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US07753707B1	Electrical connecting assembly An electrical connecting assembly includes an insulating base, terminals, a PCB, a cover, and a driving unit. The insulating base has receiving holes and a first hole. The terminals are disposed in the receiving holes. The PCB has a first connecting area and has a second connecting area. The cover can be moved horizontally on the insulating base. The cover has a second hole. The driving unit has one metal sheath, at least one welding portion, and one cam piece. Two ends of the welding portion are respectively connected to the metal sheath and the second connecting area. The cam piece has an actuating portion, a first cam shaft, and a second cam shaft which is eccentric with first cam shaft. The first cam shaft is disposed inside the first hole and is held by the metal sheath. The second cam shaft is disposed inside the second hole.
US07753697B2	Electrical connection between first and second metal parts that are electrically insulated from each other An electrical connection (1) for electrically interconnecting adjacent first and second metal parts (2, 3) that are electrically insulated from each other, includes clamping elements (30) together with first and second metal inserts (10, 20) that are arranged respectively in first and second openings (4, 5) formed in the first and second metal parts (2, 3), the first and second inserts (10, 20) being secured to each other by the clamping elements (30) so as to be electrically in contact.
US07753692B2	Socket connector having improved arrangement ensuring reliable and robust alignment between conductive contacts A socket connector comprises an insulative housing defining a plurality of passageways and a receiving cavity for receiving an electrical package, and a plurality of contact respectively disposed in said passageways. The receiving cavity comprises a first cavity, and a second cavity smaller than the first cavity. The second cavity is in communication with the first cavity and outer space, the second cavity defining standoffs for positioning the electrical package when the electrical package is inserted into the receiving cavity.
US07753683B2	Headrest system for a vehicle seat The invention relates to a headrest system for a vehicle seat. The headrest system includes a headrest supported by at least one holding rod, a guide component which can be secured in a backrest of the vehicle seat and is configured to accommodate the holding rod, a first electric connector disposed on a free end of the holding rod, and a second electric connector which cooperates with the first electric connector and can be secured in the backrest. The joining direction of the first and second electric connectors runs approximately coaxially to a central longitudinal axis of the free end of the holding rod. Each of the first and second electric connectors includes at least two contact elements, each of the contact elements designed in a rotationally symmetrical manner in relation to the central longitudinal axis.
US07753679B1	Non-firing training rifle A non-firing rifle that emulates a semi-automatic or automatic rifle for training in procedures for safe handling, cleaning, and field stripping of such weapons. The non-firing rifle retains the upper receiver assembly, barrel assembly, and ammunition magazine of the emulated rifle, as well as some of the components of the lower receiver assembly of the emulated rifle, but substitutes a modified forging for the lower receiver forging of the emulated rifle. Unlike the lower receiver forging of the emulated rifle, the modified forging has no cutouts to allow a trigger or hammer to be installed. A cutout is provided in a bottom wall of the forging, however, to allow installation of a pseudo-trigger. Accordingly, it is incapable of firing a live ammunition round.
US07753675B2	Auxiliary position apparatus for injection molding machine An auxiliary position apparatus is adapted for an injection molding machine which includes a nose and the nose has a nozzle at one end thereof. The auxiliary position apparatus includes a position device for being mounted to the nose and at least two light emitting devices adjustably mounted to the position device. The two light emitting devices can emit two adjustable light beams to focus as a light-spot which is substantially in alignment with the nozzle on a mold placed on the injection molding machine. By moving the mold to make the light-spot located at an injecting hole of the mold, the nozzle can be adjustably in alignment with the injecting hole rapidly and precisely before the injection molding operations.
US07753665B2	Screw compressor for working pressures above 80 bar On screw compressors for extremely high discharge pressures, e.g. for application in refrigeration systems operating with CO2 in a transcritical process, featuring two rotors, a male rotor and a female rotor having a ratio of male-to-female rotor lobes of 4:6, 5:6 or 5:7, with the male rotor having a drive-shaft end, and both rotors are enclosed in a housing, the wrap angle of the profile section of the male rotor is less than 1.5 the lobe-pitch angle, and the working cycle from the beginning of suction till the end of discharge is less than 600° of the angle of rotation of the male rotor, and the length-to-diameter ratio of the profile section of the male rotor lies between 0.3 and 0.5.
US07753663B2	Mounting structure of discharge valve in rotary compressor A bolt hole receiving a fixing bolt is formed in a portion of an end plate overlapping an annular piston or a fixed wrap as viewed in a thickness direction of the end plate to open at the back face of the end plate. In fixing a discharge valve to the end plate, the fixing bolt is screwed into the bolt hole.
US07753660B2	Infusion device and actuator for same An apparatus for delivering a fluid includes a housing, an inlet in the housing for receiving the fluid, and an outlet in the housing for discharging the fluid. A piston channel is provided within the housing through which the fluid flows from the inlet to the outlet. An actuator is positioned within the housing and is moveable between a retracted position and a forward position, the actuator defining a piston chamber for storing fluid received through the inlet when the actuator is in the retracted position and for driving the fluid stored in the piston chamber toward the outlet when the actuator transitions from the retracted position to the forward position. The actuator includes an armature and a piston coupled to the armature and moveable within the piston channel. The piston is provided with a groove in an outer surface for conducting fluid from the inlet to the outlet.
US07753658B2	Self-attaching pump A self-attaching pump includes a cylinder, a nozzle attached to the cylinder, a piston installed in the cylinder, a rod connected to the piston, a handle with a first end and an opposite second end, a fastener for pivotally connecting the second end of the handle to the rod and a stressing device arranged on the cylinder for stressing the self-attaching pump. There are defined a first value for the distance between the fastener and the first end of the handle, a second value for the length of the elastic element when the stressing does not stress the self-attaching pump and a third value for the distance between the piston and the nozzle when the first end of the handle reaches the stressing device while the stressing device does not stress the self-attaching pump. The first value is larger than the second value that is larger than the third value.
US07753644B2	Vertical multi-phased wind turbine system A vertical axis multi-phased wind turbine power generating system is disclosed. An adjustable air scoop directs air from a first phase of the prevailing wind into an air turbine for efficient power generation. An exit section, which uses a second phase of the prevailing wind in combination with an optional and adjustable exit section drag curtain or barrier, provides for efficient re-entrainment of this first stage of power generating air back into the downstream prevailing wind. The adjustable air scoop and adjustable exit drag curtain or barrier, where utilized, is automatically rotated in a self correcting manner to be suitably and optimally oriented to the prevailing wind direction. The design provides for a second stage of power generation to be accomplished by additionally utilizing a portion of the second phase of prevailing wind to directly or indirectly drive the turbine in a second stage of power production.
US07753638B2	Robot hand having swaying mechanism in library apparatus A library apparatus includes cells. A positioning mechanism serves to position a carriage relative to the cells within an operating region adjacent to a standby region. A transporting mechanism drives the carriage toward the standby region. A swaying mechanism allows grasping fingers on the carriage to go around an object lying on the movement path of the grasping fingers when the transporting mechanism carries the carriage to the standby region. The grasping fingers acts to hold an object within the cell. If the positioning mechanism malfunctions, the transporting mechanism transfers the carriage to the standby region. Even if an object exits on the movement path of the grasping finger, the carriage is allowed to keep moving because the swaying mechanism allows the grasping finger or fingers to sway around the object on the movement path. The carriage thus reliably reaches the standby region.
US07753616B2	System, method and composition for adhering preformed thermoplastic traffic control signage to pavement The present disclosure relates to a system and permanent pavement marker for coating or bonding or both coating and bonding a first underlying substrate, wherein a second layer comprises a polyurea epoxy curable composition of about 200 centipoise which is bonded to the first underlying substrate, wherein the curable composition second layer is further bonded to a third layer, wherein the third layer comprises an epoxy bonder paste in a range of 10,000 to 300,000 centipoise, and the third layer is further bonded to a fourth layer, wherein the fourth layer is a preformed thermoplastic marking tile that is applied over the third layer of epoxy bonder paste, thereby forming a the permanent pavement marking. The system and pavement marker may also include a thermoplastic adhesive applied between the epoxy bonder paste and the preformed thermoplastic marking tile such that the bonder paste acts as a water vapor barrier reducing the rate of water vapor transmission into the marking tile.
US07753615B1	Telescoping racking system with ramps and platforms Long load racking system for vehicles, adjustable runners horizontal and vertical with telescoping members—both single rail, double rail; and trombone shaped; multi-functional, split and corner couplings with accessible transverse to coupling base friction adjustments, ramping ground to bed and bed to elevated locations.
US07753605B2	Tape drive and printing apparatus A tape drive for use in for example a transfer printing apparatus to drive a printer ribbon. The printer ribbon is mounted on two spools each of which is driven by a respective stepper motor. A controller controls the energization of the motor such that the ribbon is transported in at least one direction between spools mounted on the spool support. The controller is operative to energize both motors to drive the spools of ribbon in the direction of ribbon transport to achieve push-pull operations. Ribbon tension is monitored to enable accurate control of ribbon supply and ribbon take-up, the ribbon tension being monitored, for example, by monitoring power supply to the two stepper motors.
US07753597B2	Apparatus for splicing of optical waveguide sections An apparatus for splicing of optical waveguide sections is in the form of a handheld splicer. The splicer comprises a preprocessing unit, which may comprise a plurality of processing devices for carrying out removal, cleaning and cutting steps. The optical waveguide sections are clamped in a holding apparatus and are prepared in the preprocessing unit. The holding apparatuses are inserted with the prepared optical waveguide sections into a splicing unit, where they are spliced. The spliced optical waveguide sections can be fed by means of a transfer station to a shrinking oven for shrinking a shrink sleeve on. The preprocessing unit, the splicing unit and the shrinking oven can be controlled by means of one hand of an operator, while the splicer is held with the other hand.
US07753595B2	Printer drum bearing mount A bearing mount of a rotatable printer drum having a rotational axis includes a main drum bearing, rotationally supporting the drum and having an outer bearing race, and at least two secondary roller bearings, angularly spaced from each other. The secondary roller bearings are positioned to rollably support the outer bearing race and allow lateral translation of the main bearing.
US07753591B2	Turbocharger bearing and associated components An exemplary bearing and locating pin system for a turbocharger includes a locating pin including a shaft, a head and an aperture and a bearing having a central axis and including an internal bore to receive a shaft extending between a compressor wheel and a turbine wheel, the internal bore including a plurality of axial grooves, the bearing including a locating pin aperture substantially equidistant from axial ends of the bearing for engaging the locating pin to prevent rotation of the bearing within a bearing case bore, the bearing further including a plurality of lubricant inlets, each inlet extending between an outer surface of the bearing and one of the axial grooves at an angle non-orthogonal to the central axis. Other exemplary technologies are also disclosed.
US07753588B2	Bag, bag pack, and bag dispensing system A tabless, self-opening T-shirt-styled thermoplastic bag is provided having a handle, stress relief notch, and mounting tab structure for providing a wide-opening bag mouth and a bag having high weight carrying capacity. Handles have a narrow upper portion, a wide middle portion and a narrow lower portion. Handle mounting apertures are provided in the wide middle portion, which projects inwardly above the mouth of the bag. The handle mounting apertures are formed by a blade having an elongate section that is bent to form an obtuse angle. The handle mounting aperture has a sufficient width for accommodating arms of a dispensing rack and a height about three times as great as the width. The bag has a central mounting tab extending above the mouth of the bag and between the handles. A stress relief notch having a reasonably tight radius of curvature is provided between each handle and the mounting tab. The mounting tab has a mounting aperture formed by two blades meeting at a sharp corner, the corner having essentially no radius of curvature. A severable region is provided between the corner and an outer edge of the mounting tab, which can tear as the bag is removed from a mounting hook on a dispensing rack. Multiple bags are aligned and bonded together to provide a unitary pack, where pulling one bag off a dispensing rack pulls an adjacent bag open.
US07753586B2	Radiation imaging apparatus A grid 3 arranged with a scattered radiation shielding plate 31 for each column is arranged at a front face of a radiation detector 2. The distance between the grid 3 and the radiation detector 2 is desirably a integral multiple of the height of the scattered radiation shielding plate 31. A true image signal of the pixel column including the shade is estimated from the image signal of the pixel column adjacent to the pixel column including the shade 41. The scattered radiation distribution is estimated from the image signals of the pixel column including the shade of the scattered radiation shielding plate and the image signals when considering that the shielding plate is not included in the shielded pixel. A clear diagnosis image without influence of scattered radiation is obtained by subtracting the estimated scattered radiation distribution from the estimated image signal distribution.
US07753583B2	Outside air thermometer An apparatus for measuring the temperature of outside air provided with a thermometer mounted in a housing connected to a forced ventilation blower for drawing a current outside air across the thermometer and with a Venturi nozzle having an air penetration opening disposed orthogonally relative to the air current for generating vacuum pressure and prevent reverse flow of air through the housing.
US07753576B2	Light emitting flotation device A flotation device includes a pocket formed within its hollow body in open communication with an exterior surface thereof and a hollow housing mounted in the pocket. Illuminatable fiber optic strands are disposed in a predetermined pattern within the hollow body each having a light receiving end thereof protruding into the pocket through a wall thereof in an air impermeable manner and further into the housing. An illumination source is mounted inside the housing in close proximity to the light receiving ends of the fiber optic strands and a power source is also disposed within the housing and operatively coupled to the illumination source. A multi-colored filter pane is mounted within the housing intermediate the illumination source and the receiving end of the each illuminatable fiber optic strand. A switch is provided and is manually operable by a user to operate the illumination source causing the strands to emit light.
US07753575B2	Vehicle lamp A vehicle lamp is provided with a plurality of lamp units respectively including light sources, and optical units for emitting light from the light sources ahead of the lamp unit, and a driving unit configured to swivel the plurality of optical units in different strokes.
US07753564B2	Lampshade and illumination lamp having the same An illumination lamp (40) includes at least one solid-state lighting member (41) for radiating light, and a lampshade (10) being arranged corresponding to the at least one solid-state lighting member. The lampshade includes an array of lenses (11). Each lens has an incidence surface (110) for incidence of the light into the lampshade, and an opposite emitting surface (112) for emission of the light from the lampshade into ambient. At least one of the incidence surface and the emitting surface is a concave surface. The concave surface extends along a first direction. At least one micro-structure (111) is formed on the concave surface. The at least one micro-structure is long and narrow, and extends along the first direction. The micro-structure is configured for increasing radiating area of the light entering into the lampshade along a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US07753563B2	Display device A display device comprising a body for housing first and second transparent members and a carrier that supports sources of light. The first member is spaced from the second member such that a first plenum chamber is formed between the first and second members. The carrier is spaced from the second member on a side of the second member opposite the first chamber such that a second plenum chamber is formed between the second member and the carrier. A spacer separates the carrier from the second member by a predetermined amount. The sources of light being directed at the first and second members and the first and second chambers. The first chamber is filled with optical particles to diffuse the light passing through. The carrier applies a load, via the spacer, on the second member such that the particles are maintained at a pressure.
US07753561B2	Optical device for LED-based lamp An optical device for coupling the luminous output of a light-emitting diode (LED) to a predominantly spherical pattern comprises a transfer section that receives the LED's light within it and an ejector positioned adjacent the transfer section to receive light from the transfer section and spread the light generally spherically. A base of the transfer section is optically aligned and/or coupled to the LED so that the LED's light enters the transfer section. The transfer section can comprises a compound elliptic concentrator operating via total internal reflection. The ejector section can have a variety of shapes, and can have diffusive features on its surface as well. The transfer section can in some implementations be polygonal, V-grooved, faceted and other configurations.
US07753556B1	Compact LED lamp having heat dissipation structure An LED lamp includes a body comprising a supporting ring and a holding ring. A heat sink cover is mounted to a top surface of the supporting ring to cover a top end of the body. The heat sink cover comprises a plate and a plurality of fins formed on a top surface thereof. An LED module is received in the body and mounted to a bottom surface of the plate. A transparent envelope is mounted to the holding ring to cover a bottom end of the body. A retaining ring is mounted to a bottom surface of the holding ring to secure the transparent envelope in position. A suspension device is mounted to the heat sink cover. A power module is disposed in the suspension device.
US07753548B2	Input device having indicating lamp The present invention relates to an input device having an indicating lamp. The input device includes a case and an electronic lighting module. The electronic lighting module includes a printed circuit board, an electronic lighting element and a light guide post. The light guide post has a crooked shape. Due to the crooked shape, the light beams emitted by the electronic lighting element are no longer focused as a spot on the surface of the case.
US07753547B2	Lighted headwear with brim sleeve There is provided hands-free lighting, components thereof, and other accessories combined with the hands-free lighting. The hands-free lighting is preferably lighted headgear including hats and includes various accessories for use therewith, such as a protective switch guard associated with hat packaging surrounding an activation switch to prevent inadvertent activation while still allowing intentional actuation thereof.
US07753541B2	Motor vehicle A motor vehicle has an exterior coating. A fluorescing and/or phosphorescing substance is added to the exterior coating or forms a part of the exterior coating. The fluorescing and/or phosphorescing substance serves to emit light, in particular red, green and/or blue light, in a visible range upon irradiation by light in an invisible range.
US07753540B2	Illuminable indicator and light engine therefor An illuminable indicator (40) has an opaque base (42); a cover (44) for the base (42), the cover (44) having a formed design (46) therein having a given circumference with an area (48) defined by the circumference, the area (48) provided with a reflector (49) and at least the formed design being translucent; and mounting means (50) formed in the base for receiving a light engine (10).
US07753525B2	Ophthalmic apparatus A virtual sensitivity value which is obtained, variously changing a pupil diameter is measured in advance for many examinees, and volume of correction which is necessary at the time when the sensitivity value is corrected into one in a standard pupil diameter is stored as correction volume database. An apparatus has measurement means for measuring the pupil diameter of the eye to be examined, computing means for computing a shape parameter rate of the measured pupil diameter to the standard pupil diameter, and judgment means for computing volume of correction by referring to the correction volume database from the shape parameter rate and correcting the virtual sensitivity value obtained by measurement of the eye to be examined and for judging a sensitivity step of the eye to be examined.
US07753511B2	Lateral anti-skewing solution for solid ink A solid ink stick incorporates structural features and aspect ratios that facilitate movement of the ink stick through a feed channel. The ink stick includes an ink stick body having a width, a length, and a height, a first skew limiter in a lateral side of the ink stick, the first skew limiter having a length substantially equal to the length of the ink stick and a width that is less than one-half of the width of the ink stick, and a second skew limiter in a lateral side of the ink stick opposite the lateral side in which the first skew limiter is located, the second skew limiter having a length substantially equal to the length of the ink stick and a width that is less than one-half of the width of the ink stick.
US07753505B2	Ink cartridges and inkjet printers An ink cartridge includes a wall, and an ink supply portion positioned at the wall. The ink supply portion has an ink supply opening formed therein. The ink cartridge also includes a plurality of protrusions which includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion, and each of the first protrusion and the second protrusion extend from the wall. In an embodiment, a distance between the first protrusion and the second protrusion is greater than 0 mm and less than a diameter of the ink supply opening. In another embodiment, the distance between the first protrusion and the second protrusion is greater than 0 mm and less than a diameter of the ink supply opening.
US07753497B2	Piezoelectric element, liquid droplet ejection head, and liquid droplet ejection apparatus A metal oxide layer is disposed on the lower potential side when an electric field in a predetermined direction is applied to the piezoelectric body which is deformed by an applied electric field, and compensates for the oxygen vacancies which are generated in the piezoelectric body by applying the electric field. A second metal oxide layer is disposed on the higher potential side of the electric field applied to the piezoelectric body, and by applying an electric field in the direction reverse to the electric field, compensates for the oxygen vacancies which are accumulated in the piezoelectric body, thus degradation of the piezoelectric characteristic of a piezoelectric element can be repaired.
US07753495B2	Ink jet recording head, manufacturing method therefor, and substrate for ink jet recording head manufacture A base member for use in manufacturing an ink jet recording head, which includes a supply port, an ejection outlet, a liquid flow path for directing liquid supplied from the supply port to the ejection outlet, and an ejection pressure generating element, disposed in the liquid flow path, for ejecting the liquid. The supply port is formed as a through-opening in a substrate on which the ejection pressure generation element is provided. The base member includes a recessed portion formed on the side of the substrate provided with the ejection pressure generation element. The recessed portion extends from an edge of the supply port to a neighborhood of the ejection pressure generation element. A protection layer is provided at least on a portion of the substrate surface constituting the recessed portion.
US07753494B2	Printhead having low mass bubble forming heaters A printhead is provided having a plurality of chambers on a substrate, each chamber having a nozzle, a heater arranged in each chamber so as to heat fluid within the chamber to form a gas bubble therein and thereby cause ejection of a drop from the corresponding nozzle, and a plurality of passages formed in the substrate so that each passage supplies the fluid to an associated one of the chambers. Each heater includes solid material and has a mass of less than 10 nanograms of the solid material, which is configured to be heated to cause formation of the gas bubble.
US07753493B2	Movable ink ejection structure and inverse profile actuator arms for nozzle arrangement A nozzle arrangement for an ink jet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a wafer substrate arrangement defining an ink inlet channel and a first wall surrounding the ink inlet channel; a movable ink ejection structure defining an ink ejection port and a second wall surrounding the first wall so that the wafer substrate arrangement and ink ejection structure together define a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet channel and the ink ejection port; and a plurality of thermal bend actuators movably coupling the ink ejection structure to the wafer substrate arrangement. Each actuator includes an arm for moving the ink ejection structure responsive to an applied electrical signal, whereby a volume of the nozzle chamber is varied. Each arm includes a pair of inner active portions and a pair of outer passive portions, the inner active portions having a profile inverse to that of the outer passive portions.
US07753491B2	Printhead nozzle arrangement incorporating a corrugated electrode A nozzle arrangement is provided for a printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a wafer arrangement and a nozzle extending from the wafer arrangement. The nozzle defines a nozzle chamber in which ink can be stored and an ink ejection port though which ink in the nozzle chamber can be ejected. The wafer arrangement includes a pair of spaced apart electrodes located within the nozzle chamber. One of the electrodes defines a corrugated portion proximal to the nozzle that facilitates ejection of ink in the nozzle chamber out through the ink ejection port upon a potential difference being applied across the electrodes.
US07753488B2	Ink-jet recording apparatus An ink-jet recording apparatus includes an ink supplying member which has an ink storage section, an exhaust section, and a space portion formed between the ink storage section and the exhaust section, an ink-jet head, and two flexible flat cables (FPC) which are drawn in mutually opposite directions from the ink-jet head. One FPC is wired by passing along a side of the ink supplying member, opposite to the exhaust section, and the other FPC is wired by passing through the space portion. Since the FPC is wired avoiding the ink supplying member and the exhaust section, it is possible to eliminate adhering of ink to the FPC, and to eliminate a waste of FPC wiring. Moreover, it is possible to reduce a cost, and to uniformize electrical characteristics of the two flexible flat cables.
US07753484B2	Printhead provided with individual nozzle enclosures A printhead comprising a plurality of unit cells, at least one of the plurality of unit cells comprising a substrate including an ink inlet passage. A chamber is defined by chamber sidewalls and at least part of a nozzle plate defining an aperture for ejection of ink from the chamber, the chamber being in fluid communication with the inlet passage. A nozzle enclosure comprising enclosure sidewalls and a roof defining an opening for ejection of ink, the nozzle enclosure surrounding the aperture. Ink ejected from the aperture is directed to the opening of the nozzle enclosure, thereby isolating the aperture from an adjacent aperture of an adjacent unit cell.
US07753480B2	Image forming apparatus and image scanner An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head that forms an image onto a recording medium; a guide shaft disposed to extend in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the recording medium; a carriage on which the recording head is mounted and includes a support portion formed integrally with the carriage; and a bearing unit attached to an inner surface of the support portion and allows the carriage to be moved along the guide shaft, and includes plate-shaped bearing portions that are disposed to have a contained angle that allows the bearing portions to contact with a circumferential surface of the guide shaft at two points.
US07753472B2	Printhead maintenance station having rotational pad engagement A printhead maintenance station for maintaining a printhead in an operable condition is provided. The maintenance station comprises an elastically deformable pad having a contact surface for sealing engagement with an ink ejection face of the printhead, and an engagement mechanism for reciprocally moving the pad between a first position in which the contact surface is sealingly engaged with the face and a second position in which the contact surface is disengaged from the face. The engagement mechanism is configured to move the pad rotatably with respect to the printhead such that, during engagement, a first part of the surface is contacted with the face prior to a second part of the surface. During disengagement the second part is disengaged from the face prior to the first part.
US07753466B2	Device for manufacturing color printing and method using same A device (200) for manufacturing a color printing includes a printhead (10), a device (300) for additional printing of the color printing, and a printhead motion and jetting control (100). The device (300) also provided herein includes a printhead identification unit (80) and the host processor (90). The printhead identification unit is configured for identifying type of the N jets, calculating the numbers of the defective jets, and then outputting measurement information of the N jets and the defective jets. The host processor is configured for receiving the measurement information from the printhead identification unit and outputting movement instructions of the printhead with a starting position of the printhead in the first printing process.
US07753457B2	Apparatus for removably retaining a slide within a cassette Apparatus and slide cassette for removably retaining or securing a slide. The cassette includes trays for holding a slide. Each tray has a retaining lip at an end thereof. A first edge of a slide contacts a support member within the cassette when the slide that is placed in a slot. The support member can be an elastomeric member, a spring, a foam member, or an insert with slide retention surfaces. The support member pushes or urges the slide in the opposite direction so that an opposite edge of the slide contacts the retaining lips of the trays. As a result, the slide is removably retained or secured on the trays and between the retaining lips and the support member(s).
US07753453B2	Wheel balance weight for automobile tire A wheel balance weight for an automobile is provided. The wheel balance weight for an automobile includes a weight holder 10 having a hook part 12 press-fitted between a rim 7 of an automobile wheel 5 and a tire bead part 9 and an arcuate gripping part 14 provided at the other end of the hook part 12, and a weight element 20 detachably gripped by an inner periphery of the gripping part 14 of the weight holder 10, wherein the gripping part 14 of the weight holder 10 has a cut-out part 14a formed at a center part thereof to a certain length in a circumferential direction thereof, and the weight element 20 has a fixing protrusion 22 projecting from an outer periphery thereof through the cut-out part 14a of the gripping part 14 to the exterior and fixedly hooked by the gripping part 14.
US07753450B2	Fitting for a vehicle seat The present invention relates to a fitting (8) for a vehicle seat, especially for an automotive seat. The fitting comprises two individual fittings (10, 50) that are arranged axially juxtaposed and in parallel in relation to the flow of force, and that each have two fitting parts (11, 12, 51, 52) that can be rotated in relation to each other and that are mechanically interlinked by way of an eccentric epicyclic gear defining backlash. The present invention is characterized in that the first individual fitting (10) has an eccentric that is not able to eliminate the backlash and the second individual fitting (50) has an eccentric adapted for eliminating the backlash.
US07753448B2	Seat position-adjusting device for a highchair A seat position-adjusting device is used to connect adjustably a seat to a leg unit of a highchair, and includes a tube component, a slide seat and a locking unit. The tube component is sleeved on the leg unit, and is formed with positioning holes aligned along a tube axis. The slide seat is sleeved on the tube component, and is connected to the seat. The locking unit includes a latch disposed in the slide seat, pivoted to the slide seat, and pivotable between locking and unlocking positions to engage and disengage a selected positioning hole to thereby selectively lock and unlock the slide seat relative to the tube component.
US07753432B2	Retractable roof device and vehicle fitted with said device A retractable roof device for a vehicle, including a roof panel configured to be displaced by a guide, moving from a closed position covering the passenger compartment of the vehicle to a retracted position in a rear area of the vehicle. The device also includes a cover structure. The controlled displacement of the roof between the closed position and the retracted position causes displacement of the rear cover structure and/or part of the passenger compartment such that the rear cover structure and/or passenger compartment part allows the roof panel and guide to be displaced.
US07753425B2	Load carrier arrangement for a vehicle bed comprising an internal bed rail system Load carrier mountable above a bed structure of a vehicle having an upper surface and an internal bed rail system is disclosed. The load carrier broadly includes an upright base support member, an internal rail clamping assembly, and a clamp adjustment assembly. The upright base support member rests upon the upper surface of the side wall of the bed structure and connects with the internal rail clamping assembly. The upright base support member has a first clamp surface for asserting a clamping force upon the upper surface of the side wall of the bed structure. The rail clamping assembly is releasably securable to the internal bed rail system and includes a second clamp surface for asserting a clamping force upon the internal bed rail system. The clamp adjustment assembly positionally adjusts the first clamping surface with respect to the second clamping surface between clamped and unclamped positions.
US07753414B2	Pipe coupling A pipe coupling for connection to a pipe end of pipe made of polymer material includes an inner sleeve which is intended for insertion into the pipe end and for abutment with the inner surface of the pipe end, and an outer sleeve which is intended for abutment with the outer surface of the pipe end and which includes a slot-like opening. The pipe coupling also includes a device for adjusting the opening, and a pre-widening device positioned between the edges of the slot-like opening. The pre-widening device makes the slot-like opening larger such that the inner diameter of the outer sleeve is larger than the outer diameter of the pipe.
US07753408B2	Composite component and method for producing a composite component The invention relates to a composite component comprising an insert made of expanded metal surrounded by foamed material, particularly a steering column collision protection element.
US07753407B2	Side airbag apparatus with side airbag cover A side airbag cover for holding a folded shape of a side airbag to be stored includes a first cover portion for covering a front inflation portion of the side airbag, the front inflation portion inflating and deploying substantially forward in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle; and a second cover portion for covering a lower inflation portion of the side airbag, the lower inflation portion inflating and deploying substantially downward.
US07753404B2	Airbag arrangement An airbag device comprises an airbag having at least one chamber, which can be filled with gas by a gas generator, and a ventilation opening in fluid communication with the chamber. The ventilation opening is sealed by an airbag section, which is detachably mounted to a fastening member, and is configured as an insertion opening for the gas generator.
US07753400B2	Multi-axle leaf spring suspension with compliant equalizer A multi-axle leaf spring suspension having a compliant equalizer. The leaf springs are mounted one behind the other on each side of the vehicle. Adjacent ends of the leaf springs are pivotally attached to the compliant equalizer. The compliant equalizer is pivotally mounted to a vehicle frame. The compliant equalizer comprises a pair of arms that are pivotally connected to each other in a scissor-like fashion. One end of each arm is pivotally connected to the end of a leaf spring. The other end of each arm is cooperatively arranged to contain and compress a spring member between them. The compliant equalizer reduces the magnitude of shocks that would be other wise transmitted to the suspension and frame by absorbing them through compression of the spring member.
US07753390B1	Fifth wheel assembly A fifth wheel assembly comprises a fifth wheel having a plurality of journal bearings extending generally downward from its underside, and an “I-shaped” transverse beam member for mounting the assembly to a truck frame. The beam member is dimensioned to span across parallel longitudinal truck frame members and it includes mounting flanges extending generally downward from either lateral side where the mounting flanges have a plurality of apertures for receiving suitable fasteners inserted therein for mounting said beam member to the truck frame members. The transverse member also includes a plurality of pivot bearing pairs to receive the journal bearings of the fifth wheel which is coupled thereto by a trunnion.
US07753381B2	Tool chuck with sleeve and clutch mechanism to remove operator variability A tool chuck may include a chuck body defining a longitudinal axis. A sleeve may be mounted on the chuck body for movement between a first axial position and a second axial position. A clutch part provided on the sleeve. The clutch part may engage with a cooperating clutch part when the sleeve is in the second axial position. The clutch part may have a working surface that faces in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
US07753377B2	Shaft seal having shaft offset compensating capability A shaft seal includes an elastomeric annular body having a radially inwardly protruding annular lip. An annular outer case receives the elastomeric annular body. An annular inner case is embedded into the elastomeric annular body. An annular insert is positioned adjacent the inner case. A backup/support insert is received in a recessed pocket in the elastomeric body and outboard of an axially extending annular bead protruding from the body and compressed sealingly against the radially inward extending leg of the seals annular outer case. The backup/support insert and axially extending annular bead act to prevent sealed fluid pressure from acting against a rind portion of the elastomeric body thus leaving outwardly extending beads of the rind portion free to compress or decompress to accommodate eccentric deflection of the shaft. The outer case, the insert, the backup insert and the inner case support the lip and compensate for shaft offset.
US07753376B2	Plunger seal for pump There is provided a plunger seal (1) for a fuel injection pump for a direct-injection gasoline engine, in which, even if a resin material is used for a fuel seal member (12), the plunger seal can be made compact, sealing ability is increased, and assembling man-hours can be reduced, and in which set sealing performance can be achieved when a U-shaped elastic member (33) for applying an energizing force in a diametrical direction is used in a groove (41) formed in the fuel seal member (12). The resin fuel seal member (12) and an oil seal member (13) are assembled to form one seal system. Further, when the U-shaped elastic member (33) is installed in the groove (41), an axial position (L1) of an end surface (44a) at the side opposite to the sealed object of a fixing collar (44) formed on an inner peripheral surface of the groove (41) is positioned at the side (B) opposite to the sealed object than the axial position (L2) of a leading end portion (15b) of a seal lip (15) of the fuel seal member (12).
US07753375B1	Amusement ball receiving and return An amusement system including a housing having a receiving aperture at a top surface and an ejecting aperture at a front surface and further including a channel connecting the receiving aperture to the ejecting aperture; a motorized rotatable flywheel mounted inside the housing and coupled to the channel between the top surface and the channel for engaging an object travelling through the channel; a roller assembly mounted inside the housing and coupled to the channel opposite of the flywheel and disposed so an object engaging the flywheel concurrently engages the roller assembly wherein the flywheel and the roller assembly cooperatively eject the object a distance less than fifteen feet from the ejecting aperture when the flywheel rotates and contacts the object; and wherein the housing includes a mounting system to attach to an object no less than about three feet above a surface supporting the object.
US07753372B2	Apparatus for opening and depositing a signature An apparatus for opening and depositing a signature onto a transporting device includes a continuously rotating gripper cylinder having a first shaft and carrying at least one signature. First and second opening cylinders are arranged below the gripper cylinder to open the signature and deposit the opened signature onto the transporting device. The first and second opening cylinders each have a second and third shafts, respectively, extending substantially parallel to the first shaft. The first and second opening cylinders each have a peripheral section, the peripheral section of the first opening cylinder engaging in a region of rotation of the gripper cylinder to grip a signature such that the signature can be released again. The first opening cylinder includes a guide element to aid in conveying the signature.
