiconductor device is detected by a first comparator, and when the detected collector voltage exceeds a first reference voltage, the first comparator outputs a first detection signal. Furthermore, a gate voltage of the power management semiconductor device is detected by a second comparator, and when the detected gate voltage exceeds a second reference voltage, the second comparator outputs a second detection signal. The second reference voltage is a minimum gate voltage for feeding a rated power to the power management semiconductor device or over, and less than a line power voltage of a drive circuit of the power management semiconductor device. When both the first detection signal and second detection signal are being outputted, the gate voltage is reduced by a gate voltage reduction means so as to protect the power management semiconductor device from overcurrent and overvoltage.
US07675721B2	Circuit interrupter including a shunt wire current sensor and a processor having a thermal overload predictive function A miniature circuit breaker includes separable contacts, an operating mechanism structured to open and close the separable contacts, a microprocessor including a thermal overload predictive function, and a shunt wire in series with the separable contacts. The shunt wire is structured to measure current flowing through the separable contacts for the thermal overload predictive function and an arc fault protective function.
US07675715B2	Magnetoresistive head and fabricating method thereof, and read write separation type head In one embodiment, a seed layer, an underlayer, and a magnetic domain control layer are laminated on both sides of a magnetoresistive sheet unit. A lower electrode film is thinly formed on an upper portion of the magnetic domain control film. A portion of the lower electrode film near the magnetoresistive sheet unit does not protrude substantially from an upper surface of the magnetoresistive sheet unit. Should the portion protrude, a step from the upper surface of the magnetoresistive sheet unit is about 14 nm or less. This portion and the upper surface of the magnetoresistive sheet unit are formed into a flat surface. An upper electrode film is formed thickly on an upper portion of the lower electrode film on an outside thereof so as to circumvent the flat surface. A protective layer, an upper gap film, and an upper magnetic shield film are also formed.
US07675714B1	Stiffened voice coil for reduction of tracking errors in a disk drive The present invention is a system for stiffening a voice coil of a magnetic disk drive. One embodiment of the present invention are stressed skins that interconnect with an upper portion and a lower portion of the voice coil such that they are flush with the upper and lower surfaces of the voice coil. The stressed skins are adhered or otherwise interconnected to the voice coil thus allowing for bending, twisting, torsional, and various other loads that generate vibrations that affect the head of an actuator assembly to be dampened. One embodiment of the present invention includes two stressed skins interconnected to a voice coil constructed of carbon composite wherein the space therebetween is filled with a foam to provide additional stiffness and damping.
US07675713B2	Head suspension with flexure vibration clearance A head suspension for a hard disk drive has a base attached to a carriage of the hard disk drive and is turned around a spindle. A load beam includes a rigid part and a resilient part which applies load onto a head at a front end of the load beam to write and read data to and from a disk arranged in the hard disk drive. The rigid part is supported to the base through the resilient part. A flexure is attached to at least the rigid part of the load beam and has read/write wiring patterns connected to the head. A recessed portion or a through-hole portion is formed in at least one of the load beam and the base for avoiding vibration contact of the flexure.
US07675712B2	Ramp structure with inclined contact surface An apparatus for unloading a moveable member comprises a ramp structure with an inclined surface. A lift tab of the moveable member advances along the ramp structure to the inclined surface while pivoting about a pivot point to undergo an increase in elevation above a base surface. The inclined surface has a slope determined in relation to angular deflection of the lift tab induced by said increase in elevation. Preferably, the slope of the inclined surface substantially matches an angle of the lift tab when the lift tab is disposed on the inclined surface. The inclined surface preferably constitutes a parking surface, and the ramp structure further preferably comprises an entry/exit ramp surface and a latch surface along which the lift tab travels to reach the parking surface. The moveable member preferably comprises a flexible suspension which supports a transducer adjacent a data storage medium in a data storage device.
US07675710B2	Tape drive with read/write head having legacy read elements and with special-purpose read channels A tape drive for reading both new technology tapes and legacy tapes. The tape drive includes a three bump head with two outer read bumps and an inner write bump. The outer read bumps include readers for reading data from tracks of a first width on a first storage tape while the inner write bump includes writers for writing data in tracks of the first storage tape. Legacy readers are provided in the head to read data from tracks of a second width that is greater than the first track width on a second storage tape. The legacy readers are provided by piggybacking or merged-pole techniques in the inner write bump or are provided in one or both of the outer read bumps. The tape drive includes control circuitry with channels for processing data signals from the narrower readers and channels for processing data signals from the wider legacy readers.
US07675707B1	Disk drive employing repeatable disturbance compensation for fly height control A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk, a head actuated over the disk, and control circuitry operable to generate a fly height control signal. A fly height of the head is measured, and the measured fly height is combined with a target fly height and a feedforward signal, wherein the feedforward signal is generated according to: a1·cos(2πn1k/N)+b1·sin(2πn1k/N) where a1 and b1 are coefficients and 2πn1k/N represents a frequency of a repeatable disturbance in the fly height of the head.
US07675705B2	Method and apparatus for writing servo pattern using spiral pattern in disk drive According to one embodiment, there is provided a servo write method of writing specified servo patterns to a disk medium on the basis of a spiral servo pattern recorded on the disk medium, wherein when the spiral servo pattern is read using a head, position detecting data used to detect a radial position on the disk medium on the basis of data recorded in a sync mark region.
US07675697B2	Lens module and method for assembling the same An exemplary lens module includes a lens barrel, a barrel holder engaged with the lens barrel, a number of optical lenses received in the lens barrel; and a number of elastic spacers received in the lens barrel. Each of the elastic spacers is arranged between the adjacent optical lenses. Thus tilt of the optical lenses in the lens module will not occur, thereby improving quality of capturing images. The present invention also related to a method for assembling the lens module.
US07675685B2	Image display apparatus An image display apparatus including an image display unit, a light source unit, an illumination optical system configured to guide light from the light source unit to the image display unit, and a display optical system configured to guide light from the image display unit to a viewer is disclosed. With such an image display apparatus, luminance non-uniformity viewed at an exit pupil can be suppressed by intentional provision of uneven luminance distribution to an optical surface that receives light from the light emitting device of the light source unit.
US07675684B1	Compact optical system The invention relates to compact optical arrangement for a helmet mounted display. The arrangement is well suited to use with spatial light modulators which require front illumination such as LCoS modulators but can also be adapted to rear illuminated devices such as LCD's and to self luminous devices such as OLEDs. The device uses polarization and reflection to make dual use of both volumes and lenses.
US07675680B2	Computer-generated hologram and its fabrication process, reflector using a computer-generated hologram, and reflective liquid crystal display The invention provides a computer-generated hologram which can be viewed in white at the desired viewing region and a reflective liquid crystal display using the same as a reflector. The computer-generated hologram H is designed to diffuse light having a given reference wavelength λSTD and incident thereon at a given angle of incidence θ in a specific angle range. In a range of wavelengths λmin to λmax including the reference wavelength λSTD wherein zero-order transmission light or zero-order reflection light of incident light on the computer-generated hologram at a given angle of incidence is seen in white by additive color mixing, the maximum diffraction angle β2MIN of incident light of the minimum wavelength λMIN in the wavelength range and incident at the angle of incidence θ is larger than the minimum diffraction angle β1MAX of incident light of the maximum wavelength λMAX in the wavelength range and incident at said angle of incidence θ.
US07675678B2	Locking inter-pupillary distance and convergence adjustment mechanism Improvement to an adornable binocular device having a telescope pair and an adjustable inter-pupillary distance (IPD) where both telescopes move simultaneously and substantially the same distance when the IPD is adjusted, the improvement including a mechanism for releasably preventing unintentional adjustment of the IPD and including a first releasably pivoting coupling between each telescope and arm and a second releasably slideable coupling between each telescope and arm.
US07675672B2	Non-volatile addressable electronic paper for disposable flexible displays In accordance with the invention, there are systems for electronic paper, apparatus for electrophoretic display, and methods of making an electrophoretic display. The system for electronic paper can comprise an electret substrate wherein the electret substrate comprises an inhomogeneous distribution of charges and a plurality of capsules disposed in the electret substrate, wherein each of the plurality of capsules comprises a first plurality of charged pigments having a first color and a first charge, wherein the first charge has a polarity opposite to that of the charges in the electret substrate, a fluid having a second color contrasting to the first color, and a housing configured to house the plurality of charged pigments and the fluid.
US07675663B2	Apparatus for producing a hologram mask An apparatus for producing a hologram mask. The apparatus includes a first object light at least partially transmittable through a first original mask having a light transmitting screening pattern, and a first reference light having a first phase difference between it and the first object light. The first object and reference lights cause interference patterns to be recorded a hologram recording material, as do a second object light at least partially transmittable through a second original mask having a light transmitting screening pattern, and a second reference light having a second phase difference between it and the second object light where the second phase difference is not the same as the first phase difference. The resulting first and second original mask images recorded in the hologram recording material can be simultaneously replayed to produce an exposed pattern approximating an exposed pattern of a non-holographic phase shifting photomask.
US07675661B2	Printing based on motion picture A technology is provided by which images can be specified in a moving picture and printed easily. First, a plurality of first still images are displayed on a display unit based on a plurality of images which are to be displayed at mutually differing times in a single moving picture. After receiving from a user a selection of a first still image from among the plurality of first still images, the moving picture is played on the display unit for a first time segment which is shorter than a playback time of the moving picture and includes a time at which the selected first still image is to be displayed. Then, according to an instruction by the user which is given during the playback of the moving picture, a second still image is displayed on the display unit based on an image which is to be displayed in the moving picture. The second still image is printed.
US07675653B2	Apparatus and method of controlling scanner An apparatus and a method of controlling a scanner include a transmission speed detector and a controller. The transmission speed detector detects data transmission speed information between a host and the scanner. The controller controls a scanning speed of the scanner based on a scan resolution and the detected transmission speed information.
US07675649B2	Image forming electrophotography apparatus setting conditions for process control based on a total toner quantity equivalent value A small domain generation section generates a plurality of small domains in a multi-valued image transmitted from an intermediate tone correction section. Each domain is constituted of a plurality of pixels. Counting means counts a signal input value of each pixel. Weighting calculation means corrects each signal input value of the “pixels subjection to toner quantity equivalent value calculation” with reference to the signal input value of the small domain, and reads out a weighting coefficient from the weighting coefficient table based on the modified signal input value. The weighting calculation means multiplies the signal input value by the coefficient so as to convert the signal input value into a toner quantity equivalent value. Accumulating means calculates toner quantity equivalent values for all of the pixels of the multi-valued image. A total toner quantity equivalent value calculation section determines a total toner quantity equivalent value by accumulating all of the toner quantity equivalent values which are individually calculated each time an image is processed. When the total toner quantity equivalent value reaches a predetermined value, conditions for process control is set. On this account, the present invention achieves an image forming apparatus capable of accurate estimation of toner consumption quantity.
US07675648B2	Method and apparatus for converting a color representation of an image to a grayscale representation A method and apparatus for converting a color representation of an image to a grayscale representation are disclosed. For a color image, a location of each color within a device-independent color space is initially determined. Then, a color difference of each color is determined by applying an appropriate perceptual-based color difference model according to its determined location within the device-independent color space. Next, the determined color difference of each color is normalized under a predetermined range. The normalized color differences are mapped to an output range of an output device.