US07753365B2	Image scanning apparatus and image scanner In an image scanning apparatus, when documents on a document tray are sequentially transferred, different control steps are performed according to a scanning speed when an upper surface height of the documents is lowered thereby turning off a height detection sensor. In a first control mode, which is not a high speed scanning, the document tray is elevated little by little during an inter-transfer time between each time one document is transferred until the upper surface height reaches a target height that is higher by a predetermined distance since the height detection sensor is turned on. In a second control mode, in which high speed scanning is performed, the document tray is elevated little by little during the inter-transfer time each time the one document is transferred until the upper surface height reaches a height that is higher by a predetermined distance than a height at a time when the height detection sensor is turned off.
US07753364B2	Method to accommodate a large capacity of sheets in a feeder mechanism The sheet capacity of a pivoting feed head is combined with a complimentary pivoting design for the paper tray lift, such that a large total capacity of sheets is attained within a compact space, while allowing the lifting mechanisms to be located outside of the perimeter of the paper tray.
US07753363B2	Paper feeding device A paper feeding device includes a cover, a base, a pickup roller assembly and at least one paper blocking unit. The paper blocking unit is placed beside the pickup roller assembly, has a paper blocking element and a projection projecting from the upper portion of the side wall of the pickup roller assembly. The paper blocking element includes a connecting portion, a paper blocking arm, a pivot rotatablely connecting the cover. A connecting arm extends upwards from the end of the pivot, a blocking portion projects from the outer side of the connecting arm, a passage is formed between the blocking portion and the connecting arm. The projection can be downward against the blocking portion of the paper blocking element or pass through the passage of the paper blocking element to allow the paper to be fed in, so the cooperation is easy, the paper feeding device works smoothly.
US07753356B2	Locking mechanism for an image forming device The present application is directed to methods and devices for a locking mechanism to connect input components for use within an image forming device. Two or more input components are placed in a stacked arrangement. The locking mechanism of a first input component engages the locking mechanism of a second input component to connect the input components. The locking mechanism may be activated automatically when the input units are stacked.
US07753350B2	T-slot block modules for milling machines and method of use The present invention is a T-Slot block assembly that provides a plurality of attachment points for attachment to a milling machine worktable and to other T-Slot blocks for accommodating a variety of differing clamping or work piece holding jobs. Furthermore said invention can utilize common available clamps, fasteners, step blocks, T-nuts and various common but numerous work holding tooling. No additional mounting plates, or any type of preparatory hardware is required to directly mount the T-Slot Block onto the milling table or other work table where a T-slot is provided.
US07753348B2	Gas-liquid contact apparatus A tray assembly is provided for improved gas/liquid contact when used in a large chemical process tower, resulting in better performance. Each tray assembly has two levels of tray decks and associated downcomers. Tray decks provide gas/liquid contact for mass transfer and the downcomers are required to clarify the liquid before entering the tray below. A novel downcomer configuration is provided for use in multipass trays. The shape of downcomer bottom chord is designed to allow for liquid to travel across any part of each tray deck at a similar distance between the inlet and the outlet weir. As a result, liquid on the tray deck travels in plug flow pattern. Benefits include a higher Murphree tray efficiency due to minimum liquid back-mixing, as well as minimum local entrainment due to uniform froth height.
US07753322B1	Portable bag holder employing elastic band A device for holding a collapsible bag, such as a plastic trash bag, in an open and operable position. A rim supports the mouth of the bag, while a handle and forearm brace permit a user to hold it easily and without fatigue. The handle and brace are placed at the edge of the rim so as to leave the opening unobstructed and maximize versatility for both trash and leaf pickup.
US07753312B2	Lightweight structure especially for an aircraft and method for making such a structure A fiber reinforced strip is adhesively bonded to an outwardly facing surface of a reinforcing frame and to an inwardly facing outer skin surface. Such a strip position reduces crack propagation in a lightweight structure particularly in the outer skin adhesively bonded to the reinforcing frame through the strip. For this purpose the fiber reinforced strip is interposed between the outer skin and the frame and adhesively bonded to the outer skin and to the frame. The strip has reinforcing fibers extending in parallel to each other or the reinforcing fibers are woven into a fabric embedded in a synthetic adhesive bonding material. The embedding of the parallel fibers or of the fiber fabric in the bonding material is performed either prior to the bonding or during the bonding of the strip to the outer skin and to the reinforcing frame.
US07753302B2	Rotor for an impact crusher A rotor of an impact crusher has at least one stellate plate, which can be attached to the rotor shaft. A plurality of paddle-blade type hammer tools are mounted on each stellate plate. The hammer tools are secured above and below the stellate plate by tool mounting brackets having hook-shaped ends that engage with the hammer tools. A respective adapter piece is placed in the stellate plate between the two tool mounting brackets. A retaining bolt penetrates the two tool mounting brackets and the adapter piece. A security slide secures the retaining bolt in position. The hammer tools of the inventive rotor for an impact crusher have a high usage volume and the rotor is extremely user-friendly with respect to the recurring tasks of setting and replacing the hammer tools, without having to loosen screw connections.
US07753299B1	Multi-stage, variable force apparatus and method for grinding foodstuffs An apparatus includes a drive structure on which are mounted both a first blade carrier and a second blade carrier. The first blade carrier has a first blade facing a cutting surface of a first screen portion, and is mounted on the drive structure so that the first blade is moveable along a first positioning axis with respect to the cutting surface of the first screen portion. The second blade carrier has a second blade facing a cutting surface of a second screen portion, and is mounted on the drive structure so that the second blade is moveable along a second positioning axis with respect to the cutting surface of the second screen portion. A first pressure is used to vary the force with which the first blade presses against the first screen portion and a second fluid pressure is used to vary the force with which the second blade presses against the second screen portion.
US07753297B2	Food waste disposer with grinding mechanism with windowed grind ring A grinding mechanism for a food waste disposer includes a grinding ring defining a plurality of window openings therethrough. The grinding ring is received in a housing of a grinding mechanism. The grinding mechanism has a plurality of cavities therein corresponding to the window openings that are disposed outboard of the window openings. A plurality of stacked disks form a rotatable shredder plate that is situated to rotate relative to the grinding ring.
US07753296B2	Pulverization/classification apparatus for manufacturing powder, and method for manufacturing powder using the pulverization/classification apparatus A pulverization/classification apparatus including a cylindrical vessel having an inner wall, on a surface of which a layer including a release agent is located; a pulverizer configured to pulverize a material such as toner raw materials in the cylindrical vessel using a compressed air to prepare a particulate material; and a classifier configured to classify the particulate toner material to prepare a powder of the material. Alternatively, the inner wall of the cylindrical vessel has a circumferentially projected portion. A method for manufacturing a powder such as toners using the pulverization/classification apparatus is also provided.
US07753288B2	System for failsafe controlled dispensing of liquid material A system and method are provided for failsafe storage and dispensing of a liquid material from a container having a storage compartment. A dispensing control unit coupled to the container includes a control valve portion operable to selectively direct a flow path of at least a portion of a pressurized fluid stream received thereby, and a response valve portion coupled to the neck portion. The response valve portion is reconfigurable between first and second states responsive to the pressurized fluid stream as directed thereto. The response valve portion in the first state seals an access opening of the container from the storage compartment, while in the second state maintains the access opening in communication with the storage compartment. The response valve portion is resiliently biased to its first state, whereby release of the liquid material therethrough is prevented in the absence of suitable fluid pressure actuation therefor. The response valve portion in certain embodiments includes a displaceable piston assembly, and in certain other embodiments a deflectable member, for selective reconfiguration between the first and second states responsive to the pressurized fluid stream.
US07753287B2	Cleaning system for headlamps of motor vehicles The present invention comprises a cleaning system for headlamps, windshields or other surfaces, particularly of motor vehicles, comprising a tube system with liquid reservoir and a pump for providing and supplying a cleaning liquid and a nozzle configuration with liquid exit for applying a cleaning liquid of a surface to be cleaned wherein said liquid exit comprises a curved slot and/or a sphere arrangement to apply the cleaning liquid with low liquid pressure onto the surface to be cleaned.
US07753277B2	User-operable actuation device employing an updateable electronic-ink display label A user-operable actuation device for use in a system. The user-operable actuation device includes a user-operable component supported within a support structure, and operated by the user, and also has an electronic-ink display label. An activation module is provided for transmitting electromagnetic data signals to the electronic-ink display label so as to provide instructions for use in the determinating of graphic indicia to be displayed on the electronic-ink display label. Each electronic-ink display label employs an addressable display assembly including a layer of electronic ink including a bi-stable non-volatile imaging material. The electronic-ink display label includes an integrated circuit structure having a storage element for storing instructions, programs and data, and a programmed processor in communication with storage element. A signal receiving structure receives electromagnetic signals from the activation module, using the antenna structure. The electronic-ink display label displays graphical indicia representing information representative of one or more symbols associated with the operation of the user-operable component within the system.
US07753273B2	Ballot marking system and apparatus utilizing multiple key switch voter interface A ballot marking system and apparatus for marking a paper ballot listing a plurality of candidates which includes a marking space for each candidate which can be either hand-marked by a voter, or machine-marked by the marking apparatus. The voting station includes a multiple key-switch navigation sub-panel by which the voter enters his or her selections in response to audio prompts. If a ballot is to be machine marked, the ballot is inserted into the marking device and candidate selections are presented to the voter through an audio voting sequence and/or on the touchscreen. Candidate selections entered on the sub-panel or touchscreen are marked on the ballot by a print mechanism which marks spaces corresponding to the selected candidates, and the ballot is returned to the voter in a form which enables the voter to visually confirm that his selections have been marked. The ballot, whether hand-marked or machine-marked, is inserted in a ballot scanning device, wherein it is tallied and deposited in a ballot box.
US07753267B2	In-lane money transfer systems and methods The present invention provides systems and methods to initiate, facilitate, process and/or perform money transfers. One such method includes receiving a request for a transfer pair verification from a vendor location (360), and verifying that the transfer pair is associated with a valid transfer pair record (362). The method includes sending the transfer pair verification to the vendor location (368), receiving a money transfer request (370) associated with the transfer pair from the vendor location, and authorizing a money transfer (372) to at least one of a first and second customers associated with the transfer pair. In this manner, a vendor location, which may include a point-of-sale device and may be a retail outlet (e.g., grocery store, gas station, or the like), can be used to facilitate a money transfer between two customers.
US07753265B2	System and method for securing a credit account A system and method is disclosed for verifying a commercial transaction between a card-holder, a merchant, and a credit card company. The card-holder makes a purchase with the merchant using a full credit card number. The merchant submits a transaction approval request for approval with the credit card company. The credit card company executes conventional credit approval of the transaction approval request, as well as verifies the transaction approval request with the card-holder. An approval is sent to the merchant only after the transaction approval request is both conventionally approved by the credit card company and verified by the card-holder. The card-holder, or the credit card company, may initiate verification of the transaction approval request. The transaction approval request can also be automatically verified if one or many pre-verification criteria is/are satisfied by data contained in the transaction approval request. The pre-verification criteria can be initially determined and/or modified by the card-holder. As another security feature, the card-holder may selectively activate and deactivate their credit card/account as desired. The credit card itself includes indicia of security measures.
US07753255B2	Sheet material and method A top closure obturating panel (2) of a carton is formed with a partial depth cut (4) in the form of an open loop of which one end (4a) is at a greater distance from a central zone of the loop (4) than is the other end (4b). Following filling and top-sealing of the carton, there is applied to the panel (2) a pour spout fitment consisting of a flanged pour spout, a screw cap on the pour spout, and a plunger co-operating with the screw cap and the pour spout in such manner that, upon unscrewing of the screw cap, the plunger screws inwards. At its inner end, the plunger is formed with arcuate pushing blades (6), which thereby cause the laminate material of the panel (2) to fracture along the partial depth cut (4) such that an encircling portion (2a) of the panel (2) and an encircled portion (2b) within the loop (4) separate from each other along the loop (4), but remain interconnected by way of an intermediate portion (2c) extending through between the ends (4a) and (4b) of the loop (4).
US07753254B2	Formed core sandwich structure and method and system for making same A method and apparatus for producing a sandwich structure that is lightweight and many times stiffer than regular sheet metal, and which is easily formable into curved structures as well as structures having compound curves. In one embodiment, a formed core includes a plurality of cells comprising alternating front and rear projections extending outwardly in front of and behind a median plane, with each projection having a bonding surface area or land configured to be bonded with corresponding external sheets on both sides of the formed core. A plurality of micro-abrasions or indentations are formed on the bonding lands, allowing stronger bonding joints to be formed between the core and the external sheets by facilitating improved capillary action by the core during the bonding process.
US07753252B2	Method for construction of pressure vessels with a liner using friction stirring processes A system and method for using friction stir welding, friction stir processing, and friction stir mixing to create pressure vessels, pipes or other containers comprised of a single material or multiple layers of different materials, and having superior strength and endurance characteristics.
US07753251B2	Micro component removing apparatus A method and a apparatus for removing a micro component surely and leveling solder remaining on a substrate without imposing thermal damage to solder lands, the substrate and components on the periphery. A thermosetting adhesive (15) is provided on the surface (12a) of a micro component (12) opposite to the side of a substrate (11), and the distal end of a component holding pin (13) having cross-section area falling within the surface (12a) of the micro component (12) opposite to the side of the surface (11) is passed through the thermosetting adhesive (15) to abut against the surface (12a) of the micro component (12). Subsequently, solder (16) between the micro component (12) and the substrate (11) is heated to melt and the component holding pin (13) is moved in the direction receding from the substrate (11). Consequently, the micro component (12) is removed from the substrate (11).
US07753242B2	Suction roller system A suction roller system includes a suction roller and a control head having a ventilation zone situated at a face side of the suction roller. The suction roller system allows rapid ventilation of the suction bores situated on the face side opposite the control head via a cost-advantageous and space-saving expansion. For this purpose, the suction roller is equipped, on the second face side, with a closure plate having an opening that corresponds to the ventilation zone.
US07753241B2	Hanger with double ratcheting sliding-jaw clamps A hanger for suspending multiple articles, such as automotive floor mats, is injection-molded in one piece from a suitable polymer. The hanger has at least four stationary article gripping members and four mobile article gripping members which are fastenable to respective ones of the stationary gripping members. Article-supporting fingers of the stationary gripping members extend horizontally away from the hanger body, two in one direction and two in another. The stationary gripping members are arranged in pairs, with one member in a pair extending in one direction, and the other member of the pair extending in an opposite direction. In one embodiment, a shared structural plate makes up a portion of the “C” channel for each gripping member in the pair.
US07753236B2	Liquid storage Apparatus for storing water, especially purified water, for use in a beverage dispenser is provided with a microbiological agent to kill or deter microbiological growth and maintain the quality of the water. The agent is provided in a physical form to promote contact with the water and may be renewable to maintain effectiveness of the agent over a period of time. In one arrangement, the agent is contained in a cartridge 92 arranged in a re-circulation loop 89 through which the water in a reservoir 80 is passed and returned to the reservoir 80. The cartridge 92 and/or a carrier for the agent within the cartridge 92 may be replaceable to renew the agent. The agent may also be provided within the reservoir 80 and various arrangements for this are also disclosed.
US07753235B2	Foot activated dispenser The invention generally relates to a foot activated dispenser and more particularly to a foot activated dispenser for dispensing a liquid product such as a skin care product (i.e. hand soap, hand sanitizer, surgical scrub, lotion, etc.). More specifically, the foot activated dispenser includes a bladder connected to tubing that is connected to a piston pump. The piston pump is located within a shroud that is removably attached to a wall bracket. The wall bracket includes a bottle retainer for holding a bottle having a pump.
US07753233B2	Spout unit and bag using the same A spout unit having a tamper-evident function so that it is easy to determine visually that a sealed cap is opened when the cap is unsealed, wherein strong force is not needed to open while modification of moderate curve in convex from an easy-to-break portion of a tamper-proof ring is corrected when the spout is sealed with the cap, is provided. A spout unit comprising a spout 20 having a cylindrical opening 21 and a cap 2 which seals the opening of the spout, wherein the cap 2 has a tamper-proof ring 10 connected to a lower end portion of the cap 2 via an easy-to-break linking piece; wherein the tamper-proof ring has an easy-to-break portion 14, which breaks by tension applied in the circumferential direction of the ring, and a claw part engageable with a ratchet provided at the spout side; and wherein a tamper-proof ring support 45 is provided at least at two points around the opening of the spout, in which the tamper-proof ring support is in partial contact with undersurface of the tamper-proof ring upon screwing the cap and has a height to maintain a position of the tamper-proof ring in horizontal direction at a constant level.
US07753232B2	Fluid dispensing apparatus A fluid dispensing apparatus is configured to dispense a predetermined volume of fluid, and includes a fluid reservoir to hold a fluid to be dispensed, a dispense tube to dispense the fluid, and an elevator mechanism. The fluid reservoir receives a fluid from a fluid supply. A dispense tube has a dispense outlet, and is connected to an outlet port on the fluid reservoir. The elevator mechanism changes a relative vertical displacement between the dispense outlet and the outlet port, such that the fluid is dispensed when the dispense outlet is lower than the outlet port, and not dispensed when the dispense outlet is higher than the outlet port.
US07753228B2	Cosmetic container A case body is provided with a cover which opens from and closes against the case body. The cover includes a hinge boss rotatably attached to the case body through a hinge pin. On the opposite side of the hinge pin is provided a hook mechanism with which the cover is engaged with the case body to form a closed state. A pressure member contacts and presses to the hinge boss to reduce the rotation speed of the hinge boss. A radius reduction portion is formed so that the outer dimension of the hinge boss is reduced gradually as the cover is getting closer to its full-opened position in order to weaken a frictional contact function with the pressure member.
US07753227B2	Torsion spring configuration and releasable casing utilizing the same A torsion spring includes a spring body wound by a helical wire, a first arm extending tangently from an end of the spring body, and a second arm extending from the other end of the spring body. The first arm includes sequentially a first portion extending from the spring body, a curved second portion bent toward a first direction from the first portion, and a curved third portion bent toward a different second direction from the second portion. A torsion spring assembly and a releasable casing using the torsion spring are also disclosed.
US07753225B2	Valve assembly A valve assembly for an elastic mouthpiece for drinking from a liquid container. The valve assembly comprises a flexible membrane, having at least one valve opening, and a rigid membrane supporting element, which has at least one valve opening. The invention also relates to a mouthpiece for drinking from a liquid container that is provided with an inventive valve assembly, which is placed on a cap with an opening for the passage of liquid.
US07753221B2	Blow-molded container and mold for use in blow molding A blow-molded container is provided, which has a low blow ratio and good appearances with no flash line, glossy spot, and/or color spot on the sidewall of the container near the bottom. The mold created for this purpose is used in blow molding and is characterized in that a split mold has a mold parting face perpendicular to the mold-clamping direction, splits into front and rear mold halves, and has a mold pinch-off section, which is used to pinch off parison P and is provided with pinch-off blades on bottom surface of mold cavity bottom. In the cross-sectional plan view of said split mold in its closed state, a bottom parting line is formed by a linear pinch-off line, which is formed on the bottom surface by the pinch-off blades, a pair of mold parting lines formed by said mold parting face on the right and left peripheries, and a pair of connecting lines that connects the right and left ends of said pinch-off line with the inner ends of said right and left mold parting lines. The all or those portions of said connecting lines that lie adjacent to said pinch-off line are formed by end parting faces located at right and left ends of the pinch-off section of said split mold so that a pair of roughly right-angled bent corners is formed by all or those adjacent portions of said connecting lines and said pinch-off line.
US07753219B2	Reinforcing frame structure for a storage rack A reinforcing frame structure for a storage rack is disclosed having spacer blocks set in between outer rectangular open frame and inner rectangular open frame of each of top and bottom rectangular open frame units thereof at two sides of each of the upright supports at four corners, a reinforcing angle block attached to each rectangular open frame unit at each of the four corners at an inner side, and reinforcing pins transversely fastened to the inner and outer rectangular open frames, the spacer blocks and the reinforcing angle blocks at each of the four corners to reinforce the structural strength of the rectangular open frame units.
US07753218B2	Tilt back merchandise display stand A tilt back merchandise display stand has a front panel tilted at the top rearwardly to its rear panel. The stand has two triangular side panel foldable inwardly along two vertical middle fold lines. A horizontal fold line formed at the middle position of the stand so that the stand may be folded into a collapsed condition. A single large rectangular merchandise display shelving or two separate merchandise display shelving may be mounted to the front panel with S-shaped hooks mounted to open mounting slots formed at the top edge and at the horizontal fold line of the front panel. A plurality of separate merchandise display trays with upper L-shaped tabs may also be mounted to the front panel with a plurality of vertical mounting slots formed along its side edges. The display stand is self-erectable with the provision of an elastic cord mounted between a brace panel and the rear panel within the stand.
US07753210B2	Damper system for transportation of a container A damper system for transportation includes a packaging box for storing a container containing a work and also includes a pair of an upper damper and a lower damper each placed between the packaging box and the container. The upper and lower dampers contain foamed polyethylene or polypropylene, the upper damper includes upper impact-absorbing sections, and the lower damper includes lower impact-absorbing sections. The sum of h2 and h1 is equal to the width of an upper or lower space between the packaging box and the container, and h1 is greater than h2, wherein h2 represents the height of the upper impact-absorbing sections and h1 represents the height of the lower impact-absorbing sections. The shape of the upper and lower impact-absorbing sections is rectangular parallelepiped shape.
US07753208B2	Packaging for a sink In order to produce a packaging for a sink which has particularly good absorption properties and a low rate of transportation damage there is proposed a packaging for a sink which comprises at least one supporting body that is formed at least partly from a foamed plastic material and comprises at least one seating element incorporating a seating channel for an edge section of the sink, and an outer packaging whose interior accommodates the sink and the at least one supporting body, wherein the at least one supporting body extends over substantially the entire internal height of the interior of the outer packaging.
US07753203B2	Sharps handling devices A sharps handling device can include a base and a holder. The base and the holder can form a stand in which sharps devices can be retained so as to be accessible. The base and the holder can also form a container for enclosing sharps devices.
US07753201B2	Method and apparatus for preserving and protecting data discs A data disc protector and a method for using same to protect data discs stored in data disc storage cases is disclosed. Embodiments of the data disc protector comprise a protective sheet of material sized to fit between a data disc and a back cover of a data disc storage case and adapted to form a barrier between the back cover and the data disc when sandwiched between a data disc and the back cover. The data disc protector forms a physical barrier inhibiting the transfer of airborne hydrocarbons emitted by plastics in the storage case to the disc and preventing the data disc from contacting the back cover during storage. Embodiments of the data disc protector are made of a material that traps hydrocarbons. Embodiments of the data disc protector are provided with a central aperture adapted to allow installation on a hub in the storage case.
US07753193B2	Key sprocket drive system A key sprocket drive system for a conveyor belt having a drive drum having an outer surface. The outer surface of the drive drum is adapted to engage a securement means. A contoured collar has an inner surface and an outer surface. The contoured collar is adapted to receive the securement means and adapted to engage the outer surface of the drive drum at predetermined positions therefore providing defined gaps between the inner surface of the contoured collar and the outer surface of the drive drum. The key sprocket drive system further comprises a sprocket member having a generally annular configuration with externally facing teeth-like protrusions at spaced intervals. The sprocket member is adapted to receive the securement means whereby the securement means engage the sprocket member and the contoured collar to secure the sprocket member and the contoured collar to the drive drum. The teeth-like protrusions engage the conveyor belt so as to drive the conveyor belt.
US07753189B2	Currency processing device, method and system According to one embodiment of the present invention, a currency processing device for receiving and processing a stack of currency bills is described. The currency processing device comprises an input receptacle for receiving a stack of bills to be processed, a plurality of output receptacles for receiving bills after the bills have been processed, a transport mechanism for transporting the bills from the input receptacle to the output receptacles, and a discriminating unit for examining the bills. The output receptacles are arranged such that a center of at least one output receptacle is laterally offset from a center of the input receptacle. The discriminating unit includes a detector positioned between the input receptacle and the output receptacles and is adapted to determine the denomination of bills.
US07753181B2	Damper having silicone impregnated and silicone containing components A damper for damping movement of an object is formed from silicone impregnated or silicone containing components. The damper includes a housing having walls defining a well and a rotor positioned in the housing within the well. The rotor is positioned to define a space between the rotor and the walls. One or more seals is positioned between the housing and the rotor to isolate the space from the environment. A damping fluid is present in the well between the rotor and the housing for damping rotation of the rotor relative to the housing. The housing, the rotor and the seals are formed from silicone containing or silicone impregnated materials. The damping fluid is also a silicone based material.
US07753172B2	Lubricant sump with metal foam diffuser A lubrication scavenge system is disclosed herein. The lubrication scavenge system includes a structure disposed for high-speed rotation about an axis. The lubrication scavenge system also includes a sump housing with an inwardly-facing surface substantially encircling the structure for receiving and directing lubricant expelled from the structure. A volume is defined between the structure and the inwardly-facing surface. The lubrication scavenge system also includes an open cell metal foam body disposed in the volume and tightly encircling the structure to substantially reduce windage.
US07753154B2	Snowmobile and features thereof allowing for different tunnel widths A family of snowmobiles having different tunnel widths is disclosed. A snowmobile having spacers between the tunnel and the sides of the engine compartment and a method of manufacturing such a snowmobile are also disclosed. A snowmobile having a countershaft which is disposed rearwardly of the engine, vertically higher than the air intake opening, and forwardly of the air intake controller is also disclosed.
US07753151B2	Electric wheel motor assembly A drive axle assembly for driving a wheel of a vehicle includes a moveable suspension arm and a wheel spindle fixed to the suspension arm. A planetary gearset includes a sun gear, a ring gear and a carrier rotatably supporting a plurality of planet gears in meshed engagement with the sun gear and the ring gear. The carrier encompasses the wheel spindle and is drivingly connected to the wheel. An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor drives the sun gear.
US07753148B2	Underdeck PTO/gearbox/compressor combination A combination integrates a power take-off unit, a gear box and air compressor into a single component that is mounted to and suspended from the side mount PTO provision of a vehicle transmission. The combination eliminates the need for a separate drive line and provides a reduced footprint for underdeck applications. The combination also reduces the installation difficulties by reducing fluid lines and consolidating component location.
US07753147B2	Vehicle drive system, power management device, and method for managing power A power distribution system for a hybrid vehicle having an engine is disclosed. The power distribution system includes an electric motor/generator, a vehicle accessory drive system comprising a first accessory, and a power distribution apparatus. The power distribution apparatus includes a first power transfer member comprising a first shaft, the first shaft being configured to transfer power to the engine and from the engine. The power distribution apparatus further includes a second power transfer member comprising a second shaft, the second shaft being configured to transfer power to the motor/generator and from the motor/generator. The power distribution apparatus further includes a third power transfer member comprising a third shaft, the third shaft being configured to transfer power to the accessory drive system to drive the first accessory. The power distribution apparatus further includes a first clutch and a second clutch.
US07753146B2	Leg type mobile robot A leg type mobile robot includes a foot joined to a distal end of a leg through a second joint. The foot includes a foot flat portion having a ground contact end of the foot, a movable portion joined to the second joint and configured to be movable in a first direction with respect to the foot flat portion, a shock absorber comprising first and second end portions allowed to move closer to or away from each other in a second direction, the first end portion of the shock absorber being joined to a first point of the movable portion, and a motion direction conversion mechanism configured to convert a motion of the movable portion in the first direction to a motion of the second end portion of the shock absorber in the second direction with respect to the first point of the movable portion.
US07753134B1	Coulter assembly A coulter assembly is provided that includes a torsion spring configured to maintain a substantially constant contact force between a scraper and a coulter disk sufficient to remove accumulated soil despite wearing of the scraper and/or coulter disk. In an exemplary embodiment, the coulter assembly includes a scraper having a blade and an arm. The blade is disposed adjacent to a soil engaging portion of the coulter disk, and the arm is rotatably coupled to the coulter assembly and extends along a substantially straight path to the blade. A torsion spring is disposed about a rotational axis of the arm and configured to rotationally bias the blade toward the coulter disk by applying a torque between the coulter assembly and the arm. This configuration obviates manual adjustment of the scraper relative to the coulter disk, thereby reducing maintenance costs and operational delays.
US07753117B2	Tool and method for evaluating fluid dynamic properties of a cement annulus surrounding a casing The permeability of the cement annulus surrounding a casing is measured by locating a tool inside the casing, placing a probe of the tool in contact with the cement annulus, measuring the change of pressure in the probe over time, where the change in pressure over time is a function of among other things, the initial probe pressure, the formation pressure, and the permeability, and using the measured change over time to determine an estimated permeability. The estimated permeability is useful in determining whether carbon dioxide can be effectively sequestered in the formation below or at the depth of measurement without significant leakage through the cement annulus.
US07753104B2	Investment casting cores and methods A method involves forming a core assembly. The forming includes molding a first ceramic core over a first refractory metal core to form a core subassembly. The subassembly is assembled to a second ceramic core.
US07753103B1	Centrally gated cast metal rotary friction plates and method of manufacture A method of casting a rotary friction plate includes preparing a casting mold with a cavity and a core shaped to form the friction plate. Molten metal is poured into the mold through a central sprue where a portion of the metal flows radially outward across the top of the core to fill friction plate forming regions of the cavity from above, while another portion flows through a central opening in the core to fill a hub forming region at the bottom of the cavity as well as additionally supply metal to the lower friction plate forming region from below. The metal is allowed to cool, which begins at the radially outer regions of the at least one friction surface and progresses radially inward to develop a uniform cast structure.
US07753093B2	Tipless can filling valve A filling valve is provided for filling containers such as beverage cans. The valve includes a tipless nozzle having ports oriented for directing flow. The nozzle includes a removable valve seat having a planar sealing surface. A spring actuated vent seal is provided for closing the vent tube. The valve stem has protrusions for centering the stem in the valve body. The filling valve has a bell forming a cavity between the bell and the valve body, and an aperture for directing cleaning fluid from within the bell to the cavity. The valve body has a duct for directing cleaning fluid from the cavity to an outlet.
US07753090B2	Blasting fluid effluent containment device A device is disclosed which acts to contain the contaminated effluent of an operation such as a hydro-blasting operation. The device has flexible bag for containing the effluent. The bag has an opening interfacing with a vessel being fluid blasted, into which opening the blasting effluent is received. A drain port is positioned on the containment bag to gravity empty the effluent from the interior of the bag, and a vent appropriately located on the containment bag to relieve pressure in the interior space during use and emptying. A flange strap disposed secures the bag opening to the vessel, and a support means is arranged to suspend the containment bag in proper relationship with the vessel. An expansion mechanism can be used to hold the containment bag in an expanded condition to facilitate use of the bag to properly contain the effluent.
US07753085B2	Automated drug preparation apparatus including automated drug reconstitution An automated medication preparation system for preparing a prescribed dosage of medication in a drug delivery device includes a plurality of stations for receiving, handling and processing the drug delivery device so that the prescribed dosage of medication is delivered to the drug delivery device and a transporting device that receives and holds more than one drug delivery device and moves the drug delivery devices in a controlled manner from one station to another station. The system is configured so that two or more separate drug delivery devices can be acted upon at the same time.
US07753082B2	Tube A tube which includes: a tube body portion through which a fluid flows; a protector portion having an interior hollow space in which the tube body portion is provided, and an exterior wall defining the interior hollow space and having a flat outer surface; and a supporting portion supporting the tube body portion inside the hollow space in a position spaced from an inner surface of the hollow space. The supporting portion extends from the exterior wall of the protector portion in a direction substantially perpendicular to the flat outer surface of the exterior wall and across the hollow space to support the tube body portion at a middle portion thereof.
US07753081B2	Method of locating liner within sewer pipe A method of inserting a cured in-place pipe from a cleanout includes positioning a lining along a portion of a length of a bladder, wherein the lining is frangibly connected to the bladder, inserting the bladder through the cleanout, to a position wherein the lining is within the pipe and does not block the pipe.
US07753077B2	Hybrid hydraulic joystick for electrically operating valves A user input device is provided for a hydraulic system that has a source of pressurized fluid and a tank. The user input device includes a body with a supply passage for receiving the pressurized fluid, a tank passage for connection to the tank, and a first chamber. A handle is pivotally attached to the body and operates one or more valves within the body. In a preferred embodiment, the handle can be pivoted independently about two orthogonal axis with separate pairs of valves operated by movement about each axis. In response to the position of the handle, each valve connects a separate chamber alternately to either the supply passage or the tank passage and different pressure sensor produces an electrical signal indicating a level of pressure in the chamber of each valve. Thus an electrical signal is produced from each valve to indicate motion of the handle.
US07753071B2	Leak detector pad A leak detector pad comprising a circuit board having a bottom surface and a top surface, spaced first and second electrically conductive traces located on the bottom surface, and an electronic circuit mounted on the top surface. The circuit includes a first segment adapted to create an alternating current (AC) voltage waveform, a second segment adapted to apply the AC voltage waveform between the traces on the bottom surface of the circuit board, a third segment adapted to create a measure of a capacitance between the traces based upon an AC current flowing between the traces as a result of the AC voltage waveform, and a fourth segment adapted to create a direct current (DC) voltage alarm signal if the measure of capacitance provided by the third segment indicates the presence of fluid.
US07753064B2	Canopy latch system The technology of the present application provides a collapsible canopy shelter having reinforced eaves for additional structural integrity, as well as at least one collapsible ventilation flap in the canopy cover that is capable of moving between a closed position and an open position to ventilate air from beneath the canopy cover as desired. Further, the collapsible canopy shelter comprises a canopy frame with a robust, spring-loaded pull latch, allowing the user to quickly and easily assemble and collapse the shelter without risking injury.
US07753062B2	Spray arm for a dishwasher, and associated method A spray arm for a dishwasher is provided, comprising a first portion having a first engaging surface extending about an outer surface periphery thereof, and a second portion having a second engaging surface extending about the outer surface thereof and complementarily configured with respect to the first engaging surface. The engaging surfaces form a laterally-extending, non-linear interface upon engagement such that the first and second portion outer surfaces are directed away from each other. The second portion also includes a flange extending about the outer surface, and disposed laterally outward of and spaced apart from the second engaging surface, to define a channel having a depth extending across the interface. A securing material is introduced into and substantially fills the channel, and extends across the interface and about the first portion outer surface periphery, to secure the first and second portions together. An associated method is also provided.
US07753050B2	Headgear connection assembly for a respiratory mask assembly A respiratory mask assembly for delivering breathable gas to a patient includes a frame and at least one locking clip. The frame has a main body and a side frame member provided on each lateral side of the main body, at least one of the side frame members including a locking clip receiver assembly. The at least one locking clip has a main body providing a front portion adapted to be removably coupled with the at least one locking clip receiver assembly and a rear portion adapted to be removably coupled to a headgear assembly. The rear portion includes a cross bar that forms an opening through which a strap of the headgear assembly can pass and be removably coupled with the cross bar, and the front portion includes at least one resiliently flexible spring arm that is flexible within the plane of the main body.