US07675643B2	Print controller, control method therefor and program A printer controller performs processing of a print job by a processor which realizes various processings by executing a program, and by a hardware circuit which interacts with the processor. A part of hardware circuit is configured as a determination circuit which determines a type of a packet stored in a memory for reception, on the basis of data in a particular part of the packet. When the packet is determined to be a command packet, the hardware circuit provides the packet for the processor. When the packet is determined to be a data packet, the hardware circuit transfers print data in a data part of the packet to a memory for image processing.
US07675637B2	Printing system, printing method, printing apparatus and output apparatus A CPU of a printing apparatus stores print data that is output from an output apparatus in a storage portion, and waits for the print switch on an operation panel to be operated before printing. If the print data pertaining to printing is administrative-use print data for which the output result is to be provided to a store clerk only once, then the CPU deletes the print data from the storage portion after printing. If the print data pertaining to printing is service-use print data for which the output result is to be repeatedly provided to customers, then the CPU continuously stores the print data in the storage portion after printing.
US07675635B2	Apparatus, method, and program for editing images for a photo album For generating photo albums on events such as weddings, the photo albums can always be generated in the same quality. A professional photographer photographs the bride and groom on a wedding. Images are read from a developed film and stored in a file server. A template used for generating a photo album is added with composition information representing composition of images to be inserted in image insertion areas therein. When an operator selects one of the images to be inserted in any one of the image insertion areas with reference to an editing screen having a catalog display field and a template display field, processing information representing a magnification ratio and/or a trimming position is generated based on the composition information so that the selected image has the composition appropriate for the image insertion area. The selected image is processed according to the processing information.
US07675634B2	Substrate film thickness measurement method, substrate film thickness measurement apparatus and substrate processing apparatus A jet of water in a cylindrical form is supplied from a jet nozzle onto a measurement surface of a substrate to form a column of the water extending between the nozzle and the measurement surface. Light is emitted from an irradiation fiber and transmitted through the column of water to the measurement surface. The light reflected by the measurement surface is received by a light-receiving fiber through the column of water. A measurement calculation unit measures the thickness of a film formed on the substrate, based on the intensity of the reflected light.
US07675632B2	Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method An exposure apparatus for exposing shot areas on a substrate comprises a measuring device configured to measure a position of an alignment mark in each of the shot areas on the substrate, and a controller configured to generate sample shot sets from the shot areas on the substrate, to cause the measuring device to measure the position of the alignment mark in each of the sample shot sets under each of measurement conditions, to calculate a shot arrangement based on the measured positions with respect to each of combinations of the measurement conditions and the sample shot sets, to calculate a variation of the shot arrangements calculated with respect to the sample shot sets with respect to each of the measurement conditions, and to display the variation calculated with respect to each of the measurement conditions.
US07675627B2	Low cost fiber optic velocity sensor for sonar applications A fiber optic sensor includes a housing having first and second end plates with a sidewall extending therebetween with the sidewall having an inwardly facing groove. A flexural disk having a central passage therethrough has an outer edge portion mounted in the inwardly facing groove in the housing. The flexural disk has a stepped thickness that is thinner at the outer edge portion than at a region spaced apart from the housing. A first fiber optic coil is mounted on a first side of the flexural disk in the thicker region of the flexural disk, and a second optical fiber is mounted on a second side of the flexural disk opposite the first fiber optic coil. The first and second fiber optic coils are optically coupled together by a fiber optic coupler to form an interferometer that produces an output signal in response to axial acceleration of the flexural disk.
US07675625B2	Apparatus for examining flat panel display device and examining method thereof An apparatus for examining a flat panel display device and a method thereof is provided. The tact time for examining a glass substrate is reduced as much as possible, manufacturing costs are reduced by simplifying a product, and a foot print is reduced. The apparatus includes a base frame, a carrier carrying a glass substrate from a side to the opposite side of the base frame, an auto-probe to capture an image of the glass substrate and examining whether or not the glass substrate is inferior using captured data, and a visual inspector inclining the front side of the glass substrate forward to allow inspection of the glass substrate with the naked eye. According to the apparatus, the tact-time is shortened and the foot print is reduced.
US07675622B2	Determining a media feature using a photovoltaic cell and an electroluminescent light panel This invention relates to an apparatus for determining a media feature, comprising: a plurality of light filters such that the filters include a media measurement aperture and a calibration aperture and wherein the filters are spaced a predetermined distance apart to allow media to be introduced between the filters; a light source located substantially adjacent to one of the filters; and a light detector located substantially adjacent to another of the filters.
US07675621B2	Two-dimensional colorimeter, and spectral sensitivity correcting method A two-dimensional colorimeter includes: an image sensing section, having an image sensor constituted of a number of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional manner, for sensing an object image to be measured to acquire a two-dimensional image; a discriminator for discriminating whether a targeted color with respect to the two-dimensional image acquired by the image sensing section is to be corrected in terms of a pixel or pixels; and a calculator for performing a calculation to apply predetermined correction information corresponding to the color to be corrected to the two-dimensional image in terms of a pixel or pixels, based on a discrimination result by the discriminator.
US07675620B2	Optical property measuring method and optical property measuring apparatus In an optical property measuring method and an optical property measuring apparatus, a spectral transmittance characteristic of a reference colored layer prepared as a reference is corrected based on a measured spectral reflection characteristic of a colored layer, and the spectral reflection characteristic of the reference colored layer. With this arrangement, information on the measured spectral transmittance characteristic of the colored layer can be obtained with sufficient precision in conformity with a printing condition of a sample to be measured. Thus, colorimetry of a printed color of a fluorescent sample i.e. a colored surface on a fluorescent substrate can be accurately performed by using the corrected spectral transmittance characteristic of the reference colored layer.