US07753041B2	Crossbow A crossbow that enables arrows to be shot with simple operation is provided. The crossbow includes a bow stock that has a fitting recess for a cylinder formed between a front end and a rear end thereof, a bow that is attached to the front end of the bow stock thereacross, and has a string tensioned between both ends thereof, a wire catch that is rockably provided at the rear end of the bow stock to hook the tensioned string, a trigger that is provided at the rear end of the bow stock to cock the wire catch that has hooked the string and to release the cocking of the wire catch by triggering, thereby shooting an arrow, a cylinder that is rotatably fitted in the fitting recess of the bow stock, and has a plurality of arrow grooves formed at predetermined angular intervals in an outer peripheral surface thereof so as to extend in a longitudinal direction, and has arrows slidably inserted in the plurality of arrow grooves, respectively, and a rotation operating mechanism that rotates the cylinder at every predetermined angle, and locates one arrow groove in front of the wire catch.
US07753032B2	Control apparatus for cylinder injection internal combustion engine with high-pressure fuel pump There is provided a control apparatus for a cylinder injection internal combustion engine which suppresses fuel pulsation caused by cam phase deviation and thereby prevents internal combustion engine exhaust deterioration, so that the reliability of a high-pressure fuel system using a high-pressure fuel pump is improved. The control apparatus for a cylinder injection internal combustion engine includes a high-pressure fuel pump that raises the pressure of fuel and discharges the fuel to a fuel rail, and a fuel pressure sensor that detects a pressure of fuel stored in the fuel rail. The control apparatus controls the high-pressure fuel pump based on the fuel pressure detected by the fuel pressure sensor. The control apparatus further includes a cam phase estimation means for estimating a phase of a cam shaft of the internal combustion engine which drives the high-pressure fuel pump, and based on the phase estimation value calculated by the cam phase estimation means, corrects the amount of controlling the high-pressure fuel pump.
US07753025B2	Surface ignition mechanism for diesel engines The present disclosure relates to combusting fuel during cold start. A glow-plug may be provided within a combustion chamber having a volume including a piston, wherein the glow plug may provide a localized heated region. Air may then be provided into the chamber and compressed. A mass of fuel may also be provided into the combustion chamber, wherein an amount of the fuel mass may be directed towards the localized heated region of the glow plug, wherein the heated region of the glow plug may have a temperature T1, and the equivalence ratio of the fuel in the heated region achieves a value that the temperature T1 provides auto-ignition. All or a portion of the mass of fuel directed towards the heated region of said glow plug may be ignited, and then the remainder of the fuel may be ignited by auto-ignition and/or flame propagation.
US07753023B2	Cylinder liner and method for manufacturing the same A cylinder liner has an outer circumferential surface on which a film is formed. The film functions to form gaps between the cylinder block and the cylinder liner. Alternatively, the film functions to reduce adhesion of the cylinder liner to the cylinder block. The cylinder liner suppresses excessive decreases in the temperature of a cylinder.
US07753019B2	Phase adjusting device The invention relates to a transmission assembly (34), for imparting a phase difference between an outer wheel and an inner wheel of a spline VVT. The assembly comprises a tubular meshing member (36) having an inner surface (38) and an outer surface (40), wherein at least a portion of the inner surface is provided with a first spline (42) and at least a portion of the outer surface is provided with a second spline (44). The first spline and the second spline do not have the same pitch in the same groove direction. The transmission assembly further comprises a bearing arrangement (46) and an actuation member (48). The bearing arrangement is arranged between the meshing member and the actuation member to allow a transfer of an axial displacement of the actuation member to the meshing member and allow a rotation of the meshing member relative to the actuation member.
US07753012B2	Motorcycle comprising a compact internal combustion engine The invention relates to a motorcycle comprising a space-saving, lightweight motor assembly. The use of a compact W or VR-type internal combustion engine permits the motorcycle to have reduced dimensions and a low weight. Internal combustion engines comprising six to twelve cylinders can thus be used for motorcycles. The compact dimensions of the motor enable the production of motorcycles with sleek lines and an advantageous aerodynamic shape.
US07753009B2	Washer with bio prevention cycle An appliance having an enclosure arranged to receive articles to be treated also includes a water container and a steam chamber with a steam outlet. A water dispenser is arranged to dispense water from the water container to the steam chamber. A heating element is thermally associated with the steam chamber. A control is arranged to selectively operate the heating element. A steam path extends between the steam outlet and the enclosure. A chemical dispenser is positioned along the steam path. The heating element heats water in the steam chamber to create steam, and the chemical dispenser adds a chemical to the steam as the steam passes through the steam path.
US07753008B2	Harness for a pet diaper A harness suitable for comfortably securing a diaper to a four-legged pet, such as a dog or cat. The harness includes first and second strap members, each having first and second ends. The first and second strap members form a first intersection located in proximity to the first ends of the first and second strap members, and a second intersection located in closer proximity to the second ends of the first and second strap members than the first intersection. The first strap member defines a loop between the first and second intersections that is sized and configured to cross the chest of an animal. The first and second ends of the first strap member are equipped with features for securing a diaper to the first strap member. The second strap member is equipped with features for forming an adjustable loop with the second strap member.
US07753005B2	Livestock blow dryer with removable cartridge motors A blower system for livestock may include a housing. An air inlet may be located on the housing. A cartridge assembly may be mounted in the housing. One or more fans may be mounted to the cartridge assembly. The fans may intake air through the air inlet and expel air through an air outlet located on the housing. One or more motors may be mounted to the cartridge assembly and coupled to the fans. The cartridge assembly may be removed from the housing with the fans and motors mounted to the cartridge assembly. The blower system may be portable. The blower system may allow a user to apply the air from the air outlet to livestock.
US07753003B2	Pet enclosure A collapsible pet enclosure is provided. The enclosure includes a pliable cover supported by a rigid, but foldable, frame. The cover includes an opening in a top panel such that the enclosure is top loading. The cover is completely removable from the frame so that it can be machine washed. The frame is of one-piece jointed construction so that it is collapsible for easy transportation or storage. Because all frame components are jointedly attached to one another, the frame does not include any loose components that are easily lost. The enclosure is quick and easy to set up and collapse.
US07752994B2	Indicating instrument To provide an indicating instrument capable of reducing the number of parts and improving the positioning precision. An indicating instrument 1 comprises: an indicator 3; said dial 4 disposed around said indicator 31 an indicating needle 6 for moving around said indicator 3; and a drive source 7 for driving said indicating needle 6. Said indicating needle 6 moves over said dial 4 while bypassing at least the back of said indicator 3, and said indicator 3 and said dial 4 are held by a holding member 2 constituted of a first holding portion 27 for holding said indicator 3 and a second holding portion 28 for holding said dial.
US07752990B2	Device for destroying subsea or floating objects A device for destroying subsea objects comprising a first part 2 provided with propulsive units, a second part 4 which can pivot relative to the first part on an axis, so that the device can approach a subsea object from different directions, and a fairing 3 protecting the second part 4.
US07752989B2	Deep water high capacity anchoring system and method of operation thereof A deep water high capacity anchoring system in which the fixing of an anchor structure under compact layers of ocean soil is reached by jetting fluid in rising directions and, simultaneously in a radial and/or perpendicular direction to the external surfaces of said anchor structure injected from its lower extremity, thus guaranteeing anchoring of large size floating structures, related to the petroleum industry, such as stationary production units and oil drilling platforms.
US07752988B2	Towing device An apparatus for towing behind an underwater vehicle has a body and a yoke pivotally connected to the body at a pivot point and having a tether remote from the pivot point by which the apparatus us towed. The yoke has wings which generate a resultant force on the body when the apparatus is towed. By varying the orientation of the yoke relative to the body, the magnitude of the resultant force may be varied. The resultant force tends to reduce the displacement of the tether relative to the pivot point in at least one plane, thereby generating a force to counter the buoyancy of the apparatus, and so stabilize the apparatus when it is being towed.
US07752987B2	Collapsible perimeter supported wind propulsion device A sail assembly having a single, closed-loop support batten that supports a flexible sail. The sail is a hollow body defining a substantially hemispherical shape when fully expanded by captured wind. The support batten is housed in a perimeter sleeve at the front end of the sail. The support batten is stiff enough to support the sail, yet elastic enough that it can be twisted and coiled as three contiguous coils for compact folding. The sail has a significantly smaller size in the folded and coiled orientation, and is capable of rapid self deployment due to the energy stored in the folded batten. The deployed sail can be fastened to the deck of a small watercraft, hand held, or fastened to the blade end of a paddle or oar for capturing the energy in the wind to propel a small watercraft.
US07752977B1	Deceleration apparatus for projectile A decelerating apparatus includes a sleeve having a forward end and a rear end. A plurality of helical grooves formed in the sleeve. Each helical groove begins at the forward end of the sleeve and has a depth that decreases from the forward end of the sleeve towards the rear end. The depth of each helical groove at the forward end of the sleeve is large enough so that the helical groove cuts completely through the sleeve at the forward end. The plurality of helical grooves define deformable petals therebetween.
US07752968B2	Method and device for determining the position of a mark of a continuous support material In a method and device for determination of a marking of an endless carrier material relevant for positioning of the endless carrier material to be printed in a printer or copier, the endless carrier material is inserted into the printer or copier. The endless carrier material is positioned in the printer or copier such that the marking is arranged in a detection region of a sensor arrangement. The pointing device is positioned at a position of the marking relevant for the positioning of the carrier material in the printer or copier. The position of the positioned pointing device is detected with aid of the sensor arrangement.
US07752964B2	Printing unit on a web-fed rotary printing press Printing units are supported between side frames of a web-fed rotary printing press. Each such printing unit includes at least one transfer cylinder and at least one cooperating printing cylinder, which is embodied as a form cylinder. These cylinders are rotatably mounted between the spaced side frames. The printing unit is provided with an inking unit that includes a roller.
US07752963B1	Apparatus and method for screen tensioning A screen fabric frame is disclosed including a locking strip and a frame member. The frame member includes a locking strip groove extending at least a portion of a length of the frame member. The locking strip groove includes a central groove configured to receive the locking strip, a minor side groove having a minor depth, and a major side groove distal the central groove, the major side groove having a major depth greater than minor depth of the minor side groove.
US07752950B2	Electric miter saw An electric miter saw includes a base, a cutting table, a cutting member and a link arm. The cutting table is mounted on the base. The upper portion of the link arm is connected to a cutting member with the cutting saw blade driven by a motor. The lower portion of the link arm is connected to the upper portion of a supporting member and secured by a threaded central bolt. The linear ball bearing is mounted in the inner aperture of the supporting member, which is slidably connected to the slide rod by a linear ball bearing. At the outer end of the slide rod is mounted a position limit socket. The inner end of the slide rod is connected and secured beneath the cutting table via a releasable securing configuration mentioned above. A flexible blade guard is also provided.
US07752945B2	Sprag tool for torquing pipe connections A pipe torquing sprag tool comprises one or more elastomeric sprags supported on a sprag support in an arrangement lying generally in a plane that is generally perpendicular to the axis of the rotatable sprag support. Each sprag has a solid, uninterrupted side and an interrupted side, and each sprag reacts to a lateral force in the general direction tangential to the surface of the sprag support and applied near the top of the sprag to bend the elastomeric sprag either toward the interrupted side to at least partially lean, fold or collapse, or towards the substantially uninterrupted side for being deformed to a generally compressed and non-compliant configuration for gripping. The sprag tool of the present invention may comprise a sprag support for positioning an external arrangement of sprags for being inserted into the bore of an add-on pipe segment. Alternately, the sprag tool of the present invention may comprise a sprag support for positioning an internal arrangement of sprags for being received over the end of an add-on pipe segment.
US07752944B2	Multi-use expansion anchor and system for setting the same Objects of the present invention provide a multi-use anchor and system for setting the same. One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a multi-use anchor including a bolt, an elastomeric sleeve fitting over a threaded portion of the bolt, and a receiver arranged to couple to the bolt, where tightening the receiver on the bolt compresses the elastomeric sleeve such that the sleeve radially expands to engage a hole in rigid substrate material.
US07752936B2	Automatic transmission assembly for a vehicle, and vehicle incorporating same An automatic transmission assembly having a transmission unit including a plurality of gear pairs, a shift drum, a pair of clutches; and a controller. The controller performs a preliminary upshifting action in advance for angularly moving the shift drum depending on a next gear position in an upshifting direction while rotary drive power is being maintained at a given gear position, and when an upshifting command is output, the controller engages one of the clutches simultaneously with the command. When a downshifting command is output, the controller performs a preliminary downshifting action in advance based on the downshifting command. The partially neutral positions are provided between predetermined angular positions on the shift drum for temporarily reducing the angular speed of the shift drum when the shift drum is being angularly rotated.
US07752928B1	Modular sample conditioning system An on-stream sample collection and conditioning system, which is easier to construct, implement, maintain, and is more cost efficient then existing systems. The preferred embodiment of the present invention contemplates a modular system adaptable to a variety of diverse sample conditioning requirements. The system having incorporated a seamless piece having a surface for docking multiple sample conditioning components and having a system of internal passages to provide fluid flow between sample conditioning components. The preferred embodiment of the present invention also contemplates a modular system containing essentially the entire sample conditioning components required for one or more fluid streams.
US07752920B2	Modular force sensor A modular force sensor apparatus, method, and system are provided to improve force and torque sensing and feedback to the surgeon performing a telerobotic surgery. In one embodiment, a modular force sensor includes a tube portion including a plurality of strain gauges, a proximal tube portion for operably coupling to a shaft of a surgical instrument that may be operably coupled to a manipulator arm of a robotic surgical system, and a distal tube portion for proximally coupling to a wrist joint coupled to an end portion.
US07752911B2	Waveguide transition for a fill level radar A waveguide transition for a fill level radar may include a printed circuit board in which a resonator is integrated. Together with a coupling element, the resonator is used for decoupling high-frequency waves from a feed line, that is also integrated in the printed circuit board, to a waveguide that is screwed onto the printed circuit board. There is thus no need to provide an external resonator.
US07752909B2	Flow sensor with non-contact temperature detecting means A flow sensor may include a heater for heating a partial region of the outer wall surface of a pipe forming a flow path or for heating a particular region in the pipe; and a temperature detector for measuring the temperatures of regions, the regions being on the upstream side and the downstream side of the pipe with respect to the heated region. The temperature detector may include an upstream-side non-contact temperature detector and a downstream-side non-contact temperature detector arranged near the outer wall surface of the pipe in a state of being not in contact with the outer wall surface, and the non-contact temperature detectors can measure the temperatures of the upstream-side heat energy radiating region and downstream-side heat energy radiating region in a state of being not in contact with the outer wall surface of the pipe.
US07752906B2	Downhole measurement of formation characteristics while drilling A method for determining a property of formations surrounding an earth borehole being drilled with a drill bit at the end of a drill string, using drilling fluid that flows downward through the drill string, exits through the drill bit, and returns toward the earth's surface in the annulus between the drill string and the periphery of the borehole, including the following steps: obtaining, downhole near the drill bit, a pre-bit sample of the mud in the drill string as it approaches the drill bit; obtaining, downhole near the drill bit, a post-bit sample of the mud in the annulus, entrained with drilled earth formation, after its egression from the drill bit; implementing pre-bit measurements on the pre-bit sample; implementing post-bit measurements on the post-bit sample; and determining a property of the formations from the post-bit measurements and the pre-bit measurements.
US07752905B2	Green tire inspection apparatus and method therefor An improvement is achieved in productivity of a tire by preventing an unacceptably molded green tire, which is produced in a molding process, from flowing to a vulcanizing process. Measures therefor comprise putting an unvulcanized green tire on a mount surface of a mount stage, sticking an information label to a side wall of the green tire with a label sticking device arranged below a through-hole formed in a position, which corresponds to an inside of a bead body of the green tire, on the mount surface, and measuring a weight of the green tire with a gravimeter, which supports the mount stage.
US07752903B2	Roller brake testing dynamometer The present invention relates to a roller brake testing dynamometer (P) for vehicles whose braking forces are to be ascertained, wherein there is provided at least one roller (L) which is driven by way of a drive (A) in order in turn to drive a vehicle tire (R) bearing against the roller (L), and wherein the dynamometer (P) has at least one contact-less sensor unit (S) for detecting the position of the tire (R) relative to the at least one roller (L).
US07752900B2	Method for detecting a misfire and corresponding device Method of detecting a misfire in an internal combustion engine provided with at least two cylinders and a crankshaft, includes: a. producing a measurement signal linked to the crankshaft travel time by supplying a succession of instantaneous values each corresponding to the difference between two successive segment times, each of these segment times corresponding to the time interval separating two characteristic instants of the movement of the pistons in two successive cylinders in the firing order, b. comparing the value of the measurement signal with a threshold value, and c. generating a signal representative of a misfire if the value of the measurement signal crosses the threshold value, the measurement signal having, for each cylinder, an average value that is offset relative to a reference average value, a step of reducing, for each cylinder, this offset, is performed by a high-pass filtering operation on the measurement signal.
US07752898B2	Devices for probe microscopy An atomic force microscope sensing structure includes a substrate, a flexible membrane and an actuating element. The flexible membrane has a first end that is clamped to the substrate and an opposite second end that is clamped to the substrate. A central portion of the membrane and the substrate define a first gap width therebetween. A peripheral portion of the membrane and the substrate define a second gap width therebetween. The first gap width is different from the second gap width. The actuating element is disposed at least adjacent to the first end and the second end and is configured to displace the membrane relative to the substrate.
US07752896B2	Specimen pretreating device and probe used therefor A specimen pretreating device which includes a micro scale or nano scale high-performance liquid chromatograph having a capillary column (2), a probe (1) integrally formed at the tip of the capillary column (2), and an additive feeding flow passage (16). The probe (1) is formed in a multi-tube structure in which a plurality of tubes are disposed on the same axis. The innermost tube is located at the tip of the capillary column (2), and one of the outer tubes is used as an additive supply tube converging an additive solution to an eluent solvent eluted from the capillary column (2) to form liquid drops including the eluent solvent and an additive, and the liquid drops are released from the tip of the probe (1). The specimen is not diffused since a detector is not present in the flow passage.
US07752890B2	Method and apparatus for continuous fluid leak monitoring and detection in analytical instruments and instrument systems A method and device are disclosed that provide for detection of fluid leaks in analytical instruments and instrument systems. The leak detection device includes a collection tube, a fluid absorbing material, and a circuit that electrically couples to an indicator device. When assembled, the leak detection device detects and monitors for fluid leaks, providing a preselected response in conjunction with the indicator device when contacted by a fluid.
US07752889B2	Apparatus and method for determining density of insulation An apparatus for determining the density of insulation in a cavity of a structure that senses a force of the insulation against the sensor. The force is used to determine the density of the insulation, which, in turn, is used to determine the thermal resistance or R-value of the insulation. The apparatus may include a fixture for supporting the sensor and holding the sensor in the substantially fixed position. A method for determining the density of loose-fill, blown-in-place insulation in a wall cavity by the use of a sensor is that measures a force exerted on the sensor by the insulation. The measured force is used to determine the density of the insulation. The thermal resistance of the insulation is determined from the known cavity depth and insulation density.
US07752886B2	Measuring gas components together with a paramagnetic gas The invention concerns a gas analyzer, which comprises: an electromagnet that has an air gap; a power source for supplying cyclically variable electrical current/voltage to said electromagnet; a sample gas conduit and a reference gas conduit opening into said air gap; an exit conduit communicating with said air gap for removing the intermixed sample and reference gases; pressure detecting microphone or microphones connected to said sample gas conduit and to said reference gas conduit for sensing gas pressures at a first acoustic measuring frequency in the respective conduits giving at least one acoustic pressure signal component; and electronics connected to said microphone(s) to receive said acoustic pressure signal component or components to form at least a first intermediate output signal describing content of a paramagnetic gas component in the sample gas.
US07752881B2	Press driving module and method of providing a press line Press driving modules are provided to permit a standardized press design. The presses of a press line are equipped with always identical press driving modules, and the pressing force of the presses is varied only by the adaptation of the number of press driving modules. The press driving modules each contain two driving devices, respectively, that interact parallel or in series and have different characteristic curves. In particular, they have different maximal traveling speeds and different maximal forces. They can also have a different design with respect to their positioning capability and path resolution. This concept permits not only a standardization of presses of different performance classes within a press line but, beyond that, the largely free definition of characteristic path-time curves of the slides, and thereby finally also a freer design of workpieces, particularly of vehicle body parts.
US07752877B2	Rotary actuation latch with disconnect feature According to certain aspects of the invention, rotary actuation latches are disclosed. The latches include a disconnect feature, so that when locked certain elements of the latches are deactivated. The disconnect feature may be operated by a locking device, such as a key lock or other device. The latch may be a rotary compression latch.
US07752872B2	Basket for washing machine, washer-dryer, dryer and the like A loading basket for a washing machine includes a rear wall (8), a front wall (9) and a side wall (7) extending about a longitudinal axis (X), and one or more dragging blades (12) that are arranged on the side wall (7) and projecting to the inside of the basket. The side wall (7) includes a substantially cylindrical and/or truncated cone-shaped wall portion (13) with one or more approximately plane interruption areas (14) extending from a rear area of the side wall (7) close to the rear wall (8) to the vicinity of the front wall (9). The dragging blades (12) are connected to the interruption areas (14).
US07752865B2	Ice cube catcher An ice cube catcher is disclosed for positioning on a door of a refrigerator to catch ice cubes dispensed from an in-door dispenser. The catcher may include a body having a sloped portion and a pair of sidewalls. The sloped portion may include a top and a bottom edge and a pair of ends. The sidewalls may be positioned at each end of the sloped portion and include a flange portion. These flange portions may have a fastener that may operable to secure the body to a refrigerator door. Finally, a water retention portion such as ridge or dam or groove be provided proximate the bottom edge of the sloped portion to retain water from melting ice within the body of the catcher.
US07752861B2	Outdoor unit of air conditioner The present invention includes foundation legs of an outdoor unit that are made of a relatively thin plate material, and can reduce cost. This outdoor unit includes a compressor, an outdoor refrigerant circuit that includes pipes and a heat exchanger, a case that houses the refrigerant circuit, and a plurality of supports provided so that they protrude downward from the bottom part of the case. Furthermore, foundation legs are provided at the lower ends of the plurality of supports for fixing such, so that they extend towards the inner side of the case.
US07752856B2	Monitoring and control system for air conditioner An air conditioning monitoring and control system includes an air conditioner, a first air conditioning monitoring and control device and a second air conditioning monitoring and control device. The first air conditioning monitoring and control device communicates with the air conditioner via a first communication line. The first air conditioning monitoring and control device includes a first monitoring and control function and a second monitoring and control function. The second air conditioning monitoring and control device communicates with the air conditioner via a second communication line. The second air conditioning monitoring and control device includes the first monitoring and control function and a third monitoring and control function.
US07752855B2	Air conditioner with refrigerant quantity judging mode An air conditioner has a heat source unit with a compressor and a heat source heat exchanger and utilization units with utilization expansion valves and utilization heat exchangers. The heat source unit and the utilization unit are interconnected via refrigerant communication pipes. The air conditioner is capable of switching and operating between a normal operation mode in which control of the respective devices is performed depending on the operation loads of the utilization units and a refrigerant quantity judging operation mode in which the utilization units perform cooling operation. The utilization expansion valves are controlled such that degrees of superheating at outlets of the utilization heat exchangers become a positive value, and an operation capacity of the compressor is controlled such that evaporation pressures in the utilization heat exchangers become constant.
US07752853B2	Monitoring refrigerant in a refrigeration system A method for monitoring refrigerant in a refrigeration system includes sensing, a refrigerant pressure of a refrigeration system, averaging the refrigerant pressure over a time period, determining an expected pressure based on said time period, comparing the average to the expected pressure, and determining a system condition based on said comparison. The method may be executed by a controller or stored in a computer-readable medium.
US07752852B2	Vapor compression circuit and method including a thermoelectric device A system and method includes a thermoelectric device in heat-transfer relation with a working fluid flowing through a vapor compression circuit. Heat is transferred from the working fluid to a first fluid medium and then from the first fluid medium to a second fluid medium.
US07752851B2	Fastening a combustion chamber inside its casing A combustion chamber module includes a combustion chamber attached to a casing. The downstream end of the outer wall of the combustion chamber is secured to an annular connection part having fastener tabs directed in an upstream direction, each tab end being engaged in a hook-forming groove of the casing.
US07752849B2	Arrangement for controlling flow of fluid to a component of a gas turbine engine An arrangement for controlling flow of fluid to a component of a gas turbine engine, the arrangement comprising: a conduit, coupled to a supply of fluid, for providing fluid to the component of the gas turbine engine; a magnetic valve for at least partially restricting the conduit and having a valve member with at least a first configuration in which the conduit is at least partially restricted and a second configuration in which the conduit is relatively open, wherein the configuration of the valve member is controlled by magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit which includes at least one member comprising ferromagnetic material, whereby the configuration is responsive to the temperature of the ferromagnetic material.
US07752848B2	System and method for co-production of hydrogen and electrical energy A system for co-production of hydrogen and electrical energy comprising a reformer configured to receive a reformer fuel and steam and produce a reformate rich in hydrogen. The system further comprises a separation unit in fluid communication with the reformer wherein the separation unit is configured to receive the reformate to separate hydrogen from the reformate and produce an off gas. The system also includes a combustor configured to receive a fuel for combustion and produce heat energy and a hot compressed gas, wherein the combustor is coupled with the reformer. A gas turbine expands the hot compressed gas and produces electrical energy and an expanded gas; wherein at least a part of the heat energy from the combustor is used to produce the reformate in the reformer.
US07752844B2	Engine braking method for an internal combustion engine having two serially arranged exhaust-gas turbochargers In an engine braking method and an internal combustion engine including an engine braking arrangement, wherein the engine has high pressure and low pressure exhaust gas turbochargers connected in series, with a bypass (12) around the high-pressure compressor allowing the air mass flow selectively to bypass the high pressure compressor which is arranged near the engine, and bypasses around both turbines permitting the exhaust gas mass flow selectively to bypass the high-pressure exhaust gas turbine which is near the engine and also the low pressure turbine the intake air and the exhaust gas flow are controlled so as to accurately provide for a desired engine braking power for example for maintaining a desired vehicle speed.
US07752841B2	Vacuum intensifier for vehicle brake The present invention provides a vacuum intensifier for vehicle brake that stably provides enough negative pressure at a predetermined level or more to a brake booster even though the operational condition of engine and the surroundings change, with simple structure and good assemblage.
US07752834B2	Aircraft propulsion systems Disclosed are propulsion systems 30 providing reduced fuel burn, weight and cost. A single gas generator core 38 drives multiple bladed propulsion elements 36 with a power train 48. The core 38 has a forward compressor 56 and a rearward turbine 40 and rotates about a longitudinal core axis 62. The bladed propulsion elements 36 rotate about bladed propulsion element axes 78 that are not coaxial with the core axis 62. The bladed propulsion elements 36 discharge an ambient air stream 50 rearward as a bypass stream 52 portion and a core stream 54 portion. The core stream 54 portion is directed to the compressor 56. The propulsion systems 30 mount inside a fuselage 22 of an airframe 20 or they are suspended beneath a wing 24 via pylons 32.
US07752824B2	Shrinkage-compensating continuity system A continuity system for a building is designed to compensate for the downward settling of building elements over time, which occurs due to the shrinkage of wooden building members. The continuity system comprises one or more hold-down assemblies each having a stud-connector secured to a generally vertical stud, a generally vertical rod inserted into an opening of the stud connector, a rod-gripping member in toothed engagement with the rod above the opening, and one or more positioning elements exerting a downward force on the rod-gripping member. The rod has a lower portion secured to a stable building element such as the building's foundation. The opening of the stud-connector defines a frustoconical bearing surface on the upper surface of a portion of the stud-connector, or on a gripper support element in some embodiments. The rod-gripping member includes a plurality of gripping portions each having a lower surface defining a circumferential portion of a frustoconical shape sized and adapted to conform with the frustoconical bearing surface of the stud-connector.
US07752811B1	Gutter insert device and method A gutter insert device is shaped to fit within a gutter hollow channel. The insert is a foamed material and it will at least partially fill the gutter hollow channel to resist accumulation of leaves, sticks and other debris. A top later is formed of reticulated polyurethane foam to resist ultraviolet light and flame retardants. Stock foam raw material is cut so that it will expand to form an elongated insert base.
US07752810B2	Device for supporting displaceable separation elements The invention relates to a device for supporting a displaceable separation element (3), in particular a sliding door. Said device comprises a carriage (1), which is guided in a rail (2), equipped with a carriage body (10) and mechanically mounted in the rail (2) by means of rollers (8) or at least one sliding element (11; 110). The rail comprises a central part (2′) and two lateral parts (2″), which are equipped with opposing rail feet (21) that mechanically support the carriage (1). According to the invention, the carriage body (10) is provided with at least one hard magnetic magnet (12, 120), which exerts a force on at least one of the rail magnets (22, 22′, 22″, 220, 2200) that is connected to the rail (2), said force acting in opposition, preferably in an axially parallel manner, to the gravitational force exerted by the separation element (3) on the carriage (1).
US07752809B2	Drive assembly for door and window frames Drive assembly for door and window frames, comprising at least one actuating member and at least one transmission rod fastened to the actuating member, The transmission rod comprises a central portion and two lateral portions positioned at opposite sides relative to the central portion and forming two channel-shaped longitudinal guides, the central portion having a longitudinal groove positioned between the longitudinal guides, the longitudinal groove of the central portion being closed by a base. The transmission member has a connecting portion including two longitudinal ribs with ends shaped in such a way as to establish a telescopic coupling with the longitudinal guides of the transmission rod and a central portion positioned between said ribs and provided with a threaded hole in which is inserted a screw having a tip that is able to cut a hole in the base of the transmission rod at said longitudinal groove.
US07752806B2	Holding device for rod-shaped components A holding device for rod-shaped components comprising holding elements that move through a series of positions. To hold a component the holding elements move in sequence from open releasing positions, to contacting positions, to aligning positions and finally to fully closed positions. Holding elements in aligning positions permit the held component to be moved and aligned even though the holding elements are more firmly in contact with the component than in their contacting positions. Slide-resistant surfaces formed on the holding elements are made in such a way that in the case of the movement of a misaligned component, sliding resistance is intensified in one direction while sliding resistance is reduced in another direction to permit movement of the component in that direction into the desired alignment. The holding elements are moved in the opposite sequence to release a component.
US07752798B2	See-through periscope for sighting-in optical or open sights on a firearm A see-through periscope for sighting-in optical sights or open sights by co-aligning one type of sighting system with the other type. The small see-through periscope is preferably used with firearms that have two conditions: (1) the rifle must be equipped with open sights, and (2) a gap must exist between the front of the optical sight and the rear open sight where the periscope can be mounted. Four unique mounts allow the periscope to be used with both magnifying or non-magnifying optical sights of different types, sizes, and shapes and open sights of different heights. The mounts position the bottom mirror at the height of the open sights and the top mirror at a point higher than the optical sight. The bottom mirror captures an image of the open sights aimed at a target and reflects that image to the top mirror, which in turn reflects the image across the top of the optical sight and into the eye of the shooter. The optical sight can still be used because the periscope mounted in front of it has no front or back panels, leaving a window for the shooter to see through the optical sight.
US07752792B2	Billboard with light emitting diode light source A billboard (100) includes a light module (120) and a light-permeable panel (140). The light module comprises a plurality of elongated light conductors (122) and at least one LED (124). Each of the light conductors has two end surfaces (1222, 1224) and a circumferential lateral surface (1223) interconnected between the end surfaces, and one of the end surfaces of each of the light conductors is adjacent to and optically coupled to the at least one LED. The light-permeable panel has a light incident surface (142) and an opposite light emitting surface (144). One of the light incident surface and the light emitting surface has a pattern (143).
US07752791B2	Display device The objective of the present invention is to provide a display device that presents great decorative effects.For a display device that provides a luminous display consisting of characters, numbers, symbols or figures, or arbitrary combinations of them, having a desired form, a half mirror layer is formed above a mirror surface, through a translucent layer, and a desired form is luminously displayed at a location between the mirror surface and the half mirror layer and at a distance from the mirror surface.
US07752790B1	Display device A lighted display device that includes components that are over molded or encased in a polymer gel. The polymer gel exhibits a high surface coefficient of friction such that the gel has a tacky surface and allows the display device to cling to a surface of any orientation. The polymer gel is clear or translucent such that the over molded components, which include light emitting components, can back or front light a display. The polymer gel can be flat on its sides or include three dimensional protrusions or inclusions on the surfaces.
US07752789B2	Display device An exemplary display device includes a support member, a pair of displays slidably attached to the support member, and positioning members disposed between the displays and the support member. The support member includes a straight slideway, and a curved slideway defined therein. The curved slideway includes a slanting portion, and a first straight portion and a second straight portion extending out from opposite ends of the slanting portion. The straight slideway is parallel to the first straight portion of the curved slideway and in line with the second straight portion of the curved slideway. The displays are slidably received in the straight slideway and the curved slideway respectively. The displays may be positioned to form a large screen, or slid to overlap leaving a single display visible.
US07752785B2	License plate holder for a motor vehicle A license plate holder for a motor vehicle holds a vehicle license plate on the vehicle. The holder has a carrier plate to which the vehicle license plate can be fastened, and one or more devices for fastening the carrier plate to the vehicle in a license plate area provided for the vehicle license plate. Each fastening device has a base part fixedly arranged on the carrier plate and a securing part rotatably about a rotation axis arranged on the base part relatively thereto. Spaced away from the carrier plate, the securing part has at least one bracket radially projecting with respect to the rotation axis and can be swiveled about the rotation axis between a starting position and a securing position, whereby the at least one bracket 14 reaches behind a vehicle-fixed holding contour for fastening the carrier plate to the vehicle in the securing position.
US07752784B2	Card construction having raised wire figures This description relates to a card construction that may be assembled from a paper material support and at least one bent wire formed into a character outline. The resulting bent wireform may be held to the support with discrete areas of adhesive materials that are positioned to hold the character outline substantially in its mounted form and to (optionally) separate the character outline from the paper material support. The construction may be used as a greeting card, announcement card, artwork, label, or the like.
US07752782B2	Badge for displaying multiple and interchangeable pieces of information An article to be worn, such as a badge, displays indicia such as identification and advertising. The article includes a housing, a first indicia member positioned on the first indicia portion of the housing and a second indicia member positioned on the second indicia portion of the housing. The first and second indicia portions are discrete from one another and can receive interchangeable indicia members. The invention further includes a method of identifying a wearer of the article, such as a sales clerk or food service preparer, and advertising a product or service, all with the same badge.