US07675617B2	Optical array for the spectrally selective identification of light of a light beam Disclosed is an optical array (2) for the spectrally selective identification of light of a light beam, particularly for identifying light of a detecting light beam (3) in a preferably confocal scanning microscope (1). Said optical array comprises a means (18) for the spatial spectral decomposition of the light beam, means for selecting a given continuous spectral range, and a detector (28). The inventive optical array (2) is characterized by at least one blocking element (25, 26, 27) which can be introduced into the light beam in order to stop down a given partial spectral region located within the selected continuous spectral range.
US07675611B2	Handheld infrared and Raman measurement devices and methods We disclose apparatus that includes: (a) an enclosure including an aperture; (b) a prism mounted in the enclosure so that a surface of the prism is exposed through the aperture; (c) an optical assembly contained within the enclosure, the optical assembly including a radiation source and a radiation detector, the source being configured to direct radiation towards the prism and the detector being configured to detect radiation from the source reflected from the exposed surface of the prism; and (d) an electronic processor contained within the enclosure, the electronic processor being in communication with the detector. The apparatus can be configured so that, during operation, the electronic processor determines information about a sample placed in contact with the exposed surface of the prism based on radiation reflected from the exposed prism surface while it is in contact with the sample.
US07675608B2	Device and process for optical distance measurement Device and process for determining a distance to an object. The device includes a low coherence light source, at least one lens arranged to focus light from the low coherence light source onto the object and to collect light reflected and scattered from the object, and a window arranged between the lens and the object. An apertured element includes a circular aperture structured and arranged to form a circular light beam from the reflected and scattered light, and a detector system is structured and arranged to receive the circular light beam. The detector system is sensitive to light beam diameter. Further, a determining device is structured and arranged to determine a distance to the object based upon signals from the detector system.
US07675606B2	Lithographic apparatus and method According to one of the aspects of the present invention there is provided a substrate carrier arranged to hold a substrate in position using a vacuum, the vacuum being established in a sealed space created between the substrate carrier and the substrate.
US07675605B2	Device and method for transmission image sensing A device for transmission image sensing for sensing an aerial image in a lithographic exposure apparatus comprises a projection system arranged to form, at an image side of the projection system, an aerial image of an object mark. The device further comprises a detector comprising a slit pattern having features corresponding to at least a part of the aerial image. The slit pattern is arranged to be exposed to the aerial image. The detector is further being arranged to detect detection radiation transmitted by the slit pattern; wherein d < 0.85 · λ NA , where d represents the dimension of the smallest feature of the slit pattern, λ represents the intended wavelength of the detection radiation, and NA, which is larger than 1, represents the numerical aperture of the image side.
US07675599B2	Display apparatus including self-luminescent device and non-self-luminescent device A display apparatus with a self-luminescent device and a non-self-luminescent device has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a pixel matrix with a plurality of pixels. Each pixel has a first switching device, a non-self-luminescent device controlled by the first switching device, a second switching device, and a self-luminescent device controlled by the second switching device. The first switching device and the second switching device are active devices, wherein the first switching device is disposed on the first substrate, and the second switching device is disposed on the second substrate. Alternatively, one of the first switching device and the second switching device is a passive device. Also, the first switching device is on the first substrate, and the second switching device is on the second substrate. An apparatus for controlling the disclosed display apparatus is also disclosed.
US07675584B2	Housing structure with frame and bezel for a display module having protrusion/s at lower portion of bezel to create upward displacement of the front-surface portion of bezel covering the display module when fastened to frame The present invention relates to a housing structure for a display module. The structure comprises: a frame having a cavity for receiving a display module therein; and a bezel having a front-surface portion and a plurality of side portions connecting the front-surface portion thereto. When the bezel is assembled with the frame, the bezel enfolds part of the frame, and the front-surface portion of the bezel covers part of the surface of the display module. Besides, at least one of the side portions has at least one fastening hole and at least one protruding portion formed on a single side of the fastening hole away from the front-surface portion. Therefore, when the housing structure is fixed to an electronic device, the front-surface portion of the housing structure of the present invention will not press upon the surface of the display module.
US07675578B2	Television and back lighting source module capable of preventing harmonic interference A television includes a light source, a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) controller, and a control component. The PWM is coupled electrically to the light source, and is operable so as to generate a source control signal for controlling turning on and turning off of the light source. The control component is coupled to the PWM controller for controlling frequency of the source control signal outputted by the PWM controller. The control component has a plurality of control states that correspond to distinct display scanning frequencies of television standards, respectively. Setting of the control component in a selected one of the control states results in control of the frequency of the source control signal outputted by the PWM controller such that the frequency of the source control signal is not an integer multiple of the distinct display scanning frequency that corresponds to the selected one of the control states.
US07675566B2	Camera module A camera module 100 includes a movable section 10 that includes a lens 11, a fixed section 30 having a hollow space extending in the optical axis direction of the lens 11, and an elastic body 40 that elastically supports the movable section 10 and the fixed section 30, an imaging element 3 that is fixed to the fixed section 30 and has a light-receiving surface perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens 11, a plurality of magnets 31a, 31b, 31c, and 31d arranged along the fixed section 30, and a coil section 22 provided in the movable section 10. The elastic body 40 includes an upper spring 41a and a lower spring 41b, which support the fixed section 30 between adjacent ones of the magnets 31a, 31b, 31c, and 31d along the arrangement direction of these magnets on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens 11. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a camera module with an automatic focusing control function, whose thickness can be reduced remarkably.
US07675565B2	Digital camera module with lens moveable via radially magnetized magnets A digital camera module includes a lens assembly, a magnetic field generator, a shell and radially magnetized magnets. The magnetic field generator has a moving direction and surrounds the lens assembly. The shell covers the lens assembly. The radially magnetized magnets are disposed separately in the moving direction and at two sides of the magnetic field generator.