US07752780B2	Hydraulic backhoe shift mechanism An earth-working vehicle, such as a backhoe loader, has an implement, such as a backhoe, mounted in a manner that the implement can be shifted transversely with respect to the vehicle. A hydraulic motor and roller cable or rack are secured to the vehicle main frame and implement supporting plate to position the implement transversely of the vehicle without the jerky movements of prior backhoe loaders.
US07752770B2	Tool for measuring the diameter of a body with polygonal or circular cross section Tool for measuring of the diameter of a body with circular cross section, where two arms (1) are provided in a fixed angle to another, in that a distance sensor device (2) is provided axially between the two arms (1), in that the distance sensor device (2) is adapted to register a contact point for the distance sensor device (2) against the body with respect to the contact points of the arms against the body, and that a viewing device (3) is adapted to calculate and show the diameter of the circle on the basis of the three contact points on the circle.
US07752765B2	Gear actuated angle measurement tool An angle measurement tool having two legs joined together about a common axis so that one of the legs rotates with respect to the other to form a desired angle the value of which is read utilizing gears that are housed in said legs in combination with indicia means indicating the degree of rotation of the gears.
US07752764B2	Pendulum actuated automatic leveler An automatic apparatus for leveling suspended articles or hung objects to an angle relative to a reference. The shift lever assembly (112), used as a gravity reference, is activated when the pendulum member swings horizontally in response to slightest inclination or tilt, thereby causing the conductor pin (114.14) to contact one side of a pair of conductor plates (114.24b) or (114.24b). The contacting of the conductor pin to one side of the pair of conductor plates (114.24b) or (114.24b) completes the electrical circuit and allows the electrical storage device (118) to provide electrical current to the planetary motor (116), causing it to rotate. The turning of the planetary motor (116) causes the shift lever assembly (112) to automatically shift the elongated lever arm (112.10) against the rigid axle (122.22), thereby shifting the center of balance of the object in the opposite direction of the rotation of the wheel-like driven gear (112.20). Leveling occurs when the elongated lever arm (112.10) returns to its original vertical orientation, the conductor pin (114.14) is no longer in contact with either side of the pair of conductor plates (114.24a) or (114.24b), and the motor stops turning.
US07752763B2	Electric drill An electric drill having a function for preventing drilling of unexpected oblique hole. Further in the electric drill, when the direction of drilling is displaced in drilling work using the electric drill, it is sensed automatically to stop the drilling. The electric drill (1) performs drilling in the direction perpendicular a workpiece (7) and have a tilt sensor (10) mounted on a tilt sensor mounting surface (8) defined in parallel to the ground surface. When the rotation axis (C) of the drill positioned perpendicular to the surface of the workpiece is tiled to an angle equal to or greater than a predetermined angle, the tilt sensor (10) senses the tilt shutoff a drive current of the electric drill.
US07752761B2	Angle measuring arrangement An angle measuring arrangement for determining a relative angular position of two components, which are rotatably arranged around an axis of rotation. The angle measuring arrangement including a cap, a connecting cable, including a fixation area having a longitudinal axis and a receptacle device arranged on the cap for receiving the fixation area of the connecting cable. The receptacle device includes an undercut for maintaining the fixation area in a direction with a directional component extending orthogonally with respect to the longitudinal axis. In a position in which the fixation area is fixed in place on the receptacle device, the longitudinal axis of the fixation area lies along a first axis. The longitudinal axis of the fixation area can be introduced into the undercut of the receptacle device by movement along a second axis that is oriented inclined in relation to the first axis.
US07752754B2	Method for increasing the current carried between two high voltage conductor support towers A method for increasing the current carried between two high voltage conductor support towers is provided. The method includes removing a first high voltage carrying cable mounted between the towers and replacing it with a composite core cable. This replacement of cable may be accomplished with existing cable hanging equipment and without the need for additional tooling.
US07752749B2	Electronic component mounting method and electronic component mounting device One of an electrode terminal of an electronic component and a connecting terminal of a wiring substrate is provided with solder beforehand, one of the wiring substrate and the electronic component is secured, and the electrode terminal and the connecting terminal are made to abut each other so that one of the wiring substrate and the electronic component, whichever is not secured, is held. The electronic component is heated so that the solder melts, and the solder is solidified while the electronic component is held, so that the electrode terminal and the connecting terminal are bonded to each other by the solder. Further, while an interval formed between the wiring substrate and the electronic component by the melted solder is being held, the electrode terminal and the connecting terminal are finely moved relative to each other with reference to a surface of the wiring substrate in an XYθ direction.
US07752734B2	Method for manufacturing superconductors A method for forming improved superconducting composites having improved Jc values by assembling octagonal or curved octagonal elements which when assembled allow for formation of uniformly continuously spaced voids. The voids are then filled with a metal, alloy, intermetallic substance, or ceramic oxide. The assembly of the octagonal elements and the filling of the voids is performed in a metal can. Accordingly, the flexibility in design of the present invention allows control of the performance of the superconductor and is cost effective.
US07752728B2	Method of producing a material composite with explosion-welded intermediate piece A material composite has a part made from steel or a titanium-based material and a part made from a copper-based or aluminum-based material. The parts of the material composite are joined by way of an intermediate piece. The intermediate piece likewise comprises a region made from steel or a titanium-based material and a region made from a copper-based or aluminum-based material, which are connected by explosion welding. The parts of the material composite are connected to the regions of the intermediate piece which are in each case of the same type by means of a fusion or diffusion welding process.
US07752724B2	Method of cutting blinds A method of trimming blinds is disclosed in which at least one spacer is attached to a blind to space the headrail, bottomrail, and window covering between the headrail and bottomrail in relative positions that correspond to openings in a cutting device. A portion of the blind that is desired to be cut is then moved into those openings and cut away.
US07752723B2	Nozzle core for a device used for producing loop yarn as well as method for the production of a nozzle core The invention relates to a ceramic nozzle core and a method for producing a ceramic nozzle core which is part of a device used for producing loop yarn. The inventive ceramic nozzle core is embodied with an approximately constant wall thickness and a reduced size so as to perform the central functions of the yarn processing duct comprising air injection and a yarn outlet for forming loops while being produced in a molding process. In a particularly preferred method, the ceramic nozzle core is injection-molded with high precision. The inventive ceramic nozzle core can be configured in a miniaturized fashion and as part of a two-piece nozzle core, the ceramic nozzle core being inserted into an outer nozzle core jacket. The two-piece nozzle core can be incorporated into a housing known in prior art, for example, as a replaceable nozzle core.
US07752716B2	Portable-device holding clip Elastic force originating from an elastic body is applied to gripping portions, so that a lower member and an upper member functions as a clip. An elastic member is formed in such a manner as to be cut out from an attachment surface of the lower member along the contour (other than a portion thereof) of a closed figure, and can warp with respect to the attachment surface with that portion taken as a warp axis. The elastic member has a projection on the leading end thereof, and a rear panel has a recess in an attachment surface thereof. When the rear panel is rotated with respect to the lower member, the projection is disengaged from the recess by warping of the elastic member, or engaged with the recess by a retroaction of the warping.
US07752704B2	Deformable crank for windscreen wiper mechanism, comprising an oblong quadrilateral hole The invention relates to a crank (14) which is intended for the windscreen wiper mechanism of a motor vehicle. The inventive crank is of the type that comprises a horizontal body (16) having a first end (14a) which is linked in rotation to a wiper arm and a second end (14b) which is articulated to a connecting rod. The aforementioned body (16) comprises: a segment (22) which can be deformed in order to adjust the distance between the ends (14a, 14b) of the crank (14), and a longitudinal oblong hole (24) which divides the aforementioned segment (22) into two deformable longitudinal branches (26) which are symmetrical in relation to a center line of said segment (22). The invention is characterized in that the oblong hole (24) takes the form of a quadrilateral with two essentially-perpendicular diagonals (E1, E2), the larger diagonal (E1) extending along the main axis (C) of symmetry of the segment (22) and intersecting the small diagonal (E2) at the midpoint thereof.
US07752701B2	Cleaning device for golf equipment A device for cleaning golf equipment such as golf clubs and golf shoe includes a handle, a brush head surface formed in an underside of the handle at a proximal end thereof, and a plurality of metal and plastic bristles extending downward from the brush head surface. The bristles are configured so that the plastic bristles are arranged around an outer circumference of the brush head surface to encircle the metal bristles extending from a central portion of the brush head surface.
US07752698B2	Carwash brush extension arm with roller bearings A carwash brush support structure is extendable relative to a vertical support beam. Extension of the carwash brush carriage is facilitated by means of roller bearings each of which is made up of a U-bolt having threaded ends and a plurality of loosely packed rollers on the U-bolt which engage and roll relative to the surface of a cylindrical rail. The rollers may be of substantially the same size or may be graduated in size toward the opposite ends of the U-bolt to trap the bearing on a cylindrical beam. Rollers of a distinctive color may be located on U-bolt where the greatest roller loading is expected.
US07752696B2	Docking buffer A height-adjustable docking buffer is described for protecting facades when vehicles are docked in building openings. The docking buffer is made up of a fixed mounting frame and a height-adjustable buffer block for a loading ramp or a transfer bridge. The buffer block is designed as an essentially horizontal bumper bar, and includes an inflatable gasket, the ends of which are height-adjustably supported on two spaced, fixed mounting frames, preferably in the form of pillars. A method for operating the docking bar is also disclosed.
US07752693B2	Mattress structure for contained child play area A mattress assembly for a playard has a plurality of support panels coupled to one another and movable relative to one another. The support panels are movable between a generally planar in-use configuration having a top side and a bottom side and a multi-sided storage configuration with an interior space sized to surround a collapsed playard. A mattress pad is detachable from and attachable to the plurality of support panels. The mattress pad lies against the top side of the plurality of support panels and is movable with the plurality of support panels between the in-use configuration and the storage configuration. A plurality of attachment devices are provided for selectively attaching the mattress pad to and detaching the mattress pad from the plurality of support panels.
US07752690B1	Sleeping bag with multiple openings for concurrent ingress/egress of selected parts of the body A sleeping bag sized to enclose the body of a user from at least the neck to the toes has a plurality of transverse ingress/egress openings in the top cover disposed between the head end and foot end in parallel longitudinally spaced apart relation at locations corresponding generally to various body areas and segments of a human body that enable concurrent passage of selected parts or segments of the user's body into and out of the interior space such that at least one selected part or segment of the user's body can be extended into the interior space to be covered, while concurrently therewith, other selected parts or segments of the user's body can be left out or extended out of the interior space through other respective openings to be uncovered. The openings may be provided with closures and portions of the closures may be luminescent.
US07752684B1	Combination-cleaning tool and plunger A combination cleaning tool and plunger integrates a cleaning tool and plunger in a single shafted tool to save storage space and provide the tools required for non-invasive plumbing maintenance in one convenient tool assembly. The plunger portion of the tool may be attached in a position near the lower end of the shaft for use in plunging a drain, or slidably moved to be attached in a position near the shaft handle at the upper end of the shaft, exposing the cleaning tool at the lower end of the shaft for use. No disassembly of parts or handling of the working parts is required to use either tool.
US07752678B1	Calf protector for rowers A calf protector for rowers, comprising a single strip of neoprene (or a similar synthetic or natural rubber) with strips of hook and loop fasteners (commonly known as “VELCRO®”) on its ends. The neoprene strip is wider in the main middle part, and narrower at the ends with the strips of hook and loop fasteners. Hook fasteners on the inside surface at one end of the strip can engage loop fasteners on the outside surface at the opposite end of the strip (or visa versa) so that it forms a loop around the rower's leg, to protect the back of the leg from friction against the front ends of rails on which the seats in a boat move when rowing. The invention may also be used by other persons to protect their legs and/or arms. The invention encompasses both an apparatus and a method for protecting limbs using the apparatus.
US07757301B2	Security hardened disc drive A storage device assembly includes a sealed housing having a base and a cover. A storage medium is disposed within the sealed housing. A security feature within the housing is adapted to damage at least a portion of the storage medium if the sealed housing is opened.
US07757286B2	Methods and systems that selectively resurrect blocked communications between devices Data communications between devices are selectively blocked and resurrected based on error notifications. Data communications from one or more source devices to one or more intended destination devices are selectively blocked based on content of the data communications. The blocked data communications are stored in a database. A blocked data communication is retrieved from the database in response to an error notification from one of the source devices and/or from one of the destination devices. The retrieved data communication is then sent to the intended destination device.
US07757279B2	Storage subsystem, storage system, and communication control method In a storage subsystem which is connected to an IP network, by excluding an improper packet, security is heightened, and a performance of communication to a logical unit of storage subsystem is maintained and secured. In the storage subsystem, a function which carries out filtering of a packet other than an iSCSI packet is provided. With respect to only the packet passed through the function, its accessibility to the logical unit is filtered. Also, traffic of all received packets, and a traffic lob of a packet judged to be discarded by the above filtering is recorded. By using this information, controlling such as a cut-off process of improper communication, QoS securement for normal communication and so on, are carried out.
US07757277B2	System and method for representing multiple security groups as a single data object A system and method for representing multiple security groups as a single data object are provided. With the system and method, a complex group object is created that consists of a group set value and a mask value. The complex group object represents a plurality of groups by the group set value. The mask value is used to apply to group identifiers received during an authentication process to generate a value that is compared against the group set value to determine if the group identifiers are part of the complex group. For example, in a first step of authorization processing, the group identifier received in an authorization request is bit-wise AND'd with the mask value for the complex group data object. In a second step, the masked group identifier from the received request is compared to the group set value of the complex group object. Such comparison may take the form of masking the group set value and comparing the masked group set value to the masked group identifier from the received request, for example. If the two values match, then access is granted. If the two values do not match, then access is denied.
US07757263B2	Front-end device of set-top box for two-way communication The device includes a cable interface module having a diplexer that outputs a first signal input from a first connector part connected to a cable television network to a third connector part and outputs a second signal input from a second connector part to a first connector part; a video tuner module having a distributor that branches a first signal input from a fourth connector part having a shape capable of connecting to the cable television network and connected to a third connector part and outputs to a fifth connector part, and inputs the other branched signal into a video tuner; and a communication tuner that selects another channel of the signal output from a fifth connector part.
US07757259B1	Intelligent asset management in a cable services system Methods and systems are provided for intelligently managing on-demand content in a cable services system. High demand video programs (e.g., movies, documentaries, mini-series, educational films, and the like) are stored at cable system hubs that service a number of individual cable customers. When a given video program is requested, the requested title is steamed from the hub servicing the requesting customer rather than streaming the requested program from the cable system head end. The video programs cached at the cable system hubs are determined based on attributes associated with individual video programs including time since initial release, association with other programs, association with hub locations, association with current events, and the like.
US07757255B2	Digital broadcasting receiver A digital broadcasting receiver includes an operating section configured to select a channel, and a video/audio data obtaining section configured to obtain video/audio data on a selected channel from television broadcasting signals. The digital broadcasting receiver also includes a channel table and a designated channel table. The digital broadcasting receiver further includes a channel selecting section configured such that when the channel is selected by the operating section, the channel selecting section determines whether or not the selected channel has been replaced with an alternative channel by a broadcasting station by reference to the two tables. If it is determined that the selected channel has been replaced with the alternative channel, the channel selecting section instructs the video/audio data obtaining section to select the alternative channel instead of the selected channel.
US07757248B2	Detection of media links in broadcast signals A detection apparatus includes a tuner tuned to the program and a meter coupled to the tuner and arranged to detect content ancillary information from the program tuned by the tuner. The content ancillary information may be a media link, closed captioning information, or the like. The meter may also be arranged to extract a broadcast signature from the program. A comparator compares the broadcast signature to a reference signature selected from a library of reference signatures based upon the content ancillary information. Broadcast signatures from unknown programs may be clustered at least partially on the basis of the content ancillary information.
US07757246B2	Disc apparatus with clamp holder having top surface of first flange higher than top surface of second flange When a motor rotates and a traverse mechanism integrated with a turntable pivots, a clamper holder moves downward together with the turntable whereby an end part of a first flange of the clamp holder abuts the bottom surface of a flange provided at an outer peripheral edge part at the upper end side of the clamper. The first flange is so arranged at the side opposite to the pivoting axis of the traverse mechanism as viewed from the center of the clamper. Further downward movement of the turntable separates the clamper from the turntable in such a manner as to leave the clamper in the clamper holder.
US07757244B2	Optical disk drive When a shift lever is fitted under a front part of a traverse mechanism, dampers have previously been fitted in a total of two, front-left and front-right, parts, called mount parts, of a mechanism chassis. A flat gear rotatably engages with a cylindrical sleeve protruding downward from the front-right mount part of the mechanism chassis. A feed gear in a rear part of transmission means rotatably engages with a boss protruding downward behind the sleeve, and is prevented from dropping off with a screw put from below. Now, the flat gear is, in a rear part thereof, supported by the feed gear, and is thereby prevented from dropping off.
US07757243B2	Optical disc drive with mechanism to reduce tray vibration An optical disc drive, including a main frame a tray disposed such that the tray is to be inserted into or ejected from the main frame to load or unload a disc and a tray holding unit to press bias the tray, when the loading/unloading of the tray is completed, so as to restrict the vertical and lateral movement of the tray when the loading/unloading of the tray is completed.
US07757242B2	Apparatus, system, and method for asynchronous outbound transaction event processing into an SAP application using service oriented architecture An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing outbound transactions in a service oriented architecture. An execution module is included to receive a J2EE Connector Architecture (“J2C”) execute command associated with a service data object (“SDO”) containing transaction data from a client application. A conversion module is included to convert the SDO to an Intermediate Document (“IDoc”). A transmission module is included to transmit the IDoc and an associated transaction identifier (“TID”) to an SAP application using a transaction Remote Function Call (“tRFC”) protocol for processing the embedded transaction data. A confirmation module is included to transmit the SDO updated with the TID to the client application in response to acknowledgement of receipt of the transaction data from the SAP application.
US07757241B2	Playback control methods and arrangements for a DVD player In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, enhancements have been developed to further extend the performance of a generic DVD navigator. The methods and arrangements herein provide a mechanism that allows a player application to precisely ‘bookmark’ locations during playback, and later resume playback at the selected bookmarked locations.
US07757234B2	Methods and software for a batch processing framework for wizard-based processes Disclosed herein are systems and techniques to provide for batch processing of wizards. In general, the techniques may include a computer-implemented method that comprises presenting a wizard to a user to perform a step-by-step process, with each step associated with a step type and the step type being one of confirmation, processing, optional input, or mandatory input. The process is executed as a batch process based on a user request. Then, the batch process is interrupted based on an associated step type of a current step, the interrupting comprising comparing the associated step type to a user parameter.
US07757225B2	Linktime recognition of alternative implementations of programmed functionality A method and apparatus are disclosed for optimizing the runtime behavior of database or other applications by allowing selection of alternative code segments during linking of pre-compiled object modules. A macro-preprocessor inserts a declaration for a global variable in the source code in response to an occurrence of a command of interest. The linker selects object modules for executing other commands based on the presence or absence of the declaration for the global variable in the preprocessed source code. The method and apparatus are useful in implementing programming language statements including non-procedural programming languages such as the Embedded Structured Query Language (ESQL).
US07757221B2	Apparatus and method for dynamic binary translator to support precise exceptions with minimal optimization constraints A method and apparatus for dynamic binary translator to support precise exceptions with minimal optimization constraints. In one embodiment, the method includes the translation of a source binary application generated for a source instruction set architecture (ISA) into a sequential, intermediate representation (IR) of the source binary application. In one embodiment, the sequential IR is modified to incorporate exception recovery information for each of the exception instructions identified from the source binary application to enable a dynamic binary translator (DBT) to represent exception recovery values as regular values used by IR instructions. In one embodiment, the sequential IR may be optimized with a constraint on movement of an exception instruction downward past an irreversible instruction to form a non-sequential IR. In one embodiment, the non-sequential IR is optimized to form a translated binary application for a target ISA. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07757216B2	Application server performance tuning client interface An application tuning tool, and method, system, and computer program product for application tuning, provides application deployers with a single, unified facility for modifying the relevant parameters to achieve optimal performance, which makes the application tuning process simpler and easier, so that it can be performed by less skilled individuals and yet be performed more quickly by those less skilled individuals. A method of tuning an application deployed in an application server comprises the steps of deploying the application in the application server, invoking an application tuning tool operable to display information relating to application parameters to be tuned, receiving specifications of values of application tuning parameters, and tuning the application using the received specified parameter values.
US07757211B2	Managed object member architecture for software defined radio A method for managing a flow of information in an object oriented software environment. A master MOM (130) and at least a second MOM (135) can be initialized. A third MOM (140) also can be initialized. A change resolution (150), which includes data correlating to a change in a device in a system, can be automatically propagated from the second MOM to the master MOM. The change can be a change in configuration data or a change in a run-time state of the device. Data in the master MOM correlating to the change resolution can be updated. In response to the change resolution, a change publication (160), which includes data correlating to the change resolution, can be automatically propagated from the master MOM to at least the third MOM. Data in the third MOM correlating to the change publication can be updated.
US07757207B2	Form skin and design time WYSIWYG for .net compact framework A WYSIWYG visual programming environment for programming applications for portable computer devices is provided. The developer selects a form skin based on the underlying portable computer device that the developer intends the application to execute on. The form skin appears to the developer as a graphic modeled after the actual device. The developer is able to drag and drop GUI elements onto the form, where they appear at approximately the same size and resolution as they would to the user of the actual device, regardless of the resolution used on the developer's computing device. The developer is able to associate code with the GUI elements, as well as any softkeys that appear on the form skin. The developer is able to test the application by emulating the hardware of the portable device, and operating the device using the form skin. Through the form skin, the developer is able to see nearly exactly how the application will look and operate on the underlying portable device without having to leave the development environment.
US07757206B2	Method, design program and execution program for composing and executing a computer application, as well as a data carrier provided with a design program and a data carrier provided with an execution program The invention relates to a method for composing and executing a computer application, wherein design software and execution software are available to a user via a computer. The method comprises the steps of the user making available information about the computer application to the design software, the design software composing an application structure on the basis of said information, and the execution software enabling the computer application to run on the basis of one or more basic functions available within the execution software in dependence on the composed application structure. The invention further relates to a design program, an execution program as well as to data carriers provided with said programs.
US07757205B2	System for preparing a standard framework for automation appliances The invention relates to a system and a method for preparing a standardized functionality which is independent form the type of appliance and is used to create a solution in the field of automation. The specific properties and functions of different automation systems are directly covered or generalized on respective appliances by a system-specific adapter, the automation runtime layer. Another component implemented on the respective appliance, the runtime framework, provides a general automation functionality and/or base functionality. The automation solution can thus be created in a standardized manner on an engineering system, and randomly ported independently from the respective target platform. Uniform object libraries can be used and already created solutions can be recycled independently from the system.
US07757198B1	Scan chain systems and methods for programmable logic devices Systems and methods provide techniques to support design specific testing for programmable logic devices in accordance with one or more embodiments. For example in one embodiment, a method of generating configuration data for a programmable logic device includes mapping a design for the programmable logic device, wherein the mapped design incorporates scan test logic; placing and routing the mapped design; and generating configuration data based on the mapped design, wherein the incorporated scan test logic is disabled and not selectable within the programmable logic device configured with the configuration data. The method may further include generating a second configuration data based on the mapped design, wherein the incorporated scan test logic is enabled and selectable within the programmable logic device configured with the second configuration data.
US07757189B1	Super duplicate register removal Redundant elements of digital designs, including digital designs with registered feedback, are identified and removed. The nodes of a design are assigned initial labels. The design is analyzed by selecting nodes associated with each label and identifying any equivalent nodes or complementary nodes to the selected node. Nodes are equivalent if they perform the same or complementary functions on input nodes assigned to the same labels. The selected node and its equivalent node, if any, are reassigned to the same label. Two or more complementary nodes are modified so that they have the same output. This analysis is repeated until all of the labels and associated nodes have been analyzed and there are no labels and associated nodes in need of further analysis. Following this analysis, equivalent nodes in the digital design will share the same label and all but one node with each label can be removed.
US07757188B2	Method and apparatus for designing integrated circuit In the present invention, a block level net list is separated from a chip level net list so that the chip level net list can be created in a form in which a block is transparent to a designer. The present invention determines a destination block for circuit elements that are described in a chip level net list and for which the destination block is not determined, and creates a final net list by reflecting the chip level net list to the block level net list based on the information on the destination block. As a net list can be created in a form in which a block is transparent to a designer for a circuit system that is required to be optimized for the entire chip, the circuit system can be efficiently optimized.
US07757186B2	Automatic mapping of pointing devices to multiple displays An automatic pointing device mapping method (400, 420) and associated apparatus for automatically remapping the active area (12) of a graphics tablet (10) to a plurality of displays (122, 124), such as might be used in conjunction with a graphics program (130), a CAD program, or the like. Proximity zones (230, 232) are established along the edge of the active area (12). When a stylus (146) is moved into one of the proximity zones (230, 232), the graphics tablet (10) is switched to control the display (122, 124) in the corresponding direction, provided such a display (122, 124) exists in that direction. In one embodiment data regarding an elapsed time data (220), which is the time the stylus (146) has remained in the proximity zone (230, 232) is monitored, such that the multi-display system (110) is not remapped until the stylus (146) has remained in the proximity zone (230, 232) until a preset time (218) has elapsed.
US07757183B2	Timing adaptive patient parameter acquisition and display system and method A system and a method are described for allowing a user to generate a timeline and display patient data with varying time intervals. The time intervals can range from a few minutes to several hours. By allowing a user to select start time and end time when a time interval change occurs, the time interval change is applied to a selected portion or duration of the timeline rather than the full length. Also multiple time intervals may be selected and applied to the patient data.
US07757163B2	Method and system for characterizing unknown annotator and its type system with respect to reference annotation types and associated reference taxonomy nodes An unknown annotator and its annotation type system are compared against a reference annotation type system. The comparison is done by providing a plurality of documents, and annotating each document using the reference set of document annotators, producing instances of reference annotation types, to generate a pre-annotated reference document set, and using the subject annotator and its subject annotation type system to generate a pre-annotated evaluation document set. Documents in the pre-annotated evaluation document set are compared to documents in the pre-annotated reference document set, and matches in location, within the compared documents, of instances of the subject annotation types and the reference annotation types are identified. Based on the matching data, reference document annotation types are selected that sufficiently correlate with the subject annotation type system. Based on the type system matching, the subject annotator and its type system are associated with a plurality of reference industrial taxonomy nodes.
US07757157B1	Editor for defining shared scenes, with separately controllable command objects, to create superimposed final scenes An information processing apparatus for creating content information according to a predetermined specification includes a shared scene definer operable to define a shared scene as editing material. The editing material is processed in the apparatus. The shared scene is created by a shared scene creator and is a virtual scene usable by a plurality of scenes. A shared scene setter sets a specific shared scene to be used by each of plurality of scenes to form content information, a shared object setter sets the shared object to be used in the specific shared scene and a control-information describer describes the control information for controlling the utilization of the shared objects in accordance with the predetermined specification and in dependence on the set specific shared scene.
US07757150B2	Structured puncturing of irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes A method of constructing a puncture sequence includes providing a seed puncture sequence including a plurality of elements. The elements of the seed puncture sequence are based upon non-zero elements of a plurality of columns of a parity-check matrix having a column dimension and a row dimension. In this regard, the parity-check matrix defines an error correction code, and has been constructed based upon a seed parity-check matrix derived from an edge ensemble. After providing the seed puncture sequence, a variable node-puncture sequence can be constructed based thereupon. The variable node-puncture sequence, then, corresponds to a puncture sequence configured for processing an error correction code.
US07757147B2	Method for accuracy improvement allowing chip-by-chip measurement correction A method for allowing measurement corrections on a chip-by-chip basis. Error correction values are generated responsive to the input value to a circuit of the calibrated integrated circuit chip and to a measured value from the circuit of the calibrated integrated circuit chip. The error correction values are stored within an error correction table within a nonvolatile memory of the integrated circuit chip.
US07757137B2	Method and apparatus for on-the-fly minimum power state transition The invention includes a novel scan chain structure for LSSD or GSD IC operation. The scan chain structure includes a first flip-flop (L1) and a second flip-flop (L2) configured to operate the first flip-flop (L1) in normal mode operation, in scan mode operation, in initialization mode and in low leakage power mode operation, wherein each flip-flop within a long scan chain of latches includes a data input, data output, a clock input, a scan-in input and a scan-out output, arranged for normal mode operation. A buffer circuit is electrically connected between the scan-out output of the second flip-flop (L2) and the scan-in input of the first flip-flop (L1) for the next latch in the scan chain, the buffer circuit including a control element that controls the operation the first flip-flop (L1) to scan mode or low power leakage mode. The first flip-flop (L1) is set to a data output value upon exit from low power leakage mode that is the same value that it is set to at initialization during normal mode operation. The switching occurs in only one clock cycle.
US07757134B2	Test apparatus for testing a memory and electronic device housing a circuit A test apparatus for testing a memory under test is provided, including a pattern generator generating a read address from which data is read from the memory under test and an expected value of the data read from the read address, a logical comparator comparing the read data read from the read address of the memory under test to the expected value and outputting fail data indicating pass/fail of every bit of the read data, a first fail memory storing a grouping of the read address and the fail data in a case where the read data and the expected value are not the same, a second fail memory storing fail data concerning addresses corresponding to each address of the memory under test, and an updating section updating fail data stored in the second fail memory and corresponding to the read address based on the grouping of the address and the fail data read from the first fail memory.
US07757131B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus capable of executing a plurality of functions is provided with operating portion to which an operation instruction is inputted by an operator; display portion for displaying an operation guide to the operator; error detecting portion for detecting an occurrence of an operation error; and display controller for causing a screen displayed on the display portion to differ depending on whether or not the error detecting portion is detecting any operation error if an operation instruction is inputted to the operation portion by the operator.
US07757125B2	Defect resolution methodology and data defects quality/risk metric model extension Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for analyzing defects associated with a software development project. Descriptions of defects identified during the testing of a software product may be stored in a data structure. One or more of the defects may be identified as data defects. If data defects are determined to be the dominant class of defects in the data structure, the data defects may be analyzed to determine a cause for one or more data defects. For example, the focus areas affected by the defects, the trends over time of the defects, the particular types of the data defects, the stability of the system, etc. may be analyzed to determine a cause for the data defects. Therefore, corrective measures may be taken based on the identified cause of the one or more data defects.
US07757122B2	Remote maintenance system, mail connect confirmation method, mail connect confirmation program and mail transmission environment diagnosis program When a fault is detected by a surveillance agent mounted in a user device, fault information is reported to a maintenance center device by an electronic mail through an internet. The user device is provided with a connect confirmation unit to prepare and transmit connect confirmation mails of a plurality of patterns different in mail content, and the maintenance center device is provided with a diagnosis unit, which diagnose a mail transmission environment of the user device from the reception result of one or a plurality of connect confirmation mails received within a fixed period of time and transmits a diagnosis result to the user device by the electronic mail.
US07757118B2	Method and system for detecting and recovering failure command A method and a system for detecting and recovering a failure command are provided. The method is used in a native command queuing (NCQ) and at least includes the following steps. In step (a), several commands are executed on a disk simultaneously according to the NCQ. In step (b), whether a request time of the commands is longer than a waiting time is measured: if the request time is not longer than the waiting time, then step (a) is executed. In step (c), one command is chosen. In step (d), whether the chosen command is executed successfully is determined: if the chosen command is executed successfully, then step (f) is executed. In step (e), the chosen command is recovered. In step (f), whether all the commands of the NCQ are chosen is determined: if not all the commands are chosen, then another command is chosen and step (d) is repeated.
US07757112B2	System and method for booting alternate MBR in event of virus attack In the event of a virally infected MBR on a hard disk drive that might prevent booting, a service MBR in a hidden protected area (HPA) can be used to boot a service O.S., and then the service MBR can be replaced with a previously backed-up MBR, also in the HPA, to mount any missing partitions.
US07757111B2	Method and system for insuring data integrity in anticipation of a disaster A preparation of a storage system of a pending disaster at an onsite location of the storage system involves the storage system receiving a disaster preparation initiation from an offsite client. In response to receiving the disaster preparation initiation from the offsite client, the storage system to executes disaster preparation of onsite data including managing a temporary storage of onsite data volumes to at least one peer site, managing a storage of onsite cached data to a first onsite removable media, and/or managing a storage of onsite management information to a second onsite removable media.
US07757094B2	Power management for subscriber identity module A power management technique for a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM), makes use of a voting process to determine when to power-up and power-down the SIM. In particular, the voting process determines whether software modules running on a wireless communication device (WCD) require current or imminent access to the SIM. The voting process is designed to make more efficient use of the SIM without sacrificing performance. A modified security authorization process can be added, in which the WCD caches a user access code in memory for authenticating the user to the SIM to gain access to the secure features of the SIM. The security verification process avoids the need for the user to enter the access code each time the SIM is powered up in the course of the power management routine, reducing user inconvenience and maintaining performance.
US07757093B2	Printing system An imaging system is provided with an authentication data storage that stores a plurality of pieces of authentication data in relationship to user IDs respectively representing owners of the plurality of communication devices. Further included is a reading system that reads out one of the plurality of pieces of the authentication data corresponding to a user ID if the user ID is transmitted from the external device in relationship to the image data, and a searching system searches for a communication device with which a connection authentication is established using the authentication data read out by the reading system within a predetermined communication area with respect to the imaging system. An imaging system forms an image represented by the image data transmitted in relationship to the user ID from the external device when the communication device is detected by the searching system.
US07757082B2	Efficient revocation of receivers Methods and apparatus for efficient revocation of receivers. In one implementation, a method of broadcast encryption includes: assigning a respective master key to each of a plurality of receivers, where each master key can be used to derive two or more of a plurality of sub keys; revoking one or more receivers, leaving one or more unrevoked receivers; for each master key of an unrevoked receiver, selecting the sub key that can be derived by that master key and derived by the most other master keys but not derived by a master key of any of the one or more revoked receivers; for each selected sub key, encrypting one ciphertext using that selected sub key; and sending the encrypted ciphertexts to the plurality of receivers.
US07757075B2	State reference A computer-implemented mechanism for granting rights to a resource is described. A license identifies-one or more principals, resources, rights and conditions. At least one condition recited in the license includes a reference to state information. The state information is external to the license. When evaluating the license, a resource or access control module requests the state information from the entity identified in the reference to state information.