US07675560B2	Solid-state image sensing device A solid-state image sensing device is provided with n one-dimensional pixel arrays for sensing a document image by relative movement of the one-dimensional pixel arrays and the document image in a scanning direction. The solid-state image sensing device includes: an image readout circuit, commonly provided for the one-dimensional pixel arrays, for performing a horizontal readout operation from the one-dimensional pixel arrays with respect to image data acquired by sensing the document image, wherein a pixel array pitch of the one-dimensional pixel arrays in the scanning direction is set to at least (n+1)/n times as large as a pixel width of each of pixels constituting the one-dimensional pixel arrays in the scanning direction, where the symbol “n” represents a positive integer of 2 or more, and the symbol “/” represents division.
US07675554B2	Methods and systems for managing bragbook images A device, system, method and software product for storing, maintaining, sharing and displaying of digital images in a common designated collection on at least one portable storage and display device. The device has a first memory section designated for storing images and a second memory section for storing digital images of the designated collection. The second memory section has a protected mode that prevents the digital images in the second memory section from being deleted or overwritten. When the protected mode of the second section is disabled, the device will overwrite the digital images of the second memory section with newly captured digital images. These digital images are restored to the second memory section when the digital display and storage device is in communication link with a database that has information for restoring overwritten digital images after newly obtained images in the second memory have been removed from the device.
US07675548B2	Shake correcting device, shake correcting method and control program for implementing the method A shake correcting device is capable of preventing a correcting optical device from hitting against a component part in the vicinity thereof to generate noise upon outputs from an H bridge driver for driving the correcting optical device being enabled. The device includes an angular velocity sensor that detects shaking of an image pickup apparatus, a position sensor that detects the current position of a shift lens movably disposed for optically correcting the shaking of the apparatus, an H bridge driver that drives the lens according to a drive target value, and an integrator that generates a target correction value based on the output from the angular velocity sensor. The drive target value is calculated based on the target correction value and output data from the position sensor.
US07675528B2	Image cropping system and method Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to re-crop product images in a manner that is compatible with the product layout. Upon selection of an image area in the product design, the user can choose to re-crop the image currently displayed in the image area or to select and crop a different image to be used in the selected image area. A cropping indicator that can be resized and repositioned is provided to the user. The cropping indicator is automatically sized to have and retain the same height to width ratio as the selected image area. Upon completion of any resizing or repositioning operation, the selected image area of the electronic product is updated to reflect the cropping changes made by the user.
US07675527B2	Multisource composable projection of text Embodiments consistent with the subject matter of this disclosure may transparently project text fragments from one or more buffers into one or more projection buffers by reference, instead of by copying. Clients or applications, such as, for example, compilers, language services, an editor's rendering system, or other client or application, may transparently process the projected text fragments projected into the projection buffers as if processing simple text files. In some embodiments, text of a first language, embedded in a document having text of one or more other languages, may be projected to a projection buffer and provided to an application, which may process text of the first language. In other embodiments, text may be elided from a document by projecting to a projection buffer only text not to be elided from the document.
US07675523B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method To provide an image processing technique compatible with both a CCD and a CIS, which controls storage of image data read by each device in a memory and the read of the stored data for each rectangular area to obtain a high memory efficiency, an image processing apparatus includes a memory area control section which sets, for image data bitmapped on a first memory, a rectangular area divided in a main scanning direction and sub-scanning direction, an address generation section which generates address information to read out image data corresponding to the rectangular area in correspondence with the set rectangular area, a memory control section which reads out the image data corresponding to the rectangular area and DMA-transfers the image data to a second memory in accordance with the generated address information, and an image processing section which executes image processing for each rectangular area of the DMA-transferred data by using the second memory.
US07675513B2	System and method for displaying stereo images A method for displaying a stereo eye image on a curved surface is disclosed. A mathematical model of a computer generated scene having a vertex may be generated. A mono vertex vector may be calculated normal to the curved surface at the vertex location on the curved surface to a center of a viewer position. A left vertex may be calculated by applying a cross product to the vertex vector and a viewer's eye position vector. A right vertex may be calculated into the frame buffer by applying the cross product to the vertex vector and a negative viewer's eye position vector. The calculated points may be projected onto a curved surface for viewing.
US07675507B2	Position detecting system and position detecting apparatus A position detecting apparatus transmits position detecting signals from internal and external transmission coils, which are electrically connected to each other and are wound in opposite directions. The signals are transmitted to a position indicator that is housed within a pen-shaped input member. Since the internal and external transmission coils are wound in opposite directions, the position indicator can be efficiently excited in the entire area of a sensor unit including the end portion thereof. The position indicator receives the position detecting signals and transmits position indicating signals indicating a position. Sensor coils receive the signals from the position indicator. The position detecting apparatus detects the position of the position indicator based on the signals detected by the sensor coils.
US07675506B2	Key assignable portable terminal device To provide a portable terminal device that can secure the same operability even when a user changes his or her portable terminal device to a new one, the portable terminal device is made to comprise a function providing unit for providing a function according to key inputs, a standard profile obtaining unit for obtaining a second standard profile from a communications destination device, etc., and a standard profile registering unit for registering the contents of the second standard profile to a first standard profile.
US07675503B2	Method of displaying information by a network kiosk A method of displaying information by a network kiosk which causes different information to be displayed when someone passes within a predetermined distance of the kiosk. The method includes the steps of sensing a person within a predetermined distance of the kiosk, displaying first information, timing a time period, and displaying second information if the person did not begin use of the kiosk within the time period.
US07675495B2	TFT-LCD capable of repairing discontinuous lines A TFT-LCD capable of repairing discontinuous lines includes a repairing circuit, which includes a plurality of repairing OP amplifiers and a high-impedance detecting unit. The high-impedance detecting unit detects states of input terminals of the OP amplifiers. The high-impedance detecting unit enables a control signal to enable the OP amplifier when the input terminal is not at floating state. The high-impedance detecting unit disables the control signal to disable the OP amplifier when the input terminal is at floating state, so that no output competition between the OP amplifiers is generated.
US07675487B2	Simplified light-emitting diode (LED) hysteretic current controller An LED current control device (100) includes an array of one or more LEDs (10) electrically connected to a current-sensing element (20). A sense signal produced by the current-sensing element may be amplified by a single-ended amplifier (30) and sent to a switching controller (40 and 50). The switching controller may perform hysteretic control on the amplified sense signal by controlling a switching element (60) to turn on and off. The on and off states of the switching element respectively enables and disables an external power supply (VEXT) for the LED array. As such, hysteretic control may be performed on the current flowing through the LEDs.
US07675485B2	Electroluminescent display devices An active matrix electroluminescent display device comprises an array of display pixels. In each pixel, a first switch connects power from a power supply line to the display element and a second switch routes current from a current-measurement supply line to the display element. The gate voltage applied to a drive transistor is controlled by a feedback system, such that control voltage is controlled in closed loop manner to achieve the desired current. The control voltage can then be used for subsequent addressing of the pixel.
US07675482B2	Apparatus and method for driving an interlaced plasma display panel An apparatus for driving an interlaced plasma display panel (PDP), including a delay device, an image upper and lower edge detection device, an image border processing device, an image processing and analog control loop. The delay device receives an image signal, delays the image signal for two fields and outputs the delayed image signal. The image upper and lower edge detection device receives and analyzes the image signal, outputs the image upper and lower edge positions, saves and provides the odd field upper and lower edge data of the image signal. The image border processing device outputs the image signal after border processing according to the delayed image signal, the image upper and lower edge positions, the odd field upper and lower data. The image processing and analog control loop outputs a driving signal according to the image signal after border processing and the image upper and lower edge positions.
US07675479B2	Multi-screen system and multi-screen implementation method A multi-screen system including a plurality of displaying devices for sequentially receiving request signals and separately storing corresponding IDs (IDentifications) included in the received request signals, and respectively outputting a response signal in response to a received request signal. Also included is an operating device for outputting a request signal including a corresponding ID, for outputting a new request signal if a response signal is received from a corresponding displaying device, and for transmitting control information about image segments to be respectively displayed on the displaying devices.
US07675478B2	Image display apparatus and camera and image communication system The camera reads identification information of the user, which is contained in an identification card, through a card reading part. The camera connects automatically to a server designated in accordance with the read identification information through a communication interface. Then, the camera transmits and stores the data of recorded images to the designated server. The camera retrieves the image data stored in the server, and reproduces and displays the image on an image display at the back of the camera. A plurality of cameras in which the same user's identification information is set can be controlled altogether in the image-recording and reproduction by one camera. One camera in which the identification information of a plurality of user's is set can distribute the recorded image data to the servers of the users simultaneously.
US07675471B2	Vehicular glass-mount antenna and system An antenna system for a vehicle including a front windshield glass and a rear windshield is disclosed. The antenna system comprises an antenna unit including a radiating element electromagnetically coupled to an excitation element. The radiating element is coupled to the front windshield glass, and the excitation element is positioned on a passenger compartment interior surface of the front windshield glass. The antenna system also comprises a high-gain antenna unit including first radiating elements, a second radiating element, a 90-degree phase shift circuit, and a low noise amplifier that is coupled to the phase shift circuit. The first radiating elements receive signals through the rear windshield glass. The antenna unit and the high-gain antenna unit may function in a diversity antenna configuration.
US07675465B2	Surface mountable integrated circuit packaging scheme An integrated circuit (IC) package is disclosed. The IC package includes a substrate having top, middle and bottom layers, an array of millimeter-wave antennas embedded on the top layer of the substrate and a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) mounted on the bottom layer of the substrate. In one embodiment, the second level interconnect for surface-mounting on a printed circuit board (PCB) is provided on the bottom layer of the substrate.
US07675460B2	In-vehicle radar apparatus and method for manufacturing the same An in-vehicle radar apparatus includes a beam emitting part that emits a beam, a casing that supports the beam emitting part, and a reference unit that is attached to the casing and is equipped with multiple surfaces usable as a reference plane. A surface of the casing to which the reference unit is attached and the reference plane form an angle that depends on which one of the multiple surfaces is used as the reference plane.
US07675455B2	Pulse radar, car radar and landing assistance radar A pulse radar is provided with a filter for eliminating a transmission waveform interfered with an answering signal from a received waveform, and a harmonic detector or a phase delay detector for detecting arrival and end of the answering signal reflected on a target.
US07675443B1	Saturation detector for an ADC A method for detecting saturation in a cascaded ΔΣ ADC can include receiving an output of the cascaded ΔΣ ADC, determining a magnitude of the output, and squaring the magnitude. The squared magnitude can be added to a feedback signal, wherein the sum represents a saturation signal. The saturation signal can be filtered and then amplified, wherein the amplified, filtered saturation signal is the feedback signal. The saturation signal can then be compared to a threshold to determine whether the cascaded ΔΣ ADC is in saturation.
US07675439B2	Serial/parallel data conversion apparatus and method thereof A serial/parallel data conversion apparatus and a method thereof are used to convert serial data into parallel data by a delay pulse and three stage registers, wherein the device includes a first data register, a second data register, a third data register, a frequency divider and a delay controller. Moreover, the first data register converts the serial data into the parallel data according to a first working clock signal. The frequency divider performs a frequency division for the first working clock signal for producing a second working clock signal. The second data register acquires the parallel data from the first register according to the second working clock signal. The delay controller delays the second working clock signal to produce a third working clock signal. Finally, the third data register obtains the parallel data from the second register according to the third working clock signal.