US07757065B1	Instruction segment recording scheme In a front-end system for a processor, a recording scheme for instruction segments stores the instructions in reverse program order. Instruction segments may be traces, extended blocks or basic blocks. By storing the instructions in reverse program order, the instruction segment is easily extended to include additional instructions. The instruction segments may be extended without having to re-index tag arrays, pointers that associate instruction segments with other instruction segments.
US07757062B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus A semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus that enables function blocks in a semiconductor integrated circuit freely to vary power supply voltage and system clock frequency on the time axis, and also to exchange data among themselves. In a semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus 100, a first function block 110 has a first clock generation circuit 111 that generates a first system clock supplied to circuitry in a function block, first internal memory 112 in which data is read/written by means of the first system clock, and a selector 113 that selects the first system clock or a second system clock and supplies the selected clock to first internal memory 112. A clock selected by selector 113 from the first system clock or the second system clock is supplied as the clock supplied to first internal memory 112.
US07757059B1	Virtual array non-disruptive management data migration Described are systems and methods of migrating data from a source virtual array to a destination virtual array transparently with respect to a management application program executing on a host and using management information to send management messages to the virtual arrays. Data from the source virtual array are copied to the destination virtual array during a data migration event. First and second virtual array management interfaces are associated with the source and destination virtual arrays, respectively. The first and second virtual array management interfaces are exchanged during the data migration event so that the virtual array management interface associated with the destination virtual array becomes associated with the source virtual array and the virtual array management interface associated with the source virtual array becomes associated with the destination virtual array.
US07757055B2	Storage system and data migration method for the same A method and system are provided that can realize data migration between volumes accessed by a host computer without stopping the host computer accessing the volumes. A host computer 10 is connected to a storage subsystem 14 via paths 54 and 56, and the storage subsystem 14 is connected to a storage subsystem 12 via a path 58 (or paths 58 and 60). While data is being copied from an old volume 62 in the storage subsystem 12 (a migration source) to a new volume 64 in the storage subsystem 14 (a migration destination) via the path 58 (or paths 58 and 60), if a request for I/O processing is sent from the host computer 10, the storage subsystem 14 responds and handles that I/O processing.
US07757053B2	Apparatus and method for managing stacks for efficient memory usage An apparatus and method for managing stacks for efficient memory usage. The apparatus includes a fault cause analysis unit to recognize a page fault caused by a marking page; a control unit to set the marking page, to request compression of a first stack page depending on whether a page fault occurs, to release a mapping of a second stack page that becomes empty due to the compression, and to return the second stack page; a memory allocation unit to receive the second stack page and to allocate a new stack page to the control unit upon completion of the compression; and a compression unit to compresses the first stack page at the request of the control unit.
US07757050B2	System and method for achieving reliable WORM storage using WMRM storage The invention provides a method for ensuring that data stored on rewritable storage is immutable. The method includes initializing selected user-addressable blocks of storage to a writable state. In addition, the method includes accepting data to be stored in specified user-addressable blocks. Also, the method includes determining if the specified block(s) is writable. Also, the method includes storing the accepted data to the rewritable storage. Moreover, the method includes setting the state of the specified block(s) to non-writable. In one embodiment, the writable/non-writable state associated with each block is encoded and stored in the contents of the corresponding block. In another embodiment, the steps of determining whether the specified block(s) is writable, storing the accepted data to the rewritable storage, and setting the state of the specified block(s) to non-writable, are integrated and indivisible.
US07757045B2	Synchronizing recency information in an inclusive cache hierarchy In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a cache access request for data present in a lower-level cache line of a lower-level cache, and sending recency information regarding the lower-level cache line to a higher-level cache. The higher-level cache may be inclusive with the lower-level cache and may update age data associated with the cache line, thus reducing the likelihood of eviction of the cache line. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07757044B2	Facilitating store reordering through cacheline marking One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates store reordering through cacheline marking. During operation, the system receives a memory operation which is directed to a cacheline. Next, the system determines whether a thread which is performing the memory operation has set a store-mark for the cacheline. If the thread has set the store-mark for the cacheline, the system performs the memory operation. Otherwise, the system determines if the cacheline has been store-marked by another thread. If so, the system delays the memory operation. On the other hand, if the cacheline has not been store-marked by another thread, the system performs the memory operation.
US07757040B2	Memory command and address conversion between an XDR interface and a double data rate interface A command translation method, apparatus and system are provided for interfacing a processor and a memory. The processor initiates a memory system command in an extreme data rate (XDR) command format which is automatically converted by the command translation method, apparatus and system into a memory system command in a double data rate (DDR) format for forwarding to the memory. Associated with converting the memory system command to the DDR command format is controlling timing of one or more signals presented to the memory interface, the one or more signals being associated with processing the memory system command in the DDR command format. The processor has associated therewith an XDR memory interface controller which adjusts one or more timing parameters of the memory system command in the XDR command format so that DDR timing requirements for the memory system command in the DDR command format are met.
US07757033B1	Data exchanges among SMP physical partitions and I/O interfaces enterprise servers Pluggable modules communicate via a switch fabric dataplane accessible via a backplane. Various embodiments are comprised of varying numbers and arrangements of the pluggable modules in accordance with a system architecture that provides for provisioning virtual servers and clusters of servers from underlying hardware and software resources. The system architecture is a unifying solution for applications requiring a combination of computation and networking performance. Resources may be pooled, scaled, and reclaimed dynamically for new purposes as requirements change, using dynamic reconfiguration of virtual computing and communication hardware and software.
US07757032B2	Computer system bus bridge A bus bridge between a high speed computer processor bus and a high speed output bus. The preferred embodiment is a bus bridge between a GPUL bus for a GPUL PowerPC microprocessor from International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and an output high speed interface (MPI). Another preferred embodiment is a bus bridge in a bus transceiver on a multi-chip module.
US07757028B2	Multi-priority messaging Methods, systems, and computer program products for transmitting first-priority data and second-priority data. The first-priority data and second-priority data are stored in separate data buffers, and the first-priority data is transmitted preferentially over the second-priority data.
US07757013B1	Techniques for controlling data storage system performance Described are techniques for controlling performance of a data storage system. As a first part of an interactive dialogue, a policy is selected including one or more I/O classes each representing a logical grouping of I/O requests received at the data storage system. As a second part of the interactive dialogue, performance of said data storage system is monitored for each I/O class included in said policy without enforcing said policy. As a third part of the interactive dialogue, at least one performance goal associated with one of said I/O classes is set. The policy is run as a fourth part of the interactive dialogue causing enforcement of the policy on the data storage system in accordance with the at least one performance goal.
US07757009B2	Storage controllers with dynamic WWN storage modules and methods for managing data and connections between a host and a storage device A method and system for transferring data between a host and a Serial Attached Small Computer Interface (“SAS”) device using a storage controller is provided. The storage controller includes, a World Wide Name (“WWN”) module that includes a table having plural entries, wherein each row includes a WWN address, an initiator tag value field, an input/output counter value that tracks plural commands for a connection. A WWN index value represents the address of a row having plural entries. The method includes, comparing frame elements of incoming frames, including a unique WWN address with the WWN module entries; and if there is a match, updating a counter value for a connection between the storage controller and a device sending frames. The counter value is increased when a command frame is received and decreased when a command is executed and a response is sent to the device.
US07756996B2	Embedding management data within HTTP messages A system for embedding messages within HTTP streams, including a gateway communicator, situated within a network gateway computer that communicates with at least one client computer, for receiving management data intended for the at least one client computer from a management server computer that communicates with the network gateway computer, a gateway data embedder situated within the network gateway computer for inserting non-HTTP management data within an HTTP message, and a client data extractor situated within each of the at least one client computer for extracting non-HTTP management data from within an HTTP message. A method and a computer readable storage medium are also described and claimed.
US07756991B2	Data-packet processing method in network system A data-packet processing method is used in a network system. The network system includes a buffer for optionally storing a data packet to be transferred, and the method includes steps of: determining a type of the data packet to be transferred; determining a storage state of a buffer where the data packet is to be temporarily stored before transferring; and storing the data packet into the buffer if the storage state of the buffer is a packet-accepting storage state; wherein the packet-accepting storage state of the buffer varies with the type of the data packet.
US07756985B2	Shared device control method and server-client system Provide a shared device control method and server-client system, which inform the client user of the state of a shared device upon accessing the connectable shared device on the network, thereby preventing unwanted situations (for example, the user cannot determine what has happened; the user cannot obtain a desired access result; access results in other fatal errors; and so forth). A shared device, to be shared by a plurality of data processing apparatuses connected via a network, is controlled by one of the plurality of data processing apparatuses, and the other data processing apparatuses inquires of the data processing apparatus controlling the shared device, a reserve or ready state of the shared device, or a mode which displays a window via the network, prior to use of the shared device informs the client user of the state of the shared device.
US07756977B2	Random early detect and differential packet aging flow control in switch queues Flow control is provided for a packet switch. An incoming packet is classified according to its priority based on predefined rules to produce a weight value based on the priority of the packet. A lifetime value associated with the packet is produced based on the weight value and the queue occupancy in a queue to which the packet is assigned. The packet is discarded if its associated lifetime value is less than or equal to a threshold value. Otherwise the packet and associated lifetime value are sent to the queue. The lifetime value is periodically changed and compared to a threshold value. The packet is removed from the queue when its lifetime value reaches the threshold value.
US07756972B2	System for power savings in server farms A threshold-based approach is used to assign tasks to servers in a server farm. A “number of connections” count or “connection rate” is maintained for an active server and when the count achieves a first value a wake up signal is sent to a next (inactive) server to alert the inactive server to become active and periodic keep alive signals are initiated. When the number of connections next reaches a second, higher value, subsequent requests for connections are sent to the newly active server. Variations of this approach allow for servers and their associated processes and devices to be handled in clusters for power management scaling efficiency. Servers can be placed in the inactive mode when the number of connections reaches a lower threshold. Other criteria can be used to determine activation of servers, processors or other devices or processes. Other types of resource use monitoring can also be used with this invention.
US07756964B2	Modular integrated computing and storage A modularized computing system includes a plurality of modular components that are coupled together forming a network. Each modular component includes a standard network interface. The system further includes an initialization module, a monitor module, a storage medium, and a management module. As a module unit is coupled to the network, the initialization module automatically configures the component to an operable state. The monitor module monitors network operations including performance parameters of each modular component based on a plurality of system policies. Based on information gathered by the monitor module, the management module actively modifies network structure and resource allocation to optimize network performance.
US07756960B2	Use of a communications network element management system to manage network policy rules A system (EMS) is dedicated to the management of network equipments (NE) of a communications network (N) capable of carrying out traffic processing operations associated with services and defined by policy rules delivered in the form of primary data by a policy server (PS). This system (EMS) comprises processing means (MT) interfaced between the policy server (PS) and the network equipments (NE) to allow centralized management of the policy rules and of their institution in the network equipments. The processing means (MT) comprise, for example, conversion means (MC) which, when they receive primary data from the policy server (PS) intended for one of the network equipments (NE), convert the primary data into configuration commands to be sent to the equipment in accordance with its management protocol.
US07756953B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring responses of configuration commands A method is disclosed for monitoring responses of configuration commands using MIB-based and event-based approaches. According to one embodiment, a network element receives a configuration that comprises one or more configuration commands. A command response table, which comprises a plurality of command response entries, is created and stored. The command response table is defined by a MIB. The network element stores information, which describes errors that occurred while executing the plurality of commands in the configuration file, into the command response entries of the command response table. Management applications can query the MIB to obtain details about errors that occurred during execution of the configuration.
US07756952B2	Method, system, server and unit for setting configuration information of a presentity client A method, a system, a document management server, a presence server and a delegation check processing unit for setting configuration information of a presentity client are used to solve the problem that the setting of configuration information must be done by a presentity client and cannot be delegated to other entities. The method for setting configuration information of a presentity client includes the processes of: determining a configuration request message sent from a configuration request sender is in delegation mode; confirming qualification of the configuration request sender according to delegation setting authorization rules set by the presentity client; and setting the configuration information of the presentity client according to the configuration request message.
US07756949B2	System of handling a web service call A system for handling a web service call by clients in a communication network is disclosed. The system comprises a client requester for issuing client requests. The client requests may comprise at least one client request to call a web service. The system also comprises a callback web Service that is coupled to the client requester for registering the at least one client request to call a web service and for invoking the called web service. A response web service is coupled to the callback web service for receiving a response to the at least one client request to call a web service and is also coupled to the client requester for delivering the response when a client request to obtain the response is issued from the client requester.
US07756944B2	Information providing apparatus, information providing method, information providing program, and recording medium An information providing apparatus is disclosed that integrally provides information that may be shared by plural applications and information that is dedicated to a particular application. The information providing apparatus includes a merge unit that merges a first information providing unit and a second information providing unit. The merge unit includes an information acquisition unit that acquires information pertaining to a user in response to a request from a predetermined application of plural applications, the information acquisition unit acquiring information shared by the applications from the first information providing unit and information dedicated to the predetermined application from the second information providing unit. The merge unit also includes an information integrating unit that integrates the information acquired from the first information providing unit and the information acquired from the second information providing unit. The merge unit then provides the information integrated by the information integrating unit to the predetermined application.
US07756943B1	Efficient data transfer between computers in a virtual NUMA system using RDMA In one embodiment, a virtual NUMA machine is formed from multiple computers coupled to a network. Each computer includes a memory and a hardware device coupled to the memory. The hardware device is configured to communicate on the network, and more particularly is configured to perform remote direct memory access (RDMA) communications on the network to access the memory in other computers. A guest physical address space of the virtual NUMA machine spans a portion of the memories in each of the computers, and each computer serves as a home node for at least one respective portion of the guest physical address space. A software module on a first computer uses RDMA to coherently access data on a home node of the data without interrupting execution in the home node.
US07756941B2	Communication system having dominating node and dominated node A communication system comprises: a dominated node comprising a lower layer having a communication device that transmits/receives a signal to/from another node connected to a network, a notifying device that notifies said another node that the dominated node does not have an upper layer when the communication device receives a signal to an upper layer, and a processor that executes a process in accordance with the received signal corresponding to the lower layer; and a dominating node comprising a lower layer having a communication device that transmits/receives a signal to/from another node connected to the network, a first upper layer that manages the lower layer, and a second upper layer that manages the lower layer of the dominated node connected to the network.
US07756940B2	Transaction processing system having service level control capabilities There is provided a transaction processing system for providing plural services according to service level contracts, the system comprising: an SLA database for storing contract conditions defined for each of the services provided; request queues for storing processing requests sent from clients for the services provided while putting the respective services into a particular order; queuing condition detection module for obtaining waiting conditions of the processing requests stored in the request queues; and a scheduler for deciding priorities to the processing requests input from the client to the transaction processing system by referring to the contract conditions and the waiting conditions of the processing requests.
US07756935B2	E-mail based advisor for document repositories A method is disclosed which monitors a plurality of electronic messages. Two or more electronic messages from the plurality of messages may be identified. Each identified message may contain an attachment. The attachments of the identified messages may be compared to determine a similarity score. The similarity score may be examined to determine if it exceeds a similarity threshold value. If the similarity score exceeds the similarity threshold value, a user may be notified that collaboration may be occurring. The user may also be provided automated support for porting the attachments to a document management system.
US07756934B2	Systems, methods and computer program products for electronic information transfer by a sender A method for electronic information transfer by a sender. The method includes composing an electronic message on a sender terminal. At least one announcement file is associated with an attribute of the electronic message, the announcement file configured for playing at a recipient terminal upon the recipient terminal receiving the electronic message. The electronic message and the association to the announcement file is sent over a network to a recipient at the recipient terminal. Embodiments include a computer program product for implementing the method.
US07756930B2	Techniques for determining the reputation of a message sender Techniques are provided for determining a reputation of a message sender by obtaining two or more lists from two or more list providers; determining which lists of the two or more lists indicate the message sender; and determining a reputation score for the message sender based on which lists of the two or more lists indicate the message sender. Techniques are also provided for indicating that a message is unsolicited based on a reputation score.
US07756926B2	User created tags for online social networking The present invention provides a social networking system and method by which customized tags can be created by a registered user in an online social networking environment and distributed to facilitate social networking. The tags represent personal characteristics and preferences associated with users of the online social networking environment. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided in the online social networking website that enables a specific user to create and customize tags. Tags can be embeddable in that a user can insert the tag in a website GUI for display. Also, tags may have embedded content, e.g. a photo, a song, a profile page location, etc and may be sponsored or traded in the social networking website. Also a skin that shows the personal profile page GUI style may be customized, sponsored, or traded.
US07756917B2	Two wire communication apparatus and method A method and apparatus for operating and actuating remote devices using a single pair of wires together with communication and networking protocols necessary for operational control of the remote devices and data gathering activities from the remote devices. The invention leverages the use of existing wiring and is particularly useful in heating and air conditioning systems, sprinkler control systems, security systems, lighting control systems, industrial automation control systems and similar environments.
US07756914B2	Method and apparatus for process design A process is managed by creating a future revision of a base. Data are input into the future revision of the base. The future revision of the base is made current, revising the base. A control tracks the authorization of the base revision, storing the authorization of the future revision of the base.
US07756908B2	Database analysis tool A method to be performed in a database analysis tool includes displaying selected contents of a database table in a database analysis tool being executed in a computer system. A user's selection of a portion of the selected contents is received. The portion contains information that identifies an object associated with an application program in the computer system. The method includes automatically causing the application program to perform a predefined action with regard to the object. A computer system includes a repository with at least one database table, an application program configured to perform a predefined action with regard to an object, and a database analysis tool configured to display selected contents of the database table. Upon a user selecting a portion of the selected contents containing information that identifies the object, the database analysis tool causes the application program to perform the predefined action with regard to the object.
US07756904B2	Nested conditional relations (NCR) model and algebra A method and system for providing data integration of multiple data stores with diverse formats. The data integration engine accepts queries using a standard query language such as XML-QL, executes those queries against the multiple data stores, and returns the results. The data stores may include relational databases, hierarchical databases, file systems, application data available via APIs, and so on. A query may reference data that resides in different data stores. The data integration engine allows operations such as joins across multiple data stores.
US07756901B2	Horizontal enterprise planning in accordance with an enterprise planning model In general, the invention is directed to enterprise planning techniques for developing an enterprise planning model that incorporate horizontal as well as vertical planning techniques. A subset of analysts associated with a common node of an enterprise hierarchy may define an enterprise planning session for the node that incorporates a plurality of enterprise planning activities. For example, a first analyst may define a sub-model for revenue planning and a second analyst may define a sub-model for salary planning. The enterprise planning system automatically aggregates the sub-models defined by subsets of analysts to obtain an enterprise-wide planning model. In this manner, the set of analysts may define an enterprise planning model that may allow large, diverse organizations to establish planning standards for multiple planning activities across dozens or hundreds of business units.
US07756895B1	Community-modified user data In some embodiments, techniques for modifying a profile may include receiving a first profile data associated with a first user, associating the first profile data with a profile associated with the first user, receiving a second profile data associated with a second user different from the first user, and associating the second profile data with the profile.
US07756875B2	Method and system for e-commerce packages A system and method for enabling the e-commerce purchasing of grouped merchandise and/or services, known as packages, is disclosed. The subject e-commerce system and method comprises a catalog database comprising package data correlated to at least one package; a selection module coupled to the catalog database for allowing a customer to select a package for purchase; and a resolution module coupled to the catalog database for resolving unresolved attributes in the selected package. Preferably, the catalog database further comprises item data correlated to a plurality of items, wherein each item is fully resolved; product data correlated to at least one product, wherein said at least one product comprises at least one unresolved attribute; and attribute data.
US07756870B2	Handling of standarized properties and their use in data exchange The present invention relates to a data object model and methods and systems for mapping standardized data onto standardized properties of the object model and non-standardized data onto extensions. A reference referring to a data source may be mapped onto the extensions and the reference may be used to determine property data from the data source.
US07756868B2	Method for providing search results list based on importance information and system thereof The present invention relates to a method for providing a search result list by a search engine and a system thereof, and more particularly, to a method for generating a search result list by reflecting importance information in processing the search result list corresponding to a predetermined keyword input from a user terminal by a search engine and a system thereof. According to the present invention, there is an effect that is possible to provide method and system for providing a search result list, capable of providing a search result list on the basis of importance information in which accuracy and information on the registration date of a corresponding content are reflected.
US07756858B2	Parent-child query indexing for xml databases A method for processing queries for a document of elements is provided. The document includes a plurality of subsections where each subsection includes at least a portion of elements in the document. The method comprises: receiving a query for a path of elements in the document of elements; determining a plurality of step queries from the query, each step query including at least a part of the path of elements; for each step query in the plurality of step queries, determining one or more subsections that include elements that correspond to a step query; and determining at least one subsection that includes the path of elements of the query. A result for the query is generated using the at least one subsection.
US07756852B2	Concurrent execution of groups of database statements A method and apparatus for executing groups of database statements is provided. An indication is included in database statements to indicate whether instructions need to be executed in a particular sequence with respect to one another. In an embodiment, statements that need to be executed sequentially with respect to one another are included in the same bundle. In an embodiment bundles do not need to be executed in any particular order with respect to one another. A mechanism has been presented to enable statements to be executed concurrently by the server. In an embodiment, groups of database statements are sent from a client-side to a server within batches including one set of transmission information for the entire batch. In an embodiment, within a batch there may be one or more bundles. In an embodiment, the bundles are always executed sequentially; however, different bundles within a batch can be executed concurrently.
US07756836B2	Peer-to-peer file sharing A method and system for sharing files between a group of computer systems. The file sharing system allows a group of computer systems to be defined. The files shared by a group are associated with a group folder. A group folder is represented by a folder created by the file system of each member of the group. The folder at each member contains a file for each file that is shared by the group. The files in the folder of a member may be actual files stored at that member, which contains the content of the shared file, or virtual files identifying the actual file that is stored at another member. When a member accesses a virtual file, the file sharing system detects the access and requests that the file owner provide a copy of the file to the accessing member on a peer-to-peer basis. Whenever a shared file is modified, the file owner sends updated metadata for that file to the other members of the group.
US07756835B2	Database and operating system independent copying/archiving of a web base application A web based application having non-file system structures is copied or archived by first initializing a file to store the web based application, including creation of a root directory within the file. Then, data directories are created under the root directory, and a number of storage data objects under the data directories are initialized for all non-file system structures of the web based application. Thereafter, the non-file system structures are copied and stored into the storage data objects. In embodiments where the web based application further includes files that are part of a file system, the files are stored as additional storage data objects under the root directory. Accordingly, database and operating system independence is achieved.
US07756831B1	Cooperative locking between multiple independent owners of data space Locking allocated data space is disclosed. An indication is received that certain previous version data is required to be retained. A map of metadata records, each associated with a journaling process write of previous version data which write includes previous version data required to be retained, is built. In some embodiments, the map associates a write time with each record in the map. A reclamation process checks to determine whether any storage proposed to be reclaimed is included in the map of record identifiers. In some embodiments, the determination is made based at least in part on the write time associated in the map with at least a first record identifier in time-sorted order.
US07756825B2	Synchronization peer participant model Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve synchronization of data between varying types of devices and/or services. A full participant receives a request from another participant to perform a synchronization operation. The synchronization engine determines whether the device or service is a full, partial, or simple participant. The device or service is a simple participant if it has a data store for synchronized data and no knowledge store. The device or service is a partial participant if it has a data store for synchronized data and a knowledge store, but does not understand the knowledge. The device or service is a full participant type if it has a data store for synchronized data and a knowledge store and understands the knowledge. The synchronization engine performs the synchronization operation with the device or service using a set of logic that is appropriate for the type of device or service.
US07756812B2	Adaptive input-cell circuitry useful in configurable electronic controllers A method for operating an input-cell comprises: receiving a sensor input signal, a digital-bias first control input and a second control input and, using a first resistor network to apply an analog pull-up bias to the sensor input signal when the bias of the first control input is in a first digital state. To provide a path for at least a portion of the first resistor network to a ground to cause the first resistor network to apply a pull-down bias to the sensor input signal when the bias of the first control input is in a second digital state. Receiving a voltage reference and an input waveform signal; using a second resistor network to apply to the input waveform signal to a comparator when the bias of the second control input is in a first digital state and, to apply a biased and attenuated input waveform signal to the comparator when the bias of the second control input is in a second digital state. Comparing the biased sensor input signal to the waveform applied by the second resistor network to determine an input-cell output, so that the input-cell can convert the sensor input signal to a time-based parameter.
US07756808B2	Apparatus and product of manufacture for using condition data structures separately from rule data structures in business transactions Techniques enable a user, such as a business analyst or a system administrator, to define business process rules that control the processing of transaction data by a computer application. A data structure is used to store business process rules. The data structure includes a condition portion and an execution portion of a rule. At runtime, the computer system executing a computer application determines whether a condition portion of a rule is met, and in response to a determination that the condition portion is met, performs an execution portion of the rule.
US07756802B2	Combiner training and evaluation with random data partition Available training data is randomly data partitioned to generate a training data set for training base modules of a pattern recognition system and a distinct tune data set for training the combiner of the system. The process can be repeated with randomly generated data sets each time. After the combiner is trained, it can be evaluated employing another random partitioning of the training data to a training data set for training new set of base modules and a distinct test data set for evaluating the combiner providing reliable statistical evaluation of the combined system without the need of a standalone test set.
US07756797B2	Leveraging user-to-user interactions in a knowledgebase using a forum interface Systems and methods provide a self-learning knowledgebase in which the ranking and/or order of topic and thread items may be dynamically and automatically adjusted based on self-learning by the knowledgebase. The knowledgebase includes threaded conversations comprising thread topics and thread items within the thread topics. Lists of thread topics and lists of thread items are ordered lists. The order of a thread topic or thread item in an ordered list may be modified based on self-learning activities performed by an information server maintaining the knowledge base. A thread topic or thread item may be moved higher in the list based on requests to view the thread topic or thread item. Further, the order that a thread item appears in an order list may be modified based on a number of responses posted for the thread item.
US07756794B2	Common carrier system An on-line system and method for buyers and sellers of international container transportation services is disclosed. Specifically, the system offers importing and exporting customers the opportunity to request and select specific service patterns offered by participating carriers in the booking of full container shipments. The system includes user interfaces that allow a shipper to track and trace containers across multiple carriers and an event notifications system, which notifies the user when an event has or has not occurred.
US07756786B2	Method and system for processing messages in a bill payment and presentment system over a communications network In a bill payment and presentation system, a method for electronically routing billing information over a communications network is provided, using an open financial exchange communication protocol. The method provides for a centrally located mainframe system and a switching system for coordinating the routing of messages between customer service providers and biller service providers. In particular, the method collects at the CSPs and at the BSPs mainframe application files comprising the messages, forwards these files in batch mode to the mainframe system and converts with a switching system these mainframe files into web-enabled addresses, allowing for the effective transmission of financial billing information in flat-file and/or Internet-based form.
US07756782B2	System and method for improved electronic trading A system and method is described herein for an exchange to act based on a market event on behalf of a trader. According to one aspect, a first electronic market can send orders to and/or manage orders at a second electronic market based on an internal and/or external market event on behalf of a trader. According to another aspect, an electronic market may manage orders in its own market based on an external market event on behalf of a trader. In particular, a trader, and exchange, or some other party can define an internal or external market event that comprises a condition and an action. Upon receiving internal and/or external information, when the market event condition is satisfied, the electronic market performs the action associated with the condition. An advantage, among many others, of the present embodiments is that it makes internal and external market influences and conditions visible to electronic markets to facilitate trading on behalf of a trader.
US07756780B2	Method and system for balance transfer operations A system and method for extending a balance reduction offer to a set of borrowers selected from a pool is provided. A lender, for instance a financial institution issuing credit cards to a pool of borrowers, selects a subset of borrowers based upon a criterion. The balance reduction offer includes a financial incentive to encourage the borrower to accept the offer. When the borrower accepts the offer, the lender credits the account for a payment received. In one embodiment, an issuer of credit cards may employ the invention to facilitate selected borrowers transferring outstanding balances to another credit card. In such an embodiment, the borrower may complete the transaction with the assistance of a cash wire transfer company.
US07756777B2	Method and system for administering prime brokerage A Straight-Through-Processing (STP) trading platform provides a fully electronic and seamless solution to substantially all aspects of the trading cycle for fixed income instruments and other financial instruments. In an exemplary embodiment, one or more customers, one or more dealers and one or more prime brokers have access to computer software that facilitates trade order management, trade order generation, trade execution, trade allocation, allocation acknowledgement, trade confirmation, acquisition of settlement instructions, and the generation of progress reports based on specific metrics criteria. In said exemplary embodiment, the STP trading platform allows a prime broker to monitor and approve a trade where the STP trading platform includes software modules including at least an account management module and an electronic trading module to handle the various stages of executing a trade, confirming the trade, and facilitating settlement of the trade.
US07756773B2	System and method for conducting online auctions The invention relates to a system and method for conducting online auctions, and has particular application in conducting business on-line over a network of computers such as the Internet, for establishing materials supply contracts. In particular, the invention relates to control of a reserve price in an online bidding event. An online auction between a controlling party and at least two competing participants comprises the steps of setting a reserve price for the auction, conducting the auction between the at least two competing parties, determining whether a predetermined time trigger has been reached and suspending the auction if the reserve price is not reached at the time, determining whether the controlling party has selected to enter an optional reserve price negotiation phase, and revising the reserve price for that reserve price negotiation phase, and accordingly, extending the auction based on the revised reserve price. In application to a factored reserve or forward auction event, the invention allows the transparency and integrity of the real time negotiation process to be maintained beyond the normal bidding event and into an auction extension phase based on the revised reserve price.
US07756769B2	Portfolio-performance assessment A portfolio-analysis tool receives data that describe an actual portfolio. It computes from those data the returns or other performance measures of hypothetical portfolios whose holdings are drawn from the assets that the actual portfolio held during some period. Among the purposes of doing so is to detect biases made in investment-portfolio actions of the type taken, for instance, to accommodate cash inflows and withdrawals. For that purpose, differences between the hypothetical portfolio and the actual portfolio are so made as to offset portfolio actions identified by finding differences between the weights that positions actually exhibit and the weights they would result from return only. Returns for the hypothetical portfolio are computed by calculating an offset return incrementally, one such offset at a time, and then computing the hypothetical portfolio's return as the sum of quantities proportional to the offset return and that of the actual portfolio.
US07756767B2	System and method for renegotiating a financial instrument A method for renegotiating a financial instrument includes the steps of initiating a logical session between a client program and a client interface affiliated with a financial institution, displaying financial information relating to a client on the client interface, displaying a message on the client program that a financial instrument of the client may be renegotiated, transmitting a request to renegotiate the financial instrument to the client interface, displaying a disclosure document pertaining to the request to renegotiate, and if the client agrees to accept terms of the disclosure document, displaying a plurality of renegotiation options to the client on the client program, and transmitting a selection of one of the renegotiation options to the client interface. The system for renegotiating the financial instrument is structured to operate over a network and includes a client interface program affiliated with a financial institution, an application server housing the client interface program and the client interface program being capable of retrieving data from a data repository that a financial instrument of the client may be renegotiated and displaying a message on a display device indicating that the financial instrument may be renegotiated. Although the method and system of the present invention maybe applied to a wide variety of financial instruments, in a preferred embodiment, the financial instrument is a certificate of deposit.
US07756763B1	Method and apparatus for providing a clean accounting close for a real-time billing system A real time billing system for accounts that locks out transaction events when the billing process is underway is provided. When a transaction event is received that should be posted to an account during the billing process, the account is locked. It is determined if the next bill time is in the past for the account and if it is, close billing of the account is performed on the account without billing the transaction event. After close billing of the account is finished, the transaction event may be posted to the account and the account unlocked.
US07756761B1	Tax return outsourcing and systems for protecting data A financial services outsourcing method or system facilitates a direct service provider's ability to outsource financial services to numerous ultimate clients. The financial services are outsourced to an outsourcing group abroad. Ultimate client specific financial files and corresponding reference materials are loaded onto a remotely accessible part of a host server located in the United States. The host server provides access to a remote client computer of information concerning the ultimate client specific financial files and corresponding reference materials. The access may be limited to limited screen shot access. Outsourced personnel are retained to perform financial service projects (e.g., prepare individual tax returns) for ultimate clients of direct financial services firms. The outsourced personnel perform the financial service projects while located outside the United States. The status of the financial service project is monitored and reported.
US07756758B2	Method and system for improved E-commerce shopping An e-commerce system and method combining different product presentation formats, where each format has a video presentation component. One such format is the presentation of a live, pre-existing “shop at home” video production feed, consisting of continuously scheduled segments, each segment presenting a product or set of products. A Video on Demand (VOD) format, where users may request different video streams. The VOD streams being similar to the live feed, but stored on a server and organized in one or more different segment orders, as compared to the original order of the live feed. Third, a traditional e-commerce product catalog may be provided. However, as an enhancement, the product catalog may be connected to the VOD server, and stream the presentation segment associated with each product, when a user is viewing the product detail page for that product.
US07756757B1	Systems and methods for price searching and intelligent shopping lists on a mobile device Price searching and intelligent shopping lists on a mobile device is provided. A system for providing a shopping list comprises at least one subsystem that receives input data containing product identification information, at least one subsystem that determines location information of a product identified by the product identification information, and at least one subsystem that determines a proposed route from a particular location to a location of the product identified by the location information.
US07756753B1	Services for recommending items to groups of users Computer services use group preferences, as partially or wholly specified by preference lists of individual members, to identify items well suited for a designated group of users. In one embodiment, items in the movie/video rental queue (one type of preference list) of a first user are prioritized based, at least partly, on the rental queue of a second, affiliated user, to give priority to items corresponding to the collective preferences of both users. Items may also be recommended to the users based on their collective preferences. In a second embodiment, the suggestion lists of multiple members of a book club are used, optionally in combination with other member preference information, to select or recommend book titles for the club. In a third embodiment, the wish lists of two or more affiliated users are used to assist others in purchasing gifts that correspond to their collective preferences.
US07756745B2	Method for accurately quoting wait time for a restaurant table The inventive method uses data received concerning the status of various tables in the establishment, the criteria provided by the customer as well as the status of the meals being prepared in a variety of courses for customers already seated to best determine how much time a new customer will have to wait before a suitable table is available where the customer may be seated. When a customer enters the restaurant, they provide information to the hostess or host including the party size and various table preferences. The host or hostess enters this information into a computer using a keyboard touch screen input or a wireless remote device. Based upon the preferences chosen by the party, the system assigns the most predictable table and periodically scans each existing table to determine that table's status. The method gains additional accuracy by obtaining detailed kitchen status information concerning meals being prepared for each table. Through determining table status and kitchen status, the system may predict “table turns,” that is, when a particular table is most likely to be vacated. Periodically, once the data from all of the tables and the kitchen has been updated, the projected table turn times for each table are updated. With this updating having been accomplished, projected wait time for each party may be updated. Then, revised quoted wait times are given to customers while waiting.