US07675437B2	Variable length decoding device and method for improving variable length decoding performance A method for improving variable length decoding performance is provided. A variable length decoding module decodes a coded data to obtain a decoded data and a subsequent module receives the decoded data to perform further processing. A buffering module is coupled between the variable length decoding module and the subsequent module, and buffers the decoded data decoded by the variable length decoding module. A read part of the buffering module is cleared so that a content of an unused area of the buffering module is a predetermined value when the subsequent module reads the decoded data from the buffering module, wherein the unused area is a part of the buffering module except for the unread decoded data. The variable length decoding module does not write zero values of the decoded data into the buffering module when the variable length decoding module reads a zero output instruction among the coded data.
US07675433B2	Device and method for determining the sensor position of sensor units of a driver assistance system A device and a method determine sensor positions of sensor units of a driver assistance system, especially a parking aid system of a vehicle. The sensor units each have a plurality of terminals of different identification positions. A data bus is connected for an exchange of data with a central control and evaluation unit in this case with one or more terminals of the sensor unit according to a specific connection scheme, which is different for each of the sensor units, in order to provide an identity code for the sensor position of a sensor unit in this way.
US07675430B2	Device control module and method for controlling devices A device control module and a method for controlling at least first and second devices based on operation of a foot pedal apparatus having a moveable member are provided. The device control module includes an RF receiver configured to receive a first RF signal at a first time indicating at least partial displacement of the moveable member of the foot pedal apparatus from a first operational position. The first RF signal has a first identifier value indicating the first device is to be controlled. The device control module further includes a processor operably coupled to the RF receiver. The processor is configured to activate the first device in response to the first RF signal. The RF receiver is further configured to receive a second RF signal at a second time after the first time. The second RF signal indicates at least partial displacement of the moveable member of the foot pedal apparatus from the first operational position. The second RF signal has a second identifier value indicating the second device is to be controlled. The processor is further configured to activate the second device in response to the second RF signal.
US07675428B2	Rotating gauge pointer and light guide between LCD and LED An indicating instrument for a vehicle may employ an analog type lighted pointer arranged on a rotatable, circular shaped pointer disk, a liquid crystal display arranged over the pointer disk, and a first dial with indicia located outboard of or adjacent to and/or inboard of the LCD. A second or inboard dial may be located over the liquid crystal display. The pointer disk may be a translucent light collector for the pointer yet also transmit light to provide backlighting for the LCD. Depending upon the analog gauge arrangement, the pointer may point outboard of the pointer disk or toward the LCD center. The dials, especially the second dial, may be in the shape of rings to permit viewing of the LCD from the perspective of a viewer, such as a vehicle driver.
US07675426B2	Relay A light guide part (20) is provided along a Z-axis on a side surface of a case (2) of a relay (1). The light guide part is a thick portion formed of a material forming the side surface of the case, and is structurally integral with the other parts of the case. Also, a light emitting device which emits light in response to application of a voltage to coil terminals (41) is provided within the relay (1) (case). A reflection surface (201) which reflects illuminating light emitted from the light emitting device in a (+Y) direction in a (+Z) direction is placed at a lower end of the light guide part. Illuminating light reflected by the reflection surface is guided to a display surface (200) placed at an upper end of the light guide part, to illuminate the display surface.
US07675419B2	System and method of managing shared printer with RFID A system and method of managing a shared printer with radio frequency identification (RFID) includes at least one RFID chip containing information about task permission for users, an RFID transceiver unit to periodically retrieve information about the RFID chip, a controller to determine whether to output a document based on task permission held by a user associated with the RFID chip retrieved by the RFID transceiver unit, and a printing unit to form images on a printing medium in response to a control signal from the controller. It is possible to allow, for example, printing and facsimile transmission by giving specific permission to each user and allows a manager to inspect a use specification by the RFID transceiver unit. The RFID transceiver unit is included in a printer and periodically retrieves information about an RFID chip and determines whether a document is to be output based on task permission held by a user associated with the retrieved RFID chip.
US07675416B2	Intruder detection device The intruder detection device for deciding the occurrence of an invasion if an electric wave, which is received by a leakage transfer passage on the receiving side juxtaposed to a leakage transfer passage on the transmitting side for receiving a leakage electric wave from the transmitting leakage transfer passage, changes, and the intruder detection device comprises: a plurality of reference spectrum diffusion signal generating means; a plurality of correlating means configured together with the reference spectrum diffusion signal generating means on a common sensor card, for collating the output reference spectrum diffusion signal of the reference spectrum diffusion signal generating means with the received signal from the receiving leakage transfer passage; and setting means for adjusting the detection precision which is determined by the reference spectrum diffusion signal generating means and the correlating means.
US07675415B2	Method for controlling security truck door locker and structure for controlling security truck door locker A method for controlling security truck door lockers and a structure for controlling security truck door lockers are disclosed. A control device is configured to control electronic lockers respectively mounted on security truck doors by means of detecting the unlocked/locked status of the electronic lockers and changing or not changing their status accordingly, and then informing users of the locker's current status. The electronic locker includes a substrate, a fastener, a stopper, a micro switch, and a locker core. When a bolt of the door fastens the fastener, the stopper horizontally moves to contact a bottom of the fastener by means of controlling the operation of the micro switch, or the locker core drives an engagement portion to contact the fastener so that the fastener is fastened and the locker is locked.
US07675403B2	Method for estimating number of tags in slotted aloha-based RFID system Provided is a method for estimating the number of tags in a slotted Aloha-based RFID system, which can estimate the number of tags through a new statistical average scheme using the number of slots, the measured number of empty slots, and the measured number of ID slots. The estimating method includes the steps of: a) setting the number (N) of slots, the measured number (c0) of empty slots, and the measured number (c1) of ID slots as parameters; and estimating the number (n) of the tags by substituting the set values into n=(N−1)/(c0/c1).
US07675402B2	Network communication for a security system A keypad security apparatus and security system are provided. The keypad includes a network connector to connect the keypad to a data network, an address tracker to track an address assigned to the keypad, and a data input to receive user input data, including arm/disarm commands and to transmit the data via the data network. The network may be a LAN, such an Ethernet connecting the keypad via a router to an internet. A security control panel may also be connected to the local area network. Audio data may be input to the keypad and transmitted via the network voice data over data network, such as voice over IP data (VoIP). The address assigned to the keypad may be an IP address or a local area network address. The keypad may be connected as a wireless device.
US07675398B2	Iron core for stationary apparatus and stationary apparatus Magnetic flux in a magnetic flux distribution inside a wound iron core for a stationary apparatus is mal-distributed toward the inner periphery side where the magnetic path of a laminated magnetic steel sheet is short with respect to the total lamination thickness and magnetic resistance is small and the inner periphery side on which magnetic flux is concentrated has a high magnetic flux density and increased iron loss, and therefore magnetic steel sheets of different magnetic characteristics are disposed at an arbitrary lamination ratio to make uniform the magnetic flux distribution inside the same wound iron core. In order to make uniform the magnetic flux distribution inside the wound iron core for a stationary apparatus, such a structure is adopted that a magnetic steel sheet having a magnetic characteristic inferior to that on the outer periphery side is disposed on the inner periphery side having a shorter magnetic path and smaller magnetic resistance and a magnetic steel sheet having a magnetic characteristic superior to that on the inner periphery side is disposed on the outer periphery side having a longer magnetic path and greater magnetic resistance to thereby make uniform the magnetic flux distribution in a sectional area of the iron core.
US07675396B2	Inductor and manufacture method thereof An inductor comprises a coil, a non-ferrite layer, two electrodes, a first ferrite layer, and a second ferrite layer, where the coil is encapsulated by the non-ferrite layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, two electrodes coupled to the coil are respectively extended out from the non-ferrite layer for connecting a module, and the first ferrite layer and the second ferrite layer are respectively arranged adjacent to the first surface and the second surface of the non-ferrite layer.
US07675395B2	Electromagnet having spacer for facilitating cooling and associated cooling method An electromagnet and associated apparatus and method are provided. The electromagnet includes a core and at least one winding disposed circumferentially about the core such that the winding extends at least one revolution around the core. The electromagnet further includes at least one spacer having channels defined therein and disposed circumferentially about the core and adjacent to the at least one winding. The channels facilitate cooling by directing fluid about the windings of the coil as fluid is introduced into the electromagnet.
US07675387B2	Surface acoustic wave device and communication terminal using the same A surface acoustic wave device in the present invention is provided with a piezoelectric substrate, a supporting substrate being jointed to the piezoelectric substrate and including a material different in expansion coefficient from the piezoelectric substrate and an interdigital electrode for exciting a surface acoustic wave, the electrode being arranged on the surface of the piezoelectric substrate. Either the interdigital electrode or the piezoelectric substrate is configured so that the interdigital electrode is 40% or more to 70% or less as long as the piezoelectric substrate in the direction to which a surface acoustic wave propagates.
US07675384B2	Composite right/left handed (CRLH) hybrid-ring couplers High-frequency couplers and coupling techniques are described utilizing artificial composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH-TL). Three specific forms of couplers are described; (1) a coupled-line backward coupler is described with arbitrary tight/loose coupling and broad bandwidth; (2) a compact enhanced-bandwidth hybrid ring coupler is described with increased bandwidth and decreased size; and (3) a dual-band branch-line coupler that is not limited to a harmonic relation between the bands. These variations are preferably implemented in a microstrip fabrication process and may use lumped-element components. The couplers and coupling techniques are directed at increasing the utility while decreasing the size of high-frequency couplers, and are suitable for use with separate coupler or couplers integrated within integrated devices.
US07675374B2	Voltage controlled oscillator with switching bias Provided is a voltage controlled oscillator to which a switching bias technique is applied so as to lower flicker noise of a bias circuit and enhance phase noise characteristics, thereby reducing the overall chip area to make it possible to achieve integration. A common mode voltage applied to the bias circuit is negatively fed back to an oscillation waveform. Therefore, it is possible to stabilize the magnitude of the oscillation waveform of the voltage controlled oscillator with respect to a change in an external condition.
US07675371B2	Electronic circuitry Electronic circuitry comprising operational circuits of active switching type requiring timing signals, and conductive means for distributing said timing signals to the operational circuits, wherein the timing signal distribution means includes a signal path that has different phases of a drive signal are supplied via active means at different positions about the signal path where that path exhibits endless electro-magnetic continuity without signal phase inversion or has interconnections with another signal path having different substantially unidirectional signal flow where there is no endless electromagnetic continuity between those signal paths and generally has non-linear associated circuit means where the signal path is of a transmission line nature.
US07675365B2	Systems and methods for power amplifiers with voltage boosting multi-primary transformers Systems and methods may be provided for a power amplifier system. The systems and methods may include a plurality of power amplifiers, where each power amplifier includes at least one output port. The systems and methods may also include a plurality of primary windings each having a first number of turns, where each primary winding is connected to at least one output port of the plurality of power amplifiers, and a single secondary winding inductively coupled to the plurality of primary windings, where the secondary winding includes a second number of turns greater than the first number of turns.

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