US07756742B2	System and method for dispensing tickets A system and method of dispensing lottery game tickets to a purchaser. A point-of-sale (“POS”) terminal is provided with a ticket dispenser assembly in communication with the point-of-sale terminal and a central inventory computer. The POS terminal has at least one dedicated key for requesting ticket information from the central computer and a cash tender key for completing a ticket purchase. The ticket dispenser assembly includes a POS monitor, a ticket controller and a ticket dispenser. The POS monitor passively monitors the electrical communications of the point-of-sale terminal, including the engagement of the dedicated key and the cash tender key, and intercepts the electrical communications corresponding to the engagement of the dedicated key. Upon actuation of the dedicated key and the cash tender key, the POS monitor sends a message to the ticket controller to dispense the desired number of tickets from the ticket dispenser according to the electrical communication produced by the POS terminal.
US07756733B2	Method for operating and device for monitoring a technical installation A technical installation contains several systems for resolving different system management tasks. Information variables are hierarchically arranged in the systems. A value of an information variable pertaining to the lowest hierarchical level triggers an event and pertains to a significant range of values. The value and the appurtenant location are found by specifically tracking all systems.
US07756726B2	Secured medical sign-in A method for concealing displayed confidential information includes providing one or more publically accessible displays and one or more private displays, receiving confidential information, displaying at least a portion of the confidential information at the private display, and displaying at least a portion of the confidential information at the publically accessible display for an amount of time determined by an occurrence of an event where the event includes at least one of an expiration of a time period and a user request. The method can also include sending a notification signal where the notification signal can be sent to a health care professional and storing at least a portion of the confidential information. The method can also include concealing at least a portion of the confidential information at the publically accessible display where the concealing step is responsive to a user request.
US07756723B2	System and method for managing patient bed assignments and bed occupancy in a health care facility An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer (ADT) systems. The bed management system is an easy-to-use business intelligence application that is designed to allow administrators, clinicians and managers to easily access, analyze and display real-time patient and bed availability information from ancillary information systems, databases and spreadsheets. It enables users to see trends and relationships in hospital (bed) management data directly from their desktop personal computers.
US07756714B2	System and method for extending spectral bandwidth of an audio signal A system is provided for extending the spectral bandwidth of a bandwidth limited audio signal by applying a nonlinear function to the bandwidth limited speech signal to generate the low frequency audio signal components that were attenuated in the bandwidth limited audio signal.
US07756699B2	Sound encoder and sound encoding method with multiplexing order determination A sound encoder multiplexes a plurality of codes into a sound code in an order determined by a multiplexing order determination unit (12), and a sound decoder demultiplexes the sound code into a plurality of codes one by one in an order determined by a demultiplexing order determination unit (14).
US07756676B1	Detecting data change based on adjusted data values To detect data change, data values are separated into plural sets. Predefined values representative of a predetermined effect are calculated for respective plural sets. Adjusted data values are calculated by removing impact of calculated predefined values from the data values in the respective plural sets. The data change is detected based on the adjusted data values.
US07756674B2	Methods of calculating differences of binding affinities between congeneric pairs of ligands by way of a displaced solvent functional Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid.
US07756667B2	Apparatus for three-dimensional measurements of physical characteristics within a data center An apparatus and method for measuring the physical quantities of a data center during operation and method for servicing large-scale computing systems is disclosed. The apparatus includes a cart that supports a plurality of sensors. The cart is moveable within the data center. The sensors capture temperature or other physical parameters within the room. The sensor readings, along with position and orientation information pertaining to the cart are transmitted to a computer system where the data is analyzed to select the optimum temperature or other system environmental parameters for the data center.
US07756656B2	Measurement coordinate setting system and method A measurement coordinate setting system is disclosed, which includes a measuring apparatus which measures a dimension in each of a plurality of portions of a first product, a sampling approximation module which approximates a distribution of the dimensions of the plurality of portions using a sampling orthogonal polynomial as a function of a coordinate, and a selection coordinate setting module which sets a plurality of selection coordinates at which dimensions of a second product are to be measured to inspect the approximated distribution of the dimensions regarding the second product.
US07756654B2	Test apparatus A test apparatus for testing a device under test includes a multi-strobe generating section that generates a plurality of strobe signals with different phases in each of cycles of an output signal output from the device under test, a plurality of timing comparing sections that obtain a value of the output signal respectively at timings of the plurality of strobe signals, a transition detecting section that generates transition data identifying one of the plurality of strobe signals which is positioned at a transition of the output signal, based on the values of the output signal which are respectively obtained at the timings of the plurality of strobe signals, a transition memory that sequentially stores thereon the transition data input thereto, a selecting section that selects, in association with each of the cycles of the output signal, whether to input the transition data output from the transition detecting section into the transition memory, and a calculating section that calculates jitter of the output signal based on the transition data stored on the transition memory.
US07756653B2	Storage medium storing thereon power consumption analysis program, and power consumption analysis method A storage medium stores a power consumption analysis program operable to cause a computer to function as a power consumption analysis apparatus. The apparatus includes a device for preliminarily providing a first toggle rate of each of a plurality of wirelines included in a first circuit data set; a device for generating a correlation in accordance with each first toggle rate and each load capacity of the corresponding wireline, each correlation being indicative of a relationship between the first toggle rate and the load capacity; and a device for calculating a second toggle rate of each of a plurality of wirelines included in a second circuit data set, in accordance with a load capacity of a corresponding wireline and the corresponding correlation.
US07756648B1	Method and apparatus for facilitating in-situ vibration testing of disk drives A system that generates vibrations within a computer system. During operation, the system receives a desired vibration profile. Next, the system determines a sequence of disk operations for one or more disk drives within the computer system that generates vibrations which substantially matches the desired vibration profile. The system then performs the sequence of disk operations on the one or more disk drives to generate the vibrations.
US07756646B2	Method for predicting peptide detection in mass spectrometry A method of predicting whether a peptide present in a biological sample will be detected by analysis with a mass spectrometer. The method uses at least one mass spectrometer to perform repeated analysis of a sample containing peptides from proteins with known amino acids. The method then generates a data set of peptides identified as contained within the sample by the repeated analysis. The method then calculates the probability that a specific peptide in the data set was detected in the repeated analysis. The method then creates a plurality of vectors, where each vector has a plurality of dimensions, and each dimension represents a property of one or more of the amino acids present in each peptide and adjacent peptides in the data set. Using these vectors, the method then generates an algorithm from the plurality of vectors and the calculated probabilities that specific peptides in the data set were detected in the repeated analysis. The algorithm is thus capable of calculating the probability that a hypothetical peptide represented as a vector will be detected by a mass spectrometry based proteomic platform, given that the peptide is present in a sample introduced into a mass spectrometer.
US07756635B2	Method and system for generating and presenting off-road travel routes A computer-implemented method for generating and presenting off-road travel routes based on terrain and obstruction analysis. The method includes a Threat Analyzer (100) for assessing threats that may impede progress, a Graph Builder (102) for constructing a graph representing an individual's environment, a Route Generator (104) for generating a route that avoids the threats, and a Route Presenter (106) for guiding the individual along the route. The Threat Analyzer (100) includes an Obstruction Analyzer (202) for detecting obstructions in aerial imagery. The Graph Builder (102) includes a Cost Evaluator (712) that takes into account traversal speeds for individuals across various types of terrain. The Route Presenter (106) overlays the route on aerial imagery and provides real-time guidance as the individual traverses the route.
US07756621B2	Steering control system and method An electronic control system may be used to control the steering angle of a vehicle wheel. The electronic control system may be used to determine that a measured speed that a steering angle of a wheel is changing exceeds a threshold speed. The electronic control system may be used to determine that a measured range of motion of the steering angle exceeds a threshold amount. The electronic control system may use an encoder to measure the position of a steering angle of a vehicle wheel.
US07756610B2	Solenoid controller An autonomous solenoid controller which in its broad aspect includes a microprocessor, a communication bus, and a solenoid driver. The microprocessor includes logic in order to control drivers for at least one solenoid. The communications bus is operably connected to the microprocessor so that the communications bus and the microprocessor communicate with one another. The communication bus communicates with an outside transmission control unit. The solenoid driver is electrically connected between the microprocessor and the solenoid, such that the microprocessor commands the solenoid driver to alter the position of the solenoid.
US07756606B2	Method of controlling redundant manipulator A method of controlling a redundant manipulator for assigning one or more redundant joints from a plurality of joints and obtaining the solution to an inverse kinematics problem at high-speed. The joints are arbitrarily classified into redundant joints and non-redundant joints, and an initial value is set for the joint angle of the classified redundant joint as a parameter. Then based on an evaluating function or a constraint condition defined by the joint angle of the redundant joint provided as a parameter and the joint angle of the non-redundant joint, which is determined by the inverse kinematics calculation according to the change of the parameter, an optimum solution of a set of joint angles is determined, and until the optimum solution covers the target range of the hand position, the procedure to determine the optimum solution is repeated with relaxing the constraint conditions.
US07756602B2	Vehicle entertainment and gaming system An entertainment system is for a vehicle and includes a vehicle environment sensor apparatus that captures data indicative of the vehicle's environment and that generates a vehicle environment data feed. A video game console is electronically coupled to the vehicle environment sensor apparatus and has an application program interface. The video game console receives the vehicle environment data feed, operates a game medium, and generates a video output signal based on both the game medium and the vehicle environment data feed. At least one controller is communicatively coupled to the video game console and directs the operation of the game medium. A display unit communicatively coupled with the application program interface receives the video output signal and displays images dependent upon the video output signal.
US07756597B2	Method of operating a lithographic processing machine, control system, lithographic apparatus, lithographic processing cell, and computer program Scheduling of tasks in a lithographic apparatus, track unit or lithocell is performed by maintaining a register of the state of the machine and a database of tasks performable by the machine, generating possible sequences of tasks based on pre- and post-conditions on the system state (rather than a precedence relation) and selecting a sequence from the generated sequences that meets a given beginning state of the machine and a desired end state. Embodiments of the invention also allow for automated recovery from exceptions.
US07756594B2	Systems and methods for parsing flexible audio codec topologies Systems and methods for parsing flexible audio codec topologies are described. In one aspect, codec topology information is obtained from an audio codec. The codec topology information includes a list of processing node connections and configuration default data for respective processing nodes associated with the audio codec. The codec topology information is evaluated to identify valid audio codec topologies based on set of valid connection path criteria.
US07756593B2	Anomaly anti-pattern A method is presented for representing anomalies to a process. These anomalies are represented in an anti-pattern, which depicts non-productive emergent information that describes activities that are detrimental to the progress of the process. The anti-pattern includes visually-coded areas that describe how severe the detrimental activities are to the process when combined. After the anti-pattern is created for the process, new non-productive emergent information for a current process is mapped onto the anti-pattern in the form of data patterns represented as visual fences. Appropriate steps are then taken to address the new non-productive emergent information, depending on the visually-coded area to which the new non-productive emergent information is mapped.
US07756592B2	Enhanced feedback for plant control A method and system for controlling the behavior of a plant having an input and an output by enhanced feedback. A simulation input signal is derived from an input to be applied to the plant and a simulated signal is generated by simulating an aspect of an assumed behavior of the plant in dependence on the simulation input signal. The simulated signal is subtracted from a plant feedback signal which is derived from an output of the plant and the resulting difference signal is used to modify the input signal by feedback prior to deriving a plant input signal. The simulation may take into account derivation of the plant feedback signal and the input signal is typically modified so as to reduce the effect on the output signal of a deviation in actual behavior of the plant from the assumed behavior of the plant over a predetermined operating frequency range.
US07756589B2	Conductive polymer sheath on defibrillator shocking coils An implantable lead includes a distal portion carrying a tissue stimulating electrode, at least a portion of its outer surface being adapted to stimulate cardiac tissue, wherein the electrode is covered by a pliable, electrically conductive sheath. The sheath is made of an electrically conductive material that does not rely on porosity for electrical charge transfer. The sheath is constructed and arranged to minimize or eliminate tissue ingrowth while passing sufficient electrical energy to stimulate the tissue.
US07756586B2	Wound healing patch with guard electrodes In one example, the present invention is directed to a wound-healing patch including a flexible substrate, at least one wound electrode, at least one guard electrode and at least one return electrode. The guard electrode is positioned between the wound and return electrodes in the electrical path of current traveling between the return and wound electrodes on the surface of the skin, sinking the surface current and force the wound current to travel deeper into the tissue. In the invention, the wound electrode(s) is positioned on a portion of the flexible substrate designed to be placed over wounded tissue and the return electrode is positioned on a portion of the substrate substantially surrounding the wound and guard electrodes and is designed to be placed over healthy tissue.
US07756573B2	Implantable medical device diagnostic data acquisition and storage A method carried out by a therapeutic implantable medical device includes detecting a plurality of physiologic episodes of interest, recording a single set of diagnostic data indicative of physiologic activity, determining that the single set of diagnostic data corresponds in time with at least two physiologic episodes, and associating the single set of diagnostic data with the least two of the plurality of physiologic episodes. As such, requests for diagnostic data associated with any of the at least two of the plurality of physiologic episodes are satisfied with diagnostic data from the single set of recorded diagnostic data.
US07756572B1	System and method for efficiently distinguishing among cardiac ischemia, hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia using an implantable medical device and an external system Techniques are described for efficiently detecting and distinguishing among cardiac ischemia, hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia based on intracardiac electrogram (IEGM) signals. In one example, a preliminary indication of an episode of cardiac ischemia is detected based on shifts in ST segment elevation within the IEGM. In response, the implanted device then records additional IEGM data for transmission to an external system. The external system analyzes the additional IEGM data to confirm the detection of cardiac ischemia using a more sophisticated analysis procedure exploiting additional detection parameters. In particular, the external system uses detection parameters capable of distinguishing hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and hyperkalemia from cardiac ischemia, such as QTmax and QTend intervals. Alternatively, the more sophisticated analysis procedure may be performed by the device itself, if it is so equipped. Other examples described herein pertain instead to the detection of atrial fibrillation.
US07756565B2	Method and system for composite gating using multiple inputs One or more techniques are provided for determining the overall motion of an organ of interest relative to a viewer or imager. Motion data is acquired for the organ of interest and/or for one or more proximate organs using sensor-based and/or image data-based techniques. The sensor-based techniques may include electrical and non-electrical techniques. The image data-based techniques may include both pre-acquisition and acquisition image data. The motion data for the organ of interest and proximate organs may be used to determine one or more quiescent periods corresponding to intervals of minimal motion for the organ of interest and the proximate organs. The one or more quiescent periods may be used to determine one or more gating points that may be used prospectively, i.e., during image acquisition, and retrospectively, i.e., after image acquisition. In addition, the one or more quiescent periods may be used to determine one or more motion compensation factors that may be used during processing and reconstruction of the acquired image data. The gating points and motion compensation factors may be used, separately or together, to reduce motion-related artifacts in the reconstructed images.
US07756563B2	Guidance method based on 3D-2D pose estimation and 3D-CT registration with application to live bronchoscopy A method provides guidance to the physician during a live bronchoscopy or other endoscopic procedures. The 3D motion of the bronchoscope is estimated using a fast coarse tracking step followed by a fine registration step. The tracking is based on finding a set of corresponding feature points across a plurality of consecutive bronchoscopic video frames, then estimating for the new pose of the bronchoscope. In the preferred embodiment the pose estimation is based on linearization of the rotation matrix. By giving a set of corresponding points across the current bronchoscopic video image, and the CT-based virtual image as an input, the same method can also be used for manual registration. The fine registration step is preferably a gradient-based Gauss-Newton method that maximizes the correlation between the bronchoscopic video image and the CT-based virtual image. The continuous guidance is provided by estimating the 3D motion of the bronchoscope in a loop. Since depth-map information is available, tracking can be done by solving a 3D-2D pose estimation problem. A 3D-2D pose estimation problem is more constrained than a 2D-2D pose estimation problem and does not suffer from the limitations associated with computing an essential matrix. The use of correlation-based cost, instead of mutual information as a registration cost, makes it simpler to use gradient-based methods for registration.
US07756549B2	Dialing screen method and layer structure for a mobile terminal A method for providing a dialing screen which visually changes depending on status information providable through a mobile terminal. Particularly, the dialing screen displays status information including network status information, time-zone information of a transmitting side or receiving side, etc., which can be provided through the mobile terminal, with graphic elements thereof embossed. Therefore, it is possible to output a dialing screen in which specific status information is reflected, so that the various tastes of the users can be reflected in the dialing screen and simultaneously visibility of the transmitted information increases.
US07756543B2	High speed shared radio channel transmit power control To increase throughput efficiency and attain a higher achieved bit rate for data transmissions over a high speed shared channel, a variable transmit power increase factor is used to control the maximum rate at which the power at which data is transmitted over the high speed shared channel can increase. In one non-limiting implementation, the power increase factor F is varied with the current total downlink transmitted power available for high speed downlink transmission. For example, when the available high speed shared channel power is large, the variable transmit power increase factor assumes a more conservative value, e.g., a smaller F value, at the beginning of the high speed downlink transmission, and then a more liberal value, e.g., a larger F value, later during the high speed downlink transmission.
US07756541B2	PoC system and method for distributing media data in PoC The present invention provides a PoC system (push-to-talk over cellular system) and a method for distributing media data in PoC. The PoC system includes a plurality of clients, a controlling server and a first participating server. In the present invention, since a media receiving port is established in the first participating server which manages at least two clients at the same time, and when a media data is going to be distributed to the clients managed by the first participating server, the controlling server delivers the media data to the media receiving port only. In addition, a multicast addressing technology is further used in the first participating server, therefore, the path of delivering media data is changed and the efficiency of media data delivery during a communication is improved.
US07756535B1	Lightweight content filtering system for mobile phones In one embodiment, a content filtering system includes a feature list and a learning model. The feature list may be a subset of a dictionary that was used to train the content filtering system to identify classification (e.g., spam, phishing, porn, legitimate text messages, etc.) of text messages during a training stage. The learning model may include representative vectors, each of which represents a particular class of text messages. The learning model and the feature list may be generated in a server computer during the training stage and then subsequently provided to the mobile phone. An incoming text message in the mobile phone may be parsed for occurrences of feature words included in the feature list and then converted to an input vector. The input vector may be compared to the learning model to determine the classification of the incoming text message.
US07756533B2	Mobile terminals with media tuning and methods and computer program products for operating the same Methods of providing broadcast media source tuning information to a remote device from a mobile terminal having a local user interface include receiving a user request to transmit tuning information for a selected broadcast media source from a user interface of the mobile terminal and receiving an identification of the remote device that is to receive the tuning information from the user interface of the mobile terminal. The tuning information is formatted based on a protocol for tuning type information providing for automatic tuning of the receiving remote device to the selected broadcast media source and the formatted tuning information is transmitted to the identified remote device responsive to the user request. The broadcast media source may be a radio and/or a television broadcast and the tuning information may be an associated station identification. Mobile terminals and computer program products are also provided.
US07756532B2	Reestablishing wireless communication between a radio access network and a mobile station The present invention relates to a method for reestablishing wireless communication between a radio access network (RAN1) and a mobile station (MS1), an apparatus (RNC1) used for implementing the method as well as a radio access network (RAN1) including such an apparatus. A downlink radio failure affecting a first set of radio bearers (RB1, RB2) including at least two radio bearers (RB1, RB2) assigned for communicating user data between the radio access network (RAN1) and the mobile station (MS1) is detected. A second set of radio bearers (RB1) for communicating user data is defined, excluding the radio bearer (RB2) having the highest downlink bit rate in the first set of radio bearers (RB1, RB2). Communication reestablishment is initiated using the second set of radio bearers (RB1).
US07756527B2	Position information management system A position information management system in which a portable remote terminal includes a plurality of kinds of positioning means for positioning based on a GPS, positioning based on a portable-telephone or PHS base station, positioning based on a radio marker, and independent positioning based on a direction detector, so that the holder of the portable remote terminal can be navigated anywhere. The holder of the portable remote terminal can know the position of a third party similarly holding such a portable remote terminal, by inquiring of a central system, and he/she can supervise, for example, the action of an old person, a child, or a skier in a skiing area. Further, only the map data of a district which is often used by the holder is stored in the portable remote terminal. In this regard, when the holder is in a district not contained within the retained map data, he/she downloads corresponding map data from the central system and uses the downloaded map data.
US07756499B2	Receiver and amplification-gain controlling device thereof The receiver comprises a variable gain amplification unit, a mixing unit, a filtering unit, and three compensation unit. Each compensation unit detects powers of the signal amplified in the variable gain amplification unit, the signal down-converted in the mixing unit and the signal filtered in the filtering unit. A gain of the variable gain amplification unit is adjusted based on the powers detected by three compensation units.
US07756497B2	Method and apparatus for switching between subchannels on a single radio frequency broadcast The present invention utilizes station preset buttons on a radio frequency receiver to allow the user to browse through the various subchannels included in a single station or channel. The preset buttons still have the standard function of having a frequency and subchannel selection parameter associated with the button that can be used to directly select that subchannel. But subsequent presses of the button may change the currently playing program to a different program contained in the same station or channel using a circular queue ordering.
US07756492B2	Predistortion device based on vector envelope injection and the method thereof The present invention discloses a predistortion method based on vector envelope injection. The method includes the following steps: radio frequency input signals are divided into two signal streams; one input signal stream generates two envelope injection signals whose amplitudes can be adjusted independently; the other signal stream is divided into further two radio frequency signal streams; the two radio frequency signal streams are amplified with the same amplitude; frequency mixing is performed for the two envelope injection signals and two radio frequency signal streams respectively to obtain two compensation signals; the amplified radio frequency signal and compensation signals are power synthesized in the same way, so as to obtain two compensation signals and amplified radio frequency signals of different directions. This present invention also provides a corresponding predistortion device.
US07756488B2	High-frequency switch module A FET switch enables an antenna input/output port connected to an antenna to connect to any of a port connected to a transmission signal input terminal and ports respectively connected to two reception signal output terminals by switching between the ports. After a transmission signal is input through the transmission signal input terminal and is then input from the port to the FET switch, harmonic distortion occurs and is output to the transmission signal input terminal side. A phase setting element connected to the port changes an impedance of the input side viewed from the port with respect to harmonics from an open state to a short-circuited state, so as to disperse the harmonics. Accordingly, harmonics returning to the port are greatly suppressed and minimized.
US07756484B2	Monitoring voice quality in communication networks A method for monitoring voice quality in a communication network. In a first embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: establishing a voice communication pathway (VCPW) between first and second telephone terminals; establishing speech cadence between first and second terminals, wherein the terminals alternate between opposing send and listen/receive modes such that when one of the terminals is sending a voice test message the other terminal is either listening for or receiving the voice test message and vice versa; and calculating a voice quality score for one or more received voice test messages. In a second embodiment, synchronous cadence is established between a plurality of telephone terminals and a voice recognition server (VRS).
US07756482B2	Scheduling method for wireless multihop relay communication systems and system thereof A scheduling technique for wireless multihop relay communication systems is provided. With spatial separation caused by the shadowing effect of surrounding buildings, a base station and its relay stations in a single cell are divided into several groups by following the rule that stations with severe potential interference are separated into different groups. The base station arranges the scheduling of these groups and serves these groups sequentially in the time domain. To take advantage of shadow effect, the same radio resources can be scheduled for relay stations within the same group due to the isolation of interfering signals. In the present invention, base stations and relay stations are equipped with directional antennas or sector antennas to further exploit the advantage of spatial separations. Different relay groups can also reuse the radio resource through appropriate power control. The cell capacity can be enhanced substantially because of aggressive radio resource reuse.
US07756476B2	Wireless communication system, terminal, and method for reporting status of terminal A wireless communication system includes a plurality of terminals connected via at least one wireless network. Each of the plurality of terminals identifies a wireless network to which the terminal is to be connected by using a group identifier including a terminal identifier of an issuing terminal that issues an attribute certificate and a first identifier that is set for the issuing terminal.
US07756474B2	Communication device, and method and computer program for information processing thereof A communication device relates a plurality of identification information to specifying information included in the identification information and manages them, and thereby enhances easiness of identifying and specifying of a device of the other party and usability of a connection with the device of the other party. The communication device has an identification information reception part (a radio transmission/reception part, a baseband part and a control part), a storage part (a data base part) and an information processing part (a control part). The identification information reception part receives the pieces of identification information concerning the device of the other party to be connected, and in the storage part the pieces of identification information which are received are stored. The information processing part stores the pieces of identification information, which are received, in the storage part, and retrieves the identification information from the storage part by receiving input of the specifying information out of the pieces of identification information, and relates a result of that retrieval to the specifying information and outputs them, or makes that output possible. By this, it is possible to use the pieces of identification information related to the specifying information for specifying of the device of the other party and connection with it.
US07756470B2	Distributed repeater architecture A distributed repeater architecture includes a donor unit having a donor antenna integrated with active electronic components, for receiving and amplifying RF signals from a fixed station of a wireless communications network. A coverage unit is coupled to the donor unit for processing the RF signals from the fixed station. A network of integrated active antenna modules (IAAMs) is coupled to the coverage unit. Each IAAM includes a respective antenna integrated with active electronic components, for amplifying and radiating the RF signals into a coverage area of the repeater. The system also provides means for controlling stability of the distributed repeater system.
US07756469B2	Extended radio base station system having broadcast wave retransmitting function A broadcast wave retransmission system is provided at a low cost, in an extended radio base station system having a master base station for mobile communications and an extended radio base station that is connected to the master base station via a communication line and that has a radio transmitting/receiving function for the mobile communications, by receiving a broadcast wave, superposing a broadcast signal obtained from the received broadcast wave onto a mobile communication signal sent from the master base station to the extended radio base station, transmitting the resultant signal to the extended radio base station, and separating the broadcast signal from the superposed and transmitted signal and retransmitting the resultant signal as a broadcast wave in the extended radio base station.
US07756467B2	Multimedia distribution using a near field communication capable wireless communication device A wireless communication device includes a Near Field Communication (NFC) interface, a transceiver, and a controller. The NFC interface receives data related to multimedia content from an external NFC tag responsive to establishing an NFC link with the NFC tag. Based on the received data, the controller establishes a communication link with a multimedia server via a wireless communication network, and controls the multimedia server to download information associated with the multimedia content to a user-specified destination device.
US07756464B2	Alternate radio channel selection adapted per user patterns Methods, systems, and apparatuses for selecting alternate channels for broadcast radio channels, and for tracking alternate channel selections, are provided. Some radio systems provide alternate frequencies for tuned radio frequencies to use when the tuned radio frequency signal is no longer receivable. In aspects of the present invention, historical information is generated from alternate channel switching attempts. In further aspects, the generated historical information is used to aid in making a subsequent switch to an alternate channel.
US07756460B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device is provided in image forming apparatuses such as a printer and the like and performs a fixing by heating to a recording sheet on which a toner image is transferred. The fixing device includes: a heating source adapted for performing fixing of a toner image onto a recording medium by heat; a fixing roller including a thin-wall cylinder rotatable about an axis thereof and carrying the heating source therein, the recording medium being placed on a peripheral surface of the cylinder; an annular heat-insulating member coaxially mounted on an outside surface of the fixing roller; and a C-shaped stopper attached to the peripheral surface of the fixing roller for preventing the annular heat-insulating member from moving out of the fixing roller, the C-shaped stopper including at least three engaging portions.
US07756455B2	Image forming apparatus having intermediate transfer member with residual surface potential characteristic An image-forming apparatus, equipped with an intermediate transfer member 3 having a surface layer that holds a toner image primary-transferred from a latent image-supporting member temporarily on the surface layer and allows secondary transfer of the toner image held thereon to an image receiving medium, wherein, when the moving distance of the intermediate transfer member surface from the secondary transfer region 15 to the first primary-transfer region 16 is designated as L (mm) and the moving speed of the intermediate transfer member as S (mm/second), the residual surface potential of the intermediate transfer member L/S seconds after application of the secondary transfer voltage is 1/20 or less of the first primary transfer voltage V1.
US07756453B2	Color printing apparatus having a transfer belt attaching/detaching mechanism A color printing apparatus having a plurality of photosensitive drums corresponding to each color, AND a transfer belt which is aligned with the plurality of photosensitive drums. An attaching/detaching mechanism which brings the transfer belt into and out of contact with the photosensitive drums, based on a number of black and white pages to be or which are printed.
US07756445B2	Transfer unit-fixing apparatus and image forming device having the same A transfer unit-fixing apparatus to integrally fix a transfer unit on a door, and an image forming device having the same are disclosed. The transfer unit-fixing apparatus includes a position fixing unit to pivotally support a first part of the transfer unit on the door and a locking unit to lock a second part of the transfer unit to the door. The transfer unit can be easily assembled and disassembled to and from the door by the position fixing unit and the locking unit, and thus the image forming device can be easily assembled, maintained and repaired.
US07756441B2	Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The cartridge includes a drum, first and second guidable portions guidable by first and second guides when the cartridge enters or advances in the main assembly, first and second regulatable portions provided at leading and trailing sides of the cartridge with respect to the advancing direction and regulated by a first main assembly regulator when the process is advancing in the main assembly, first and second positionable portions to be positioned at first and main assembly second positioners, respectively, by the urging force of a main assembly urging member after the first and second regulatable portions pass the first and second regulators, respectively. The cartridge is mounted to the main assembly with the first and second positionable portions at the first and second positioners, respectively, by the urging force of the urging member.
US07756439B2	Image forming apparatus and process cartridge used therein An image forming apparatus includes multiple imaging units and a controller. The multiple imaging units each include a photoconductor, a charging device, a developing device, a retractable cleaner, and a cleaner retraction mechanism. The charging device charges the photoconductor for forming an electrostatic latent image thereon. The developing device develops the electrostatic latent image. The retractable cleaner cleans the charging device when in contact with the charging device. The cleaner retraction mechanism is configured to bring the retractable cleaner into contact with the charging device. The charging device and the photoconductor are installed and replaced in conjunction with each other. The controller calculates a photoconductor usage of each of the multiple imaging units, and individually controls the cleaner retraction mechanism in each of the multiple imaging units according to the calculated photoconductor usage.
US07756420B2	System and method for shaping a waveform An optical transmission system for transmitting an optical pulse in a dielectric waveguide, the system including a filter for altering a shape of the optical pulse in both amplitude and phase with respect to time so as to substantially suppress the generation of third-order nonlinearities and increase a power level of the optical pulse, the filter further providing a secure encrypted optical waveform that may be decrypted by a matching optical filter, the system allowing for energy sharing of the pulses to substantially increase system bandwidth.
US07756419B2	Traffic signal node cross scheduling method and system A traffic signal node cross scheduling method includes: decomposing a multi-wavelength signal into multiple first single-wavelength signals; decomposing a first single-wavelength signal into multiple small-granularity wavelength signals; scheduling the multiple small-granularity wavelength signals; and converging the multiple small-granularity wavelength signals after scheduled into a second single-wavelength signal. A traffic signal node cross scheduling system is also provided by the embodiments of the present invention. According to the traffic signal node cross scheduling method and system provided by the embodiments of the present invention, one scheduling matrix may be used to implement the scheduling of the wavelength and sub-wavelength traffics, which improves the integration of the network node cross scheduling system and the utilization rate of the scheduling matrix, and reduces the hardware cost of the network node cross scheduling system.
US07756418B2	Passive optical network loss test apparatus and method of use thereof An apparatus and methods for testing a passive optical network with regard to fiber connectivity and attenuation losses, and with regard to the proper operation of packet-based communication protocols thereon.
US07756413B2	Illuminating device for photographing and camera An illuminating device for photographing includes: an illuminating unit having a plurality of current-controlled light emitting elements, which illuminates a subject with light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements; a storage unit in which light emission brightness information is stored in correspondence to each of the plurality of light emitting elements; and a light emission control unit that controls light emission at the plurality of light emitting elements based upon the light emission brightness information stored in the storage unit so that the plurality of light emitting elements achieve uniform brightness levels at the subject.
US07756411B2	Photographing apparatus and method A photographing apparatus and method that can combine a plurality of images photographed by time division exposure. The photographing apparatus and method employ a photographing device having an entire reset mode in which entire pixels are exposed simultaneously right after a flash is shot, and a sequential exposure mode in which exposure time is different according to a state where a flash is not shot, and an image combining unit that combines images photographed by the photographing device, such that the photographing device performs photographing in combination of the entire reset mode and the sequential exposure mode in sequential photographing operations.
US07756406B2	Photographic apparatus and interchangeable camera lens A photographic apparatus is provided and has a camera, an interchangeable camera lens, and a lens control unit. The camera unit has a blur signal-outputting unit and a camera control unit. The interchangeable camera lens has an image-displacing unit and a blur correcting unit. When a change in the state of an optical system of the interchangeable camera lens is recognized, the lens control unit generates blur correction process-information based on the state of the optical system after the change and transmits the blur correction process-information to a camera control unit.
US07756399B2	Safe recovery in DVD recordable/rewritable realtime recording An apparatus comprising an encoder, a packet generator, a disc loader, and a rebuild circuit. The encoder may be configured to generate a format data stream in response to an input signal. The packet generator may be configured to generate special packets from extracts of the format data stream. The disc loader may be configured to write the special packets on a disc. The rebuild circuit may be configured to (i) rebuild one or more navigation files and a file system with the special packets and (ii) write the one or more navigation files and the file system to the disc.
US07756394B1	DVD navigation information for improved trick modes A method for providing improved trick mode performance in a DVD having a plurality of video object units where each of the VOBUs contains a navigation pack. The method involves storing on the DVD within each navigation pack certain supplemental disc search information. The SDSI can include one or more of the following: a picture structure of the VOBU; a number of fields to be displayed from each picture in a normal play mode; and a number of groups of pictures contained in said VOBU.
US07756393B2	Frame advance and slide show trick modes A method of performing a trick mode on a video signal includes the steps of receiving a trick mode command and repeating a picture in the video signal to form a trick mode video signal in response to the trick mode command. If the picture being repeated is a bi-directional predictive picture, then the method can limit the repeating step to a predetermined number of times.
US07756392B2	Optical disc, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, program, computer-readable recording medium, recording method and reproducing method A recording apparatus for an optical disc is provided which stores a VOB, the recording apparatus performing: receiving, from an operator, an operation to specify a preceding reproduction section and a subsequent reproduction section from the VOB through an interactive screen; duplicating an end vicinity including an end point of the beginning vicinity, and a beginning vicinity including a starting point of the subsequent reproduction section; connecting the duplicated parts to yield a connected part; and writing the connected part to the optical disc in correspondence with Temp_Cell information, the reproduction sections being specified by Cell information which includes Temp_Cell_FLAG, the Temp_Cell_FLAG, 1) if set to be off, indicating a sequential reproduction of the preceding and subsequent reproduction sections, and 2) if set to be on, indicating a reproduction of the connected part between the reproduction of the preceding and subsequent reproduction sections.
US07756391B1	Real-time video editing architecture An architecture which allows real-time video editing using a 2D/3D graphics engine. This architecture comprises input and output buffers. It receives video streams from either compressed sources of data or non compressed sources of data. This architecture allows a flexible upgrade of the video effects using software plug ins.
US07756390B2	Video signal separation information setting method and apparatus using audio modes It is determined whether or not the total length or ratio of periods in which an audio signal is set in a first mode with respect to the preset length of recorded program video signals is not larger than the preset length or ratio. When the total length or ratio is not larger than the preset length or ratio, the audio mode of the main body portion of the recorded video signal is determined to be the second mode. When it is determined that the audio mode is not the second mode, the audio mode of the main body portion is determined to be the first mode. Then, an adaptive processing section (algorithm) which forms separation information in a desired period of the video signal is set according to the above determination result and the thus formed separation information is stored.
US07756389B2	Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus includes an encoder and a processor. The encoder generates reproduction units each including I/B/P picture data, and information indicating reproduction time to reproduce each of the pictures to generate a data stream. The processor generates, in accordance with the type of the recording medium, one of basic picture information and reproduction unit information, and time length information. Such information is stored in one or more tables of the respective units as management information. The basic picture information defines a correspondence between a reproduction time to reproduce the first I picture which is recorded at the top of the each unit, and a recording position of the I picture. The reproduction unit information defines a correspondence between a reproduction time length of each unit and a recording position of the I picture. The time length information relates to the reproduction time length on pictures in each unit.
US07756388B2	Media item subgroup generation from a library A method for generating a subgroup of one or more media items from a library of media items. The method monitors user playback control actions during a playback experience with the library on a media player. The method chooses a selecting filter based upon the monitored user playback control action and generates a subgroup of media items selected from the library of media items by applying the selecting filter to the library of media items. The method may further order the subgroup of media items. A system also generates a subgroup of one or more media items from a library of media items. The system comprises a processor for monitoring a user playback control action during a playback experience with the library, a selecting filter adapted to generate a subgroup of media items from the library of media items, and a user interface adapted for presenting the user with the subgroup of media items for playing on a media player.
US07756377B2	Waveguide comprising a channel on an optical substrate The invention provides a waveguide comprising a channel 12 on an optical substrate 11, the refractive index of the channel being higher than that of the substrate. The waveguide includes at least one guide layer 13 arranged on the channel, the index of said guide layer being higher than that of the substrate. In addition, the channel 12 is integrated in the substrate 11. advantageously, the waveguide further includes a covering layer 14 deposited on the guide layer 13, the index of said covering layer being lower than that of the guide layer and lower than that of the channel. The invention also provides a method of fabricating the waveguide.
US07756373B2	Fiber optic cable assembly with floating tap A fiber optic cable assembly with a floating tap is disclosed, wherein the assembly comprises a fiber optic cable having a cable fiber assembly, such as in the form of a ribbon stack. The assembly includes at least one network access point (NAP) for accessing at least one cable fiber in the cable fiber assembly and at least one strength area for example a strength member. At least one cable fiber is extracted from the cable fiber assembly and held by a transition assembly. A buffer conduit loosely contains the at least one cable fiber and guides it to an intermediate buffer conduit, which in turn guides the at least one cable fiber to a splice tube. The intermediate buffer conduit can translate relative to the splice tube. At least one tether fiber is spliced to the at least one cable fiber. Alternatively, the at least one cable fiber has sufficient length to serve as the at least one tether fiber so that splicing to another fiber is not required. Each strength member is covered by a movable member. A bonding structure bonds the cable fiber assembly, buffer conduit and movable member so that the cable fiber assembly can translate but not rotate relative to the cable within the NAP. This allows the tap point to “float” within the NAP when the cable fiber assembly needs to translate within the cable.
US07756358B2	System and method of aligning images A method performed by a processing system. The method includes receiving a sequence of frames, each frame comprising a sequence of at least two images, each image at a different image position in the sequence and each pair of adjacent images having an overlap region. A local alignment value is determined for the images of each pair of adjacent image positions of each frame based on minimizing a difference of a desired parameter between the images in the overlap region. Global alignment values are determined for all images at corresponding pairs of adjacent image positions of each frame based on the local alignment values for the images at the corresponding pair of adjacent image positions of each frame. Each global alignment value is applied to at least one image of the images of the corresponding pair of adjacent image positions of each frame.
US07756356B2	System and method for factorizing light in a sequence of images A method factorizing a sequence of images acquired of a scene into lighting components. The scene is illuminated by a moving light source. An appearance profile is constructed for each pixel in the sequence of images. The appearance profile is a vector representing intensities of the pixel at instances in time. The appearance profiles are factorized into a shadow component, a skylight component, and a sunlight component.
US07756355B2	Method and apparatus providing adaptive noise suppression A method of reducing noise in an image including steps for obtaining a first value for a target pixel, obtaining a respective second value for each neighboring pixel surrounding the target pixel, identifying a spread for the second values, comparing the spread to a threshold value, and, if the spread if below the threshold value, calculating a new value using the second values, and replacing the first value with the new value.
US07756340B2	Method and apparatus for identifying and/or removing combs from scanned images Methods and apparatus for detecting the presence of combs, determining their shape and removing the combs from a scanned form in an automated manner are described. Horizontal and vertical line feature analysis is combined with knowledge of the usual size, shape, and spacing characteristics of lines which form a comb. Vertical and horizontal lines failing to meet certain characteristics, e.g., size or shape characteristics, are eliminated from consideration. Vertical lines which do not intersect a horizontal line are also eliminated from consideration. Confidence measures for different possible comb shapes are generated and the most probable comb shapes as indicated by the confidence measures are included in a comb list. The comb list may be output for use in further processing, e.g., comb removal and/or data extraction processing.
US07756337B2	Method and apparatus for reducing reference character dictionary comparisons during handwriting recognition A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for performing handwriting recognition of a language having character stroke order rules. A stroke parameter set describing attributes of a handwritten stroke is calculated, and a user input indicates a stroke order knowledge. A reference character dictionary includes a record having a plurality of reference parameter sets each defining attributes of reference character strokes. A stroke sequence number of the stroke parameter set is identified and at least one of the reference parameter sets are excluded from a comparison with the stroke parameter set based on the stroke sequence number.
US07756334B2	Method, medium, and apparatus for person-based photo clustering in digital photo album, and person-based digital photo albuming method, medium, and apparatus A person-based digital photo clustering method, medium, and apparatus and a person-based digital photo albuming method, medium, and apparatus. The clustering method may include detecting a face area from photo data, extracting predetermined content-based face feature value information from the detected face area, obtaining person-based photo clustering hint information, and performing person-based clustering by applying photo clustering hint information to the extracted content-based face feature value information. The person-based digital photo albuming method may include generating photo description information for identifying at least a photo, generating albuming tool description information supporting person-based photo clustering and including at least a parameter for person-based photo clustering, performing photo albuming including person-based clustering by using at least photo description information and albuming tool description information, generating predetermined photo group description information from photo albumed data, and generating predetermined photo album information by using photo description information and photo group description information.
US07756325B2	Estimating 3D shape and texture of a 3D object based on a 2D image of the 3D object Disclosed is an improved algorithm for estimating the 3D shape of a 3-dimensional object, such as a human face, based on information retrieved from a single photograph by recovering parameters of a 3-dimensional model and methods and systems using the same. Beside the pixel intensity, the invention uses various image features in a multi-features fitting algorithm (MFF) that has a wider radius of convergence and a higher level of precision and provides thereby better results.
US07756304B2	Medical diagnostic ultrasonic imaging method and system for displaying multi-phase, multi-frame images A medical diagnostic ultrasonic imaging system acquires image data for at least two frames at each of multiple positions, each frame identified with a respective phase of a physiological cycle. A multiphase 3-D or extended field of view data set is constructed from the image data. Then a plurality of images are generated from the multiphase data set. Each image is associated with a respective phase of the physiological cycle, and these images are displayed in sequence to a user.
US07756300B2	Image mapping to provide visual geographic path Provided is a computer system and method for mapping a visual path. The method includes receiving one or more images included in a predefined area; receiving one or more parameters associated with the image; and integrating the images and parameters into a map of the predefined area to enable mapping the visual path through the predefined area in response to one or more input path parameters.
US07756291B2	Digital media recognition apparatus and methods One of the embodiments of the invention includes a method of identifying illegal uses of copyright material. The steps of the method preferably include the steps of: (a) providing a primary digital media object, (b) associating an auxiliary construct with the object, (c) transforming the construct using at least one of the attributes of the object to generate a unique key representative of the primary object, (d) receiving a plurality of secondary digital media objects, (e) performing steps (b) and (c) on the secondary objects to generate unique keys representative of the secondary objects, (f) comparing the keys of the secondary objects with the key of the primary object to identify if any of the secondary objects are substantially similar to the primary object.
US07756287B2	Speaker vibrating parts A speaker vibrating part has a diaphragm body 10A and an approximately cylinder-shaped coupling portion 10B for coupling the diaphragm body 10A to a voice coil bobbin. Protruded strips 10Ba extend out from the inner periphery of the coupling portion 10B toward the center.
US07756274B2	Sonic landscape system A system for providing a listener with an augmented audio reality in a geographical environment said system comprising a position locating system for determining a current position and orientation of a listener in. said geographical environment; an audio track creation system for creating an audio track having a predetermined spatialization component dependent on an apparent location of an apparent source associated with said audio track in said geographical environment; an audio track rendering system adapted to render an audio signal based on said audio track to a series of speakers surrounding said listener such that said listener experiences an apparent preservation of said spatialization component; and an audio track playback system interconnected to said position locating system and said audio track creation system and adapted to forward a predetermined audio track to said audio rendering system for rendering depending on said current position and orientation of said listener in said geographical environment.
US07756272B2	Interpreter using cryptographic values of a playback device's keys to authorize the playback device In an exemplary embodiment, digital content is mastered as a combination of encrypted data and data processing operations that enable use in approved playback environments. Player devices having a processing environment compatible with the content's data processing operations are able to decrypt and play the content. Players can also provide content with basic functions, such as loading data from media, performing network communications, determining playback environment configuration, controlling decryption/playback, and/or performing cryptographic operations using the player's keys. These functions allow the content to implement and enforce its own security policies. If pirates compromise individual players or content titles, new content can be mastered with new security features that block the old attacks. A selective decryption capability can also be provided, enabling on-the-fly watermark insertion so that attacks can be traced back to a particular player. Features to enable migration from legacy formats are also provided.
US07756266B2	Device for voltage-noise rejection and fast start-up A device for voltage-noise rejection and fast start-up is provided. It comprises a low-pass filter connected to a voltage source, a voltage-controlled switch connected in parallel with the low-pass filter, and an auxiliary start-up element connected to a DC-only voltage output. By using a transistor operating in the triode region and a capacitor with suitable capacitance, it is suitable for integration to form a low-frequency low-pass pole to suppress the noise in the reference current. The auxiliary start-up element overcomes the large turn on time caused by the low frequency low-pass pole. As there is no static current during normal operation, the power consumption for the device is low.
US07756265B2	On-board hands-free communication apparatus In an on-board hands-free communication apparatus, a gain of an amplifier of a speaker for outputting an incoming voice signal from a telephone device varies with a volume set value of a speaker volume switch adjusted by an user. When the gain of the amplifier increases equal to or greater than a threshold value, a feature extraction amplification circuit performs a feature extraction amplification processing to apparently amplify output power of the incoming voice signal, and a control circuit fixes the gain of the amplifier to the threshold value regardless of the volume set value.
US07756263B1	Method and system for timed interaction with an interactive voice response system Provided are methods and systems associated with interactive voice response (“IVR”) systems that control the amount of time a user interacts with the system. According to the invention, an IVR system utilizes a timer or series of timers to determine how long a user has been interacting with the IVR system. When threshold events occur, the IVR system will analyze the status of the call and may switch the user to a predefined destination, such as to an operator queue, directly to a live operator, or to another designated navigation point in the IVR navigation structure. In this manner increasing the efficiency of manner in which the IVR system interacts with a caller.
US07756257B2	SIP enabled device identification An object of the invention is to associate a DID/public or non-DID/private telephone number and/or reachable location information with a SIP Enabled Device. More specifically, an embodiment of the invention is directed to providing an additional data parameter comprising alphanumeric data, as a “Display_ID” parameter. The parameter includes information including a DID/public telephone number non-DID/private number and/or location information that is specific to the SIP user endpoint and is different from the SIP URI host address/user information (terminal name and/or terminal number). In another embodiment, a first SIP Enabled Device accesses the local Display_ID and includes the Display_ID in a communication request. A second SIP Enabled Device is capable of processing the incoming communication request, extracting the Display_ID parameter, and displaying the Display_ID associated with the first SIP Enabled Device on the text display of the second SIP Enabled Device.
US07756256B1	Unified and best messaging systems for communication devices A unified messaging system which can provide messaging services for a plurality of different “message types” is disclosed. The unified messaging system can serve as a single interface to a number of messaging services provided by various messaging components which use different message types (e.g., mail server). A unified message type is implemented and presented to a user as an abstract message. In addition, the unified messaging system can automatically determine, based on a first selected feature, if one or more message types should be used. A particular message type can also be automatically selected as a “best message type” based on one or more selected options.
US07756248B2	X-ray detection in packaging Angle dispersive X-ray diffraction is used to test pharmaceutical products including a dosage form inside packaging, for example a tablet inside a blister pack, without removing the dosage form from the packaging. The dosage form is aligned with a measurement system having an X-ray source for generating X-rays, X-ray optics, and an X-ray detector for detection of X-rays. Then, at least one X-ray signature is measured on a predetermined location on the dosage form. The measured X-ray signature is compared with reference X-ray signatures in a data library.
US07756245B2	Mammography apparatus A mammography apparatus includes a rotatably supported arm, an X-ray tube to generate X-rays, which is held on one end of the arm, an imaging stage which is held on the other end of the arm, an X-ray detector which detects the X-rays having passed through patient's breast and is contained in the imaging stage, and an armrest which has an armrest main body portion having a convexly curved surface, and a continuous base portion to fix the armrest main body on the arm.
US07756241B2	X-ray computed tomography apparatus and tomographic method An X-ray CT apparatus detects a predetermined characteristic wave from each electrocardiographic waveform acquired from an electrocardiograph, predicts intervals with which the characteristic wave appears based on appearance times of the detected predetermined characteristic wave in each electrocardiographic waveform, and determines an X-ray irradiation start time based on the predicted interval time. After an instruction to start collection of X-ray intensity distribution data is received, if an appearance interval of a detected predetermined characteristic wave is within an acceptable normal-heartbeat range, it is determined as a normal heartbeat. If the appearance interval of the detected predetermined characteristic wave is outside the acceptable normal-heartbeat range, it is determined as an abnormal heartbeat. During a period after receiving the instruction to start the collection until reaching a time of starting the collection of X-ray detection information, when determined as an abnormal heartbeat, an X-ray irradiation start time is recalculated, and then determined.
US07756240B2	X-ray computed tomography apparatus The present invention provides an X-ray CT apparatus capable of improving image quality of a dual energy image. The X-ray CT apparatus comprises an X-ray tube for applying X rays having a first energy spectrum and X rays having a second energy spectrum different from the first energy spectrum to a subject, an X-ray data acquisition unit for acquiring X-ray projection data of the first energy spectrum projected onto the subject and X-ray projection data of the second energy spectrum projected thereonto, dual energy image reconstructing unit for image-reconstructing tomographic images indicative of X-ray tube voltage-dependent information at X-ray absorption coefficients related to a distribution of atoms, based on the X-ray projection data of the first energy spectrum and the X-ray projection data of the second energy spectrum, and adjusting unit for adjusting conditions for the image reconstruction in order to optimize the tomographic images indicative of the X-ray tube voltage-dependent information.
US07756234B2	Method of and system for controlling frame synchronization for European Digital Audio Broadcasting Disclosed are a method of and a system for controlling frame synchronization for European Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB), the method including the steps of generating a frame synchronization start-signal with respect to an incoming signal which is input when power is supplied, keeping symbol count values with the value “0” after the frame synchronization start-signal is input, transmitting a frame offset value with respect to the incoming signal, and restarting symbol counting for frame synchronization depending on the frame offset value after the frame offset value is input, wherein the frame synchronization unit may preferably transmit the frame offset value after estimating the frame offset value. In accordance with the method and system described herein, it is possible to achieve frame synchronization in short time, thereby reducing a startup time of a DAB receiver and power consumption which is needed for the frame synchronization.
US07756224B2	Viterbi decoding circuit and wireless device A setting register is provided in which parameters including a code rate, a constraint length, and a generator polynomial are changeably set according to a type of wireless communication standard, the parameters. A branch metric calculating unit generates branch metric information in an amount according to the code rate. A replica generating unit replicates, based on the generator polynomial, a specification of an encoder at a transmitting-end, and generates setting information related to selection of the branch metric information. A branch metric selection unit performs selection of an upper branch metric and a lower branch metric from among a plurality of pieces of the branch metric information, based on the setting information. An ACS unit determines a path metric for each step in a trellis diagram based on the upper branch metric and the lower branch metric, and to determine a surviving branch and a path metric value.
US07756223B2	Contactless data carrier with current demodulation A data carrier including demodulating circuitry for detecting a data signal carried by a received electromagnetic wave. The demodulator produces a signal derived from at least two additional signals. The first of the additional signals is dependent upon current received from the input to the data carrier and the second of the additional signals is dependent on current fluctuation relating to dynamic current loads.
US07756213B2	Method for enhancing bluetooth transmission speed and robustness of emitting end and receiving end of communication system A method for enhancing the Bluetooth transmission speed and robustness of an emitting end and a receiving end is provided. The method is utilized in a system having an emitting end and a receiving end, wherein at least one of the emitting and receiving ends is provided with BlueSPEED-PSK or BlueSPEED-DELTA-PSK (adapted Gray coded D16PSK) modulation with optional FEC.
US07756212B2	Channel estimation for wireless systems with multiple transit antennas In various embodiments, techniques are provided to determine channel characteristics of various communication systems such as OFDM systems or systems using a plurality of transmit antennas by using various sets of training symbols.
US07756203B2	Image processing apparatus A signal processing apparatus includes a conversion unit, an encoding unit, and a control unit. The conversion unit converts first moving image data having a first frame rate into second moving image data having a second frame rate by inserting a new frame into the first moving image data having the first frame rate at predetermined timing. The encoding unit encodes the second moving image data having the second frame rate by selectively using intra-frame encoding and inter-frame prediction encoding. The encoding unit classifies each frame of the second moving image data as a first frame type which is not referred to in the inter-frame prediction encoding and a second frame type which is referred to in the inter-frame prediction encoding, and the encoding unit encodes the second moving image data according to the classification result. The control unit controls the encoding unit such that the frame inserted by the conversion unit among the second moving image data is encoded by classifying the inserted frame as a particular frame type.
US07756192B2	Despreading of modulated signals with low noise A method of despreading modulated signals with low noise to demodulate a sum of spread signals from a base station of a mobile phone system provides the sum of spread signals to several paths. A despreading circuit in each path despreads the sum of spread signals by respective spreading codes. The despread signals are separated into channels and symbols for each channel are estimated on each path. The symbols are modulated by applicable Walsh codes corresponding to the respective channels, added and spread to produce an estimated spread signal corresponding to the spreading code for each path. Then the sum of spread signals is despread again on each path after the estimated spread signals of other paths are subtracted from the sum of spread signals so that the noise due to interference between the spreading codes is reduced.
US07756189B2	Two-light flux interference exposure device, two-light flux interference exposure method, semiconductor light emitting element manufacturing method, and semiconductor light emitting element The present invention discloses a two-light flux interference exposure device comprising: a laser light source provided in a laser resonator; a single harmonic generation device provided in the laser resonator for converting laser light output by the laser light source to higher harmonics; an etalon provided in the laser resonator so as to serve as a narrowband wavelength filter; a beam splitter dividing laser light output outside the laser resonator into two light fluxes; and an interference optic system causing the light fluxes to interfere with each other on a target to be exposed.
US07756184B2	Electrodes for generating a stable discharge in gas laser system Arcing is minimized in a discharge chamber of a gas laser system by utilizing an electrode which comprises a surface portion capable of functioning as one of an anode and a cathode in order to energize a gas mixture in a discharge chamber of the gas discharge laser system, a shoulder portion being positioned on either side of the surface portion and being exposed to the gas mixture, and a coating layer made of electrically insulating material, wherein the coating layer is attached to the shoulder portion by a cold spraying method.
US07756177B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device A semiconductor laser, having an active layer with a double-quantum-well structure, includes two InGaN well layers, each of which has a thickness of 5 nm. The threshold current deteriorates to a relatively small degree while differential efficiency is improved considerably in a region having a light confinement coefficient Γ of 3.0% or less. The light confinement coefficient indicates the proportion of light in the well layers with respect to light in the light emitting device, during light emission. When the light confinement coefficient Γ is less than 1.5%, the threshold current increases considerably and the improvement in differential efficiency becomes small. It is therefore preferable that the lower limit of the light confinement coefficient Γ be about 1.5%. A differential efficiency of 1.6 W/A or more is obtained when light the confinement coefficient Γ is 3.0% or less, and a differential efficiency of 1.7 W/A or more is obtained when the light confinement coefficient Γ is 2.6% or less.
US07756176B2	Interband tunneling intersubband transition semiconductor laser An interband resonant tunneling intersubband transition laser is disclosed, and includes a semiconductor substrate, and a first cladding layer, an active region structure layer and a second cladding layer formed on the semiconductor substrate. The active region structure layer includes quantum well layers and quantum barrier layers that are alternately stacked and have a broken energy bandgap. Thus, the interband resonant tunneling intersubband transition laser operates in a cascade mode in which an intersubband radiative transition and interband tunneling of carriers consecutively and repetitively occur in the active region structure layer, and thus can achieve a high output from a simple, compact structure.
US07756170B2	Frequency modulation in the optical alignment of wavelength-converted laser sources Methods of controlling semiconductor lasers are provided where the semiconductor laser generates a wavelength-modulated output beam λMOD that is directed towards the input face of a wavelength conversion device. The intensity of a wavelength-converted output λCONV of the device is monitored as the output beam of the laser is modulated and as the position of the modulated output beam λMOD on the input face of the wavelength conversion device is varied. A maximum value of the monitored intensity is correlated with optimum coordinates representing the position of the modulated output beam λMOD on the input face of the wavelength conversion device. The optical package is operated in the data projection mode by directing an intensity-modulated laser beam from the semiconductor laser to the wavelength conversion device using the optimum positional coordinates. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed. Laser controllers and projections systems are also provided.
US07756158B2	Radio integrated circuit and radio communication method A PHY-equipped radio LSI and a radio communication method capable of transmitting data without fail while maintaining a beacon interval. Using a selector which is switched by a beacon transmission signal output from a beacon register, a data transmission request signal is switched for transmitting data from a RAM to a PHY part, and a transfer is started when this signal goes to “1.” In this way, for transmitting beacon data, the beacon data has been previously transferred to the RAM, and the beacon data is transmitted at the time of beacon transmission interval with the PHY part remaining in a transmission state, so that the beacon interval can be maintained. In addition, it is possible to prevent a failure in the transmission of transfer data due to the state of the PHY part.
US07756150B2	Communication method for multi-mode wireless terminal Provided is a receiving method for a terminal supporting at least two communication modes and at least one receiving algorithms. The receiving method includes the terminal recognizing at least one current communication mode and a channel status, selecting a receiving algorithm for each active communication mode according to the channel status by referring to a previously designed algorithm lookup table, and receiving a signal of each active communication mode using the selected receiving algorithm. In the receiving method, by activating a combination of optimal receiving algorithms with computational complexity allowed by a system according to at least one active communication mode of a terminal and a channel status, multiple services can be efficiently provided.
US07756149B2	Ethernet switch and router for unshielded twisted pair/optical integrated network and frame processing method thereof An Ethernet switch/router for an unshielded twisted pair (UTP)/optical integrated network comprises: at least one physical chip for physical-layer processing the frame; at least one media module connected to at least one kind of media; and at least one cage having a socket connected to a corresponding physical chip via a signal bus, and connecting the media module to the physical chip via the signal bus when the media module is mounted.
US07756135B2	Packet data service in radio communication system Disclosed are a method and a device for offering a packet data service during a handover of a user terminal from one radio network controller to another. To avoid the loss of data during SRNS relocation, there is provided a method for checking the validity of the next expected receive PDCP sequence number sent from a receiver PDCP layer with the send PDCP sequence number of the first transmitted but not yet acknowledged PDCP SDU and the send PDCP sequence number first unsent PDCP SDU of the sender PDCP layer. A PDCP protocol structure is reconstructed to support a lossless SRNS relocation in the packet service domain, and control information and operational procedure therefore are newly defined. As a result, the lossless SRNS relocation is achieved in the packet service domain and the mobility of data communication is ensured.
US07756129B2	Personal area network with automatic attachment and detachment A network (100) includes a hub device (110) and at least one unattached peripheral device (120). The unattached peripheral device (120) transmits an attach request to the hub device (110) with a selected address, receives a new address from the hub device to identify the unattached peripheral device (120), and communicates with the hub device (110) using the new address.
US07756125B2	Method and arrangement for routing pseudo-wire encapsulated packets A destination router label is added to Pseudo Wire encapsulated data packets for crossing a Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. Data arrives at a PW function, which performs PW encapsulation, further adding a PWE control word and a PWE label. The PW function also adds a destination router label (DRL). The DRL is configured at PW creation time with a PW control message (that is, an unsolicited LabelMap message) to a specific edge router. The packet may then be sent to a Traffic Engineering (TE) function, which uses the DRL to make the routing decision for the packet. The routing decision includes adding a PSN tunnel label to replace the DRL label for crossing the transport network. The rest of the processing is conventional PWE3 transport on MPLS; that is, when the packet is received at a second PW function, it removes the PW encapsulations and forwards the packet based on the contents of the PWE label.
US07756122B2	Methods and devices for providing seamless global roaming using an all-IP network A Global Roaming Application Server is adapted to act as an intermediary between all Internet Protocol (IP)-based network(s) and non-IP-based network(s), such as a circuit-switched landline network, an ANSI-41 network, wireless LAN network, a Global System for Mobile Communications network or Universal Mobile Telecommunications System network. In a first or forward direction, the Application Server enables a user in a non-IP network to be located in accordance with user profiles at the request of another user who has chosen to send a message via an all-IP based network. After the user in the non-IP network is so located, the Application Server enables a signaling link to be created between the two users. The Application Server may also be used to enable a signaling link when a message is sent in a second, or reverse direction.
US07756116B2	Supplementary services using secure media In one particular embodiment, the secure media includes information sent using secure real-time transfer protocol (sRTP). Supplementary services may include call transfers, forwards/redirects, call hold with music on hold (MOH), call hold with no MoH, call resume, call park, call pickup, call blast etc. In a call flow, a call request may be received from a first device for a second device. The call request may include at least one set of keys and be ready for establishment of an sRTP call. It is then determined that a supplementary service is needed for the call request. For example, a supplementary service may indicate that a call redirect to a third device is required. The gateway then facilitates a supplementary service call with the third device. This is facilitated without contacting the first device to generate a second key after receiving the initial call request.
US07756103B2	Device, system and method of adjustment of a delivery mechanism according to access categories Embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of selecting one or more power save parameters of a wireless device according to an expected traffic pattern. For example, a method according to embodiments of the invention includes selecting either an automatic power save delivery mechanism or a legacy power save delivery mechanism for transmitting a frame based on an access category of the frame to be transmitted. A method according to embodiments of the invention may include switching the delivery mechanism from an automatic power save delivery mechanism to a legacy power save delivery mechanism for access categories that are both trigger- and delivery-enabled if the access category indicates that burst-type traffic is expected. Other features are described and claimed.
US07756102B2	Distributed determination of dynamic frame sizes in a network A communication system includes devices configured to communicate with each other through a temporal sequence of frames. Each of these frames includes multiple sub-channels and the total number of sub-channels in a given frame is dynamically determined based on a transmission schedule. Furthermore, the transmission schedule is calculated by the devices based on transmission lists that are exchanged between the devices. For example, a first transmission list for a first device includes a first group of sub-channels reserved by the first device, and a second group of sub-channels reserved by a set of devices communicating with the first device.
US07756094B2	Interoperable mobile ad hoc network Nodes of a network become aware of services provided by the other nodes of the network. A node can store information in a registry that indicates services that the node itself can provide. A node can inform other nodes of services it provides by sending advertisements over the network. Each node can store advertisements from other nodes in a cache. When the node requires a service, it can inspect the registry and the cache to determine where the service can be obtained. If the node cannot find the service listed in the registry and cache, the node can send out a request for the service to the other nodes. A node receiving a request for a service can then check its registry and cache for the service and send a reply with information that allows the requesting node to obtain service from the node that provides the service.
US07756089B2	Fair rate allocation on an IEEE 802.11e communication medium Wireless stations (108-1-108-N) contending for exclusive access for a predetermined period of time (S232) to transmit on a communication medium (112) are regulated by a common external controller (104) using a single timing parameter (S204). Attempts at transmission access are preceded by respective delays that are expired simultaneously and at a common rate by the stations at times when the stations sense the medium to be idle (S224). The delays are pseudo-randomly selected to avoid collisions among stations in their respective access attempts (S208). Default, initial values of the respective delays (S204) applied to the stations, when multiplied by the respective expected number of transmission attempts by the stations over the long term over periods of time when no transmission attempt is unsuccessful, yield respective products equal to a constant value common to all stations (S312). The default values therefore serve as a knob by which the controller regulates air time opportunity.
US07756073B2	Method for updating a routing entry The present invention concerns method for updating a routing entry BC for a communication partner node CN communicating with a communication originating node MN via a network containing at least one routing node HA, the method comprising the steps of: requesting (1) a routing entry update from the communication originating node MN to the communication partner node CN, wherein the update request contains at least an identification BUIN of the request, submitting (2) request verification information, associated to the identification BUIN of the update request, from the communication originating node MN to the least one routing node, requesting (4) verification of the routing entry update by the communication partner node CN to the routing node HA using the identification BUIN of the update request, retrieving (5) the request verification information from the routing node based on said identification BUIN of the update request.
US07756070B2	Method for supporting pilot boost in E-DCH of WCDMA The method for supporting pilot boost to the uplink dedicated channels in the WCDMA system comprising steps of: transmitting E-TFCI to a Node B by a UE; adjusting an uplink pilot power boosting amplitude by the UE according to the E-TFCI; and performing a uplink inner loop power control by the Node B according to a measured SIR, a target preset by the inner loop power control and a pilot boost amplitude resulted from the E-TFCI. The object of supporting pilot boost is achieved by transmitting E-TFCI in advance by the UE, adjusting the power of pilot according to the E-TFCI properly, and considering the pilot power boosting amplitude when the Node B performs inner loop power control in the invention. Thus, the object of improving the capacity of the wireless communication system can be accomplished through supporting the pilot boost in the invention.
US07756067B2	Wireless communication equipment, wireless communication control method, and program According to this invention, a wireless communication equipment which communicates with a plurality of nodes supplies an access control technique for improving communication efficiency. For this purpose, a wireless communication equipment is connected to a plurality of networks, and includes a communication unit which sequentially communicates, at a predetermined interval, with devices included in the plurality of network, a determination unit which determinates a communication control parameter of each of the devices when a connection network count changes, a notification unit which notifies the device in the network of the communication control parameter determined by the determination unit, and a communication control unit which controls the communication unit in accordance with the communication control parameter notified by the notification unit.
US07756066B2	Seamless spanning tree restart of a single supervisor Disclosed are methods and apparatus for restarting a first network device having a plurality of ports for receiving and transmitting layer 2 data. The first network device belongs to a network of network devices. When a restart of at least a portion of the first network device is imminent whereby STP is no longer functioning for the first network device during the restart and can no longer alter a spanning tree protocol (STP) state of one or more of the ports and such ports that remain in a fixed state during the restart are referred to as restarting ports, a current state (such as forwarding) of each restarting port is maintained during the restart under predefined conditions. During the restart, each of the restarting ports of the restarting network device portion cooperate with its peer port of a second non-restarting network device that is a neighbor of the first network device so as to prevent layer 2 loops in the network.
US07756065B2	Domain name service system and method thereof The present invention relates to a domain name service system and method thereof. According to the present invention, a domain name service can be provided through a mobile host and domain name servers having smallest hop counts, based on position information on the domain name servers included in external links. Therefore, a domain name service can be provided within a short time regardless of operating modes of the domain name servers. Furthermore, it is possible to reduce system traffic since the addresses of optimal domain name servers are provided to edge routers.
US07756061B2	Mobile router device and home agent device In a home agent device, a message reception unit receives a request of deleting a registration of a mobile router device which has become in a non-connection state, a binding cache registration deletion reception unit judges that it is for deleting a mobile router device which is not a transmission source, and if a mobile router device of the transmission source has the authority of deleting the registration of the target mobile router device, a proxy deletion reception judgment unit deletes the registration of the requested mobile router, therefore, it can be prevented that packets are transmitted to the mobile router device which has become in the non-connection state.
US07756060B2	Tone allocation in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing Systems and methods for OFDM tone allocation are provided. In one embodiment, an end-user communication device comprises: a first remote unit for communicating with a host unit using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), the host unit communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote units in a multipoint-to-point configuration, wherein OFDM waveform from distinct remote units of the plurality of remote units combine to a unified OFDM waveform at the host unit. The first remote unit is configured to transmit up to a plurality of tones, the up to a plurality of tones modulated with upstream information using OFDM. The first remote unit is configured to determine when bandwidth is needed for upstream transmission to the host unit. The first remote unit is configured to transmit a request for bandwidth to the host unit on a first tone of the plurality of tones, wherein access to the first tone is contention-based.
US07756044B2	Inverse multiplexing heterogeneous wireless links for high-performance vehicular connectivity Systems and methods are provided that enable high-performance Internet access on board moving vehicles. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary wireless data communications environment comprises a PluriBus module, an instruction set comprising at least one instruction set to process data for wireless communication between a cooperating component onboard a moving vehicle and other cooperating wireless components, and one or more multiple wide-area wireless communications links. In an illustrative operation, the PluriBus module can perform one more wireless communications techniques comprising opportunistic erasure coding such that coded packets can be sent in the event that there are openings in the one or more wireless communication links' capacity and transmitting the data packets along the one or more wireless communications links that is estimated (e.g., in real time) to offer efficient delivery of data packets.
US07756038B2	Service advertisement framework (SAF) in a communications network In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first update message at a first forwarding node from a second forwarding node of the communications network. The first update message includes forwarded service type data that indicates a type of service available via the second forwarding node, and forwarded cost data that indicates a first cost of communications to obtain the type of service via the second forwarding node. An incremental cost is determined for communications between the first forwarding node and the second forwarding node. Service data is stored at the first forwarding node. The service data indicates the type of service is associated with the second forwarding node at a total cost based on the first cost and the incremental cost. A second update message that includes forwarded cost data based on the total cost is sent over the network from the first forwarding node.
US07756027B1	Automatic configuration of virtual network switches In general, techniques are described in which a plurality of network switches automatically configure themselves to operate as a single virtual network switch. A virtual switch is a collection of individual switch devices that operate like as single network switch. As described herein, network switches in a network that are capable of participating in a virtual switch may automatically discover one another. The participating network switches may then elect one of the participating switches as a master switch. The master switch may generate forwarding information and store the forwarding information in the participating switches, including the master switch. The forwarding information causes the participating switches to act like a single network switch.
US07756023B2	Adaptive physical transmission mode selection A data transmission network comprises two groups of nodes (1; 2, 3, 4), a radio interface associated to each group and connected to the nodes (1) of the group and a radio path (5) between the two radio interfaces (9), in which several groups (1412, 1413, 1414) of virtual paths (15) of warranted bandwidth are transmitted between one node (1) of the first group and one node (2, 3, 4) of the second group. The sum of the bandwidths warranted to the groups (1412, 1413, 1414) of virtual paths does not exceed the total bandwidth of the radio path (5) when operated in a transmission mode referred to as basic mode. The radio interfaces (9) support several physical transmission modes of different bandwidths and are adapted to detect the transmission quality of the radio path (5) and to operate, the transmission quality of the radio path (5) permitting, the radio path (5) in a transmission mode of higher bandwidth than that of the basic mode and to use the bandwidth difference between the used mode and the basic mode for bandwidth need of the groups of virtual paths in excess of the warranted bandwidth.
US07756016B2	Method and apparatus for efficient link redundancy A method that changes the selection of a 2:1 multiplexer that receives a first output signal from a first framer and a second output signal from a second framer. The first output signal is the same as the second output signal. An apparatus having a framer and a 2:1 multiplexer that receives an inbound signal from the framer. A first multiplexer receives at least one signal from another framer and the 2:1 multiplexer has an input coupled to an output from the first multiplexer. A second multiplexer receives at least one signal from the other framer and the second multiplexer has an output coupled to an input of the framer for an outbound signal.
US07756015B1	Fast failover recovery for stackable network switches A stack unit for a stackable network switch, the stack unit having corresponding methods and computer programs, comprises a network port to exchange packets with a network; two stacking interfaces each to exchange the packets over a respective stacking link with another stack unit, wherein each stacking interface is assigned to the other stacking interface as an alternate stacking interface; and a forwarding engine to transfer the packets among the stacking interfaces and network port; wherein when one of the stacking links is down, the respective stacking interface toggles a loop flag in each packet received from the forwarding engine, and returns each received packet to the forwarding engine; and wherein the forwarding engine transfers each packet received from one of the stacking interfaces to the respective alternate stacking interface when the loop flag for the packet is set.
US07756010B2	Method and system for preventing data packet loss in a redundant PDSN environment A method and apparatus are provided for preventing data-packet loss upon a switchover from an active to a standby PDSN, in a redundant PDSN environment. Data-packet loss is prevented by modifying the checking of the sequence number associated with the data-packets. The first sequence number received upon switchover is used to determine the order of the subsequent GRE frames. The standby PDSN sends keep-alive packets associated with an arbitrary sequence number to a packet control function (PCF). On receiving a response from the PCF, the arbitrary sequence number is used as a starting sequence number for sending the data-packets. Otherwise, keep-alive packets with modified numbers are sent to the PCF. In synchronized communication sessions between the PDSN and the PCF, data-packet loss can be prevented by disabling the checking of the sequence number upon a switchover. In another embodiment, data-packet loss is prevented by excluding the sequence number.
US07756006B2	Communication device In a communication device for receiving signals from devices that become communication partners, received signals from the respective devices are identified. Each of the devices that become communication partners is provided with a frequency spectrum of a pattern specific to each of the devices. The communication device stores correspondence between information identifying the devices that become communication partners and the frequency spectrums provided to the respective devices, acquires a frequency spectrum contained in a received signal, compares the frequency spectrum acquired with the frequency spectrums stored to identify a device corresponding to the frequency spectrum that coincides with the frequency spectrum acquired and which is stored.
US07756002B2	Time-frequency interleaved orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra wide band physical layer A PHY entity for a UWB system utilizes the unlicensed 3.1-10.6 GHZ UWB band, as regulated in the United States by the Code of Federal Regulation, Title 47, Section 15. The UWB system provides a wireless pico area network (PAN) with data payload communication capabilities of 55, 80, 110, 160, 200, 320 and 480 Mb/s. The UWB system employs orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and uses a total of 122 sub-carriers that are modulated using quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK). Forward error correction coding (convolutional coding) is used with a coding rate of 11/32, 1/2, 5/8 and 3/4.
US07756001B2	Apparatus and method of deciding received symbol in M-PSK system An apparatus for and method of deciding symbols in a M-ary phase shift keying (MPSK) system are provided. The apparatus includes: a linear transform unit performing linear transform, to which a phase error is applied, of a received pair of symbols; and a symbol decision unit deciding a transmitted symbol corresponding to the received pair of symbols according to the sign value of the transformed symbol pair. According to the apparatus and method, degradation of a symbol error rate caused by a phase error when an MPSK signal is demodulated can be improved and a phase error can be estimated through a simple method.
US07756000B2	Spread baseband injected pilot carrier A system for communicating includes a transmitter that has an encoder and baseband modulator that encodes and modulates a sequence of data symbols as a payload data constellation to be communicated. A PN sequence generator and baseband modulator form a pilot signal as a training sequence with a periodically repeating spread spectrum sequence. A circuit superimposes the pilot signal over the sequence of data symbols to form a composite communication signal that is transmitted. A receiver receives the composite communication signal and extracts the pilot signal from the composite communication signal.
US07755991B2	Method for detecting radial tilt of optical recording medium in optical head device, optical head device, and optical information recording/reproducing device The light emitted from a semiconductor laser is divided by a diffractive optical element into three light beams which are 0th-order light as the main beam and ±1st-order diffracted lights as the sub-beams, and the track error signals by the main beam and the sub-beams are detected, respectively, by a differential phase detection method. By the effect of the diffractive optical element, the light intensity distributions of the main beam and the sub-beams become different when making incidence on an objective lens. Therefore, when there is radial tilt in a disk, the phases of the track error signals by the main beam and the sub-beams are shifted with each other. Based on the shift in the phases of the track error signals, radial tilt of the disk is detected.
US07755986B2	Optical disk apparatus and servo control method An optical disk apparatus includes: a light source that emits laser light; an optical section including an objective lens group positioned in close proximity to an optical recording medium to generate near-field light from laser light emitted from the light source; a gap servo section configured to control a gap between the optical recording medium and the optical section on the basis of a return light quantity of the laser light via the optical section; a focus adjusting section configured to adjust focus of the near-field light radiated onto the optical recording medium of the optical section, in a state where gap servo is being performed by the gap servo section; and a gap servo correcting section configured to correct the gap servo by the gap servo section when focus of the near-field light is adjusted by the focus adjusting section.
US07755984B2	Method of controller and data carrier drive apparatus for controlling loading means supporting a data carrier A data carrier drive apparatus (1) comprises data carrier loading means (3) for supporting a data carrier, which data carrier loading means (3) is movable between an open and a closed end position along a traveling path by means of a loading means motor (4); and detection means (23, 25) being arranged to monitor an electric driving current (IM) or a driving voltage (UM) impressed to the loading means motor (4), wherein the detection means (23, 25) is adapted to detect a predefined signal pattern of the driving current (IM) or voltage (UM), which signal pattern is representative for the traveling of the loading means along its traveling path at a specific position or section of the path.
US07755974B2	Side scan sonar imaging system with enhancement A system for use with a boat to provide underwater sonar images, includes a left side scan sonar transducer for transmitting left side scan sonar pulses and for receiving left side scan sonar return signals, a right side scan sonar transducer for transmitting right side scan sonar pulses and for receiving right side scan sonar return signals, and signal processing circuitry for processing the left and right side scan sonar return signals to produce side scan image data. The system further includes a user interface including user inputs and a display and a digital processor for providing signals to the display to show an underwater image based upon the side scan image data, wherein the digital processor, in response to a user command, performs an image enhancement algorithm to enhance the underwater image.
US07755962B2	Semiconductor memory devices, memory systems and computing systems including the same A semiconductor memory device includes a reference current generating circuit configured to generate a bias signal in response to a precharge signal during a precharge operation. Each of a plurality of sense amplifier circuits is connected to a corresponding one of a plurality of bit lines. Each sense amplifier is configured to precharge a corresponding bit line in response to the bias signal. The reference current generating circuit is configured to maintain the bias signal at a level higher than a voltage of the bit lines, but lower than a supply voltage during a sensing operation.
US07755958B2	Semiconductor memory device and method thereof A semiconductor memory device and method thereof are provided. The example semiconductor memory device may include a plurality of comparators receiving output data signals from each of a plurality of sub-array blocks, comparing the output data signals from each of the plurality of sub-array blocks and outputting a plurality of comparison result signals and a test circuit receiving the plurality of comparison result signals from the plurality of comparators, respectively, the test circuit configured to selectively output one of a given one of the plurality of comparison result signals on a given data input/output pad and a given signal obtained by performing a logical operation on at least two of the plurality of comparison result signals on the given data input/output pad in response to a select signal.
US07755957B2	Semiconductor memory, method of controlling the semiconductor memory, and memory system A semiconductor memory comprising an address transition detection circuit for detecting a transition of an address and outputs an address detection signal; an address input circuit for inputting an input address based upon the address detection signal; a command judgment circuit for decoding a command signal input and outputting a command judgment signal; a redundancy circuit for making a redundancy judgment based upon a redundancy judgment signal indicating timing of a redundancy judgment, wherein the redundancy circuit includes a redundancy judgment speed-up circuit for controlling an output of the redundancy judgment signal based upon a predetermined command signal.
US07755956B2	Non-volatile semiconductor memory and method for replacing defective blocks thereof A non-volatile semiconductor memory includes a memory cell array. The memory cell array includes a plurality of banks, redundant blocks, and special blocks storing management data. Each bank includes a plurality of normal blocks, which include a plurality of electrically rewritable memory cells, the normal block being a minimum unit which is independently erased, and the redundant block configured to replace the normal block and being incapable of replacing the special block. A defective block automatic replacement sequence control circuit controls the replacement operation of the defective block FBLK with the redundant block RBLK in a defective block automatic replacement sequence.
US07755938B2	Method for reading a memory array with neighbor effect cancellation Disclosed is a method of reducing the neighbor effect while reading data in a non-volatile memory array. The method includes sensing adjacent memory cells. The sensing of the two adjacent cells is performed substantially simultaneously and through at least a partially shared sensing path.
US07755929B2	Spin-injection device and magnetic device using spin-injection device First and second tunnel junctions having a common electrode composed of a nonmagnetic conductor and each of which has a counterelectrode composed of a ferromagnet are spaced apart from each other by a distance that is shorter than a spin diffusion length of the nonmagnetic conductor. The first tunnel junction injects spin from the ferromagnet into the nonmagnetic conductor and the second tunnel junction detects, between the ferromagnetic metal and the nonmagnetic conductor, a voltage that accompanies spin injection of the first tunnel junction. The nonmagnetic conductor may be a semiconductor or semimetal that is lower in carrier density than a metal. The common electrode alternatively may be composed of a superconductor. A spin injection device thus provided can exhibit a large signal voltage with a low current and under low magnetic field and can be miniaturized in device size.
US07755903B2	Heat dissipation apparatus A heat dissipating apparatus includes a base, a heat sink received in the base, and a retaining cover attached to the base. The retaining cover defines two crossing slots for cooperatively forming at least one flap. Each free portion of flap has a free portion. The free portion of each flap elastically curves towards the heat sink to bias the heat sink towards the base.
US07755902B2	Heat dissipation device for computer add-on cards A heat dissipation device to be mounted on a heat-generating component of a graphics card includes a base in contact with the heat-generating component, a heat dissipating member placed on the base, a fan mounted on the base adjacent to an end of the base, and a covering body. The fan is located closely to the heat dissipating member and generates airflow to the heat dissipating member. The dissipating member has a cellular structure integrally formed therein. The covering body includes a top wall in contact with a top of the dissipating member and a sidewall extending downwardly from an edge of the top wall and surrounding the dissipating member and the fan. The cellular structure comprises a plurality of elongated passages extending from the fan to another end of the base away from the fan.
US07755900B2	Heat dissipating module A heat dissipating module including a first heat sink, a second heat sink, a connector, a pivot and a heat pipe is provided. The first heat sink is disposed on a circuit board and contacts a heat source. The second heat sink has a first pivotal hole and a limiting opening. The connector has a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion. The first connecting portion is fixedly connected to the first heat sink. The second connecting portion has a limiting protrusion and a second pivotal hole corresponding to the first pivotal hole. The pivot passes through the first pivotal hole and the second pivotal hole and is pivotally connected to the connector and the second heat sink. The limiting protrusion protrudes into the limiting opening to limit the rotation angle of the second heat sink relative to the connector.
US07755893B2	Display device The present invention provides a display apparatus that can achieve high durability by making the most of the function of the exhaust fans to effectively suppress the rise of the temperature. The display apparatus comprises a display panel for displaying images, a rear case covering a rear side of the display panel, and an exhaust fan disposed within the rear case, wherein the rear case includes a first air-hole area and a second air-hole area each provided with a plurality of air holes, the first air-hole area is located at a higher level than the second air-hole area with respect to a vertical direction with a spacing therebetween, and at least partially faces the exhaust fan, and an area surrounded by the first air-hole area, the second air-hole area and external common tangents thereof is a shielded area in which no air hole is provided.
US07755890B2	Device for the integration of a laptop computer into an aircraft The updating and consultation of flight documents, aeronautical maps and aircraft documentation is being facilitated by migration towards laptop-accessible electronic versions of these documents. To facilitate inflight exploitation of these documents, the laptop is connected to a docking station (105) itself connected to input (107)/output (106) peripherals accessible from flight decks. This docking station and these peripherals are mounted permanently in the cockpit. A laptop can then be introduced into the docking station so that the resources of this laptop can be exploited by the pilot or pilots during all the phases of a flight.
US07755879B2	Non-aqueous electrolytic solution for electric double layer capacitor and electric double layer capacitor using the same To provide a non-aqueous electrolytic solution for an electric double layer capacitor excellent in low-temperature characteristics, which solution has from 15 to 40 mass % of an electrolyte, more than 30 mass % and at most 45 mass % of a fluorobenzene represented by the following formula 1, and from 15 to 55 mass % of a cyclic carbonate represented by the formula 2: in the formula 1, n is an integer of from 1 to 6, and in the formula 2, each of R1 and R2 which are independent of each other, is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group.
US07755870B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes: a circuit to be protected connected between a power supply line and a ground line; a first resistance connected to an external input terminal at one terminal and to an input terminal of the circuit to be protected at the other terminal; a first electrostatic discharge protection circuit including a first voltage drop circuit connected to the power supply line at one terminal and to the input terminal of the circuit to be protected at the other terminal; and a second electrostatic discharge protection circuit including a second voltage drop circuit connected to the input terminal of the circuit to be protected at one terminal and to the ground line at the other terminal.
US07755867B2	Controlled air bearing (CAB) for magnetic spacing control The present invention relates to a controlled air bearing which allows adjustable control over the magnetic spacing between the pole tips of a slider and the surface of the disc. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a slider for use in a data storage system, the slider comprises a base portion having a leading edge end and a trailing edge end. The embodiment further comprises a movable air bearing surface element positioned at the leading edge end of the base portion. Finally, the embodiment further comprises an actuator positioned at the leading edge end of the base portion and coupling the base portion to the movable air bearing surface element, the actuator selectively controllable to move the movable air bearing surface element relative to the base portion to alter an air bearing surface provided by the base portion and the movable air bearing surface element to thereby control a fly height of the slider. The present invention includes a method for implementing the steps performed by the embodiment of the apparatus.
US07755865B2	Vibration reducing head suspension mechanism for a magnetic disc unit There is provided a head suspension mechanism capable of more effectively restraining sway mode and second-order torsion mode vibrations of the head suspension mechanism caused by an air flow. A flange portion having a free end portion 23c on the base part side is formed at both edges close to the tip end of a suspension main frame 23, and at the same time, an elastic material 23d is provided in the free end portion 23c. Also, a sway mode dynamic vibration absorber is formed by the length of the flange portion and the damping effect of the elastic material 23d.
US07755853B2	Imaging lens An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the imaging lens, a first lens having a positive refractive power and having a convex surface on the object side; a second lens having a negative refractive power and having a concave surface on the object side; a third lens having a positive refractive power in the vicinity of an optical axis thereof; and a fourth lens of a meniscus lens having a negative refractive power and having a convex surface on the object side, the imaging lens satisfying the specific conditional expressions.
US07755851B2	Subminiature imaging optical system There is provided a subminiature imaging optical system installed in a mobile telecommunication terminal or a PDA, or used in a surveillance camera or a digital camera. The subminiature imaging optical system including: first, second, third and fourth lenses sequentially positioned from an object side to an image side, the first lens having positive refractive power, the second lens having negative refractive power, the third lens having negative refractive power, and the fourth lens having positive refractive power, wherein each of the third and fourth lenses has at least one aspherical surface. The subminiature imaging optical system corrects chromatic aberration superbly to reduce color fringing significantly, thereby achieving high resolution and compactness as well.
US07755844B2	Zoom lens, optical apparatus equipped with the zoom lens and method for forming an image of an object and varying a focal length A zoom lens comprises the following lens groups in the order from an object side a first lens group having a positive refracting power; a second lens group having a negative refracting power; a third lens group having a positive refracting power; a fourth lens group having a positive refracting power; and a fifth lens group having a positive refracting power; wherein, upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, at least the first lens group and the fourth lens group move to the object side to vary a space between the first lens group and the second lens group, vary a space between the second lens group and the third lens group, vary a space between the third lens group and the fourth lens group, and vary a space between the fourth lens group and the fifth lens group; and wherein the fifth lens group comprises a front lens group, and a rear lens group arranged with an air space on an image side of the front lens group, and the fifth lens group is configured to move the front lens group in a direction of an optical axis to adjust focus to a close object.
US07755837B2	Image display apparatus An image display apparatus is disclosed in which the position of an exit pupil can follow the movement of a pupil of an observer even with a small size. The apparatus includes an image-forming element which forms an image, an ocular unit which causes light from the image-forming element to form an exit pupil, and an optical element which reflects the light from the image-forming element toward the ocular unit. The optical element has an optical power and is rotated about a focal point of the ocular unit on the side closer to the image-forming element to move the exit pupil.
US07755836B2	Imaging system and method to change field depth An imaging system comprises a masking element configured to mask a predetermined quantity of lens elements of a lens array during a scan of a media object to change a depth of field of the lens array.
US07755831B2	Night vision glasses Image-intensifying glasses 100 that are suitable for certain commercial and entertainment applications by virtue of their light weight, small size, and economical production, compared to certain other night vision products. In one disclosed embodiment, input light passes through two Amici prisms 144 and 148 and a field-flattening lens 150 to reach an image intensifier 152. The intensified image it produces is reflected off a first folding mirror 162, passes through a lens 154, reflects off a curved mirror 156, and passes back through the lens 154 the other way. The intensified image then passes through two additional, non-doublet lenses 158 and 160, between which an intermediate image exists. The intensified image then reflects off the “lens,” or visor 130, of the glasses and proceeds to the pupil of eye 131 of the wearer. Alternative embodiments use a helmet visor, mirror, or other (at least partially) reflective surface for the final reflection.
US07755824B2	Micromirror unit with torsion connector having nonconstant width A micromirror unit is provided which includes a frame, a mirror forming base upon which a mirror surface is formed, and a torsion connector which includes a first end connected to the mirror forming base and a second end connected to the frame. The torsion connector defines a rotation axis about which the mirror forming base is rotated relative to the frame. The torsion connector has a width measured in a direction which is parallel to the mirror surface and perpendicular to the rotation axis. The width of the torsion connector is relatively great at the first end. The width becomes gradually smaller from the first end toward the second end.
US07755822B2	Multibeam optical scanning device and image forming apparatus A multibeam optical scanning device includes a plurality of light sources; a collimating lens; an aperture; a cylinder lens; a light deflecting unit; a scanning optical system; and a phase adjusting element. The phase adjusting element performs phase adjustments of wavefronts of the light beams to expand a depth allowance without substantially increasing a beam spot size of each of the beam spots on the scanning surface.
US07755817B2	Color gamut mapping Mapping of color gamut in a three-dimensional color space is performed by converting coordinates of source reference points to coordinates of destination reference points, and converting coordinates of an initial point to coordinates of a target point based on a first relationship among a first set of volumes and a second relationship among a second set of volumes. The first set of volumes are defined at least in part by the initial point and at least a subset of the source reference points, and the second set of volumes are defined at least in part by the target point and at least a subset of the destination reference points.
US07755816B2	Semiconductor device capable of preventing erroneous operation attributed to electrostatic noise, and input device and scanner capable of preventing electrostatic noise A semiconductor device includes: a plurality of external signal input means; an external input unit having a switch each connected between the external signal input means and a read line and electrically connected for output from the external signal input means on the read line; a shift register receiving an external control signal and an external clock signal and synchronized with the external clock signal to shift successively the external control signal to provide shifted data and output the external control signal to electrically connect the switches in accordance with the shifted data; an output circuit receiving the external control signal from the shift register and externally outputting the external control signal; and a frequency divider circuit dividing the external clock signal in frequency to generate and output an internal clock signal, wherein the output circuit is synchronized with the internal clock signal to externally output the external control signal.
US07755813B2	Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus which reads a document image optically at a reading position while feeding the document over a reading glass. A document guide sheet for forming a step so as to prevent an imaged surface of a fed document from coming into contact with the reading glass is provided at an upstream side of the reading position with respect to a document feeding direction. The reading glass is capable of reciprocating in the document feeding direction by a specified distance x2. If the document guide sheet is located such that a downstream edge of the document guide sheet is at a distance x1 from the reading position, the distances x1 and x2 are in relationship of x1
US07755810B2	Image reading apparatus According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an image reading apparatus including: a first plate including a stationary document reading region; an image reader configured to scan a document on the first plate; a carriage supporting the image reader in a state that the carriage keeps the image reader predetermined distance from the first plate; and a guiding member that makes the image reader move downwardly by contacting an edge of the first plate.
US07755804B2	Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus for reading an image with respect to a plurality of colors, including: a reference member; an image reading device including a plurality of light receiving elements, the image reading device reading the reference member to obtain white level information for the respective colors, the white level information for each of the colors being a set of data of a quantity obtained by the light receiving elements, the read image being corrected based on at least the white level information; a ratio calculator calculating a ratio among the information of the respective colors; an abnormal-data determiner determining that a first piece of data in the level information of any particular color is abnormal data, where the first piece of data is different from a second specific piece of data in the level information of the same color which second specific piece of data is in a predetermined relationship with the first specific data, by an amount not smaller than a threshold, or where the first specific data is outside a range; and a data corrector obtaining correction data obtained by multiplying, by the ratio, corresponding data which corresponds to the abnormal data according to a predefined principle and included in the information of at least one color determined to be not including the abnormal data, and replaces the abnormal data with the correction data.
US07755803B2	Image reading device and method, and an image forming apparatus and method An image reading device having plural image sensors and a reading controller is disclosed. The image reading device is for obtaining image data over a subject by joining sub-image data outputs read by the image sensors, each image sensor comprising: a signal amplifier; and an A/D converter for converting an analog value output from the image sensor to a digital value; whereby the reading controller adjusts an amplification factor of each signal amplifier so that a read value of a white board read by each image sensor becomes a predetermined value.
US07755802B2	Toner-based noise reduction in electrostatography In the method, a digital image is received. A granularity model is constructed of each of the toner stations. A noise table is produced. The noise table is based on the granularity models and is adaptive to the content of the digital image. Noise is reduced in the digital image using the noise table. The digital image is divided into a plurality of color records, each corresponding to a respective toner station. The color records of the noise reduced digital image are printed using respective toner stations. Each granularity model defines a toner applied by the respective toner station.
US07755801B2	Image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a medium on which an image processing control program is recorded, an image evaluation device, an image evaluation method and a medium on which an image evaluation program is recorded In image processing according to the prior art, the important part of photographic image data (referred to herein as the object) could not be determined and therefore required human participation.A computer 21 which is the core of image processing calculates an edginess which is an image variation from a differential value of data for adjacent picture elements in a step SA110, and determines object picture elements by selecting only images with a large variation in steps SA120, SA130. As optimum parameters for contrast correction and lightness compensation are calculated from image data for object picture elements in steps SA310-SA330, image processing indicators based on object picture elements are determined, and optimum image processing can be performed automatically. After summing a luminance distribution for each area of the image, which is a feature amount, while uniformly selecting picture elements in a step SB110, a reevaluation is performed by a weighting determined for each area in a step SB120, and a luminance distribution strongly influenced by the luminance distribution of the photographed object is thus obtained with uniform sampling. After determining the intensity of this luminance distribution insteps SB130-SB150, the image data is converted in a step SB160, and image processing can therefore be performed with optimum intensity while reducing the processing amount.
US07755797B2	Picture color tone controlling method and apparatus In a picture color tone control method and apparatus for a printing press, in order to make it possible to use an IRGB densitometer to perform color tone control even when printing is performed with a density which exceeds an estimated maximum color space, a target color mixture halftone density for each ink supplying unit width when a printing picture is divided with an ink supplying unit width of ink supplying apparatus 6, 7 is set, and an actual color mixture halftone density for each ink supplying unit width of an actually printed sheet obtained by printing is measured using an IRGB densitometer 1. The color mixture halftone densities are individually converted into tone values. Thereupon, for the conversion into actual tone values, the publicly known Neugebauer expression wherein the Yule-Nielsen coefficient n is set to such a value that the tone values and the color mixture halftone density value have a substantially linear relationship to each other is used. Further, the tone values are converted into a monochromatic halftone density, and a solid density difference corresponding to the difference between the target monochromatic halftone density and an actual monochromatic halftone density is determined using the Yule-Nielsen expression or the like. Then, the ink supplying amount is adjusted for each ink supplying unit width in response to the solid density difference.
US07755767B2	Resonator-amplified absorption spectrometer The invention relates to a device (10) for determining absorption of a sample, comprising an incoherent radiation source (12) for generating a measuring light beam (20), a resonator that is provided with at least two mirrors (30, 32) into which the measuring light beam can be coupled, a sample volume (38) for receiving an absorbing sample within the resonator (14), and a detector (18) for absorbing the radiation that can be decoupled from the resonator (14). The inventive device (10) includes spectrometric or interferometric means (16), provided between the radiation source (12) and the detector (18), for spectrally splitting the measuring light beam. Means may also be provided for generating a signal that represents the amplitude of the measuring light beam independently of the phase.
US07755761B2	Self-normalizing contour drilling machine A self-normalizing contour surface drilling apparatus drills holes into contour surfaces with the drill bit of the apparatus oriented normally to the contour surface. The apparatus first determines a location of a hole to be drilled and the orientation of the drill bit relative to the surface at the hole location, and adjusts the position of the drill bit so that the drill bit is positioned normally to the hole location. The apparatus then drills the hole at the location, and then repeats the process seeking out the next location for a drilled hole.
US07755758B2	Method and apparatus for optical spectrum analysis The present invention relates to an apparatus and to a method of optical spectrum analysis of an optical spectrum of a light beam (4), comprising the steps of selecting a certain part of the optical spectrum of the light beam (4) to provide a filtered light beam (12), detecting the filtered light beam (12) to provide an electrical signal corresponding to a power amplitude (O(λ)) of the filtered light beam (12), detecting the filtered light beam (12) to provide an electrical signal corresponding to a wavelength of the filtered light beam (12), and providing the power amplitude as a function of the wavelength of the filtered light beam (12).
US07755756B2	Raman spectral analysis of pathogens A method of assessing occurrence of a plant pathogen in a sample. The method comprises irradiating the sample and assessing radiation scattered from the sample for radiation that exhibits a Raman scattering characteristic of the pathogen. Detection of scattered radiation that exhibits a Raman shift characteristic of the pathogen is an indication that the pathogen occurs in the sample.
US07755749B2	Superconducting wire inspection apparatus and method An apparatus inspecting a superconducting wire includes: a blue LED emitting light in a direction normal to a front surface of a superconducting wire to illuminate the front surface; a red LED emitting light in a direction forming an angle with the direction normal to the front surface of the superconducting wire to illuminate the front surface; a color line sensor mainly receiving light reflected by the superconducting wire, and mainly receiving light diffused by the superconducting wire; and a computer accumulating and outputting a quantity of light received by the color line sensor. The apparatus can inspect with high sensitivity whether the superconducting wire has a defect or not.
US07755748B2	Device and method for range-resolved determination of scattered light, and an illumination mask A scattered light measurement device includes an illumination mask providing measuring radiation on an entrance side (1a) of a test component (1) and a detection part (3-6) for detection of light scattered by the test component and disposed on an exit side (1b) of the test component. The illumination mask includes at least one scattered light measurement structure, wherein the scattered light measurement structure has a scattered light marker zone and wherein the scattered light marker zone has a rotationally non-symmetric shape.
US07755742B2	Lithographic apparatus with mounted sensor A lithographic apparatus is disclosed in which a circular sensor is mounted to a substrate table with three leaf springs that are evenly spaced around a thermal axis of the sensor. The leaf springs are provided in two parts that are releasably attachable to each other. The leaf springs are elastic and allow some movement of the sensor relative to the substrate table on thermal expansion and contraction but ensure that the thermal center of the sensor does not move relative to the substrate table.
US07755730B2	Optical compensation film and liquid crystal display having the same A novel optical compensation film is disclosed. The optical compensation film has Re/Rth(450 nm), a ratio of Re to Rth measured at 450 nm, 0.4 to 0.95 times as large as Re/Rth(550 nm) at 550 nm, and having Re/Rth(650 nm) at 650 nm 1.05 to 1.9 times as large as Re/Rth(550 nm) at 550 nm. In the formulae, Re is in-plane retardation defined as Re={(nx−ny)×d1}; Rth is depth retardation defined as Rth=[{(nx+ny)/2−nz}×d1]; d1(nm) is a thickness of the film, nx, ny and nz are respectively mean refractive indices in the directions of x-axis, y-axis and z-axis orthogonal to each other; nx and ny are in-plane main mean refractive indices in parallel with the surface of said optical compensation film (where, ny
US07755723B2	Liquid crystal display device and display apparatus A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a first substrate and a second substrate; and a reflective display area on the first substrate side, the reflective display area being provided with a common electrode and a pixel electrode having a plurality of slits so as to apply an electric field to the liquid crystal layer, wherein between the first substrate and the pixel electrode, a reflective film and an interlayer insulating film, both films having projecting patterns on a front surface side, are arranged in this order from the first substrate side, and the pixel electrode and the common electrode are arranged so that electric field intensities between the pixel electrode and the common electrode are made equal in the reflective display area.
US07755713B2	Peripheral circuit A peripheral circuit disposed on a substrate having an active device array is provided. The peripheral circuit includes first test pads, second test pads, first lines, and second lines. The first and the second lines are electrically connected to the active device array. Each first test pad includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer electrically connected to the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer electrically connects at least two of the adjacent first lines. The second test pads are interposed between the first test pads and the active device array. Each second test pad includes third conductive layers and a fourth conductive layer electrically connected to the third conductive layers. The first lines pass through the third conductive layers and are insulated from the fourth conductive layer. Each third conductive layer is electrically connected to one of the adjacent second lines respectively.
US07755710B2	Pixel structure A pixel structure includes a gate, a source, a first drain, a second drain, a third drain, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a scan line and a data line. The gate, the source and the first drain form a first thin film transistor. The gate, the source and the second drain form a second thin film transistor. The gate, the second drain and the third drain form a sub-thin film transistor (sub-TFT). Additionally, the first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the first drain, and the second drain extends to a portion between the second pixel electrode and the substrate such that a capacitor-coupling electrode is formed. Moreover, the second pixel electrode is electrically connected to the third drain of the sub-TFT. The scan line is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the gate, and the data line is electrically connected to the source.
US07755705B2	Television receiver with multiple voice outputs A television receiver comprising: an internal speaker to output voice; a digital terminal to perform digital voice output, to which an external device is connected; a connection detection unit to detect whether an external device is connected to the digital terminal, or not; and a voice mute circuit to mute a voice output from the internal speaker when the connection detection unit detects that the external device is connected to the digital terminal.
US07755703B2	Imaging system A signal processing circuit generates an image signal by performing signal processing to an imaging signal obtained through a picked up optical system that includes a lens, a diaphragm, an image sensor, and a lens barrel. A main light source detector detects a main light source contained in a picked up image of the image signal. An estimated ghost generator generates an estimated ghost based on layout information of the main light source and the imaging optical system, and structural information of the lens barrel. A matching device extracts an estimated ghost image by searching the estimated ghost in the picked up image through pattern matching. A ghost subtractor subtracts the estimated ghost image from the picked up image.
US07755702B2	Apparatus and method for processing video signal According to one embodiment, an MPEG noise reduction processing unit which performs a process of reducing a mosquito noise to a received video signal can be controlled in a setting state corresponding to a desired item selected on the setting screen in which the plural items to be set are displayed as an option.
US07755694B2	Image sensor package and image capture device with same An image sensor package is provided. The image sensor package includes a basic body, an image sensor chip, a carrier, and at least one passive component. The image sensor chip is electrically and structurally connected to the basic body, the image sensor package including a sensitive region. The carrier positioned on a supporting portion of the image sensor package spacially surrounding the sensitive region of the image sensor chip. The at least one passive component carried by the carrier and electrically connected to the basic body.
US07755693B2	Imaging apparatus and control method therefor An imaging apparatus including a display device configured to display a shot image includes an external monitor output unit configured to output a signal to an external monitor, a switching unit configured to switch a content of a display on the display device, and a control unit configured to, when a content of the display on the display device is switched to an image display by the switching unit, output a signal corresponding to the image display to the external monitor output unit, and when a content of the display on the display device is switched to an information display by the switching unit, output no signal corresponding to the information display to the external monitor output unit.

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